The Ministry of Health and Wellness today, Wednesday, November 25, 2020, received confirmation of nine new cases of COVID-19. These cases bring the total number of cases diagnosed in country to date to 235. Two of the cases are visitors to St. Lucia, that is, case number 231 is a 37-year-old female and case number 232 is a 35-year-old male. They arrived in country on Sunday, November 22, 2020, and required testing for COVID-19 upon arrival. They proceeded to a COVID-19 certified property for quarantine pending the receipt of their results. Upon being confirmed as COVID-19 cases, they were both transferred into isolation and the contact tracing process for these cases have commenced. The other seven cases are St. Lucia Nationals. Case number 227 is a 43-year-old female from the Castries District. Case number 228 is an 83-year-old male from the Souffre District. Case number 229 is a 56-year-old female from the Grosilla District. Case number 230 is a 27-year-old female from the Castries District. Case number 233 is a 29-year-old male from the Castries District. Case number 234 is a 39-year-old male from the Castries District. Case number 235 is a 29-year-old female from the Castries District. All of these individuals, after being assessed and tested for COVID-19, were placed in quarantine by health practitioners while awaiting their results. Epidemiological links have been established for five of these cases. These are case number 227, 230, 233, 234 and 235. The contact tracing team is in the process of investigating the presence of epidemiological links for the other cases. As per protocol, arrangements have been made to place all cases into isolation. These new cases bring the total number of active cases in country to 124. None of these cases currently require critical care and they're all doing well. As we are now in what is traditionally the cold and flu season, the Ministry of Health and Wellness reminds everyone of the importance of building a strong immune system to be able to fight off respiratory illnesses. Be sure to increase your intake of citrus fruits and vegetables to remain hydrated by drinking water frequently during the day. These habits will assist in building resistance as well as to strengthen the overall health and well-being. It is also important and to be mindful to behave in ways that reduce our exposure to the COVID-19 virus. That is to ensure that you wash your hands often during the day using soap and flowing water, to wear masks every time you're in public and ensure it covers both your mouth and your nose. Maintain a distance of six feet between others. Use of bleach solution to sanitize frequently touched services and to avoid contact with other people who have flu-like symptoms. If you're experiencing flu-like symptoms, keep away from others and seek medical care immediately at the closest community respiratory clinic. As usual, the Ministry of Health and Wellness continue providing information as it becomes available.


Listener Richard in our Discord group has a tip for us. I've tried several times to integrate tags in the Mac OS Finder into my workflows, tagging folders for specific projects, for example, but I've always struggled to make the best use of this feature. It's always felt like more of an admin task than actually a use vlog. I know what that, I know what that's like. He says, now, however, I think I've finally got something that works and sticks for me. I now only have two tags. One named current, one named useful. They sit at the top of my sidebar, reorganized thanks to the previous tip. And at the start of the week, I tag every folder that is relevant to the week ahead as current and untag anything that is not relevant this week. Then when I'm out in meetings or sessions, et cetera, I can just click into the current tag in the sidebar to access those resources regardless of where those resources in the actual file system are.


Hey guys, welcome back to Six Sister Stuff. Today I'm sharing with you four of the best meatball recipes. You're not going to want to miss it. So I'm Kristen. I am sister number two from SixSisterStuff.com and yes, there are six of us and yes, we are all sisters. So today we're teaming up with cooked perfect meatballs to bring you these four delicious and easy meatball recipes. And I'm telling you, these meatballs are amazing. You can grab these at your local Walmart. They're in every Walmart. And the kind that I like to use is just the home style meatballs because they're so versatile. You can put them in any meatball recipe. So spring is coming and we all know that things get pretty wild in the springtime. So we love sharing with you simple, easy and fast recipes. So that's why we're teaming up with cooked perfect meatballs because their meatballs make life so easy for you. Now you'll see in these four recipes that I have how fast and easy these recipes are. You can get them on the table in under 30 minutes. All right, you guys, let's go make these meatball recipes. So the first recipe I'm making today are meatball sliders. Now we're going to use cooked perfect meatballs. These are the Italian style ones. So because I am making 18 sliders, I'm going to count out 18 meatballs. So this recipe works if you have a small family, if you only want to make six, or if you want to make 24, you could do that too. So 18, we're good. Next, I'm going to add a 24 ounce jar of marinara sauce. If you're going to do 24 meatballs, you can still use a 24 ounce jar. If you're going to use less, go ahead and only use half of your marinara jar. Now I'm cooking these on medium high heat and just kind of mixing them around for a few minutes just to make sure all the meatballs are covered in the marinara sauce. Now as it starts to simmer, I'm going to put the lid on and let it simmer for about 10 minutes. Now when they're all done cooking, I'm going to pull them off and set them to the side. So why my meatballs were cooking, that's when I got my rolls ready. So I have 18 rolls in my big pan. Hawaiian rolls are my favorite when making sliders. Now part of my prep was slicing the rolls so I sliced them off into sixes. Now I'm going to place one meatball on top of each bottom roll. So now that I have a meatball on each one, I'm going to start putting the sauce on. So I'm not really measuring anything. I'm just going to try and put a little bit of sauce onto each meatball, kind of letting it slide down and cover the bun. Now you can't have sliders without the cheese. So I have one cup of mozzarella I'm putting on and then also one fourth cup of parmesan cheese that I'm just spreading around the top.  Now for the top of the sliders, you're going to take three tablespoons of melted butter, add a half teaspoon of salt and a half teaspoon of pepper, one fourth cup of parmesan and then you're going to mix it really well. You can use the fine parmesan but I love the shredded parmesan on top of my sliders.  It doesn't have to be very pretty because it's just all going to melt into that bun anyways. Now they are ready to cook so you're going to bake them at 375 degrees for 10 minutes with the foil on. After that 10 minutes you're going to take it off and you're going to cook it for two to three more minutes. Be sure to watch it so it doesn't burn. Now when they're all done you're going to let them cool for a few minutes before cutting into them. Now my advice is don't sneak a bite until dinner time or you'll end up eating a few of them. Now this is the perfect quick and fast recipe for dinner. If you're looking for a good one these meatballs make it so easy. On to recipe number two Swedish meatballs. Now I'm going to start with the cooked perfect meatballs in the bottom of my pressure cooker. Now using these meatballs since they're pre-cooked in a pressure cooker makes them so easy to use. So go ahead and just dump the whole thing in. Next I'm going to add one whole chopped onion, two tablespoons of steak sauce. Now you're going to add a half teaspoon of all of these salt, pepper, paprika and garlic salt. On top of that you're going to add one can of cream of mushroom soup. Then add two cups of beef broth. I kind of just eyeballed it. Then you're just going to mix it up a little bit. You don't have to do a ton of mixing but just to spread things around a little. All right when you're all done you're going to put the lid on top and make sure it's on ceiling. Then you're going to cook it for 10 minutes in your pressure cooker. If you're using a slow cooker it's going to be the same recipe but just six hours on low. Now when it's all done you can do a quick release or release on its own and you just take the lid right off mix it up. I love to serve mine over mashed potatoes. All right recipe number three and one of my favorite sweet and sour meatballs. All right first we're going to chop the vegetables. I already chopped my red pepper and my onion and now I'm just going to chop my green pepper. So I'm going to show you how I do it. So I kind of just chop off the sides so then I really don't have to deal with any of the seeds. So I'm just going to chop it into pretty big chunks because sweet and sour you want to be able to actually see the vegetables. All right I'm all done chopping and I'm going to scoot things over and pull up my pressure cooker again. So I'm going to pull out my cooked perfect meatballs. Now as you're looking at the store you'll find these at Walmart on the frozen aisle and you can't miss them because of the green white and red packaging. They just stand out. Now like the other recipe we're going to put the meatballs on the bottom of my pressure cooker. I'm going to add all my vegetables next that I already chopped up. Then I'm going to add one fourth of brown sugar just right on top. Next you're going to add one fourth cup of soy sauce and then one 10 ounce jar of sweet and sour sauce. Next I have a 20 ounce can of pineapple chunks. If you are cooking with a pressure cooker make sure you add all of the juice in. If you're cooking with a slow cooker you want to drain your pineapple first then add your pineapple. And lastly one half teaspoon of garlic powder. Now if you're using a pressure cooker you're also going to add a half of a cup of water. All right you're going to put your lid on make sure it's on sealing and you're going to cook it for 10 minutes on manual. If you're using a slow cooker six hours on low. Now as you can see above I did a quick release. You don't have to do quick release if you don't want to. When you're done you're just going to stir it around. Oh it is so good. I like to serve mine on top of rice. Now our last recipe is called brown sugar meatballs. Again I'm using the home style cooked perfect meatballs.  So I'm going to dump them onto the bottom of my pan. I'm going to turn my heat to medium high heat add about a half a cup of water and let them cook for a little bit. While those are cooking I'm going to make my brown sugar glaze by using a half a cup of brown sugar, one tablespoon of milk, two tablespoons of vinegar, and then two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar. Then you're just going to mix that up until it starts to simmer. Once it's simmering you can take it right off the stovetop and put it onto your meatballs. This is the perfect recipe if you just need a meal in about 12 minutes. That's how fast it is. Now I'm just going to stir around the sauce so it can cover each meatball. Then I'm going to put my lid on top and let it simmer a little bit. Now once the meatballs are heated all the way through you are ready to serve them. Now I like to serve mine on toothpicks but I also like to serve mine on rice. Either way is delicious. Now be sure to check out your local Walmart because cooked perfect has all kinds of different flavors. So I hope you love our meatball recipes. I would love to hear what you guys have on a busy weeknight that is fast and easy and that your kids will actually eat. All right guys, thanks for stopping by. I'll see you later.


Good morning. I'm Dan Pan, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Wow! To see 4,000 people excited to be here in Austin for KubeCon Cloud NativeCon. We are a community of builders. This is the Fulton Center in Lower Manhattan, where I live. It's a neighborhood that's constantly under construction and developing a train station is one kind of building. Software infrastructure, which is what we're working on here together, is an equally important form of engineering. The point of events like this one is about building community. Now each of us are members of different communities. Lower Manhattan was the target of a terrorist attack last month.  And I believe that the best response to an attempt to destroy and disrupt is to continue developing and continue building our communities. So, thank you. So let's look at this community around us. We are aiming to construct the software infrastructure for the next decade. And a shout out to Tim Hocken of Google, who's in the audience. His quote that these are exciting times for boring infrastructure. Maybe too exciting. This is the Cloud Native landscape and to fit all of these logos on one screen means that they are getting pretty small. The challenge of developing this map is that all of you keep coming up with innovative new products and projects. Now the blue squares are the 14 CNCF projects. Let's talk about the communities around them. How do we measure community? So one year ago at this event in Seattle, CNCF had four projects. Kubernetes, Prometheus, Open Tracing, and Fluent D. Fast forward to today, CNCF hosts 14 projects. Together they represent an open source infrastructure that works on any public, private, or hybrid cloud. Now, let's zoom in to Kubernetes. Compared to the 1.5 million organizations on GitHub, Kubernetes is number nine for commits and number two for authors and issues. And if you're curious about it, number one is Lix. As the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin says, Kubernetes is the Linux of the cloud. Now CNCF has been investing in a couple projects this year to better measure our community. The first is available at devstats.kads.io and it visualizes participation across many metrics. This is the robot commands that people type into GitHub, but if you take a look there's a lot of other dashboards. We're having a Birds of the Feather BOF meeting for this Friday at 3.40 p.m. and we've already expanded the content to five of our projects on the way to all 14. Another way of measuring is CrossCloud, an intra-project continuous integration system. It supplements the CI each project is already using on their own and there's a BOF for this one tonight at 7 p.m. Now let's zoom out and look at some other metrics of our community. These are the Google Trends graphs showing what people are searching the web for. Over the last 18 months, Kubernetes has become dominant compared to the alternatives. Now KubeCon, CloudNativeCon is where you can take the pulse of the community we're building. And wow, 4,000 people, other people around us, excited about what we're building together. And you'll see that 4,000 attendees is more than the previous four events combined. Now let's look at just a couple other community metrics. We have 120 meetup groups around the world with more than 47,000 members. And I want to give a shout out to the CloudNative ambassadors who help lead these groups. Another measure of our community is training. Working with a group of experts from multiple companies, CNCF created a free Kubernetes course on MIT's edX platform. We've had over 16,000 registrants from 147 countries who will be able to leverage their new skills to improve their role with their company or get a better job and to enable the growth of our community. Now, when people in our community, including those who start with the edX course, want to be acknowledged for their expertise with Kubernetes, they can now become a certified Kubernetes administrator. This uses an online proctored exam, not multiple choice, but where you demonstrate your proficiency with real Kubernetes clusters. Over 600 people have already registered. At CNCF, we believe that business is an essential part of the open source ecosystem. Projects can be used to make products, which hopefully produce profits, which can be reinvested back into those projects. So let's take a look at one measure of company engagement. And we can track the commercial interests in our community right here at KubeCon, by looking at the 40 sponsors that we had a year ago in Seattle compared to the 106 here in Austin. And I hope you'll visit many of them in their booths during the breaks. Now, speaking of our sponsors, let me thank the 22 Diamond and Platinum sponsors that enable us to put on this event. Yes. Thank you. We couldn't do it without them. And wow, 22. So another metric is membership in CNCF. You don't have to be a member to use or to contribute to a CNCF-hosted project, which is why we're so appreciative of the companies that decide to be to help the community by becoming members. We had 28 members when we started CNCF two years ago that has now grown to 160. And of that growth, the part I've been most excited about is the end user community. So these are just an amazingly diverse group of companies that are relying on CNCF projects. Another measure of commercial engagement is companies that can help end users succeed with Kubernetes. CNCF created the Kubernetes certified service provider program in September, which is built on top of the certified Kubernetes administrator exam. And we're thrilled to have 25 KCSP partners. So last month, CNCF organized one of the most successful ever conformance program launches, where we were working closely with the Kubernetes community to create the certified Kubernetes program. And we got all of the biggest public clouds and software distributions to certify. That's 42 companies have certified that their distribution or platform is conformant. It's really just an amazing group of logos up there. So 2017 has been the year when companies of all sizes have become engaged with our community. In the last couple of months, CNCF has added 27 new silver members. And today I'm thrilled to welcome three new gold members. Baidu, one of the biggest internet companies in China. JFrog, a leader in software distribution platforms. And Salesforce, one of the biggest cloud companies and a leader in customer relationship management. Also this year, we brought in seven new platinum members. These are the companies that support CNCF and our projects at the highest level.  And I'd like to welcome a Hong Tang of Alibaba Cloud to come on for a second. Thanks, Hong. Thank you, Dan. It's my great honor to be here to talk a little bit about Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba Cloud was founded in 2009. So it's about eight years old. So currently it's the number one cloud provider in China with a commanding 47.6 percent market share. And we also are very thrilled to be the launch partner of the Kubernetes certification program. We are currently operating in seven regions in mainland China and also nine regions across the globe. Our parent company, Alibaba Group, operates the world's largest e-commerce platform in the world. And just last month, in November the 11th, 2017, we held a one-day sales event called Singles Day Shopping Festival. And we achieved more than 25 billion US dollars sales revenue. Just put this in perspective. That's more than all the online sales in United States from Thanksgiving Day and the back Friday, the weekend and Cyber Monday all lumped together. At peak, we have to process 325,000 orders per second. Container technologies has been used extensively both internally for Alibaba's own applications and also for our cloud customers. The e-commerce platform I just mentioned before is in fact a very large hybrid cloud application running on top of the containers. We leverage the elasticity of public cloud to handle the burst of workload and also use these containers to get the portability of bare metal and cloud deployments. I put a very large in quotation marks because I think this is a gross understatement. It's probably in fact the world's largest hybrid cloud application. At peak, we could provision 10,000 containers in 10 minutes and also constantly we have hundreds of thousands of containers handling online requests. In terms of cloud computing, our recent progress mainly included the integration of Kubernetes with our native infrastructure services like compute, storage and the networking. We all the drivers are open source on the Apache license for easy integration. For on the machine learning front, we provided a Helm template for one-click deployment of TensorFlow on top of Kubernetes. The performance is 30% path fast in terms of training over vanilla Kubernetes deployments because of the native integration. And among our early adapters include one of the largest social platforms in China. And also we did something in terms of HPC computing, high performance computing. We have integrated Kubernetes with our recently announced X-Dragon bare metal servers. And one of the killer features of the X-Dragon server is network performance. It can sustain 4.5 million packets per second network performance. That's all for me for today. Thank you. Thanks very much, Hong. Thanks, Hong. That's great. So I would like to just talk about one new area for CNCF. We're having the first ever serverless track at KubeCon on Thursday and there's really interesting work underway in the serverless working group that I encourage you to join and take part in. One project that is promising is open events, a common specification for describing event data. Now, let's talk about where KubeCon, CloudNativeCon is going next. And the answer is Copenhagen in May. And then we will be back in Seattle one year from now. And the call for papers for Copenhagen is now open. We'd love to have many of you submit talks and proposals for it. But we have one more stop in between with the involvement of Chinese giants like Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, Huawei, Tencent and ZTE, as well as many Chinese startups and end users of all sizes. The interest in Kubernetes and other CloudNative technologies in China is massive. And so in November 2018, we'll be bringing KubeCon, CloudNativeCon to Shanghai. Lastly, as we build our community, diversity and inclusion are core values. I agree. So in Seattle a year ago, we offered diversity scholarships for three people. These cover registrations, hotel costs and airfare. And then we were able to increase it to five scholarships in Berlin. But with the growth of CNCF and our membership, we had planned to invest in 30 scholarships here in Austin. And so with contributions from Amazon and Twistlock, that was $70,000 that we were going to invest for those 30 scholarships. And so CNCF assembled a diversity committee to promote those scholarships. Let's welcome out that committee who also select the diversity scholars from more than 100 applicants. Now, I will mention that one frustrating part of the process was that four applicants who were selected from Cameroon and Nepal had their visas denied by the US government. But we will be offering them scholarships to attend CubeCon, CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen in May instead. But the bigger issue for the committee was that they didn't want to have to turn down 70 fantastic applicants. And so they convinced Google and Microsoft to each contribute an additional $80,000. For a total of $250,000 in scholarship funding. And to celebrate that, I'll ask Abby to come out, please. So note that we have to change the axis here in order to fit in that new column. We have 103 diversity scholars in the audience. And this is the largest investment in diversity, not just of a tech conference, but of all conferences. So thanks again to the diversity committee for your spectacular work. Thank you.


Just how is it after a fight when Devon has went through these challenges? I get so much love from the Roy Joneses of the world. Yeah, for sure.  Oh, he's dope, man. And and and us in general. We on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we going to win Devon. And because from what I heard or understand, then Devon also fight Garcia before when they were younger. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was that was the three three. That was that. Yeah, that was Queen. I don't like to say it, but it was three three. It was three three. The boy was both of them was good. But now the professional ranks is something else. Something we yes, and it's to be decided. Yeah, both of them had had enough have had enough time to groom and get the fights that they wanted.   So now it's the rubber matches game seven. Wow, you hear a lot of people from Roy Jones, Jr. to everybody, they key in and saying this and saying that. Like, I think every time Devon steps up and does what he does, they come up with different things to try to figure out ways to, you know, debunk what happened or, you know, how tough is it? You know, and how does his how is his? I know his mindset is dope because he continues to keep going and keep going and keep going. But just how is it after a fight? When Devon has went through this, man, I get so much love from the Roy Joneses of the world. Yeah, for sure.  Oh, he's dope, man. And and and and us in general. So I think the what what everyone hears and the comments and stuff like that, the trolls, you know, the hired guns for those that we've been on their helmet. You know what I mean? I think that they have, you know, bots and they have people that create narratives, but that's not the general consensus of the way people feel. Wow. You know what I'm saying? But, you know, I see that certain media outlets are now starting to say they're they don't there's no face of boxing and they don't believe in a face of boxing. Yeah, when I see what I'm saying, when that face started looking like Devon Haney, you see them now. When when Devon got the undisputed, then belts didn't matter and you had champions come and saying this. So but it's the real ones like yourself. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Really, because that's what makes up this boxing is the people. You know what I mean? So matter. So no matter how much the executives and the coaches and the managers try to steer away from their agenda, I know that ultimately the people are fools.  Yeah. You know what I mean? But eventually they're going to say, you know, what's happening? Me congratulations, man, on all the success, man. And my brother, he just he always my brother calls me. He's like, man, Devon did good, man. You know, like, he know I'm always rooting and he will just talk about it. Man, it's just something that, you know, to be the youngest guy like that and still to just keep stepping up the challenges and dealing with all these different things and levels that he's heard what he said, you're aging yourself out. That was the youngest, the youngest, the youngest boss. Yeah, you're not like that. You're not like that. No, exactly. Exactly.  No, the tough guys are the ones that got off the block that are choosing not to do it. The tough guys or never went to the block to do it.  Let's start celebrating these guys just really putting in this work because that's where my life turned around. You know what I'm saying? When my when dad decided to listen to me and not be me and be him and now I can be me and we get to the money.


In this video, I'm going to talk about how academic libraries are supporting the open education movement. Academic libraries are often the loudest voice on campus when it comes to educating users about open topics, and that's for a good reason. Unlike many businesses that trade in information, the purpose of libraries isn't to make a profit. It's to share information and give access to resources for users. This purpose directly ties into the open education movement, especially for academic librarians who interface with college instructors and students every day. It makes sense then that librarians would be aware of and interested in course affordability initiatives. So, how else do academic libraries support open education? One way that we support open education is through outreach services, by communicating with instructors, administrators, and others on campus about how open education can benefit the institution at large, and specific courses in particular. This is done through one-on-one consultations with instructors, but there are bigger projects we work on as well. A vital task for librarians supporting open education is developing partnerships, especially ones that span across campus. Many academic libraries working on open education initiatives have partnerships with their campus bookstore, teaching center, student government, or student accessibility services. By working with these groups, librarians can ensure that their support for course affordability goes beyond the work they do every day and that the needs of faculty are taken into account. And that's important to remember. No matter how much we want to educate our users or support those who are adopting OER, librarians should not be forcing faculty to adopt or create these resources. Advocating for OER on campus is all well and good, but understanding the barriers to open education is important as well. By reaching out to other groups on campus, we can better understand what those barriers might be and how we can support the faculty who are genuinely interested in open education. Another way that librarians support open ed is by participating in events, whether we attend them or host them ourselves. Workshops, symposia, conferences, when a library decides to host one of these events, they're providing a space on campus for faculty, librarians, and others to speak out about their experiences with open education and open adjacent topics, and helping others on campus learn more about OER. This can be done in a few different ways, from hosting faculty and student panels to bringing in speakers to talk about creative commons licensing or the impact that OER can have on student learning. A great example of a recent event of this type is the Florida State University Open Education Symposium, a symposium held in spring of 2018, which was livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube to share their talks with anyone who might be interested. Events like these show that library events don't need to be constrained to a single institution or location. Like for OER, sharing our work is even more impactful when it's done widely and openly. Speaking of sharing, another way that librarians support open education through events is by sharing the tools that we create and the work we do, often by presenting at conferences or publishing outcomes from assessments done on campus. Giving other institutions access to the materials we create can be incredibly valuable, whether we're sharing outreach materials, promotional items for events, library guides, or research instruments and results. Whatever it is that we're creating and sharing, we don't need to reinvent the wheel to get things done. Now, I need to make an important distinction before I end this video. Not every academic library is alike. We don't all have a librarian dedicated to open education and we don't all have the budget to do all or even most of these things. But there's a lot that each of us can do and are doing to support faculty who are interested in open education on our campuses. Despite or perhaps because of our differences, each of us is contributing something valuable to our patrons. And although I couldn't make a comprehensive list in this video, I hope I've highlighted some of the best ways that libraries are supporting open education on a day-to-day basis. Thanks for watching this video. Feel free to share if you find the content useful and check out my other videos to learn more about this topic.


I'm currently in hospital, today I'm in the section 2 of the mental health app. And today I thought I'd be in my bedroom because I'm currently in a priser. Mental health hospital has been a great name as the primary. So this is my room. I've been completely stripped of everything, so I don't have any of my own bit of novelizing. My self-soothed pots, which I'm going to do a whole of. Moving on, we have the bathroom, which has this really immaterial door. It's magnetic. Mine's nearly fallen off. The shower is actually great, so that's a good light jammer. So, to turn it on, you press this. You can turn it off. And the best thing is, it's not on the timer. Then we have this area. I've got my baby nature collection. The face wipes. And two hair rushers.  And then you get the bed. The bed is a double bed. Storytime coming on March. Long story.


Sars was the first new global disease outbreak of the 21st century, which went on to cost about 8,000 cases and about 800 deaths. Many of the first cases of SARS were tied to the same kind of place most of the first cases of COVID-19 were linked to, live animal wet markets in China. Freshly slaughtered animals are thought to be more nutritious by many regional consumers, and some seek your way. The wild taste believing the consumption of exotic animals bestows benefits to health and social status. This convergence, fresh slaughter with exotic animals, leads to a perfect storm for disease transmission, where crowded cages in these wet markets are contaminated with the blood, urine, and feces of countless species mixed together in a potential cauldron of contagion. There was a vast expansion of the wildlife trade in the 1990s to supply the emerging urban middle-class demand driven, according to the World Bank, predominantly by demand for wild animal products in China. Many of the wild animals, typically while alive, entered China through Vietnam from Laos, where the wildlife meat trade rose to become the second largest income source for rural families. Markets there sell a ton of animals, literally, many of which are critically endangered. Then, as demand surpassed supply, the cross-country wildlife trade was supplemented with the creation of intensive captive production farms, where a menagerie of wild animals are often raised under poor sanitation and unnatural stocking densities before being transported and caged at markets for sale. 14 million people are involved in China's wildlife farming industry valued at $74 billion. The genetic building blocks for the SARS virus have since been identified from 11 different strains of coronaviruses found in Chinese bats, but there are bat-borne coronaviruses around the world. The reason China, in particular, has been ground zero for multiple jumps of deadly human coronavirus epidemics, maybe because of these wet markets. In the case of SARS, the intermediate host appeared to be the masked palm civeta, cat-like animal prized for its meat. In addition to being raised for their flesh, civet cat penis is soaked in rice wine for use as an aphrodisiac. These animals also produce the most expensive coffee in the world, so-called fox-dung coffee is produced by feeding coffee beans to captive civets, and then recovering the partially digested beans from their feces. I don't know if you can actually see, but those are actually civet turds. A musk-like substance of buttery consistency secreted by the anal glands gives the coffee its characteristic flavor and smell. One might say this unique drink is good to the last dropping. Coronavirus, as acquired from civets in live animal markets, were almost identical to the SARS virus. While civets at wildlife farms supplying the live markets were found largely free of infection, up to 80% of sampled civets at the markets showed evidence of exposure. This suggests that most infections happened at the market, perhaps due to the combination of crowded interspecies mixing and the immunosuppressive effect of stress. Live animal markets not only allow for cross-species transmission, viral amplification, and human exposure, but viral modification, too. The SARS coronavirus exploited opportunities, provided by wet markets in southern China, to adapt to the palms of it and humans. Apparently civets were not just passive conduits for the virus. They appeared to be incubators for human-adapting mutations in the virus itself. The virus uses its corona of spikes, like a key in a lock, to latch onto host receptors to gain entry into the victim's cells. To switch from infecting one species to another, the genes that code for the spikes have to mutate to fit into the new host's receptors. A new lock requires a new key. Both the SARS coronavirus and SARS coronavirus II, the virus that causes COVID-19, attached to a specific enzyme coding the cells of our lungs. By the time a mishmash of bat coronaviruses made it into civets, the docking spikes of the virus were only two mutations away from locking in the configuration that bound to human receptors, and then the human-to-human SARS epidemic was born. After the initial SARS outbreak ended in 2003, new human cases were confirmed tied to a restaurant-serving civets. Unlike most of the previous cases, the new victims presented with mild symptoms and didn't seem to pass it on. Viruses sampled from palm civets at both the local market and the restaurant were found to be nearly identical to those discovered in the new milder human cases. The new civet viruses shared only one of the two civet-to-human spike mutations found in all the new human patients, but none of the previous year's civets coronaviruses. These findings suggest that intermediate hosts can help transform coronaviruses from the primordial reservoir in bats into greater human infectivity. Yes, bats are trapped for meat in Asia, and many bat hunters do report getting bitten. Yes, the handling and consumption of undercooked bat meat is still practiced in China, Guam, and other parts of Asia. But it appears intermediate hosts may be needed as a stepping stone for bat coronaviruses to adapt to humans to trigger a human pandemic. And it's hard to imagine a system that could be better designed to facilitate that process than a live animal wet market. In response to the SARS outbreak, the Chinese government implemented strict controls over the wildlife market, including a ban on the sale of civet cats. Though the permanent closure of live animal markets has been called the strongest deterrent to another zoonotic disease outbreak, within months the ban was lifted, and trade resumed as before. Civets were back on the menu. Had authorities in China learned its lesson from SARS and listened to experts and enacted a permanent ban on live animal markets, it's possible humanity would not now be suffering the worst pandemic in a century.


I grew up with a mother who was a petty trader and it was normal that I got involved in her kind of business as early as I was 7. When I was 15, I started my first major business and when I was 21, I went fully into the business world. Till when I was 27, everything I knew about building a business was about bricks and mortar. You have to struggle to get an office space, create a product or service and try to create a reasonable market share. If you're fortunate to have success in one town or city, then you'll have the leverage to move to more cities and if you have reasonable success again, then you can dominate a state and if you continue growing, you can eventually become a national brand, the only very few products ever made it to this level. That was the world I found myself in, the world of bricks and mortar. Until a few weeks to my 28th birthday, a friend who had been building a business on the internet wrote a book about his business model and asked me to reveal the book and for the first time, I understood how the internet works. In today's video, I'll be sharing with you the reasons why I think making money on the internet is very easy. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you won't miss other interesting videos like this. To start with, let's all agree that nothing in life is easy. This sounds counterintuitive to the title of this video but let me explain. You see, we only use the word easy or simple when we unconsciously compare one thing to another. Take for instance, we can say in the year 1907 that it was easier to travel in a car because we're comparing traveling in a car with traveling on a horseback. However, today we can say that it's easier to travel by air because when you compare that with traveling a long distance by road, the difference is clear. Nothing is automatic in life. Nothing happens without effort but some things are easier, faster and simpler than others. That's why when you think about building a business, it's easy to build a business on the internet, having in mind what building a brick-and-mortar business means. Why immigrants succeed in a foreign country? To explain how easy it is to make money online, let's use the examples of the immigrants, especially those who moved from various tough countries into better countries. Because these people are coming from a very difficult country, they can easily appreciate what they've seen in the new countries and take maximum advantage of those things. While the people who grew up in such countries are still making excuses and lying complaints about everything, similar things happen with the internet. The internet as we know it today is mostly appreciated by the people who have tried to build brick-and-mortar businesses before. If you spent like five years trying to build a brick-and-mortar business, you'll appreciate what the internet offers you. What does the internet offer you? I've said it on this platform before and I'll have to repeat it because human minds forget things as fast as they hear it. To build a business, you need just three simple things. Those three things are attention, trust, and products or services. With these three assets I mentioned above, anyone can build either a million-dollar business, either a million-dollar or a billion-dollar company, depending on how big the three assets are. Again, every profitable business is built on attention, trust, and product. You need people's attention before you can ever get them to trust you and you need people's trust to get them to patronize your business and you need a product or service to make people willing to exchange their money with what you have to offer. So, how is the internet a better place to make money? Why is it easy to make money on the internet? Well, let me start with a simple example. Seventeen years ago, when some of us were in high school, we only had two or three friends. We talked with these friends while at school and if after school we had other things to do together, we had to trek to their houses or meet somewhere. Today, if you're a 16-year-old high school student, you probably have more than 100 friends on your social media platforms. I'm not saying that these 100 friends are real or your friendship with them is as important as that of your physical friends, but I'm saying now you have the attention of 100 people and you can as well increase that number to 1,000. Because you have this huge attention, you can have a few trusts and you can make money, provide it, you're resourceful. I'll get to that in a second. Creating content for your product. As I've explained a few times, the three assets that make people rich are attention, trust and product. And I claim that it's easy to make money on the internet. But why is it easy to make money on the internet? Well, it's easy to make money on the internet because it's easier to acquire the wealth-creating assets using the internet. When it comes to getting attention, trust, and converting those to money by selling your products or services, nothing in the history of the human race makes it easier than the internet. So how do you get these three assets that can make you wealthy? Listen, because I'm about to reveal a great secret, which is not even a secret at all. You see, the number one reason why people go to the internet is that they want to consume content. Content consumption is by far the number one reason why people use the internet. Think about it this way. Why do you ever visit Google? You visit at Google only to search for something, mostly content. Why do you visit YouTube? Well, it's obvious to consume content. Most people don't know, but the reason why we use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and so on is to consume content. You like to read what the other people write. You like to see their photos and videos. That's why you use social media. When you chat with your friends on social media, guess what? You're still consuming content. So I might not be wrong to say that 90% of the reason why we use the internet is to consume content. If you agree with that figure, then you might want to ask me, how is that important to me? Well, it's important that you know what people are consuming on the internet so that you can know what to give them because if you can give people what they love for free, you may get their attention. And if you can get their attention, you'll earn their trust. And if you can earn their trust, they will be willing to open their wallet and give you their money in exchange for your products and service. Again, how do I get the attention? Create content. Because content is the number one reason why people use the internet. Create content, valuable content and get people to consume it. This has earned you their attention. A reasonable percentage of the people who consume your content will like you while some will love and trust you. With this trust, you can sell valuable services or products that will help your audience. At this point, a few people may have some problems. There may be questions like, what kind of content should I create? What kind of product should I sell? What if my customers don't search the internet for my content or even what platforms should I use to distribute content? Well, let me explain with some personal examples. I built an aggregate technology company and our products are purely agricultural related. And that was my first successful business thanks to the internet. What we did was to create a blog, wrote tons of blog posts related to different areas of agriculture. We didn't spend money on newspapers, TV or anything like that. Google ranked our content for free and whenever people search for topics related to what we have, Google suggested our posts. When people land on our website, we educate them about our content and politely tell them, hey, we have experts who can help you further. Most people won't buy what you're selling for a hundred different reasons. But a few percentage will not and that few percentage may be one to 5%. Maybe enough to make you some good money depending on what you sell and how smart you do it. We later started making videos to promote the same company on YouTube and till today we still make money from those two channels. I'm not a fan of social media and that has reflected on the way I do my business. Yes, some people say that YouTube is a social media but I don't think so. While YouTube may be a social media by definition, it's a library or a school for some of us. So I use YouTube a lot for my business and personal consumption of content. What else should I tell you here? Okay, look at this. Being resourceful is important.  Most people don't read, learn, or get curious about the life around them. Most people have never read ordinary 10 books about entrepreneurship, marketing, negotiation or anything like that and they want to make money online. You have to know what most people don't know before you can do what they can't do. Again, the three most important assets to make a lot of money are attention, trust and the product. In that order, you need people to know you exist, attention, you need some of these people to trust you and you need to know how to sell to them valuable products or services. Nothing in the history of the human race makes it easier to get all these assets than the internet. I also Alanize in this video that most people visit the internet to consume content because most people visit the internet to consume content, the best way to get their attention is by creating content. I seriously hope that this video helps you. If you like this video, you'll like our new channel where we share with you some inspiring stories and biographies of the most successful people in the world, even the villains. We call it Fame TV. Kindly look at the description box to join the Fame TV. We love you.