And you're welcome back to the Breakfast and Plus TV Africa. It's now time for Off the Press, the segment on the programme where we take a look at the day's newspapers and make sense of it. And we've invited Mr Chris Wandoo, publisher of CQN News. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Nice to be on TV this morning. Good morning. Fantastic. Let's begin with a punch newspaper this morning. The story headlines says fuel subsidy rises to 500 billion Naira. NNPC rules out price hike. The writer reads, Nigeria should subsidise production, not consumption. Lack of local refining capacity behind persistent subsidy. Still on oil, oil firms borrowed 130 billion Naira from banks in February, and that's the CBN speaking. Financial autonomy. Jussen disagrees as NGF fixes May date. Weak air conveys state ownership of minerals and government's royalty. Federal government admits revenues crashing, says Nigeria faces hard times. We see a picture of lawyers here, says MBA backs Jussen, vows to force government's compliance. Two nurses, two others, killed and injured, 10 injured in Ogun crashes. Lagos plans establishment of anti-graft agency. Iqiti monarchs, abductors, demand 20 million Naira as anxiety grips family. Oshun hunters engage herdsmen in gun fight, force invaders to flee. Igbo 2023 presidency, now a possibility, that's O'Hanei's speaking. And a sad story here about two cops and seven others killed, as government attacked Anambra and Abia police stations. Those are stories on the punch newspaper. Now to the daily independent, let's see what we can find over here. It says here 10 billion Naira for airports build for concession raises questions. Stakeholders say plans shrouded in secrecy. Also our dissenting views can't rob us of 2023 presidency and that's from O'Hanei's and Igbo. Slain soldiers, police arrest local government officials and two monarchs in Benway state. Also gunmen attack police stations in Abia, Anambra, raised vehicles. States lose 40% revenue to COVID-19 pandemic. That's from the Nigerian Governors Forum. And also ESN won't work with the Bubeagu security outfit says IPOB. INEC reads riot act to parties on violent congresses. We can also find here, governors agree to implement autonomy for state legislature and judiciary in May. So one of the things that we're going to be talking about on the program this morning. Lastly, affinity for factions unite for Dumakins funeral. Those are the big ones on the daily independence. Let's now take a look at the nation newspaper, gunmen kill policemen in multiple attacks on stations. Buildings and vehicles raised to tennis frees and the federal government says it's terrorism. States okay autonomy for judiciary and legislature. Lawyers join judicial workers protest. The minister here saying we shan't request to borrow 50 billion naira for sharing. Asu, Sanu rejects mackin day's order on lautec VC. Governors are now going to protest plant deduction of $318 million. And the finance minister has been asked not to issue promissory notes for disowned legal fees. Terrorist dislodged troops in Dikwa seven killed in herder's attack. Traditional rulers and council workers detained over killing of soldiers in Benrey state. Those are the stories on the nation this morning. All right, let's see what we can find. The guardian news comes up next. Pressure on disposable incomes as unemployment doubles. Also this morning again, twin attacks, rock police divisions in Abia and Anambra. We can also find their governor's promise implementation of financial autonomy as Jusun suspends strike. INEC threatens to sanction parties over violent congresses.  Lastly, tension as suspected, full on the heads men invade Oshoom community shoot three. Mr. Chris Wando, I think let's start with once again stories from the southeast. What exactly would you say is going on? We've heard about these attacks on police stations and police facilities for far too long now. It seems to not be ending. What would you say might be going on? Very much once again. Personally, it's very amazing that the Nigerian police are finding it difficult to even defend themselves against this. And that means worrisome because the security of life and property internally in Nigeria is supposed to be the responsibility of the police. Not that they have a security process, but it's becoming too worrying that they leave the protection of life and parties of ordinary Nigeria. And not the one getting overrun by bandits. And to me is very worrisome. And that's a bigger challenge to the new Inspector General Police acting to do something about it. I don't see any yesterday's attack of particular interest to me. But the one that happened at Opo, the Zona headquarters of zone three, 13 of the Nigerian police, that is the Zona headquarters of that region. And before, we used to have pockets of attacks on just police stations across the South East. But now the fight has been taken to the Zona headquarters. If the Zona headquarters of the Nigerian police is not secure, then you can think of what happened today. And don't forget that also the state command of the police was attacking over a few days ago, really attacked at the personal facility in no way. Mr. Awando, does it seem like there's certain elements trying to weaken the security architecture in the Southeast? Of course, definitely that is the whole idea. The Soviets are some people trying to weaken the security apparatus in the Southeast. And that to me is where they need to nip this in the board. Because it's no longer the ordinary that are not secured. Even the security agencies, from what I had, even policemen are finding it difficult to move around in the Southeast. So don't wear your uniform again. They just put it in line and run around and take care to their stations. Even those at their station are not even feeling secured. That to me is a very, very tough call. And I believe that all the security agencies should assist the police. Since it seems that this is helpless in this situation, and by the DSS, the Civil Defence Corps, the Nigeria Army and our security NIA, and the rest of them to be able to pinpoint those that are behind these attacks. They can't just come into our police stations, attack the police, keep people, release prisoners, burn vehicles and houses. And just the priority are not wasted. All right, Mr. Ohanju, another big story we've seen across the newspapers and we'll be getting into the details later on on the program is about JUSSEN, Financial Autonomy. We know that yesterday the NBA gathered to do a solidarity walk with JUSSEN. They went to the National Assembly in Abuja to protest, but security officials shot them out. Also members of the NBA in Akura and those states did the same thing. So we're seeing the NBA here now chipping in their contribution to say that they support the independent of the judiciary and they're trying to press the governors and force them to make sure that that works out. I don't know how you interpret this in the light of the fact that the governors here, JUSSEN, have finger the governor saying these, they are the reason why, you know, the independence of the judiciary has not been implemented till now. But what's in the statement from Fahyemi saying the governors are not opposed to it and that they are the ones in the first place or they are the reason in the first place while the executive order was even passed? Even though we had the reason why the governor was in prison, according to the chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum. So why not implement it? That should be the question that should be the governor asks. So that to me is just rhetoric. He's just trying to call out the and ask the question is must JUSSEN go on strike before the governors have to be able to do what they need. The president has signed the executive executive order and it is expected that the governors are supposed to begin implementation of that order. But the people are going to every aspect of our political arm should be independent. The executive should be independent from the judiciary, judiciary from the legislature. That is what the Nigerian Constitution says. So section of the arm of government try to allow itself over and above the other arm of government that in this is is unacceptable. And so it takes just a strike across Nigeria and shoot down of the courts for weeks now before the governors just take it right to do the needful. And this to me is very, very challenging. It is very challenging because it goes to show that the kind of people who have political offices don't know what they're supposed to do because come to take off it. What does it and my problem with that that we're talking of funding of the judiciary. And I believe that since that executive has been has been signed into law by the president, I wonder why the office of the general cannot pay directly into the covers of judiciary. Of course, you know that that of legislation National Assembly have had that kind of autonomy, but this same governor are kicking against those of the state health assembly, as well as the local government. And how can we continue going out for everything good in single try to go on strike. So it's also went on strike. The other one, every kind of process. It is a new kind of man see I'm going to start to do the needful. That to me is not all right. It also shows that the governors seem to want to have a grip on those sectors to have more control over those sectors in their states, I guess, because we've had this discussion about the local governments for a long, long time. And even states that don't even conduct a local government elections, I haven't done that in a long, long while. But I also want to, you know, once again, stick with the southeast. The ESN is in the news this morning on the daily independence saying that they will not work with the Ibubeagu security outfit. What's your reaction to that? And that's from the IPOB, actually. Well, if you know, for sure, the ESN is not recognized by law. Inasmuch as I support the need for them to be able to participate in the current security challenges we have without ESN, it's necessary because all hands must be on deck. It's obvious that our security agencies seem to have the ability to handle this. You see what is happening in the southeast. Not only in the southeast, not west, not east, not central, south, south, and even southwest. But that of, if you know, that of a motorcycle has to go through serial legal, has a serial parking and legal bank to be able to operate. I, in my own personal opinion, I should think that the south is irrespective of the baby with the bat water, which I was, I am looking forward to see governors of the south to be able to have a meeting with ESN irrespective of whatever the ideology is. If the essence of that security is the common goal of securing the south is then all the stakeholders to be able to have a handshake and be able to come together to make sure that every, they cannot be working across board, or else they will be able to achieve anything. So ESN should be able to, there's only one government, and those are the state government's priorities. They cannot do anything without those government. But the government also should also move a bit for the, as the federal report, able to accommodate the areas where they can be of immense value to each other. There's no way that you can be able to, you cannot, you can be in every inch and 20s of the south is not so good. They don't have the manpower capacity, just like ESN. So I should say that I'm looking forward to have a kind of synergy between them and then so that they can get this risk and so that south is can be, south used to be one of the most peaceful region in the whole of Nigeria, but now it seems that it's taking over from the north, it's not west in the area of insecurity and that's in the picture. Okay, let's talk education now. In or your state, we're seeing that the state government and ASU are having quite a face off. So the state governor, Shane McIndy, had issued an order to the vice chancellor of the Laduke Akintola University of Technology, Laotek, asking him to step aside, but ASU has, you know, condemned this, saying the state governor has no rights to do that and that even if he wanted to, you know, issue that step aside order, he should have conferred with the governing council of the school. So this issue now, ASU or your state government, the back enforces all of the papers here. What are your thoughts on this, Mr. Andu? Yes, the state governor, McIndy, is it at all to the new best and I think he has some rights on that issue, but he should not be yielding. You realize what you met upon that you need like the last time, the vice chancellor and the pro chancellor, Barista, Babalaki and all the problems that went with the rest of them at the end of it all. It was the federal government set up a committee to look at the allegations against the vice chancellor of the instep leaders and later it was all that the protest has to leave. Now we have another protest. So I believe the government is able to carry on the legacy along because at the end of it, they are going to give recommendations to the vice chancellor and it is then that the governor can pick out of the choices by the subordinates, not by the governing council. But my question is that they have allegations against the what the governing council done, what did they look into those allegations and what if they put up an investigation and if they did put up an investigation. So there are allegations at the principle of the nature of the government and I think that it nips it in the production that whatever allegations they are placed against the vice chancellor they are investigated and recommendation made to governor, but they are not able to do that. Then the governor has the prerogative according to the constitution establishing the universe. Don't forget this university was a joint university of both Oyo and Oshun state and it was just recently that it was handed over to states because of the for long they have this big thing on funding and the rest of them, but it has not become the sole property of the Oyo government, sorry, and I hope they resolve because the students have been at home for long. It's not good for academic activities. Okay, Miss Awanju, another conflict was seen in the paper still on the front page of the nation newspaper. It reads, governors are going to protest planned deduction of 318 million Naira. So we see here that Ike Chiku is a Chiku S.A.N. is saying that he needs to collect the sum of 318 million Naira from the federation account as legal fees to a judgment creditor. He's saying basically that he offered his services, you know, consultancy and legal services to the 774 local government council in get a refunds of first line chat and the Paris club deduction and that he offered his services through a mandate from the chairman of the board of trustees association of the local government of Nigeria Algan. So he's asking now for 318 million dollars and that's equivalent to 152 million, billion, 640 billion Naira, basically, you know, as legal fees. What do you think about this? He claimed that President Muhammad al-Buhari had since December approved the payment of this money to him, but that through, you know, insurance or promissory notes, but that he's yet to be paid. Now, as we use some and the the letter is I must be waiting for him, but in every issue of this nature, there must be a contract. So definitely a contract must sign if you understand me. There must have been a trap between him and Algan and I think that if there's a breach, then each of the parties should go to court. It is a court pronoun. It is not just if there is a dispute. Is that going into treason? There's not a court arbitration that you've got arbitration. If you also agree during the course of the contract or they go to the point of dispute here, each of that thing cannot tell me what is going to happen. It has to be the court that we have an asset. So I think either Algan or the Landry Court and this on the court pronounce this issue to over 300 million blasts and how rich Algan is. And when we know what is going on within the local government, it's not the same, but if you look at the autonomy and where they've been suffering from funds to even perform the activities. So for the local government chair, Algan, we are going to get over 300 million dollars to be bet for the council to ask for that. They must have seen the appellate and make sure that they have the appellate bet. I think the only place that we can get this result is through the pronouncement of the court. So they should go to the high court to get the result and whatever I said. And anyone that is agree with the high court can go up to the court of appeal and then put Supreme Court punishment on that. Or alternatively, they cannot go through that, they should go through arbitration to get it resolved. All right, let's also throw in one last one from the Daily Independent this morning. And it's talking about states losing 40% of their revenue to the COVID-19 pandemic. It's the Nigerian Governors Forum saying that there. So I want your thoughts on Governors' internally generated revenue and their inability to improve on the IGR year after year. Do you think that their hands are tied because of the structure and the way that the country has been run? Or is it just lack of creativity and innovation that has led to this? Also, bear in mind, your state has been praised for increasing its IGR by about 14% in the last one year. Yes, to be able to lock the answers to get direct lack of creativity, the lopsidedness of our institution and the like. But for me, I think the issue of lopsidedness of the Constitution is the problem. I'm of this thought that we should have a structural system. We are still able to look at the resources. Don't forget the federal government is the octopus in this, in this when it comes to the Constitution. And there are areas where it is only an exclusive right of the federal government and also areas in the state and federal government have a joint state. When it comes to mining and natural resources on the ground, the states don't have a say on that. And I think that is where we need to rejig our Constitution to give them rights. We can go to pre-1960, or nice is the first probably, we have to be able to look at resources within the area and get them and also pay a certain amount to the federal system, but that is not what is necessary in that. That is what should be. The great governments are not the leaders of leadership on me also because they are not creative enough. There are so many ways they can be able to raise their idea. What they do every month is send their commission of finance to Abuja to go and share out of whatever we got from oil, from FRS and the customs and the rest of them, which is doing it on a daily basis. So we cannot continue and we make going cap every month to Abuja to collect this from because the funds are not even bought from me. The federal government is borrowing at an astronomical rate. So they don't even have anywhere to finance their activities. So the governments have to be very, very creative. But what also, how do you get creativity when even the economy is not in, there is no job for people. If you are going to any water areas, are you looking at enough tax? Are you going to ask people that don't have one? Probably we are having one of the highest level unemployment rate in the whole world. At 8.9 has been declared as the poverty heaven of the world. So you can say that it's a very bad, the economy team should be able to, I don't know what they discuss with that governance forum. It doesn't used to be like this. What some of the things they should be thinking is having a cross-facilization of, from other states they are very, very creative and they are not going about it rather than just eating and just drinking tea and the rest of them. All right, we need to wrap up. To be fair, the economies of all states are not the same. Lagos cannot necessarily compare to a KB state or something like that. But at the same time, I think I would just quickly say before we go that there is a very, very important conversation on blocking leakages through which funds have been wasted even on the state level. They are not doing enough of that. And at the same time, they are not investing enough in the infrastructure of each state to be able to raise more money. But thank you very much, Chris Wando, for speaking with us. I certainly agree with you. That's why I said that there is no way we can compare reverse, Lagos, Ghanu and other state boards. Also, you can be able to cross, look at, digig yourself, talk to yourself and see areas of every state has its own what it can use to be able to raise its high. Every single state in Nigeria has that. So there are some states in the North, what they depend on is rise. Some can look at their pre-court, instead of being wasted. There's so much stake in a pre-court and they can so much money from the North in terms of animal husbandry and the rest of them. South Wales, Koko is still in the East. The palm oil is there. So I think there's so much that they can do. They are just busy. All the work is for our budget and share the money and wait for the next one. Thank you very much. We always enjoy speaking with you. Thanks for joining us once again this morning. Yes, good morning. All right. So we'll take a break here and bring you stories from the past. Stay with us.


Welcome to the ITU studio in Geneva. I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Arti Holomeini who is the Secretary-General of the EMEA Satellite Operator Association, also known as ASOA, and I want to welcome you to the studio. Thank you. Now I'd like to start off by talking a little bit about the, basically, the relevance of the industry advisory group for development issues, which I believe you remember. Yes, we affectionately call it the IAGD, now that it's up and running. ASOA and its members really welcome the creation of this industry group. It clearly recognized the role that the private sector has to play in development issues and by being convened by the ITU, by being multi-stakeholder, multi-sector, and by being neutral, it actually provides a really good platform which we hope will foster collaboration between different industries. So we actively participated in the first meeting this morning. We spoke about various themes and the overwhelming outcome was that connecting everybody, remembering, of course, that we're at GSR and IAGD is about development issues, that connecting everybody sustainably, affordably has to be the number one priority. And how can you do that? Well, satellite is a technology which has, of course, unlimited reach. So we know that we have quite an obvious role to play when it comes to development issues, but this year at GSR the focus is not just on the traditional issues like it was last time. Last time it was digital financial inclusion, where the satellite role is very obvious. This year it's more about 5G, artificial intelligence and more futuristic type of services where people don't necessarily understand the role of satellite. So for us, this is a platform that allows us to inform regulators and other stakeholders about the developments in our sector. There's tremendous amounts of innovation happening in the satellite sector. But also allows us to engage with other stakeholders and see what possibilities there might be. For collaboration. You know, we live in a very harsh world where so many operators, whether they're terrestrial, whether they're satellite, are facing tremendous business pressures and collaboration is not necessarily the first thing that comes to their mind. They have their urgent priorities, immediate priorities that they have to face. And that means that when you think about collaboration or even consolidation, these are things that happen when you're under pressure. And I think if we know what we're doing, if we try to do it properly, we should be setting a set of common objectives across the industry, keeping the user at the center of the objective. And setting objectives like reducing the cost of infrastructure and investment. Infrastructure investment is one of the key barriers, the key pressures that the operators are facing, both terrestrial and satellite. And hopefully if we can find ways to work together to look for the optimum solution, the most cost-effective, the fastest, the cheapest way to connect people, maybe we can reduce the overall cost by coming together. To launch satellites, of course, is now cheaper than ever, isn't it? I mean, people can, tens of thousands of dollars, basically, you can get a satellite up in the atmosphere there, but what benefit is that giving us? So, you know, satellite has been around for quite a few decades, but people are still hampered by quite an outdated perception of satellite. And of course, expensive is one of those features. Low latency, high latency, expensive, complicated, large, large infrastructure, who can afford to launch it? But all of that is changing. The innovations are happening on the spacecraft themselves in the launch segment, in the ground segment, and all of these innovations are helping to bring the cost of connectivity down and also increase the amount of capacity and also the quality of services that the satellite sector is able to offer. And so it means essentially that people on the ground can keep in touch with their crops, or the weather patterns, how they're changing. Absolutely. I mean, there's all sorts of different innovations that are helping people. There's, of course, the whole monitoring side of things, which is very relevant to climate change and Earth observation and these kind of challenges. Navigation brings, of course, all of the logistical and fleet management benefits that are so important also for IoT, but communications is probably the gel that brings it all together, no point in knowing where you are if you can't communicate that back somewhere. So, yeah, the integrated side of all the different types of satellite applications also is going to make a tremendous difference. What about this event itself? How is this event important to the satellite industry? So, I think one of the important challenges that we as an industry face is that we're not a handheld device. We are out of sight and necessarily also, unfortunately, out of mind. So, people don't understand satellite technology as well as we would like them to. But also, the operators, the members of Isoa, are very lean companies. Let me take InMarsat as an example, one of my mobile operator members. You have a headquarter in London, but you have services being supplied on every single continent and across every ocean. That doesn't mean that the company actually has staff in all of the countries and places where it is operating, which means that the links to national governments, to national regulators are not necessarily there compared with our counterparts in the terrestrial industry. So, at GSR, we have a chance to engage with multiple regulators, multiple policy makers in one swoop and inform them about really important developments. Let me give you one.  Satellite is good for coverage. It reaches places that other technologies can't reach. But when it comes to AI or 5G, people think they scratch their heads. Well, satellite, is that really relevant? Absolutely. Let's take connected cars, for example. Can you imagine that Mercedes, BMW, or so on would actually give warranties for services, be they enhanced connectivity, infotainment or safety services? If those services do not work consistently, no matter where you drive your car. Can you imagine that if there's a cyber security concern and a company decides that we need to upgrade the software that the car is using? Do you expect every driver to queue up in front of a garage to get his software update? Do we imagine that networks, as we know them today, that are connecting our mobile phones will be able to cope with those surges of demand when they happen? We all know that whenever Apple puts up a software update for its iPhones, the networks crash. It takes a few days, if not a week or longer, for everybody to get their updates done. So this is where traditional advantages of satellite, like broadcast, will be extremely important, not just to send data down, but also to backhaul the masses of data that will be generated from IoT. And one of the things which is worth noting is that for the first time, the satellite industry is engaging in the 3GPP, which is the standard's body, which is working on 5G standards. So their first release of the 5G standard is already out, release 15, release 16 is scheduled for next year, and it will, in fact, contain components which allow satellite access as well. So given that the overall ecosystem is moving towards an IP world, we are looking at a future where both satellite and terrestrial can be integrated onto one single platform, so that services, be they for the connected car, be they for IoT, can really, the ease of use is made a lot simpler for them, and they can rely on different technologies rather than putting all the eggs in one basket and hoping that nothing goes wrong. Well, thank you very much for your presence here in the studio and at this symposium, and we look forward to catching up with you at some stage in the future. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Thank you. And do check out our other videos and podcasts at the ITU YouTube channel and the ITU SoundCloud channel too. Thank you.


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You ask for it. My name is Sam Vaknin and I'm the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited. Today we are going to discuss twin pandemics and I'm not sure which is worse. One is the COVID-19 and the other one is borderline narcissistic couples. Let's start with COVID-19. I have received a series of repeated questions also known as frequently asked questions and I will attempt to answer them as briefly as I can because the main topic of this video is borderline narcissistic couples. Virologists have written to me, medical scientists have written to me, medical doctors have written to me. I'm a professor of psychology, neuroscience and psychiatry in various universities so I'm in touch with medical professionals and we are corresponding all the time and so on and so forth. And so I will be responding to some of these questions in a minute. Before that I would like to provide you with a reading list which will cheer you up. The first book I recommend is The Plague by Albert Camus. It's about a cholera plague in North Africa. The second excellent book is The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe. And then there's of course the seminal and perennial love in The Time of Cholera, written by Marquez and blindness by José Saramago, who is a Portuguese author. These four are required reading during this pandemic. Now the panic started ironically with medical professionals, not with politicians, not with laymen, not with people on social media. It started with medical professionals. The first one to panic and they panicked in public, they fostered an engendered hysteria in public were medical professionals, medical doctors, health officials, healthcare administrators and so on and so forth. Medical professionals have become part of the problem in many places, not part of the solution and I deeply regret that because the role of medical professionals in a pandemic is to calm people down by providing them with verifiable and verified facts and interpretations of the facts which are conducive to real-life evidence-based testing. Instead, medical professionals the world over shared their nightmares, catastrophize and reacted like very, very unstable people and that's extremely regrettable. This is the first lesson we should study once this pandemic is over and it's almost over. Many of the comments that I received about my two videos were either trivial or frankly wrong. So for example, when I say COVID-19 virus, of course that's not the name of the virus. It's the name of the disease of the pandemic, COVID-19. But saying COVID-19 virus is exactly like saying AIDS virus when one refers to HIV, which is the virus. The second thing is that someone mentioned that RNA is not made of proteins, it's made of nucleic acids and that is true. DNA is made of nucleic acids as well. But what I said in the video was that RNA helps to translate DNA into proteins within the cell. Another much more important and crucial issue is that most people who rule to me includes many epidemiologists and virologists, tend to confuse case fatality rate with mortality. These are two utterly different issues. The numbers for CFR, for case fatality rate are very different to the numbers of mortality within the general population. The case fatality rate should always be calculated based on reported cases, self-reporting cases. People who refer themselves to hospitals, to clinics, to doctors, to laboratories. And an extrapolation, some kind of speculation is to the total number of cases including numerous people who have mild symptoms and never went anywhere, never sought help. And even a bigger pool of people who are asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic. Based on all this, the SARS-CoV-2, which is the official name of the virus, is far less virulent than other viruses including the SARS virus. And that is because it has lower transmissibility. Its growth factor right now is one. In other words, one person infects only one other person. And its doubling time is pretty long, actually. The virus doubles in four to five days, which is long in terms of viruses. So it's a slow-moving virus. I understand the pain and the frustration and the horror when 15,000 people die worldwide. But in terms of epidemics and pandemics, in five months, 400,000 infections and 15,000 dead is absolutely nothing. It's a weak, relatively harmless virus. Graphic descriptions of the disease contribute only to panic. All diseases are ugly, at least when I studied medicine. No one also said that the young will not get infected. No one says they don't get infected. No one says they don't die. Of course, some young people have contracted the disease and some of them had died. But this is a numbers game. The young overwhelmingly survive. The old and people with comorbidities underline pre-existing conditions.   These are facts, indisputable facts. And finally, I happen to have degrees not only in medicine and other fields, but I have post-graduate education in physics and complex, high-level mathematics. I do a lot of modeling. Right now I'm working on a theory of money in physics. I do a lot of modeling, which includes ultra-complex and sophisticated extrapolations.  They get their models and the predictions of these models utterly wrong. So some humility is in order. And a collaboration, interdisciplinary collaboration with mathematicians is also in order. And I've yet to hear of one. Okay, enough with this pandemic and to another one which I in the long term consider to be much, much more threatening. And that is the pandemic. And it's literally a pandemic of narcissistic borderline couples. Narcissistic borderline couples where one of the partners is a narcissist, the other is a borderline. First, amply and beautifully described in her seminal work, Narcissistic borderline couples by Joanne Lachkar, my friend. And within these couples, there is a specific problem which, for lack of a better phrase, we can call daddy issues. Borderlines within such couples have daddy issues. And this is what I'm going to discuss today. So as you all know, borderline women often end up with narcissistic men. But within these relationships, they feel overpowered. They feel overwhelmed as the narcissist leverages his cold empathy to push all their buttons cruelly and repeatedly until these borderlines are triggered badly. They decompensate and they act out. Only then the narcissist relents and is satisfied. It's a bit sadistic. Borderline partner often claims that the narcissist made her misbehave in dramatic or histrionic ways. She says that he drove her crazy and that his very presence bothered her, that he was too much, that he was everywhere ubiquitous. The narcissist's strong and all-pervasive personality compels the borderline to test boundaries and to mock or to challenge the narcissist's omniscient, bloated self-importance. It grates on the nerves when you are confronted with a grandiose narcissist. The narcissist is perceived by the borderline as a father figure or even because the borderline often dissociates and she has diffuse identity. So in such moments, she may even misperceive the narcissist as a real, actual father. The narcissist wants to possess the borderline. He wants to reduce her to a mute witness of his grandeur. He wants to transform her into a mere function or an extension. And this is mistreatment. This extended mistreatment by the narcissist provokes in the borderline a kind of reactance, a kind of defiance. She reenacts her teenage rebellion, this time not against her biological parent but against the substitute parent, the new narcissistic father. And of course, don't forget that the current thinking, the bleeding edge thinking on borderline is a borderline personality disorder. It's a form of secondary psychopathy, facto two psychopathy in women. So the borderline when she reacts, she would tend to be a bit psychopathic. She would tend to lose empathy. She would tend to split. She would have extreme objects in constancy. So she wouldn't even think of how she's hurting her intimate partner. She would cast him as a villain, as a bad object, as a bad person and she would try to, you know, punish him. We'll talk about all this later. So there's a lot of psychopathy play in the borderline's reaction to narcissistic attempts to shoehorn her into a role. And with her egregious misconduct, the borderline is communicating to the narcissist. She's saying, I'm not your daughter. I'm not your property. I'm an autonomous person. I'm emancipated. I'm independent. I'm accomplished. I'm a woman. I'm desired by other men. If, for example, she engages in conspicuous infidelity. Just as an immature and even infantile object by the narcissist, the borderline just wants to grow up and leave him behind. Ironically, it is exactly her misconduct which amounts to a regression to adolescence, stripping away any adulthood and its responsibilities. So by attempting to rebel against the narcissist and to act as an adult, actually the borderline ends up being much more adolescent than at any other time. The borderline is testing the narcissist's unconditional love. She's saying in effect, will you love me unconditionally, regardless of how extremely I misbehave? I'm going to do bad things to you.   I'm going to steal your money.  I'm going to misbehave really badly. But I still want you to love me. I still expect you to forgive me. I still expect you to accept me unconditionally. I'm going to use this attempt to make up for her emotionally distant biological original father or mother, but the borderline is unable to accept unconditional love. Even if the narcissist were able to offer it, which some narcissists are capable of doing, it is the borderline who is unable to accept it. And this is owing to her dread of engulfment and enmeshment. line feels brainwashed. She feels that she's vanishing. She is in the throes of some vertiginous process of merger and fusion becoming one organism with a narcissist and thereby disappearing. Her boundaries, which anyhow are diffuse and ill-defined, are utterly eradicated. What appears to be unconditional love elicits in the borderline paranoid suspiciousness.  She misinterprets any solicitous empathy and verbalized positive emotions as a kind of fake manipulative insincerity. She's asking what's in it for him? What does he expect me to do in return? What does he try to manipulate me to? What does he try to accomplish? By being nice to me, by loving me, by buying me this gift, by forgiving me last night's indiscretions and transgressions with another man. Consequently, when the borderline is truly loved and despite her paralyzing abandonment or separation anxiety, so when she's truly loved she feels trapped. She feels threatened. She feels immobilized. It's like a deer in the headlights. This leads to an inexorable approach, avoidance, repetition, compulsion. Confronted with a strong, boundaryed and centered partner, the borderline flees the scene, runs away. If the partner is on the other hand codependent and spineless, she sadistically taunts, torments and punishes him. Why punish him? Because he failed to provide her with a stable core. He failed to compensate for her diffusing kaleidoscopic identity, something which I call, which I dubbed, identity cloud. Borderlines have an identity cloud. Most people have an identity core. Borderlines have a cloud, shapeshifting, dissolving, reassembling, unassembling. It's very network like. It's a bit like the internet. Unconditional love has the potential for pain, for infinite pain. The more unconditional it is, the more infinite a pain. The borderline is aware that with her liability, dysregulation, moods, hurtful acting out, she's bound to compromise, tamper or lose her loved ones.  She catastrophizes any abandonment, any rejection. As far as she is concerned, it's stunt amount to death. But the borderline also feels inadequate. She feels bad, worthy, inefficacious and defective. She knows, or she assumes, that she is unable to reciprocate the unconditional love given to her. And this is a deficiency which she surmises guarantees eventual abandonment. It's ineluctable. She's going to be dumped. So she misbehaves in order to preempt and precipitate the abandonment. She will dump the narcissist before the narcissist gets around to dumping her. She's going to do bad things to him. She's going to cheat on him. She's going to steal from him. She's going to do something that he will not be able to overlook and forgive. And so then he will go away. The borderline's ideal partner is someone who is strong enough to be weak, strong enough to be vulnerable at times. But it is this confluence of strength and weakness which the borderline cannot tolerate because she has black and white thinking. She has dichotomous thinking. She has primitive, infantile, splitting defense mechanisms. So if she has a partner who is complex and nuanced and subtle, she can't cope with him. She has to reduce him to a caricature. She has to somehow make him all bad or all good or right or all wrong. Other motivations, of course, intermingle with the aforementioned dynamics and they result in antisocial and disempathic, hurtful or even sadistic choices and behaviors by the borderline. So for example, the borderline is very envious. She's very competitive. The borderline is grandiose. She holds grudges and she's passive aggressive or negativistic. So she's virulently envious of her partner's superiority and ascendance. Doesn't matter if this superiority is real or if it is self-imputed. She resents it. She hates it. She needs to undermine it. She needs to destroy it and the source, her partner. She competes with her partner and she subtly undermines or actively sabotages openly or verbally his efforts and accomplishments. She is her intimate partner's worst enemy at times. And under the issue of punishment and power play, the borderline splitting leads to a constant wish to punish the persecutory, evil, bad, villainous, frustrating and punitive object that her partner is or had become in her mind. By punishing him, she restores justice, cosmic justice and a balance of power within the relationship. The borderline, of course, is attention-seeking. And the borderline goes haywire, often conspicuously and ostentatiously, kind of in-your-face behavior in order to secure attention, attention, attention. She wants to guarantee a monopoly on her partner's emotional and other resources. The borderline equates her partner's ministrations to her tantrums and to her externalized aggression. She wants him to minister to her tantrums and externalized aggression because she equates such ministrations with vows of loyalty and faithfulness. As long as her partner cares about her, as long as he caters to her self-inflicted wounds, as long as he is discomfited by her temper tantrums, as long as he is cowed by her misbehavior, as long as he is reactive, as long as he is preoccupied with her antiques, she sees in him and has in him a safe and secure base. He is unlikely to abandon. If you are busy with your partner's egregious misbehavior, you don't have time to think about finding another partner. It becomes a kind of an obsession. The narcissistic partner is very often obsessed with his borderline partner. And of course, in extreme cases, when the borderline feels very unsafe with her narcissistic partner, when she anticipates and predicts with absolute certainty, repeated rejection, humiliation and abandonment. In these cases, the borderline wants to get rid of the narcissist. But the narcissist fulfills so many important psychological and ego functions for the borderline. The borderline has outsourced her self-regulation, her internal regulation, her internal lendski, her moods, her effects, her emotions. She outsourced all these to the narcissist and he had become, over time, indispensable. So it's very difficult to get rid of it. She can't do it. She's addicted to him. So what she wants him to do it. She wants to get rid of him, but she wants him to be the bad guy. She wants him to discard her. And so the narcissistic partner's presence in the borderline's life involves rejection, abuse and withholding. He becomes intolerable. It's painfully unbearable. Agony, anger, frustration, repressed aggression, heart-rending disappointment, restrictions on freedom, emotional blackmail, and all these overwhelm the borderline's fragile and dysfunctional self-regulation. So she needs absolutely to get away from the narcissist, to get rid of him, to never see him again, to make sure that he never sees her. Her antisocial and callous behavioral choices are then intended to lead to a dissolution of the hurtful bond. They are intended to motivate the narcissist to say goodbye, forever. There's also an element of revenge, of course. This is avenging.  She's hypervigilant. So a lot of, a lot of this alleged abuse or perceived lies are not real. They're imagined, but she still engages in tit for tat and in escalating the confrontation. Borderline's and narcissists tend to each other's archaic wounds or v-spots, as Lachkar calls them, vulnerability spots. They fulfill very critical functions for each other. Some of these functions are healing and therapeutic, but they also aggravate and exacerbate the underlying, chaotic, disorganized structure of the personalities involved. They provoke in the other extremes of emotion and behavior that are unhealthy in the low run. Borderline's and narcissists are better off without each other, and the dissolution of these bonds should be welcome. It's a little like healing and curing the COVID-19 pandemic.


In optics, power is defined as the converging or the diverging capacity of your lenses or mirrors. For example, consider these two lenses. Just by using this definition, can you predict which of these two lenses have more power? Just think about it. All right, the way to do this is if you look at how much the rays are bending, you can see that the ray of light over here has bent a lot more compared to the ray of light over here. Look, look at the bending angle over here. It's less compared to over here. Therefore, we would say this lens has more converging power and this lens has less converging power. Does that make sense? Similarly, if you consider diverging lenses, you can clearly see over here, look, the ray has bent more, look at the angle, compared to over here, look, the angle is smaller. And so we would again say this has this time more diverging power and this has less diverging power. Makes sense, right? So that's basically how we think about power. But notice something very interesting. You see that if the converging power is more, you see you get a smaller focal length. If you have a smaller converging power, you get a bigger focal length. You see the same thing over here as well. And that makes sense, right? If you have a bigger converging power, they focus much more quickly. They focus much more nearer to the lens and therefore you'll have a shorter focal length. So shorter the focal length, more the power. And therefore mathematically, we define power as the reciprocal of the focal length. That's how mathematically we define it and what will be the unit of it? Well, since focal length has a unit of meter, one over focal length becomes meter inverse. And meter inverse in optics, for power, we call it diopters. So that's the standard unit for power. So let's take an example. So imagine the focal length of this was 10 centimeters. What would be the optical power of this lens? Well, because power is one over focal length, we would substitute and we'd put it as one over. We need to be substituting in meters. So 10 centimeter becomes 0.1 meters. To convert into meters, you divide by 100. 10 divided by 100 is 0.1, so you get 0.1 meters. And now what is one divided by 0.1? Well, that's 10. And so you'll get 10 diopters. 10 meter inverse, 10 diopters, that's the power. That's the converging power of this lens. All right, now can you pause the video and find the power of this lens? Pause and try yourself. All right, okay? Well, power equals one over F. That gives you one over this time, 20 centimeters. Again, you need to convert that into meters. So 0.2 meters it becomes. What is one more divided by 0.2? You get five. So the power over here is five diopters. And as you predicted, less power. You can see that, right? Smaller power, bigger the focal length, smaller the power. Smaller the focal length, quickly the convergence happening, bigger the power. But wait a second, how do we differentiate between converging power and diverging power? Well, remember for diverging lenses, their focal length should be negative. So over here, if the focal length is negative 10 centimeter, what will be the power? Well, it will be one over negative 0.1. So it'll be minus 10 diopters. Similarly, if the focal length is minus 20 for a diverging lens, you'll get minus five diopters. And so you can now see that for converging lenses you'll get positive power. For diverging lenses, we get negative power. And that's basically how we differentiate between converging and diverging lenses. But finally, that brings us to the question, why should I care about power? Isn't focal length enough? Why define a new thing? Well, for that, let's look at a problem like this. Imagine we have two lenses combined. And our goal is to find the total focal length of this combination. What would the answer be? Well, my first instinct is if I know the focal length of this lens as 10 and this one as 20, I might think that the total focal length should be just f1 plus f2, which is 30 centimeters. So the total focal length of this lens system must be 30 centimeters, just add them. But that cannot be true. That's wrong. Why? Well, think about this. If you're to draw the ray diagram, you can see that this lens also converges and this lens also converges. If both the lens converge together, then all of that, the focal point should be much closer than before. That means the focal length should be much shorter, isn't it? So it can't be 30 centimeters. So how do I figure it out? Focal length doesn't add up. But wait, because the convergence is happening together, this is being converged and this also gets converged, the convergence adds up, which means the power adds up. And so power will be useful over here. So what we can do is we can first find the powers, which we already did in the previous slide. So we've already found the power here is 10 and the power here is five. Now I can say the total power of this system, that should be P1 plus P2. The total power adds up and that would be 15 diopters. So I now found the total power of this system. But you might say, well, but I don't want total power. I want to find the total focal length. But we know how to do that. If I know the power, I can find the focal length by using the same formula. Power is one by F. They should also be applicable for the total power over here. So from this, I can find out what the focal length is. It's gonna be one over P, which is going to be one over 15 diopters. And if I substitute, if I figure this, multiply, divide, sorry, I'll get 0.066 meters. It's in meters because remember, this is in diopters. And if I convert it into centimeters, I'll get 6.6 centimeters. So that's now the focal length of the combined system. And you can see, as you predicted, it's smaller. It's smaller than 10 centimeters, as you predicted, because it's having a much more converging power, so much smaller focal length. And so because powers add up, when you keep lenses in contact, that's why we absolutely love power. And even when you're using contact lenses, for example, or when your doctor is deciding the power of your spectacles, that we're talking about the same optical power because it's much easier number to deal with.


T. F. N. N. Headline news update. Good morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from T. F. N. Headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, 9 a.m. Eastern Time Tuesday morning, 30 minutes to go until the opening bell, and we got markets hanging around record territory yet again. Dow futures right now, positive by 34 points, trading at 28,042. We've got the S&P futures positive by six, trading at 3128. Nasdaq futures positive by 30, trading at 83,63. We're going to start things off this morning. We got up to 3132 overnight in the S&P futures. We'll start it off with the VIX. As you'd expect, I think it was five straight days. We've had higher markets in the S&P's. We're going on five or six straight weeks of higher prices. The VIX 1231, very little volatility as the market marches on to record territory almost on a daily basis. Jumping back to the charts, we'll start it off with the Dow. We got a little earnings this morning, Home Depot disappointing, Kohl's disappointing. We'll jump over to those in a moment, but even with that in mind, Home Depot, the fourth biggest stock in the Dow, but nonetheless, Home Depot lower, we'll pull up the chart, but the Dow still higher, 28,052 right now. We actually reached a high of 28,127 at about 5 a.m. Nasdaq 183,69 right now. S&P 500, 3128, made it to that high of 3132 just before 6 a.m. There's your crude oil chart, $56.33 backing down from the highs we made just after 4 a.m. of 5,719. Gold contract, 1467 right now, and the Euro-US dollar stream at 1,1077. As I mentioned, Home Depot earnings missing as their forecast after sales miss. You got Home Depot shares down more than 5% as they cut their forecast for the year, as well as its same-store sales forecast. Kohl's reporting their earnings as well as they report a miss. Store change sales trim its profit outlook for the fiscal 2019 and miss analyst estimates. Other stories around the market, Uber, XCEO, and founder Travis Kalanick continues to dump his shares now up to $900 million. That's about a third of his entire net worth. He's about worth about $3 billion just over that level. Seems to be dumping his entire, entire share load of Uber shares and AT&T with a big downgrade as well. Jumping over the shares, we'll start off with Home Depot, looking open at about 230, was down to 219, Kohl's KSS, looking open at about 50, was at 58, and AT&T opening lower as well. Stay tuned, folks. Larry Pes vento coming up at 9. I'll be back at 10 o'clock with Tom live programming all day. We'll be right back with you.


Fashion is not a new thing, but it matters everywhere because whenever we observe people's we usually see three things by default that is their outfits, personality and the way of communication, right? And apart from that we all judge others by their fashion sense. But guys, what is this fashion? One half of the population will say it is glamour, comfort, class and status while the other half will say it is worship and religion. Oh God, a simple question with multiple answers. So today in this video we will clarify what fashion is all about and along with that you will get to know what is fashion photography and its types. Welcome back to CreativeHut channel, an exclusive platform to know more about photography. So let's get back to our question, what is fashion? It's not easy to answer this question because everyone has different opinions and perspectives about it. It is something we deal with every day. Fashion is a non-verbal form of communication that conveys a lot about one's personality. It can be spotted everywhere from a new born to an elderly person without concerning one's age. Fashion enhances human life because not only it allows you to dress fashionably but also allows you to maintain the three C's in life that is confidence, comfort and charm. Fashion is evolving every day so in order to witness different trends in our society fashion photography got introduced. It is a branch that focuses on documenting and selling the fashion. It had been around since the late 18th and early 19th century introduced in a society where the well-known magazines such as Woob, Harper's Bazaar which is still available in the market. Now the next question arises here is, what are these trends and how they are shot up? There are a variety of genres in fashion photography itself but before shooting any kind of genre a photographer must know certain things that is nothing but lighting, color, location, poses and above all that there should be a storyline to capture the scenes and if you succeed to understand all these key points then you can shoot eight different types of fashion photography. First is editorial photography. It is all about a theme which are supported by text to tell a story. These kinds of photography are mainly used in magazines, newspapers, blogs etc to strengthen the article and this genre is not for ads. Second is lifestyle photography. This genre is to shoot or document the real life events in an artistic manner, in other words to capture the slice of life. Third is glamour photography, one of the most beautiful genre in this field. This genre is all about the beauty and charm mainly featured in the physical beauty of the model. Even this model's gestures and confidence should interpret what that particular frame want to convey. Fourth is catalog photography. Usually it is used by most of the companies to display their products in one go. It is shot in a plain background to highlight the product so as to attract the appropriate buyers like that of Calvin Klein and Adidas. Fifth is portrait photography or portraiture is an artistic skill to capture a person's attitude in a frame. It is all about pace and identity. Sixth is kids and newborn photography, the most challenging as well as the rewarding genre. Safety is always a priority in this genre as it is difficult to get children pose for the shoot and it is better to shoot in a soft natural light as our models are babies. Seventh is street photography. In this the photographer shoot fashionistas in the daily court so as to highlight the trends in the real world. Not only it captures the particular trend but also their expression, confidence and attitude after wearing that particular piece of clothing. And the eighth and the last is portfolio. Different industries have different meanings. In this field it refers to the collection of works of an individual. It is a kind of resume for artistic people. Portfolio can be made for every fields of photography even for photographers also. Most importantly one has to consider what the portfolio is for. Are you taking it for an interview or to showcase in a gallery or just bringing up the work together to be a freelancer. Whatever may be the reason one should think about all this before setting up for job and freelancers. A variety of skills and techniques should be showcased just like models and designers portfolio. Whereas for gallery it requires a single unifying theme just like that of maternal portfolio. Thereupon an interesting thing about fashion is that like a pandemic it happened not only among a particular community but all over the world. The world is very huge with different diversities and culture and fashion is the ultimate way to express it. So guys after knowing all these things let us know in the comment section that in which genre of fashion photography you would like to shoot and why. Till then stay tuned with us, subscribe our channel, click on the bell button for the notification of our latest videos. For photography courses, different specializations in photography visit our website www.creativeheart.org and to know more about photography articles, tips, tricks, portfolio and much more visit our official blog that is www.creativeheart.com. Feel free to like and share till then stay safe and healthy for we will be back soon.


So, how can you find out more about heritage resources collections? One way is to start by searching the Western Library's catalogue. Although not all of our holdings are represented there at present, the catalogue does contain entries for a large portion of the material housed by both Special Collections and the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies. For example, if you search the catalogue for information about the early Bellingham poet Ella Higginson, you'll find listings for published or secondary sources in the Library's regular circulating collection, alongside entries for rare items and original papers available through Heritage Resources. Keep in mind that catalogue records for archival collections usually provide only a very brief snapshot of our particular collection, although they often link out to more complete collection guides, also known as finding aids, which are described in the next section. In addition to catalogue records, Heritage Resources offers detailed guides to its archival collections to help researchers learn more about our holdings. Also known as finding aids, these guides generally include information about the creator of a particular collection, like an individual or family, business, or government agency. And an overview of the collection contents, for example administrative and financial records, personal correspondence, historical photographs, and or audio-visual recordings. Sometimes a guide will also include a detailed inventory or listing of collection contents. There are different places to search for these collection guides, including the Heritage Resources website, and they are also often linked from the Library catalogue records. Another very handy resource for guides to archival collections is the Archives West database. Archives West is a consortium of over 40 archival repositories located throughout the Western United States, which submit their finding aids to one central site. This is a great online portal for researchers interested in finding information from more than one area or institution. Also, if you are not located on Western's main campus, you may find archival collections that are closer and more accessible to you through the Archives West database. I'm going to demonstrate searching for content in Archives West. Let's say you've landed on the homepage for the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies and are interested in finding archival resources about anti-nuclear protest. Over on the right hand side of the screen you'll see this Search Guides to Archival Collections search box. From here you can run searches across finding aids to archival collections housed by Heritage Resources. These guides are posted on the larger Archives West platform. I put in the term nuclear to see what comes up and we get this initial set of 20 search results. You can browse the titles in brief summaries and, if a collection looks interesting, click on the title to read the larger guide and see how or where your search term appears. For example, say you're interested in this collection of Wacom County Nuclear Freeze Records. Click on the title to view the larger guide. Your search terms will be highlighted in yellow wherever it appears in the document. The guide provides you a range of information about the collection and its contents. At the top, in this overview section, you'll see dates for the records in the collection as well as information about its size. One cubic foot is about one banker's box of records. Information about which repository or program houses the records. This is important since you'll likely need to contact them with any questions or to set up an appointment. Be aware that the larger Archives West platform contains guides from over 40 other regional repositories beyond WWU. If you run additional searches within Archives West, always double check to see where those materials are located. You'll also see notes about any access restrictions that may apply. Scrolling down, you'll see lots of contextual information, a historical notes section that tells you more about the organization or individual that created the records, plus, in content description, more details about the types of material and evidence the collection contains. In most cases, guides contain a detailed description of the collection that lists out container by container and even folder by folder information about the records in the collection. Let's say you're really interested in how this group promoted its ideas and activities to its membership in its newsletters. This row of information catches your eye, the Wacom County Nuclear Arm Freeze Newsletters. What do you do next? These materials are not digitized, so you'll need to contact the repository and ask for an appointment. Here's the information to take note of. First, the 1 slash 3 reference is container information. In this case, it means box 1, folder 3. This would need to know to retrieve box 1 from storage for you. Second, going back up to the top of the guide, note the name of the collection that this container is a part of. In this case, the Wacom County Nuclear Freeze Records. Third, the program that you need to reach out to, also at the top of the guide, and their contact information. So, to access these newsletter materials, you're going to need to contact the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies and reference box 1, folder 3, of the Wacom County Nuclear Freeze Records. Remember, you can always contact Heritage Resources staff if you need help with a finding aid search. Archives and Special Collections professionals recognize that people often want to start their research by searching the internet, so more and more institutions are providing digital copies of primary sources online. Content content from Heritage Resources collections, including historical photographs, maps and charts, film and news footage, copies of the Western Student Newspaper, and minutes from the Board of Trustees meetings can be accessed online through Western's Mabel platform. One advantage to using online materials supplied by archives and special collections is that there are reputable copies that typically come with good contextual and descriptive information. It is important to note, however, that these digital collections represent only a small percentage of all the primary source material available on campus, so you're still encouraged to visit us in person to access the originals. In case of interest, you can access another video on how to use Mabel from this video's Table of Contents. Another handy research tool for locating primary sources are subject research guides on specific topics. These guides are also useful if you are located off campus since they not only suggest relevant material from Heritage Resources collections, they also recommend resources located at other archives and special collections repositories and provide contact information for those institutions. Heritage Resources research guides are accessible through the library's website as well as the Heritage Resources homepage and individual unit websites.