The House of Representatives candidate for Labour Party, for House of Rebs in the just concluded poll, Emilia Ezeudu, has expressed dissatisfaction with the process of the election. She alleged that the election was flawed, citing overvoting and rigging by the INAG officials. Our correspondent Paul George reports. Solidarity forever, we shall always fight for our right. Chanting Solidarity songs, Labour Party members and the House of Representatives candidate for a Jeremy fellow to constituency in Lagos, Emilia Ezeudu showed their grievances concerning the election. Ezeudu alleged that the votes were doctored to favour the all-progressive Congress candidate. The people proved to vote on Saturday and expect their will to reflect in the results of the ballot, low and behold, the enemy of our democracy who have sold their conscience to the devil perfected their art of rigging. There is clear evidence that there is sabotage of electoral process to give room to chaotic fraudulence collation with our electoral act 2023. She adds that the youth are tired of the shenanigans of the ruling party and want a country devoid of thuggery. Doctoring and engineering to arrive at a predetermined result instead of the original result from the polling units. Figure manipulation is too obvious to ignore. Collation officers are to get the power to allocate influx, the vote cast at the polling unit against the clear provisions of our electoral law. This criminality cannot be allowed to stand. The shenanigans was prominent in a Jeremy fellow to federal constituency election. Electoral kidnapping and yahoo yahoo results shall not be encouraged. The doctor's figure and all the doctor's figures shall be contested and the original result shall be defended in the interest of justice. We appeal to citizens of a Jeremy fellow to federal constituency to remain calm and law abiding. The campaign DG of Labour Party in the constituency, Ike Oyambo, reels out the words where the alleged irregularities occurred. His words are corroborated by the party agent who was on the ground. The INEC people cajoled our officers to sign it when they said they would remove like 500 votes from that of APC. You cannot remove 500 votes habitually. How did they get 2,000 excess votes? And you now remove 500 habitually. One of the polling unit agents refused to record for Labour Party in his own polling unit. He refused to come. He came to our home pass for... There was a polling unit who noticed it was a vote. He supported the right and he said it's not in our place to defend the talk or counter it. It's there for INEC to notice it and then if they want to take any action, they should. Why shouldn't they correct it at that level since it's happening within the same environment, rather than leaving it and adding to the results? I wanted to make a video. One of them promised said he was going to hit me, one of the collation officer. And the people around me raised fracas and asked him, why do you think you will intimidate her and tell her you want to slab her if she makes a video? The candidate is confident she will get back her mandate. Paul, George plus TV News.


So, dude, you know, I was thinking, man, guys, you're all surprised, but you gotta do it.  Like, at least you could try. What's going on, guys? Welcome to another cooking video with Noah Pescatel. Totally kidding, but how are you guys doing? It's a... I'm in a whole new location right now. I'm actually at my house in Savannah for college. And, you know, I just wanted to pull out the camera vlog today. I haven't vlogged in a hot minute, so I was really wanting to, you know, pick out the camera, film my day, show you what I have going on in my life, and what I plan on doing the past couple of days, the next couple of days. So, right now, I'm just throwing some chicken. I don't know why I wanted to film like a... a food channel commercial. Jack in the Box restaurants are having a taco sale. Got a quick fishing challenge. I got 10 minutes to try to catch a fish right now. The chicken's still cooking in about 10 minutes. I'm putting 10 minutes on my phone. We're going to try to catch a fish out here real quick. And I only have like half of a worm, so we're going to see how it works. We got 9 minutes and 30 seconds on the timer. We're going to try to catch a fish with quick boys and girls. You know what that timer means? I didn't make it happen for you guys. I've kind of heard about it. You know, like, I just wanted 10 minutes. 10 minutes to try to catch a fish. And honestly, I really didn't think it was going to happen. Like, I didn't, but, you know, it's all right. It's okay. I have to check on my chicken anyways. We'll make it happen. We'll make it happen here in a little bit off to come back out and, you know, fish some more. Whoo-hoo! I got this all cooked up. I didn't feel the challenge, but man, I did feel the challenge. A fishing challenge, but I didn't feel the chicken challenge. That's for sure. You know, guys, holy smokes.   You know, like, challenges that I can do, like, with the lake right there. And, you know, I was thinking I have something cool that I want to do. And I think chances are coming over later. Maybe I'll film like a little preview of challenges that I think I can do that, you know, maybe we can equip to make it fun and funny and just cool in the same way. Make it really cool, you know. Then challenge multiple people, you know. Us versus them. Be pretty good. Be pretty bomb. Just like this food. Just chicken and rice. So, guys, this is what I had in mind today. All right? So, I want to build something that's going to be fun. That's going to be fun for you guys to watch. And it's going to be an obstacle course in the backyard for flipping. Flipping challenges, all right? Well, chances are going to come over later. And, you know, if I just tell him on the phone right now, he just texts me. He's like, you want me to bring my polls? I was like, yeah. I was like, yeah, bring your polls. So, I'm going to open challenge him. You can't just, like, plan a challenge. I can't just, like, call him. Like, hey, dude, you know, I'm filming today. Let's do a flipping challenge. And he's going to be like, oh, no, no, no. But guess what?  Like, hold tight on it and say, I'm challenging you to a flipping contest in my backyard. Yeah, I haven't practiced at all. All right? If he says, no, I'm not going to do it. I mean, he just took the ultimate L, like, right there, right? So, and then, you know, to be better if he's just like, yeah, let's do it. And then he loses. Or if you, who knows, he might win. But if he loses, like, at least he may end up and, like, try it, you know? But you can't just blame the same, no? You know, I want to challenge some other people, too. I'm not going to hit him out of nowhere, but we're going to go set this up in the backyard. Here's the buckets. Where's the handle? All right, this is what I'm doing. I'm going to make a short bucket. That's kind of close. A mediocre bucket. And a long bucket. Just like a 30. So this is what we're working with. Actually, I need to move this one a little bit further back. Come on. There we go. This is what I'm working with. That guy is way out there. This guy's going to be pretty close. That one's going to be hard to make. I'm going to figure out how we're going to set the rules where, like, if we're challenging each other on that time or we're both going in and we're just going to... We're going to have to figure out something. Chance is coming right now. Hey, Chance. You know, I've been vlogging today, man. Let's go. I'm on this little boy, Chance. He's already repping up. He's already repping up. So, dude, you know, I was thinking, man... I'm probably catching you all surprised, but I'm really curious. You see these buckets right there, man? You see that? Yeah. We're going to have a flipping challenge, all right? And you got to do it.  Like, at least you could try. Yeah. You want to do it? You want to try? Yeah. All right. Let's go. Go tie on your pole. We're going to get a go. Come on. Right here. If I lose, it's going to be so bad. Come on. Hopefully I'll win. Let's make it happen. Guys, we're going to practice right now just for a few minutes. This is the rules, all right? There's three buckets. There's a close one, medium, long, long distance. You got to make each bucket three times. So you work your way. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three.  All right? This is probably surprising to him. But we're going to make it happen right now. All right, guys. All right. We're getting to start it right here in a second. Chance is pretty good. So I'm kind of scared. All right. Start it in. All right, guys. I had to switch to my GoPro because my battery is about to die. But man, Chance, this is my boy. You know, this is my boy. The reason I did that is because we're going to... I'm going to start doing, like, little challenges.  I got something planned coming up. So I had to use Chance as an appetizer. We're going to go out here before it gets dark. I mean, it's already getting dark. But we're going to throw a drop shot around all out here on the pond. And hopefully we'll catch some fish. We're going to try to catch a big one. If we caught, like, a 10 pounder right now, I would, like, freak. I would freak. Oh, guys, we got one finally. Look how big he is. A teeny, tiny guy. Look at that. Look at that. It's like, I finally got one. I was just like, come on, fish, bite. Look at his mouth. That's a weird mouth, dude. He's got a weird mouth, bro. Look at this, man. Chance, over here, watch him. I'm right in front of me. What is going on, man? I'm so confused. Just everything, like, got him a grind shirt. If you guys want to check these out, I'll leave the link in the description. This is the newest shirt. And, you know, I mean, that's a clean shirt right there. Clean text, everything. Looks pretty clean. Logo. Material's the best.  Material's just like, it's just there. So if you guys want to check those out, link's below. All right, guys. Chance just left a minute ago, and I'm going to start to end off this video. But in every video I'm going to start doing this, which is going to be a fan comment of the day. So here I'm going to pop up a fan comment of the day in one of my latest videos. So start counting on the video so you could be picked for a fan comment. But this comment was by Flippin' Bass TV. He said, this makes me tear up from fishing with my grandpa who died two days ago. We caught so many fish. And is this Lake Lanier?  You know that first of all, the first thing I'd really like to say about this comment is, you know, Flippin' Bass TV, like, I'm sorry to hear that about your grandpa. But everything just keep it positive, you know. Everything would be okay, you know. I'm sure he's in a good place right now. Me spending time with my grandpa, you know, is just awesome, you know. I'm trying to spend as much time as I can with him. And, you know, that's very important for everyone who has, you know, grandparents and everything and spend some time with them and spending a lot of time with your family in general because you never know what's going to happen. I'm just happy that I can really, you know, touch people in my videos. And, you know, that's really a good reason why I loved making this video with my grandpa is because I know a lot of people could relate to it and it could touch a lot of people. And that's my biggest reason I made that video.   And, you know, so sorry to hear that about your grandfather. But just keep pushing. You know, everything's going to be okay. You know, I'm sure he's in a great place right now but overall, guys, be sure to leave a comment below and you might be picked for the next fan comment of the day for the video. But overall, thank you guys so much for watching. If you could, please smash the like button. Please comment below and please subscribe if you haven't already. 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Everyone knows that the big numbers rule is the right way to go when you do dropshipping to eBay But the problem is that when you work with bulk uploads Sometimes a lot of products will be uploaded to your store that you would not like To be in your store. For example, clothing, t-shirts, pants, stuff like that We all know that for these products we have higher returns rate and More complaints from our customers and we want to avoid it So in this video I will show you exactly how you can avoid Different types of products categories and types to be uploaded to your store automatically You can just make a small configuration in AutoDS and signs this configuration Everything will become fine and they will save a lot of time and go on the safe way Short intro and we are starting. Hello everybody. So first from where came the idea to this type of video A lot of people asked me, I'm using the AutoDS finder But sometimes I get a lot of products that I don't want to be uploaded to my store Like t-shirts, pants, other clothings and stuff like that How can I avoid these products to be uploaded to my store when I use the AutoDS finder? Now this video is relevant also to people who just working with bulk uploads And don't want a specific type of products to be uploaded to their stores How to do that? So First of all, let's take an example. I will go to Amazon And take a random product. Let's say a t-shirt My t-shirt We scroll down take any a random t-shirt from here for example this one And I will copy the link to AutoDS uploader. Let's see what happens Grab details It will grab now all of the details from this specific product and we can see that it grew up successfully Now let's say that you went to AutoDS finder made an upload of thousand products And you don't want products like this like this t-shirt to be listed to your store. What would you do? So the solution here is very easy. I go to settings Then I go to Add keywords blacklist and here we just take the keyword that I don't want to appear put it here And I will choose the option of Block if appears in title for sure you can do that also for brand and for description or even for all of them I click add and that's all I can even do that with a bulk different Types Example no, so let's say this type of t-shirts. Let's say even shirt. I will add it also here Block if appears in title say now if I go to uploader again, let's see what will happen We'll take this link Put it again here It will try to grab the details of this specific product But in this time we have it in our a blocked keywords as Block if appears in title again, we could do that also for description brand or anything else So let's see what will happen at this stage and as you can see it shows the name t-shirt is very It's not really very but it's in your blocked keywords and this white rights there Oh, and it appears in title and now you can choose if you want to continue or not Now if it would be a bulk upload from Autodesk finder or regular bulk upload This product would just stay out of your uploads and Autodesk finder would give you another product instead of this one I Hope that this method method will help you this method helps to a lot of our biggest Customers with over 1 million products and this is how they do that and listing a lot of products at the say And at the same time staying on the safe side Share this video with everyone who will benefit from this video like this video and ask me anything that you want Below this video in the comments section. Also, don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more Advanced and professional tips like this one. I will share a lot of different methods in the future and also check our previous videos Bye. Bye. See you in the next videos. Have a good day


I'm still a learner about Irish energy policy. I have only in the last six months become much more involved in Irish policy as the commission's designated expert on the European semester with regard to energy.  The reason I'm here specifically to today is to talk about networks and renewables in particular from the Irish perspective because we in Brussels think that Ireland has a particular role to play immediately and over the long term for the achievement of European goals for renewables. And what we are hoping is that we will see a much greater expression of interest and involvement from the Irish energy community and the Irish political community in leadership on energy policy in this area. Because Ireland has so much to give, so much expertise, and there is so much opportunity. It would be a shame for Ireland to miss that for the future. Now I have some slides which I'll go through very quickly. I am also conscious that yesterday we had the announcement of the European Energy Union in Brussels which was as much as a surprise for me as perhaps it was for you because right up until the last moment the text were being changed. And I'm still not quite sure what we announced yesterday but insofar that I can help you on any point I'd be happy to help you on the energy union as well in addition to what I'm going to say about networks and grids. So let me get networks and grids out of the way first off. The first thing to bear in mind is that we are now in a European energy market where renewables in particular are cost competitive over the long term. So on what's called a levelised cost of electricity all renewables now are cost competitive to major competitors. It's only really the two dirtiest fuels, hard coal and brown coal, which retain a significant cost competitive advantage over other fuels. Onshore wind is particularly cost competitive. Offshore wind is in the money at some stages in the markets and over the long term will get further into the money. German in particular photovoltaic is already in the money in the central European market and there are lots of new technologies in the renewable sector which are coming on stream. The interesting thing about renewables is of course that in the majority of cases there is no fuel costs so once you have built the infrastructure and put everything in place the marginal cost of the extra unit of power is almost zero. And that leads to in continental Europe the perverse situation where you are paid to take electricity away. We've had several instances now of so-called negative prices where people are paid either to consume electricity or not to provide it. And that has had a stunning effect on overall electricity prices particularly in the core German and Danish markets. And in countries where there is a lower level of penetration of renewables you tend to have higher electricity costs. As you look across northwest Europe in particular you'll see electricity prices which are completely diverging and wholesale base load electricity in the first quarter of 2014 cost something in the region of 30 euros per megawatt hour in Germany and 60 euros per megawatt hour here in Ireland. And between Ireland and Germany you had another high price market which was the United Kingdom which I think was about 55. Netherlands was also higher than Germany. Denmark was lower than Germany. Denmark and Germany both have the highest penetration of renewables in northwest Europe and the link between that and the wholesale electricity price should be established in every policymaker's mind. What we need to see in northwest Europe and in Ireland in particular is a much greater penetration of renewables to bring down overall electricity prices to break the link between hydrocarbon costs and electricity prices. In our estimation the Irish electricity price which is very closely linked to the wholesale gas price isn't necessarily a good long term option for Ireland. And indeed I was joking with Amon just now saying that if I had thought that I would come to Ireland and say I know of a small European country which is entirely dependent on a single gas interconnector for its electricity supply to a former imperial power I would normally be thinking about central Europe not Ireland. But this is the case that in Ireland today the interconnector for the gas market is the single most important element of security of supply and for price setting in the electricity market. And that is a particular concern for us in the European Commission because it has implications for energy security and for long term pricing of electricity in Ireland. And if Ireland wants to become much more competitive needs to think about how it's going to achieve much lower electricity prices over the medium to long term. Now there are extremely good signs in the Irish context. We've seen the good news this week from Apple with this investment in Athenry which I think is very good vote of confidence for the Irish economy and for the Irish energy system particularly since it is considered that it will only use renewables. I think that's very good but I think there needs to be much more greater conception of Irish energy policy which is linked towards industrial and general economic and general ecological welfare than simply the economics of single parts of the supply chain for gas to the Irish economy. So what then is the solution? Well the solution that we would consider the most beneficial would be a rapid expansion of interconnectors that would allow for a greater amount of trade, electricity trade between wholesale markets and also in the future for Ireland to take up its role as a potential exporter of green energy to the heart of Europe. If we look at all of the different types of climatic conditions that we have in the European Union, Ireland has a special climatic position I think but it means that that special climatic position gives it an advantage when competing against Spanish solar, German solar such that there is sun in Germany or wind in other parts of Europe. So the peaks of supply or production in the Irish case will be different from the peaks of production in other areas and having that interconnection with other countries will allow for exports of electricity from Ireland and when there is a deficit to import electricity when necessary. We also would move away from the conception of being dependent on a single gas supply system through to the oil in Scotland. So we would like to see a much higher level of interconnection. Firstly starting with trade between electricity markets which would allow for thermal power optimisation particularly natural gas and would make the natural gas market equally much more competitive so you could import natural gas to compete with the natural gas that you already have in this country which comes through a gas interconnector which could import it in the form of prices, electricity prices from thermal power generated elsewhere. So if the gas price is lower say in Germany you could import that electricity to Ireland and have it compete with gas which is burnt in this country. We have looked at different grid designs in the European context and we have noted that grids which are designed rather than left to the market are over time much more competitive of much greater socioeconomic value to all of the member states involved than simply allowing for a grid that grows like topsy. So we are looking in the context particularly of the northern seas which are the Baltic, the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the area around Ireland at grid designs, how we can remove development barriers and think also about how we can best remunerate those who will build grids for the future and perhaps we should move from a merchant based system to a regulated asset based system. We should also think in terms of scale what is the effect of scale on bringing down unit costs if we were to go down this route. So far as I think I saw a press release from the Green Party this morning which I think must have had your hand behind it, I think you were bemoaning the thought that Ireland hadn't been at the table when the negotiations were taking place in Brussels. Indeed you had and you were deeply involved but we need I think also to thank and to think, thank the Irish government for having done what it has done so far but also think for the future. What could you do more? What is it that Ireland could bring to the table on a discussion about interconnecting systems over the long term? One of the softer values that I think that you could certainly bring to the table is any initiative which is led by Ireland is generally accepted by everybody else because we don't think the others. That is that Ireland has any hidden agenda generally speaking so you at least bring your good offices to the debate and that can be very helpful in and of itself. But thinking for the future I think there are things that would be of tremendous value for Ireland, exporting electricity when you have a surplus, importing cheaper electricity when you need it. Also there are management issues of the grid, there are things which speak to the relative forgotten the word in English. Advantages that Ireland has such as software development, systems management, SCADA and such like. So there are other elements of the economic equation which you should think about when you are talking about networks which Ireland could particularly take part in. We should also think about what is the role of wind both onshore and offshore, we should think about whether there should be a scope for much greater cost compression in the wind sector. Particularly in standardisation there are at moment tremendous number of different wind turbines and wind components on the market. They all address the same issue which is try to make something go round in the wind but they all have tremendously different technical attributes. And to standardise some of those technical attributes to make systems much more simpler and to have a plug and play approach to electricity generation particularly for wind power would bring down its costs tremendously. In the United Kingdom they are thinking of reducing costs by 40% between now and 2020. If that's done in the European concept it would be much easier to achieve that for all European wind farm manufacturers and operators. So when we look at grids for renewables expansion should we think about having the renewables first and then the grids? Or should we think about having the grids and then the renewables? That's a very important timing issue. Until now most people have put this in the sequence that we should first develop the renewables and then develop the grids. The suggestion that we would make is to change it round. We should first put in place grids for trading of the existing infrastructure that we already have, existing generation facilities that we already have and then develop the renewables that can take advantage of that grid at a later time. But you do if you go along that route have to manage competing interests, you have to make anticipatory investments and you have to think about what it is that you're going to do in common and what you're going to do apart. That political process is not started at the European Union level. There is an initiative called the Northern Seas Offshore Grid Initiative and it's COGI, but it's a very technical level initiative dealing with specific technical issues for regulation. What we really need though is a political initiative which takes in the whole of the North Seas area and which involves everybody from the start and has a political flavour to it and I think that's where Ireland could play a significant role. Grid designs, they're much cheaper if you think about them in anticipation over time than if you just allow them to be built and then try and fix them later. I think the message there is that we need to have some sort of global perspective of what we're going to do in the Northern Seas in order for everybody to benefit and to take these concepts and apply it to the interconnected region of the Northern Seas. You'll see that if you have a coordinated development versus a business as usual approach you have far fewer cables in the sea which means far fewer costs and you have much simpler management and O&M costs over the long term. We would like to see a development more like this than like that. It has upfront additional costs but it has over time huge savings in comparison to a business as usual scenario and such a coordinated development would allow for Ireland to be fully integrated into the continental energy market irrespective of what political circumstances may occur between now and its achievement. It's an important thing that Ireland has to consider. It's beyond my pay grade to go any further than that but I put it to you that it's important for Ireland to think about what happens in the future in the long term in its electricity sector now rather than waiting three or four years. We need a greater level of political framework particularly at the European Union level or at the regional level. We need something, an area of discussion politically led where these issues can be dealt with and the expected benefits reaped and again I think Ireland has a strong claim to take leadership in that area. Lastly what we need to do in order to achieve a regionally integrated energy system in the northern seas is close all the different legal horizons, all the different bits of law and regulation and jurisdiction and other issues that come into play. Do this in such a way that project developers have the fewest risks, the fewest problems in delivering a robust electricity network and grid for a decarbonised carbon neutral Europe that we have in view for 2030. I think that is something that is a great challenge to all of us and I hope that having come to Dublin I'll at least get an echo on some of these points. Thank you very much.


Just a real quick upload for you here. I'm in the truck. So you're probably hearing air conditioner running It's like the real feels like 101 right now. It's real feels 95 in the shade. So It's hot so I got this run I got the air on I can turn it down a little bit for you there But I wanted to give you an update on the mileage on the truck Get you zoomed in here She forgot to keep an eye on it. She wanted to get it with the five zero zero zero zero zero There's five hundred thousand 196 miles on this old truck 2003 Toyota Tacoma sr5 extended cab Engines never had anything done to it other than tune up maintenance The only big things we've had to do we had to put an alternator on it A fuel pump and a radiator The rest of the stuff like brakes, you know tires and stuff like that just normal Just normal stuff So there it is guys. They hit a half a million and this thing does not smoke No smoke Wait the exhaust is on the other side there no smoke Kind of hesitates a little bit when it's cold when you first started up Pretty sure I know what that is. It's a spark plug that I cannot get out But yeah, the old truck she sounds good runs good half a million miles. So Good job Toyota I'm still a Chevy guy. I'll always be a Chevy guy, but this truck has done her well. So I'll be letting them know about that So anyway guys just want to throw that in there for you real quick. Thanks for watching monkeys pretty proud of a old truck So if we ever get another one, I think she's wanting to get an SUV Like a forerunner like to get her a land rover But we'll never be able to afford that but she wants to get a Toyota SUV of some kind So and then we'll just keep this, you know, if we got a whole bigger stuff. So All right guys again, thanks for watching appreciate it The old girl's made a half a million miles Awesome. Sheaberry, myth, man, legend gone for now. Bye. Bye guys


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial. This week's scrapbook layout is one of me and my best friend Kate. This one was taken in 2007, so it's a little bit old now on one of our, well it was one of our very early nights out and I thought I would scrapbook it. It's been in frames a lot of the time and I thought now it's time to actually put it to a scrapbook layout. So I'm pulling in some real bright block colors for this layout. I wanted a bit of a pop-art kind of look to it so I'm cutting everything down and I'm starting to tear the paper. I want to have this ripped edge. The striped paper is slightly smaller than the pink paper so that when I lay them all out I can have about a quarter of an inch gap between each one. So I'm just putting it all back into place again but with a one-eighth of an inch kind of gap so that it just creates, you know, just something different, a different look so it's the same paper again but this time it's got a gap between it and it's all ripped, a little bit distressed. So with the picture it's a funny shape, I think I must have cut it down years ago for some reason. It was taken by one of these photographers that walk around the town and then they upload them and you can download them and stuff so the quality is not great but I still really love it. So I'm just framing it on white then I'm framing it on the same kind of pinky purple color that I'm using and then I'm framing it again on white again so I've got quite a few layers to this but I just wanted it to really kind of lift up on the page. Then I'm just deciding where I'm going to go for this one. I spend ages just moving them around and as you probably can tell now I can spend quite some time doing that. Now because I wanted a bit of a pop-up kind of look about it I wanted to bring in black, I just want that real kind of contrast with the, you know, the harsh black against the kind of pastel colors so I just want to create a background area for my picture. So I've got these splat stamps and you'll see me bringing some other designs as well and I just randomly start splatting them on the layout there just within the area where I'm intending to have the photo. So I wasn't really sure how this was going to turn out but generally scrapbooks they're quite easy to save so if you ever think oh gosh I'm not liking what I'm doing right now, you know you can add so much you can just keep adding and layering up to scrapbook layout so I've got some other longer ones there now you can see I'm bringing smaller ones and it does start to come together I actually start to like it. So this is just the American Crafts Best Friends that I'm bringing in here, a little puffy sticker it's quite thick actually this one's about I'd say it's about four five millimeters it was a really really thick one so I've gone for that at the bottom so now I'm just frame it putting some foam on the back of my picture as well so again that's lifted to the same kind of height as the best friends. Then I'm bringing in some of my Rosie's Studio stickers just marking the year for this page which was 2007 and then I've got some of the words here and I use bring on the night because that was what it was we were on a night out and then I've also got fun times which was another sticker and I'm just adding glue to the back of them because I don't always stick down that great so I just like to make sure they're never going to peel off. Then I am adding this oh yeah this is the little paper clip so these are also part of Rosie's Studio they're really nice it just brings another kind of material to the page along with these brads that I'm now adding so I'm just using my poke tool there just to pin through some holes and then I'm just splitting the backs of the pins there and again they're the same colors that match in with the papers that are also from Rosie's Studio so I just yeah I just wanted lots of texture which is what I always do with my layouts. I needed something in the top right so I've just got this black and white washi tape which again kind of ties in that theme of that kind of pop art look so I'm just doing a few strips of it at the top there and then just flip it over and just fold them on the back because that's all going to be covered once I stick it into my scrapbook album anyway so you don't need to worry too much when you use the washi tape it's quite easy to use and it's all come together. Now it needed a little bit of sparkle so I do come in with my Winkistella because the black VersaFine is very matte it's very dull and I needed it to be lifted so I'm just going over all those splats with my Winkistella and it really did lift it it looked really nice and it just kind of tied in I don't know just tied it in a bit better and I also went over the Best Friends Puff East sticker there as well with it I'm also bringing in the Nuvo drops at the end just to add another kind of splat look but this time these ones obviously have got that dimension and I added loads you'll see them in the pictures and close up here I've added loads and loads of white ones as well so again it just I wanted the picture to look like it's exploding 2007 Best Friends night out and it just yeah it really worked it was really quick really easy to do and just another way to just show you how you can make your pages you know anywhere you want so that's this week's scrapbook layout me and my best friend using Rosie Studio supplies hope you've enjoyed it hope I've inspired you remember to leave comments as normal and a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today thanks for watching bye


Hi and welcome to the open source calm weekly top five This is where I bring you five of the best articles from the past week It's a great way to catch up on the content that we've published this week And you'll notice that I'm bringing you this video from the great outdoors. It of North Carolina actually It's spring here and really beautiful. You'll probably hear a few birds singing and You might even get to see a squirrel or two. They really love this back fence All right, so let's get started with the top five video this week I'm gonna talk about the future of password alternatives open-source tools for research and the The Internet of things and a few more So let's hop in at number five We have students compete for a chance to have their Raspberry Pi code run in space Ben Nuttle does development and outreach for the Raspberry Pi Foundation and in this new column He begins by telling us about a trip to the International Space Station for six months by British ESA astronaut Tim Peake. What's super special about his trip is that he is going to be taking two Raspberry Pies with him You can read more about his what his plans for the Raspberry Pies in space are in this article At number four networking in the cloud is changing Regular writer Matt Messine interviews Valentina Alaria head of product and solutions marketing for Plumgrid a cloud networking provider as Part of the OpenStack live conference next week in Santa Clara, California She'll be delivering a three-hour tutorial on OpenStack networking architecture and concepts along with her colleague Fawn Desward At number three a better Internet of Things through open-source culture Gordon Hough writes about the parallels between open-source culture and the growing community around the Internet of Things Principles like those of the open-source way, but especially breaking down silos are part of this parallel Read more about how this is vital to the growth of IOT At number two for new tools for scholarly research Joshua Holm knows about the digital humanities and in this article that is part of his series on the subject He brings us four open-source tools. We should know for doing academic research today And finally at number one this week has the time come to kill the password in this interview Scott Nesbitt talks to Jonathan LeBlanc of PayPal about how to replace the dreaded password with something more secure and Hopefully easier for us humans to use Thanks so much for joining me this week everyone and I will see you next time


Hi everyone, a very, very good evening to all of you and in today's live, we are going to be talking about 10 things that you should remember before you are sitting for UGC Net exam. So as you guys already know that UGC Net December exam dates are out and the English paper is scheduled to be on 6th of December, which is like three days from now. So this is a video which is very, very crucial for anybody who is planning to sit for the exam because in this particular live, I'm going to discuss some very small minute points that students most of the time forget when they have to sit for the exam. I'm going to come live tomorrow as well when I'm going to discuss how you can secure maximum marks in MCQ. So what should be the ideal way to solve MCQs in the exam paper? That's going to be the topic for tomorrow's life, but before I move ahead and talk about today's topic, just a quick check. Right now I'm doing the live which is happening on 3rd of December, that is Sunday and time is 6.10pm. I would also want to do a quick check if you guys can see me clearly and can also see my screen. So if yes, if you can just put that in the comment section below so that I know that everything is visible to you properly and we can go ahead with today's topic. So if everything is visible, please drop a message in the comment section. I can see a lot of students who are joining us live. Right, Professor Natsi says yes. Okay, great. So now that people can clearly see the screen, let's move on to the today's topic. So in today's lecture, I'm going to be talking about a few things. These are few topics that I'm going to be talking about. I'm not going to take you through these topics one by one. So very first thing, so there are 10 key things that we are going to be discussing today. The first key thing that we are going to discuss is the point that please do not panic if you don't remember your notes. Most of the time, students have this thing that when they see the question paper in front of them, they kind of get into a panic mode because they feel that, oh, I have read this somewhere but I cannot recall it. I just wrote it in the back side of my notes but I don't remember what exactly was the name of the character or name of the novel or who was the critic who said these lines to somebody. So the very first thing that you should keep in mind is that please do not panic if you don't remember because when you panic, you kind of over-pressurize your brain.   You don't know what to do to safeguard yourself and your family members. So at that time, there might be things that you can do in order to safeguard yourself. You might have your phone handy. You can call the police or you might have a stick with which you can hit the robber but you won't see all of this because you are in a panic mode. So your brain is so busy processing anxiety that it can't get the best possible solutions. So this happens with a lot of students also. When they get into panic mode and that is the reason why if you are solving a numerical question which if you are not in the exam hall, you could have solved easily, you won't be able to solve that easily in the exam hall. So the very first thing is that if you come across a question which you are not able to solve which you don't know the answer to, then please sit there peacefully without getting into panic mode. Try to look for a solution.  Secondly, whenever you are in panic, remind yourself that your aim should not be to score 100% marks but to score more marks than your competitors. Okay, we don't need 100% accuracy out of 100 questions that you get in paper 2. You don't have to solve every question properly. So if you are seeing a question which you don't know and you are going in panic mode, so just tell yourself that I have to just be better than my competitors. So my cutoff somewhere ranges between 60-65%. I still have a margin of 35-40% where I can make mistakes, where I can guess work, where I can go wrong. Okay, because whenever we are seeing a question, we feel that we should come and that is when we go into the panic mode. Also, tell yourself that it is okay to not know 100% of the paper. Even if I sit in the exam hall today, the UGC net paper is designed in a manner that I will also have 5-7 questions which will not come. In spite of the fact that I have taught more than 20-25,000 students, I have been in this industry from past 5-6 years. Still, there would be 5-7 questions which will not come to me because deliberately they make a paper like this so that you cannot hit 100% marks. And also remember that human brain can only remember a fraction of what you feed into it. So whatever information you have put in your mind, you will not remember everything. Even if in the last 2-3 days when you will be revising, you will feel as if you are not remembering all that you have written in your notes. Tell yourself that when we read a lot, we remember a few percentages in our mind. And that is not something that just happens with you. That happens with every aspirant out there. So the very first thing that you have to keep in mind is that you do not have to panic. You have to tell yourself that I have a scope that I can solve some questions wrong. I do not have to over pressurize my brain because in that case, I will not be able to think of the best solutions because my brain is in anxious panic mode and it cannot process a lot of information. Now, second very important thing. Please do not give second thoughts about sitting in the exam. Most of the time students have seen that when they are revising they feel that we do not remember anything or that our preparation has not been done well. So most of the time students are like I do not sit in the paper this time. I will sit in the paper next time and I will be more prepared than that. I remember one very close friend of mine doing the same mistake. So there is this friend of mine who studied with me and he wanted to get into law. So he gave the paper of Klatt and he wanted to get into NLU which is National Law University. So first year when he gave the paper he scored 92-93% and he got like one of the top 5-7 rank NLU. But he thought that I have potential that I can get better ranking than this. So I am going to give one year drop and then I am going to be sitting for the next NLU next class exam. And next year when he sat he got 85%. So where the percentage increase was there instead of increasing it decreased. Why so? Because second time the paper was a little tough he could not study as much as he thought he would have studied in that one year and he had to compromise on the NLU ranking. So where the top 5-7 NLU were getting he did not have an option but to take a private university because his ranking was not that good. So what message that I want to send across is this that if you feel that you are not well prepared then believe me I have come across a lot of aspirants who say that they feel that they are not well prepared even if the topper of this UGC net exam would be sitting in her home or in his home right now and would be having the same thought. So if you have filled your form no matter how bad preparation you have you still have to sit for the exam. So please do not give second thoughts about sitting in the exam. Always remember it is just an exam don't feel as if the world is going to end if you have given an exam this year and you have got really less percentage let me say 10% marks are also yours then it is fine. You have given at least one attempt because you would have counted the attempts in the net so you are still on a very safe zone. If you give paper then you will be able to clear it if you do not give it then chances are zero to be cleared. Number two, one thing is very important to remember Steve Jobs who has given a lot of things to the tech world he has a very famous quotation that all I ask is that today you do the best work of your entire life. And this is like my very favorite quotation which I always had in front of me when I was studying in the exam. So when you go to give paper and you get panicked so this is what you can remind yourself that I will not think I will clear it I will not clear it I will not think what will my parents think what will my friends think what will happen if my friend would clear and I would not If you process all of this back of the mind you will not be able to give 100% paper. So what you have to instead do is that you just have to focus on that one question that you see in front of you. So always remember this line by Steve Jobs that all I ask is today you do the best work of your entire life. I do not want to think about what will happen I will do the right thing I will go home what will I tell my friends, parents nothing like that. I just want to think this question in front of me can I give it my best according to my best of the ability to solve it. And number three please this is the time when you should not be talking to a lot of people. From a lot of people I mean friends, acquaintances relatives, any person who can demotivate you or demoralize you. It is possible that you call your friend who is thinking to sit in the exam and suddenly he says that I am not preparing or I am not planning to sit. From there somewhere your mind will get a boost and he will say that he is not sitting and I am not sitting either. So please refrain yourself from talking to a lot of people. Just ensure that you are with your books. You are in a good company that you are with your friends or relatives or family members who are positive who have a positive approach towards life which you should not demotivate. If you do not have such people then it would be better if you spend time only with yourself. So the very important thing that I wanted to mention was the second point that please do not give second thoughts about sitting in the exam. I remember a lot of students who called me and told me two days ago that ma'am I am not confident I am not sitting for the paper. Some of my team of counsellors helped them and they were able to get out of that anxiety and they decided to sit for the exam. And those are the people who got JRF, not just net, they got JRF. And it is so wonderful to see that with just one call their decision changed and they are where they are today in the same thing for all of you. I would like to say that we have a website www.arpatakarwa.com We have just recreated the entire website and here when you go in the more section you will find free counselling where you can put your name and whatsapp number and you can get free online counselling from the team of counsellors that we have in our office. It is absolutely free of cost and full of confidentiality. There is no anxiety or stress even if you are not a part of our online course you are still more than welcome to avail the service we really want to help you give your 100% in this exam paper and that is the reason why we have this online counselling platform. It is absolutely free for anybody you just have to put your name and mobile number and our team of counsellors are going to get in touch with you. Once you fill to see your mobile number of our counsellor which is displayed right here on the screen after you fill the form I would request you to save that number because our counsellors call from that number and most of the time students feel this is an unknown number so they don't pick the call and that is the reason why they miss out the counselling session. So please save the number once you fill this form the number would be displayed in front of your screen. Moving ahead to the third point which is to get your basics right some basic topics that you should keep in your mind. Number one last 2-3 days before your exam please avoid eating junk food I really want that because of your bodily discomfort somewhere in your paper don't worry about 2-3 questions this is a very very silly point that I am mentioning you might be thinking but let me tell you that I have seen there have been students whose stomach upset because of being upset they could not give their 100% if they grab in spite of the fact that they prepared so well for the 6 months so I would really want you guys to keep this in mind also have at least 10 glasses of water starting from today so from today till 2-3 days please drink enough water so that everything in your body stay healthy and you don't face any bodily discomfort on the day of the exam. Number 3 please get enough sleep today is 3rd of December exam is on 6th December I want that 3rd, 4th, 5th 3 days you get enough sleep enough means at least 8 hours of sleep you should get why am I saying this because you know you take the best machine of this entire world in the exam hall and that is your brain your brain is that superpower which can function to the best of its ability if it is well rested and if you are thinking that I don't sleep for 8 hours I sleep for 3 hours and the rest I will study for 5 hours let me tell you that your brain will not able to consolidate the information that you are giving and mathematical reasoning logical reasoning these questions where you need 100% brain capacity you won't be able to solve them so it is important that if you revise at least 2 hours and think please next time when you sit for the exam hall you go to the exam hall and sit for the paper please go with a fresh mind in your mind don't get stressed don't go to sleep sleep for at least 10 hours on 5th of December if you have your exam on 6th December ok as I already told you that our brain needs to be super alert to solve DILR mathematical reasoning questions and for that you need your brain to function at its optimal capacity and when will that happen when you give the machine rest ok now another important thing which a lot of students would find very very funny is to wear comfortable clothes when you go to the exam centre I have seen that a lot of students who come after a long time they are like all dolled up I would really want to you know you guys to understand that the more comfortable clothes you wear even if you are wearing a pajama in a very loose t-shirt I don't know about which part of India you all guys from so depending upon the weather if you wear your proper comfortable clothes you will be able to concentrate better ok remember it's not a fashion show but an exam hall you are not going on a date there so please keep your fashion sense aside just focus on being very very comfortable there shouldn't be any discomfort in your body don't wear anything which irritates you in your mind there is a possibility of distraction ok value comfort more than fashion so please if you haven't thought about what you will wear keep your comfortable clothes and that is what you are going to wear on the day of the exam another very important thing exam day please ensure that you take bath and breakfast both do not skip on any one of it I have seen a lot of students who didn't tell me that we were reading the whole night we could not get time to take bath and breakfast we directly went to the exam hall where we suddenly got BP low and there were students who felt that we were very hungry so we were unable to read the questions there were people who felt that we felt very very lazy very sleepy and because of all of them their 6 months of hard work got spoiled that is the reason why I am telling you these very simple kindergarten level things because I know that you all worked hard for this exam paper you might fall short of a few marks so our body feels more energetic after bathing that is the reason why I would really want that on the day of the exam please take a quick shower because when your body water falls at that time all your pores get activated and your brain gets more alert so it is very important to get your brain to that alert position that it starts running in a relay race breakfast is a fuel for your brain we all know the importance of breakfast why I am telling you to have breakfast is because your brain needs energy to work all of our food the most energy the machine we need in our body that is our brain so if you are not eating there is no energy to give its best so even if you are living in a PG your exam centre is far away please ensure that you carry snacks, proper breakfast you have whatever you like have that and please don't go into the exam hall empty stomach next important thing some exam essentials exam centre has to reach an hour before if we don't want to close the gate we are taking 8-5 hours we don't know how the weather is going to be what is going to be the status of the traffic I would really request you if you can carry your book 1 hour before read it for half an hour and then you submit your bag and then go into the exam hall I would really want the exam centre to reach don't panic because of which you won't be able to see your 100% number 2, admit card you have to carry the credit card please ensure that you put the alarm on a mobile phone on 6th of December suppose you are planning to leave your house at 7.30 7.20, 7.10, 7.00 put 3 alarm on 6th in which you put a reminder that you have taken the credit card I have seen a few students last year who made this mistake they were running late in the morning they quickly went to the exam centre and realized that they forgot to bring their credit card and because of that they had to go back to their home and could not sit for the exam so please don't make this mistake try to take important stuff if you don't want to take books I would really want to go to the water bottle if you want to go with it please don't carry important stuff important documents important notes because there are centres where you don't have a proper library or a storage unit where you can keep your luggage please money, credit card debit cards, expensive items I have seen a lot of people wear rings or chains and they kind of at times in the exam hall they have to submit all of this so please at least take things you will do you will not take debit card you can keep some money you are not going to carry anything that is of gold, silver or any precious stones and please before entering the exam hall don't have any discussion with your friend you have to be at the best mental state that you can be it has to be a very very good day for you where you are fully prepared and you are just sitting for the exam and your focus is to just give your best your focus is not to clear the exam but to give your best so that is why it is very very essential to take care of these small things moving ahead to the next thing if in case you see a question which you are not able to answer what should you be doing very simple two tricks I am telling you, number one is deep breathing now a lot of people say what happens with deep breathing and why Arpata emphasizes on this so many times let me tell you that when you breathe very deeply the flow of oxygen fills in your brain so the oxygen in your brain is able to think of all the possible solutions to a scenario most of the time what happens if you have an accident medical emergency, doctors always say breathe deeply try to breathe deeply why do they say this it is not said that breathing deeply is something which will make you feel good it doesn't feel good the oxygen supply fills in your brain because of these problems your body is an excellent healer who can heal himself if you are focusing on breathing your anxiety will automatically work your body if you breathe deeply so if you are getting anxiety at any point just take 2-3 long deep breaths and I am telling you, you will feel a little better than what you were feeling another interesting thing breathing is very important because again if you know it is H2O, it has a molecule of oxygen so when you drink water you are doing the same thing when oxygen supply fills in your body your brain gets more activated so as soon as you activate your brain starts thinking of possible scenarios so what happens is if we have read anything in our brain our subconscious brain is very very powerful I will show you something on google let me show you something so this is this is how our mind looks like what we see is 10% which is our conscious mind and our subconscious mind forms 90% so the most powerful tool which can achieve anything is our subconscious mind everyone's mind is similar Einstein Anil Ambani Mukesh Ambani, Narendra Modi all of you have unlimited potential just the cases that those who have got a lot of success they have tapped into their subconscious mind they have started to derive their subconscious mind with power what happens in most of the scenario is that whenever you are trying to recall and you are not able to do it it is already in your subconscious mind but it is coming into your conscious mind when you tell your brain to calm down a little bit and to be more relaxed sometimes your subconscious brain activates and then the subconscious brain is able to give you right answers another interesting thing that I want to tell you is to activate the subconscious brain so I have been telling this a lot of times so when you type this on youtube arpathakarva meditation this is the video that you are going to see it is a 10 minute video and this is basically a meditation where I am telling you to visualize exam setup where you are very calm and relaxed and you are giving the paper and you can absolutely get things right it is a beautiful meditation that boosts your confidence and help you streamline your stress and anxiety so if you have not done this before so my very humble request please download this video you can download it in your youtube application in your mobile phone download this video and start practicing this every morning and every night before sleeping till the time you have your exam I am telling you this is the least I am saying is going to increase your confidence to 20-25% more so please do that another interesting thing when it comes to confidence is that when you are giving the exam paper and you have a question in front of them in front of you so before that if you are thinking that you have to give me an exam so always operate out of desire to gain and not out of fear of loss if I did not pass the exam then what will be wrong instead of thinking your mind should go if I passed the exam so what all new opportunities will I have how good it will be so can I gain I will think from there not that can I lose if I did not perform well in the exam most of the time when we are thinking in our mind I am reading and if I forget what if I forget everything what if I am not able to complete the exam on time what if whatever I have studied doesn't come in the exam yes our negative talk you have to hold back it is for this meditation that I have just recommended on youtube is going to be really really helpful because your beliefs your expectations your negative self talk will help you to change have confidence in your ability believe that you will surpass your own expectation you will perform better than what you have studied if you can just have that confidence in your ability now one interesting thing and one major mistake that students do is that they start calculating their marks after completing paper one so you completed paper one after that you come first that I will take a quick look at how many percent questions you are doing and then I will go to paper two this is the biggest error that you can do I would really really not recommend you that you do not have to do paper one or paper two exam when you are giving paper you don't have to look at how many percent questions you have yet to attempt because that can be really demotivating at times you will feel a lot of pressure you will feel that my paper one is not that good I will do paper one, two I will perform so well I will not be able to do the exam clearly what I have told you about Steve Jobs you have to focus on if I am doing question number 5 then I have to solve question 5 with my best of the ability I am not going to focus on what is happening in question number 4 I don't care about question number 6, just question 5 is going to be my focus point for now, in this way you have to focus on one question at a time whatever you have done in paper one, draw a line to your past, if you have attempted question number 4 draw a line to the past we don't have to look at it question 5, question 4 how good you have done or how bad you have attempted maybe you have made a mistake maybe you don't remember maybe that question is out of the syllabus maybe that question you didn't understand maybe when you were solving your value you are not matching the value of MCQ whatever happened, you solved this question forget about that question just focus on the next question your performance in paper one will mentally affect you and can also affect your paper two that is why most of the time people don't score well in paper one 100% in paper two and that is the reason why they are able to you know clear net many times you are confused in paper one that you make paper two bad and your net doesn't work so whatever you have done in paper one or paper two, please don't let that mentally affect you don't demotivate yourself by saying I could have done that because when we are studying in exam we think questions are too much I wish that day I didn't go to my aunt's daughter's wedding and I covered this topic that day I wish that day I didn't scroll on Instagram and if in your subconscious mind these topics are going on you have to speak your mind whatever has happened I draw a line to my path my focus is I have to give my best I could have done this no, I don't want to think because whatever happened there is no point thinking about it okay don't let what you cannot do come in the line of what you can do now you have 3 hours in which you can clear your paper by giving your 100% 6 months I wish I had prepared like this I wish I had done this I wish I had done that you can do whatever you can you can't do that that's why it is important don't let what you cannot do come in front of what you can do let it be what can I do in 3 hours okay don't let performance of one paper affect another paper another interesting paper now last but not the least I have this very very you know small request to each one of you I know that all my students come from various different religious background some of you might also be atheists you might not be believing in God and then there are people who are like who love worshipping and who worshiped different gods be it Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Si, Muslim anybody we all kind of agree unanimously that there is a force beyond you and me who is taking care of the entire world and something is happening there is a force behind you and me you can call him by any name that you want now when you sit for the paper I would really request you to just ask that universal force to carry you through the paper to just guide you wherever you feel stuck you can just have this surrender because they came 100% hard work still there are times when some divine blessings can help us get to that 120% so why not evoke that divine presence on the day of the exam and tell that divine presence to be with us and carry us through the exam paper we have a prayer section on the website and this is a universal prayer that I really really like and I also suggest my students to do it so you can go to arpathakara.com here is the prayer section and this is an infinite prayer which is a one minute prayer and here in this prayer you will see that continuously a dai word rai, dai here stands for any god or any force that you want to call him god, Allah, Jesus, Ram, Krishna anyone that you believe in or any universal power also you don't have to give him a name just do this prayer for like 2-3 days and just evoke that divine presence that you know that's going to be there with you on the day of the exam and I'm telling you that it's going to add that extra effect and it's going to give you that faith so pray to you know whichever god you believe in just before you start the paper okay so with that note we come to the end of this presentation so these are the topics that we covered today number one that do not panic if you do not remember your notes secondly do not give second thoughts about sitting in the exam I don't want a single student who has filled the exam form not going in appearing for the paper no matter how bad you have prepared it's okay just go and sit for the paper there's nothing that you can lose there is a possibility very possibility but there is a possibility that you might clear net this time if you don't sit then there is zero possibility if you sit then that possibility can be anything between 1% to 100% okay number three get your basics right I have told you to take care of food, water sleep complete wear comfortable clothes take bath and breakfast on the day of the exam carry all the exam essentials like admit card you have to take everything ensure you reach atleast one hour before the exam mantra for calming anxiety to mantras I told you be breathing and in taking water and then I told you the importance of confidence is the key you have to understand that I have to give my best that's it don't go in negative mind I wish I had done this I wish I had studied this what would have happened what can I do in 3 hours which I can give my best that should be your mantra don't start calculating your marks after completing your paper one you just have to focus on the question in front of your screen and evoke the divine presence so with that note I come to the end of today's live I hope that this live is going to prove beneficial on the day of the exam and please ensure that you do not make any of the mistakes that I have mentioned here because I have seen a lot of students making these silly mistakes because of which they lose valuable marks and I don't want that to happen with you so with that note I am going to take your leave and if you have any questions or any doubts feel free to put that in the comment section below and my team is going to help you you have the option to do free counseling sessions and I would really recommend you to do meditation every day which is there on youtube channel so that's it from my side for this video lecture I will meet you very soon in the next video lecture till the time we meet next happy learning, keep loving literature and stay tuned to arpitakarva.com


Hey everyone, we're back here live in Austin streaming out at you from the open source summit We're having a great time. This is our third day of coverage here though. Technically, it's only day two of the event It's a long story, but We'll talk about it later. Let me introduce you to our next two guests because this is a Conversation I was really looking forward to to my left here is a gentleman who's been on on texture on TV a few times with us in person great person. He's the VP of research. Yes for Linux foundation Steven Hendrick and Steven welcome. Thanks. Thanks Alan and joining Steven and I from our friends at sneak Matt Jauvers and Matt if I'm not mistaken your head of developer relations director of developer relations Welcome. Thank you. So Steven and Matt presented was it yesterday? Yeah, yesterday. Yeah on a new survey. Mm-hmm that you guys recently announced and revealed and Report Why don't you if you don't mind share with your audience sure how we have to so Open SSF is a very big project inside of Linux foundation As we've seen Brian Bellendorf. Yeah, and so at his request We went out and did a survey into sort of what's happening in the open source space as far as secure software development So we put together a survey in March. We fielded it in April. We wrote it up Analyzed it wrote it up in May and had it produced in June. And so it's being released here at the event I think that happened yesterday morning. Yeah, yeah, we did it in partnership with sneak Great. So that's why we've been working together with the messaging on all of this And it's it was not a surprise from the standpoint of what the results were but it wasn't I was a little disappointed in kind of where we are at this point from the standpoint of the uptake of You know the attention to security when it comes to open source So anyway, so we've got information that to talk a little bit about, you know, where we are, you know How to sort of to understand the context of the problem and then we have information about what people are doing about it And it's it's that's more exciting in many respects because good things are happening. I agree So first of all look, I think we're always disappointed when we do these surveys that we find out, you know Beyond the lip service that gets paid to security What actually is going on under the covers and we're always wishing for and hoping for more that being said Yeah, I don't want to be pessimistic. I am of the glass half full Opinion that we are doing Better and more security now than we probably ever have done. Yeah, yeah, I agree That being said before we dive into it, I just want to really just quickly so open SSF is I open SSF.org is I believe the website and I'm gonna assume that the reporters there for anyone who wants to download it That's right. Let's take let's say that up front for people at home following along Whether it's live or you're watching this it's on the sneak site. It's on the next foundation site and it's on open Yeah, there's all that's everywhere night. I think we might have covered it via sneak over on security Boulevard I think I did some I did some press interviews on it before flying out here Yeah, so it may very well be on our security Boulevard site, but nevertheless, it's out there for people Yeah, let's dive in now though. What was some of the findings Stephen? Sure well, let's see what we'll start with this this whole issue of Do organizations have an open source security policy and What we found was 49% said they had one. That's good. That's good 34% did not and 17% we don't use open source. No, no, everybody uses up with 98% of organizations use it So and 17% said they don't know so we don't even know they don't know if they have one or not So if you take put aside that don't knows at this point, you got about a 6040 split between use I don't have a have a policy and don't have a policy I mean and if you look at a little more deeply into that what you find is that small companies are more likely to not have a policy And that's not surprising. They have resource constrained so it's harder for them to have CISOs and OSPOs and Policies be it for either just software development or open source software development. So I can understand the challenges there So but the idea of when you even if you look at company size we still ended up with about 30% of large in very large organizations that don't have a policy for open source software development So a couple of thoughts first of all, I Empathize with small SMB businesses. We're an SMB business But in today's day and age And maybe it's when you're hammer everything looks like a nail, but in today's day and age. How do you not have? Security policies, how do you not have security? You know, I mean, I think that there's a couple of different things at play there. I mean You know addressing Addressing open source security, you know, is it is it is more complex than it seems because it's not just about the the code itself you've kind of got to understand how open sources is is Created how projects are governed because governance can have a big play into, you know, whether If you look at some of those recent things around the sort of protest where movement where we've seen maintainers kind of go in Row, you know, and this comes down as single maintainer governance Projects and you need to take those things like governance into account if you're gonna base your business on something, right? So, but you would you just said and that's a complex loaded a loaded question. I would bet If I was a betting man, right that a lot at the large enterprise level, you're a hundred percent correct at the SMB level if you ask most of these people a Threshold question of where is your open source software? You know, it's 10 o'clock. Where's your open source software? A lot of them don't know because they're sassops companies. Mm-hmm, right? They don't they don't have a server closet. They're cloud insulation. It's this they're running on sass That's right. And so the beautiful part about sass is one of the nice things about sentence You don't know what's behind the curtain You just know you log in on the website and you've got all your information there that you need Are they using an open source database? Are they using? You know, what's what is what are they using behind the curtain? A lot of smaller companies don't know and as part of their Do diligence? They don't dig that deep So I could again I can empathize the larger ones the larger enterprises though That's a problem. I think you know you in a lot of those larger enterprises you you've got that kind of In-grain culture over a long time in terms of Security and about how you consume software and you know the the hardest problem in security isn't really about technology at all Right is always about people and culture and I think you know probably in a lot of larger organizations You've got a kind of you know that sort of friction of Well, we've always done it like that Well, you also have a lot of change going on from step on up how software is being developed Yeah, sure, and I think that's part of the problem as well, which is that you know change It's it's changes always hard for people. Yeah, and especially with given the rapid evolution of tools and Standards in essence around how we should do security for software. Yeah, it's everything's changing so quickly It's I think it's probably hard for people to keep up because we've got these two kind of things happening almost a perfect storm at the same Time we've got this massive rise in in supply chain attacks on open source because you know It's a victim of its own success right and attackers have realized It's a lot easier to get into the supply chain than it is to to find zero days in in Endure applications so you've got that going on where all of a sudden folks are going well Everything we do is based on open source like what do I do about security and then as Steve pointed out? You've got this this ongoing massive transformation of how we develop software, you know, this super fast high-velocity Unless you do unless you can transform You know someone's gonna eat your lunch right because there's there's some hungry competitor behind you Who's disruptive and who's who does have a super fast software delivery pipeline they can deliver new features They know how to analyze the data and so for for a lot of big organizations They've got these two big problems happening right at the same time because that change in software development requires a completely different approach to security You know the space that it's the thing that sneaks about all the time about developer first Yeah, I mean you look at let's say the Phoenix project for Jean Kim, right and and that's based on a book called the goal Yeah, right and the thing about so the goal is about manufacturing But really the principle behind the goal, and I think Jean tried to capture that in the Phoenix project is that look as soon as we Kind of erase one bottleneck. We see that next model neck right behind it And don't think that once you get rid of that bottleneck, right? Yeah, it's sailing. It's not we have massively Revolutionarily speeded up the pace of software development We did it in large part by creating this this software factory with pipeline. Yep CICD DevOps kind of things That in the enabler of that was having this massive library of open source Yes, indeed. That's right pieces that we can assemble into a very high quality software that's that's so man We blew through that roadblock at a hundred and fifty miles an hour and The wall we hit right after is wait a second now. That's become a huge security Problem right so for companies that are developing their own code. This is this is a major thing, right? Knowing that though and still telling me that 30% of the companies don't have a policy around it scary Yeah, it is well. That's we should we should talk about what people are doing about I'm trying to deal with this Hey, here's the good news. Yeah So we asked a question which was okay, so how do you intend to improve on the situation? What do you what are you doing? And we had quite a long list of responses top of the list was Organizations were looking for more intelligent tools from that we're had a security focus So we're talking SCA SAS DAST IAC, you know all the usual suspects and Looking really to those those tools to be able to help them improve their security posture So that was top of the list that was 59% and then right behind that a 52% was a strong desire to Understand and essentially codify best practices for how to do secure software development That was really encouraging because we know all about best practices Yep, no exactly, you know what they all are in fact David Wheeler at a left. I should we had David a Wheeler Yeah, David a Wheeler. We Follow my mistake. I Learned that you want to see the marks I'm kidding But okay, but yes David. Yeah, so you know he and I had lunch yesterday and we were talking about this because I said You know how many best practices do you have so we know Canada wallop. He's got like 150 160 So that's kind of daunting and he said like the last 25 to get to the highest level Can take in some cases years to master So this is this is despite understanding what these best practices are It's still very challenging to wrap your head around. What is necessary to be successful there? It'd be an unpartly because you know as we were just talking about that that Culture change is such a big part of how you make that transition from you know You kind of old-school get security as gatekeeper kind of function to this thing where we're all in it To the developers because the developers are the ones who you know You fix it at the developer eyeball before it's got anywhere near, you know Well, it's cheap and next he's right. I say 10 to 100 x cheaper to do there I mean we look at the other interesting thing here. That's a slightly tangential to this But it is like how many developers there are in the world right and how many we anticipate there being you know there's something like I think that the the Anticipation is something like 30 million developers in the world and there's only like a tiny proportion of Security folk so I go by github accounts Right, okay, there's about 70 plus million github accounts right now So let's assume it's not one-to-one, but I think it's safe to say this 40 to 45 million developers Probably growing it somewhere in the area of 10% here. I'm gonna go and security Professionals aren't aren't growing at that rate So security professionals are growing because we're starting to see look when I came up You didn't have a cybersecurity major in college We're seeing schools churn out cyber security majors Are they security professionals? I'll leave it to you, but but there are people coming out here Who want to work in security, but not anywhere near I mean you're talking here in here Here's an interesting thing though. I and I think it's like it's what's turning up the heat on all of this Is that this is getting major focus from the White House? Yeah, from the federal government the whole world is saying hey, this is a problem Right is a big problem.  You know, I did a report last year Survey on S-bombs. Yep, and I gotta tell you that factors right into this Oh, of course because you know we did some stats in this survey on dependencies, you know both direct and transitive and found really sort of low levels of strong security Around, you know organizations understanding the security posture of all these different You know dependencies and dependencies of dependencies. Yeah, you know really low numbers there S-bombs would go so far in helping sort all that out. Yes, you know S-bombs are going to give you knowledge about the metadata It's going to give you usability So you know that you're licensed to use this stuff Yep, and it's going to know it was giving you trust that not only what you're looking at for metadata is non falsified But also understanding quite clearly, you know, what's been fixed what hasn't been fixed from a vulnerability standpoint So I'll tell you over the last two days here. We've we've done a lot of interviews But no shortage of people talking about S-bombs and S-bombs solutions I think we're going to see just like everything else in technology We're going to see sort of a came came bring an explosion of S-bom Solutions out there, and then the market will figure out which ones make sense. Yeah, one's done sure My fear is that we we think S-bombs are a magic bullet for so far supply chain security because we have a tendency of doing that You know, I mean ultimately when we I think the real challenge here is going to be the chain of trust part of that right because I'm what's an S-bomb at The end of the day. It's text file with some yeah with some stuff. Well, no, but they they're building some elaborate text files in this state. It's a lot of good metadata Yeah, but one more point I want to touch on though is that The number three issue from the standpoint of doing improvements to your software security posture was more automation So IAC tools ended up ranking very highly from a standpoint of helping you address that particular need And just for our audience IAC infrastructure as code, right? Okay, so that that one Actually surprised me because the whole idea of you know developers manual activities Not only that is a great way to invite in Problems and so more animation ultimately is is better We did some some work last year as part of our cloud native application security report And what was really interesting there was You know, we kind of use high levels of development automation I Automated to see ICD pipelines and all that stuff as a as a proxy for how Far along your cloud native journey you are right? I think that it's a pretty reasonable proxy to take and in Organizations with those high levels of deployment automation for a start We see much higher levels of adoption of security tooling because automation gives you lots of places where you can hook in other automation, but Most importantly we see a massive reduction in the time to fix of vulnerabilities Because through directly through a direct correlation to look I've been yeah, I've been in security a long time We had a vulnerability Solution in a company. I found it back in 2005 And back then I there was a company called Hercules Citadel was the company Hercules was the product, right?  There's several companies today that have automated remediation for whatever reason up until now Organizations have been hesitant to adopt automated remediation Because they're afraid it's going to break something else if it in a totally automated situation now doing this for the left in the in the development pipeline If it's broken supposedly that should come up in testing I mean this is this is again what we see when when companies adopt sneak is like, you know The the automated remediation part of in terms of automated fixed PRs, you know Is it's probably not where people start, but very quickly they they go Come their hesitancy. Yeah, look, this is a no-brainer. Yeah, absolutely Because it goes back to what I said before blame blame DevOps, right? If we are going to automate the CICD pipeline, we're going to automate building software The answer cannot be that we're going to manually do so. That's right. Yeah, that's right. It just it doesn't work It's a disconnect. Yeah, I mean it's an anti-pattern in terms of velocity, right? I mean velocity is the the key differentiator for whether Sort of Businesses in the cloud area are going to survive. Absolutely because and and if you don't have velocity, you know, but no But a lesson you're probably learned in security or we should have learned over the last 25 years Is if we are going to drag our heels and dig our heels in and say no, no, no, no, you know what? The train leaves the station without you. Yeah, so either get on board and figure out yes We can and here's how Or get out of the way right leave follow get out of the way the security cannot be the drag Right on this because velocity is and what where we see our folks who've successfully made this transition to to develop a first You see this sort of this change in in security teams from kind of being gatekeepers to being Enables of the paved. I agree. You know sort of tool Smith. That's that's a cops right there Yeah, you just the gist the the heart of it. That's it Steven anything else so so What's the answer to this issue of not having a security policy? I mean is it Do you need to start with a CISO? Do you need to start with an Ospo? Do you need or at least part-time roles in people and organizations? You know in those functions if you were small, I mean is that a I mean, I think I'm not sure what the answer is but I mean it we need one I think when people think about policies, they think oh this needs to be like a hundred page document of some kind You know this is and it becomes overwhelming, but really a policy can be a one-liners I mean we We have this conversation a lot when people start to adopt security scanner They've done no security scanning before and they scan this software and they go oh my god I've got like 500 vulnerabilities. What do I do? But you've got to just pick pick a starting point, right? I mean usually, you know a sensible place would be no critical vulnerabilities that have got a fix in production Well, there's a policy right there, right? It's three lines I and it's better than having he's a hundred percent right, right? I I've run into this firsthand people they hear Oh, we need a security policy They think I need the employee handbook. Yeah, that comes from you know, that's this thick Yeah, you know it could be one page of five bullet points anything that's critical is Worthy to stop production Anything not critical does not doesn't stop production, but you have to get fixed within 30 days That's a policy and I mean there's plenty of great templated stuff. There certainly are terms of of usage of open source By the way, I'd love to see you open the OSSF have a library of that kind of thing Right and actually the good news is once you have policy then automation can follow pretty quickly That's that's the right path. You're right guys. We've got our next guest here in the wings We could talk about this all day. I'm sure I'd love to but it wouldn't be fair to them Again, we could you can get this survey over on the sneak site, which is snyk.com. I oh, I oh excuse me Or on the open SSF. I think it's that order SSF.org right is the website there Steven good work again. I love your surveys and very good