Meanwhile, despite a reduction in COVID-19 cases on Ireland, health officials remain concerned that the introduction of COVID-19 variants may prompt a more difficult to manage surge in cases. Jesse Leos reports on the surveillance of the Ministry of Health and Wellness in this regard and increased efforts at vaccinating more of the population. The Department of Health indicates that in the 7-day period, 29th June to 5th July 2021, St. Lucia registered a daily COVID-19 infection rate of 2.2 per 100,000 of the population. This confirms a reduction compared to the period 22nd to 28th June 2021, during which a daily infection rate of 4.9 per 100,000 of the population was registered. Despite this reduction in the local infection rate, officials remain concerned about the introduction of more resilient strains of the virus to the island. In addition to the original virus, St. Lucia has been subject to 41 cases of the Alpha variant commonly referred to as the UK variant. This variant is 24-70% more transmissible than the original. While still at bay, other variants including the Beta or South African variant, the Gamma or Brazilian variant and the Delta or Indian variant are too close for comfort. During a live update on NTN Tuesday 6th July, national epidemiologist Dr. Michelle Fossoir says they continue to monitor regional trends to avoid variants that are likely to undermine the ability of the country to control the pandemic. We are cognizant of the fact that we may experience a larger outbreak. The different variants have been proven to be more transmissible and so we are very wary that we have neighboring countries with the different variants. And so although our numbers have gone down, we are still monitoring what is happening on the ground in order to avoid an overwhelming surge of cases on our public health system. Currently, 10 cases of the Beta or South African variant have been registered in the region. It is 20-30% more transmissible than the original and has been shown to decrease the virus' susceptibility to antibodies and thus vaccine efficacy. Vaccines are only 50-60% effective at preventing mild to moderate disease. And meantime, 14 cases of the Gamma or Brazilian variant have been registered in the Caribbean. It is 29-48% more transmissible than the original, however, vaccines are still effective in reducing its transmission. The Delta or Indian variant is causing the most alarm globally as its level of infectivity is highest among the strains. To date, there are 8 cases in the Caribbean. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sharon Belmar George explains that the Indian variant is not likely to be a problem for a vaccinated population as compared to others. This is the one which is most feared at this point because it's a level of infectivity, is the highest as compared to all of the others. It's over 55% more transmissible than the Alpha variant, which we noted here in January and February. It causes more severe disease, hospitalization and deaths in the countries. The good news is that the AstraZeneca vaccine is very effective against the Delta variant after taking your two doses. So the variant which we have the most concern for introduction in terms of the effectivity of our vaccine is the South African variant. In addition to the mobile pop-up sites, visits to the homebound and the regular vaccination sites, partnerships with the private sector are now being forged for new vaccination locations. Immunization Manager Tech Legev-A-Tist welcomes this development. We have also added one other component. Last week, a public-private partnership initiative was launched. The People's Discount Pharmacy has partnered with the Ministry of Health offering COVID-19 vaccines. This is the first of this kind in St. Lucia where persons can access vaccines at their local pharmacy. We hope that other that we could extend this sort of service to other health providers in the near future. As of news time, 30,902 individuals in St. Lucia have received their first dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and 22,019 have received their second. For the Government Information Service, I am Jesse-Léonce reporting.


This paper proposes a novel approach for calibrating magnetometers inside cubesats before or after launch. The authors use a genetic algorithm to identify nine unknowns, including scaling factors, non-orthogonal angles, and offsets, which can cause high oscillation in the measured total magnetic field data. They then compare their results with magnetic field data similar to those of a model magnetic field, finding that the deviation is smaller. The authors also show that the answers obtained from the genetic algorithm are consistent with additional orbit data from the same satellite. This method could be used in the future to calibrate magnetometers inside cubesats before or after launch. This article was authored by Delani Chameca with Anage, Mariko Teramoto, and Mangucho.


Hot seat Tony Pagli.  Were you a baseball player potentially my cousin was because you got a great name for baseball My cousin Mike Mike Pagli. Oh, no kidding So you're your Yankee fan or it's a lot of boys He is to yeah, but it'd be from this area from the Boston area and play Tony Tony Tony C Tony Canigli arrow boyhood, you know hero of mine and Tony Pagli Rulo sounds familiar Maybe your boys will be felonting But so Tony welcome welcome inside the Cube it's good to see you SAP sapphire big event here I've been telling the audience that EMC obviously is a big customer of SAPs You guys got a lot of SAP deployments in Oracle as well. I mean you guys, you know mission-critical applications and You I think are one of the more innovative IT operations that I've seen I mean a lot of that is you're driving EMC innovations Particularly the journey to the private cloud I mean that's something that your CIO Sanjay Merchandani who we've had on the Cube before and we'll have one later this week Has talked about but I wonder if you could talk about your your journey Sure to the private cloud where you're at and and we'll dig into it a little bit. Yeah So we've been on a journey for a long time. So it's kind of you know, not one of those things that happens overnight So, you know first of all, we've we set a target of a hundred percent virtualization So virtualization is key to get into the private cloud We're a huge believer in leveraging our existing core assets and virtualization has really allowed us to look at legacy applications consolidate onto ERP like SAP and others and You know, but virtualization is only one step, right? So, you know, the private cloud You know is all about enabling the business and driving results. So that's kind of the end state IT's a service as an end state. So virtualization job one, which we've done app tier middleware Database reporting. So you think about SAP not only does it include ERP it includes reporting with business objects And we're virtualizing every tier in the stack And so that's step once once you get to get virtualized great. So what well, you know You've got you drive a lot of benefit you drive Savings with respect to hardware with respect to labor with respect to energy and so forth But again, the the big value add is accelerating our ability to enable the business Right getting capabilities out there in short and time frames. What is the top things you're seeing for that? I mean, honestly, we heard we've been hearing that story for a year from the emcee You guys have been delivering on it emcee world We heard cloud meets big data and we expanded out the services angle component Which is a lot of the integration a lot of the meat and potatoes that you know, it's not always this, you know The sizzle and everyone talks about but there's a lot of proof points there last year we had Tom Peck on talking about V block Where you where are you guys at today with with some of these integration challenges? And what are the top three? Areas that you've learned and see or you're working with your knee deep into can you share that the top three kind of core areas? Hmm Let me let me think through that answer First of all like a lot of fortune 500 companies. We have a lot of legacy Right, you just can't walk away from those legacy applications. So, you know people refer to them as crop locations So the challenge is marrying and leveraging the information and the value out of those legacy applications and combining it with your new platforms It's it's relatively it's less of a challenge to move to a green field the block platform With an SAP or another application and that's what we've been doing So anything net and you gets virtualized and we'll move and we bought into V block in a big way Just because again, you know the value proposition in there is you know ease of it. It's fully integrated, right? You know literally you buy the V block and you could put all your components on top of it But we've what we've also been doing is we migrating those legacy applications to that private cloud if you will key to that though It was integration. So we've been leverage we've um, we've bought in big time to VMware spring framework So the spring integration framework spring batch is a really big enabler and that's something that hasn't been discussed a lot Paul Moritz at EMC world talked last week about the foundry and that really talks about that You know taking applications and then having the ability to put them in the container Hosted internally hosted externally. So the hybrid cloud option, but the integration component is key So sharing information in a seamless secure fashion is huge. So using cloud foundry and spring. Yeah, that's not legacy No, no, no exactly, but we need it to knit the legacy together because again We just can't walk away from these legacy apps as quickly quickly as we'd like, you know The SAP journey although we're going fast is going to take us some time. That's how's the pressure?  I mean can you share this like when something blew up? I mean, I need to be careful here. I would say that um, what have you learned? I've learned a situation You know, so I've learned a lot so um, you know, um, you know, we've made some some Educated bets if you will everything we do Even if it's cutting edge or leading edge or maybe even bleeding edge We put through a rigorous process So we test we test the hell out of it both from an emcee it perspective and then we partner with the MC Engineering so lots of prep work goes in but as you know, there's always something unforeseen You can't test for everything. So when you move an enterprise, you know mission critical database, you know Say 16 terabytes, which we did 20 million transactions a day onto UCS Virtualized and no one else has done that, you know, there's going to be some things to pop up. So, um, you know that You know, that's one example where we've taken some pretty significant risk But again, we feel like we've gone through the right level of testing and and those risks have paid off in a huge way How do you manage that risk? What's the risk management strategy? I mean the team obviously has to buy into it.  How do you protect that risk because of certain strategies? I mean it that's always the challenge. How can you take do play with the new stuff and Accelerate that roadmap Well, always you want to have a plan B. So you want a fail-back plan, right? But in some cases, you know, those migrations don't allow for it So I guess as I said before having that top-down Support from Joe Tuchino's team is number one to working with the partners So again, whether it's SAP or Oracle or Cisco or VMware You know, we up from said, hey, these are our goals. They're ambitious We know no one else has done this and you guys will want to partner with us and hold our hand along the way And by the way make investments and they all have so investments in the form of giving us dedicated engineering support During the migration process during the testing and migration process as well as post-go live So those are ways you can mitigate the risk. So one of the simple Risks that I'm sure you guys talked about you're an application guy and a lot of application heads Don't want to virtualize their mission critical applications. You just said you did it with a 16 terabyte database Yes, performance is one area that you're obviously concerned about as an area of risk What did you see when you migrated that database? How did you manage that risk around performance and how's it going? Well, number one is we did lots performance test So we had a baseline of our as is performance from a production perspective We then built out a full replica and then we were a performance test at 30x scale And we saw the results were really good David.  I think about 196 CPUs the You know moving with the Nehalem and the new form factor with UCS It's just you know the clock speed the memory footprint. It has been a giant step forward That's been the key. That's the you know that has been the enabler to x86 is a new Nehalem chip set Yeah, so, you know a lot of people this is actually an opportunity for a lot of customers out there who are running on Maybe non-intel hardware. Yep, or maybe even older Intel hardware to really upgrade And that's a that's maybe a fundamental best practice is make sure you get the hardware right so you can actually Improve performance maybe not on an apples to apples basis All right You could probably tune your performance on an apples to apples basis physical But the benefits of virtualization seem to outweigh some of the potential drawbacks there, don't they? You know without you know at the risk of being Self-serving I haven't seen many drawbacks. It's hard to see the drawbacks David You know if you look at the the licensing model you save money there if you do it, right? But it's so you think about it, right? You know from a Capital investment perspective, you know if we if I was to replace those two, you know UX devices it would have been probably maybe ten million dollars going to you know the x86 platform about two So right there capital outlay and then the full TCO the labor associate with managing it the you know The carbon footprint the electric the electric consumption, you know the data center footprint all less so I think you know, I haven't seen a lot of downside outside of kind of the the Apprehension, you know it folks and myself included our risk averse Yeah, you know and it's definitely that that crossing that chasm Typically to do it you want to see proof points out there and we have you know, so we're you know We're blazing the path. There were no proof points out there You know when I talked to a big partisan said hey show me another Enterprise mission critical system running on this you're right baby. Exactly. We're the first proof point okay, so Tony they talk a lot about the What I call the CIOs dilemma the 70 30 thing right where 70% of the investment goes into Running the business and only 30% of the investment can go into the growing the business or transforming the business And that's been the same mixed year roughly since I've been in this business Do you think that that virtualization and cloud can change that or is that is that a pipe dream? I? think it's a key step to changing it and I would suggest we're We've shifted the dial we move the dial dramatically We're probably about 50-50 now really yeah, yeah, and that's over the last three years and You know in a planful way Again first of all get moving to this virtualized platform your unit cost goes down dramatically David, right? So we're spent so we've got more money so this by the way that that our capital targets haven't changed They've stayed the same so we're you know We're taking a greater percentage and putting it into the business into enabling technologies and abling capabilities like SAP So flat budget and that's something you track you have a portfolio management system Yes, we do To bucketize the investments yep, and you haven't changed the definitions right to know we have no happy They see Joe we're at 5050 right in fact we reduced our capital say that yes We reduced our capital so coming out of and this has been fairly well publicized by our CFO You know Towards the tail end of 2008 with the greatest, you know recession since the depression You know we had a mandate to cut our budget by 20% Virtualization was core to that so we had you know and again You know we had developed business cases that said hey We'll be able to take out this much off x by virtualizing one of the initiatives You know what you may have heard so I do talk about what's called sweep the floor I referenced the crapplications earlier. You know one point. We'd 800 of these So by going you know, we rationalized the 800 down to 400 and then we virtualized, you know 90% of that 400 So what about mobile? I mean everyone's talking mobile iPad iPhone getting the data out. I see you see real big data Virtualization has always been that core enabler for kind of the news the new applications So as you pave over or sweep the floor of the crapplications and you got the budget going into the new stuff Mobile sexy mobiles people can touch mobile mobile opens up a can of it worms, right? It's like security privacy, you know Virtualization of the desktop. How are you handling mobile and what have you learned and what are you playing with on that in terms of that? IT projects, how is that? Right now? I've got my iPad running VDI so VM view and and we can actually Run a lot of our applications off of that today. So the notion is John will provision a user experience You know, so wherever you are whatever based on your role, you'll log in you pull down that secure container You know have the applications you need and so hopefully move, you know, so it's device agnostic whether it's you know A tablet, you know a laptop sitting in some here. He asked somewhere at Starbucks Whatever it is the notion would be you can you know, we'll be to get your unique user experience with the right access management around it So we're already moving that in that direction aggressively.  How would you grade the performance? I mean, obviously, you know being self-critical obviously, you know Can you share with us kind of how you feel? I mean what inning are you we in one and then how would you grade yourself? I gotta be careful with that one. I Might abstain from the great now. You know what? I think I think we're in the fourth inning right I think we're about to hit an inflection point, right? So there's new technologies coming out.  That's going to be you know, we're playing around with that I think we're about you know the fourth in the middle middle innings And I think there'll be a big step forward just like there was a virtualization a couple years ago It's going to go fast. The other thing in terms of when people think about mobile You know, we've been enabling our content for mobile consumption, right? Whether you know we put we have lots of apps up and you know, you know the iStore the app store You know we take some of our in-house applications and we port them through our own mobile enterprise application platform So you know mobility is you know lots of different variations of it, but to me ideally You know and that because I've an app. I'm an apps guy now. I've run client services before I've run That kind of pretty much every job in it. I'd love to get out of the PC business. Why is that? It's there's no upside. It's just painful, right? There's you know, so you end up dealing with you know manufacturers problems in that and you're right So we fix stuff to but compatibility issues. Yeah, exactly loaded big fat client issues I think we talked about that last year Microsoft being big How about let's talk about SAP a little bit So when you come to a show like this as an IT practitioner, first of all, what are you looking for and and what do you think about what you're hearing from SAP? You know my objective of these coming to these shows is to come away with like two or three ideas that can take back with me, right? So on the on the SAP front I'm most interested in roadmaps. So the mobility you talked about so, you know SAP bought sidebase how they're going to bring those things together and really power You know application mobility because as I said before, you know, the old model used to be you You know, you've had to be the build at your own platform or you go with a third party or go for one of the carriers So I'm really interested in seeing what SAP does there. So I'm going to be pretend attending a few breakouts on that The other thing is just you know connecting with my peers That's just that might be the the biggest benefit of coming to these types of shows and just you know Shear empathy is a powerful thing, right talking about experiences like we're doing now and bringing that back Conversations is that I mean you seem in the hallway. Hey, can you believe that did you have that problem?   A lot of its bears and say, okay, you know what cuz you know in spite of the technology and the technology's come a long way At the end of the day whether you're moving to a private cloud or implementing SAP It's about business change and business transformation and that's never easy You know as I like to say this folks my job would be easy if it wasn't for the people, you know The technology is is really is great. It's those business conversations because how do you I teach being consumed differently? You know, we've got folks that are just so much more educated today that back than when I started on the workforce. So you really So so anyway, that's that's you know, what's the number one people problem that you're seeing out there And I see we've we've talked a lot about this how this retraining going on a lot of this new tech with virtualization Application mobility of things that you're mentioning Hadoop we've been covered like a blanket as you know big days now big part of EMC's positioning This is new stuff. I mean, this is not the world's change significantly Integrated skill sets. You got a network guy who's been a network guy for 15-20 years all since like hey You guys started learning application frameworks. That's right. So application framework guys You guys started saying policy and automation Or or business or business capability, you know, I mean I think you know One of my biggest challenges is taking my you know app developers app architects and get them to speak Business lexicon, you know, think about IT as a service presenting, you know infrastructure as a service, you know It's bits and bytes, right? But you know, how do you? expose IT in a way that the business can consume it because quite frankly we're competing with the salesforce comms or the Amazon or you know Or the UIT exactly you an IT or competing with those service providers Absolutely, and we've got to present our value proposition in the same way So re-skilling my organization on the front end to be able to do that is it is probably my biggest challenge What do you look for when you look at the net the IT tech athlete out there the young or Or older relearning new skill sets. I mean, what do you look for?  What's the new skill set? We say, hey, you know, we're looking for you know Someone who could throw the ball down the field I mean what IT skills that you look for and say that guy's got some potential that that gal She's amazing. Is it the DBA? Is it, you know, all this is changing. What do you look for and say that's talent? How do you identify, you know, it's It depends, right? I mean, I think there's still some skills. They're really hard to come by SAP right so, you know good basis administrators hard to come by so, you know, that's unique I'd say you think speaking of big data, you know, the role of data architect like EMC is talking about data scientists But I think that's going to be a real unique arcane skill. There's not that many of them but data architect That's someone who actually understands the source systems understands business process And so I look for people that really understand business context as well as technical aptitude, right? It's not necessarily unless it's more of a unique situation to get that great Oracle app DBA or that SAP basis expert I'm way more looking for what I'll you know back to your sports analogy the best available athlete I can't get the quarterback in the draft. So I'm going to go for the best athlete Yeah, and it's not necessarily the technical skills that some of the other intangibles and the ability to interact with the business And business leaders are fickle, right? I mean Their business changes and then they want IT to respond overnight. I mean, that's got to be a challenge Yeah, so I have a question on Twitter that came in from someone Martin said what is SAP's cloud foundry strategy? parentheses in case they even have one smiley face I think you have to ask a Jim snobby that question Jim you've been you've been prepared. So there's a good question. We're gonna have a good conversation I think you're gonna hear something about that this week And I'd be surprised if we don't hear what their cloud foundry like strategy is this week whether it's cloud foundry or something I think we'll sing so what's on that to do this you mentioned it sounds like you want to see some Substantive product out of the combination of side base and SAP that's something that we've been waiting for That's I'd like to see yeah Really to try to leverage that relationship. What else is on the the SAP to-do list from a practitioner's point of view? I'm interested in where Hanagos. I think you back to big data. I think the you know BMC strategy, you know of you know enabling big data Integrating that with a handle like solution. I mean, you know, I think there could be something pretty powerful there So as a practitioner, you know You know the in-memory especially as it pertains to BI. I think it's an attractive value proposition and I think I'd like to see is You know, you know SAP You know historically with with BW business warehouse or BWA is optimized around SAP and ECC As I said before, you know, any most large companies have multiple sources of information both structured and unstructured So, you know, you look you know think about big day You want a solution like a green plum that can aggregate that information So I think some you know some combination of green plug with maybe SAP's, you know, HANA for BI could be something there So I'm kind of anxiously waiting. It's not quite there yet, but I'm hopeful But so potentially game-changing from a development standpoint. Yeah. Yes. I think so because you know, I also own the enterprise data warehouses for you in AMC and That's one place You know people can get their heads around all OLTP and you know if it's not the best user experience It takes a little longer say, you know what they know, it's complicated But ultimately it's all about getting the information they need to make business decisions So there's um So that BI is huge value add so to me if you know, so what we do today's model is lots of iteration Heads down development to accelerate that instead of spending two weeks writing a report to add a column If we can expose any information to users and we leverage, you know between green plum and potentially some type of SAP solution And really go to sell BI self-service. I think that's that'd be that'd be a great step forward How far ahead of your your peers you talked about before a EMC's IT very much leading edge I kind of had a mandate from Joe You got a lot of strategic, you know assets in your portfolio that you're bringing to bear How far ahead do you think you are of the typical peer that you talk to and I don't mean that in any kind of You know braggered way I mean it's it's clear you've you've had a mandate to push the risk envelope probably more so than the other guys Is it is it six months a year two years five years?  Um, I think you know on the curve the maturity curve We're in the top 25% and that's the best way I could say it, you know without disparaging anybody But I do get I talked to hundreds of customers I know I get the opportunity to go and talk about what we've done share and there's um There's definitely some customers that are right up there in the maturity curve But I think there's many that are in the middle and by the way I measure that in two ways one is you know We talk about percent virtualized, you know I think you know Palmer it's talked about mature companies being 40 to 50 percent we happen to be 85 percent But then going beyond that in leveraging it is you know in a strategic way, you know Exposing that capability to drive results in an agile fashion. So I think we're we're right up there Yeah, what are you seeing in terms of I'm talking about you know bottom of the fourth inning with IT But let's talk about you know some of the earlier innings and other aspects like Hadoop Even see us with green measured green plum Client of Perkins just announced they put nine million dollars into a startup data data mirror or something like that And are you playing with Hadoop? Are you playing with Hadoop on green plum? You and how does Iceland fit into all that as well? So not my area of expertise would definitely green plum is in my space Iceland were you know We weren't a large customer of Iceland before we purchased them. We're just looking at Iceland So we you know, we'd like the possibilities Hadoop as well We're just you know looking at it from an innovation perspective any deployments internally just kind of playing just playing Good all right. We're here with Tony Pagli Rulo from EMC's IT vice president Practitioner extraordinaire Tony is great to have you on the Cube always really enjoy your perspectives very common sense Last thing for you For your peers that you talked to wanting to take this journey. What what advice would you would you leave them with? number one, I know I've said this a few times Get the executive commitment number one You know number two have a strong business case and a Plan a good plan a detailed plan and ensure that plan allows for you know rigorous testing Because even though we're aggressive and we're bleeding edge, you know, we go through a you know again a rigorous life cycle management process Excellent, so we Tony we've been watching the journey and you guys have been making phenomenal progress actually probably a little faster than we had thought to be honest with you and We'll keep watching and so thanks again for sharing your perspectives are great to have you on my pleasure. Good. See you again


In this lecture, we are checking theorem 1, multivariate normal. Now theorem 1 is basically what we have, we have to check it. If x is the multivariate normal with parameter mean mu and variance sigma, variance covariance matrix sigma, where sigma is a positive definite symmetric matrix, then z, now what we have z which is equals to variance covariance matrix minus 1 by 2 x minus mu. We have transformed our original variable. We are transforming our original variable. What was our original variable basically? We have pdf of x minus mu transpose sigma inverse x minus mu. Now what we have done here is that half is on this side, sigma inverse and half is here. So we have let this portion that we are transforming in a new variable. Why are we doing transformation? Because when we have to transform the variable, what is the result of that? Like we convert rupees in dollars, we are transforming them. So if we want to transform the original variable, then what is the effect in multivariate normal? We will check it. We have the distribution of x is multivariate normal. So what will be the distribution of the transformed variable? We are looking here. We are distributed as multivariate normal with mean vector zero and variance covariance matrix sigma. When we have standard normal multivariate normal? Also each component of z is a standard normal distributed independently from each other. That is z follows the multivariate normal distribution and each component of z follows the univariate standard normal distribution. So z follows multivariate standard normal distribution. We have the probability density function of multivariate normal distribution. This is the probability density function of multivariate normal under the transformation. Now that transformation which we have given in transformation, we will solve it further. This is the transformation. Now how to remove the jacobian? So we will get the answer of jacobian further when we apply it. We will find its jacobian. So its result is sigma minus 1 by 2. i.e variance covariance determinant of variance covariance matrix power minus 1 by 2. So this is the x minus mu. You have got this term. X minus mu transpose sigma inverse x minus mu. Whose equation is it? z transpose sigma inverse z is sigma minus 1 sigma minus 1 by 2 z. When we enter the values in it, basically how it is coming from here? If you have to remove the value of z of x minus mu, then this factor will go here. So the value of x minus mu will come. If we take it here, then what will happen? Sigma 1 by 2. So here you have z transpose sigma 1 by 2. This is sigma inverse as it is. X minus mu. We have seen its value. So sigma half into z. So from here you have basically removed the value of z. We have removed the value of x minus mu. We have entered it here. So sigma minus 1 sigma half sigma half sigma half sigma half variance covariance matrix. Half and half 1 is done. Minus 1 is the factor you have. This factor is 1. So here the z prime z is the result we have. Under the transformation of this.  And when we take the derivative with this, mod of z as it is. Now further f of z which is equal to this one. How did this happen? We have cancelled out the answer with this. So we have the remaining answer. But this is the density function of multivariate normal distribution with mean vector 0 and variance covariance matrix identity matrix. So x is the multivariate normal distribution with mean vector mu and variance covariance matrix sigma. When we have transformed it. See we have transformed it. After transformation what we have is that z is the standard normal multivariate with mean vector 0 and variance covariance matrix identity. Further f of z. We have found the value of f of z. Now how will you solve this further? We will write this. z i square sum and z i square. Now further we have capital pi. What will be the value of this? 1 by 2. Because p terms are here. Expected value of this. So each component of z is a standard normal variate distributed independently from each other. So what did we do in this? What did we follow? Multivariate normal distribution. So what we have transformed which also follows the multivariate normal distribution if x is following a univariate then what we have transformed we go to the variable univariate. If x follows the multinorm?? transform variable follows the mille normal distribution. That standard normal is following and we have also followed the standard normal multivariate distribution. इज अख आख पूलुस दी श्टन्दर नालमल वेर्ये दिस्टिभूँटे अंदेपनेडली फ्रुम इज अख़ा.


Welcome to the Valley Advocate Podcast, featuring interviews that take us deeper into the people and happenings on the local scene. For more podcasts and a closer look at what's going on in the valley, visit us at valleyadvocate.com. Hi, my name is Dave Eisencettare. I'm the editor of the Valley Advocate and welcome to our Valley Advocate Podcast. I'm here with our arts editor, Gina Bevers, and we're going to be talking to a guest today. Why don't you talk a little bit about what we got? Yes. We're going to speak with an absolutely fabulous artist. His name is Imaw Imay. He is a professor at Westfield State University. I could go into exactly what you do, but I don't remember, so we'll save that for a minute. But he's an incredible artist. I did a review on his show up at Deerfield Gallery at the Von Osberg Gallery. And I met him that day for the first time, and it was just a fabulous thing.  Yeah. Right. Yeah. Article. Yeah. We talked to some folks from shithole countries, as our president would call them, to show how there really are important people making important contributions from Africa, from Haiti, from El Salvador, and Imaw is one of them. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you so much. So remind me, what is it that you do at Westfield State? Well, I'm a professor of art and art history at Westfield State University, and I've been there. I'm in my eighth year there now, and I teach primarily art history, very specifically a general survey course, and then I deal with the arts of Africa and the African diaspora, African-American art, Afro-Caribbean, and so on and so forth, and so I'm exploring more studio-like courses and special arrangements with students that allow me to work as an artist at Westfield, but it's still very new to me. I enjoy dealing with the art history, even as a practicing artist. I'd love to hear how you put together your Forgotten Girls series, or I guess it's a series of series. I just know from Gina's piece, I haven't seen, except for some of the pieces that we ran, but I'd love just to hear how you thought this up and how you went about doing it. It started at Westfield State University.  I don't know which one came first. Same author who wrote and illustrated this horrendous text, and it's a nursery rhyme. We know it's for children and a cast of black girls is slowly eliminated, one by one.   There are derivations of this. There are children's books now called Ten Little Monkeys, and it's part of our social fabric. This story hasn't gone away, even though the word nigger has been eradicated from public space for the most part. It's frowned upon, but the sentiments behind the story is still very much a part of our culture, and I wanted to retell this story. The historian of me wanted to discuss it, and the artist in me wanted to discuss it, and so I found a way to do both, and with this series Ten Little Nigger Girls, and that is one part of the Forgotten Girls series. The other part is addressing the recently abducted Cheabot girls, girls from Cheabot Nigeria in 2014. You've probably heard about the mass abduction of these girls by the terrorist organization known as Boko Haram, and so what I wanted to do was just call a little more attention to these girls as girls that were once in social media and were very much alive, and even Michelle Obama and everybody was talking about them, and then it just kind of disappeared because somehow it happened far away and it's distant and it's not really here, but you still have all these girls that are being raped, that now have their own children, that are dead, that are still missing in the forest. And the ones that have returned are alienated and marginalized, because they're considered terrorists. Exactly. And there's a story that can go on, even as I've been working on this series, as people would ask me, like, well what are you, I'm doing, sorry, I didn't explain the series. The series is one image per girl, and because there's so many of them, 276, I've just segmented the girls into chapters at this point to deal with this various aspects of their disappearance, but their lives, but also the possibility that their presence in this forest of captivity is maybe even changing the space they're in. Maybe they're having a bigger impact on the space than the terrible impacts that the space may be having on them, and so it's somewhat in the realm of fantasy that I imagine and reimagine these girls, even because I don't know them, I don't even know what they look like, a lot of them. And so people would say, well what is going to happen when all the girls are found, well they're not all going to be found alive, and even if they were all found alive, that doesn't change the fact that this traumatic thing happened, and the historian of me says we need to document this. So you have to reimagine all these girls, and so if you plan on doing it, I was really struck by this, all 276, to humanize all these girls that we may never see again. Number one kind of a trite question, how long do you think that would take? I mean I don't even know if you would have an answer to that, because as an artist it's something that you really have to feel in order to create that particular portrait, or in 276 it could be a lifelong project. The control freak in me wanted this, I wanted to have a way to figure this out. And so I was like okay, there will be really really small drawings, and I started those. They are not small drawings. Well, the first ones I started, and then I'm like okay well maybe I can time the drawings, and so I did these larger drawings that were 276 minutes long, and I made a game of it so it's like I can't spend any more time than this, and really cool images came out of that, and then I'm like but wait, I want to use this, and I want to use that, and I want to paint, and now there's color. I'm very confused about the project, and what's interesting about it is that some part of it, almost like Michelangelo, I'm in no way putting my name in the same sentence as Michelangelo, let me just be very clear about that, he's one of my heroes, but Michelangelo would often say that when people would say well this sculpture looks incomplete, and how come you didn't finish the face, and he was very known for just half a face, an eye, whatever, and he's like the marble told me to stop, you know, and so somehow allowing the project itself, the materials to dictate what happens, there is something beautiful about that, and it's not just poetry, there really is something to be said about allowing the material to say, or the theme or the topic to just kind of let you go where it needs to go, so right now, now I'm working on large colorful images, and I think this will be for a chapter, but I still got a bunch of black and whites that I think for a chapter, and I have a graphite that I think is for a chapter, and it's going to be a very confusing looking project. But you know, but I think the beauty of it all is that it's very organic, even the show itself is very organic, it's just for the just the black and white of the 10 little nigger girls to the dash of colors, beautiful colors with the Cheabock girls, but there are also some black and whites in the Cheabock series as well as the Riott series. So we're going to really look forward to that, and there's something that's coming up on February 5th at Westfield State University. That's a really big deal. I don't know how this is going to go. It's going to be amazing.  What is it? So it is, so I started doing things on Facebook Live because it's there, and where I do like live paintings, and I just, you can like watch what somebody said, just literally just nothing there and something there. And it's kind of cool, like, oh my gosh, that's so amazing. It's not that amazing. I do this. It's really cool. It's like, okay, you do this. This is what I do is fun. All right. So and so because I don't have anything else to do with my life right now, I guess I've decided I've decided. Well, okay, the truth is there, there's I'm working on the 10 little nigger boys series right now. And this series has been particularly difficult for me. The girls were technically difficult to deal with this. Technically, I'm like I was limited to these materials, charcoal, Indian ink. I limited myself on purpose. I like playing games like that. Like, no, you can only work on this for four hours. You can only do it with this and force myself to work. The boys, I don't know what I'm doing. And so the boys now have color. They're structurally taller. They're six feet tall, seven feet tall.  It was originally going to be in my studio, but because of some interesting activity that's been happening on my campus as of late, as a black man on my campus, I'm like, no, no, no, this is going to happen here. And I think it should happen here. And we should have a conversation about race and our history, recent history. And so it's going to be a large scale portrait of Trayvon Martin, a case that really just still kind of screws with my mind. It just, I just the kind of rage that I felt just watching this case unfold and the things that were said, the things that were said about this boy. Destroying his I just there's certain things you don't do to people that have died and and my and people and people who profess Christ in particular. I'm a Christian man. The things that were said, the things that were posted. And there is this almost like a veil of there's a veil of perceived anonymity that you have on social media. People, your face is there on the icon and everything, but there's some way you feel like it's not really me. And they just say things, things that were said. And I'm imagining his family reading these things and just tearing his character apart. And I didn't see it as any different from from the the lynchings of the early 1900s, the idea of the body, even in death, not having sanctuary and the taking a part of the body. And so I wanted to do, I wanted to deal with the Trayvon Martin case in a special way. And I'm going to do a live large portrait of him wearing a crown of cicadas and it's titled 17 years boy, the cicada insect as an as an allusion to a representation of the amount of time that Trayvon stayed alive on earth, talking about the life cycle of the cicada insect. Its nymph stays underground for 17 years and they come out and they made and you think they should live longer and that's it. And there's something short lived about them, but there is an expectation of more and they're even remnants that they existed. They're skins or shed and exoskeletons and whatnot, but the thing is gone. The sounds were there and now they're gone. And there's something about that that I'm kind of fusing with Trayvon Martin as a way of dealing with it, maybe maybe in a in a maybe in a poetic way, you know, but it's going to be a live portrait and it's going to start on February 5th. It's a time-based project that will be 17 hours long, which I've decided to split up over four days, each day representing a season, a season of a year. So each hour representing a year, right, and each day representing a season. And so it's a whole installation. There's going to be a portrait gallery. If everything goes away, I wanted to a portrait gallery of other boys. This has happened to it's not a Trayvon Martin project. It is inspired by him and really a larger conversation about the ways in which America still sees, even in its denial, still sees young black men. It's a very specific conversation because we can have a conversation about the ways in which America sees black men in general and we can have a conversation about the ways in which and it's a very distinct thing.  These are very distinct things.  Slavery ended. Obama is president. Damn it. I'm sorry.  I'm telling you that you are you are you are digging into history to rile things up, but for no reason. And I'm telling you like I'm I'm telling these people. I'm like, you would have to think I never I hate touting things, but Columbia graduate, departmental honors, Yale, PhD, Masters, PhD. I I am the definition of bootstrap pulling if you want to have that conversation, you know, son of Nigerian immigrants. Let's have this conversation. Why would I be telling you that race is a problem if it's not a problem? You know, and so I'm hoping that the conversation I'm hoping that conversations will happen. I'm not looking for everyone to agree with me. I really don't care. It's not my business. My issue is bringing these things up as an historian and as an artist and using the tools that God has given me to create a platform for discussion. And I hope that's what happens. I have so two things. So what you were mentioning, you were talking about some current event type stuff that's going on a Westfield that kind of inspired you to be more out there or outside with your art. I love if you could talk a little about that and also curious about your reaction to the the shithole country's remark and kind of how you seem to be someone who is really just your art is affected by what you hear in the news that you read. And I just kind of want I just want to hear your thoughts on that. Well, I mean, I don't believe that that we can be very specific. I don't believe that, you know, President Donald Trump's shithole comments about nations in Africa. I mean, you may not realize there are other nations. Africa is not a nation, you know, but nations in Africa and Haiti. That his shithole comments are not in many ways disconnected from the things that are happening not only at Westfield, but across a number of colleges in the United States. This is not it's not a not just a Westfield problem. There is a there has been a sleeping dragon.  We are our heads hurt.  This is wonderful. Perfectly liberal school. This is Massachusetts. Come on. Stop it. Stop it. Just stop. It's here. It's at Framingham. It's everywhere. You just started in a conversation I had with you described as a humidity. And we described as like a front move. Right. The humidity is always there, but the front moves in. Right, right, right. And the humidity rises. It's just the weather. Right, right. And the humidity is high right now. And it's very high. It's very, very high. And it's sticky and it's tangible and the students sense it and they feel it. But it's not disconnected from our president because our president has said things. Words actually matter. Words really do matter. And the and the people from from whom the words are said. The people who say these words, that matters, too. It matters when when you have when you have an election cycle that was that fiery. And there was nobody to speak calm to the masses afterwards. Nobody. And it's not. I don't know if it's that nobody could as much as I don't think that he or anybody in that I don't think they have the capacity to. And and and so for me, what what what has happened on Westfield campus from racial slurs being written on on which I will say I will say our president and and and and Westfield State in general has have done an incredible job addressing the situation. And this is I mean, it's a hot situation, but I don't know if you can get more direct than then setting up a podium outside of the hall where it happened at five or six a.m. in the morning, evacuating said hall and forcing an assembly of those students who are probably still half asleep and dealing with it. I don't know how more direct you can get with it. And I think he's he's leaped over hurdles dealing with this. This is new. There's something that's different in the air right now. And I think people are trying to deal the best that they can, you know. But this is happening everywhere. Cornell, just go around just Google, check the Google. And so for me, so for me, this this whole comment and I say the word, I'm not someone who likes to casually curse. But I say the word because our president said it. We are in a place now where we have to take our hands and shield our children's ears when he gives public what he gives features.  What's the state of the union address is about to how many earplugs do we need to put in our children's ears? We we had I mean, you're talking about words matter. We had a pretty we had a discussion about, you know, we put the word shithole on the cover of the Valley Advocate and we didn't do that lightly. That was that just what you're saying about these words and how the president is really setting the tone on this. It almost seems like we're apologizing for him. For to our readers for our president. And I don't think he really deserves that kind of apology from us. I agree with you. And I don't believe in the I don't it's as difficult as it is. OK, so is there let me make a point, make a point, make a make any point. Is there a bridge too far? Are there are there news and news outlets that just because he said it? Well, we're reporting it at all day. The next day is like it was a reason to use this language, very colorful language on. Yes, there is that there is that. Let's not play with each other. We know that happens or so. But I think I think somehow bleeping out. It's not so different from the whole idea of, you know, when my my show is all connected, my 10 little nigger girls, you know, that is the title of this series. But we're very uncomfortable with that word. But that word exists. We're still having battles about this word. And that word existed in history. And at least I'm doing you the favor of editing it with the cross. Yeah. So it's not so different. Why are we editing? Why do we edit what has happened? And in so many ways, America wants to say or tout that it's it's somehow better than China or North Korea, right? Absolutely. And I'm not saying that we aren't. But if we are, one of the first things we should be doing is dealing with our history in accurate terms and not obliterating it and not whitewashing it. Forget the word and not trying to erase portions of history, sanitizing our history. Like, well, the way I remember it, no, the way the way it was. Oh, well, I always love Muhammad Ali. No, you didn't know. Oh, come on. Well, I think that's a natural. Yeah. I don't know. Not for me and not for most people that I know, but it tends to be a natural convention for people to want to make things better, seem better than they were. Yeah. I mean, you think about Roy Moore and when he said that, you know, back in the old days, life was great because even when there was slavery, there was families and they took care of each other. Make America great. Make America great again. So it's this need, this desire to not have to face what is real in terms of race, because we were built on slavery. Wow. It was built. This country was built on the backs of slaves and then to have to live side by side. It doesn't go away. It's a generational thing. People think kids, all millennials are so much better. Now, not necessarily, not necessarily because they're learning from generation to generation to generation from, from their parents, from their grandparents and from the media, because all you have to do is look at anything on television. You're not going to see too many brown faces. So people, I always think that, you know, people like, oh, we've crossed so many barriers.  It's right there. It's it's right there. So this this whitewashing of history, it seems very natural to me. I studied history. It seems very natural the way that we were taught history even through graduate school. It's it's the social it's the social his social history at that point in time was an addendum. All that really mattered was wars in government. So, you know, wow. So I so I understand completely what you're saying, you know, it's I don't prefer I prefer not to say the whole because that's just me. Yeah, right.  For me, it's not an excuse to him. Yeah. For him, rather. It's it's just that I don't see. I don't see it as I don't fault anybody for for for opting not. It's I don't fault anybody for saying it. I'm kind of like, yeah, it's it's it's it's it's I was worried about sharing the article, you know, because it's thank you so much that my picture is the first one that shows up. But it's like it's like my face and then chill. I'm like, oh, this is this is my mom and my dad are going to be very proud. Thank you. Thank you, I'm a dad, you know, but it's just it's just something that but this is again, but this is where we are. This is where we are. This is where we are. We are here. You know, we've always been here. Right. It's just the humidity has risen. Yeah.  We both worked on it. But, you know, I think that kind of highlighting the positives is kind of a way to to fight against that kind of tide of history and racism and just to show how important all members of the community are and bringing people, you know, and focusing on people who who are whose families have immigrated themselves, they've immigrated to say, you know, one of the things that stood out to me that the people that I participated in my interviews was that this is a country of immigrants, this is a country of immigrants.  Irish Americans, German Americans, it just it's just so fascinating to me. But we can't seem to move past this black and white issue. We can't see we get past it. No. And it's it's dividing. It's it's it's it's dividing. It's fascinating. I do it without mentioning anything about I won't go too deep about where I worship and everything else. But this is it's it is fascinating to kind of watch things in real time to realize that some of these very ideas that are reprehensible, you know, are among people who, you know, who profess Christ or who raise hands up in the church. Your next it's very it's scary and it's worrisome.  I was given the gift of art to interpret it, but more so to create it. And so I'm hoping that with the the little bit that I can do, I I will not impact policy.  I don't I don't know. But but there's nothing that I will do that will impact policy. But if we can start having more conversations like this, I mean, the more we start stop erasing and start kind of addressing. I think that this does amount for healing. And the last thing I'll say about this is one of my students on campus spoke to me. She interviewed me to for a paper. She was right in criminal justice student. She's like, I didn't know about Colin Kaepernick and all this other stuff. And I just want to your ideas. It's the white girl. She's so cute. And she was like, and she we're talking, but she was a sweetheart, you know, and we're talking. And and and she's like, how do you think this ends? What should we do?  Right. This is like freaking 1818 hundreds here, you know, and it's scary for black students now. And I told her, I think we all need a little bit of grace. We all need to offer just a little more grace. It's not something you hear any of the news outlets talking about Fox to MSNBC. Nobody talks about grace about the idea that you have to give a little in terms of space and room for people to make mistakes for them to give you a little for the same, you know, and I'm just hoping that the project I'm working on on Westfield's campus between February 5th and 8th will offer not just a platform, but the possibility of grace. I can't wait. I can't wait to see it. Well, maybe we'll just leave it there. And so, yeah, that's that's great. So thank you so much for thank you for coming in. And this is a lot of fun. I think it was fun later. Yeah. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks for listening. And don't forget to visit us at valleyadvocate.com.


Alright, welcome back. It is still the run up and we're having a very talented young man with us this morning. He is a musical artist. He also creates content, does many things. You know these talented people, you know the way to catch them. And with us this morning is Colour Boy. Hello Colour Boy, good morning. Okay, your name is Colour Boy and when I heard about you the first time I was like does it you call her a lot or what? Why did you decide to use the name Colour Boy as your stage name as a pair? Yeah, I've gotten a question like that a lot. When I was starting my career independently, one of the first songs I recorded back then was called Orgy. I mean why Colour Not? Colour Not from the word Colour Not. So Colour Not means Orgy in Ibo language. I thought the first trap was Colour Was Orgy which means Colour Not. And then Colour Not represents something great in, where I come from, the East. There is literally no meeting without a Colour Not. So there is a saying, he who brings Colour brings life. I recorded that song. I found out that people started calling me Colour Boy. I wasn't there in the name Colour Boy then. I was there in the name Onyx. But somehow someway people started calling me Colour Boy and then at the point I just had to switch to and I got a real meaning from the word Colour, from the Colour Not meaning. It actually made so much sense to go with the name Colour Boy here. Alright, let's talk about the recent tour that you went for at the East. You had just come back from Enugu and of course you have a very recent body of work. Your EP had just dropped and unfortunately I couldn't be there for the listening party but just tell us about it, the listening party and the EP. Okay, the listening party was held last, that should be last two weeks in Enugu Stames. The title of the EP is Colour from the East. Five songs featuring Flavor, Annie Dawn's, MCO and Ojadilibu. The idea of the EP was actually to create something that kind of bridges the gap between the old ancestral sound and the modern sound. Just like the song by Maliq and the one that was dropped before the EP. I found out that even if the song was able to cut across both the old and the new, so everybody could relate to the song. It's not just like it was made for the older generation, it was made just for the new generation. So what my brand is trying to do is to bring that ancestral sound and then more like the future of the ancestral sound and the new modern sounds. Okay, Colour, we like a situation in Plus TV where we bring people that are not that... The Nigerian Palence is blue, you know, never blue like that. But we like to discover talents and sell the talents to the world. But the world that we want you to be a part of will have to make very informed choices in the political space. And we're wondering with the influence that you're beginning to gather, you know, when you're collaborating with Flavor and the rest of the big names, it means that you're somewhere there. We are wondering how much of this influence you're also using to educate people of your ilk, people of your type, people of your kind of profession and all that to get involved in electioneering in politics and making sure especially that the defining year of 2023 is what we want it to be, to take Nigeria to El Dorado.  I would say, like, from my own end, I've been doing everything I could, you know, to sensitize people about how important it is to get involved in, you know, exercising their rights as citizens of Nigeria, the ones that are of age, we've been involved in activities, a whole lot of them, trying to sensitize people to get their PVCs and everything to get ready for voting because we can't just keep complaining every time we're the youth, we have to be fully involved. And I've done a couple of things too, you know, during the registration was going on, I had to go down to a lot of locations, you know, because I feel when you are an influential person, people tend to like, it's kind of, every move or every activity you get involved in kind of influences a lot of people who come to you. So I had to go, even though I had registered before, I still had to make some moves and go to just let people know that, okay, this is the right thing for us to do. And I would keep doing such too, yeah, I would keep doing such, yeah. Yeah, but you know, 23-3 is coming, I'm just wondering, if you were to select a president, what kind of qualities would you want in a president as a person now? First of all, I think someone, we first of all, we need a younger person, right? We need a younger person and then we need someone that has a different ideology and perspective of the whole thing about governance. Because what we've had so far, we've had people that had this tribal mentality and we've had people that actually, we've had selfless leaders to be sincere. We need someone that understands the fact that what we need now is just to rebuild a country that is almost gone and not someone that is no center or someone that wants, because that's the word we always hear, we very much want to go there to get a national kick and that's not the kind of person we need here right now. We need someone that understands, that understands the mess that the country is in right now. Someone that actually understands that this is beyond religion, this is beyond capitalism, this is beyond ethnicity, this is, I don't know, it's not what I mean though. I'm not the one to share the right terminologies and put just someone that is selfless. Alright, thank you so much Colour Boy.  It's a very beautiful thing actually for a young man in your age brackets to understand the place of culture and it's also beautiful to know that you're very interested in the political end of things also, you're not just in the entertainment sector, you're using your influence to be a part of politics and governance. That is a very beautiful thing. Thank you so much Colour Boy for coming on the run-up this morning and we have your video on Malichad that will be coming up very soon. We hope that you continue the great work that you're doing. Thank you very much, I appreciate it. Well ladies and gentlemen, you're watching us right now and before the news you saw the lofty things that a young lady was doing, Grace and Quachar there was doing something with the young ones in Ajegunle and hopes to replicate all this in all the local governments of Lagos state and possibly the entire Nigeria. You too can do something no matter how young you are. Colour is doing it, Grace is doing it, what are you doing? Well, as we wrap up, I hope that tomorrow that you're going to be a part of the program again. My name is Nyamgul Agadje. And as we round up with our Malicha video, my name is Uche Chuku Onadu to have yourself a wonderful day ahead.


So I relapsed with alcohol, unboxing the day.  I don't think I'm really more ashamed how I feel about that. I genuinely feel like I've let everyone down. It's embarrassing, because I was happy sober. I never wanted to drink. I don't know why I drank so much.  I bought the name for my entire family. It's so embarrassing that I've drank a bottle of vodka. I don't even know what I was thinking. Like, what good could come from... I was already drunk. And then I went and had more and more and more. I don't know why I drank an entire bottle of vodka. Especially because I don't enjoy being drunk and it makes me anxious. And I didn't have my meds either that day. So it's just one of those things that happened. I didn't relapsed with cocaine or anything like that, so I guess that's good. I'm nearly at five years sober for cocaine, which is a huge rim, but alcohol has set me back to zero. I have that to be unhappy about. I don't see drinking just making me suicide at all. I don't want to be suicidal. I don't want to be drunk. I don't want to drink alcohol. It brings no joy. It didn't help. I didn't take my meds that day, because you can't drink on Palo Palo Palo at all. I don't think you can drink on lithium. I know you can't drink on vortiox, and he even draws on it. I literally slept the entire day after Boxing Day, so the effect that it had on me was not worth the action. My hair's gone really curly today. But yeah, alcohol and me don't mix. Alcohol just makes me feel suicide. And honestly, that night I did contemplate taking all my hyperprofen, because I had two boxes of hyperprofen, because of my migraines. And I can't take the para-situ more, so hyperprofen is. I don't have any code eating with me because it's... But I did have a good Christmas Day, and it was my scene on my family. But I did have a good Christmas, and just let myself down on Boxing Day by drinking a lot of vodka. My message to anyone out there who's considering drinking alcohol for the first time, don't drink a bottle of vodka. You will pour. I just want to say sorry to anyone that I've let down, and I hope you know that you're not alone. We all have slipper-pops. Nobody is perfect. There is no perfect recovery.  And I'll see you in my next video. Peace.


Do y'all even like, recognize this face? It's been a very long time. It seems like probably over a month, I couldn't even tell you. Here's my explanation and I'll leave it at that. Your boy here got busy. Simple. Your boy here got busy. I had trips here, there, here, there and I had to focus on the main channel. Well, obviously no more trips. I mean, where am I gonna go? People telling me to stay in the crib. So I haven't gone anywhere and I missed the Game of Basketball so much. I've been watching so many highlights. I got this thing going on on Twitter. If you follow me there, I'm tweeting out highlights of just random, random NBA players. We did Jamal Tinsley, Meadow O'Core, Roger Roberson. Just the most random NBA players you can think of. I'm sitting here watching their highlights and clipping them and putting them on Twitter. So I was like, if I'm just gonna watch highlights anyway because we don't have basketball, I might as well bring back KLT for Q-Reacts. So I'm gonna try my hardest to keep this going just because there's no hoops and the only hoops we can get are these highlight channels. So shout out to everybody clipping highlights and everything. Today's video, we have NBA Wow moments. Moments that make you say wow. So let's see if I say wow. Leave a like on the video, by the way, because we back and share it with your friends. I mean, we watching highlights. We all love basketball, don't we? I know this moment and this is a moment that definitely made me say wow, watching it live. Every little thing had to go correct for this to happen. Literally everything had to go correct for this to happen. I think they end up losing this game in OT. Jason Tatum had to miss it perfectly. James Harden had to miss it perfectly. Marcus Smart had to continue to be a bull. Jaylen Brown had to be able to catch that and shoot it on the fly. Everything had to be perfect and it made me say wow, one for one. This one is Steph Curry, first game back. That is a wow type moment. But the craziest thing is that's not even the craziest shot Steph Curry has hit in recent history. I would love to say welcome back, but obviously none of us are watching or playing basketball, so I can't even say welcome back. Steph Curry, that's a nasty shot though. Okay, this is a Russel Weisberg done down the lane. First of all, Montrez here was so undersized. They call it a block, which is beautiful. I mean, to make it feel a lot better if they weren't losing by 20, shout out to Montrez. Shout out to Montrez for being able to, being willing to try to stop Russel Weisberg at the rim like that. Because not many people would jump in front of Russel Weisberg. That's all I'm saying, he will end up on a post-it. Oh, he didn't inbound it? Yes, okay. So I'm happy that these wow moments are just like game winners and stuff. It's just moments, like this is a wow moment because LeBron's like the greatest ever do it and he didn't inbound the ball. I love this jersey. I love these courts and this is when he tried to go under Cal Laury. I mean under Cal Laury tried to go under George Hill, bro. What was he doing? I don't understand it. Let's think about this. Where was this man's intention on that play? You know, he got the caboose. The caboose is not gonna make it between George Hill's legs. Come on, man. Like what? And he looked at the ref like, okay, is this George Hill foul? No, you're being weird. So what we got here? James Harden with the ball, down by 10 against the Charlotte Hornets. He gives it up to Jeff Green. I'm so confused on what are we wowing about? The wow moment was the call. He got a Kajupa double with turnovers, next. I've never seen that one. I ain't seen that one. Teres Davis is one of those dudes that I really like watching, man. I got like a rookie card where he with his autograph on it, shout out to Teres Davis, man. Very underrated player coming into the season. Obviously he went undrafted. He's been making himself known though. Making himself known. And that's why I was so happy when KLT for Q got drafted to the Raptors, if you know, you know. Rondo, nice pass to Cal Kuzma. That's the flukeous, that's the flukeous Slim Shady Kuzma. Like it's like he got stripped and it goes there. He should just do that more often than Lakers fans probably won't be on his head as much, for real. Okay, back to Boston. Jalen Brown got Matisse on him. Matisse is that defender. Bo, whoa, yeah. You heard me? I didn't say wow, but I said, whoa. Jalen Brown mixed tape season. And that's a very good defender he did it to. Wow, yeah, that's a wow moment. Oh, wait, wait. Okay, what am I, what am I? This moment, okay. I had to be at this game, y'all. I had to be at this game. I am a Bulls fan with season tickets. What happened on this play? I don't know.  All right, let's play it. All the time out by Jim Boylan on the break. It's like a 50 degrees in my basement, so I got like this blanket down here. You know what? We're just gonna ignore it. I don't even wanna wait on it. Luckily we ended up winning this game, but like you just took two points off the board and even Luca was laughing at this one, right? Right, yeah, Luca was laughing at this one because like we just got two points that were taken off the board because coach went to call time out, fire that man. Look, Luca laughing at him because that's incompetence. All right, Kawhi Leonard got PJ Tucker on him, shaking him up a little bit and the dunk. Kawhi's story is crazy. Kawhi's story crazy, man. So that's a Kawhi. Makes me wanna better my craft because he better his craft. Like that's something Kawhi couldn't do five years ago. Just like being able to dribble like that between his legs twice. I've always been able to jump. Okay, first off to start the game. What's the wow moment? Neither of them got the ball. That ain't a great start. That definitely ain't a great start but at least Anthony Dave's laughing about it because he knows that that's crazy. LeBron was not laughing though. Okay, we have Lou Will. Sweet Lou. I mean that looks like a normal rim grazer because it kinda is but it's Lou Williams doing it. Because you know he's kinda up there in age and he's also just like six foot. So to see him dunk is pretty good. Lonzo. Yes, Alice Caruso catching him at the rim. Yeah. I guess it is Caruso City. It used to be Lonzo City but no it's Caruso City, man. Shout out to Alice Caruso. Fan favorite around the world. Not just here. Luca and one. And one, Luca. Come on, man. I think Corey Joe is laughing because he knows how fluky that is. Like there's nothing you can do about it. That's just a lucky shot right there. What can you do about it? And luckily it's early in the game so at the end of the day these two points may not have mattered too much.  He is strong. He probably missed the second free throw too. I'm just being honest. That's kinda what he do. But yeah, I think I saw something on Reddit that said like a lot of percentage of Zion's misses are rebounded by Zion and he goes back up with them. Like he just gets his own rebound. Like he's just patting his offensive rebound of stats. Back to Boston. A lot of wild moments happen in Boston. It seems like Mark is smart. What you gotta do with this ball? Good pass. Okay, okay. I never really noticed that this man wears the number 43. It's a very weird number, but he plays in Boston and pretty much every number is retired in Boston. So you gotta make it what you got. And 43 is the number this man's wear right now. It's just not a good basketball looking number. Shout out to Green though. Javante, right? Javante? This is two times in one video. Had to be added an error, but that's fine. It is a wild moment. Two times wild. Two times wild. Yeah, unless he just had to play very similar. And he just added them apart from each other. Oh, this is LeBron's like fade away post for the game. Basically, he iced the game with this one. Yep. This was a good game on that Sunday, man. Wow, I miss basketball so much, bro. Sunday showcases, Thursday nights, every night, basically. All right, what do we have here? Yoke has been double teaming us off. Cody Martin. I think that might be the other Martin brothers. Both of them, number 10 and number 11, they identical twins. I get them mixed up. Off his back for a bucket. Was that Jamal Murray? I think that was Jamal. Nope, it wasn't Jamal Murray. Okay, it was Will Bard. Shout out to Will Bard. Did I say Jamal Murray? I ain't trying to think about Jamal Murray right now. No, no, no. Ja! He tried it. Shout out to Anthony Davis risking his body. Draws the offensive foul, but I'm pretty sure the Lakers end up losing this game. Pretty sure the Lakers end up losing this game, like bad too. And I'm pretty sure it was LeBron's first game back after missing a game. If I'm not mistaken. But that's a great charge drawn by AD, but another body trying to be taken by Ja. Mixed tape. Mixed tape, Mr. Ferg. Twisting and turning kind of an awkward shot. Okay. I mean, I guess technically that could be a wow moment. It's just like, he's so stiff with everything he does, but he just, he makes it work. He just makes it work. The pass. I was calling him in Pele for like the first, oh, I still just this moment, but I just heard his name was Pell. Somebody on Instagram, literally DM me saying, Kenny, what do you think about, what's the name, Norvel Pell, I guess? Man, miss two, he blew two easy layups. Come on now. I understand potentially missing the first one, but the second one too. Oh, South Yorkers for this one. They got blown out this game, but that's a great shot. That's a great shot. That's a good shot. Is it a wow shot? Would I say it's a wow shot? Probably not, but it is a good one. It's a good one. Next one. Tray Young. Oh, yes. Yes, when I, I didn't watch this game live, but when I saw it, you know, HOH shout out to House of Highlights, I was like, come on, Trevor Reza, bro. Don't be, don't be like this. Oh, you feel so disrespected that the young dude went between your legs. Get, don't let him do it there. That's not what you do. And I think at the end of the game, they talked and it's all, it's all cool now. But like, that's not how you do things. Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. This was a wow moment because I remember watching this and this is a very obvious goal, Tim. I really go bare. And because of the support of the Troll Blades of Lost because you can't review, you can't review those plays because nothing was called. And that was the second time this season. Rudy Gobert got away with a game winning goal, Tim. Zion just ripped it from him. That's a wow moment. Oh, Zion is strong. Okay, we get it. Zion is strong. Is that wow though? I guess it kind of is. Cause it's Giannis. It's against Giannis. It's not just some random guy. Okay. That is a wow moment. Shout out to Zion, man. Shout out to Zion. Okay. Those were the wow moments. I see smartest plays with a Chris Paul. Hey fam, we may have to hit that one up in the future. Hold on. Can I add it to the list? I'm gonna add it to the list. If you enjoyed the video, leave it a like. We're trying to do our reactions pretty often around here. So I'll be back soon.


Hi I'm YN2 Dylan Green with the Navy Blue Angels. I work in the administrative department. And I'm YN2 Jennifer Hoskins. I also work in the Blue Angels administrative department and we also work for the music committee. Today we have a question from Michelle Demos from Indiana. Michelle is asking how do you pick the music for our performances? Well once a week we get together the music committee and the pilots to go through with some of the popular songs today and we pick some of our favorites. Absolutely. So we sit down at these music meetings once a week pick our favorites and then we put slow maneuvers with slow songs fast maneuvers with fast songs and then we watch the video of these played back at the end of the day and if it works out and the pilots like it we go from there and everything works out. So thank you Michelle for your question and I hope to see you at the show. Bye.


I have done a number of things. We have started a MAP ABC program to make sure that there is a register of prescription drugs so that different doctors know what other doctors are prescribing a specific patient so they can't do serial prescriptions of opioid drugs. We've also made a prescription for every Pennsylvanian of naloxone so that if an emergency responder sees somebody who is suffering from an overdose and dying, they can actually prevent them from dying with a simple injection or even a nasal spray of naloxone. Our state police have been given naloxone. Capital police have been given naloxone. A number of pharmacies have already volunteered to make the prescriptions available so we're doing a lot of things to address the the heroin epidemic. Most of all continuing to make the point that this is a disease just like heart disease, diabetes, cancer. This is a disease that last year, 2014, took more than we more people than died on our highways. We need to address this disease to make sure that we are addressing this this epidemic in the way that we should.


When a lot of people think about markets, what they have in mind are multinational corporations, enormous investment banks, Wall Street, these institutions that shuffle huge sums of money around the world. And those things are certainly part of markets, and they emerge on top of markets. But when libertarians talk about markets, when we say we defend free markets, we have something far simpler in mind. So if you have a society where people are free, where they have the freedom to make their own choices about their own lives, and you have a system of property rights, so I can be sure that what's mine is mine, and what's yours is yours, then we can encourage exchange. And exchange is when I see that you've got something that I would like, and I've got something that you would like, and we say, you know what, I think both of us would be better off if we swapped these. We can contrast this with the other ways that I could go about getting something that you have that I would like, which would be I could steal it from you. I could get someone else to steal it from you. I could defraud you by saying, look, I'm going to give you this thing that is super valuable, but it's really not, and get the thing from you. But in a market exchange, in a free, uncoerced exchange, we both go into it knowing what we're going to get, and we both come out of it happier than we were before. And that's what libertarians mean by markets, is that simple, active exchange that when aggregated over and over again forms the basis of the economy, forms the system that makes us all so much wealthier, so much happier, so much healthier. And so it's that simple, active exchange, uncoerced, multiplied over and over again, that libertarians mean by markets.