So, this is not the title of my presentation, so it's like in all my previous speeches, I had to like ask this question, so I thought I will dedicate one slide for this, for this time. So, so I would like to stop my presentation with this quote from Oliver Wilde, it says, to live just the rarest thing in the world, most people exist, that is all. Can someone tell me what this quote means? Okay, what does this quote translate to? Living the experience, living a life full, let's take this. Okay, so that's what, so actually this, so I don't, I think we all like too much immersion to US, because this is US, I'm just talking about plain life here. So it's like some people just come, they just wake up in the morning, go to work, some people live their life, so this is what Oliver Wilde has told about. So, my presentation today is going to be about that. So next, I'm going to show a picture, so if someone can answer this, I would say just like on many posts in Facebook, their childhood was awesome. So, what do you see here? Can someone tell me? Yeah, so can someone tell me what's happening here? So, what is the scene here? No one knows? Somebody explained that character with the strings on the top. No? So, you know the name of this character? So, I think only two people had, like two or three people had also tell you. So, what happens here? So, what is here, so I'll tell you what's happening here. So, this is Pinocchio, he's a wooden doll that was made by a carpenter who didn't have a child. So, what happens is one night an angel comes and gives life to Pinocchio. So, Pinocchio becomes a living thing. So, as a designer, our job does not end with making the wooden doll. So, most of us just make this wooden doll and think that we have designed something. But actually our job also includes the job of the fairy godmother, like we have to give life to our designs. So, that is what my topic today is going to be about. It's called giving life to your design. So, next I'm going to ask you like what do I mean by, so I'm going to tell you what I mean by giving life to a true design. So, if you think that I'm going to tell you about how to like upload it into the fair store, make it run on phones and something. So, that's not, I'm not going to tell about that. I'm going to tell about giving like actual life to your applications. So, next question I'm going to answer is why? Why do you think we need to give life to our designs? So, for this, as human beings we often have relationships with other human beings or sometimes you know with cats or dogs or in this case Michael Jackson had a special relationship with a chimpanzee. So, can you tell me the name of this chimpanzee? It's Bubbles. So, can someone tell me why we have a relationship with other doing things? Can someone tell me? Are there any two friends sitting together here? Is anyone sitting here, they are friends? So, okay. Comforting each other. So, why do you like your friends? Can you tell me like why do you like them? Each other since last four years. It's quite comfortable we can discuss more things regarding the restriction. Is there something special you like about, like is there something, sorry. I didn't want that. Is there some characteristic of Amit that you like or something? I enjoy it first. How is he laughing? So, that's it. So, we like other people, other living beings because they have certain characters. So, it's like I like my friend because he makes fun of me or something. We all have characters. So, how? So, next question I'm going to ask is how? How are you going to give life to a design? So, we are going to do this by using two interactions. So, one is called micro interactions and one is called free interactions. So, first what is a micro interaction? So, the next person I'm going to show you a picture of a person who plays an important role in everyone's life. Can you identify him? So, this is the security of say my office. So, he's the guy, it's like when I come to office, he just, he don't have an interaction. He doesn't sit in my appraisal meeting or anything. But he just says hi. So, it's like if I'm working late night, he asks to have extra work today. So, even the boss does not know I work late, but the security would know something. So, this person interactions that we have with this person are like very micro. It's like we don't talk too much or something. We just have like one word interactions with him. But still it makes our life back work better. Why? Because it's like something, so this is what the interactions that I'm going to do to your application. So, I was telling you sometime ago that we like our friends because of certain characteristics. So, today for this short talk, I'm going to like show you how we can add like five characteristics to our application using this micro interactions. The first characteristic is expressive. So, can someone tell me like how you react when you are happy? Like what phase, like what do you do when you are happy? Smile, right? You show your teeth. Okay. So, what do you do this? You just take a word and say I'm happy. I mean, do you think? Individually first impression. But do you think? Yes. So, it's like there should be some expression. So, it's like if your friend just comes and says I'm happy and angry. So, it's like you won't feel that connection with him. So, that's all. And even a research that was done in Colorado University gave a feedback that was like just reading or seeing. So, a feedback that you like here and see, you react faster to it. So, for this, I'll take some certain examples that most of you know. The first example I'm going to show you is the lock screen of this iPhone. So, instead of like just displaying that you entered a wrong person, the password lock actually shakes, showing you that there is a mistake. So, this is one way of doing it. Or another example. So, this is the inbox of the mobile phone. There is something wrong with the message. So, it's like this happy face turns into a sad face. So, these are like small things that you could do to make people, you know, to give life to your application. So, the second characteristic that I'm going to talk about is helping the user, helping out the user in need. So, can you like explain this scene? Yeah. So, it's like you, so when you're in an exam, it's like you don't have to call your friend and say that, so it's like you just, and he answers. Responsibility. Yeah. So, these are like small things that, you know, make a, you know, even if you're not prepared, your friend is there. So, some examples of software here is like, this is called the RDIO player. So, instead of like, so when you want to play the next song, instead of just having a button here, so when you hover on this, they just show you like what is the next song that's coming up. So, based on that, you could make a decision or something. So, another example here is, so this is a timestamp in GitHub. So, it's like, so when you hover on this thing, it's three years ago, when you hover on this, it actually shows you the exact timestamp. So, the next characteristic that I'm going to talk about is the application being thoughtful. So, this is like this blog that, you know, you have, which knows that you read the newspaper every morning, so it brings it to you. So, this is the example of the search in Chrome. So, it's like when you search, instead of just showing you the number of words or instead of just highlighting the words, in the sprawl bar also it highlights the, you know, it highlights the words are exactly present. So, based on that, it makes your searching easier. Or this is a book, my show where, you know, you just select the name of the movie and immediately this drop comes out, because it knows that we are going to do that next. So, this is the, so this is, is it five minutes? Five minutes more. So, this is, when you're entering this payment thing, so most people don't know what is the CVV. So, it's like, when you come here, it automatically highlights that this is the CVV. So, these kind of things. So, next one is being intelligent. So, can you identify this man? So, what is the character? Yeah, Fox. So, it's like immediately after telling a word back, he says, yes, it comes in black, because he knows if that's going to be the next question. So, this kind of intelligence is shown in, like, email, when you write, when your email has attached five and your message does not have any file attached, it acts like Fox. Or this is like, when there's a slow internet, like our presenter here pays. So, it asks instead of, like, buffering, just download it and they want to do that. So, and here, in this application for InstaPayback, so if you, like, if you go to quote it and immediately switch it back, so it identifies it was an action and asks if it wants to lock the rotation. So, in this, it's like, so you are typing a document and you want to save it. So, it immediately takes the title of the document as the pertinent, because that's in most cases. So, next, characteristically, it's like making an application, like, made for each other, like, these two characters in, from the movie app. So, here it's like, say, this is from IMDB. So, you know that IMDB is, like, that movie lovers are going to see. So, the error message here is the movie code. So, these kind of things, you know, so this makes the application, the movie level feel like he's, you know, invited. So, this is, again, from Bukmesho where, see, this is a site that Indian movie fans for booking gave. So, the words used here, like, Pultu are all Indian. So, it's like, when you ask a person how the movie says Pultu. So, it's something like, so these kind of words that they have used. So, the next part of my presentation is going to be about pre-intractions, where how many of you have played with this?  So, you just, you give that and it's, like, I won't even ask for anything for the next half a day. So, what does it do for your application? So, what do my contractions do, for pre-intraction to the application? The answer will shock you. It's going to do nothing for your application.  And, you know, it actually, but it establishes an emotional connection and it helps you, it's been proved that it helps you release nervous energy when you do these kind of stuff. So, the example here, we see is, like, this rock screen in Android. So, when you're scrolling, it knows that there's nothing to scroll after this point, but still, instead of just having it there, it actually, they show you animation, like, it's turning. So, when you're bored, you will find, like, when you're going in a bus, like, I say I have to do three hours for me to reach home from here.  So, next one, so, another example here is, like, so, when your users, you know, people are, like, monkeys. So, it's like, when you're reading something, you get bored and you move your mouse around or you try to hover something. So, when you hover on this logo of this thing, the logo just rotates. So, it's, like, a spirit for you, like, so, you remember this site for that. So, this is an error message in Map 2X. So, when you click on this, it plays a sound. So, the author had written that friend of, that was a friend, you know, a friend of him who used to play this sound just occasionally by doing, creating some errors. So, and this is the pearl of this, you know, blackberry pearl. So, people, like, when they are waiting for a meeting or something, they play with their fingers or, so, these kind of stuff, so, these kind of stuff are actually having no impact on your phone. Like, so, when your phone is locked and when you're turning this, nothing is going to happen to your phone or even in this example, by hovering on the logo, nothing is going to happen to the website or even in this example, by putting, they are going to do nothing.  So, these are called free interactions. So, but, so, when you design your site or something, so, you remember these things, so, you know, pay attention to these kind of details and add, so, have at least one of these in your application and try to, like, don't copy them, but try to create signatures for your product. Like, for example, so, like, it may not be this kind of thing. For your phone, when you come up with a problem or something, maybe try to create something that shows your brand identity. So, remember, you know, while making this thing, don't have, like, a million free interactions or micro-interactions in your application everywhere. So, just have, like, one or two of them and so, I would like to finish my presentation with this board from John Wooden. It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. So, if you want to read more on this, you can download this book from, it's called Microinteractions. It's by John Shepard. Or you can read about this in Cooper Journal.  It's called Little Big Details. Every day, they post some, you know, inspirations of, like, these kind of small, small details that you could add to your stuff. Likewise.


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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here Sure, actually let me talk about Friday the 13th in this video here again today So Roy Lee is on a roll with the horror news today In the same podcast the boo crew in the in an exclusive chat with bloody disgusting gave us an exciting update on Friday the 13th, so I Guess his comment is indicating that we might be on the verge of a return to Crystal Lake in the very near future With news coming very soon according to what he had to say in this podcast So we know what's been happening over the past couple of years with this or many years I'll say this one with Sean Cunningham and Victor Miller One owns the rights to the original screenplay the other owns the rights to adult Jason Voorhees So honestly neither one of them can make a I would say a movie that would satisfy the millions Without working together because they'll have to leave out segments of certain things because they can't Do what that person owns and the other one can't do what the other owns is just a complete mess So they would have to come together to ultimately give people something overly satisfying. I would say for most of the Jason Voorhees Friday the 13th diehard fans if that's who they want to Want to pay attention to the most so in a recent Interview or again sit down on the boo crew podcast He said Roy Lee that being said that something or he said that that one is something that I would love to talk about You may be hearing something by years in on that front now. Here's the thing Roy Lee back in 2018 Was announced to have some type of involvement with the Friday the 13th franchise with him and Doug Davison's vertical entertainment attached to produce Which was also then mentioning that at the time LeBron James was going to produce that as well through Spring Hill Entertainment, so are we going to get that team making a Friday the 13th movie if so then that's fine I don't think many people care who it is at this point as long as what the script is looking like is something that will satisfy everyone and Does this mean that we are indeed going to get news of an announcement of a new film coming Maybe seems like it. That's the thing that obviously many people will jump to because we're all hungry for a new Friday the 13th movie I wouldn't say I'm necessarily starving for one But it has been a good good long while since I got my Jason Voorhees fix It's been 13 years at this point. It'd be nice to see the hockey mask face man back So with Jason Voorhees on the verge of potentially returning, what would they do? Honestly, I'm just thinking to myself should you just do a straightforward reboot again modernize it set it in 2010s 2020s and somehow make that work and tweak certain things within the timeline to Rationalize why Jason Voorhees is still around or do you just set it again in the 80s or the 70s and Retail that story With Pamela somehow and maybe throwing some new wrenches along the way. They could do so many different things I know I have stated in the past. I would love to see a direct sequel to part six I've talked about the storyboard that went on for that and the plans that the writer of part six had for that as well So if we actually end up getting news about a Friday the 13th movie by the end of the year Something to announce that Jason is on his way back to the big screen Honestly, I don't know what they would do I don't know what they would do they'd have to honestly announce it and we'd have to you know Pick apart whatever it is that we can pick up on from what they tell us because at this stage Most people are in the at the point where they just want Jason back They don't care how he's back in the sense that of course they want to have something of quality They don't care if it says in the 80s. They don't care if he said it in the 90s. They don't care They just want Jason for he's back so many people just want to see Jason for he's back on the big screen stalking teens Haunting Crystal Lake and just causing havoc I honestly would love for them to try to redo an iteration of him taking Manhattan because I know a lot of People think that Jason takes Manhattan was a complete disappointment and how it was presented and marketed and he ultimately ended up being in New York for maybe five or ten percent of the movie a lot of people coin it Jason takes a cruise ship instead of Jason takes Manhattan So maybe they could do something like that down the road if this ends up being the case of where Jason is back the IP is revived adult Jason is the one that we're actually going to be dealing with and You know down the road if this new iteration ends up being a success You can explore something like that again trying to have him go back to New York and do something that lives up to what many People wanted that 80s movie to be But as of right now What they could present to us now most likely the best thing probably would just be to do their complete reboot again Do a complete reboot introduce all new characters You could tweak certain aspects of the Pamela Pamela for he's Jason for he's story Maybe even tossing Jason for his father adding a lot of other Sick twisted elements to it to kind of make it fresh and not make a complete rehash of what you already had in 2009 and What you had in 1980? But start from scratch again, and this would of course be a new timeline because I think most people Not most people but a lot of people honestly would prefer you do that anyway They were also be a lot of people who would prefer you do a direct sequel to Jason X There are also a lot of people who prefer you do a direct sequel to part six or part four You know so many different opinions out there, but probably the safest thing to do if you're someone who doesn't want to Dwell on already established continuity that you had nothing to do with start from scratch start from scratch throw To throw adult Jason in the mix tweak some aspects of his mother and father tweak some aspects of his ultimate demise at Crystal Lake and Maybe dive into that a little bit more in the movie Let us learn a little bit more about what happened while he was at camp and see that depicted on screen a little bit more that's something I know that Hasn't really been depicted the best across the series in terms of just Dialogue in that brief flashback that we got or some type of dream sequels that we got in Freddy versus Jason So maybe they could do something like that with this new approach Diving a little bit deeper into what went on that summer He was bullied and ultimately ended up drowning to death, which we know he didn't drown He ultimately escaped and maybe we could go over how he lived out there in the woods for all those years stuff like that Not that we need to see it, but just some other details about what was going on So you guys can let me know what you think about this down in conversation below Do you think that his comments are indeed hinting at a new upcoming movie announcement about a new iteration of Friday the 13th Being on the way or do you think it's something else? Do you think that the new iteration will be include adult Jason or do you think it'll be something new completely all together and have nothing to do with adult Jason or Anything like that you can let me know all that down in comment section below if you haven't already of course make sure you subscribe Turn on post a case that you never miss a video in the description I will have links on my social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there of course to let me know if there are any movies news or reviews You like me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next video


Welcome. Thanks for coming. I'm really excited to be here because I left Red Hat six months ago, so I didn't expect me to see that many Red Haters that soon, but it's always a great experience. My name is Vasek Pavlín. I now work for a company called Blockchick, and I'm leaving that company. Never mind. So I want to talk about Vet Free, Blockchain, and these things, and I want to talk about how it's open and potentially open source, and how I think, I believe, I hope it actually inherits some of the open source mantras and approaches and promises. So I got the single only one response to me speaking about this on this conference was this.  I understand that many people are concerned about environment. I'm too. I don't want our planet to end up like this by burning so much electricity through mining and all these things. But I don't want to talk about that because that's a philosophical question that I don't understand. I'm not an environmental expert, and I'm not developing proof of work blockchains or anything like that. I develop applications on top of blockchain, and I try to use less resource demanding blockchains as much as possible. So I wanted to show you something nice. So whenever you get mad at me, please think about this little kitten.  So what is that free? As this gentleman here can show you, nobody knows. It's a buzzword, really. But we are used to buzzwords at Red Hat. Containers where buzzword and web scale and all these things. There is some technology that changes the world sometimes. I think this may be one of those. It may be changing not all lives, but some lives, like containers that change lives of software architects probably, and how they design applications. So Web3 can change lives of some other people, which I don't know who those would be yet. But generally, Web3 is like an extension of what is called Web2, which is like Facebooks and Googles and YouTubes, and we want to make Web3 a better place where to be, where nobody tells you what you can do and you cannot do, and where nobody is stealing your data and whatever. I can't explain that very well, at least not without pictures. So I stole this picture from Anderson Horowitz presentation about the state of Web3 and basically explains that Web1, that's like, I don't know, 1990s, I guess, 80s, is read-only basically. You could create a website and put content there, but you would have to know how to do it. You would have to have your own server, maintain that, manage that. You couldn't just come to a website and start posting blog posts and videos and things like that. So it's kind of read-only for the general public. Then we have Web2, that's where we live now, and you can post a video on YouTube, post on Facebook. You can write and read. You can be content producer and content consumer. In Web3, the expectation or the goal is to be a content consumer, content producer, and then owner. So if you post something to Facebook, then Facebook owns that content. If you post something to YouTube, then YouTube owns that content and they can say, no, we don't like it. You can't post it here. Take it away. Well, not take it away. They will take it away or take down your channel or something. In Web3, the idea is that you own the content or you can own the platform that the content is displayed on, or you can own the protocol that runs that platform. That way, they want to basically give you the ability to own a piece of internet if I use their words. So what does it mean to me from more like a lower level perspective? I think Web3 can be built out of these three terms or technologies, and it can also be built without basically any of them, which sounds potentially weird. But I think hopefully, this is like the technology that we are trying to use now or approaches that make sense and the best Web3 version can be made out of these. So blockchain as an open permissionless interoperable database, where you can store information and you can store the transactions, whatever it is, like an economical transaction, financial transaction. But it can be also that I don't know, you followed someone or you liked someone post. Then there are tokens which is the financial part of the thing. So when it says own, there is often financial incentive in there because all those big companies, they make money of you posting that content and Web3 promises that you make money out of posting that content. So the tokens are there to keep the money flow and keep the financial system going through that whole ecosystem. Then there are Debs, which is basically the web applications or the applications developed on top of these, utilizing blockchain, utilizing some incentive for people to use the platform, hopefully being distributed as in nobody can shut them down, nobody can block you from accessing them. But this ideal world, that's not how it works usually, but that's the goal where we want to be ideal. I think that this is how open source works as well. You want something that is interoperable, you want your source code with a public API, a well-documented API that anyone can take and interact with your open source project. You want that to be transparent, everyone should understand what's going on there, why you are making decisions. So that's why you have your code on GitHub or GitLab and you basically want the community to come and look at how things are decided so that they can contribute and they connect with the rest of the community. You want it to be permissionless, you don't want to block people from contributing to your project. That's the same for Bit3. The goal is to be interoperable. That's like, obviously, we are talking about public blockchains, not private blockchains and private blockchain is a expensive database and that's it. There's nothing else there. Public blockchains. So if I put in a smart contract that represents some asset in a game, potentially someone can come and say, if you own an asset in this game, you can also get, I don't know, a t-shirt for free because I'm printing t-shirts and I want to do some marketing. That's, I think, part of the interoperability. The transparency, if I interact with Jakub here and I send him the money that he paid for my coffee, everyone can see that because it's transparent. That's the same for if someone does something bad. So I explained a couple of examples of where Bit blockchain actually makes sense during the day. So I'm going to say it here as well. One example is that Polygon, which is one of the big blockchain networks, they worked with an Indian government where there was an issue that if someone reported a crime, let's say some woman was raped or something, and they reported the crime and it's the issue with police was not that the crime didn't get solved but that the crime disappeared, like the report disappeared and never happened. So they went, government went to the Polygon project and said, implement something that solved this and they did a blockchain project where now if you report a crime, it goes on top of the blockchain and it's there forever. If someone removes it, which potentially is still possible, at least there is a record that someone put it in and someone removed it and then you have kind of the foe in the story who is doing that. So that's the transparency and then permissionless. As I said, if you have an open source community, you don't want all these code of conducts and be welcoming and then try to get diverse people, and part of that is permissionless. If you have group of people that you say, no, you can't contribute to my project because I don't like you, that doesn't work and that's what we want from that free and blockchain perspective. We want anyone to be able to interact with the applications without some authority saying, no, you can't. So as I want to focus on the open source part here, I picked some projects that are open source and that are heavily used as part of that free ecosystem. So I split it into front-end, back-end and the actual blockchain part. Just for you to have some reference of like, if I have no clue how to join this free movement and be successful in something new and exciting and hyped up because containers are boring now, and you can take one of these projects and look at that, contribute to the community. So from front-end perspective, very well-known framework for developing front-end is React, and it's heavily used to develop blockchain-based applications where you interact with blockchain directly from the front-end. So there is not much to talk about there. Then there's Eters.js, which is the library that reps the calls to blockchain to smart contracts and allows you to call it from the front-end easily and simply and manage wallets and things like that. So it's very useful to understand. Then there's TypeChain, which is based on TypeScript. So if you're not using pure JavaScript, but you're using TypeScript, which allows you to do typed JavaScript. The TypeChain allows you to generate typings for smart contract and then call that as a method on an object. So it makes it very easy to interact with smart contracts by just basically instantiating an object and call that. All of these obviously are open source otherwise I wouldn't be talking about them. From the back-end perspective, because often people think like, okay, so I have this blockchain thing and that's it, right? No, so you still need front-end for some user experience and you often need back-end for aggregation of the data because blockchain will not help you with that. So there is very interesting project, the graph, and even if you're not interested in blockchain, I think this is a really cool project. They do the aggregation. So every smart contract can emit events. An event can be like information about what happened. So transaction from to how much. You can build a mapping into the graph, which automatically ingests the events and then builds your GraphQL API on top of that. Then you can easily query that instead of calling the blockchain directly. So you can potentially take any blockchain-based project and build graph for it on your own, and then do an aggregation layer on top of that and make something useful for the project. IPFS, Interplanetary File System, I've heard about it at Red Hat before I left Red Hat, and before I actually did something with blockchain, because it's an interesting project which tries to solve permanent storage distributed permanent storage. So basically, you upload something to some IPFS nodes. Those objects have unique identifier like in S3, in Airbus S3 basically, unique hash, and then as you access it, it gets copied over in the network, and the network, anyone can join it. It's again permissionless, and you can basically get access. The more it's used, the more copies the quicker access to the data, and it's essentially, Pipe Piper, and essentially, it is basically, hopefully, it is permanent there, and never going to get deleted. And then Go Ethereum, that's basically the most popular client for Ethereum, and I think it's cool because it's going, and I really like Go Link, and I know a lot of people at Red Hat do too, that's why I put it in there. It's a very nice way to interact with blockchain on backend, if you need to build something on top of your smart contracts. And then for the blockchain development again, for the smart contracts, HardHat is a nice tool to rep your development with tests and deployment scripts and automation and things like that. It's a suite of utilities and extensions to make it easier.  I hate it that they don't. And then I have Solidity, which is a programming language for Ethereum-compatible chains, how you program the smart contracts, also open source. And then MetaMask, it's an extension for managing your wallets, so you can create the wallet or import your private key there, and then you can see how much tokens and NFTs you have in there and stuff like that, and it's also open source. Some interesting repositories or projects to look at if you are interested in the smart contracts or even the front-end development where I take my inspiration from when I'm implementing something. Uniswap, it's a decentralized exchange, and they are one of the biggest innovators in the space. Aave, that's lending protocol, and OpenZipLin, that's basically, they do security stuff, but they also provide a lot of implementation of standards. So if there is an Ethereum standard for tokens and NFTs, all these things, they will have a library for that that you can use and you don't have to implement the standard on your own. And the reason I have these here, it's often hard to start from scratch. So if you are familiar with front-end, maybe you can go and look at one of these projects and check their front-end implementation and get some understanding. If you are into back-end or into an actual smart contract development, the Aave smart contracts are crazy and I don't understand them because I like the financial understanding of how they work and what they do there. It's very complex. And basically, my last slide here is that VET3 is trying to push a new model. I have talked about it with a couple of people here already. So if you heard the story or heard the idea, I'm sorry, I'm gonna bore you potentially. But there is something that is described by the guy from Zora, it's one of the links there, and he calls it hyper structures. Up until now, anything we've built as a software, we have to maintain and we have to improve upon, right? We have to maintain it. We have to make sure it's running. We have to make sure there is infrastructure for it. We have to pay bills to AWS or some other provider. But the idea of hyper structure is that you build something that you deploy on blockchain and as long as the blockchain is available, which hopefully is forever, as long as people are incentivized to run the nodes, it's there and it's working and it's running on its own without any fees, without any company behind it. And I think it makes a lot of sense because I take blockchain as infrastructure. So if you're building something out of OpenShift, then OpenShift is your blockchain. Bad, but like on that level for me, I don't develop blockchains, I don't develop Ethereum, I develop applications on top of it. But the good thing about blockchain for me is that it's always there, it's always running. I don't have to do anything, I don't have to set up anything, I just can deploy my smart contracts and they will be running as long as I have users using them. And the idea of hyper structures is then that you develop something that you deploy and it's there and it's running and nobody has to take care of it. Nobody has to maintain it, nobody has to do monitoring of it. Obviously, bugs, issues appear, so we have to think about upgradability or migrations and things like that.  So that's how they approach Zora D3 and it's an open source NFT marketplace. Definitely, the smart contracts are pretty simple but the kind of hyper structure idea is there. And then Lens protocol is quite new, probably like two weeks old. It's by the, oops, it's by Ave. And it's a social graph. So if you imagine Twitter, Facebook, all these things where you can follow people and comment, they are building an open social protocol where you can come, you can create profile and you can follow people and all of that is recorded on chain.  It would have to be some kind of another layer on top of that that would basically give you the access to the contracts that does not show your profile. So if a company is built on top of that and you can't, and they want to block you, you can't, you can't, you potentially can't access that but then the protocol itself is still there and it's completely permissionless and their contracts are really interesting and I still need to read a bunch of them. So that's it. I hope that I delivered the message that there is a lot of openness and open source happening around blockchain and Bet Free and that it's not just us burning planet and us trying to steal your money and your wallet, private keys and things like that. So always first think about the kitten when you start thinking about blockchain and well if you can, if you can't then there's not much I can do. That's it. I don't have anything else to say so I can either leave or you can ask questions. Thank you very much for listening to this. Yes, they know my wallet address, they can check and your wallet address, they can check that there was no transaction where I paid for your coffee. So yes, you can find people that check this and then beat me up, yes. But I'll pay for your coffee. Any more questions? Okay, now I'll take even the angry questions. I'm not sure if I understand the structures. Uh-huh. There is always, there needs to be the cost. Yes. So in this case, the cost is the... The externality of increasing the blockchain itself. So like everyone using it from that moment, it starts existing, will we pay in some very fractional cost of it existing? No. Yeah, so the question is where is the cost in the hypostructures because there always is cost and whether the cost is kind of spread across the people that are using the blockchain, right? No, not really.  So every transaction has a cost to it. And the users that send the transaction pay that cost regardless of what kind of transaction that is. If it's a hyper-structure, then if nobody is using that, there is no cost for it being there. If people use that, they have to pay the gas fee. But the gas fee is not for the project, it's not for the hyper-structure. The gas fee is for interacting with blockchain and it's the reward to miners or validators who run the blockchain, if that makes sense. So you don't pay anything to people that build this and run this, you pay for the interactive infrastructure. Imagine you are calling an AWS API for something and you are not paying for actually running a virtual machine there but for calling that API and getting a result. So that's basically the same with blockchain. You are submitting something, you're storing some information there, you are changing the state and that's what you are paying for, regardless of what that is. So you don't pay for it to be there. You pay when you interact with it but you don't pay to that hyper-structure, you pay to the blockchain validators for running the blockchain. That's, yes, like in theory, yes. I guess it depends on the blockchain implementation. If we talk about Ethereum for example, then yes, as the state grows, so the more smart contracts there is deployed, more users using it, the state grows and the transactions get more expensive as the validators is to pay more and they need to be more incentivized to run the validations. So potentially yes, but it's not, I don't think it's like a straight line there, like with current model where you pay for a service. You pay for something. So yes, if every person on the planet decides to deploy some smart contracts on the blockchain, the state grows and the cost will be higher, depending on the blockchain because there are blockchains which basically shard things and like take the unused part, they just like throw it away and if someone wants it, they pull it from like a backend database if I may say that and that kind of like work around this issue a bit but that depends on like, there are different implementations so it really depends on the implementation. But the kind of the premise of this is that you are not specifically paying for that one thing. It just generally like grows and as it grows, yes, there is potentially higher cost but that also depends on other factors like the configuration of the blockchain, block time and like throughput and things like that. So it can be tweaked if like the state grows too much and there are tweaks that you can do to like lower the cost and that way basically eliminating this like everyone pays for your smart contracts being deployed although not used. Things like that or solve crimes. Yeah, I think we're out of time anyway. So thank you again.


What are the migration linkages with development in the West African sub-region? Migration within and outside West African sub-region bring enormous benefit to both the home and host countries. No matter the levels of development countries in West Africa could reach, their citizens will still migrate, although the motives, volumes, and impact may differ. The institution of the economic community of West African states echo us, and the adoption of its protocols on free movement of persons, residents, and establishment have facilitated migration and development exchanges among member states. The negative perception of migration, which stems from the fear of brain drain, has been again following contemporary migration within the West African context. Due to the transnational nature of West African migration, migrants are able to contribute their acquired skills to the development of their home country, either on temporary or permanent return basis. Remittances are a source of foreign exchange, supplementing household income. In more than half of West African countries, remittances represent at least 5% of their gross domestic products. West African migrants form associations along the lines of profession, religion, and ethnicity, among others. These associations contribute to infrastructure development, such as schools, hospitals, in the home country. Governments in the sub-region should harmonize migration policies across the region to maximize the benefits while reducing the cost of migration, be it regular or irregular.


Jack London was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco into a poor family. He was raised by his mother as he never knew his father. The man he thought was his biological father, William Cheney, denied ever being married to his mother. At the age of 13, London had to work in Hickmott's canning factory on a 12-hour working day to support his mother. Sometimes the shift extended into 18 hours. This was a difficult life for London. In a bid to get out of this unbearably hard work, London borrowed money to buy an old small boat and became an oyster pirate. After a few months, his boat became damaged beyond repair. London then crossed to the law and became a member of the California Fisheries Patrol. In 1893, London boarded the sailing schooner, Sophie Sutherland, heading to Japan. When he returned, London found Oakland in labor unrest. After undertaking jobs in a Duke mill and a street railway power plant, London joined Cox's army and began his career as a trap. In 1894, London spent 30 days in Erick County pen for wandering. After a series of unfavorable adventures, London returned to civilized life. He managed to graduate from Oakland High School with hard work of self-training. In 1896, he entered the University of California in the autumn. However, financial circumstances forced London to quit university in 1897 and he never graduated. London, who would never give up, went on to self-educate himself. In 1897, London lived for the Klondike Golden Feather and became a gold digger. However, London had a very tough time in the harsh Klondike, which was even detrimental to his health. London lost his four frontiers in the event. London soon concluded that his only open escape from poverty was to receive education and sell his brain, which he did. In 1898, London began to write stories and made serious attempts to publish them, which was another round of battle for him. When he eventually got his first narrative published, London got only $5 for it, against his expectation, but London never gave up on his writing career. He later published another of his stories that were all accepted and paid for. He got $40 for it. With the power of consistency, London soon acquired $2,500 by 1900, which is equal to today's $50,000. Since then, London wrote so many books and novels. After losing that election, London became a stubborn writer, which kept him popular and successful all through his lifetime. At the time of his death on November 22, 1916, London had written about 145 short stories, 23 novels, 45 parteries, among other plays and autobiographies. Here's the thing. The number one secret of success in life is keep on trying. Some people call it persistence. I love to call it stubbornness, because that's what it is. Our world today is filled with a lot of people who have given up. Most of these people have only tried a few things and when they experience failures in those things, they make excuses and give up their dreams. I have friends who've failed in business two or three times. Then they conclude it that they can't succeed. As for me, I've failed for eight years and I never turned back. Anthony Robbins calls it massive actions. That's what he takes. Do you have some lofty dreams? Don't expect it to come to pass so easily. Like London, you'll make mistakes. Like him, you'll get rejected.  Some of your ideas won't work, because they ain't unwell conceived. Some of your projects and dreams will fail, because you didn't have the right information and that's why you have to be willing to try something else, something new. If you want to go far in life, you must learn how to renew your enthusiasm after failures or setbacks. Westing Church Hill said, success is stumping from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. You must keep your enthusiasm alive. You must learn how to stand up after each fall. You must avoid the poisonous meal called excuse, because when you make excuses, you're eating the food that will affect your dream. If you like this video, do subscribe to this channel so you'll be notified when we publish our next video. Also, like this video or share it with your friends on social media. Thank you. We love you.


The rumbling of motorcycles could be heard through downtown Bemidji Sunday and it was all for a good cause. The ride for the homeless event was held to benefit the wolf, which is an overnight shelter for homeless men and women with chronic substance use issues during the cold winter months. The Nameless Coalition, who operates the wolf, says the warm summer months is now the time to fundraise and prepare the center for another season. Well, operating funds. We've applied for grants, but we don't know if we're going to be doing that. And of course, you know, we always have to have more than what maybe we're going to get from the grant. If we get anything, let's just keep the doors open. Now, if you would like to contribute to the operation of the wolf, the Nameless Coalition has a fund set up through the Northwest Minnesota Foundation at nwmf.org. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of PostgreSQL Vision 2021, brought to you by EDB. Hello everyone, this is Dave Vellante for theCUBE. We're covering PostgreSQL Vision 2021, the virtual CUBE edition. Welcome to our conversation with the CEO, Ed Boyajin is here as the CEO of Enterprise DB. And we're going to talk about what's happening in open source and database in the future of tech. Ed, welcome. Hi Dave, good to be here. Hey, several years ago at a PostgreSQL Vision event, you put forth a premise that the industry was approaching a threshold moment. A digital transformation was the linchpin of that shift. Now Ed, well you were correct and I have no doubt the audience agreed. Most people went back to their offices after that event and they returned to their hyper focus of their day to day jobs. Yeah, maybe a few accelerated their digital initiatives but generally pre COVID, we moved at a pretty incremental pace and then the big bang hit. And if you weren't digital business, you were out of business. So that single event created the most rapid change that we've ever seen in the tech industry by far, nothing really compares. So the question is, why is PostgreSQL specifically and EDB generally the right fit for this new world? Yeah, I think, look, a couple of things are happening, Dave. You know, right along the bigger picture of digital transformation, we're seeing the database market in transformation. And I think the things that are driving that shift are the things that are resulting in the success of PostgreSQL and the success of EDB. I think first and foremost, we're seeing a dramatic replatforming. And just like we saw in the world of Linux where I was at Red Hat during that shift where people were moving from UNIX based systems to X86 systems, we're seeing that similar replatforming whether that's from traditional infrastructures to cloud-based infrastructures or container-based infrastructures. That's a great opportunity for databases to be changed out. Postgres wins in that contest because it's so easily deployed anywhere. I think the second thing that's changing is we're seeing a broad expansion of developers across the enterprise. So they don't just live in IT anymore. And I think as developers take on more power and control, they're just defining the agenda. And it's another place where Postgres shines. It's been a priority of EDBs to make Postgres easier. And that's come into life. And I think the last Stack Overflow Developer Survey suggested that, I think they surveyed 65,000 developers. The second most loved and the second most used database by developers is Postgres. And so I think there again, Postgres shines in a moment of change. And then I think the third is kind of obvious. It's always an elephant in the room, no pun intended, but it's this relentless nagging burden of the expenses of the incumbent proprietary databases and the need, and we especially saw this in COVID, to start to change that, more dramatically change that economic equation. And here again, Postgres shines. You know, I want to ask you, I'm going to jump ahead to the future for a second because you're talking about the replatforming. And with your Red Hat chops, I kind of want to pick your brain on this because you're right, you saw it with Red Hat. And you're kind of seeing it again when you think about OpenShift and where it's going. My question is related to replatforming around new types of workloads, new processing models at the edge. I mean, you see an explosion of processing power, GPUs, NPUs, accelerators, DSPs, and it appears that this is happening at a very low cost. I'm inferring that you're saying, Postgres can take advantage of that trend as well, that broader replatforming trend to the edge. Is that correct? It is. And I think, you know, this has been one of the, I think the most interesting things with Postgres. Now I've been here almost 13 years. So if you put that in some perspective, I've watched and participated in leading transformation in the category. You know, we've been squarely focused on Postgres. So we've got 300 engineers who worry about making Postgres better. And as you look across that landscape of time, not only has Postgres gotten more performant and more scalable, it's also proven to be the right database choice in the world of not just legacy migrations, but new application development. And I think that Stack Overflow Developer Survey is a good indicator of how developers feel about Postgres. But, you know, over that timeframe, I think if you went back to 2008 when I joined EDB, Postgres was considered a really good general purpose database. And today, I think Postgres is a great general purpose database. General purpose isn't sexy in the market, broadly speaking, but Postgres capabilities across workloads in every area is really robust. And let me just spend a second on it. We look at our customer base is deploying in what we think of as systems of record, which are the traditional ERP type apps. You know, where there's a single source of truth, you might think of ERP apps there. We look at our customers deploying in systems of engagement. And those are apps that you might think of in the context of social media style apps or websites that are backed by a database. And the third area systems of analytics where you would typically think of data warehouse style applications. Interestingly, Postgres performs well in our customer's report using us across that whole landscape of application areas. And I think that is one of Postgres hidden superpowers is that ability to reach into each area of requirement on the workload side. Yeah, and as I was alluding to before, that itself is evolving as you now inject AI into the equation, AI inferencing, and it's just a very exciting times ahead. There's no database, you know, 20 years ago was kind of boring, now it's just exploding. I want to come back to the notion of Postgres maybe talk about other database models. I mean, you mentioned that you've evolved from this system of record, you can take system engagement on structured data, et cetera, JSON, so how should we think about Postgres in relation to other databases and specifically other business models of companies that provide database services? Why is Postgres attractive? Where is it winning? Yeah, I think a couple of places. So I mean, first and foremost, at its core, Postgres is a SQL relational database, an asset-compliant SQL relational database, and that is inherently a strength of Postgres, but it's also a multi-model database, which means we handle a lot of other database requirements, whether that's geospatial or JSON for documents or time series, things like that. And so Postgres extensibility is one of its inherent strengths, and that's kind of been built in from the beginning of Postgres. So not surprisingly, people use Postgres across a number of workloads because at the end of the day, there's still value in having a database that's able to do more. There are a lot of important specialty databases, and I think they will remain important specialty databases, but Postgres thrives in its ability to cross over in that way. And I think that is one of the key differentiators in how we've seen the market and the business develop, and that's the breadth of workloads that Postgres succeeds in. But our growth, if you kind of measured it across vectors, we see growth happening in a few dimensions. First, we see growth happening in new applications, about half of our customers that come to us today for new Postgres users are deploying us on new applications. The others are our second area migrating away from some existing legacy company, often Oracle, not always. The third area of growth we see is in cloud where Postgres is deployed very prolifically, both in the traditional cloud platforms like EC2, but then again also in the database as a service environment. And then the fourth area of growth we're seeing now is around container deployment, Kubernetes deployment. Well, Oracle is prominent because it's a big install base and it's expensive and people, they've got to look at them. It's funny, I've done a lot of TCO work and mostly, usually TCO is about labor costs. When it comes to Oracle, it's about license costs and maintenance costs. And so to the extent that you can reduce that, at least for a portion of your state, you're going to drop right to the bottom line. But I want to ask you about kind of that spectrum, if you think about the prevailing models for database, you've got on the one hand, you've got the right tool for the right job approach. It might be 10 or 12 data stores in the cloud. On the other hand, you've got kind of a converged approach. Oracle's going that direction, clearly Postgres with its open source innovation is going that direction. And it seems to me Ed that at scale, that's a more, the latter is a more cost effective model. How do you think about that? Well, I think at the end of the day, you kind of have to look at it. I mean, the business side of my brain looks at that as an addressable market question. You've heard me talk about three broad categories of workloads and people define workloads in different buckets, but that's how we do it. But if you look at just the system of record and the system of engagement market, I think that's what would be traditionally viewed as the database market. And there that's, let's just say for the sake of arguments a 45 to $50 billion market. The third, the systems of analysis, that market's an $18 billion market. And as we talk about that, so all in it's still between $60 and $70 billion market. And I think what happens, there's so much heat and light poured on the valuation multiples of some of the specialty players that the market gets confused. But the reality is our customers don't get confused.  Don't get me wrong. That's important revenue and meaningful in the workloads they support, but it's not, it doesn't define the full transformation of this category. Look at the systems of analysis. Again, another great market example.  So while those are all important technologies, the question is in this transformation move did the database market fully transform yet? And my view is no, it didn't. We're in the first maybe second inning of a $65 billion transformation. And I think this is where Postgres will ultimately shine. I think this is how Postgres wins because at the end of the day, the nature of the workloads fits with Postgres and the future tech that we're building in Postgres will serve that broader set of needs, I think more effectively. Well, and I love these TAM expansion discussions because I think you're right on. And I think it comes back to the data. And we all talk about the data growth, the data explosion, we see the IDC numbers, we ain't seen nothing yet. And so data by its very nature is distributed. That's why I get so excited about these new platform models. And I want to tie it back to developers and open source because to me that is the linchpin of innovation in the next decade. It has been, I would even say for the last decade we've seen it, but it's gaining momentum. So in thinking about innovation and specifically Postgres and open source, what can you share with us in terms of how we should think about your advantage? And again, where people are leaning in to that advantage? Yeah, so I mean, I think you bring up a really important topic for us as a company, Postgres we think is an incredibly powerful community. And when you step away from it, again, now you remember I told you I was at Red Hat before now here at EDB, and there's a common thread that runs through those two experiences. And in both experiences, the companies are attached and prominent alongside a strong independent open source community. And I think the notion of an independent community is really important to understand around Postgres. There are hundreds and thousands of people contributing to Postgres. Now, EDB plays a big role in that about approaching a third of the contributions in the last release, release 13 of Postgres came from EDB. Now you might look at that and say, gee, that sounds like a lot. But if you step away from it, at about 30% of those contributions, most of the contributions come from a universe around EDB. And that's inherently healthy for the community's ability to innovate and accelerate. And I think that while we play a strong role there, you can imagine that having, and there are other great companies that are contributing to Postgres. I think having those companies participating and contributing gets the best ideas to the front in innovation. So I think the inherent nature of Postgres community makes it strong and healthy. And then contrast that to some of the other prominent high value open source companies. The companies and the communities are intimately intertwined. They're one and the same. They're actually not independent open source communities. And I think that there in lies one of the inherent weaknesses in those. But Postgres thrives because, we bring all those ideas from EDB. We bring a commercial contingent with us. And all the things we emphasize and focus on in growth in Postgres, whether that's in the areas of scalability, manageability, all hot topics, of course security, all of those areas, and then performance as always, all of those areas are informed to us by enterprise customers deploying Postgres at scale. And I think that's the heart of what makes a successful independent project. The combinatorial powers of that ecosystem, they're multiplicative as opposed to the resources of one. I want to talk about Postgres vision 2021, sort of set up that a little bit. The theme this year is the future is you. What do you mean by that? So if you think about what we just said, post the category is in trend, the database categories in transformation. And we know that many of our people who are interested in Postgres are early in their journey. They're early in their experience. And so we want to focus this year's Postgres vision on them that we understand as a company who's been committed to Postgres as long as we have. And with the understanding we have of the technology and best practices, we want to share that view, those insights with those who are coming to Postgres, some for the first time, some who are experienced. Postgres vision 21 is June 22nd and 23rd. Go to enterprisedb.com and register. The cube's going to be there. We hope you will be too. Ed, thanks for coming on theCUBE and previewing the event. Thanks, Dave. And thank you. We'll see you at vision 21.


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We got way too many YouTubers on the platform talking about the problem and offering no solutions. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. Have you ever wondered why I said that? If you're a subscriber to this channel, have you ever wondered why I always say we talk about the problem but focus on the solution? I have a laundry list. I might do a whole series about the numerous reasons why I say this but anyways before I get into this rant, if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health.  So I just got done watching the new Bobby Burns video and like I want to start off by saying like I like Bobby. I hope the best for him. I hope things get well. Like he if you don't know who he is, he was handed the golden ticket by Shane Dawson. His channel exploded. He tried to do some videos. They didn't really work. He took a little hiatus. He made a video about his mental health and just all this anxiety and like I do appreciate that Bobby is taking time to talk more about mental health and talk about these things but again we're talking about the problem and that is an issue. So I do appreciate that he's doing that and like here's the reason why I think it's a good thing. There's so many people, so many people who are like I want to be a YouTuber. I want to be a YouTuber and things like that and like a lot of people don't understand what it's like to be at the top. Okay. Once you start getting to the top of that mountain, like it gets more stressful. You get more anxiety and everything like that. But in this new video we talked about anxiety on YouTube and here's the thing. Here's the reason why I got a rant about this you guys. All right. So not only am I an advocate for mental health but I also work in a mental health treatment center. Okay.  Now I am a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. When I got clean six years ago I had no money, no insurance, nothing. I was not able to get any type of treatment unless it was state funded and state funded treatment isn't all that great and I had to bust my butt in order to get clean and sober and fix my mental health, my anxiety, my depression, my childhood traumas, all that stuff. I had to do that on my own without the help of professionals. On a day to day basis I talk to so many people who are trying to go to a rehab because they can't overcome their addiction. They think they need rehab and they don't have any money. They don't have any insurance. I have other people who tell me that they need to see a therapist. They need to see a psychiatrist. They need to do these things but they don't have any money. They don't have any insurance and for me it is just this huge slap in the face when I see these big YouTubers who are just constantly talking about the problem and I never once see them say I'm seeing a therapist now. I got a therapist. Like I've watched Bobby Burns for a while and he has videos of him. He's like we're getting two new MacBooks or here's us spending a thousand dollars to show what it's like to be a YouTuber and like he's had like two different places in Los Angeles and he's traveled back and forth from Los Angeles to Tennessee. Dude's got money. The dude has money. I don't know if it's his money. I don't know if it's parents money. I'm sure that some of his videos like the one where he spent a thousand dollars that might have been a sponsorship deal so that might have been their money that he was using for the purpose of the video but the point I'm getting at is he's got money and then the other guy Johnny that he did the video with the dude has almost a million subscribers. Dude has money and it's like I like I said I just it breaks my heart knowing how many people would just kill to have the resources to have the resources to get help whenever my clients in my treatment center are acting very entitled or ungrateful. I'm like you guys need to think about this. There are thousands of people outside of these walls who would give their leg to have the opportunity to be in here. So that's my issue. Okay. Like there's this really bad false narrative over on YouTube. Like whenever a YouTuber talks about mental health people are like we don't talk about mental health enough on YouTube. Okay. Let me tell you this as a mental health channel who looks into SEO searching to engine optimization and which keywords to target and things like that when I look at them like literally every major YouTuber has talked about anxiety depression or mental health as a whole.  Let me rephrase that not when they get bored but when they're going through it like every YouTuber has done it. I don't know what this myth is. I don't know what rock everybody's living under where they're like YouTubers never talk about mental health like all of them do all of them do. Okay. Now one of the reasons I respect Philip DeFranco. So Philip DeFranco works works with better help just like I do. So he provides an affiliate link down below. So if you want to try better help it's down below. Anyways like Philip DeFranco he talked about like on the H3H3 podcast about how he was dealing with a lot of mental health issues and emotional struggles and he started seeing a therapist. He started meditating. He was talking about the solution. So whenever he pitches better help on his videos he talks about how he uses better help. He sees a therapist. You know why because he has the money and funds to do so. So it kills me when I see these YouTubers who are just like yeah this is really stressful and I have a lot of anxiety but I'm not doing anything about it. I'm like what what are you doing and now I don't want to project anything. I don't want to assume anything but in Bobby's new music videos things like that. Like he shows like weed right and I don't know if he's using that for his anxiety or self-medicating. I won't get into my opinions on that but like my main point is is like if you got the resources if you got the money like just think about that for a second. I know it's hard to ask for help. I know it's hard to go get help but like we can only complain about the problem so much until we do something okay. Like even though I'm all about mental health awareness like talking about it doesn't do anything. Like it makes you feel a little bit more connected. It helps you realize that you're not alone but there's still issues that you got to deal with and a lot of times that comes in the form of help and if Bobby just simply said like you know what I don't want to do therapy but I've been meditating every day or I don't want to meditate but I've been reading these books about anxiety and learning different coping skills and like just do something brother. But anyways like this isn't just about Bobby and other YouTubers. Like it's about all of you too. Like don't take for granted the opportunities that you have. Like like I said maybe it's just because I work with underprivileged people all the time or people who have destroyed their lives because of their mental health issues. They don't have those opportunities so like I want to be a voice for them like they wish they can do this stuff.  Like I do as much as I can here on YouTube. I'm at about 400 videos so I try to provide all of you with as many tools as possible but I don't want you watching my videos passively. I want you to start practicing the things that I am telling you. Alright because there comes a point where we start to get even more depressed.  Like nobody wants to hear me just sit around wanting and complaining about my mental health issues until I'm doing some work. Until they see me actually trying. Like if I said hey like you know my depression has been really bad. I don't know what's going on. I've been meditating and it's not working. You know what I mean? At least people see an effort there but if I'm just sitting there talking about it I don't get the kind of sympathy that I'm looking for and I really hope that clicks for you. I was thinking about making a video this weekend about all the excuses we make not to help ourselves and I know it's tough. I know it's hard. I've been in the lowest pits of depression but we gotta do something. We gotta take one step forward one day at a time and do something. But anyways this isn't a malicious video at Bobby even though like I get really passionate about this stuff. Like Bobby I think is doing better. I appreciate what he's doing with his channel. I'm not a fan of his music but I think he's finding himself again and being a little bit more artistic and things like that. Like I actually tweeted out something the other day that I really thought he made a really good video. So I know he is getting a little bit better and like I said at the beginning of this video I appreciate that he's trying to bring other YouTubers on and talk about this stuff. Like for me mostly that's just for anybody or any children out there who are like I want to be a YouTube star someday. Like they kind of see like there's some stuff. There's some stuff that comes along with it. Alright so my suggestion if I have a young audience out there anybody who's trying to become a YouTuber start working on your mental health now. The more resilient you become when you get to that point where you blow up when it happens because you're going to do the hard work to get there. When you get to that point at the top of the mountain your mental health will be stable enough so you can deal with all of the added pressures that come. Alright but never ever ever think that some number on YouTube or Instagram or Twitter is ever going to make you feel whole inside it might just make things worse. Alright but anyways uh yeah I don't know I just really felt like I had to make this video so if you like it give it a thumbs up and if you are new here I'm always making videos about mental health so feel free to subscribe hit the notification bell and again a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon and if you want to check out some of my other mental health videos you can click the top on one of those thumbnails right there. Alright see you next time.


Today we're in Camp Navajo. We're here to support the infantry to prepare them for any type of deployment or any type of state emergencies, things of that sort. I think it's important because we ensure that every soldier has a meal to help them perform their duties. Today we're serving 584 soldiers. Breakfast today was scrambled eggs, hash browns, bacon. We served coffee, juice and fruit. Myself and my troops have been up since 01 this morning and we've been cooking ever since. Now we have our flow of who goes where, who's doing what job. We work really well together, no matter the situation. Teamwork is everything. If you don't work together, everything will fall apart.


Well good morning everybody. Thank you Stephen for the introduction. Thank you Thierry for hosting me. I'm proud to be I think one of the two Australians in the audience flying the flag. We're on the cover of the Economist this week but we're thin on the ground in in Morocco. What I'd like to do in a very short period of time is make an argument about the foreign policy consequences of President Trump and I'll touch on four points. First of all his foreign policy instincts, secondly his actions in office, thirdly the limitations on his actions and fourthly reasons to be concerned. So first of all his instincts and let me start exactly actually where Stephen finished. People often say lazily that Mr. Trump is stupid, his views are incoherent but in fact for three decades he has had extremely coherent views on America's role in the world and I think he came to office with more coherent views on America than other recent presidents including President Obama and President Bush. For decades he has held true to four core beliefs and I've come to think of them as the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The first instinct that he brought to office is that he was sympathetic to isolationism or if isolationism is too strong a word then certainly a desire for retrenchment. We heard this during the campaign when he spoke of walling America off from its southern neighbor, reducing America's international commitments. Since the 1940s American presidents have been seized of the advantages of global leadership. Mr. Trump is oblivious to them. Second he was unimpressed by the alliance network through which America has traditionally projected its influence and this is odd because China and Russia would dearly love to have an alliance network as powerful and cost effective as that of the United States. Thirdly as Stephen intimated he was hostile to free trade agreements or at least those that had been negotiated by others of course he could negotiate them much better than anyone else. And finally even before he came to office we noticed his weird affinity for strong men such as Vladimir Putin. By contrast he was notably lukewarm about democratically elected leaders including in the European and Asian countries to which the United States has been allied. So those are the four instincts that he brought to office. The four horsemen of the apocalypse. Secondly I would argue that in office those instincts have in many respects in many important respects informed America's policies. Now this was an argument I had with lots of analysts at the time of his election. A lot of my colleagues said the American system will wrap its arms around Mr. Trump and he will end up as a much more orthodox foreign policy president than you might imagine. But as a friend of mine said never underestimate the impact of Mr. Trump on Trump foreign policy. Let me go through those four horsemen of the apocalypse and point out where his instincts have informed his actions. First of all the instinct for retrenchment. We saw that in his junking of the Iran deal pulling out of the Paris Accord or even in the last week the INF Treaty. Secondly his skepticism to alliances we see all the time. He refused to endorse the collective security guarantee of the NATO Treaty for many months. He later threatened the United States could go its own way if delinquent allies did not meet spending demands. He ran down bilateral treaties with countries such as South Korea and Australia. On free trade he withdrew from the TPP on his first full day in the White House and he imposed hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs on China. And finally on strong men and his preferred interlocutors. He has pursued his fixation with Mr. Putin to a degree that is difficult to understand. Refusing to stand up for American democracy accepting Mr. Putin's word over that of his own intelligence community blaming all the problems with US-Russia relations on America on past American behavior rather than Mr. Putin's behavior or indeed his interference in the US the 2016 election. Mr. Trump enjoys hanging out with a posse of authoritarians including Mr. Duterte, Mr. Orban, Mr. Salvini and Kim Jong-un who is running rings around a lovesick president. So that's my second argument that his instincts have largely informed US foreign policy. However third there are important limits on his actions. The president's writ does not run everywhere and two factors in particular have limited the Trump influence on his own foreign policy. The first is much discussed and that is opposition within his own administration. The so-called deep state. The adults in the room who have to some extent prevented the president from doing irreparable damage to America's alliances and foreign relationships. They have authored strategic documents such as the national security strategy and the national defense strategy that reflect orthodox rather than Trumpian policies and somehow got Trump to sign off on them. Thank goodness for the deep state I say. However most of the adults have now left the room and there are persistent rumors that the last two standing John Kelly and Jim Mattis will soon follow the others out the door perhaps in a couple of weeks. So that's the first limitation. The secondly, secondly and this is less discussed, the president lacks the patient's discipline and interest to implement his will. The truth is President Trump is not really interested in solving policy problems. He is interested in being seen to win. His style is to make a bold and unexpected move, declare victory and move on. Few believe that not having an Iran nuclear deal is a better way of preventing the Iranians from acquiring nuclear weapons than having one. Few really believe that North Korea will demuclearize but that is to miss the point about President Trump. He is not interested in having victories, he's interested in being seen to win. So the deep state's resilience and the president's lack of interest have combined to limit the damage that Mr Trump has done. He has put America's interests in jeopardy, he has damaged international society, he has run down America's prestige but he has not yet done irreversible harm. However let me finish on this point. There are two reasons I think we should be a little nervous. First, Mr Trump has not yet faced an externally generated crisis. Most of his problems have been internally generated. Sooner or later he will face an externally generated crisis. We remember that President Obama came to office right in the teeth of the global financial crisis. Can you imagine if we had a similar crisis now and our last line of defence in the Oval Office was Mr Trump? Secondly, he could be goaded into making the kind of catastrophic error he hasn't yet made, such as starting an unnecessary war. So those are the reasons to be nervous. Steven, let me finish on one final point. In 2015 I gave a series of public lectures in Australia and I was concerned then about the fraying of the international order. And so I called the first of these lectures present at the destruction. And this was a play on Dean Atchison's memoir about the establishment of the post-war order present at the creation. And I argued then that the country around which the post-war order was constructed, the United States was stepping back from the world, other countries such as Russia and China were stepping in, the pillars supporting the order were weak, the principles that defined the order were under challenge. I said the order is not necessarily finished, but it is certainly fraying. And I was criticised at the time, including by the Australian Prime Minister for being overly gloomy, as is the way with the Australian Prime Ministers, he has now left the stage. But ladies and gentlemen, three years later, after Brexit, after the election and many other leaders, including Mr Duterte and others, and after the election of Mr Trump, no one is now saying that I was too gloomy. Thank you.


Okay, good morning and I'm Sablongi Lainal from Bahadur University. My presentation focus on beyond the numbers, women's inclusion in political process in Ethiopia. So, this presentation will try to address the following major concerns. The first one is I'll try to present about brief overview of Ethiopian women's representation in political leadership. I'll just try to highlight the imperial and post-imperial region experiences. And then I will raise some arguments of gender and political representation and which one really holds water in Ethiopia and by whom. This presentation will also try to capture the emerging challenges of women in political leadership in Ethiopian context. And I have also a few remarks on what to do to transform women's political leadership from symbolic or descriptive representation to a very substantive and influential representation. So when we see our experience of women political representation in Ethiopia, we can boldly categorize into two the imperial region and the post-imperial region. So when we see the imperial region, even though the political culture was highly dominated by the patriarchal concept, there were very powerful queens and wives of kingdoms. We can name Cune Sheva, who was linked with Solomon Dynasty. We have Prince Yodit of the founder of Zagway Dynasty in Ethiopia, Cune Leni Impressment of Impress Aitu, who conserved in paramilitary during the Italian invasion. So we had this substantive role in their leadership during the imperial era, even though the overall culture was dominated patriarically. But when we come to the post-imperial region, there is confusion of role in women's political representation. Even though there are women who played undeniable role, bring the social women of the popular revolution in the 1960s and 70s. We had women who have played the role in the Workers' Party of Ethiopia in the Dark Region. There were lots of, I mean, so many associations and women committees, starting from the very beginning of early 1980s. Women played a great role in the armed groups of Liberation Frontists in different groups. Though their role was not such acknowledged and well documented, we can see their role was undeniable during the post-imperial regime and during the transitional period of the Ethiopian governmental systems. But when we see the post-1991 era, women participation in the state politics has been increasing in pace. In 2015, we can see that 328.8% of seats of the House of People representation is taken by women. So we can see that, I mean, at least in number of representation, women's participation is increasing in the country. And we can see the Prime Minister Abhisar administration, the current administration, as another historic move in the women's role in the political participation in Ethiopia. So after the reform and the coming of the new Prime Minister Abhi Ahmed, we can see that half of the Abhisar new cabinet is made up of women. And the president, the Ethiopian president, now it's a woman, the head of the Supreme Court is a woman, and the head of the Electoral Commission, Batukami Degasar is a woman. So women are starting holding a key positions, like even the Minister of Education, Trade, Transport, Minister of Peace, even the Defense, the Minister of Defense was a woman. So we can see the large increase of women's representation in the executive branches. And the change is very remarkable. It was 10% of, 10%, I mean, before 2017. So we can see a move from 10% to 47.6% in 2019. And this change brought Ethiopia into one of the top three African countries by putting women in a ministerial position next to Rwanda and South Africa. So where is the swinging, where is the dwelling up, is despite these recent political strides, women in Ethiopia face systemic inequality, still Ethiopia is ranked one of the least countries with various gender equality indexes. We were in 121 out of 160 countries in various gender inequality measures. And the claim that women are half the sky is more than a glitch. And when it comes to the real political representation, and when we see the rendering of true women legacy, so it's not yet clear how the improved representation of women in the federal government really affect the status of over 50 million women in ethnicity in Ethiopia. So one of the, in my opinion, one of the challenge is the argument which are widely circulated in Ethiopia about gender representation affected the role of women in their leadership. So I have brought a few argument and I'll try to catch up which argument is really accepted by who my second area of presentation. So as we see symbolic arguments argues that representation of women's help us to bring more role models so that they can attract other women to leadership arena. The critical mass arguments in state argues that women they can achieve solidarity of purpose so that they can represent the other women's interest. So these arguments are widely circulating among Ethiopian civilians, associations, you can hear them in the families in the schools why women should be represented in the political leadership system. When we ask this question, the majority of the civilians may raise this argument the symbolic representation and critical mass representation. But for me to the other argument is, for example, just the argument, the democracy argument is which claims that women account for approximately half of the population so they have the right to be represented. The equal representation of women in the enhanced democracy democratization of governance is these arguments are usually the views of the scholars the scholars and partly shared by the political leaders in Ethiopia. So they are not as just both by the major the mass the civilians in the state they are mainly circulated within the scholastic view of Ethiopian professionals. And the race argument is the experience argument the interest arguments women experience are different from men. So they do politics and business differently. The interest arguments they have different interests from that of men so they need to be articulated differently. These arguments are very vivid concepts in our context and they are perceived as radical feminist view which Ethiopia couldn't afford it for now. So even these arguments are considered as a trait for the well established conservative society. So one of the the concerns we have as a professional interested in the area of gender and political representation is how we can coin the arguments of gender representation in the Ethiopian context. And we do have different other concerns regarding women politics. I mean the bouncing concerns which were holding throughout the country's history and the current context of change is even though women politicians are not elected they are not elected positions. They are just there to make quota and the government is bringing women into the leadership position to get more attention from the global influencing actors. So this symbolic gesture hijacks women's question I mean into the party needs. So there is this fear in the society that women are empowered and they are expected to be more led to the political their political party needs. And they are not really representing the concerns of the majority women and the girls. So we can we can bring here an example currently there are 21 kidnapped university students mainly they are women I mean girls. And we can see we can see that women ministry and at ministry level at top management level they didn't show up for strength or solidarity to speak up on this on the behalf of these women I mean these girls. So they were highly criticized for they are just in that position for the sake of the party needs for symbolic gesture. They are not just influencing the government even to rescue girls who are kidnapped recently. There are also other emerging concerns currently we are in a state of crisis ethnic centered crisis. So the role of women in the leadership to bring peace and security in the country is not as such visible. And so even though the Abighi administration brought so remarkable changes in bringing women into the top management level the from the original this high-spirited welcoming and embarrassing a point I mean acceptance is not here to bring this type. So it's more more likely replaced by resentment and concerns about the state fragility. Even the prime minister it's I mean himself is accused as he's not in money enough to maintain low order low end order in the nation. And he is relied for surrounding himself by powerless women who are risking the country peace and security. So what to do what can we do we do have this opportunity of bringing more women to the political leadership but we have also these concerns of more descriptive representations symbolic gesture and they are not as such visible in bringing change in the country current crisis and in the overall development. So one thing which is obviously we need to work hard to move from this descriptive representation we need to acknowledge that women are in the very descriptive representation and then to move to substantive representation. That's we need to reshape my argument here is we need to reshape what we are circulating our argument is regarding the need of gender and representation in the political arena. We need to reshape the our scholastic argument is regarding gender and representation to the mass. And even those women who are represented in the political system they need to question themselves how they are building movements and acting on the collective responsibility beyond their personal ladder climbing and they are now in power. So what does this ascension to power mean for other women? They need to ask and reflect on these major questions. The other one is we need also to raise the capacity gaps. So so far the the most I mean the the the interest is to bring more women into the political leadership but representation of gender should not be limited to the political leadership arena only. We need to bring more women I mean to the media representation we need to reshape the media representation and we need also to talk about gender representation in the area of business corporates and others because women who lack people and economic rights they are not able to exercise their political rights fully and so the other dimensions of gender and representation which are neglected so far by the government should be given full focus of attention. Moreover those women who are getting the opportunity of leading the countries I mean and earning the leadership positions need to prove that they have the capacity to assume that level and they need to make critical decisions. They need to establish strong networks so that they can help each other and the other one is to have a succession plan so that they can put and grooming young women leaders to assume leadership positions in their future as well. The other one is obviously we need to raise the structural barriers still we do have so many discriminatory laws and institutions which limit women's ability to run in office so these things need to be given focus because we are expecting to women to magically address issues of other women or to engage in the other in the countries over all development without capacitating their leadership ability. They are also women leaders often face bias from public criticism intimidation because they just they are just women so addressing structural barriers need to focus from the consulate police so these are what I have about the current move of gender and representation in the political arena of Ethiopia. Thank you for attending this presentation that's it.


I'm not exactly sure why UC Davis and Erie have such a good relationship, but it may have something to do with both of them, higher, very good rice scientists, and so there is quite a few people who have gone in both directions, from UC Davis to Erie, and back to UC Davis from Erie, and in my case, multiple times back and forth, and one of the reasons I think is that rice is an important crop in California, and so there are quite a few scientists on the campus who are interested in rice and who get funding to work on rice. So that's led to a natural partnership with Erie. The other thing I think is that, you know, it is a place which is quite well known for education in plant breeding, and not only plant breeding, but in all aspects of agricultural science, and so I think it's been a natural place to look for opportunities for higher studies for some of the good students here, as well as hiring some of the postdocs and other people who have been trained at the university. So I think those are some of the reasons why there's been a good relationship with UC Davis. It also is one part of the US which has a fairly mild climate, so it's probably easier for people from the tropics to adjust to, so that may be another aspect that makes it a attractive place.