Welcome back to the Breakfast and Plasty of Africa. It's now time for Off The Press and let's say hello to our guest, Mr Eay Tok, a public affairs analyst. Good morning, thank you for joining us. Morning, always my pleasure to be with you. Thank you. Let's start with the punch newspapers. Headline says Petroleum Industry Act states tackle federal governments today. As Federal Accounts Allocation Committee meets, NBA advices governors will review the law at FAAC today and disclose our position. That's according to the Benway Commissioner. NBA Uzakamed tells state governments to challenge Petroleum Industry Act in court. Above that headline, it reads World Bank, AFDB, others to fund 4.89 trillion NARA budget deficit. Call for self-defense, ACF, middle belt, back massary or Hanezi, FLEASE government. Socapu falls Amsban and Socapu says they will challenge Southern Governors Amsban in court. IT investments dropped by $53 million in one year, PIA full implementation in 2022. Nigeria loses $50 billion investments. The long bags warring groups, gunmen, kill five, four missing. FAC approves 658 million NARA for sniper dogs. Education, others, 21 billion NARA. Dr. Strike, NMA meets NAD Friday. Patients resort to self-care. We also see APC releases timetable for September 4 local government congresses and all your youth protest WASSE candidates killing. Blame Amuteku. All right. Now moving on to the Daily Independent. Big story you can see there says, expect benefits of Petroleum Industry Act from 2023, says the FIRS. Targets 10.104 trillion NARA revenue in 2022, says Twitter, Facebook, coming into tax net. Uncertainty on their investment in oil industry gone, and that's from President Buhari. OK Staring Committee and Petroleum Industry Act says host communities will get real lasting benefits. Police deploy 1,000 for Oluwawari's Saturday coronation. And the flood hits 32 states as Buhari child's governors for ignoring warning. APC fixes local government area congresses for September 4. And COVID-19, Oshimba Joharps on need for innovation and action in vaccine manufacturing. We are working to regulate social media, says minister, and also courts rejects AGF. DSS plea to dismiss Sunday Bohosuit, says restraining order still subsists. The auditor generals in the news this morning saying 4.973 trillion NARA missing from Federation account. Also FECOK's 658 million NARA for deployment of dogs to Lagos Abuja airports. OK, all right, those are the stories on the Daily Independent. Let's turn to the nation newspaper Buhari. $50 billion investment lost in 10 years without oil sector law. Silver's implementation panel on PIA gets 12 month mandate. Declare Bonnie led caretaker panel illegal, APC chief tells court. APC council congresses for September 4.  Courts tolerance down government's request to dismiss Iburo's suit. Gunmen attack empty Bolion van in Undo. NNPC targets adventures in gas fired 5,000 megawatts. FEC approves 21.11 billion NARA for aviation education, others contracts. And also Unilag reopens. Those are the stories on the nation newspaper. The Daily Trust comes up next. Doubts trail surrender of Boko Haram members. Repentant fighters could be deceptive, says a traditional ruler. We will not forgive them, IDPs and residents say. And also we are sure they are insurgents. Defense headquarters.  Three villagers abduct 17 others in Katsina. NNPC partners sign 50 megawatts mid-degree power project pact. And FIA grips Zamfara communities and as new armed group emerges. Despite dropping inflation rate, prices of goods and food stuff on the rise. Two years after, constituents lament as fate of 14 Edo lawmakers elect hands. And Bwari to attend Son's wedding as activities begin in Bici today. All right, those are the stories we can take on the Daily Trust. Good morning, Mr Nyayatok. Thanks for joining us once again. Good morning once again and always a pleasure to be on CLAWS TV Africa. Good to see you. I think we can start with the one on the Daily Independent from the Auditor General, saying 4.973 trillion Nair missing from the Federation account. You know, some of these things I find it difficult to know where to start from. Why would government always come up with all these figures to the public? Is it that they have no idea of what to do in the sense that if something is missing, my common sense tells me that the first thing you do is call the necessary investigating officers. When that's been done, we take the second step of trying to ascertain if this is a crime or if it is a mistake. If it is a mistake, we carry out institutional correctional, you know, dynamics, we activate it. If it's a crime, we call in the prosecuting agencies. And what we should be hearing is that these people have been jailed on account of these, then they can tell us the actions that they took. That, in my opinion, is what governance is all about. But when you come to the floor of the house or come to the nation and tell them that, oh, this amount of money is missing, I ask a simple question. To what end? Is it for you to get the sympathy of Nigerians? Is it for us to say, hey, so terrible? Is it for us? Why are they telling us this? Is it for us to be more careful? Is it for us to lose more interest in government? Is it for us to doubt them some more? What is the underlying intention of the auditor general to let us know that he's doing his work? He's been able to unravel some things. Are we the people he should send such information to? So maybe you guys can help me because sometimes I actually find it a little difficult to understand how this will operate. I wish we knew because I'm also as confused as you are. So it's probably the last one, the auditor general trying to let Nigerians know that he's doing his job. But once again, of course, as expected, not very much will be done after a headline like this. As expected, not very much will be done. That is unfortunately the sad reality that we face as Nigerians. And think about that statement. It's depressing. Now, if we are the system that we know that, wow, this has been said before we can say Jack, we would get the second part of it. I can live with it. But when the conclusion is that unfortunately not much will be done, it's depressing. And when you realize this amount of money and what people are going through anyway, let's go on. I think as some other matters arise, we'll be able to take on. Yes. Okay. We see the story of a Sunday. And we also know that Sunday will go here. His lawyer actually filed a suit asking the Ohio State High Court in the Badon to stop hearing the case instituted against him by the federal government. But the court in Ohio State rejected the request saying that it would go ahead to hear the suit, to hear all the sides regarding this matter. And apparently what's still happening regarding this case is that Malami has asked for time extension for them to be able to further process all opposition to Igboho's application. And we know that Igboho was actually arrested in Kutunu in the Republic after being on the ground for 19 days. So what this means then is that the court's case will still go on and we're yet to see the end of the legal battles between the federal government of Nigeria versus Sunday. Isn't it? Yeah, in one sense it is. On the other hand, I'm asking myself a very, very simple question. What am I supposed to take on that as a Nigerian? Am I trying to see justice can be served? What am I trying to get out? My mindset is actually very different on this matter as you would have realized by now. I'm just asking myself, where do I draw a line between stories, gist and life being dealt with on a daily basis? Let me come up with a conclusion that on account of this, there is a strategic move by government to ensure that the lives and properties of every Nigerian, that the freedom of every Nigerian, that the rights of every Nigerian is guaranteed. If that is my take from it, then maybe that's great. But if it's another story, another gist, then really honestly at my age, I think I'm tired of those stories. Okay, so I want us to talk something more nationalistic. It's the PIB. Finally, it was signed or assented by the President. But the reactions that it has have been missed. First of all, we have stories that state governors have been urged to go ahead and challenge that in court. It says the National MBA actually advises governors to do that, as well as OZECOME telling state governors to challenge this in court. First of all, state governors are supposed to meet on this today with the FAAC. So they're saying that lots of stakeholders in this matter have been sidelined and that if they couldn't solve this matter before it was passed that it can do so in court. Two things come straight at me. The first is we have people in government that really don't understand why they are there in the first instance. Processes of government is so clear cut. We have the three arms of government, the executive, the judiciary and the legislature. The legislature has a process of law making. This process is sustained and fortunately for the governors, they literally control the legislatures. They sleep on duty. They keep quiet. The bill is put before the House. It goes through the first reading, it goes through the second reading. It's committed to the committee. It goes through public hearing. It comes back to line by line before a final decision is made for goodness sake. I can understand the common man that does not really have as much access to these people because like the PIB, we all know what the popular opinion was and that at the end of the day the lawmakers did what they wanted to do. Now that's different from the governors because the lawmakers, over 90% of them are literally in the pockets of the governors. So when your lawmaker was doing this, I want to know how many governors called their lawmakers and presented the position of the state. How many of the governors called their lawmakers and had their own in-house public hearing so that the articulated position of the state is what is given to the lawmakers and they go to the chambers because one of their core functions is that of representation. They say, my people, not me, what it cares what your opinion is, my people say on this matter they stand on this. If that is done, then the governors know that they've done their best. The PIB, I'm from the Niger Delta like you all know and I've been in Uyo for a very long time now. Yet I can't remember the government of a Kwaibong state calling us together on this matter, taking a corporate decision, communicating it to our lawmakers and say this is where we stand. At the end of the day, this bill is passed. You want to start this new process or one-to-one challenging court. It's a legal process. It's an allowed process. It's okay. But what it will achieve is what I don't know and I cannot speculate. So for me, I wish them well on that score. But if we talk about the PIA, I think it's not PIA. In Nigeria, we always say something is on the double, PIA-PIA. And if you add a gut to it, then it means something else. But let's look at the PIA on its surface. If we are to talk about that, I don't know what the time is, then we will also look at one or two things concerning that because I have one or two strong opinions on that. Like one of our guests said yesterday, it seems like a lot of the people in the National Assembly are representing the apolitical parties and not representing the people who put them there. It's a valid, valid observation and it's a very wrong. When you talk of representation as one of the three commandates of lawmakers, that representation is that of the people which is the essence of democracy. That's why a lot of money is voted to them to have constituency consultations. So they are mainly reporters of the minds of the people and not people who are there to do the meetings of their party. As soon as you step into that chamber, red or green, you cease to be partisan. Let's quickly move on to Zamfara State. It says on the Daily Trust, fear grips Zamfara communities as new armed group emerges. Can you hear us? Yes, yes, I can hear you very well. Go ahead. I wanted you to respond to that story. You see, there is a cycle that we shouldn't, I'm not a security person, but certain things are just generic, so to speak. Once there is a group and there is an enterprise, it's just like in politics. Sooner or later, there's going to be new APC, new PDP, new this, new that, because people look at power and there's always this concept of monkey the work, baboon the job. So sooner or later, instead of right from heaven, you know, Satan said, look, I'm disimportant, why can't I also be the boss? That's just a statement and you know how you rebel against God. When it comes down, the Boko Haram or the insurgents or the terrorists and everything, they are never going to be monolithic for two reasons. One is reason of greed, the second is reason of strategy. So I think that we ought to look at how to infiltrate their ranks just like they are coming back to infiltrate our ranks by way of the so-called repentants. So we need to be a few steps ahead. So we need to start to have people in government who understand that and strategy and not people who through thinking is just their belly and their pocket. And within that context, anything goes so long as they benefit at the end of the day. They are even willing to allow insurgency to thrive. If by so thriving, they can use it as a means of security votes to get a lot more money. So all they think of is money. We need to bring out a new generation of Nigerians that think in terms of the people and service and this is possible. And unless we understand this narrative that the people in power largely, with all due respect to a few exceptions that we have, are largely thinking of themselves, their pockets, their bellies. And we need to start to evolve and change that narrative. And the time to do this now, I tell people, go and join a political party. They're a good person. There's something I said, let me end on this note. There's something I said to an Uber driver that brought me back yesterday from the airport. And I told the driver, I said, what do you think of politics? The driver said, no, no, Mio, I can't get involved in that. I said, okay, I like the idea that you buy a new car and you don't care who drives the car. Anybody can say, no, I said, that's what it is. Government drives you. Government drives your life.  You just say, wow, we have never thought of it that way. Orga Natruo, I've never ever thought of it that way. This government, they can just do one policy today and there's no Uber again. They can do one policy and then you can, they can even say ladies cannot drive in Nigeria again. Orga, that's true. And I think, I hope Nigerians can wake up to this mindset that government is the driver that drives our lives.  What is it not dirty? And when we do this, we start to think in terms of what governance is all about. Service to the people as different from private business. Private business things of personal profit. Government things of general good. And whoever gets into the government must have the concept and the mindset of general good and not personal profit. And they, 90% of government is on personal good and doesn't work that way. Alright Miss Sanyi Aitok. Lastly, I still want us to talk about security. And it's taking a closer look on the headline on the Daily Trust that says, doubts, trail surrender of Bokora members. I spoke about this extensively yesterday on the breakfast. But I want us to focus on a part here where Daily Trust interviewed internally displaced persons who were chased out of their homes because of the Bokoram insurgency. So hearing from them, they said that it's a shame that the government said they want to accept repentance Bokoram tourists and reintegrate them into society when them themselves have been in IDP camps for years, as much as seven years, they have not been reintegrated into society. So I don't know how you come in regarding this. Does it seem like, actually the own words of the government has been unfair, seems to be pampering these terrorists while they're still languishing there and suffering in IDP camps? My sister, if you want to hear the very honest truth from me, I really don't know what the policy of government, what the interests of government towards these terrorists, that they cannot be declared terrorists. Number two, they are using everything to try to, it's like either they are paying them lots of money or they are treating them like they are really endangered species that need to be protected. I've not seen a government that comes out on the insurgents and I hate to think that this is an oversight. I think there's something deeper and more fundamental. Look at the people in the camps. These are people who were killed, chased out of their homes, displaced.  While you are still abandoned, the victim is abandoned, the aggressor is being appealed at and being appeased. He just doesn't add up. Maybe there's something I'm not seeing. He just doesn't add up. Our guest yesterday, it's still the same discussion but I want you to respond to something that we heard yesterday. The guest that we had spoken with said that some of these people who have been reintegrated or been surrendering or being forgiven by the government are people who are victims of failure of government and so they were kidnapped and forced into terrorism and so the government cannot necessarily just jail them or punish them or kill them because they were forced into terrorism. What's your response to that? What a brilliant explanation. They must have engaged a consultant to give them that amazing narrative. I think they must have done such thorough research to come to the point where they are able to sift this person from that person. How they arrived at that is mind-boggling. But let me say this and I want us to think of it very seriously. There are two parts of this terrorism. One is ideology. Two is enterprise. One is ideology. Two is enterprise. Anything that is enterprising, even when we started shooting armed robbers, it did not stop armed robbery because of and you cannot even compare armed robbery to kidnapping. Armed robbery is hard work, little benefit. Kidnapping is soft touch, so much benefit as the enterprise of these terrorists. The second is the ideology. And ideology is so, so, so difficult to extract. And I want to see the plan of government through national orientation agency to reorientate the minds to give a counter narrative to this ideology. I'm not saying that you are coming to tell me, oh, these are the people that were forced. You were there, right? Let's take care of the people that were displaced. Make them happy first. Make the people that go in there to be very, very unattractive. And God of mercy and grace will know how to sift the sheep from the wheat amongst them. Those who are innocent, God knows how to get across to them. But you as man, take care of the one that you have direct control over, the IDPs. And don't go and try to convince them that these are the people that were victims and forced into it. That doesn't make sense. All right, Miss Aayitok. We thank you very much for your thoughts on Off the Press this morning. Have a great day. Thank you and same to you both. All right. Stay with us. We'll take a short break. When we come back, we're moving to today in history and sharing with you things that happened on this day many years ago. I'm going to go back to 2003. Oh, really? Or any of them. We'll be right back.


What's up everybody once again it's Brand Man Sean and this video right here is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I signed myself. Now the clip that you're about to see is from a very special conversation, a really in-depth conversation that you've probably never heard anything like before when it comes to music distribution services but this particular portion of the conversation is about an artist and his experience with AWOL so if you've been wondering what it's like to actually be with one of these companies he's providing his experience and even one of his homeboys experience and after that I'm gonna do a deep dive on how you should really look at these types of services. So we're gonna hop right into the discussion I suggest you guys if you are considering working with either one of these companies go ahead and watch this on the way through or if you're already with them go ahead and watch this all the way through. So just to get things started off I'm gonna start with you Jail. How did you how did you get involved with AWOL? Because I remember you it took multiple tries for you to even get accepted with them. Yeah so I think I saw I saw an ad on Instagram leading to their profile and I know I listened to some of their artists such as like Kevin Gare and Love Songs and yeah I decided to apply around July of last year 2018 and I currently are at the time I didn't have any of my own music out I just had like maybe two covers so I tried applying and I got denied and at the same time my friend who had some songs on the way applied and he got accepted so I just started releasing stuff and then reapplied and they accepted me in October so that's how that kind of started. Have you seen any personal gain or any additional benefit from AWOL since you've been on? On my own personal music not much to be honest on my friends it's inconsistent he doesn't even know what's happening like the first is a very first song he put out first week 50,000 plays no promotion no extra anything and it was like okay if this what AWOL does like are we ready for it so that's that's what got me hyped I was like I'm ready to sign with AWOL too I want that then his second release got like 2,000 plays after like two months and then he just released another one again and it's already at 20,000 plays and he's like I don't know what the formula is he has no idea what's happening and how like to control that they do have a great like communication base as far as like you can message them with email and get some responses there but there's no physical location that's acts accessible to like the public even though they have locations like they have one in LA yet to be invited there so you can't really communicate face-to-face with some of these people so for me personally I've released the project in January and there wasn't really any push at all actually there was no push at all but from AWOL then no Instagram promotion no play listing they do claim to give more like you have a higher chance of being on Discover Weekly and such but I guess I don't really have a comparison of not being on AWOL because I didn't release anything before AWOL so I got one song made Discover Weekly on that entire project and I could see the analytics I only got like 500 plays from Discover Weekly other stuff is from because you AWOL has those big requirements that they have yeah but you pretty much didn't have anything really going on for yourself or released anything when you got accepted yeah so I just had an original on YouTube that I sent in and I think that's what really got me accepted because it was starting to gain some traction a song that I wrote a graduation song I wrote for my students at the time so that was starting to get some traction so I guess they they liked it or someone whoever was reviewing it liked it and accepted me versus the first time when I had one cover a John Legend cover that was two years old alright as you can see coming into one of these platforms might not be the most clear transparent process for you know an artist that's just starting out on those platforms and maybe I'll do an update with J.O. again that entire interview and that will really is more of a discussion is in bramannnetwork.com has been up for a good while now in there and it doesn't just include J.O. from AWOL has artists from United Masters a circle from Indiepreneur and really it really gets detailed into some perspectives some alternative perspectives on how you should really go about looking at those types of services and how you can maybe make them useful for you and we're not just talking about being an artist who logged into the platform even dealing with some possible record deals or type scenarios with those companies as well now another thing I would like to point out is just the fact that when J.O. was talking about his experience versus his friends experiences right it shows that there is something that gets done there is some help that that happens but he doesn't know how or why that happens but he's actually if alluding to some of the conversation that he had in the larger discussion he did have some positive things to say about his experiences as well so once again these platforms just like any record label situation right if you were getting a record deal and even if you were in Indie everything is particular to you and your situation you kind of have to analyze how things are going for you I'll leave that at that if you're interested in that full discussion again you can check it out at bramannnetwork.com and if you like this video go ahead and like button if you like it might as well share and if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe


We will open to Judges chapter 7 and verse 9 And it happened on the same night that the Lord said to him him being Gideon arise go down against the camp For I have delivered it into your hand somebody say amen The story of Gideon is a very famous story in the Bible Where a man who went against an army of 300 with 300 men and achieved a great very great victory This story starts with the fact that Israel the people who Gideon belong belong to that they didn't serve God They disobeyed God and as a result of that they found themselves in bondage and they found themselves in some really shady waters They found themselves in some big problems and God sent them a prophet to warn them that what they were doing is not good But they still didn't obey God and so next thing that God does God doesn't plan how to wipe him out or destroy them God is looking for a man with whom he can share his plan and his desire to save the country And he finds this man who is least likely hero Gideon and begins to tell him that he wants to use him to set his country free And of course Gideon says no way. That's not me. I am I am not the kind of guy. I don't want to be a hero I don't want to help nobody. I'm just trying to here survive Let me just kind of pause for a moment and tell you something about our God Different people have different obsessions Some people are obsessed with shoes some with purses others with cars Some people are obsessed with houses some with clothes Some people are obsessed with Instagram some with snapchat and others with Twitter God also has an obsession God's obsession is also God's weakness God's obsession is people.  He made us with his hands Angels were on the side and they took notice he has a special interest in the human species and When we disobeyed God They thought God will do what he did to Satan when Satan disobeyed God. He simply said that that's it It's over.  He dispatches his army to protect people God's obsession always has been people God didn't care about gold God didn't care about diamonds and God didn't care about silver God always cared about people God didn't care about planets or even universes. That wasn't his main Obsession what's on his mind always was always is and always will be a human people You and I Are his obsession? God narrows his whole attention and his whole care to one thing and one thing alone And that is humans He doesn't necessarily like Specific people he likes all kinds of people people who are good and people who are bad People who are smart and people who are not so smart People who do good things in life and people who don't measure up in life people who are white or black tall or short young or old God's obsession is people and Satan knows that Satan knows the way you get back at God You don't create an army and go against God. That's completely pointless. You'll never stand a chance But if you mess with people It's his weakness It hurts God when people hurt To that degree that at one time God said that people matter to me so much that anytime you touch my people He said you touch an apple of my eye.   God loves people. That's why he started the church for people That's why God wants to give miracles for people not to elevate the man That's why God wants to us to have home groups for people That's why we invite people not so that we can just grow an organization or the social club can become big But because God's heart from the beginning and there is now his attention and his obsession has always been people and When you get close to God you find out that to be true Because God loves people and there's so many of them on earth. There are seven billion something people on earth Every single one of them is as important to God as you are Every one of them is as important to God as you are God doesn't have a luxury of choosing Percentage of people that he loves and the other percentage who cares what happened to him God doesn't have a luxury of saying this is my people and these people well their heathens well Muslims whether Hindus whether well their Buddhists well their atheists Well their pagans well their Satanists God doesn't have a luxury of seeing the world through those eyes The way that God sees the world is that every single person who bleeds bread who bleeds red and who has Nostrils and who has breath in their nostrils God looks at them and his heart beats for them as a mother's child as Mother's heart beats for his child You know the brother that I presented today with the dreadlocks is actually my brother But many years ago. He wasn't serving Jesus. I am the oldest of five. I have two brothers and two sisters and When my brother wasn't serving the Lord and The enemy took hold of his soul and he was doing a lot of other things that were not healthy He was making poor decisions and these poor decisions will hurt my mom and my dad Sometimes it will hurt them so much that when I would walk into the house of my parents and my brother wouldn't be there my parents will be depressed and Sometimes he got in literally you it became kind of depressing to walk into their house Well, I would avoid going to their house because I knew it's the same story. My brother is not doing well And my parents are not doing good either And sometimes I would in my mind. I wouldn't say it to my parents, but I would think in my mind I'm like parents you have four siblings who are doing good and one Not so good Why don't we disown him? Why don't we focus on the four that are doing good and forget about one who's not doing good? I'm like and I was always upset in my heart. I'm like, how can mom lose a perspective not see four one is a handsome youth pastor You know, then they have two sisters who are doing really good I have a brother and all of them are serving God and here is one person who is not doing well Why don't you just get happy about four and not really?   Nobody's doing good That's why the Bible says that Jesus will leave 99 and Go look for the one because if one is missing 99 is missing in God's eyes. God's obsession is people I want us to catch that tonight. This is not about bribing people to church This is not about just growing and making this big auditorium There is awesome places in tri-cities where auditoriums are filled But this is about to communicate that there is a God who created people and people sinned against him And he loves them still and willing to do anything it takes so they are with him And they will never be happy until they're with him because he created us It's as though on purpose that we cannot function without him a fish cannot function without water Your body cannot function without air and your soul cannot function without God Without God no matter how much alcohol no matter how much money no matter how much things you throw into your soul It's this bottomless pit never no amount is ever enough until a drop of God's love comes in and something begins to bubble inside Something begins to kick in inside God loves people and Because God loves people God has a very big vision He comes to the Gideon and Gideon's insecurities are so high and Gideon's vision is so small His whole idea about life is how to survive this whole idea about life is how to go to work make money Sleep go to vacation and then repeat the whole thing again and God comes to him and says I want to save a whole nation through you And Gideon says God you're speaking to the wrong tree. I am not that kind of person I don't want to be a hero. I never struggled with insure I never struggled with this savior syndrome when I was in high school. Everybody always wanted to reach high goals I never had any goals Because I don't care about these things. I don't even want to be a successful farmer God. I just want to survive and God says well you want to survive But I want to use you and I have a very big vision Why do you have this big vision because I have a big love for people I Know this the day disobeyed me But my love for these people is bigger than that and I could overlook that and I want to pick them up and get it I want to use you.  I'm not talking about once a year. I'm talking about every single service The eight people who got baptized today. I want to one day. We will see on Wednesday night 80 people getting baptized Because why not because I am smart brilliant and talented and because I have big ambitions I grew up without any ambitions in life whatsoever But when my pastor started to introduce me to a God whose ambitions is so high because his love is so high It's stretched my ambitions and my insecurities to at least a little bit more Maybe God can use a man like me with a thick accent a man who has maybe some physical other things that Should have not been there But if God can use a man like this God can use a woman and a man like you To touch a generation and to touch people who today are suffering and he wants to pour his love through you and me What must we do? Let me just give you three simple things one We must overcome our low insecurity Our poor self-esteem must be overcome if we are to become agents of the vision of God in our generation People who have low self-esteem are people who drive. It's like driving your car on a e-brake It will squeak. You will drive too slow You will eventually destroy your car and you will not get somewhere as you're supposed to get if you are driving an E-brake anytime we live with a very small narrow thinking just about me me myself and I What that does is it limits the flow of God's vision and limits the flow of God's grace in our lives God It's very big and He wants to show big through you and through me. Are we gonna let him?  He is we grew up together. We came out of the same hospital We gave him a name.  I knew I was not an eagle. I was a chicken, but then something clicked I'm gonna spread these Instead of covering them and he started to spread his wings and right before he fit hit the ground He mastered a very small art of What makes an eagle an eagle but he spread his wings and he never came back to the chicken house where he grew up in I want to tell you something today.  I was a good boy a Christian boy I went to church. We never did any big sins in Ukraine. We didn't have a TV. We didn't even have a telephone The only thing that we were allowed to do is play soccer and you couldn't do much sin with playing soccer We were Christian good people But I grew up always believing because of my physical appearance and because never been given an opportunity I always grew up believing that I was nobody and that God cannot use a person like me. I Was very shy of people and those of you who knew me from before the person that I am now. I was extremely Extremely shy. I had this shyness times three on steroids very shy of people. I was very insecure about myself I always believed that somebody who looked at me always had a bad opinion about me and the funny part is I was always right Because when I would meet with them I was so awkward that I knew people felt that awkwardness and they would distance themselves from me and My pastor he would sit me down in the van and We would go about doing some things that they would do some either construction or some things in the church or modeling And I remember it like yesterday I was this like this poor little chicken sitting over there and my pastor keep telling me he says God is gonna use you and I didn't want to say anything back because I knew that I'm gonna provoke him and he's gonna say more So I kept it quiet, but I was like in the back of my mind. I was like he doesn't know who he's talking to I Don't have speaking abilities. I'm scared of people I am shy.  He doesn't have much people So he'll use you and pastor kept telling me telling me telling me and honestly years later Somehow that broke through into my spirit and living 30 years like a chicken.   It's not a person Failure is what happens.   He will always endorse his word He will always endorse revelation and your choice and my choice is this do I hold on to my fears? Insecurities or do I hold on to God's revelation spread my wings and see maybe perhaps what God says is true Big visions will always get stopped in little people Let's enlarge ourselves to the vision size God has by enlarging our view of ourselves To the size of God can somebody say amen the second thing Let's point out about Gideon is when Gideon Overcame his loss of a seam God gave him an Instruction and in this instruction God told him to go and destroy his idols See the nation of Israel was full of idols. They started to worship them and This brought about slavery and bondage from the enemy and God says Gideon. I love this country I want to use you to set free your country, but Gideon we have to first get some idols out of your house The religion that has the most gods is the Hindu religion They have about 330 million gods that are mentioned on the average of a Hindu family has about eight gods That they worship and they worship from cows to other animals to the plants and to other things and In this country, we don't erect, you know cows I hope you don't have any bulls in your house that you bow to or fat Buddhas or other things that we pray to and most people that is not really our issue But idol is not just something people worship out there in other countries idols is something we all have It's saying Augustine said idol is something that we worship instead of using or use instead of worshiping Idol is actually three simple things. It's what you love more than God. It's what you trust in more than God It's in what you give more attention to more than God. That's really what idol is It doesn't have to be a statue. It could be a vehicle For some people it could be a hobby for some people it could be a job But this is what you must understand about idols idols When you obsess with them They will never return the favor and they will never give you blessing or joy in return What idols will do is idols will oppress depress and possess and crush a person that worships them At the end of the day, we all become what we worship Idols are dead our God is living Idols are false our God is true Idols are always many our God is only one Idols are always works on men's hands our God is the maker of men's hands and Idols is something when you worship it You eventually become like it and demons behind those idols begin to destroy our lives Let me summarize everything what I mean by idols In my own personal life any time I notice that my passion for God goes cold and I read the Bible and fall asleep or If I pray and I have to kind of push myself to pray because there is no desire inside to pray if it's fine If it happens for first day, it's fine if it happens for day number two or day number three As a Christian not as a pastor If it goes past day number three, I usually examine my heart because I know one thing about my heart I'm not sure about yours, but I know about my heart The reason I don't burn for God. It's not because God is not worth burning for It's because I wasted my fuel somewhere else and Sometimes somewhere else is not weed drinking or whiskey Sometimes somewhere else could be entertainment Sometimes somewhere else could be activity that I'm involved in where my passion is burning burning and then when I come to God There is that passion is plateauing or the passion is passive And that's what I know.  I Am not one of those fanatics when it comes to God. I am not very passionate But I am sure if we be both very honest. There is area of your life You are fanatic about The most quiet person among us the most reserve Person has an area of their life where they are head over heels and when they are in that area They're shouting they're screaming. They're sweating and they're passionate So if the question is not that you're not a passionate person the question is What are you passionate about? That is your idol Let's make God The source of our passion and he will in return love us back Restore us bless us and revive us. Can somebody say amen? Can somebody say praise the Lord?   Come on put your hands together if you're that person when Gideon Had this big vision from God and God enlarges enlarges his self esteem and after that We see that God deals with his idols and he removes idols and his he begins to erect an altar for God and Then the scripture says the Holy Spirit comes upon Gideon It will always happen like this when we deal with our idols The Holy Spirit will come and begin to touch our life in a very fresh and in a very new way and When that happens Gideon musters up and big army of some 30,000 soldiers to go against Midianites and Somebody said the Midianites had about a hundred thirty five thousand army So it was a very big army against a smaller army But Gideon feels good because he's never led an army in his life He's probably never went to war in his life and here people listen to him and some 30,000 people gathered together to him because the Holy Spirit is moving in his life and When they all gathered Gideon gives him a proposal and says anybody who is scared and afraid you have the green past to go home and some 20,000 people 22,000 people Left home 22,000 people and Gideon is left with 10,000 men Now I think Gideon's heart is shaking a little bit He's like maybe I want to go with them too and Have these people go by themselves and fight and God comes to Gideon and says Gideon now you have brave men with you But Gideon they are too many I Want you to bring them to a river and Watch them very closely the way some people will drink Those that will drink in a certain way I want you to keep them and so he would pay attention how different people drink and he found out that 10,000 people had a weird way of drinking water and it was exactly that way of drinking water that God says that they should go home and Gideon is left with 300 men And that's when his heart became scared and God comes to Gideon when Gideon doesn't have an army and Says to Gideon the verse we read tonight Gideon I Have given to you Midianites into your hands God I Lost 32,000 soldiers. I have 300 guys We don't have weapons and you're giving me a promise That you already have defeated my enemies, but God goes further. He says Gideon. I know you're scared go to your camp to the camp of the enemy and I want you to sneak in and Ease drop on some conversations And it so happens as he goes into the camp of the enemy that two guys are sharing a dream And one man is sharing a dream to another man and this is the dream he says He says at night when I was sleeping there was this dream and in the dream there was this big tent It was symbolic of us and a loaf of barley a loaf of bread rolled from the mountain hit the tent and the tent crashed He says I think I know what that loaf of bread is and the other man says I think so too He said that loaf of bread is Gideon Have you ever seen in your right mind what a piece of bread can cause a tent to collapse? That doesn't even happens in movies That doesn't happen in life. Here is two guys who have a nightmare That their big tent will be destroyed by a piece of bread And a Gideon is listening in and I think at that time that's when Holy Spirit gives him a vision and tells him If your enemy is having nightmares about you You're gonna do just fine And his faith got encouraged he came to his men and he says guys. We're gonna do something tonight We don't have swords bazookas tanks missiles. We don't have knives What we do have is we have torches and we have trumpets and at night We will surround them and we will just just scare them and that's it We will light up the fire It will look like there is many of us and we will all start sounding the trumpet It will sound like there is many of us and Since we have an all night to keep them scared.  Where your resources gets smaller where your health gets smaller your finances gets smaller where things in life Get smaller and people many times get extremely afraid and they do not know what to do next Especially when walking with God, it seems that it didn't make things better. It actually made things worse What do you do then? Most people this is what they do This is what 22,000 people would do Go back home Drop the idea about healing Because the sickness is getting worse drop the idea that my child can serve God Because he just got sent from one prison to another Drop the idea that my situation can change because my car just got repossessed Drop the idea that I can overcome this particular issue of my life because I just got hit last night again And I crushed under the same issue And what usually we tend to do when things get worse and things don't get better is we love the safe place called retreat But the man of faith Does not retreat Men of faith takes one more step and says I will take one more step and I will see the glory of God I will take one more step and I will advance and I will see a miracle of God He said what if you will die, but what if I will see the glory of God? The men of faith does not know that while you are there thinking you might die Actually, God is planning a very big surprise for the enemy and a very big miracle for you When your army is getting smaller make sure your vision doesn't get smaller Make sure your faith doesn't get smaller make sure your vision gets more clear make sure your relationship with Holy Spirit gets closer And your dependence on the promises of God gets more Dependent and only then you will overcome every issue and every problem in your life for the glory of God because somebody say amen Sometimes we think that the promises of God relationship with the Holy Spirit. What does that do to you? if you don't have connections if you don't have the funds if you don't have The medicine if you don't have the insurance if you don't have this and that if you don't have a good doctor What is all of this will do to you? But let me remind you media nights had a good army media nights had good weapons Media nights had numbers what they didn't have is they didn't have a vision from God They didn't have a promise from God, and they didn't have the Holy Spirit and at night It took a small fire a small trumpet and it spoke them so much that instead of realizing There is an army of 300 unarmed men They learn against one another and start killing one another and they died Without the Holy Spirit with your best things at your disposal You will make a mountain out of a molehill You will exaggerate your problem exaggerate your fears, and they will destroy your life With the Holy Spirit you can overcome the biggest fear That we must have is not the fear of problems It's the fear of going through life without God The biggest fear is not cancer It's not leukemia diabetes eating disorders And it's not even when a problem happens in a family and we have no solution for the biggest problem is to walk through life alone Without the Holy Spirit because then 300 men can walk on the horizon who are not armed and I'm panicking and stabbing myself Just like media nights Sometimes you won't meet people without God and they have everything They have two cars two houses a wonderful income, and they have health But they don't have life inside and you may say a person like you if I could only give this life to someone They will be the happiest person in the world, but you're the one of the most miserable people I meet in this world Why because without the Holy Spirit? We make mountains out of molehills But with the Holy Spirit we turn those mountains into molehills and overcome them for the glory of God It's somebody say man When you come to a place called impossible there is always one more step where God can do the incredible The impossible become possible for the glory of God because somebody say man You know many years ago when our pastor was looking to purchase a building and he purchased this building This building at the time was for sale and our church. We didn't have an account Our church did not have money in our savings And at the time our church had only three families and our pastor wanted to purchase a building our Church only started some six or seven months that it existed We had a big vision our pastor had a big vision that we will have so many people come to Jesus Well, we didn't speak English But big vision And the pastor embarked on a journey to purchase a building Just to make it clear to you Just a few years ago. We were trying to refinance this building That we've been in it paying faithfully and we have rental coming in from school and other churches and we were still not able to refinance it Some ten years ago supernaturally We received this building Until this day there is a school That's renting this facility and every single month faithfully paying for all the mortgage and all the utility bills Do you know why God gave us this building to give us something in our past as a point of reference Then when you're down to nothing You don't know no one Have any connections But you have me Sometimes if God is all you got God is all you need and when you come to a place of impossible not hard. We're not talking about hard We're talking about impossible and it seems there is no more way Usually nature nature natural thing to do is simply to retreat But a man of faith says no I'm gonna take one more step into the unknown and I don't know that the next step I step into could be actually my miracle and the breakthrough that God has for my life And some ten years later We're speaking English today ten years later all of you are here Sitting in this beautiful sanctuary and we're all praising God and people will get saved tonight And some people will get healed tonight and all of that because my pastor in a face of impossible situation Didn't run from it or ran through it He didn't know what will be the outcome But he knew who holds the future and the future is in the hands of God There was one young man who was coming to our church a few years ago, and he was diagnosed with four mental disorders These four mental disorders rendered him completely useless. I Remember when he was sitting right here when he came to one of our prayer lines It was pitiful to look at him because he was sitting in the service and he would be scorched like this Get a tick disorder He had to be kicked out of school put it also on the suicide watch because he tried to commit suicide and his family came to the end of Possible because there was no more cure for him When they came here for prayer and we started to pray for him during a prayer line during the first prayer He started to puke things out and he felt a little bit better, but the family didn't give up They came again to the next prayer line some few months later and he start puking more stuff out He already felt a little bit better, but he start puking more stuff out some five or some months ago He comes again except this time not scorched twisted. He comes grown gained some weight and Brings a high school graduation certificate He went back to school finished the school and says now in Seattle area He is helping a youth pastor. What is before he was on a suicide watch now?  This is too difficult Be a person like Gideon who says you know what my God has brought me to this and my God is gonna Bring me through it and on the other side of the impossible I will see the incredible and I will see the glory of God. You said what if you will see nothing? You will never know Until you take a step to see the glory of God a young lady who was getting baptized today Just a few weeks ago. She gave her life to Jesus and she mentioned how God set her free on that night She threw away her drugs But there was one more problem that she had that she did not notice and didn't mention in the video Is that about four years ago when she was in a car and she was eight months pregnant? She went through a car accident and because of that car accident She received a very big trauma in her emotions and in her mind that trauma was so severe That even when she would talk about the car accident right here after her salvation She would start shaking and she said ever since then I cannot be in a car without paranoia And I cannot drive a car Impossible But not with our God and I remember when we prayed with her against that fear and I gave her the assignment I said you are going to overcome this fear one way or the other For Israel God split the Red Sea for Noah he helped him build a ship For some people he will bring down the walls for others He will help you to climb over them but you are going to overcome this issue And I asked her I'm like could you do me a favor could you take a pen and a notebook and begin to write in your notebook For God has not given me spirit of fear but spirit of power love and sound mind And I want you to write one after another one after another until you write 1000 times And after you write a thousand times We will pray for you again and you will get behind the wheel. I Was upstairs today preparing She drove into the service by herself. I Came to her and I said you're driving Came and I said what's going on? I thought we agreed you finish a thousand verses and then we pray and then you dry She says it's been two weeks now Ever since I started writing those verses and I start believing that impossible can be turned to incredible He said God said to take the fears away and she says now I can drive without any anxiety She said I still have about a hundred more times to write I said you better finish that so that you can drive for the glory of God for the rest of your life Can somebody say amen nothing is impossible to our God? somebody say amen Nothing is impossible to our God He can take the impossible situation and turn it into incredible no matter where you are today No matter how difficult it's been and no matter how hard is God know how you got pushed to the ground I want to tell you something what Jesus told the man Who lost his daughter when you started to walk with Jesus a man had a daughter who was sick came to Jesus and Jesus Please help my daughter Jesus is for sure. Let's go see your daughter as they're walking The daughter is getting worse and worse and worse The pulse stops the heartbeat stops and they rush to that man and say don't trouble the teacher Your daughter is dead That means your situation have gotten worse since you start believing in God and At that moment the man had a choice. Do I retreat or do I advance? And I'm so glad Jesus was there because Jesus grabbed that man's hand and he says do not Be afraid He said only belief He took that man by hand and he says both of us are walking Into your daughter's room and as they walked into the daughter's room the daughter was lifeless. She was dead But Jesus prayed for her And she came back to life And the miracle happened in that house a miracle can happen in your house in My house in our house if we don't retreat when things get hard But we take one more step and advance to see the glory of God if somebody's


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What's going on guys, today I bring you another Destiny 2 video and today we're going to go back through the Destiny 2 Rally the Troops trailer to see what else we can learn about Destiny 2. Now before we get into the video if you guys do enjoy leaving a like is much much appreciated on my behalf also to beam with a chance of winning my weekly emblem giveaway to simply drop a comment on this video. Now we know the main story behind Destiny the Red Legion attack us in our home, destroy the tower and the last city and we have to come together to seek revenge. We have to explore new unknown territories and planets, learn devastating new abilities and obtain new weapons. From the Rally the Troops trailer that's the impression and what I believe we learn from it. Now I have heard many different theories thrown at me from all crazy kind of angles.  This in my opinion is a crazy theory. Our whole being is based upon being resurrected by our little lights plus many things would not make sense in the reality of our ghosts being dead or have even been deactivated. Now I mean this could be a possibility and during our start in Destiny we have to reactivate our ghosts so to speak but for sure I can guarantee you our ghosts will be with us within Destiny 2. Whoever started this theory I mean just simply ain't looked at the facts plus there's the fact that Noel and North confirmed his role within Destiny 2 so that is that. Now watching the trailer you notice there are two groups of people, one group with Savala and the other group with Cade 6 and Ikora. Now my guessing will be that within the start of Destiny depending on the class we choose we might have a number of quests we can choose to take possibly one per subclass which is something I'm pretty sure will happen and I would love to see as we all would. Now it's hard to speculate who will and who won't be a part of the Destiny 2 story but to be honest as long as there is more story than what we are used to with Destiny 1 definitely in that starting year of Destiny 1 I will be happy for sure but it does seem that within the Rally of the Troops trailer we are seeing more personality from Cade 6 and Savala than we have in entire three years of Destiny 1 which is another great thing. Seeing a kind of a lion-dub character being portrayed by Cade 6 for sure is not what we're used to with Destiny 1 being so damn serious almost all the time I actually like it. Now it all kind of adds up to the fact that in my opinion they are trying to make it clear within the trailer that story will be key within Destiny 2. I hope the character progression throughout Destiny 2 and our career continues the way we see it within these trailers. Character progression, learning new things about us as guardians, the travel of factions, races etc etc the more we learn about these the more in my opinion Destiny 2 will be a great great game and is of that utmost importance in my opinion. I do however hope this Rally of the Troops trailer isn't just an opening cinematic and then we'll just let loose to seek out Gary and destroy his guard. I want more than just that and hopefully that's what we will see and get. Now going through the trailer we see an indication of some characters that were important with our Destiny 1 Guardians. We do see Shaxx although only for a couple split seconds he is there. There's also speculation and lots of it that is there is also behind Zavala in this trailer. I personally just think it's a black hooded up Guardian but if there is any way in this trailer it's in this image right here with Cade. Now I ain't saying it's him I'm saying this looks more apparent than the Guardian behind Zavala being people are speculating about plus why would Zer be here unless the cabal decided to raid the tower on a Saturday night. Now this is even a bigger long shot than Zer as this person is never in the tower but what looks to be brother Vance is seeing leaning up a wall behind Cade for a split second. Now I spotted this myself as I've literally split this trailer up into single frames and been through it. Now I ain't saying this is him but I am putting it out there that our first DLC expansion for Destiny 2 is also is related maybe just maybe this is actually him and he plays a bigger role than just a crucible vendor in Destiny 2. Who knows? Now if you would like me to give you guys a more detailed video of the things I've found by going through this actual trailer frame by frame let me know down below in that comment section I do not mind bringing it to you guys at all and I found some quite interesting things we could talk about. Now it is all fine and dandy me pointing out crucible vendors from the trailer but what about them faction vendors for Dead Orbit, New Monarchy and Future War Cult? Did they not make it at the tower in time? It begs to question will we have new factions or new faction vendors come through? Hopefully it's the case of Planet vendors where we can purchase or trade materials for weapons of outer our norm. This in my opinion makes more sense and is what I'd probably most want to see. This game is more or less a fresh start hopefully new vendors are a part of that fresh start too. We do however see the Queen's Guard armor quite a few times throughout this trailer but that is a different story altogether and I do wonder how it will fit into Destiny 2.   Now something I haven't seen anybody speak about from this trailer is the speaker arguably the most important being within the tower. Why was there absolute norm mentioned of him within this trailer none at all? I mean for sure he could be doing his own thing like trying to save the travel etc etc but it is a bit sus we don't even get a single glimpse of him within this related to his trailer.     Now on a serious note do you think the loot system will be the same as Destiny 1? With like different relative Ngrams and mainly being RNG based. Would you like a fresh new loot system? Let me know down below in that comments section but that is another subject for another video. Now also throughout the trailer we see numerous weapons from Vanguard. We see a couple of modern weapons as well as new weapons which are not a part of Destiny 1. I'm guessing when we start our quests as new guardians within Destiny 2 or not new guardians but our fresh paths we will have basic equipment a select few weapons to choose from. Basic armor to choose from as well and we will start from there. Leveling up again gathering new materials and items as such. That is the way I see this going and I'm actually pretty excited to see more about it. Come May we do get a gameplay trailer which I am super excited for. I really am. But other than that we're just gonna have leaks here and there. We actually had a leak come earlier today which I got well I'll put both images on screen for you guys. Now we know for the most part about what these are but at the bottom it says what is the expansion pass and I'll read you guys when it states if you can't read it or you just can't be asked to read it. The destiny to expansion pass includes reservations for both expansion one and expansion two which will be released in winter of 2017 and spring of 2018 respectively. The expansions offer brand new story missions, cooperative activities, competitive multiplayer and a wealth of new weapons, armor and gear. Now at first glimpse I saw this default winter 2017 that's not long after the release day but I think it's following the same path Destiny 1 did because I'm sure we got the dark below within winter as well. I think was it 2014? Just I think it was. So maybe they're just following the same path. Now me personally I thought because of the rumors about this game coming out almost 70 gigabytes. 70 motherfucking gigabytes. Now that isn't factual it's just rumors. I would have thought the game is gonna be way bigger than the game we got with the start of Destiny 1 meaning more things to do but to be honest as long as they do keep dropping DLC on a regular basis I'm sure we will all be damn happy. But guys let me know what you think about what I've gone through through this video. Hope you guys enjoyed it. Do drop a like. I do appreciate that support. Subscribe if you're new around here. Hit that bell button next to that subscribe button to turn on notifications so you never miss a video and I will as always catch you on that next one.


Hello everyone, welcome back to the managed risk across your extended attack service area with Armus asset intelligence platform. I'm John Furrier, host we're here with the CISO perspective. Alex Shuckman, who is the CISO of Colgate Colgate Palmol of company, Alex, thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me. You know, unified visibility across the enterprise surface area is about knowing what you gotta protect. You can't protect what you can't see. Tell me more about how you guys are able to centralize your view with network assets with Armus. Yeah, I think the most important part of any security program is really visibility. And that's one of kind of the building blocks when you're building a security program. You need to understand what's in your environment, what's, what you control, what is being introduced new into the environment. And that's really what any solution that gives you full visibility to your infrastructure, to your environment, to all the assets that are there, that's really one of your bread and butter pieces to your security program. What's been the impact on your business? You know, I think from an IT point of view, running the security program, you know, our key thing is really enabling the business to do their job better. So if we can give them visibility into all the assets that are available in their individual environments, and we're doing that in an automated fashion with no manual collection, you know, that's yet another thing that they don't have to worry about. And then we're delivering because really IT is an enabler for the business. And then they can focus really on what their job is, which is to deliver product. And a lot of changes in their network, you got infrastructure, you got IoT devices, OT devices. So vulnerability management becomes more important. It's been around for a while, but it's not just IT devices anymore, they're gaps in vulnerability across the OT network. What can you tell us about Colgate's use of Armistice vulnerability management? What can you see now? What couldn't you see before? Can you share your thoughts on this? Yeah, I think what's really interesting about the kind of manufacturing environments today is if you look back a number of years, most of the manufacturing equipment was really disconnected from the internet. It was really running in silos. So it was very easy to protect equipment that isn't internet connected. You could put a firewall, you could segment it off, and it was really on an island on its own. Nowadays, you have a lot of IoT devices, you have a lot of internet connected devices, sensors providing information to multiple different suppliers or vendor solutions.  Armistice really helps us get a lot of information so that we can then make a decision with our business teams. That whole operational aspect of criticality is huge. How on the assets, knowing what's the key, how does that change the security workload for you guys? Yeah, for us, I mean, it's all about being efficient. If we can have the visibility across our manufacturing environments, then my team can easily consume that information. We spend a lot of time trying to digest the information, trying to process it, trying to prioritize it, that really hurts our efficiency as a team or as a function. What we really like is being able to use technology to help us do that work. We're not an IT shop, we're a manufacturing shop, but we're a very technical shop so that we like to drive everything through automation and not be a bottleneck for any of the actions that take place. You know, the old expression is the juice worth the squeeze. It comes up a lot when people are buying tools around vulnerability management and all this stuff. So SaaS solution is key with no agents to deploy, they have that. Talk about how you operationalize ARMIS in your environment, how quickly did it achieve time to value? Take us through that consumption of the product and what was the experience like? Yeah, I'll definitely say in the security ecosystem that's one of the biggest promises you hear across the industry. And when we started with ARMIS, we started with a very small deployment and we wanted to make sure if it was really worth the lift to your point. We implemented the first set of plants very quickly, actually even quicker than we had put in our project plan which is not typical for implementing complex security solutions. And then we were so successful with that we expanded to cover more of our manufacturing plants and we were able to get really true visibility across our entire manufacturing organization in the first year with the ability to also say that we extended that information, that visibility to our manufacturing organization and they could also consume it just as easily as we could. That's awesome. How many assets did you guys discover? Just curious on the numbers. Oh, that's the really interesting part. Before we started this project, we would have had to do a manual audit of our plants which is typical in our industry. When we started this project and we put in estimates, we really didn't have a great handle on what we were going to find. And what's really nice about the ARMS solution is it's truly giving you full visibility. So you're actually seeing besides the servers and the PLCs and all the equipment that you're familiar with, you're also connecting it to your wireless access points, you're connecting it to see any of those IoT devices as well and then you're really getting full visibility through all the integrations that they offer.   But it gives you the picture. That's key. Correct. With a nice visualization and an easy search engine similar to your Google analogy, everything is really at your fingertips. If you want to find something, you just go to the search bar, click a couple entries and boom, you get your list of the associated devices or the associated locations devices. Well, Alfred, I appreciate your time. I know you're super busy at CSIC, a lot of your plate. Thanks for coming on and sharing, appreciate it. No problem, John. Thanks for having me.


Want to learn about stocks, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the metaverse? Join RichTV.io. Hi, how's everybody doing today? I'm your host Rich here with RichTV Live with our very special guest, the CEO of Argentina Lithium and Energy Corp, Nico Kakos. How you doing today Nico? I'm doing very well Rich. Thank you for having me on your program. Pleasure, very excited to have you on the show and we love Lithium and we're excited to learn more about your company. So why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved with Argentina Lithium and Energy Corp? Oh, I would love to. Myself, Nico Kakos, I've got a business degree. You know, I've got a master's in the international business and I've been in the mining industry now for about 30 years. Since the very beginning, when I worked with the Grosso Group, Grosso Group is the management company behind Argentina Lithium and Grosso Group, headed by Joe Grosso, of course, basically just, you know, recognized an incredible opportunity in the mining industry in Argentina, almost 30 years ago, that the country was under and developed and in terms of mining and underexplored and at that time just liberalized its borders to allow foreign investment in there. So there's huge mining opportunities in Argentina and including in Lithium now. How did we get Lithium going? Well, why Argentina Lithium? We got into Argentina Lithium because we recognized that the demand for Lithium was going stratospheric, especially in the last few years with this big drive for clean energy and electrification around the world. And as that was happening, we looked at ourselves and considered, well, if price of Lithium obviously is going up because the demand is exceeding supply by a huge margin, where do we find Lithium? And one of the best places in the world to find Lithium is within the Prolific Lithium Triangle. Now the Lithium Triangle, for those who may not be aware, has a little bit of Bolivia, a little bit of Eastern Chile and a big chunk of Northwestern Argentina. And that was our cue with our expertise in Argentina and the Lithium potential in that part of the world. It was a no-brainer. We were able to leverage all our contacts for the last three decades, put together a fantastic portfolio of projects and as we're drilling away and announcing results now, our results are coming to bear fruit, basically, so to speak, for our efforts. Fantastic, congratulations on all of your success thus far. And I know we're just getting you started. Now, I just want to bring everyone's attention to the symbols in Canada and the United States. So in Canada, the symbol is L-I-T-LIT. And in America, it's P-N-X-L-F. So put it on your radar and put it on your watch list. Now, my next question, the company recently announced a non-brokered private placement. Can you tell us how much the company is looking to raise and what would be the use of proceeds? Yes, we did announce a non-brokered private placement of about $6 million Canadian. And the purpose of this is to be able to finance next year's exploration program for the entirety of the year. And I have to say that the response that we have received for this financing has been nothing short of exceptional. And to be honest, I expect that we're going to be, it looks like we're going to be oversubscribed at the end of the day. So we will have the funds that we need. And this gives us the security that we need to execute on all our exploration programs in the 2023. That's fantastic. And Nico, can you go through the positive results at Rincon West and what it means for the company and shareholders? Yes, Rincon West is a very exciting project in that we're right adjacent to the Rincon Mining Project, which just earlier this year was just acquired by Real Tinto, one of the world's largest mining companies. And they paid $825 million for that project there. So we've got a significant position there that we've started doing a drill program just in May. And I'd say we've announced the first four holes, although we're drilling on our six hole right now and there are more results will be forthcoming. And the first four holes, there was lithium values in every single hole. And in fact, the intersections and the grades that we're getting are very similar to those drill results that Real Tinto was getting next door. So this is very exciting. I think we're on to a significant lithium discovery here. I love that. That's music to my ears. And Nico, what would you say are the top three milestones that Argentina Lithium and Energy Corp wants to hit for 2023? 2023, we have a very aggressive program. We're gonna continue with our drilling program here on Rincon, our flagship project. So that milestone number one is we announced the different results coming out on these drill holes. These are milestones that the market will react to. The second milestone is we expect sometime in May to announce our initial or maiden resource estimate. So we'll be doing a resource calculation in the first quarter of 2023. And around late April, early May, I expect that we'll be finished that study. We'll have that for publication. And then beyond that, we'll be moving the project towards doing a preliminary economic assessment so that we can estimate what kind of economics that this project could have if it were to be pushed forward towards production. So we've got a very exciting year for 2023. Some very aggressive milestones and it's nice to know we'll be fully funded to execute on all these. I love it. Sounds like 2023 is gonna be huge year for you guys. Can you tell us how much money the company has in the bank, if you don't mind? And what the capital structure is? Yes, right now we have about $3 million in the bank and seeing that we're raising another six, that could be another one or two coming in there, we'll be approaching around $10 million right now. So we're well capitalized. After this financing, right now, we have about 90 million shares out. So after the financing, we'll probably be about 110, 120 million shares out. So with that, I think we're very, our market capitalization at this point is about $25 million Canadian. And I think as we hit these different milestones that I just discussed, I expect that evaluation to change. We love small cap companies because you mentioned that you have a baby market cap. So with everything you guys are doing, a 25 million market cap, I could see that growing exponentially if you guys achieve all of your objectives. So I think you're really positioned nicely right now and investors can really position themselves really nicely at these levels. Is there anything else you would want investors to know about Argentina, Lithium and Energy Corp? Well, I mean, Argentina, Lithium, Lithium has been described, I guess Elon Musk described it as the new oil in which he says a lot of new millionaires are gonna be made. So I think this is a company, Argentina, Lithium is a company with our management team having more than three decades of experience in Argentina and the opportunities that we've got here. This is an opportunity to get in on early on the Lithium space and ride it. And if we have success, I think we could see multiples of returns coming back and going forward. That sounds like music to my ears. Now, what is the best way for investors to get in touch with the company if they had any questions about Argentina, Lithium and Energy Corp? Best way is to just visit our website at our Argentina, Lithium.com. There you can email us, you can call us or contact information, contact myself or you can contact Sean Perger, Investor Relations. We love to talk with potential investors, any kinds of questions. So please feel free to reach out. Fantastic. Now I must remind everyone that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes.  In saying that, we love to identify undervalued, underappreciated, under exposed companies here first on Rich TV Live. Everybody put LIT in Canada on your radar and on your watch list and in America, PNXLF on your radar and on your watch list. And thank you for joining us today, the CEO of Argentina, Lithium and Energy Corp, Nico Kakos. Thank you for joining us today, Nico. Rich, thank you very much for having me. And when I have some significant developments, I look forward to coming back and sharing those with your audience. I would love that. Thank you so much for the opportunity for us to be able to learn more about your company and for those of you guys that are at home, if you're not winning, you're probably not watching.  Thank you for watching everybody. Thank you for joining us today, Nico and we'll talk to you guys soon.


So you got your brand new bamboo lab X1 or X1 carbon and you're having a little bit of difficulty getting stuff off the build surface. Well today's video is going to show you how to do it super simple and I'm going to show you what tool to print straight off the machine to make this job a breeze. My name is Jim and this is the edge of tech. So like I said, you got yourself a brand new bamboo lab X1 or X1 carbon and maybe prints are coming off, but maybe the skirts or rafts or some of the stuff on the outside of the bed isn't coming off very easily and you're sick of digging it with your nails. Well today I'm going to show you this super simple way that bamboo lab came up with to get this done and it is in the form of this scraper right here. So this is a file that comes right on the printer. All you have to do is go to the internal prints, find the scraper file and print it.  It has a razor in it, that's what you see right here, be careful it's very sharp. It has two little screws, it also has some magnets in there for some adhesive so you can stick it somewhere and put it right on the side of your printer or wherever you feel like. But the cool thing is when you're ready to use this you just pop it out of the little cover, make sure you keep it in there like I said it's sharp and you just guide it along the build surface and it pulls your prints right up for you. It is super simple to do, it's super simple to build and bamboo lab already thought of it for you so you don't have to buy anything, you might be able to tell from these pilot parts that I'm building an airplane and it is like single wall, it is super tricky to get it off the bed and if you're not careful it can pull some bottom layers off so that's where this thing really comes in handy. Something you need to talk about is the glue stick that came with the printer. Now a lot of people are going to use this, you want to use this as an interface layer so stuff releases from your build surface, make sure you clean this build surface good before you use it the first time, always clean your build surface, take your glue stick and then just run one line across the whole thing all the way down so it's covered but only one layer you don't want to get too thick. Make sure that you are doing the bottom here where your pattern prints and also in the back of the build surface up here make sure you get that corner here because this is where it's going to purge every single time and if you don't do it there it's going to be harder and harder to peel up so make sure you get that covered in your glue stick. In my case I really prefer the nano polymer adhesive it doesn't leave a residue and it can work with everything it is much more expensive though so use the glue stick. Purple glue stick works really good for this stuff too but burn out the one that comes free first so I pretty much use this tool to get everything off the build surface all you got to do is run it like this and then once you get these loose just pull or you can run it all the way across if I could get a hold of them and then a lot of times all this stuff will just pull off just like that when you get to the edge of the purge line just run it right along there it comes right off and then if you might have to do with that side too but it peels right up like that then when you get to some of these brims same thing it just floats right underneath them and peels them right up then you can grab and pull mostly this one's being a little bit stubborn but that's why I have it and that just pulls right up boom just like that so this thing is really a really cool tool I would definitely suggest getting this printed when you do get it printed it goes on like this blade in the top two screws down through the bottom and the screws screw into the back of this so it's pretty simple so you just saw how easy it was to use the bamboo lab scraper on the build surface I highly suggest you guys print this maybe even the second print you do do the benchy first because it's amazing to see that thing but this thing really hauls too because it's kind of a good size but also like I said don't forget your glue stick or whatever media between the surface and your print I have seen people already ripping their print surfaces off because they don't use that media and you don't want to be one of those because they know just be replacing it and having to buy more I know to come with it but let's save those for another use I hope you guys enjoyed this quick video about the bamboo lab scraper if you want to see more videos with the bamboo lab X1 or X1 carbon check out this one right here


And I just ask them to share, you know, just a review of what massive resistance is, what is the South's response to this demand that you integrate, and they're able to get, definitely, that they're just going to wait it out. Do you think that this picture would have appeared in a newspaper in New York City? Raise your hand. So opinion, it's your opinion. I don't know. Maybe it was. I don't know the answer. I'm asking, what do you think? Do you think that this picture might have appeared in a newspaper in New York City? New York Times. Philadelphia Inquirer. Anyone? What do you think? Favie? No, because since New York was a northern state, it didn't happen that way. Okay, did you hear that? She said since New York was a northern state, it didn't happen that way. What do you mean by didn't happen that way? I think it took place because they were all equal, but sometimes they didn't really segregate them, but sometimes they weren't away by themselves. The last thing I just want to point out is down here in the bottom corner, the date. Can anybody tell me the date? Bottom left-hand corner. Jennifer, can you tell me the date here? Okay, it says, I think, 826. And then what's the last? 58. 58. 1958. Okay, and this one was... I already told you it's the beginning, Tiffany. 1954. Okay, 1954. So this one was published in the newspaper right after... What happened in 1954? A Board of Education. Brown versus Board of Education. This one was published four years later. So right after Brown versus Board of Education, Virginia said, what do we do? Four years later, Virginia's got a plan. Okay, and the plan is, what do we call it? Massive resistance. Okay, does anybody else know the answer? Because I heard two people say it. What's the plan? Massive resistance. Okay, and who led the plan? Harry Bird. Harry Bird, good. Okay, any questions? When I was researching, I actually found a lot of different cartoons from Fred's Cybel. I thought one of the interesting things would be to give them the massive resistance to monitoring the Merrimack cartoon. Give them that one as a homework assignment and say, here it is. Tell me what it's saying and pick out five symbols and tell me what you think those symbols mean. Another one, which is a little bit more intricate, would be to have them draw a cartoon showing the opposite. How could you use the same sort of symbols if you're showing a cartoon for people who are gung-ho to integrate? Could you use the same actual thing and just change the expression on his face and make him happy? Yes, it's rough seas, but how could you draw a cartoon that shows that using the man, the boat, and the water? Another thing I came up to was the idea of protest posters. This book, which I love. Tony Morrison, remember? Very few words, very unbelievably moving pictures. Some of these pictures, I can't go to school because of segregation. Our children play together. Why can't they learn together? And on the other page here, it's the white children. We, the pupils of this school in Clinton High, don't want Negroes in our school. We won't go to school with Negroes. Strike against integration. So I thought it would be interesting to have them make a poster, either protesting Brown vs. Board of Ed or in support of Brown vs. Board of Ed.


On to some high school wrestling. Bemidji hosting sock center Melrose as part of their quadrangular at 120 pounds. With 38 seconds left in the period, Joe Hudson pins Chase Lytle, Bemidji up 6. More of the same at 1-6. Corey McAllister-Cradles, Moises Romero gets the pin for 6. Jacks up 23. Then at 170 pound, Nick Peterson gets the take down for 2 points. He'd end up winning by decision 7-3. Bemidji takes that one by a final of 51-15. Then in their later match they took down DGF 49 to 15. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


What's up everybody, it's Jason here with JasperJasperCaseBricks.com. This fills TopchromeJumbo, picker team number seven with this one-pack break of 2020 Topchrome HTA Jumbo. One-pack break, random teams number eight. So again guys, 32 spots, everybody that's around the team at MLB, first we break over the one-pack chrome. Remember no veteran commonship. And then at the end of the break, we'll randomize all 32 customer names again in a separate dice floor randomizer. And then we'll match you up with a list below. If you match up with a team, then you win the team in picker team number seven. Numbers one through seven will win a team. So we'll do the randomizer for the teams and names, open up the pack here. And then we'll have the teams already ready to roll, then we'll randomize customer names again. And then we'll top seven get a team. And the teams included in this break are the Phillies, Cardinals, Red Sox, Marlins, Twins, Orioles, and Royals. So good luck guys. Roll it. And we got ourselves a one out of six seven times. So this is just for the pack break first. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. Robert down to mark. Two, three, four, five, six, seven. Rockies down to the Chicago White Sox. So Robert, you got the Rockies, Barry with the Rangers, Steve with the Nationals, Bill with the Cardinals, Evan with the Mets, Joshua with the A's. Robert with the Twins, Ace with the Yankees, Chris with the Tigers, Barry with the D-backs, Angels, Evan with the Giants, Evan with the Blue Jays, Ace with the Red Sox, Deborah with the Dodgers. Ty with the Phillies, Mr. Richard with the Reds, Oliver with the Royals. I'm thinking five, is it William? I'm assuming it's William, maybe it's a spelled wrong. Unless that's your, sorry about that man. WOs, we'll just say, with the Brewers. Evan with the Pirates, Ace with the Astros. WO with the Padres, Evan with the Braves, Mike with the Cubs, Evan with the Indians. WO with the Mariners, Deborah with the Orioles, Mark with the Marlins. Evan with the Braves and Mark with the Chicago White Sox. So again, no trades guys, stick with what you got. We should have called at some point today. We only have about like five spots straight up in that one sell-out pack or that one score pack. So should be going off a little later today. So let's do the quick pack break. Here we go. See what we got here. It's only Rookies, Insert will ship, no veterans. And we got an autograph, Sean Murphy. Oakland Ace, going to Josh. There you go. Appreciate it guys. Now let's see who gets to the break itself. Good luck everybody. Roll it. And we got a five and a six for 11 times. One, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. Bill is in. Looks like you got the Phillies. And there you go. Top seven. So Bill, you got the Phillies. Robert, you got the Cardinals. Mr. Richard with the Red Sox. Steve, you have the Marlins. Ace with the Twins. Edel with the Orioles. And Debra, squeezing in and getting the Royals. So there you go guys. That was the quick pack break. Now coming up next is Jumbo, picker team number seven.