Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It's another Friday on FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. And we're left wondering still what's going to be our promo between the end of Foot Captains and the start of team this season. We've been talking about in the past couple days what we might expect to see. And we have leaks telling us that it is going to end up being that team of the season warm-up series. So that is the promo we are expecting today based off of the leaks. And we're going to take a look at those here in a second and talk about some of the things that we've mentioned in previous videos. Just, again, talk about what this promo could be bringing us today from a very high level. And also, there's a couple interesting twists with more road to the final cards being leaked as some content during this next week. Kind of filler, right? Again, we're just in a filler week, is what it looks like it's going to be, with EA releasing a lot of SBCs and objectives to save up packs for the start of team this season, which will be one week from today. So I want to take a look at that. And it's also a big day for team of the season in regards to the voting, because we will be seeing team of the season voting today for the Premier League. So, guys like Cristiano Ronaldo, Hyunmin Sun, they need your vote to get into the Premier League starting 11 for Prem Tots. We have all the nominees leaked for that as well. I want to take a look at that and talk through why there's some interesting aspects of that voting and no Chelsea players are included. And then we also have to talk about market, right? Because this weekend's really, really big for a lot of people that are looking to invest and buy cards for their teams. A lot of people, myself included, are looking for some price drops. And I think what you're going to have to be watching for this weekend is the cards that you want to buy, you're going to have to be scouting them out at all different times during this weekend. And it really is going to depend upon the content that we see on this game, the SBCs that EA release, how expensive they make them, and the other content that comes out. Since it seems like there's not going to be cards and packs, it really seems like this promo is going to be centralized around just the SBCs and the objectives. We're going to have to keep watch for some of these price drops as people maybe see loading screens, maybe see information in game about team of the season because I also think that with a TOTS warmup being showcased here in the front screen, you would see a little bit of panic from casuals that didn't even know TOTS was like right around the corner. So we'll talk about all those things and more in today's video. So if you're excited for team of the season and you're ready for warmup series to stack some packs, make sure to thumbs up the video and of course, subscribe if you're new. Let's look at the leaks, right? We don't have a loading screen. That's the first thing, obviously, at least right now, when I'm logging into foot, I see no loading screen, which is no 100% confirmation, but day before a promo would come out, it makes sense. We believe these leaks basically to be true. We take it with a little bit of grain of salt, of course, but next week we should see TOTS warmup series. And again, I'm guessing it would start today on Friday with Foot Captains ending. He says it includes daily SPCs, upgrade SPCs and objectives for a chance to earn and save for team of the season, earn packs and save for team of the season. The exact same thing we talked about in the past two days, just like the warmup series heading into team of the year. So that 85 plus pack, I wanna look through these pack codes really quick just again to show you guys, the packs have been renamed a little bit. There's an 85 times five. And if you're like, Nate, what in the world does this e-figs mean? It basically just means the top five leagues, right? England, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, right? The leagues that are represented by those five countries, that is e-figs. They've done this before in previous years around team of the season. And so there's an 85 times three. There's an 83 times, sorry. There's an 83 times five and 85 times five. And there is also an 80 plus times two. And then if you didn't see from earlier in the week, there are leagues for an 81 times 11 per league. So top five leagues, 81 times 11, those are all packs that we would expect to be dropped during this next week of TOTS warmup series. So that's kind of the big info related to TOTS warmup series today. Now there's a little bit of a twist. We didn't talk about this before, but this is a leak for something that might be happening as a part of warmup series. More road to the final SBCs. Now you notice here that he says SBCs, nothing to do with cards and packs. He says, not sure if we will have new road to the finals and packs. I would 100% doubt that. Again, if this promo is all about saving up packs and saving up stuff for the team and season promo that is gonna be coming out soon, I would find it very hard to believe that EA would put anything back into packs this weekend because the focus is gonna be solely on the SBCs. It's gonna be focused on the objectives and focused on those types of items and that sort of grind in the game and not so much about the cards that are in packs. So, you know, maybe we'll finally get a Villarreal champions to go to the final card. We don't have any Villarreal items that are still live. I know we have Danjuma, he's not live anymore, but it sounds like EA is gonna release a couple more SBCs to kind of commemorate getting towards the end of that road to the final promo. As long as they release cards that have, you know, nice ratings, nice boosts, then we'll be pretty happy with that. That could be some cool content. I would imagine that the Europa League and the Conference League would also get shown some love for the players and teams that are still live in those European competitions. So, that's gonna be a part of Todd's warm-up series and we don't have a card design for this. Actually, we might. That might be false. And I don't know if it's in the transfer market search though, but the end of an era cards, right? Like a lot of us did the Defoe SBC that was last week. Again, we still might see some more end of an era content. Guys like Aguero as the headliner, Akenfenoa and Musedembele, the former Spurs player. Those are all end of an era cards that have been leaked in some capacity. Again, that could be a part of the warm-up series promo as well, but like you've been hearing and like we've been talking about, it's all about doing SBCs to save up packs for team of the season. I imagine they would drop these cards, they're the packs via SBCs. I would imagine like, you know, even like you just do an SBC for a pack normally, like an 82 or an 86 times two that we have had this week, I would imagine it were an 85 plus player pick. They're gonna be like, turn in an 83 or an 84 rated squad for an 85 times five e-figs pack. Or, you know, do this XYZ objective to get yourself an 81 times 11 pack for whatever league that it's gonna be. So, a lot of these are expiring. A lot of the foot cappings content is expiring and then of course it will be replaced by the foot or the tots warm-up series stuff happening today on Friday. So definitely watch out for that.   In general though, right? Again, you think about no cards in packs. It's mostly just an SBC based promo. You're probably gonna have some cards on the market, moving a little bit today. The market's been really stagnant, right? That's just the best way to describe it is stagnant, right? These cards just have not been moving too much. I traded with a couple of icons today because the captain's cards have gotten kind of low. And I know a lot of you guys have been buying into foot captains as well, right before they leave packs because a lot of these cards have just dropped down with the supply that we had yesterday. And still there's a decent amount of people who don't want to buy cards at the moment, right? Marcella was down a bit. Busquets is the one that's dropped a lot. Payet is the one that's dropped a lot as well. I bought some of the fodder cards, just like Stock the Couple in the club. I know people were investing in Coleman and Danovich, Jose Fante, Tottich, Trimble. People have been buying into these cards and investing into some of them because they're basically some of the cheapest fodder on the game right now. And with this promo coming that is solely based on SBCs, like we talked about in yesterday's video, you guys remember 84s were like 6,000 coins when they dropped the team of the year warm-up series. I think that even though these 84s are inflated a bit, they're probably gonna go a little bit higher. I don't know if they're gonna drop today. I doubt that they would maybe a bit this morning with people opening some footchamps rewards last second as they are opening while foot captains are still in packs. But I think that fodder, especially on the higher tier end, has a lot of upside. Now I did a club stock today, right? And usually when I do a club stock, I go through this entire list here and since a lot of these cards are down, like I bought a Trimble at 25, I bought a Cruz at 25, some of these guys were at like 24, 750 earlier for the 88s. So I kind of just bought one of these and bought all of, like one of all these cards, put it in the club for the 88s, the 89s and the 90s. That's just basically called a club stock, right? Because I think these cards are low enough. I mean, you look at Harry Kane being 42,000 coins, if this SBC promo is gonna be all about SBCs, then you would expect these cards to rise back up a little bit. Now I'm not expecting, you know, 90 rates to go to 60K in one week. I mean, if they released an icon moments player pick, SBC or something like that later on this week, I could see that those cards are going that high if the value is there. But I think that this fodder right now, if you're gonna buy into it, you would be buying it now and then you'd be selling it into the week next week. It's just gonna be a short hold, not for too long. Or if you've already invested in fodder, let's say you bought 84s at 3K last week and you haven't sold, great. Just keep holding on to them. Sell them towards the middle to end of this upcoming week before we head into TOTS. And these cards are 100% gonna be higher. I think fodder rises this week in general just because it's an SBC based promo. And that's just the fact, right? Again, the only thing today that would make for supply on the market would be if EA sports were to put old cards back into packs. If they were to do captains back in packs or birthdays, future stars, anything crazy like that, like foot player days like, I really doubt they would. That would be the only thing today that I would imagine that would bring any sort of supply to the market. And I don't think that EA is gonna do anything like that one week before the promo, because what they want us to be focused on are those SBCs to save up those packs. Before team of the season. So that's the major, major part of the content that we'll be looking at today. Now let's talk about the other piece of content. This is not in the game, unless we have like a loading screen for it, but Premier League TOTS official vote is gonna be starting today as well. And of course, as we have leaks for everything in this game, we have leaks for the nominees for Premier League TOTS. And I gotta talk about this a bit because this is pretty controversial. Again, as you look through, and a lot of you guys may already know this, we don't have any Chelsea cards in this voting. EA has pulled all Chelsea cards out of this, so there's not gonna be any new Chelsea special items during team of the season is what that really seems like. And I think it's a bummer. I think that it's silly. I wish that it was not this way, but it is because of all the political tensions that are going on right now with the owner of Chelsea and stuff like that. And you know, this probably goes way up the ladder at EA Sports and it includes a lot of stuff that we don't even know about. So I'm not trying to get myself involved too deep with this. I'm just coming in from a FIFA player's perspective, not even a Chelsea fan, just wishing that we would have a team of the season Conte, team of the season Rutiger, maybe another card or two. Because as you look through here, there's a lot of Liverpool and Manchester City cards, which of course, you know, is deserved because they're top two in the table, but Chelsea's sitting right there a third. And I think they deserve some names as a part of team of the season voting as well.  That's the biggest bummer out of all this if we're being completely honest, just not being able to see those cards in the game. But these are the official nominees that we will have to vote on today. The voting will open today. Now I remember that the voting was a bit delayed when they released Community Tots. It was at least 15, 20, maybe even like 30 minutes delayed before the webpage actually opened up. So the same place where you voted for Community Tots, you'll vote for these Premier League dudes. And we're gonna vote on the starting 11. This was also leaked that we are gonna only vote the starting 11 and then EA will be choosing the bench or the reserves, however many players they're gonna end up putting into packs, which I would imagine would be a full starting 11 plus a bench. So plus a couple more players, four or five more depending on what they wanna do with that. So that of course leaves EA some room to have their own little bit of influence if they want to. But again, it's gonna be hard to vote, right? I would love to see Son, Foden, Ronaldo, Sterling, Kane, all of these guys. I would love to see them all get team and season cards. So again, if you wanna cast your vote, that link, I'll put a link to the Tots webpage in the description, but this will not be live until after 6 p.m. I'm guessing today on Friday. I'm guessing it's gonna be live after 6 p.m. But these are all the leaked nominees. So if you were looking through those while we were clicking through, those are the cards you will have to vote on today. And again, like we just mentioned, it is gonna be voting for the starting 11 only and then EA will fill in the reserves with after the votes are tallied with what we know about that. So that's kind of all the content we're expecting to see. It's probably not, like I said, it's not gonna be that big of a content day today on the game. It's probably gonna feel a bit stale. And it actually comes at a really great time for me because I'm not gonna be able to stream today. Busy weekend coming up with Mrs. TFA. So if you're looking for the Twitch livestream today, you won't find me there. We'll be back on Sunday, don't worry. But I'm just gonna be very curious to see what kind of packs EA dropped for us to save up because the pack code we've been looking at all week, 81 times 11 per top five league, 85 times five, 83 times five as well, that's pretty exciting stuff. So as long as they don't make those too expensive, maybe a play is to craft some last minute 81 plus player picks and either save them for team this season or actually open some of them up early today on Friday before the captains go out of packs and just stock up on 82, 83, 84s. And that might not even be a bad idea. Like right now, going out on the market and even buying up some 84 rated cards. Like, yes, like I mentioned, I know there are already 1,000 coins up in price, but with all these SBCs that are gonna be out, people are gonna spend the big bucks on fodder this week to get cards in their club to get the SBCs done. So 84 is even at 4,000 coins. They might be 7k at the end of the week. And then at the end of the week, you'll be like, man, why did I not buy some fodder? So maybe just do a bit of a club stock on the lower tier stuff too, just so that you can do those pack SBCs throughout this next week at a little bit cheaper of a threshold of cost. That is one thing to kind of keep an eye out for as well. Now, one thing I'm gonna talk about just really fast at the end of today's video is a really big leak from yesterday. And that is new icon swap pack code. Now, we're gonna talk about this later on in the weekend for sure and dive into it a little bit more as we get more information. But this really makes me think that if they're adding the pack code in yesterday on a Thursday, it's in the game, that we might be having icon swaps as soon as this Monday, which seems very early to me, but that would be honestly the perfect storm. If you think about it, this week of no content, no cards and packs, just some SBCs every day to stack up packs for team of the season. And these packs look pretty nuts for icon swaps, right? But if we have icon swaps that get released on Monday as well, and that's just an additional thing to grind this next week to get an 84 times 20 and 85 times 20, a 94 plus guaranteed icon moments pack, that's crazy. So that would be one thing to just keep in mind that we have those packs upcoming. Don't know when the actual release date is going to be, but just keep that in mind that it is going to be pretty soon, maybe as soon as Monday. We'll look for some more leaks, more information during this weekend for that sort of stuff. So again, pretty big day of content today just because the fact it's TOTS related, right? That's where the hype is with the promo today. Again, like I said, watch the meta market. If there is panic selling and if there's cards that do drop, like just watch these popular meta cards on their graphs. Like I traded at SIE, I bought them at 6.89, I just sold them at 7.60, right? There's going to be these cards whether they're icons, out of pack specials that are going to have fluctuations today on Friday. I bought this Del Piero at 600. I bought these bales at 270. I thought that was decently cheap. He's up to like 285 at the moment. Schweinsteiger I bought at 5.45. Pogba still trying to sell a few of these cards. I mean, I think you're going to be able to trade through this market through the weekend because there's also a lot of people that are looking to buy and we're going to talk about that a little bit more in tomorrow's video is kind of watching the low prices this weekend and we'll get a kind of a sense of how the content looks today on Friday and how it might impact the market because if EA disappoints with content today then that's not looking good for some panic to happen throughout the game. You know, maybe Saturday and Sunday. So we're going to be closely watching the market this weekend and a lot of you guys want to buy cards for your teams and prices are still low but maybe prices have started to rebound back a little bit on some cards. I was watching this team of the year Messi today. He's kind of in that boat where he is still low. Messi was around 1.8 mil but I believe right now he is back under 1.8 and is in the 1.7. I saw 1.75, 1.78. So you know, a couple of hours of panic selling this guy might get undercuts back down to like 1.72 and then boom, there's a great buy for your team. So we're going to be watching that stuff very closely this weekend too because I know that matters to a lot of you guys but it is a promo Friday and it's going to be a Friday not with, it's like a halfway promo. We'll call it that, right? It's like a halfway promo today. So if you're excited for team this season warm up to stack some packs before team this season make sure to thumbs up on the video, comment down below if you do have any questions and of course subscribe if you are new but have yourselves a great Friday and enjoy the brand new promo. I'll be tweeting, make sure you check the Twitter links down below and we'll talk about stuff, conversate over there just a little bit in the time that I do have. So again, enjoy the weekend. Happy Friday. It's been Nathan Buttock out and I'll catch you guys later. Peace.


Hi, so I'm going to talk about a potentially heretical topic to this audience, which is post-transcriptional regulation at the level of translational control in my post-doctoral work with Jennifer Doudna at UC Berkeley. So control of protein translation broadly affects expression of genes in circumstances where cells need acute spatial temporal control over regulation, such as this example from Maria Barna's group, where deletion of a small RNA element causes mice to fail to develop their bottom rib. In neurons, there's extensive translational control, where RNA granules are shipped out to dendritic processes to locally activate translation. And in cancer, translation is broadly dysregulated, such as this leukemia model, where introduction of either of two translation factors causes a more severe leukemic phenotype than knockdown of the tumor suppressor P10. The focus of my post-doc has been trying to discriminate between two models of translational control driven by RNA binding proteins and translational control driven by alternative transcript isoforms, and that's actually what I'm going to talk about today. So as you all know, the human transcriptome is very complicated, where according to the ensemble annotations, the median human gene has about five annotated transcript isoforms. And as you probably know, a common method to measure translation across the genome is ribosome profiling, where you digest messenger RNA down to a small fragment that's protected by the ribosome. However, when you do that, you lose the transcript context that the ribosome protected fragment was derived from. So I wanted to come up with an alternative approach to actually measure transcript-specific translation across the genome. I'm not going to go into this in detail because this talk is very short, and I have a poster on it over there. But in some, you freeze ribosomes in place with cyclohexamide, you then take the cytoplasmic fraction that you separate by size on a sucrose gradient, which is a technique that's been around for 60 years to resolve ribosomal protein complexes and their associated mRNAs. You can then sequence the mRNAs that are bound to different numbers of ribosomes and extract transcript isoforms that are present in each of those fractions, and therefore know how many ribosomes were on each individual transcript isoform. And I thought this would be particularly interesting for this audience because it gives you a plot that looks like this, where in HAC 293 cells, you have about 62,000 transcript isoforms, which for each one, you now know how many ribosomes are actually bound to. This means that for a given RNA sequencing dataset, you can actually use this as a filter to apply translational information onto that RNA-seq data. I'm not going to go through this at all, but suffice it to say, you can look at a large number of features that are present in different transcript isoforms. The one that jumped out from HAC 293 cells was actually the length and the content of the 3-prime UTR, strongly negatively controls translation. And again, this is on my poster if you'd like to see it in more detail. What I wanted to focus on today, these pioneering studies that I published earlier this year were in HAC 293 cells, and I wanted to move on to a more relevant cell type, which is human ES cells, and isogenic differentiated neuropigender cells and neurons in vitro. So I've now performed, at this point, in collaboration with Dirk Hockemire and Helen Beta at Berkeley, so-called TRIP-seq, which is measuring transcript specific translation, as well as ribosome profiling and RNA-seq in these three different cell types. And I'm just going to show you a couple of highlights of that today. So first of all, you can extract immediately very interesting things. So for example, in human ES cells, there are two abundant isoforms of the nanogene, which in the cytoplasm are roughly equally abundant. But if you look in polyzones, so this is the monosome. This is aggregated low polyzone fractions, so something that's poorly translated. This is aggregated high polyzones, so something that's well translated. You see, this black isoform is pretty flat across polyzones, while this blue isoform is strongly enriched in the polyzonal fractions, suggesting that despite the fact that these two isoforms have relatively equal cytoplasmic abundance, the protein that's produced from these two is radically different. And I should say that for these two particular isoforms, the coding sequence is almost identical. Another thing that I thought that would be interesting for this audience is if you cluster all of these samples, we're on the y-axis here, you have 30 different samples from the cytoplasm and nucleus, as well as the polyzonal fractions. What jumps out at the bottom here is actually total RNA. So this is all of the ES cells, neuropigenerous cells and neurons, all of your total cytoplasmic or nuclear RNA, all clusters down at the bottom. What you see on the top is actually separation of translated RNA. So this is the human ES cell, polyzonal RNA, and this is the neuron in neuropigenerous cell, polyzonal RNA, which suggests that translated or ribosome-associated RNA might actually be a better way to stratify cell types than looking at total RNA. And lastly, I mentioned in 293 cells I saw, and there might be one more thing after this. In 293 cells I saw a strong effect from 3-prime UTRs, and now I can do the same analysis where in ES cells, neuropigenerous cells, and neurons, I actually cluster transcripts, compare two transcript isoforms that are derived from the same gene and see what features are different between those isoforms. And in 293 cells, there was a strong effect from 3-prime UTRs, but in these cell types, I actually see that there's a cell type specific effect of 3-prime UTRs, where the length of the 3-prime UTR in human embryonic stem cells has essentially no effect on translation, while neuropigenerous cells in neurons, as you've differentiated along this neuronal trajectory, 3-prime UTRs are increasingly more powerful at regulating translation. Okay, and the last thing that I wanted to come to this meeting, because of what I was very excited about, is the new RNA binding protein encode data that's coming out, for example, what Eric talked about earlier today. And so what you can do now is you can say, for two transcript isoforms of the same gene, what RNA binding proteins are different between these isoforms? And so I did this for all roughly 80 RNA binding proteins that were in K562 cells, and data that I'm not showing you, translational control by isoforms is often similar between at least cancer cell types. So I picked a couple of interesting examples to show you here. This one is the FMRP, or Fragilex mental retardation protein, where it's known to stall translation of elongating ribosomes. And you can actually see, if you look in a region-specific manner for transcript isoforms that are bound by more FMRP, if it binds inside of the orph, those transcripts are associated with high polyzones. So this is probably something that's elongation-stalled, okay, whereas it binds in the 5-prime UTR, it has a smaller effect, and there are actually elongating ribosomes in annotated 5-prime UTRs in upstream open reading frames, whereas if it binds in the 3-prime UTR, it has essentially no effect. So this means two things. First of all, you can identify which transcripts are controlled by FMRP in cells, and second, you can filter those that are probably elongation-stalled by using this data. The second one that I wanted to highlight was the spicing factor SF3B4, where if you have binding sites for SF3B4, more binding sites in an open reading frame that's associated with better translation. If you have more binding sites for SF3B4 in the 3-prime UTR, that's associated with worse translation or ribosome occupancy. And what I think is going on in this case, or one possibility, is that exons inside of an open reading frame are known to promote translation both through nuclear export and actively recruiting translation factors, whereas exons that are in 3-prime UTRs are usually downstream of the stop codon, which would actually activate nonsense media to decay. So I'm very excited by the possibility of using ENCODE RNA binding protein data to add, again, another layer of interpretation on top of, in this case, transcript-specific translation. And if you look at the metagen plot of SF3B4, it does look like a splicing factor, so it binds mostly at intronaxon junctions. So I don't think that it's binding to mature transcripts. And I'd like to thank many people at Berkeley, including, in particular, for this project, Dirk Hockmeier and Helen Bade up, as well as members of the down the lab and funding sources. And thank you. We have time for one question. Thanks for the time management. One question? So there will be a poster session tomorrow as well, so all the Latin talk speakers will be there for the whole session. So we can ask them more questions.


President-elect Bola Tinubu has told the presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP Attiku Abobaka, and his party that that petition against his victory at the February 25 presidential election constituted a gross abuse of the judicial process. Tinubu, in a preliminary objection, filed against Attiku and PDP's petition dated March 21, stated that it was wrong for the petitioner to approach the tribunal with the same issues they had earlier filed at the Supreme Court. Tinubu dismissed Attiku as a serial loser, saying he has been losing presidential polls since 1993. Also within the PDP, the governor, Yesom Wike of River State, who is the leader of the G5, has said that giving the governorship ticket to the People's Democratic Party PDP in Kogi State to Dino Melae is dead on arrival. As according to him, Mr. Melae does not have what it takes to be a governor. Mr. Melae, on the other hand, the spokesperson of People's Democratic Party presidential campaign council PDP PCC, is aspiring to become the governor of Kogi State in the 11th November election. And speaking in a media chart at Potakon on Tuesday, Mr. Wike said he was aware of the efforts by PDP to manipulate delegates list in Kogi State to favor Mr. Melae, a former senator from the state. Joining us live to discuss this is Angu Ongu, not Central Zonal Coordinator at Tiku Support Organization, and also a member of the PDP. Welcome to the program. Thank you very much. It's good to have me in your studios again. It's good to have you. You've even been here. Yeah, let's begin with the statement of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, that the petition before the court by the PDP and its presidential candidate is an abuse of the court processes. What's your response to that? It's unfortunate that the president that we feel to call his president a let, not a let now, we make such a very frivolous statement. But we're also in the sense that they are speaking as if they own the courtrooms. The judiciary is a totem of government and should be respected. So it's not a personality clash or a personality context for him and Bola Tinubu to go out of his way to be doing name calling. It's unfortunate, but we on the side of the PDP are saying that, look, it is a droning man holding on to every straw he can find. Our case before the presidential election petition tribunals is watertight, and Nigerians are looking up to the judiciary, being the last hope of a moment to see that justice is done, because there are germane issues raised in that petition. And it's surprising to Nigerians and myself that Mahmoud Yakubu is still at the hems of affairs at the Independent National Electoral Commission, because what happened on the 25th of February, it's akin to an embroidery, what they call, you know, haste, is akin to an embroidery attack in a bank, and we want to call it an electoral haste that are sticking place in this country. And Mahmoud Yakubu will go ahead and allows an election or a vote that clearly did not follow guidelines. And in your opening, you see Mahmoud saying that a petitioner is wrong by petitioning, that is the petition of the Labour Party, that it lacks merit. But like I said, we are before the court, and we in the PDP are before the court, and the PDP are confident. And Nigerians are watching the judiciary very carefully to see that justice is done. So what are the strongest points that you say your case is watertight? What are the strongest arguments that you have going forward into this case? One of the arguments is this. The constitution is very clear. Other liberal luminaries have come out to say that look for you to be declared a president-elect. You must have scored, apart from having the highest votes cut, you must have met the criteria of having 25% of the vote cast in the federal territory. The FCT Abuja, Mr Ahmed Bola Tidobu, did not meet that criteria. And even when there were voices that the coalition of that presidential result should be stepped down, Mahmoud, Mahmoud Yacobu still went ahead to say, look, nothing was to be done. But this was the same man that came out before the whole world, holding different press conferences. To tell Nigerians and the whole world, look, elections are going to be uploaded to the beavers right from the polling unit. They build confidence in Nigerians. And a lot of Nigerians went out to elect their leaders. But the result, we have all seen, is not a reflection of what Nigerians went out there to vote. Because it is so surprising that the people that won an election are protesting. I don't know why they are protesting. They have gone to occupy the unity fountain in Abuja protesting. You win, you are won. You should be rejoiced in not protesting to, I don't understand. But that is one of the criteria. Bola Ahmed Tidobu did not meet 25% in the FCT. And election results were mutilated across over 179,000 polling units. And those are the issues. The PDP, through its presidential candidate, Alaji and Tiko Abubaka are presenting before the PEPT that this issue should be looked into. So the APC should wait, should make their submissions before the court. And they should stop this issue of doing media trial. I know it's a stock in trade, trying people before the media. But we are waiting for the court. In a few days from now, the courts are going to sit. The presidential election and petition tribunal are going to begin sitting. And all of the cases will be looked based on merit. Okay. Well, everything is subject to interpretation by the courts of law. How much the power of argument, in some cases and all that, we are here and watching to see what the interpretation will be. Then we will understand whether A is A and not B, as the case may be. But let us go back to the PDP itself. It seems there is some kind of deja vu. What we saw before the election is still playing out in some ways because no matter how it is, whether the presidential election was lost, there is still hope in the number of people that can become governors under the umbrella of the PDP. And houses of assembly or national houses, anyone that is still to be contested for every party is hoping to still win something. Now, a candidate or an aspirant has come out from a Kogi state in the person of Dino Melae. He's not a candidate yet. It's an aspirant. Yet somebody from faraway Potakot, a river state, is saying that he has insight into the workings of Kogi PDP and that it's child's play if they are going to give to Dino Melae, who eventually was a spokesman of the PDP, a high-ranking member of the PDP and a governor of the PDP, still fighting. Just like the G5 fought with the Tikua-Bubaka and a lot of people have said it resulted in the kind of results that we had and that's why Tikua-Bubaka lost. It has started again. What is PDP doing about this fight within the party that seems to portray the party as the party's whose center, borrowing the words of Chino Achebe, cannot hold anymore and things have fallen apart? It is quite unfortunate the wranglings going on within the People's Democratic Party. And those wranglings have been around one Govno Nyesom wiki and from his last outing around the Kogi election that is to hold by the 11th of November, clearly shows that he's an interloper. I've watched his interview. I also read and watched the reply of Senator Dino Melae to him and we the younger people in the party ashamed when elders like Wiki that are supposed to guide the younger ones directly and doing everything to pull down the party. And Wiki it is the same party that made you whatever and whoever you are. So why pull the rug on the feet of the same party that made you? It is quite unfortunate but I would like to say that look Kogi politics is different from that of a reverse state and Kogi people are going to decide the delegates by Sunday are going to decide who their governorship candidate for the PDP will be and that will not be decided in reverse state. So Govno Nyesom wiki is to stay clear of Kogi politics. It should allow the people to do their local politics by themselves. Him saying that Senator Dino Melae is not qualified to be the governorship candidate for that for the party in Kogi state is it's most unfortunate comment to have come from him because Senator Dino Melae is highly qualified. It has all the credentials necessary for him to context for the president well sorry for the governorship even for the president of this country. He has all the credentials. This was a one-time senator two-time senator of the federal republic of Nigeria. This was a one-time house of rest member. This was a one-time special assistant to the president of this country on Utah first during the tenure of general. So what stops Dino Melae what makes him not to be qualified to be the president or the governor to contest the governorship of Kogi. Dino has all the credentials and just like he would say if he wiki can become governor right Dino also can become governor because putting them side by side they've all paid their dues in politics they've all had one position all the other in their political career and in one way or the other they've been able to distinguish themselves. So governor on this on wiki issues stop these politics of a of a crimony when someone is not on his side and Dino we come out to say and look because I didn't side you to become a president and I didn't give words for you to be picked at the vice presidential candidate that is why you are making this noise you called me 19 times you know Dino kept those records and I'm praying that maybe soon he should give us a voucher of this 19 times of no wiki called him. So politics should be devoid of bitterness or personal ego and the moral flexing. So wiki should stay clear of Kogi politics. I like Kogais to choose their leaders by themselves because nobody Dino was not you know an interloper in his own state so he shouldn't interlope and you know we say look this was the same man that supported me in 2019 what has changed the only thing that changed is because I didn't support you to be the president of this country I supported a larger article that is my only problem with you now. So I'm advising of no wiki that we the younger people are not totally ashamed about some of his latest outing about the party. He shouldn't destroy the PDP for us. He has used that same vehicle to attain everything he has attained in this life. So why would he want to destroy that vehicle when some other younger people are on board? He shouldn't destroy the PDP. There is there is a recurrent question that everybody asks. Yesom wiki is one man and PDP at one point in the history of this country was a judge to be the largest political party in black Africa. It remains the largest political party in black Africa. Yeah okay granted why people still keep asking what does wiki have on the PDP that he cannot even be disciplined because I remember that recently even someone as high ranking as Anjim Pius Anjim and so many other people were sanctioned. The Ben West state governor was supposed to face a disciplinary committee and do you know who let the G5 was not touched? We didn't hear anything about it. What kind of role does he have on PDP that he remains untouched? And that is the question we should be asking the NWC of our party because this man has engaged in several anti-party activities, has made several inflammatory comments against the party and that he's not disciplined up to now. It's surprising to me and I don't think it has anything against the PDP as it were but it is I feel it is the leadership of the NWC that is not pragmatic or proactive in disciplining Governor Wiki because he's not the only man in that party even if he has contributed the whole of reverse money to the PDP he shouldn't be treating the party the way he's treating the party as are today. He shouldn't be demarcating the PDP the way he's demarcating the PDP the way he goes about it in the most brazen manner. He goes about demarcating the PDP in the most brazen manner and it's surprising that up to today the NWC has not called him for discipline or for questioning but you understand that he also ran to court to say that they restrained the PDP or any of our agents from disciplining him. You tell that he knew exactly what he's doing and he's looking for lacunas within the law to hide on that but like I said before Wiki should not destroy the PDP for the younger generation But having this panel Because if the government had me used to attend anything in its life it shouldn't destroy the PDP for the younger people I don't know with such power that he seems to have we go back to the Kogi election and you're saying that tomorrow on Sunday the congress will be held or what the primary election will be held for to choose who is going to represent the PDP don't you fear that since it's still within the time that he is in office and controlling whatever he has been controlling to help the PDP grow in other places he could be a very very great influence in the Kogi election Have the PDP grow in other places? Well what would I say? It supports us in Osho State and Governor Delike won So we have indices and data of where he put his hand in the PDP And PDP also lost in Cross River He supported the PDP candidate and he lost to the APC woefully He didn't support Adelike in Osho State and Adelike won None of the G5 governors was present during the campaigns Ibn She'imakile for your state that is enabled to Osho did not attend the campaigns What Adelike won? So what are we talking about? It is your ability to convince the electorate If you are able to convince the voters if you are able to go to the Adulter Give them a convincing blueprint of what you want to do for them Then we vote for you So we cannot sit in a river state and dictate anything that happens in any other state Or even seem to rejoice when any other thing happens in any other state So that is very far from it The contestants of the PDP are already talking to the delegates Already they are bringing them, already presenting their blueprint for the transformation of Kogi State To them and we believe that by the special grace of God By Sunday a credible candidate will emerge for the PDP That will wrestle power from the failed APC government in Kogi State And give Kogi State dividends of democracy That is what the PDP is known for The PDP gives the people dividends of democracy They bring governance closer to the people And that is what I believe are very highly qualified candidates Of the PDP there that are going to deliver Antenato Dino Melae is one of them And he towers high above several and many of the candidates That are presenting themselves to serve the good people of Kogi State So I believe that the family is in touch in Kogi And Kogai, we do the writing We the PDP family there will let a candidate And give them a candidate And won't be the foes by November I'm hopeful that the PDP is going to have a landslide victory Just a quick one From 1999 till 2014 PDP towered above every other party And it was, it had this pride that the internal mechanism that solves problems Was so tight and that is why everybody was staying in line Now after 2014 from 2015 till now Like a lot of people have said PDP has not done well as an opposition party What happens to the PDP's mechanism of solving problems? Because whether we run away from it or not We know that that problem of the G5 And so many other things that happened Give PDP a very bad name So what happens to the PDP? We discuss some of these issues The parties Can you still hear me? I can't hear you We've discussed some of these issues before And that they have Particularly financial autonomy Is because most of those governors Contribute hugely financially to the political parties And they feel that they have the political parties at the back of their pockets And that is one of the reasons why I believe someone like me, Sambuki Will not be quickly disciplined By the party leadership Because if we hear story that he bought Prado Jeep for this person He bought this one for that person He bought this one for that person And it's very clear in the Bible also That there are times you refuse gifts So that your judgment will not be be clouded So the parties need to be financially independent Party members need to learn how to pay dues to the party Right from the world level You know So that is what I believe is one of the problems The party needs financial independence The parties don't need to be at the uproarmed streams of state governors Moving forward Supplementary elections are coming What are the chances of PDP? We are fully prepared Our candidates have gone back to the field within this Three weeks break we had To talk and convince the electorates to vote for them And I believe that in Kirby, in Sokoto, in Adamawa We are hopeful to cringe some of the many seats available That of the governorship in Adamawa particularly Okay The cemetery vote In Sokoto and Kirby We are hopeful We are going to come out victorious And I want to use this opportunity to advise The military and INEC to do the right thing The military should not be joining Miniaturizing elections INEC should do the right thing INEC should not be seen to be a bias empire INEC should be seen to be unbiased In despite of their duties Okay, thank you very much We can only wish you good luck In whatever election comes up next Whether supplementary or one-off thing Or off-season election We can just wish you good luck Thank you so much Angu for being part of this Thank you very much Good evening Thank you very much Thank you Okay Thank you Thank you We've been talking with Mr Angu Ongu Not Central Zonal Coordinator at Tikku Support Organization And also a member of the PDP We're talking about the internal wranglings Within the PDP And so many other things around the party We'll take a short break now And when we return We shall be discussing the APC's request To dismiss the Labour Party's election petition And also the supplementary elections holding Soon In fact, in the matter of hours Stay with us


Hello. Thank you. Cool, you know me. So yes, as I said, my name's Sam Mitchin. I do interesting stuff with phones mostly. For my sins, I've also been managing the phone operations here, so the various things we had like decked and bits and pieces of what's at desk phones and some of the stuff that Matthew talked about with connecting the pots phones. I've overseen the phone network, but I also get involved with doing things with artists that want to do interesting creative technology stuff through various connections. And this is a story about a project I got involved in, trying to get the data, about four years ago, four or five years ago now, and it's sort of the journey it took and what went wrong and what we discovered and things. So the project itself is called Pick Me Up and Hold Me Tight, and it was a creative piece. I'll come on to that a bit more, but just as I said, the content warning, the project itself was brought about to raise awareness of male suicide. This talk is predominantly about the implementation, so we're not really going too much into the content. There is a video we might play which talks a bit about the creative side and there's an opportunity for you to try it. If you've got a decked phone with you, keep it out because at the end we'll try a live demo which will probably break everything because that's always fun. But, yeah, this is predominantly a technical or a narrative talk of building technology. So, yeah, hence the war dialling the payphone estate. So, yeah, how it started. Back in summer of 2018, I discovered this project called Pick Me Up and Hold Me Tight for some friends. It was launching a crowd funder and the aim of the project was, as he said, on the 1st of January, they didn't say which year, at 11am we are going to make every payphone in the UK ring at the same time as an art piece to raise awareness of male suicide. Apparently 1st of January, New Year's Day, 11am is one of the peak times for that kind of thing. So, it was, and payphones, there's a lot of connections to loneliness and there's lots of people call via payphones every payphone you go into and they still keep payphones in certain locations which might be prominent for that. I just thought it sounded like a really interesting project. It was a good worthy cause and I was kind of interested in the tech side of it as to, wow, okay, making all the payphones ring at once. That's not easy. So, I put 20 quid into the crowd funder via a friend and he sort of said, oh, that sounds really interesting. You know, I'd love to know how they're going to do it. And I got an email back from the guy behind it saying, Clare says you know stuff about phones. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'd love to know what your plans are. And he's like, do you know how we can make all the payphones ring? So, I thought I was backing a project to find out how they were going to do it and I turned out that I was the one that was going to do it. Which is kind of the story of my life really. So, yeah, they started off with a crowd funder on, it wasn't Kickstarter but one of these, kind of more of an arts platform, which one. And initially, BT payphones, the payphone division of BT, excuse me, were kind of on board as a supporter. It was a project that they were like, yes, we'll help where we can as long as it doesn't require them doing any work or giving you any money, basically. So really, they had a creative vision. So George and Jada, the two creative directors behind the project had an idea as to what they wanted the creative piece to look like but no real idea how they were going to deliver this. I think they'd done a few little things with small payphones with a couple of hacks on Twilio. At the time, BT's UK payphones list, so we'll go into the different types of payphones later, but there was 34,000 payphones in the UK on their list as of summer 2018. And we actually had an Excel file with the numbers, locations of every payphone at the time that were BT public payphones. So what that kind of is, is the ones basically on the street. So there are certain ones that you might think are BT payphones. Obviously the ones in pubs and things that don't look like, you know, that are just run by the pub might not be, but also all the ones in railway stations didn't count, all the ones in shopping centres, anything kind of on private property was a separate subset, but we had all the public ones, which was, you know, a pretty good definition of payphone. So, yeah, we started, I started figuring out how I was going to make this thing work. So lots of conversations with the artists, what do they actually want this kind of experience to be? What do they, you know, how do they, what happens? Okay, I make all the payphones ring, then what? And so they had a, at the time, interactive audio piece. So it was a lot around kind of listening and, you know, understanding people. And it guided you through asking you questions around how good a listener do you think you are, and asking you to, like, press one to five to answer this kind of survey thing. And then at the end it would do some maths on looking at the answers you'd put in and give you a sort of feedback on your listening skills.  So I started prototyping stuff. I was working for Nexmo at the time, so using, you know, any of those kind of platforms are quite easy for building this stuff and we worked through a lot of the creative stuff. And at the same time talking to, or designing the platform as to how am I going to do that many calls at once, so to speak. And there was a little bit of discussion around, okay, when you say 11 a.m. you want all the phones to ring, do you want, like, literally click, tick over 11 a.m. every single payphone is in sync or, you know, how much leeway do we really have here? Is within 15 minutes fine, you know, if they all ring sometime from 11, between 11 and 11.15, and we had lots of back and forward. So finding that kind of balancing act as to what's really feasible, because actually to try and dump 34,000 calls in sync was probably not going to be particularly easy.  You know, where do you want me to send them? And they were a little bit kind of, that's a lot of traffic at once. Can you do 500 a second? But that was, yeah, the limiting side of any of their platforms. They didn't have any sort of integration points. But, you know, we were progressing. So the plan was to do a pilot in Liverpool, because one of the creative institutions that was involved was the Liverpool, got me down, Liverpool Arts Institute or something, on the 1st of January 2019. So we were actually going to use just a third-party SIP provider. The number of phones in Liverpool was a couple of hundred. We did an enterprise for our list, so it was a small-scale kind of pilot. And then on the 18th of December, so 12 days before we're due to go, and a week before Christmas, BT pulled out. They said, no, we're not kind of, we're not really happy with the project, we've decided not. Not so much from a technical standpoint, and the traffic, because we were just, I was sorting that. Actually what they were more concerned about was basically anything drawing attention to pay phones, because they were all in a pretty poor state, the amount that were broken, not working, vandalised, generally filthy, disgusting condition. And pay phones, it turns out, within BT are obviously a bit of a... They're not exactly the glamorous end of the business, are you? You're not doing 5G and fibre broadband if you're the head of pay phones. So, yeah, they pulled out. So we kind of had to just, a week before Christmas it was like, okay, this is not kind of feasible to kind of, we have to rethink a bit of this. So we put a hold on it. Early 2019, we got back and sort of said, okay, can we do this without BT? So at the time we were using BT's list of data, one of the key things they gave us was this list of pay phones. And if they've sort of pulled out of the project, is that really our data? Can we still legitimately use that? So we had lots of conversations with lawyers, and the output of it was that we decided that we would source alternative pay phone data. So there are various lists floating around the internet of lists of pay phone numbers in the UK. So between that and some human intervention, we distilled down to a unique list and we kind of knew what sort of numbers we were aiming for. So we had a reasonable idea. So we created our own list of pay phone data and we spread the calls out. So actually we'll do it over 30 minutes. We'll scale that back a bit. With a plan to do our pilot in Leeds first of Jan 2020. So we basically delayed a year. So we moved to Leeds and we actually sent some people out. We recruited a whole bunch of volunteers. I think we had 60, 70 volunteers who went round with our list of pay phones in Leeds and audited them and basically said, right, here's a list of pay phones. Can you go and check if they're still there? If the number is what they think it is? All kinds of things. See if you find any others. There are photos which was really handy because it was like, send us back a photo of each one so we can get an idea. So these are just some of the photos that got dumped in. You can see down the bottom there, particularly these ones with the screens, these are these new inlink kiosks that are sort of appearing, which are a whole lot of talking themselves. But basically they're an advertising board but by putting a pay phone in it they can avoid the need for planning permission to actually put up an advertising horde. So they put a tiny little phone on the edge of the thing and put an advertising board on it but BT can install pay phones on the public highway without needing planning permission or paying rent to the council or anything. So they use that as a loophole to sell advertising. And actually the calls on them are free because it's not worth charging for that. They make more money off the ads on the billboard and they don't have to put a sensor around to collect the 50Ps out the box.  So somewhere around the summer of 2019, so we did before this was, we were doing this survey thing.  BT made a change to their pay phones that prevented DTMF, so the keypad working, if it was an incoming call. I still don't really know why they did this, necessarily how.  So, but they, I don't think it was kind of to scupper us. I think this was just somewhere along the line, somebody rolled out some new software and nobody really ever considered this use case. Because actually nothing ever, you know, one pay phones very rarely receive incoming calls and pay phones almost never receive incoming calls from automated systems that then ask you to navigate a menu. So we were kind of an edge case here that we caught up on, but somewhere along the line they changed that. So that kind of, you know, gave us another spanner in the works. So we had to rewrite, really this was more a problem. I mean, it was a problem for me for the first few months because we started just getting initial reports on these tests going out in Leeds of like, I called, I answered, I picked up but it wouldn't do anything and I'm like, that's weird and I was trying it and I was like, well the IVR stuff works fine on my phone. I went to like the pay phone in my village, still worked. And, you know, we're trying to track it down. That's why we started getting a lot of the photos of the pay phones. It's like, well send me a photo of the phone it works on. I was trying to work out if there were certain models maybe it didn't work on or were they using like some non-BT ones or something. But it just seems to be that the software was rolling out and turns out the pay phone in my village that I was using to go and test this on hadn't been updated and was still working and the ones in Leeds got updated sooner. I think actually they were the top of BT's list because it went in area code numbering order and O113 is one of the lowest numerical order area codes. So, yeah, we had some fun with that. Once we got to the bottom of it and I kind of actually managed to find some phones that it did fail on, we rewrote the audio so it's now just a single plays back a nine minute I think it is audio file, which made the tech a bit easier for me but so I wasn't collecting inputs. So at this point now we had a working platform. So I built a scalable calling platform a system basically to make a lot of phone calls in a relatively short period of time and we were going to use it for a one off. We're going to fire this up in New Year's morning at about nine o'clock and we're going to be done with it by midday. So hence this sounds like an ideal thing for cloud computing. We need a lot of capacity for a short period of time but we don't want to pay for it all ahead of that. So I used AWS FreeSwitch if you're familiar with that was what we used as our calling platform so the platforms you have like Twilio, Nexmo these kind of things, the programmable communications these are great but they have capacity limits. I think Twilio limit you to one call per second on a standard plan. Nexmo I think is 30 simultaneous calls. They all have some kind of limit like that so that wasn't really going to scale for our needs. FreeSwitch and just SIP providers who give us a phone trunk would give us a lot more flexibility in how we do that and then a little bit of serverless kind of back end control. So we get into the slightly more technical part of the talk with a very badly drawn AWS diagram. Apologies if anybody works for AWS I'm sure this breaches a whole bunch of the guidelines. This was kind of how it all came together. So I keep looking for a screen behind me there. Over on the right this was our sort of ingestion so there was me and a list of CSV files and some Python scripts basically de-duping CSV files and trying to get this single set of payphone data into DynamoDB. Dynamo is where we held the records where we one record per phone some geocoded data so there was effectively a lat long that we took from post codes we mostly had of them the number, a description and just an ID that we used internally. They all went into DynamoDB and then we had a Lambda function which was actually what would kick off the call so select all from this table on the database and drop them into simple queue service into an SQS queue so when we want to actually make the call I just invoke the Lambda trigger from a command line and we dumped 30,000 records into SQS then we have the kind of the meter this is down the bottom there we had a whole bunch of EC2 servers there's six there I think at one point we had 14 in the kind of cluster or not really a cluster because they were individual but all running free switch with this audio file on it and the kind of the simple dial plan that says call the number when it picks up play the audio file and a little bit of Python that was just binding it to the SQS queue free switch bot code was doing was look sitting on the queue picking a number off the queue and giving it to free switch and saying place a call and each free switch box had a limit on the number of simultaneous calls it would handle so it would basically start dialing numbers until it had however many active calls that box would handle at a time I think about 100 calls per box and then when a call ended either because it had wrung out and not been answered or it had been completed or it had failed in an error it would just pick another number off so we basically had a big pool of workers pulling numbers off the queue making phone calls and then we distributed that across various SIP providers so again most of them will quite easily with a credit card and things give you 30 channels or something per account but if you want more they want like a year's commitment and you have to talk to somebody in sales and probably go out for a steak dinner and all that kind of stuff that comes with telecoms so we just set up a bunch of different SIP accounts and we didn't really care about the numbers or where it was coming from pay phones don't really have caller ID so we farmed the calls out across lots and lots of different SIP providers as a 14 basically at the most or 14 accounts a couple of them we managed to double up on all of those converged back on BT obviously the one nice thing about spreading it across lots of providers is that most of the providers are interconnected with BT at different points so we weren't sending all the calls into BT's network on like one little local exchange somewhere that was going to get utterly swamped we were calling across the country we were distributing our traffic across the country the most central thing was probably EU West 1 in Dublin or something so all the calls onto BT and then out to the pay phones the other piece I should mention that we did was as part of the credit there was a there is still a website Google picked me up and hold me tight or something it's zoo UK is the the arts group behind it they wanted to have a live map showing when the phones were ringing, when they were being answered all of this kind of thing like an interactive visual piece to because actually you need something to show just an audience as well as the participants so this was a relatively standard bit of web app stuff basically the free switch box when the call events, when the call was answered or when the call failed or whatever was publishing those publishing those events back to SQS we had a lambda picking up off that queue and updating the status in the database so again DynamoDB was being updated as to whether the phone had been answered or not and we published those out over Pusha the web socket service and then there's a web page static web page bit of JavaScript hosted on an S3 bucket which when you load the page it used another call, the historical what's the current state of the phones that have all been answered out of the database as a big jason object and plot push pins on google maps so you can see them, I'll show you a better view of the map but there's a little icon for every phone on a google map and there's a little cluster a phone box icon for when there's a clustering of them together if you zoom out so it would update them and then Pusha would actually update the page as phones were picked up so when phones were ringing they'd start bouncing when they were answered they'd go red I think it was it changed the colours and things like that so it was just a bit of an interactive thing so that's a 34,000 points on a google map with a bit of real time updating isn't particularly particularly interesting so yeah we ran our leads pilot it was mostly successful the really big thing here is now we're two but two and a bit years into the project no 18 months sorry into the project last few years I've just merged into one but we were the thing that was really noticeable was the rate of pay phones declining so when we started this project there was 34,000 on the current BT list we were down to I think at this point we reckon there was probably about 17,000 still active in the UK and falling so every time our data was going out of date and mostly the numbers were just disconnected we were getting an error code back of various descriptions depending on the provider that was looking at that phones being terminated that line no longer exists the phone box has been ripped out and sure enough occasionally you could check on things like google street view I spent a lot of time looking for pay phones on google street view and saying well we've got to go back in time it was there then it was there then it was there no it's not there anymore so I was doing all of this from home but I wasn't having to drive around but the number of pay phones was really falling so then it was a case of prepping for the nationwide event so this was just mostly refining our data we ran some brief tests so overnight at five in the morning I was calling a whole selection of pay phones every night and seeing which ones were still giving me ringing just waiting for a ringing and hanging up so it's tidy short calls that weren't connecting spread out so we weren't kind of noticeable as through any kind of error reporting or something on BT and just trying to kind of keep on top of cleaning that data up and making sure it was still relevant and that takes us to 1st Jan 2021 so as you'll probably also notice the whole Covid thing and the middle of this as well didn't particularly help fortunately I can't believe I think we were in whichever tier it was at the time that meant that with some discussion with lawyers and things it was like well if people can go out for a walk if they're going to a pay phone by themselves this is perfectly acceptable so we did our nationwide event we had at that point 17,000 numbers in our database we placed that should be 10,000 calls places a typo a microslides there so 17,000 numbers in the database when we actually made the calls 10,000 calls came back with a successful ringing kind of message and 900 of them were answered and that's over I think about half an hour so between 11am and 11.30 on New Year's Day 900 people picked or the phones were answered not all of them went and there was a reason why it was quite a long audio piece but you know some people did listen all the way through and there was obviously some publicity around this and kind of promotion in different areas and campaigns to encourage people to go and take part and then we got invited to the Compass Festival in Leeds which was this should have been 2020 this was delayed into 2021 to basically run the project again just on the phones in Leeds but every day for two weeks and then there is a short video which are we doing for time we'll try the video sounds up so this is about the project in Leeds kind of the project in general the project came about five years ago because we had lost a lot of people who had decided to take themselves away from the world and that hurt because I myself have suffered with suicidation you know in some ways I felt like I was actually living proof that there can be a way out of that darkness it's loud in the world these days all of these friends and colleagues and loved ones were men the statistics in this area suggested that the lead on this was older men whereas previously had been younger men and at that time we were working a lot with telecommunication technology and we thought it would be really incredible to be able to ring all the phone booths because they are just essentially very lonely creatures and the project just grew from making all the phones ring to actually visiting each and every phone across the whole of Leeds and actually mapping them and this was a project that took volunteers a huge community of Leeds residents that just signed up for going out and mapping the phones and testing each and every one of them it's very much a live map and it's a snapshot of this moment we're thinking about removing this payphone our research shows that this payphone just isn't used enough for us to carry on running it that some areas are perhaps less heard than others Phone boxes to me chimed really well with this feeling of you know like obsoleteness unused, forgotten like losing that vital service that they once provided and I felt like that chimed well with this new demographic that we were seeing because of it so that's the creative kind of trade for it and what I want to try now a couple of minutes is one risky live demo which may break the decked infrastructure in here as well because I don't think we've put enough antennas in but we'll find out how many calls so if you've got a decked phone if you dial that number briefly it'll just say thank you for joining and hang up on you that's putting you all into a queue when I've done that I'll then initiate something which should make everybody's phone ring and when you answer you'll hear the audio piece give it a go, I'll give you a minute we've got about a minute so I'll do that and then we'll see if we can break something you're getting messages saying thank you something, yeah has everybody done that off the decked phone what's it phone anybody, I can't really see but wave if you're still trying to get it to work or something so 5559001 on decked it has to be on the EMF network you can still hear a few clicks okay that's about a minute let's see what this does so if I now call another number okay we'll see how many ring and then how many can answer it's probably our limited capacity now you should be hearing the audio piece cool if you want to try it later if you do a different number 9002 that'll just let you dial in and listen to the whole audio piece if you don't like one of the phone booths we have on the site or something it's kind of quite emotive or anything like that so I'll be around outside if you want to ask me questions at the end thank you very much


Helicopters burned at Russian Taganrog airfield. An explosion rang out in the Russian city of Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, on the morning of the 7th of November. One of the city's residents reported that an explosion occurred around 9 o'clock, Moscow time, in Taganrog near the airport. The Vichik OGPU telegram channel wrote that an air defense system was operating in the city. The governor of Rostov Oblast, Vasily Galubev, said that the air defense systems in Taganrog were not working. He noted that the Russian Armed Forces constantly performed tasks of fire damage to the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in accordance with the plan of the joint forces operation. The Russian Ministry of Defense did not comment on the explosions in Taganrog. Petro Andriushenko, an advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, reported that in the Russian Federation, after an explosion, helicopters are burning at the airfield in the city of Taganrog. They report from Taganrog that helicopters are burning at the airfield after the explosion. The Russians are indeed systematically utilizing the Taganrog airfield for basing helicopter units, but not only. Air defense systems, equipment ready to be transferred to Ukraine, all this systematically flourishes there, Andriushenko said.


It's difficult for an oncologist to keep up with the latest research therapies and clinical trials. Watson scales vital knowledge and helps oncologists. For the past few years, IBM has been working with leading oncologists to train Watson in the field of oncology. This demonstration of IBM Watson for Oncology, trained by Memorial Sloan Kettering, will showcase Watson's unique capability to analyze a patient's medical record to help identify for the clinician evidence-based and personalized treatment options. In this scenario, you can imagine an oncologist has logged into Watson for Oncology and is looking at the list of patients she will be seeing that day. Her next appointment is with a 62-year-old female with stage 2B breast cancer. She selects her from the list. Watson analyzes relevant portions of her electronic medical record, including her family history, notes from prior office visits, and test results. Watson will not only analyze this information, but also will summarize and highlight aspects of her records and notes that are potentially significant to her cancer, based on the expertise of leading oncologists. Watson highlights required information, information extracted from unstructured notes within the record requiring verification, and additional optional information the oncologist may choose to provide. She can also find out where this information is being pulled from by clicking on the derived buttons. Watson has the ability to understand context in a file and can make inferences using natural language processing regarding certain attributes, utilizing information in the notes and comments in the file. This is possible even if there is no specific mention of those attributes in the file. After filling out the necessary attributes, Watson will prompt the doctor to verify the information to make sure it is accurate. If a doctor is interested in finding out why these comorbidity values are relevant, click on the Watson globe to get an explanation. Here our oncologist is being prompted by Watson to add some additional information. This feature was added so a user can enter labs that they feel are relevant and skip the rest. So we can say that logically, when a user is clicking that button, it is telling Watson to ignore the labs for those not entered. In the back end, that is essentially what is happening. We assume the lab is good if it was not specified. Now the oncologist can ask Watson. In seconds, Watson analyzes the case information, identifies a prioritized list of treatment options based on Memorial Sloan Kettering expertise and training, and provides links to supporting evidence to assist Dr. Stone. Watson draws from an impressive corpus of information, including curated literature and rationales from leading oncologists, as well as over 300 medical journals, over 200 textbooks, and almost 15 million pages of text. Dr. Stone now reviews the prioritized treatment plan options for her patient. One treatment plan that Dr. Stone can choose for this patient is a multimodal approach starting with chemotherapy. If you click on the chemotherapy bar, it explains the duration of treatment, which in this case is four to six months. This timeline is the first step in fostering collaboration between the different modalities. The doctor will now look at more details about this treatment plan. The first thing she will see is information used to support the treatment option. Watson is also able to extract relevant statistics from curated literature with the appropriate source information. Here, you can see highlighted outcomes and toxicities that have been extracted and their sources. Underneath, there is supported Memorial Sloan Kettering curated literature about this treatment option. On the Additional Publications tab, you will find publications Watson has identified from its corpus that may be relevant to both the treatment option and patient case. Where available, you can also see key findings reported from those studies. Notice that to the right, we have a feature that allows the user to provide feedback seamlessly about the publications. On the Administration tab, Dr. Stone can view base dosing information supplied by Memorial Sloan Kettering. This information is for reference purposes only. Finally, on the Drug Information tab, Watson displays contraindications, precautions and adverse reactions and highlights possible matches with known patient attributes. So if you click on a specific drug, such as doxorubicin, you can then see the associated adverse reactions reported incidence percentage. After reviewing all the patient information and going through the treatment plans, the doctor now can easily share any of this information with her patient. IBM Watson for Oncology provides new opportunities for cancer care providers to zero in on the most promising care options, confidently engage with patients on a more personalized basis and make better, more informed care choices together.


The River State Commissioner of Police Friday Aboka said the commander has rescued two children kidnapped in various locations in the state, while three members of the kidnapping syndicate were arrested. Take a listen. Parried in the suspects alongside other alleged criminals, as the police headquarters in Porta caught, the commissioner said the rescued children aged 4 and 12 were kidnapped from their mother's shop on September 25, 2020. Aboka said operatives from the command rescued the children following a covert operation on June 2021 and February 23, 2022. We could record on the 25th of September 2020.  One of them, who were just four years old then, was called Fever Boniface and his sister Amiraku Boniface. We were slowly sitting there and were looking for them until recently, on the 23rd of February this year, but just two days ago. Meanwhile, the police also paraded a fake military man, falling information that he was brandishing a rifle at a hotel in Rumubu, area of Porta Kots. First of this month, we had information that the suspect was brandishing a Jitre rifle in a hotel, the true hotel at Rumubu, Porta Kots. We moved safely to the place and the man known as Adamusiraju, the man the military from then, was arrested. This man, I met her in Aba, so she noted that one of her aunts does not have a child that she wants to help one of her aunts. If I should have any contact of, maybe, this motherless something. So I told her that for now. I don't know if I see her or let her know. The day the change of number, she called me and said that I have my aunts gotten anything. I said no, that my aunts have not gotten anything. She said okay, that she will call me later. Later, she told me that there is a baby. This woman, I gave it. I told her when I go to ministry. She said we try to take. When I call her, she say we have. She called me, I will come there. She give me the child, I give me the money. The Commissioner of Police advised parents to be vigilant while taking their children to market places as criminals have devised new tactics of abducting children.


How do you break your addiction? Whether it's to alcohol or whether it's to coffee or whether it's to the love of your life Some guy or girl you're trying to just get away from how do you break addictions? I'm here with Ty Lopez How you doing Ty? Yeah, how are you? We're just driving in his Ferrari spider 45.8 spider. There it is there Down to Anaheim on the what freeway we on? The 91 there you go this guy recognizes you look he's Like hang on. Let's get it one the window down one the window down There you go So I think they recognize me actually Ty wasn't you So how do you break addictions Ty? Well, okay, I think The thing about addictions most of the addictions that exist. Let's take alcohol I was talking to a scientist who told me that people get addicted to alcohol. There's an evolutionary reason for it It's people we sent we develop instincts many thousands of years ago to be able to detect very sugary ripe fruits so they're a long time ago if you were good at tasting sensing and kind of liking these fruits that were Over over ripe You had an advantage now in the modern world if you like over ripe fruit Which is basically what alcohol is wine and even in some ways what beer is? You know nothing wrong with you, but we live in a world By the way, we take the 91 right? She's not yeah, but not not not this one. Yeah, we don't yeah We're gonna keep a stay on the 91. Yeah, so in the modern world the problem is you and I still have This our ancestors ability to detect fruit and ripe fruit But now there's liquor stores everywhere that are trying to sell you alcohol and you get too much So the first thing I think for addiction is to realize almost all addictions in moderation There would be nothing wrong with them, but in the modern world There's too much. It's you know, it's like sugar sugar is good for you But now every time you pump gas at a gas station, there's 50 million candy bars sitting there waiting for you Right, so you gotta not freak out. I think people Beat themselves up and go was I born with this horrible curse?  I get why you have this. I always find for myself Understanding helps me change when I don't understand stuff, then I don't can't get the motivation police reported ahead so Then number two once you have the knowledge that you're someone normal And number two you realize the only thing that will break addictions is Either a lot of pain focusing on a lot of pain or focusing on a lot of reward So I kind of like how Tony Robbins approaches it where he goes, you know, write down a list of everything That is horrible that happened because of your addiction. Let's say I'm all And then dwell on it for a while now I will tell you the one thing that I find is that sometimes that's not enough. It won't work Sometimes let's say you hurt people in your family or kids Like some of us some people are built to not really care like they do care obviously care But you don't care enough to make a change so that leads you to be you can go What's the reward for my life? If I can break this addiction And some people will react well to that like the most part you're not gonna do big things in life if you You're gonna lose your for example Financial security for the most part if there's not many people Addictions that are doing amazing things So if a reward for you is to make a million bucks and do this and that and that you can use that as Motivation you got to know how to motivate yourself. I guess is what I'm saying right So those are two and for some people even those two don't work Some people we've got a mother whatever it takes to motivate yourself like some people motivate themselves By going I'll just never go to a bar again in my life And some people have to do that like alcoholics anonymous sometimes like like once you're had this Alcoholic issue just don't ever go like because you won't be able to motivate yourself, but in any other way So you got to know you're motivated it took me up like I found out with myself I wish someone had been told me a long time ago. This is just my particular personality Not everybody has this maybe 10% of people will be like this like me. I primarily motivate myself by logic So like if I read a book that presents a good case Like this is why you change then I'll change if what doesn't work on me is as much of the emotional stuff So in the my or break test I'm ENTP so I'm a team which is a thinker and thinkers tend to generally are Motivated by logic. So but you might a lot of people like James I think you're an F. So F's are you I am an F. You're an F, right? Yeah F's are usually motivated by They want to feel a certain way so they need to be I don't need that so you got to know yourself I find those people I find those people if ever It'll take them 50 years to figure out about being themselves.   So I took a 30-day break from alcohol back in 2010 and I just kept going so I'm about five and a half years as we're recording this this video for me it was The pros or the benefits that I got from not not drinking far outweigh Any immediate pleasure that I got from drinking, right? And since then I lost about 13 pounds of fat and made more money and my friends my romantic Relationships have been a lot better and everything has just been better since I I I quit the alcohol and it all started from just taking a 30-day 30-day break Is that something like just take like resetting taking a 30-day break whether it's alcohol or whether it's anything else? Is that something that can actually trigger the human brain to make meaningful change? I know you've got the 67 steps and it's like 66 days, but can something like that really reset the human brain To then go and live like an optimum life I think yeah for sure You can do a 30-day challenge then like I said do it again do it again and do again Some people can bring my grandma. She she said In half a mile, exit to exit Bloomfield Avenue I think it's sign here. We got we got an exit on Bloomfield Avenue. I think I wonder if this is that In the 1950s my grandma said she read something that was put out by the Surgeon General that said alcohol You know basically I mean cigarettes are bad for you and so my grandma said She just decided on one day and she's never smoked since then so my grandma is a little bit like me My grandma was motivated by Logic somebody presented to her my grandpa on the other hand he can listen and of course my You know unfortunately my grandpa died of emphysema because he would not Go ways and Google Maps going off a hundred miles an hour here, so My grandma knew now. She knows it's pretty simple for my grandma to fix herself Needs a case presented Somebody should have been I wish somebody wouldn't know how to motivate my grandpa like maybe my grandpa needed, you know To be yelled at are you actually gonna take Bloomfield?  I'll stay I reckon. Just stay Turn right on Bloomfield Avenue and turn left Yeah, I think we just stick on this then for so Can you change in 30 days, you know some people like my grandma change it one day well I changed in 30 days because I kept I kept going like I lost 13 pounds and 30 days and I'm drinking alcohol and my skin got better and I started sleeping seven or eight hours of deep Restorative sleep and my head a lot more mental clarity, so that changed for me I just kept kept going a lot of people who've done the 30 day no alcohol challenge Just keep going some people do it Then they go and have a few drinks right and they re-explore their relationship with alcohol and for the rest of their life Everything's fine. They just enjoy wine and champagne and beer on occasion Other people come back and they say you know what I want to do it again because I got hung over To exit 19th you should make a remedy. I think the way I would approach that is Do the do 30 days and then that gets you club The main thing that a 30-day thing does is it let you know yourself knowing yourself is you know That's the oldest of the situation. Yeah Try to experiment So The experimentation mentality is almost always the winning one So if you do 30 days and you're like James In 900 feet At the end of the 30 days you go and turn left. I never need to do this again Because I now have full control over myself then the experiment's done Turn left on Park Plaza Drive and turn left on Shoemaker Avenue Then after 30 days you really you take one drink and you feel horrible and you feel like you're back to the addiction Now, you know next time when you do the 30 days you should go through two cycles of it. So that's what I'm saying I think more important and anything is Now this is assuming you're not having catastrophic alcohol stuff where you're like driving drunk killing people and stuff then you might have to be more extreme But assuming you're not quite at that stage yet or everything's It's gonna take us time. It's gonna take us tells the term left We're like lost here ways of sending us in a whole lot of different places And it's gonna be like get back on the 91 Yeah, no, but we should have just we'll just stay on the 91 till we get to the five remember That's what we should have been doing Can't order the mile turn right on Arteja boulevard turn right on Arteja boulevard It's telling us that's telling us to get on and off the whole way And I will wrap this up and we'll check but turn right on Arteja Yeah, yeah, I think you use the 30 day as the first step in Experimentation and people experiment the most usually win in life people experiment the least We're afraid to test. It's all test test test. That's how the world was built Man, that's how medicine's built. That's how this Ferrari's built That's how in most people are like tie. Tell me how I cannot test 2.5 miles There is no way did not test at least 30% of your life should be a test and 30% should be you know doing Contemplating the test and then the last 30% of your life is like enjoying the fruits of a good test and finding a winner, you know, right 30 days is a good long All right, so there you go Go ahead and do a 30 day no alcohol challenge experiment. See how you feel keep going if you feel great Check out ties 67 steps. Thank you. Ty. Yeah, Dr. Shea that we're from somewhere We don't actually know where we are because why is it need to Carmina and Cerritos Cerritos, all right. That's where we are. So from Cerritos. Did I say that correctly? Yes, that eat those Cerritos Yeah


But one of the things we throw out these numbers, but we don't actually say what it really means. And so when we think about state localities, I want to separate that out because we have 50 states plus territories and DC and Puerto Rico, but we have 90,000 local governments. So we're talking about counties, school districts, special districts, and they all serve residents and they all serve residents with public services. So when we're thinking about money to them, you know, we want to think about what did they need that for? The other thing I want to focus on is that January 2020 was not a good status quo for a lot of the country. And a lot of the country has been struggling, especially since the Great Recession. I'm probably going to sound like a broken record on this event today, but rural communities have been struggling in an aftermath of the Great Recession, K-12 spending was cut, so that led to lower student outcomes, but also less maintenance and less infrastructure. Those infrastructure issues are harming them now because of the pandemic. So when you think about this money, it's not about what's happening right now, but it's also helping them kind of get up to speed from some of the issues that they had before. So as we talk about numbers, let's also talk about what the numbers are going to be used for and where everyone is at that position.