Wing Chun vs. Boxing techniques. What is better for you? What's the difference between boxing which has a long history in America and Wing Chun which has a long history in China? Let's find out in this video. So I've been practicing Wing Chun for many years. Boxing, I've been practicing for about a year so I'm no expert but I have worked with Jamal Charlo, the WBC middleweight champion of the world. So I've been able to use techniques from both different styles in my fighting. So I'm going to show you some differences right now. If you want to get more awesome Wing Chun and martial arts videos make sure you subscribe to this channel, like and comment. Tell me what you think about this video. Tell me what you want to learn and what you want to see from now on from David Wong. So let's get started with the Wing Chun vs. Boxing. Before we get started just know that all I'm about to say is subjective. Everybody has their personal taste, personal styles and there's so many wide ranges of boxing styles and Wing Chun styles so everybody has their own opinion. So this is just my opinion and I'm going to show you what I learned. So to compare the main differences between Wing Chun and Boxing we're going to find out what is the most common attack in each style. So what's the most common attack in boxing? It's the jab. So the jab, why is it effective? Because it's fast and it doesn't require much commitment. It helps me set up things. Jab, jab, there's not so different kinds of jabs. Long-range jabs, there's short-range jabs, short ones, flicker jabs just using the hand. Just to get it, this is an annoyed a guy, right? There's power jabs where I put on my body weight and I throw into it body jabs like that. So there's many different kind of jabs. In Wing Chun what is the most common attack in Wing Chun? The staple attack for Wing Chun. It's a straight blast or basically is the first punch that you learn in Wing Chun. You see what I'm telling? It's the straight punch but it's a lot more effective when you're using the chain reaction. Obviously you're not going to do it when he's blocking like this but you're going to do it when you're in the side like this, right?  So the chain blast, I wouldn't go just, if he has his guard up, I wouldn't just go with the straight blast. I would kick and then go in straight fast. Kick and he drops his hands and then I go in. And I don't look at his legs when I kick. I look up here and I kick. What's the most powerful attack in boxing? Many people would argue that it is the overhand. Why? Because you have the most range and the most wind up and the most, you're also using downward force because I want to go overhand and down into this jaw. Lots of knockouts happen with the overhand. What's one of the most powerful attacks in Wing Chun? It's similar but now using the elbow. Boom, okay? Boom. So you use a pad. So overhand very powerful.  Okay? So boom, okay? And then the elbow is like boom. Like that. So very powerful techniques. Let's talk about stance. In boxing, very conventional boxing stance is like this. So why do you want to learn martial arts? Why do you want to learn fighting? Is it because you want to unlock your full potential, overcome your limits so that you can become a stronger person? Then if you want to do that, come check out my Chi Life Mastery webinar. It's a free event. Just go to ChiLifeMastery.com and you can learn how I went from being very weak to becoming strong, how I was broke to become very successful, and how I was dealing with depression and anxiety and how I got over that to become very happy and very energetic. So go to ChiLifeMastery.com and I'll see you there. Boxing, very conventional boxing stance is like this. Orthodox stance.     If I punch here, he blocks it here. If I punch here, he blocks it here. If I punch below, he uses the elbow to block here. And then he's got his gut backwards, so it's harder for me to reach. And there's no kicks. So this is a very effective defensive posture for boxing. He can also launch attacks from there. He can jab, he can cross, he can hook. So that's the boxing stance. In Wing Chun, very common stance is like this because I don't have big gloves to block, so I'm not going to just keep my hands here because it's just a thin hand, a thin fist, and there's all this space around my hands that he can attack, especially if he doesn't have gloves on. So what I want to do is I want to use my hands to intercept him when I come in for an attack, right? So either that way or like that, right? So I'm using my hands to stick to him while he's attacks. And it doesn't work when he does a really fast jab because it doesn't give me enough time to stick. It's too fast, right? So when he works against, let's say yes, when he's like really committing to a punch, right? If he's really committing, then it works. Doesn't really work for fast flicking actions. Another reason we stand like this is because we're not just using our hands. I'm also using my feet.   Another important part of the Wing Chun stance is the easy Kimura Ma or the Gold stance. It's a very square stance is because if I'm up close, I'm really up close in this distance. This is called trapping distance or Wing Chun distance. And now both my hands have access to be used at high speed, right? I can use it for attacking. I can use it for trapping, right? I can use it for unbalancing. So the Wing Chun stance being more squared up, you see Mike Tyson doing this too. He squares up a little bit when he's closer because now you have access to his, to the attack points with both hands. If you do this, this one's a little bit too close and this one's a little bit too far. Let's talk about defensive tactics. In boxing, very common defense is, let's say he's punching, because I'm slipping, right? Or ducking. Slipping, weaving or weaving like this, okay? Reason is good is because I don't have to worry about his kicks. I don't have to worry about knees. So I can duck low, right? Or I can slip or duck, okay? Like that. And because he's wanting to target my head mostly and because there's usually more distance, it gives me more time to react to his punches. I can slip, things like that, right? So in boxing, they're slipping. Another defense that they use in boxing is just blocking, right? So I'm punching, he can block, punching, he can block, punching, he's blocking, punching, he's blocking, right? Okay? So very common because you have big gloves and if you take a hit to your glove, no problem because it's all padded. Another common defense in boxing is just simply to block the attack. So if I'm punching, there's many ways to block it. You can block it like that. So many ways of using this glove. There's a cuff, right? The parry, show me another one. You can do a side block, you can double block, right? So different ways of blocking and it works very well because you got these big gloves. Even if I hit the top of the glove, it's padded, all this is padded here. So it helps to soften the impact. So the key to Wing Chun defense is to be able to attack and defend at the same time. So in boxing, what you want to do in boxing is to set up counters, right? So if he's doing a punch, I slip and then I counter, right? Or I slip and counter, right? Or if he's doing that one, I slip and counter, okay? Or he's doing hook, right? I slip and counter, right? I do the right one. I slip or I duck and counter, right? So it's kind of like two motions. Or he throws another cross. I roll, right? And I counter. So it's kind of like two motions. Very common in boxing. In Wing Chun, the concept is to block and counter at the same time or block and attack at the same time. So the same attacks, I'm blocking and punching at the same time. If he's doing a cross, I block and punch at the same time, right? Block and punch at the same time. So what are some benefits of learning Wing Chun and what some benefits of learning boxing? When Wing Chun, what you learn is sensitivity. You learn how to feel his force. So let's say you're in the clinch and he's pushing in. You can feel his force and use it against him, right?  So that's why Wing Chun is for it. And you can use your sensitivity to feel his energy, feel his balance, right? Stuff like that. So you can get him off balance, okay? So there's a lot of this manipulating of his energy and the trapping his hands, right? Moving his hands so that you can use, so that you can trap him like this, okay? So using sensitivity, I'm using sensitivity of my forearms to feel where his energy is going, where his attack is going, so that I can take his balance and also get openings and attack. Another benefit of learning Wing Chun is now because you don't have gloves on, you have many options with your hands. So instead of just punching, right? Now you have lots of options. You can grab, right? You can double grab. You can poke him in the eye. You can use elbows, elbows. You can use the blade of your hand and you can use kicks, right? You can kick the knee or kick the groin. So you can use a combination attack, low and punch and high, right? Or kick and grab at the same time. You can grab and kick, right? That one comes in. Grab and kick. So that's your long-range attack. The benefit of training boxing is you get to develop your cardio. A lot of boxing classes, they focus a lot on skipping, cardio, running, road work, drills on a heavy bag. So you get a good sweat, you get a good workout. Another benefit of boxing is they focus a lot on footwork. So a lot of footwork drills so that you can move around very quickly, right? Another benefit in boxing is you get to learn how to use head movement like we showed you. And head movement helps you to get more ability and flexibility in your upper body and coordination and balance. So this is just a very short, summarized comparison between wing turn and boxing. Obviously, neither sport is better. It's really up to which one you want to train and what your fighting style is. In my opinion, I think you should learn both because then you get the best from both styles. So remember to check out my free webinar. It's my free event that you can go to. It's called Chi Life Mastery. Go to www.chilifemastery.com and I'll see you there. Use the chi and prosper.


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How much can one man take that's a question that I asked myself every time I see somebody blatantly disrespecting Lamar Jackson now don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with criticizing Lamar Jackson there's nothing wrong with talking about flaws that are in his game because again he is not a perfect quarterback but a lot of people they go way beyond just criticism that they go way beyond just critiquing his game because so much of what you see when it comes to one Lamar Jackson is just flat out hate and it is so obvious the athletic Mike Sando he composed an article and I know you all have seen the quote by now but he composed an article where it says it's a new era for quarterback tears as 50 NFL coaches and executives have shaken up the elite ranks for 2022 the ninth incarnation of my annual survey so basically this is a survey that is going through a lot of the quarterbacks in the league putting them in different tiers tier one tier two tier three obviously tier one being the best of the best and so on and so forth but there's been a quote that has been going around and you all know again when it comes to quotes you can look at a quote and be like yikes or you can look at a quote and be like oh nice all depending on what the quote says but it's very important to always get context even though with that quote with this quote that we about to go over it really didn't need any context but let's talk about it so we're going straight to the section that talked about Lamar Jackson they have him listed at number 10 so let's read the entirety of the section on Ravens star quarterback says Lamar Jackson climbs slightly in terms of average vote but dropped three places in the rankings as Stafford Herbert and Borough move past him there remains no player like him in the league so that's subjective whoever you ever you want to put Lamar in terms of top quarterbacks we're not here to talk about that but let's keep moving so here we go one quote said you cannot go into a game and not account for this guy like we are meeting with people every offseason to find out how they would defend this type of offense a defensive coordinator said at the time at the same time I can totally see why you can go anywhere from one to three on him if he has to drop back and throw the ball it is not the same but if he is on rhythm and they are running the ball and they are running the play action off it if you can't account for that dude he is going to kill you so that's when the the slight disrespect if they throw it in there if you didn't pay attention you might not have caught it because it said again let's run it back all right we're meeting with people every offseason to find out how they would defend this type of offense at the same time I can totally see why you can go anywhere from one to three on him as far as the tears if he has to drop back and throw the ball it is not the same so I don't know where this comes from I don't know why people are still running with it saying that Lamar Jackson can't drop back and throw the ball anyway so they're saying that he only thrives if the Ravens are running the ball and they're running the play action off of it this couldn't be further from the truth we've seen it a lot of times when the Ravens they're not running the ball particularly well but Lamar Jackson still goes out there and does this thing we saw it a lot last year too but this could also be said about a lot of quarterbacks if a team is one-dimensional if you're going against an offense and they're one-dimensional if they can't run the ball that makes it easier to defend any quarterback but no no no no because it's Lamar Jackson no no no this only applies to him of course anyway moving on says Jackson was so sensational as a dual threat during his 2019 MVP season that 16 voters placed him in tier one heading into 2020 this year there were as many votes for Jackson in tier one eight as there were in tier three so eight people voted for him to be in the tier one of a quarterbacks and eight people also voted for him to be in the tier three of quarterbacks all right so here we go if this is the infamous quote that everybody's been let's get into it if he has to pass to win the game they win the game another defensive coordinator said so it's not everybody loves to bring up the the coach game because that was a crazy game and Lamar Jackson he was passing like crazy Ravens won the game Ravens were down multiple scores they came back they won the game why are we continuing this Lamar Jackson has wins where he has had to pass the ball a lot he's had wins where he hasn't had to pass the ball much he's had multiple touchdown five touchdown games four touchdown three touchdown games he's had games where the run game it's taken off he's had games where the run game ain't been so pretty but he still had to throw the ball and they've won he's won with throwing from ahead he's won with throwing from behind I hate that I have to always go back to 2018 but I set it back then and I set it in 2019 as well and I will continue to say it because the same thing remains true nothing that Lamar Jackson does will ever be good enough Lamar Jackson and again and I said this in another video there are people that have a Lamar Jackson prove it list I I'll give Lamar Jackson credit if he does this this this this and this and he could do this this this this and this and more and instead of them crossing out all right he did that he did that he did that he did that he did that they'll erase it and write something new and what the one of the craziest parts about it they won't just erase it and write something new they'll erase it and write something that he's already proven he can do but they'll still write it on there to do this like he hasn't accomplished it already or like he's incapable of doing it but let's get back to this silly quote if he has to pass to win the game they win in the game another defensive coordinator said he's so unique as an athlete and he's really a good football player but I don't care if he wins the league MVP 12 times I don't think he'll ever be a one tier one is speaking of I don't think he'll ever be a tier one as a quarterback he'll be a tier one as a football player but not as a quarterback so many games come down to two minutes and that is why they have a hard time advancing even when they are good on defense playoffs are tight you have to be able to throw the ball and he is just so inconsistent throwing the ball it is hit or miss wow that was a lot that was a lot and um I've seen I've seen a lot of people say hold that gotta be Jack Dale Rio then I've seen some other people say oh that's probably big big fangio then I did see one person say oh that that's probably wink more in there but anyway um Roger Sherman I don't know who Roger Sherman is but he brought out a very interesting stat um I didn't know about this stat I mean I've seen it but I didn't know I didn't the numbers weren't in my head but I've seen it from watching them all Jackson play but anyway it says in games with less than five minutes to go in the fourth quarter and trailing so being down the last three seasons so that's the scenario in regular season games with five minutes less to go in the fourth quarter and being down scores being trailing in the last three seasons so 2021 uh 2020 and 2019 he said unstoppable comeback god Patrick Mahones went 39 for 62 509 yards 62.9 completion percentage in 8.2 yards per attempt four touchdowns to one interception a 110.2 QB rating so that's nice that's nice again that's in the the last five minutes when there's five minutes or less left in the game fourth quarter and trailing in the last three seasons so okay but Lamar Jackson who can't pass to win the game Lamar Jackson in that same time period he's went 41 out of 64 574 yards 64.1 completion percentage nine point nine yards per yards nine yards per attempt can't even talk five touchdowns to one interception and a 112.4 QB rating so in crunch time in clutch time he's been clutch and even I mean the numbers are even better than Patrick Mahones who a lot a lot of people would say is clutch as well um but a lot of people will praise Patrick Mahones who is nice he's amazing but they'll say Lamar Jackson can't do it all right back to uh the article um the way that I feel about these quotes if you're gonna say something like this you're gonna be big and bold and bad and with your chest out put your name on it put your name on it if you're willing to be this loud and this wrong at least own up to it own up to it that's up because there's a lot of people that have said this and that and the third about Lamar Jackson there's a lot of people that have been wrong about this that and the third when it comes to Lamar Jackson but a lot of people have put their name on it a lot of people haven't as well but a lot of people have put their name on it I really wish this person would have just just so we know who it is because we don't have the four contexts I in my personal opinion I think this is somebody who Lamar probably made him very frustrated as a defensive coordinator before I would think that this would be somebody who Lamar just really had them heated at their game plan and Lamar just shredded their defense in more ways than one but hey since they put no name on it we'll never know back to the article says the Ravens are one in three in a postseason with Lamar Jackson starting Lamar Jackson has averaged 6.6 yards per attempt with four total touchdowns and seven turnovers in those games during the same span the players in tier one this season are 24 and 12 in the playoffs while averaging 7.7 yards per attempt with 79 total touchdowns and 24 turnovers their combined playoff passer rating is 99.7 compared to 68.3 for Jackson this is like we know Lamar Jackson in the playoffs and again context is important we know there's been some struggles but again one in three in a playoffs that's what gets highlighted all the time I know I get it first playoff game there's no excuses but this is just what it is first playoff game was his rookie season the Ravens had just played the charges two weeks prior that was a talk of the town oh man the Ravens the charges coming in the town Ravens just played them two weeks ago this rookie Lamar Jackson oh he did this thing against the chart did it all cakele Ravens played them two weeks prior they ran the same offense that they were running two weeks ago the offense wasn't working in the first quarter they still kept running it second quarter they still kept running it third quarter they still kept running it beginning the fourth quarter they still kept running then all of a sudden they're like oh you know what in the middle of the fourth quarter let's change it guess what happened they start moving the ball and he starts calling oh bye golly wow geez man that's amazing and it was just so frustrating and I remember being there watching it like just just didn't get it following year MVP season we know face the Titans at the crib at home um drop after drop after drop after drop after drop after drop after drop after drop after drop after drop so many people they praise Lamar Jackson for oh man he won an MVP with that at wide receiver man and this is why it gets so frustrated with a lot of Ravens fans who continue to bring that up oh look what he did with this guy that guy that guy that guy wide receiving 2019 when he won his MVP season all we need to do is upgrade the offensive line and we'll be straight but look what happened in the playoffs with those same wide receivers in his MVP season it was not pretty hollywood did his thing now hollywood stepped up but everybody else that it was nasty it was really really nasty so this is why I continue to advocate for the Baltimore Ravens to provide Lamar Jackson with significant weapons it's not a shot at the guys that are already there now but why not give him more why not give him even better than what he's had why not give him the best you could possibly give another conversation though following year Tennessee Titans game oh it's a struggle they were struggling early on um Lamar he was a little off early on in that game um and then there was an interception I think was that the past the miles working well I think that was one of miles working and I don't know if the win took it or what I don't even remember and I think miles working he might have timed it a little bit wrong too because it's just it's just ugly it's just ugly but then Lamar was like hold up man I gotta take this thing over you start taking it over and the Ravens won he broke off that was that a 59 yard run I don't remember how long that run was it was super long though but he broke that run off for a touchdown hit and there was a there was some clutch throws in that game I remember one I think was on a third down and it's one of Lamar Jackson specialties y'all know when he does it when he he snaps the ball he's looking he's looking of course the pocket breaks down because you know you don't be having no protection but nobody talks about that but anyway um that broke down he was scrambling looking looking looking scrambling looking looking and nobody talks about when he always does that because he always does that he always if the pocket breaks it will win the pocket breaks down because it breaks down a lot he has to scramble and he's always looking down a field but they want to call him a run for his quarterback but anyway he was scrambling Scramming to his right to his right to his right looking looking looking scramming to his right. Wait wait wait wait wait wait last second And I think he he hit Mark Andrews on the sideline. Oh, was it Hayden Hurst? I Forget which one it was I think it was Mark Andrews though But anyway here's Titan on a sideline big big third down play huge third down play and that was a game changer But anyway, the Ravens were down multiple scores in that game and a playoff game to Playoff atmosphere playoff game. Oh Ravens down multiple scores. Oh, you know They can't come back in when they came back in one Bill's game whoo Bill's game. They just were not moving that ball Shout out to Bill's defensive line. Bill's defensive line was like y'all are not running the ball on us. Y'all ain't moving us We gonna move y'all Ravens are struggling that interception Whoo I mean offensive line they they weren't blocking he did Think somebody on the on the play before that pick six that he threw was it to poor you or hide I forgot which one called it and took it back for six, but the play before They had a touchdown And I thought was that what offensive line just didn't block something happened on the play I forgot what happened, but It was obviously not a touchdown. It had a touchdown, but it was not a touchdown Then he threw that pick six bad though But they were still in it They were still in it But then Patrick McCary was like no, we are not about to be in this thing anymore because we I'm gonna take out our quarterback So then Patrick McCary with the high snap Where's that ball going? You know the rest of the story when it came to the concussion but anyway The way that they put these stats It reminds me of Avengers Because it's like all the the tier one quarterbacks that they're talking about it's like Daddy Avengers and Lamar Jackson is Thanos Because again, they put in Lamar Jackson's one person one player And I understand what they're doing They just couldn't put in all the averages of those guys, but they put in all those guys together all their numbers together Can't slow on Lamar Jackson, but it is cool. Anyway Next paragraph said I think what we saw with Lamar starting with the Miami game and carrying through the rest of the Season was someone who struggled to identify coverages and make pre snap reads an offensive coach said this somebody else So he is still a really dynamic player bring something different to the group But by and large is going to have to continue to improve as a passer in order to go deep in the playoffs and put himself in the tier one group, huh Lamar Jackson As a passer It's like that that narrative it seems like it's never gonna go away That he needs to improve as a passer. It's like there's there's never a narrative or there's rarely a narrative The Raven should really invest and improve what they put around Lamar Jackson Especially at the wide receiver position to really get the most out of him That's that's a narrative that you don't hear too often But you always hear the one about Lamar Jackson needing to improve as a passer You look at last year That's our context is so important Lamar Jackson, there were a lot of yards that Lamar Jackson threw that weren't caught Hollywood. He had some drops Sammy Watkins just had some misses. I remember one of my guys put that that dolphins game the way Sammy Watkins Just stopped running Lamar threw him a touchdown. It's good pass back at the end zone. Sammy Watkins And I just it just it just hurt to see that stuff that there Were a lot of points a lot of yards left on the field even just last year alone Now is Lamar perfect. No Lamar has some misses. Yes interceptions. That's when drugs Yes, and bad throws there's all of that stuff But every quarterback has that stuff But with Lamar Jackson it gets highlighted like crazy to an extreme To an extreme y'all know that y'all see it all the time y'all see quotes like the ones that we read in this article and Most people aren't even surprised by it Because people are just openly hating this dude for whatever reason. I Don't know how he does it. I commend him like crazy because The fact that a lot of times he just stays silent And it's like with Lamar Jackson. It's he's in such a tough position Because people they talk crazy about him like in this article they talk reckless about him Some people put their name on a lot of people don't but anyway, they talk crazy about him He just sits back and remains quiet But then when he speaks about it when he addresses it, he's a bad guy When he calls it out, he's immature When he talks about it. Oh, that's not a real franchise quarterback When he goes back at those people.  He's somebody somebody talking about every day every day I Don't know how he does it. Anyway It says those places Lamar Jackson in tier one Think his skill set is unique enough to warrant that status to me It is nonsense to say he is not in tier one another offensive coach said He is one of the more special talents to ever play the game and Baltimore is a contender because of him And that's true No Lamar Jackson or Ravens being contenders straight up Everybody knows that whether you love it. What do you like Lamar Jackson or not? And I've seen somebody that seems people argue to hold Tyler Hunley thing old Ravens could let Lamar Jackson walking Have Tyler Hunley run the show cuz I how he did last year Tyler Hunley when we're one in five In Lamar Jackson's absence. He won the Bears game But other than that He didn't win at all He did not win at all some games. He played good other games was like It was close. He was close, but being close is not good enough and I Do think Tyler Hunley with preparation and proper investment. I think he could start an NFL for sure. I really do But that whole argument about Tyler Hunley Him replacing Lamar Jackson for the Ravens. No, that's no no But anyway This is articles like this quotes like that comments like that It's going to continue. It's never going to go away. So Just got to be used to it Cuz people will continue to do the same thing over and over and over and over and It's just it's weird. It's very weird I Understand if people are gonna break down film and be like, oh no Lamar Jackson He need to do a better job, but if he knew do better job of that did it But stuff like that That's not criticized Stuff like that. It's not breaking down the way that he plays Stuff like that is just pure hate and it's obvious You


In the winter of 2016, the chair of the management board of a leading construction company in Turkey, they're called Folk Art, proudly announced the plans for a monumental mix use project in a building thought in a central location in Izmir, which is called Basmane. And there you see the plot that we are interested in. The plot in question was known as the pit of shame due to its neglected condition. Here you can see behind this water body there. It had indeed been left to the forces of nature since 1988 when it was excavated for the construction of a World Trade Center, which was never built. Filled with rainwater and inhabited by various species of living organisms, the site stood at an anomaly at the heart of the city. Folk Art, the company, they invited five national and international architectural firms to develop design proposals for the plot. The upcoming projects were strikingly similar, each consisting of a soaring tower of eye-catching architectural features generated by the latest technological means and accommodating luxurious residential, commercial, and office area. Here you see the proposals. These projects are totally in line with neoliberal urban development policies based on urban renewable schemes which favor private investors to build income-generating mixed-use projects. The chair of Folk Arts Management Board, says, and I'm quoting, as a work of art emerges from the pit, and this is the work of art, from the pit that caused the feeling of shame in every one of us, shame. The entire city will be cleansed of the negative energy that had emanated from the site, and the work will be registered as a sign of transformation and great change in the city's history. Now, this chair's use of the term negative energy clearly refers to the uncontrolled growth of wild nature in the city center. Yet his assertion about changing the course of the city's history calls for further attention, especially since the site is located in a historically significant part of the city. Questions proliferate. First of all, how our history and nature, which are generally sources of pride in the dominant fiction of contemporary urbanism, be related to shame? Which history and which nature are the topics of this discourse? And secondly, if the responsibility for the present condition of the site lies on the site of the urban administrators, why should the citizens bear the burden of shame? How can I be ashamed of something that I have not created a part? And how can this generalized notion of shame be theorized? We have a small section on explaining our theoretical basis on shame. In its everyday use, shame means lots of honor and respect and clearly involves the presence of an other's gaze, somebody else is causing the shame. Here, other refers not only to other subjects, but also to the big other, called the symbolic order, if you are familiar with psychonautical theory, which is the realm of language, society and mind. While shame is often associated with being exposed in a socially or ethically inappropriate situation, here we are concerned with the kind of shame that involves seeing rather than being seen. Here, shame begins when one sees an intolerable lack in the symbolic realm, realm of language and law. As psychonautical theory contends, the symbolic realm, which is believed to embody plenitude, which is supposed to be complete, unbreakable, is always already marked with a founding left, which is covered over by such means as fantasies. So that notion of wholeness is preserved. Shame results in the perception of the revelation of what needed to be concealed. The question that follows is what to do with such perception, although the immediate reaction may be to forget or to cover up the intolerable. The Leusian theory contends that the acknowledgement of shame may lead to the creation of new forms of resistance and creativity and for the genesis of new becoming, so shame can be turned into something positive. In the work of the Leus and his followers, shame can be active and affirmative rather than reactive and inward looking. While identification with the gaze of this big other, the one who sees, may result in feeling shame, beauty's perceived lack, seeing the lack outside of our habitual perceptions may result in the disruption of what passes as reality in a given society, what is known as the dominant fiction. Now the rest of the paper is structured in two parts, history and nature. So the first part is the shame of history. The second part is shame of nature. History and nature are the two components of the discourse on this site. The majority of discourse on the pit of shame dates to history to the 1930s. Indeed, 1932 marks the first construction attempt on the site after it remained in ruins following the great fire of Izmir in 1922. You can see the extent of the fire on the side, the picture on the left. The fire which originated in Basmane, this area that we are talking about, resulted in the destruction of 300 hectares of land and the erasure of the majority of the city's non-Muslim population. Remaining vacant for almost two decades, the site was occupied by a bus terminal until the early 1980s. And this is what it looked like then. The rest of the neighborhood was filled with warehouses and small businesses like shoe repair shops and eateries. Following the removal of the bus terminal from this central location in the early 70s, the site witnessed numerous changes in development plans and a complicated history of ceaseless battles between forces of capital, legal and administrative mechanisms and power games played between past and present mayors, not to mention conflicts between architects, contracting firms and professional chambers. Finally, the site was excavated in 1988 after the ostentatious groundbreaking ceremony for the foundation of the Aegean World Trade Center. And this is the project which was actually never built. Construction came to a halt shortly after due to a new series of lawsuits and changes in zoning regulations. And the site remained dormant again until 2016 when folk arts or construction company leveled the ground and surrounded it with barriers in preparation for the construction of the new project which is still pending due to yet another lawsuit filed in 2017, so site is still pending. The failure to generate profit from such a central urban location may indeed point to a lack in the dominant fiction of neoliberal urban policies and may account for the feeling of shame. However, a deeper look into the history of the site reveals a different story which was brought to our attention by a 2015 essay which is titled, Is Miss Pit of Shame. So if you associate yourself, identify yourself with these mechanisms of administration and capital, then you are ashamed because I couldn't do enough intervention there, but there's another side to this story. In this particular article, the author states that one could be ashamed of the pit not because of its unsightly condition in the midst of the beautiful city of Izmir but because of its hidden history when it incorporated an Armenian hospital before the Great Fire. And nobody else mentions this hospital back, right away. At that time, the multi-ethnic population of Izmir was divided into Muslim, Greek, Armenian, Jewish, and Levantine neighborhoods, yeah. The site was incorporated in the Armenian neighborhood and was initially occupied by a guest house for impoverished and needful Armenians who had migrated from Persia. The guest house was a modern two-story building, modest one, modest two-story building which was constructed and maintained by the members of the Armenian community. It was enlarged and turned into a hospital in 1801 due to the eruption of epidemic diseases in the city and further renovated in 1847 by the donations from the community. And these are the only pictures or illustrations of plans. There are no photographs or whatever. We couldn't, as the end, we couldn't find them. With a total of 100 to 120 rooms, it functioned more like a charity organization since it housed mostly the marginalized population of the community, namely the elderly and the poor who were treated free of charge. The hospital complex, which was entered by a tall iron gate, included the main hospital, two peripheral buildings to house orphans and mental patients, a pharmacy and a church. These were located in a vegetable and flower garden with a tall fruit tree. After the buildings were completely demolished by the Great Fire, the site went under the ownership of the municipality. The following decades witnessed tireless efforts to turn the site from an area of community-based social support for the most marginalized segments of the society based on ethnicity, age, and conditions of physical and mental health to an exemplary area of neoliberal urban policies based on the supremacy of monetary profit. Covering up the pitch by soaring towers with extravagant architectural features also means it's also a means of covering up the shame of neoliberal policies by perpetuating the fantasy of a seamless urban narrative that ensures their success. However, the other history of the site clearly reveals other layers of shame by seeing the lack of profit-based master narratives of neoliberal policies in recognizing other modes of social spatial organization and the lack of nationalist master narratives in recognizing the heterogeneous ethnic constitution of the city, the Armenian hospital to be talked about. One may feel shame in the master narratives in difference to others and the intolerability of what had previously been invisible. It is this form of shame that leads to the creation of new forms of resistance beyond nostalgia for an unrepeatable past, and conformity to a ruthless present. Now, this is the history part. Come to the nature part, the shame of nature. Between 1998 and 2016, as the site remained untouched by any means of urbanity, it gradually developed a life of its own and came to be known as the pit of shame. It turned into a natural habitat for various bird and insect species, fish, frogs, and snakes. Although nature is seemingly an uncontestably dangerous and seemingly an uncontestably desirable element in the contemporary city, the relationship of proper urban order to nature is based on domestication. Nature is acceptable in the city in the form of parks, well-maintained flower beds, alongside walls probably, and carefully trimmed trees that line the boulevards. The natural environment of the pits, which nurtured the ecology that was alien to urban life, surely pointed to an uncontrollable element and a lack in the symbolic order which is defined on the basis of rational administration and control. Scanning the news reports on the pit, it is striking to see the city's selective approach to nature. Almost every article associates the site with shame, emphasizing the need to take immediate action to restart construction. Reports of outrage due to the invasion of flies, mosquitoes, and rats, parallel hygienic and security-related concerns due to accumulated garbage sheets and lack of barriers around the water body. Photographs show such views as piles of plastic bags like this one and touches of moss on the water surface accompanied by haphazard growth of reeds on the edges of the pit. Newspapers also report specific instances as if to ensure the nature-friendly approach of the dominant fiction. For example, a biology professor from an esteemed university stated that they would take an encoding, they would take every step to conserve the living organisms in the area once construction begins. Other stories include firemen armed with disproportionately protective attire who try to help a kitten that had fallen into the water or save a hero who had been choked by a plastic piece while trying to feed off the wild vegetation. These gestures can be interpreted as instances that paradise the role of the symbolic in its rather desperate attempts to cover up shame. We are friendly towards nature. The question that remains to be answered is how to account for the insistent appearance of photographs in the media. Photograph after photograph of this pit of shame. Why would one want to expose something that is supposed to cause shame? If shame is to be covered up, what is the pleasure derived from repeatedly photographing the pit and offering it to public view? There seems to be an intricate combination of fascination and contempt that underlies the city's relation to the pit, which can be partially explained by what can be called slips of time, which are really revealed upon careful scanning of text and images that potentially enable other possible ways of thinking the pit. For example, after emphasizing how shameful the site looked an article from 2011 stated that, I'm quoting from the article, the pit which is filled with rainwater looks like a piece of wetland in the city center. It even became one of the homes for water birds. Baby carp fish, simple addictor, which were thrown into the pit by the neighboring shopkeepers have grown. The pit recently turned into a hobby area for neighboring shopkeepers who seek stress relief by fishing. Contemporary urban life, which clearly demarcates the boundary between work and leisure, has no tolerance for fishing activities and a valuable piece of land in the city center. Yet there's an unmistakable kind of fascination in this description, which is surfaced by means of such terms as baby carp fish, hobby area, stress relief. The visual evidence for such fascination is even more striking. While most of the photographs depict the unsightly aspects of the pit by focusing on garbage heaps and the muddy waters, there are some which communicate otherwise. A photograph that was published in a leading local newspaper shows an outstanding contrast between text and image. While the text clearly protests the swampy state of the site and reports complaints by surrounding businesses, the accompanying photograph gives a totally different impression of the pit, which emanates enchantment rather than shame. Okay, you have this bird in the foreground, the water seems to look screened enough. Another image that shows the pit from a different angle under the moonlight has a capture that reads a unique view that is hidden in the city. Such images are captured by eyes which see outside the frame of what is given to be seen by the symbolic order. How to explain such transgressions which reveal possible lines of flight that radiate from the gap between what is seen and what is given to be seen. The notion of the scopic drive, the drive to look, is a helpful tool to understand this phenomenon. The leading psychological theories, Lacan, distinguishes between the gaze and the look. And he states that while the subject looks at and sees from one point in his or her existence, she's gazed at from all sides. We are gonna get something or three are being looked at by the symbolic basically. The split between the look and the gaze produces a relentless desire to see, know, and possess more. What can I see more? Here the subject is not really trying to see the object before him or her, but the object of absence, that is what is not there for him or her to see. Hence the scopic drive produces a transgression of the principle of pleasure. And then exorbitant pleasure that disrupts the ego identity where another reality intervenes. The scopic drive can clearly be related to the revelation of the unseen aspects of the pit of shame which counter the drive to cover it up with mainstream symbols of dominant fiction. The eruption of uncontrolled wild nature in the city, city center clearly points to a lack in the symbolic order and is a cause for shame within the parameters of the symbolic order. Hence it also points to the inability of the dominant fiction to accommodate what falls outside interest of profit-based enterprises. The possibilities that emerge from the recognition of this flag are most conspiciously manifested in the dominant fiction slips of tongue like this one in both visual and textual terms. Such instances that are cited here are not necessarily meant to be exemplary for future projects regarding the site. Yet they illustrate the possibility of imagining the city outside the boundaries of the dominant fiction. And finally, the projects that are produced to replace the pit and to cover the shame that it had generated clearly fulfill the role of an urban fantasy. In psychological terms, the fantasies give the coordinates of the subject's desires by means of a mise en scene that veils the founding leg in the other. The projected buildings with their extravagant architectural features and high-end commercial and residential accommodations provide the mise en scene to veil the exclusions of neoliberal urban policies and to channel the desires of idealized subjects of consumption. The shame of the Basmane pit can conveniently be cast off or covered up by eye-catching spiral, eye-catching capital-generating projects. However, it may also have a proto-political effect opening us to others and the world. Since it has the potential to generate a shift in the perception and enable us to see the world from a different perspective. Even if Falkard's project is realized, we contend that the shame of the pit has the potential to point to yet uncharted territories of urban imagination as lines of flight erupt from the cracks that are always already embedded in the dominant fiction. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Good morning and welcome to this, the 16th meeting of the European and External Relations Committee of 2015. I've received apologies this morning from Hans Alamallek and our deputy convener and Roderick Campbell. Can I ask everyone to make the usual request to switch off mobile phones because they interfere with broadcasting? Agenda item 1 this morning is a decision on taking business in private and I would seek the committee's agreement that we take agenda items 2 and 3 in private. Agreed. Thank you very much. I will now formally move in to private.


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What's up everybody? Welcome to SPM Buzz. My name is Liz Jackson. And I'm coming live from Charter Hall, where we do have the first edition of the Sakaaja Super Cup. So different teams are aligned. They're going to battle it out. And guess what? The winner walks away with three million Kenyan shillings. So our able governor, Johnson Sakaaja, is going to be gracing the event and he will be awarding the winning team with a sum of three million Kenyan shillings. So SPM Buzz, we're here on location. We can't wait to talk to some of the team members. We want to know how they've prepared themselves and how they feel about the governor arranging this contest. So keep it SPM Buzz.


Jill, we are so pleased to have you with us today. NASCAR made its welcome return over the weekend, the Real Heroes 400. Kevin Harvick, your winner, 6.3 million viewers. That is a number. I want to get your first and initial overall takeaways. Yeah, I mean, thanks for having me. A huge day for us.  We were going to be in front of a lot of eyeballs, either core NASCAR fans that were dying to have us come back or some new fans that just wanted sports back. And they came, they showed up. We were able to put NASCAR racing in front of all of those millions of fans and we put on a great show. So really excited about how it went. It really was terrific to watch. Take us through some of the precautions and the process of putting them in place prior to the race and even during. Yeah, you know, we took a lot of care in trying to find out the right way to go back racing. We knew that there's a lot of responsibility attached to that. We had to protect our competitors, our drivers, our industry. But we also had to come, you know, protect the local communities that we were racing in. In this case, Darlington, you know, we know that across the country, there have been a lot of hardships and we had to make sure that we didn't come in and add to any issues that we were actually, you know, really prepared and ready to go. So a ton of logistical planning went into that, a screening of all of our competitors, you know, separation, making sure they're all wearing all of the protective gear and really social distancing. And it seems easy with all the messaging you see nowadays, but it was kind of taking all of those protocols and applying them to 900 people in a racetrack. The good thing for us is our facilities are very large. So we had the ability to keep people separate and everybody did their part to maintain that safety. So race day is approaching. Come race day, did you encounter some surprises along the way? Well, I think it was for all of us. I mean, the drivers, I'm guessing, always have butterflies before they strap into the car. But I think for all of us at NASCAR, we had those same butterflies. You know, we knew that there was gonna be a lot of attention and we needed to do it right.  We had a lot of scenario planning leading up to it. We all had a job to do and everybody executed. And the great news is the fan watching at home, I don't think other than a little bit odd seeing drivers wearing masks in Victory Lane or crew guys during their pit stops, you still got a great NASCAR race and if you're in the middle of the race, you didn't really notice that hopefully there was much of a difference. That's exactly what several of the drivers said, you know, once you're on the track and you're running around that oval, you're not thinking about the crowd, right? Yeah, I mean, I think that they strap in and they're in their zone anyway, like any competitor. So they're just kind of tunnel vision. I think the one thing that you did hear Kevin Harvick say in Victory Lane is, you know, he gets out to do his burnout and he looks around and there's nobody there. And I think so some of it was a little surreal. It was an interesting mix of kind of change and then going back to what you always know. Well, the product was terrific. We saw that ratings increase, which was tremendous. A lot of large markets as well, we saw that increase in. So, you know, oftentimes in challenges comes opportunity. This is an opportunity for NASCAR to continue to raise its profile.  You know, we had a lot of sports fans that were hungry for sports to come back. And I think we've all learned as Americans that our sports are very, we knew it was important. But, you know, it was a chance to really showcase, you know, we know that NASCAR has great storylines and unbelievable entertainment, but this was a chance to really showcase that to the, to a much wider audience. And, you know, I think that it turned out really well. Safety is one of the big storylines in play. You recognize the healthcare workers and the frontliners in a very innovative way. Take us through that. Yeah, it was a project, you know, 14 different sports leagues got together when we all kind of knew that competition wasn't going to be what it was was. And really try to figure out how we could recognize or use the power of sports, even when we weren't playing or racing. And so this ability to recognize these frontline healthcare workers who are the heroes in this situation, you know, and for us take our drivers out of it and say, you know what, we're not the heroes. It's these frontline healthcare workers and replace, you know, driver's names on the side of the door with the healthcare worker. You saw Kevin Harvick recognize his friend who was a doctor here in Charlotte. You know, we really felt like it was appropriate for us to take the sport of NASCAR and our drivers out of it and really recognize the people that allowed us to go back to race. And it was a really great campaign and a really something I'm really proud to be a part of. It looked like that was a real focus for you to make sure that you honor these people. Fair to say. Yeah, we knew really early on that we had to take a different tone and that if we went back racing the same way we always did that it would feel a little odd. And what better way to use this national platform than to recognize the people that weren't getting the recognition or that deserve the recognition. So it was just very natural and you know, our drivers embraced it and the fans really, really paid attention to it. I'm curious after the fact, have you had a chance to speak to some of the drivers about their experience that day? Yeah, I mean, you know, we've got a group here that talks to them each and every day. They're helping us promote, you know, this is kind of uncharted territory for all of us and the drivers have been great. You know, the fact that they were able to talk about the healthcare worker that they were partnered with, it really gave them something that they could showcase. So they were feeling really good about it. We're doing it again this week, tonight actually, one more race in Darlington and then we kind of shift our focus to recognizing military members over Memorial Day at the Coca Cola 600 which is something we do, you know, at this time every year. So it'll be a natural transition. You have put out a revised schedule, a much tighter schedule, of course. It looks like also that the focus was on keeping travel to a minimum. Yeah, you know, we are constantly monitoring what's happening across the country in the different markets. We know that like everybody that there are certain places that are harder hit by this pandemic and how each community is reacting to that. And we also have a responsibility, as I mentioned before, to keep our competitors safe. So putting them onto airplanes or into hotels just wasn't something that we thought was a prudent way to go right now. So you see a very aggressive schedule from now through June, but all it venues that the drivers and the teams who are predominantly located here in Charlotte can drive to. So keeping that travel to a minimum, exposure to different folks to a minimum and keeping those protocols in place. So it's aggressive, but we're ready. We know that people want to go back racing and that's what we do. So we're ready to do it and whatever means necessary.


Welcome back to The Breakfast here on PLOS TV Africa. Last month, the Northern Elders Forum released a communique calling for the restructuring of Nigeria. It followed the conclusion of a two-day Northern summit organised by the forum in Kaduna, and just yesterday, the Forum's Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Hakim or Dr. Hakim Baba Ahmed, called for the impeachment of President Muammar Ubuwari over Nigeria's security situation. We're joined this morning by Dr. Baba Ahmed to look at the state of the nation. Alright, we seem to have lost him briefly. We're going to connect with him in a bit and get to talk about, you know, all of this, you know, that is going on. We hope it's going to be a very interesting conversation. There's so much we've already started with, of course, getting a clearer picture of what it is like in Northern Nigeria. Alright, once again, good morning to Dr. Baba Ahmed. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you. You're welcome. Alright, you, of course, is one of the things that we shared in the news this morning, your call for President Muammar Ubuwari to be impeached, citing the security challenges Nigeria is currently dealing with. So let's quickly start from there. Why do you think so? And what's your argument with regards to the calling for the President's impeachment? Well, we have to understand the comment of the impeachment of the President. Okay, since we lost contact again with Dr. Ahmed, we'll try to reconnect with him and continue this conversation. But really, this is one that must be had. Twenty-three elections is drawing nearer and the policy seems to be, you know, heated with conversations regarding the President, his performance in the past, you know, years in government. And one more in a statement we've seen from groups like this is saying that the presidency does not even deserve to rule the country for the next two years.  We saw in the news just last week as to how many people have been kidnapped in the country within just these two months and how many people have been killed by Boko Ramteris. This is just a new year, first quarter of the year. And we've seen students being kidnapped. Conversations about the release of Greenfield University seems to be dying down. We have not made headway so far regarding the release of the students. So these conversations must be had regarding security of Nigerians, welfare of the people, how much has the government accomplished, you know, with his time in power, promising change and promising to, you know, just take us, you know, from where we were to where we need to be. So these assessments really must be made. We have Dr. Ahmed back with us. Good morning again. I was saying that I made the issue of impeachment came in the context of discussing the options that are available to the country at the moment. And one of them is obviously that the President Buhari, that as a leader, he cannot lead the country through its current challenges and difficulties. And this is borne by the evidence on the ground. He has consistently failed to lead the military and law and order institutions, intelligence institutions to find a way out of insecurity. If he fails to do that, a whiteboard impeachment, when they present and if or what the president did or formed some key functions of his office. And there are a lot of with each of the offices. The third one is that we increased the pressure on Borne Assembly and the President to try and see to prove their responses to our problems. And the last one, the national elite. Organizes activities that are within the law. And try and see if we can provide options, if we can provide looking, if we can prepare for the future, rather than just on our hands and wait for two years for President Buhari to leave the country. Because the bad things are going, we could actually lose the country in the next two years. Quickly, what signs do you see that tell that we, Mandra may not survive the next two years? Well, as I said, one is a radical threat to the government. I don't see that on the horizon. If they could change anything, they would have changed it. This is an administration that is chronically resistant to change, both the president and those who support him, including people who support him in the future. They don't believe that we should change the way they govern, quickly, before the nation has a problem. But it's still there, it's a hope. Second one is that more of the elite, more of the young people, more of the people who are concerned that the rules came in on us, should organize legitimately and legally to put pressure on our leaders to do the needful. Everybody should play the roles that they're supposed to play. Those who should consult with each other should consult. Those who should bring down the temperature should do so. Those who should exercise their constitutional duties to put pressure on them. And at all costs, we must avoid the situation where we are set against each other. That appears to be what is happening, whether it's part of the game plan to divert attention from the failures of the administration, or whether it is to play to a different clip where communities are fighting each other, the North is fighting the South, the East is fighting the South. Whatever, we must avoid playing into the hands of people who just want to make sure it works, and you require political parties. This is where a major weakness of the country is showing. Our tools do not appear to recognize the fact that the major role in terms of what happens now, all that we is just planning to grab power again. You have to wonder what they're going to do with this power. By the time they get to the country, they would have destroyed it themselves. They would have destroyed each other, and they would still be clamoring to govern this country. So that's a gap. So there's a lot that needs to be done. What we must not do is simply say, the country is in trouble, there's nothing we can do. So let's create something that can be done. Dr. Ahmed, flashing our minds back to 2015, we know how the Northern Elders Forum supported and endorsed President Mohammed Buhari to run for presidency. A spokesman of the NEF at that time, Ango Abdelahi, mentioned that the North to deserve the chance to produce the next president of the country, and that President Mohammed Buhari should be voted for. Years later, the NEF has switched gears. Why? What changed? I'm sorry for a reason. Your question wasn't very clear, but as I understand what you're saying, our convener now, Professor Ango Abdelahi, was then playing the role I'm playing now, supported President Mohammed Buhari. We all did. They held us forum and a lot of groups in the country, in the North. We supported President Buhari because we believed it was likely we were going to do better than President Jonathan. We saw President Jonathan was soft on security, was soft on corruption. We didn't see the kind of forum, decisive leadership that we needed to fight Boko Haram at its formative stages. And we supported President Buhari. We campaigned for President Buhari in the country outside the country. There's no reason to regret that. We reflect on the basis of what we saw in the best interest of the country. However, it wasn't long before we realized that we just might have made a mistake. President Buhari appears more in power than in using power. Look at these difficulties. And it turns out that he appears to have achieved his objective. He contested for power in 2003. He didn't get it in 2011. He didn't get it. Not elected in 2015. Nigerian Spaniards said, yes, we'll give you a chance for that. And he appears to have drawn a line there. So that he had become president. No problem of Nigeria was worthwhile in his time. We didn't see that energy, that focus, that competence, that weakness that we had hoped to be applied to the president's governance. We saw a slow, indecisive, cumbersome governance. No new ideas. No competent hands around helping to push the country through the difficulties that we had. So we didn't see good ideas coming to work. All right. Dr. Amid, if you admit that in 2015, the NEF had, you know, canvassed for, you know, votes and asked the people of the North in Nigeria to vote for President Muhammad al-Buhari. He came into power. We also saw how, you know, criticism of the, by the NEF of the president, you know, how he took about six months to, you know, put his cabinet together. And now you say, yes, that was a mistake. Do you think now calling for the president to be in pitch can fix that wrong? Well, look, and let me remind you, I think that our gaps in your history, pardon me for saying, in 2019, we actually campaigned against the president. 2015, 2014, 2015, we campaigned for him. After four years of his first term, he wanted to be re-elected. We assessed him. And we told Nigeria's, we didn't think President Muhammad should be passed that too, with another four years. We foresaw the possibility that things were likely to get worse. And we told Nigeria openly, and we said many times when we gave our facts. And we warned Nigeria not to elect President Muhammad, but they did. We started in the second term and things got considerably as we moved on. And that's where we are now. We have exercised other constitutionals, but one of them is an impeachment. People worry about impeachment because it's a project to redeeming. And they forget the fact that the people who drew up our constitution had foreseen this possibility. For many reasons, a president could be unable to exercise his ability. We even had a president who died and was succeeded by another one. However, a president could commit impeachable crimes and be impeached. It's not an ideal recession. It is simply that those who drew the constitution recognized that a president is a human being. He could make mistakes. He could commit crimes. And there could be reasons why he shouldn't continue to be in office. So we are not asking for anything out of the constitution. It's not an illegal thing. Yes, it's unusual. But look, we are living in unusual times. Everything about Nigeria has been unusual. But living in a country no one, no one ever anticipated the last 10 to 15 years we would ever see. So we believe that this is the right way to go. We didn't just bring up the impeachment. All right. I want you to speak. What is the choice? The president will go into... Apologies. I want you to speak with regards, maybe a completely different opinion that other northern bodies, for example, the Muslim rights concern, Miriq, we've spoken with Professor Ishak Akintala on this platform. And Miriq seems to be on the side of the government and supports its decisions. For example, with the decision to stand by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Issa Pantami. So I want you to speak with regards that. Is Miriq and the Nigerian Northern Rather Elders Forum, you in the same on the same page with regards the direction Nigeria is going and also Issa Pantami's controversy? Well, Miriq is an independent organization. It makes its own minds about national events and it's free to express its opinion on them. We don't compete with Miriq. We don't have much of a relationship. On the Issa Pantami issue, we haven't made a position clear because we really didn't believe that there was enough on the ground to say how it affects the North and how it affects the rest of the country. We literally followed the uproar about what he was supposed to have said 10, 15 years ago. We observed his reaction to those comments. We observed the President's comments about that. Our position would be that if the Minister has actually committed crimes or transgressions that are inconsistent with this position, then people should make them available and the law should take its course. If it hasn't, then they should just leave them out to do his work. What I think is sad about the issue is that the manner it was done, people created the ethnic and religious context in it which made it impossible to really sift the facts from the passions to just get a Minister out of office. These kind of things happen and they just simply muddle the waters. All right, so Dr. Ahmed, looking ahead regarding the 2023 election, what is the nod and else from saying about this? Is there any endorsement of any candidate in view? What exactly is the NEF looking forward for 2023? What we're looking for is a situation where the country comes to terms with the fact that it needs a leadership from 2023 that is radically different from the current leadership. It must be a leadership made up of Nigerians who recognize the fact that they must address insecurity, they must address a crumbling economy. Our economy is actually crumbling. I don't know how much it will hold. With almost great, almost strong certainty, we will end up paying close to 250 Naira per liter by the end of this year or next year. That is based on facts and on the projections. Revenue revenues are dwindling, cost of living is going up, insecurity is going up. So we need a politician or politicians who will operate with a sense of mission, a sense of emergency under the recognition of the fact that the country has to be stitched back. So for 2023, Dr. Ahmed, NEF, one like 2015 is not saying the 2023 president has to be from the north. NEF could be supporting someone from the south-south-south-east. We're saying it should be an Nigerian who recognizes the fact that he has to represent everybody's interest. Just coming from one part of the country does not qualify someone to be a good president. In fact, on the contrary, it can be a deterrent.  People may think, okay, I represent the north and therefore I'm only going to protect northern interests. I represent the east and therefore I'm going to see if it is possible to de-emphasize identity, regional grouping, ethnic, religious identity. Those kind of things partly what brought us here. A lot of people voted for President Bahari, especially here in the north, because he was northern, because he was Muslim, and look at where we are now. And even Nigerians haven't learned the setbacks to this tendency to ethnicize leadership. Then I don't know when I'm going to learn anything. We must run away from this. And we are at this stage where we are not going to get involved in this north. It must come from the north. It must come from the south. But we are also not going to accept what appears to be a blackmail against the north unless you guys concede at this stage that the leadership must move to the southern. There will be more trouble for northerners in the southern part of the country. That's a very dangerous game to play. What is sad is we don't see any of these two parties addressing the issue of quality leadership rather than power grabbing. That is going to be major setback for the country. Just before you go, is there any parts of the last six years that you might say that the government has done well enough and might be considered as a plus with regards to retaining the current of all the APC or whoever else in 2023? Look, when you say things like where the government has done, governance is not judged on the basis of performance in one area and must failure in others. You assess governance in a holistic context. That's why even the constitution identified two things that says this is the sole purpose of a government, security cities, and addressing their welfare. On these two scores, we haven't seen anything that this government has done in the last six years that gives us confidence that the party, if they continue the way they are going, the APC stands any chance of being elected again in 2023. Now talking about that, we also don't see the PDP preparing to assume responsibility where the APC fails because all we see is infighting in the two parties. They are playing the same old game in spite of the fact that there are new challenges they are being faced. And the two parties together don't give Nigeria's hope that they will provide the kind of leadership we need post 2023. We've made terrible mistakes in this country, and one of them is that the dominance of these two parties from 1999 to date, one has literally brought the country to its knees. The other one is finishing off. The nation needs options. The nation needs alternatives. And the nation needs a new brand of leadership. If it has to come from the two parties, fine. Otherwise, it should come from another party or another group of parties. But Nigeria cannot continue to play the same game that they are playing at this stage. It cannot be the same. All right, Dr. Amid, lots of Nigerians do agree that there's a definite need for a thought force and alternative to the two ruling parties. But only time will indeed tell. Dr. Amid Babah, thank you very much. You're the spokesperson or the director of publicity and advocacy for the Northern Elders Forum. Thanks for your thoughts on the breakfast this morning. Thank you. We're going to break here. Yes, and we'll come back to talk about the big issue right now, COVID-19 and the new restrictions that the federal government has imposed to stay with us.


two semifinal races in the under 17 girls 800 meters top three from each plus the next two fast tests to advance to the final we begin with the girls 800 under 17 Grenada's Kayla Olive Diana's Marisa Thomas the championship record you see there in the 17 girls 800 Natalia ghoul Kayla Olive Grenada Diana's Marisa Thomas Jamaica's Kevon Gay Fowler the Bahamas Jade Knowles Bermuda's Jada Grant to Trinidad and Tobago's Shan Lewis Barbados is Daniel Skeet and from the Turks and Keiko's Island Eunice Mystic once again 209.59 once again the Jamaicans expected to already be the class of this field especially in this division these under 17 girls Lewis Trinidad and Tobago Kevon Gay Fowler they're on to make up by a distance the fastest in this semifinal built a little like a young Princess Toya you know a lot about these things don't you one of my favorite athletes Adler Cariff the Games and Toya Ghoul fantastic athlete yeah terrific performer Natalia Ghoul still the record holder a lot taller than Natalia Ghoul that much I can tell you and maybe not as fast first semifinal coming up in the under 17 girls 800 meters there is Kevon Gay Fowler fastest in the field for this first section especially in events like the 800 1500 expect the the class of the Jamaicans to really shine through in part because they have that depth and they have that level of competition that a lot of these other countries are lacking it's a lot of times you find that even if you have an outstanding runner in the 800 1500 meter he or she doesn't have anybody to really push them so they don't really get better but lay in getting the 800 started yeah this event scheduled to get on the way at 10 o'clock local time it is 10 o'clock and so as soon as the starting equipment is ready I don't think they'll send this one off not a lot of fans in this morning maybe a number of individuals heading to church and they are probably watching on the Sportsmax app I was told that part of the problem with the starting apparatus yesterday as you see a group there from Saint Lucia a couple of solutions to be in the 800 meter heats this morning most of those would be from the south of Saint Lucia view fort Barbados also well represented couldn't tell you where in Barbados those videos are from Grenada is very much in the house great hosts terrific hosts this is my third time in Grenada and I've thoroughly enjoyed it maybe more than the other visits as well of course the first time I came was to watch the West Indies play well that is not universally enjoyable the West Indies won that series I can tell you it was against Zimbabwe but how was your heart didn't race actually it probably was the most boring three-match 50 over series I'd ever watched what's in this one though so there was that consolation but it wasn't very exciting in all honesty I was back in 2013 the quickest stadium now under refurbishment this stadium the Karani James refurbished after Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and got it ready for the 2016 Carifter Games and then redeveloped the refurbished the track in time for these games here in 2024 semi-final round of the under 17 girls 800 meters coming up I delay at the start because we should have gotten this one away three minutes ago again olive of Grenada Thomas was in the 400 final last night for Guyana Kevin gave follow Jamaica jade knows of the Bahamas Jada Grant Bermuda shine Lewis Trinidad and Tobago Daniel Skeeter Barbados and Eunice Missick of the Turks and Keiko silence top three plus the next two fastest done times the guns have been really quick this morning really do need to allow the athletes to settle effectively before that gun goes but they are away and all safe as Trinidad and Tobago's shine Lewis goes out really hard and it takes the early advantage this is a pretty brisk pace for the Trinbegonian 442 142 Jada grant of Bermuda in second position with the Kevin gave follow the Jamaican comfortable in third the Bahamian jade knows in fourth position but this is really quick from the Trinidad and Tobago athlete shine Lewis and no one is trying to go with her will she be able to maintain this it's almost ridiculous the fast for a first round heat was about 103 for the first 400 and she's really pushing this Terry a loser bronze medalist last evening in the 1500 and she is really taking the pace out here and the challenge now materializing from Edwin Allen's Kevin gave Fowler yeah she did the same thing in the 1500 final last night took it out went to the front and tried to maintain she did well enough to hold on for the bronze medal there but here will she be able to hold on to an automatic qualifying position Kevin gave follow the Jamaican step forward and joins her the rest of the field I'm not sure if they have the quality to close in on a struggling shine Lewis of Trinidad and Tobago follow the Jamaican takes charge now Lewis in second position coming through his nose of the Bahamas she's in third the Barbadian Daniel Skeet finds herself in fourth position top three short to be in the final Kevin gave follow favorite coming in and she eases away to win this one comfortably to 16 99 on the clock downstairs Lewis holds on for second and I think the Bahamian picked the Barbadian on the line for the third automatic qualifying position you know front-running not a terrible strategy if you're able to hold on to the end and she's able to hold on but what she does especially in the last couple of hundred meters is that she starts looking around to see what's going on she starts looking at the ground if you can remain focused through that 800 or 1500 meters then front-running is fine but she's not doing so she's losing her concentration she's starting to think about who's behind her and she's taking valuable seconds away every time she does that yeah I just think 103 for the first 400 meters was unnecessary in a first round heat where outside of Kevin gave father a 2-12 and she's not looking to run 2-12 here in the qualifying round you're dealing with the 220 competitors mid 220s and so I think you can be significantly smarter in a first round heat but she is young and with time I think she will learn and understand how to negotiate qualifying Kevin gave father having that down to a T easing to to 1699 based on what we saw on the clock downstairs so follow Lewis the 1500 bronze medalist from last night and the Bahamian Jade knows qualifying automatically to 1704 221 16 for Lewis 222 21 for knows Keith of Barbados 222 31 and Jada granted Bermuda 228 89 on the bubble likely that we'll see somewhat similar times in the second heat I think so the young Barbadian may feel good about