What's going on, Freedom Family? Today's video, I am with me and Liam and Eli. We have Liam and Eli here and we're going to talk to you about Freedom Kids but more specifically our channel, Twin Toys. Link will be in the description below if you want to see our crazy toy videos and candy reviews and also join our journey as we go from a complete nobody channel to trying to find our way through YouTube. Before we go into our experience, let's first dive into the stats of Kid or Toy Review Channels. If you look on social blade you'll see in the top five channels in the last 30 days sorted based off views you'll see two out of the five are actually Kid or Toy Review Channels. The first one is Toy Funding Collector who generates roughly 500 million views a month. And the funny thing is if you actually go to her channel the videos are easy to make. There's barely anything at all just to show her face. She shows her hands opening up cute toys both for girls and the guys and it's just infectious to sit there and watch her. She generates so many views it's unfathomable. The funny thing is is her channel it actually generates more views in the last 30 days than Taylor Swift's channel. That is unbelievable. The most trendy types of views in the kids community on YouTube are ones the such of like Kinder Easter egg openings, just cute toy reviews, challenges. As you can see we're not talking several million we're talking several hundred million views. That's crazy. I know you guys are wondering why are we talking about freedom kids but let's be honest here we're better way to provide proof than to take it from the horse's mouth. So we decided to start our own channel and it's called Toys Toys in which we ourselves unbox toys, review candies, do some challenges. Kinder eggs we're still working on that considering we live in the US and we don't know about that one it's actually banned for possession here in the United States due to a choking hazard by the FDA. So firstly we tried warhead challenge. It was trendy on YouTube and so we're like you know what let's see what happens when we put the kids involved. Guess what happens. Instantly 10 radio stations put our video on their Facebook pages and on their websites and our views grew immensely. We only had 25 subs at the time and the video generated about 3,500 to 8,000 views. After that people started coming in realizing that they find this infectious on candy reviews. So we started to continue with the warhead series doing other dips and different types like freezer pops and jelly beans and a super sour double drops. And currently today we're over 600 subs and generate 1,000 views per day and our channel is only two months old. So to be honest it's one thing listening to George talking about freedom kids it's another thing bringing it into perspective and doing a case study and see how in the world it actually works and does it actually work. Coming from the horse's mouth I definitely approve that kid channels are infectious. There's a humongous audience out there for you and if you're a parent have kids definitely do a YouTube channel on there. Now guys I know you're saying the kids are not of legal age for terms of service to actually run a channel. We're not talking about owning possessing the channel we're talking about the parents owning the channel and then the videotape their kids doing whatever opening toys doing candy reviews whatever that is allowed. And guys to be honest anybody of any age can sit there go out and buy some kidder Easter eggs put your hands on the camera set and open up all these chocolate eggs for 20 minutes and watch as your views just soar. It's unbelievable. So guys hope you enjoyed this video hope you learned a lot and a little bit more about the kids community out there on YouTube. Our channel is Twin Toys, link in the description below if you want to watch some crazy footage of them doing the warhead challenge and doing baby food challenge and opening some crazy Lego sets and some Play-Doh sets. And also make sure you check out Freedom Kids into which we're going to keep uploading more kids videos and channels over there as well as tutorials into how you can grow your kids channels fast and also what to look out for when it comes to trendy videos. Once again I'm Aaron head of marketing for freedom. Have a man.


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So, thank you again for the invitation to come here and present some of our recent work. And yeah, so during the workshop some of you were here during the workshop, I gave an introduction to quantum information science with trapped ions and today I'll present some very recent research results. Okay, so just to remind you trapped ions, they are extremely useful in quantum information science, actually full-fledged quantum algorithms have been implemented, very high gate fidelities have been implemented, read-out state preparation can be done with fidelities of typically 99.99 and possibly some more nines, so they work excellently. Quantum simulations have been demonstrated recently with 53 ions even, so they work very well. Now the question is, when you want to scale them up to have a real large device, maybe a scalable quantum computer, the way to go is to have integrated microstructured traps. It means these trapped chips not only contain electrodes that confine the ions but also to apply additional fields, for instance to drive the ions by microwaves or even detectors, photodetectors and light sources. So everything you need on a chip basically, so there are concepts exist to do this and then a scalable quantum computer based on trapped ions is not science fiction, it's science, I would say, science that has, of course they are still quite a way to go. Okay, let me point out a few proposals for scaling up quantum computers with trapped ions. So the canonical proposal basically is indicated here where you have a, let's say, an iron trap chip with different, the yellow things are electrodes and then you can move around your ions between these so-called processor zones where you do quantum logic and then you have memory zones where you store your quantum information. So you have to move around your ions in such a trap chip from interaction zones to memory zones and back and so on. So most of the time actually you spend moving around your ions, so about 99% in concrete proposals you spend moving your ions around. Then there are other proposals, a recent one where you do have small sub-processors basically and then you can interconnect them via photons, photonic links, so that's an approach that is being pursued in Maryland and then there's a recent proposal that completely relies only on microwave-driven ions, so there are no more lasers needed for any coherent operation and so this is a small part of a larger trap chip that is proposed for implementing a scalable quantum computer using microwave-driven ions. So that also involves shuttling around ions. So you see these segmented electrodes which is a sign that you apply time-dependent voltages and then you move your ions around. Okay, so and now what I want to show you today is a few recent experimental results from our group where we looked at for instance this shuttling of ions and also a very important aspect which goes under the name of so-called anomalous heating, so I will talk about shuttling of ions, I will talk about this curious phenomenon of anomalous heating and I will show you some recent results with microwave-driven trapped ions. Okay, so this anomalous heating, what is it all about? So ever since people have trapped ions they observed that the motion of the ions gets heated up very quickly and this heating is far beyond anything you expect from let's say Johnson noise in your electrodes or something. So this has been a phenomenon that has been observed for decades now and there are models that can explain it but there is so far no real experimental evidence, no conclusive experimental evidence for explaining this so that's why the name anomalous heating was coined at some point. Let me present just two formulas, the rest is formula 3 physics. Okay so let's look at the heating of an ion, so you have a charge and you have fluctuating electric fields and these fluctuating electric fields they move around your charge and heat it up eventually and you can show that the heating rate is well approximated by this expression where you have the charge, the mass of your ion and the harmonic oscillator the frequency of your trap and this S E is the spectral density of your noise of your electric field noise. Okay so that's the important, so that's the heating rate, that's the spectral density of your noise and I should point out an excellent review article about this topic here is this one. So they compiled all the knowledge that was known up to this point here about this anomalous heating and it's a rather large article. Okay and now what is the connection with what I said before? Basically when we want to have these microstructure traps we want to, yeah microstructuring means small structures that we want to get close to the surfaces which means the heating rate increases dramatically that's an experimental observation and it's important to know how it scales exactly and that's what has been done in this work that I'll present now. Okay so what are the sources of fluctuating electric fields? There are many sources actually so there's black body radiation, if you work at room temperature that's in many experiments not negligible but in this case it is actually so this is not, this is a theoretical source but it's orders of magnitude below what you observe typically then you have direct electromagnetic interference so you have all kinds of electromagnetic fields floating around in your lab from natural sources from elementary particles hitting the ionous field that make fields from power lines so man-made and natural sources that can interfere with your charge, excite your charge then you can have electromagnetic pickup so these fields are induced voltages in some current loop in some loops of wires or something that you have in your lab then you have this truncin noise so just your electrons and your electrodes have a certain temperature and they move around erratically and so they produce this truncin noise then you have all kinds of technical noise sources from the apparatus that you use to apply voltages to your trap and you have space charge because electrons are emitted from your electrodes and they produce charges that fluctuate also and then you have so-called patch potentials so on your electrodes if you have an electrode it's not a completely homogeneous surface typically but it's you find patches so little islands of where you have a certain voltage and then you have another island that might have a slightly different voltage due to crystalline structures or absorbances on the surface so there are many possible reasons and if you look at how they scale so theoretical models exist and it's a reasonable assumption first to assume that this electric noise density is proportional to the frequency of your trap with some exponent to the distance between charge and trap with some exponent and to the temperature and what I want to concentrate on here is this beta thing here so how does the electric noise density scale with the distance to the trap electrodes and you see that you have all these different exponents here in a certain regime it doesn't have to be a power law necessarily but yeah we'll see and you can distinguish them by their exponents and also by this alpha exponent you can distinguish these different types of noise and now this is a very impressive blood done by these people here so it compiles the knowledge about anomalous heating from experiments over quite a few decades so what you see is you see the spectral noise density as a function of the distance between ions and trap electrodes and do you see any law here it's difficult so the shaded area actually this is a power law one over D to the fourth power and these dashed lines that's one over D to the second power and looking at this anything goes basically so this is not really useful evidence for any of these scaling laws so and the reason for that is simply that you have so many parameters that are relevant in determining this heating rate so first of all of course this distance then the geometry of your trap very different traps exist the material of your trap your driving electronics and so this all varies in these experiments and so a real conclusion is not really possible with the exception of two experiments so this one 16 if you look for 16 on this plot you find 16 a 16 B C D E so here you actually see a dependence that was done in a single trap but the thing is this was a so-called needle trap so it it's just two needles that form the electrodes and then you change the distance between these needles and this is so they are geometrical factors involved in interpreting these results which are not completely obvious how to deal with them so that's yeah and then there's a recent experiment also where this was systematically investigated this distance scaling but again the geometry of factors play a very dominant role in these experiments so typical trap sizes electron electrode sizes are in this region here okay so so this anomalous heating is not well understood from the experimental point of view and also from the theoretical point of view so and the experiment I'm I'm going to present now is so we use a very simple structure basically a plain surface and we have one iron sitting above this plain surface and then the only thing we vary is the distance between the iron and the surface and all other parameters are kept constant so that should give you some conclusive statements hopefully yes and it did as you will see in a minute okay and so our trap is a generic five electrode surface trap so this is a picture of the of the trap chip and this is a zoom in of these five electrodes so you have one electrode two three four five basically there are some special features here but I'm not going to talk about them the central electrode is about a hundred and fifty micrometers wide and this determines usually the distance also between iron and surface so the width of your electrodes is typically equal to the distance of the iron from the surf in a typical operating regime of a trap and our guinea pig is uterbium ions so this trap works very well so this is this is a timescale actually so here you see one iron in the trap two three four and so on and you keep them can keep them for many hours so it's a trap that works well and now the important thing is we want to change the distance between the iron and the trap and there's an experimental trick that is applied here which is not completely trivial so you have these five electrodes of your trap that make your trapping potential and see a happy iron here so it's trapped and so this is the typical configuration and here you see the the vertical potential above the surface as a function of the distance so you have this minimum here that's where the iron sits and so that's the typical the usual trap operation but what you can do you can apply an additional radio frequency voltage to your central electrode instead of this ground voltage and this has to be in phase with the rest and yeah and then you can actually change the distance the trapping height distance so here you see this has been changed from about 150 micrometers to about 60 micrometers and by implementing this in the experiment we can change the trapping height in this region here and then observe how the heating changes okay and so this is this is our guinea pig we drive an electric dipole transition where we cool and detect fluorescence and then we have this re-pump laser that keeps the iron in this closed cycle okay and now how do we measure the heating rate we let we turn the heating the cooling laser we turn it off which means the iron starts to heat up and then at some point we open the cooling laser again and we observe the spatial extension of the iron in its harmonic trapping potential and this would be in principle be sufficient to do a heating rate measurement so and then we vary the time during which we let the iron heat up and then we get and from from the extension of this of this image here we can deduce the temperature so we have so we get a rate a heating rate temperature per time but actually what we do here is we measure this in a time resolved way so we have a certain heat up time then we start to cool down again and then we observe this cooling down process how does the spatial extension of the iron in its harmonic oscillator potential shrinks down again so this is a highly excited iron and then the temperature is reduced okay and to analyze this we plot the width of this Gaussian function so it's harmonic oscillator is a Gaussian distribution in space so we plot the width at a certain time and at a second time and a third time and so we do this for many times and then we can fit this data and find the time at zero so that's where we turn on the cooling laser and that's where we want to know how hot is the iron at this point and then we can extract the average vibrational energy simply from the width of these Gaussian so that's the width of the Gaussian and that's the energy okay and now I'll jump right to the results so we measure the heating rate as a function of the trap frequency and we find this exponent here and then we measure the heating rate as a function of the trapping height and this is a unique thing that has never done before even though this has been around this anomalous heating for decades now so and here we measure this exponent minus 3.79 and now if you look at all the models that are around oops sorry this is this is h sorry thank you very much for pointing this out see that's why I did it to wait for your input okay yeah so d actually that's called h here yeah so h to the to this power yeah that's important of course omega was in this slide okay okay so now this thing here is yeah we did basically this experiment and the conclusion now is it's clearly a power law that we observe and we observe this exponent and you saw before in the introduction this alpha minus 4 that comes out of some of the models and this is close to these models not yeah it's compatible with these models here and if you now so all these models have a different combination of scaling of with distance and with frequency and if you now look what matches the scaling that we observed here then you see that the model of these patch potentials that fits nicely and also the model of a thin dielectric layer covering the electrodes so in a typical real experiment you have you don't have the your gold or whatever electrode but you typically have it covered with some dirt or some other stuff that you don't want and so so this these models they are consistent with this okay so that's I think an important contribution to a long-standing question in iron trap physics and possibly beyond iron traps physics okay and now the second part I'd like to show you about what I mentioned in the beginning shuttling of ions so move ions around and if we want to have a scalable quantum computer the ions have to maintain that their coherence their quantum information and that's also yeah okay so I showed you we can do all these high fidelity operations with many nines but for some reason the shuttling the fidelity of the internal states when shuttling the ions has not been so far not been investigated to this precision to have these many nines people just stopped at two or three nines so which is not compatible with these other high fidelity things so if you do a high fidelity gate with five nines and then you shuttle and you mess everything up during shuttling because you only have two nines or three nines then that's not satisfactory of course so as all the other operations you need high fidelity in moving your ions around especially if you spend most of your time moving ions around so that then that becomes very important okay you saw the slide and here and here we definitely need lots of moving around this probably also will involve some moving around okay so that's we saw this and now this has been done with a different trap this is a three-dimensional Paul trap a microstructure trap so you see all these electrodes here and now we can move around the ion here and we move them typically by 280 micrometers so that's a rather large distance for an ion if you think an ion has a diameter let's say of an angstrom and you move it by 280 micrometers that's like moving a human of average size from pier to Rome across lots of bumpy roads and we do this many many times at about 4,000 times and then we measure the coherence of the ion using a ramsey type interferometer measurement so here you see the ramsey interference fringes which tell you something about the coherence of the ion after two shuttling events and then you see it after 4,000 shuttling events and you see a slight reduction of the contrast and then if you extract in a rather intricate procedure you can extract the fidelity per shuttling and you find these 5 9's here and you see that you looking at the arrows this is compatible with one so this is also works with extremely high fidelity and can certainly be an element of a future scalable quantum computer yes yes so you have you move the iron from one place in the trap to another place in the trap yeah if the you shouldn't have ions in the way typically but recently there have been experiments where ions move around each other also yeah and they do not exactly overlap that's what I wanted to point out here because so you have a slight reduction of the contrast here here you see this between the red and the black curve and the reduction is due exactly to 4,000 times moving it back and forth and then you look at the loss of fidelity per move and then that's what you get okay and another thing that's worth mentioning is so these taking this data involved about 20 million shuttling events and the iron was always there so we did not lose the iron so this is a reliable way of transporting quantum information okay now how much time is left for minutes okay so some of you already have heard about magic so magnetic gradient induced coupling which is an approach that is being pursued in our lab and in other labs now to get rid of all the laser light and also have some interesting physical new features in the iron trap and I just want to point out so we have a string of ions typically a magnetic gradient applied and I showed you last week how you can individually address ions and that you get the spin-spin coupling between ions and then this allows you to get rid of all the lasers so typically hyperfine transitions are driven by Raman lasers and they use lots of optical elements and these lasers are typically controlled by radiofrequency sources and then you drive your iron so this is a large detour so this magic scheme allows you to get rid of all the laser stuff and drive directly the ions by using radiofrequency sources so that's a big reduction in complexity of your experiments and it leads partially to new physics okay so our qubit is a hyperfine qubit in a terbium so this has the simplest possible hyperfine structure total angular momentum zero and one and so the one state has three states actually and then we can put this in a magnetic gradient so we have our trapped ions they have all now a difference hyperfine splitting and we can address them in frequency space instead of position space and this is an example so we talk to this ion we do thousands of quantum gates with this ion and then we observe the crosstalk on all other ions and we do this for every possible combination of this quantum byte and then we get this crosstalk matrix here of interacting ions and the crosstalk is very small and so it's below a typical error correction threshold that is typically seen at 10 to the minus 4 but that's a matter of debate of course okay so that's individual addressing that we can do then we can since we have these three hyperfine states here with different dependencies on the magnetic field no dependency positive and negative scaling with the magnetic field of the energy we can also have so-called processor qubits so we need magnetic field dependence to have an interaction and we want no magnetic field dependence for for storage of quantum information so by having a stationary string of ions we can simply recode our qubit and go from a storage qubit to a processor qubit and vice versa and this I want to demonstrate using three ions so that's now three qubits and I symbolize them by these spins here and just to make it more clear the picture we put them not in a straight line but like this and then you have these couplings these mutual spin spin couplings and yeah so now to show you that we can have in a string of three ions simultaneously a memory qubit and the processor qubit I'll show you this data here so we look at i and i i and 1 and we look at the phase shift as a function of time the phase shift of this spin here as a function of time depending on the states of the other qubits so we flip the state of qubit 3 and we don't see any phase shift on i and 1 and here we flip the state of qubit 3 and observe the phase shift on i and 2 so there's a clear dependence so we can do conditional quantum dynamics and memories at the same time having a stationary string of ions so we do not even have to move this here but we can also couple them all simultaneously so all couplings are on at the same time and now we look at qubit 2 how its its phase is shifted as a function of the state of qubit 1 and 3 so you see both qubits 1 and 3 and state 0 you get this phase shift of qubit 2 then you look at this combination of 1 and 3 and you get this phase shift and then you have these two other combinations you get no phase shift so here you can see that the phase of this qubits depend the phase of this qubit depends simultaneously on the state of the other qubit so you have a simultaneous interaction okay and we you can even change the sign of the coupling by changing your basis so so if I use this basis for instance I get and then I measure the coupling matrix I get such a matrix here and now I change this qubit to this basis and then I get these minus signs here all of a sudden so by simply recoding my qubit I can change also the coupling constants okay and this has been yeah an important thing is all these operations are done by simple microwave pulses so in this case you do not move anything you do you don't have any lasers all you do is microwave pulses stationary string of ions and yeah and this has been used to implement coherent quantum Fourier transform with all these couplings on so you have single qubit gates you have conditional dynamics that's the important thing here and then what you can show in the end we look since it's a coherent UFT we have to look at the coherence of each qubit at the output so we do Ramsey experiments for different input states and compare them to theory and since we have no time I don't leave you time to look at these curves but theory and experiment agree well and then we can also measure the periods of a certain function so that's the use of the QFT and for instance in Charles algorithm this also works fine so and just to conclude this part so this is a complete QFT quantum algorithm and this is a single C0 gate and since we use the simultaneous coupling we can actually do the whole QFT in a time that we otherwise need would need for a single 2 qubit gate okay so this works very well and now the outlook yeah we want to go towards quantum simulations using spins and phonons using this and the scalable quantum computers on the agenda and this is vigorously pursued by the group of Vinny Hensinger in Sussex actually okay so thank you very much


We were very interested in understanding whether inviting migrants to a motivational seminar on financial decision-making could have a positive impact on their financial decision-making and on their real financial outcomes, like savings and remittances. We conducted a study among Indian migrants in Qatar, in Doha, the capital city of Qatar. It was a very short seminar, about three hours, conducted by a sort of financial guru. We found that this motivational workshop had a dramatic effect on the extent to which migrants and their wives made decisions together. They communicated more, they consulted more with one another, and made decisions that were truly joint decisions within the household. In addition, we found that for an important subset of these migrants, migrants who were not saving very much initially, the motivational seminar actually did lead them to save more and to send more money back home to their wives. This is an important study because there are hundreds of millions of migrant workers from developing countries working in the rich world. We're talking about migrants from the Philippines, from India, other parts of South Asia, Indonesia, and the Americas from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the U.S. And they send home tremendous amounts of resources to their countries. By some estimates, migrants are sending home something in the order of $500 billion a year to developing countries. This is a huge amount which dwarfs the amount of foreign aid that governments in the rich world are sending to developing countries. So there's a great deal of interest in trying to find ways to both stimulate these flows of remittances to developing countries and to channel them towards uses that may have more of a long-term development impact. The world needs more studies like this all oriented towards trying to understand how transnational households make financial decisions and how we can encourage these families to use the new resources that are coming in because of migration in ways that will enhance their long-run economic prospects.


Which one of these Hobart Hurricane bowlers have the weirder arm action, huh? You got Dooley here who windmills both arms before he even gets into his real action, holds the ball real still and then he's running up holding that ball still and watch the right arm is going to flail way up. No, I'm not throwing at that arm. Then the left arm, like he's going to throw it. Nope, not that. Then the right arm halfway and then the left arm delivers it.  Well, these guys on the same team who he's as fidgety as it comes with the ball, almost like he's revving up the engine to get the spin going like. Here we go. And then his arms kind of go the rest of his actions, not really that crazy.  It's kind of wild. Which one would trip you up more if you were facing them?


Women participation in Nigerian politics. There are few women in political and leadership spaces in Nigeria. Currently only seven out of the 109 senators and 22 of the 360 House of Representative members are women. In the 2019 January elections only 13 percent of the candidates across all positions were women. The least representation for women was in the governorship elections where women constituted just 7.5 percent of the 1066 candidates. In these presidential elections only six of the 73 candidates were women. In order to achieve gender balance we need more women to participate in the elections and vie for positions. So today we'll be looking at why women are poorly represented in politics in Nigeria and how we can reduce these barriers to encourage more female participation in the 2023 elections. There are multiple factors that impact female representation in politics in Nigeria. One, political structure and systems. The high cost of politics prevents women from standing for positions. Often women don't have enough money to pay for mandatory expression of interest and nomination forms required by political parties to run for political for positions on their platforms. Number two, funding. Elections are expensive, campaign costs are exorbitant. Most women do not have the financial capacity to fund an election in Nigeria. Moreover, having been disadvantaged from time with respect to education, workplace reiteration, inheritance right and so on, women are unable to pull the same financial weight as their male counterparts. Three, societal factors. These include cultural and religious norms surrounding marriage indigenship, a concept that recognizes only ethnic groups native to particular states, and the structures that portray women as subordinates to women, to men, sorry. Not to forget stereotypes about women in leadership and stereotypes that assign leadership to men. How can we then solve the problem of female participation? One, training. Training is crucial. Women need to be trained in fundamentals of politics. They need to understand grassroots politics and start from there. When people are known at the grassroots, they are more successful. Women need to be mentored. They need to seek governance as what affects every member of the society, especially them. Legislative quotas. While for me this should not be a permanent solution, a quota system can solve for female underrepresentation in the interim. This should be in place until it becomes normal for women to contest and win elections. Three, financial support. Women who are unable to afford elections can be supported through crowdfunding means. We can also think of innovative ways to gather financial support for female candidates. However, in order to make this successful, we must ensure that only qualified female candidates, that is women, who are efficient and have proven track record, and that can stand shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts, should be supported, especially by females. Also, political parties can give some financial considerations for female candidates, such as waiving the costs of party forms and so on. Four, media support. Every female candidate that wants to win should set up a strong media team. Such that even if they don't get the desired traditional media coverage, they can win a digital frontier. They are social media. Even at that, traditional media outlets should change their attitude towards political coverage of women. They've sometimes projected women in ways that are not relevant to leadership, politics, or elections. The media must help educate people of the dangers of cultural norms and harmful gender stereotypes and monitor fairness in elections. Five, finally, qualified and capable women should come out and vie for positions. There's no way we can eliminate this imbalance if qualified women remain hidden. So, are the men qualified? Thank you. Are the men qualified? No, no, no, you see, I mean, thank you. You got to tell you. Are the men qualified? That was my thoughts running through. I tell you, it's a calm down. So, I'm looking at the people in the National Assembly and I'm thinking to myself, what do they have against the average woman? Nothing. Most of them. Nothing. In fact, half of them are not even as competent in terms of intellectualism, education, charisma. And that informs the reason why they would publicly say, oh, let it not be that we didn't do anything for them. Let's just give them something. I'm thinking, are we asking for favors here? We're asking for our due and we're asking for what is just and what is equitable. But then again, we're going cap in hand, asking and we appear to be begging. So, we really need to get to that point where, like I'm going to say it again, we understand what we bring to the table. When we're looking for the media to do anything, we can actually set up parallel systems that compete with what is already, what already obtains. No man is going to come and try and paint the women in a good light. Are there not enough women in the media? We can't keep saying they should. They should. Like come forth and say, no one is going to relinquish power. Everybody wants it. We just have to stop asking for favors and understand that we have enough power to actually come in and do and that if not someone is not giving you something, then you can try to take it or build your own. I agree with you. I like the last one that you said. I mean, it's enough. This table seeking is enough. We have the numbers. We have the numbers and honestly, we have the money. Now, I'm going to run through five groups as you were talking about this women participation. For me, that put us essentially off the table completely. You have to market women. Remember, during one is time for elections. They go and pay respect to the EO and the market because they know she has the power to governize action. Why isn't she using her power then to raise people instead or negotiate with them when they come and say, look, I want two or three people in the next election cycle from this place. I want them to be mentored. I want them to be put there.  Why isn't she, that is one power of law to the business groups. Do you know how many business women business groups we have in Nigeria? The strong number of women in the strong representation and the economics that they represent. That's another power of law. But we stick to only that empowerment that is only money that makes a woman.  Meanwhile, women that can again also enter corridors of power and demand, but we have tunnel vision. Go to the mothers union now in churching. Always use it to buy the wrapper, tie it, and decide if the woman is separated since before. So the level of power play at that water. Meanwhile, this is all around the country. So imagine if the head or whoever the head of the whole mothers union is, I'm just giving an example of one denomination. Decide that you know what? We need to have godly women in politics. If it is them alone, galvanized.  Okay, one more. Women in politics, we were at zero before. We didn't have women at all. But now we have percentage, at least we say seven percent in this group. And 12 percent tried in this group. Please, can I know what they are after they entered? What exactly did they do to pass on the knowledge of the data document? Because there are women in their locales who are interested, but they are more interested in trying to keep up with the men here. It's for building their own empires. That is where the problem is. Last one, SMEs, which still will go with the business group. But do you know the number of women that are in smaller medium enterprises? Do you know the amount of economics there? It is because of the force of that group. That is why a lot of things were done to try and make it easier because women were leading the trade on smaller medium enterprises. So my point here is that we have the numbers. We have the money. We have the skills. I just don't understand why we have not been able to govern nice. And that for me is the best way. Thank you. You know, honestly, you covered what you took at home. And as I was listening to Ruth talk, I will be honest with you. As a fellow woman, I was slightly, and that's an understatement, annoyed. Okay, that's the goal actually. We'll continue. I was very, very upset. And I thought to myself, you know, so while I understood what you were talking about and what you meant, I literally saw it as still seeking permission as excuses. But you know, at the point is this, and comfort just took it home. The reality is that women have everything that comfort has said. And all the things that you put as barriers to women in participation were previous things. I think the one of the things that's happening is the mindset of women, what it is that we are actually thinking as important has not been properly defined for us by us. We're still allowing the narrative that has been passed to us by men, by generations, by cultural systems, to let us think where they can be. Like today was, today is world war one. And that was in my children's school, to one read, you know, so they said, okay, volunteer parents. And I thought, okay, you know what, I might as well do something useful for society, even if it's my children. And when I got there, we had to buy a book. And I thought, so I saw different books. Of course, my first instant was to pick dog dives, we impaled those. And I thought, and I saw books on who is, you know, the series on popular people. And I said, today is the day we are breaking that bias starting with these children. So I looked for who is Kamala Harris, who are Serena, Venus and Serena Williams, Helen Keller. I picked four books on women. And I went to the four classes. I said, children today is world war one. We're going to talk about women. You see this class today, we're going to break the bias. And we're talking about Kamala. And I realized that these things start from Austin down and seen in our silos, our circles, start to see what are the value systems, what are the problems. So I want to look beautiful. Yes, I want to secure the bag and make financial employment. But what am I doing with it? So the women in authority, the women that are already in politics, what are you doing without power? And I think again, like I was saying, when we're on one of the breaks, those things that they have actually made derogatory. See, let me tell you something. Women, all of us is our paths are different. The other room and kitchen are our power systems. If I'm going to use what I want, I'm going to use what I want. So maybe we better start thinking about how we're going to be sensible with this. There are only two genders on the, there are only two sets of genders on the earth. There are men and women. So let's talk about sex inside it. Men use manipulation. They use logic to talk about courage. This is what we have to go and want. I mean, this is a very insightful conversation. I think I liked the direction that you two went. I mean, when I was writing my script, I was thinking, but, but you know, what I've learned from all of this is that we actually have the power. We do. We're just not channeling the power in the right direction to achieve a particular goal. So it's high time women wake up and understand that they carry the power and they can actually make that change. And that's what this IWD for 2022, sorry, is all about. Break the bias. So women wake up and, you know, enter politics. Don't wait anymore. Don't take permission. But wait for permission. Yes. Don't take permission as well. So any toy is up next after break.


What's up my foundation lovers? I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee today and today is Foundation Friday if you are new to my channel, I review foundations every Friday So hit that subscribe button so you don't miss any more reviews today I'm going to be reviewing the new wet and wild mega cushion foundation This will now be the third cushion foundation that I reviewed on my channel I'm not really a fan of the cushion idea just yet But these are brand new so I definitely wanted to review them especially because of their drugstore pricing The wet and wild mega cushion foundation can be sold at pretty much any drugstore But these are retailed at $8.99 so it's pretty affordable now recently I just did a meet and greet here in LA and I went to blush con and in my goodie bag I received all the wet and wild cushion foundations. Well all but one there's eight colors And they gave me seven I don't know if somebody messed up But this is what I got. Let's go ahead and open it up. There's no mirror Interesting the other two cushion foundations I've reviewed do have mirrors It also has the actual cushion and then you could open it up again And then you will see your foundation color So I think they kind of cheaped out on not putting a mirror here that would be very convenient The new wet and wild mega cushion foundation is cruelty free It contains coconut derivative So if it has coconut in it that could be very moisturizing for the skin So if you have dry skin that could be a good benefit and if you have oily skin It could be maybe even adding some oil or moisture to your skin so that your skin doesn't produce more oil So I'm interested to see what this coconut derivative really does now as you can see there's definitely a lot of light beige colors available and really only one if you even want to call it dark Shade I will admit that I get extremely pale during the winter and then I get like three shades darker during the summer So the fact that this is my winter color the darkest shade available is not okay There's definitely more skin tones darker than me. So unfortunately This is the darkest one they've got And I'm wearing it. I don't know guys I'm getting pretty shocked at how many major Makeup brands are releasing foundations with only one or two dark shades available Like why is this still a thing so that further ado Let me show you my struggle in trying to find the perfect shade for my skin tone So I'm gonna go ahead and start with this warm undertone. This is the color nude beige 108 light medium Looks pretty good Also getting some good coverage Okay, now let's go ahead and try the cool undertone number 109 even more pale than this one natural beige medium neutral undertone. I guess this one is like slightly more darker for lack of words, but Hmm Maybe we should keep going part of me hates that I'm opening all these because I now I can't give them away you guys like maybe my friends, but Sorry Just curious, you know, right now we have some actual color is honey beige medium tan warm Honestly, I don't think that there is a correct color for me while we're at it Let's just go ahead and open the deep one just for fun Let's see what's actually in here So this is the absolute deepest darkest shade out of this wet and wild cushion collection And here's the color Why do I kind of feel like this is even Lighter than the one down What am I gonna do? This is too ghostly and this is too orange. I Honestly think I'm just gonna go With the darkest shade Yeah, so I'm gonna do I'm just gonna use my hourglass veiled mineral primer I can't find my remover all of a sudden, but this is a very good primer and ready and Now I Being this light. I'm gonna grab the darkest shade of the wet and wild mega cushion foundation And I do have some beautiful Dark spots right here that we can use to see coverage. I mean, that's the only reason why I have them is for foundation reviews, of course So let me tap this on here. This is gonna have to be pretty orange on me Let's see what happens if I mix it with this neutral beige That makes a much better color for me Interesting, right? So let me go ahead and finish with the tawny medium deep neutral color All throughout my face See how it's like I have a mask on that's definitely what you don't want. Okay, so here's me pretty Orange and I'm gonna go back over it again with the natural beige medium neutral in 120 And try to chill out this orange a little bit Little shiny on camera. This definitely is not matte and I don't think it claims to be matte But just in case you didn't notice It's not that at all That took me a very long time to apply with my two fingers in this little pad I did have to mix two different colors to get to this one that I'm at right now, which is still not really amazing but Better than one on its own. The coverage is really good It was able to cover up all of my dark blemishes, but the fact that I'm this shiny right now Makes me very Nervous So let me go ahead and finish the rest of my face There we go So now I have my full face on and I am very happy with my results I did have to mix two different colors to get to this skin tone color I then set it with my Laura Mercier setting powder and I also put a little bit of my bare minerals matte powder And now I am extremely Mad now since nowhere on the box is actually claimed to last all day 24 hours 12 hours It doesn't have any actual time framing on here So I don't know about that part But I am gonna wear this foundation for as long as possible and I'll probably just come back as soon as it starts to get shiny or Suspect so it's currently 2 p.m. I will come back at the end of the day and show you how well this foundation really held up And I'm back. It is now 11 o'clock p.m. So I've had this foundation for a total of nine hours and look how Surprisingly good it looks. I am really not that shiny at all I'm pretty matte and I'm shocked I'm usually way more shinier right around here and on my forehead But it's not bad at all I'm really surprised I lost a little bit of coverage here on the side But I know that's because I remember sitting like this earlier today So I was just like literally taking the makeup off of my face But let me go ahead and use my oil absorbing sheets. These are from Clean and clear and let's see how much oil actually comes off my skin Oil absorbing sheet and surprisingly there's really not a lot of oil on here. There's more foundation So this foundation is definitely not transfer proof But it did a great job at containing my oils and keeping me pretty matte So overall I actually have to admit that this foundation did a really good job on oily skin It's only about 8.99. So it's a really good affordable drugstore price So although I know wet and wild that this is a new release You've only released eight colors. Maybe thus far Hopefully you're looking to expand because the formula is actually really good But we gotta get more brown shades available. There's no reason why I should be the darkest color If you found this foundation Friday helpful I hope you leave me a comment and let me know what you think if you try this foundation yourself Also, let me know your thoughts. You also should give me a thumbs up and subscribe I post two new videos every week foundation reviews every Friday and curl hair powder reviews on sunday So come back next week for more videos. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today


Roblox is a fun website and game, but there are many creepy mysteries that might have affected everyone's account because of this whole thing. Here are the four, but not five, creepiest mysteries that Roblox might have seen. Number one, Smile. The game Smile is made by a username named Smile. The rumor is that people would get a message from Smile and it would say, I need you here in the game, and if you go to their game, it's just a black screen, but when you turn to the left, you see something.  When you get close to the head, your computer shuts down. When you turn the computer back on, the wallpaper is set to you inside of the game.  Smile was a username made by someone, but it got banned forever. Number two, Melvin. This mystery is one of the most creepiest ones yet. Basically, the rumor is that one person has this issue of, when they join a Roblox game like Phantom Forces, you don't go to Phantom Forces, but you get teleported to a different game.  You can't close the game until the game crashes. After a short minute, the game crashes and you can close the game. When you go to your inventory, there is a new hat, and it is a translucent shaggy hair, which is called Melvin. There is a user named Melvin, owned by a child named Melvin Blue, was created in 2007. He was a very popular person among other players. He died from cancer in 2008. Roblox made it transparent, ghost type shaggy in his honor named Melvin. The hat was deleted a few moments later for no reason. It isn't known. Some say Melvin got the attention and his ghost was angered. So he takes the life of one child every year. After that, their accounts were deleted. Number three, the April 1, 2012 incident. On April 1, 2012, Roblox was hacked and completely shut down. The rumor is that this hacker had two other accounts that had the same avatar he copied on the user's account which made him get banned. This made the hacker upset and take over Roblox. He first took over the Roblox website and later he took over the Roblox economy. Here are the screenshots that have been taken in Roblox. Here is a forum from a user named Fede, and the forum post was called I'm Back. This message is from a banned user who came back to Roblox. When you look closely to the user, you can see that he is a moderator. This hacker unbanned Fede from the game and made him a moderator. There were many messages that were really bad and inappropriate. The whole catalog was being changed. People were getting rich from this. That later on ended up with a site being completely shut down. Also, in this April Fools hacking, everyone that was banned came back and became a moderator like in the picture. Number four, Vault 8166. This mystery is the most creepy one yet. This game was used to hack GUIs and hide the user's avatar and identity. Vault 8166 was created by hackers. The 8166 number is from a hacker named 1x1x1x1, but the hacker in person did not create the game. The rumor is that it's hidden around the server. Let me tell you the story about this. A user submitted a footage of the hallway of Vault 8166. The recorded data wasn't known. The video shows the hallway full of computer switching codes that contains red flashing lights. There is a strange white room with a poster that says warning, we are watching you. The video starts with the two users walking in the hallway. One of them is fully black, has a particle in it a red fire, and the user's name wasn't known. Unexploiter, his username is hidden. The other user has a head colored in red, and a black torso, the user isn't known. They stopped in the middle of the hallway and looked around, when all of a sudden an unknown figure came running in the middle of nowhere. The two characters started panicking. When the figure attacked, the screen blackens, and the protocol kills them.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Shashi. Let us do one question. Question is for the matrix A is equal to matrix 1567, verify that A plus A transpose is a symmetric matrix. First of all, let us understand that a square matrix B is said to be symmetric if B transpose is equal to B or we can say the transpose of a matrix is equal to itself. This is the key idea to solve the given question. Let us now start with the solution. We have given A is equal to matrix 1567. Now we will find out A transpose by interchanging rows and columns of A. So we get 1657 as A transpose. Now we will find A plus A transpose. So we can write A plus A transpose is equal to matrix 1567 plus matrix 1657. Now adding corresponding elements of the two matrices we get 1 plus 1 is 2, 5 plus 6 is 11, 6 plus 5 is 11, 7 plus 7 is equal to 14. So we get A plus A transpose is equal to matrix 211114. Now we will find out transpose of A plus A transpose that is equal to 211114. Transpose of A plus A transpose can be obtained by interchanging the rows and columns of the matrix A plus A transpose. So here we can see transpose of A plus A transpose is equal to A plus A transpose as the matrices for both are same.  Now this condition shows that A plus A transpose is a symmetric matrix.  As we have already read in key idea that if transpose of a matrix is equal to itself then it is a symmetric matrix. This completes the session. Hope you understood the session. Take care and goodbye.


There's going to be an announcement today during the Eleventh Summit of the Game, but we don't know what it is, so we're excited. We have no idea. We're excited for whatever it is. I'm looking to see what our big surprise is. Obviously, we don't know it yet. They just told us you have a surprise and you'll find out today. Everybody wants to know what it is. We're here to announce something for the first time in this school's history. The University of Alabama has been selected to represent this school and perform in the 2020 Macy's Thanksgiving Day. Welcome in, everybody. Glad you're with us on this early Saturday morning as the tide and the golden eagles get set to meet for the 44th time ever. Henry Rods kicks it into a hike. The quarterback throws it up for grabs right side of 50-50. He's intercepted over the shoulder. Alabama 49-7.


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of DockerCon Live 2020. Brought to you by Docker and its ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back to the DockerCon 2020 virtual headquarters. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE, you're in our Palo Alto CUBE studios with Jenny Bristeo, my co-host. We're bumpering into those sessions. Jenny, you looking good. You're surviving the internet, hasn't broken yet. How you doing? Everything going well? When it hasn't broken, we are doing great. I've seen tons of engagement across the sessions. I know we've given our audience in our community a lot of really good content to choose from and that will continue throughout the rest of the day. We definitely want to hear in chat on Twitter what your favorite sessions are, share hashtag Dr. Selfie. And as announced in the keynote, right? If you are looking for a job or hiring, please share hashtag Dr.Con job. Great stuff. John, I have to ask the most important conference question as someone who's organized all the live events as well with my dear friend, Ashlyn Polini. The number one complaint about a conference aside from wifi, right, which still applies virtually, is the food. And I want to know how your conference lunch was today. Well, we haven't eaten lunch, lunch is for whips. So when you're on the DockerCon desk here, lunch is coming, we'll get that on the next break. Yeah, no lunches.  Sometimes it's on the bigger events. It gets watered down. It's a hard, it's an area where people cut costs. But you got to eat. Virtual is no lunch. And wifi, by the way, you got to be on that. Get with the kids off the Netflix, making sure you got good low ping times. All the gamers know that. So yeah, I think it's a good use of resources. And Jenny, DockerCon's free. It's free. It's free. So you're getting a huge bang for your buck. It is funny how wifi is a problem, both in person and virtually, but there's no bathroom lines, no coffee lines, hopefully. So I hope everyone's having a great experience with virtual DockerCon. I'm really getting the chance to chat with the speakers and chat with everyone. If you haven't yet, please pop on over in the Captains on Deck stream. They've been going live for hours and it's a great time over there. Scott Hanselman and Mackenzie and some Docker team, I think Simone is on right now. So if you're looking for some deep technical talk and you want to participate, pop on over to that session. Well, you know, I was just talking to Stu Miniman about this and some other folks. We need a virtual pub because I love having beers. DockerCon. That's another one we're going to miss. So if you got beers toasted up on Twitter, I saw some folks putting their mugs up there. Certainly the Europeans were on Bureau Clock here in California.  Jenny, what's your favorite thing going on here? I mean, this has been a lot of fun. You guys have worked really hard on setting this event up. The content program, content quality is second to none. Well done. But what's your favorite thing happening here? Yeah, I think, you know, honestly after planning something like this and all of the work that our speakers put in, right? So this isn't just, not I shouldn't say just, right? But at a live conference, you work on your deck, you come in public speaking, right? You're nervous, but you're up there and you do it. It's a bit of a curse to do these prerecorded talks because you keep wanting to make it better and better. And then you have this whole production element, right? These are developers and these are, they want to do great, but they're not. They're not producing content all the time, like theCUBE. So they put in so much effort into creating not only great content, but beautiful presentations and picture and picture delivery to really try to make it feel engaging. And I'm indebted to them for all of their work there. I think Brett Fitcher is a harbinger of things to come. I've been saying this for a while. Look at what's happening on Twitch with gaming. People are going to start streaming their code sessions. They're going to start streaming their demos. I think you're going to see a lot more personal broadcasting. Kelsey Eiter brought this up on the innovation panel. I think that's going to be a big feature. And I'm looking forward to incorporating that in and being part of the contribution on the content side. Again, if we can be an upstream project for all that content like this framework, I think you could have literally a thousand sessions someday.  I can't organize that, but yes. Get the standardization. My favorite session, part of all this is not only doing the interviews and kicking it off, having fun, is watching the chats in the sessions, watching the ecosystem, the 43 sessions. I don't know if it feels like a keynote or expo hall because it's got a keynote vibe, but it's got a very targeted, booth-like feel. It's like there's real engagement going on in these containers, if you will, these content containers. It's really fabulous and it's really, really fun to watch. And normally Twitter is just a flow, but here you got targeted. So that's my favorite. Yes, and I also love, right, with a sponsored event, you're getting the quality content in this format because the sponsors and the speakers are at the same and they're delivering something and the audience comes to what they want to learn. And so I think it is also the future for sponsorship and events and how content is keying and that will really drive engagement moving forward. Content and community is the flywheel, the data is the engagement, not only individually, but with the group that's clear from DockerCon and early takeaway from me is it's not about the individual liking something, it's about the individual to the group. That's something that's not new to developers, so it's fun to watch it play out. And congratulations to you at Docker and all the partners in the ecosystem side and certainly the sponsors. So great formula. Jenny, thanks for coming on. Next segment coming up is Amanda Silver with Microsoft. She heads up all the developers. We talk a little bit about build. You'll hear about what's going on with Docker and the new relationship and the CEO of Docker, Scott Johnston coming up next from the studios here where DockerCon's virtual headquarters is. I'm John Furrier with Jenny Virtio, my co-host among with Brett Fisher and Peter McKee. Watch this next segment.   We'll be right back.


The intent of this module is to broaden the scope of fire shelter training through a case study. It will be delivered through the story of shelter deployments on the Little Venus Fire as told by two Unweap fire use crew members, Ryan Jordan and module leader Latham Johnson. It will be told in two parts with one exercise. Part one will deal with the events leading up to the deployments. The facilitator will then lead you in a decision-making exercise. Part two will describe the actual deployments and the lessons learned. Refer to information provided in your student workbook as well as any appropriate references in the IRPG to make your decisions. On July 18, 2006, 10 individuals assigned to the Little Venus Fire on the Chichon National Forest as part of a fire use module were entrapped and deployed fire shelters. No significant injuries were sustained. No personnel were hospitalized. And all personnel were safely evacuated from the fire. This incident is a significant event but differs from past deployments. The involved personnel were not actively engaged in the performance of an operational fire line assignment. They were en route to a camp location to debrief with the crew they were replacing. They would not have a fire line assignment until the next operational period. Unweap has an excellent reputation for safety and professionalism. Partly because of this reputation, they rotate trainees into the module throughout the season. Latham Johnson's crew consisted of four regular crew members, a detailed assistant module leader, one member detailed from the Boise Smoke Jumpers, two from the Crassel Hell Attack, and two detailed from the Chichon National Forest. All crew members were well qualified, physically fit, and experienced firefighters. Issues facing the crew included communication and logistical problems. The National Weather Service had also issued a red flag warning for a passing cold front earlier that morning. Our assignment was to replace, there was already a fire use module at the heel of the fire or up at Venus Cabin, which was eight miles into the wilderness area. And our assignment was to replace them because they had been on the assignment for 13 days. So on day 14 they were going to get out of there. And basically it was going to be a briefing. We got the main picture at the district office, and then it was supposed to be assignment, hike in eight miles, meet that module, and get more of a briefing, get more assignments assigned to us, and more details. And then stay at the fire for two weeks. And we got there, the mules hadn't even had any of our equipment loaded on them. This is around 1300. I mean the day started off late, we didn't have an hour and a half drive to get out to the trailhead. So things just started getting bumped back later and later. And so when we were sitting at the trailhead, we started assisting the packer loading up the mules because we knew we had to kind of get on the trail, get into the module that evening. The fire behavior that you could see anything of was a little bit of smoke that was the head of the fire at the time. And that was way up top, high elevation, and there was a hotshot crew and a Type 2 crew up there. So what we did at that trailhead was introduce ourselves to the new joining two members from the district. Talked about where we're from, our fire experience a little bit, and just a brief idea of what we're going to be doing. Communications, you could tell we're already scratchy because we couldn't get in touch with the module that we were supposed to tie in with, which was eight miles up the canyon. We were able to hear the ICP at the trailhead and the crew that was up on top of the fire at the head. The other communication concern was trying to get the packers to have radios.  He said, I'll turn it on if I need it. The packers were local from the area. One was a middle-aged gentleman that's been contracted with that district for quite a while and he had a helper who was a younger boy about 14 years old that was from that area also. About the 15, 20 minutes were sitting there. The one thing that people brought up was how this nice walk into the wilderness in the morning, nice and cool and good part of the day has now turned into two, three o'clock in the afternoon, the hottest part of the day. And that was the only thing really brought up other than the length of the hike without knowing what was been going on the last day or two in that draw. So when we left Jack Creek Trailhead, our anticipations were engaging in no fire activity. It was going to be a casual walk in eight miles to the Venus cabin. Pretty relaxed, no no mechs. We weren't supposed to be seeing fire. Things were supposed to be a nice walk in the wilderness. About an hour and a half in, we started getting some communication with the Black Hills lookout and at this point there was a little bit of radio traffic, still scratchy, not real clear, that there was fire on both sides of the draw and they would recommend us to stage for a little while. And that was an event where we all stopped, got together, kind of heard what was going on and at that point we didn't feel any discomfort because we couldn't see anything that they were talking about, couldn't see the column.  So if we stopped there was no way to get hold of them because they didn't have the radio on. We tried at that point so we knew that we felt that we would go until we saw the fire because we still had a ways. We were only at mile two at this point when we were supposed to be going eight miles so we couldn't really make sense of what was going on with that. And two, the mule train was in front of us and there was no way to get hold of them so we thought we'd go try to contact them as well. So at that first stop when we heard Black Hills telling us a little bit about the fire being on both sides of the draw we should hold up. One of our module leaders, the one that was from the district working with our crew knew where that module unit was talking about.  He knew an alternate route that would get us around that area. He felt comfortable enough to keep walking in there. So then we proceeded on the trail up to the Anderson Creek Trailhead or the Anderson Creek River junction. And that's where he explained a little bit that this is the alternate route. If we need to go that way we can. And at this time we still didn't have a visual on the fire so we decided to keep moving up the gray bull drainage. And at this time we hadn't tied into the mules. And so we continued about another 200 yards past or about 400 yards past the Anderson Creek junction and came up over a rise topography feature. And that's when we encountered the first visual of the fire coming at us. This is when we knew we weren't going to be progressing any further. Everybody changed their mindset that this is a fire situation. We put our Nomex on, hard hats came out, you know PPE became a parent that we needed it. At this point the fire use module advised some people to start turning around and heading back down the trail. We hadn't met up with the mule train yet so we were actually trying to establish communication there. Again with the radio none of that was helping. We tried whistling a little bit. And what was confusing was we didn't know how they could be going that much further ahead of us because the fire was half a mile away from us. And so we knew they had to be in between us. We stood there for about 5-10 minutes. Knew that we had to get out of there. Right, we were starting to turn around. The younger boy with 5 mules came cruising out of the timber. He came by us. One of the members told him to keep continuing down the Gray Bowl River and get to the Jack Keek Trailhead. And at that time most of the crew members had been reversed order. Our turnaround point, people started hiking down. So at the turnaround point myself and two other of the module crew members, one of them was a leader, the other guy was the local district guy. And we waited there for another minute to see if the older packer would be coming out. And we didn't see him. We started going down because we knew we had no more time to waste. And I remember actually looking at my module leader saying, I don't think he's going to make it. And that's when we knew we had to start moving. The Unuit module is now at a critical decision point. What would you do? We all know the ultimate outcome was good. However, decisions had to be made and action had to be taken to ensure that outcome. Given the story thus far, visualize yourself as a member of the crew and consider some of the possible outcomes or what-ifs and the actions you would take for each. Get into your groups and discuss your assessment of the situation. Utilizing the map in your student workbook and the IRPG determine a plan or plans of action for your what-ifs. Your facilitator will give you 15 minutes and will then randomly select someone from your group to communicate a plan of action in the form of instructions to your crew. There are no right or wrong answers.


Multiple things can be true. You can hold space for a lot of different things. You can love God. You can be a member of your church. You can choose to have an abortion and you can still be a good person all at the same time and a multitude of other things all at once. Okay, let's get a couple things straight. Nobody is good without God. We all fall short of God's standard. Second thing, abortion is taking a life that is created in the image of God. It's not a potential life. It's a life from the moment of conception. So can you be a Christian and believe it's good to take the life of another image bearer? From Mount Sinai, God declared, Thou shalt not murder. How can a Christian willfully stand in opposition to what God has decreed and still claim to be a good person? Can a Christian make a terrible sinful mistake and still be a Christian? Yes, but if they're unrepentant, that's an indication of a deeper issue. But friends, there are those who call themselves Christians, but their rotten fruit, beliefs, ideologies demonstrate that they have another master. There is still hope for anyone that turns to Christ regardless of what you've done. While there's still breath in your lungs, there is time for redemption.


Okay, well Thank you everyone for being here My name is Lorraine Grillo. I am the first deputy mayor and I'm here with my colleagues Including Sheena Wright for deputy mayor for strategic initiatives Chancellor David Banks Deputy mayor Phil Banks deputy mayor for public safety chief of staff to the mayor Frank Carone Camille Joseph Barlick senior advisor to the mayor Zach Iskall commissioner of the New York City emergency management Laura Kavanaugh commissioner of the fire department Jessica Tish commissioner of the Department of Sanitation Vinnie Sapienza chief operating officer of the Department of Environmental Protection Leon Heywood Heyward, sorry deputy commissioner for sidewalks and inspection management Department of Transportation John Garvey deputy commissioner for ferries Department of Transportation Anthony Juliano deputy commissioner for operations community affairs units So I want to thank you all for joining today So I've been in touch with the mayor. We've all been in touch with the mayor throughout the day and He has asked that we provide all of you with an update on the city's full response To today's weather event, which I've just learned is named winter storm Elliott We know that the fire commissioner Kavanaugh has done a press briefing already in Staten Island and of course our OEM Commissioner Iskall has been speaking with the media all day But we wanted to give all of you an opportunity to hear exactly where we are All at the same time so nobody misses any information Before we go into the storm We wanted to give you an update on the tragic house fire in Staten Island For that we're joined by as I said by fire commissioner Laura Kavanaugh and deputy mayor Sheena Right and Chancellor Banks who've just returned from that site. So if you wouldn't mind deputy fire commissioner Sure, thank you for Stephanie mayor as Lorraine mentioned Deputy mayor Sheena Wright and myself were on scene in Staten Island and provided an update there But mayor Adams wanted us to update everybody here who couldn't make it to the scene this afternoon There was a fire on the second floor of a two-family home in Staten Island that took the lives of two very young children and Injured four other children two of which remain in very critical condition at the hospital While the fire is still under investigation, we can certainly say this today. Our hearts are broken The city's heart are broken today This is really an unspeakable tragedy for that family for the neighborhood for the local community and for our whole city We also had one firefighter on scene who sustained minor minor injuries And I also want to thank all of our members fire and EMS who responded and rushed to the scene so quickly We all feel the loss of these two young children who had bright futures in front of us and we grieve for them as a city New York City is a family the fire department is a family and we care for one another And we will take care of this family as a city turn it back over to the first deputy mayor Lorraine grow Thank You Commissioner Now I'm going to turn it over to Commissioner Eskall from the Office of Emergency Management Think of us a comprehensive update on the weather. Thank you Thank you first deputy mayor Laura our hearts are with the family So my team has been out Throughout the city today responding to this weather event alongside other first responders and other city agencies This is a difficult weather event. We needed to prepare not only for rain but also a Title flooding that was made worse by the new moon in addition to large amounts of wind offshore That was piling water into New York Harbor in addition to Jamaica Bay adding about three foot above mean tide Flood surge in addition to that and we sort of transitioned out of that phase Now we're starting to prepare the city for the next phase which is going to be a precipitous drop in temperature Going down to the low Teen single digits over the weekend in addition to that that leads to potential for black ice because the amount of precipitation and water on the ground That we also need to prepare for in addition to high winds up to 60 mile per hour gusts later today To start preparing for this event. There is a significant interagency effort that takes place Starting about 96 hours ago. This includes constant communication with the mayor with senior leadership And we do daily calls with our interagency team. This is about 90 Agencies from the city the state the federal government private sector partners public sector partners and non-profits During those calls. We start the call with a consult from the National Weather Service We get twice daily briefings from the National Weather Service at 044 at 05 45 and at 315 Where we go over the weather forecast and any changes to the forecast We then go and do Reporting from each of those agency partners about what they are going to be doing and what their potential concerns are Anticipation of this event and looking at the hazards and potential impacts and how we as the city will address them Those hazards include as I mentioned the black ice Title flooding rainfall So rainfall flooding and others Agencies the work that these agencies have done is Remarkable starting this morning at 05. We activated the city's situation room. This includes 23 plus city agencies state partners That are in constant communication all day long until this evening throughout this event to make sure we're in constant communication In order to prepare for this event some of the things that we did You know department of sanitation. They put 20 million pounds of salt out on the street. I believe it's seven 700 salt spreaders that they have Located across the street in order to prepare for the black ice in addition to that the NYPD has activated the Excuse me the Joint Traffic Management Center In order to make sure we are Tracking any traffic issues any power outages that could lead to traffic issues with traffic lights, etc. In addition to that they station multiple ESU trucks and other trucks around the city Including in areas prone to flooding in order to facilitate Rescues if needed they did do a number of rescues this this morning None of them were life-threatening. Most of them were folks who were trapped in in vehicles the FDNY Had a full complement of vehicles plus high-axle vehicles operating. They also put EMS into a 12-hour surge schedule Department of Environmental Protection Along with DOT and DSNY Did an incredible effort of clearing catch basins? We also deployed we call some interim flood protection measures to protect a wastewater treatment facility out in the Rockaways Our health and medical team One of the things that we do when we have these types of events is we create some GIS mapping to understand where the flooding might be We then look at what are all the different? critical facilities in those areas do we have Nursing homes adult care facilities we then start in consultation and in partnership with our state partners We reach out to all of them. We identify what's their patient census? Does anybody need to be evacuated are their generators working and then making sure that we are in close contact in case there's needs in those places? In addition to that parks activated store mobile last night where they can digest 311 calls And then send out inspectors to look at downed trees debris things that need to be removed and as of this morning activated their downed tree task force in order to address any of those issues In addition to also implementing some internal flood protection measures across the city Con Ed has flown in over 600 personnel from around the country to augment their teams on the ground here One of the issues with the high winds that we have coming in later today is it could lead to down power lines power outages We have the 600 additional personnel That's about 300 additional trucks that are now located across the city In order to enable us to respond quickly to down to power outages and down power lines MTA activated their incident command center as a 0900 yesterday They issued a soft ban on empty tractor trailers from 8 p.m. Tonight until 8 p.m. Tomorrow, sorry 8 p.m. Last night 8 p.m. Tomorrow They could extend that if conditions worsen Just making sure and checking my notes here to make sure I haven't missed anybody because there's so many Amazing and remarkable agencies that are involved And in addition to this because of the drop in temperatures one of the prime objectives that we have In our winter weather plan is protecting vulnerable populations So mentioned a little bit about the work we do with nursing homes adult care facilities in addition to that DSS is activated code blue which are teams that are going out Finding homeless individuals living on the streets And making sure we're getting them into shelter today. This is incredibly important as you all know Probably most of you walked out of your homes today. It's a little bit warmer. It's going to be a lot colder today That change in temperature leaves us very concerned about people who are on our streets and making sure that they're getting Getting into shelter. So looking forward to your questions can talk a little bit more about the impacts We've been out there. We're also opening up two service centers in Hamilton beach and in the rockaways One each later today Where red cross will be able to provide Shelt housing services or hotels to people that need it in addition to cleaning kits And also other materials or things that people need. So those will be open at 4 30 I can make sure to get the address to see you later today. Thank you For commissioners cabinet on guard. What is the status of the investigation of the last night's fire on the sandy ground? And how concerned are we about the other alas class fairs? So the investigation is ongoing it is done in conjunction with the coast guard because this was a maritime event We did open the compartment to the engine room today and confirmed that the fire is out So from this point forward, it will be an investigation working with the coast guard on the cost I spoke with the coast guard last night and the that specific Item came up and at this point there is no concern at all about it being a class item problem Is there anything in process with that now? Yeah, so we we worked with the red cross to identify blocks of hotel rooms to make sure that those were ready if people needed them in advance of the storm We also identified four reception centers Located in flood prone areas and four potential service centers. So we opened up Four library locations to make sure that they were ready if people needed a place to go throughout the day In addition to that we identified at least for it might have actually been more than that Schools in the neighborhoods that we could immediately turn into service centers if needed Yes, I certainly do know where he is but let me just say this to you He might as well be here because we've been speaking to each other constantly throughout the day and speaking with all of us To keep updated on what's going on and to actually direct us to do this But the mayor decided to take two days off and and get some rest And instead of course, he's dealing with this is but just not here No We we don't have that number yet. We're still collecting that information still doing those assessments Yes, so there's four libraries that were that we worked with to make sure that they were open and available Throughout the day that people could go to and then in addition to that We identify in these types of in the run-up to these events locations that we can turn into service centers should we need them Um, yep in the far rock ways. Yes, that's correct That is correct Say I will defer to department of transportation on on road closures in terms of black ice In terms of shutting everything down based on whether that's a decision that would be made at city hall based on A number of variables and factors and so with most weather plans we have certain triggers that are built in One of the complications with winter weather Unlike other events is that There's other variables time of day, right? Are you impacting a commute? Is it not a commuting hour when the storm might hit? What's the Validity of the forecast? What time of year it is, right? If it's coming into a holiday Versus during a weekday or versus a weekend. So these are all things that need to be assessed by the leadership team here at city hall In order to make those difficult decisions We're not shutting down bars or anything like that Again, as I said earlier, the mayor has taken two days off And uh, in fact, he has been participating in all of our meetings today many many times It's separately. What is the separately? What is the trigger for him coming back if not a fatal house fire? Thanks. Thank you everybody. Thank you


The chairman of the People's Democratic Party in Lagos State, Dr. Adebola Dominic, is dead. The spokesperson for the PDP in the state, Tuafiq Ghani, confirmed this to our correspondent on the telephone. Ghani said the Lagos PDP boss died of coronavirus-related ailments. The president of the People's Democratic Party in Lagos State, Dr. Adebola Dominic, died of coronavirus-related ailments.