Hello to the Ford School faculty, family, friends, and of course the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy graduating class of 2021. My name is Sydney Gardner Brown and today I am graduating with all of you into the unknown. All of our lives we've been taught and trained to be amazing academics and thinkers and dancers and future lawyers and activists. Most importantly though we've been trained to be planners. Let me tell you about my plans for my college career and I'm sure plenty of you can relate. I'd come to Michigan in 2017 to study biology. I'd make the cheer team, obtain a 4.0 GPA, have an amazing full four years on campus and then when it was time on May 1st, 2021, which at the time seemed like eons away. I'd sit in the big house with my friends and my family cheering me on as I graduated proud and fulfilled. Well, many of those things did not happen that way. It wasn't in my plan four years ago to switch gears and study public policy. I didn't make the cheer team, which makes sense because I had no prior gymnastics or cheerleading experience before I tried out. I didn't plan to complete my entire senior year through Zoom calls at home in Detroit. And the worst part is that after four years of looking forward to this day on campus in the big house, we're graduating through a screen. As good at planning as we thought we were, none of us could have planned or predicted how this year would unfold. The reality is that we've all been trying to predict a future full of infinite possibilities that are impossible to plan for. The implications of this fact can be scary. Sometimes I'm scared too. How can we be sure that things will go well if we can't plan our every move? Well, we can't be sure. As David Levitan said in the Lover's Dictionary, the mistake is thinking that we can find an antidote to the uncertainty. Hmm. Yeah. Okay. That's pretty grim. But there is an upside to all of this. If the only thing that we can predict is that life will keep being unpredictable, maybe we should focus less on some predetermined destination and live more fully in the journey. As Rilke wrote, try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers which cannot be giving you because you would not be able to live them. The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. So I ask all of you today, can we find solace in the not knowing? Can we live the question? I think we can. I think we already have. Last summer we saw what it looked like when we individually and as a collective were confronted with a new awareness of an old reality. In the context of rising understanding around police brutality, the cruelty of the prison industrial complex, and the unveiling of the condition of systemic oppression, we asked ourselves hard questions about our complicity, about our privilege, and about our responsibility. And we didn't just ask ourselves those questions, we lived them. In the midst of a global pandemic, people across identities found amazing and creative ways to organize, fundraise, and come together however they could. Nobody planned on any of that. But guided by important questions, we improvised to make important and necessary change. That is but one of many examples of what it looks like when we leaned into a moment that felt unbearable and unpredictable and hard. We've done it. You've done it. I like the way that U of M alum, Andy Traitnater, Gilda Radner put it. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, taking the moment, having to change, and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. So my charge for all of you today, as we embark on this life, as you all matriculate through law school, or Washington, D.C., or consulting firm, or home, or a master's program across the Atlantic, release the chokehold you have on the destination.  It may not take you where you thought you were headed, but it's going to take you exactly where you need to go. Good luck and go Blue.


Welcome back to the Perfected Health podcast. This is episode five. I am here with Christian Westbrook, AKA the Ice Age Farmer, where we are going to discuss how we're being lied to about climate change and concerns about our food supply being controlled. What's going on, Christian? How are you? I'm great, Frankie. Thanks so much for having me. I'm honored to be here. So the two overarching issues that we have right now are really looking at the past climate temperature variance and how we're actually going into a cold period, yet we're being told the opposite and how conventional agriculture isn't going to be able to function in these conditions. That's absolutely right, yeah. And this conversation is a different one, I think, than it would have been even a year ago because it felt very speculative and forward-looking. But at this point, we've seen the USDA just released the report. We've had five times the worst previous record of planting for this season. And that's pretty alarming. And we've also started to see this year canned food shortages in big box grocery stores, Kroger's, Walmart, AGB. So these are things that are pretty alarming and in your face, it's hard to ignore that. Fruit freedom was trending in China because of frosts that killed off a lot of the crop there and made fruit ridiculously expensive. So these are signs, if you're willing to look for them, that modern agriculture is really starting to experience, well, it's failing, is to be blunt. And that's hard to look at and to really internalize and talk about when we depend on that every day to eat, but it's an important question to ask. So I'm glad that you're willing to open that can worms, thank you. I think in America, people are so used to excess. We hear about silos and silos full of grain, caves and caves full of cheese, how America has so much extra food, but that's not really true. You said that it's five times worse than any other year so far. What are the most alarming things we're seeing right now that people aren't really aware of? I mean, it takes a level of understanding to see these things and analyze what's going on. It is difficult. And as you said, unless you're looking for it, it can be difficult too. I mean, the media just doesn't talk about it. Frequently, we've been having pretty catastrophic crop losses around the world lately. Australia lost 10% of their entire ag market size off the top last year in the drought. The piece from the East was responsible for raising food prices across Europe. You saw some coverage there from media there, but it really wasn't until this year that a blow came to the US farmers that was so significant that it couldn't just be papered over. And so at this point, we're gonna start to see this linkage more prominently made between the climate crisis, as they're now calling it, and then food scarcity and the fact that it's affecting our dinner on our plate. People need to be worried about climate change pertaining to the food supply. And that's the main concern, but the media is saying that it's getting warmer. They're kind of playing it off, global warming and stuff. Has that message kind of shifted lately? Well, you have seen a deliberate and an explicit, they were actually issuing editorial guidance to all of their contributors, not to call it global warming, or it should now be called the climate emergency is the editorial guidance. And we've also seen basically the deep platforming of anyone that disagrees, the BBC, USA Today, certainly media matters also is bothering Facebook and YouTube about removing anything that's talking about climate truth or climate in a way that doesn't support ridiculous CO2 agenda, the hoax that's been perpetrated on that front. And so yeah, the stakes are rising. What's the speculative reason that they're lying about it? It is, yeah, it's hard to, I agree. And so you really have to be willing to look at, there are open writings, even as recently or up to 100 years ago from the club of Rome and others who in their pursuit of a global world socialist system are willing to do anything. Their logo is the wolf in sheep's clothing and that's their slogan is, wait until the time is right to strike. And it is the case. This is just the way it is that for the last 100 years, they have concocted this agenda of the way they put it was we came up with the idea that man was the enemy of man and we can use that to change people's behavior. So in their pursuit to control us all, they just crafted this totalitarian CO2 hoax. And this is now, the rubber is really kneeing the road. This is when they've been waiting for as the grand solar minimum and the climate changes that are happening right now and that we're seeing destroy our food system. This is creating the urgency that actually will allow them to push through that agenda for control. Let's take it a step back for a second. Most people are led to believe that the earth is warming, but we know it's actually cooling and this is because of the grand solar minimum. If you could explain what that is. So when you look at the sun, most people are familiar with the fact that it goes through an 11 year sunspot cycle where there's a period at the maximum where it's got lots of activity, lots of sunspots. And then there's a trough where it drops off and that happens every 11 years. It's called the Schwab cycle. There are also larger cycles beyond that where that basic cycle is accentuated. It's called a grand maximum, like the one we've been enjoying for the past hundred years or so that's afforded us a strong magnetosphere and good stable growing seasons. There are also times called grand minima where the sun, where those 11 year cycles drop, they're muted in their activity or in some cases they drop off completely and it's just a quiet sun. During those solar minima, conditions are different on the planet. It's like I said, we've been enjoying the maximum for the last hundred years and we all got sort of fat and happy and used to that. And our growing is lazy in some cases, the way we've developed modern agriculture for a very bespoke set of conditions and now those conditions are changing. And so during the solar minimum, what happens is that there's less solar wind coming from the sun and among the changes in the output, what that means is that we receive more galactic cosmic rays on earth and that drives volcanic activity, seismic activity. It changes the jet stream that weakens it. So there are these meridional flows that mean Arctic air comes further south than it would otherwise and vice versa, equatorial flows go further north and that means that we have, we experience that as temperature extremes. It gets really cold when the Arctic polar vortex comes down or you have hot and droughts and these things are, you know, temperature extremes, precipitation extremes and weak havoc on crop production. And that's what's going on. That's why we saw catastrophic drought in Australia and the bees from the east. Again, it's that polar plunge coming down and wiping out fruit trees and, you know, leafy greens, anything that's in that path gets wiped out. So simplifying this to a rise or drop in temperature is far, far too, it'll be far too easy. That's way too incorrect. The sun cycle doesn't really have anything to do with temperature. It's changing a bunch of variables that pretty much mess up the climate, you know. So things get, things are stable right now when the sun cycle is at the solar maximum. But when it goes to a solar minimum, what that essentially means is drastic weather changes and patterns. Yeah, usually with a complex system, any absolute statement isn't true, but you're right. It's not just that the sun drops off and it gets colder. That is generally true. Temperatures, you know, in the wolf minimum dropped to two degrees in Oberloch, they were recorded. Usually, and frequently I should say, that's actually associated with the volcanic activity. There's a huge VEI seven and that blows up ash and that results in temperatures dropping. How do they name these periods, these past periods of sun cycles? Yeah, looking back, the last few grand minima cycles were named generally for the people that were studying the sun or that found the period. And so that's where the wolf minimum and the monitor minimum and the Dalton minimum come from is the scientists who are looking into these sorts of things. And so for example, during the Dalton minimum, there was a VEI seven eruption of Mount Tambora. And that was in 18, sorry, that was 1815, which resulted in 1816 being known as the year without a summer where temperatures dropped across the Northern Hemisphere. It rained, ash fall, crops, you know, never had a chance to grow. That meant there was no food for the animals and these things just cascade. It's very difficult when you don't have food, you can't feed your animals, people get weakened and you end up eating through your seed supply and then you don't have food to plant next year. So it's a really difficult situation. You see this playing out time and time again throughout history where the situation cascades and it takes decades in some cases to recover your health and then your seed stock and then the population. So we are in a grand solar maximum. We are heading into a grand solar minimum. And is this really an on and off switch? Are we expecting to see more of these events happening, more of these droughts, more of these crop losses, more concern about the climate? Absolutely, yes, the drop off can be and is currently precipitous that we're experiencing. We've exited that grand maximum in modern grand maximum in 2008, according to Wikipedia unambiguously displays that. And there are conflicting models on what we're going into now as always, as you would expect. Many of them show that we're going into a deep extended minimum. NASA last month somewhat begrudgingly finally conceded that we're going into at least a minimum that is on par with the adult minimum, which is, as we just said, there was a quarter of the European urban population perished of starvation during that time. So this is something we need to take seriously and we need to understand those effects in the past and sort of map them on to how they will play out, given our situation now. Some of the forecasts for this would be 30 to 40 years of this next grand minimum. So this would actually explain and make a lot of sense as to why they would be telling people that, you know, meat causes climate change and CO2 emissions. I mean, they're trying to get people to stop eating meat, stop eating these foods they're used to eating because in the future, it's very likely that they're just gonna be shoving whatever they can put together down our throats to keep us alive, essentially. I think more concerningly, it flows into what is their bid for control that we were discussing, right? If they own and operate the fake meat and the cockroach milk and everything, the soylent, all these fake engineered foods, then the population completely depends on them to provide that soylent green every week, right? That we are literally their food slaves at that point, and that's the ultimate goal. You know, I watched, I also do, I watched some of your videos on the fake meat and I watched you eating a Beyond Burger and I talk about those guys a lot too. And sometimes, in fact, usually I'll get pushed back and somebody will say, you know, Christian, this is just some guy developing fake meat so that vegans have an alternative. Why would you be against alternatives? Why are you picking on this guy? And I just have to really drive this home that the CEO of Impossible Foods came out and said, we are here to replace. We are going to end animal agriculture. That was, I mean, his goal is, it's open, is to get rid of the existing agricultural systems. You see this echoed by plenty.ag, which is an indoor vertical farming startup. And they've changed it now. Their slogan initially was, we are going to replace modern agriculture. And so they're very open. This is actually, you know, easier to see, again, is a different conversation now than it would have been a few years ago because these ag tech companies are openly telling us to our face, we're here to end agriculture and to take control over your food supply. This is really scary. I mean, I'm assuming these burgers and these cockroach milks and all of these foods are able to be produced in grant, I mean, well, the solar minimum conditions. You know, the very, I mean, if there's droughts, if there's crop issues, I'm assuming that these plant foods and what they're selling beyond meat, cockroach milk are designed to be able to be produced regardless. Yeah, absolutely. It's all the lab grown meat that's been talked about also for 100 years. They have this plan to sell culture meat and do it in the cities and then grow food in the cities and make the countryside slaves to the city's food production. It's a weird inversion of the natural order of things. And they're very into that. Yeah, I mean, the GMO, all of these things that can seem disparate are actually the integral parts of this agenda to take total control over the food supply. You know, Wendy's has taken all of their tomato growth into greenhouses to try and get away from climate changes. We saw Walmart patenting robotic bees because again, they're replacing agriculture. They're building these robot bees to go in their automated greenhouses that will be raising crops with technical precision and then delivering them via robots to the shelves that they own. You see the same thing. Again, plenty.ag was funded by Jeff Bezos who owns the distribution network of Whole Foods to bring his products straight from the farm. They want to own the entire supply chain from top to bottom. It's amazing to think that less than 100 years ago, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, the USDA dietary guidelines didn't exist. People were still healthy, they were still happy, they were still eating animal foods. We were still in fairly good health. In 1979, these dietary guidelines come along, vegetable oil, seed oils, refined foods, carbohydrates, sugar, pretty much destroy the health of America and then chronic disease rates skyrocket. And now we're getting to a point where I'm curious how much longer humans can exist without these bodybuilding nutrients of animal foods. I mean humans on a cockroach milk and soylent diet would go extinct in a matter of generations. It's just a question of how long would it take to go extinct because different people have different tolerances to these diets and it could be as sad as a baby being miscarried, a child dying of cancer to a person just maybe not living as long. And it really seems like that's where we're going and it gets me curious if this is all, some crooked plan they had in their heads the whole time or if there was a time where this type of rule didn't exist. Oddly it has been the plan in their head the entire time. It is odd, but that's the way it is. And there are some opportunities that that creates for us to build better systems, to grow healthier food and start communities that are doing things right. But doing so requires first having a firm understanding of all these things we're talking about so that we can make the right decisions. Yeah, there's a little bit of controversy lately in like the ketogenic and carnivore area. At least with my YouTube channel on like grain fed versus grass fed meat. And a lot of people are saying, oh, I can't afford grass fed, blah, blah, blah. It's a lot bigger than that. It's far bigger than that.    As crazy as that sounds, that's the reality of the situation. And yes, on an individual basis, does it make a difference? Probably not, but if everyone starts doing that and people started, you know, even trying to, I mean, I'm sure we could talk about people purchasing their own land, raising their own animals and providing food for themselves. This goes into the special interest funding in every single food group. You know, from veganism to grain-based meat diets, to farm-raised fish, it's so difficult to fight against these people and get the word out there and explain why what's going on. People are too naive. Most people are not going to believe this stuff and understand why it's so important. And at the end of the day, most of them simply won't care about it. Yeah, you're dead on it, except I have to take issue with one thing, Frankie, and that is I think it absolutely makes a difference when an individual starts growing their own food or even removes their support from the toxic agriculture and makes the right decisions. Every dollar we move away from those coffers helps us build a healthier future. And that's why I started my YouTube channel to encourage people to do that, because I do think we make a difference. Yeah, you mentioned the new, you know, the USDA guidelines and we recently saw Canada redraw there. It's just within the year and totally removed dairy. Dairy farmers were saying, what's going on here? You've totally taken out milk and beef. This is a weird, it's like Canada has gone totally plant-based and just last week now they're saying we're gonna realign something else to make it in line with this. So it's building, this case is building and it is a replacement. You know, another tell just happened a couple of days ago when the University of Goldsmiths in London banned meat from their campus. So this is absolutely an attack on the food system. It's moving forward.  At the end of the day they wanna control the food supply. They want to have everyone at their mercy essentially. They don't want people on their own providing food for themselves and being healthy.  So I'm under the belief that, you know, they've been doing this for, you know, 50, 60, 70 years and getting away with it. So people just aren't going to stop them. On one hand, you do want to think that, you know, there is some good in this world and that there are some people that are trying to set things straight.  And that's just how it is. It's certainly an issue.  On the other hand, it's kind of like, well, at least hopefully maybe it doesn't affect me, but in the future, you know, what's gonna happen? Yeah, it's a bit, I mean, it is a bit for, we just remember this is what people have done throughout history. This is why Stalin killed off the farmers in Ukraine to take control. The only difference is this time it's a global agenda and it's a permanent destruction of the food system. You know, you mentioned that, we should talk a little bit more about how the food and the vegan, you know, the, I don't wanna call it the vegan agenda because then people think we're talking about diets, but it's a bid for control over the food system and how that's varying with the climate agenda.   So they're aligning these two things and that's the mechanism by which they'll translate these food scarcity into further control, yeah. These people that are protesting, I mean, the vegans, all these, the majority of these people are simply brainwashed. So we do have some paid influencers, some special interest groups that put certain people in pedestals, whether it's, you know, a vegan with a million subscribers on YouTube, whether it's, you know, a ketogenic diet or with hundreds of thousands of subscribers on YouTube, they put these people in these places and it seems like everyone that's a piece of the puzzle doesn't really know what's going on, you know, kind of in it for themselves, doing their own thing and don't realize that they are literally contributing to the downfall of society from that perspective. And it's, you know, you gotta have compassion to some extent because when the people that are contriving these things have had hundreds of years to prepare and to implement them and to put the predictive programming and the scripting in there for everybody, it's, I mean, you gotta give them credit, it's well executed, it's well conceived, it's just devious. But yeah, I mean, you look at these extinction rebellion folks who are saying, we should just all stop having babies, that's the only solution. And you can tell, I mean, it's a dangerous situation, honestly, Frankie, because we are all in a situation and it will continue to accelerate down this direction as food shortages become more pronounced, right? Already you can't find canned vegetables at Walmart. And that creates like a problem for people who feed their family every week from that store.  I have a job that gives me money so that I can go get those things and that's how the whole thing works. But if money doesn't buy food anymore, I'm not gonna go to my job anymore. You know, there's a lot hanging on this. I think one of two things will happen as that mental tension grows, as the food shortages worsen. People will either hunker down even more, just go extinction rebellion style. We should all be dead anyway.  Or they'll actually say, this is really a pain point for me, I'm trying to feed my family and it's getting more difficult. What's going on here? And it's those people that have that strength and courage and intellectual curiosity for whom I still have hope. And I think, we're all in this together. And it's because I'm confident there are a lot of people out there who will ask those questions going forward that I'm doing what I'm doing right now. I mean, in general, before coming into this conversation, I had an idea of this new world order stuff. I had an idea of them trying to essentially control and manipulate everyone. But this brings new light to the severity of the situation and how we are actually going to be in a position where decisions have to be made, basically. This isn't something that's, we're just going to be molded into society and things are going to work out well. High likelihood of something catastrophic happening. Is this something that we have a solution for? Is there a possibility that moving towards local farming, moving towards growing your own food? I mean, this would have to be done on a very high level. You mean at a large scale? Yeah, and there are people who've devised large scale plans where we build floating islands near the equator so that we can continue to, and these kinds of things that involve state action. And in fact, Valentina Zarkova, who's one of the professors who's done models of the sun and is warning people and governments alike about the coming grand solar minimum and the likely food shortages that will result because of a reduced vegetation season. Those are her words. So this solar physicist mathematician team is coming up with these models and she's also going, as I said, to governments and trying to encourage them to prepare their people. But I don't think, you know, I think she's barking up the wrong tree as much as I wholly respect her work. I think the solutions are going to be a bottom up situation here. They have already telegraphed their intention to lie to us about what's going on here as long as possible. You know, even just yesterday, the USDA's new report that said, we're going to have even more corn this year than we expected. It's just ludicrous given how late the crop is. You know, the week before the USDA released a report that said all the corn is at least four to six weeks behind. And if that's the case, then you just don't, you don't see those kinds of yields. Farmers are pretty burned up right now. There's a lot of emotions. Emotions are running high across the US, certainly right now because that it's based on those corn numbers that they'll get their insurance payoffs. And so again, this further evidence is what I'm trying to establish is a across the board attack on farmers, ranchers, independent food producers and our ability to feed ourselves. What's the timeframe? You know, these people have been hiding the secret from us. Do we really know how many years from now they're going to have to face reality? Only God knows for sure. There's a chance that we have a nice solar cycle 25. We just finished cycle 24 and would be going into 25 now. And so there's a chance that, and in fact, Dr. Zarkova expects that 25 will bite us some time. We'll give us a bit of time before we descend into really the grand solar minimum. And then what we're seeing now is a window into how that's gonna play out for us. So if there's, one could sort of argue that if we can make it through this next year or two here and just find our footing, then we have a window of time to prepare. But as an individual, that would be true of the big picture. As an individual, given everything else we've stated, you know, the war on food is already taking place. So even if we're given that respite from serious degradation of our natural growing seasons, I think the urgency stays. I think we should all be taking steps today, now, every day to move ourselves and our families and eventually our communities off of these failing systems and building resilient, new, better, healthier, non-toxic ones. I mean, this is literal. I mean, the real solution here is pretty much everyone being on a farmstead or almost living off of the land themselves. And that's the true way for sustainable food production. Of course, you could have farmers growing animal foods in sustainable ecosystems, but we don't have the support for that yet. You know, there's a reason New York state isn't completely populated with grass and beef farmers because people aren't going to consume a large percentage of their calories from the foods they should be eating. The support system is not there. This whole problem is very difficult to solve from every perspective. First, people have to understand the importance of animal foods in the diet. Second, they have to understand that these are the only foods that we will probably be able to grow and raise in a natural way that's sustainable in the environment for a long period of time. And then you have to get them to spend the money to support the food or envision that as the future. And I mean, that's something that I've always wanted to personally do and I've always been saving up money to hopefully do something like that myself. But I can't really see the general population facing that reality. I mean, it's one thing if you had some sort of system where they just started throwing people out into the middle of the United States, some wacko stuff and expected them to farm. I mean, taking it back to educating people, trying to get the word out. I mean, at the end of the day, that's really all we could do. And be an example, right? Lead by example, start to move yourself and your family away from those growing your own food and away from those systems. I think by studying that example and being the change is just a huge part. And then, yeah, education, spreading the word has to happen and my hope and prayer is that there are many smart people, smarter than I, hearing about what's going on. And as they come into awareness and do their research and then figure out, dude, we got to do something about this, then there are gonna be people that work with fungi to remediate bee diseases. This is a thing out there. And we can integrate that and really help to nourish the honeybees back to health. And there will be regenerative grazing experts who say, oh, well, if this is going on, then there's a need for people like me to spread the word and get other people doing these kinds of permaculture style grazing arrangements where there's a holistic system and a virtuous cycle producing more and more food for a community. There are, you know, that's the good news, Frankie, is that there are people who for generations have been working on solving some of these problems. And even before these people, humanity has always lived and been responsible for feeding ourselves, right? Historically, it hasn't been until very recently that we've been so disconnected from the act of cultivation, which I think is actually a very human thing, a very innate, important part of our lives. But when you look at, and I think that's, you can tell that's true when you look at indigenous cultures and traditions like the Hopi, when I talked to a Hopi dry farmer, and there was only so much he was waiting to get into because it's extremely personal and it's private for their tribe. But the crux of it was that it's not just growing food to them, it's a relationship with the earth and with their food. And we lack, certainly we lack that relationship to the earth at this point. And a lot of us are still disconnected from our food, which is why people eat that weird toxic stuff in the grocery store. What people forget is those indigenous people, those hunter-gatherers, their lives, their job, you know, their nine to five job was to procure food, to sustain themselves, to survive. The major part of surviving as a human being is obtaining animal calories, farming, all of that stuff. And I've said this in the past, our jobs should be being on the farm, getting food for ourselves, and providing food for each other. If we're not doing that, then what should we be doing as human beings? Because, you know, whether it was the hunter-gatherers that were hunting animals and gathering wild plants or, you know, the more settled indigenous civilizations, you know, that had some animal husbandry and farming practices, at the end of the day, the amount of knowledge they had in what they were doing is, I mean, it's definitely something we've lost. It gets really crazy when you see, you know, the hundreds of animal food and the thousands of plant foods that these people used to know. And it's kind of a pipe dream for me to get back to that to some degree. That's definitely some sort of a fantasy, but it can definitely be made a reality for some people, as long as the seed gets planted.  Like I'm really hoping there's somewhere out there that's 10 times smarter than me, because if there isn't, we are all screwed. Yeah, well said. That's exactly what I mean when I say, I hope there's someone smarter than me that is finding out about this. That's watching this and that can come on and really move the needle as far as, it's gonna take all of us. It's gonna take every one of us because we all come from different backgrounds. We have different experiences. We have, you know, access to different parts of what we've collectively forgotten. And we're all gonna have to bring those parts to the table to get through this. The problem I have is, since people can't afford or support local agriculture or do these things, they just dismiss them and forget about them and don't care about what the actual message is and what we're trying to do. You know, this much larger idea of, you know, literally controlling the food supply for the world is what they're influencing. And it's not just about, you know, their day-to-day paycheck, what they're eating, what they're able to do. It's tough to put people in that position but they definitely have to know about it. Yeah, and I hear what you're saying. When you're already feeling overwhelmed with the myriad stresses of life, like it's just, this is the last thing we need is another thing to, and a huge thing to try and even deal with. But it is where we are now. And I think, you know, when we turn the other cheek and just start chipping away on it, we just start taking, you know, I call it daily steps, whatever it is, just do something today to bring yourself closer to a state of being self-sufficient of having resilient food storage. And you know, I hear really inspiring stories from some viewers who are in urban environments and started, you know, at one point on my channel was growing crickets as protein source. And some of my viewers started doing that as well. And one of them actually started finding that there was a market for crickets, that there are people who have lizards in his town. And so he was able to sell these crickets that, you know, once you literally, once you start growing them, that's basically free. So he's just kind of printing money under his bed. It is a very small space, you know, in a closet and apartment. And that became a new source of income for him, which is great. Because now he can build, right? The daily steps they build, they take you closer, even if it feels trivial and just, you know, pointless. Another guy went out to meetings, you know, again, he doesn't have access to a garden of his own. And so you can feel defeated and just sort of whine about your situation. But he chose instead to turn the other cheek to go out and find at master gardener meetings, folks who basically, who had those years of experience, but were now too old and frail to keep working their own gardens. And so he walked right up to him and said, hi, I've introduced myself. I'd love to be, help you with your garden. I'll work it for you. And maybe I can take three or four rows of produce and you can help yourself to the rest. And so he's lined up gradually, a series of six farms across Memphis that he's working for people. And part of also what's cool about that is that once he does some of that cleanup, that the old ladies will just come out and be so excited at seeing their garden producing again, that they start working on it too. And it's just great to see them come back to life. But I love that story because, and now again, he was able to parlay that into a hospital approach to him and said, we'd like you to manage our garden for us. And that's a big job and he's hiring help to do it. So he's turned this with no experience in growing whatsoever into a career for himself. And I just, I bring these two examples to the table because they are what happens when you decide to go for it anyway. It feels pointless. There's no path. I don't see any way that's actually materially helps me tomorrow, but I gotta do it anyway. It's the right thing to do. And it just might work out, it frequently does. And this could be anything from, growing some vegetables in your backyard, maybe going to a farmer's market more often once a week, maybe setting some money aside to do something like that in the future. It doesn't have to be on all in kind of thing. And I think that's really important. I mean, reality is 99.9% of the people in the United States aren't even aware of it. Yeah, yeah, which is the alarming part. But I do think that we're at a turning point now. And that's what happens when there are suddenly food shortages in the stores in the United States. People are gonna say, this wasn't supposed to happen. And a lot of them will ask what's going on here. And so we all need to be out there, evangelizing a little bit, being a little bit uncomfortable with how loud we're being so that people, you know, leading breadcrumbs for these folks to follow as they start to ask those questions. A lot of like the discussion in the context of what we've spoken about is kind of like America focused almost in a way. What we've talked about applies to just the whole world in general to some degree, even though people are already struggling in some places to have food. It does apply to the whole world, absolutely. And what's actually concerning is that the wealthier nations are simply better able to mask this and sort of stave off the emergency for a while. Certainly you see, you know, places like Madagascar, Zimbabwe, they're already experiencing Kenya, they're already experiencing food shortages that are unparalleled in what's going on right now. And in many cases, you know, it's interesting, you'll see aid workers say, we just need to get seed to these people, which also tells you that they're actually a little bit better situated than we in some ways, because they still know how to grow those crops if we can get the seed to them. Whereas in the US, you know, I have a chart here that's one of the scariest charts I have, and it's a chart of how many people are involved with producing food in the US, and that number has dwindled down to about 2% right now. And so it's, yeah, it's a real concern that even if people wanted suddenly to, you know, to do their best to grow their own food, it would be a tremendous educational effort. So the real solution here ties into local agriculture, whether it's growing your own food, supporting these food systems, you know, buying that steak once a week at the farmer's market, as long as you're not putting money in the hands of pretty much any corporation or company.  Yeah, personally for me, that's part of it. And I think, you know, I chose to, my family chose to move out of the cities so that we would have a bit more space to start growing our own food and doing these sorts of things. You know, room for the compost pile and all those things you would expect to have. And yeah, the charge to us each is to depart from those failing systems because not only are they explicitly created to take control over us, they're actively failing. They're not viable anyway. And they're delivering to us toxic food, right? Your audience is really well aware of that. So I think all of these underscore the need to start producing our own food, yeah. I mean, to sum this up very simply, you know, we're being lied to about the climate. The planet's going to turn into a giant ice cube and we need to grow our own broccoli. I would, I want to avoid the ice cube reference because I think it's more accurate to say that the climate will become much less stable, that the growing seasons will suffer as a result of this. But it is simple. Yeah, once you get, once you wrap your head around the fact of what's going on, that it's happened before in history and that it's playing out right now in front of us, that you can watch the headlines as if it's, I mean, it's just a slow motion train wreck. Christian, I can't thank you enough for doing this. I mean, you know, I had a lot of ideas before this. I knew a lot of things pertaining to this, but you really pieced everything together and made it really simple and I have almost created a message that I'm probably going to start really pushing more and sharing with people. So where can people find you? Well, first I just want to say thank you for opening up your platform for this message, which I do believe is absolutely critical at this time. And also thanks for doing what you do. You know, you bring a lot of passion to the truth that you speak. And I think, you know, that's awesome. We need more people doing that. I can absolutely be found, you know, clearly I've got the Ice Age Farmer YouTube channel, but those are easy come, easy go these days. So I would actually recommend going directly to IceAgeFarmer.com where I post everything and it's linked not just to YouTube, but that shoot in DTube and a few other ways that we can make sure these things stay around on the blockchain. And yeah, you can also find me on Patreon.com or Subscribestar.com slash IceAgeFarmer. And I appreciate it. Hey, thanks again, Christian. I will have all of his links down in the description below, as well as a link at the end here. This has been the Perfected Health Podcast, Episode 5.


Hello and welcome back to JSA TV live We are the telecom and data center newsroom coming to you live here from the channel partners expo It's at the Venetian and joining me now. We have Jason Schaefer. He's the vice president of channel at light edge Thank you so much for coming to JSA TV. Hey, thanks for having us. We really appreciate it Yeah, I know it's the end of the day, but this is gonna be quick and painless But I mean everybody's been having a really great show here so far. Yeah, it's really fantastic Really, there's a lot of high energy out here. A lot of people are optimistic and it's just a really good vibe here in Vegas Absolutely, I hear that from everybody that I speak to glad that's the same for you So let's let's jump in you guys have some really great things going on and of course, you know We're talking about channel here at channel partners and you've had some pretty big news recently that came out Tell us about that. Well, you know what? We've had a lot of activity in the the last 12 months I've done a lot of new expansion into Southern California and Phoenix area acquired a few really top-tier data centers and looking forward to those new customers and partners that we have out there so really stimulating a lot of growth and Just having a lot of fun with it. Yeah, that's great to hear What would you say is one of the biggest advantages that your customers see when they work with you for channel? Yeah, I think that they see a lot of When we look at our products in the way that they're set up and and and deliver to the marketplace They're highly resilient that we have a high level of compliance. It gives them a sense of security and today in these in these day and age security and compliance is a Pretty big thing on their agenda on their wish list helps them sleep good at night and We're you know prepared and able to deliver Yeah, is that what you would say makes you know, we always talk about what's the point of differentiation? Is that is that it for you or what is the what makes you different? I think I mean everybody's gonna say the cliche with the people but the culture at light edge. It's a very People-centric organization that loves to embrace the challenge so they get right down and roll up their sleeves and work with the customers and our partners to solve some of the biggest technology problems out there and We're all excited about it and it really drives a culture that is kind of that can-do culture absolutely Well, you've had some really big things coming, you know that have developed recently Can you give us a sneak peek over the next year or so? Yes? I mean we recently were Working with GI partners out of San Francisco and they've been amazing to work with and they with art with their help Light edge has been continuing to grow We talked a little bit about it earlier around the the M&A activity But they really help support us and I think that you'll see a lot more things come out of light edge Growing with GI. Yeah, absolutely. There anything else that you'd like to share anything else big coming on coming up or that you're working on Now I think that there's more opportunity throughout the Some of the products that we're innovating with and we continue to keep pushing the level there And I look forward to kind of bringing those to market. We should be able to disclose soon Okay, sounds good. So you heard it stay tuned to everybody before we let you go Where can we go to keep up with your news and what you have coming up? Absolutely you can find us on the on the web Right the light edge calm. All right, sounds great. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the rest of the Day and the show. All right. Thanks. Kelly. I appreciate it and thank you everyone for tuning in today. I say TV live. Happy networking


March always marks the end of citrus season, and so now's your chance to go to the store and take advantage of the last of the sweet, juicy citrus. Today, I have one of my favorites. It's the teeny, tiny little kumquat that you see in the store. And don't be afraid to buy it just because you don't know what to do with it.  And what's unique about kumquats is that it's the skin that is really nice and sweet and the flesh that is bitter. So it's kind of the opposite of an orange, but there's lots of great ways that you can use this and all really, really simple. One thing I like to do is to cut off the end and then just make some really small, thin slices and add them to a good salad. So you can see there's little seed in there.  It's so good. Now, this winter, I had the opportunity to go through a hike of the Everglades and my guide had a special treat halfway through the hike. Out of his backpack, he pulled some kumquats and some dark chocolate. And he said, as far as he's concerned, the only part of the kumquat worth eating is the skin. That's the sweet part. So I'll show you what he did.  So what I like to do is just cut the little stem off and then cut it lengthwise into quarters and then you'll see how easy the peel comes right off of that fleshy part, the fruit part inside.  This makes a wonderful dessert, a little something sweet after you've had a big meal and guests are always so impressed with this.  So while you can, be sure to get to the store, get some kumquats and take advantage of them before March is over. I'm Sue Dodin, sharing good food for Good Life 365.


Hello everybody, I'm Nishit Notiversal here. I just wanted to say two things before this video starts. I noticed that my Alice Manus Returns video got a lot of attention. I just wanted to say don't worry, it is coming out. I just had to make room for two more videos. I'm going to make a part three and beyond. I swear to God. Second thing I wanted to say is there is a jump scare at the end of this video. Remember it or don't, that's on you. See ya. Hello everybody. Welcome back to another Notiversal video on the sacred month of Halloween. For today's video as you can see by the title, we are going to be doing some spooky games that you can play this October. As you can see, I've dug up this book of games that is sacred and scary, not from Walmart. And I'm going to be reading from this book to describe the scary games that all have high risk and high reward. Although some of them kind of have a higher risk than they have a higher reward. That's just kind of par for the course for these. They don't outweigh the consequences. Play them at your own risk. I will also be carrying my special ancient tome with me, Bunny Girl Senpai. It's not, listen, she's not my waifu. It's nothing sexual. She just looks cool, you weird motherfuckers. She will be lighting the way through these games. Let's begin. We will now begin with the testing game. According to the site Ghost in My Machine, this ritual comes from Indonesian and Malaysian sites dating back to about 2014. I did try finding these myself, but all I found was a Christian site that was like, how does some in the Holy Spirit? And it was like, well, he's in the air, you breathe. And I was like, okay, that's not what I'm looking for, but thank you. Here's what you will need for this ritual. A dark room, free of noise and distraction. You need to be alone. The instructions for this game are also fairly simple.  Imagine your childhood home, somewhere you have a lot of memories attached to. You'll begin a detailed walkthrough of this space, starting with the outside of it. Recount all the details that you can. How many doors does it have? How many windows? What colors are they? Are there plants? Next, you'll begin walking through every one of the rooms of the space. Recount every detail about these rooms as well, like what color are the rooms? What are they used for? More importantly, who or what is there? Complete this task for each and every space in your home, making note of every person or entity in this room. When you finished, open your apps. Here are your results. If you saw no one, you were not sensitive to spirits. If you saw friends or family, you are somewhat sensitive to spirits. You catch their wisps and bumps, but not much else. If you saw someone who was past, you are sensitive to spirits, but you don't necessarily attract them. Finally, if you see something in you, a shadow, maybe an unfamiliar silhouette, who are highly sensitive to spirits. Refrain from revisiting the rooms you saw these entities in, they may have seen you back and they will not be happy. That hurts.  Next is the Sachiko Ever After John. This one is actually really near and dear to my heart. I've actually done this one before with my friends. Me and one of my other friends were huge fans of Corpse Party and so we decided we would partake in this. And wouldn't you know, we're all still friends years later. And I didn't get sent to Heavenly Hosts, so that's great news. The ritual comes from an RPG game, as I said, titled Corpse Party, released in about 2008. The lore states that a young girl named Sachiko went missing 30 years ago and still wanders the earth with the power to grant wishes. Here's what you will need to play. A white paper Sachiko doll, which you can find the pattern for online and I will also have it in this video if you wanted to screenshot that and print that out. And you need at least two participants. Participants will form a circle around the paper doll and take hold to a section of it. You will repeat the phrase, Sachiko, we beg of you, one time for each participant and once more for Sachiko. The amount of times you say this is very, very important. You may also say this in your head rather than out loud, but I would not recommend it. It's probably a little bit harder to keep track of the amount of times that it said. After chanting, grip the paper tight and pull. Each participant should have a piece of paper. Now here are your results. If you perform the ritual correctly, you'll be granted an eternal friendship with those you participated in the ritual with. If you performed it incorrectly, perhaps someone chanted one too many times or fled to syllable, you will be transported to an alternate dimension within the long gone heavenly host elementary school.  And those in the living world will forget you ever existed. The only way to escape this is rejoin your piece of paper with the surviving participants and redo the chant correctly. That sounded funny when I said correctly. If you've lost your piece, you may never return home. Number three, Satro-kun. This ritual comes from Japan. While it's not known how long ago it came about, it gained popularity around 2011. This might be a harder or impossible game to play if you live in an area that's gotten rid of all of its pay phones, which is quite a lot of places these days. Most places don't have pay phones. It centers around a red-eyed demon that takes the form of a young boy. It said that he knows the past, present and future. So he can answer any question. Here's what you'll need. A mobile phone, preferably a burner, a pay phone. Coins are a calling card, though coins are said to have more of an effect and a question you desperately need answered. Do not perform this ritual without one. Here's how you play. There are no time requirements for this. Go to your nearest pay phone and dial the number to your burner phone. When it begins to ring, chant this phrase. Saturu saturu, please come to me. Saturu saturu, please show yourself. Saturu saturu, please answer me. Listen, I'm a weeaboo. I don't pronounce Japanese words correctly and I'm very sorry if I butchered that. Please forgive me, I'm begging you. How well you say it might have an effect? I hope not.   If you don't receive a call within 24 hours, the ritual has failed and you can try again later. Otherwise, you'll be getting a call from someone or something stating how close they are to you. They will speak slowly. This is Saturu-kun. He will continue to call, getting closer and closer until the final call when he tells you he's right behind you. Do not turn around. Quickly ask him your question. Do not waste time. Do not ask another question. Thanks Saturu, then hang up. Don't turn around. Destroy the burner phone and do not turn around until you feel his presence is completely gone. Now, here are your results. If you performed this ritual correctly, you will now have your question answered. If you performed it incorrectly, maybe you turned to look at him or you didn't have a question prepared.   Also, this ritual has shows tied to it. If that's something you guys were interested in at all, I thought that was super interesting. They have like storylines and stuff. So I will link that in the description below. Number four, three kings ritual. This one is actually fairly popular. I've heard it in quite a bit of places, but the first time I heard it, really scared the hell out of me. So I figured if that's not something you guys have seen before, I think it's really interesting. This originates on a subreddit titled r slash no sleep. On a post titled please don't actually try this, made in 2012. The subreddit focuses on telling scary stories. However, there are also users claiming to have done the ritual and gotten results, both negative and positive. The needs list for this is fairly hefty. Here's what you'll need. A large, quiet and empty room with covered windows to ensure total darkness. A pack of candles and a lighter, a bucket of water and a mug, a fan, two large mirrors, three chairs, an alarm clock, a fully charged phone, or at least one that is near fully charged, someone you implicitly trust. And a sentimental trinket, preferably a childhood toy. Here's how you play. Start setting up around 11 p.m. as you will need ample time to finish the setup and then go to sleep. Place one chair in the room facing north. Place your other two chairs on the left and right of your first chair. The distance between your throne and the queen and fool's throne should be the length of your arm to each side. Place the mirror on the queen and fool's throne facing each other and you at the same time. So at an angle. Place the bucket of water and the mug just barely out of reach in front of you. Place the fan behind you and turn it to medium or low.  Set your candles, the lighter, the alarm clock, which is set to 3.30 a.m., and your cell phone by the side of your bed. Hold your trinket anywhere on you then sleep, which in my opinion, I think would be a little bit hard. I don't know, I would be too spooked by this to sleep, but you're supposed to. Very important, so I would try.   Now, when your alarm times, turn your alarm off, but don't turn on the light.  Now, a serious warning for those who are playing. If your alarm didn't go off at the specified time or your phone didn't charge or the throne room is closed or the fan you left on is off, abort the mission. Evacuate everyone in the house and do not return until 6 a.m. It will not be safe until then. The trusted person that I told you to have earlier is going to wait outside of the room while you complete this ritual. It's imperative that they are trusted because you will want to make sure that they do not fall asleep and are able to wake you when the time comes. You must be seated for the ritual by 3.33. If not, again, evacuate everybody in the house and do not return until 6 a.m. Never, and I mean never, look into the mirrors you placed and do not let the candle go out. Shield it from the fan with your body. Look straight ahead into the darkness, again, not at the mirrors. The ritual will be over at 4.34, no more and no less. The fan should hit your candle and blow it out, ending the ritual. If this doesn't work, there are four other options and you must try them out one at a time before you can try the next. The next thing you can do, your loved one will go into the room and call your name. If that does not work, your loved one will call your cell phone that you've had. If that does not work, they can splash water on you with the mug and water bucket. They must not touch you. I couldn't find exactly what happens if they break this rule, but judging by the rest of the ritual and its consequences, I can't imagine it would be anything good. Now, if none of those work, your trinket is your last resort. The thing that you've held on to while you were sleeping and the thing you've had through the ritual should be able to help you find the way out if everything goes wrong. Now, here are your results. This ritual is supposed to be if we're getting your questions answered. However, according to the users who have participated, results vary pretty greatly. Some have positive experiences akin to something like therapy, but even if you do it all correctly, the results still seem to be a mixed bag. Some reported that their entities attacked their past traumas and doubts. This is why it is very, very important to be in a good mental state if you play this game, which I imagine would disqualify many people. One user, according to Morgan podcast, which I would highly recommend, states that a user said that when they were talking to the Queen of the Fool, that one was being very mean and the other one was being very nice. However, when she turned to look at the mirror where the nice voice was coming from, it tricked her. It showed her indescribable horrors, her family dying, the world burning, and then left her off with a very cryptic message about her death. Final ritual number five, man in the fields ritual. This ritual comes from the OG of cryptic internet lore, creepypasta. It states that the entity you summon is an ancient pagan deity and can grant rewards for those who successfully complete the ritual. Here's what you will need for the ritual. Only one participant, a house with a backyard, preferably in a remote location, as this seems to have more success in attracting the deity, a non-electric source of light, like a candle or a lantern or a match, a crucifix, an analog watch or clock, digital ones will not work for this. And you also need an empty room in this house that only has one door. Here's how you play. Begin after sunset, but before midnight. The amount of time between start and midnight will have an effect on rewards. With the crucifix on you, clear the house and yard of people. Light your candle or lantern and go to the backyard and turn to face your house. Repeat this phrase seven times, but who will scare the crows away? When you finish chanting, listen closely. If you don't hear anything, your summoning has failed. Leave the premises and do not return until after 6 a.m. Seems to be a recurring thing. I don't know what's up with 6 a.m. I don't know if that's when the witching three hours ends, but that's the time they all want you out. If you hear a voice and it says, that's not truly this problem. Your summon has succeeded. You may proceed. Return to your house. Careful not to look back as you close the door. Go to the empty room with only one door and close everything that might be open. This is imperative. This is going to be your safe room and you want it to be safe of any potential openings. Then you're going to leave the crucifix in this room.  Continue carrying your light source and exit the room. Now you have until 12 a.m. to close every single thing in the house. If you see a man with Ash and skin in your peripheral, do not look at him. There's no need to fear him. He's kind of a referee of sorts. Do not, and I mean, do not look into the backyard. When you're certain, absolutely certain that you have closed everything, you now need to go to bed.  That was unnecessary.  What was that for?  I'm already scared, man. I'm already scared. You don't need to do that. If you wake up in the morning, congratulations, you won, and your prizes are as follows. If you completed the ritual three hours before midnight, you will be granted physical safety for one year. No illness and no injury will come to you in this year. Now, if you perform the ritual two hours before midnight, you will be granted physical and financial safety. So you'll be in good physical health for the year and you'll be financially comfortable one hour before midnight. Now, one hour before midnight, which is said to be almost impossible and is really not recommended, you'll be granted total safety for one year. Your actions will have no negative consequences in any way. Good as those may sound, the consequences are, well, terrible. If you should ignore the warnings to look outside and see the scarecrow man, he will see you too. You will see him crawl down from his post and you must sprint to your safe room and close the door, grasping your crucifix tightly. Now, remember, if you failed to close everything in this safe room, he can enter and he will...  And if you didn't close everything before you went to bed or before 12 a.m.,  Which personally, I don't think financial health is that worth it, but maybe, I don't know, you're dying and you're sick. This might be a good option for you to play and then you can prolong your sickness for a year. Also, I was thinking to myself, you might just wanna play in a completely empty house. This way, it would kind of reduce the number of unnecessary openings that you're gonna have to close. I saw some people mention that water bottles would need to be closed, maybe even vents, although that one wasn't really clear, but I mean, if you're messing with an ancient deity, you might wanna be a little bit careful. All right, everybody. So that was five spooky games that you can play this Halloween. I hope you guys like content like this. It kind of is the only thing that seems to scare me these days is the spooky rituals. I don't know why something... Did you say, what the fuck, dude? I'm not doing this.


Okay good day people. I would like to talk about Docker, the use of Docker for people. Some people some people know me as Elche of NXADM on ISE on Twitter or whatever. I'm also the deaf room manager. We have kind of a schedule problem last time so that's last minute so that's why I'm here. A little bit of me I work at the information the Combatant Center of Information Security at the University of Leuven and we do stuff related to security, to identity, to authentication authorization and stuff like that. So I would like to start with a kind of controversy question. So what kind of problem does Docker solve for Pearl? And a typical reaction would be what problem? Do we have a problem? And it's true that in Pearl like we we at C-Pan for like ages you know before the people with birth, we have a very nice testing culture. We have a very nice community. We are great at writing tools so it's very easy to because in your in your Pearl environment because it's very nice. But if we rephrase the question a little differently we may get another answer. So if we if we ask the question how do we deploy our programs now in 2017 we get a lot of different answers you know there's more than one way to do it. Some people use C-Pan or Ceph and our remote machine. I hope no one's here works like that but I've everywhere I've worked I've seen people doing that on production machines. Some people use a Rakudo brew of Pearl brew to use their own Pearl and not use system Pearl. Some people use carton to pin their dependencies. Some people use local leap. Fatpacker very nice if your application is Pearl only so you can just make a one file so you don't need to have this dependency. Mini C-Pan dark C-Pan. Some people just create an archive and put it on the server.  The same kind of people will probably use a configuration management tool like Puppet, like Salt, like Rix, like Sparrow Do. And if we are honest with ourselves we must acknowledge that it can be a little fragile at times when when you're in full control of your environment there are very nice tools but when you're in kind of a bigger environment where it's a separation of responsibility we have some people like the Linux admins being responsible for the OS and updates you have application people being responsible for the application. Maybe they will do an update and your application is not well tested and it will break. If you are working on the cloud when you need a really fast switch of environment it will take a long time so it's not always the best solution. So if we look at other examples if we look over the fence into other communities that kind of work around this problem we see that it's not that easy. If we take Java by example a Java is great in this regard because in Java you put everything in a jar you put the jar in the machine you feed it to the JVM and it runs it will load probably I know 50,000 classes without exaggeration but it will run it's great but even then you you will meet class path hell when you have the same library with two versions on different path your application will run but it will explode around the way so even then if you go to go also a very nice language when you do an static compilation of your program when you add all the dependencies to your binary you take the small file you put it on the server you run it it's fantastic it's fast there's no VM but even then if you have a security problem in one of your libraries you need to track down all those small banners everywhere and that's not easy if you don't have the infrastructure for it because programs tend to I'd leave the programmer I've heard from some colleagues where I worked like 10 years ago they're still using a proof of concept I wrote and the programs start from this is a proof of concept in capital they still use it I don't think they even have the source so that's so that's a little difficult so if we look at a great example of other communities like Java and Go we realize that deploying is only half of the question and the real question in my eyes is how do we integrate with an ecosystem that is no longer language centric and what do I mean by that I mean that the future is API centric so you don't care that much about the language you care about the API you care about integrating stuff together and even more I could say that the present already is if you're working with with within a devop teams when you have a lot of people from different backgrounds you have operation people these admin people that they have their own tooling you have developers that maybe have their own tooling and if you if you work with people of different backgrounds that means different languages different frameworks so you're already mixing stuff there if you work with a cloud when it's very important to be able to switch from one cloud provider to the other when it's very important to be able to to bring your instances up it's very important that you have the best tool for the job and this is a good thing because it's very possible nowadays that the the best tool for the job is not written in pearl it could be written in java in go and ruby doesn't matter because you still get the best tool for the job so you can integrate stuff together um well back to docker a typical question is is it here to stay is it a hype because if you've been around for some years and it you know things come things go these come back slightly different so that's a very good question and the same people i would say we had sivan for like 20 years they would say yeah but we already have vm what's new so a vm a filter machine the idea behind it is to fully integrate a discrete environment to fully to to have a full operating system that also means that you need to fully administer an operating system like you used to have one big physical machine and now you have one physical machine with 10 vm's you need a lot more work to give that up to date to give it secure to create users and so on and more importantly a vm and a container are not at odds they can work together it's a very valid scenario to have a vm and to run containers on that maybe because you you're standardized around a vm you can deploy them and and provision them very quickly of maybe because of security you don't want your containers to share the same kernel there are a lot of valid reasons to do that well after this introduction i would like to answer the question what is docker because i'm talking about docker docker docker but i haven't explained it yet so if i'm forced to summarize it in one word it's i said it already it's a container and the same people that said yeah sivan yeah vm they would take container we haven't doing that forever my me myself i've been doing that 2005 on solaris solaris zones i've probably migrated hundreds of physical machines to solaris zones it was fun you had to see the best you could copy your container through ssh who know the machine it was a lot of fun people working on on ix probably 10 years before that but it's not the same thing so what's different again is the api so docker gave you an api to integrate it with other stuff so if we redefine what a container is nowadays of course it's an application itself contain that's kind of the definition of a container but the most important part is it's portable so you work at your at your workstation on the same container on the same binaries as on the production server as the same thing that the customer has so it's portable you move stuff around and you move the same thing you do you don't need to recreate everything and then test for the differences so container because of this have a really huge impact on how we develop how we distribute and how we run software so as a developer it's really it's priceless to to be able to develop on the same environment as the production machine because that's it's always the battle between cizad means and developers yeah it runs on my laptop it doesn't run on the on the on the production server which is so slow whatever so you you will develop differently because you can have the full stack all the different services on your laptop you can distribute it within your company test quality production you just move the same thing on a new environment you can you can push it to a client exactly the same thing as you're having on your laptop and it's also a very standard way to run software you don't care if they use suce of fedora of db and of ubuntu you just don't care maybe they run they run it on their big iron in their premises maybe they use a ship cloud provider you just don't care so it's a standard way to do it so this is a visualization how a container looks like it took me a while to get this because it's kind of confusing what a container really is and the most important part is the image in an image you can it can be compared to an iso a dvd a live linux distribution where you put all your libraries of your or your binaries and when you bring that up you always get a fresh environment every change you make will be lost when you restart your container so it's kind of a rich only environment that you can change on the fly when you restart it you lose that idea you always start from a fresh environment then you need to have some runtime information so something that you need to have a useful container maybe it needs some network addresses some ports maybe need some access to a file system mount points etc environments whatever and most important for your application is the persistent data that's something you don't put in the image because the image you just you can put it on the internet you don't care but your your configuration your secrets your business data that's outside of the container and the container has access to that so that's those are the big three parts and then if we look at at this again we realize that we still need tools to manage the runtime info the configuration the image creation and there are probably tools that we already talk about and in this case even cpan on the server because you're working locally it's okay an undocker image file is just a series of scripts of commands that you run after a basic image of an operating system you start with a very small down debian of something and then you say at this at that run that that's it but you only do it once and it's get stored in a kind of a binary format it's very easy to to have something very simple you don't need to complicate it stuff at that level so everything is containerized is everything is easy to understand and because of that is also easy to implement but if we go here that we used to have a very big radiator apparel application a radio server project when we only use Puppet and Puppet was the code was very complicated very big we had a lot of tests because Puppet had to manage users had to manage packages services the order they run and and at the end it configured my application now with a container i just don't do that anymore because that's in an image that's frozen the only thing i have to do i have to care about my my application so Puppet now it just take files you put in a directory take a template inject some secret and that's it so my code is very easy to read very easy to understand because i don't have to look at the full picture i only have to look at my application so we did already that so what does docker bring to the table kind of summary of what i said is efficient because it's only one process running is running on the kernel so the kernel marion talked about it has some cgroup to give you some basic security but it's on the same kernel it's not it's not about emulation also the way of working is very efficient because you are working on the real thing so you save a lot of time you don't go back and forth with with the sysad means talking about what's difference it's portable like i said you can distribute your images and it's also embeddable i cannot read that so i will say embeddable um that means that you as a pearl guy of girl you can create a base pearl image have a very up-to-date pearl very secure pearl you can provide a base set of images of modules excuse me um that you vetted the version you tested them and then someone can can take your image in your company of someone from the internet and just care about their application they just add a layer on your image they create a new image for their application so you're responsible for the pearl part and they are only responsible for the application so it's it's very easy to have a secure baseline that you can update and they don't need the all the knowledge for that so only have five minutes so i will warn you so i don't want to sell you stuff i don't want to be only positive so i know do you know the first rule about docker i know i know someone here so you won't shut up about docker so it's it's okay to give a presentation but don't do it at the dinner table because you get very annoying i've been there so don't do that so more seriously when you use docker you need to test test test it's not as straightforward as it looks yes things are easier things are simpler better a lot of corner cases you need to ask yourself some very good questions that you something that you always need to do but now you're forced to do it you need to ask yourself is my application horizontally scalable if the answer is no you need to rearchitect your your application or just don't bother with docker because docker uses the concept of cattle the docker doesn't care about your service doesn't care about your your container if you have a resource problem you just pop up some new one so it's if your application is bound by cpu of memory maybe that's not a good solution um issue application performance in docker already said is very efficient but there are some trade-offs on the level of networking on the level of disk io and because if your application is horizontally scalable it's not that important but still you need to test you need to make sure that you make the right choices because on network there are some implication on security on on flexibility so there are choices that you need to to make and you make sure that you make these choices and you just don't use the default of your distribution because they it's just a very generic setup this is the most important thing i would say today docker is not a security solution for most people that work with docker they think that is it gives you a very um dangerous false sense of security because you think it's containerized i'm safe you're not you need to follow best practices you need to follow common sense you need to test you need to make your application update of course it's an extra layer of interaction that's a good thing but it's not enough so if you get into docker most books most most stocks don't go into that you need to look into that i don't have the time to go in detail but with a very base minimum effort you can get a very secure application but you need to really be proactive about that there's also about people about politics this is not a technical issue but most companies institutions are kind of divided operations and and developers and if you start with docker you get a lot of people that will have something to say about your image you have a lot of chefs in the kitchen so you need to be ready for that too you need to have a good collaboration with other teams you need to be able to to to acknowledge input to talk about it and this also gives an opportunity i already talked about the base pearl image it's a very very good opportunity for a for a pearl person to to create a standard to may to be the one that is not knowledgeable about pearl someone that can create a baseline someone can make sure that the securities followed and so on i have some slides left but i just going to leave it like that so maybe if there are some questions i don't know i can so yeah go ahead sorry yeah certainly i will the idea behind it is to to have the real thing on your on your on your laptop so you are working on the real thing that will run on production so i couldn't develop otherwise because otherwise you will always have trouble with discussion with it works on my laptop it doesn't work on production one minutes so can you compare so the docker to other container uh nothing one minutes so i would say docker is easy because there's a lot of integration already so it does make it easy but there are other good alternatives as well so it's uh i think i'm gonna wrap it like that uh thank you very much


He seems to be higher, but that's vertical axis is in time. And basically he says time is an illusion, time is part of the ecosystem. So in fact we are complete equals. So in Jeanette's case where her boss basically ordered her to make a change in her behavior was in effect really ordering her to make a change in her mind. And when Jeanette affected a change in behavior perhaps is simply that that part of the mind of her Jeanette's mind which was already in there which recognizes love recognized the change of behavior as representing that thing that was already in her mind and so she just started listening to something else in her mind which was already in there. What was already in my mind kicked in and you know I understood that what was happening. I think there's a good section too in the teacher's manual that talks about our changes required in the teachers of God's situation. And basically the first sentence of it is changes are required in the minds of the teachers of God and basically he says in some cases there will be a change in external circumstances but to bring it back to the example in the sense that there's remember how we talked about the mind is being this very deep thing. I don't know if you were here at the beginning but we described it as this almost like a skyscraper with a decision maker at the basement who's choosing between the ego and the Holy Spirit every instant. And basically when one has willingness for a shift of mind it may seem to be that the externals are actually being the impetus or that are pushing us for other words sometimes people have an experience of feeling like like they don't belong in a particular job but they feel too afraid to leave and they feel too afraid to leave but they really feel like they need to be to someone else but they're too afraid to leave and it kind of goes on and on and on until finally they get fired. Someone could say well that getting fired from that job was the impetus you need to go on to that new job or that new whatever you need when actually the Course once again brings it back to the mind that it all has to do with our minds willingness to open up to the Holy Spirit and it certainly seems a lot of times as if there is an external impetus like a spouse leaving or a big change of jobs or one of those things which seems like a major shift on the outside but really that's just an interpretation that really it's all it always comes back to our own minds decision that our minds make the decision at a very deep level of mind and then whatever is outpictured in terms of even a boss coming to you and asking you to do something can seem to be the thing that really triggered it but it brings it back to our own responsibility again. Question do you find that people who want to take full responsibility and still believe in the illusion start feeling more and more guilty because they know they are responsible? Yeah I think that that's a big it's that level confusion again I think the biggest the biggest case of that that I find is I travel around this with sickness I mean here you are now you're studying a tool that's starting to say everything's a decision in your mind there's no external God that's punishing you and zapping you with AIDS and cancer and you know punishing you and there you start to see more and more that that the medical model in other words that you catch germs and all these things that I mean I grew up believing all that stuff that's what my mom taught me you know sanitation is important because you catch germs and so on and so forth or sun rays you know that you got to put the sunscreen on because sun can cause cancer well here comes Jesus and basically saying everything's a decision in your own mind that there's nothing outside in the world that's that's bringing about any of this that's a big turnaround so if everything's a decision and I'm and I'm have the ability to make those decisions then when sickness comes up when people start getting symptoms whether it's cancer or even colds and flus then the ego is very happy to see the mind go through a guilt trip you know because the mind's thinking well if I make decisions and I'm my mind is causative and I'm sick oh my gosh I'm making myself sick and then it can be like a loop you know where it's like oh my gosh but really what it is is it's a level confusion again because it's still a misidentification that the eye I'm making myself sick I'm making my self my body my teeny self it's still a belief that the mind thinks that it's a little person and that's the thing that that's where the mistakes come again in other words the Course is teaching us that we are infinite that we are magnitude that we are spirit that we are abstract light you know sometimes you might have heard of near-death experiences where people talk about this brilliant white light of unconditional love in a sense the Course is saying that's what your true identity is the Christ is a spirit created in the image of the Father the Father Spirit the Son Spirit Father's infinite the Son's infinite but with sickness or something like that the tendency is oh my gosh if I'm responsible I take that principle and oh my gosh look at this body look what I'm doing you take that principle and you put those two together self responsibility and look what I'm doing sickness and there's guilt really it just comes down to it's still a misperception of of who I think I am that's what it is misidentification is what it really comes down to I think I've shared I've had mind shifts and miracles where I've there's just been such an instantaneous shift in my mind that symptoms have left my body in an instant and you know those are very powerful kind of personal witnesses for me that this is he's not fooling here that I used the example with the flu where you know the thoughts were oh this is take 24 hours or 48 hours to get over this bug and da da da and then having such a powerful shift that that all the symptoms of nausea that diarrhea and everything is in an instant it really shows the power of the mind also what the course calls magic is the medical model operations pills you know all those extraneous things that we think are necessary for good health instead of watching our thoughts and letting go of the ego system of course in the ego system that lots of external things the course calls magic but the course is not anti-magic you know it's not like that pills are bad and that surgery is bad and that all these things but basically the course says that if you're too frightened to open up to the Holy Spirit you know and have a complete a mind shift or a miracle then perhaps you need a mix of magic and miracle in other words Jesus isn't saying that you you should just stay there as your head is robbing you know and or as something's happening you know and and you have the tile and all or whatever you know that you you feel like we could really do the job but you're just gonna stay there and and work this through because you know it can be the mind can be in such a fearful state that it's too closed down to the Holy Spirit and so Jesus once again is not anti-magic he just has had a little bit mix of the magic and miracle you'll go along you'll keep getting better your mind will get more highly trained and there will come a time when you can have the mind you'll be open to the mind shift and you'll you know in a sense the symptoms the pain or whatever will disappear but that's that's where the mind training comes in


Hello everybody it's Derek again and this is another short tutorial on how to backup and save important data in your browser and we're going to go back to viral fox so let's share where you are you'll see here we have no bookmarks we have no passwords you know note here is this it'll allow you to export them to a CSV file and the same is true for your your bookmarks and the way you do that that you control plus zero and allows you to choose to export to HTML now if we look here you can see I've already exported the bookmarks and they've exported a shrink down version of my logins because I really don't want you to see all my logins for thing that's going to be eventually on YouTube so the first thing we do is we hit control zero or is it hmm there we go so want to import I would go open that file and we're good to go look at that now you know if we go to passwords there's no thing this is import from a CSV file which is turned off in Firefox automatically and the way we want to turn that on is we go to about.config and that saved has a bug mark now you'll know it gives us a scary warning saying hey you might break your browser and you can but we're going to do a simple thing we're going to the file and import it and here's the setting we turned that to true bug gone after there now when we go back to passwords and we choose look at that import from a file and there it is we import it and we're done bang my firefax account our Slicep's test account and the pop-up password so now we go here there you remember and there it logs this in now you'll know through all of this that I'm not actually signed in to my firefax account I can get all this information through my profile but if your profile is unavailable for some reason then you can back up all of your info on to a USB stick I have mine saved on an encrypted USB stick and in a couple of other places as well I have saved on my Google Drive as well but the point is you can go about this the old-fashioned way with your saving files to a safe place offline or you can log into your firefax account either way the point is you are protected against a catastrophic data loss by doing this and again I want share here and as always the end with an open invitation do it if you need to help I will meet with you in Zoom and help you walk through getting your online left soda and together message for this tutorial the next soon and we'll talk about is setting up new passwords using the pop-up password which is technically called HT password and how to create past phrases which are super long but very easy to remember just hope with that I'll say thank you and until next time


Every year around this time the Pacifica Student Society here in ANU hosts Pacific Day. We have different themes every year and this year we've named it ANU-Nesha, so the island of ANU. To share with ANU our Pacific culture, our passion and our pride for our different cultures that we have. But secondly, it's a very important tool for us as students, which empowers us to come together. Two very important things we're showcasing today and sort of epitomise specific cultures in ANU. Firstly, it's our love for dance and song. We love to sing and we love to show off our culture by sharing that with the rest of the ANU community. But also at the same time, we love our food, though we didn't display the array of food that we'd like, but hopefully today's event allowed us to show this passion for food.


If you do not take care of the environment it will fight back in different forms, hence the need for all hands to be on deck to protect it. This advice came up during a clean up exercise at the Alfa beach in Lagos. Residents were charged on the need to ensure a clean environment and proper waste management which will go a long way to protecting not just the health of the earth but humans in general. Trash left on the beach is not just unattractive. It can wash back into the water and create safety hazards for visitors and aquatic life. For motions, the lakes, the rivers, organizing the beach clean up is a wonderful way to do good while also enjoying the beauty of the ocean. So for these volunteers the assignment is simple. If they clean up the beach they are preserved in their aquatic life and also the future generations. Nigeria is estimated to generate about 2.5 million tons of plastic waste annually. Plastic accounts for 15% of the total waste generated in Lagos state. O'Lakbeju Ibeque is passionate about the health of the environment. Health foundation is over time organized sensitization such as this to change the narrative of endangerment of the environment. Ibeque speaks on the dangers of plastic pollution as she hints that this clean up is holding simultaneously across 27 other states. We live at a time that it's getting increasingly scary that if we do not take care of the environment it's going to fight back and this is in different forms. Today we are at Alpha Beach and we've been reliably informed that just some time ago there was an ocean surge that really made residents to flee this area. This has been ongoing for a while. It is time for everyone to be intentional about protecting the environment. So what you are doing whenever you throw plastic away carelessly or do not manage plastic properly is that you are creating a hazard that can live well beyond your time. That is why it is important for us to manage our plastic properly. For the state government effective collaboration with relevant stakeholders is a sure way to go to sustaining the environment. Other stakeholders are unanimous that cleaning up of the environment including the beaches should be domesticated so it will not be an occasional habit. We know the challenges we have with our environment, waste management issues, pollution issues and the likes. Abuses, contraventions that has really put the entire society or environment in a big mess. So we cannot but collaborate from the ministry of environment. We cannot but collaborate with responsible agencies and bodies that are willing to come up with initiatives that will help us set the damages on the reverse. I think we need to make it culture, we need to make it a habit. First to stop littering the environment with all kinds of refuse and make it a point of duty to clean, to join the cleaning. Not only when we have special events and activity like this, but periodically because it is in the interest of everyone. We don't just do it one-off, we do it very consistently. I recall that sometimes this year we were also at the Elegushi beach and we had that very event which was also very colorful and we also cleaned up that beach. And this is one of so many of the auditions that is happening. Again, if you want to link into the entire global environmental impact of the importance across the SDG goals, this is one of the importance of cleaning our environment very clean. Through this regular clean-up exercise at the beach, Olapeju and her foundation have succeeded in reducing poverty and producing an alternative source of income for the women and the youths involved by picking up and selling plastic wastes. Justin Akademi, Plastic Abuse Lagos. News Updates.