Well, I've read that fake news is one of the words of the year but what I'm curious about really is whether or not there's anything new about fake news. In many ways, no. The term became particularly popular, I think, about a year, a year and a half ago. Initially it was specifically looking at misinformation that was spread online.  All media has a bias or at least takes a perspective on something and often that can shade into bias, so is that fake or is that not? I think the thing that's changed particularly is that technology and the way that information is shared, specifically on social media has altered the media landscape so much that's intensified the possibility of false stories or particularly partisan stories getting shared. I mean, what is it about social media that makes it a bit more invidious to influence the fake news that perhaps we have with issues such as spin or propaganda which I think would perhaps more comfortable with thinking about how to combat? I expect it to number of things. One, it's the reach, you know, so Facebook has about 2 billion users now. 70 years ago that was the entire population of the world. It's not centralized, you know. Anyone can put up their own websites. It's all these sorts of things and then it's social as opposed to looked after by a particular authority. So I suppose in the way it's consumed, it's that less formal way of consuming the media that puts people kind of off their guard, would you say, in terms of being a bit more critical about what they're reading. I suppose if you read something in a newspaper you might be aware of the fact that newspapers can have a particular ideological position. Yes. But when something comes through on your social media feed perhaps you're not as acutely aware of the fact that this might have a particular angle or it might not be a reliable source. There's that and everything's flattened out on social media so you're getting news about particular things next to family pictures of cats. I was trying to look for another example but yes. Yes, as you say, it's shared by a friend so there's already a social aspect to it. And also I think because of the way it's shared on social media it's sort of headlines are so much more important. And people often share articles just by reading the headline and without even reading it. So it's kind of easier to kind of sustain something that's perhaps misleading with such a short amount of information that perhaps would have unraveled otherwise. And it can spread very fast, very widely. And there's no editorial control over it.  I mean what is there to be scared of by fake news? I mean what should we be anxious about it? The impact it has is very difficult to measure. To what extent actual fake stories have had an impact on things. But then there's this other issue that fake news has become a term that people use when they disagree with something in the news and particularly politicians. So it's just a way of closing down debate really? It's a way of closing down debate. It's a way of saying well not that I disagree with this. It's undermining the validity of someone's and that changes the relationship we have with news generally and with information and what we trust and so forth. So I suppose the mainstream media would argue that for a democracy to function we need the free flow of ideas to be able to hold those in authority over us to account. If we start to muddy the waters by suggesting that anything that's unpalatable to our own worldview is fake news and therefore not worth engaging in then where do we have this environment where we can actually hear views that might change our mind? In a way I mean some people talk about social media is you end up in a bubble whereby you're having your own particular opinions reinforced. Yeah again I think there's a nuance around this. Filter bubbles as they're called a result of the way that the technology is likely to feed you stories and opinions that you've shown in the past that you're interested in and thus the chances are that you're just going to get things you already agree with that you're going to be bounced back to. What I think is particularly concerning is when research has been done to where a lot of these fake news stories are originated from some of them can be traced back to Russia so there's this concern that there is kind of a concerted effort foreign state to undermine the democratic functioning of other states. I mean you could argue that's been going on for time immemorial seeing that with propaganda in the Second World War with characters like Lord Ho Ho but is this something that we need to be more worried about if it's coming from a foreign power perhaps we should be more concerned than we are about it. I think in many ways it's a typical case of getting to grips with how people are using new technology and the impact it has and as you say you know the same sorts of things have happened in the past in avert ways and in lesser avert ways and so in those terms yes if it's overtly being used by a foreign state as a propaganda weapon which the suggestion is it is then yes it obviously needs to... So whose responsibility is it to do something about it? I mean you could argue some people call for more regulation of social media companies other people might put the onus on the individuals who are consuming it to be a little bit more critical a little bit more circumspect about what they're reading and even institutions like ours have a role in that is it the case that we're just not used to the technologies that we're using now and that we haven't evolved a way to handle them in a way that we have other technologies? My feeling is yes, not least because these technologies are constantly changing following the elections and when fake news as a modern notion suddenly became such a big topic a lot of criticism was that Facebook other social media sites needed some sort of regulation But there are problems, yeah I mean the concern I'd have with extra regulation really is that there can be some unintended consequences of things like that if we are to have a genuine democracy where people can access information and make their own minds up that's all part of the system that helps us keep our government to account so that the whole system I think does rely on a free play of ideas the situation is different now because of the technology and perhaps regulation is required Two points to it, I think one of the things is that so back to this idea that Facebook it's one company who has the possibility to in effect manipulate how people see the world so that would be an argument for possibly some states' oversight of that but the other thing that you mentioned the technology is firstly it's new generally and secondly it's changing all the time and some of it's secretive how the algorithms work are actually secretive getting to grips with that is more than just someone telling you you need some sort of education so I think education is a hugely important part of that Ultimately you want people to be able to make informed decisions but you can't do that unless you have an understanding of how the information is being circulated but I do think this is the point I've made elsewhere that universities in a very good position to teach this sort of stuff because we already teach it in terms of academic skills how you verify information that you're putting in an essay or something like that well it's the same thing but in society in general So I suppose it's like many things it's a combination of different factors but I would argue that the state does have a role to play and I think some people can overplay the card of avoiding state regulation of the media because we do have it to a certain extent because we have specific rules around broadcasting that don't apply to broadcasting on a social media platform maybe we need to think again about revisiting that and of course the law is, as it is, will stop there are ways in which legally there are remedies for someone knowingly spreading false information about someone that would have the effect of damaging their character but it's just getting that balance Yes, and the general context of this coming back to the idea that fake news has sort of almost two different meanings when you've got those in power using the term as a way of undermining news generally, news media generally it makes it very difficult I mean we're talking about government regulation or something but if the government themselves are doing their best to muddy the waters in the way we were talking about that then comes to a question of ethics and it's a question of ethics of those in public life and the quality of leadership which that becomes a rather more problematic issue which is why I think that the term fake news has become such an interesting one because if it was just a few people in Russia putting out false stories you can see that's a particular thing maybe we can work out a way to do that but it's opened up this whole idea of how information circulates how the world is mediated by media companies and how we as individuals in the society deal with that Yeah


You hear that guys? Today we're going to try to quiet that with these two items right here. Stay tuned! Okay guys, we're going to try to quiet this down. We've got this motor medic flush. Now what you got to do is you dump this into your oil. Or you know where your oil goes dump it into your engine. Whoops, try not to spill it like I did. But you dump this down in there and it's supposed to go all through your engine and clean out any gunk and junk. Now what you do with this stuff is you let your car idle and put it in a cold engine and you let let your vehicle idle for five minutes. Then you change your oil.  Anyway, and you put no oil in. Now what I'm going to do is when I change your oil, I'm going to add this to it. So it's supposed to quiet noisy lifters, and that's what we've got here. So what we're going to do is we're going to go and start this up and let it idle for five minutes and then I'll get back with you. So hang tight guys. Okay guys, we're back. Get ready to put this stuff here in. This Rizzalone and the other stuff I put in, the ModoMatic stuff. Now, I forgot to tell you, do not rev up the vehicle. Just let it idle for five minutes. Don't drive it. Don't rev it up. It might be tempted to, but don't do it. Now, also, I have used Automatic Transmission Fluid before. Put a quart of that in. Run the engine for five or ten minutes. I usually go between that, maybe around seven minutes. And it pretty much does it. I'm guessing the same thing, but I have used transmission fluid before. So we're going to put this in first and then we're going to go ahead and fill it up with oil. Now this, you can use this stuff when you're just topping it off. You don't have to drain it or change your oil after this. But if this works, I will change the oil again. But you don't have to. Or, like if your vehicle holds five quarts of oil, you can put a quart of this in and four quarts of oil as well. So let me grab the oil here. Okay. Now, it's hot down here in Florida. These cars run hot all the time, but I always like to say up north. In the summertime, I run 10W40 and in the wintertime, I run 10W30. Same way with my lawnmowers. But down here, I'm going to run 40W all the time. So let's go ahead and dump this in here. It's just a cheap brim because, like I said, this works. I'm going to change it again. I'll put good stuff in it. But it's like $35 for five quarts. This was $16 for five quarts. So I can't put it all in because this is five quarts. And I think this engine holds four and a half. So what I'm going to do is, and I put a quart of that in there, so I'm going to leave about a quart in here because I don't want to overfill it. If you overfill it by a quart, it is probably worse than running it a quart low on oil. Then we'll start it up and let it run a little bit and see how it sounds. Every time I'm sorry about the traffic, but you guys know every stinking time. I was out here, I drained the oil. Also, the engine was warm, so the oil was warm, so I let it really drain out good. I probably let it set. So here goes another car. Probably for half an hour, 45 minutes, not one car went up the road. I turn this camera on.  It's annoying. I know there's nothing you can do about it. I understand that, but it's just my luck. I'm not irritated at the people by no means. Don't get me wrong. It's just my luck. Also guys, the last video, sorry about all the cutting and the bad camera work. It was just one of them things. Nothing was going right. Batteries going dead. So I had to change the camera and use a different camera. I also ran out of disk space on this one, so I had to get another disk and put in it. I don't know what all I got for you, but I hope I helped you. Let's go ahead and check it. That should be pretty close. Pretty close to the full mark. Excuse me. Let's see what we got here. Just a smidgen above. I think it'll be fine. There's that. Put the dipstick back in. Let's start this thing up. Let it run a minute and see if it made any difference at all. Okay guys, I'm going to leave you right there. Point you at the engine. Let's see what happens. Here we go. When everything gets through there like it should, let's see if it's quieted it down after we let it run for a few minutes. I'll be right back with you. Hang tight guys. Okay guys. There we go. It did quiet it down significantly. It's a lot, lot better. So if you just got a minor little tap, it's probably going to work for you. But this one, I think what I'll do is I think I'll pull the lifters out and check them before I change the engine. The thing does not smoke or anything. But let's see what happens there. So anyway guys. So there you go. It did quiet it down. It quieted down a whole lot. So let's see what happens. It may get better. It may not. I don't know. But it was worth a try. I mean, I got some I got some say 14 bucks in it. So, you know, if it don't work, big deal. Alright guys. That being said, there's another video for you. Thanks for watching. Remember, Shebear the myth, the man, the legend. I'm gone. Bye bye guys.


My two person class, wow, that was a lot of work at every class that I was so just exhausted after every single one. What I found is that I was able to use some online tools to make that very large class in a lecture hall with non-movable seats and sort of an amphitheater approach to learning. I was able to take that and make it feel more like a small discussion class. I broke the students up into learning communities with 10 students each sort of based on where they sat in the classroom. And then when I would traditionally do a discussion with the entire class or small discussions and then a larger discussion sort of debriefing in a traditional smaller class setting, I had those learning communities have those conversations and I wasn't able to be part of them because there were seven of them. But I had them then post notes from their discussion and if there was a question what they how they answered it online and then after class I was able to go back and look at the student responses and understand where each learning group in that very large classroom was in their conversation about sustainability in human ecology. I could respond to them if there were questions that were arising in one group. I would see it in their online journal and then the next day in class I could bring it up with the entire class. So it was a way to somewhat keep that large or that full classroom discussion going even though that was one of me and at that point 72 of them in the entire class the end project wound up being where I saw the most benefit of lending. The end project additionally had been each student doing an individual research project on a human major coupled system and then presenting it to the class. There was no way we were going to do this with 72 students. No way we could have done 72 presentations. There was no way I could have read 72 final papers. So I again grouped them in groups of three or four and had them do joint research projects had each of them do sort of a variation on a group chosen team and then analyze their different case studies together and do a discussion and reflection together. But this is leaders juniors they hadn't done a lot of group projects before they had a strong distaste for the idea of having to work together in a final project. So I set up these online discussion boards for each of the final project groups and I had them post their case study ideas and then their source list then their case studies their drafted case studies to that journal so everybody could see it back and forth and so I could see what they were doing and give comments and see that and help the dynamic if they were sort of spreading out too much or overlapping too much to help them get a good followed set of case studies that they could analyze together and that wound up being really successful in the presentation so that were more interesting than the individual presentations had ever been. So I decided that that was a format I wanted to continue and the technology made that much more feasible.


Hello, everyone and welcome. My name is Melissa Armo and I own the Stock Swoosh. And I wanted to talk a little bit this morning about technical analysis. For those of you that don't know what technical analysis is, it's looking at past price data to predict future price data. There are many people that are active traders in the market that know what technical analysis is, but they look at things on the chart that are irrelevant or that are absolutely meaningless. And they also give meaning, great, great meaning, very often to things that don't matter in the chart and don't predict where the stock movement is going to go at all. So technical analysis, and I say advanced technical analysis because the system that I use is advanced. So if you come and you learn my class, it's advanced technical analysis, reading charts. But many people that even use technical analysis that are active traders and not everybody does. Some people trade based on fundamentals, all right, which I do not look at fundamentals at all, but some people do, but even those people are aware of technical analysis or what it is. They don't find any way to do it at all. I'm telling you that focusing on technical analysis, advanced technical analysis works if you focus on the correct information because price is very important. If you, for example, if you knew that a stock was gonna go to a certain price higher by a certain day, you would, what would you do with that information? Of course, you would buy the stock. You would buy the stock. You would say, I know the stock is currently trading. I'm just using a random example here to show you. You'd say, well, I know the stock is trading at $80.  I'm gonna buy it. I'm gonna buy it and make $20 per share of that investment. Well, of course you would do that. Just like if you had all of the numbers magically for the winning lottery, you would be able to, you would play the lottery and do it and win. It's not like that though. It's not based on random action and technical analysis. It's not gambling. It really is looking at specific information to determine where the price is going. It really is. The problem is that too many people look at it too randomly because they're using set indicators. Indicators are something that was put on your chart by the computer program, like moving averages. Some people even use Fibonacci's. I don't use those at all. But many, many people rely on technical indicators to help them determine where the stock's gonna go. They really won't tell you where it's gonna go. So as a result of this, people tend to feel like technical analysis isn't good enough to determine where the stock's gonna go. But that's simply false. If you focus on the correct price information that's in the chart, you will be able to predict where the stock's gonna go. But many people do not know what to focus on. And that is what you would learn in my golden gap course. You must focus on the proper information. And that's what you learn in the class. And so it's not gambling. It's not luck when you trade. It makes a whole lot of sense that if you could predict where someone's gonna go, you take the trade to get in. It doesn't mean that it works 100% of the time, but it works more often than it does not. Anything is about percentages. There's a certain percentage you're gonna win. There's a certain percentage you're gonna lose. There's a certain percentage of your account that you should restrating. And you're looking to make a certain percentage every time you take the trade, okay, or an investment. You should have parameters like that when you are trading, if you're gonna do it seriously, or even if you're gonna invest, even if you're looking at it seriously. Anyways, most people have heard of technical analysis that trade, if you haven't, I'm telling you it's looking at past price data, but do not rely on specific indicators because if it was that simple to trade or to make decisions about trading, guess what? No one would ever lose.  They would just use that one specific indicator. It doesn't work like that. It's not that simple. There's a knowledge, there's a skill set. There's a learning how to read the charts and that's what I teach people my golden gap course, but it is definitely not something that is so random that you can't learn it, but it does take a set skill set. It's, I call it a language. It's a language of charts. It's reading the language of charts. Over 10 years I've been reading the language of charts specifically in gaps and it's one of the reasons I've been able to really see where something's gonna go when it does gap. It's because we've been doing this for a long time and I've been focusing on the key, key ingredients that are in a chart that is gonna tell me where the price is going to go. So, and that's why when I talk and when I talk in the trading room, when I'm talking of videos, when I'm even talking on national television, I'm speaking with a very high level of conviction when I say these things because I'm very aware of the fact that I truly look at a price and can see where that is gonna go next and that's how I'm able to call it. And if it doesn't do that, then you know not to take the trade at all. It doesn't mean you're doing the reverse and that's something else that I discussed in the gap class and the trading room as well. So, if you're brand new to technical analysis, there's many, many things you could learn from me, if you've been trading for a long time and you've been using technical analysis but not found it to your advantage, I'm certain that you're looking at the wrong things. And if you strictly trade in fundamentals, good luck because if you're missing price action, you're not gonna get enough information to be able to determine what's going on. Very often what is happening with the fundamentals of the stock is already built into the price action. The price action is live. It's current price, live time and there's nothing, nothing more important than that because you wanna get in the trade to get a good entry, whether you're going long or short and very often that fundamental information is already built into the price of the stock where it is currently trading. If you'd like more information, you can email me at melissa at thestockswish.com.


What about a state of mind where you didn't really believe in money? You didn't even believe in money. That the Spirit could use it as part of the dance, but you didn't believe that it was anything positive or negative. It was just part of the dance. It was like leaves blowing in the wind, you know. You weren't looking at those leaves blowing in the wind and saying, oh, that looks like gain over there and oh, that's loss there.   I've just lost 300 leaves. Do you really think the tree is thinking that it's lost 300 leaves? Now, human beings seem to believe in this thing of gain and loss and reciprocity and scarcity and everything, but again, those are ego beliefs. Those are not the one law of love, the law of God. That's why we have to relinquish. We have to let go of believing in those things. If you don't have a sense of need and lack, you don't have a discontent, you feel fulfilled, you feel in alignment with God and everything, it would seem to be that you would be naturally generous. What Jesus is telling us is generosity, what we believe generosity is in terms of the world, is the exact opposite of what it truly is. So our thoughts are so twisted and our beliefs about ourselves and the world is so twisted that we have completely forgotten what true generosity is. And I would say true generosity is a giving heart. It's really a state of mind, of being loving, joyful, and happy. It has nothing to do with what we describe and define generosity in terms of material terms. He says the term generosity has special meaning to the teacher of God. It is not the usual meaning of the word. In fact, it is a meaning that must be learned and learned very carefully. Like all the other attributes of God's teachers, trust, honesty, patience, so on and so forth, ultimately this one rests on trust, for without trust no one can be generous in the true sense. To the world, generosity means giving away in the sense of giving up. So we think of the philanthropists, Carnegie, Ted Turner, there are philanthropists throughout history that have given away lots of money. We call that philanthropy. To the world, generosity means giving away in the sense of giving up. To the teachers of God, it means giving away in order to keep. So it's the opposite of philanthropy. In other words, you would be generous to keep a generous feeling in your heart. You would be generous in giving away to keep it. So the teacher of God is generous out of capital self-interest, out of Christ-interest. This does not refer, however, to the self of which the world speaks. It's not talking about the ego. The teacher of God does not want anything. He cannot give away because he realizes it would be valueless to him by definition. What would he want it for?


Welcome back, it's still Balot's 2023 coming to you from the stables of PLOS TV Africa and expectations are sky-high as a Nigerian's waiter who will be the next president and of course members of the National Assembly and we'll start the show from Kanu. We have a correspondent I'm standing by Enoch who'll be giving us a live update at the Collation Center. We'll also be going to Kaduna in a moment but let's take let's take Joseph Hayab right or who do we have standing by all right let's take Enoch Steven let's get more update from Kanu at this particular time thanks for joining us Enoch. Good afternoon thank you for having me so currently I'm at the Kanu State Collision Center here in the Anaket Quarters in Kanu and the coalition has been postponed to 2 o'clock because we're still expecting results from different local government areas currently we have the results from Makoda, Rumingado, Kibia and Garumala yes so we're just patiently waiting for the results to come from other local government areas and by 2 p.m the Anak official announced that the results will start so the question was that I have Abdul Ghaffar Aladimiji who is a domestic election observer here who would like to share his thoughts with us okay good afternoon thank you for joining us yeah so um can you share your thoughts with us how has the election been so far as as an election observer? Well the election has been fine I would like to say at this stage from our observation that basically there were challenges yes there were challenges but theories did not get issued most of the places theories did not get their time there were issues of logistics there were issues of situations where some adopts are kind of did carried out the picketing saying they were not going to work I said they were going to be paid but what is interesting about what really made it a bit oppressive is either because they were going to respond quickly and mobilize the resources to address most of these issues transporters lies to make sure at the end this material has got there pulling it we're supposed to start at 8 open at 8 30 but in some places it's 9 30 10 30 11 11 p.m people were there waiting but the good thing there is that uh when INEC eventually arrived they made sure that uh people were able to exercise their franchise all right all to the areas of this moment from the reports we're getting from some of our observers in some areas people were still casting their votes and most of the results we are not being confined to any hours of this moment and that is why when we arrived at the INEC it put us this morning we found out that most of the results are yet here and coalition has not started because of the reasons I've just cited but in the whole world it has been pleased to compare to what we used to know in the past uh we there were minimal issues of power that is compared to the past where there were a lot of snatching a lot of stopping and things like that and again the issue of uh non-politics this time from the reports we are getting trust me never and we saw so many agencies like the uh uh economic and financial crimes commissions agents from the icpc police and undercover there are officials from the dss undercover where they went round and they were really really charged and so we saw more politicians less less less having an influence in kind of politics the way it used to be in the past so I think so far so good INEC uh you must comment there for the job they don't hope for and the security agencies also you must keep that to so far they were from the result we got that the level of partisanship was very minimal contact i've been following elections in canals since 2011 uh i think this time is minimum i think so are you confident in the whole process yeah we have to be confident because you see you see when we said it's okay is this is the first time we adopted this procedure so ordinarily you wouldn't have expected INEC to have performed this better because you would have expected excuses like this is new the procedure is new these are pivots is new and things like that but it is new but at least to a certain level not that there were no failures here that we saw situations where some machines refused to start we saw situations where even those that were supposed to open the machines were not conversant with the operational methods of the machines we saw situations where uh even the machines were partially mark functional but what we're saying here is INEC was able to respond to these emergencies so being the first time we were using the pivots a traditional procedure and they've been able to do this to perform this fair i think if we do do in the process it's going to get better all right thank you very much so that's coming from a domestic election observer who said the election process went um fine good although there are some new issues or logistics but by and large it has been a smooth process so we're still here waiting for results from 14 local government areas yes we have only four here and we're efficiently waiting for a religion to start at 2 p.m all right i'm in okay just before we'll let you go i know the elections are over as per voting the voting process specifically and residents are waiting with baited breath to know which way or which direction it actually pans out but from um aren't you want to know um how the people are reacting this month i'm sure you have been able to speak to residents um across them canon etropole is uh what's the polls like okay so around the 50 people are still you know not outside yet most people are still in their homes the road was very very scanty you know we had free access there was no hold up no you know um issue on the road so most people were still in there were they had few people going to charge this money very few people going to charge this money and you just your homes waiting for the result to be answered and uh the job to be out so i went to a particular area around farm center and i spoke with some most of them were very happy and they they felt like they are they are most counted this time all they are waiting for is just the result to be out most of them are happy and they are in the place where we had issues you know the issues were resolved and um votes are coming and people are just waiting patiently for the results well thank you so much uh inok steven our correspondent from the ancient city of cano bringing us up to speed as regards to the election process there thank you so much i want again inok thank you very much and of course i would get back to you uh say from 2 p.m when the collision center will be back open thank you all right i will slide on next to kaduna state we have the chairman of the christian association of nigeria the state chapter that these are reverend joseph i'm high up uh joseph i'm high up thanks for staying with us reverend you for having me and good afternoon yeah good afternoon to you uh so far i've been looking at the place of uh you know the religious uh institution and of course uh the leaders in the role of the nation's democracy but so far so good uh the elections uh the voting process ended yesterday although some part of the country are still uh either voting as we speak but if you were to uh rate uh the religious leaders in their actions some inactions and of course all they've been doing before the polls how far would you say they've been able to you know make uh eligible voters uh you know know they're right and come out uh to the polls um yesterday how far did they go how would you rate them i'm going to say that uh despite some of the interpretation of the actions and words of many religious leaders the success of the general participation of this election can be can be credited to the effort of religious leaders because religious leaders longed during the polls of registration did a lot of awareness in churches and in walks encouraging people to come out in mass and ensure that they get their voters card after that religious leaders proceeded to help them ensure that they collect their cards as a pastor and the leader of the church in katuna i know we hold leaders we make announcement in every meeting we have to repeat and encourage everyone to go and get his peace and then when it was time for election also know the role religious leaders play in encouraging everyone to ensure they go out and vote they go out and vote because it is their civil crime and i know that uh Muslim runners also did exactly the same so religious leaders have really played in the room but haven't said that i do also know that uh some utterances and actions of some religious leaders could also have uh affect this uh politics and election negatively because they were more on the part of instigating inciting and saying things that are not instead of helping the people to just wake up and do what is their civil crime for those who did that it's unfortunate but that is why we're human being will have others who are mobilizing and encouraging promoting unity talking about peaceful election and we'll also have others who probably look at it differently at the attack champion sentiment champion what is not but whatever role people play at the end the election has been conducted now what we expect is the result and what i will encourage and appeal to religious leaders especially those who were in the part of the negative towards they just allow the result to decide who we let the result decide who actually might don't sit and encourage people to be saying things that are not if you believe so much in prayer please just go in and pray prayer supposed not to be screaming on top of people's heads prayer is commune with god asking god to answer and give us the leader we want if we do that then would have helped the system would have done well as uh would have shown a good example to others who are incidentals but hitting up the polity now will not be good for us and will not be good even for those who we think we are acting with them all right uh reverend hiya but it's good you mentioned as some religious leaders who have actually gone a further than they should have because there is an ongoing conversation as to the extent to which the religion or religious leaders can play in the leadership making process of the country some believe that the the role of religious leader should stop at voter education and not exactly advise them about who they should vote for because we have had an insane report where leaders of churches and even some must have actually told their congregants who they should vote for is that right well you know we are coming out from different experiences in this country and sometimes people react according to their experiences and then number two we also have a situation where a larger fold seems not to be well informed even though they may understand the information or the kind of knowledge that's available about the political process where they lack certain basic information as the pastor I can tell you how many pastors or many Christians we are calling you are you our leader tell us where to go tell us who to vote for I try to exercise with strength I have what's saying and I never said it uh but this part that I still have in some people would talk that I said they should vote for this one because as a leader we are trying to warn them against this uh the politicians will ask you what we are using in warning your people against the candidate if you vote do not suit them they will actually tell you the candidate they should vote or your people the candidate should vote but I'm not sure many religious ever I had some pastors even say vote for someone who has a Christian name or what someone will vote for the most well that is the way they think they will do but I want to believe that the people are informed to a level that since the voter their voters can't belong to them and they are that single person that will enter into the voting place and not his pastor not the elder of his church for a weekend so we must give people that respect of that independence and privacy we what I know can be the answer is just in the quality of the leader we should vote for if you find in all those available someone with that quality vote for him if you do not find someone with that quality don't vote for him when someone starts judging us that no by saying that quality you already refer them to vote then they are not being honest because uh that means you are also they are also accepting that their candidate is not good because if your candidate is good and possess the right quality we've talked about quality and quality is not a name it's not the name and name party it's not the quality of the pastor so they wear this also mix up around and there are some pastors who even preach and said that if you don't vote for a particular candidate you won't vote for them I came out publicly and I respected that and I told them that there's no thing about we're going to take care of when it comes to voting uh people are just voting for their leaders and let them exercise with their freedom and not start mixing ideology accept mixing my theology we'll complete together so how am I going to be correcting that so I cannot get the logical position just for election and that's the legal position I felt you know my theology about salvation stands the day I gave my life is just back until I'm going to leave this act so I'm not going to confuse my followers I'm going to confuse those I teach to them some of them may not understand someone may misrepresent the issue but the truth stands because when you meet me and I want to explain to you I'm telling you not to vote for candidate A or Z or EE but simply vote for people who have social quality because they would deliver the goods they will start based in Nigeria they will take Nigeria to the promised land ah the church did that but we also have people in the church who actually name our major name I'm not going to start judging them but I wouldn't do what they did because I feel when people come to church they didn't come to church for me to decide the name of the wife they are going to marry simply for me to write them on the part of truth and the part that will lead them to heaven and in understanding that they would know with wife suit that lifestyle with government suit that lifestyle but when I start telling them you must marry Esther or you marry Grace then I'm going out of my hand or you must vote for Jay or vote for me then I'm going out of the boundary so I have to know my boundary and my boundary is to inform and guide and we did that religiously. All right you said that you know your boundaries that should just be um um a guide or a guardian as it were you know to your ship and your flock your courgettes those who actually look up to your spa a sense of direction but what would you really say most people are of the opinion that some school of thought believes that um the country would actually be headed in the right direction if more religious leaders as it were you know vie for political office positions in Nigeria do you agree? Well you see the Bible says that it is God that calls some to be prophets some apostles some to be teachers some to be administrators and some to be counselors uh for the equipment of God's kingdom or God's service um properly guiding people for righteousness so what that verse simply says is that God have a different calling for different people uh I may not be a good governor but I can be a good preacher I may not be a good preacher but I can be a good counselor I may not be a good counselor but I can be a good mobilizer so when people know where they are and their role it will help us well in this world and in this country we must help people to just come out and exhibit their gift but not asking them to do what is not they are calling a pastor who probably knows how to mobilize may not really do the uh the leadership himself you could mobilize people to choose a leader but he cannot be the leader because if we give him then you will see a lot of mistakes in many of the Christian doctrines I went through this election campaign period what I told him is that I am I cannot I don't agree that uh I will take my car to someone who's not a mechanic because that person is of my religion but that person is of my tribe a mechanic that knows his job I will give my car to him and trust him to repair my car when I go to the airport to body flight to London or body flight to Lagos or body flight to the US or anywhere in part of the world I am not going to body flight because the pilot is a Christian or the pilot most of them with the pilot is a pastor and one illustration is that if you go to board a flight and they said okay sorry the pilot is not feeling fine but since your pastor is here your pastor can just go in and pick up the flight and take you to where you are going and you know that your pastor is not a pilot will you board that flight so because I'm a pastor do not mean I can be a governor I can be a president but if you are a pastor and you have that question of being governor or being president let's go ahead and do after rolling the first place you are in Nigeria before you become a Christian and before you become a pastor so as in Nigeria you have a civil responsibility to make this country move to make this country grow I have seen imams who are in government I've seen pastors who are in government some perform excellently well others didn't do well but because the other person did not do well do not sure that every pastor cannot do it or every man cannot do it it only simply said that he didn't really do the same assessment to know why is it that I can't perform what is it that I can't deliver myself if there are jobs I know how to do there are jobs I don't know how to do so if a pastor knows that he can deliver and represent the people well why not he is a citizen he has a right to vote and we voted for all right good one uh uh Reverend Joseph Hire but let's uh talk further about the actions of these religious leaders because uh just before we went to polls yesterday there were lots of prophecies as which were you know lots of people felt they were misguided because their pastors and their imams had told them that this particular candidate will eventually emerge a winner of this election do you really think the religious leaders should be doing that well I have just really explained to you that our calling and giftings are different there are some who believe they are proper there are some who believe in same vision and whatever it is and sometimes these visions are probably for their consumption but they want to share good people if they are doing it to show that they are powerful spiritually then it is unfortunate if they are doing it to get attack attention is also unfortunate but if fully they are convinced that God actually spoke to them and tell them and they are sharing what God told them then it is right but let me quickly put this very clear if a pastor claim to have prophecy and the prophecy do not come to pass he put his name into radical he put the name of his faith into radical so as a pastor you must be careful what you say and if you want to say it don't say God said you could say that from my from available indices from available statistics from available reports we are receiving it seems so the person could may win but when you say God hold you and it turns out to be the man do not win then you look stupid and you make your faith a laughing stock I don't want to subscribe to that the fact is that I have always tell people that pastors who think that same prophecy make them great pastors do not even know exactly what they are doing it's only in Nigeria that at any time we have elections you hear people saying this pastor prophesied that are the man prophesied as prophecies to me I know politics is about mobilizing people if you like prophesy one thousand time if you do not mobilize people to vote for that man the man will not win politics is about the person people vote for you could even have a whole year if you do not come out to vote for the man you want the man will not win so I want to appeal to religious leaders who play to the galleries sometimes or who want to show as if they are more powerful to hear from God to know that God loves everybody and there is nobody that God hates so your prophecy will not change God's plan for the other person you may prophesy that this one win and then God can decide to give the person you prophesy again to be the winner you will be the one to be I would always tell people look at the available sentences if you are convinced support the person if you're not convinced support what your conscience tells you but to say that God told me this man will be this this man will be that and then without clarity and that's why everything you see the prophecy is inconsistent today he prophesied this tomorrow he prophesied sometime they're even trying let me say try your luck when they say something they hope that that things will happen when anything near it happened then they start telling you see the prophecy is not popular within reality there's no attachment there's no connection between what they say and the prophecy that has happened but since we manipulate people's mind and want to play game with them it's unfortunate that people from the confession or from the call I belong some of us do that mistake I say is unfortunate but I also do believe that God speaks to people but if God is going to speak to people you will have a witness all right we must have a very big thank you to you Reverend Joseph Hayab the chairman from Keduna State thanks for all of them the imputes that you have brought them to ballots 2023 we do appreciate them thank you very much for having me and I pray that you will be patient and wait for the result the winner will eventually emerge and we will work together to make Nigeria what we want Nigeria to be thank you and go please yes god bless you too joining us live right now is the 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Studying Wilfred Owen's poem exposure? Let's discuss how you can analyse this poem. The title itself is meant to intrigue us. It foreshadows how men are being exposed to nature. Also, pay attention to the structure of the poem. Bear in mind it's written in one, two, three, four, five stanzas. The first four stanzas have five lines, yet the last stanza has six lines, what we call a sestet. In the opening stanza, the speaker states, our brains ache and the zero here is powerful in showing just how dreary all the men feel. The winds are also described as merciless and this personification illustrates just how nature is quite brutal. The ellipses of the ends of lines one, two and three are powerful in showing just how long everything fills in this cold weather. The speaker's exhaustion is shown in the alliteration of W in worried we. The sibilance here shows just how sly and silent nature is. Also, but nothing happens in a simple sentence and it simply emphasises just how tiresome this weight is.


From the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, it's the Q. At the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, here is your host, Jeff Frick. Hi, welcome. I'm Jeff Frick and we are on the ground in Phoenix, Arizona at the Anita Board Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing event, a huge event that we didn't know about until recently, over 8,000 attendees here, really celebrating women in technology. It's an education event, they've got a job fair, it really kind of covers the gamut. Satya Nadella just finished his keynote upstairs and so we are here, we're going to talk to some folks here, kind of get an update of what's going on and we're really happy to have our first guest, Cheryl Cook, VP of Channel from Dell, welcome. Great, thank you Jeff, happy to be here. So just begs the question, what are you doing here personally as well as representing Dell? Yeah, I'm happy to, this is a fabulous event and I'm just incredibly impressed with the participation here both in quantity, I think they've doubled their audience since the last event, there's over 8,000 people here as you said and just the real cross section of both students and aspiring engineers as well as professionals who are really taking the networking opportunity, job fair and recruiting as you said, it's just a fabulous form. We cover a lot of tech shows as you know we go out and there seems to be usually a woman track now whether that's a networking breakfast, a networking launch, a specific session, so it definitely seems to be gaining traction. So I wonder if you could tell us about, if you have any formal types of programs at Dell that are kind of in support of this type of initiative. Sure, absolutely, I think the agenda is an important one and keeping the discussion and the conversation front and center I think is kind of all of our responsibility and obligation and in Dell, we're certainly very mindful of diversity and inclusion and specifically just trying to create opportunities for up and coming top talent women into more senior roles so we have certainly our outreach program with our Dwen which is Dell Women Entrepreneur Network which is really created to create that community and networking opportunity for entrepreneurs and women who are starting unique businesses and opportunities to really get connected with the broader community. We also are very active with the Catalyst Group both Michael Dell and Karen Quinto sit on that board and we're the first IT company in the industry to really advocate men's roles in creating the opportunity and sponsorship and advocacy for women in roles so we have Mark which is men advocating real change and we have a pilot initiative in Dell where we've solicited some of our top male leaders to really help brainstorm ideas and ways that we can really get people more involved. That was interesting because they actually had a male allies panel here I saw on the agenda so you know being inclusive really it's everyone kind of pulling the rope in the same direction and making some progress so Dell world is coming up shortly so is there anything specific going on at Dell world that people should know about? Sure absolutely we're delighted we have our big customer event which is in November in Austin and we have a couple sessions running that are really aimed at closing the gap on diversity and inclusion in IT where we're really going to have some sessions and really talk about some of the industry research what some of the statistics and data show what are some of the ideas and actions and programs that we have underway and really just network with our customers and CIOs about the role we all play and we can all learn from each other on really kind of advancing the the cause and the agenda. So I want to shift gears a little bit and get a little bit more personal about your specific journey because I think you know obviously a big part of this whole thing is mentorship and having people that the young girls and young women can look up to kind of his role models and emulate and follow their path quite frankly and you said before we came on there you have a computer science background correct but now you're on the business side of the house which often we see it kind of flip the other way so I wonder if you can talk about your experience you know you're at a big tech company with a computer science degree I imagine the the ratio in your classes where'd you go to school yeah I'm a I'm a Florida Gator so I'm a computer science grad from University of Florida and you're right there were very few women in my class in my graduating class when I graduated but you know I always enjoyed the math and the stimulation of the technology the dynamic pace of technology and started on the technology you know support side and pre-sales engineering but quickly moved into sales so the gift of gab and relationship management and problem solving and trying to really bring solutions to customers and have just you know really enjoyed more the business aspect of understanding what the technology is but most importantly how you can apply it to the business problems the other thing we talked to some people on this topic is kind of when you know when girls should kind of know when really the focus and clearly a lot of people play colleges is too late so you know when did you kind of know that you had either an aptitude an enjoyment of love you know whatever that drew you to end up being a computer science uh it's not always a well thought out plan you know but yeah absolutely I always had an affinity for math so I was very uh good at math so that came a little easier to me uh my father was in the space program so he was an engineer so I had a little bit of that influence I think and you know I was motivated to really go into new and at the time that I went into school computer science was really just emerging and coming off the mainframe into client server technologies and that's where I started so yeah so I give you the last I give you the last word before we sign off what tips or advice would you give to um I guess the young women uh who potentially watching this about their career in tech no I absolutely would follow your passion you know if you have a love for math and problem solving there is numerous creative opportunities for you so I would say stay committed stick to your passion and absolutely raise your hand for advice to uh there are many people that want to help so just raise your hand and seek advice and ask ask for support well Cheryl thanks for stopping by again Cheryl got a touch of a cold so we uh we appreciate her you know jumping in on short notice and and sharing some advice with our audience so again Jeff Rick we're here on the ground in Phoenix uh at the Phoenix Convention Center at the Borg Institute Grace Hopper Celebration in Women Computing we'll be right back


Low maintenance people are amazing. And if you know one or are one, you know what I mean. Low maintenance people are emotionally inexpensive and we love that about you. They are a joy to be around. They are team players. They are agreeable people and they are amazing people to have in your life. And I wonder if we could all aspire to become lower maintenance people. High maintenance people are the opposite of all those things I just said. And high maintenance people can be exhausting and can be draining and can deplete us and take from us and not give to us because that is the nature of being a high maintenance person.  When I talk about high maintenance people, I don't mean people that are sick or battling some illness or have some disability or some learning difficulty. These are people that require more maintenance than the rest of us because of a condition. I'm talking about intentional high maintenance people who know full well that they are exhausting and that they can be manipulative and can be very self-absorbed.


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Gy POW's second itemày ffgwீ clinics in the name of George Adam on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, setting changes to this week's business. Will anyone wish to speak against the motion? Should press the request-to-speak button now. I call on George Adam to move the motion. Thank you, Presiding Officer—I moved. Thank you, Minister. No member has asked to speak against the motion. Therefore, Ty Prestiwyd yw rhai cael ei bwysig ac mae f 잠io cyfeinig yn gweld i, ond unrhyw bwysig i ddefnyddio'r mwyaf i, ac mor bwysig yw? Pan ddim yn de i gan oedd amser o'r cyfaintlion i ffaisio'r cyfaintlion?  Ar gyfer polenedig, rwy'n credu swyddfaeth i gael bwfferdog oesbeth oedd deaferdog i gael bwfferdog oesbeth i gael bwfferdog oesbeth i gael bwfferdog. We are all agreed in the Scottish Parliament, and it seems in local government too that it is absolutely unacceptable for any woman to face harassment when accessing healthcare. I'm not trying to shift the burden on to local authorities, but we don't share the view that bylaws cannot be used, and we'll work with them to explore every possible avenue to find a way forward. Members will look at bringing together key parties as soon as possible to discuss potential solutions. In addition, the Scottish Government looks forward to the member's bill being proposed by Gillian Mackay, and I'm happy to discuss her proposals with her. Katie Clark. Does the minister not accept, however, that it's the responsibility of the Scottish Government to ensure that women have safe access to NHS services? We know that seven hospitals and clinics in Scotland have been repeatedly targeted. Will the minister not agree, given that there seem to be legal problems, but we don't want a postcode lottery with some local authorities taking action and others not? Will the minister now consider Scottish-wide legislation to create buffered zones around about facilities? The principle of prospect protected spaces is one that this Government absolutely supports. That's why we have said that we would support local authority use of bylaws. In terms of taking forward how we progress on this issue, next week my officials are meeting with COSLA and with local authority representatives to find a way forward. I plan to also convene a ministerial working group, so I will be taking the lead to bring together interested parties, COSLA, health, police to find a way forward urgently. I am absolutely determined to make progress on this, and I have been absolutely crystal clear. I don't disagree with Gillian Mackay on this issue in many ways. I look forward to seeing the legislation that she brings forward. We'll look closely at the detail of that, but the principles, I think, we are largely agreed on. Katie Clark. Does the minister accept that it would be far better if the Scottish Government brought forward legislation rather than relying on private member's bill, or indeed local authorities, to act in situations where they are being advised that they don't have legal competence? Minister. One of the main reasons that we are keen to work with local authorities on this issue, is that we think that that is the fastest way to find a solution. Primary legislation will take time to pass through the course of this Parliament, and it will take time to enact. We think that using by-laws is a far speedier way to resolve the situation than any other solution, but we think that that is the fastest way to find a solution. To be absolutely clear, I am willing to work with local authorities, and I am willing to work with police, and I am willing to work with health. I am determined to make progress on this issue. Gillian Mackay. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank the minister for her indication of working together on my member's bill. Given that primary legislation will take quite a while to come forward and there seems to be a legal impasse between the Scottish Government and local authorities, has the minister given any thought to what we could put in temporarily to make sure that women are not harassed when accessing these facilities? Minister. Certainly, as I said, as I outlined, what I am keen to do is to find a way forward, and I would like speedy resolution to the situation. One of the reasons that I am keen to use by-laws is that I think that it is the fastest way forward, but I will be... My officials are meeting with COSLA and some specific local authorities just next week. Finding a fast solution will be one of the main items on the agenda, and as I said, I am keen to convene a ministerial group. I am keen to bring urgency to the resolution of this situation. Alex Cole-Hamilton. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I was very proud to speak alongside Gillian Mackay in her member's debate on this issue. I am enjoying members from all parties in our shared belief that somebody's right to freedom of speech is not somebody's right to medical privacy or the right to seek intimate medical care without molestation, but the minister shattered that consensus that evening by saying that the Government were unmoved. If the minister is determined that there is a difference of legal opinion here, the opinion received by solo was, I quote, unequivocal that by-laws could not be used to create Baphysones by-local authorities. Can I ask the minister if her Government has sought legal opinion to the contrary? Will she publish it? Minister. I do not think that I need to rehearse again the principles of legal opinion and publishing legal opinion. The principle of protected spaces is one that this Government supports. That is why we have said that we would support any local authority who wishes to bring forward by-laws to ensure that women had protected spaces and were not harassed as they accessed healthcare. Let me be absolutely clear that we are committed on that principle and I am absolutely committed to finding a way forward. To ask the Scottish Government which victim support organisations it consulted with ahead of drafting the paper consultation on bail and release from custody arrangements in Scotland. In developing proposals for formal consultation, the Scottish Government discussed these issues informally with a range of partners, including the Victims Organization Collaboration Forum, Scotland, chaired by Victims Support Scotland. Public protection and victim safety are at the heart of the proposals for reform that are focused on reducing crime, re-offending and future victimisation. Building on engagement with victims organisations throughout the pandemic, we will continue to work closely with them and with a range of other partners during the consultation and bill processes to ensure that their views are heard and inform future decisions in this critical area. By refocusing use of custody, so it is for those that pose the issue, risk to public safety, I want to help to deliver further improvements in the safety of the people of Scotland. Recorded crime remains at one of its lowest levels since 1974 and is down 41 per cent since 2006-07. I want to build further on those achievements by ensuring custody, including the use of remand, is used appropriately and enhanced support is provided for those dealt with in the community for their offending behaviour. Jamie Greene. The consultation includes a proposal to shorten the automatic early release trigger for criminals from having served half of their sentence to just a third. We know that 30 per cent of prisoners who receive a sentence of less than four years go on to re-offend compared to just 8 per cent of those sentenced to four years or more. The evidence is clear, Presiding Officer. The shorter the sentence, the higher the re-offending rate, which undoubtedly further traumatises victims of crime and does nothing to solve the problem of either overcrowding in our prisons or re-offending for that matter. Can I ask what message of fairness and justice does the Cabinet Secretary think that releasing criminals a third of the way through their sentence will send to the victims of those crimes? Cabinet Secretary. Of course, the proposals that Jamie Greene refers to are one or two proposals amongst the whole list of proposals that seek to address a number of concerns, not least concerns that he has raised in relation, for example, to the high remand population. It is always true that the discretion on those areas lies with the courts, and the courts can take into account the issues that Jamie Greene has mentioned when they passed sentence. Those things are dealt with by the courts, that is the way they should be, and what we want to have is a genuine discussion based on the almost consensual concerns that have been expressed across the Parliament. It is also true to say that if we can, of course, reduce further the prison population, any amount of time and effort that can be spent on individual prisoners is greater, and thereby reducing even further the recidivism rate. So the continuation of our policies, which have led to some of the lowest crime records ever, have led to the lowest number of recorded homicides ever, are consistent with those proposals. Of course, we will wait to see what people come back with. Jamie Greene. It is interesting that the Cabinet Secretary did not address the issue of re-offending, which I presume forms part of the consultation in the first place. I am afraid that, week after week, we come to this chamber and we hear countless proposals of how we are going to water down sentencing guidelines, whether it is how we treat criminals under 25, automatic release triggers, and now the prospect of giving ministers the power to release prisoners simply out of fear of our prisons becoming full. I am afraid that this is a move that reeks of a panic-stricken Government facing down the barrel of a court backlog of tens of thousands of cases yet to be heard. We have just heard again, and we are frequently reminded in this chamber by the Cabinet Secretary that decisions about remand and sentencing are rightly made by independent judges. Why does he now think that ministers are no better than they do? Cabinet Secretary. The member says that he presumes something that is in the consultation. I would have hoped that he had read the consultation before he came to ask those questions. It is the case that discretion will remain with the court. That is the way that we do things in this country. The independent courts decide on those things, but it is also true to say that remand is at a very high level in Scotland. He is right to say that, of course, there is a concern about the number of backlog of cases. It is not peculiar to this jurisdiction that we have a backlog of cases due to the pandemic. Also, in relation to the point about what I think he referred to, automatic early release, of course, it was a Conservatives that brought in automatic early release and they were the ones that voted against it the last time this Parliament voted on it. I do not know where the Tories are on justice these days. I do not think that they have a clue what is meant by soft justice anymore. What we want to have is smart, effective justice and make sure that the right people are in prison and people are given the rehabilitation opportunities that they should have to make sure that we continue to do that. I welcome the launch of the consultation and acknowledge that this is something that has formed a core part of the discussion in the criminal justice committee this session. Indeed, the need to prevent indefinite imprisonment via remand is something that has been mentioned on several occasions. I ask the cabinet secretary to expand on how this consultation will look to tackle the issues of prison population and remand. The member asked an important question that has already been alluded to by Jamie Greene. The Parliament has been clear in recent years that too many people are being held on remand. I think that that is shared across all the parties. It is right that courts make such decisions based on individual cases before them. However, the consultation looks afresh at the legal framework in which those decisions are made. I would say that if people do not accept that, perhaps they can offer an alternative way forward. However, I thought that that was where the Parliament wanted to concentrate its activities. We want remand to only be used where it is absolutely necessary. The proposals emphasise the importance of public safety and victim safety being at the forefront of decisions whether to remand. Where an accused person does not pose a significant risk but requires additional support or supervision in the community such as drug treatment, then bail should be the default option with necessary enhanced support given. I am grateful for the criminal justice committees for their early focus on the area. I look forward to working with members during the consultation and bill process. I appreciated the opportunity to have an early discussion about this when I attended the committee back in September. I welcomed at that point Jamie Greene's comments that there are human rights aspects of this matter, particularly in relation to the length of time people are held on remand. Remand, just to remind members, is now at 30 per cent of the prison population. That is too high. I urge those with their interests to move on. Pauline McNeill. The cabinet secretary is aware that there was a significant rise in remand in Scotland with the population almost doubling between April 2020 and April this year. By the end of that period, close to one in four prisoners were on remand. We are only 40 per cent aged 16 to 20 on remand. Some evidence suggests that requests for supervised bail orders have been historically low, but a possible fact have been a lack of awareness of available programmes and a scarcity of short-term funding. Given the consultation on bail and release from custody has only just begun, and we perhaps need a short and medium-term answer to this, cabinet secretary, will the Government make the judiciary more aware of supervised bail orders as an immediate or medium-term step so that we can start to bring down the high levels of remand in Scotland sooner rather than later? Cabinet secretary. I can't speak obviously for the judiciary, as the member knows, but it is true to say that the judiciary is aware of the alternatives that it has. I think that we sometimes have to make sure that people have confidence in those alternatives. I think that the other point to make is in relation to remand. I would hope that the consultation would shed some light on that. What we can do to protect victims of those who are accused, who then go on remand as well. I think that we have some more work to do in relation to that. The member has raised before the very high levels of remand. That is what we intend to address in relation to that. I repeat the point, and I am grateful for the comments that the member has made in the past in relation to that. If others have different ideas about how to address the situation, which they all seem to agree on has to be addressed, then they can come forward with those proposals and we will listen to them.


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