A series can only achieve so much because of how exceptional it is. And whilst most of those who have encountered the series end up falling in love with the vast world, its diverse characters and intricate storytelling, there are still elements that fall between the cracks when it comes to our praise and recognition. Hello my Nakamitachi, this is Joygirl with a video that is actually part of a larger playlist called One Piece of History in celebration of One Piece's millennial chapter.  Which brings me to my topic of choice. Underappreciated. When the theme of this project was first introduced to me, I have to say the first thing I thought was that One Piece as a whole is underappreciated. Which may sound crazy, because yes, One Piece is the world's best-selling manga of all time. I mean, even as a relatively small and new channel, I have over 3000 crewmates who are keen to discuss One Piece with me. But, and this may come as a shock to you, to know that to me, you are all rare and thus all the more treasured in my life. As personally speaking, One Piece is a relatively unknown or unpopular series in my area. Though my eyes have been open to the wider fanbase that exists globally thanks to the internet, I, however, cannot say the same for me on a local scale. Growing up, series such as Dragon Ball, Bleach and Naruto were all very popular names eagerly discussed at school. One Piece wasn't one of them. To this day, I can count on one hand the number of people within my immediate circle who have at least watched or read One Piece to some extent. Which to me is baffling because One Piece is the best series that I have ever had the joy of consuming and I don't even limit that to the world of manga or anime. In my opinion, it's the best piece of fiction, full stop. In saying that, I want to take a short time to say a huge thank you to Hiro Oda. Thank you so much for creating such an amazing series that I can honestly say has improved my life in more ways than I can express. The amount of joy I feel whilst reading One Piece is truly indescribable. Congratulations on reaching 1000 chapters and once again, thank you. Hiro Oda puts in so much hard work and dedication to create a series that is practically seamless. There is such an incredible level of detail which means that characters, settings and storylines are extensively developed and thus consistent. Oda is extremely creative and finds new ways to weave in bouts of comedic genius as well as hints and foreshadowing which makes reading the manga feel like a very tightly built experience. And one of the ways in which Oda achieves this, which is my topic of choice for this project and the element I consider underrated in One Piece, cover stories. Firstly, what are cover stories? For those of you who are anime-only fans, you may be unfamiliar with cover stories because though some have made their way into the anime, most of them have not. As such, this video may or may not be considered spoilers depending on how you look at it. On one hand, cover stories are canon so if you have not read them, they may be new pieces of information. But on the other, cover stories are only side plots which take place at the same time as the rest of the series so we are way past most cover story arcs at the point the anime is currently at. Nonetheless, in case you would like to experience these cover stories for yourself, which I do highly recommend because as I'm about to detail in this video, they add a great element to Oda's storytelling which deserves appreciation and if you wish to read these for yourself and be completely unspoiled in that respect, I will give warnings prior to my discussion of any particular cover story arc so that you can watch the majority of this video with ease. And with that being said, let's get into it. The full name of this feature is short term focused cover page serials and much like this full title, cover stories are a series of short, supplementary stories told through cover pages of certain chapters. Usually focusing on side characters or past defeated villains, they feature as mini arcs typically ranging from around 20 to 40 volumes that are told parallel to the main story by featuring as one cover page at a time. To this effect, they are considered canonical with the events of the cover stories occurring side by side to the actual chapter contents. However, the volumes are much more lighthearted, usually providing some comedy at the beginning of the chapter. They follow a much more simpler format in a similar way to sequential comic strips. The cover stories include no paneling and little dialogue which showcases Oda's artistic ability to tell stories through pantomime and the expressions on the characters' faces. This feature started pretty early on in the series publication, the first ever cover story volume featuring as the cover page of Chapter 35, starting the Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles which ran until Chapter 75. There are currently 17 completed cover story arcs, 11 of which took place pre-timeskip and then six in the post-timeskip. These cover stories are compiled as volumes in one piece doors along with other chapter cover illustrations so that one can access them as a collected set rather than having to go through each separate chapter. Now, more importantly, why are cover stories underappreciated? Despite being canonical, only six of these cover story arcs have been adapted into the anime. Some of these have been adapted into episodes within arcs such as Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles, Diary of Kobe Meppo and the Straw Hat Separation Serial, while some featured as short segments within an episode. Such as Wapol's Omnivorous Hurrah, the story of the self-proclaimed Straw Hat Grand Fleet and Kuribos Kehihihi in the New World. Jango's Dance Paradise was loosely adapted into an animated short, Jango's Dance Carnival. But for the most part, the anime has chosen not to include these cover stories in its animation. Judging by the anime adaptation of the first two cover story arcs, it seems that they at least initially planned for these to be animated. But due to cover stories being focused on side characters, and I can only assume, perhaps Toei realized that they were not popular episodes and thus decided to discontinue animating them. Whatever the case is, however, this does mean that anime-only fans are missing out on tidbits of information and details that can otherwise deeply enrich their enjoyment of the series. In my opinion, these cover stories are actually a great feature of the One Piece manga that is deserving of appreciation. For one, it is a novel feature. Judging from my research, though this was limited so please correct me if I'm wrong, One Piece is the first series that actually features this sort of side story telling to its manga. Like other long-running series that are considered a serial, Weekly Shonen Jump allows One Piece an extra page in its magazine for its title page. Whilst most mangaka use this extra page to lengthen the chapter or showcase a one-off illustration, Oda, being the generous genius that he is, has devised a creative way to enrich our experience of the manga by gifting us with these cover stories. Whilst the focus on side characters may be what resulted in Toei scrapping its animation of the cover stories, I think this is a great storytelling device that Oda has employed, which is why I think it deserves more attention. One of the biggest aspects which makes One Piece so great is Oda's extensive world building. For such a vast world, it would be practically impossible for side characters to get more development without seriously derailing from the main storyline of Luffy and the Straw Huts. As such, cover stories are a great way to further develop side characters and build the reader's rapport with them so that the next time they are reintroduced in the main storyline, we'll have a deeper understanding and relationship with these characters. This is perhaps best shown through the example of the cover story arc, CP9's Independent Report. To anyone wishing to remain unspoiled, please get ahead to the time shown on your screen. For those of you who are curious or need a refresher, this mini-arc focused on CP9 following their defeat at the hands of Luffy and the Straw Huts in Ennios Lobby. Having escaped from the annihilated judicial island and surviving the Buster Call, the assassin unit needed to find a way to save Rob Luchi who was heavily injured after his battle with Luffy. While CP9 were the main villains during the Water 7 saga, this mini-arc offers us a new perspective on the assassins. In contrast to the portrayal of the members as ruthless assassins, they are shown to be fiercely loyal, devoted to saving one of their own, with the other members even resorting to work as street performers to raise money for Luchi's medical bills. This shows CP9 in a completely different light to how readers came to know them during the main storyline. It allows us to gain deeper insight into these characters who become more layered and fleshed out as ultimately people who were just committed to doing their jobs and outside of such situations could be caring and funny individuals. Following the journey of side characters can also help fill in a lot of details and context that allows readers a full understanding of the story. But before I delve into this, consider this your spoiler warning and please skip ahead if you need to. For example, the first cover story arc Buggy Cruise Adventure Chronicles showed us the formation of the alliance between Buggy and an unnamed beautiful woman who also harbored an intense hatred for Luchi. In the Locetown arc, this mystery woman was revealed to be Alveda, Luchi's first pipe foe after setting sail who had undergone a pretty significant transformation. This little side story added great flavor to the events at Locetown providing the backstory as to how Buggy and Alveda became allies. Conversely, on my first consumption of the series wherein I was only watching the anime and not reading the manga, I had missed out on the cover story, Hachan's Sea Floor Stroll. So for me, on my reintroduction to Hachan in the South Body Archipelago arc, he was no longer Hachan from Arlong's crew, but rather the proprietor of a Takoyaki stand, which I must say I found quite random. However, had I read the cover stories, this transformation would not have come as quite the surprise and I would have understood how this was Hachan's true dream all along. Similarly, Kami was a new face I met in the South Body Arch but for manga readers, a returning character. Had I met Kami earlier and experienced the whole friendship between the octopus, fishman and mermaid, it would have enhanced my investment even more in the main story when Kami was captured and being sold at the human auctioning house. Aside from keeping tabs on characters, cover stories can also be used to further build the world of One Piece and enrich its history. Oop, another example, please see screen for time of safety. Oda's great space operations was an interesting and frankly speaking, groundbreaking cover story. As it confirmed many elements to exist within the One Piece world. Oda confirmed Oda's successful space travel to the moon, the introduction of alien species and also perhaps most importantly, Oda revealed an ancient civilization who are the ancestors of the Birkins and Chandeers on Sky Island. Whether or how this will come back into relevance in the main storyline remains to be seen. It does however, fill my mind with questions and anticipation for how it could be linked to certain mysteries within the story. And on that note, it seems that Oda is also dropping hints and his foreshadowing reveals for future story developments through these cover stories. And I promise you this is the last time you will have to skip ahead in this video, but for your own sake, please do so now. An example of this is Volume 16 of the From the Decks of the World titled Twin Capes, where Crocus is shown sharing a drink with a mystery figure whose hat and apparel hides their identity. The oriental design of the hat has led to speculations that this figure originates from Wano country, resulting in further speculations about its relevance to our current arc. A speculation which I do go into more detail in another one of my theory videos, but you do get the point. Oda is a master at foreshadowing and hiding information in plain sight is a trick he would and has definitely pulled. Indeed, Alveda's teaming up with Buggy was shown to us the entire time, but we may have just not realized it. For me, as someone who loves reading into every detail and coming up with crazy left field ideas and interpretations, the possibility of hidden clues is a super thrilling reason to read each cover story. But even aside from all of this, at a much more general level, they showcase Oda's creativity, his artistic ability to tell stories in such a concise and simple way. They are often great sources of comedy and most of all, they are part of the story that Oda has intended to tell. To build connections, further develop the world, pick up on foreshadowing clues or simply enjoy his creative brilliance. Oda includes these mini arcs because they are all part of his story. And I for one think it's a brilliant feature deserving of attention and appreciation. On that note, there are many features Oda considers and includes because One Piece is a fantastic series and there are so many elements which makes it the enjoyable and successful series that it is. In which case, all of such elements deserve appreciation. So for those of you who didn't already find this video through Ahara's playlist, please feel free to check out what other content creators in the community have to say on the topic. Which brings us to the end of this video. Please let me know what you think about Cover Stories by leaving a comment below. If you enjoyed today's video, please like and share. 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Happy New Year and welcome to the Advocate on Plus TV Africa. You are reminded that important conversations are among the necessary truths for a saner society. Today I am talking about the legacy President Buhari is looking to leave once his tenure comes to an end. Helen educates us on the need for monitoring applied behaviour analysis services in Nigeria. Edwin Edwards is here to tell us about the silent killer in our midst. And finally Elijah brings up the never-ending discussion on gender equality. As always your panellists are here to share ideas aimed at provoking thoughts with no holds bad. Stay with us. Visualizing the emerging legacy of President Muhammad Rubuhari. When asked what would be his legacy during a rare interview last year, President Muhammad Rubuhari knew well to concede that responsibility to Nigerians, even though he begged to be assessed fairly. As the administration enters its final and usually least impactful spell for obvious reasons, many Nigerians are supposed are gearing up to exercise that responsibility. Until his historic victory as the seventh democratically elected president of Nigeria in 2015, the then-general Muhammad Buhari was the best president Nigeria never had. Such was a wide perception held of the man until he was assigned what was easily his life's ambition, presiding over Nigeria as a democratic leader. But between then and now that hope and optimism that encircled his persona in a way to despondency and disillusionment. The reason is not far-fetched. For a man that ran a popular campaign around the tri-port of stamping out corruption, decimating Boko Haram and economic recovery, it is crushing for Nigeria and Nigerians that under his watch, Nigeria has failed worse on each of those indices. Some have argued that the worst form of corruption in a multicultural setting like Nigeria is presiding over an exclusionary government that appears to alienate people of other ethnic and or religious persuasion. Yet that has been the order of the Muhammad Buhari regime. Despite being a former military general and leveraging same to content that Nigeria will be safer under him pre-2015, we have witnessed in Nigeria with shrunken territories due to the activities of non-state actors in various parts of the country. Boko Haram has not only defied decimation, it has arguably grown with the splinter cell, ISWAP, proving even more deadly. And as one travels from one region of the country to the other, a new wave of insecurity is met. Banditry in the north-west, sessionist tensions in the south-east, militancy in the Niger Delta, Boko Haram insurgency in the north-east. The economy's core card doesn't look good either. We are slipping into the poverty capital of the world according to the global poverty clock under the administration, being the clearest evidence of that. As we begin the new year, with time no longer on the side of the President Muhammad Buhari administration, the question then is, will some, if not all the above, become the defining pillars of the Buhari legacy? From my cautiously optimistic standing, there is no reason not to resolve that poster in the positive. But what do you say? I am going to say these things before I respond to your ideas on President Buhari. Let me first of all tell President Buhari, this is the first time I am saying this to him directly. I don't know if he is watching us. Happy Bede Baba even though he is in areas. So the Lord is your strength. So however I have these things to say, I have been looking for an opportunity to meet with Buhari. If I have one, I have some things to tell him. Let me say it now. You talked about the three things, stamping out corruption. Somehow Baba Buhari, have you noticed that most of your policies are like train a wee baby with the bat worther? You want to fight corruption, good intention. But most everybody suffer because you want to fight corruption. And then we have another one. The second one you talked about remind me. Economy. No, economy before economy. There is one that is security. Good insurgency, very big one. Yes, we know is a general, a very, very tough general. But times have changed. And times will always change. You can't use the strategies you use during those days as ability to generate them in keeping the peace, to keep peace in this ideological driven situation.   So what these people need is adequate education, carrot and stick method. So these are things. It's not only buying supertucano, today we buy supertucano aircraft, this and that, not only that. What are they doing to reorientate the mindset of the people there and why doing the right things. And then the other one of economy. Well, to make Nigeria an economic giant, these policies, you cannot move the economy without involving the youth. Look at what happened during the so-and-so case. The youth were trying to talk to me. They didn't want to listen. The next thing was to punish us by what, burning bitcoin. And thereby, I will not even come to Twitter yet. That was another. thereby disenfranchising us from participating in the global economy. Why must we be only cruel that we think of exporting or importing? Do you know we can actually export knowledge? That's why we have the dot-com era. You can actually be in your room and then solve problems that the company can use there because of our policies. It's difficult to send money outside or even receive what it is. How can you not grow the economy? How? So these are the things you should look at. And number four too, this one is not in the list, I see it as a believer approach. Our president, our dear president is sometimes swift to deal with persons from some certain region when they speak up against the government or when they misbehave. I say no nonsense in general. I speak to send soldiers there or do things to call them to order. But when it comes to giving sanction to countries to to impress this, to enhance this perception that we are truly the giant of Africa. Let me give you an example. It's like found wanting. The issue of xenophobic attack on Nigerians that was 2019 if I'm not mistaken. In South Africa. In South Africa. What did you do? Imagine you were the one that went to visit the South African president. Somebody committed a crime or killed your person and then who is supposed to visit you? You went there for what? Why can't you, I expected him to take a stand move against South Africa maybe by expelling this ambassador or something from the country or something. I don't know. Or another instance. Let me give you another instance. See what happened in Ghana. Imagine the Ghanaian had the opportunity or had the refugee to raise done in Nigerian beauty. Owned by the Nigerian government in Ghana. And then what did the president do about it? The president of Ghana apologised. Why would you do that? We need to say like put a strong message. Have a strong, stop begging. But we could do so in many ways. I love the way he handled the issue of this. There's no courage to proceed in diplomacy. The issue of burning. The bundles from coming to Canada or something. Over the moving over. And he responded. So I should keep it up. But like I said some people believe that it's too late for Bwari to do anything that he has not done before. In the last, that he has just one year. So if he cannot do anything in the last seven years, what can he do now? I believe that whenever a man wakes up this is the day. I will give Bwari a benefit of that. Baba Bwari with due respect sir, please. You have one more year to go. Just try to do the needful. Do something very right. If possible, get young smart guys around you. You must be working with. He's not working with millionaires. There's a disconnect between the government and billionaires. That's why some of their policies are not youth friendly. It doesn't make sense. So Hylin, is there any possibility that we imagine the gas is going to change? For me, I think the total, the whole four years has been a waste of time. Six years actually. Six years has been a waste of time. Personally, because I have not seen every single Chibok girl return home. Simple. I mean, I'm not really concerned about the economy. I'm not concerned about what I'm concerned about. Nigerian parents who have not seen their children in close to seven years. I don't think any Nigerians should go through that. And for that, he has failed for me. Anyway, speaking about Chibok girls, I know some people will say is it Bwari this was during good luck to an attire. It's irrelevant. But the truth of the matter, what I will say is let's learn to take responsibility. Good luck has done his own. Whether he's perfect or not, he made his mistake. He made his error. He made his successes. He made his failures. He has gone. Now, Baba Bwari, what are you going to do with the time you have now? No, but he promised us. He promised us. He wrote in the back of that Chibok thing. That was one of the things he said. That's what made me vote for him. That he and girls were going to go back. I voted for him. I voted for him. I voted for him. It's almost too late. It's almost too late. It's almost too late. It's almost too late. Yes, it's continuous. My hope is the president and his people, the president should take responsibility. They kept it was PDP before. They blame Bwari. Good luck. They blame PDP. They blame the youth. They blame Twitter. What are they blaming again? Cover it, please. Cover it, please. Every successive government blames each of the government before them. For me, I mean, what really upsets me is the fact that there seems to be a lack of strategy for most of the policies. I don't understand the backdrop upon which they are making a lot of their decisions. So take for instance, the amnesty given to Boko Haram. So you are rewarding them. There doesn't seem to be any plan to educate them, to reintegrate them into the society. You've just rewarded them and they've got back to doing the same thing. I just don't understand how that kind of decision could have been made. For me, I'm happy, like I pointed out, I'm happy that when that journalist asks him that question that what do you mean by Boko Haram legacy? He quite understood that it is not for him to call. That is for Nigerians who are going to look back at his, what would be his 80s in government and take a decision one way or the other. Well, I bet to you something like that. And I think Nigerians are quite informed about what this government has done and at the right time, they will paint that legacy. Well, I bet to disagree on that. Baba Bwari, I will advise you like a son. Let me just advise you as a son. Baba, please, you should be concerned about your legacy. Forget about what Nigerians think or not. Do the right things. You know what to do. Do it. And let me just take this for me. Know this and know peace. Get a Nigerian youth. Get good Nigerian youth. Many of them, they could come and work with you. It's just one year. You could do something. Change your history. Change your story. It doesn't matter what has been done in the past six years. If you can do the right things within this one year, even if you cannot do all, do something tangible that would be a build up for the next administration. Well, it's one year to go and then we'll see what becomes of the Bukhari legacy ultimately. Helen is next after the break. The need for monitoring applied behaviour analysis services, ABA. What is ABA? Applied behaviour analysis, ABA also called behaviour engineering is a scientific technique concerned with applied empirical approach based upon the principles of changing behaviour. The behaviour must be significant to the individual, family and society at large. ABA has been utilised in a range of areas including applied animal behaviour, school-wide positive behaviour support, classroom instruction, structured and naturalistic early behaviour intervention for autism, pediatric feeding therapy, rehabilitation of brain injuries, dementia, fitness training, substance abuse, phobia, ticks and organisational behaviour management. Presently in the United States, ABA is a medical intervention and it can only be applied by persons who are trained and certified in the application. With the alliance of other behaviour analysts worldwide, we have now March 20th as the world applied behaviour analysis alliance. What does this all mean? The implication is that if an individual has a neurodevelopmental disorder, you must put in the intervention that is done through evident based practices so that data can be taken to determine the effectiveness of that treatment. If this is not done, the condition becomes complicated and this is where the line between duty of care and negligence starts becoming blurred. Currently, the prevalence of children with neurodevelopmental disorders is 1 in 44 and most of these children are being attended to by unqualified persons or the persons licence are not being supervised. What licences do we have in Nigeria currently? There are three foreign licences bodies currently in Nigeria. You have the IBCCES the BCBA the QABA there is a chain of supervision with all these bodies and this is not being applied. Technicians, assistants, program developers all report to the developer who need to understand that individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders have medical conditions that deserve the most effective treatment and if this is not done we only make the condition worse. These are lifetime disorders and we need to give the individuals the best opportunity for the most beneficial quality of life. It is ethical and morally wrong to keep children with such conditions under the care of quacks and this needs to stop. Individuals with this condition have other medical conditions that are serious and can result in the reaction and the child might die in the care of the school. We really need to stop this practice. It is not fair to the individuals or the parents. Learning supports in schools should be monitored by ABA consultants and not just anybody who has a passion to work with a vulnerable child or group of individuals who have neurodevelopmental disorders. It is quite a lot. We always emphasize what you are trying to say is the emphasis should be on getting people, professionals that are well studied or well trained to handle this issue. It should not just be based on passion. No, I have passion to take your children with special needs or patients with special needs. You might cause more harm than good in the process. Basically now that it is a medical condition the truth of the matter is that if a child gets worse under your care it is really good to prison for it. So schools really do need to understand that these children are really ill. They are medically ill. People see these children as not being ill because they come to school and they behave almost they appear normal. But each of these conditions have come under other conditions like seizures and stroke. Wow. So I want to find out why is most of the body being placed on these schools? Are these boarding schools or day schools? Day schools. If a parent who has a child who has a condition who takes the child to a particular school I am trying to see why the school should bear that responsibility especially when it is not in boarding facility where the child has to be there continuously. That's a very good question. The truth of the matter is that if a child has a medical diagnosis why are you allowing the child in your school Exactly. Why are you allowing the child? Do we even have special needs schools? There may be the odd one but even the special needs schools who monitors them what's the standard or the parameters that the Ministry of Education has said to say that if you are going to set up this kind of school then this is what you should have and who is making sure that they have it. The answer to that is that for the first 1000 days of a child's life with a delay they have to have the opportunity to be trained in mainstream education. Once a child gets to about 7 then you can now start streamlining into special needs schools. The challenge we have is that most parents don't want their children to be in special needs schools because of stigma and kinkling and the special needs schools that we have are overburdened with children that can never be intervened. ABA is for intervention intervention means to restore to an extent so that the impact of the disorder is not going to be it's not going to be a detriment to the child further on in life. You have to properly monitor the disorder. I want to find out it's a very interesting script I'm trying to find out is that a rule for what is the ministry of health doing I think working with any development partners to address this issue because it's quite various this ABA whole concept is quite new to me and I imagine for most who out there it's also very new to them but I don't know. The truth of the matter is that it's not a new concept it's just been taken at a higher level when you go to school and you read special education to some extent you will be taught ABA but the empirical part of ABA has gone out of the same work of school and has now stepped into the hands of medical. For Nigeria purposes it's best for us to start with the ministry of education because they are the ones totally responsible for the school settings if you want to take it through the ministry of health they've got so many other things but we can also approach the ministry of health for them to to push screening so what we've done what we do is that we've done the reverse we are screening in schools to help the children to be identified on time because we can't wait because we can't wait if we're going to wait for the medical profession to take this up then we're going to have that's a long time I think our problem major in Nigeria is number one awareness continue education we are quick to judge, stigmatize and discard number two, inclusion not just inclusion, intentional inclusion from systemic point of view and government reinforcing it you want to build a school you talk about special needs schools it's not even special needs schools let's even assume that you have just a school ఇటఢడంకల가지టటాకవాధాం� warriors నిజ౏ లర్ంపస� glowing ఆమిషికిదకఖమరతాయనడి మాతాననిటాటానిలెసినిండితిల్స్బిసిత్గౕరినినిండిసిపి. మర్స్టానోంయంక఼దలరెకదరిని. పనియ్సధి పనికనినింటికెడి. లాన్ ఆకాలెలూవరంట్ న్నిలినానాకునిందిందానిందానిందిందాన౾నినిందితూడిందాన్ని. Okay, after the break, we are going to go into a very, very interesting topic and I would totally advise you to remain here. Sudden cardiac arrest, the silent killer in our midst. I don't want to sound morbid and certainly not at this time of the year when everyone is in such a festive mood. However, there is a silent killer and though it's not limited to men, it's taken out mostly men of African descent and it has nothing to do with age, physical fitness or even underlying medical condition. Sudden cardiac arrest. While some people may experience symptoms such as racing heartbeat or feeling dizzy, alerting them that a potentially dangerous heart rhythm problem has started. In over half of the cases, it occurs without prior symptoms. In the past few years, a number of prominent Nigerians such as Dijitinumbu, Stephen Keshi, Ibiduni Igudalu, Ugochuku Ehiogu Nigerian born ex-England international footballer to mention a few have succumbed to it and died. Recently in the international arena, the Danish footballer Christian Ericsson suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. Thankfully, he survived due to the prompt attention he received. He is doing well and though banned from playing in Syria is planning to resume his career. Unfortunately, because of a lack of awareness and education, most people in Nigeria are not so lucky. I can talk from experience because my husband died of sudden cardiac arrest in 2014. He wasn't sick. He was shooting pool when he suddenly went down. No one did anything because no one knew what to do. SCA is not the same as a heart attack. Without sounding too clinical in a heart attack, the heart stops beating. In contrast, sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the electrical system to the heart malfunctions. Just like your car and suddenly becomes irregular and blood is not delivered to the body. In the first few minutes, the greatest concern is that blood flow to the brain will be reduced so drastically that a person will lose consciousness. Death follows unless emergency treatment is begun immediately. How can we reduce the risk? Though it usually gives no warning, there are certain lifestyle changes you can make to reduce your risk of sudden cardiac arrest. These lifestyle changes include quit smoking, lose weight, exercise regularly, follow a low fat diet, managing your underlying health conditions including high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol and so on. What should you do if you witness sudden cardiac arrest? Immediately you initiate CPR that's cardiac pulmonary resuscitation. If done properly, CPR can save a person's life as the procedure keeps blood and oxygen circulating through the body until help arrives. If there is an AED that is an automated external defibrillator available, the best chance of rescuing that person includes defibrillator with that device. The shorter the time until defibrillation, the greater the chance the person will survive. In the first few minutes, there is actually a 75-90% chance of survival. After that, the chances reduced by 10% for every minute which means in 10 minutes a person could be dead. If CPR plus defibrillation or it is CPR plus defibrillation that saves a person, it's far better to do something than to do nothing at all. If you are fearful that your knowledge or abilities aren't 100% complete. Remember the difference between you're doing something and doing nothing could be somebody's life.  You can't do worse. So please do something. I must say that's really moved me. I don't know what to say. I'm emotional. But I do... Please, people come and do CPR. I don't know what to say. Hearing it from that point, I've known it for a while and I know when a husband died. It's only when you go through the emotions to recall that a person is dead.  But when you really look at what could have happened to prevent it, you ask yourself, did the person really need to die? You know that in Nigeria. We don't even have defibrillators. It's really in places where we should have them. Even in most hospitals, it's amazing. You just go and check out your local hospital. They do not have defibrillators. So what happens? Someone is dying. They don't even try to shock your heart back. But the truth of the matter is that CPR is not part of the medical training. It's done after you become a doctor in Nigeria. So you're saying that some doctors don't even have it? No, it has to be administered only by doctors. Yeah, they're being tortured. Growing up in school, okay, all through my elementary education days, I don't recall ever being put through that CPR procedure. And often I don't know how to do it. It was when, what happened with Chris and everything, that I saw how powerful that could go, how important it is in such situations to save life. So I mean, it's something that has to be, I'll give you an example. Call me to each of your awareness and put the school system, church system, so you can know how to do it. I'll give you an example. I had this training of my own personal staff. One guy, we were doing CPR training. He was there playing up and down, laughing, dah-dah-dah. Another guy, participating. Two weeks later, the guy that was laughing up and down, his mom had a heart attack. He didn't know what to do. The one that was concentrating, his neighbor had a heart attack and he was able to administer CPR. And he's alive today. CPR is something that everyone... That boy will feel sorry. It will feel bad. Especially because he could have done something. He could have done something. He could have done something. And we all can do something. It should start training, education and awareness. If it was intentional, you wouldn't have been able to do that. There was also a genetic problem. When you look at the causative factors, it's a genetic problem. Some people have a higher chance of having history. When you look at all the people that I mentioned, they're all different. Look at Ericsson for instance. You cannot say he had a sedentary life. Most have gone through the highest form of medical training. And then you look at Digitunumbu, who was a sports person. I think that what is clear is that most of the time, when these things happen in Nigeria, people just don't know what to do because they are ill-equipped. They are uninformed and they lack awareness. They start running around. Or worse still, people mill around the person. They're just looking at you, depriving you of the much needed oxygen and not doing anything. Or because it happens so suddenly because one minute you're just going about your business. And the next minute you're on the floor. People are taking on a rest and they just don't know that they should do something. I give an example. I had a very good friend. He died in the gym. He had a small, small, like, you know, and that was it. By the time he got to the hospital he said he had a cardiac arrest. And he was in the gym. Do you know what I cannot understand? I don't understand how. I mean I know we see it in the movies. They always try to shock your heart back. And that's what the defibrillator is. That's the defibrillator, yes. It's supposed to run electric current to your heart and charge it and get it pumping again because it can. It can. We saw it with Erickson. Oh, in Nigeria they just look at you. Oh, he's gone. They never try to bring you back. They never try. And I don't know why. Even the movies, even the Nigerian movies, the same movies. Yes, the doctor will just come and put that thing.  So you will reflect on what's happening. Yes, but even in Nigeria, as we said last week, I lost my stepfather. He had a cardiac arrest. And I'm very, very sure that if he had gotten to the hospital on time and they had what he did, and he went to a heart clinic, a heart hospital. I think that government needs to put certain policies in place where schools, hospitals, churches anywhere where people congregate. Where a certain number of people gather. I don't think there's any. In our airports, I mean, a general hospital has one. I think that first of all, let me appreciate you for having the courage to see this.  And he didn't have to die because he was 48. He was young. But you are trying to make a meaning to his death. Absolutely. You shouldn't do anything other than from it. Absolutely. So let's all learn as Nigerians. Let's all just learn to improve ourselves. Let's do something. I think lifestyle is important. I think lifestyle is one of the best safeguards. Yes. Lifestyle changes. Yes, lifestyle changes. This is not spending time to scream in the wind something like this. I don't know about me. Try to... And in all fairness, you know, her sister owns a very good school in Lagos. And every year, in fact, she's like, when am I doing your CPR? When I come and do your basic life support, you know, she's, every year I get her timetable, screaming of the children and first day training. She doesn't... I know it's because of personal experience, but I also do know that it's the right thing to do. It is the right thing to do. Absolutely. Just shortly before you go, is there a particular reason why the men are more prevalent? Yes. Why is it so common and more? Honestly, I don't know. And bear in mind, I'm not a medical professor. So maybe we need a doctor to come and... It's not just like a doctor to come and tell her he's more prevalent than African men. And do you know that more people die from sudden cardiac arrest than any other disease? But we lack awareness. Yes, that's the major natural cause of death in the entire world. And we don't know. After the break, Elijah wraps up this conversation and I'm looking forward to that. So stay tuned. gender equality bill eliminating prejudice in lawmaking. In 2016, the gender equality bill was first introduced to the each senate. The bills seek to protect the right of widows, guarantee appropriate measures against gender discrimination in political and public scene and prohibit violence against women in Nigeria. The bill was rejected by some male lawmakers who argued that the Nigerian constitution was clear on the right of citizens, including women. Biodun Olujume, senator representing the Kiti South, however, reworked the bill and continued the pursuits in the senate since first reading in 2019. After scaling second reading and referred to the senate committee on judiciary, human rights and legal matters, unfortunately the bill was rejected again by some male lawmakers claiming that the bill was against religious practice and that they can only favor gender equity over gender equality. Now, great women and men were recognized in the Quran and the Bible. So, why shouldn't we give anyone equal opportunities in contributing to the attainment of a balanced and progressive nation?  So everyone deserve fairness, justice, social, economic opportunities. The strength of a state is seen in her ability to see possibilities parity in leadership of us. It also calls for the need to look beyond biases and utilize diversity to strengthen its systems. However, recent trends and happening have proven that the issue of gender equality mainstream is bound to be swept under the carpet as a particular gender at the helm of leadership is seen as a taboo in some certain areas. In the 21st century, where nations around the globe are searching for more advanced ways and solutions to tackling problems, some are still at the very low of thinking gender equality should not be encouraged. This anomaly begs the following question. What is our future with policies that have no place for gender equality or equality at large? Are we governed by bias believe that some sets of individuals are not fit to rule? What happens to the fundamental human rights which stipulates right to freedom from discriminatory biases based on sex, ethnicity or religion? These and many more are the questions roaming the minds of progressives among us. The issue of gender equality is a universal debate and patriarchal system have big gender equality almost impossible. People are not supposed to be evaluated by the ethnicity or gender but by their abilities to deliver only and if only we as a nation can see the possibilities of equality then we are sure to be one step further in the progress ladder. In conclusion, leadership, intellectualism, greatness has no gender. It could be attained by anyone who puts in the necessary efforts. Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. If it is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance that's for Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary-General. God rest his soul. That's a good one and I agree with you on all counts that between the first century we shouldn't be having the kind of conversation that we have in the parliament over the extent to which we are going to include women in mainstream politics and other facets of society. Having said that, I have not read the legislation or the bill so I wouldn't know the angle of dissent or convergence but I understand that whatever the case may be some people are saying that women should not be they should not be they should only be seen and they should not be heard. I think that is so of a notion that the first century should not be heard. It doesn't matter I was watching at the Zira yesterday and I saw that in Afghanistan the current regime there has passed a law that women cannot write more than without having a male guy called Muharram in Islamic context. So that we cannot Afghanistan should not be the standard that we aspire to as a nation. We are a democratic government whereby the constitution as you pointed out in session 42 is the fundamental right of everybody irrespective of the agenda and any form of inclination. So we will continue to advocate to revive that bill and see that eventually it sees the light of day. But that notwithstanding I would like to be devil's advocate here. Have you really tried to work with women in legislation? They are not the easiest people. You say with women? I think that it goes beyond working with women in legislation. I am looking more at what it means, the system as a whole. Especially in 2021 where we have world leaders of countries, heads of states as women. How can we in 2021 in Nigeria still hold such backward views and I do call them backwards and I often wonder what supersedes in Nigeria the country or a religious or I just don't I just don't I don't get it and I think it's I think it's just sad. I'm glad that you're a man and you're the one who is talking about making this case because if we're women people will be like oh it's women at it again so it's a good thing. As a woman I know what it is to have that bias used. For instance I don't know now but do you know that you cannot even apply for Nigerian passport as a woman without either your husband's consent or your father. It's ridiculous in 2000 and you didn't know that did you? Yeah because you're a man nobody's ready to ask this but yes so did your husband your husband has to sign something or your father and I'm thinking okay I'm a widow and I'm an orphan I think that's maybe it must have changed because I've seen quite some but I actually went through it and then if you're a woman and you're trying to apply for your children you have to have the father's consent and that's just the basic that's just the power but you see I think it goes also because of the fact that law and custom are really head to head here.  Yes it's head to head so even when you get an edge in the legal side you have the custom running up next to you and you know changing it but we can't seem to do that but you know what is funny it's funny how in some instances the culture wins because it suits our purpose at that time we're not consistently choosing culture in the things that really matter to the men they're not choosing culture speaking of how this whole thing is is even beyond the Nigerian context I was watching an interview the other day on the same magazine it was Antonio Gutierrez the current United Nations Secretary General so the journalist asked him when are we going to have the first female Secretary General he now said that when we will have the next Madam General and Antonio Gutierrez was he couldn't answer the question so he told him that we understand that this issue is also in the United Nations and that we will continue to see how we will continue to see it was worse in Nigeria it was not just in some countries in some countries especially where religion plays such a role since we are playing the religious card the Bible and the Quran mention prominent women that had expressed leadership so they should stop deceiving them going for that the Bible says that they are neither male nor female sure sure Barbados just had a woman leading them into the future and guess what it was another woman actually had really wish authority to her in Elizabeth it was a woman even in New Zealand the woman understand what's her name again she's doing well in fact there was a survey of countries that properly managed the COVID situation and it was women but let me say something I think that while we are talking about all the things that need to change we must also admit that some things have changed a lot of the bank heads in Nigeria recently they are all women which means that obviously they I mean I hope it's not a political I hope they are not playing to the gallery these women are we are making progress but the problem is that there are some in part of the country some persons from some part of the country are trying to drag us backward while some other parts are moving forward I agree with you but that notwithstanding I mean I know that women in places like Cross River Ogoniland and things like that women are I have a friend she is the leader of the house she is the chief of army staff in a government chief of staff I am looking at this woman and I am thinking how can she because she is a new job woman from Nigeria Delta so I can't imagine her standing there and telling those men to that's very interesting not until our not turn brothers and sister experience this because it's easy for some of them to say we get married we marry off our girls at the age of 9 and then you don't want the girls to go to school imagine the religious police in a particular state we see a smart room from girls seeing is wrong for them this lady moved on she is from Nigeria a beauty pigeon this religious police had to someone her parent to explain why they have to allow the daughter to so it speaks to how this is more entrenched in some part of the country unlike the other part of the country but thank you all for your review well a woman should know her place and her place is in the driver's seat well thank you for your attention why the programs lasted we hoped our conversations resonated with you little drops of water they say make a mighty ocean don't forget the advocacy continues on our social media platform on facebook at plus tv africa hashtag the advocate ng and instagram at plus tv africa like the advocate ng to catch up with previous broadcast go to plus tv africa dot com forward slash the advocate ng don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel plus tv africa thank you for your constant love and support in the past year yes to another amazing year let's keep advocating for a better society see you next time and happy new year once again


Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. The US creates poverty and chaos in other countries, and then sounds the alarm over a migrant crisis as people flee those conditions it created. It's like flooding the basement, and then crying when the people who live there try to come upstairs. I can't say enough unkind words about people who are buying into the obvious anti-China propaganda push. We've seen them do this so many times, to so many countries by now.   If you support the persecution of Julian Assange, that means you believe all media everywhere should function as a US propaganda organ. You believe all journalists everywhere have a responsibility to help the US Empire keep its crimes hidden and should be punished if they don't. There's a whole big controversy on Twitter right now over right-wing congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene posing for photos with the anti-war activism group Code Pink, who were in DC protesting the US proxy war in Ukraine. Code Pink's left-wing supporters got upset. Code Pink issued an apologetic statement, and now everyone's arguing over whether MAGA Republicans like Greene and Matt Gaetz can truly be considered anti-war since their faction is extremely hawkish toward nations like China, Iran, and Mexico. I personally see no conflict between the two sides of the debate. There's not actually any contradiction between the positions A. MAGA Republicans are horrible assholes and are not actually anti-war, and B. MAGA Republicans are far better on Ukraine than even the most progressive Democrats in Washington. It's very easy and correct to understand both as true. There's a whole network of safeguards in place to ensure that those who get elevated to celebrity status won't use their influence to disrupt the Empire. On the rare occasions that someone has slipped past those safeguards, Roger Waters, Susan Sarandon, etc., Imperial narrative managers react catastrophically and launch aggressive smear campaigns to undermine their influence, because they are no longer deemed deserving of that influence. There's been an above-average amount of feuding in independent media lately, which illustrates why I try to keep to myself and avoid any formal collaborations with other anti-imperialist content creators these days. I sincerely couldn't care less about the grudges indie media figures hold against each other or how their feelings feel about each other. My sole interest in them is how effective they are at exposing and fighting the Imperial machine. In whatever ways they are, I will amplify and cite their work. In whatever ways they aren't, I'll ignore them. This thing is too important to care about anything else beyond that. During the 2016 presidential race, progressives were galvanized by Bernie Sanders and his talk about revolutionary change and economic justice for all.  That actually happened, the aforementioned Code Pink protesters were arrested outside of Bernie Sanders' office.  You can never get to peace while denying the factors which obstruct it. This is why it matters so much that this war was provoked. It's not some irrelevant geopolitical blame game to score propaganda points. It's spotlighting an absolutely essential piece of information for the world to find its way out of this war. Russia will not stop fighting as long as the West is threatening its security concerns in the ways that provoked the invasion. You can't just call for an end to aggressions while denying the existence of one of the aggressors. That's not how peace negotiations work. The very first step is acknowledging reality. Only then can both aggressors, Russia and the Western Empire, begin working toward mutual de-escalation. In February 2022 everyone was shrieking in unison that this was a completely unprovoked invasion that needs to be crushed by any means necessary. Now even the head of NATO admits it was provoked by NATO expansion and the US Congress is having trouble getting proxy war funding. It always happens this way. There's screaming emotional hysteria leading to profoundly unwise decisions being made. Then the smoke clears and people start realizing it was a big mistake. And then there's this long drawn out silent shrinking away from it. We saw it with Afghanistan and Iraq in the wake of 9-11. We saw it with Libya and we're seeing it again in Ukraine. Maybe someday we can stop letting the warmongers capitalize on the emotional frenzy of the moment in such instances and start letting cooler heads prevail.


With the kids back at school and still a long way to go until Christmas or even the midterm break, maybe it's time to think about having a wee break for yourself. Getting away for a few days, could be a city break, could be off to the sun. Well, Emma McHugh from Atlantic Travel and Atlantic Travel actually, in Erick County, celebrating 30 years in business this year, but more about that later. But Emma is joining us in studio and we're also streaming if you want to join us on Facebook or YouTube. And Emma, thanks for coming in. Good afternoon to you. Good afternoon to you, John. So where could we think of now that would be good value? Because it's all about value this season, I'm sure, and it normally is. But where if we were thinking of, let's say a city break, where would be good value? I think now more than ever, value has always been important, but I think everybody's feeling the pinch now. So there certainly is great value there, if you're looking to get away between now and Christmas. In some places. Well, some places are obviously better than others. Absolutely. I'm thinking about when you get there as much as getting there. Yeah. So if we look at, say, what cost to eat out or what it costs for a bottle of beer when you're there, and when you pair that up then with your flights and your accommodation, that's where you're going to get the value is where the cost of living is a little bit lower in destination. And sometimes these aren't traditionally in our mind as city destinations. Some of them are, but some of them aren't. So I think sometimes we need to look a little bit outside the box, outside the Rome, outside the Paris, outside the Amsterdam, because there's so much choice. So for example, if we look at, say, Athens, where a meal for two could cost maybe about 35, 40 euro for a couple of courses and your bottle of wine, locally made wine, 12, 13 euro. Great destination, right up until the middle of November, you're going to get mild weather. You're looking at per person, you could look at maybe flights for about 100 euro accommodation, 100 euro per night for a couple. So depending on whether you're on three or four nights, you can really tailor then the cost of your trip. Now bearing in mind, Athens is a little bit further away than most city destinations, you need to bear that in mind. So it's about four hours from Dublin. It is an absolutely fabulous city. I was there in August myself. And the place we would advise everyone to stay is the Plaka area. And it lies in the shadow of the cropless. It's stunning. It has, even though it's in the city center, it has a Greek village feel about it. So you have beautiful cobble streets, tree lined avenues, really, really atmospheric. You get a great sense of history in the city itself. Well, it's hard to avoid history in Athens, but I remember when I was there years ago, it was in the height of summer granted, but the heat was stifling and the pollution was awful. So have they, have they, well, whatever about the heat you're going out this time of the year? It shouldn't be as warm. Yeah, I was there in August and the heat was definitely stifling. But if you're looking at shoulder season kind of, you know, from October to the middle of November and again early spring, you're going to have beautiful weather, not too hot, cooler at night, but perfect for sighting.  Certain parts of the city are definitely cleaner than others. That's why the Plaka area is where we would tell people that look for accommodation there.  So you have Hadrian's art, you have, you know, it's home to democracy. That's what they say, Athens. So you have, you have philosophers that would have been there. It's got rich, rich culture and rich, rich history and very good value. Okay. All right. That's, that's Athens. Where, where else anywhere else? Well, if you don't really want to spend four hours on a flight, Lisbon is also another very, very popular destination. And again, you're looking at similar cost of living. So a meal for two, under 40 euro for a meal for two. And there's a huge food culture in Lisbon as well. There is. I was watching and I have a Maguire's program during the week and he's doing a tour of Portugal and he was in Lisbon and the food looked great and the value was good. But in general, portugals, you know, it's pretty good value. Normally is even down the Algarve. Yes. Yeah. I find, I do think though you get better value up, up north. And, and like it definitely is a foodie destination at the moment. And there's some fabulous places in Lisbon. There's a place called the Time Out Market. And it's like a warehouse venue and there's 40 over 40 restaurants on it. And they have to keep up a certain standard. So they drop, they're out. Fantastic. Sushi to steak, it suits everybody. If there's a group of you traveling and you're walking down streets, nobody can decide where to go. This is the place to go because there's something for everybody. And again, extremely good value. And the variety is fantastic. Funny, you should say something for everyone because on the program, he had a sort of a cross range of food, there was street food, and there was a pastry shop, and then there was a high end restaurant. So, you know, Lisbon takes a lot of boxes. It does. And it is, it's famous for its pastries as well. Yeah. So hard to resist. Yes, they are super. And maybe one more idea for a city break. Yeah. So we have then Krakow, which is brilliant any time of the year. So we have Eastern Europe in general offers good value. It does. Now, this is the first time that some Western European countries, this first year that Western European countries will have some similar price point for as Eastern Europe. All right. That is always traditionally been Eastern European. So that has slightly shifted. Well, it's showing really that Eastern Europe is catching up rather than all the way around. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So Krakow, again, I would avoid July, August, very hot, but great value shoulder season any time from, from say March up until May. And again, this time of year, and then it switches completely when we get to the end of November and you have Christmas markets. So again, the prices don't go up. It's the same price point for flights and accommodation, even though it's, it's probably a much busier time of the year for them. And when it comes to Christmas markets, Krakow does it as, as good as anywhere else. Yeah. So perfectly acceptable weather. And then obviously the closer you get to Christmas, the colder it's going to be. But there's somebody asking, are there any good spots in October that are still warm? Well, Lisbon will still be nice in October. Athens will still be nice in October. Absolutely. Yes. But if, maybe this is somebody who's, you know, thinking about combining it with a bit of land by the pool. Yeah. Well, for example, I'm actually just back from Palma myself, and people would associate Palma as the capital of New York and people would associate New York with summer sun and package holidays. But Palma itself is the most amazing city. And you can stay in the city or there's plenty of options, maybe 10 kilometers out, where you have a holiday feel, you have beach, you have a proper pool, nice hotel. You just hop in a taxi then the evening time to veil of the city sites. In the city, if you want. Okay. So I was looking for an active holiday, something related to hiking, any recommendations will be good for hiking. Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Montenegro, Camino's still extremely popular, extremely popular. And it's getting more popular with bigger groups now. So you might have multi-generational groups going or you could have clubs going, but Camino's still very popular. And it'll be good at this time of the year because the temperatures would be nice. Yes, especially if you're, if you're planning on being active during the day, you want to avoid anything that's too hot. Is midweek better to book? Normally is. It absolutely is. Yeah, that would be definitely a top tip. You can save, you could save over 100, 150 per person by going on a Tuesday, coming back on a Friday as opposed to over a weekend. Doesn't always suit everybody, but yes, if, if, if money is something that you want to save, then if you can be flexible with your day to travel, you'll save money on that. The destinations that we were chatting about, I mean, this is overall good value, not too expensive to get there because they're not too far away. I know you mentioned Athens is that little bit further, but in general, not too far away, but it's also the cost of, you know, public travel when you get there, eating out, the cost of drink, accommodation, overall decent value. Absolutely. Yes. All right. So, you mentioned Christmas markets, Cracow, where else is popular for Christmas markets because some people will be thinking around about now. Yes, there certainly are. One that maybe might not be as obvious to everybody is Berlin. You know, that you have the Vienna's, Munich's, but Berlin has staggering 50 Christmas markets in the city itself. So, you think Christmas markets, I don't know, it's sort of, we have this notion and it's a romantic notion of, I don't know, you know, somewhere nice like you have, as you say, Vienna or Salzburg or something, but Berlin. Berlin. Yes, believe it or not. And it is a super destination for both families and couples. You have a mix of markets. So, you have a winter world, which has tobogganing and ice skating, or you have then Alexanderplatz, which is a much more traditional wooden huts, beer houses, but they're all lit up the same at night. You have that atmosphere, your hot mulled wine, just walking through the stalls. So, it can be as romantic as you want it to be. Okay, they just do it and do it well. Yes, absolutely. Thirty years in business, Atlantic Travel first opened in 92 and now an award-winning travel agency. So, a lot has changed since 92, booking now. And I see as well that some of the team that started with Atlantic back in 92 is still there. They are three from day one. Moe McCrossen was there the first day it opened and Mary T. Toy shortly after and then Caroline Kerr. So, they have been in it for the long haul. So, they have seen changes from everything was calculated manually with mileage for airline tickets and now it's a click of a button. So, it's a world away from what it was. It's all too easy to forget and we do, you know, take it for granted. There's all the click of a button. It's always online. But back then it was all done on the phone. Everything was on the phone. Yeah. And you could hold, you could come in and you could say, hold me that holiday option and we could hold it for 48 hours and we just ring our supplier because it was a very small world in travel. So, you knew the person personally at the other end of the phone and they'd hold the holiday for you. And if you get on particularly well, they may hold it a couple of more days. So, you know, there was a lot of it was about relationships as well, which was hugely important. You knew your travel agent and you had a relationship with them. But that's not to say that, you know, that's changed. My things might be also handier and different, but there's still a lot of trust involved and you just know that you're going to a travel agent that they're going to recommend places that they're well familiar with that they've, you know, had groups out there or they've been to themselves and stuff. So, yes. And in the same way, they may have been somewhere that they wouldn't recommend. Yeah. So, it's not always places that they've been that the experience has been good. They know, okay. This is they know to avoid. They read well, but in reality, it's not necessarily like that. So, yeah, it's about, I suppose, we know our clients and as we book more for them, we get to know what they like and, you know, what suits them. So, it is still an awful lot of trust and relationship and between this nine of us there on the team and between us all, we have visited an awful lot of places. So, there's a lot of experience. There's a lot of knowledge there. One place. Yeah. And back then, you had to calculate the price of flights. It wasn't just a book price. Well, it was a book price, but it had to be different factors. Like an encyclopedia. So, and if it was around the world ticket, it was multiple stops. And then you had to calculate, like the book listed every flight that was operating at the time. So, you might have to do a double in London, a London Singapore, Singapore, depending on where the person wants to be. And you had to calculate those miles.  And at the time, visas and inoculations and all of that kind of stuff was not ready available on the internet like it is now. So, you know, that knowledge had to be there if you were stopping off summer, what visa was required and what duration of layover was needed. It was a laborious task. But at the same time, it was just the start of travel and leisure travel. And, you know, thankfully it's grown into a much easier process. Sometimes people got a bit of information on Airtail or C-Fax and then went in and asked more questions of the travel agents and kind of delved into it a wee bit to see what was really available, you know, what was behind the page. Cruises, it seems to me that everybody I chat to this year, they've been on a cruise or they're planning a cruise. It's been big business again this year. It's hugely popular. Yeah. And it still is. And I think some people, including ourselves, didn't expect it to bounce back so quickly after Covid. But the projected growth for the companies that are operating cruise ships is phenomenal. And it's not going to stop anytime soon. And for some people, it just offers a really, really good value point where you might want to see four cities in one trip and not pack and unpack. So it caters for everybody from small luxury ships that hold 600 to the megalith ships that hold 600. So there's so many different companies and types of ships that really, if you haven't cruised before, you really do need a little bit of guidance on it. Everybody seems to come back with good stories from their cruise holiday. So that's sort of an endorsement that makes a difference. And obviously, having access to one line makes life a lot handier for travel agents like yourself. But as you've mentioned earlier, you just can't beat the knowledge. The knowledge that's in the room and the recommendations that you might make or places that you might suggest that would be best avoided. We're only 12 months on from restrictions and needing vaccination certs and so on. So there's a real appetite to get it. It feels like it's much longer to think that it was illegal 16 months ago to travel. It just seems like an earlier lifetime ago it picked up pace once we could. And now this year, the acceleration has just gone beyond what we would expect. Even today, the World Health Organization are chatting about the end of the pandemic that it is in sight. So it's great for your industry. And you are surprised how quickly it's going back, not just cruise holidays, but just travel in general. Travel in general and inbound travel as well, like tourism into Ireland is hugely important. And they're both congruent with each other. Like the flights that bring passengers in are the flights that bring us out as well. So one feeds off the other and we're permitted now to travel and to go back out and explore. That allows the doors open for people to come here as well. So it's a positive thing all around. Someone's asking just on that, do you need to be vaccinated to fly from Belfast to Spain? If you are over 12, yes, there's different rules for Dublin and for Belfast. Do they still check for vaccine certs? They do. Yes, as recently as last Saturday when I was going through. But anyone over 12, if they are, well, excuse me, if they're not vaccinated, they need to produce a negative test. So you can still travel, but you still have a certain form of restriction that you have to show a test. Under 12s, nothing. And then out of Dublin, nothing or knock. Finally, I'm going to put you on the spot here. Any good Halloween destinations for young adults? No kids. What would you suggest? Oh, well, if there's no kids, what I would suggest is avoiding the midterm because all you'll see is kids. Families don't go everywhere. There must be certain locations. I'm thinking Ibiza. Yeah, the season for Ibiza, no, would be finished. Yeah. Yeah. So you're looking the last, I think it's the first week in October, Ibiza, everything like all the nightclubs wind down. Yeah. If in terms of value, if you say for example that the midterm goes from say the Saturday to Saturday, if you go on a Thursday, you can get your holiday for half of what you would Saturday to Saturday. So I would advise looking outside of that little period. Wherever they go, try to avoid the midterm. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Emma. Appreciate it. Thank you.


Okay, is everybody ready? Let's see what today brings. Okay, this is not that spreading, which is good. Okay, stop's going to be $17.55 and I don't have the entry yet, but just giving you some kind of idea here. Better if it backs up a little bit because it doesn't have a big target. So let's see. Okay, we can do $20 by $55. Do it! Do it right here! Look at that! Right there! Do it right now! We barely had a second to get it. That was it. $55 is a stop. $17.55 urban. Here. And we got to watch for $17. I said $16.85, $16.80, $16.75. Oh, nice way to start the day. Here we go. Urban, urban, urban, urban, urban! Here! And if you want to shave a little off, you can right now. You can take half off, hold the rest, whatever. Here we go. Nice call. Okay, low is $91. We got to break $90 to get more traction here. Again, if you just want to scalp out of that, you can. In fact, I'm going to look at the market. This is something to do this Boeing again today. Let's go back and look at that stuff. Here, urban. Here. Nice call. $16.91 is a low. We have to get through that. I mean, there is a possibility this could get to $16 today. It's really up to you if you want to hold it that long. I'll actually be happy if we can get this down to $16.60, $16.50. I don't know. We can get through this area. It might get to $16. Here's $16.25. We can get through this. It's trying to push it. Here we go. $16.91. Just got to break that. It has to break the low. Has to break the low. So, I'm just going to talk about the market here briefly where we're waiting for urban. You see this here? Like, this should not look like this here if this was going to do this. I said the same thing Monday, and I said the same thing Tuesday, and I'm saying the same thing today. Who's doing what? I want more move out of this, but I told you you could have taken some out just to protect yourself. And actually, it was a good stop. It was a good stop. This was almost one hour really down here if you just got out. But I think this is a potential to be a decent trade today. It's so weak, but here's the area that it's bouncing off of right now. Jackie's waiting. Did anyone get out? So, it's on its own. It doesn't need the market. Jiro got out. Anyone else get out with him? He said enough already. I'm taking it. David! David got out. David's brand new. David's new and doing great. David, did you understand the call today? Excellent, David. First trade. Well, I know you've been practicing very good. Oh, I know. I wanted to look out. I'm waiting for this. This. Wow. What a waste of an earnings. That target was this too. That is very sad. These retailers that could have been amazing trades were, and we didn't go after these other ones today, like enough. Wow. They could have been amazing trades. Target, especially if it had gapped up right, would have been so good. All right. So, let's go over the urban. Stop in this is 1755, and we will not be moving it. So, we got in here. Sold off right of ways. Got the drop. Tried to break. Tried to break. That's where I was saying you can get out if you want, because you're taking a chance if you hold this, when this is holding a certain price point and not moving lower, that this is the temporary end of the morning move or it could be the end of the move. So, I'm choosing to hold this. I don't think it's being aggressive. I think it's this area that it's having a hiccup in, and it just needs a little bit more time to get through it. So, a couple of you got out, a couple of you are in it, and here's the market. Like this is so heavy, it's like you were holding a rock. Like this shouldn't look like this, but it does. It's going to sell off. But again, like I was saying earlier, for those of you that came in late, if we had opened here today, we probably would have rallied and pushed back.  We didn't do it yesterday, and I kind of wish we had, but by the time it broke, it was very, very late. We would have had to do it right away. Is this going again today? Well, not. Well, it does have volume. I'm not going to do anything else today. I just trying to try to stick with one thing here. So tomorrow is, again, the unemployment claims. Excuse me, my throat is hoarse from, I think the pollen is bothering my allergies. So I have to apologize and be coughing. The unemployment claims out tomorrow morning. I have to look and see what earnings are out tonight, tomorrow morning. Okay, so if you got out of this, you could retake it if you want to. Again, 20. You could redo it 20 by 55 if you want. 21 by 55 if you want. You could retake it right here. But this is it. When it goes back down, if it doesn't break that number, then I will be out. Here we go. Target, really, really surprised here. But, you know, it's so interesting. Like, if you look at this chart, you can't tell this was even earnings today. It's the same thing that's happened to every chart this entire earnings season. The entire earnings season. If I lined up 20 charts, you wouldn't be able to tell me what the earnings date was. That's what the entire earnings season was. It's just so strange. And the same thing now with these today. That is bizarre. Very strange. I don't know why that is. It just is. Okay, just sitting here waiting. This is kind of snaily. I think it has a little more room to go, though. Once it can get under 1690. But if you wanted the fast trade today, it could have been done in five minutes. If you want to try to make more today, I don't think that there's anything wrong with waiting for this because this is kind of snaily. And also, it has some potential. So here's my plan of action with this. When this gets under 20, I'm going to add, then I'll feel like it's confirmed to go lower. And then maybe we can have a big trade in this. It's got to get down to here. So let's wait. So 19 we'll be looking to add. You could take this again under 20 or add if you want. This looks really good actually. Here, here, take more now if you want it. Or redo it. Stop at 1755. Yay. I think this is going to break the low. Didn't lift. Did not lift. So this could be a decent trade if it wants to drop a buck. Wow, that would be really... Let's not talk about it. Let's not talk about it. Let's not speak of these things. All right, 296.20, 296.35, 296.75. Amazon looks like it's running out of steam. Is Apple going to lift the overall market today? Nobody knows. And look and see what's on tap for tomorrow. You're in this and you got to wait. Probably until 10 o'clock. We're just going to sit here and wait for another 15 minutes, half an hour for this to drop on down. It looks really good. Nice call. What is today is... Today is the 20th. Tomorrow is the 21st. Today's Wednesday. Okay. BBY is tomorrow. BJ's is tomorrow. More retailers. That's tomorrow morning. Let's look for tonight. Tonight. LBT2.EXPE is tonight. I think tomorrow morning there's better ones. And then, of course, the number tomorrow. The number tomorrow is going to be interesting because last week we saw a movement in the market with the number. So the number has been dropping and we're seeing movement. So it'll be interesting to see if that happens tomorrow. I didn't look and see what the expectation is for how many unemployment claims. Friday the room is closed. Enjoy a long weekend. And if you trade alone on Friday, you better be really careful. That's my two cents on that. Let me look up and see how many unemployment numbers are there claims I think they're going to get tomorrow. Let me see. They're expecting 2.25. Is that right? 2.25? So last week, remember, they thought it was going to be like 2.75, I think, and it was close to three. And then we reacted negatively, even though it was a lower number than the previous ones. It's ridiculous, which made no sense. Oh, you know what? I didn't look at today's CCO. Anything else anybody wants me to look at? Just got to wait on Urban. I like it. Nothing there today in that, but that's lower. This is lower. Okay, here we go, Urban. Nice call in here in Urban. So you could have, if you got out of it down there, you could have reshorted it. You could have added if you want. Stop is the same. And we're not going to be moving it, you know. Do I think this is going to 100% retrace this bar in the next 24 hours? Probably not. Not without the market. It's not up enough this morning. It could make its way back, but I think it's going to run out of time. So that's my two cents, but anything can happen. It fell so much that you can just watch it at this point. And that's pretty much why I also just let everything play out. I think the puts are going to have more momentum in them this week than this one call I called. And the puts were all up yesterday into the close. So you could have just booked them all. So, I mean, again, it goes back to the same thing we've been talking about in reference to the options for a while. Here we go, Urban. And the same thing for the day trades.  If you're still in it, then good, it looks great. But I think with this market whipsawing around, you do have to decide what side you're going to be on. Either you're holding stuff for a normal move or you are exiting and scouting. You could have done that in this today and been done. You could have done that with the options yesterday and been done or you're holding for bigger moves and I'm holding this for a bigger move and it is working out. And I think the puts are going to as well for a bigger move, but you could have gotten out of them all. If you can't handle the stress of trading this type of market, then you really don't have any business trading. I think WMT is going to not make it back around today, but it's got two days left, so that's a long way away. None of the retailers worked right. Everything looks very heavy. Oh, let's look at JPM. Is this trying to lift? I can't wait to see what happens with this market by the end of the week. I really can. It's very, very interesting. Okay, who is still in the urban or re-took it? We have to pay attention here. I don't want to go off in a tangent about a talk and then we missed our exit. 1702. So anyways, yesterday the market had a massive, was green pretty almost all day. Not a big green, it was a small green. Three o'clock sold off like hotcakes out of nowhere. So it's, and like for example, if you had been law in the market yesterday, you would have never gotten out of that trade in time with any profit. You would have lost. Your profit would have been there and it would have been lost. That's how fast the market moved. So this is what I mean when I'm saying, you have to be on the right side of things because the volatility is here and it's not going away and it's not going to go away the whole summer either. It's going to be here. It's here to stay. Here to stay. So this is up. I don't think it's a problem waiting for it to go. I think it's perfectly fine. Again, this goes back to the situation as far as sizing yourself to where you have to size yourself right and every risk in your trade should be similar or equal or as close as you can get it. Now, if you do an ad, you're like taking two trades in one, that's okay. As long as you're allowed to do two trades, that's fine. But again, sizing is one of the things that you have to focus on and you have to make sure you're doing it right. If you're risking $500 a train, then that's what you're risking. If you're risking $5,000 in options trade, then that's what you're risking. You're not risking $5,000 in one and $10,000 in another. You see? I think we're going to get some traction in this. I think this could end up being a really nice day and who would have thought it would be in something like this. So, look at the market. We're waiting for that. The last one we had like this was UAA. I don't remember that. We've done like a bazillion things since then. I don't really remember. This is like a snail, though. Let's look at UAA. When was that? Oh, you didn't want to look at BBY, which is tomorrow. That's the favorite for tomorrow. I don't remember when we did this. Did we do this here? I don't remember when we did it. I honestly don't remember what day we did that. Was it last week? I don't remember doing it. That's funny. Okay, BBY is tomorrow morning before the open. This is the one that we could get some movement in as well. What was this bar here? 518. Here. Urban. Here we go. We just broke. Again, you can get out of this right here. Nice call. Great job, everybody, if you stayed with it. And especially if you did the ad. Again, you can get out of this here, but if you want to try to hold it for some traction, we're definitely, definitely getting it. Nice day here. And low stress. Here it goes. Under 80. So we do have to watch 1675, 1670, 1660. I want this to keep going, but I don't want to be in it all day. I think this could get to here though. It definitely, definitely, definitely could. Here is going to try to break 1680. What a nice, easy trade today. That was the only thing I liked. So here we go. We're going to break 80.  And it's, this is extremely tricky. So you have to hold the conviction and you do have to know what you're doing. All right, here we go. Urban. And this might get some help here with the market into 10 o'clock. Again, if the market's going to flip, but the market held on all day yesterday at 03 and then sold off like hotcakes. Is it going to do the same thing today? I don't know. I have no idea, but the market's definitely heavy. So again, 1681, 1681. You could be out of this here. This is where it gets hard. Should we get out of it or should we hold it?  It'll go to 15. Here, 1682. Jackie got out. Did anybody else get out? The best way I would describe this whole thing here with the things that I am seeing rallying is again, it's like climbing the wall of worry. That's the best way that I can describe the way this market looks here, but there's not much you can do about it. And again, we're still not going long. So you have to be patient. If you get out of the puts yesterday and just bank some money, fine. If you stayed with them for bigger moves, you must be patient. You've got to be patient. So let's see where we're going to go red today. I'll write the number in the room. 29581. Who else got out of urban? Jackie got out of it too. 29581. Spy number to watch. The only reason I'm still on this is because I think we're going to get some help here with the market right now. Now let me see if this is happening for any reason. I don't think so. There was no reason for us to gap up this morning either.  I guess I don't know the details, but the trial wasn't sufficient or something. I don't know. But that came out and that's what created that immediate sell-off at three. I don't know why we gapped up this morning. I don't know what's coming off right now. Sometimes you can't look for reasons for everything. It's just doing what it wants. But here we are, urban. So if you get out, fine. 1681. I mean this is a nice straight here. It's really not problematic to sit with here. It's not really wiggly jiggly. It's very easy to hold I think. Let me go look up and see. I wanted to look up that. Is it BBY tomorrow or BBBY? BBY. It is BBY. It is BBY. Why did that have that bar three days ago? Let me look that up. That was an upgrade? I had a big gap up two days ago on an upgrade. That was odd. But that is earnings tomorrow, yeah. Is there anyone still in this? WMT? Yeah. I mean, again, the bar yesterday, which I think I said in the room, 125, it was going to be hard for us to make it. But by that time it had completely fallen. So, like I said, I think the puts are going to be the ones this week, not the one call. I'm glad that we didn't do any more than one. We didn't do Target. We didn't do Lowe's. You know, this very well could have gone. And when you look at the market yesterday, the market didn't sell off yesterday till three. So this had plenty of time to go yesterday in the morning. And it didn't do it. This has such a long way to go to make it back around by the next two days that, like I said, it could, but Lowe's. But it definitely won't without the market. I think Amazon is running out of steam. And this looks really good to drop today again. And then we're just waiting. Today was a very easy day. Today is a potential to be a huge day. Today is a good day right here, to do the end. But I'm trying not to just get out of this because it's weak. And I think at some point the market is going to falter. And then we'll see. So tomorrow the main watch is BBY. Again, I don't know what it does. It's been retail, retail all week. I think Target was really unfortunate. There was nothing, no way to play this here. And it could have been a nice train. It could have been a nice long. It could have even been a nice short. It really basically didn't even gap. It's like a waste of an earnings. But I sound like a broken record because I've said that probably in six or seven things we've done this season. And I don't think it's going to be that way third quarter in the summer in July once we get the third earnings season. I really don't think it's going to be like that. Was it because of the COVID-19 that everything was strange this quarter? Maybe. We are really lucky that we got the place we got in specific stocks that I happen to see that we're going to move lower. Now this is earnings, so I'm happy about that. But it is better to trade earnings gaps hands down no matter what because they tend to have very large moves. And we're lucky we had the moves that we had in stocks like Boeing. Who's still in this urban? Oh, Shower Singer's still in it and Dan. Well, does anyone have any questions about anything you want to go over since we have to sit here and wait it out? You got out but you might want to go back in. Okay. I know what I haven't looked at lately because we haven't done anything with it. Microsoft. Look at Microsoft. And we do have a number out at 1030 today crude and then we do have the FOMC minutes at two. So 1030 crude FOMC minutes at two. Well, that should be interesting. That should be very interesting. That should be very interesting. Shouldn't it? I don't know if there's going to be a place for you to take this again. But even if you do, I would still put the stop at 1755. One thing for sure we've seen this earnings season is you can't be too tight with stops. But normally I don't even think we would have had to give this 1755 but I think you can't, you can't be tight with stops right now. That's another thing. So really this is the next area right in here. Sitting its butt on the top of this area. 1660. 1663. If it gets down there though, it's probably going to get down here. I don't know how long that takes. I don't have anything to talk about. Does anyone want to go over anything? Talk about anything? I have no topic ideas here. So happy to have an easy day. And we could have an easy day tomorrow with PBY. I've been walking outside Jackie, but I think that's why my allergies have bothered me again. So pollen is a problem. So I've been going for walks outside. That's it. Pollen is bad here I think in New York right now. Let's see what's next week is on tap for next week. Let me look. And anybody want to go over anything? I really don't have any topics to talk about. I'm waiting for this to go. Google Cloud is landing a cybersecurity contract with the U.S. Defense Department. It's like a Google. CNBC reporting positive COVID-19 data and states that have reopened earliest. So we're sitting in a snail. There's nothing we can do. I'm not going to take any more of this. The low of the day was 1681. I think I'm going to probably give this till 10, 15, 10, 30. We'll sit here and wait for it to drop. I don't really know what we can talk about though. So FOMC minutes at two. Crew to 1030. Unemployment numbers out tomorrow. It'll be very interesting to see what this market's going to do. If it's lower, it's lower. If it's going to finally move into an uptrend, it's going to do it this week. Let's see. Let's see if we can do it. This is a snail, but it's going to move lower. It is a snail though. I guess snails are good. As long as they move. So Pierwin Imports is closing. That's sad. JC Penney bankrupt. Pierwin Imports closing. Horrible what's happened to retail. So sad. Soon the only store left will be Amazon. Then you'll never be able to see anything you buy. And you'll order stuff sometimes that you don't like and you don't even know what it looks like. Is that the only retailer that's going to be left? Kind of crazy, isn't it? Seriously. This is a snail. $16.95. Well, if you wanted to do another trade, you could do $16.95 by maybe $17.30. Again, I'm not adding any more. I'm trying to hold it. But you could do that. So my plan of action is one more flush through the low and just call it a day. And even 20 more cents will be worth it here with this. So, trying to see what it's going to do. So let's talk about Boeing here while we're waiting for that one. Since some of you are in this. So this didn't go anywhere. We traced 50% of it yesterday a little bit more. Then gapped up today with the market. What are we looking to happen here? Again, another sell-off into here. All the puts yesterday into the close, if you want. Then if you waited, you're waiting for what? More of a move in here. Falling, dropping, lower. All these setups have been happening have been very sloppy. I'll give you that. But the reality is you can see how heavy this is today and that it was only a market reaction that it gapped up. I totally forgot that the minutes were out at 2 today. So I will have to watch what's going on here at that time. But here we go with Urban. You're back in it? Yeah. This is a normal play and normally what we do but earning season hasn't been normal. So it really hasn't been. I don't think the summer will be like that. I think the summer will be different. But who's to say? Steven's still in it. So let's talk about the areas of the market I'm watching to see. So like if we would get up tomorrow morning and the market would be here we could go along everything in the world that's strong again right there. Market gaps up right here tomorrow we're going to go along everything. I don't even know if this is going to hold green today even though we're rallying because I forgot the minutes were at and we'll react on that. The reaction could be big. The reaction could be big up. The reaction could be big down. Let me see what else is going on. Keep us motivated here.