nes Library non-profit corporation or whatever own the Jones Library building or does the town? The nonprofit owns it. So if the town gives the Jones Library fifteen million dollars, is that an outright gift? Or does the town get a financial stake in the building? You ask a very good question to which I do. None of us at this point have an answer. My question being that we assume that it will always be a library, et cetera, et cetera, but we can't look that far into the future. And I'm just thinking at some point, if the Jones Library got huge and decided to sell that building to do something else, would the town get a stake in that or not? Or or, for example, if the whole way libraries were used and a big space opened up in that library because computers have gotten teeny and, you know, the demographics have gotten small and we don't have as many teenagers, would the town then have a stake in how that building could be used because we partly owned it? As a taxpayer, I feel a little odd. I understand I really benefit from the Jones. But on the other hand, I feel a little odd outright giving that much money in taxpayers. Tell people you were born here. I was born in Amherst. I spent a lot of years paying taxes. I've used the Jones Library. I love it. But so that's that's basically my question. How how do we, you know, make sure that the town actually has a bigger stake in that if we're going to finance it to that extent and it's a nonprofit? Thank you. Thank you.  I assume you would. Yes, thank you very much. I can't speak authoritatively about this. Perhaps Paul has already started to talk to the town's lawyers about it. But I have looked. This is not the first time this issue has arisen and it was successfully solved in 1993 because the same transaction occurred by a series of documents which clearly protected the town's interests, but without giving an ownership interest in the property. And I think you should feel reassured that the same kind of documents can be drawn for this occasion also. Thank you. And thank you for referring to those previous documents. Are there any other questions or comments from the audience? Not just questions, but comments, statements, anything. I just want to point out that I think at our high point tonight, we had seventy three people in attendance in the audience, and we now are still have thirty two. And I want to thank all of the consultants who have joined us today and the trustees, Austin, would you like to adjourn the trustees? I would, but I wanted to say a special word of thanks to thanks to Athena, who's yes, efficiency and efficiency and skills are remarkable. Thank you, Athena, for making this happen and for keeping me from being outside for three hours on a Saturday. So thanks, Athena, for that. So I'd like to move that the Board of Trustees of the Jones Library adjourn. Is there a second Bob Pam second? All in favor, say aye, aye, opposed, say no. Jones Library Board of Trustees adjourned. Have a have a. We would the council would like to thank all of you for being here, but also Athena for keeping us on track and online. The town council is adjourned. Thank you.


Everybody forced here rip in 2021 Spectre football hobby 4 box number 50 random team style I'll show the results right here on your screen. You can always find them a late in sports cards calm I did drop a Lincoln chat, right? Yeah, there is a Lincoln shattered a bit of ways up. Let's get started Cowboys Eagles or bills chiefs bills chiefs will be way better. I think We're gonna see the fireworks and bills chiefs. All right guys, here we go. We have the inspector on a while Yeah, is it is it a sticky substance if it's Joe Musgrove's own earwax is that count That shouldn't count right Like you could like you could like spit on your hand or whatever that's fine, right? That's not against the rules Joe Musgrove was I mean I get it I get why that why they thought he was he was cheating because he was throwing some filth man his side his slider is disgusting Mills mafia to start us off 20 out of 99 Texans beat the the best team in AFC South the Jags today Hurts Eagles 77 149 barely remained undefeated Jalen waddle rookie dual Jersey Dolphins 50 out of 99. Oh, I see a low-numbered hit. Oh, that's very low-numbered That's a good player, too Who's got this team who's got the birds the Eagles got a really nice card here for you four of five Rookie psychedelic patch auto Devonte Smith What a hit Jeff G with the Eagles That's awesome Undefeated Devonte Smith great start for the Eagles had the number it hurts and now at the Vonte man. That's sick psychedelic four of five Cards to psychedelic damn hippies Joe burrow nine of fifty Couldn't convert on fourth and goal terrible play call Rise above for the Bears rookie Justin Fields numbered 60 of 99 Sunday find a next everybody What's the piece of the action 40 of 75 Ricky triple Relic Kyle Trask bucks and Falcons out of here Michael Vic Sick Vic 225 I didn't even see the play are they gonna show it again, maybe I'll have to watch them Though the recap thing the ESPN puts out I guess an hour long Trail Davis 13 to 35 Broncos the only problem is I had to listen to Boomer That's the worst part man, I put on the background I look up every year in there Elijah more Jets rookie 25 is 60 two and oh is Zach Wilson you guys What's the Jets record like three and two? Yeah, I think so All right No, don't even tell me the Jets are four and one right now. I can't handle it Both New York teams cannot be four and one first of all Demarcus Lawrence Jersey card tank Lawrence for the Cowboys 43 or 75. Okay, three. It's okay. I was gonna say both New York teams are forward one That ain't right. Oh, yeah, the season's canceled season is over And panther Sam Darnalotto two of four he might be starting when he comes back Hey, there's two of four in the Darnell Darnell's Yeah, Wilson has but Wilson has like pretty solid. He was a little rusty to come with to start That was his first time seeing Ash and Spree season So it's whatever he looked pretty good today and he looked good on the final drives in the Steelers game, which hey, that's all it matters Grump 50 at 99 bucks Buffalo's a New York team. Yeah, that's not like a New York team Austin Eckler 138 of 149 chargers.  I mean, I've never shaken that bad for a car before you're feeling that was not a bad way Strange, I don't know why they wouldn't tie the game there. Your defense has been pretty good. You know, there he is Zach Wilson 126 of 149 jets been a good two boxes so far man box in a pack Lions Barry Sanders number seven to 25 Spectre or immaculate man, that's a that's a tough one spectre or immaculate. What do you like more sure? I say immaculate because the the acetate on all those car designs. I just love man I would say the same Josh Allen Josh Allen 27 to 49 Jersey for the bills That's a nice card to Sean's boy right here Jalen waddle radiant rookie Green scope patch auto that's sick man four colors with the green ink Dude the receivers are here y'all 16 of 35 one off the Jersey number there you go Miami will get that mag for you, of course Will L nice waddle I want to overdo it, you know Dak 21 of 30 for the Cowboys plus more in a Patriot shirt right now, and yeah, that'd be a weird look Ron Dale Moore 22 of 60 Cardinals Ricky aura Say man got Joe mix it on my dynasty team. I need to do well Hertz 32 and 99 Eagles Jersey Hey Seahawks with a Steve a large and illustrious legends auto 16 of 25 It was a Jackie Robinson cut auto from earlier today Ken and Wang we were rookie for the Vikings number 19 of 35 Yeah, I've only shaken a handful of times pulling a card.  I would say 29 is 75 Coraline Sutton Broncos He's having a good season Epic legends 11 and 99 Jersey card John Riggins Washington Definitely a good break so far and Seth Williams one of two rookie nebula auto Broncos Let's ride Broncos country, let's ride or as it was this week Broncos gonna let's ride. Oh another Halloween movie coming out Why so I got I thought I want to know 94 and 99 Jalen Darden rookie bucks a Travis Kelsie chiefs to 149 as well D'Yammy Brown six of ten rookie patch monumental memorabilia Yeah, it was in the mixer earlier the big mixer earlier Jack Ham the 49 on the Steelers auto That's a John's uncle. Yeah, I like a macula and more spectra is pretty sick though. I like the parallels on spectra That's the thing like I think about it for a second and I'm thinking about like psychedelic and nebula and What's the other one? It's Neon marble. That's a really sick one too spectra's pretty dope Spectra basketball comes out this week actually you guys de hop 50 of 60 Cardinals six to go on the mixer Breaking next I'm on green Packers die cut three of 20 breaking it next you guys epic legends 79 to 99 Raiders Jersey Tim Brown and redemption Trace sermon RPA Celestial Niners Trace sermon. It'll be a Niners card. I don't know where he is now, but that's a nine He's signed somewhere. I got Jamie and Davis rookie numbered 19 of 149 for the football team Derek Carr Raiders 31 of 35 Broncos Noah Phant jersey card 41 of 75 Taxes with an awesome head Davis Mills and nasty Niko rookie dual patch dual auto 11 of 20 ice hit Texans Mills mafia and nasty Niko will get that bagged. This has been a really good break man thick pack here What's in the pack Aaron Donald 79 of 149 Rams nasty Niko rookie dual Jersey Texans 39 of 99 is that his actual name or Sam just saying stuff man Sam is it Z4 here still Trevor Lawrence 22 of 99 Ricky dual Jersey for the Jags sometimes and Texans against same box aspiring rookie patch auto Davis Mills mafia 59 of 60 Texans again, man bag geez Who's got Houston again? Will L Will Patrick Turtan the second Broncos rookie numbered 97 to 99 rise above Jalen waddle dolphins Numbered 52 of 75 Raiders Jersey Derek Carr 27 of 49 Super Bowl auto Cowboys Drew Pearson Nice one Cowboys Those are sick-looking Box for thank you very much everybody for joining.  We're giving away break credit at the end of the night five to go Five to go I'm like starving right now And I think the only way that I'll maybe not be starving is to pull big hits Holds a big hits in this break though I'm gonna keep rolling in the next one Mick Lauren Washington numbered 126 of 149 Brandon cooks Texans 57 of 60 Trevor Lawrence another Jersey here Jags rookie 69 of 75 Jets Michael Carter rookie patch auto number 24 of 75 Did anybody else see that Joe must grow of substance check no in the game earlier to anybody see that Yeah, man, they were TSA out there Get the walk through the metal detector. Yeah, dude Had taken hat off there. They're rubbing down his ears. Yeah, Deandre Swift 80 of 99 Lions Ricky or a Najihara Steelers 70 of 75 Michael Carter again for the Jets this time rookie Jersey 16 of 99 Hey, he's pitching on the map. Of course. He said Cold or not. You're still working out. Oh, here we go four of eight Colts auto paint manning Do this break has been great Awesome hit Colts Kuniaki tee Retro speck the sheriff The cushion says he guarantees his icy hot. Is there anything wrong with like using icy hot though, like that doesn't look like a band substance Tyree killed to a 25 chiefs Rashad Bateman rookie Ravens 75 of 75 Broncos drew lock two out of 99 Jersey card Panthers now a Spiring rookie patch auto. That's a nice color match for the Panthers terrace Marshall Jr. 10 of 35 And we've got a Trevor Lawrence or you go Jags 65 of 99 got Barry Sanders Lions 121 of 149 terrace Marshall Jr. 14 of 60 rookie Jersey Panthers But the nice color match And Amir Smith Marseille 14 of 15 aspiring patch auto orange. That's pretty cool with the purple there. It's like Halloween colors So you're gonna figure what I'm gonna break out is on Halloween dress up I'll be the Chris Pratt version of Super Mario Come on guys, it's me Mario. That's what he sounds like right sounds like he's a He's in the B-52s. All right recap here relics Panthers terrace Marshall Jr. Broncos drew lock gonna go quick on this one guys So you got to get to the mixer Jets Michael Carter Jags Trevor Lawrence Derek Carr Raiders Trevor Lawrence dual Jersey Nico Collins dual Jersey a A life check Tim Brown Raiders, that's funny Broncos. No a fan. Yeah, I'm a brown Washington Washington John Riggins Eagles Jalen Hertz bills Josh Allen. There's John Amuni Cowboys DeMarcus Lawrence Bucks Kyle Trask Dolphins Jalen waddle Viking Samir Smith Mar sets Panthers terrace Marshall Jr. Isra all autos and patch autos now Jets Michael Carter Cowboys drew Pearson trace sermon 49ers redemption rookie patch autos celestial Steelers jackham set Williams one of two on the Nebula rookie auto Denver got Steve large and Seahawks, J. C. Jackson Patriots Panthers Sam Donald and Falcons Mike Vic Look at all these Mac five four boxes man. Look at this retrospect paint manning auto to six or to eight. Excuse me to eight You go colds aspiring RPA Texans to 60 Davis Mills a Texans again Mills and Nico Collins dual Patrick you auto 11 to 20 Radiant green RPA Jalen waddle four colors 16 to 35 dolphins and A psychedelic RPA Eagles Devante Smith four of five That's sick man. Good stuff. Thanks again everybody. We got the mixer coming up


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers blue plan happy Monday It's a Monday. So it's meal prep day. I have three fantastic recipes for you breakfast lunch and dessert You're not gonna want to miss them So if you're excited for this week's meal prep give this video a big huge thumbs up It means a lot to me and definitely helps out my channel. Also if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed I'd love to have you hit the little subscribe button and go ahead and ring the bell next to it that way You never miss a single video including meal prep every single Monday check out the description box down below where you're going to find My nutrition coaching website. I am a weight loss and nutrition coach So I do offer several services. One of them is personalized to you macros and calories So you know where you should fall every day to be most successful Whether you're on WW or not you have to know calories and calories out to lose weight I also offer one-on-one sessions in both 30 and 60 minutes if you're looking for a little bit more Individualized support. Let me help you set up a game plan to be successful So check both of those out on my nutrition coaching website links discount codes to everything I shared with you in today's video and all of my other favorite things as well as my Facebook group head on over and join us there We're doing a super fun challenge starting May 1st. So definitely head on over enjoying that community We'd love to have you so without further ado Let's jump into this week's WW meal prep for breakfast this week I am making a flat bread breakfast pizza My plan is to pre-cook some of the components of the pizza and then actually put it together every day But we will put one full pizza together so you can see what the final product looks like So for the recipe you're going to need some fully cooked bacon. You could also use center cut bacon and cook it yourself This just makes it a little bit easier. You're also going to need some eggs Turkey sausage. I'm just using the Genio Italian style turkey sausage. I'm using the flat-out wrap You could use cut the carb. You could use Joseph's lavash. You could even use an Olay wrap whatever your preference is I'm going to use the flat-out light Italian herb laughing cow cheese egg whites salt and pepper First thing I'm going to do is go ahead and cook up the entire pound of ground turkey And then we'll just weigh it out per pizza each pizza is going to have one full egg and one quarter cup of egg whites So I'm going to go ahead and scramble up four whole eggs and one full cup of egg whites So I'm going to go ahead and crack my four eggs and my one cup of egg whites Season it with a little salt and pepper and about a quarter cup of almond milk The turkey sausage is cooking. It is awfully greasy So I'm definitely going to make sure that I drain that really well and then I just have my eggs scrambling up over here So we'll get these cooked up before we start assembling the actual pizza The best thing to do with pre-cooked bacon is go ahead and pop it in your microwave before serving to crisp it up again So I'm going to do that with a couple of pieces for the pizza We're going to make today and then each morning I'll just pop a couple more in the microwave get them nice and crispy and add them to my pizza I went ahead and pulled out just a quarter sheet pan put my flat out or whatever tortilla You're using for your pizza go ahead and put that on the pan Here is the cooked up turkey sausage drained really well. Here are all of my eggs I did go ahead and put these into storage containers so that I can make up my pizza for the rest of the week I also have a laughing cow cheese wedge and two slices of just reheated nice and crispy bacon So the first thing we're going to do is go ahead open up your laughing cow cheese wedge and spread that evenly over the entire flatbread We're then going to put our eggs on so we want our eggs Even across the flatbread I will let you know too that I did not cook my eggs all the way through because they will cook even a little bit more in The oven so we want about one full egg and a quarter cup of egg whites spread out evenly over the flatbread And then on my food scale. I'm going to weigh out one ounce of the cooked Turkey sausage and then I'm going to just spread that evenly over the top of the eggs Make sure it's nice and cool the course before you go in and sprinkle it over the eggs and Then I'm going to crumble out my two pieces of bacon right on top I think I'm going to garnish my pizza Which is a tiny little bit of parsley just to add that pretty green and then this is going into a 350 degree Preheated oven until it's warmed completely through everything is pre-cooked But we want to make sure that our flatbread Gets a little bit crispy and that cheese gets nice and melted so with my leftover eggs I went ahead and put them in a storage container pop the lid on that I will link these containers down in the description box. These are so cute I got them off of Amazon their glass with a really pretty wood lid and then I just have a lid for the sausage So I'm just going to pop these in my refrigerator and again every morning I'll just assemble the pizza pop it in the oven or you can even do it in your air fryer to warm it up So soon as the pizza gets out of the oven, I'll show you guys with the completed Breakfast pizza looks like and it give you the points and calories the breakfast pizzas out of the oven Oh my gosh, this smells so good You can see that that laughing cow is nice and melty This is a huge breakfast pizza the way that I prepared it using the flat out the sausage I use the bacon everything it works out to be six smart points for the entire pizza on blue and purple Seven on green just because you do have to count for the egg and 340 calories so not bad You could eat this all by itself because it's quite a good size breakfast pair it with some fruit Looks amazing can't wait to have this all week For lunch this week. I'm making a broccoli cashew crunch Salad, I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to pair this with it will be some type of protein I'll pop you guys into my freezer and show you what I have on hand kind of what I'm thinking But I'm really excited for this as getting nice around here The weather is changing and a fresh delicious cold salad sounds so good So for this recipe you're going to need an entire pound of broccoli. This is only a 12 ounce bag So I'm going to end up using about one and a half bags whole carrots a shallot a red bell pepper cashews Honey apple cider vinegar light mayonnaise Crushed red pepper chili flakes in some reduced sugar cranberries. So let's make a broccoli salad The first thing I'm going to do is slice up my red bell pepper my shallot nice and thin and peel and cut my carrot This knife pack again is the one I showed in last week's meal prep from anthropology It comes with three knives. They're gorgeous. I'll make sure I link them down below for you So to put our salad together it's super easy I added my one pound of broccoli to a bowl I did kind of break up the floor rash as I popped them into the bowl only because some of them were quite large So we're going to add one teaspoon of honey two teaspoons of apple cider vinegar I wanted to show you guys my spoon set. These are so cute. These are also from anthropology So I'll link these down below for you guys as well. They're just so fun It always makes cooking more fun when you have cute utensils. I have one half of a cup of cashews here I'm just lightly going to chop those before I pop them here into the salad just so they go a little bit further But it was one half cup of whole cashews and then a rough chop and toss them in So I've added in all of the roughly chopped cashews now We're going to put in one quarter cup of reduced sugar craisans I'm going to do just the tiniest pinch of the red pepper chili flakes because I don't want it too spicy One quarter cup light mayo and then all of the chopped up bell pepper Carrots and the thinly sliced shallot and then stir really well You want to make sure that that little bit of mayo it's a quarter of a cup So it's not a lot. You just want to make sure that that gets coated on all of the pieces of broccoli and the veggies So here's our broccoli salad. This looks so good I will caution you that most of the good stuff the craisans the cashews all the veggies kind of fall to the bottom So before you give yourself a serving just make sure that you shake it up or stir it up really really well Sorry for the darker light. There's not very good light here where this fridge is But you can see that I have just a ton of the kid fresh nuggets I also have the kid fresh meatballs So I think what I'm going to do is just go ahead and pair my broccoli salad with either some nuggets or some meatballs for some added protein Before the beautiful broccoli salad by itself, which by the way smells really good. It's very colorful Summary, I love it the salad itself makes six serving so it's quite a large serving of the salad It is only four points on all plans and 142 calories So you can get in your vegetables get in some healthy fats with those cashews And then pair this with a protein for a really good fresh springy summery lunch What is it this week? I'm making glaze grapefruit Bunt cake. Can you tell I'm ready for spring or summer? This is going to be a very fresh delicious Low point you guys low calorie cake. So for the recipe, you're going to need some eggs whole milk baking powder Vanilla extract a medium to large-sized grapefruit powdered sugar alternative. This is the loconto powdered It's my very favorite powder sugar alternative. I do have a discount for loconto. So I'll make sure it's linked down below for you This is the loconto monk fruit sweetener again my very very favorite You can also pick that up on the loconto website all-purpose flour and some salt We're also going to need some unsweetened applesauce three-quarters of a cup The first thing I'm going to do is zest my grapefruit and also juice it You're going to need the juice from the entire grapefruit and the zest So the first thing that we're going to do in a large bowl is put two cups of all-purpose flour One and three-quarter teaspoons baking powder about a teaspoon of salt I'm just going to plop that in give this a good stir And this is your dry ingredients in another bowl much smaller this time We're going to put in our monk fruit sweetener and all of the zest from our grapefruit and with your hands You're just going to go in and rub that together You want to make sure that the grapefruit zest and the sugar gets mixed really well This is what's going to also kind of flavor that sugar from that zest So here is what that mixture looks like now. We're going to go ahead and pop in two eggs And we're going to mix this with a handheld mixer until creamy So I went ahead and did that for about two to three minutes I wanted to look kind of milky and creamy now We're going to add in the three-quarter cup of unsweetened applesauce This is in place of any oil one cup of whole milk and one teaspoon of vanilla extract We're going to beat that in to the egg mixture We're going to add the wet mixture to the dry mixture And then we're going to beat that again until fully combined to a very well grease with non-stick cooking spray bump pan We're going to add in the batter All right, our cake's going in the oven 350 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes our goal is to make sure we can insert a toothpick and it comes out clean Our cake is out of the oven. I'm going to just set this aside to cool We're going to make a grapefruit syrup as well as a glaze for the syrup. It's very simple We're going to go ahead and add in the juice from the grapefruit as well as one-third cup of the Lakonto monk fruit sweetener We're going to put this on the stove for two to three minutes just so that sugar can dissolve I did go ahead and remove about a tablespoon of the grapefruit syrup for the glaze So our bunk cake has been cooling for about ten minutes or so So I'm just going to take a fork and I'm just going to punch some holes all over the top of the cake And that will allow the syrup we made to soak in and then you're going to take that syrup and just pour it right over the top I went ahead and removed the cake from the bump pan. It came out Perfect. It is so moist from adding that syrup So we're going to let this finish cooling completely before we make the glaze while the bunk cake is cooling We're going to make the glaze so I have one cup of the Lakonto powdered And then I had reserved that about a tablespoon of that syrup So I'm going to add it in little by little until I have the perfect glaze consistency So I am going to have to also add in just a little bit of water All right, let's glaze it up So I'm just going to use my spoon and just kind of drizzle that grapefruit glaze right over the top This looks absolutely incredible. So it is glaze the syrup has been added This cake makes 12 pieces. So I'm going to go ahead and cut this up And I'll be back to show you serving size give you points and calories You're not going to believe it. So I cut it into 12 servings You can see how large the serving is and I went ahead and plated up one slice Of the glazed grapefruit bunk cake you guys It's two points on both blue and purple for one piece and only three points on the green plan Just because there are eggs in here 104 calories for a piece of cake. So highly recommend this would be great for get-togethers Barbecues really any event or even just for your family for a low point low calorie dessert Thank you for joining me on this week's meal prep I hope you are as excited about these three recipes as I am You can find all three recipes on my website, which is linked at the top of the description box Don't forget to thumbs up this video if you enjoyed it And of course, if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed to my channel Hit the subscribe button and don't forget to click the little bell next to it So you don't miss another meal prep or another video for that matter Check out that description box for the nutrition coaching links and discounts to my favorite things and my facebook group Don't forget to come join us for maize challenge. Thank you guys again so much for watching Happy monday. Have a beautiful week and I'll see you in my next video. Bye


Good afternoon everyone. Very excited to be back at the Open Networking Summit this time to talk about enabling digital transformation through open software-defined infrastructure. In the short time that we have today, I will first spend a few minutes to talk about who we are and what we do at Visa. I will then share some thoughts about our technology transformation vision as well as our approach to building an open software-defined infrastructure including some of the guiding principles and drivers behind their vision. I will then spend a few minutes to outline an open architectural framework for a data center network architecture based on software-defined networking and we'll also talk about some use cases for SD-WAN or software-defined networking for the wide area networks. Time permitting. I will then spend some time on the migration aspects of SDN and also what we as a community can do to help accelerate the industry adoption of software-defined technologies. Who is Visa? Visa is a global payments technology company. We connect consumers, businesses, financial institutions, strategic partners and government entities in over 200 countries to fast, reliable and secure electronic payments. Our advanced transaction processing network facilitates the authorization, clearing and settlement of digital payments and also enables us to offer a wide range of product and value-added services to our customers. Visa operates in a four-party model, as can be seen on this slide, including merchants, the card issuing banks and the acquiring banks. As such, we are not a bank. We don't issue cards. We don't set credits or credit limits or rates or fees for the account holders of Visa products. As one of the world's largest retail electronic payments networks, our infrastructure today serves over 16,000 financial institutions and enables over 129 billion payment transactions a year for a total volume of 8.2 trillion US dollars at some 65,000 transaction messages per second. While these numbers speak to the already significant scale of our infrastructure, we foresee a continued growth of electronic payments driven by new technologies, new innovations, as well as a shift of consumer habits. These drivers include an accelerated growth of e-commerce and a rapid migration of e-commerce to mobile devices. But also, there is a number of underlying, enabling technologies that are creating new payment models, such as blockchain or tokenization, which is a technology that allows you to replace the card number with a digital token to make the transaction more secure. This technology, for example, can be in the Internet of Things ecosystem, where every connected device can now become a potential point of sale. These new technologies and trends will continue to emerge and evolve as we move toward the cashless society, and these technologies and drivers will continue to set new requirements on the infrastructure in terms of growth, resiliency, security, scale, performance and unit cost. Such new drivers and requirements are at the heart of our technology transformation work at Visa. A great focus of our transformation journey is really around leveraging software to create an increasingly open digital platform for innovation, but also increasing the agility of the infrastructure and adding layers of security and operational resilience. It is also about making electronic payments accessible to everyone worldwide. Today, about half of the population on Earth does not have access to electronic payments. And as we grow and expand our infrastructure, we need to make sure that we can continue to offer the same and greater levels of resilience, security and agility to billions of connected devices and users. A big part of our thinking is around moving away from closed and proprietary physical infrastructure devices to open and software-based technologies, to be able to build that agility in software and offer on-demand infrastructure and network services to our customers. In 2015, we launched Visa's developer platform, which now offers over 180 of Visa's product and service functions through APIs to our customers and partners. Some of the examples of architectural principles that we are embracing as part of this technology transformation journey includes leveraging software to build resilience independently of hardware. We know that hardware can fail, circuits can fail, port or an interface can go down, but we need to make sure that we can build resilience, availability and security in software independently of hardware. So that no single failure or even multiple failures of network or infrastructure devices would result in any service impact. And separation of hardware and software is a big portion of that. And as we grow and expand our infrastructure, we need to make sure that we can continue to maintain real-time full visibility across the entire data path in our infrastructure. And once again, that can only be achieved in software at scale. We're also looking at opportunities to maximize the asset utilization, not just from a PCO advantage perspective, but also from the standpoint of improving the efficiency of our operations and actually making the infrastructure more resilient and more highly available. These ideas include things like consolidating separate physical networks into one common fabric, both on the WAN side as well as the data center side, but also simplifying and reducing the number of stack layers that we have in the networking stack. Let's now talk about a framework for an open, software-defined data center network architecture. In this example, more suitable for an enterprise environment, everything starts with building a physical network fabric that you want to keep as simple as possible, leveraging the leaf spine topology design for improved scale and resilience as well as the support of microservices, but also leveraging simplified slash commoditized hardware with merchant silicon chips and a minimal set of standard networking features. Next, you want to make sure that you keep your architecture modular and your abstraction layers well-defined, including the network switching and virtualization, then a software layer for network orchestration, monitoring, control, and management, and then your application layer, where you can have different types of workloads, including bare metal or non-virtualized workloads that can interface directly with your hardware, such as Hadoop or Spark, or you can have virtualized workloads such as VMs and containers for which you might want to leverage some sort of a network virtualization technology, and then as your virtualization footprint grows, you might want to leverage and deploy a dedicated SDN controller platform to manage that state centrally and at scale. And it is extremely important that the interface between that consolidated, unified SDN controller with the rest of your physical infrastructure be open and standard-based, so that you can select the best-of-debrate technologies for each of these components. You might also want to leverage some virtualized network functions for layer-for-layer seven functionality, such as load balancers, firewalls, et cetera, and manage that whole physical infrastructure from within that SDN controller. Now in a real-world enterprise data center environment, you have other networking functionalities that need to be provided. These can include a packet capture fabric for which you can similarly leverage simplified and commoditized hardware with some SDN capabilities, as well as an out-of-band network management fabric that can interface with the rest of your physical fabric. Now once you have built all of that, you want to make sure that you can actually leverage and harness the true power of software through an orchestration platform, where as the previous speaker mentioned, with the point and the click, you can actually provision your infrastructure and build whatever network service that you want without having any knowledge of the hardware. And equally importantly, it is important that that interface be open similarly to the SDN controller interface. Now let's shift gears and talk about WAN. So outside the data center, typically an enterprise has some sort of a WAN network or wide area network. Starting from the left side of the slide, an enterprise might have a number of remote sites. These includes branches or customer premises or a number of users that just connect to your environment through internet and or through some sort of a carrier-managed connectivity. And then you have your data centers, either one or several of them, typically connected through an enterprise-managed data center interconnect or backbone network. And then you might have some presence in a public cloud. So here the blue boxes represent the areas where the enterprise has some visibility and control and the rest is really kind of third-party managed. So while this model works for many enterprises and in many use cases, it comes with some challenges. You typically have some sort of a legacy router or technology on the access site. And for the vast majority of the transport network, you don't really have much visibility and control. And if you have thousands of these devices and if you're running a mission critical environment, that whole process of managing the life cycle of these devices, which can come in thousands, can be pretty significant. Now, software-defined networking can help address some of these challenges and there are several scenarios and deployment models. I will talk about three use cases. There are more. In this use case, a carrier can offer an SD-WAN solution at the edge of the network where networking functionality is moved from these end devices to the edge of the network and then in a virtualized environment, you have some sort of a VCP environment where you can actually manage your networking capabilities and create some interesting service-changing functions and manage a large number of your end devices from that point of presence or edge of the network. And then you have a similar setup at the terminating site where the traffic is handed over to your data centers. So this model does offer great advantages in terms of simplifying the operations of your WAN infrastructure, but also it might come with some challenges. Typically, if you require carrier redundancy at the access, you want to make sure that the carrier that offers this service can actually offer carrier redundancy and an environment where you can leverage access connectivity from multiple providers, but also leverage internet or even wireless. But also in the WAN side, you want to make sure that the SD-WAN solution that the carrier offers is unbundled from the carrier transport offering so that you can actually work with multiple carriers for the transport of your network if needed. A second use case is when the enterprise kind of replaces the legacy equipment and the access site and actually works with an SD-WAN vendor. So here I put two vendors, the kind of light blue vendor and the green vendor. This model can also work very well because now you have a global state of your end points and your access sites that can be managed centrally from within software from your data center. With this model, similarly to the previous model, you can actually create a lot more interesting traffic engineering and policy-based routing decisions and actually manage the state of your end points centrally and from within software.  And it is important that you don't have to deploy a new set of controller platforms and management platforms every time you bring a new vendor. So as such, it is important that the southbound for these devices also be open and multi-vendor compatible. And that is the yellow line that I put on top of the SD-WAN router devices. Next scenario is when the enterprise actually expands their backbone network as far as possible and as close as possible to the end users. This way effectively managing the large portion of the end-to-end path themselves instead of relying on third-party carriers. So in this scenario, the enterprise not only owns and manages the data center interconnect network but also the WAN backbone. And now the enterprise has the opportunity to deploy these SD-WAN solutions at the pop or at the edge of the network and only rely on third-party carriers and other methods of access for the WAN access portion. So here with this model, you can actually have a number of pops around the edge of your network geographically spread and then from there on manage your end points that can connect to your network either through internet or through wireless or through a number of carrier-provided MPLS circuits. So each of these scenarios has pros and cons and advantages or disadvantages depending on how much visibility you want to gain, how much control you want to have on your infrastructure end-to-end and also the CAPEX and OPEX resources involved is different for each case. So the ability of which model you want to go for, it is important to understand that in order to make the adoption of these solutions easier, these solutions need to be open and come with standard interfaces. It is equally important that these solutions can be easily and seamlessly integrated with the enterprise's operational environment. But also it is important that the engineers in an enterprise organization can actually test these capabilities and also test the interoperability between different multiple vendor solutions in software. So it is important that vendors offer a virtualized environment for these platforms so that you can have the kind of network CI CD environment to test and evaluate these solutions. It is also important that these solutions be flexible. So no vendor lock-in, hardware independence is also equally important and as I mentioned it is important that the carrier transport be independent from the carrier SD-WAN solution. Needless to say that these SD-WAN solutions need to maintain or even improve the carrier greatness of the typical networking solutions that we are used to but also provide the global support and come with the right level of security hardening. I will now say a few words about the migration aspects of SDN. A few years ago in the Open Networking Foundation within the migration working group, a number of documents were published to describe the use cases, the methodologies as well as the tools that should be considered during an SDN transformation journey and this slide kind of highlights some of the thought process from that work. So we published the blog by that name by the way. So the thought process is pretty straightforward. You have a starting infrastructure. You go through a phase migration phase step and then you have your target SDN-based infrastructure. You want to make sure that your starting network is well understood and that the state is well understood and that you have well defined back out procedures. So if during the migration something goes unexpectedly you have the right mechanism in place to roll it back and then during the phase migration you want to make sure that you have continuous availability and also the right tools in terms of monitoring, provisioning and troubleshooting. And then once all that migration work is done, how do you make sure that you actually have the SLAs that you had previously and that in this new environment you have the right paybooks from an operational perspective. And these are not just on paper theoretical work. These are things that actually we have been doing at Visa as part of our migration process toward these new technologies. So a brief summary of some of the thoughts that I mentioned in terms of coming together as a community to help accelerate the adoption of SDN and software defined technologies. There has been a great momentum to move away from hardware centric solutions to software defined technologies and as of recently there have been announcements for even established vendors to make their OS available to run on third party hardware. This is a great example of a very good step in the right direction. So let's come together to do more of that kind of shift from hardware centric to software defined offerings. It is important that all these SDN solutions, whether it's on the data center side or on the WAN side, remain vendor neutral and offer multi-vendor deployment opportunities to enterprises and customers. Do not put that work on the shoulder of the enterprise so that the engineers that are trying to build and deploy these solutions actually have to do all that hard integration work. Also, we need to make sure that these solutions can easily and smoothly be integrated in the enterprises operational environment. In most enterprises there is a lot of focus on availability and operational effectiveness and many enterprises try to leverage the best of the breed tools to detect anomalies and outages and failures as quickly as possible. So every time a new solution is deployed, we need to make sure that these solutions can be easily integrated in existing operational platforms and once again open APIs is the right answer to that. Similarly to the example that I mentioned with our Visa developer platform, let's make sure that whatever capability we are building in the community, we make it accessible and available through APIs to the community so that we can build greater synergies and opportunities for more SDN deployments. And finally, let's make sure that the SDN solutions can coexist with legacy environments. There is a lot of deployments today in enterprise but also across the industry on green field deployments but in many cases these SDN solutions need to be deployed in environments where there will be a mix of legacy with green field technologies. With that, thank you very much for your time. I'm now happy to take questions from the audience. Justin? Hello. Hi. Amazing change. You went from Huawei, a CTO type, were you building products and developing next generation products and working with customers but now you are a customer? It seems like a huge change and a lot more responsibility when you have all those transactions and all those billions and billions running through the network every day. Well, you look thinner. How do you compare the two jobs? I think this one's more challenging but can you say something about that? Your journey? Absolutely. So, this talk is really about what we have been doing at Visa. I'm happy to answer that. So last time I was here I remember I talked about accelerating the pace of innovation by leveraging SDN and there were a lot of great ideas and proof of concept types of ideas. And at Visa we have really been putting those ideas and concepts to practice. And some of the ideas that I mentioned are actually part of our network transformation journey and a lot of the story that I mentioned here is already well underway in terms of what we do to really take a very large-scale mission critical environment through this journey and leverage software and software-defined networking and show that it can work both on the WAN side as well as the data center side. And as I mentioned, some aspects that I believe have not been talked about enough in the industry over the last few years is how do you make sure that you can easily operationalize SDN? A lot of things look nice on paper but when you try to put this into a mission critical environment and try to drive that change in flight, it is a different story. So there is a lot more work that we need to do as a community to lower the barrier to entry for large enterprises and organizations that are actually managing a mission critical environment. Thank you for the great question. Happy to see you again. Please.  I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understood the question. Without naming the vendor right, the vendor around Tasman Drive, the big C, how much of that is left in your infrastructure post-migration? If I understood the question correctly, I'm not sure I can speak to the details of how much infrastructure from a particular vendor is left in our organization but I can tell you that we are working with all vendors, including the established ones who all are going through this transformation journey and we are trying when we have the opportunity to leverage the best of the breed technology components for each part of the network. As I mentioned in one of the slides, we are seizing the opportunity to go from close proprietary technologies to more open and software-based solutions and I think across the board, all vendors, both the established ones as well as the startups, are actually embracing that movement. Thank you. Next question. Thank you for sharing your journey into establishing this SDN into your infrastructure. Could you tell us how much of your infrastructure has been migrated to SDN and how much of it is left on, as you described it, legacy hardware? Are you 100% now SDN driven? Are you using SDN 100% in terms of your infrastructure or are you 50% there, 10% there? Could you give us an idea? It is hard to quantify but across the board, as I mentioned, it's a journey. It is a full spectrum where we have opportunities to deploy green field deployments. We are definitely seizing the opportunity to leverage SDN but our infrastructure is large and it is a journey that we are going through so the short answer is I cannot really tell you the exact quantified number in terms of the percentage of the infrastructure that has been already migrated to SDN but that effort is well underway and it is making good progress. Please, next question. I was really interested by your different network architecture diagrams. It took me a while to realize that you are describing sort of the infrastructure of visa that you are migrating from legacy to SDN. My question for you is which one of those transitions do you find to be the most challenging or do you think is the most important for you to make and also which ones still need more development from the industry to enable you to be successful in that transition? Great. Thank you very much. Great question. I am getting a cue that we are running out of time. I will answer briefly and be happy to discuss offline. From my perspective I think on the one side the transition and the transformation will probably be longer because that is a little bit newer technology and it is less established than on the data center side so that will be my short answer and I will be happy to discuss that offline with you. Thank you very much, Al. I think we are running out of time. Do we have time for one more question? One last question. Sure. The last question is do you see any differences of the trading position to serve the commercial banks or credit clearance? The open source software versus the commercial software has a lot of things to be improved or qualified to be insight into the visa network. Do you see any differences between how do you qualify the process I mean how do you qualify the open source versus the qualified commercial software? Yes, I will provide a short answer and we'll be happy to discuss offline. I personally believe that open source today can actually provide a great level of robustness in terms of the quality of the code, as well as good as a commercial piece of hardware because there is the whole community involved. And within Visa, we have a very well-defined process to operationalize new technologies including open source. So in my opinion, both types of code can work equally well in a mission critical environment whether it's open source based or kind of the commercial grade code if I understood correctly your question. Thank you. Sure. Thank you very much. All right. Thanks Justin. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Everybody Matt here for late in sports cards are from one box of twenty twenty-two Bowman inception baseball for Johnny a good luck Johnny Gabriel sees up after this with three boxes of twenty twenty-two Bowman jumbo Find Gabriel a big Ellie Felix Valerio and Taj Bradley Wolfred Varys Khalil Watson and Joshua Baez blue to 99 that is Fuchsia auto to 75 Bubba Chandler and Gold auto to 50 your Donnie de los Santos not bad Go Johnny that'll do it for your box appreciate the purchase. We'll get this right out to you


Hey everyone welcome back to the Prime 5, your 5 biggest news stories in the last 24 hours revolving around Nintendo typically will slip in a few other major platform stories when relevant. But yeah we have a packed show for you today so go ahead and hit that like and subscribe button if you enjoy this content so you can get more of it Monday through Friday plus bonus videos on weekends as well. But I don't want to waste any more of your time this morning cause we need to get right into the news. Our first story is a little bit of an update on the Nintendo Direct rumors that we've been covering just a small one we're not going to say a whole lot here but Max Williams out on Twitter asked Nate the hate about Breath of the Wild 2 coming to this thing coming to the Direct that's supposedly happening this month again it's all just rumors at this point and well he told Max Williams yeah he thinks that Breath of the Wild 2 will be at the Direct or let me give the exact terms because this isn't based on his sources he simply said odds favor yes Breath of the Wild 2 will be at the Direct now again this is just a prediction this is not to be taken as a fact but you know me any excuse to bring up Breath of the Wild 2 is a good excuse to me let's get into our next story. Now this next one also comes from Nate the hate a bit and also somebody else we're going to talk about the new switch hardware just for a brief moment so just hold on for a moment I get it you might not want to hear about it but this is going to really really quick so let's just let's just get to it so according to Zombo who was quoting the Chinese leaker that previously gave us the back plate for the switch light verified it was the real back plate for switch light before switch light came out has stated that the back plate for the new system coming from Nintendo the more powerful switch just has the Nintendo switch logo on it there's no pro listed on it too or any other moniker suggesting that whatever this platform is that supposedly coming next year is going to be of the same ilk of the current switch as in it's not a new generation device it's actually a mid-gen upgrade now quoting this post Nate the hate had this to say for clarity I know of exclusives yes but I also know of games that are coming to the switch OG so the original switch but have builds on the switch 4k DLSS dev kits these games since they are releasing on the switch OG are planned by first half of 2023 regardless of switch 4k harbour release timing so even if the 4k switch supposedly doesn't come out early next year he knows of games coming anyways so I don't know this is just stuff to take a grain of salt this is all rumors this is all call it whatever you want to call it call it fake news I really don't care I just enjoy talking about it I brought it to you let's get into our first real story of the day and our first big story or real story of the day our sales data hard sales data coming from Fumitsu for Japan of last week and PlayStation actually did pretty well in the software charts but let's actually just dive right into the numbers and show you guys so right now we have the Nintendo switch itself is still the best-selling system in Japan with 113,530 units the crazy part is 87,000 of those units are the switch OLED it's very clear especially in Japan OLED is that lead platform PlayStation 5 hit 25,000 sales is a pretty solid week for PlayStation 5 and a really good week relative for Xbox because the Xbox series of systems hit 17,000 with 10,000 of those being the series X and 6 to 7,000 being this series S now we get into the software sales here and we're just gonna go over the top 10 we have Earth Defense 4-6 at number 1 we have SD Gundam battle alliance at number 2 now Earth Defense 4-6 is actually a PlayStation 4 game at number 1 Soul Hackers 2 is at number 3 that's another ps4 game Earth Defense 4-6 the ps5 versions at number 4 Soul Hackers 2 for ps5s at number 5 so it's really those two games dominating but PlayStation 4 wasn't done yet at number 6 SD Gundam battle alliance for PlayStation 4 is there then we get to Mario Kart 8 deluxe at 7 Nintendo switch sports at 8 but then another PlayStation game pops up there in Saints Row for ps4 and number 9 and then SD Gundam battle alliance for ps5 at number 10 so for the first time in what seems like forever games for PlayStation platforms owned more of the top 10 than Nintendo switch now does this mean the tides are turning in Japan well no there was a couple new releases that's really what really pushed things and those new releases push PlayStation sales or put sales more PlayStation games whereas switch had nothing big and exciting coming out so I don't really think this means much remember it was just a week ago at Nintendo owned the entire top 30 but hey this is just Japan who knows for the rest of the world let's get into our next story now you guys remember the game Bio Mutant it already came out on other platforms and has you know so-so reviews usually in the high 60s yeah the user reviews are a little bit better usually in the mid-7s people seem to kind of enjoy it it has really really interesting mechanics the battle mechanics in particular seem to be really out there and really crazy and fun but some of the RPG elements didn't always click with people but hey you know what it was a first attempt at a new IP maybe a bio mutant to would actually be worth doing if this sells well enough well the game supposedly coming to switch and it we have a leak from a Portuguese retailer suggesting that it's coming out on October 25th and we'll have a physical version so that means it should actually be playing a little locally on switch not some sort of streamed version so that's interesting obviously the dates at retailers don't always mean that much but the fact that a physical version is up and you can pre-order and spend money on it now suggest that yes bio mutants coming to switch this year likely in October maybe on the 25th but if not the 25th some other date October is already pretty packed for Nintendo but you know what hey for people looking for something a little bit different maybe this would be that game that falls right up your alley and our last story of the day deals with Tokyo game show because one of Nintendo's major partner Square Enix is going to be a Tokyo game show and they released the game list of all the games are going to feature during the event now Tokyo game show begins on the 15th but Nintendo is not participating even though Nintendo is always active behind the scenes with meetings that being said let's get to this giant game list because there's a few titles in here I'm really excited to see now the very first title of screenings announces is happiness for spoken I think just in general I'm really excited for that game I know it's a PlayStation 5 or PlayStation exclusive I can't remember it's coming to ps4 but either way I'm really excited for for spoken and I know it was delayed to next year doesn't change how excited I am next up we have Valkyria Elysium and we have Star Ocean 6 the Divine Force romance in saga minstrel song remastered the Diofield Chronicle near Automata and of the Rora edition Harvest Stella that's notable because that's actually a switch exclusive we talked about a PlayStation exclusive with for spoken well they also got the switch exclusive there in Harvest Stella that Nintendo did a treehouse on so we get to see more of that we have tactics ogre reborn crisis core Final Fantasy 7 reunion stranger a paradise Final Fantasy origin Dragon Quest Treasures Dragon Quest X offline Dragon Quest X online Infinity Strasht Dragon Quest the Adventure of Day Final Fantasy 14 update power wash simulator some people are really into that one Final Fantasy 7 ever crisis Final Fantasy Brave Exvius and War of the Visions Final Fantasy Brave Exvius so lots of Final Fantasy stuff lots of Dragon Quest those are obviously two really big IPs the ones I'm more excited about those actually for spoken and Harvest Stella those are the two that I can't wait to see the new footage on see the new interviews about and just get more information on these games because I want more information legitimately on both of them for spoken because I will have a PlayStation 5 before it comes out and Harvest Stella because I already own a switch and I really am into that that sort of old school RPG slash farming simulator kind of combo game you guys know what we're talking about with the old Harvest Moons and I was really like the story of seasons crew and we have Rune Factory so just another one of those games and I'm pretty excited for it looked really really good at the Nintendo Treehouse anyways folks I'm Nathan DeRubble Jansson from the Center Prime that was today's Prime 5 I hope you guys have a lovely rest of your week and I'm gonna catch each and every single one of you in the next video


Good a mate 40 here. So when the water is flowing down your drain, no problem. There's no backup. I do you You go You know snake your drain When when everything's flowing just fine. No, you don't snake your drain When when the water is flowing through just fine. When do you snake snake the drain? It's when water is pooling and taking way much too much time to Go down your bath tub or go down your sink Then you snake Snake the drain right you then you start sending wires and stuff down down the drain and try to unclog the the hairballs And any of the gunk and usually after you do that then the water just flows down the drain But if you don't unclog the drain Then the water kind of backs up in your sink or in your bath tub and it just leaves You know gunky film all over your bath tub or over your sink So you have to do more cleaning and the problem never gets better on its own, right? It it just builds and builds and builds until you take care of it And so I don't think most people would would would benefit be better off with you know a 40 in a level of introspection I just don't think that would help most people. I did 10 years of psychotherapy. I Don't think most people would benefit from 10 years of psychotherapy. I Participated in five different 12-step programs. I don't think most people need to be in five different 12-step programs. I Typically spend 20 30 minutes a day just writing out everything that comes to me writing everything that I'm I'm grateful for Writing everything that I've done right just writing down everything that comes to mind Writing about okay if I was feeling jealousy or pettiness right now or in security What would it be about and just like just journal everything that comes to my mind And I don't think most people would necessarily benefit that much So when I just write out everything that comes to my mind, it's like unclogging the drain So usually I get ideas like this wonderful live stream that that I'm doing Right now. Okay, this came about because I unclogged the drain I picked up my journal and I just started writing everything that was that was coming to me and So then as a result I get to share the gift of this this live stream with you and Just a few minutes ago. I was like unclogging my my Bathtub drain just sending that snake down there and and then you know pumping it with the plunger and then now everything's flowing much better It's really satisfying sound hearing the water gogle down the down the sink. So when do you know? Whether you need to unclog your drain when you've got a problem. So for example I sometimes think about something I said approximately in seventh grade to a friend of the family You've been staying with us for about a week then after about a week I said to the dude, you know, how much longer you're gonna stay here eating our food and like every time I think about that I I wince because he's been a good friend of the family incredibly generous.  It's like All right, so I'm assuming that indicates something that if I if I can't think about an event or some awkward thing I've said without just just flinching Maybe there's still some more unclogging of the drain. I need to do but I don't think most people need like a 40 and level of introspection but if if things are getting clogged up in your life, then you need to unclog the drain right if If you can't talk about certain events with having, you know weird Facial contortions and your voice dropping off Then then that's probably something that you need to explore and come to peace with if there certain people who are virtually triggering you then Therapy or a 12-step program or you know some kind of mechanism for unclogging the drain for some people They'll find it in their religion and Judaism. We call it hashbon and nafesh where you examine the soul but You know if the water's flowing like if your emotions are flowing if your reactions to life are flowing and they're not Getting in your way, you know, you're not having reactions to stimuli that are setting you back then Then you probably don't need to unclog the drain You don't need to go to you know 40 and levels of introspection and psychotherapy and 12-step but If there are things that you're not doing in your life like if there are not there there's a woman that you need to Hit on and ask out if there's like a better job that you need to apply for if If there are Situations in your community you need to step up to and if you have you know health problems you're not taking care of So if things are getting clogged up if you're suffering from back pain or skin diseases or digestion problems You know most most health problems that we suffer are the result Nor likelihood said dr. John Sarno of repressed unconscious rage So if you're suffering from back pain neck pain repetitive strain industry, there's no repetitive strain industry 50 years ago How come we've only had in the whole history of the human race? We've only had repetitive strain industry Strain injury in the last 30 years Like why do we have this epidemic of back pain when when we know through radiographic studies There's there's no difference in the radiographic studies of people with back pain and people who don't have back pain So you can point. Oh, I've got an annular tear here. I've got a slip disc here Well, all those things that you point out and and assume these are the causes of your pain Well, there are lots of other people with the exact same sort of problems, but they don't have any pain So if you're being if your life is being compressed and made smaller by these debilitating health problems for which there's no objective Cause that can that can be found.  Who needs 12-step programs? Who needs, you know, 30 minutes of journaling every day. So If you're black if your drain needs to be snaked then snake it and for some people I think this means like a therapy and for other people that means 12-step program for other people It means talking to their pastor But it's good to snake the drain of their own soul To see what are we envious of what we're what are we resentful of you know, what's going on under the surface? That's that's why I love journaling. It's just a mirror mirror to the mind And so instead of going around unconscious and just repeating certain responses to stimuli that don't serve us So for example, I spent much of my life where I just automatically hated anyone who reminded me of my father. I remember going into therapy one time and talking about an engagement party. I'd just been at and these goals I Saw these these women Greet each other and they just like ran over to each other and they hugged each other and they kind of jumped up and down And they said oh, it's so wonderful to see you and so I was telling my therapist This is so stupid these these women these young women just like jumping up and down and Hugging each other and saying how wonderful it was to see each other.  Oh?  But then my therapist caught me and he said well Do you wish that was you? Oh? I remember another time I went to therapy and I said I'm not sure anyone at my synagogue even cares about me I mean this is many many many years ago and my therapist said well. Do you care about anyone at your synagogue? Oh There's there's a good question. So the therapy KELP helped Snake my drain the drain of my soul He I would just come in there and start rambling But then we get down to brass tacks and my my therapist would confront me over certain things Like why aren't you looking for a better job? So for years and years I made peace with a very mediocre job and my therapist would try to prompt me To look for a better job, and it didn't do any good until I went to a 12-step program that addressed dating and a 12-step program that addressed underroading and Then by going to those 12-step programs Providing me with tools and a community and sponsors and ways to unclog my drain So that my life didn't just settle in my bathtub like water that wouldn't wouldn't drain down the hole So it always feels good when you can unclog the drain of your bathtub Or your sink and then suddenly it starts working again Or your your vacuum cleaner doesn't work and you figure it out and you get rid of the gunk and now it's all working again and I think same too with our psyche that if we're stuck and with the feeling of malaise or low level depression or Anxiety or fear or just you're just concerned that our life isn't isn't progressing Then snake the drain like sit down journal. What am I grateful for? What have I done right now? What am I yearning for? What do I wish? What am I thinking about just write it all out and the writing becomes a mirror to the mind and It starts to unclog Unclog the drain so that everything can start flowing again So that the circle of abundance can start flowing again money can start flowing again ideas can start flowing again Relationships can start flowing again so that I can start to encounter people as they are rather than just as projections of My past experience that I then put on to people. So I love this analogy of unclogging the drain I just had a very successful occasion, you know unclogging a drain Feels wonderful to see all the water flowing again. Then I felt so good. I'm sitting down with my air conditioning on It's 82 degrees outside, but in in Casa Ford. It's very pleasant 75 degrees Just writing out everything that comes to my mind. I thought oh, I really like that analogy of unclogging the drain Unclogging the drain of the soul Unclogging the drain of the psyche Unclogging the drain of self-defeating habits in the workplace It's time to it's time to do some depth work time to do some soul work some excavation of the soul Cheers


Christmas is a season of joy and warmth. It is a special time when many of us come together in a spirit of community, caring, giving and celebration. Christmas time gives us an opportunity for introspection and reflection on the year gone. This year has been an extremely transformational year for my ministry. Firstly, we have embarked on the sport infrastructure strategy in order to provide facilities of international standards for people to excel in major sporting disciplines. Our vision is for sports to become an industry, a major income earner that will provide sustainable livelihoods and a good quality of life for young athletes. I want to pause and salute our athletes who continue to excel and make this nation proud. Our work has started at the Sufra Stadium and is our hope that the communities of Deriso, Miku and Denry will benefit from major upgrades that will redefine the role of sports in our communities. I wish to thank all athletes and the residents of these communities affected by the ongoing works for your spirit of endurance. It is our hope that next year you will enjoy the improved standards which lend to greater progress in sport development. My ministry partnered with the Ministry of Education and opened the Saint Lucia Sports Academy in October this year. This educational institution was established to provide athletes with an avenue to develop a sporting career as well as a good academic pursuit. I am thankful for the dialogue and consultation with the sporting federations associations and together we have recorded some achievements. However, I look forward to continuing the work which we have started in the new year. A lot has to change in terms of structure. In the area of youth development, we have made some remarkable headways. My ministry aims to professionalize youth work as advocated by the Commonwealth Youth Program. To date we have 18 youth workers across the island that are instrumental in ensuring young people will fill the potential and become assets to our nation. Another initiative of the youth development is the Youth Service Corps. The Service Corps provides young people with an opportunity to volunteer as an institution organization where capacity is needed for at least one year. I am truly appreciative of the overwhelming response received from the young people to the Youth Service Corps. We launched a mentorship program earlier this year which mainly targeted secondary school students from Miku to Suzele. We have reached almost 50 mentees along with their households. We know that work is sacrificial and cannot be paid in money. However, the work that mentors do is absolutely essential for young people to have stability and guided decision making. This year has brought along successes, challenges and tragedies. However, by the grace of God, we were able to persevere. During this time, I pray especially that God grants us comfort and strength to families who suffered the loss of loved ones. Let us hope that the season brings with it the joy and peace of Christ. To my beloved constituents of Genre South, I would like to use this opportunity to give you the assurance that early in the new year, works will commence to rehabilitate and restructure the Genre Fish and Complex. This is so necessary for our food security and safety. Also in the new year, work will commence on the Farm Road Rehabilitation Project, the Genre Civic Center and the Recording Studio as well as the Lakai and Lima Parks. In the new fiscal year, the issue of flooding in the village will be addressed, after which work will begin on our long-awaited field project and roadworks will continue in Lakai, Lima and then reveal it. On behalf of the Government of Saint Lucia, I would like to wish all citizens a Merry Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous new year. Let us move into 2020 with a spirit of love for goodness and reconciliation. Merry Christmas everyone.


So the breakfast in Plastivia Africa is time where we look at, you know, the first conversation here mental health awareness and the United Nations say that nearly one billion people worldwide suffer from some form of mental disorder. And that's why we're speaking this morning with experts, Josephine Ogbeinde, Ogbeinde clinical psychologist and Nike Ajayi, an emotional intelligence, a therapist and family counselor as well. Ladies, it's good to have you join us this morning. Thank you. All right. Nike Ajayi, thank you for joining us and Josephine, thank you. Thank you for helping us. All right then. Let me start off with you, Josephine, now. I know that we're talking about mental health awareness. It's important that we understand before we begin to talk about the importance of it. Can you quickly, you know, take us through what mental health is about? Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Plastivia Africa. Really, I would say that mental health, let me say according to, you know, the World Organization, they define, I'm going to phrase it, they define mental health as it's a state of living in which someone is able to identify these are abilities. The person is able to cope with the normal stresses of life. The person is able to be productive and fruitful and also contributes to his community or her community. So basically it's a state of well-being where a person is able to function optimally in whatever space or situation the person is. So in which you include the person's thoughts, what are the contents of the thoughts, what are the feelings and emotions that are present and what is productive or not productive. So that's what mental health is. So but in recent times, we have seen that, you know, a lot's been happening in our country, especially at a time of COVID. I mean, prior to COVID, we know that people have been going through a lot and their inability to not be very productive. You know how it is that people constantly play down what it is when you say that you're not able to articulate or perform or function optimally and then people begin to think that you're being overly dramatic or necessarily seeking for attention. How can people, how can we get to that point where we understand the need for mental wellness and the fact that it's important and that we don't take these people for granted when they come out to earlier views? I think by having conversations like this, because I would say one of the things that happened, all the things that COVID did was to actually bring to light what we've been trying to say all along that mental health, our mental health is very, very important as much as our fiscal health. So what we can do to normalize these conversations, to normalize that our mental health should also be taking seriously, having conversations like this, what we're doing, you know, what's going on on social media, educating, you know, educating companies, educating human resource personnel so that it's okay if someone has a mental illness, they shouldn't be taking the price for it, the same way someone can be treated for timefall or malaria, someone also can be treated for the pressure without any bias and stigma. So by having conversations like this, I think programs to educate the public about mental health should be taking seriously. All right, so let's have Nike Ajayi, who's a family therapist and a councilor join us this morning. Nike, thank you so much for making our time to be with us and to talk about this issue. Thank you so much. Now in May 2021, the WHO had released some statistics on mental health indicating that the global prevalence estimated for different mental disorders. So you had the issue of depression, you had anxiety, post-traumatic stress syndrome, you know, syndrome if you want to say, stress among all the issues. The question is, what exactly is responsible? What are the factors responsible for all of this? Because it doesn't look like we just wake up and people just have this. It's not like it's something that you're born with. I don't know. Is it head injury? Is it something that it's been triggered? What really causes all of this imbalance? All right, thank you so much. Let me start with the data. You started with the World War One Organization, and there's some very data we can, data we can confirm, actually on the internet. We need to understand the source of any injury we're trying to address. And so that's what I'm starting with the data. And I realized that I couldn't get this thought at this point. It's something that I've said on the book on COVID several years. That 90% of our health issues stem from mental health problems. What is this that whatever takes us to hospital for what you're going to do? Because the base point, the root, is a mental health issue. Out of this 95% of it, about 80% of it, is on emotional issues. And let's come down to us in Nigeria, Africa, and the United States. Nigeria, in Nigeria, won the statistics of doctors and patients that average of 1,000 to 5,000. In doctors to 5,000, 5,000 patients. What this is telling us is that many times we pay attention to physical health issues without paying attention to mental health issues. And the mental health issues, the condition of emotional health, psychological health, social well-being, when we release. And what does one tell us of that? On to we pay attention to those aspects of that. Which actually take also 80 to 90% of our total well-being. We may not find this on children, but on children's societies. So that's one of the major factors that is a part of this mental health issue. Secondly, moving from the issue of a non-digitalized environment, digitalized environment, like my colleagues at the end of the day, and like the guys at the studio talked about, in none of these are post-COVID. Many, we are struggling to move from the physical, the natural and expensive virtual. And that one also comes with its challenges. Proud to know what people have to pay. And the natural is very physical. And the combination of cultural and religious things. Into the speaker. I want to do this too, because there is a limit. A limit we put in firing or disempowering. A limit of our culture telling us not to speak out. A limit of some aspects of our religious mindset. Trying to stigmatize people or society. Now the virtual experience is that we've been asked to speak out. To encourage those having mental issues to speak out. But the next challenge is speak how to move. These are the issues we are now having. Who are they talking to? Are you letting out on a social media space, on a virtual space? To people that do not have any form of awareness. To people that do not have any information. To people that are not professional. And they make situations worse. So these are the things that we need to address. The two extremes. Of not opening up. And opening up the ground. Or people that have actually not held. So that dimensions to this. That has to do with professional interventions. Because therapeutic will be made up. Thank you. All right let's have Jo Swing back down. I would like that we have this conversation as simple as it can be. So that everyone can understand. I mean we can understand what we're talking about now. Because usually when you talk about mental health. When you talk about depression and all of this. There's always a tendency of people thinking that you're crazy. When we talk about mental health. Most times people think that we're talking about those who are on the streets. Like you are taking your clothes off. And you are acting very crazy. And that's it. Like I don't want to use that particular word. Because it's very derogatory at the end of the day. So that's why I'm trying to just stay simple. But you have the United Nations here. Including the double H or making pointers to some of the issues. And we know that for sure. In society you have the haves and haves not. And resources are not distributed equitably. And so you would have inequalities in our society. And so you have people who are. What exactly is this also part of the reason why people. You know sleeping to that state where they're not okay. Because of the fact that I mean the basic things that they need. Or they don't have equal opportunity. Just as you know some members of the society. Because we have different strata. Josephine I'd like that you share your thoughts on that. And if that's the case how can people manage and survive. Okay thank you. Thank you very much. So just to follow up on the question you asked me. Kela what exactly caused this. You know mental illnesses. And how like you said how we can cope with these. Relations. So I would just categorize them to two major reasons. So that's one the genetic reasons. So if there's family history of mental illness. So that could make someone a lot of people go. Someone into having a mental illness. And then that the environmental factors. Which was what we talked about. What we talked about the emotional aspects. The family aspects. Social financial. And all of the things that could cause. You know so on to develop the mental illness. So for your question. How exactly can one cope with fights. Like for this example. Financial crisis. Financial issues going on. Yes can these things cause. As someone passing through financial situation. Or financial crisis cause the mental illness. Yes definitely. And it is you know. Africa's situation. We see that in our country. We see that some people. Doing all the results. They're not evenly distributed. But never the case how can we cope with. One is. I would just say. How can that person. Harness what he or she has. So the need to that you have. How can you harness that. And make a living out of it. Yes it sounds a bit. You know what I'm saying. But to be very honest. That's it. Okay you should go and steal. Or you should go and do something that is wrong. Because that itself is not correct. But making do with what you have. Developing your own skills. And then you know making that into. Something a living. Making that into a living. So taking the example of what happened. Do you agree. A lot of people lost their jobs. But. Excessing the category of people. Almost people went down the continuum. Mental health. And then another category of people. Realize that okay. This is the problem. But how can I solve it. So that's why a lot of things started going on. IT. IG lives. A lot of people took their skills online. Okay so just develop. You realize this big problem. I have a financial problem. What do I have. And how can I harness that. To address my current problem. So that I can effectively be cooked. In a good way. So that I don't develop. You know health illness. So are there symptoms for. You know mental. Illness now. We know we're talking about you know. Awareness for mental health. But when you talk about mental health. Are there symptoms. If you are not in a good situation. I mean you're not in a good position. Are there symptoms that you begin to. Exhibit. What should we be looking out for. Yes definitely. The same way. We have symptoms for different people. Illnesses. We have symptoms for different mental illnesses. So different illnesses. We have depression. We have anxiety disorders. We have post-traumatic stress disorder. So we just have you know. A couple of mental health illnesses. So let me just take one for example. The common that a lot of people. The. It's like a misconception. Or if I'm feeling sad. Or I think I'm depressed. That's not depression. So one of the major symptoms of depression is. Low mood. Okay. So there's a feeling of low mood. It's feeling of sadness. Okay. And then there's also lack of energy. Or lack of interest in what. You've originally been. Interested in. Okay. There could be an increase or decrease in appetite. There could be fatigue. Tiredness. Even when. There's no reason for you to you know. Get tired. And then these symptoms are consistent. So you can just stay okay. Just one day. And then you're feeling cold. And then you say you're not. But at least. About three weeks. Once I felt these symptoms. At least three weeks. And. Mental illness. Most. Interested by a professional. Not just anyone. So. There needs to be an assessment. There needs to be sometimes tested to confirm. You know the diagnosis. So yet there are symptoms for mental illness. And I just mean that for depression. So what was the difference between depression and anxiety then? Okay. So depression. It's where you're suffering. Which is the mental illness. Which has the symptoms of lack of interest. Low mood. Tiredness. Peace and fatigue. An anxiety. Or anxiety disorder. We all have a different. Is the body's response to a stressful situation. So for example. But which now has a physiological symptom. So. There could be an increase in heart rate. There could be. Accurations. There could be distractions. Or loss of concentration. So it was. That is the inline because they could call for. All right. Depression and anxiety could call for. The state time. Because someone with an anxiety disorder. Could express the symptoms of depression. Okay. So. Yeah. It just depends on the. Yeah. All right then. Let's have Mika Ajai. Who's a family expert and therapist. Counselor. Come in now. It's a good thing that you.   In all of this. Because every individual is part of a family. And of course they make a lot. A larger society. They belong to groups and different. What support can be provided for those. Who are going to use some sort of. You know. Mental illness. And stress. What kind of support. Can family. You know. Different groups. I mean when you talk about family. And not necessarily biological family. But what kind of support can be given to. For instance now. Very heartbreaking. I mean. May her soul. Continue to rest in peace. Adam. We know that. Prior to this time. Not necessarily that's the reason why she died. But she had talked about the fact that. She was going through. Some mental. Stress or illness. And she talked about it. Then she also talked about the fact that. She was being sued. For not being able to.  We know that she is an entertainer. But for the fact that she lost her daughter. That probably would have taken a toll on her. And. She was not able to live up to expectation. But what kind of support can we provide. To people who are going through. You know. Some kind of mental illness. Stress. Whatever it is you want to target us. Thank you so much for that. And. May. Add us to. Continue to rest in peace. It's very sad. And it's sad. Because. It's the way that things. Everybody's joy. Makes us laugh. Makes us happy. And. She was almost. I want to show you. It's a little bit of this. But. It is healthy. For whatever happened. It's a little bit of a sad. It's a lot of business. So like you said. I like how you start. And. The family. May not to tell you if you don't like.  To somebody. That is. Challenge. All you have seen. You know. Just like. Just say. What's the fact. A place of awareness. A place of awareness. Which was once I just invited. Talk to her. And like she said. Some of those streets could be. Could be. Interrelated. And they may not fully know. As professionals. But as lay matter. Family members. Those. That. That people. That. That people. This. One of the things you check out. Is. What is the usual. The normal. Relational. Food. Interrelational. It's the best out of this person. What kind of. How does he or she. Is our life. And that's what. Just been saying that. It will be dual. It will appear anyway. For example. Somebody that was. They can always be very bubbly. Very good. But then. I thought it would be fun. Fires. Then somebody. I wish to know that something is wrong. But if you've not heard from somebody. You know. Well. Is it time to check out. The president. And in interacting.  You will observe. The way the body. And the body language of the president. How he or she is fun. These are things that a layman should. To check out. If you're a faculty of study process. And it's important. Because we are all. It appears we're all so busy. Of course. Like having a GP. A GP interact with one another. There's a time to really pay attention. How the. Is. Look. Right. Pay attention. To people. About. Pg. Pay attention to your logo. Pay attention to your friends. And there could be different kinds of. Work place. Environment. Family. That is already. Just like. Just. Excitement. A psychological aspect of a life. Has to do with our mental health. And part of our mental. Part of the psychological aspect of a life. Deals with the spiritual. Whatever spirituality means.  The people in your staff. Your religion. And family. To be able to also know what to look out for. Another question. Another deduction. To be trained. With a level of age treatment. Is what level are we at. Of what to look out for. When somebody. You see. We need to go now. Unfortunately we're out of time. But as time goes on. We would definitely always have this. This conversation. And we look forward to having you. Always you know. To be available. To share your thoughts with us. And also. Use your opportunity to educate everyone. We appreciate you. Niki Aja'i. For being part of the show this morning. Thank you. And Josephine Obeide. Thank you so much. I hope I got your. The pronunciation. Of your name correctly. Yeah. Obeide. So much. It's been a great time. Talking to you too. And. Beautiful leaders right there. Niki Aja'i is a family like therapist. And a counselor. And you also have Josephine Obeide. Who's a clinical psychologist. Ladies thank you so much. And that's it. Please. Let's pay attention to ourselves. And pay attention to those who are around us. That's it on the topic this morning. When we return. We'll be looking at your assembly. As their point. The new deputy governor for your state. Stay with us.


Why you think IWA is positioning itself on the cities of the future? Yeah. So you know, the IWA Cities of the Future program started in the year of 2009. But I remembered four years before that in my own city here we held in IWA Congress. We used the IWA Cities of the Future. So why we decided to use that IWA? You know, my city is in the area suffering from water shortage. The modern water and waste water system was established more than one century ago as a result of industrial revolution. But at the time in this world we didn't have the problem of water resource shortage as well as some other resources and materials. So that's why for each city we have to supply sufficient water to the whole city for domestic industry and some other purposes. But nowadays things changed because the population increased to many folds comparing with one century ago. Now almost every city is facing the problem of water shortage and also shortage of other resources. Under such a condition we have to reconsider how to plan or construct our city. I'm happy after four years in IWA, the established the steering committee of Cities of the Future program and I was involved in this activity. IWA to establish this program is trying to solve the worldwide problems for urban development, especially for the sustainability of city development. We often hear the term urban metabolism, urban ecosystem. And it is something that I believe is central to this integrated city planning. Can you educate us a little bit on what this urban metabolism is? Okay, so actually urban metabolism, that idea was proposed in the 1920s by an American professor. So in his early paper he said a city is like a human body. For a human body in order to keep us healthy we have a very sophisticated or complicated system. So we take in air, we take in water, we take in food and everything we need. But inside our body we make use only the useful things but discharge the limited number of waste. For a city that's the same. And then the idea then is to limit how much resources we are taking on the outside environment and how much waste we are producing so that we are reusing things as much as possible within our urban ecosystem. Yeah, that's true. So if we say why in this world we have water? So that's due to what we say the natural hydrological cycle. So you say the water evaporates from the sea surface. It goes to the sky and then it condensed becomes a rainfall. So that's why fresh water can be distributed everywhere. And on the land the water flows through a surface runoff. So in that way every river, every lake, even underground aquifer we have water. The water finally discharged into the sea again. In such a way we can complete one hydrological cycle. My idea is such a cycle is only for the quantity of water but also for water quality. So you know evaporation is a process of disordination. We get fresh water and also on our earth surface there are so many processes. So in the river, in the lake there is a process we say self purification. We are learning from natural processes. Yes, yes. And including them in our urban planning. But with the development and industrialization unfortunately we depend more and more on engineering ways not to consider the function of the nature. So our idea is for the city in the future if we only say the water we have to consider how to combine a natural water system together with the engineering surface. And another topic you know not only for water reclamation because in the wastewater we have plenty of useful energy and the materials. Yes. How to recover these useful materials from wastewater is an important topic. My idea is for water, for materials, for energy that can be recovered from wastewater. It belongs to the concept of water metabolism. If I take my country as one example, the urban planner, they only consider how about the population increase. So how to build urban infrastructure, how to supply sufficient water, energy, other useful materials to the city. Okay? Yeah. We didn't put the idea of water metabolism into the design. Yes. Nowadays we have to design our city in a totally different way. We evaluate what's the total capacity for this area, how to control the expansion of the city, how to use the useful materials not only one time but to recycle it. So in many international conferences we discussed we have to create a new paradigm. The new paradigm is recycling, not only for water but also for all the useful energy materials. Materials. Yeah. So that's a very, very important topic. Working with that concept of urban metabolism in the further developments of our Cities of the Future program will be very fruitful. I believe for Cities of the Future program we have a goal, yeah, say maybe 10 years, 20 years. At that time all urban planners can work together with us. Okay? Yes. So we try to build a city so that's a really sustainable. So it's quite a limited resource input but we can use the limited resource to meet the demands for all people in the urban area. So I believe we will have a very splendid future. Very good. Thank you.