Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am General Norville, this edition's top stories. The Government of St. Lucia to enact a legislation to facilitate its digital transformation agenda. Banana Farmers receives a much needed assistance from the Taiwanese technical mission. And the Ministry of Health and Wellness receives a donation of reusable face masks from the Sandals Foundation. The Government of St. Lucia remains committed to the digitization of the public service with a recent launch of St. Lucia's Digital Integrated E-Services Platform, an online one-stop government shop. The platform is geared towards enhancing the Government's service delivery to citizens, businesses, investors and other governments. DG Gov is designed to aggregate 154 services across 9 ministries and 13 government agencies to facilitate online applications, payments and to monitor progress of government services anywhere, anytime. The Minister for Transport indicated that in order to facilitate the Government's digital transformation agenda, key legislation must be enacted. A modern and responsive legal regulatory framework is paramount to the success of the digital transformation agenda. Minister for Economic Development, Housing, Urban Renewal, Transport and Civil Aviation, Honourable Guy Joseph, indicated that as the Government seeks to streamline public service processes through the use of ICT, it is necessary to ensure that the business climate in St. Lucia has the necessary legal and regulatory support to facilitate a fair and efficient public service delivery. The Government has begun this process with the partial commencement of the Electronic Transaction Act No. 16 of 2011, which came into effect on 25 June 2020. The Minister indicated that the Government is also working towards the partial commencement of the Data Protection Act of 2011, as it is another key piece of legislation to support the implementation of the DG Gov platform. A total of $110,650 have been collected from the DG Gov platform since it went live on 25 June 2020, and these revenues are going into the Government's consolidated fund. As of the 19th of June, we had 167 persons registered on the platform. As of the 17th of July, which is just a little less than a month, we have 753 persons registered on the DG Gov platform and accessing services. So far, Mr. Speaker, 257 people who use the platform made payments. Come into the counter at the Ministry, a total of $71,475. An online payment, a bank of St. Lucer, 145 persons made online payments, totaling $39,175. In August 2020, more services are to be added, including applications for driver's license, learner's permits, issuer provisional driver's license, renewal of learner's permits, registration for driver's practical and theory tests, and renewal of driver's licenses to name a few. Also in August, under Phase 3 of the project, applications of Omnibus Endorsement, Omnibus Learners Permit, renewal of Omnibus Learners Permit, registration of Omnibus Driver's Practical and Theory Tests. Minister Honourable Joseph explained that since the launch of the platform, individuals applying for renewal of replacement driver's licenses have been able to receive their licenses in a three to five day period with an email or text notification that it was ready for collection. The Transport Minister added that a number of steps have been taken to facilitate the quickest delivery of service, including the establishment of an express line at the Department of Transport. The division is now offering a service of online to the public. These services are now available 24-7, making it easier and more convenient for persons to access the services and thus reducing the processing time. There are two services that are currently online, as we have already indicated, the replacement of driver's license. The division has service bureau agents on the floor facilitating the process of online application and processing of payments using debit cards for renewal and replacement. So you can fill it out online and you can go to the ministry in person. There will be an agent to just swipe your card if you don't pay from your card at home or at another institution. The minister indicated that additional services are to become available on the digital platform in November 2020 and February 2021, as the project is being implemented using a two-year 2020-2021 phased approach. Citizens are expected to have online access to 154 services, the ability to apply, pay, monitor and track transactions, ask or address queries with the click of a button by the end of December 2021. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. Director of the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO Dr. Carissa Etienne, is urging the countries of the Americas and the Caribbean region not to let their guard down as they seek to reopen their borders. Citing spikes in COVID-19 cases in several countries, Dr. Etienne indicated that countries must avoid thinking that they must make a choice between reopening economies and protecting the health and well-being of their people. The director noted that there is a new issue emerging where countries' health services are being disrupted as health workers are redirected to care for COVID-19 patients and people hesitate to seek routine care due to fares of infection and global supply chains of medicines and equipment are strained. Within every country in our region, health workers are being redirected to care for the influx of COVID-19 patients. Many of them have gotten sick themselves as they tend to those in need and without doctors and nurses available to offer other essential services at the first level of care such as pregnancy-related care and management of chronic conditions like diabetes or infectious diseases such as HIV, TB, and malaria, these services are severely disrupted or, worse yet, halted entirely.  Some may even assume that care is not available and postpone the help they need, often worsening their health situation. Additionally, our clinics and hospitals are still struggling to stock their shelves with the medicines and personal protective equipment that they need as the pandemic has strained global supply chains and slowed global trade. The director asserted that a prolonged response to the pandemic must include provision of other essential life-saving services. Paho is calling on countries to adapt to this new situation by re-engineering how essential care is delivered and investing in the first level of care using telemedicine home visits and community outreach programs to support vulnerable populations. Countries must adapt and commit to simultaneously providing these essential primary care services while at the same time mitigating the effects of COVID-19. Again, this is not an either or choice. Rather, governments must strike that careful balance for public health. National leadership must create the pathway for the future. Over the last few months, Paho has shared best practices and worked hand-in-hand with governments to make adjustments, whether big or small, to be able to do just that. Director of Paho, Dr. Carissa A.T.N. Community members in need around the island to be provided with free protective care aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19. More in this report from Fernelle Neptune. The Ministry of Health and Wellness recently received the donation of reusable masks from the Sandals Foundation to assist community members with maintaining and adhering to the protocols for managing COVID-19. The reusable masks will be made available at various wellness centers around the island and will be distributed to people who have limited or no access to masks. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sharon Belma George expressed heartfelt gratitude to the Sandals Foundation for the donation and says it will play a significant part in protecting the health of our citizens during this COVID-19 pandemic. Our teams within the community have been indicating that especially at the level of community, there's a lack of adherence to the use of face masks and the foundation has taken up in a very proactive measure, instead of just complaining about it, to provide us with support to reduce this possible problem. So by providing us with 1500 face masks, we'll now be able to work at the level of the community and to provide face masks to them free of charge because of this donation and to support and to strengthen the use of masks at the level of the community. Public Relations Manager of Sandals Grand, Judy D. Tilville says the foundation is dedicated to making the health of the community a priority and responding to the situation of COVID-19 in St. Clauchin. Today we're looking at our assistance through I want to say community and the foundation has risen to every occasion I suppose I want to say because in times of need, in times of natural disaster and in this disaster certainly we want to assist the process as well of helping people to meet and maintain the protocols that will assist in saving lives. The Sandals Foundation made a donation of 1,500 masks valued at 10,000 EC dollars. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Fennel Neptune. The Taiwanese technical mission through the Banana Productivity Improvement Project is assisting banana farmers as they continue to battle several challenges impeding their productivity. Anisia Antoine tells us more. The Taiwanese technical mission through the Banana Productivity Improvement Project, BPIP, has been improving farmers productivity and revitalizing the banana industry in St. Lucia with a view of restoring the confidence of the farmers following the outbreak of the Black Sikotoka disease. With domestic banana production being negatively impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic and further compounded by the dry spell, the Government of St. Lucia through the BPIP has been assisting farmers with the upkeep of their plantations. Officers attached to the Banana Productivity Improvement Unit, Elkhana Janki, explained that approximately 12,000 litres of oil and 9,000 bags of fertilizer have been distributed to farmers to date. The Government through the BPIP have provided the support to farmers with regards to one treatment of fertilizer, one application of fertilizer, at 250 kg bags per acre or 425 kg bags per acre along with one treatment of oil fungicide mix for the control of Black Sikotoka and that is free. However, in order for the farmers to be qualified for the support, the farms must be in condition. You must rehabilitate it if the farm is abandoned or semi-abandoned, you have to clean it up and the farm must be at a level to show that you're in production. Crop Protection Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Cletus Alexander explained that the Government of St. Lucia adopted an integrated approach to control the spread of the Black Sikotoka disease. What you have realized is that the use of oil alone will not sufficiently control Black Sikotoka for you. Now globally what is happening as you have the changing climate, the increasing temperature on my observation you realize that normally during the dry season you have less moisture so it's a fungus so normally in the dry season you don't have problem with fungal diseases. Now the oil, a lot of people believe well the oil is a fungicide. Now when you have fungicide, fungicide means that it's going to kill the fungicide. The oil is not a fungicide, the oil is like a fungi stat, it will sort of reduce the spread of the organism on the leaves. Now as I said in the dry season it's not a problem because high temperature the fungus is on the control but as you approach the rainy season that is where it's a problem because leaf wetness is a critical factor in the development of the fungus. According to the agriculture officials another infestation presently plaguing the domestic banana plantations is the millibug. This type of insect can cause tip growth distortion and death as well as premature leaf and fruit drop. The BPIP has also been taking measures to prevent and control the spread of banana millibugs. When we realized that we had an upsurge in the levels of millibug in the fields we what we did we our officers went ahead and we had farm clinics to sensitize the farmers on the situation and what can be done to control or to manage the levels of the millibug in the fruits. So we had these clinics throughout the island. There was also a small video that was produced by one of our officers to demonstrate to the farmers how to process the fruit especially if the millibug is present. The agriculture officials reaffirmed the government of St. Lucia's commitment to improving the infrastructure of banana cultivation and farmer cultivation management skills. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. This is NtnNightly, up next, Primus Hutchinson with the NtnNouvelle Aquial. If you are in receipt of an abnormally high bill, it is highly possible that you have a leak. That leak may not always be visible. Before you contact Wasco, conduct a do-it-yourself test. One, record your meter reading. Two, do not use water for 30 minutes to one hour. Three, take another meter reading. If the reading changes, you have a leak. Contact a plumber to identify and fix the leak at the earliest.  Welcome back. We now join Primus Hutchinson for the NtnNouvelle Aquial. For information on government services, GIS, Ectelvision National Payee, Ntn, Caposito, Nouvelle, Aquial, and Primus Hutchinson. About 114 people have the opportunity to buy a piece of land in La Fag, Shwazei, to build a residential area. We have a ceremony in Mequidi, the 6th hour. The first minute is for Ellen Shasne. A lot of ministers, governments, and representatives of Shwazei, Excelltibus, on our Bradley Felix, have been able to build a home for these people. On our Bradley Felix, the great development of Shwazei, it is young people who can only benefit from Shwazei, but more than that, they are able to grow a business in power of Shwazei. We have a project like this, which is in place to develop. We have a place that is more wishful. We are very happy with what we have done, and how we benefit from this place. It is a beautiful place. We live here, we live here, with the NtnP, and the beach lodges here. It is a beautiful place. It is not a child development, it is a school, a casque. We have a place here. The representatives have declared that the Prime Minister of Shwazei has been able to build a home for the benefit of Shwazei. We have to listen to them, because I have found the pleasure of calling the people of Shwazei who are interested in opening applications. That is why the Prime Minister said, do it quickly, he knows what he is talking about. In Shimon, we have said that Shwazei is a new place. What is the best way to start Shwazei? Shwazei has been the home of Shwazei. They were using its own conversation, so they have wanted to bring the applications and allowing the people to use it. I am very happy to be here with you, especially Prime Minister Onofab Alen Shasni, Minister of Economic Development Onofab Gaye Joseph, and Chairman and Investor, Sen. Lucia Pinkley-Francis. He has also said that the young representatives of Shwazei in the past, who have made a great call for the generation of Anchoizei to take advantage of this to as quickly as possible. Mr. Brown Charles, who is also the head of the Anchoizei community, has called on the youth to do what they have been told to do for the sake of their own family. Anchoizei has a cultural problem. The majority of the people here are from the Anchoizei community. And all the young people from the Anchoizei community are from the Anchoizei community. The Anchoizei community is not the only place where we invest. If we let the Anchoizei community do what they have been told to do, that is how they develop themselves. But I'm telling you, the Anchoizei community here, is fits an opportunity for the first generation of Anchoizei community to be able to take advantage of the opportunities of the Anchoizei community. To take advantage of these opportunities, we invest. We are able to take advantage of their activities and go to the banks. ...for people in the world, who are crazy, because they do everything, they do everything, ...and they bring what they have. So when I get to the country, I will have 100 people. I want to develop my country. I want to have a community, ...I want to have children, ...I want to have children. Or I want to take the opportunity to have children, ...because that is what I want. Economy and economy, plus the same. The Minister of Justice, I would like to give you an action, quickly. You will be able to open your body and settle here. This is the 28th anniversary of our young citizen who has been away from the country during his time in England to visit the institution to find his own service and institutions. Ministeria Papet-la-Cap a former police custody situation. As an investigation, we've discovered that in the Pleasure of France, for example, to leave Kaila during quarantine, to present the information that must be given to the officers particularly to the people who are staying in Kaila. For this reason, I divide with a lot of residents who are staying in Kaila to find their transfer to their government institutions for quarantine for four days. Minister Desserté, congratulations to the police for taking action so quickly. Chief Officer of Medical, Dr Sharon Belma-George, who has published a report that it's not because you don't want to do your application for quarantine in Kaila that you want to be able to do it automatically. This is to ensure that the Minister Desserté finds the application to be approved and that we must operate to lower the protocol. Chief Officer of Medical, Adiosi, we can't wait for you to take the application to the test point that is negative for seven days before you travel. For the passengers who are travelling from the country to the bubble, we can't wait for you to take the application because you can test it as soon as you come here. Minister Desserté, congratulations to the police for taking action to present the application to the people who are staying in Kaila. The number is on the phone. Suite 468-531-8 Ebay 468-5349. That's all for today. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much for your invitation. I wish you all the best in your life and I wish you all the best in Kaila. That's all for today. Thank you very much. Thank you, Pyl Primus. That brings us to the end of NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am General Novel.


Hi everyone, as we started new series by the name of Dynamics of Relationship and keeping in view the response received from the same, this second part of the Dynamics of Relationship is based upon as to how we understand and how the dynamics can be improved. That is, complaints against the spouse is one of the issues which we have seen day in and day out becomes the trigger points for the relationships to go from bad to worse and how that can be avoided is the deeper type which S. Sushila senior advocate will take us into this session. Ma'am, thank you for accepting us. I'm extremely thankful to be on the CLC series. In order to help people to understand the dynamics of relationship, we have started the series. I wish and I hope that people will encourage us and the objective behind this series is to see to it that people understand the value of their marriage. They understand that they need not have to rush towards divorce for the fall of the hat and they need to understand their spouses in a better way that is the main objective of this series. Today let us understand about another topic which is related to this dynamics of relationship that is complaints against your partner. I always tell people stop complaining against your partner or spouse instead of complaining express your concerns. When people come to me and tell my husband always complains against me, my wife always has got complained against me, my mother, my sisters, everyone from a more family.  I request you to see to it that what your partner expresses as complaint, can it be their concerns? Convert the complaint into concerns is what I request.  A reasonably rich lady, a good professional, she had come to me and she said my husband doesn't take interest in any of the household chores. He just goes out at 7 o'clock in the morning and comes back at 11 a.m. as 11 p.m. And then everything I have to take on my shoulders, be it upbringing of the children, going to schools to attend to parent teachers meeting, or taking his parents to hospital attending family functions on my side, attending family functions on his side, some vehemence, something of this kind, something of that kind. Everywhere I have to ration, they have to take care of my profession also. He doesn't do anything. I am fed up of him. He is not at all interested in marriage. I am fed up of this marriage. I won't divorce. This is her complaint. Maybe if I had spoken to her, she would have given me a hundred more instances where she is upset, she is deeply hurt, and she is pained also. But after talking to her for a while, I asked her one question, are you expecting that your husband should spend quality time with you? He should devote quality time to the family. She said, yes, that means what she wants is quality time of her husband. And once this strikes her, the entire complaint scenario goes away from the scene. When this was taken to her husband, her husband said, yes, I can give my quality time. All these years, I struggled hard in order to see to it that our family status is maintained up to a particular level. My wife is not so very gainfully employed. So I thought I should earn and see to it that our family's prestige is maintained. That's why I started working very hard from morning seven o'clock till 10 at night. So here when he expressed this, the wife's complaints against husband also turned into concerns. Each of them expressed their concerns. What I request every spouse is to see to it that when your partner complains something, has complaints against someone, understand the concern of your partner. I say something against my husband's mother to my husband. What my husband needs to understand here is that what is it that's worrying my wife? That is the part that one has to understand. But if you start telling that just because A has complained, I don't want A. I want to eliminate A from my life. That's not going to happen. This is one aspect as far as complaint is concerned. Another thing is concerned. Why do we complain? Understand the need behind the expectations. Those of you who are interested in general reading, please read Marshall Rosenberg. He has done a lot of good work in this field. Understand the need behind the expectations. Understand the concerns behind the complaints. Then you will understand why is this lady or why is this man always in the platform of complaining itself. That's another aspect we need to understand. Of course, all complaints need not have to be addressed. What I generally tell people is that if your partner goes on complaining against something, all that you need to do is just listen to her or listen to him.  Your sister is not good. Your sister did this.  You did not do this. You should have done this. Fair enough. All that your partner wants you to listen to it. Is it so? Did he say so? Oh, it happened like that. Oh, that's what happened. Fair enough. Fair enough is you should not be telling fair enough to your partner. But fair enough is you are listening to the other person. Just listen. Do not agree. Do not disagree. That person feels satisfied that all her or all his complaints against you is listened to by you.  One particular method or one particular tip that we give people to reduce the animosity, to reduce the negative effect of complaints is just listen to the person without agreeing or disagreeing. I request all of you to try this and see how it works. Thank you all.


Income tax 2021-2022, HSA deduction, moving expenses, deductible part of self-employment tax and self-employed SEP simple and qualified plans. Get ready to get refunds to the max diving into income tax 2021-2022. Income tax equation focused on the adjustments to income which you might hear called the above the line deductions, the schedule one deductions, deductions for AGI as opposed to the other deductions which are the standard deductions, itemized deductions, keeping the adjustments to income, the above the line deductions, distinct in our mind as a subtotal getting from income minus the adjustments to income to the adjusted gross income or AGI, the AGI being important because that's usually the number that we use when we think about phaseouts as income goes up to phase out the benefit of things like deductions and credits. Here's the first page of the form 1040. We're focused on line number 10, adjustments to income from schedule one line 26. This is schedule one part two and we've got our items here. As we populate these items, they're going to flow back up to the form 1040 here on the first page, line number 10, the adjustments to income. We're focusing in this time. We've got the moving expenses for members of the armed forces just as a general rule. Remember that that's one of these other ones that kind of changed. In prior, like two years ago or something like that, there used to be a more expansive rule for moving in general so that if people had to move for work in order to make the capacity to move easier, I believe was the rationale, then they had a possible deductibility for the moving. However, now it's severely restricted, so you're not going to see it far as much although you might still get questions about it from clients and you got to be able to say, hey, yeah, that's like two years ago thing that changed that made it much more restrictive, only applying in essence to the armed forces at this point in time, noting that anytime you're dealing with someone in the armed forces, you could have special kind of rules that you need to be aware of which seems reasonable of course in that particular profession. And so you just want to make sure that you're aware of them as you take on those client tells so that you can you can pick on or pick up what you need to. So deduct part of self-employment tax. So the self-employment tax has to do typically when when you're subject, it will have to do if you are subject to self-employment. The most common example being then the Schedule C type of income. If you get to deduct the if you get taxed on self-employment, which is kind of like the equivalent of the payroll taxes, then we're going to be able to deduct half of it. This whole thing gets a little bit complex. You're like, well, why would you do it in such a convoluted way? Well, they're trying to mirror what is happening on the business side of things. If you were like a corporation paying the payroll, they're trying to mirror that same kind of activity on the sole proprietor side of things. So they want to be charging the payroll tax equivalent of Social Security and Medicare. But then typically you get to deduct the employee part of Social Security and Medicare. And that's why they have half of it deductible as well. So we'll dive into that more when we get onto the Schedule C. But just remember the Schedule C business in general or businesses in general will increase the level of complexity and the type of taxations you will be doing a lot. And they might also require for many businesses, especially small businesses, help with like bookkeeping items as well. So you want to be aware and be able to say, what kind of business am I in? Where am I going to specialize? What kind of clients am I going to be picking up? Do I want to be picking up business clients and diving into that kind of stuff? Or do I want to say possibly recommend at least that component to other people to help out with the business stuff and put my focus on tax returns that possibly I can do on a more automated process that don't have that added level of complexity and focused on doing a lot of tax returns at possibly lower profit margins. We've got the self-employment, SEP, simple and qualified plans. These are going to be items that are like kind of like the IRA deduction. But if you're talking about self-employed, you're talking about once again individuals that have their own business.  So other plans that you could set up that could give you more benefit than say, for example, just a normal IRA would for putting money in and possibly helping out your employees for a small business could include these things like a SEP, a simple and a qualified plan. The planning for these type of things as well as the implementation of them and the deductions related to them and the limits for deductions and so on. Once again, get a lot more complicated as you pick up tax returns to deal with these business needs. You're going to have more planning needs, more bookkeeping needs and more kind of just components that are going to be involved on the tax return over and above just data input forms like W2s and 1099s. OK, so we have the health savings account, HSA deduction. You may be able to be able to take this deduction if contributions other than employer contributions, rollovers and qualified HSA funding distributions from an IRA were made to your HSA for 2021. So if this is going to be applicable to you, then you want to go to the IRS website and you can look at form 8889 and look at the instructions related to it found in the irs.gov, irs.gov. We have the moving expenses. You can deduct moving expenses if you are a member of the armed forces on active duty and due to a military order, you move because of a permanent change of station. So this is the one that they've severely limited subject to, of course, the military. Therefore, you're not going to see it all the time unless you have the military clientele. And even then it might not be as common, although this kind of move might be more common than and oftentimes the military and government entities in general might pay or reimburse for the move, in which case it might not even be applicable then. So it's far less applicable than the prior version of the law when you had a moving expense related to changing jobs. But you can use the tax topic 455 or C form 3903. You can find that on the IRS website and check out the instructions for more detail there. Deductible part of self-employment tax. If you were self-employed and owed self-employment tax, fill in schedule SE to figure the amount of your deduction. The schedule part of your self-employment tax is online 13 of schedule SE. So this is the one that's often a lot more confusing that you'll be putting into place if you have a schedule SE type of business. We'll take a look at it and explain it a bit more when we get into the software example and when we get into the schedule SE business in general, we'll start diving into all the different components that are added when you have a schedule SE type of business. Because just having that schedule SE type of business, you've got all these other factors that start to come out of the woodwork that are above and beyond normal data input for just like a basic type of return, which you can generally focus on forms to input. So remember that if you're working as a tax business, you want to think about where are you specializing? Do you want to take on these more complex things? If you do, you're probably going to start doing things like consulting, and you're probably going to do things like more complex research for returns, having to do things that are not driven just by the data input. And therefore, you'll be able to charge higher profit margins. However, you're going to only be able to do less returns. So or there's a lot of people that are kind of, you might say, I want to completely automate my system if you're some kind of person that's basically saying, I'm going to use the tax software. I'm going to use the data input forms. They're going to e-file everything. I'm going to have everything basically input as automated as possible in terms of the W-2s, the 1099, and reduce the data input down to as minimal as possible and not taking on the other kind of more complex tax returns that are going to require data input because they're too complex to just rely on the automatic entry. Then you got to keep those in mind when you're doing your business or where you want to work or where you want to work within a company firm as well. So self-employed, simple and qualified plans, if you are self-employed or a partner, you may be able to take this deduction C publication 560. So if you're self-employed with a schedule C, for example, then you're going to say, okay, if I'm self-employed, I want to be able to put money into a kind of retirement plan. If you had no capacity to get access to a retirement plan, your first thought would be an IRA, but an IRA has problems because you cannot maximize the contribution. You don't have the same kind of matching kind of things as if you had access to like a 401k through an employee. So the small business owner could say, well, I could put in a 401k plan into my business, but that's usually going to take a lot of work and a lot of admin work to be able to do that. And so oftentimes the in between would be, maybe I'll set up a SEP or a simple kind of plan, which is kind of like a 401k, like a cross between a 401k and an IRA that would be specially designed for small businesses. And what it does is it increases some of the benefits that you might be able to get, such as being able to possibly put more money into your retirement plans than you would under just simply a normal IRA and but not have to deal with a headache of a 401k plan, which has so many, so many admin kind of requirements and so forth that it's going to be more complex than it be worth.


The Ministry of Infrastructure, Ports, Energy and Labor has announced commencement of the Union Roundabout Construction Project on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. This project will help improve the flow of traffic by limiting congestion while enhancing road safety for drivers and pedestrians. Construction of the roundabout will be executed in three main phases to minimize disruption to commuters, businesses and emergency services. This one includes road widening, demolition and re-establishment of fencing and construction of sidewalks. Drivers and all road users are encouraged to proceed with caution and follow the traffic signs, safety cones and instruction from project personnel when traversing through the project site. The contractor's Scaly Construction Services Limited is tasked to complete the project in three months. Weather permitting


Caterpillar Cargo Work Pants, a review for woodworkers. What I like about these pants is it allows me to carry everything that I use readily and often, but yet it doesn't feel like I'm carrying hardly anything. So these come with a knee pouch and you can buy knee pads and put them in there. Alright, so let's see what I would normally load up into these. Gotta have my cell phone with me. I often wear a Bluetooth noise-canceling headset. Cell phone goes in there. While we're on that left-hand side, I have my little combination square, but I found it really goes nicely right in this cargo pant right here. So I'm putting my calipers.  So they hang there nicely. I can grab them kind of like pulling a gun out of a holster. So I like that a lot. I always need a pair of pliers, often needle-nose pliers, so I put those back here in the pocket that's designed to hold multitude of things. I just keep my box wrench right in that. You could put a screwdriver in there. You could put a number of things in there, whatever your preference is. In this front cargo pants, I like to put a screwdriver. I like to put my box cutters.  So pants are designed with kind of a squared-off bottom thick section that holds that tape measure really securely. And I often have my protective glasses. I wear them most of the time, but I also keep them in this pouch right here when I'm not wearing them. So I like that. I pretty well load it up. I've still got room for some wax. When I'm using chisels or a plane, and I usually do keep some wax in there, so there's other things I could fit. I feel no weight, no pressure whatsoever. And so I just take all these things out, lay them right on a workbench, come out when I'm running to start working, load it up, and I'm ready to go. I've become my preferred way of working, and now I don't have to go looking for these tools all the time. And I don't want to carry a cumbersome weight belt around my waist that's constantly catching on something because I have a small workshop. That's it. Small workshop guy, signing off.


This is the SF Productions podcast network This is a 10 30 to 3 that Darren Pamela Ferdin for disparate of show to the place your parents didn't understand the world of 60s and 70s television Welcome to vast wasteland Welcome home to vast wasteland the video journal of 60s and 70s TV. I'm Mark Schmidar along with Wilbert Neil and Marty Wiley Well, we're going to talk about MTM shows all of the fine Mary Tyler Moore production company shows which It's a big topic in a maid in fact take take us to episodes spending on how things go But first off before you jump into that just want to tell you we're on the Tuesdays at 6 Wednesdays up Wednesday, when did it Dan? I'm going to Here on a CTV cable 21 talk to your psychiatrist about your Wednesday phobia. 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Well, I'm not in this one It's all you're gonna see this Tonight's topic the Mary Tyler Moore shows the MTM Productions MTM universe Yeah Certainly one of the most prolific as far as big huge hit long-running sitcoms I I would be hard-pressed to find another company that just so consistently hits big hits With possibly the exception of maybe a Norman Lear and but even he's had a lower, you know hit, you know He's getting a better Not as good a percentage as MTM like Desi Lou or something, but they didn't do a lot. That's true They just weren't as perky. Yeah That's the problem Well first off the show that got it all rolling the the Mary Tyler Moore show of course the production company specifically designed for this show To begin with and what's interesting when turn the world on with a smile That's right. Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all worry more while Well, it's you girl Every little movement you show I Need to waste it you can have a towel. Why don't you take it you might just make it after all Well When when you look at this show, it's interesting. I mean that the basic concept of a single woman really the first show to to Show a single woman in a fairly positive light the idea that that yes, you can be single and it's not a curse You know you have the feeling that she had a dark past There was always something that wasn't said Right well, she almost got married I mean at the very the first episode shows that she just went to Minneapolis because she wanted to get out of this Failed relationship that she was there. She was just about to get married and what happened originally was she was Original concept she was going to be a divorcee and CBS said you can't do that because the last time most people saw this actress She was Dick Van Dyke's wife and still assume that Robin law got divorced Exactly this protection program that means the dick Gives you an idea of the thought process is for having a break the thought processes of CBS executives and in fact television executives in general to think that Absurd concept, but anyways, so she's single and never been married That's the last second that was like we're gonna change it around and Really you you can't find a show with a with a more See what's the word I'm looking for just a really well balanced ensemble cast Diverse diverse I mean, I mean you had you had you had your your perky lead and Then you had the gruff but lovable boss And you had the overbearing other guy at work, and then you had the wisecracking guy at work Then you had the wisecracking girlfriend to live in the same apartment building Phyllis or Sue Ann that's the question We'll get to that later just a minute, but first so well, let me let me ask you this Favorite Mary Tyler Moore episodes Well, I mean the first obvious one is the the chuckles is dead episode One of the classics where where well if you were in Tibet in the last 20 years and haven't seen anything in syndication you The chuckles the clown who worked at WJM died in in what turned out to be a very humorous way and at at the All up to and lead up leading up to the funeral. There's all this doom and gloom talk and meanwhile other people are being kind of have it being kind of frivolous about it and Mary's berating them for being so frivolous And then she breaks up at the at the funeral and everyone and she's very embarrassed and when that's and that's really One of the major parts of the Mary Tyler Moore show is Mary Richards being embarrassed. Yes Put her in an embarrassing situation and so she can just look embarrassed. That's one of the big things Every show has its hook and this right this that was the big hook That and the fact is every time she opened her closet door. She had a new She had this closet that must have been the size of a small football field Exactly every time she opened the door and walked into it. She came out with new clothes new clothes All right Well, she got a really good deal in the apartment for Phyllis apparently and he was able to spend most of her budget On clothes, maybe the previous tenant like left Or her closet was a TARDIS go anywhere and come out Well, then then you got then you got Lou Grant You get the again the gruff but lovable I mean in the first episode the the big line where he says Says the Mary you got spunk. I ate spunk But a big classic well kind of portrayed him as a drinking man, right, right that I Don't know. I always had a feeling that this man had a perpetual hangover. That's why he was just so damn happy to be there One one show I remember in particular is a show where they decide they want to show the single scene so they take live cameras and all this down to a singles bar and For some reason I don't remember exactly no one wanted to be seen at the single right and so nobody's there And they basically have allotted like something like half an hour on the air their entire newscast to this singles bar And there's nobody there and it's just kind of like the regular cast is kind of standing around at the bar Trying desperately to fill airtime Kind of like us, but Let's see when they're like we're cheers kind of start or something Yeah Anyway, let's see. Just a Oh Like the crisis that Phyllis was always be having a crisis because she didn't know how to pair it right her little daughter best And she was just always running up to Mary like Mary would know like Know what to do right having no children, of course Mary would know just what to do, of course And something that One of the books I was reading about this Goes a lot into is the the Unconsumated relationship between Mary and Lou Okay, now I never really saw this but this guy goes on and on and on about it the idea that that you know That was the only true Relationship and there was this romance between the two of them We just never saw and they never it was well-hidden Most people like what are you talking about? I Don't know I think that kind of falls under the category of get a life man Stop trying to read these Into the background here.     I thought he was like the only normal person on the show. Well, just to the most extent.  You didn't really see a lot of Murray's life You saw a little bit of it. You saw you saw his wife every once in a while played by Joyce Bule font, but You know, you didn't really see a lot of his life You seem like the most normal person Right Are you talking most normal or most realistic? Yeah Realistic yeah One more episode that I remember particularly is the Is one they they did a lot of ones because it's in it's in Minneapolis They did a lot of they're stuck at it's no storm. They're stuck at the office and Prince comes in and entertains Oh Too early for them and run into the 80s He was already performing His hair though he had my hair from hell back But this one of them was where everybody's office was mad at each other and There's and it was it was Thanksgiving and they none of them could leave They're all gonna go to to big Thanksgiving dinners in various places like nobody could leave the station much less fly anywhere And so they're stuck there and Sue Ann comes up and announces that she's taping her Christmas show So she has a huge Christmas dinner and meanwhile everyone is mad at each other Yeah, thanks giving what they had to tape ahead, okay, so So she's just like we do exactly This was shot several years ago This show was actually done in 1950 Look if I pull hard enough this will just come around And they're mad at each other anyway, so they they all sit down and and and Sue Ann forces them to wear like Christmas hats of the world and all this And sing Christmas carols and and finally they they all They'll receive the spirit of Christmas, and everything's wonderful, but but a particularly well-written episode anyway I always thought Betty White was just really excellent. Oh, yeah character because oh, yeah, I don't know I guess everyone always thought of her.  It was the first time she had done that on a show I mean really since then she hasn't really played that part true, and she doesn't and today Look the part right and she was so good at it right She was well, it's the thing of people liking to go in. I've always heard stars say they like to play a villain or Type yeah, yeah, just a not nice person because they get to they really get to act They get to have so much fun to be nice, but it's fun. They get out there and people when they're down and everything and They enjoy that immensely if you talk to any actors that they'll tell you their favorite parts were the parts where they got to be nasty Well anything else about Mary Tyler more so well, I I did like the way that Ted was always mispronouncing things like our Kansas Things like he just amazed me it was supposed to be Arkansas But he looked at our Kansas is he had a lot of fun with it Of course the ironic way that the entire show ended was that because of mediocre ratings everybody was fired Except for Ted the main reason why they had the low ratings all these years Ted He stayed kind of showing really what our television works. Well, you could say the the whole general the media Circus or whatever you want to call it and They'll say that about radio and everything else too, right It just went crazy ever because first she had Rhoda Rhoda went to New York and apparently she went to some well see she went back home Right and and and the impression they gave on the show although you didn't really see much physically different that she went to a Fat farm or something. I lost 500 pounds. You never saw it on the show. I think she lost about three pounds She didn't really look like we're saying before she didn't look particularly overweight during the show And she doesn't look particularly overweight during her own show But then she just became a total new woman, right and she moved into apartment and had this fat, whiny sister Had no self confidence the Rhoda part She was like the understudy for Rhoda She just moved in and Rhoda moved into the Mary Tyler Moore part Rhoda's gonna make it on her own But Rhoda couldn't throw her hat right So throwing pounds away Yeah, but look who's where now That's right. Julie Kavner. Kavner Is now Marge Simpson. That's right. That's right. And she's got hair from hell Yeah After she did the light had that wonderful stint there on Tracy Oman and we really got to see that little Brenda could act She could do more than go I got a boyfriend who plays the accordion Rhoda got to get married and divorced right Because they decided, you know this We couldn't do it in Mary Tyler Moore. Let's do it with Rhoda because nobody really knows her She's had no past. We'll do it with her. They got married things didn't go well and they got divorced. So they only had to divorce say And this was kind of the show that um and this happened Well, I say this still happens today on sitcoms and don't do particularly well, although today if a sitcom doesn't do particularly well It's gone. Yeah There's none of this. Well, we can still get some more out of it Rhoda's ratings never did really really well And each season she had a different job Because it's like well, we've exhausted all the possibilities of that job All the comedic possibilities. Let's move around to another another type of job They've got the writer surgeon in the background who's saying well, this didn't work. Okay. Well, throw this piece out We'll add this in So back up present it again.  She could play one character That's the one character what she's on she's on she's on true colors now and who's she playing she's playing rhoda's mom What is rhoda's mom doing on that true colors show? I don't understand. I don't get it I I I can't stay on Nancy Walker and I don't know why rhoda ever put up with a mother like that Now now one of the things that rhoda did have it was one of the first completely off-screen characters Carlton your doorman Who's Garfield now? Yeah Some life goes on Oh, not much after she left that darn uh, uh, what was it called hogan family Oh Well, she was on that for a while before she left and sandy duncan came in. Oh, yeah, and the whole brew. Uh-huh about that Yeah And then y'all then of course you had fellas now This was a show that Even even in the child when I saw this come out as its own show. I said this isn't gonna work I'm sorry. This is too limited a character Leachman is a fine actor is unfortunately this was no way you could have a lead character that was basically not likeable And they proved that with shows like buffalo bill later that you just that the public just doesn't warm up to a show Where people just can't stand that one. Well, yeah, I adored that one But but the mainstream public just went No, I don't know. Dabney Coleman though. It seems like every time he plays a character It's not a likable character as far as it goes But people kind of warm to the fact that he is so Unlikable, right? Right. Well, you got that that Drexel's class which now has didn't have anything to do with the class anymore I don't think it does. I think they've completely dropped the whole class. You might see um At the beginning he might be in the class, but after that it has some horribly ugly children on that show Yeah, they did if I remember watching But anyway, they had that problem child on there one night. Oh, what a kid Remember that remember the one where oh, maybe you don't remember the one where phyllis is okay phyllis is living with her dead husband's Mother and father. Yes with her daughter best Who was that girl that played best lisa? Uh Myerson I don't know. She was on she was on my world a welcome to her. Oh that kid. Yep But there's the one where she's deciding to get married and I think I got a deal with it phyllis couldn't deal with anything Lisa garrison lisa garrison phyllis couldn't deal with anything Get on my nerves, right? Did she have the braces on at this time? How'd she get a job? How did phyllis get a job? And this was a new show where every season she had a new job And she was only on like Three seasons this show was on the air for three seasons today a show like that wouldn't have been on the air for four weeks Today that show's on Well, it's on uh, I haven't watched phyllis in the past year only because it's on how many channels Yeah, but I mean a new a new show today so many central. Yeah, of course. They're showing rhoda, too Right That's that's the hawk contingent that they have some sort of contractual agreement. They have to show that apparently They got it cheap. Yeah Basically, that's it What's interesting about that is when hawk came out, they said we're gonna have shows like the mary tyler more shows They wrote in the middle Rhoda or mary tyler more to Right The bronc whatever they were at new york's new york's Believe it or not, we're gonna have to we're gonna have to put this sucker into two episodes For the second episode where we'll talk about wkrp And uh, what was it that uh, paul sand and friends and lovers Oh, that's true. We forgot lou grant and lou grant and white shadow and not to mention all of the mtm stuff as we go into the 80s with st. Elsewhere and uh, and um hillstree blues So we got tons of stuff to talk about So just put your button on paul come back in two weeks Your vcr can easily stay in pause for two weeks. I think that's uh, it won't hurt the heads College museum of broadcasting boy, this one's a keeper For all of us here at bass wasteland, we'll see you next time. Good night everybody


We continue now with the network, powering hybrid work. Now we just heard from Lawrence Wang on the rapid move to Wi-Fi 6E, which is going to increase Wi-Fi efficiency, enable routers and devices to more efficiently use bandwidth. And that additional spectrum that Lawrence talked about, that means more Wi-Fi channels, which is really going to help reduce overlap between networks and make a noticeable difference, especially in crowded places. We're here now with Muhammad Imam, who's Senior Director of Product Management for Catalyst Switching. This is a multi-billion dollar business for Cisco. If you ever listen to Cisco's earnings calls, you'll hear the CFO, Scott Herron. He'll talk about the Catalyst 9000 and double digit growth and switching. This is the fastest ramping product in Cisco's history. So Muhammad, that's got to make you feel pretty good. He has indeed. Thank you, David, and thank you for having me here. Yeah, great to have you. So look, Catalyst 9000, it's been really successful. What does the 9000X bring to the table for your customers? Yeah, absolutely. And indeed, the Catalyst 9000 family of switches have been extremely popular with their customers. As you said, fastest ramping product in Cisco's history. And the last four or five years, we have really evolved the Catalyst 9000 family of switches to a very comprehensive product portfolio, addressing the various enterprise use cases that we address. But now we see increase in demand on the networks and that really stems from some of the most recent trends that we are seeing. Part of it is hybrid work spaces. It's going to be a video dominant hybrid work space. A lot of cases is going to be high definition, 4K, 8K videos. We are seeing cloud-based applications everywhere. My spreadsheet used to be on Excel sheet. Now it's either an Office 365 or a Smart Sheets. My files used to be on my computer. Now it's on in the Dropbox, right? So these are trends that are really putting pressure on our networks. We are also seeing trends where VR headsets are becoming common. They are being used for trainings and education use cases. WebEx hologram. In certain industries, we are seeing robotics are becoming more and more popular and they come with a lot of applications that are very latency sensitive. And as Lawrence mentioned earlier, Wi-Fi 6E is really making over the year multi-gigabit Wi-Fi possible, right? And for all of these different trends and the recent technologies that are evolving, we really need the network that can really address and deliver for these applications. And that's where we are bringing the Catalyst 9000X that addresses the increase in network demand. We are expanding the Catalyst 9000 family with top-of-line premium introductions in the access layer of the switches of the network, as well as in the aggregation and core layers. So we are bringing 400 gig high-speed core and enterprise core and edge layers of the network. We are bringing point-to-point IPsec security, which will give you 100 gig of IPsec encryption. High density of multi-gigabit, which is becoming very common as we wall our Wi-Fi networks because we don't want our wired infrastructure to be the bottleneck when the wireless infrastructure is capable of going more than a gig. High density of 90 ward powering the smart buildings use cases, right? These are all different use cases that are being enabled by the Catalyst 9000 and the new Catalyst 9000X family is really addressing some of these new trends and applications. Well, it's good because the Metaverse is coming too and we're going to need some help with that, right? Who knows how much bandwidth we'll need for Metaverse? Absolutely. Yeah, guarantee you'll be a lot more. But so I want to hear more about the new products that you've just launched and maybe how these offerings are going to help with this new hybrid work model that we've just been discussing. Absolutely. So let me start with the Catalyst 9300. We are introducing the Catalyst 9300X which is the highest density full multi-gigabit platform with 100 gig uplinks and 90 watt of power on every port available, right? That's an industry first that we are bringing on the Catalyst 9300 family. It is also capable of one terabit per second of a stacking which is also unheard of in the industry. This will serve our customers with all the new trends that we talked about including the hybrid work and some of the new trends that are going to come in the next decade. But 9300X is not just a high-end campus switch. It can also be a lean branch in a box solution where you don't really need an SDVAN but you do need an encryption point-to-point from the Catalyst 9300 from your front branch with the Catalyst 9300X to the data center or to the cloud. So for the first time we are introducing the IPsec based encryption natively in the hardware and that means no compromise on performance and you can get up to 100 gig of encrypted traffic with the Catalyst 9300X. Second is the Catalyst 9400. We are introducing Soop 2 and Soop 2 XL with 100 gig uplinks enhancing the scale and performance giving our customers options for fully loaded line rate multi-gibbit board on a 10-slot chassis, right? It'll give you two to three times bandwidth boost to your existing line cards since it completely removes the OOR subscriptions and you know the Soop 2 on the Catalyst 9400 is coming up with the version of the ASIC that we used in the past on the Catalyst 9600 that means it's also bringing the core capabilities that we use today have on 9600 on the Catalyst 9400 and that brings high density 10 gig boards on the Catalyst 9400 without OOR subscription, right? With the core capabilities. Then we have the Catalyst 9600 where we are introducing a Supervisor 2 which really triples the bandwidth per slot on the Catalyst 9600. It introduces 400 gig uplink and truly drives the transition to 100 gig in the core. Get 6K customers with XL scale requirements. Now they can transition to the Cat9K with Soop 2. And by the way, we are also introducing a combo line card on the Catalyst 9600, which means now you don't have to burn the whole slot for your uplink boards. In fact, you can get up to 400 gig of uplink with this new line card. So that's a bunch of things that we are bringing on the Catalyst 9600. In line with Catalyst 9600, we are also introducing Catalyst 9500X, 100 gig boards with 400 gig uplinks in a fixed form factor. And all the benefits that I just talked about on the Supervisor 2 and 9600 is also available in a fixed form factor on Catalyst 9500X. So that's in summary kind of the multiple product lines that we are introducing. Yeah, so a lot to unpack there.  You got a lot of choices for customers. I love to encrypt everything without a trade-off.  You know, Mohammed, we've reported in our breaking analysis segments the importance of custom silicon. And not every company has the resources or the expertise to develop their own silicon Cisco of course does. Catalyst 9K is bringing silicon one based products with this launch. Tell us more about that. Why is this important? Yeah, that's really exciting development that we have on the Cat9K family because you know the silicon one is a powerful ASIC that enables high performance and high scale with modern silicon architecture bringing the architect, a converged architecture for switching as well as routing. Cat9K, as we know, has been running on a UADP ASIC which has been a programmable ASIC. It has served us really well so far on the Cat9K family. But with the silicon one we are taking it to another level. Silicon one brings the capabilities of UADP ASIC and unlocks the Excel scale and high performance in the enterprise stages. This is a critical and foundational element to meet the core requirement for the next decade. Silicon one is a 12.8 terabits per second chip supports up to 10 million routes supports much deeper buffers brings multi-slides VOQ architectures. With this new architecture, the silicon one ASIC has paved the way to transition the Cat6K Excel deployments to Cat9K. So that's kind of the silicon one importance in the Cat9K family that we are bringing now. Yeah, and it brings differentiation. A lot of people sometimes don't appreciate that but when you have the control like that you can do things that you might not be able to do with off the shelf silicon. But I want to ask you, what about customers that previously purchased from you as you evolve the portfolio to 9KX? How do you protect their investment? Yeah, thank you for asking that question because when we started building the Cat9K we always thought about investment protection for our customers. So if you buy today how you will have a very long life for that product and you will be able to unlock new powers on that platform that you have purchased maybe five years back, right? That's exactly what we are doing with the Catless 990, 9000X. Talking about modular, right? On the modular side, the supervisors that we are introducing now are backward compatible with the line cards that you already have. In some cases, the line card throughput is doubling and tripling because now you have a new machine that is going to power these line cards, right? So you don't have to change your line card. You just change your supervisor and you have much higher performance and scale with this new supervisor. Similarly, on the stackables you can stack with the existing Catless 9300X for example and you will be able to you don't have to rip and replace everything. It's not a forklift upgrade for our customers. You can continue benefiting from your existing Catless 9000 deployments and add to the power with the Catless 9000X components as well as new platforms that we are introducing. Nice, that's key. This just speaks to the software content that you guys I know you have a lot of software engineers running around and this is welcome to the 2020s folks, new world. You know, Mohammed, zero trust was kind of a buzzword before the pandemic but it's really become a mainstream topic today. We talked about the infrastructure. We know security has to be built in from the start. It can't be bolted on and zero trust is really top of mind for customers. How are the security requirements changing as a result of hybrid work and how do you make sure that as we shift to hybrid that these new security requirements are addressed? What are you doing there? Absolutely and we know as you said security is top of mind for our customers. In fact, security has been highlighted as the number one reason why a lot of customers pick Cisco and Cat9K. We have a comprehensive zero trust architecture with software defined access where we started with segmentation and expanded into endpoint classification and visibility. Now we are taking that to the next level and we are introducing Talus powered trust assessment for unmanaged endpoints to further make the workplace stronger with zero trust and software defined access. Trust analytics, it detects traffic from endpoints that are exhibiting unusual behavior by pretending to be using a MAC spoofing or probe spoofing or man the middle techniques. When trust analytics detects such anomalies it signals endpoint analytics to lower the trust score. So we have a trust score system when the trust score goes down it shows up on the dashboard. And the network admin can completely deny or limit the access to the network from these endpoints. From another security aspect that we are introducing and I touched on that briefly earlier is for non SDVAN internet only branches where we are, where services, security services might be in the cloud, right? That's a trend that we are seeing. To secure that connectivity from a lean branch to the cloud, we are introducing the IPsec capability with the Catalyst 9300X and that's built in as we just talked about. And as far as the automation is concerned for these use cases, they are, we are bringing those automation with our command center, the Cisco DNA center and we are bringing the full lifecycle of automation as well as assurance for the secure connectivity that is being provided with the Cisco DNA center. Well, a couple of takeaways there for me. I mean endpoint security has really become much more important for obvious reasons when you have remote workers. The built in IPsec just that really emphasizes that you got to have it built in from the ground up. You can't just bolt it on and the automation is key. The number one problem that CISOs face is lack of talent. So automation definitely helps with that. So, okay, Mohammed, thank you so much. Really appreciate you coming on.


I put my free NAS shirt on today so we can talk about free NAS and Plex specifically. This seems to come up a lot of people, you know, I completely understand wanting to use some of the plugins and Plex, but the confusing part often comes in and I've done a video on this before on how to get the storage to match up and mount. So we're going to go walk through that process here. Now I've done jails before, so the system's not going to go through the entire download process for the jail. So just a word of warning, if you never installed any plugins on your free NAS the first time you do this, it takes a lot longer because it has to first download the jail system, set it up, then download the plugin, which works fine. I haven't had a problem doing that and we're going to go ahead and download Plex right now. So we're going to go ahead and run through the install for this. Now I've seen a few people talking about problems they've had with networking with Plex. I find it fine to use DHCP because then I go to my DHCP server and I say, this is the IP address I want this Plex server to have, so it's static. So I usually leave it DHCP, but if you do IP here, make sure you get all the settings correct because if you get some of them wrong, like DNS, you'll end up going, hey, it doesn't completely work right now. I'm like, that's correct. So DHCP is my preferred method and then set the specific server address inside of your DHCP server so it gets statically assigned. Now it's going to go ahead and run the install, do the download, and I'll fast forward through this part. All right, Plex is set up, status is up, and we can click on here and go to management and start configuring it now, but I'm not going to because the thing we need to do is map storage into it. So the way a jail works is the system starts, and actually we'll go right to the storage and kind of give you an idea here, pools, jails, Plex, root. So this data set called root under jails, then Plex, the plugin we installed and then the root of Plex, it starts here. So this is what makes Jail special is they are nested down and do not have access to what we have as our primary storage right here called tank. So here's the Plex videos and where I put the data and where I have a share set up on the system, but here's the root of it. And when you're mapping storage, you're making a link, basically a symbolic link or a shortcut for those used in the Windows world. You can kind of look at it that way. We revert to them as symbolic links in the Linux world. You're linking that pool here to this pool here. And the reason you're doing that, and you don't necessarily need to link, but you could, of course, link your entire data set, but you're mapping a specific piece of your data set in there. And for example, if you have a lot of different data sets, you're like, these have sensitive information, but I want the plugin have access to this only this piece of information. That's what makes these plugins slash jails work so well and more secure. So they don't have complete access to your data. They only have what you have permitted them to have access to. So how do we do this? All right. So we're going to go back over to the plugins, installed.  We're going to go ahead and stop this status down. Then we're going to go to the jail and here is the jail where the Plex plugin is running. So we're going to go over here and we're going to edit the mount points. So this is how we map the storage. We're going to hit plus, source, click the little thing here, tank, Plex videos, destination. Here is the root of it and here's all the things. We're just going to call it media. You could create folders in here. I did note that when you're doing this, if I add a slash and then a name, it may not create it. It did that previously believe in the old version, but you have to manually create the folders and you can open up a shell prompt in the jail. But I'm going to leave it at root and media. So remember where we left it here and go ahead and hit save. So now the source is mount, tank, Plex videos, where I have some videos loaded and mount Ioc. Jail's Plex root media. Now we're going to show you inside of Plex how that works. So go back over to the plugins and we got to start the plugin back up. Now I refresh the page because it didn't get the IP address. It takes a second for the jail to start up. It gets the IP address. So if you click to quickly on the management part, it may not go into Plex right away. Let's call this free as beta Plex, we're going to add a library. We're going to call it other videos because well, I copy my own videos in there, browse for media folder. All right. Now here's where it wants to default to. If you remembered, we did slash media, add, add library, next and done. So now it's reading these here. Let's see if it'll play it. This video is brought to you by and away we go. Now real quick here, I will cover what videos I put in there. I'm using Linux not Windows. So it's SMB colon slash slash as opposed to Windows being slash slash. And then we have this right here, the IP address and then Plex videos and then here's the videos that I threw in here. Now if you're organizing your entire Plex library, maybe that Plex video share you want to create like a TV folder, a movie folder and other videos folder and things like that. But for brevity and to keep it simple, I just threw it all in one folder. But anything I create here is now mapped into Plex. Now, a couple of people have questions about the shares and the permissions. I've done more in-depth videos on this, the way this particular system was set up. Just so you can see, go here, we're going to edit the permissions. I'm not using the Windows permissions. I'm just leaving it wide open. There's going to be someone going, but you should never leave a wide open share. I'm assuming this is on your private network running Plex, not your business network. And I've done more in-depth videos on how to configure all the permissions and map things to specific users in the system so they can control it and have very fine green permissions. So this is set up here. And then when we go to the sharing services, we're going to go here. We're going to go to Windows SMB share, edit. And you can see I have a lot of guest access, so I don't have any permission set up on this. Like I said, I have other videos I've done where you can do more in-depth. I'll be making new ones with the new version of FreeNAS soon. But the short is, open up all permissions to get it working, and then start backing them out is an easy way to start testing this. So if you want to mess around and follow through the permissions on there. Once this gets the release candidate, I'm going to have a whole new series of videos and I'll cover some of that more in-depth. But at least start with it working and then work your way backwards if you are concerned about how you want the security to go with your Windows shares or Samba shares within FreeNAS. But that's really it for getting it working. I've had no problems with it. It seems to be perfectly fine. Plays works fine here. Now you may have noticed when you first logged in, it does say there's a new version up there. Maybe at some point, once this becomes stable, I'll show you how to update it. It's not the same as updating it when it runs on an independent server and the reason why is because it's loaded through the library, through the plugin system. So it is not pulled in from the latest. It's as latest as the plugin maintainer has had time to do. There's not a simple way to update it. There is but isn't because you got to go to the command line. So it depends on whether you find the command line simple or not. But once this becomes a release candidate and gets very close to stable, maybe I'll do some videos on how to update Plex manually so you can do that. But it's only a little bit behind and not too big of a deal. But Plex does work in the FreeNAS Beta 3 and it's that easy to set up and get running. Just the most thing that people get stuck on is usually that storage mounting. Once you understand that part, the rest should be easy. Thanks for watching. If you liked this video, go ahead and click the thumbs up. Leave us some feedback below to let us know any details which you like and didn't like as well because we love hearing the feedback. Or if you just want to say thanks, leave a comment. If you want to be notified of new videos as they come out, go ahead and subscribe and the bell icon that lets YouTube know that you're interested in notifications. 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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to day two of the Tech and Innovation Summit 2021. We are going to start the stage four, wherein we will first have a fireside chat followed by a panel discussion. And it is my pleasure to welcome Naveen Gulati, CIO, Garbaco for a one-on-one discussion with Sumanth Narayan, Business Head Akamai India. And the topic of discussion is what it takes to build a security first customer acquisition mindset. I request the audience to keep posting their questions for the speakers and welcome Sumanth, welcome Naveen, over to you Sumanth. The stage is yours. Thanks Aurob. Good morning to everyone. So e-commerce has transformed the way we do business in India. Now the Indian e-commerce market is expected to capture over 11% of the total Indian retail market and is poised to reach almost 200 billion by 2026. The recent rise in digital literacy has also led to an influx of investments in e-commerce firms, thereby leveling the market for new players to set up their base and to help build innovative products slash platforms that disrupt the old guard. Overall, the Indian e-commerce industry has been on an upward growth trajectory and is expected to surpass the US to become the second largest e-commerce market in the world by 2034. Now at Akamai, whilst we continue to see growth and traffic on our platform, we also continue to see substantial increase both in the complexity and the volume of cyber attacks across various sectors. And especially across e-commerce and retail would seem to be the most targeted sectors. Interestingly, India was amongst the top three countries that were targeted by attackers in 2020. Now the good news is that most organizations have come a long way from looking at cyber security as a cost center to now an enabler or even a business differentiator, which helps build trust with end users and in turn drives business growth. However, when you're on an aggressive growth trajectory to acquire new customers, technology and cyber security leaders are usually left with a tough choice of having to prioritize their resources and investments, we're enrolling out new features and focusing on security. Now, with that context, I'd like to welcome the CIO of Garnersaw to Kar Dekho, Naveen Gulati to join us on the session and share his insights on what it takes to build a security first customer acquisition mindset. Naveen, great to have you. Hi everyone, thanks everyone, thanks for having me here. Okay. So let me let's dive straight into it right so let me first start with just a mindset piece. So we've got a long way from where security used to be a bit of an afterthought to know where security has shifted left and is essentially embedded in the early part of the app development phase. Could you talk a little bit about how you and your teams have embraced this mindset shift. All right, a very good question, Suman. So since we are purely a B2C platform and so security had always been a part of the culture. One motto that we list by at Garnersaw Kar Dekho is that we are a customer centric company so a customer comes first. And it's the experience that we deliver to the customer which really matters as the most. And really I had seen in the industry people look at experience in terms of better UI, better UX fast, fast time to deliver it so say super fast or super slow latency. But for us, that experience also has security deeply integrated in that. So essentially when we are handling a PII data, it becomes our responsibility to handle that to the very best. So coming back to your question, this has never been a challenge to us, but yes in the industry when I speak to other peers, I have seen this mindset now shifting in. And largely to some extent also thanks to COVID, the surface of attacks has increased like you rightly said India is now the third most attacked country across the globe. So I think that's where every organization today has sensitized that security is a front runner. And that's getting deeply ingrained in the systems and processes. Okay, so let me just double down on that. So especially when you're on a growth trajectory like the one that you've been on, you end up having to prioritize resources. Now, how do you strike a balance between scaling up or providing the right user experience or even rolling out new features versus focusing on security to keep the bad actors away? All right, so see it all starts with your processes. And once your processes are firm laid down, they are deeply disseminated across the organization, then comes the tech part and then come the people part. So we realized that this is very important and it's not that things have always been very rosy, very good. But that was close to what some a few years back we started migrating our journey to a pure CI CD pipeline driven release management process. And where we have source code security checks built into our pipeline. So if the pipeline fails, sorry, if the ranking fails, the code doesn't get deployed to production. It's as simple as that. So security is now a part of the entire gatekeeping thing. We work in line with the QA. So when the QA says, okay, the functionality is working well and then comes the security bit and only then the code gets deployed. And then we have other supplementary processes like regular VAPT checks. We do bug bounty, we encourage bug bounty hunters to work with us. We do periodic campaigns with them. So there are a lot of things that we do and which has really helped us improve our security portion across all platforms. Got it. Next one is, I'm sure it's a hot topic with a lot of folks, which is essentially budgeting for cyber security initiatives. Now, on one hand, you know, we hear a lot about how the average cost of a security breach has is increasing year over year. And I think it's about now 16 crores of error. Right. And on the other hand, we hear still about organizations struggling to prioritize budgets for security. Could you share a little bit about how you manage cyber security budgets in your organization.  So this is a dilemma that every one of us faces. All the CIO seesaws because everything else is very easy to quantify. You need more compute. It's easy to quantify the productivity, right? So you need newer tools. You map it to the business value that it brings in more sales, faster sales, faster numbers coming out. But security is one thing where you can't really define how much is good enough, right? But the way that we have started shaping our budgets is it all starts actually a step before budgeting. It's about how the leader of security, Infosec, either the CIO or the CISO. He is driving Infosec across the organization, across the board. So how we have done it at Narsov Karveko. We have given dashboards which give us good insights on how our security initiatives are performing. So for example, we use WAF, which gives us a very clear metric between the traffic that we are handling, how much has been the malicious traffic and how much has been good traffic, which are bots that are attacking us and how our defense systems have been handling them very well. So when these insights go out to the CFO, to the CEO, to the board, right? Then the conversation around security investments become very easy to drive because you are showing good value insights coming in. So though I cannot quantify how much money we would have spent had we been hacked, right? But it generates that sensitization across the organization. And then that's something that helps us drive our budgets ahead. So again, a very small analogy, like how many door locks would you put at your home? Is too good enough? Is poor good enough? Is a CCTV good enough, right? So it's not until you have been breached, you realize what I was doing was good enough or not. There's no direct ROI, but it's a journey. So every day you need to drive that journey across the organization so that people are aware how important these initiatives are to the organization. And that's one way which has helped me drive the budget better. Got it. Okay. So let's just switch gears a little bit and talk about your end customers or your end users, right? And how they perceive all these investments. Now, obviously, a lot of most organizations have come a long way from perceiving cybersecurity, just as a cost center to now an enabler or even a business differentiator, right? And this actually helps build trust with your end users and which in turn drives business growth. Now, one, I'd like to get your thoughts on this and two, can you also talk a little bit about how if security investments have indeed had any positive impact on your business metrics? Yeah, so they definitely have a great impact on our investments. First, talking about how it impacts our customers. So the more better our security posture is, the more trust we gain from our customers. So today when our customers see us as an organization which is equally, which is equally proactive about securing their data, securing the customer's experience, securing the journey or handling data that we hold about our customers with us. So that gives us an edge and just for an example, so today between us and our nearest competitor, we have a 3x lead over the traffic that we handle, right? So between India's number one and number two, we are at 9 billion hits a month. So of course, that also reflects a customer's confidence on how they perceive us as an organization, how they perceive us as a brand. It's the various security measures that we take in place. It's the certifications that we hold and all of these are well promoted across our platform. So today you visit Cardico, you go to about a session, you can read a lot, including things that we do to protect your data to deliver a secure journey to you as a customer. And that has shaped well for us. These numbers speak for itself that how our customers see us as a more secure platform to transact. So I would say, of course, it has an indirect ROI, but it does really well. It makes a difference when you talk to customers, when you talk to investors. So that has had a very, very deep impact across all the platforms. Got it. Wonderful. Now obviously to implement all of this, that really comes down to just talent, right? Now, on our platform, obviously, we're seeing a substantial increase both in the volume and complexity of these cyber attacks. And as you can imagine, protecting against these, this is kind of like a rapidly evolving landscape, you need quality cybersecurity talent. Now, it usually comes down to either kind of building these capabilities in-house or leveraging, you know, trusted cybersecurity partners. Could you share just some broad guidelines and how to think about, you know, building these, building whether, you know, building these in-house capabilities, versus relying on cybersecurity partners? I think a good one again, Swamantha. Probably they're asking me to lay out all my strategies in one session altogether. But okay, so when it comes to talent on InfoSec, first thing that any organization need to really mark out well is, is this cold to me or not? If it's non-cold, it's always better to work with partners who have that process as their core business model. And the same principle applies to InfoSec as well. So we have a very lean and mean internal team, which does routine scans, which does licensing between stakeholders, which drives rather the entire education process across the organization. Because that's something that we saw is an ongoing exercise and where we could do with a fairly lean team there. But then when it comes to pure play, deep cybersecurity, that's something that we outsource. We rely on partners. We have a pretty solid due diligence process on how we shortlist and work with our partners. And then let them drive the InfoSec part for us because that's their core. It's not cold to me. My core is media. My core is automobiles. It's their core to do the InfoSec. And that's where, and it has really worked well for us. We have seen clear differences in reports on a scan done by us, visa visa scan done by a partner. And that's where we realize that having everything in house will not work. It's not scalable. And then of course, this attrition, you need to really harness your talent. And again, for any good ethical hacker who is looking to develop a career in InfoSec, I would not be able to give him the right playground. When you are working with a partner, when you are in a services firm, you have better talent because that talent also gets a hell lot of different customers to work with, different processes to look into. So their maturity curve versus your internal team would always have that gap. And that's the reason why we work with very closely with good partners who help us secure our overall environment. Okay. That's very important. I mean, I think we're almost at the top of the R for our session. I see a whole bunch of questions. I'll probably take one for now, given the positive of time. There's one question about when targeting a specific audience, how should brands ensure they are valid users rather than bots or other forms of invalid users? I think someone, you can answer this better because we have been using Akamai and just for the audience knowledge and the results have been pretty phenomenal. So now someone, you can probably share more on what you offer to target, to, you know, the disability between bots and traffic. Sure. Look, I think I'll just add that I think it really comes down to, you know, having specific capabilities to detect bots. And then what you do with that really depends on your business use case, right? Sometimes you just want to obviously slow them down. Sometimes you just want to deny them, or sometimes you want to give them a whole differentiated experience. But I think what it comes down to is that this is a big menace right now, especially for online firms, and really comes down to having specialized capabilities to detect bots, and then obviously figure out the right strategy in terms of mitigating them. I think I'll leave that for now, but if folks are interested, we can obviously take that offline and share more information. But I think with that, I think we come to the end of the session. And I mean, this is a very informative session. I think for me, like some of the key takeaways was, I think the big one really was about the culture that built within the organization and how you use data points to constantly sensitize not just your team, but even just a larger organization about the importance of security. And then obviously getting the right resources and investments to continue on that path. I think what is very reassuring for a lot of users, I'm sure, is that it has a business impact. I think those stats are very staggering, right, in terms of almost 3x compared to your closest competitor, that that validates the kind of investments that we need for security. So very, very, very useful information. Once again, I mean, thanks for taking the time out and sharing all of this with us.


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