Hello and welcome to a real conversation between two native English speakers. I'm Adam Novus. I'm here with Liz Wade. Hello, Liz. Hi, Adam. And today, we are talking about a program called Giving Thanks for the Harvest. If you have not listened to that program, make sure you go and do that. You can listen to either our classic or advanced. The advanced is the same program at a little higher speed. There's some other things, but we won't go into that right now. If you are watching this on YouTube, we ask that, of course, you like and subscribe. If you want to join, click that little join button, you get some bonus extras. And if you're maybe watching this through our website, which is www.spotlightenglish.com, and you want to get a script every week sent to your email inbox, just click the little button on the home page that says Scripts by Email, or Scripts by Mail. I don't remember. You'll figure it out. Easy, easy. I think it's Scripts by Email. Scripts by Email. For a couple bucks each month, you can get them straight to your inbox and not miss anything. This is a fun program to talk about. It is around the time of year that we in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving, which is our harvest festival. But of course, harvest festivals are not just a thing for the United States. They happen all around the world. So, Liz, let's talk about both Thanksgiving and giving thanks for the harvest. Yeah, I was just going to say, wow, what cool wordplay, Adam. Yeah, and I have to say, today, when this video is coming out is Thanksgiving, but we're cheating a little bit, and we're recording this a little bit early because this is a huge holiday, like Adam said, that everybody in the United States does celebrate. So, we're taking a little bit of time off this week. Do you enjoy taking time off, Liz? Are you good at taking time off? Sure, sometimes. Yeah, we do actually, we like putting out a new program every week, and we do a lot of work. And yeah, sometimes we need a little break to spend time with our families and to set aside that time to give thanks, actually. So, yeah, where I want to say, first of all, happy Thanksgiving to all of you listening and watching. And one of the things I know that both you and I are thankful for is all of the people who are watching this or listening to our program, who are part of this spotlight community. You guys are wonderful, and we are very thankful that you kind of hang out with us and listen to what we have to say. I know that we always say, spotlight listeners and viewers are the best. We always say this, and I think, well, I hope people don't think we're just saying that, because honestly, I really think they are. You go to some places on YouTube and people are so mean, and they're being mean to each other and saying terrible comments, and like, here, it's like a little utopia in YouTube. Everybody is so kind, even when they disagree with each other. And what I really love is people who learn from each other, too. Some people will say, they'll write a comment and they'll say, please correct my grammar. And then someone else will come in and say, oh, well, you got this right, but you got this wrong, and they'll learn from each other. And I think that's so great. So I, along with you, Adam, I'm very thankful for spotlight listeners and viewers. Well, and they are kind of our harvest that we take in, because of course, I do not grow any of my own food. Liz, I don't know if you grow some of your, you have some things that you try to grow. I am actually very, very bad at growing food and plants in general. Plants do not like me. I have a brown thumb. I basically, if I get a plant, I kill it, not on purpose. You make it sound like on purpose. No, no, I try. I love plants. I try to keep plants alive. But a little bit earlier this summer, we grew some tomatoes. We grew some green beans, which did not turn out. We grew one squash. Right. We got one squash. And we had raspberries this year, but that is about, oh, and some peppers. Right. But those are all the things I've grown, and we harvested them long ago. Right. So we should explain, maybe this is obvious to people who, to everyone, but if you live near the equator, you have a very long growing season. You can grow food almost all year long.  Why are these harvest festivals happening? We can get food whenever we want. But when you move both north or south towards the poles, you will have a much shorter time. You have to grow all your food and then store it and gather it really fast because the ground is frozen. You can't do that. So these harvest festivals, I'm making a guess here because I don't remember if this is in the script or not. If these harvest festivals happen more towards, like, in a certain range or if they also happen closer to the equator. I know there's one in England. I know, well, that we talk about, there's one, there's the Harvest Moon Festival. And so that's more in parts of Asia, China. And then there's one in Argentina, I believe. Yeah. So we're talking kind of mid-latitudes, 45s. But I would be interested, if you do live near the equator, let us know. What's your harvest season? Do you have a harvest festival? I feel like it might be a little bit like how Christmas has gone to everywhere and some people celebrate Christmas even if it's not a religious holiday. It's a holiday that people celebrate. I feel like Thanksgiving might be a similar thing. Yeah. I mean, we do know there's a Canadian Thanksgiving that happens about a month earlier. So I think it's good. But giving thanks is, I feel like it must be a sort of human urge. I think so. Life is better if you live thankfully, if you live grateful for. There's plenty to complain about, but I think taking a time and just being thankful, it's a lot harder to live your life that way. I think, I don't know if you find yourself pulled towards the darkness, but it's hard to choose to live in the light and be like... You know, Adam, we've been friends a long time. You know that I tend towards the rage. I have a very strong sense of righteousness. Righteous indignation, yes. Yes, righteous indignation. So I think that for me personally, I am thankful for a lot of things, but thankfulness is probably not one of my first instincts. Well, so when you gather, I don't know what you traditionally do with your family, because Thanksgiving in the United States is a time when families usually get together. So if you were going to get together with your family, what are some of the things that you'll be thankful for this year? Well, this year will be different than normal thanksgivings. In normal thanksgivings, we usually spend the weekend before Thanksgiving with my extended family, my wider family with my sisters and my dad. And then the week on Thanksgiving, usually we travel down to my husband's family and we stay with them and we have a wide family gathering there. But this year, we are staying home and we're making our own Thanksgiving dinner. Not me, because I'm terrible at cooking. So no plants, no cooking. Yeah, I'm not cooking. My husband is cooking. But he makes delicious food, so that's great. And also I might make a pie. Last year, I made, because famously in the United States, there's pumpkin pie, right? But there's a sweet potato pie. Yeah, sweet potato pie I made last year for the first time and my family was like, this is amazing as they were eating it. So I might do that. Well, there you go. Yeah, how about you, Adam? Well, my mother, one of the ways that she likes to show love is to make food. So we'll go there and we always say, what can we bring? How can we contribute to the meal? And she'll be like, well, you could bring a pie, kind of like what you were saying. But we know it's pie number three or four that we're bringing. Because she's just going to make pie herself. She's going to be like, well, we have to have apple pie. And we have to have like maybe you can bring a pumpkin pie or something. So you end up eating just a small slice of each of everything. You have a smorgasbord. Yes, smorgasbord. Borg. Borg. Borg. Anyway. So yeah, this is a great program to think about. We want to hear like, do you have a harvest festival where you live? What are you thankful for? If you're thankful for Liz or Adam, you could let us know about that as well. This is a, I'm just going to take a minute and say like, we really appreciate all of you. And we really try to make this program a program where we are, we don't focus on, we do focus on some terrible, terrible things. Right. War and, you know. When we're talking about the world and our programs. When we're talking about the world, because the world is, has some really bad stuff in it. But yeah, let's just make a resolve. 2022, it's going to be a year of being thankful.  Okay. You know, sometimes people send out these things anyway, and it will have like a list of things for each day. So like on the first day of November, like what is one season you're grateful for? And then, you know, for November two, it's like, what is one family member that you're grateful for? And it will kind of give you a guided, like a guide. Yeah. And it will give you the month of November so that you can be thankful for something every day. Because I feel like sometimes when I do try to be thankful, it's, it's for the same things every time. Right.  So maybe we could, maybe we could do that something for that, like this week for Thanksgiving. Seeing it, we're planning ahead. Yeah. Well, this has been a lot of fun to talk with you, Liz. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving, even if you're not going to see the people who you traditionally do. And as you think about what you're thankful for, I hope that you just, you have tons of ideas because you're just so, so thankful. You too, Adam. Thank you. Well, make sure you check out this program, do all the things like liking and subscribing to our channel. And until next time, we hope you listen, watch, practice and learn Spotlight Out.


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Ableton on Air is a member of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences Boston, New England Chapter. Welcome to this edition of Ableton on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the differently able. I've been your host, Lauren Seiler. And on this show, before we show the documentary of Hadamard, Hadamard was a program within the Nazi regime that basically we turned around and killed 300,000 Jews with disabilities, between 270,000 to 300,000 Jews with disabilities. But before we talk about that, we would like to thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many, many, many others, including the Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the Sustainable Montpelier Coalition, and many other supporters of Ableton on Air. Let's talk about the Holocaust for a minute and go into the actual numbers before we go into the documentary.  The institutionalized practice of the Nazis slinging out and persecuting people resulted in the Holocaust, which began with legalized social discrimination against specific groups, involuntary hospitalization, euthanasia, and forced sterilization of persons considered physically or mentally unfit for society. The vast majority of the Nazi regimes, the Nazi regime were Jews, center Roma peoples, and Slavs from Slovenia. But victims were encompassed people identified as social outsiders for Nazi worldview, such as homosexuals and political enemies. Nazi persecution escalated during World War II and included non-judicial experimentation, undernourishment, execution of a variety of methods for specified groups like the Jews, genocide, and Nazi's primary goal. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USHMM, the Holocaust was a systematic, bureaucratic, and state-sponsored persecution of six million Jewish men, women, and children by the Nazi regime and collaborators. In addition, 11 million members of other groups were murdered during the era of Holocaust. Now the following groups, before we get to the film, the following groups were killed during the Holocaust. 500 to 6 million Jews, Soviet citizens, 5.7 million excluding Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, 2.8 to 3.3 million, Polish people, 1.8 to 3 million, Serbs 300,000 to 600,000, Disabled people 270,000 to 300,000, Romanian people 130,000 to 500,000, Freemasons, those that belong to the Masons Organization, 80,000 to 200,000, Slovenians 20,000 to 25,000, homosexuals or LBGT gay individuals 5,000 to 15,000, Spanish Republicans 3,500 and Jehovah Witnesses 12,1,250 to 5,000 people among other people who had passed away. Now these numbers are according to Wikipedia.com, but there are a lot of people in other groups also that were killed that were probably not on this list, including Gypsies. Now what you're about to see is parental discretion advised. It's from the Minnesota Governors Committee for People with Disabilities. Hadamard was part of the Nazi regime that killed 270,000 to 300,000 people with disabilities. Parental discretion is advised. Let's take a look at this video. The Holocaust. Hitler's extermination of an estimated six million Jews during World War II. Before the Holocaust, there were many other victims of Hitler's attempt to create a master race.  This is their story. Once he came into power, Adolf Hitler was interested in advancing his own version of eugenics, a 19th century concept to improve the genetic quality of the human race by excluding people in groups judged to be inferior while promoting those deemed to be superior. Hitler's legal justification had its roots in the United States with the State of Virginia's Sterilization Act of 1924, a form of eugenics. The law required the sterilization of people afflicted with forms of idiocy, imbecility, feeble mindedness, or epilepsy. In 1927, a Virginia court determined Kerry Buck would be the first person sterilized under Virginia's new law because she was said to be incorrigible and had a child out of wedlock. After appeals, the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, where in an eight to one decision, Buck versus Bell upheld Virginia's Sterilization Act, saying it did not violate the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Six years after the Supreme Court decision, Hitler's Nazi party enacted its own version, called the law for the prevention of offspring with hereditary diseases. This led to the forced sterilization of more than two million Germans over the next 12 years. Hitler believed the Germans to be a superior race that should dominate, calling this master race Aryan. He believed those not part of this superior race had no place in Germany, and that cultures degenerated when distinct races mixed. His vision was to unite Germany and make it the strongest nation on earth. But Hitler took Virginia's sterilization law to another murderous level in his ambition for the master race. He ordered the outright elimination of those citizens deemed defective, including people who were intellectually disabled or those born with genetic illnesses, as well as those the Nazis declared racially inferior. A wave of legislation between 1933 and 1936 identified categories unworthy of life that soon became targets of the Nazi killing policy. These included those diagnosed with mental illness, epilepsy, dementia, encephalitis, chronic psychiatric or neurological disorders, those not of German blood, the criminally insane or those committed on criminal grounds. A 1939 Reich government program permitted mercy killings or euthanasia in the case of incurably insane persons. Many of these policies are generally seen as precursors to what eventually became the Holocaust. According to the program's own internal calculations, the euthanasia program claimed the lives of over 70,000 institutionalized people with mental or physical disabilities between 1940 and 1941. A quiet little town of 12,000 nestled in a sleepy pastoral valley in western Germany, Hadamar appears today to be an idyllic place, but its looks belie its evil past. This is Hadamar Clinic. Constructed in 1883, this former sanatorium was home to some of the cruelest treatment of people with disabilities in human history. Early one morning, beginning in 1941, gray buses from the Volunteer Ambulance Service began rumbling into the Hadamar Clinic, carrying passengers from orphanages, children's homes, hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities. They were told this was a brief stop. Pleasant-looking nurses helped them prepare for a physical and dental exam as they were instructed to disrobe before proceeding to another room down the hall. There, doctors would select from a list of 60 fatal diseases to record on their paperwork as their cause of death, typically tuberculosis, pneumonia, or heart failure. A nurse would then place a piece of tape between their shoulder blades to indicate what would happen to their bodies after being put to death. Some would have their brains preserved for study or gold teeth harvested after death. Their paperwork would be set upstairs where clerical workers would type their death certificates and condolence letters to their families. After their examination, the people would be ushered to the basement where they were told they would be taking a therapeutic shower. Those who could not walk were carried down on stretchers. 60 to 75 people at a time were crammed into a 9 by 16 room. Once the heavy doors were sealed shut, deadly gas was pumped into the room. In only 10 minutes, all would be dead. Workers removed the bodies one by one and carried them to the mortuary room, the dissecting room, or directly to one of two cremation ovens. Cremation took 30 to 40 minutes per body. Canisters of random ash were delivered with the letters of condolence to family members. An average of 65 people were processed each day, Monday through Friday, except holidays. On the day the 10,000th person was gassed to death, the director halted work so he and the staff could celebrate the milestone with beer, wine, and cheese. A witness reported that they cleaned out the skulls of some victims and used them as drinking cups. The first people killed at Hadamar were children, followed by residents from nursing homes and other group quarters. Nearly all were German and had physical or developmental disabilities and or mental illness. The gassing was halted after about eight months due to the complaints of townspeople about the stench of the fumes, along with the efforts of the Catholic Bishop of Münzta, a sharp critic of the Nazis. The ovens were simply dismantled and shipped to new more infamous extermination camps in Sobibor and Treblinka. And this still was not the end of mass murder at Hadamar. A year after gassing was halted, a more covert phase began where victims were given massive doses of drugs were starved to death. To avoid cremation and the noxious fumes it caused, these victims were buried in mass graves behind the facility, surrounded by walls topped with broken glass. The killing finally ceased when the U.S. Army Second Infantry Division liberated Hadamar in April 1945. Each of these 481 mass graves contained the remains of at least 10 people. Today, visitors can tour the same waiting room where the 15,000 pass through before meeting their demise. The room has displays and memorials detailing what happened in this facility. A life-sized photo shows one of the cremation ovens and where it was located. Hadamar was the last of six official killing centers across Germany, set up specifically to exterminate people with disabilities. But there were others built in Poland and Austria once the Nazis occupied those countries. The Nazi euthanasia policy led to the murder of over 100,000 people with disabilities between 1939 and 1945, including over 10,000 at Hadamar.  As time went on, any German who could not contribute to the war effort was selected for death, even soldiers with disabilities from the First World War. Despite the brutality and atrocious nature of the crimes carried out at Hadamar, American authorities could not prosecute Hadamar defendants as a violation of international law since it was German nationals mistreating German citizens with disabilities as directed by the German head of state. However, the Germans kept meticulous records and investigators found Polish and Russian nationals were among the victims. International law agreed upon at the 1907 Hague Convention, protected civilians during wartime. This agreement, along with the Geneva Convention and Moscow Declaration, allowed US authorities to prosecute Hadamar defendants for war crimes. The jurisdiction of the US Military Commission trying the Hadamar defendants was challenged immediately and throughout, but in the end, the commission relied on the absence of regulation to prove jurisdiction. All seven Hadamar defendants were found guilty, but only three received death sentences. The remaining four received prison sentences based on their involvement, but in the ensuing years, many of these sentences were reduced. By 1951, not one surviving Hadamar defendant remained in prison. Modern Berlin, the Reichstag, Germany's national legislature. A few blocks from the Reichstag is Tiergartenstrasse Fier, also known as T4, the address of a villa where the National Euthanasia Program was planned and implemented. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, access to further research increased the number of T4 victims to more than 300,000. A gray bus monument was installed at the site in 2008. It is the same size and dimensions as the buses that transported so many to their deaths, all over Germany and elsewhere. It's inscribed with the words of one victim in German. Wo hin bring dir uns? Where are you taking us? While doing genealogy research, Siegfried Falkenstein found that her Aunt Anna was one of the T4 victims. Anna Lenkering was diagnosed with mild intellectual disabilities as a teenager, was later moved to a nursing home and eventually executed when only 24. Siegried launched a citizen's campaign to build a more fitting memorial. At the dedication of this memorial in 2014, a culmination of years of planning, building, and coordination, Mrs. Falkenstein concluded with these remarks, I can hardly imagine a better form of remembrance of the victims. Every human life is worth living. We can only hope that such a murderous dictator will never again emerge to inflict pain and death on people in need. The compassion given to those in need is a statement or indictment of our society and its legacy for future generations. We would like to say, you know, please continue looking at Jewish history. For more information on Jewish history, you can contact the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. US, that's www.ushmm.org. That website, once again, is USHMM.org. 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Many thanks for keeping us company and if you just tuned in this is why 254 discussion Monday where tonight we are talking about the youth in a legislative leadership and we want to understand why are we failing and if we haven't failed what do we need to do for us to be had and seen out there. I am joined by Neville Odiambu. He is the secretary general for Kenya University Students Union at Morani Hilaria 254 channel is the Twitter handle to use. Welcome to the program. Good evening, sir. How have you been? I am good. It's an honor to have you here. Please. All right. Now there's a summit ongoing in Kisumu and on the weekend they were speaking about the youth and it came out clearly that the youth or the youth rather have not been involved in the leadership per se and we want to understand which are some of these areas that the youth have not been involved and towards the end of last year and actually even now as you speak there is a debate going on whether we should have the referendum or not and then my first question would be what's the position of the youth in the constitutional review debate that is ongoing? Thank you very much, Hilaria. The position of the youth is that the youth will only support a constitutional review that in all angles will encompass the rights, the welfare and the general administration that entails youthful leadership. So if it is a constitutional review that will not encompass the youth, then the youth will not support it. All right. From where you seated, where do you think are some of the areas where the youth have not been involved, they are not there already? Number one is when it comes to the nomination. The nomination be it to any other government parastatals, to any political parties, the youth have not been involved. That is the first aspect. The second aspect is when it comes to our devolution or the counties. There are specific places or specific ministries, including in the ministry of youth, which we find being led by people who are not youths, so we feel the youths are kind of aligned. Yes. Now, what's the state of youth inclusion in governance in Kenya and what do you think is the perception to the majority if not all in terms of gender equality when it comes to job opportunities and representation like you just mentioned because I remember last year there was a position that was given to an elderly person because the youth are said to be corrupt. So what do you think we are corrupt and what is the state of inclusion to ask youth out here? The state of inclusion as it stands right now is very, very gross. Very, very gross in the aspect that it is very minimal. We are not particularly included in any sort of leadership or any sort of governance. Be it in the county, be it in the national government. Addressing the issue of gender, we are moving towards that. I believe where we were in 2013 is not exactly where we are right now. We are seeing a number of women coming up, picking up leadership positions, picking up leadership roles. One of them, even including my chairperson of Kuso, who is Anwaria, who just won the University of Nairobi elections, for a very long time the University of Nairobi has never had a female chairperson or president. So we are seeing the female gender coming up and moving forward by 2022 we are optimistic that the number would have gone high. You just mentioned her and remember she was supposed to be here but due to some commitments she couldn't make it. So discussion Monday we would have had Anwaria, the first female president of Nairobi University. Now we have seen policies coming up. Every politician who comes up during the election nearing period they say we will support the youth, we will do this. Now what are some of the policies gaps that are in place and you feel these have been undermining the youth? The youth will not be there because I see positions and mostly in our country as we speak the position that most of the youth will run for is for the MCA. They don't think the senator belongs to them neither do they think the governor belongs to them. So do you think we are undermining in terms of policies? Yeah, true. I think the first key role that we have to do in terms of the policy is amending our legislative policies. In such a manner that even a youth as me of maybe 23 years old is allowed to run for the president of this country. We have seen it happen in France. We have seen it happen in very countries that we will never imagine that it will happen. And when you speaking of policies are we talking about the how wealthy you should be because there is a certain amount you should have if you want to run for this position. Are you speaking of what you should have before you vie for this position in terms of education because like for governors you hear of the degree but we have a person who can be a good leader but they are only in diploma or even in certificate. That is exactly why I am saying Hillary we need to amend our legislative acts so that we have policies that favor the youths. Policies that could make the youths rise from the positions of MCAs to the position of senators and governors to the position of the president to even greater positions of international level. So I think that is the first basic thing that we need to do amend our legislative acts. And in your own opinion how should we amend this what should be done through a referendum, through demonstrations. No. About room meeting. Not really. Right. You see moving forward or even in the previous we have sent bills. We have petitioned the parliament to do this through our able member of parliament, through our able senators. And we optimistic that they are doing a great job and before 2022 we will have favorable laws that allow the youths to rise. You speak of the MPs and I see the young parliamentarians already in place. As we speak what do you think they have done to ensure that the youth and the policies that have been undermining them or everything that has been undermining the youth from prospering in terms of leadership has been put in place. What have they done? I wouldn't say they have done so much. They haven't done anything significant. And that is why we are pushing them hard because we feel they have not done anything significant. The example will even be the university amendment act which until today has not even been touched. All right. Which my audience I believe would want to know what does it entail? The university amendment act is the famously known duali act that introduced the electoral college system of voting or governance in the universities as opposed to the democratic process that we used to have before. Right. Yes. And what difference will it bring on board? The difference is it will be a vote by the students for the students with the students as opposed to right now where we only have a few delegates elected by the comrades or the students. They are after these comrades or delegates are expected to elect the student leaders who lead for tenure of one year. All right. What difference do you think these people will bring on board because I have seen people elected to higher positions and when they get there they forget who voted for them. And even for the youth I've heard cries from even musicians they have people in parliament they expected them to help them in terms of music but nothing has been done. What do you think these people who will be elected by the students who will bring the difference? The first thing that even before I answer your question is that the reason as to why we do not see a significant impact on the youth elected is the notion that the status quo that has been created in such a manner that if these youths get into these positions what they first look on to is wealth creation instead of service delivery. To your other question which was talking about the people who will be elected what difference will you bring after being elected by the students because they are the same people who will go there and they will still go to fill their pockets before they think of you who voted for them. Difference is a personal approach between the leader and his electorates. Right. You will not expect a leader of another constituent to bring an impact in your own constituency.  Right. You will not bring water where there is already water. You will not tamaka road where there is road. But maybe you can bring electricity where there was it. True. Yes. Before we move to a different matter who are there already who pushes our agenda speak of the parliament. Who gets the information out there? Who do we have for the youth? Right now we have the young parliamentarians association headed by Mwishimiwa Babuwino and Sakaja. I think so far we will say they are the ones who are giving us the information or pushing our agenda in the legislative arm of government. Alright. Let's speak about the youth fund that was put in place to ensure the youth will prosper because they have been telling us we shouldn't look into white collar jobs, we should look of how we can innovate something and work something out of it. But now what channels if created do you think will help to channel or to mitigate the problems that youth have been facing when going to access these funds because I don't expect them or it is in the public domain many youth especially people from the rural areas they will have something. If someone who is in the suburb someone for example has been brought up in Kibra they don't have a land they have nothing. But when they go there you should go a team. As an individual you can't be given a certain amount. How true is it out there and if it is there what should be done?  Why do you say so? The investment that have been done on these funds is worse than even the great corruption that we hear as we read on the newspapers. Why? Because these are funds that are supposed to build us as youths. These are funds that are supposed to help us grow as youths. These are funds that are supposed to make us be to the leadership position that others have been. These are funds that are supposed to push us forward and ensure we also get into the business sector. But the investment that has been happening to those funds has so far created an environment of non-confidence from the youths to these entities. And we are asking, actually in the position of KUSO, the Kenya University Students Organization, we are requesting the government and the president to look into this matter and ensure we have people of decorum, people who can fully represent the agenda of the youth in these government parastatals. Alright, now Neville, I'm speaking to Neville Odiampo. He's the secretary general for Kenya University Students Union. And as you can hear from him, many things need to be done to our youth out here. Now speaking of the Wezo fund and the youth fund as you have rightly put it, as we speak for now since its inception, do you think there is a good number out there that would point and say, actually this fund has worked, worried not for ABCD? That fund has not completely worked and I believe the youths out there do not have total confidence in it and there is nothing amicable to show because the people back in the rural or the youths back at the rural or back at the villages, some of them have never even heard of Wezo fund. The people in the suburbs, some of them have never even heard of the national youth fund. Sensitization has not been done and why is sensitization not being done so that embezzlement can be entertained. And therefore we believe that as youths we do not have a stake in these funds. Now what channels if put in place do you think they will bring affirmative and effective action to ensure there is proper use of these funds? The first key thing that needs to be done is to change the administration of these entities. And be given to the youth if they are in it? And be given to the youths. It is youth fund. Therefore the representation has to be by the youths. That is the first thing. The second thing is we are moving to vision 2030. It is only through the national youth fund that the digitalization has not been done. We want this fund to be accessed digitally. We do not have time as youths to line up and go and issue our forms to the national youth fund office. The digitalization will also produce the number of corruptions that we are hearing concerning these funds. Alright, let's talk about devolution and I am looking at some of the policies in the county level. Now how can county governments be more responsive to their youth in terms of the policies and ensure that they get up for the youth in their county? Because I am imagining of the 47 counties in our country. If every county would take care of, speak of their 100,000 youth, we wouldn't have a problem coming back to the city or moving to another county. What do you think should be done in the counties? The first thing that should be done in the counties is one to ensure that the elite youths in the counties are given government opportunities or county opportunities. For example, the CEC for youths, gender and maybe the other welfare has to be a representation of the youth. If this can be done in all counties, then I believe we can have a voice. We can have a voice. That voice will help us, number one, in avoiding the rural urban migration. But looking at it in a larger angle, since the inception of the devolution, we are having a significant number of youths absorbed and incorporated in our counties. And I believe maybe it's just because of the inception, but moving forward in the years to come, we are going to see a number of youths taking up leadership positions. As we wind up just last month, actually early this month, there was a proposed bill by the young parliamentarians coming up with enough because they say most of the youths do not participate in the public agendas because they are not there, they are going to internet and that app was coming up to ensure that we will have participation now. But then how do we ensure effective youth engagement in the public participation in terms of coming up with ideas and selling them to the young parliamentarians? The best way to ensure the effective participation of youth in any governance issue, in any leadership roles, the first thing is the digitalization of every aspect of this sensitization because the youths are more prone nowadays to the digital era. You can only find them on WhatsApp, you can only find them on Facebook, you can only find them on Twitter. Yeah, because they were saying calling the youth for a group meeting to be heard, no one will come. No one will come, no one will come because they have also created, them themselves have created a notion or a mentality that if youths are called to search for a, then they have to be given some stipends. Therefore the idea of the app is a noble cause and it is an idea that we as the Kenya University students organization fully support. Alright, now as we finish, do we have a political will in supporting the youth agenda? We do not really have a political will in supporting the youth agenda because the youth themselves have noted, gained the confidence to believe in their fellow youths. And how should that be put in place?  Number three, by ensuring that we do not have the so-called youthful jealousy. In such a manner that you feel as a brother sends to power, then you feel so beat about it. That will not be there to propel you to support the youthful agenda. Alright, I would like you to give your final recommendations. Your camera is there if you could speak to the youth out there. I, as Neville Kodiambo, the secretary general of the Kenya University students organization, I believe it's time we pick up the leadership roles in this country, in our counties and in our constituencies. Let us support our fellow youths in rising to leadership positions. Let us build each other and let us build Kenya. Thank you and may God bless Kenya. Alright, many thanks for coming and sharing your comments and your opinions. Thank you so much. Past my regards to your comrades out there. Coming up next is why Masha Riki, please stay tuned and know what they have for you, Can Relbis and DJ Tieska will be here for you. My name is Dereva Hillary. See you on Friday. Have a good night.


What's going on guys? It's your boy DPJ here today with another Destiny video. Now over the past few days we've had tons of new info on content coming to Destiny with the April update, the 2.2.0 update which will arrive on April 12th and damn in my opinion this is very much needed. As well as all the juicy info we got from the Things to Earn stream yesterday we also got new info outside of the stream. There are 11 more exotics coming from that year 1 and being upgraded to that year 2 power level. Now via both streams the Things to Do and the Things to Earn there has been no mention of any new exotics. By all means that doesn't mean there's something hidden somewhere down the line though. But it was pretty obvious however that they were going to upgrade some of that old loot and that's what they are doing. So let's take a look at the exotics being revived and let's start with the armors. First up we have the Purifier Robes. Now this is a Warlock Chest piece known for that burn brighter mod, activating Radiance from death, Disorients, nearby enemies. Next up we have the Sunbreaker. These are Warlock Gauntlets known for that Helium Cycle mod. The next piece making a Return is the Titan helmet, the Eternal Warrior known for Resolute, provides Unstoppable for Fist of Havoc. Next up we have the Titan Gauntlets, the ACD Slash Zero Feedback Fence. These are known for Wrath Conductors, taking damage from a many attack deals damage in an area around you. The next armor piece here is the Glass House, another Titan helmet, this one known for Baved in Light, Blessing of Light and Weapons of Light last longer. Okay so moving on and there are three armor pieces returning for the Hunter. We have the ATS Slash A Ratnid known for allowing you to zoom in for accuracy while using that Golden Gun. We have the Lucky Raspberry Chest Armor which allows you to spawn with Grenade Energy and Artbot Grenade Chains further. And the third armor piece for the Hunter is the Kepra Sting. Now these are Gauntlets known for that Mud Touch of Venom, gaining visibility after correction in place for a short time and melee attacking an enemy from behind while invisible deals four times the damage. Now that guys is it for the armor pieces but there are also five returning weapons. Now with the Prison of Aldous being the main PvE activity it was pretty obvious that the three exotics obtainable from the old school prison would make a return and upgraded to that new year 2 power level. They are the Queenbreaker's Bowl, the Dreg's Promise and a lot of Wolves. In my opinion all three of these weapons were basically novelty weapons, none offering anything in my opinion really impressive to warrant people using them over other weapons. So hopefully with the new version of the Prison of Aldous where these will obviously be dropping hopefully these weapons get improved somehow. Now the other two weapons making a return are the Universal Remote which in my opinion is a great weapon, a shotgun that sits in your primary slot and the patience and time which is a great and very useful sniper rifle. And there you guys are the confirmed exotics making a return with the April update. Besides the three Prison of Aldous exotics I'm guessing the others are obtainable up to a 335 coming from Exotic Engrams. Now whether or not they will announce any more exotics coming with the April update at this point in time we are unsure. I'm hoping to see the Icebreaker maker return someday though I really am. But guys that is it for another video hope you guys enjoyed it if you did if you could drop a like I would appreciate that support. Thanks for stopping by as always and I'll capture you guys on that next one. Now he's Robot, DPJ go and subscribe.


This is Witchbase news for Friday the 1st of March 2024, I'm CMDR Buur In a Titan sized Elite Dangerous news this week, some Caustic restrictions are lifted and the devs clip the glaives wings. In the latest Frontier Unlocked, Fdev punches hard with yet more details on what to expect in 2024 and the Thargoid War enters the endgame as the community begins its Titanic assault on Taranis. You know how this bit goes, please like, subscribe and ding that little bell so that YouTube shows you all our content and if you'd like to directly help our work here at the Buur Pit you can also support us through Patreon, links to that and everything else are in the description below. Just a quick note, today's video contains spoiler information and footage from the current in-game events throughout, if you're sensitive to that please stop watching now. In a surprise move late yesterday, Frontier suddenly announced that they had made some unexpected changes to the systems driving the ongoing war with the Thargoids which is now reaching its peak. Ever since the release of the Thargoid pulse neutraliser, commanders have been able to pierce the caustic clouds of a Titan maelstrom and find themselves face to face with an active Thargoid Titan. These colossal alien starships are, aside from planets, amongst the biggest and arguably the most impressive objects in the game. Accessing the neutraliser itself and the necessary caustic sinks needed to negate the effects of the maelstrom cloud were locked behind the requirement to gather materials from the Thargoids and the clouds themselves. All very good if you're comfortable or even enjoy those most extreme and challenging of environments but honestly a complete showstopper if you don't. All this is further locked behind the necessity to traverse Thargoid space itself to reach the maelstroms, space that is controlled by all manner of Thargoid vessels but in particular the loathsome glaive hunters, a Thargoid unit whose sole reason for being is to hold you down, prevent you from jumping or even running away and then slowly destroy your ship. Again if you're comfortable with Thargoid combat killing a glaive is a largely trivial issue, if you're not it can be a complete showstopper making even accessing Thargoid space impossible. No Titan touring for you then commander. All that changed however yesterday in what is clearly a significant effort to encourage all commanders to experience and see the pinnacle of the Thargoid war experience, front here not only stopped glaives from hyper or interdicting incoming commanders but they also removed the material gathering requirement from the pulse neutraliser and the caustic sink modules and just like that just about anyone can now at the very least visit a maelstrom and its inhabiting Titan mothership. I've put some thoughts about this at the end of this week's show so I won't harp on about it here, all I will say is in my opinion this change is long overdue and I can't recommend visiting a Thargoid Titan enough, it's still dangerous but it's also now largely achievable for just about anyone. The release of update 18 earlier this week brought with it the Guardian Nanite torpedo and with the arrival of the torpedo we now finally after over a year of war have the means to destroy a Thargoid Titan mothership. As you can imagine the availability of the weapon was immediately followed by assaults on multiple titans across the bubble but far from being the titan ending super weapon we perhaps expected the results of the attacks were met with a degree of confusion. Once the nanite infused torpedoes were used on the titans heat management system rather than just destroying the targeted titan they instead cause it to expose the thermal core of the ship on its underside which is something we reported on earlier this week. What wasn't fully understood at that point however was that the exposed core contains eight layers of what are essentially Thargoid hearts that must be collectively wailed upon by the entire community using conventional off the shelf AX weapons in order to do enough damage to eventually hopefully at least destroy the vessel. The status and progress of that assault on a given titan can be seen on the Thargoid war filter of the galaxy map and is represented by a series of concentric rings. Those concentric rings or hearts are now being worn down by a massive single focus community effort. Every time the core is exposed more damage is dealt to it and eventually it retracts into the titan. All that collective damage from across the community is being collated and when damage is done collectively to a given heart it's then destroyed and the next heart is exposed to attack and the cycle continues. As a community we're currently engaged in a massive game wide boss fight and as at this recording it's the titan Taranis that is absorbing the vast majority of the attention. The hearts became tougher to destroy following the thargsday server tick as Taranis took control of another system and a titans damage resistance is linked to the number of systems it controls so progress in the first part of the fight was startlingly quick. It has slowed somewhat now we also believe there might perhaps be some sliders being tweaked at front here to ensure that Taranis lasts into the weekend at least to allow as many people as possible to experience what is happening. Right now in the game. As we've just reported all the kit necessary to assault a titan is now available off the shelf at one of the many Aegis Megaships dotted around the bubble and there are no barriers to acquiring that gear beyond credits that includes the enhanced AX weapons and torpedoes that are ideal and purpose built for the job at hand. SRV specialist galactic stuntman and co-host of lave radio Alec Turner has produced a one-stop quick start infographic guide to getting equipped and taking part in a titan assault. You can see that on screen now and we've also linked to that in the description below this video. Right now Taranis is taking an absolute beating it's difficult to be certain but we think it extremely likely that sometime today or early Saturday UK time the galaxy will see its first titan destroyed. The second edition of Frontier's newly reworked monthly live stream series Frontier Unlocked aired on Twitch and YouTube this week and as was the case with the premiere show last month Elite Dangerous was very much the closing headline act. FDF's head of community PR and comms Arthur told me was joined on the sofas by Zach Cochran the former community manager on Elite Dangerous and now the junior product manager for the game. The pair talked at length about the happenings in the game right now and what's coming in the future and there were a few interesting easily missed subtleties to the conversation that will walk through for you now in case you missed it. The pair started by talking about the recently deployed update and the opening moments of the assault against the Thargoid Titans that have besieged the bubble. They were both also keen to point out however that update 18 was not just about the Titans and that it also introduces more narrative elements that will be introduced in the coming weeks and months. They did make a very solid point of stating that the fight right now was very much with the Titan Taranis and that as a community we should focus for now at least on hammering Taranis. For future Titan Assaults the team said that cleaning out the systems around the Titans first will make the assault on the Titan itself much easier and that very much ties in with observations the community has made regarding the individual Titan's defensive levels which is now shown on the galaxy map and the number of systems that each Titan controls. As part of the discussion about the assault on Taranis the team did announce that there will be a series of in-game rewards available for participating in Titan Assaults and dealing damage to the Titan Hearts. We've linked to the forum post that goes into the full details of those rewards and it is worth looking at. As well as various tiers of arcs rewards for each Titan kill you participate in you will receive a ship kit, paint job and decal. It appears that the decal specifically will be reflective of how many individual Titan kills you've participated in and that the paint jobs are also unique to each Titan kill. The forum post says that there will be a total of 8 to earn. On the live stream however there was an exchange between Zack and Arthur that sought to clarify the amount of skins available versus the amount of Titans. The direct implication from the exchange seemed to imply that perhaps we might not be able to collect 8 paint jobs and that therefore we can't kill all 8 Titans. Here's the exchange as it happened on the stream see what you think. We are going to work on giving out a sort of different paint job every time that someone kills a Titan so you'll get a different paint job for I believe there's 8 of them right now. I think so yeah. Oh Titans, you're talking about paint jobs. Titans I'm talking about. As if to underline our suspicions Arthur also mentions the unique decal they're creating which is reflective of the number of Titan kills and when referencing that decal he is very cautious to underline if humanity does ever manage to wipe out all Titans and you could have a decal that has 8 Titan kills on it this could of course be a reflection of FDF wanting to maintain the illusion of implied peril that the bubble is in they are storytellers and the dungeon masters here after all again here's the clip see what you think depending on how many Titans you've been involved in destruction and so if you are if we if humanity ever does manage to wipe out all 8 you could have a decal which is incredibly unique. On the subject of the python mark 2 there was some new work in progress footage of the ship shown in game for the first time and the first tentative details of hardpoint and utility slot loadouts were also released on the stream those details we covered in our midweek video on Wednesday which you'll find linked on screen now if you haven't seen it already the team also let it be known that the python mark 2's arrival in the game is directly linked to the current narrative and so working through of that narrative will result in the ships release and the only way we can progress the narrative right now is dealing with the Titan issue so it looks like the ship might well be linked to the end of the Thargoid war we are wondering here if the pythons currently top secret feature that we discussed earlier in this week is somehow linked to captured Thargoid technology at the end of the war and on the subject of after the war the team made specific mention to shut down any rumors or speculation about when the python mark 2 power play 2 or the mysterious other brand new feature coming to a leak dangerous that fdev announced last month will arrive promising again it is all happening this year at one point in the stream Arthur and Zack did reveal how much of the galaxy has so far been explored by commanders this is something that happens every year generally and there's nothing particularly unusual in that the number is also usually in the grand scheme of things hilariously low this year it is 0.06 percent no huge surprises there it's a big galaxy what was intriguing however was what Arthur said as part of the number reveal oh all right well there you go 0.06 percent of the galaxy has actually been explored in ten years actually that's a phenomenal well yeah it's a normal amount of space considering it's a one-to-one scale of the galaxy so well well done oh seven commanders particular commanders like Picard is out there on his nine-year mission he counts 0.0000001% of that so well done for that but and keep going commanders plenty to explore and more reasons do so coming up in case do you miss that he said commanders planning to explore and more reasons to do so are coming up it's obviously a quick almost off-hand comment but it does perhaps allude to the fact that fdev have exploration in their sights in some regard at least for the future with such a busy year ahead you can bet fdev are keen to get more players into the game and as part of the live stream this week they also announced that a new deluxe edition of Elite Dangerous that comes bundled with Odyssey was being released on Steam at the price point of £21.99 the price of the base game and Odyssey individually has also been adjusted to £14.99 and £9.99 respectively it is without a shadow of a doubt a huge year for Elite Dangerous we're now facing the culmination of the Thargoid war a conflict that has evolved and developed for a year and a half this year there are at least four new ships entering the game power play is finally getting its long overdue rework and it seems PVP might similarly be getting the meaning to its existence that it has long craved alongside that power play overhaul and along with all that there is yet still another brand new feature coming to Elite Dangerous that has yet to be revealed having recently been through a financial firestorm Frontier as a company has endured refocused and reforged itself as it stands the communication coming from the company with all things Elite Dangerous at least is exactly what the community has long cried out for we're being told about the game's future we're being told what shape to expect that future to arrive in and when as fans of Elite Dangerous we've all been through an impossibly tough time since the launch of Odyssey but it does seem finally that those challenging times are properly behind us the current events unfolding in the game are for sure not without their challenges but as we've reported fdev have now thankfully finally removed the significant barriers to entry for those events anyone who knows me well enough will tell you in a heartbeat that I'm not a Thargoid guy I don't generally actively seek out the space-based Thargoid conflict experiences what Frontier have achieved by incorporating a fully dynamic Thargoid war into the wider tapestry of Elite is for my credits honestly bold and quite amazing but I've been happy to appreciate it mostly from a distance the pinnacle of the conflict however the maelstrom and the Titan attack experience in my opinion has to be experienced by as many players as possible it is when taken in the context of the wider Elite Dangerous multi-billion star galaxy absolutely jaw-dropping I don't know how long what is happening right now and perhaps more importantly whatever is about to happen next is going to last you might chew through the odd rebuy in the doing but I cannot recommend it enough if you're in or can get to the bubble no YouTube video or stream can truly do it justice and we might not see the like of it ever again once it's finally over did you watch the frontier live stream what did you think of Arthur's comments on exploration and have you joined in the assault on Taranis let us know in the comments below that's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then oh seven commanders follow the Greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time


We have developed a new family of multiplicative algorithms for non-negative matrix factorization, NMF. These algorithms are based on a new family of generalized divergences called the alpha-beta divergences, AB divergences. These divergences are parameterized by two tuning parameters, alpha and beta, and they allow us to smoothly transition from the fundamental alpha-dash, beta-dash, and gamma divergences. This allows us to incorporate a wide variety of existing divergences into our algorithm, such as the LISUNG, ISRA, Image Space Reconstruction Algorithm, EMML, Expectation Maximization Maximum Likelihood, Alpha NMF, and Beta NMF. Additionally, we have shown that the proposed family of AB multiplicative NMF algorithms improves robustness with respect to noise and outliers compared to existing algorithms. This article was authored by Andrei Chihaki, Sergio Cruzas, and Shani Chiamari. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Okay Melinda would love to be here but she's in labor at the moment so it's a difficult choice for her. This hope it goes well for her. Look I'm delighted to be able to accept this on her behalf. She's an early career researcher doing brilliant work in the area of as you've heard Alzheimer's disease and its link to obstructive sleep apnea. It's a very exciting time for us in this area because the link has just become clear quite recently and she and I'm playing a small part of that are looking to see whether people with obstructive sleep apnea are developing heavy burdens of amyloid in their brains and we already have pathological evidence indicating that it probably does. The exciting thing here is that although we can't cure Alzheimer's disease we can cure or at least treat sleep apnea and so if we can show that there is a link between amyloid burden and sleep apnea we can treat the sleep apnea and hopefully reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's disease in later life or at least slow down the progress of Alzheimer's disease and that's very very exciting and Brain Foundation is helping to make that very exciting work possible so on Melinda's behalf I thank you very much.


It wasn't nice of us to get you all out in the spring weather here today. For taking your questions, I want to offer one or two remarks concerning the situation before us in the South Atlantic. From the outset, we've made clear our wish to assist in finding a basis for resolution of this difficult issue. It was for that purpose that I sent Secretary Hague to both capitals last week. During his travels, I have remained in close communication with him and today have had the benefit of a thorough report on where matters stand. The situation is most sensitive. Nonetheless, ideas have been presented which are being seriously considered on both sides. Peace is our common cause. In the interest of finding a solution, I have asked Secretary Hague to return shortly to Argentina for further talks. In view of the sensitivity of the situation, I have no further comment on this matter. It wouldn't be appropriate at this time, and I will defer all questions until further developments occur. The United States is helping Great Britain in several ways in this crisis. Can you not comment on that? I cannot comment. This situation is too critical that any comment, I think, can be taken one way or the other and endanger the peacekeeping or peacemaking process. The last time you spoke, you said that both sides were our friends and you implied that there was a certain even-handedness in our attitude. Is that still our position? We are still trying to be a fair broker in this situation and bring peace and again. We lose translation between here and when someone may hear them on either side. That's why the safest thing is to not comment. How much time does Secretary Hague, does the United States have to bring it to some resolution? I don't think anyone could speculate on that as to what the time situation is. How concerned are you that Israel will find some pretext or put some pressure on the Nakham Begin to renege on his pledge to return the Sinai to Egypt? All I can tell you is that I have his pledge that the turner-over is going to occur and that they're going forward with the Camp David in the framework of the Camp David talks. And we have Secretary Stessel over there talking to them about various problems. So I'm going to have confidence in that statement that he's made to me. He stopped the bloodshed of the Israeli occupation against the Arab shooting of children and women. This is a tragic affair. Obviously, the individual who perpetrated that horrible deed at the temple was deranged and now for this to lead to the great unrest, yes, it's a great tragedy. Would you accept, are you willing to accept? Are you willing to consider a temporary surtax of perhaps four percent as part of a package to reduce the deficit? The discussions that are going on, and in which we're not, I'm not participating, are discussions that are exploring every avenue of what can be a package that hopefully can bring about a bipartisan move to meet the deficit problems that we face this year. And I have not been party to any of the many alternatives, both with regard to revenues and regard to cuts in spending that have been made. And what will happen is the leadership on both sides, myself on this side and the Speaker and others on the other, Congressman Wright, when the discussions have led to something that they think is a package that now has reasonable success of being negotiated out, then we'll treat with the whole, the thing in the whole, the whole package. So I'm not going to have any comments on consideration of any of these things that are being talked about. Wait a minute. Mr. President, you're not, there are those who feel because of your strong stand for tax reduction that the surcharge has sort of automatically been ruled out. You're not doing that, are you here? I'm neither ruling out nor ruling in because, as I say, I'm on the sidelines until those who are carrying on the discussions, and they're not negotiations, they are discussions, they feel that they have something that has a possibility of success with both sides, and then I will see it. I understand that they're reasonably optimistic with the discussions that have been going on. Mr. President, next week do you think you'll become personally involved? Senator Dole said the other day it was time for the principal players to suit up for the game, yourself and Speaker O'Neill. They're coming close, but I'm going to, they're going to have to set that time when they decide that it is time to come forward and say, here, our discussions have led to this. What do you think the chances are that Secretary Hague can find peace? Again, this would be commenting in a way that could be detrimental to the process that's going on. I'm just going to say that what he's doing, I think we should all be hoping and we should all be praying, and he's working extremely hard as you know on this. Does Ian Baker have your authority to proceed, the way he's been proceeding in discussing at least the surtax and other tax issues? He's there, but mainly he's there observing and listening and, as I say, it is not, it's been portrayed as negotiations, they're not. So he's there with my encouragement to go forward with this process. According to the participants, he's been doing more than listening. He's been suggesting and offering ideas as well. Well, I'm sure in a discussion type meeting that there are moments when that takes place, but he's not going there in the sense of going with positions that I have backed or offered or said do this or do that. How would a surtax fit in with your supply side philosophy, with what you hope will be an incentive to people to invest? Again, you've asked me, well, I'm just not going to comment while they're going forward. I'm just going to complete their discussions and then I'll look at the package as a whole. I, but I won't comment on any particulars until I get the whole package. Tell me. I haven't said anything about whether the U.S. is supplying any intelligence information to the British, but could you comment on reports that the Soviets are supplying intelligence information to the Argentinians? Well, that has been reported and evidently is established. And I think that it's, I'd like to see them butt out. To confirm the Soviet. No, no, I said all I know is what I've heard and read. And if that's going on, why I would rather the whole balance of the situation in the whole Latin American region with the Soviets, who you claim are helping the Nicaraguans and the guerrillas in El Salvador, siding with the Argentinians, who are apparently against the Nicaraguans. I mean, how does this... But now you see, you've just made my case for me. You've just indicated that there's no way to comment on these things without running the risk of saying something or creating some perception that will make it more difficult for Al to do what he's doing. So I just can't do it. This will have to be the last question. Ed Rollins says that Republicans in Capitol Hill who don't support your program should be disciplined. Do you agree? And if so, what's the difference between the Democrats last year who supported your program? Shouldn't they have been disciplined? Well, no, I don't agree. And I intend to support as many Republican candidates as I can in the coming election year. And I've never used that in spite of all the inferences in the many meetings that I've had with legislators on the issues that have come up and the votes and so forth. I have never used anything or attempted anything, but to try and persuade them to my viewpoint and there's never been any club held over any of them. Thank you. Thank you. That's got to be the last question. Sorry. Thank you. Will you give Mr. Rollins about that? Huh? Speak to him about that. We're happy. He says it's the last question. Thank you. I've had the last question. If you hold one of these, will you let us carry it live? I think you shouldn't say anything if you wouldn't mind being heard live, did you? I never say anything that I would mind being heard live. We'll tell your aides that you said that, sir. We have an audio man who will carry this live. He didn't show up in time. He's a union man.


Diolch, mae Monach yn Ewyll Ysbryd yw'r Cymru yn dweud at lŵm atall y broses o'r unrhyw wneud maen nhw'n ymhwyaf cofion yn Ew Ffwrddol Ysbryd i Llawn Oedol. Y Lado of Adoawai i'n ishain local government area of oil state Oba Adimola Fola Comi made this disclosure at a press conference also in annual Iaque Mountain Festival. Fola Comi, while speaking at the press conference in Ibadan, disclosed that 50% of the oil state internally generated revenue has been lost to untapped tourism sites. Adoawai Suspended Lake is one of the two suspended lakes across the world. The chairman of Iwajawa local government who also doubles as the zone algorithm chairman o'i'n loe'i gelili adibari said the effort was to showcase Adoawai community as a tourism destination. Y aque Suspended Lake is not only unique for being the only natural Suspended Lake in the world, it's also unique for being a spiritual source, a medical source, emotional resources, educative and cultural resources, destination and concept and nature. Y aque international festival promised to be the foremost tourism plan in the oil state that we all shall be proud of years to come. We told them that look even if you don't want to go but you can see it from here on the wall to look at it and that means you will want to not go and see what the real thing looks like and let me tell you once we tell them that this is the only natural suspended lake that we have in the whole wide world and it's one of the wonders that you have to see before you die they are they are always inspired to want to come. Any tourism in the world want to bring benefits to our community. Brazil, Germany, all those people they will be there already when they came in that in so they will see what I've never met in their life before. They will be gives us to come and impress in the other way and that also boosts the internal revenue of Coyote State and our local community. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates