Welcome to another show. I am James Swanik, founder of Swanik and the James Swanik show podcast and the alcohol-free lifestyle podcast, amongst other things. And today we're talking about how to stay positive and create positive change. And I am joined by Ms. Dorothy Ilson. How are you, Dorothy? I'm good. How are you, James? I'm doing so well. Thank you for being here. Dorothy is the founder of Needles Eye Media, which is a full-service digital marketing agency. And she's also a fellow podcast host. She hosts Do Well and Do Good. And you're based in Chicago, right, Dorothy? That's right. Tell us a little bit about your life and who you are and what you do. And maybe just wrap that up in what is feeling good and staying positive mean to you. How important is that? I know it's stating the obvious, but what is your viewpoint or how you live your life of staying positive? Yeah, absolutely. Well, so we'll kind of start with today and then I'll take you backwards. So as you mentioned, I do run a digital marketing agency. Specifically, we do Facebook, Instagram and Google paid traffic primarily for digital product businesses. So, you know, businesses that are really looking to scale their customer acquisition with paid traffic. So I got here in a very roundabout way. I actually went, you know, all the way through school with a very kind of stereotypical idea of what a successful career would look like. Love the swannies you just put on, by the way. I'm rocking the swannies here for anyone who's listening. I just put on a pair of, it's a little bit of a fashion show as we're doing this, Dorothy. Well, you know, when I had you on Do Well and Do Good a long time ago, you were kind enough to send me a pair of swannies, which I never get to wear because my fiance, Jacob, commandeered them about two days after they arrived and he wears them constantly. So anyway, but yeah, so, you know, I really, you know, like I said, had just a very kind of traditional view of what a successful career was going to look like. And so that kind of got me on the path of finance and accounting and, you know, long story short, we can dive as far into this as you want. Definitely a lot of positive mindset stuff that comes with it. But two weeks after I graduated, I ended up giving up the accounting job that I'd worked so hard to get and went to go work for a startup instead. And that was really because I had, you know, as cliche as it sounds, discovered personal development. And it really took me down a radically different path. Worked at a startup here in Chicago for about three years after I graduated, and then started the agency.  So in terms of positive mindset, staying positive, you know, I think we could dive into so many different areas, you know, I would say the common thread along every single part of my journey has been relying on the strength of my mindset to push through, you know, obstacles and to, you know, ultimately continue along the path towards what I really wanted. And so that's certainly not to say that I am perfect at this. I think for all of us, it is a constant daily work in progress. But it is something that I believe is the number one key to achieving really anything that you're looking to go after. There's a book named A Beautiful Constraint. Not sure if you've heard of it by Adam Morgan and Mark Barton. And the book in a nutshell really talks about, you know, overcoming obstacles or going around obstacles and the mindset that is required for that. You know, every cloud has a silver lining. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Constraints, you know, are assumed to be a bad thing, but in reality, they can often be the thing that creates momentum and creates breakthrough. So how have you, where has that shown up in your experience as an entrepreneur and as a, maybe as a wife or maybe as a, you know, just in your life and your health where you've seen an obstacle and rather than even going around or over it, you've actually changed the goal, like even made a bigger goal because there's a way where you can overcome an obstacle to reach your goal. But then there's another process where you can actually just work, oh, this challenge we've got here is helping me create an even bigger, bigger goal. Yeah. Well, so I'll take you back to, you know, after I had worked at this startup, after graduating and, you know, basically the co-founder of that business who, you know, was really a reason I'd been there so long. He ended up leaving and so I knew I wanted to leave too. And, you know, as I was kind of looking around at other jobs, you know, I knew I didn't want something corporate. I wanted, you know, somewhere that I would have the same level of flexibility that I'd enjoyed in my last job. So, you know, I could work remote when I wanted to. I, you know, had a lot of autonomy. And as I started, you know, kind of interviewing places, I realized that it was going to be very difficult potentially for me to find that again. And so I kind of got this idea in my head, you know, you mentioned you find a challenge and you ultimately start to dream bigger. I thought, well, you know, what if I tried to do something on my own? And that was a scary thought, but it was an exciting thought at the same time.  I kind of thought, well, worst case scenario, if this doesn't work out, I'll go get a job. And hopefully we won't come to that. But after a few months, I was really floundering. I didn't know what I was going to do. I had made absolutely no money. I was renting out my apartment on Airbnb to pay the rent. And I was really close to reaching my breaking point of, you know, having to kind of give up on this dream I'd created. And it was really a function of working even harder on my mindset than I was on trying to, you know, figure out a business, right? And, and as soon as I really focused on that, you start to see opportunities, you know, where they didn't exist before. So basically, what happened for me was my old boss, he had a ticket to a workshop with, you know, really an incredible Facebook marketer named Jason Hornung. And he couldn't go. So he offered me this ticket. And, you know, I'd been involved in our paid traffic at that startup. But, you know, starting an agency was really kind of not an idea on my radar. But I went to this workshop. And there, Jason was basically pitching this, you know, $30,000 year long coaching program for people building an agency. Now, I was not building an agency at that time. I didn't have $30,000. I didn't really have $1,000. But I believed in my ability to figure things out. And I believed in my ability to, you know, take each challenge as it came, and, you know, and tackle it with that, that, that mindset that I mentioned. And so I ended up, you know, putting that first payment for Jason's program on a credit card and just leapt without a parachute.  You know, I know you actually had kind of a similar experience with Tai Lopez and joining his program. And what I found was that putting my back against the wall, and then like I said, working on a positive mindset equally as hard as I was working on the business, within just a few months, I'd, you know, made back all the money I needed to pay for Jason and, and was kind of off and running building the business. So, you know, I think it was just a lesson for me that, you know, when we don't have certainty in the path, we can have certainty in ourselves. And that's really, you know, all that it takes in most situations. Yeah, well said. I like that if we don't have certainty in the path, we can have certainty in ourselves. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, similar to when I first invested in, as you mentioned, with in Tai Lopez coaching back in 2013, I transferred 25,000 American dollars, which was 32,000 Australian dollars from my Australian bank account into his Bank of America account on October 31, 2013. And, you know, as we're recording this now in 2020, seven years later, generated millions of dollars in revenue, you know, and helped my products have helped change many people's lives, obviously through quitting drinking and the swanese blue light blocking glasses, helping people sleep better.  And I remember seven years ago when I told him that I was sending Tai Lopez $25,000, he said, you're doing what? Who is this? Who is this Tai Lopez person? You're 25. What are you doing? Like he was shocked.  I didn't tell my parents you had more guts than me. Yeah. But it's true, isn't it? I mean, even now I'm still I'm actually been going through that again, like in the sense that I really want to build another brand. And there's a gentleman, Ryan Daniel Moran, who's wrote a fabulous book called 12 Months to a Million Dollars. He's been a friend of mine for a number of years. And he has a paid program and it's coming up on how to build a brand and getting it ready for exit. And I have friends with him. And part of me is like an ego kicks in. And it's kind of like, oh, I'm experienced enough now that I shouldn't have to pay for coaching. I should just like, oh, I'm feeling a little bit embarrassed to actually even say to someone that I've known for seven years and who I've built businesses with, oh, actually, can you help me? So that's so funny how the ego kicks in even as we move along, even after having success in business and things like that, for me at least, my ego still gets in the way. I'm doing it. I'm enrolling in it and I'm coughing up the cash to do it. Even though quite frankly, I don't need to. I'll do it. It might just take me a decade. Whereas if I do it this way with him and I pay for it, then I'm going to pay attention and I might do it in like two years. So I think that's the same with anything. When you have a coach or a mentor and you put your back up against the wall and some people may use the phrase when you burn the ships, you give yourself no retreat. That's when you actually focus and get things done. Yeah. I really couldn't agree more. I think you look at all of the free education that's out there that we typically just don't take advantage of.  I think you really put it perfectly that it's not that you can't get to the same goal without help. It's that you're going to do it so much faster. So that's really key. Yeah.  You're investing in speed. Tell us a little bit about how you manage your time and your productivity. I'd love to know a day in the life of Dorothy, actually. What time do you wake up? What do you do? How do you spend your day? What do you do? What's your nighttime routine? Walk us through that. Yeah. So part of the reason that I allowed Jacob to steal my swanis is that he has a lot of trouble sleeping and I have always been very skilled at sleeping. So it's funny. I would say the one piece of my routine that I absolutely never skip is getting at least eight hours of sleep, usually nine. I'm someone who just, I know that I function the best when I am well rested.  And so I get a good night's sleep. I wake up usually at about 7 a.m. and then I like to move my body first thing. So usually either a walk or a run or if I'm doing a workout, I'll do that. Hydrate before that. I have cell reduce every single morning. And then when I'm done with whatever kind of movement I'm doing that day, then I meditate and I journal. And I think for me, it's the journaling piece that has been kind of the foundation of my positivity practice, if you will. It's definitely the one thing where, you know, if I feel like I am kind of in a rut or I haven't been moving forward, things aren't going well. I can just about always open up my journal and see, okay, I haven't done this for two weeks, you know, let's let's get back on track. So it's something that just has a dramatic impact on me. So that is, that's kind of my morning routine.  And then the rest of my day is usually filled with, you know, calls with my clients, you know, strategy sessions with my team, and, and really just making sure that that we are executing for, you know, everyone that we work with at the highest level possible.  What time's early for you? Honestly, I usually get in bed about 9 30. And I'll read for a little bit and go to sleep around 10 and wake up at seven. So I get my nine hours. I've been experimenting with waking up a lot earlier and going to bed a lot earlier. So as early as 7 38 and trying to trying to get up around, I mean, this week I got up, the other thing I got up was 5 30. But I'm trying to see if I can get up at five, try and train myself to get up at five. Because I'm in Australia at the moment with COVID-19 as we're recording this. And I'm most of my businesses in America, as soon as I wake up, I'm on like, because America's already it's already lunchtime there. And I've what I found for a couple of months during COVID, COVID-19 lockdowns was that my daily routine of writing in my gratitude diary and exercising and doing like trying to do 10 or 15 minutes of meditation and just, you know, being intentional and writing and my vision for the future and stuff was that was getting pushed to the side because I was waking up and straight away I got calls and podcast interviews and meetings and things like that. So I've been in I've been just this week. Actually, I've been intentionally attempting to go to fall asleep sooner and wake up earlier and make sure that I don't compromise that kind of morning routine. Yeah, any thoughts on that? Yeah, you know, it's interesting. I think self awareness is so huge and absolutely everything. And so for me, I actually work with a hypnotherapist and that has been life changing. That's a whole other rabbit hole that we can go down if you want. But, but it was interesting. I was in a period where I was trying to do the same thing as you.  That's what they all say.  And it wasn't going well, let's say that. And so in a conversation with with my hypnotherapist, I was I was talking about this. And he was having me kind of describe my morning and my, you know, my thought process. And what he realized was that every morning while I was waking up, when I was waking up, the very first thing I was doing was beating myself up for snoozing my alarm till 615 or, you know, for, for not jumping out of bed at 530. And, and he kind of pointed this out to me.  So why don't you just decide that you have permission to wake, you know, go to sleep at 10 and wake up at 7. And, and that's, that can be, you know, that can be okay, right? And so I think for me, what I found was, you know, that schedule really worked for me. And so I think there is, there's so much power in just being self aware.  So it's a, it's all very individual, I think. Yeah. Yeah, it's, I found that when I do, I have this, I wouldn't say it's a love-hate relationship with meditation. I would say I love meditation, it's just I hate starting, starting it. I hate beginning it. So, so when I'm doing it, I love it, but the actual process of sitting down and just going, closing my eyes and beginning, oh, I have so much resistance all the time. And this is, you're talking to someone who's done a 10 day silent meditation, you know, for passionate, like I've done all that stuff.  But Dorothy's mind is just like, not today, I don't want to do it. Yeah, you know, it's, it's interesting. I mean, definitely it's, it's kind of the same answer. It's the, the meditation and the journaling, which is so funny because it is without question, the thing that keeps me, you know, on the right track in terms of my mindset and my thinking patterns. And it's not something that takes a lot of time.  And so the fact that we can be so resistant to taking that time to do something that has a dramatic impact on our mental health and wellbeing is pretty shocking. So, you know, I think that for me, it's traveling where things really go off the rails. So, you know, obviously 2020 hasn't, there hasn't been as much travel on my calendar. So it's really been a time where I focused on solidifying my routine in a really powerful way, because I think when you, when you turn it into something that is as routine as brushing your teeth, it becomes harder to, you know, to ignore it and then let it go. Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing. It's amazing how the human brain as well. I'm not sure if you find this, but when we first discover something new, we're just, we fall in love with it, right? And we want to tell everyone about it. It's like, oh, I've got this new book. You've got to read it. It's incredible. I was like, oh, I found this new thing and I'm doing this and it's incredible. Oh, guess what? I'm doing stretching. I'm doing meditation. It's been a game changer. And you hear this all the time, all the time. And I've been guilty of this all the time. You go charging over the hill a million miles an hour and then two, three weeks into it, you start, the slippery slope starts to get you. And then week four or five, you're in the drift. And then week six or seven, it's like, what was that thing I was doing again?  So my, it's funny because I'm not that self disciplined. I mean, I'm self, sorry, I'm self disciplined in many things, but I'm not self disciplined in other things. But what I, what I have surrendered to, I guess, is as long as I'm making progress, as long as I feel like I'm, I'm, even if I'm not always consistent, as long as I feel like I'm making progress, I'm okay with that. And I used to beat myself up about it all the time. Like I should be doing better. I should be doing meditation or I should be making more money. I should be selling more things.   And that makes me feel somewhat better when I wake up sometimes in the morning and I'm beating myself up. Yeah. No, I, it's, I think it's, it's perspective, right? So you mentioned how important it is to, to feel like you're making progress. I read a book several years ago called Zen in the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentice. And it's a short book, a simple book. But basically, it encourages you to operate under the premise that everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that could happen to me.   And then in hindsight, you realize that, that it was actually to your benefit, you know, it led to something better, you know, whatever it was, whether it was, you know, a breakup, losing a job. And I had an experience like this, when, you know, I was, I was taking, I was in Jason's coaching program, I was in the very early days of building the agency, I was getting some traction, but you know, it was still, it was still a major grind. And my old boss came to me with an opportunity to work with him in the new company that, you know, he had gotten involved in.   I made all kinds of excuses for why it was the right move. And then about, you know, a month, six weeks later, I lost the opportunity. They realized that, you know, the business was so early on, like there were kind of too many cooks in the kitchen.  And so I basically, you know, I lost that gig. And at the time it felt, it felt devastating. It felt like, you know, this was going to be, this was going to be it. This was going to be an amazing opportunity for all of these reasons. And I was, you know, really in a position where I had to choose to look at this as an opportunity. And, and even though at the time it felt so negative, losing something, that was really, it was, you know, kicking out the crutch that I was leaning on to avoid actually building this business. And, and being on my own. And so, you know, in hindsight, looking back, thank goodness that that opportunity fell out from under me, because if it hadn't, I never would have, you know, gotten to where I am now and where I'm continuing to go of building this business of providing other people jobs of, you know, getting results for my clients and really building something that I'm proud of and that I'm excited about. And so now I really try to look at everything that happens in that light of, you know, how could this be the best thing that could happen for me? And when you start to ask yourself that question, your brain is going to search for answers. And so even in the darkest moments, the, the most scary situations, you can start to look for the opportunities. And looking is, is certainly the first step to, to finding them. So that's been really powerful for me. Yeah, Tony Robbins says if you want better results, ask yourself better questions.  Yeah, it's powerful stuff. I want to geek out on some productivity tech stuff. I think you, what do you use? I think you use a sauna, right? To put things in. Tell us a little bit about how you plan out your day, like for the, for the entrepreneurs or the productivity geeks out there listening. How do you, how do you, what, what kind of to-do list do you have? How do you get things done? What tech are you using? Yeah. Well, my whole life lives in a sauna. So for a while, I would just have kind of work tasks in there. But what I found is that when I started to use a sauna to track everything that I needed to do, like schedule a dentist appointment, you know, it takes this mental burden off of you.  I have to, I literally have a task in a sauna twice a week for, you know, call my grandmother. And, and it's, it sounds kind of silly, but it is very freeing, at least for me, to know that I can just go into a sauna every day. I break things out of, you know, what I've got to do today, tomorrow, this week, next week. And, and so whenever I, you know, realize like, okay, hey, I've got to schedule a dentist appointment in, in six months, I put it in a sauna, mark that due date in six months. And I know that it's going to pop up on my to-do list when it needs to happen. And, and I don't have to worry about it. And so that has been very powerful for me. And I think one of the keys to, to productivity and staying positive for me is being realistic about what I can get done in a day. Because I think for a long time, especially when I first started the business and, and especially when I was working alone and didn't have a team, you know, I was just completely unrealistic about, you know, what I was, you know, assigning myself for any given day.  And so again, just like, you know, not being able to wake up, jump out of bed at 530 in the morning. I was beating myself up at the end of every single workday. And it wasn't because I was not being productive or not working hard. It was because I was trying to fit three days worth of work into every single day. And so just being more realistic about what can happen and then planning that so that, you know, now I'm, you know, I'm able to work my way through my tasks for the day. And then maybe I get to get started on, you know, one of my tasks for tomorrow. And that leads to a, you know, a much more positive, you know, empowering mindset around work and productivity than, than the opposite. Yeah, Tony Robbins again to quote him says that we underestimate, or sorry, we overestimate what we can achieve in a day and underestimate what we can achieve in a year, for example. So, or you could just change it to a month as well. I've heard it one year and five years.  Like I'll set out at the beginning of a week and think, this is what I'm going to do this week. And no matter what, I'm going to get that done. And then all of a sudden stuff comes up and I'm like, Oh, I've got to do that. I want to do that. That's good. Oh yeah, I got to do that. I'm going to add that to the list. And then before you know it, it's like, there's a hundred different things on there. But I am, I am the chasing the shiny new rabbit kind of guy. Like I like to try and chase it. I actually do like chasing shiny new rabbits. It's just, I haven't quite yet fully mastered the sequence with which I chased them because I think if I can master the sequence, then things will be a lot, a lot easier. And and like you probably wouldn't beat myself up so much for not getting things, not seemingly getting things done. Um, yeah. So we're talking, um, uh, we're talking about, uh, Needle's eye media as well. I'd love to know just a little bit more, uh, a little bit more about that. Can you tell us a little bit more about that, Dorothy? Yeah, absolutely.  So we work with a lot of personal brands, you know, a lot of companies promoting things like your 30 day out, no alcohol challenge, you know, products like that.  Um, and so, you know, uh, you mentioned my podcast is called do well and do good. Um, giving back is something that's really important to me. And so I really make it a priority to only work with businesses who I do feel are, are really doing something good in the world. Um, and that really makes, makes my work a lot more fulfilling. Um, and so, you know, I, uh, I believe that paid traffic is really the, the best way to create leverage in your business. Um, and really be able to kind of turn on the faucet when, when you're ready to really pour it on and, and, um, you know, and, and scale your customer acquisition in a, in a predictable way. Um, and so that's really, you know, what we, what we help our clients to do. Yeah. You can check out more at needles, I media.com, which is, uh, Dorothy's full service digital marketing agency. Um, you mentioned before, I think I may have referred to you as a wife, but it's your fiance. Is that right today? Yes. Yes. Yes. So I stand corrected. I'm sorry. I, I've got ahead of myself. No worries. I'm sure, I'm sure your fiance is keen for you to be his, his wife. So well, he's going to have to wait a little longer now, thanks to our friend Corona virus. Is that right? What's happened? Uh, well, we were supposed to get married September 19th. Um, and, uh, we ended up moving it to October, 2021, um, just so that we could be, uh, at least more confident that we can kind of have the, the celebration that we wanted to have. So, um, honestly, it was, it was stressful before we moved it. Now that it's done, um, I'm just glad we don't have to stress about it anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there you go. You, you, uh, without actually even reading the book that I referenced before, like, uh, um, uh, a beautiful constraint by Adam Morgan and Mark Bird, and you've already changed the goal and you've already overcome the obstacle. So that's great. Well played. Thank you. Thank you. It's funny now though, uh, because of everyone moving their 2020 weddings to 2021, I'm going to have seven next year. Uh, one is the maid of honor. Two was the bridesmaid and one is the bride. So, Oh wow. That's true. Cause when all this, when all this dies down, COVID-19, there's going to be a flurry of weddings up there. Yes. My sister was very gracious in letting us move our wedding to three weeks after hers. Wow. Yeah. Well, Dorothy, thank you so much for sharing, uh, your expertise with us today. Um, I love, I love the topic of staying positive and, uh, productivity and mindset and overcoming obstacles. And, uh, yeah, it's a testament to you that you've been able to handle all those things the way that, the way that you have. So thank you for your time. Well, I definitely encourage you, anyone listening to reach out to me. I'd love to connect with you on Instagram, on Facebook, uh, help you however I can. So James, thank you so much for helping, for having me. It's been a lot of fun. Yeah. You should wrestle those swannies back from your fiance as well. I should. I need to just buy a second pair so I can not rock my own. I want those clear ones you got. They're so cool. Thanks, Dorothy. Take care. Thank you.


When it comes to the work that we do, and the vast selection in which there is regarding historical mysteries, we will often seek out the more obscure, the easily missed, often overlooked items, which to this day remain enigmas. We hope that by categorizing the many bizarre and if not for our republishing of said curiosities, we feel lost history, like so many areas of antiquity which have inevitably been forgotten, one of which is known as plumageery. It is a practice so rarely discussed, it does not even appear in many English dictionaries, yet possesses such an interesting historical connection with an equally compelling accompanying explanation for said connection, makes its obscurity not of a surprise, yet they are indeed undeniable. History is the practice of weaving bird feathers into many different forms of tribal attire. Firstly, I will quote Academia's explanation for the similarly found within this rare practice found upon artifacts discovered or excavated all over the Pacific Rim. This is to display the level of contortion Academia must undergo to allow such area of history to fit in with their timeline of events. Just in particular, the separation of the continents themselves, evolution history, and chronology in regards to human migration to make all aforementioned hypothesis match up and ties up with a neat bow never to be questioned again. On page 49 of Archaeological Anomalies, Small Artifacts, Bone Stole, Metal Artifacts, High Technology, Corliss makes a general observation which we feel conceals a truth unchallengeable. Quote, The art of weaving wild bird feathers into gaudy garments and adormants was practiced widely in pre-Columbian Asia, Oceania, and South and Mesoamerica. He continues with this phrase, Quote, Plumajery techniques were so much alike all around the Pacific Rim that diffusion is a distinct possibility, end quote. Distinct of a word descriptive used to describe a method of identifying something or someone. For example, if plumajery of the exact same artistic construction were to be found on a continent it simply should not be upon, regardless, its characteristics making distinctly identifiable as the work of the same, thus made by people in contact with each other. This scenario to the befuddlement of those who study mainstream opinion is a real-world reality. Therefore, their own method, if identifying whether the people who made these garments in a specific way had been in contact with each other, has simply compromised their own dating methods and turns history they thought they had learnt so true could maybe have a few gaps used against themselves, with the word diffusion meaning contact and sharing of knowledge and commodities. Plumajery, one more piece of a puzzle we find highly compelling.


It's a real small world, man.  Last night, me and some of my friends, we had went to this spot in downtown Fort Lauderdale. So we was there for a little while and we were getting ready to leave. So when I was walking out of the security guard, he was like, hey, hey, hey, team keeping clean. I said, oh, hey, what's up, baby? What's going on, man? So that was super cool. And he was super, super, super cool and super nice too, man. So shout out to you. Anyway, Raven's fans, we tend to be all on one accord a lot of times because I think we're getting back in the thirsty mode. It's thirsty season. Because now a lot of players are being released. A lot of players are getting cut. A lot of players are being told they're gonna get cut. Whether it's pre-June 1st, post-June, whatever. They are going to be free agents and be available. So you know us as Raven's fans. You know we want everybody to come to the Ravens. So this is no different. And with the secondary, the Baltimore Raven secondary last season. And it's so frustrating because they had injuries.  They were different guys that missed time. Really just heard the defense as a whole. But they were still the best defense and it just feels like such a waste. All that just went to waste. Yeah, it's frustrating to think about it. But anyway, the secondary. Got a lot of question marks in the secondary. Rocky scene, free agent. Ronald Dobby, free agent. Arthur Millette, free agent. Ardarius Washington, free agent. So you got a lot of free agents. And I'm sure I'm probably forgetting somebody too. You got Jaylen Alma Davis, who has just, he ain't been out there. So there's still a big question mark on him. I honestly don't even think it's a guarantee that he makes the team next year because this is getting to that point. You got Pepe Williams. He hasn't been out there either. So I feel like it's the same way with him. So we'll see. But Ravens have a lot of question marks. Marlon Humphrey still on the team. Brandon Stevens still on the team. And both of those guys are good, but you want more. You want more and even more quality depth. So with these questions, Team Keep It Clean seem to be on the same page. Let's read them. It came from Wesley. He said, ain't great for loving the content. Keep grinding, bro. You have came a long way from the first video. I'll solve yours. I appreciate you, Wesley. Thank you for even watching it. He said, anyway, his dolphins are expected to release Xavier and Howard. Ravens could use some depth at the cornerback position. And I feel that last season we were close to trading for him. Yeah, that was a couple of years ago. I think 2021, I want to say. But yeah, it was a couple of years ago that they were close. It was when the year Marcus Peters got hurt when he went down with injury, they were close to trading for him because it came out like after the fact. But I remember there was a lot of conversation about that. The way that I felt about it, I'm like, hey, go all in. Marcus Peters is out and deal with the contracts at the end of the season. But right now I was like, right then and there, get him, go for it, get after him. But it obviously didn't come to fruition. But anyway, he said, what are the odds that we sign Xavier and Howard? Or do the Ravens have too much going on already with attempting to re-sign all these free agents we have coming up? Gus, Zyla, Madda, BK, Geno, Clowney. Gus ain't coming back. Zyla, I don't think he's coming back. Madda BK, I think he'll be there. Geno, he's going. Clowney, I think there's a big possibility of him too. And he said, speaking of Clowney, Manuel Agua is also expected to be released by the Dolphin with you. Well, yeah, he was it all, man. I love it though. I love it.  That'll never happen. That's not going down. Don't even ask about it. Don't even talk about it. You're wasting your time. Get out of here. Have some fun, man. Geez, anyway, Xavier and Howard, he's an interesting one. Because he put Xavier and Howard, I know most Ravens fans, when they think of Xavier and Howard, they think of Rashaul Bateman beating them on that inside slam for like 75 yards, something like that, man. And he got him. Rashaul Bateman got him, man. With Xavier and Howard, the thing, my thing, Xavier and Howard can obvious, he's like Marcus Peters to me. That's what he reminds me of.  But he'll have the blame when you give up a lot of yards. But Xavier and Howard, he'll be solid, but I don't think Ravens would be wanting to invest the type of money that he would probably command into another corner, especially when they got Brandon Stevens still. You got Marlon Humphrey, and not only that, with Brandon Stevens, excuse me, excuse me, with the Baltimore Ravens as a whole, they, even with the salary cap going up, they got some more money, but that doesn't necessarily mean they got more money. The guys could ask for more money. With the salary cap going up, yet they technically do have more space, but every team does. So since every single team got even more space now, then that means the players' values, they went up too. So they're going to be asking for even more money now because the salary cap went way up. So these players are going to be their salaries. They're going to want their salaries to go way up too. But I just don't foresee the Baltimore Ravens signing Xavier and Howard. I don't see it at all. He is somebody that, he had been hurt a lot here and there, but over the past couple of years, he's played in a lot more games. Because this year, he played in 13 games. Last year, he played in 15. Previous year before that, he played in 16. Previous year before that, he played in 16. Then in 2019, he played in five. 2018, he played in 12. So it was a little wishy-washy early on, but he's been overall healthy. I know he had some injury that he was dealing with this year. I forgot what it was, but I don't think it would happen. Not because it wouldn't be a good fit, because it would be nice like, again, it takes me back to last year. I was going to say it would be nice because it would be a sort of ballhawk cornerback. And that would be nice to compliment Marlon Humphrey and Flanders. But we didn't have a ballhawk cornerback last year. And we did just fine. We had the best defense in the league and they got wasted, man. It's so annoying, man. It's so annoying, man. Thinking about it, it is so annoying. They wasted it. Wasted it. Oh my goodness, man. It's so frustrating. They wasted it. They wasted, well, the Ravens overall wasted that defense.  The defense was great. They were amazing. But overall, the Ravens' lack of ultimate success ended up wasting that defense. Oh my goodness. And then you think about like the 49ers and it's so annoying. It's so annoying. But as far as Xavier and Howard, I just, I don't see it happening. I wouldn't mind if it happened, but I don't see it happening. Next question came from my guy, Elijah. He said, sneaky, signing. And Graven, I hope you and the family are doing well. I know that nursery already set up for the little flock pundaloo joy that you'll be soon blessed with. I appreciate you, man. He said, stay ready so you ain't got to get ready. Hey, there you go. He said, one of the sneaky signings I hope EDC looks into is Bryce Huff. If we can somehow convince him to come to the Ravens, he will be a great fit for our linebacker. He was a rotational player this past year for the Jets, a brilliant past Russian specialist. That's him.  Cause I remember watching the Jets before and seeing him make plays. Is it like 44s? Let me look it up. Ain't gotta do the legwork, man. Just gotta look it up. Ain't gotta try to overthink it or none like that. Let me look it up. Bryce, oh, I just put Bryce Jeff Jets. Bryce Huff Jets. Some of it putting words together. All right, his number, oh, 47, 47. Okay, sounds close. So yeah, ugly number, but hey, he made plays. He said, a brilliant past Russian specialist, even as a rotational player, he recorded double digit sex. Now it won't be easy, but if anybody can pull it off his EDC big truss. You a week, see, it's frustrating all over again. Because I was going to say, could always use some more past Russia's. We had your David and Clanny, we got nine and a half. I think Calvin or got like eight or nine of sex. I forgot how many he had. But so we had guys that produce sex. But then you look at those guys are free agents. We still got to die for your way. But it's like, we could always use past Russia. But again, it makes me think of last year where we did have past Russia's and we produced MatterBK, produced two and they wasted it, wasted it. Anyway, he said, now if he don't pull it off, I don't doubt EDC will make one of those sneaky one year team friendly deals, but this signing could have us secure a position for down for four years down the line. That would be an interesting one, man. I would like that. I like that idea. I really, really do. Young guy, productive guy, cause that's always nice when somebody is productive. Cause at that point it's not just based off of potential. Cause potential is good, potential is great. But actually seeing that potential get reached, that's even better in my opinion. Because when that potential is getting reached, it's like, oh, okay. It's all coming to fruition. Everything that the teams had hoped about, everything that they envisioned when they selected that player, when they signed that player, it starts happening. So that's a beautiful thing. Let's see how many sacks he got. What he got like 10, right? Oh yeah, yeah. See, he got 10 last year. So he been playing since 2020. And again, sacks don't tell the whole story, but in 2020 he got two. In 2021 he got two. In 2022 he got three and a half. And then this year, shot up to 10. So there's been some improvement. Maybe it was his playing time. Maybe it was his, the opportunity increased. Cause I said in his rookie year he played 14 games. In 2021 he played nine games. In 2022 he played 14 games. And then this year he played 17. So I think that's it. And they say he didn't, not even a starter. Not even a starter. So again, like you said, you did say pass rush specialist. So I think the Jets, they must have certainly looked at him like that as well and been like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He is definitely a pass rush specialist because they probably brought him out for pass rushing downs and say, Bryce, go hunt. Next question came from my guy, Robert. He said, what's up with engraving? Pray all this well with you and the fan. Appreciate that. He said, I had two questions. One, with the recent struggles and injuries with Rashad Bateman and the lack of production from a doubt fairway, do you believe it would be a good idea to let them walk? Oh, it's tricky. With Rashad Bateman, I've been thinking about this a lot even after I said that I had the hope that they pick up the fifth year option. And I do, like if I wish they could like put it on pause for a year and be like, all right, we won't pick it up now, but we could pick it up next year, but you can't do that. You got to make a decision this year. I just, I just want to see if they can get him involved. Like Odell Beckham, we'll see what happens with him. But even if he's going, even if, regardless of what happens with Odell Beckham, I think he's going to be going. But regardless of what happens with him, get Rashad Bateman more involved. And we just got to hope that he has a healthy off season because that's been one of the biggest things. He ain't been healthy. He has not been healthy. And you mentioned it too. You said with the recent struggles and injuries with Rashad Bateman. So yeah, he ain't been healthy, but it's the off script stuff where there's the struggle. I mean, it's just, it's the on script stuff too. It's just him and Lamar, they lack that connection, man. They really do. They lack it. So I would want to give it one more year. So I guess I actually would, I guess I would actually change my mind on the Rashad Bateman fifth year option. I guess I would decline it for now and just hope that he has a Patrick Queen type of fifth year option declined. Because it's going to be, he was drafted in 2020, so 2020, 2021, 2022. No, he wasn't. Yeah, I thought he was drafted in 2020. It was a 2021. Maybe it was 2021. I think it was 2021. So 2021, 2022, 2023. So yeah, it was 2021. It's the third year and it's not all his fault now. Some is on Lamar, some is on him, some is on this. So it ain't all on Rashad Bateman. So let's make sure that's clear because there have been times where he been open and Lamar just straight up missed him. So there have been times where he dropped and then there had been him being hurt. There's been a lot of, all of that. But a year four, we can't keep hoping for potential. We can hope for it, obviously, but you can't keep banking on it because something's gotta give. So I guess I would change my tune on the fifth year option and I would decline it for now and just, but decline it, but really try to get him involved this year. Like really try it. Really try and just try to get the most out of him. Hope he has a healthy off season and then just go from there. But I think that with that being said with Rashad Bateman, yeah, that's what I would do. So not letting them walk, but just seeing how this fourth year goes. Declining the fifth year option and seeing how the fourth year goes. And the same with a da fe away. Just hoping that they can get some production, more production, because they're not bad players. They just ain't turned that corner yet. They're not bad players at all. They just ain't turned the corner yet. And sometimes, hey, sometimes a change of scenery is needed in order to really get the best out of somebody. So that could be it. Who knows? So I guess we'll see eventually. So yeah, same with a da fe away. Anyway, he said, and what do you think about EDC creating a Florida All-Star team going after Hollywood and Calver really? You know my answer to that. I know you know my answer already. So I ain't, that's not even a question.


Moving on, the all-progressive Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Borla Tinnaboo, has promised to reform the Nigeria Police Force for efficiency if elected as president next year. He said he would free police officers from binned security or orderlies for very important personalities via IPs, and then that police personnel on such duties would be replaced by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps officers. Top on his priority lists of action plans was national security, economy, agriculture, power, oil and gas, transportation and education.


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Especially the common man however the state of public schools in Nigeria has been a big topic of concern for years. and see the possibility of becoming someone and you can only do that when the person has been educated enough to see themselves in that capacity when I go to school towards and I teach children how to create their vision board I'm excited teaching them because I understand that the only thing that stops them from their next level or their next level of success is the ability to picture it but when you don't even have the basic education to be able to see yourself from this kind of community how do we move from here like literally sometimes I wonder how our government how especially officials that have the capacity to change things how they sleep at night now look at that school if you see the building he was talking about is being built by the community I can totally relate with that roads in our house we built it even when I was growing up where we lived because my father is he's a builder he builds roads, he builds houses and all of that for a living there was a time we had that bridge literally every morning I kid you not every morning that we drive past that bridge we all used to have our hearts in our mouth because the bridge was eroding it was eating up so I can never forget the day that my father he just finished a major contract when he finished that major contract he still had excess building materials he deployed everything and constructed a bridge that bridge is still what stands in that area till tomorrow so when the sharia crisis happened in kaduna in our house in kaduna when the sharia crisis happened and the people came like the people that didn't know us like the Muslims came and said that was why my neighbors that were Muslims they stood in front of our house that if you burn this people's house be ready to burn our own too because these people have been nothing but good people and this is just one man making an impact not to talk about someone that you have the capacity to make an impact to change lives do you know what these children can become tomorrow you only think we are asking our government we don't ask you to give us money give us the capacity to be able to fish and the only way we have the capacity to be able to make money is when we are educated enough to know what we need to do that we are fighting for basic education it's a big shame and I'm really upset you know there was something you said and I just found a quote just to piggyback on that education is the software of any society to what programs us to see the world the way we do and to conduct ourselves the way we do that's a quote by Peter Mutharika and what I wanted to remember our initial discussion on values because this same government schools this school is not Saturday so most of the public schools back in their heyday the leaders we have today is this same school that they passed through do you understand like they put up the schools they were 13 or 12 or whatever this school so how come that this school has given you enough that you can now go to the polls or come out for election and now give your certificate and say oh I graduated from this school but then we go back to those schools and they are dilapidated so what is not the essence of you being in a power they say children are the future of tomorrow yes you were a child yesterday today you are now old so how do you give back to the society for me this is the point I'm trying to make I'm like if the society has given you this if this school has given you education and the exposure you needed to get to this level in life now that you are in this level in life and even more amazing you are in a position in government to do better how come you are not giving better to these schools tell me what your thoughts are and I'll come to your offer well I mean the educational system in Nigeria is fueling a lot of corruption and it is currently serious underfunding for the educational system in Nigeria and it only goes to show that our leaders are not they don't take education very seriously not a priority for them because you can even tell from their own personal delay about all the so certificate saga I'm sorry that I had to tie to certificate saga but you can also tell from that because if education was very paramount to them the way they take maybe tourism they will take it very seriously in Nigeria because especially in government school the way they take politics because even in tourism they are not paying attention to this the level of nepotism being played in public schools these days is very terrible because you find out that there are a lot of unqualified teachers teaching because there is maybe one headmistress there that has a candidate that she just wants to give a job and then no background check is done nothing is being done so it is that we are dealing with procurement fund the money that has been allocated for them to buy school materials chairs tables for the students to learn they are diverting the funds to something else and I think that this is just wickedness it's sheer wickedness because your own children are not even in the country to actually study and then the people who can the poor who you have made to remain poor anyway the poor who can afford to take their children overseas to learn you are making them even further incapacitated because I mean it is one thing to say I want to go to school this school you are going to if there is nobody to teach you there I don't see what you are going to go through then you know what breaks my heart how did the government schools that back then was the 8th school how did it now deteriorate because education is now paramount to our leaders of today they don't care about the educational system of Nigeria as much as they should care and that is exactly the problem let me hear your thoughts there are multiple factors that actually I have to do with what you are saying about the fall from grace to speak of the public educational system but what I would like to say generally about education in itself I heard this thing somewhere I can't remember where it was that I heard it the person that knows that he doesn't know but the person that doesn't know that he doesn't know that is the worst type of person that you can ever run into because it's like without education in itself you are living your life with a blanket over your entire body so you don't even know what parts of your body you have you don't know what they are capable of doing you don't see like you said the extent to which you can grow and progress as a person we used to do this thing in secondary school where I think I told you about it you tutor kids from the indigenous community because it's in ocean state in local and then the community is mostly rural so a lot of public schools there and when you go into the schools even when I saw this I wasn't even moved because that is similar comparable to the standard that we saw there so when you see situations like that you get very heart broken but what they now did to make the situation better for us at least was that they brought these students to Alashir and they said okay you come and teach them so on saturday morning everybody else be waiting for sports and it's just been me and I'll be teaching these people at first I used to get very frustrated I was missing out but I realized that because of what I did because I even was educated enough to do it I've provided someone at least the opportunity to take off that blanket and make something of themselves now because of it so many people that were indigenous killing it at Alashir and even beyond so I guess it makes that much of a difference that's amazing that's amazing we have a caller but we'll take a break we'll be right back please stay on the line thanks for staying with us we're discussing the state of our educational system in Nigeria and I think we have a caller on the line Gabriel sorry for keeping you good evening thank you for calling go ahead please okay thank you sorry I think we get a bit of what you're saying so if you want to join the conversation the number to call is 07025 007749 that's the number to call we're asking is it possible for us to have a better educational structure especially for children in the public schools in Nigeria that's the number to call remember to turn off the volume of all the devices that you're listening in so we don't get the feedback I mean amazing because part of why I love the idea of people ask me why do we do long journeys or soon state I'm going this weekend to go and see my younger son it's not an easy trip for me anybody that knows me knows I hate because I have motion sickness I hate road trips but the reason I actually loved that school is what Alpha just described now so they're looking beyond they're raising responsible leaders they're looking beyond personal and saying you know what I'm finding a way to impact this knowledge in the community and from there they've been able to take a lot of those community children that could not have been able to afford I mean they would never have been in their wildest dream they couldn't afford to good education most of them got admission fully funded scholarship in Olashera because of this kind of things these are individuals doing pockets of things like literally we're not asking for too much the government is already doing a lot of things we're already doing everything by ourselves I am sorting out my road I am sorting out my light I'm sorting out everything the only thing we're begging like how do you watch these children they're not able to go to school if you did not go to school would you be where you are today come on at least give people an option of going to a public school or a private school not because we don't want to go to a public school because it is really terrible but because at least it is good both public and private is good so anyone that wants to go to let's take Loma from Abia State Loma your life good evening my dear sister good evening in fact I have seen the level of hunger in your heart so it will be fine we all are not happy I'm telling you see the government have allowed the proliferation of private schools because of the proliferation of private schools the now decided to allow the public school to defend it's quite unfortunate and that is why I as a woman I don't like democracy if you look at what is happening in Gabon the ministries don't know what is doing in Gabon now we have to have that kind of government in Nigeria you will see all the public schools will down be reduced so I'm using this opportunity look at what is going on in Nigeria I'm breaking go to everywhere in this country so if they will stop the proliferation of private schools and make sure they will rebuild this public school they will rebuild them make them function and make them look like people are good and well but that is we cannot do anything I don't like democracy democracy is killing us thank you very much so let me paint a vivid picture yesterday in fact that was the topic but I couldn't stand that topic because it was too hard breaking for me now you have neglected public schools right now you have one man businesses running private schools there's a school right now in delta state that the police have arrested the head of the school the owner of the school the principal and I'm sorry to explain this this is how painful it is for me a four year old girl was raped by that man he did not just rape her he used scissors literally to so how do you sleep do you understand other parts of the world people are running away from private schools because it's of no use to them they are just extremely expensive some private schools in Kenya shut down why? because nobody was patronizing them and also part of the things supporting this Japan syndrome is because most of these countries they are going to have free and basic education up to university let's take the youngest old man and then take me around here thank you good evening because we are going to get public airtime logo for you corona only private airtime for you corona he's going to get angry I'm going to smile I'm not saying the problem is they are paying but remember as they are paying on a very good day we have just a very simple antidote to every problem in this country but the problem is who is going to implement who is going to allow the policies to fly let's just do a primary two thinking you know there is a solution to think about some things who just think it but we know it might not happen you understand imagine now there is a policy that everybody decided that anybody that comes into an office in this country must not have any of this kind outside the country schooling that they must go through the schools that the average man goes to eating the public school in fact they will not even go to public school you understand me now you will see how fast those schools we have faced it's not even magic the problem we have in this country fundamentally is that the policies the law is not helping the format it's meant for the rich by the rich and to extend to the rich so they make a format a format fill that anger to make it by fire by force and how can we fight corruption with such difference when you have a poor man under 3% and a rich man in 98% so basically especially the politicians you can see a child going up to if you see a child going to primary school where they are paying almost 340,000 360,000 per 10 and you want me tomorrow to come and understand that they will fix those schools it's not possible so my dear I understand your pain but the policies cannot help us we just have to change the world let me tell you even the local government alone they decided not to allow those in government to go to private schools trust me how those schools will be as far back as the private schools and competition will will definitely come up all the people we see in us today they all enjoyed free school they enjoyed good schools they had a uniformed party absolutely so they are making people look stupid thank you I was just going to say that the group of leaders that we have today do they have young children no okay go ahead how they do do they have young children they go to school in primary school some of them marry as much as 4 or 5 boys so they might have young kids okay go ahead so all these private schools you see the children the boozy kids well yeah well I wanted to say something we've been looking at this entire conversation from the aspect of politics and the government but then it's how we want to uplift public education in general so what I want to focus on now is the curriculum itself something that I noticed the technical drawing in secondary school and it's the exact same things that I'm doing now that he did 36 years ago when he was in secondary school and then like one tries to get at is the fact that even if we did fix the public school the physical building the essence of it still can't get you anywhere that's why you will notice a unique value proposition that a lot of these private schools have is the fact that they offer dual curriculums in the sense that Grange British, Pure British, Temple British Lucky British International School British, Olashary, Nigerian and British because they know that our own level of our standard for education is not feasible in the international space so I guess if we have solved the entire government's problem whenever that may turn out to be let's also still look at the education itself and improve the quality of that as well it was worth to say that they are not paying attention to the educational system as they should let's take some comments then we'll come back to the conversation you can go I don't think I have any hope okay Rwanda rose from the ashes of war in 1994 today Rwandans withdrawing kids from private schools to public schools because of what a visionary leader had done there yes it is possible to have a better educational system in Nigeria especially the public schools the only missing link is visionary leadership who genuinely have the interest and progress of Nigerians at heart this is from me in Omole okay I think he is the same person who sent this on our main topic for discussion education and public schools in Nigeria the quote of today is apt on this government since I'm not sure I would say since 1983 okay since 1983 negative education and the public schools was of education being highly commercialized in Nigeria today with zero holistic approach and regulation of such critical sector from teacher training to outdated curriculum, poor infrastructure etc the issues the issues plenty sad part is those who enjoyed education in public schools in the same Nigeria now running Nigeria me from Omole I think I don't have a message but I think Alpha made a very very valid point about the curriculum because right now the world is fast becoming it has already become like a global village such that we need to be educated such that I can work here I can be educated in Nigeria and use my certificates to get a job somewhere else you understand right now people are not and I think we discussed this a couple of weeks ago maybe last month Nigerians are not being educated to meet the needs of the 21st century remember when the lack of knowledge came here that I asked him a question about what really is education and he said that for you to be educated for you to identify as a literate person you have to be able to not knowing math and English and literature you need to be able to think for yourself you need to be able to find a solution for yourself you need to be so valuable in such a way that they can throw you into any situation and then you know how to use what you have learnt in school to like think up a solution and sincerely speaking I mean even if they renovate that building you know or make it look better at those you start from some way so I get what Alpha is saying 100% I totally agree I studied physics imagine 4 years of studying physics I did not build anything I didn't do nothing so first of all they think they were teaching us they were teaching us analog they weren't even moved away they were already leaving the digital phase I was very specific to say on that I'm not sure how much you would agree with this but then I believe in Nigeria we have a dominance culture of subservience so the teachers in most of these schools let's say the public schools they want to have the feeling of being the only person that knows how to do something so that's the thing that you're saying about people being able to learn on their own being able to expand their knowledge on their own it can't exist in the Nigerian educational society because the very idea of a student being independent of the teacher frightens them it shakes their ego some extent so should I say now that because my lecturer or teacher is going to be frightened if I decide taking because two things when I was in secondary school I had this issue let me say I understood English more than my English teacher every time he comes to class or even points at me to ask a question I'm saying the correct thing and of course correcting him but he always picked on me and I'm like it's not my fault that you don't know beyond what you know you don't know if you don't do that you don't live out it's a form of insecurity I feel like that insecurity that comes from this comfort zone that we as Nigerians are so I'm not sure what the word is but we have very large tendencies to get because the thing that you said about those schools being so big and so proper back in those days but now they are almost nothing it's because back in those days we got comfortable nobody was thinking about how we are going to keep reinventing nobody talked about the population in boom nobody talked about the future as long as it works at that point in time it's good and I think there is also a similar problem that the leaders share because for them all of their children are abroad or in the best private schools in Nigeria they are so sensitive to do these things they are comfortable so they can't even physically see the problem that everyone else is having to deal with for us to find a solution first of all it cannot be outside of government because we've allowed the private sector to call me too much and trust me there are no regulations they do anything people say private school trust me it is the grace and message of God because even in those private schools there are so many things that have gone wrong even in terms of so you are paying a lot of money it's still nothing because your children are not well taught now you can't challenge a teacher there was a time before I think it was in year 4 if you forget the story I remember it clearly because I went to meet that teacher so there was a year 4 or year 3 I can't remember he gave you an assignment and you he gave you an assignment you solved the problem and he got the answer but because he did not use the solution of the method of the teacher he wronged him you made the wrong mother so because you see the way I am I'm a tyrant when it comes to forget about anything I don't hold Gucci I do not wear Gucci bag I do not wear a buttega it's because of education of these children because I understand that if you give a child quality education they can stand anywhere in this world and they can be somebody so we break our backs to be able to give our children quality education that is all we are asking this government if you don't solve any problem leave light we already find solutions to light at least give these children a chance to go to school for goodness sake it makes no sense it's looking the same schools that people went to and became somebody how do you feel going back to those schools you understand my mother said that when she was in polytechnic they used to come and launder her clothes for her they used to give them if you see the big chicken they used to give them in NYC when they were eating like literally everything you people enjoyed you have wiped it away let's take more comments quickly after you all say quickly I read the comment and I have something to say good evening my deities full sisters of what are you saying state of public schools what is the future of education for the common man in Nigeria it is so sad that we have a group of people that call themselves a government and they do not behave like one we do not have a government and that's the plain truth they do not care about the education system in Nigeria because their children don't school here imagine the structure of a school in the state if education is like this in Nigeria sorry to say we do not have a government it is so sad that this is happening in my dear beautiful sister states sister Ua sister Ua must be really heartbroken and disappointed nice to see all of a sudden in the studio nice to see you too as well as mother thank you very much my name is Daniel in ways regular fine thank you Daniel quickly this is from anonymous and the person says to me since the government did not care we should use the children's school fees to do the renovations one minute quickly you wanted to say something even if every single factor that we have discussed this evening comes into play at the end of the day some people will still not take the active choice to pursue education in itself because in Nigeria there is or let's say it's even more an African thing there are three major pathways in life if you're not a doctor, you're a lawyer, if you're not an engineer a lot of these things even the markets where it is rapidly increasing so it has gone abroad to different countries the people that we need the plumbers, the technicians, the electricians people that can actually do day to day stuff that keep the country running we don't go to school to study that and then if you try to do that the diversification of the curriculum it doesn't even accommodate any of that I will tell a very short story when I was registering for my job the people that there was this girl that had to pick a different subject it's only that she hadn't done for three years of school just because the subject selection for her career course wasn't a thing how does that even make any sense so you don't have to do a subject that you haven't read you haven't studied for because there's no option for it may the lord bless the reading of his word we are run out of time yes I want to say something very quickly I think another mistake that we're making when it comes to education is we just were centered around school education there's also vocational there's also vocational education that we need to focus on I think that we should focus on other than just school education I think if we don't if our guess does not cancel tomorrow we continue this conversation tomorrow I think is what having a second conversation around we'll see you guys tomorrow at 8pm remember to like share and invite your families and friends to watch and follow the conversation now if you missed our quote for today here it is again if a man neglects education he walks lame to the end of his life I bet we should go and think about it we'll see you guys tomorrow at 8pm ciao


So, in the last module, I talked to you about guinea approximation and showed you how you can get hydrodynamic radius or radius of gyration of one example of the pluronics. Next is porous law. Here I can write down the P of qr which is f square qr here in terms of pair correlation function but here is the pair correlation function and if you remember last earlier I had done again when I did the form factor if you remember sine qr by qr r square dr. I took a constant density and put rho outside but if I talk in terms of pair correlation function that means given a sphere if there is a particle here or some density here what is the probability of getting the density at another place which is at a distance r from here and that is given by gr and in common knowledge this is called the pair correlation function. So, now the haiku expansion gives the porous law and the porous law for smooth surfaces goes as 1 by q to the power 4. So, where sp by vp is the surface to volume ratio and here if I talk about log of you can see a is the it is some constant plus background that is the intensity here because p r gives me intensity p qr. So, i is equal to a background plus a upon q to the power n and if I do a log plot of it that means log of intensity minus the background I get log of a minus n log of q this n actually gives you the dimension of the surface.  So, this is one dimensional this is two dimensional this is three dimensional but the fact is that there are objects which have dimensions which between these how let me just use one simple example. Suppose I have got a scale of length l on which with which I measure this object. Now please see this is l l l l. So, if I measure it with a scale or with a ruler with a ruler which has got l as minimum count I get 1 2 3 4 l the length but now on this object let me try to put something else. So, now let me put at half a distance things like this. Now you see now in this if this object if I have a length which is l minimum I still have 4 l if I reduce my length to one-third the sensitive the minimum measuring length to one-third of l then I measure 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 I measure 16. Let us take a simple let us say one dimension like this if this length is l if I have a measuring ruler or measuring rod which can measure l by 2 I will it will linearly scale it will go to 2 if I make it one-third it will go to 3 but here you see you made it one-third you measure 16 so this is a fractal object. So, fractal objects so it doesn't go linearly or with any power of 3 integral power of 3 it is a non integral power of 3 when I reduce the scale to one-third this is not 3 it is 3 to the power I can say n it is not 3 square or 3 cube but this is some other number so this n is a fractal dimension so that means this concept comes the way things are embedded in space. So, for example one example is possibly if you take a tree and its leaves if you try to measure the dimension or let us say the coastline of India the coastline of India let us say if you see this is how it goes looks like I am being a little poor in drawing so if I look here if I measure it to the length scale l I will get some length of this coastline but if I magnify this coastline here it is actually somewhat like this and if I from l if I go to l by 2 or l by 3 the length I measure is not 3l or 2l but much larger or even if I take a part of this and again further I expand it even this is not a straight line it will be something like this and then again further expands so as you go to smaller and smaller length scales the length of the coastline of India changes and not linearly but because it is a fractal it is a fractal level now this fractal dimension we can measure because I have my porous law which is a by q to the power n plus b and in our experiments we can find out whether the object that I am trying to see or measure the surface to volume ratio whether it is the smooth surface it is the fractal surface so I have just taken an example of some of the fractal surfaces from this in a tool box this is a one dimensional two dimensional three dimensional object and the porous law will give you q to the power minus 1 minus 2 minus 4 but when you go to mass fractals or surface fractals you find these power law changes the power law changes the power law changes and from here we can always find out the fractal dimension of the object that you are going to measure using sun's experiment I will give you examples later so now I have introduced you to guinea region which is low q and porous region which gives me surface to volume ratio iq so with this let me get on to something called contrast factor excuse me as I told you earlier that my intensity has got several parts forget about n into v square volume of particle number of them you have got a contrast factor square of that the solvent and the particle then you have the form factor for the particle and then you have something called a structure factor what is the structure factor this I will borrow the concept from liquid and amorphous system what I taught you so if you have a very dilute system very dilute system very dilute system then one particle's location is not correlated with the location of another particle and what do you measure in this experiment is just as I described you so far the form factor for a particle but now if I keep increasing the density I keep increasing the density now their locations become correlated because one the particles cannot penetrate into each other and then as I argued earlier in for liquid and amorphous system that there is short train correlation and which will look like this that means you have a you have peaks in q value peaks in q value but these peaks are not well defined peaks as you find in drag diffraction but it basically signifies the correlation shells around a central particle and it's average over the entire ensemble so now we have iq multiplied by sq that gives me the intensity so so basically when you this is what this slide integrated the whole thing if you have a dilute system you have got a form factor here where you have a concentrated system you have got a peak in s of q and what you have is a multiplication which is p of q s of q and both of them acting together so then this is what the multiplication of the two is something what you are going to measure when you do a small angle neutron scattering please note that I am borrowing concepts from microscopy to mesoscopic world so that means now when I talked about microscopic world I talked about atoms or ions surrounded by atoms or ions here I'm talking about larger particles like I showed you the micelles from the surfactant particles this can be posed in a solid rock it can be precipitated in a matrix of metallurgical some alloys so and there the particles are large but the concepts are very similar you have got a structure factor which tells you the nearest neighbor distances and you have got a form factor which talks about the scattering length density and my experiments measure two of them so first there's a size dependence and size dependence means suppose I have the simplest example I take a spherical object so my p of q will fall faster if I take a dilute system for a larger radius particle I can the intensity will fall faster for a smaller radius particle the intensity will fall slower and from the log of q plot log of intensity plot I can get the radius of gyration of these particles of these particles now shape dependence many times the organic assemblies like I told you myself they need not be spherical so there can be rod like they can be like a disc like a disc or they can be rod like and for all these you can find out the average hydrodynamic radius or radius of gyration which is r g square for a rod I have written here where r is the radius and l is the length l is the length but the nature of fall is different in small angle nitro scattering so this Allah helps you to figure out the not only the size of the particle but also shape of the particle and similarly now if it is a solution mostly this is true for solution when you increase the concentration of such particles your s of q will change for example when the concentration is 5 percent to when the concentration is 10 percent of a radius 25 angstrom that is 2.5 nanometer and the charge of 25 coulomb you can see the s of q the peak position in the pair correlation function changes so similarly when the charge increases but the radius remains same the when the charge increases this exactly similar to what I discussed earlier the in case of sodium chloride it was the ionic liquid large mortal material where the ionic interaction stabilizes the distances here also same thing if there is charge then most likely the positively charged core will like to be like to repel and maintain a certain distance which is for nearest neighbor as we increase the charge this distance because better defined and s of q peak goes up with charge because higher charge means more coulombic repulsion and they define the nearest shell more accurately or more with more what should I say more definition better definition less fluctuation so this is the size dependence and considerable difference dependence of the data in case of small angle neutrons scattering for various particles but these are not microscopic particles again and again I am hoping these are mesoscopic size particles this is a very interesting part of this top and of this technique I wrote intensity depends on contrast now this is where we can do a very interesting thing please see that this is the particle and the solvent and p q s now I can play with rho p and rho s which are the scattering length densities rho is sum over scattering length density of a particle divided by volume you can using various contrast actually make different parts of a particle visible an example here the particle is invisible here you can play with the matrix scattering length density and you can make the particle visible how I will tell you shortly because this is a very important technique used by organic chemists and biologists for science let's say you have a particle which is a core and shell structure as I show here there's a core there's a shell I can play with the matrix with the matrix I can manipulate the contrast of this particle with the matrix and when I match the core with the matrix you see the shell or if I match the shell with the matrix you see the core so using sands in two different experiments I can find out the core structure I can find out the shell structure how scattering is different for neutrons on x-rays for different isotopes so for a hydrogen especially for hydrogen hydrogen 1h1 1h2 deuterium 1h3 they have different coherent scattering lengths for neutrons and that gives us a very interesting technique in our hand which is contrast matching of a mixture of mixture of h2o and d2o let me just work it out for you so this for example I have noted down hydrogen has got a negative scattering length why negative I will explain later but now accept the fact that hydrogen has got a negative scattering length of minus 3.74 hydrogen has minus 3.74 femtometer this is scattering length deuterium has 6.664 femtometer oxygen has 5.8 femtometer this is interesting let me just work out so that means h2o h2o has got 2h so minus 3.74 into 2 plus 5.8 femtometer as it's scattering length d2o has 6.664 into 2 plus 5.8 femtometer so this goes to d2o has no so h2o and d2o now let's consider the density of the queen so you know that is 1cc is 1 gram we know that and you also know that 18 grams of h2o will have 6.023 into 10 to the power 23 h2o molecules each molecule have worked out each molecule have worked out here I have worked out here these two values so now 18 grams of h2o has got 18 because 8 o16 h2o come right now 18 grams 16 plus 2 18 s and for d2o it is so this 18 has 6.023 into the power 23 so in 1cc in 1 gram it is 1 by 6.023 into 10 to the power 23 number of molecules and each molecule has got each molecule has got sorry and has got this is the scattering length so then that gives me the scattering length density for h2o similarly for d2o it is 1h2 so the it is 1h2 so 2d2o will be 2d2o so the molecular weight of d2o is molecular weight of d2o is 2 into 2 because there's a mass is plus 16 so it is 20 so 20 grams of d2o will have 6.023 into 10 to the power 23 d2o molecules now per cc we just evaluate 1 by 20 of this that is the number of molecules multiply it with the scattering length that I evaluated for 1h2o and 1d2o and what you get is a very interesting thing scattering length of d2o is 6.38 10 to the power 10 because 10 to the power 15 meters 10 to the power minus 13 centimeters this 10 to the power 23 and it is length divided by length cube so it comes out to be centimeter to the power minus 3 most interesting thing is that in the simple calculation you will find that the scattering length density of d2o is 6.3 10 to the power 10 which is a positive number and the scattering length of h2o is minus 0.56 into 10 to the power 10 centimeter to the power minus 2 now you see I can mix d2o and h2o they are the same chemistry same so when I mix these two then I can even make the scattering length density of the mixture as 0 but most importantly if I know the chemical formula of the core and the shell in our examples whatever experiments you are doing I can match we can make a solution so presumption is that I am putting these large objects in a solution of d2o and h2o excuse me when I put them in a solution I can match the scattering length density of the solution either with the shell or with the core and in the process I can sort of illuminate different parts of the object in my experiment and these are I make samples for contrast variation by matching it for example if it is only hydrogen based I can put it in pure d2o if it is hydrogen but with different scattering length densities I can play with the mixture and tube for example if I map put one cc of water plus one cc of d2o you can see it becomes 6.3a minus can I just see the number minus 0.56 0.56 now the thing is that into 10 to the power 10 centimeter inverse so you can see that if I put one cc of d2o d2o with 10 cc of water it is a factor of 10 then it will be 5.6 sorry one cd2o plus 10 cc of water what is the scattering length density for this that is 6.38 minus 5.6 into 10 to the power 10 centimeter inverse if I increase it slightly more maybe 11 cc or 12 cc I can make this equal to 0 so I can make the matrix 0 but that is not the done thing always what is done is basically in this kind of core shell structure to match various parts of the object even if and then you can find out the geometry of the object because you can find out the size relationship from that experiment so you can find out the shape you can find out the volume by illuminating various parts of the object it is an extremely strong technique available only with neutrons because h21 d2o has got a huge contrast between the two things


Hey everyone, it's HM Dragadello, so it is April 19th today. Thought it'd be kind of cool to get everybody else in the video, so you guys can kind of see the people that I work with. They're kind of nerds, but it's okay. Let me see if I can get. There's everybody. There's HM1. You can kind of see the people that we work with a little bit. We've been having a lot of success with just discharging patients and people are finally going home healthy and things like that. It's been really nice to be able to check in with everyone. Can I introduce you guys to somebody? This is HM Rotiga. She's actually gotten used to her Spanish, so it's been pretty cool. Do you want to talk about what you've gotten to say to people? Well, it's been a very interesting experience. I didn't think I was going to be able to... Where are you from? Oh, I'm from Mexico. Sinaloa. It gets me a lot of people. I talk to a lot of patients. So it's not too bad. I'm glad that you guys have been keeping up with us. It's been really motivating for everybody. We've been sharing lots of news. I want to say thank you. Somebody sent me a letter talking to just all of us and it meant so much. We all crowd together. We appreciate it. I hope you guys are having a great time and I hope everybody's well.