Alright, here's a story that should really, really infuriate you but you might not be surprised at all. And here is the story, here's egalitarianism, I mean the ultimate manifestations of altruism in full force. I mean it's so disgusting, it's hard for me even to tell you the story. Alright, so remember yesterday I talked about math and how mass scores are dropping and we talked about all that. And one of the things I mentioned was the number of kids enrolled in algebra classes has plummeted from like 34% to 24%, something like that, yeah 34 to 24% in the last 10 years. And we're kind of speculating on why that was and so on but I didn't even consider the obvious reason why this is happening or one of the obvious reasons why this is happening. And of course none of the stories I read had this but the New York Times in a story about the phenomena had this sentence buried in the story. No focus, no emphasis on it but to their credit they had their sentence, I didn't read any other new story that had the sentence in it and it just, you just gasp when you read it. Here's the sentence. In some districts and states notably California there has been a push to equalize math education by placing fewer eighth graders into advanced math. So the reason that fewer kids in algebra classes is because some states and some counties and some districts have chosen to hold back kids in math for the sake of equality. Hold back kids, I mean is there anything more evil than this? I mean really? I mean I guess math slaughter and stuff but sort of slaughtering thousands, millions of people, is there anything more evil than holding people back, restraining their potential, not allowing them to advance at the rate they want, can, could, keep them back? Not because somehow it's good for them, I can't imagine how that would be good for them. But because it's good for the other kids, they don't, I guess they don't seem out of line that the kids are slower for the sake of the slow kids. I mean one godless monkey says like cutting off LeBron's legs, yeah, but in, yeah I mean oh god, I mean it is LeBron, but there's a sense in which this is more evil because this is the mind and this is on scale. This is thousands and thousands of kids who couldn't be getting algebra in at a certain age, at 13 years of age and they're not going to, and this is just happening in one class. What about the books they read? What about the science they study? What about everything else? They just throttled it down. Let's make people dumber. Why? Because some of us are dumb.  And this is the point of egalitarianism, it's not about money, it's not about wealth. It's about everything. It's just about making you equal and ultimately the way we're unequal is primarily about the mind, so therefore we have to find a way to throttle the mind of some. In order to benefit somebody, nobody benefits from this. Nobody benefits. It's just to penalize the able. I mean maybe they rationalize it so that the dumb don't feel too bad about themselves, but that's not even true. Everybody knows. All right, I mean that's just outrageous and disgusting. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


QuickBooks Online 2022 Management Reports Customization Get ready because it's go time with QuickBooks Online 2022 Online in our browser searching for QuickBooks Online Test Drive Going into the Test Drive selecting the United States version of it and verifying we're not a robot Sample Company, Craig's design and landscaping services holding control scrolling up just a bit to get to that one to five percent We're also going to have the free 30 day trial version open just so we can take a look at the business view and compare it to the accounting view If you don't have access to this at this time that's okay we're going to use it more in the second half of the course Going back to the sample file we're going to be opening up a few new tabs going to the tab up top right clicking on it Duplicating that tab back to the tab to the left right clicking on it duplicating the tab again And then I'm going to go on over as it is thinking to our 30 day test trial to look at the business view just to look at where the accounting section or the reports I should say section is located in the business view which is under the business overview and then into the reports Whereas if you were in the accounting view which you can get to by going to the cog drop down in the accounting view It will look similar to what we're looking at here in the sample file back to the sample file We're in the middle tab let's open up a few reports by going to the reports down on the left hand side This time I'm going to be opening up just the sample of the balance sheet which is the summary balance sheet first Which is in the business overview summary balance sheet and then I'm going to go to the tab to the right And open up the standard balance sheet we're going to be focusing in on these balance sheet reports that we've been working on in prior presentations Go to the reports down below and this time I want to take a look at the balance sheet standard which is just in the favorites And we can do some customization to it we're going to go up top and change the date range from 010121 to 123121 I'm going to do a little bit of customization as if we're going to use these reports for external use Giving these reports then to a potential customer possibly a client or management Customizing the reports doing our standard customization removing the pennies Making the negative numbers bracketed red on the negative numbers I'm going to go down to our header and footer Get rid of the footers for the date the time and the report basis and run it Then I'm going to go to the tab to the left do the same process that we've seen in prior presentations close the hamburger Range change up top from 010121 to 123121 run that report And then I'm going to go up top and customize it same customization removing the pennies And making the brackets for the negative numbers and read Then scrolling down to the footer and I'm going to get rid of the date the time and the report basis for our customization Let's go to the first tab and let's go down to our reports down below in the prior presentation We talked about customizing reports now obviously all those reports we customized last time are now gone I'm going to close the hamburger because I'm starting over each time as we go into the sample file So we could do a similar process and think about these external reports that we're going to be using And then use those reports to populate into the management reports Now notice they gave us kind of some stock management reports here These are pulling in some of the information from our reports and putting them into a kind of a more formal type of report So it looks like this if I was to view over here that the standard company overview would be kind of like the standard report You probably want to copy that report if you're going to do anything different to it and kind of keep the standard as the standard So if I was to view this report for example it looks like this So we've got our report looking kind of fancy Scroll let's go up through it going up management report Craig's design and so on For the title page we've got the date on down below for management use only the titles And then they add the standard profit and loss and balance sheet as the standard So that's the standard report now we could do some customization to this so let's close this out And let's say okay I'm going to hit the drop down on the right hand side and I'd like to make a copy of this report So that I can keep the standard report there and then this is going to be our report number one And let's we'll do some editing then to this report So that means that if I'm thinking if I'm a bookkeeper or if I work inside of a company and I'm going to organize reports for external use I'm going to imagine here that I'm a bookkeeper giving the information then to a client at the end of the month and or a year Then my options are if I go back to my reports to standardize all these reports I can email these reports to the client But that's not great because if I email them one at a time that doesn't look very professional and as we can see we can get a lot of reports that we might want to give at month end We can print the reports and or save them as a PDF file which is better We can zip the PDF file and give one PDF file with all the reports in it which isn't too bad that's kind of nice But it still has a lot of files that are kind of not really tied together it may be a little bit harder to order them We can export them to Excel and we can use Excel to create one PDF file from all the reports in Excel which we'll take a look at as well And that could give you another level of that might be a preferred way for some people and we can memorize the reports and possibly give them in this format Pulling them into this kind of formal report which could give it a more professional type of feel as well So let's do this for this is what we're going to work on this time I'm going to go to the tab to the right and I'm going to memorize these reports first or save the customization so I can see these reports that I'll be working on So I'm going to save the customization I'm going to make a new group and this is going to be this is I'm going to call this group month end reports So I'll pull this I'll pull the customization in from the month end reports I'm going to add them I'm going to call this number one because I want them to kind of be in order so I'm going to say number one you know the balance sheet summary report And I'll save that so we'll save it and that should be customized if I go to the tab to the right I'm also going to save this one And I'm going to say let's save the customization on this one and then I'm going to I'm trying to customize it again I don't want to I want to save the customization balance sheet report let's say this is report number two and then I'm going to add that to my month end reports So we'll save that and let's modify this one and do a comparative balance sheet just to have another report that we might add So I'm going to do that by by just looking at the last month so I'm going to say from from eleven let's say twelve oh one twenty one to twelve thirty one twenty one run it And then I'm going to look at the prior period previous period November so we ran this report in the past and just run this report And then I'll do some customization up top I'll call this a comparative comparative comparative balance sheet hopefully the name is correct I'm going to copy that we're spelled properly customize it just one more customization I'm going to get rid of the header of the report period To get that to get rid of that item and then I'll also I also want the change and the change on the percent and the change here So this is the report we've seen in the past it's another customized report I'm going to save that customizing it and this is going to be balance sheet two So I'm going to save this one to number three hopefully it doesn't overwrite my balance sheet two and I'm going to call it a comprehensive balance sheet into the month in reports And save that okay so now I'm going to go back to the first tab and let's see what we have in our customized reports I'm going to refresh it so that hopefully that'll pull in the reports that we have customized So now we've got our three reports here so we've got our three reports it's in order so I tried to put them in order so no matter what we do if we print them Or if we if we put them into our management report we can kind of see the order that I would prefer to have them in now let's go into our management report and see if we can customize it So I'm going to copy the report let's make this like our month in kind of report so I'm going to say okay let's see if we can we can change that report period And I'm going to say let's put the the custom dates and I'm going to say from 0101 to 1 to 2 well let's I got to use this thing up top alright fine We're going to say this is from January 1 to December December so January 2021 to December And then let's let's edit it I'm going to hit the drop down and edit the report and let's see what we've got here we've got up top We've got the cover style that we can choose different styles on the cover so if we wanted to choose something a little different we got the cover the logo If we had our logo populated in our preferences would then pull in here the cover management report you might call it you know your accountants report or something Accountants month and report or something like that if you wanted to change the title accountant month in report or something And then the subtitle name you might put you know your your firm's name or something something like that report period report period that you can for the period ended So you might put for the period ended it's drawing that in so for the period ended December 31st 2022 So I would like it to be didn't I say for 2021 for the report end date should be for the period ended December 31st 2021 I thought it was supposed to be prepared by you can put your name here and then we can say preparation date we can keep that or remove it if we so choose And then the disclaimer saying you know this is for management use only so that looks good let's go ahead and save that we'll say and well my name's not right I misspelled my name hold on a second hold the phone and then on the second tab we've got our table of contents which we can include or exclude the table of contents So we've got that included and we've got the profit and loss that is being included here as well as the balance sheet those are the standard reports which I would like to basically adjust And then on the third page we can put basically a note into the third page here so I'm just going to put a test note this could be your introduction or something like that And then just put a test it'll add this page to the report then and then we've got our profit and loss so here's where we can add the primary pages and instead of the profit and loss I'm going to say No I'm going to add I'm going to see if I can trash these trash this is trash and then add the report that we want to be picking up from our month and here they are month in reports So we have them up top so this is this is the subcategory into the name so that's the one I want title month in report custom custom field one one twenty one so that looks good so compare previous year No compare previous period no I'm going to say add another one and then we wanted this report number two and that's going to be the balance sheet so that looks good and then I'm going to say that looks good And let's say the next one holding control scroll down so I could see the add new one and then let's add the third report this one might be a little tricky because it's a comparative report so I would think the date range would have to be eleven it's got to be yeah it is That was right twelve oh one two one so that looked good and then so we can save that let's save it and see if that produces what we would like and then the last page include include this page include break down so you can have your summary page this is you know summary Summary things look good look good or something like that right you can have your last page and so we're going to save it and close it save it and close it let's check it out let's view it I'd like to edit the name of the thing can't I edit like edit the category name let's call it this is month in report month and report as of twelve thirty one two two one and save it and close it and so let's check it out so this obviously you can do a lot more customization but you can get the idea of it here we can view it and then see what we have on it and so I can scroll back up top and say okay we pulled in our our month and report we got her name on it for the period ended December thirty first two thousand twenty one by Robert date prepared it's for management use only table of contents now includes month in reports number one balance sheet so so notice we might want to be able to clean this up a little bit so I might go in there and clean that up summary and then introduction this is our test page so you could include this or not include this if you had some kind of introduction you wanted to put before the actual reports and then you've got the reports which is the balance sheet which looks right right looks right and then the the month in balance sheet so this is the first one was the summary balance sheet wasn't it yeah and then the longer balance sheet so longer balance sheet and then you've got the comparative did that pull over correct it looks like it did right so there we have it now of course you don't have as much like if you export this to excel or something like that you can actually you can you can customize it a little bit a little bit differently so this could be a great tool but you're still kind of locked into you know the format that the system is going to give you so when you look at those categories for the balance sheet for example you might say maybe I want to call it something else like cat like the cash accounts you might want to call them cash or something like that and that's a little bit more difficult to do in here which you could do pretty easily if you export it to excel and made like your own reports that way let's see if I can I'm going to edit this one again edit it again and if I went to the table of contents into the table of contents could they won't let me they won't let me edit this report as well so notice that's a little restrictive because because now I'm stuck with the name that I called the report and if I if I put it into the memorized reports it puts the subcategory of month in reports and then the name which has the one in it and I can't I can't basically remove that in the table of contents so that's a little it's a little annoying so it's I'm sure it's a little bit finicky but the goal is that it's going to be easy to make a more formal type of report you and so that's could be a good good tool to look into and you can you can look into using that tool and seeing if that's a more professional way that you want to present them obviously we can also just export these reports to to a PDF which will look at future presentations and or we can make our own basically a report that can be a more professional report basically exporting them and possibly using Microsoft and possibly word depending on how how complex we wanted to do and look at that type of process so we'll do a compare and contrasting of then printing these reports and future presentations exporting them to excel making our own PDF file with multiple reports on them in future presentations


The president's budget proposal eliminates public media funding. Learn how you can help at lptv.org slash action. A Bemidji school bus transporting special education students was involved in a crash around seven this morning. The four people including two students on the bus were not injured. The crash happened at the intersection of Justice Road Northwest and Urban Avenue Northwest. Students from Horace Bay Elementary and Bemidji High School, along with a pair of professional were on the bus at the time of the accident. The students were checked at the scene and checked again at their schools by a nurse for any injuries. The school district says that despite the crash, the students on board the bus handled the stressful situation well. All of our special needs buses have a pair of professional that rides on board and of course these kids have been on the bus you know for a good number of years and you developed that rapport with them you know so the special needs pair that was riding along gets to stay one-on-one with two students you know and they weren't shaken up, they weren't upset. This is the second bus accident in two weeks for the Bemidji school district. An incident two weeks ago was weather related. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


When we think about developing ourselves, either personally or professionally, we often think about how we can bolster our weaknesses. This can be useful, but what about also focusing on maximizing our strengths? In his books, Strengths Finder 2.0 and Strengths-Based Leadership, researcher Tom Reach notes that identifying and leveraging our strong points can help lead to better performance. In addition to leveraging your own strengths, you can also focus on identifying and utilizing the strengths of those you lead. As a leader, you can help your team members explore their individual strengths and also focus on how those strengths can be maximized to meet team and organizational goals. Openly discussing strengths with your team can help you and those you lead gain a better understanding of one another and encourage each team member to fulfill their potential by harnessing their own innate strong points. Moving forward, how can you encourage your teams to utilize a strength-based approach to development? Read well this week.


one, two, the JLT cluster with a park, a part of JLT Chumera Lake Towers and here is the lake. It's not a big lake but it's nice to have among the office buildings and look they are still constructing new towers as if they don't have enough. 26 clusters A to Z each with three towers a combination of commercial and residential real estate. So this is one of the areas we are considering to start an office in this DMCC free zone known as JLT Jumera Lake Towers. These are all places you can rent with us if you come and live and work in Dubai tax-free. That's the whole point of the freedom experience and why I am here. We are at the JLT cluster with a park. Our girls are running around in this hot weather trying to catch the birds. I told them if they catch a bird they get an ice cream but I don't think they're gonna do it. So this is another area of the whole JLT Jumera Lake tower and this is a nice area with lots of green grass pleasant walkway and some people filming. Hi mommy. She may be my wife I don't know let's have a look. Yeah that's my wife. So this is one of the areas we are considering to start an office in this DMCC free zone known as JLT Jumera Lake Towers. There's normally a lake in this case they filled in the lake with grass and a park more soon. This is all still part of JLT Jumera Lake Towers where you can advertise here to stand out from the crowd. There are 26 clusters A to Z each with three towers a combination of commercial and residential real estate and it's got a nice park. This is where we are at the park right in between all of the towers on the other side is a lake. It's man-made it's not a real natural lake you can't swim in it but it's a very nice touch for living and working and here is the lake it's not a big lake but it's nice to have among the office buildings and look they are still constructing new towers as if they don't have enough in this area that just means there's plenty of supply for office space and we can get good value for rent and a lot of choice for when we are picking our office and we're doing that right now you've seen some of the office space in my videos and we'll show you more these are all places you can rent with us if you come and live and work in Dubai tax-free that's the whole point of the freedom experience and why I am here see you soon Eve is now going to film me doing chin-ups or trying to here we go okay are we ready yes one two oh no what are you doing this mommy's calling decline we don't want to talk to mommy okay now we're gonna do some chin-ups or try to here we go oh I think that's enough freedom family bye bye click that i to partner with freedom and join the freedom family so we can all grow together you get many perks like position music you also get epidemic sound a lot of other access to royalty-free videos sponsorships and many things to help you grow just click the links down there in the description below to get involved in our community our forums our discord chat servers meet our graphics team meet our community team all of that on discord and the forums what are you waiting for get started and we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family you are part of it we are all part of it and we're all growing together to get more george click that big f that will subscribe you to freedom central home of the george show and pewdiepie gave one of you freedom family a big shout out click that video to see the shout out and to see our new 3d sets for you and click that video to see what youtube recommends you watch next


Welcome back, it's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa and we are talking security matters, transportation and all inclusive you know everything going on at the same time. But this time around the Nigerian governments through the Federal Ministry of Transportation has directed the resumption of the Abu Jakadona train services on Monday 23rd May. In a statement signed by the Niger Railway Corporation Deputy Director of Public Relations, Yaqub Mahmoud, the board and management of the corporation said that they wished to inform their customers that additional security measures are being put in place at both the train stations and the track to ensure the safety of the passengers on board. The corporation therefore urged the passengers to comply with the additional measures that will surely according to them be introduced for the safety of their passengers such as requesting for passengers national identification numbers NIN as part of their internal security check. In addition presentation of the following must be strictly complied with before board in the train. The NRC management appealed to customers for understanding and urged them to cooperate with staff at the various train stations. We have Yahooza Get So Security Expert joining us this time around. Good morning to you Yahooza. Good morning. Let's talk about this resumption May 29. This is the common amida you know concerns that this those who were kidnapped the victims are still in captivity and the NRC is a sure and passing just the customers of improved security. How do you react? Well first of all I want to tell you and viewers and listeners that you know I have already made a clear statement that Bahá'a administration is never a fierce administration. They don't have passion and compassion for the human human life as well as the citizens of Nigeria and at the same time they don't have the kind of they keep telling lies they keep telling stories they keep creating confusion among themselves and within themselves. At a time when you have people in hundreds that you are not you don't even have a actual number of the people in captivity and now you are saying that you want to start operating on 29 for the train Abuja Kaduna train. Yes of course it's good to start operating but have they created an enabling environment that will give the confidence of those who are utilizing using the train for their movement. How can you sustain use of helicopter to monitor the train between Kaduna and Abuja? Is it cost effective? How much are you going to impute in managing that and how sustainable is that? It's all realistic. However we are challenging the minister and the federal government under the leadership of Muhammad Abu Hari to come out and explain to us the measures that have been put in place that will ensure securing the people that will be utilizing the train and at the same time since the time when the train was attacked I have been flying Kaduna Abuja road. I have not seen any major towards improving the start-up on the situation of the security and safety of live and property for people that have been flying the road. So is the government that squandered billions and trillions and millions of money in the name of squaring the nation but yet rather than being secured we are becoming unstructured every now and then. So the security challenges is widening and at the same time the leadership style the leadership kind of is very very poor and the administration have exhibited their incapability and inability to deal with this situation. We have said time without number and I have said myself and I'm repeating myself that I know all locations where these bandits are and I know where they are and they know who I am and I know who they are and I'm repeating myself that all the governance of the respective states where this banditry and all this crime criminality is taking place in northern Nigeria especially north central and north west all the governance and all the security chiefs and security operatives as right from the division the the police the outposts of the police to the local to the division and police office the local local security officer with the representative of the DSS the immigration the civil defense as well as the area commanders they all know who are the commanders of this banditry they know them they have their numbers they are discussing they discuss them they are communicating on phone and they know their locations and all our traditional leaders they know where they are so as far as I'm concerned it is only that Bohara administration is never a zero administration and it's a big disgrace to Nigeria and it's a kind of it's an absolute boharia deceive people it's a big deceit all right that's my comment on this yeah who's that will come back to you because we understand that the families they're still alarming in this whole issue they are grown in in pain we'll take sound on tape we'll come back and talk more with you stay with us please be weather by mommy and then the coming back since this unfortunate attack when we're not going to train we believe the government and commanding chief of the armed forces of the federal republic of Nigeria alongside the security and intelligence chiefs have been working to rescue our loved ones we've been given assurances that a positive outcome of this effort will be apparent soon we must however register our disposal with the way and manner the minister of transportation Mr. Ruti Michibu Kiamichi has been handling the tragic event since it occurred Mr. President also directed the management of Nigeria local operation to establish a station to give a minute by minute account of rescue efforts to relatives of kidnapped passengers still one week after dispensation directive was issued and I see as neither contacted the relatives of kidnapped victims no established any situation room to release them safely and let them free and all those in captivity have my two parents in captivity this is the 42 the 42nd day in captivity and still counting we are please appealing to the government to please bring back our loved ones we have missed them and some of them are breadwinners in the family we really need them back we are the families are waiting in anguish and living without them has not been easy and it's still not easy and it's so terrifying if you have the rail and people are not safe to ply on the rail what is the use of the rail and that's the same thing we have we have our loved ones and imagine somebody is thinking of starting the rail again I mean it's it's it's impossible we're not going to take it that's definitely welcome back it's still the breakfast on plus TV Africa we just saw a report there you know the families of the victims are still grown in and I mean some government re assurances yeah who's a you know there was a statement put up at the NLC they have assured the relatives of the abducted citizens in captivity that the safe rescue of this passing just ease a top priority and not to misconstrue the resumption of train services or as abandonment do you really agree with the government's statement the analysis statement is it anything to go about well there is nothing that will come out of one administration that can carry any way so I don't trust and I will never trust Nigeria Railway Corporation because I am one of the intelligent extracts that provided a free private a free information ahead of before the attack of the train I have provided intelligence to the Kuduna team I have provided intelligence to be to the to the national team to the defense intelligence agency and all the intelligence structures that there is need to take certain majors and far we're moving somewhere around those vicinity around the radius of about 75 kilometers which some part of the areas where the train is passing by but I was never taken serious and I know there are other intelligence who have been providing such information like I have been doing because I'm sure I'm not the only person that providing such information even though I'm providing my own free of charge at no cost probably that is the reason why a wider administration is neglecting both information that we have been providing free the aim is to contribute our own quota being the aspect being the people that we have been risking our life to go into the forest to go to the areas that even our security operators cannot go to conduct a fact-based assessment to conduct a survey and also discuss with the relatives of the the people in the community as well as the people that have been harassed by these bandits but yet government have not taken it serious and at the same time I know there are intelligence equipment that monitor and track all activities that happens 50 kilometer radius outside Kuduna so if this is available why the security agencies were unable to construct and even wasted one hour 47 minutes I keep repeating myself my daughter the daughter of my friend that was shot by the bandits was making a phone call and she reached out to her parents this is their situation and also I have a friend in the train who happens to be one of the people who escaped and he made a clear statement to many media houses national and international because he too is a media expert that he was inside the toilet for one hour 47 minutes before the arrival of the security agencies the military and whatever it was before them so if government cannot manage this situation less than 15 kilometers drive between where the train was attacked to the train station at Ragasa in Kuduna and these cowards the bandits were able to assemble buses and cut away the the people they have they have kidnapped they run away and we provided information immediately for what is happening there and I know Nigerian Air Force they have air planes they have jets that they can use to lighten up to 600 kilometer from the sky and even 1500 kilometer from the sky why did they use that in order to even scare the criminal so that the criminal will run away and the people will be will be saved but yet until now that i'm talking to you government have not done anything have done nothing in in in making taking any putting any measures that will help this yeah i was a get so almost two months to be reunited with their family yeah i was a get so yeah i was a get so so um the federal government has stated i mean that statement wouldn't have been backed up by the nrc well there's a statement where the government is saying that they would ensure that those who are stealing captivity are rescued because they would not you know abandon or relegate their responsibility however the question here now is do you think that it's it's sensible it's enough to have the rail train um up and running especially after um you still have people not been rescued you still have kidnapped persons in captivity of Boko I mean I beg your pardon terrorists well i saw some concern it's only on serious people that will listen to the nrc for being for the they are trying to assure people that they are provided measures yeah i was you also get so what you're supposed to do yeah i was a get so my question is do you think it's it's logical do you think it's rational that the government would um give that directive that the train should be up and running you know the train services should be up and running at a time where you still have some persons in the captivity of terrorists and you the security of those who would be um you know using these transmins of transportation is not entirely guaranteed a very irrational it's very very irrational decision what government would have done is to find a way of reaching out to these powers uh bandits uh either by by by by by killing all of them or doing whatever taking whatever measures to rescue uh those in captivity and let them reunite back with their families and then deal with the situation that i said i said and i'm repeating there is no location of this bandit that is not known so if government's conducts billions and trillions of money in the name of procuring equipment and intelligence equipment and gadgets that can be used in monitoring and tracking all the activities this bandit that have kidnapped the the people those who were attacked at the train they have been communicating with the families of those in captivity so what measures have government put in place to track them and i said if they don't know where they are the traditional leaders and the different division and police officers the charges of the immigration and the charges of the civil defense and all at all the local governments they know the location where these people in captivity are so let them rescue them first that's the only way to build the confidence of people of public to you continue to to to accept all the conditions or all whatever the uh nagararello corporation is saying as well as the minister of transportation and the the zero government administration all right let's look at some of the so-called security or internal measures that the NRC says you know they have put in place for instance they talked about you know the presentation of NIN and of course no more morning and night you know services for now do you really think those ones are far reaching supposed to move in the day or in the night that has nothing to do with whatever has nothing to do with the the train is moving at night that is why it's been attacked by by the bandits it's no the last attack that happens last year in october i was in the train and it was early morning hours and you remember we had a discussion i had an interview with your station and i made mention that i was part of the news that were in the train and we were attacking the early hours so it has nothing to do with that what the what matters is for you to have a serious government for you to have a serious system if you have a serious government and you have a serious system these guys can be fished fished out and within 10 to 16 weeks all the bandits and all the criminality in nagara can be dealt with but since you don't have a serious government you don't have a serious management in the nagara railway corporation you don't have a serious management in the minister of our transport that is why we cannot move stone from where it is to anywhere i will continue to recycle and i want to tell you i'm not praying but worst attack may happen in the later future or in the near future i'm not praying for that all right yeah who's on it on all honesty the bohari administration is a failure and they are not serious about curing live people and life i have made it very very clear remember they borrowed money in order to put this rail line so if you squander that money and you cannot provide secured you cannot provide security measures for safety of life and property then you are not serious all right yeah who's as we round off on this particular discourse as emotional as it is now what do you think can be done in the interim you know so that we can ensure adequate security what exact what features do you expect to see you know in the short run let's say in the next few days and weeks you know so because at the end of the day you know people will still need to apply the you know still need to move from point a to point b those who are not comfortable with the roads or even have enough to fly okay that's fine yes in this regard what's supposed to be done yes the government supposed to provide monitors and intelligent trackers between ida jerry uh gidambusa uh akilubu rijana adwaja to ensure that all these locations the neighborhood where the bandits are is clear and those who are conniving and informants who are known to be dealt with decisively so that it can serve as a deterrence for others to learn to learn a lesson out of it and then at the same time government must provide intelligent equipment that will provide at least information to to the cometers of the train so that they can have information at least 15 kilometers and between each and every station where the train used to start used to stop there should be a quite clear communication gadget whereby one station will be stay will be communicating with other between kaduna and abuja and between abuja and kaduna probably this will help and at the same time uh they should improve in the way of selling the tickets not a situation whereby one general or one insurgent insurgent general or a commissioner or police will buy 20 tickets on arrival at the station while many people will be kind of joining you and then at the time when the maybe an hour or even two days before they will be told that there is no more ticket so there is need to do a lot of check and balances on the attitude and characters and background of the personnel of the nigeria railway corporation as the respective stations between kaduna and abuja right from edu, kubua and ragata among others all right because there is a lot of corruption in the system which need to be dealt with and there must be a punishable a kind of a punishment to some of the stuff that you are found wanting so that will serve as a deterrence otherwise if we continue to do the to deal with the corruption the same way boharia has been dealing with it so poorly and they are so deceitful i want to tell you that we are not going nowhere and the train will still be attacked in the near future i'm not praying but if necessary measures have not been in place and this coward bandits have not been dealt with decitably and accordingly i want to tell you that the worst attack will come in the near future especially as we move more closer to the election of the 2023 election and at the same time when we are unable to manage a review the memorandum of understanding that we have between nigeria and its neighborhood especially between the anglophone and the francophone stage all right thank you so much yahoosa get-so security expert for your thoughts this morning thank you very much it's been a great pleasure thank you listen to thank you us all right we also promise that subsequently we should be able to get um management of the nrc so they can actually come and tell nygens exactly what indeed they intend to do ahead of the planned resumption and that's what that's as much as we can take on this particular segment we'll be right back after this quick break stay with us


International Council for Distance Education has paid for quite a while attention to the important issues of women in distance education. We now have the opportunity to discuss a number of questions that seem to us crucial these days. So we are going to introduce ourselves, a group of four women professionals in distance education. My name is Gisela Pravda. I have worked in distance education for many years. But during the last six years, I have been working training women in Latin America in Colombia. I'm back to distance education in the institution I have worked with, which is a research institution. And I'm trying to get the most out of it from what I have learned in Colombia for distance education and women's issues. My name is Nderikio Elizabeth Ligate. I come from Tanzania. I'm the director of South African Extension Unit, an institution which provides educational opportunities for South African exiles who reside in Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola, and Uganda. I am Claire Matheson, I'm currently director of University Extension at the University of the South Pacific. The University Extension section is responsible for providing distance education to 12 Pacific nation states and also for undertaking community and continuing education programs in country. Before going to this developing world region, I worked in New Zealand, which is a developed region in relative terms. And I am very concerned about the different access opportunities that I can perceive in those two work environments. I am Barbara Spronk from Athabasca University, where I am an associate professor of anthropology. I've worked at Athabasca since 1974 in a number of positions. And as Canada's only open university, Athabasca has a great deal of involvement with women's issues since 66% of our students at the moment are women. Now, I would like to open the discussion with the following question. What are the main problems and issues facing women's education, particularly in the developing world? My personal experience is the main problem is lack of opportunities. It is not finance. It is not many other things. But first of all, lack of opportunities. I would like to hear you comments on this experience of mine. Well, just to add to what you've said, Jisla, lack of opportunities is the most important thing. And I suppose you are referring to conventional education, where just a few women have access, because it is the men, really, who get access to education. It is the men in the developing countries who are given chance, because women are known to be people who must be in the kitchen, who must look after the family. So they are the very last ones to be let out to go to education. And parents are not ready to pay money to educate women. They would rather educate men. Unfortunately, my experience is that non-traditional ways of education do also leave women out in a different form. But still, women are left out again with these ways of education, which are supposed to be especially adequate for women. I would like to concur with what you're saying there, Jisla. We are most concerned in the Pacific region that the proportion of women enrolled in the Distance Program is only 30%, 70% male enrollment, which is precisely the same ratio as we have in the traditional educational world. We are undertaking major research project to find out why this is, but a lot of it relates to cultural conditions, which in fact are different in each of the 12 member countries. In some Polynesian countries, the enrollment of women in distance education can be as high as 70% in Malinese countries as low as 12%. We may find that this is culturally determined. I think it's also economically determined in that fees for distance education, even if they're low, are still very high for women in subsistence economy conditions. I think the enrollments are also low in developing regions in that distance education is also first chance opportunity for many men. And so when we are looking at sponsorship and funding, men still tend to take priority because they too are seeking opportunities that they have not had under traditional systems. Our experience in Canada is somewhat different. I have already mentioned that 2 thirds of our learners at the moment are women. And this has been consistent since Arthur Basque opened its doors in the early 1970s. And yet, our materials, I don't think, adequately reflect the needs and interests of women who are successful in attracting women to our programs. But I don't think we meet their needs once they're there as adequately as we might. I think many of the material, including the material I have been using in Colombia, which was Colombian material, distance education material, I would even call hostile to women. It doesn't address women. They don't appear in the neither worlds nor visualization. All the knowledge is built on men's experience.  Have you similar experiences? We do. I was just adding to what you have said in the sense that women have also a hostile environment because they cannot leave their children, say, for example, to go away. So when they want to go to educational institutions, it's not easy. They've got to look after their families. So what we would like to see is that these women are given a better environment where somebody might take care of their dependence while they go to study. I would just like to comment on some moments where I really doubted that women will get on quickly in their education. I asked the mother of one of our girls or young women in the program, what would she think about the program? And her answer was, what right have I to think? I mean, the environment is hostile in different aspects. It doesn't give them the liberty to leave their home. They have all the responsibility. And they find themselves in a world where they are taught not to think, or at least not to speak up.  Never mind a whole program, because their success in the program is so dependent on the kinds of support that are available to them, whether their time is going to be freed up. This is critical for women, because I think women take on so many tasks in their daily lives that they just assume that this is one more task they can take on, establishing themselves as learners at the university level, thinking, I can do this, I'm at home with small children. When, in fact, they find that their study time is very, very limited, usually they're studying between the hours of 11 at night and two in the morning, because that, in fact, is the only time they have available to themselves. So even for women studying at home, issues like childcare are critical. And there are some things, Gisle, that I would not presume to want to change in a region like the Pacific. I think the institution has to be more flexible in relation to the culture that is there. Now we can do that by making the semester longer to accommodate the demands that are placed on women. We will never change the fact, and neither, perhaps should we, that their commitments to their church, to their community, to their extended family, those things will come first and they must come first, and we can't presume that we would change that. So if we can get the academic faculty to agree to extend the distance semester from 15 weeks to 30 weeks, that should enable them to accommodate those other priorities, which will always be more important in their lives. And I think the institution has to do more to change and to endeavor to change those things on the ground. Right, I quite agree. Flexibility. Sorry, I'm agreeing to flexibility is very important. It is interesting that you said in Atabaska, you do give women, or you advise women to discuss with their families. That is not the case in Africa, really, because women cannot sit down with their husbands and discuss about their education. Many times they are not really able or they are not encouraged to do so. Do they have husbands? Yeah, many of them have got husbands, yeah. Husbands and children who have got to be looked after. They don't have the chance, really, of discussing with them. This, I'm talking of the rural women, you know, women who probably we just need to give literacy and post-listeracy work. They will not be able to discuss with their husbands. So it means that the system must allow for them either to get somebody to follow them, really, in their environment and give them some education there. But to say that they will sit down with the family and discuss with their husband and other people to let them through probably it wouldn't work. But we can encourage the system of education or the minister of education to allot people to go closer to them and study some study centers and also provide a place where their children could be left for a little while. I'm really glad you raised that point, Elizabeth, because even in a country like Canada, we have many women-leaders whose support system doesn't exist, whose partners are actively hostile to their learning and who have to fight every inch of the way to find any space and time or the money. Barbara, I have seen working exclusively with abandoned women, single mothers, or school dropouts, young girls who had to leave school many times because they were expecting a child. So this is why I interrupted you and asked you, do they have husbands? Some of them don't. Yes, I think it doesn't make the thing easier, no more difficult, it's just a different situation that we have to cope with. And I'm so glad you are not only saying we can't change this and we shouldn't change that because you're totally right. What we have to do is we have to find the ways how the institution copes with the typical situation of a woman. And I think we also have to be quite outspoken that if in statistics women need more time to learn, it's not because they have more difficulties to understand and to cope with the program. It's because they have so much more responsibilities. We have to interpret data in a different way than we did until now, I think. And there are quite easy practical things to do if you're running a study center kind of operation to make sure that you don't have all male staff at the center or all female staff at the center, that under normal appointments procedures that you do keep in mind that there should be women counselors and there should be male counselors for the different kinds of problems that people have. And I've got one or two centers that have all male staff, which is very much on my mind and which I hope in time I can change. Well, if I may just come in because I was telling Claire to really change that as soon as possible because there are problems which women experience, which men will never be able to address. So really you've got to get women there as soon as possible because women are freer. They feel free to talk to their fellow women than men. So there is a whole lot of information being held back and this will affect their studies definitely. But I like the idea of having men and women rather than just exclusively women because there are the other areas where men are also very useful. So it's good to have a mix, yeah. Are there other aspects you would like to mention right now which makes distance education women-friendly? We had talked earlier about course materials, Gisela. And there are so many aspects to our course materials, I think that can make them either women-friendly or women hostile. The language that's used to make sure that the language is either gender-inclusive or that feminine pronouns are used as often as masculine pronouns. That the examples are drawn from women's lives, that the illustrations, as you mentioned, are as often as women as they are of men and women's situations. Not just women doing what appear to be traditionally men's jobs, but women in the situation that our women learners actually are in. And that they're written in a pedagogical fashion that is more women-friendly than our materials typically are. We have discovered at Athabasca that women enjoy learning more in collaborative ways than in competitive ways. And I don't know to what extent that's the case. In your countries as well. But women do really enjoy working together on projects, for example, having opportunities to talk to each other on a regular basis, rather than feel they're competing for more. Claire, did you want to? Yes, I was thinking about how sometimes we get it right in some topics and not in others. And in fact, this is a negative thing to do. That course materials in accounting economics and computer studies can be very male-orientated and need to be changed. But when we do the nutrition materials and the home economics, we use women, which is actually a mistake the other way. We should also make sure that our home economics, our nutrition, our teacher education materials are user-friendly to men. And I think we have to be careful both ways. Another issue, which is sort of a side issue, but not quite, we also have a problem in the developing region of materials, which are culturally inappropriate. We buy a lot of textbooks that must come from the developed world. And so on all of our students, we are having to inflict materials that are European and male. This is also not good for male students, but this is where the textbooks come from. So it's to do with gender, but it's also to do with culture. I have felt that many times discrimination of women, discrimination of races, and discrimination of class comes together. So I think when we talk about women's issues, partly we are also talking about the other two isms, the classism and the racism. So there is only what I'm bothered about is if a course is acceptable at the level of classism and racism, it may not yet be acceptable at the level of sexism or non-sexism. I would just like to give you another example from the material I was working with these women.  And then it comes from the same field of occupation. It comes to a real workshop where real work is done, where money is earned, and you find the men exclusively. Now I think we should come to conclusions. What do we have to change in distance education to make it really a tool for women to progress? Barbara, can you? One of the first things I would like to see is getting a lot more women involved at all levels of distance education institutions. I think that women are seriously underrepresented in a good many distance education systems in the same way that they are in traditional education systems as course authors, as administrators of institutions, as editors, as course support people of various kinds and especially as teaching personnel. So would that mean that the program in itself has to be aware of women's needs or can we concretize this in another way? Once you have the women, as she said, in all the various levels of education, then surely you're going to have women have an impact on the writing of materials, on the teaching of the subject. So that's what she was trying to get at, having more women on levels, teaching levels, developing of materials, designing of materials, developing of materials, distribution of materials, administration of the causes. I think it's particularly in the writing. I mean, there are a lot of women in distance education support. But at the end of the day, the teaching academic determines what goes in usually his course. And I think it's very much in the course writing that we need to get more women involved because there are a lot of women in instructional design and editing and administration.  And there are many other at the ICDE conference. But we haven't got the writers. Do you think women at the level you are mentioning are sufficiently outspoken on the needs of women? Yes, I do. But you're always a minority, particularly in a university. The course writer ultimately has to say over what goes into his material. And we're talking about a worldview. You can't change a worldview by speaking up in Senate. It takes a wee bit longer than that. But I think it's the role of those of us that are in administration to run professional seminars for academic staff and to make sure that at least the issues are raised for their consideration and just to keep at it and at it and at it. But I'd like to see the women doing more of the writing as well. Exactly, because it's a skill to really have to be learned. And that's why probably we don't have many of our women doing that. So we who are in the administration, as you say, must encourage the other women to go for these seminars and courses for writing, because it's a skill. And that's why we don't have women. Well, then I understand that apart from involving more women in distance education, we have several areas from what I have read, several areas in which a course can prove to be women-friendly or hostile to women. One of the areas is the program in itself as regards access, cost, time, what we have touched before. The second is the contents, which I think Eclaire touched when she spoke about women writers. The third one would be, from my point of view, the process of teaching. We have touched that in a way because we said that women need solidarity. They want to work together. They need their experience to be used. And the teacher behavior, which I think is very important, especially if it is a male teacher who is hopefully encouraging women as well as female teachers can. And the last item, I think, is design and production of material. Would you agree with these five areas? I think they certainly cover the ground, Gisela. But I would like to underestimate the fee structure and the course schedule, the extent of the flexible course schedule. But money is a major factor, and I don't think that's just true in developing countries. Women always have a problem committing family money to pursuits that they feel are for their own individual enhancement. Let's face it, women don't have the same level of control over their finances. Even though it seems very simple, maintaining reasonable fees, keeping fees within the range of women is a vital thing to keeping their access to education. Yes, Claire. Elizabeth, any comments? Yes. That's what I'm saying. Governments must be aware of this and really give women support, you know, vote more money to go into developing such materials to support women causes, because there is no way women are going to be able to purchase this thing on the market just like the men. They've got very few resources. We have got the government of the day to give them support, to give them more money to buy the study materials, to go into the course production even. So that, to me, sounds like we also have to request more research work in the area of women friendly distance education, which is an issue for governments. I think we need to make sure that the people who are doing needs assessments for our institutions are paying attention to the needs of women equally with those of men. Too often in the business sector, for example, it's assumed that exactly the same kind of approach is going to meet the needs of women as it is of men. And we know from our experience that it's not true. I want to talk about developing regions and the role of governments in women's access to education. And in a region like the Pacific, distance education is for training more than it is for education. And our clients are the government, and they have manpower needs. And they will fund students to fill the manpower training needs that they, as a government, perceive. And that means that men get funded for education. Now, I'm saying we can't, in fact, be too critical of that, because we are not talking about individual education. Individual women, we are talking about aid-supported governments who have very serious training needs. And to say, well, you should be thinking about individual women needs. I'm saying it's a very difficult argument to put across when they have major shortages in what they see as male labor areas of the workforce, and they will not or cannot put the money into credential programs. We've got to meet it through community education or continuing education. Don't you think training is equally important to women than it is to men? I just want to tell you one example. Where I was working in that educational center, there were seven workshops to train boys. And when I asked the director of the center to open these to women, he said, I do not want a single boy to lose his opportunity for a girl. And by the end of the day, you find out that all the money that goes into the hands of the women goes into the hands of their family. This is why they are short of money because their responsibility is so large. And you cannot always be sure of this as regards men. I would very much like us to talk about international collaboration. You all know that the women's international network has been founded 10 years ago. And now, as we have a female male president, I heard her, for the first time, say, how much Wynn really gave or contributed to ICDE. It brought many, many women into distance education. Could we discuss other forms, other ideas, your ideas on international collaboration? Elizabeth, would you like to start? I think I can follow up what Claire said about the South Pacific. And I would really like to see probably ICDE or some other international organization do more research in our region, in the Africa region. I don't know of any which is going on. Do some survey, find out what the needs are, and then provide cross-cultural. Cross-cultural, yeah. And then provide funds to do that. Would you like to comment on it, Claire? When we received the funding for this research project, it was on the understanding that the methodology that has been developed will be made available to other developing regions, both the results but also the instruments themselves for use in that area. But just in terms of the sharing of materials that we know are friendly for women, I think meeting together at ICDE and through an organization like that, we are in positions to be able to make sure these materials are shared with other countries. And we all know we've got some materials that we would be proud to share because we know that they are good for women. And it can happen on a one-to-one basis. I think we are some of the agents who have to assure the international sharing of research and other results. And materials, yeah. I'd like to see us eventually move even one step beyond sharing what already exists into collaborative development. I think what's already come out of the WIN Network, for example, in terms of the book on women in distance education, is an example of how well women work together. Yes, I think it is. And to do collaborative programming, I can see that being very exciting for learners in Canada, not just women but men as well, to find out what the issues are in the South Pacific, to find out what the issues are in Africa, as well as the issues in Canada. Because I think we'd find we have so much in common. Yes, I see. That's more true than we realize in our working lives. I identify with many of the things you say, what happened in educating Rita. Happens in Canada and happens in Africa. And I tell you, I have seen this film with gentlemen from Colombia, in Colombia, and they have walked out after the first 10 minutes because she was not in tears. What they are used to see on the screen that the woman, after the first 10 minutes, is in tears because something is happening to her. She just does not want. They are not responding to this kind of person, a woman who fights for education. But the reality is that they really have to fight, and they do fight, and they just need some kind of support. Doesn't that point, Gisela, to another educated role that we have? We talk a lot about women's issues, but really what we're talking about is gender issues. Because we need to focus on the relationships between men and women, not just meeting the needs of women, because we know by meeting the needs of women, we're meeting the needs of their children, their families, their communities, their partners. And I think by being more gender inclusive in all levels of our work, we're doing a better job of meeting the needs of our men learners as well. I think this was a lovely conversation for me personally. I knew I would learn from you, but still you never know beforehand what you're going to learn and what's going to be the result. But thank you very much, Barbara, Claire, and Elisabeth. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Gisela. It's been a pleasure. Thank you.


Hi guys, happy Monday.  I hope you guys are all doing really, really well. As you know, if you looked at our community board on the video that we posted on Wednesday, halfway through filming the video, our lights blew. It wasn't just our lights, it was the adapter that blew as well.  It sounded like a gun going off, but we do have all of our new equipment in. We're just trying to get it set up to work. So hopefully by Wednesday, we should have all the lights up and running again. I have a lot of stories raring to go for all of you that are already scripted. I just, of course, needed to get the lights set up. So I really thank you all for being very patient. For the time being, one of our awesome community members here, Adam, submitted a recording of an interesting conversation he had in Hawaii with some legends that resemble a lot of the stuff we've talked about here on this channel. So even though on Mondays, we usually do a Monday mystery, because of our situation with the lights, I'm super grateful to Adam for sending this over so you guys can hear this pretty cool recording for yourselves. So without further ado, welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce. Today on this very interesting Monday, we are gonna be hearing from the awesome Adam about his experiences in Hawaii. Adam lives in Poland. He is fluent in English as his maternal grandfather was an American. Polish and English are his mother tongues, but he speaks several other languages, German and Russian among them. Adam has been fascinated by the unexplained since he can remember. The passion which wasn't always well received by all. He traveled to Hawaii in 2011 where he got a chance to interview a local tour guide. The guide told him an intriguing story about the little people and other entities supposedly living in Hawaii. Adam is a linguist and an avid writer. He is fascinated by the ideas of an infinite number of realities existing co-currently with our own. Adam is an author of the novel of alternative realities, planetary entrapment syndrome escaping hazmat demons, where he mixes dark comedy with existential questions. Given the age of lockdowns, we're in the theme fits perfectly. A fan of the middle ground, he is a pragmatist who enjoys a stimulating conversation about as abstract ideas every now and then. An optimist with a cynical touch, he hopes to see his novel and print one day. Adam worked in China in 2016 around 600 miles from Wuhan. He's never visited Wuhan. Now, as always, I always include a snippet from Adam's novel down in the description box below. So if you want to read it, go ahead and read it. If you know anybody who is in publishing or can help Adam get his novel printed, his email address is also listed down below. So go ahead and reach out to him.  Now, for those who are familiar with our work on this channel, we have talked extensively about little people and giants. I will include some of those past videos in the description box below as well. What I find so interesting about the recording you're about to hear from Adam is that this legend seems to be very much alive and well in Hawaii to this day. In fact, there's a lot of interesting information in this recording that Adam sent me. And if you guys want, I can go deeper into research into some of these topics that this tour guide speaks to Adam about. Just let me know. So without further ado, here is Adam's recording. An area that the Airpods were quite frequently seen. Minahune, they mainly started off on Molokai, but then they also had a big group of them that was once on Kauai. Now, the legend has it that most of the Minahunis went back to their sacred homelands because what happens was the king of the Minahunis was upset because many of the Minahunis were fraternizing with humans, which is not supposed to happen. Now, Minahunis are like very much like elves. They were said to build many of the fish pond, some of the roads very quickly overnight, very magical. Did they live on the ground? You know, it was not very clear, but they were mostly very active at night. Hawaii long ago was said to have been once part of a place, I believe it was either Mu or Lemura, I'm not sure, but anyway, so many, many legends of this, this long, long ago. Some scholars have said, though, that, oh no, no, the Minahunis were actually what is called the Marquesans because the first indigenous Hawaiian people came from the Marquesa Islands and they were about five feet tall. But the later group of Hawaiians that came and took over were between six and after and seven feet. So the Marquesans were chased into the mountains and they were seen as like the little tiny people. But many Hawaiian people said, no, that's not who they were. So again, there's a lot of dispute here. But even still to this day, there was a story not long ago, maybe in the 1970s or 80s. There was a school that had to, they called in the police and the fire department and all these guys because children were seeing Minahune running around the school. So they called in these, you know, the fire department and everybody and they were all searching underneath there and looking around. Where was that? Here in Oahu. Yeah, I don't know exactly what particular school. I've heard a few other Minahunis stories throughout. Yeah. So they're like goblins, right? But Minahunis are more mischievous. The epa's are more like goblins. But then there's another group of entities that are shapeshifters called Kupuas. Shapeshifters are sometimes equivalent in many respects to, you know, like genies. And it's sort of like in that shapeshifting state. Some people can even equate them to being like Incubus, Tsukubus, stuff like that too, yeah. So yeah, many, many cultures have similarities. Yeah. So is there a Hollow Earth?  Well, I've heard, not directly from Hawaiian legend, but I've heard from, a Hawaiian legend talks about, of course, the underworld. But Hawaiian legend also has all these other things that I've not been able to research, but I also heard from other sources that underneath the Hawaiian islands, I don't know if it was Pearl Harbor or some of the other islands too, but there's UFO bases around too. I had a lady one night that she said she was, she works with the federal government on these secret projects and she, you know, was psychic in all these ways and she knew about all this stuff. But what freaked me out about this lady, because, you know, sometimes you have people that are like that are just kind of way out there. Of course, of course. You know, but this lady showed me a picture. And here in Hawaii, there's a well-known entity known as the Moa of Ahine, which is, if you look in the history of mankind's old cultures, they talk about dragon entities, dragon- Reptilians. Reptilians. Well, she said the Moa of Ahine, which is a well-known entity. She went out to Mokoleia and everybody knows there is a Moa of Ahine out in Mokoleia. She said that she knew of this Moa of Ahine for a very long time and she asked the Moa of Ahine, is it okay if I take a picture? And the Moa of Ahine said, yeah. She showed me the picture.  So either she had the greatest Photoshop type of program or she was real, a real, so I don't know. But anyway. It's amazing. Yeah, it is quite amazing when you open yourself up to the possibilities. Yeah. Of course. The second morning is where the...


Okay, we're back here with Cosmin Lehenne from Adobe, our next guest here at the exclusive coverage of HBase Conference of San Francisco World Live. This is SiliconANGLE.tv's exclusive coverage of the Hadoop ecosystem. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com and thanks for watching. So HBase Conference, tell us what you think about the event and so far and what do you think about some of the talks? Once I was impressed with the number of attendees here at the conference, I think the first Duke conference I've been to, there were like, I don't know, three or four hundred people while this is the first HBase Conference and we already have six hundred and a lot on the waiting list and I've seen some really interesting presentations such as the Facebook presentation this morning was really inspiring and along the day I've been seeing very different use cases for HBase. We're also doing a lot of work in this area but being able to see all these people and what they're working on is really inspiring. So you're at Adobe, so we're going to get into that in a minute about what you're working on at Adobe but I wanted to ask you, what are you seeing here that's jumping out at you on those use cases? I mean, I would agree that Facebook was very inspiring and really, really cool that they're sharing. I know they just went public and usually hardcore about not sharing stuff so really thought that was really good form by CArctic. What other use cases are you seeing that you're learning about that's impressive? So I haven't actually considered HBase for example for use cases such as search indexing like full text search and it seems to be a use case that people are trying to invest in. Another one was some real-time backends for mobile applications that seem to be really interesting. We're mainly doing real-time data storage and analytics but there seem to be other interesting use cases. Yeah it's interesting as the community starts sharing their practice and you can learn a little bit more there and I'm seeing names of companies here, Fidelity Investments, Adobe, eBay, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Amazon, all the main tech players are here and it's a lot of production discussion. I mean I'm finding that to be something, do you feel the same way? Like getting stuff in production? Yeah we've been running HBase and Hadoop in production for the last four years now so I think we're some of the veterans of the technology but seeing companies such as eBay moving on HBase is really interesting. I mean we have use cases generally where small to medium use cases with HBase but I've seen some really large deployments out there and yeah Salesforce as well has has an interesting use case with and a nice deployment. Of course it's even though we've been using it for four years now seeing what everyone else is doing is interesting. Just talk about what you're doing in those so four years your veterans in the space I think you know batch you know that produce could work back then take us through the evolution of your environment because now real time is a big part of the conversation here and this is not possible a while back just even a short year ago so you know a lot of maybe some custom deployments but going full production like Facebook is impressive take us through your your evolution from four years ago. Yeah so four years ago I was asking people from other teams to land a server so I could build the first Hadoop cluster so that was that. You were begging for some machines. Yeah I was I was actually begging for machines because I needed to I had some some big data use cases and I wanted to try it and then we we've started the providing internal services based on Hadoop and age base mostly age base so we initially we realized we can't scale our MySQL deployment to fit so many so much data. We had a use case with 40 million user profiles so we decided we're gonna use age base and starting from there we started using it more and more so we then we used to index image data such as images on some of our online offerings and then we started doing analytics on the data so we did some machine learning and then we figure out we need to we need some fine grained access besides Hadoop for machine learning so age base was was again a good fit and then we just provided this type of service internally for other for other products so right now we have both data storage system and an analytics system on top of Hadoop and age base and the real-time story of course for some of the use cases we've had that from the beginning like the real-time data stores but for for analytics that's somehow new to us as well so what we what we did initially we started running smaller map reduce jobs and then just move toward just doing it in real-time so what's been the big evolution for you I mean is there a point in time when you say okay this has really changed the game a little bit go back what year did you say okay age base is going to be really much more of a production environment for you was it four years ago when did age base really become a key product was it four years ago so for four years ago we started using it in production in the meantime age base yeah age base we I think we I mean I might have been some of the early implementation yeah I think we still have a cluster which we've never upgraded after that because it's been running then then we were phasing it out but it's still it's still running version 18 of Hadoop so it's like Asian now in these times the computer history museum yeah and at one point I mean we were building these internal services and at one point we just switched and did only this storage and processing of the data so I'd say probably 2009 was was was a flexion point so to speak and when we we did everything with with the biggest challenges that you've overcome with the complexity of obviously some programming involved in some this attack he asked these open source but still early it's still early in the community even today these big holes you can drive a Mack truck through these holes and you got to kind of fill them up so there's nobody else so so you got to write your own code and kind of didn't get it back when with our some of our first deployments were actually backed by by my sequel so we had both date the data both in age base and in my sequel so we would have been able to switch from one to the other so data safety was was one of the first thing that we we wanted to nail down we we could have downtime but we could never lose that was a mirror not a replication was it replicated or just a mirror it was a lazy mirroring yeah it's we would take backups and then we would restore them in the other system so but that was initially because we didn't trust the system enough so we could we could only rely on that but and after that we started doing our own testing so some of our tests would we would just go in the data center and unplug machines take disks out of machines and so on and then get back to to the console and maybe fix the box so we've done that in the past it's a lot of work it's a lot of work brute force I'm happy when we don't need to do that anymore okay so what are the challenges you see today so going forward the world's mobile it's cloud big data is analytics it's becoming much more mainstream in the business side as well as in the application developers so what's your what you see as the challenges and the opportunities so I mean street is picking about the age-based challenges our biggest problem right now is that you gotta be a what what we call it DevOps to operate it so one of the challenges is to be able to actually give an entire environment to the operation people and let them handle it and so we could actually focus on developing stuff on top of it so in terms of use keys is moving towards providing backends for mobile mobile application I think is a challenge because it changes the way people interact you don't have you don't have a website we have a lot of people maybe texting or or or doing some other types of interactions among themselves what is your take on the whole discussion around MongoDB Cassandra and there's different approaches you got Neo4j J4 or whatever it's called so there's different approaches obviously this is politics involved in some of the open source communities but in general age-based is actually related to Hadoop so it's kind of buckled bundled together but also early enough where it fits some use cases but it's fresh is that an issue was it more of just the community you know what's all the hubbub about this versus Mongo versus Cassandra every every moment then we we end up having this type of conversations when we started using age-based we we tested the Cassandra and hyper tables as well that was before the no sequel term was even kind so we had to we had to test this all the system there weren't so many back then and we chose age-based and worked for us I think it was it was a very good choice why I wanted to work for you guys basically because and probably mostly because of the community that you have right now around age-based because it could have been a good system without the community and it would have been a lost investment right because you don't want to that's why you're using open source but because you want to rely on the entire community so in terms of communities definitely it was a winner and with the community comes the performance improvements and all the features and everything so when when I compare age-based with with other system that's the first thing I'm the first thing I'm looking at now in terms of features of course there are other cool and good systems out there but I don't think there's any other system that can store so much data and be so reliable with so much data than age basis so final question for you what do you see happening for age-based in the next year year or two a year to with age-based so I mean there's a there's the stuff that everybody's asking for like secondary indexes and so on but what I would hope to see for age-based in a year or two is to have easier deployments and basically have it have it running on its own basically being being smarter about the way it handles everything behind the scenes so I won't have to keep tuning it and so on so it would be a self-healing system it shouldn't be too smart in this area because you're still in some control but there's a lot of stuff that you shouldn't do so I'm checking some questions we have on Twitter here and getting some DMs from people saying hey you know John good questions ask some tougher questions about application developers not necessarily you're selling to them but you're one of them right so you're a computer scientist my friend wants to know I love age-based non paraphrasing 140 characters love age-based good stuff I'm so busy it's just too hard to use what's out there for me I want to really start jamming on coding I'm an application developer I love what age-based can offer me what's out there for help me long we the questions basically saying hey I love age-based I want to use it I want to do a Facebook did I want to play with it I want to develop on it I want to take advantage of someone else's success what's out there right now to make a little easier to code strictly speaking with age base there isn't much out there age base is a product which is currently being used and meant to be used by I don't let's say advanced users but what I know and what I've heard and I of course I can't talk about any details I know there will be platforms that will offer these type of services you know that to be true yeah you've heard some things I hope to come on some things yeah so but even so I mean I'm not sure why anyone would say I need to use age base you don't need to use age base if you need age base just use age base otherwise you can just use a service and when I'm thinking about services there's there's Amazon has a lot of services and then if you if you if you really need to to I don't hold your own destiny then you can you can use age base but before you know you need so much data you I don't see well content is building a managed service I know Jonathan Gray's working on some things and some other yeah Jonathan Gray yeah he's he's doing something in this area and I this is the kind of stuff that I'm expecting to to see growing and then probably be able to use in a year what would you suggest as for someone out there building a platform to advance the development of and increase the inbound migration of more community members what kinds of tools are needed what are the kinds of features and minimum requirements to kind of get that next level of developer to come in with in the context of big data or age base age base taking advantage of the benefits of age base so I mean let me let me make sure I'm getting this right in terms of tools cloud there are builds already really good distribution of Hadoop with age base in it so you can just you can just take cloud there are distribution and error manager works great saves a lot of time yeah so so and they also offer commercial support so maybe maybe these aren't exactly tools but you have a good distribution and you have the support so you can start you can start using that if you want to if you want to use age base besides that I mean there's a there's a good community but strictly speaking about tools I don't I still think that we're lacking a lot in this area yeah I think it's true and then we've been talking about with other guests as well final question how does Adobe feel about this movement if age base is the mood inside the company feeling positive you were begging for servers four years ago well where are you now and what's the state of the Adobe philosophy I mean we're sponsoring this event so I guess that speaks for itself we're moving towards services more and more every day with with our new creative cloud offering and everything so we have acquired a lot of companies that are in the services so in general I think there's a really good feeling about about Hadoop age base is somehow not that well-known internally it's our team and probably I don't three or four other different teams that are using it but we have some we have some really important products on age base and just to give you an example this year we've deployed five clusters so we have nine clusters out of which five were deployed this year so there's definitely a lot of growth in this area so and we're looking to to to build more on top of that so how Adobe is looking at everything big data related I think it's looking looking very interesting in this area okay Cosman thank you so much for coming on the Cube Adobe doing some work congratulations for sponsoring this great event first ever age-based conference really a groundbreaking moment again the community's phenomenal congratulations on your four years making servers to now to really being a leader congratulations we write back with our next guest here on side the cube on Silicon angle dot com Silicon angle dot TV's exclusive coverage of each base conference we'll be right back for having me here