The military base comes under attack in Borno state and reports say Boca ran members who disguised as soldiers overran the base. Apologies, we're actually talking about regional security this morning and we know that there are more security outfits that are springing up in Nigeria and other regions clamoring for their own regional security. We're now speaking with our guest to help us make sense of the security situation in Nigeria and just how much regional security outfits can do to tackle this very dicey situation. And our guest, good morning, thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. I'll guest this morning, Mr. Mike for the former director of SSS. Yes thanks for being here. I want us to first start with the general look of things regarding security in Nigeria. We know that several regions, towns, communities have been setting up security outfits to protect their domains. We know there's the Western Nigeria security network, there's the Amotecum. It's well known right now and there's a recently formed, it will be Agu of the Southeast is another group. So do you think really that this is the way to go? Well I think it is way to go because from all indications it does appear that we have security challenges and our security agencies are actually overwhelmed. So most of the problems are local. So since they are local, they also need local solutions. By that I mean that all these regional security outfits need to be easier for them to collaborate and cooperate, you know, with the need to tackling the problem because they are in fact closer to the people and they know the terrain. So I think it's going to help. All right, let's also try and understand what roles exactly they would play. Amotecum, the Abu-Biago now that we're talking about in the Southeast and of course it's very likely that more will spring up as time passes. What role exactly are they meant to play? Information gathering or fighting directly with security threats across the country? Yes, they will provide information for the actionable agencies like the police and the SSS, give them information on the equipment they will use in tackling the problem. They know the criminals within the society but because of fear of repressor and possible loss of confidence in the police, because of what is ongoing, don't forget that the police is part of Nigeria, people by Nigerians. So we need to build this confidence among the people within the security forces so that they can have a way of reaching out to the police. So I believe majorly that the indigenous community members call it community police and call it local police in the interim since we have not been able to amend our constitution to possibly establish the state police. As a stop graph, I think they will play a major role in ensuring security of the area. Okay, would you agree with those who are saying that the call and clamor for regional security shows that the federal security has failed? I wouldn't say it's failed but I think they are overwhelmed because of the enormous challenges we are facing, lack of manpower, lack of funding, underfunding if you may like, and of the police. That confidence, you see, like I was in the southeast during the Easter period and I can tell you that virtually all communities now have their own vigilante groups taking care of the responsibility of it. I hardly can see any problem for the recent ups and insolvency in attack on government facilities like the correctional facility, the Nigerian police and most recently the residents of the government. And this calls for a real worry, I can tell you because this is just too much for us to bear.  So there's no part of the country that even free from any problem now. In the interim, before maybe the constitution is amended that now recognizes the security outfits and gives them full legality to perform their duties, is there ways that you feel like Nigeria's security infrastructure, architecture as it stands, can be better positioned or be more strategic in able to achieve a safer Nigeria? Remember there's still the NSCDC, a lot of Nigerians are not really sure exactly what role they play in the space of all of this. Well you see the security architecture as it is now cannot contend with our security challenges. By that I mean that we need to restructure in the interim, like I said when we started pending the creation of state police, which a lot of people have objected to apprehension like to the abuse and are asked, is there any, is there any, with the present Nigeria police, this is not going to happen, are they established to begin to protect individuals and people of questionable character here to see them providing security for people who have no possessiveness of livelihood and is that not an abuse? So if there's no abuse, there won't be any law. So people arguing that when the state police is established they're going to have abuse. I think that does not hold water because the way it is now, unless we localize the solutions to our security challenges, which are local, because why are you always emphasized on this? If you go to the North East and begin to look for ways of stopping kidnapping that is not preventing there or apply the solution of agitation to go and solve other issues of kidnapping. It doesn't make any sense. So the point I'm making is that each geopolitical zone has its own peculiar problems which will also require peculiar solutions to tackle. So that's why I encourage that for now the issue of regional cooperation, not regional police now as we people say, regional cooperation in terms of security among the states should be encouraged. Now you look at Amotecos you see the establishment of Amotecos. If there's no society without a crime and you see that there's a reduction in terms of a commission of crime within the Southwest because it cannot be completely wiped out. There's a reduction because of the cooperation within the states because there was a legal framework in which all these groups were established and they begin to unlike what we have in the South East. You know there was another Eastern security network set up by iPhone which is illegal even though they are not visible. They have not provided any security to the best of my knowledge followed by the establishment of a blog by the South East Governors. And I ask before the establishment of this South East security network what was the legal framework? Have the states meant to say yes we are establishing this this is how we're going to provide logistics. Where are the vehicles? Where are the logistics being provided? So this raises a lot of questions. Ordinaryly the concept is very good and it should be encouraged. But for now I think the legal framework especially in the South should be put in place to ensure that we have these issues resolved. So Miss Adria, I thought we do understand your point you're saying these are local security challenges and they should be dealt with a local problem or a local approach and that the federal security architecture is overwhelmed. But would you consider the you know perspectives of others like Nigeria's you know former ambassador to the UN professor Ibrahim Gamberi who thinks that regional security outfits would break up Nigeria and cause disintegration. He's also saying that you know security problems should be looked at from the prism of you know national interest rather than regional ones. Nobody is interested in the breakup of the country. I for one I have no other country I'm a Nigerian I don't believe in secession. So if you establish a regional security network I don't think that will lead to breakup of the country. So I completely disagree with that notion that when you form a regional security network it will lead to the breakup of the country. There's no way it can. But you see again that there is this challenge everybody is clamoring for restructuring. Let us practice through federalism and that will reduce tension. You see most of the problems being generated are political. More than 80 percent let me not put it on the heart. At least more than 70 percent of our security challenges are politically generated and we cannot continue this way. In the next few years now 2023 by the corner politicians will start talking about campaigns and all this and it's going to exacerbate and compound the problems on ground. So that is why it is very very important that we also look at the issue of restructuring this country. Let us practice through federalism. And something we will tell you that people who are opposed to restructuring is that some of the states are not viable and that is that is not true. It is not true. There is no state in this country that can not survive of this. So especially when they look in words. But the problem is that as something they call it the student bottle policy that at the end of the month everybody will rush to Abuja and they rush to Abuja for a location and they come back and share this location. We have this simple infrastructure. Nothing to shoot for it. And I will still wait for the end of the month again for them to come and pay again. So that is a major problem. I can tell you that even states like Zafala now for instance is having some crisis. They have gold. They can explore this and pay tax to the center. But what we are practicing in federalism which we think we are practicing which is not true federalism is that the federal government will not take the chunk of the money and this go to the states. The reverse should have been the case that the states should be ready for and pay tax to the center. Okay. Mr. Agia for apologies to button. I would like us to discuss extensively on the whole issue of restructuring regarding security in Nigeria and her own internal development. But the earlier question I asked was because you say that you are not for the breakup of Nigeria cessation but we know the agitations of groups like you know high pop of you know massive you know how they want a separate Nigerian state of Biafra. The concern of many regarding politics is that when they grant or they allow you know these groups to have a separate security network is one step basically into you know breaking out. I mean that's basically the concern here. See this I think we should get all this right. What are the what are the grievances high pop for instance? What are they asking for? To them they have this perceived injustices in equality and the unfair treatment in distribution of offices. But if those issues are addressed but what we see now is that instead of addressing the issues they are further compounded. Government has opportunity to address these issues and once we begin to address these issues nobody will be talking about if everybody is treated equally with fairness and justice. I don't think anybody will be asking for the separatist government. Like in the South East for instance I continue to give the South East because that is where high pop operates. It's not everybody in the South East that's advocating for Biafra but if you look among the elites they'll be whispering among themselves yes well what where high pop is doing is not good but the government should also look so that shows you that there is there are grievances that needs to be addressed. So I think when you do all this by the time government you see what we have a contestant version nations of contestant version look at areas of this content and address them issues of unemployment you look at I'm not saying government can employ everybody it's not possible because even if you get everybody employed some people will still be involved in crimes some are just poor criminals there's nothing you can do to prevent them from there. I was just going to the social media this morning and I asked is there any justifiable reason why somebody should kill his niece pluck out the ice cut out the thongs and then replace because you want to to me this doesn't make sense you know we have lost our value so when you get these values restored restored there are people who start thinking like some of us are thinking like animals now because of the harsh economic condition. Yeah every society of course has you know their own fair share of those type of elements. Michael Jaffer you're from a director at the SSS you have also I believe have extensive information and knowledge of what's going on in the south is a lot of people have been bothered lately with you know the events in the south is security wise. We've also heard about issues in northern Nigeria, Barneau State, UBA state, in the middle belt and all of that. What worries you the most with where Nigeria is today and do you genuinely feel that the setting up of security outfits in different regions will be the answer with the reality of what we're dealing with in Nigeria today because it's not just about secessionists there are those who don't want to leave Nigeria per se but they want their own Islamic state there are those who are kidnapping there are those who are bandits there are those who are just killers and it's spread across the whole country. So what scares you or worries you the most of our current situation? Well what worries me the most is the issue of kidnapping for ransom especially in the north west and the in fact there's one there's no particular one that worries me the most who have a lot of causes for worry. Look at Barneau for instance we've been fighting insolvency for the past college terrorism for the past two years you come to south east these are the situation now which is going to armed struggle and my worry in the south is that in 2017 I won't on the consequences of prescribing the iphone when iphone was prescribed so the government can even initiate some action now it's the government that went to court government can also see some of some come up pardon to say where the iphone assure the government that they are not going to violate a case and let us come to table there's no problem without a solution so I think we begin to address but the major major problems that I feel is most worrying now is the so that the so they see in the north east the kidnapping for banditry in the north central under of recent the agitation in the south is which is going to out there but but it has it has never been on the level that we are seeing it today um do you feel that if we don't as a nation start to do the right things and that's from the presidency and the current Nigerian government if we don't start to do the right things in Nigeria every year we're going to hear of a new security outfit and we're going to have this same conversation next year because it's it's it's I don't I don't know but it is our problem the lack of security outfits all the the lack of an actual system that is functional and that is working for Nigeria a combination of all of them who have this functional security network because of lack of funding but if we talk of lack of funding again the question is has government provided sufficiently for the security agency the answer is no but government has tried to who must comment government by also trying to see the more they can assist uh security agency there it's not only in secreting uh sector that government should be facing but if you know that we must set our priorities right because without security there won't be any meaningful development you can leave your house and go to when there's no security or you don't provide food in your house and expect your your children to begin to say daddy welcome you are just to give you example so the issue is the money that is provided at times when you sit down to ask yourself in your family you have provided money for this how was this spent what did you buy that brings me to the issue of oversight the money provided for by government to security agencies have they been audited have they been used the way they were supposed to be used so these are questions you cannot be blaming government every time that government has not provided sufficiently when the money provided have been diverted well it's still it's still it's still the fault of government that we've not been able to identify those divers in these funds you know regardless of you know who takes the money or you know I had this you know conversation earlier that we've had a decade of funding and budgeting and allocating money for to fighting security we've not been able to have an honest conversation on what these funds have been used for why we still have soldiers complaining of lack of weapons when we hear of billions every year been allocated for security it's still the failure of government I believe that we've not been able to investigate properly you know mismanagement of funds for security isn't it I agree with you completely because the you look at the meeting for family staff was a national assembly and it was asked some questions and they started by saying that it should invite the media party for family staff to give account in a normal situation I don't blame me though but in normal situation he should have been able to look through his records to say give me time at least he was given a formal letter of invitation to say you are coming to him he looked into his records but because all this is that should get his secrecy he cannot give account so the only person who can give account is the person who was on seat at that time and government is about continuity this government accused the previous government of mismanagement you remember the issue of the armed deal 12 2.7 million a billion dollars above that deal which the previous government was accused of using for the campaign and what have we seen today billions are also going down the drain and who have a anti-corruption agency what are they doing about it all right Mr assembly what is the national assembly apologies to what's in here but just before we just before we go I wanted to get your thoughts on this security outfits let's assume you know they fly what should be you know the operations the modus operandi be regarding the security agencies should they be allowed to carry arms we had this discussion with amotec should they be allowed to carry arms or would they just you know provide you know intelligence for you know the police and we also saw situations where you know the amoteco was alleged to have you know killed some people so all these other considerations about you know how violence might even become on the rise when these people carry arms you know in the community what do you what do you say about that please well you see virtually all the vigilante the community police the regional police tell us but the difference is that they don't use to imitate fire arms some of them use these form actions private that are licensed if they are allowed to carry that well to some extent they should collaborate with the police to give proper training or handling of fire arms when to use fire arms and when not to use fire arms otherwise you begin to see abuses and I expect a cordial relationship between the police they should work under the police not but not under supervision of the police they would tell police look this is the information one you pass on the information to them for action where they're trying to action because you see two runs cannot make a right I agree but the people who are fighting are carrying dangerous weapons killing people raping women maiming people is possessing them of their needs of livelihood so if they are carrying arms I've suggested some time ago in addition to all these I mean of the various security outfits we should liberalize our arms law to enable people carrying arms especially in their houseways if you know I'm armed in my house you hardly can come into my house with infinity and that asked me to lie down my wife my children anybody but because you know that most people are not armed that's why they do all the things I do so we need to liberalize the issue of arms and they should be synergy between the various regional security apps with the police they cannot walk without the police okay all right thank you very much mr. Mikey Jofo thank you for speaking with us this morning um of course uh have a great week ahead uh we'll take a short break when we come back we're moving away from security issues and we're talking malaria which is also you know one of the highest killers that the world has uh well is still dealing with we'll talk about it and of course localize the conversation here to Nigeria stay with us


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Hello everybody, in this lesson, we're going to be taking a look at group by and order by in MySQL. Now when you use the group by clause in MySQL, it's going to group together rows that have the same values in the specified column or columns that you're actually grouping on. Once you group those rows together, you can run something called an aggregate function on those rows. Let's see how this actually works. Let's go ahead and copy this right here, bring that down and let me go back up one. Let's go ahead and write gender right here. Now we want to group on this gender column and we're going to say group by gender. Let's go ahead and run this. We'll see what we get. And so we have male and female. Now we could get the exact same output by saying select distinct gender from this table. What is group by doing that the gender actually isn't doing? Well it's actually rolling up all of these values into these rows. So later when we run aggregate functions like average, min, max, we'll do it based off of these rows and all those rows are rolled up into these two rows and we'll see that in a little bit. Now what if I was to come up here and in this demographics we have a first underscore name. What would happen if I'm selecting the first name but I'm grouping by the gender? Let's go ahead and run this. If we come right down here, we pull this up, you can see that the select list is not in group by clause and contains non aggregated columns. What this means is that when you are selecting a column, if it's not an aggregated column like say average of something, if we're not using the aggregate functions in the select statement, it has to be in the group by these have to match. So this gender has to match this group by if we're not performing an aggregate function on it. Let's go ahead and run this. And now it works properly.  Let's run this query because I want to select everything again. Well let's say we wanted to take a look at the average ages for gender. So what we're going to do is we're selecting gender. We're also grouping by gender. But what we're going to do is add a comma and we'll say the average that's AVG that stands for average. And then we're going to put in here age. So now this right here is an aggregate function. This does not need to go in the group by, we're just grouping on the gender. And then we're performing this aggregate function or kind of a calculation based off of those grouped rows for gender. So let's go ahead and run this and take a look at the output. So what this is telling me is that for the males, all of the male rows that were grouped, the average age is 41 point, let's say three. And for female, the average age is 38.5. So super quickly, you can tell that the average age of females is lower than the average age of males. Now we'll take a look at aggregate functions more in just a little bit. Let's actually go to a different table. Let's come right down here. We're going to go to the salary table and just select everything for now. Let's go ahead and run this. Now what we're going to actually be grouping on is this occupation right here. Now there's a lot of unique values. It's not as distinct as the gender, which only had two values. You'll notice we do have a few that are the same. We have ones like office manager. So when we come up here, let's say occupation. And of course we need to group by the occupation as well. Now let's run this. You'll notice that office manager only has one row. Let's say we also want to group on the salary. Let's say salary. Now we can group on multiple. So we're going to say salary like this. So we're grouping on the occupation as well as the salary. Now let's run this. You'll notice that we have two rows for office manager. Now this is because this salary and this salary for those two employees are different. We have 50,000 and 60,000 for this. I just wanted to demonstrate that if these had both been 50,000, there would only be one row office manager 50,000. But because this is a unique value different than 50,000, they have their own individual rows, which we would then perform our aggregate calculations on. Let's go and get rid of that because we will not be using that anymore. I just wanted to demonstrate it really quickly. So before we were looking at gender and average age and we're also grouping on the gender, we can perform other aggregate functions as well. Let's take a look at some of those. We could look at the max age as well. The max is going to show us the highest value within each of those groupings. So we have a male and female. The max age for those for the male is 61 and the highest age for the female is 46. We can do the exact same thing exactly. You can say men or the exact opposite thing. We can say the minimum age. So this is going to be the lowest for both the male and the female. Go ahead and run this. Now we have female and male and the minimum age is 29 and 34. And there is one last one that I want to show you, which is count. We're going to do count. Now count is going to count the actual rows within this age column. So if we run this, you'll see that we have four females for count and we have seven males. It's just telling us a count of how many values is in this column when we're actually grouping on the gender. So that's how we can use group by to actually roll up and group all of these similar values within a column or columns and perform our aggregate functions on them. Now let's come down here and what we're going to take a look at is order by. I'm going to say order by. Now let's actually pull in this demographics table right here. We're just going to say select everything and run this really quickly after we add a semicolon. So order by. Order by is going to actually sort the result set in either ascending or descending order. Let's take a look at how this works. At the very end, we could say order by and we could order by the first underscore name. So we're going to take this column, we're going to order all of our rows based off of this one column. Let's go ahead and run this. So it's going to do it based off ascending orders means smallest to largest. Now this is a text column or a character column. So we do it a to Z. So Andy and April all the way down to Tom. Now by default, this is in ASC order ascending order. And if we run this, it's going to be the exact same output. But we can change this to do it the opposite highest to lowest or Z to a by doing descending. So now if we run this, you'll see that goes Tom all the way down to Andy. Now let's take a look at ordering on something like gender and age because we can do both at the same time. So let's order by the gender first. Go ahead and run this. And you'll see that all the females are grouped together and then all the males are grouped together because that's just the order in which it is. But we can do an additional column. We can also do it based off of the age. Let's go ahead and run this. So now within the females, since that came first in our order by, we're ordering by the gender. And then we're also ordering by the age after we've ordered by the gender. So now it's 29 all the way up to 46. Then 34 for males all the way up to 61. Now we can change this just for the age. Let's say we want to do age descending. So gender will stay the same in ascending order. And now age will be in descending order. Let's go ahead and run this. Now female and male stayed the same, but now it starts at the highest down to the lowest. Now this is something that I would absolutely do in real life except sometimes you can make mistakes and sometimes you do the wrong column first. Let's do age and then we'll do gender. Now if we run this, the gender is not going to be used at all. And this is because there are no unique values that are going to be on the same row. So notice all these values are completely unique. So the gender never is actually used to order anything on because if there were things like 34, 34, 34, 34, 34, these would be ordered based off of the gender. But since there's no unique fields, this is really pretty useless. That's why the order of the order by or the columns that you place in the order by are actually quite important. Now the last thing that I want to show you and I'll just go back to gender and age is that you don't actually have to use the column names. We can use the column positions. Now I will preface this by saying I don't recommend doing this, but I sometimes do it in shorthand for just a quick query. If I know the column position and I don't want to write out the whole name. Sometimes I do it, although it's not best practice. But let's take a look at it. So gender is the one, two, three, four, fifth column. I'm going to replace this with five and age is the one, two, three, four column. So these are the positions of the fields but not the names of them. If we run it, we're going to get the exact same output because these represent these columns appropriately. But again, I just don't recommend it. It's kind of a slippery slope that I've fallen down myself many times. And when you get to more advanced SQL and you're creating things like stroke procedures and triggers and all these things, this can actually cause a lot of issues. If you were to add any columns or remove any columns, then you'd be ordering by the wrong column because let's say this last name got removed, we didn't want it for some reason, then the gender is one, two, three, four. Now we're ordering on the wrong column and that would be a big mistake. So just by best practice, it is better to do gender, age, but I just wanted to show you that in case you want to be like me and kind of go down the wrong path. So that is everything we're going to take a look at with group by and order by. In the next lesson, we're going to be taking a look at having versus where.


Hello there, njroot22.com here with a Monday video, it's a little bit of an experiment and it's also a little bit of a tech talk helpful hint type situation.  I'm also experimenting with this green screen and some new lighting here. I just, I like doing this so if you guys can stay with me here maybe we'll learn something together. And besides my new lights set up here and a little bit of fancy camera work, I mean people have been doing this for years. For me it's new so it's exciting and fun and that's what life is all about. But I'm gonna talk today really quickly about technology. I want to give you a little background. I was always ahead of the curve, always, I was the first one with a CD player for instance. I mean I think I had a Techniques SLP 230 or something, I don't know, I rode my bike in the rain like 10 miles when I was a teenager at night with no helmet. I went to the Paramus Park, Bergen Mall, Sam Goodie, Sam Ash, I forget, Sam Goodie was the store. I bought this CD player and I bought the floor model and I carried it home in a freaking glad bag under my arm riding a 10 speed bike in the pouring rain to bring this technology home. I mean this was in the 80s and I think I was one of the first people that had a CD player. Oh god it was so great. And throughout the years when things were sort of out of touch or people weren't in tune with technology, there was no internet, you had magazines, you had the word of mouth. Technology was fun back then, it was something really new and different and unique. These days technology is omnipresent I guess you could say, everybody has technology, everything is an app, everything is fast and dandy and I don't know. I was one of the first ones with a cell phone.  I can't remember exactly, but they had this long antenna, it was like longer than the straw on my drink and it was like, it was like, it was literally like using my drink as a cell phone. Look at it, I mean it's a green straw, you're not going to be able to see it. But let's just say I was on the phone, hello. It was really that heavy. This is a 32 ounce drink, this is two pounds plus the glass. And I thought I was the coolest thing, but what was I doing on this phone? I wasn't saving people's lives, I wasn't like an emergency person that needed to be in touch with everybody at all times.  It was just interesting. I thought it was cool to get a call when no one else had a phone, to get a call somewhere, oh hello, hey, what's up man, yo. It's like that Budweiser girl, I don't know. Pointless when you think about it, in retrospect. And then I kept getting newer phones and I always had the latest, I remember I had this one cell phone when I was, I guess it was right after 9-11 in the city. In 2001, I think it was, I believe it was November 2001, I went to this place in Manhattan and I bought a cell phone I could wear around my neck. It was literally the size of a zippo lighter. Panasonic made it, it was the most ridiculous thing ever. Always, I've got, I've probably had 20 cell phones in my life and that's probably nothing compared to the people in the last 10 years. Some people upgrade their phones twice a year because they have to have the latest. And this is my whole point. For the last, I don't know, 5-10 years or so, I've been a Blackberry fan. I always liked, this is before it kind of settled into two main players, Apple and Android.  I was always a Blackberry guy. I remember when they first had the Blackberry pagers. The things just worked. They always worked. And then the Blackberry phones and the keyboard, and I guess I had more friends and I had to do more things for work in terms of instant communications. But the Blackberry keyboard was always a nice thing to have. And it just seemed to work. It had some sort of intuitiveness that those i9 or whatever those things, where you could type and you had to hit the letter three times to type one letter and hit the Q three times. You know, just over the past few years, I remember trying the droid system, the Android system, and it never really worked. And it's still not up to par, I guess, with the Apple ecosystem. But I'm not an Apple fan because I hate that they have proprietary chargers, wires, and you can't put memory cards in Apple products. To me, I just think there's something really sick about them. But let me cut to the chase here. I've been a Blackberry person for a long time, and I still sort of am up until just this year. I've been a Blackberry guy on when they had this Blackberry 10 operating system and then they finally embraced the Android ecosystem. But I'll give you an example. I got this phone last year. It's a Blackberry D-Tech 50. This was $300 or $400 when it was new. I paid like 50 bucks on eBay. I got a brand new one. And it just works. But this little D-Tech 50 here, here, I have eBay on the screen here. I don't know if you could see that, probably not. But I had this phone, let me rewind here. I had a priv. This priv, it had a slide-out keyboard. And I thought that was a great thing. I never used a keyboard. I was always a keyboard fanx. I hated typing on the screen. I just didn't like typing on the screen. But when Blackberry introduced their keyboard, something about their keyboard app or whatever you want to call it, it just seems to work. And it just predicts your words. And you slide up to finish the word. And you can type pretty quickly on it. So I finally embraced the Blackberry on Android. The reason I like it is because at the root level, and this is geek talk, the root level, it's protected at the hardware level. So the Blackberry phones, when they say they're the safest phones or most well-protected phones on the market, they are. Better than, I wouldn't trust any other company if I had 100% requirement for safety. But this D-Tech 50, I love it. It's light as anything. It's thin. It's small. But the camera left a lot to be desired. And I do a lot of pictures for this blog with the camera. And something about it, it just didn't have enough memory. I kind of cheaped out on this D-Tech 50. So I said, let me get, I asked my family for a D-Tech 60 for Christmas, which I got. And that was like $200 or $300, $250. And it was like a $700 phone, new. But at the same time, I discovered an LG phone. This is what's great. I have an LG V20. Less than two years ago, this was like $800. I got it for like $70 on eBay. And this phone is great. It doesn't have the hardware protection that the Blackberry models have. But it has a couple things. And I'm using Mint Mobile, by the way. Mint Mobile, I pay $180 a year for cell service. That's $15 a month. And this works on the Mint Mobile network. But there was two things that made me finally switch out of the Blackberry system. And I'm kind of like torn about this, because this, I have to pretend this is a D-60. The D-Tech 60, sorry. The D-Tech 60 and this LG V20 are the same Snapdragon process. I forget what it is, 825 or whatever. And they're essentially the same, but the Blackberry just is faster. It's just a faster. The screen is rich. It's a really nice screen. But the reason I went with this V20 was because of this camera. The camera is, and I think a lot of models out there these days have dual cameras. But it's a wide angle camera. And I've always been a wide angle guy. In fact, I'm shooting this video on a wide angle, a Panasonic wide angle. And it's zoomed in, it's like 28 millimeters now. It goes up to 14 millimeters, which is really wide. And you can just capture more of its scene. I'm a big scene type guy, and angles. This camera is just phenomenal.  I mean, it doesn't have a little fisheye effect, whereas this one does not, the camera I'm using. But then the second thing that I profoundly found useful was the fact, that's not working with the hell. Anyway, the fact that the BlackBerry phones were unable to make calls over Wi-Fi. Not every model phone does. And you only have like a few minutes of whatever, I have unlimited, but I could never use any phone where we live. We have no cell service. So having a phone where you can use your cell phone over Wi-Fi is kind of a big deal. Because if you're out and about and you need to make a lot of calls, you don't use up your data plan, I have to reboot my phone here, and that's hilarious, isn't it? It's ridiculous, this phone just kind of locked up.  Like, this phone has been working flawlessly, it's all locked up now. I have no idea why. I didn't drop it or anything. So, I probably got hacked. Because if you hold the power button down long enough, it'll, the funny thing is, the good thing about this Black, this LG B20 is that you can open up the case, it has a nice metal back.  You use voice care. I don't want voice care. F'd up. See you later, battery. Reboot. Anyway, it's a really well made phone and let me get to the point here. The point of my whole situation is, never buy a new phone, get conditioning yourself to never need a new cell phone, because you pay $1,000, like the new Apple phones are $1,000, all the latest Samsung phones are like $900, and that's not including like the requirement for a two year plan and penalties if you cancel. If you want to unlock the phone, sometimes you're paying $1,200 for it. Like I said, I got this V20, which was the greatest thing ever. It was the flagship best phone in 2017. And now it's 2019 and it's $70 on eBay. I mean, it's, I think the going price is more like $150, I just scored a good deal. The guy said it was like, they rated A, B, C, D. It was in C condition. It's brand new. It doesn't have a thing wrong with it. I love it. And you can install most of the BlackBerry apps, by the way. The BlackBerry apps are good. Like they have this email called the hub where you get all your messages, text messages, social media if you want, and like 10 email addresses all in one little inbox and they're all color coded and you can tell which is which and you can sort. I'm never, ever going to buy a new piece of technology, at least cell phones, maybe a digital camera, maybe if it's groundbreaking, but when it comes to these phones, paying a thousand bucks every year, for instance, for a new phone, only to have to just go through the whole thing and load everything and copy. I mean, I can understand why some people do upgrade their phones if they get busted up.   I mean, there's so many cracks on it. I use my phone very little, very little, to get harassing calls from my significant other, some personal photos which we never share online and I'll take some pictures, if you look at the Philipsburg Mall post, I think it's going up tomorrow, those pictures were all taken with this new phone that I paid $70 for and it works great except for that last fiasco I had. I think that if more people started saying, I don't need this latest and greatest thing, I'm like, what psychological triggers do these companies have on you that you need to get this latest greatest thing? I know, for instance, this V20 that I have is, I like the way it works. I mean, the Wi-Fi makes cell phone coverage pretty much irrelevant, I mean, like, you know, it just, the V30, I want to give a little tech note here, V30 and above for T-Mobile and V40 and G5 and G6 have something called Band 71. It's a new cell band that I think T-Mobile spent like $8 billion to help phones get better reception in rural areas and out in Western Jersey, for instance, the cell phone coverage is much worse than on the east side of the coast near the big cities or towards Philly or what happened, but you head up into the hills of New Jersey and, you know, cell services is not always great. I mean, I guess Verizon's better and then iPhones are better, but T-Mobile launched this new Band 71 or recently launched and it, the newer models, the only reason I would ever upgrade this V20 if I don't smash it is to get a V30 and it's selling for like $250 right now. I'm not buying a phone for $250, I'll deal with it. This year this time, you know, January 2020, it might be $50 and then if this phone needs help, I will consider it if I have some extra pocket change. So that's the whole thing. If you can just condition yourself to not want or need the latest and greatest just because someone has it and they're touting how great it is and sure as some features may be better, the camera may be better, the capacity may be better, it may be faster, it can run some apps better than others. I don't know, I just don't see the true need for, I'm rubbing my hands again because they're ice pops. I was going to wear gloves. I brought gloves. They're not really warm gloves, they're just like work gloves. But I mean, I can wear these things. I think I have poison ivy and because I was, I think I was landscaping with these and I got poison ivy one year and I think it's still in there. Oh well, it's kind of a, maybe I can set a new trend of having a poison ivy in the winter. No one has poison ivy in the winter. But anyway, I think it's a healthy thing to do to wait because not only can you get the benefits of still new technology but you don't have to pay a premium for it. And the same goes for buying a new car versus a used car. I highly recommend you don't ever buy a new car unless you're a collector and you plan to not put any miles on it and you have 10 brand new cars. A pre-owned car, it makes so much more sense. 40% less a lot of times for a two-year-old car with 30,000 miles on it. I mean, sure, yeah, the new car feels is not there but I can go on and on. There's a lot of things and there's some instances where it's not worth like a washing machine or, I mean think about it, most homes people move into are used. I hope this works out. That's it for this video. Buy used, go on eBay, you can find some really good deals.


Hi, my name is Cesar Cevedo and I'm a technical marketing manager at GitLab. GitLab 13.9 has a new feature called Markdown Links for Feature Flags, which introduces a new special reference to our GitLab flavor Markdown for Feature Flags. When you use this reference anywhere in your issues or merge requests Markdown, GitLab will replace it with a link to the Feature Flag you specified in the reference. Not only does this improve collaboration on Feature Flags, but it also streamlines the stakeholders DevOps work. Let's see how this new feature works. Here we see the release announcement and for this specific feature, Markdown Links for Feature Flags. If you click on the documentation button, it will open up a new tab and it will take you to the page in the documentation that describes this new feature. There you see that's the special reference new in this release called Feature Flag. It shows you the syntax on how to use it. So now let's see how to use this new reference in an issue inside a project here called Prog Manager Spring. In this project I have two Feature Flags. One is called Prods in Alpha Order and notice that the percent rollout for the production environment is 50%. And I have another feature flag called Brand Name in Caps. Let's go to the Issues and create a new issue. Let's assume that we want to update the first Feature Flag that you saw and we're going to request to adjust the Feature Flag to 100% deployment to production. In other words, we're going to make a change to that Feature Flag so that the feature appears in all of the production pods. We enter a title for the issue and then we enter a short description. I will go ahead and assign the issue to myself and then I will go ahead and click on Submit Issue to create it. So once it's created, I could have added the reference in the description itself of this issue but I'm choosing to add it in the comments. Let's just assume that I forgot to include that link so I'm adding it in the comments. I could have edited the description and added there too. So I'm just putting in here the Feature Flag definition can be found at and then I'm going to go ahead and use the new feature reference and I'm entering here the Feature Flag reference and markdown and I'm going to specify that it's the Feature Flag number one. Notice that when I save the comments, that becomes a link and when you click on the link it takes you directly to the Feature Flag so that work can be done, not necessarily by me but by someone else and they can go ahead and update the Feature Flag, for example in this case, to 100% rollout in production. That's it. Thank you very much for watching.


Hi everyone and hi everyone from SportsCardInvestor.com. Thanks Jeff. I'm Joe for JaspiesCaseBreaks.com. We're here in Hermosa Beach, California. Thanks for joining us. This virtual SportsCardCon 2020 is a pretty awesome idea so big thanks to Jeff and the crew out there on SportsCardInvestor.com. And you can find us on JaspiesCaseBreaks.com. So we did the randomizer and everything so everyone should know their names and what teams they have. This is the giveaway that we're doing as well so big thanks everyone there. That should be given away at the end. And we've got a quick little three boxes right here so thanks everyone for joining us. Get a knife. Thanks everyone for joining. Oh it's right here. I got it. Hey Kyle what's going on? Brian what's up? What a cool idea this virtual SportsCardCon. And I think there's a lot of sharp collectors here on JaspiesCaseBreaks.com that break with us. And so the conversations that SportsCardInvestor.com and Jeff have been having on the podcast they just had James Beckett on. Dr. James Beckett on. And that was a great interview. A lot of stuff that we talk about here on this site right here. As well. I think we're just naturally interested in how the market runs up, down, left, right. Back to front. A lot of stuff that we talk about here that relates to that. So I think it's cool to see a website like SportsCardInvestor.com kind of get into that sort of world and really give people a place to chat about that and talk about that. For our group breaks you can find us on JaspiesCaseBreaks.com. We break seven nights a week on YouTube. We do personal boxes on our Instagram at JaspiesRakes. Instagram live only. And you can find that particular website on Jaspies.com. J-A-S-P-Y-S.com. So that's where the personal box are, individual boxes. Sometimes we've got some supplies there and some other non-sport stuff. And on JaspiesCaseBreaks.com is where you will find... And right here on this YouTube channel is where you will find all of our group breaks. And we kind of run things like a sports talk radio show if you're new here. It's kind of what we like to do. We listen to music. We're always watching the game or something like that on the background. Always discussing sports and the sports market. Try to keep it pretty family friendly as much as possible. PG-13, TV-14 is how we do it. Maybe if it gets late, a curse word will slip out of my mouth. It happens. We've got a shop here in Hermosa Beach as well. So I think we're in the midst of still kind of remodeling the shop a little bit. And then we should be able to open up to the public again in a couple of weeks or so. I think a lot of stuff is still open around here in Hermosa Beach. But we will be ready for the public soon. And we'll have all the usual sort of pandemic related mask rules and all that stuff. But everything is going to be clean and safe. And curbside will still be available as well for anyone who wants that. And we'll slowly get back to regular operations pretty soon. So JaspiesCaseBreaks.com, Jaspies.com is where you can find us. And be sure to subscribe to this channel right here as well if you're new. So we've been doing this for about five or six years now. So we've been doing this for a minute or two. And we've seen the market change so drastically. And what people want, like what the people want, that has changed so drastically as well. So that's been pretty crazy to see. We've been doing this for so long. And there's been some lean times where basketball wasn't even the most popular sport, like three or four years ago. And we would be selling baseball and football like hotcakes. But we can sell a basketball break to save our lives at some point. But now, slowly over the last few years, and especially over the last year, and definitely over the last six months, you've seen it. Everyone who's involved in this, or just starting to get involved in this, probably got back into it because they've heard about it, how the Zion prices are going and all that. So it's pretty crazy. Best breakers around says, Viva, let's not go that far. Exactly, Rex. Yeah. My head barely fits in this camera frame anyway with the ego. TC saying, great streamer, not lying. Wow. See, the ego will continue to grow. Mark N, who's a regular here, saying, Joe was good until he was mainstream. Got two cameras. He's big timing us now. Wait till we get that third camera. Spotify's just giving away money, right? Wait till Spotify gives us that ringer money. That Joe Rogan money. Wait till we get that. These greens aren't numbered right here. NBA debut. Gai Jerome. Giannis. Kyle Lowry. Jordan Poole. Even non-Rookie Giannis cards? We've seen these go for more than other vet commons, that's for sure. And I mean, any rookie could become big in like a year or two. We've got a hold of that. That'll go to the Suns, of course. Got the Lakers Raptors game kind of on quietly in the background. He's giving go Luka Donchich, Kemba, Tremont Waters. I actually don't know if we're going to be shipping all cards. It might just be a veteran commons that don't ship. That I'm not sure. We're shipping everything? We're shipping everything. All right. Oh, wow. That's a special sports card investor virtual deal. There you go. Grant Williams. One of those Celtics rookies have to pan out, right? They've got like, what? A zillion first-rounders? There's a John Morant, base John Morant. Not a parallel, but still nice. RJ Barrett still has some upside as the number three overall pick. You know, I don't think he's reached his final form yet. So this could be a bilo candidate here. We all know what John Morant's doing. He's pretty good. I've heard of him. He's all right. No, there was a LeBron insert in their wrecks. There's no Kobe cards in this particular product. Are you trying to jam me up, Rex? Deandre Hunter. Nice rookie right here. Deandre Hunter, Cam Reddish. You know, those are another of, I think maybe even bilo candidates. Kendrick Williams. And those are pink camos, which are exclusive to this set, right? Exclusive to those cellos. All of these will ship. I mean, everything ships, but a lot of times in group breaks, just something for anybody to look out for when you're joining any group break, especially ours on jaspyscasetrace.com. A lot of group breakers won't ship veteran commons. But they're usually in the item description, so just be sure to read those. It's a lot of fun. Do we break soccer? Yes, we do. We do break soccer. You want to come over this hip from a packable soccer? Oh, man. I love the soccer. I hope this doesn't turn you off, but I am a Liverpool supporter, so I'm very... No? Can't say that? No. No? This is like the whole... Yeah, we're unbiased. It's like the Michael Jordan sneakers comment. We got to appeal to everybody. Yeah, we do break soccer. We pulled a one-of-one Virgil van Dyke patch auto, the best center back in the world for Liverpool. That's Relic and Autograph one-of-one. We pulled a Cristiano Ronaldo. Was that a one-of-one, too? One-of-one auto. One-of-one auto in his Manchester United shirt. So, yeah, we do some... We do the soccer. We have some obsidian soccer on the website now. And we've done some impeccable soccer, which is great. I think you can find some more impeccable soccer at Jaspy's Breaks Instagram Live. Yeah, and then when we don't ship veteran commons or donate it to charity. So, yeah, in case you were wondering where those go. No, just keep them. No, we don't have room for them. We ain't no one got time for that. NBA debut Zion Williamson. So, whoever has the Pelicans in this sports card investor break is going to get a nice pink camo NBA debut Zion Williamson. Nice. Kuzma's been looking good here as well. There's Brandon Clark, who is John Miranda Jason. There's LeBron James, pink camo. Pretty nice stuff there. The voice you're hearing in the background is my colleague Nick Jaspy. There's his face kind of half face and hand right there. There you go. There he is. So, that's my colleague Nick Jaspy. You'll see him sometimes on group breaks. Him and his father run the shop here. We are a multi-generational... Am I allowed to say this? Boxman worked at Beckett for a little while too. Beckett tops? Yeah. He knows Dr. James Beckett. He made sure not to troll him in the chat though. Luka Donchich, Mavs, we're like boss man. That's not a good move. It's not a good move. Pink Camo Luka Donchich is also nice. Those second year Luka Donchiches are still pretty strong. Should we go mega box or should we go crown rail? I think mega box. Mega box and crown? Alright. Maybe I ended off with a kaboom. Kaboom would be nice. Nick Jaspy is going to be a hippie pretty soon. I know. He hasn't had... I haven't cut my hair since the pandemic started. I think you kind of did a self haircut though. Yeah, I did a little bit of self trim. I didn't work out so I just... I don't know. An abundance of caution. I got it as soon as they reopened. I got a haircut. I don't know Nick. That's some good show hair though. If you get a baseball cap on. You'd be like Jared Weaver or something like that. That's a Bryce Harper flow. Yeah, it'd be like Boba Shett before you know it. That's some good show hair there. Alright, so those two silver packs in the back. These are also the hypers I think. Pink hypers are very exclusive. There are two questions. We're located 1402 Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa Beach. Hermosa Beach, California 90524? 902. 90254. 90254. Currently we're only in curbside pickup right now. Jaspy's.com. But we're hoping to open our store soon next couple weeks. Reopen it I should say. But when our store's fully rocking, we have singles, boxes, packs, blasters, all the good stuff. Maybe some socially distanced trade nights as well. Luka Donchich. We've got a big parking lot too. We could do it out there. Yeah, maybe Outdoor. Luka Donchich, second year. Outdoor sale in the future. Dallas Mavericks. We have My House Will Ship as well. Giannis Ante DiCumpo. Splash. My House Dame Lillard. Trailblazers look good the other night, right? Use of Nurkage Healthy. My House Jared Culver. So you can kind of see that pattern in the background there. It's a parallel, but not numbered. Nikhil Alexander Walker. Giannis Fantasy Stars. Silver and My House rallying. And there's Lamarcus Aldridge right there. Oh, Coach. You want us to talk about our Jaspy's repack? Look, man. The coach setting us up just to knock it down. Good teamwork right there. I'll take the good assist by the coach. Jaspy'scasebreaks.com. You'll often find us doing some of our own specially curated repack products, which we will often see on the site. Very familiar. Very much like Leaf and those other companies. Hit Parade and Gold Rush. You'll see them do those repack products. We kind of have our own thing going too. Just exclusively for Jaspy'scasebreaks.com. And sometimes you'll see hit packs on Jaspy's.com as well. So we'll do some repack product in addition to group breaks. Football, baseball, soccer, hockey. Segu Demboy. No one else is on the pistons, right? Upside for that guy. Upside for Segu Demboy. All right. And the third and final one. Thanks, everybody, for watching. Hopefully you'll join us on Jaspy'scasebreaks.com for a future break. We appreciate that. For those of you who bought into that football mixer earlier, that's going to be coming up right after this. We did hit that Conor McDavid. And I see now that it just sounds like we're showing off, Jeremy. If we talk about that $100,000 Conor McDavid, we pulled a while back and got that ESPN plug. That would just be like showing off. They'll discover us sooner or later. There's Wiggins to 10. But you can find that ESPN story if you dig around enough. All right. Jackson Hayes. Pelicans. Knights of the Roundtable Relic. That'll go to the Pels. Looks like we got some magic coming up right there. Now, we've got another crew member here at Jaspy's that you'll often see on the late night hours. We break seven nights a week. And we often do late night hours as well, most of the nights. Now, Chumo Kiki didn't play a single game because of an injury. This could be a sneaky rookie of the year, Canada, next year. So buy low on the Chumo Kikis, maybe. I don't know. Maybe sportscardinvestor.com might have some more information on that. To $199, you can track it there. Orlando Magic with that one. And we got a Colin Sexton here at the end. An old Donovan Mitchell. There you go. Rudy Gobert's best friend. Thanks for watching, everybody. Big thanks to Jeff over at sportscardinvestor.com for doing the virtual sports card con 2020. We really appreciate it. For everybody else, you can find us at Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Twitter at Jaspy's Breaks. Instagram where we do our personal breaks. At Jaspy's Breaks. And we have a shop in Hermosa Beach. So come check us out if you are in the area. Thanks very much. I'm Joe, and that was Nick in the background over there. Thanks for watching. We'll see you guys next time. Bye-bye.


Ladies and gentlemen, the day has arrived! widescreen, HD, no more bike bars here! We have made it to water seven, the next saga of One Piece. I'm getting ahead of myself. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel. My name is Jack the Buster, I should know be episodes 207 today and 208 today. I'm starting today splitting up the episodes of their own singular videos, make things a little bit easier to keep track of. But again, like I said, we are starting a brand new saga. Now, I believe the first arc of the saga is like 10 episodes long. People kind of like, like, were like hesitant about it. Like, yeah, it's called a foxy pirates arc. And then supposedly we actually get into the whole water seven arc. So that's what we're in for. But I'm super excited to see this widescreen HD, dude. I had to skip over the intro apparently for like 30 or 40 episodes. But man, it looks pretty. We're gonna hop right into it. If you're new to the channel, drop a sub and hit that big blue bell. And let's get started on this next adventure together. See, this, this, this doesn't, this doesn't look like One Piece. It's the whole, it's taking up my whole screen. This isn't One Piece. This is wrong. Dude! Ah, sorry. This is how it's gonna be this first episode. It just looks weird. Like a good weird, like it's, it's so pretty. There's so many colors. It doesn't look like it was made in the Dark Ages. And again, I had appreciation for how cozy it looked. But still, this is so nice. I think it's just slowly, slowly go down, hopefully. They're not as high up now though. They just need it more boarded. They need to get, marry those, those promised upgrades. This poor Archibos has just been through it, man. Had to spend an entire, what, 10 episodes in Luffy's pants. Come on. I just feel bad for it at this point. Aw, he's treating it. I love this little Archibos, man. Man. Yeah. He's free. Be free. Oh, slow. See, food ingredient? He's so adorable. Little Archibos. Next, the location. The waves have been looking strange. So what did we see at the very beginning? Was that in, like, again, the water? Oh my God. Oh, that's what was, that was what was in the water. What are those? Oh, hand silence. What is this? Good. Wait, what? Why are they fighting? Wait, this is so random. What is happening? Who's, do I, should I know this voice? The symbol of mine? They pirated their pirate logo? Oh, Delfomingo. Oh yeah, wait, he controlled that one, that one Navy higher up. See, he, like, made them fight at the meeting. That was, like, his power. I like his voice. Yeah, wait, why do you say that symbol of mine? Like, they're, like, they're pirates of his? I don't remember his bounty. I don't think it's over 300 million still. I thought it was, like, 160. He actually made him cut Bellamy down. So they work under him? I was gonna say Blackbeard's still here, but he's not. They, they try to follow them up to the knock-up stream. He might have reached you someday. Damn! He is a subordinate of him. Bellamy. Dude.  No! Delfomingo! No! Kill him! Only true pirates can survive. Damn, that's his symbol? Oh my god. His laugh, bro! That was so random. I love that, though. That was crazy. That was chaos. All right, so the warlord, after his own man, what more is in store? Why is this the worst possible time? Is that a frog? It looks like a frog on the front. Oh my gosh, that is a tiny... They look like they're struggling, too. Like they're out of food. Oh, these are the things from the very beginning. See monkeys? That's what those are? Is that a frog? That looks like a frog. Let's swipe their treasure. Whoa, you look like you're already struggling to eat. Why are you trying to focus on treasure? Yeah, those are real pirates. I can't even lie. Says you, Ed. Actually, I have to give them credit. They have gotten more organized. They're like fighting each other. Navigator. Don't got one. Captain. Don't got one. These guys are messes, man. They're completely submerged. Well, RIP. New type of intercut. Hey, this is so cute. It's not a card anymore. It's a little animation. That's adorable. I want to see the others now. I'm hyped to see the other intercut cards. They needed a change of pace from just the little posters and stuff. As nice as they were. Dude, my eyes are still adjusting to this art style. It's so beautiful. The colors are so bright and pretty. It's demonstrating. Yeah, it was a little random. What kind of pirates are like that in the grand line, especially? That's possible. Yeah, it actually wasn't really good condition. They had no sails, no food, no captain, no navigator. I think he's right to be curious about it. They were deadly pirates because as soon as they saw a ship, they were like, yeah, that's a problem. Can I see the island? Oh, that's right. That's their objective. It's shipwright and musician. Ah, classic disease. What? It's just trees and grass. And he's still as hyped as ever about it. That's Luffy. I mean, it doesn't look dangly, so it would stop them behind. Or the only one actually dropping anchor.  What is that? It's a long bear, long apple. What is happening? Oh, the trees are long. Is the house tall too? That apple looks so cursed. It looks like a sausage. That's gotta be racist. Dude, this is so cursed, man.  What is happening? Another ship. It's tripping. This house looks relatively normal. That's Luffy's style. The boss of the island. A giraffe. A giraffe would be extra long. Wait, that's a horse. Oh my gosh, it's a horse. This is so absurd. That is one piece, though. Just sheer absurdity. This is like a new level for it, though. Shelly the horse. Where's your owner, Shelly? He's gonna try to climb over something. Dude. Shake it. Wait, what if it was an animal?  That bamboo animal. Doesn't know where it's on it. What is going on? Okay. They're docking. Somebody's docking. Is that really blocking them? Oh, in the fog. Oh, here. A showdown? Dude, their ship is enormous. Absurd. What do you mean it's been a long time? Huh? Chopper's like, I just know Drum Island, bro. Tonjeet. Oh, those were still? Stop? Tonjeet? Attacked. Those are very dangerous stills, Tonjeet. It was at the very top. I just got cut down. What? No one in the horse didn't know where his owner was. So he was just stuck? There are many trees just as tall. How do you sleep? Just standing up like a flamingo? That's a good question, Luffy. I'm excited to hear this reason. And longing for excitement. He went to sit. It's a duck. I think. Oh, plaid. It was. Ducks. You can't be serious, man. Look at it go. I don't want to see a ferocious animal leopard. They just say the name longer.   Is that one of the foxes? I'm assuming. Okay. So a very interesting episode to begin. So everything aside from this long island, that entire thing with Dolfo, Miko and Bellamy was absolutely bonkers. Like straight up, I thought Bellamy was going to be a big piece of the puzzle later on. Like him finding out what it actually means to be a pirate and learning why Luffy behaved the way he did when they met. But he's just dead now. Like just straight up. And I guess it was just more to reinstate like other things are going on right now as our crew continues their journey. And that Luffy's made much more of a name for himself than he may think right now. And the rest of the crew probably thinks.


March 3rd marks the centennial anniversary of our Navy Reserves. When we look back on the history of the Naval Reserve, it's all been absolutely impressive and being able to be here at this time is certainly really special. In an active area of operations like the U.S. Fifth Fleet, the Navy Reserve has played a pivotal role in maintaining mission readiness. So we have about 250 reservists and nine reserve units that are directly augmenting Fifth Fleet NAVS work. And these reservists come right in, fully trained and qualified to step right in and assume those positions. And the feedback we get from all the reserve component as we do out briefs is they have benefited strongly from that experience, kudos to them and the work they've done. Reporting from U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, I'm Petty Officer Sean Fury.


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We're on. Here we go, Swiftstack. My name is Chris and this is Doug. We're gonna spend the next 20 minutes or so going through Swiftstack. Specifically, we want to talk about ways that Swiftstack is used in the world, in our customer base. I'll introduce Swiftstack real quickly and fundamentally, as you can read, Swiftstack is object storage software. We are intentionally focused on providing massively scalable, massively flexible object storage and we're built, as you might guess or you may know already, we're built proudly on the foundation that is the OpenStack Swift project here. We've been a part of the OpenStack community from the beginning. We employ the Swift project technical lead, several of the core developers, and we work with a number of the companies here to move that project forward on a regular basis. But Swiftstack then takes this solid, extremely well-proven, fundamental, open-source Swift technology and builds on that a management tool, what we call a controller, which takes that engine and turns that into something that is ready for the enterprise, that has the integration with things like authentication tools, that has management and monitoring and a handful of other pieces and parts that we add on to what is the open-source OpenStack Swift project. So why does Swiftstack, or why does this the Swift really object storage platform or concept exist in the first place? There's a couple of things and if you go back to when I started in storage and my background is as a developer on the traditional storage side of things, SAN and NAS type of platforms, that's where I started. From that point forward until now, what we have seen is a change in the industry, a change in the infrastructure, a desire as you see on the screen for storage and really for all of infrastructure to be more agile, to be more flexible, to be more scalable, to be less about lock-in, more about transition, ease of transition and what has driven specifically in the unstructured space of the storage side of the industry is a push toward a new method of access and a new architecture and so what that looks like for Swift, for Swiftstack in particular, is rather than mounting silos of NAS or SAN storage, you now access everything through an API, right, flexible. It could scale, you could literally have a Swiftstack storage platform that scales continents and have a single mount, or not mount point single API for access and the architectures I mentioned could run from everything from a couple of nodes, a couple of virtual machines, if you're just trying this out for the first time, to a couple of bare metal nodes, three of them likely in your first data center deployment out to 10 data centers across 20, or 20 data centers across all the continents and anything along the way that flexibility is there. Specifically, and we're going to talk for the next few minutes about use cases, specifically we see them kind of fall in two buckets and that's what's on the screen. One is, as you could expect related to the OpenStack world, is storage for private cloud and we won't spend much time on this because it's kind of a no-brainer.  Swiftstack is hands down without question the simplest way to get that up and running and you can grow that from your simple Glance repository up to whatever else. But if you're starting to go from the private cloud or even independent of that private cloud, a massive percentage of our customer base is actually just on the object storage side of things. So they're saying we need that scalable platform for our unstructured data and it may or may not tie into private cloud for them and that's where we want to spend the next few minutes talking about some of those use cases. We'll run through back up at Swiftstack as a target for backup. We'll talk about file sync and share, kind of that enterprise drop box experience, if you will. We'll talk a little bit about some other use cases that fall in there as well and a way that we can bridge the legacy applications to the object storage as we move forward. So I'll hand over to Doug to talk about backup and I'll switch back in a minute. Hi, everyone. So this is probably the most obvious use of open stack Swift storage is backup. So we already know that Cinder and Glance, those projects use Swift as object storage backup, but there are a number of commercial backup applications that work as well. So if you've got, you know, Commvault, Netbackup, IBM, TSM, which is now rebranded Spectrum Protect, they're going to be able to backup as well. And the key factor here is why not just use your existing NAS? So people have used NAS, filers, block storage forever to backup to object storage, obviously commodity hardware less expensive, but the the neatest feature out there, and that's what we're in demo in a second, is the DR scenario. So when you're using object storage as your backup target, you have a single namespace across all of your geo clusters. So you can have New York, San Francisco, Texas, same namespace, same data, a replica in each, you can backup to any of them, you can restore to any of them, fully automated, no reason to figure out replication, anything like that. In fact, you can back up immediately to New York and access that data in California. Whereas if you're backing up to a NAS or saying you would do your backup, you'd take a snapshot, you'd have to wait for that entire snapshot to sync to the other side. In fact, it would be then a different namespace, a different mount point, you'd have to tell yourself for how to access that mount point. And so the simplicity is what really matters. So let's see that in a quick demo. Alright, so in this demo, we're going to use convo. This is a talk I give. And so what I've done is I have a backup in New York City. Now I'm in our San Francisco office, and I want to do the restore. And what I'm going to do is I don't have to tell convo anything differently. I'm not pulling this across the wire. I simply go into convo and I pick what I want to restore, which happens to be somebody's desktop with cap photos, because we know that's the best use for open stacks with. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to just run against the media agent that happens to be in my San Francisco office. Nothing else needs to be done. I don't have to tell it's a different namespace. It says if I was going to the rack space cloud or any other cloud, we're presenting as a cloud on site, simple, done, my restore is running. And this would have been much more complicated. Had I used block storage, I would have had to replicate. I would have to replicate the database. I'd have to mount it. I'd have to import it. Instead, I'm done in less than a minute. In fact, I'm done faster than I can talk through it. So Chris, why don't you talk us through file syncing chair? Sure. And just an obvious statement, all of this is being recorded. So if that screencast went through quickly, and you'd like to slow that down and see what happened, either watch for the recording of this and you can slow down and pause or go to our website, Swiss stack comment, we have demos of all of these things that you can watch in more detail as well. File syncing chair, kind of an industry term that's growing now for, as I mentioned earlier, this idea of the Dropbox or box.com or Google Drive experience, right? It's really the new way in many, many senses to do home directories. We all have worked around and had this idea that we have a place where we put some data, whatever kind of scratch stuff we want to put now in the new way, the new world, right, the new flexible scalable back end. We all have come to expect that repository for us. I should be able to collaborate on the things that are in there. I want to be able to share a file or a directory. I want to have access to that from my laptop, from my mobile device, from my tablet and from my desktop or workstation at work, whatever that may be.  And you can see some of the names of them on our screen right now that provide that functionality, that provide that interface to the end users with everything, all of that data actually living inside of Swiss stack on the back end. So we work with a handful of them, specifically as Doug did with Commvault on the backup use case. I'm going to go through a quick little screencast here, a recording of Storage Made Easy, who's been a partner of ours for a while. In fact, if you come to our booth, they're literally right around the corner from us. And it'll go through quickly here as well. But what you're watching is essentially you're going to see three interfaces. And what you see right here is the Storage Made Easy interface to configure it to .2 Swiss stack object storage. And what we'll build then is a container or the place where objects live inside of Swiss stack. And then Storage Made Easy understands what that is on the back end and provides an interface, their browser interface, which is what you see right now. Now you have this new container, my containers, is a place where your data is going to live. The interface you're looking at right now is the Swiss stack web console. It's another view into that same space. And you can see my container there as well. We're going to put some data in from a couple of different places. Right here, we'll drag it into the Storage Made Easy interface. We'll flip back and see from the Swiss stack web console that data is there. It flew by quickly. And the last piece, last interface, this is the one that you probably would expect, your end users would expect. This is configuring the Mac Finder, right? If you're a Mac user, then you say, I want to have a directory that looks like everything else I use. And I want that to sync automatically to that back end. I don't want to go to a web interface to put my data in and out. So due to a little bit of configuration here, and now I have this Mac Finder. I can drag data right into my shared directory. And we'll flip around a little bit and see that sync up again from the Swiss stack view of the world, the Storage Made Easy web view of the world. And it slows down again. So went through quickly, but a little bit of configuration gives you that interface. Likewise, if we had had the time, you could have seen that same picture of the world from a mobile device or from a tablet or from a Windows laptop as well, right? So that front end, that experience that you've come to expect is one that's very common for us with Swiss stack on the back end. All right, so we all know that you have legacy applications out there. And those legacy applications don't speak Object API today. In fact, they speak SIFs or NFS. And the reason you love Object Storage is it scales out. It's simple to administer. It's commodity storage. So it saves you money. And you have it in all these different sites. And you want to be able to use those legacy applications with it. And so what we're going to advise is using one of these best of breed NAS gateways and put that in front of your object storage. Are there other projects where you've got file systems in front of it? Are there other object storage companies where you have some sort of gateway built in? Yes, but these are best of breed. These companies just do it. In fact, we're going to go into a beer in their use case. They've been around for a long time. They've been accelerating sands and NASs out in the media and entertainment and genomic worlds. And now they can accelerate an object store. So one of the first things that we see is people looking to move off their traditional NAS. Well, with Swift stack and a beer, you can put a scale out of beer cluster in front of it. It will import all of your namespaces. It will accelerate your current NAS and it will move all that data over to your Swiss stack object storage. Now you could run your current NAS and Swiss stack behind it. And that way if your NAS has a single controller or single points of failure or you have to do an upgrade to it with a touch of a button, it automatically switches over to running against the object storage as the primary. And if you're looking to get rid of your NAS, you hit a button and this thing called flash move completes the process. And now you're running 100% off object storage. And as long as you're running 100% off object storage, what about backing up to the cloud? So there are multiple clouds out there, many of them here today, and they're offering extremely affordable storage in the cloud. Now maybe because of that distance in the bandwidth and whatnot, it doesn't make any sense for you to run against it. But you'd like to know that you have a second backup of your data. And so you can do the same thing. You could have your on-premise object storage or Swiss stack presenting SIFS and NFS in front of it. You can have that data mirrored to one of the cloud providers. At a touch of a button you'd be able to switch over should you have any type of outage on site. And you've got a backup of all your data. And now let's take that concept one step further. Hybrid compute. So I've got my on-premise data. I can mirror that to the cloud if I want to. But with my on-premise data I can now run with a VIR cloud compute against my on-premise data. So say you don't have a giant compute farm. You're running Hadoop or you're running Apache or Spark. You're running something highly intense in your HPV HPC environment. And you want a huge amount of compute you can scale up immediately. But you don't want to transport all that data to the cloud. No problem. Spin up in a VIR instance. It will offer SIF and NFS. It will connect back to your object storage on site. Run the jobs.  Get a small bill. And keep control of all of your data. So we really see this as a best of breed approach. That NAS from a VIR and some of the other partners scales out. Object storage scales out. It's going to be far more durable and reliable than a lot of the other NAS solutions today. Much more so than some of the NAS solutions just bolting a object storage API on top.  Sure thanks Doug. So we have we talked about several already and we're obviously moving quickly but these are hopefully planting ideas. Certainly we're interested and willing to talk about any of them in more detail. We talked about the obvious choice of Swift Stack being the back end for your OpenStack cloud right if you're using if you need Swift for a glance or for Cinder backups. It's a no-brainer. We talked about a backup target not just for Cinder but using it at a third party backup application. We talked about File Sync and Share and we talked about putting a gateway, a file system gateway in the picture to connect to some of your legacy applications. There are a whole slew more that we could go through here today. We put a couple of them on the screen for you. Customers of ours and partners of ours in the genomics life sciences space. So you can imagine the amount of data that's being generated today in the research area of things. Massive amounts of data coming off of genetic sequencers and whatever else going into Swift. Swift Stack as a back end for that allowing for the scalability that they need and even a pseudo CDN if you will. Researchers generating data in one place and then using the built in replication functionality of Swift Stack to have that spread out to the consumers of that. The researchers, the universities and medical facilities that are looking at that data as it's produced. Media and entertainment kind of similar, very different world but similar workflows as it pertains to data. Generating all of these cameras are producing a massive amount of data this week alone and this is being cut, you know, produced into to replays and smaller versions and it's going to go up on websites all over. All of that stuff is landing in Swift Stack in many cases working closely with a variety of media companies in that space as well. Doug mentioned a little bit about the HPC, kind of big data, a natural place for Hadoop rather than scaling out HDFS which could be on costly disk for data that you may not be actually analyzing. There can be a Swift Stack object storage tier that is the place where much of that lives in long term and you're just using HDFS for the actual analysis of data when it's relevant. So a variety of these that we won't spend much more time on today given the short window we have but a lot of good stuff that's going on in our world. Swift Stack just to recap. Software product, object storage use cases. We made some news this week and the launch of our release of our 3.0 product so feel free to swing by or check out our website with some additional detail on that. More integration with authentication, even enhanced management functionality and pieces there, more tie-ins to the S3 interface as well for applications that know S3 that haven't moved to Swift API yet and more and more and more. So let us know if there are any questions that we can answer or other work that we can do with you around these use cases or if you've got other cool ideas we're always open for that as well. Doug anything you wanted to add? No, thank you very much for your time Chris. Alright well thank you for your time Doug. Alright we'll talk to you guys after if you have questions we'll be on the side.