Just try this out for a second with me. If you felt stress and worried and anxious at all today, ask yourself this question. Today, we're gonna be talking about how to create certainty in a world where it seems like there's a whole hell of a lot of uncertainty right now. And I think this is important because if you look at what's going on in the world right now, it looks like the world's going to hell in a hand basket, doesn't it? It looks like there's just more uncertainty and more uncertainty and more uncertainty. And then the next week, there's another frickin' thing that happens. And then after that thing's done, there's another frickin' thing that happens. And then there's COVID that comes up, and then there's the Delta variant, and then there's stuff that's happening in Afghanistan. And I bet you next week, there's gonna be another thing. So there's a lot of things that are happening. I'm not trying to downplay any of these in any sort of way.  So we're gonna talk about how to create certainty in your life. And like I said, with all of this stuff that's happening right now, with COVID happening, what seems like, what are we at, like 18 months in or something like that, it feels like? I don't know, it's a long time it's been, right? Who knows what's gonna happen? Who knows if it's gonna go away? Who knows if it's not going to go away? Who knows if it's going to continue to morph and change? Who knows if it's gonna disappear? I don't know. I'm not a frickin' scientist. And a lot of the scientists, I don't think even know what's going on. Everybody's just kind of uncertain with it, right? But one thing that I am certain in is what I'm gonna tell you about in just a little while. When you look at all the things that's happening over in the Middle East, it's a lot of uncertainty. And you can look at it and it can make you feel terrible and it can break your heart. And that's not bad, it's okay to have your heart break for other people and to see things that are happening. But the thing that I come back to is that people keep saying, well something keeps happening, something keeps happening, something keeps happening. It's like, it never stops. And I say, can you remember a time in your entire life where there wasn't something bad that was happening or wasn't something bad that was being put on the news? I can't remember anything.  I don't remember a time when I turned on the news and it was like, hey, everything's amazing. We have nothing to report today except for that the dogs went out and played with their toys.  Like I've never seen that happen before, right? There's always something. And guys, there's 7.5 billion people on this earth. Of course there's gonna be some crazy stuff that happens but I am 100% sure of one thing. There's a lot more good people in this world than bad people. I can't think of a time where there wasn't a lot of stuff that's ever happened, that's been happening. But before we dive into the uncertainty and how to meet your uncertainty with absolute certainty to calm yourself down, to have the peace and the joy and to be able to take the actions you need to to make your life better but also make your family's life better, your community's life better and the world around you better as well. Before we dive into that, it's a good thing to talk about what you consume. And you've heard me talk about this before if you've been listening for a while. But if you're dealing with a lot of uncertainty and then the uncertainty is giving you anxiety and stress and it's keeping you up at night, I promise you one thing that you need to do is stop watching the news because the news is just gonna keep putting up more terrible things and more terrible things and more terrible things. And the news is just they're just a couple corporations that are owned by media companies and they can tell you whatever the hell they wanna tell you and they can change it however they want to, whether it's on the left side whether it's on the right side whether it's in the middle, all of that stuff. Your life will be better if you stop listening to the news. Your life will also be better if you start unfollowing more people, right? If somebody's too political or somebody's too doom and gloom or somebody is, if you look at somebody's Instagram story and it makes you feel worse, unfollow that person now. One thing that I've been doing a lot over the past two weeks is unfollowing a ton of people because I just don't even wanna deal with it anymore. And they're people that I'm pretty good friends with. I see them pretty often, some of them.  Yeah, gotta go. Right, that's just the way that it is. And that's okay, there's nothing wrong with that. So, you know, before I dive into the uncertainty I just want you to think about the news and the politics and the doom and gloom and the people who you need to unfollow. Remove those things from your life and your life will automatically, you'll find more peace automatically because you don't have those people pulling at you and trying to pull your intention. You need to have a peace filter, I like to call it. I have a filter. If you think about like, you know, whenever you're making coffee, right? And you have that filter that holds all of the coffee, the coffee grinds and it lets the coffee and the water drip through.  So, you need to have some sort of peace filter. What does that look like to you? I don't know, that's what you need to plan out. So, you can ask yourself a beautiful question. You can pause me now if you need to and answer it. What does my peace filter look like? What does it look like for me to create that? Unfollow as many people as you can. Take the TV off the wall. Do whatever it is that you need to to make there be more peace in your life. So, the way to find more certainty in this world is this. Now, you need to match the uncertainty in the world with certainty in yourself. And you might be like, well, no, I need to take uncertainty and I need to match my uncertainty with certainty and that will make me feel more certain. No crap, that makes a whole lot of sense, of course, but I don't mean in the external world. I mean internally. You know, if you have stress and anxiety or just this heaviness or this pressure that you've been feeling over the past few months or year or year and a half, right? If you have those, most of the time, the reason why you have that stress, why you have that anxiety, why you feel that weight is because you're focusing and thinking about things that you cannot control. And this is very important because today we're gonna talk about what you can control versus what you can't control. And so if you feel a lot of stress and anxiety and worry, it's because you're thinking about things that you cannot control. So if you look at COVID, for instance, you can't control COVID. I can't control it. I can't control what it's doing. I can just kind of do my best as all of this stuff is happening and I can take care of myself. That's the best that I can do at this point. I can't control it. So it's gonna do what it's gonna do and I'm gonna hope for the best. You can't control COVID. So if you're feeling stress and anxiety, is it coming from that and what's happening in the world? You also can't control other people. Are you trying to control other people? Are you on one side and you wish the people on the other side would do something or are you on the other side wishing the people on the other side of that would do something and you're just trying to control people? You will have stress and anxiety when you're focusing on trying to control things that you cannot control. There's nothing you can do about it. There's nothing you can do about other people. There's nothing you can do about COVID. There is something that you can do about yourself though and that's where the certainty comes in. Anxiety comes from the future as well. Thinking about what the future could be. Thinking about how uncertain the future is. Thinking about the doom and gloom that could be waiting for us in the future. Oh my God, it could be so bad in the future. It could, but it's not here now. So why am I making my present moment that isn't bad, bad because I'm focusing on a future moment that might never even come to fruition? Well, that's really crazy, isn't it? Have you ever thought about that? Why am I ruining a beautiful present moment by focusing on a future that just might never happen? And in fact, there was a study that was done and found out that 85% of what humans worry about never happened. Let me say that again. 85% of what humans worry about never actually happened. Are you focusing on things in the future that might never happen? Well, of course that's gonna cause you stress and worry and anxiety. Do you know why this causes you stress, worry and anxiety? Because the future is not here, which means it is another thing that you cannot control. We get stressed and anxious and worried when we're focusing on things that we cannot control. You can't control what's going on. You can't control what happens tomorrow. You can't control what happens in three months. For me, I'll give you a perfect example. My girlfriend and I, we have tickets, we've had tickets for three months now to go to Italy for all of October. It looks like it might happen, it might not happen. It went from definitely happening to about 50-50 with all of the changes. I don't know what's gonna happen. And at one point in time, my girlfriend was stressing out about like, oh my God, I wanna go so bad. I wanna go so bad, are we gonna be able to go? Cause usually we go for about a month every year. We obviously couldn't go last year. Our flights were canceled. We had flights booked for April. Obviously we couldn't travel anywhere in April of 2020. So then we pushed it back and we started, we got tickets for October of last year. That didn't happen as well. So now we got tickets for this October. It might happen, it might not. And what I said to her is, what's gonna happen is what's gonna happen. Why would I ruin my current moment right now, this beautiful day, the sun shining, and there's not problems that are immediately right here in my present moment? Why would I ruin right now thinking about something that might or might not happen in the future? Do I hope that it happens? Yeah, of course I hope that it happens. Is there a possibility that it might not? Yeah, but I'm not the controller of the universe. I'm not the person in charge of all of these things that are happening. All I can do is I can control the way that I feel right now. We can focus on the present moment. And when we start to feel anxious and stressed and worried, it's usually a fear mechanism that we have in our brain. There's some sort of fear, something there. And we're worried about our safety in some sort of way a lot of times. And so an easy way to help yourself when you notice yourself start to flare up with stress and anxiety and worry, is just ask yourself a very simple question. Just try this out for a second with me. If you've felt stress and worried and anxious at all today, ask yourself this question. Right now, am I safe? And think about that. And let it sink in for a second and feel it in your body. Right now, am I safe? You are. Right now there's nothing wrong in this present moment. There might be something in the future that could be wrong or might be coming up. You might be saying, Rob, I have bills coming up that I have to pay next week and I'm not sure how I'm gonna pay them. You don't have to pay them right now. In this moment, am I safe? The answer for all of you, hopefully, is yes. And if I could come from a place of certainty of who I am and how I can go into the world and not uncertainty and not based in fear or any stress or worry or anxiety, I'm probably going to go out and take actions that are more in line with being able to make the money to be able to cover my bills that are coming next week. So you've gotta realize that. There's uncertainty in the future because we don't know what's gonna happen with the future. But there's certainty in ourselves and in this present moment. If you're stressed about the present moment or the future, you can't control it. If you're stressed about COVID, you can't control it. You can't control any of those things. All you can do is take care of yourself today. If you're stressed about COVID, you can't control what's gonna happen in the future with it. What you can control is how you take care of your body today. I can create certainty in the way that I'm caring for my body. And in fact, I'm getting the right amount of sleep. I'm taking the right supplements. That I'm getting the right amount of sun. That I'm getting everything that I need to in order to, if I do happen to get it, hopefully battle it much better than if I wasn't taking care of myself. That's something I could create certainty in. The workouts you do, the food you eat, the supplements that you take. Eat healthy. Get movement. Get some sun in your skin. Drink really high quality water. Get the meditation in. Breathe more, deeper, calm yourself. Get a lot of sleep, meditate. Stop stressing so much. Take supplements that are gonna help you. That's something that is certainty. You can create certainty in this current moment with the way that you take care of yourself. You don't know what's gonna happen in the future. That is going to create as much certainty as you possibly can right now. So what do you need to create certainty in? If you've been feeling stress, worry, anxiety, any of that, what do you need to create more certainty in? You can't create certainty in the future or what's gonna happen with other people, but you can't create certainty in you in what you do right now. If you're uncertain with your life path, that's okay. But what you can be certain in is your personal development. I don't know what's gonna happen in my future, but I know I've been working on myself really hard for a long time, 16 years now. And I have a feeling that whatever bad could come to me in my future, I'll be able to overcome it much better than if I hadn't been working on myself for the last 16 years. What about you? How's your personal development?  How's your physical health? Those are things that we can be certain in. We can create certainty in those things because we can control those things.  For me, I want to prepare my mind, my body, everything as if there's a possible war, not physical war, but actually like mental war that's coming up into the future and I wanna be as prepared as possible. If you knew that you absolutely had to go in to fight somebody inside of a cage in six months then there's no way out of it. Would you just let it happen and just wait till the day comes or would you go, well if I have to do it, I'm gonna frickin' train anyways. Even if I've never trained before, I'm gonna train. Why? Because I can create certainty that I've showed up as much as I possibly could by how I get into that ring. That's the way that I prep for life. You know, it's like David Goggins, a lot of people make fun of David Goggins for how crazy he is and he is quite crazy. He's really, really hardcore. But when people say hey, why do you put yourself through so much hell? Why do you push yourself so much? Why do you run 200 miles in a weekend when you literally could just sit and watch TV the entire time? He says he's preparing for life. He's preparing for what could come up. He's preparing for a possible 4 a.m. phone call in the middle of the night where they say his mother's dead and how he's going to overcome that mentally. And he knows that if he pushes himself now and pushes himself, pushes himself now, the better he'll be able to handle that whenever that potential thing does come up in the future. So you can make yourself stronger right now, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually by the work that you put into yourself. That is the only thing that you can really be certain in. So there's a lot of uncertainty externally in the world. I don't think that we're gonna get to the end of your life and have any less uncertainty that we currently have. It's just gonna keep, we're always gonna have uncertainty. I feel like there's always been uncertainty. External, that's always gonna be uncertain because you can't control anything external. But internal, what can you control? What can you create more certainty in?  For you to create more certainty? Is it your mind? Is it your body? Is it your health? Is it relationships? Is it your finances? Is it your mental stability? Is it your family? Where is your life calling for more certainty? Because there's only a small amount of things that you can control. But if you focus on those things, what you'll realize is that your stress, your worry, and anxiety about everything externally goes down so much because you are now prepared to enter the world, to enter the battle of life because you can't go through this entire life without some sort of scars. You're going out and being able to be prepared for battle because you've been working on yourself. You've been working on yourself. You've been working on yourself. So the question I have for you is are you working on yourself in the way that you need to? Are you creating as much certainty as you need to? Are you creating certainty in your surroundings? The people that you surround yourself with, the food that you have inside of your house, the water that you drink and that's inside of your house as well. Could you drink from a faucet? Yeah, sure. Could you go and actually purchase spring water, which could be better for you, and have more minerals? Yeah, you could. You can create certainty in a lot of things around you in your immediate environment. What is it that you need more certainty in? All you have to do is realize that the uncertainty in the world will not go away, but you have a small amount of things that you can create certainty in. Figure out what those are, figure out what you need to do to create more certainty, make an action plan and start to actually take action in those to create certainty in your life. 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Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at transcendence from Peter Pelican. What is transcendence? Basically, it is a four-card transposition that takes place instantly So you have four spot cards and they immediately change into four court cards. It's very beautiful hyper visual. Here's the trailer Good day. I want to show you something Peter Pelican is a true legend Chances are you have already been fooled by his incredible YouTube videos now He never shows his face, but the magic he performs is ultra visual and totally crazy Every effect he creates has that perfect. Wait, what just happened moment in it? Wait, what? Alakazam are proud to bring you the first in the Peter Pelican series This is transcendence Till next time All right, so that was transcendence from Peter Pelican and Alakazam magic Okay, a couple questions. We always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is What is in the box? What's in the box? You're gonna get a DVD and you're gonna get a little carrying wallet Where on one side, there's four of one kind of card and four of another kind of card And they aren't exactly the same cards that are used in the instructional video The cards and the wallet were kind of given as an afterthought after Peter Pelican had already shot and filmed it This was something that Peter Nardi Decided would be a good idea to add in their gaff cards. Yes, they're special cards more They're more like special cards than they are gaff cards But I will say that you could do this effect with any Cards that you own you don't need to use the cards that are provided All right, so what's the overall quality and production value of the video? It's very similar to other Alakazam products. So if you've had David Loosley and Peter Nardi teach you an effect before it's very similar to that only That in this one really Peter Pelican is the primary teacher You do have David Loosley sitting with him and kind of encouraging him and prompting him and prodding him to kind of give A little bit more but you do have everything you expect from great sets to good microphones to good lighting good menus It's a well-made DVD. All right. So is the prop well made these are going to be the German made Phoenix back playing cards that maybe you've seen before from Alakazam. So not bicycle products, but It is a Phoenix back look. So if you have other Phoenix brand cards, these will go hand in hand. Is it well taught? the initial teaching of the actual effect between Peter Pelican and David Loosley is only 10 minutes long. Okay, and the entire DVD is only 32 minutes long So of that 32 minutes 10 minutes is just strictly the Transcendence effect and then it's it's over with and then the remainder of the 20 minutes on the DVD is strictly devoted to other Slites that you could use in other Elmsley Count devoted packages For instance, you will learn the Eddie Title bomb count the Elmsley count from Alex Elmsley, of course the master grip You will learn the OPEC count from Edward Marlowe You're going to learn the combination count that Peter Pelican came up with you're going to learn the rumba count from Valorino The combo count that they're all came up with and the cut count But like I said all of these counts and cuts. They're just variations on the Elmsley and so In packet tricks you find you either do Elmsley counts or frustration counts You know something similar to and so this is just Peter Pelican's additional bonus handlings Just to help increase your knowledge of the Elmsley count really didn't have a whole lot to do with Transcendence positives. All right. So what are the positives to transcendence from Peter Pelican? Peter Pelican has created a very magical looking exchange of four cards that when you combine it with Peter Nardi's gaff cards I think it just opens the door to some amazing possibilities Negatives one of the negatives transcendence, you know like we say right here. There's negatives to everything These are just the negatives that I see if they don't have to be the negatives that you see At its core. This is really a packet trick. Okay. This is a $25 packet trick and like I said, you don't need the cards To do the effect you could use the cards that you have at home So just from my experience and my preferred way of learning I would have preferred a DVD that contained several of Peter Pelican's effects and no cards included I mean, I would have rather received, you know, four or five more effects and zero cards And then I would have felt like it more bang for your buck Okay, to me it just looks like Alec-Azam realized that ten minutes of instruction just on this one effect could fall a little flat so they included cards and To make the consumer feel like they got something worthwhile and I would have preferred Peter Pelican's performance alongside an explanation from Peter Nardi. I just think in that situation Peter should have stepped in and realized that he was the better teacher that you know You learn the effect from Peter Pelican, but then Peter Nardi I think would have been the better Instructor and I think you would have gotten a little bit more From Peter Nardi and so it just didn't feel like Peter Pelican had as much experience Teaching his own effects and that's not anything bad towards Peter Pelican. He's probably an amazing performer But just not as experienced in teaching. I don't know. That's just me Pelican just seemed to have this attitude like he just wanted to finish and go home like Like David Loosley kept prodding him like tell us more or teach us more and Pelican would just act like I'm done Is this effect worth your money? Like I said, it's 25 bucks and really the effect is a 10 minute instruction And you don't need the cards that are included so it kind of felt a little on the high side It feels like Alec Kazan were trying to give you more for your money Just so that you would feel like you got what you wanted, but if you just are looking for the transcendence effect itself Like I said, it's only a 10 minute instruction and you don't need the cards that are provided They help they're great cards, but you don't need them if you don't want them Who would like this? I think people that like packet tricks people that like Learning new ways to do the Elm's account or packet tricks that usually involve the Elm's account those four card Transitions from one to another, you know a lot of those times those packet tricks don't always involve a story or pattern And you're gonna find the same thing here, but I think it's definitely Marketed towards people that are kind of you know packet trick people. Alright, so that is Transcendence from Peter Pelican and Peter Nardi David Loosley and Alec Kazan magic Of course I would always want to thank Murphy's magic for providing this trick for me so that I could do the review for you And if you would like to purchase this trick for yourself, you can find it from your favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks. Bye


Research Leadership Award project, a million pounds for this project investing the unexplored side of multilingualism and I have to confess that I feel like the total interloper here because A. I don't work on Asia or in Asia, B. I don't work on written texts at all but exclusively on speech in this project at least and three, we do not have data in one language but we look at multilingualism in three village communities in this area, in southern San Diego so here you have the Atlantic coast of West Africa, Gambia here, no speeches and we are here and here with the red dotted line you see our main field area three villages and my personal field side is there and this is what we have been doing for almost four years now, we are in our fifth year so we work in these three village communities and we call the crossroads and we look at the languages that are nominally associated with these villages but also at how people actually speak and they use an astonishing amount of languages so we have three senior researchers here and then myself a little bit outside and another researcher in San Diego on control languages and then we have six PhD students we used to one dropped out they also look at the same area in the same area they look at language use in social networks and women, children, code mixing, dikesis and other topics that I will not tell you anything about today but rather I'm going to morph myself into our workflow manager Rachel Watson who put together the book of what I'm going to tell you today and then me how our data management works and so you may already have gained the impression that this is a project that involves many people and so we have the researchers here and some of them are based in London some of them are based in Senegal some are actually in the fields some are 450 kilometers away so that brings with it communication problems and we have our research participants so the people whose language use we observe and record and then we have a local transcriber team that have been people who have been trained to transcribe our speech data I recorded an audio and video and then some people have more than one function so you see here some lines because we have two corpus managers and it speaks for Rachel's self-effacing modesty that she actually omitted herself and her central role in the project namely that of workflow manager and she also omitted a very central person in our field base in rural Senegal our transcription manager and this is a role she created and in what follows I'll tell you a little bit about how these roles came to be created and what the functions are and why we need them because as you may guess from this slide it's all going to be a lot about the human factor in data management so just a little bit about the type of data we have so we have linguistic allocations you know we kind of torch away sit a consultant in front of a mic and ask them paradigms we have interviews we have psycholinguistic experiments we have so-called state communicative events we do ethnographic and social linguistic participant observation and we have recorded field notes or our brains we have data where we leave the camera in a household for instance for an afternoon and just record all the interactions and then later come and collect the camera and you know take whatever is on the card we have our lavalier mic data which we fondly like to call kgb data where we observe the interactional the linguistic interactions of six focal agents to per village so they get a clip on mic that records the entire interactions when they choose to keep the mic switched on for an entire day and for each of these six focal agents we have collected two days worth of language use and we have photos we're doing really badly with photos I will not talk about photos at all and yeah questionnaire social linguistic interviews so very complex diverse set of data collected by many different people and here I'm only going to talk about what our corpus data are so so far this is the state of as of February this year roughly 100 hours of transcribed and translated speech data all tagged for participants and language as identified by our transcribers you can ask me about that in the question time so far we have identified 211 participants and our transcribers have identified 20 languages spoken by people living in these three villages so just to give you an idea how it looks like so this is the percentage of languages that are spoken in our corpus so far so you see these are these three portions of the language is nominally associated with these three villages then you have wallop which is the major national lingua franca of senegal here and oops and then you have french which is the official language of senegal here then you get all kinds of other languages here you can only see 13 the others you know they don't come out because they're fractional if you look at it per village and the language that is associated with deep on care is here and you see all kinds of other things this is only uh lavalier mic data okay so day interactional data uh all kinds of other languages being used all the time next village next door looks really different this is the patrimonial language it's by far not the most widely spoken language in interaction and then in the other one we get the inverse distribution actually this is the patrimonial language associated with that village and it's the one that is used to the majority of contexts and then the others come in only in a minority so what do we do with these data um yesterday you kind of had the uh end result of the process of what we are doing with our data when mandana said the table gave a talk on data management and the internet languages archive so we use the tools that are also used by the internet languages archive so here you see arbol which is a corpus management tool and uh we create for every single uh recording we create a session which is a resource bundle that consists of the media file all annotations translations and uh metadata crucially and so here you can see our session here actually you can do this here this is the name of the session and all associated files will have an identical name um and we have very strict conventions for file naming that i can explain to you in detail later if you're interested and then we have uh actors that are defined um so you can just drag and drop them to your session if you know them already if not it's a again a regulated process to add actors and we type for languages and for all kinds of other things but this is how ideally all media files should be managed in our local corpus and then uploaded to an online archive and this is how the data we mainly work with the corpus data look like in terms of um what information we have on what we work with so this is uh a screenshot of a software called Elan which is a multimedia annotation tool that our transcribers use to transcribe and translate and then identify participants and type for languages yeah so you have the original transcription the translation into french orthography is our transcribers we don't interfere with that at all at this level until you see so in this small stretch you already have one two three languages okay so and then um we have an intermediary step before we can actually have all our files in our online corpus we also have a kind of working corpus on two different network drives that are regularly um back up and you can see our file structure there that's the intermediary one where we everybody knows uh also where to find uh things um and this is a how we look in the archive so far so good and so easy right because it's dead easy we all know data management is straightforward we collect the data you create the metadata annotations you deposit in the corpus you analyze and the end well in our case uh very often uh we don't know the people we record because we record spontaneous interactions we don't just sit people who we know in front of a mic so very often it's impossible for us to identify the participants especially with the laverie mic data when people walk around in our absence and very often the transcribers don't know all the people so it's actually quite a time intensive intelligence governing process sometimes to find out who is speaking and we cannot identify everybody but of course we are going to try very hard because we are trying to understand multilingual language use in interaction language as a social practice so we need to know a lot about the participants very often we don't know the places we cannot identify a fraction of the languages you know and not even our transcribers can transcribe or understand all of them um for the metadata annotations we early on in the project we really hid a dead end that was terrible because all these tools are designed to work online and we had planned for internet access in our field base and you know uh Senegal telecom never laid the cable that would have allowed us to have internet access so all our work in uh Senegal is offline that creates a considerable time lag between different steps in the workflow and we all know what happens if you have a lag you know things fall through the cracks and it makes the interfaces less smooth and finally you know we are 12 researchers plus five transcribers um all our collaboration is based on a certain degree of standardization harmonization unless that is created you know everybody can only work with their own data and we cannot actually create a corpus that is usable for everybody and accessible for people who don't know uh our particular uh environment so these were the challenges we were confronted with and uh now i'm going to tell you a little bit um how we confronted them so this is kind of how it was initially um so we had the researchers and they collected and we know researchers really like to collect data a lot and they also like to give them to other people to work with them so researchers would give files to transcribe to the transcribers in the base and we already had a kind of somebody in an administrative uh position but he was not explicitly responsible for managing the transcription uh pipeline okay so people would sidestep him you know many of the transcribers are kind of nominally attached to some researchers who had worked there previously and everybody of course always wants to have their own data transcribed right because you know you always need them next week and so we had these constant problems our transcribers were saying we need a pay rise we're working overtime you know because people give us these files to transcribe and we kept saying but we have a plan what's going wrong um similarly when the files were transcribed we it was very difficult to track where in the pipeline file was because sometimes the transcribers would give it back to our administrator sometimes they would give them back to the transcribers on a memory stick on a hard drive you know uh as a watch out attachment when they had a 3g network sometimes files vanished nobody knew which one was the good version so it was a big mess and similarly with the corpus because people came back to london and kind of would of course always know where their files were but somehow our beautifully designed plans you know at the beginning about creating this overarching architecture never really fell in place and so we decided to have a workflow and a workflow master and from my personal perspective actually that was maybe the most important experience that i had in leading this whole project was that it's really important to find good people to actually fulfill particular roles and so you know this was a little bit self-selective as well um because you need to have a certain mindset you know and great team spirit and sense of responsibility to take on such a role so so luckily we had rachel and she got really interested in principles of workflow design and what she did was really nice because she started looking at the points where we encountered problems and instead of you know just sending out these emails you know we have a policy please do this this this this that make people feel defensive and stop reading these emails she really started investigating okay what why do certain things not happen at certain times and then she started reading up on workflow designs which take this human factor into account and came up with these principles so let the data management flow be dictated by the natural cycle of research and future it's not the other way around so given that our initial workflow that is also the one that is always recommended in data and language documentation was too simple and did not you know do justice to our complex time yeah chronotopes basically um you know we needed one that took account of that and then where a task must be carried out in a very specific way by multiple team members we need to have documents detailing the process in explicit detail but also if something does not need to spelled out in detail that then don't be prescriptive then that people just do what they want to do and finally try to approach and task according to knowledge and expertise but also you know some things just need to be done and there's no shying away from it and that needs to be enforced and finally you always need somebody who is looking after these things and oversees the entire process and so this is then how our whole overall workflow was simplified and strategized so the researchers rather than going to individual transcribers had to go through our transcription master in our field base who has a master list and who's the only one who can give files to transcribe to transcribers and is the only one who gets them back and transfers them to the researchers then he wants oh yes not to the researchers exactly that's also important so you know this again this chaos you know where are my files and also files can belong to more than one people has been eliminated because he only talks to the corpus master in London who has a spreadsheet and she logs all the stages and also what is missing and needs to be done and she then talks to the researchers something's missing or gives them transcription so that they can work with them and unify session bundles that have something missing etc and then she oversees that everything is uploaded into the corpus with all the elements that are required so this is the spreadsheet she has so you can see here the names for these sessions and then this does it has it doesn't have any a transcript in an annotation file in a line does it have a WAF file does it have an mp4 file is it transcribed participants really important you see we have 211 participants how do we recognize them while we have a participant master list where every participant gets a unique code and again from a participant master so wherever somebody encounters a participant that is not yet known in our other favorites they have to go to her and she assigns the code etc is the language identified um and indeed that means is there a metadata file so um i can actually pass these around so these are some explicit workflows for you to circulate and have a look at you can also see them on our website which is source crossroads orc and Rachel has written a blog post on the workflow and you can download all these there if you want here i'm only going to show you some examples for particular you know critical points and what is specified there not also that these workflows they do not they're not technical help files we have separate technical help files like if you don't know how to convert um an uncompressed audio file into an mp3 or an mp4 an uncompressed media file into an mp4 we have a file with screenshots and step-by-step instructions for that so we try not to overload these so every single thing is broken down into as simple as possible steps so this is kind of the first step when you have a recording that you need to create um a session bundle for in in our bill and uh so what happens here is okay you we have a set of minimal uh metadata that we need to know so you need to have the name you need to know where it's been recorded when by whom a lot of this already present in the name which is very memonic um but you also need to know who is speaking and ideally you want to have the languages so okay so this can be nicely broken down do you know the participants yes okay then go to this step okay do they have a code and then you decide yes or no okay if they don't have a code so if you how do you know you check this document and it tells you where this document is located as well on our shared drive but here this is the crucial step you know this is the thing where something is not done and with a particular point and if then you don't take care of doing it at a later point when you have the necessary information it just never happens so this is okay do you know the participant no then the next question for you to consider is why not first of all not not by researcher well that's your point you go back and do it okay but if it's from the you know the uh lavalier mic data where you then you cannot know them right then you wait for the transcription and you do it then and for that we then have our corpus master who has the spreadsheet and sees that this information is missing to remind you another short example from the second workflow sheet where you prepare files for transcription again to give an example so here it says prepare prepare files for transcription okay so the first step you do is you convert all your files to WAF and m mp4 so that the transcribers do not need to work with these huge uncompressed files and if you don't know that we have a sheet you know to help you but it's not on here and then you go on and again spoken down step by step another example this is so you have a recording you have created the first metadata and now you have a transcription right so the transcribers have transcribed and identified the participant languages in elan okay and so you get this and you check what happened so you open the file you check the participants in the annotation and you see are there gaps there are always gaps okay so why so this on the other case that they're all identified never happens uh so no well email the transcription master and attach the elan file and request the identification of participants note that this is also something we had to hone regarding file transfer because we don't have internet in our area but what we have we have a good mobile network 3d network so we cannot transfer media files at all or upload them but the transcription files are very small you know the size of text files so we can transfer these in what's up so that is actually very helpful so you know we can actually send a transcription file to our cops to our transcription master in our field base and they can check and they are there you know um they they can ask even the people who participated in the recording to identify the innocent participants okay how much time do i have left okay and um so this is just to give you an example where you know this is a point where you know there is you cannot ask anybody else you know this is something that when you get to this point you need to do something but this is when you move files into the proper so there are other things that i'm not going to show you here but if you get to the point where you have to bring together all your resources into that resource bundle and you need to make sure that everything is there and that thing is missing and there is something missing like the relevant media files which happens a lot well then there's nothing to be done and you cannot delay it you must go and find them i think what i wanted to tell you is how important it actually is to take the human factor into account when you plan and manage such a distributed project and um also that you know it would be really nice if you had a better system for instance for managing metadata you know i was looking in awe at the c-text program and other programs projects that have so much automated uh so many automated steps in their workflow clearly we could do better uh with that um what i wasn't talking about is how we can integrate social linguistic data that is something we really haven't looked at in our project so that's part of the individual research project and everybody manages their individual data and we have not even attempted you know to enrich our corpus with that that would be an important next step for us and yeah automation of certain processes and reliable online access and maybe something that is under development in many language documentation projects if you can't have really online access then try to have an app that helps you to uh collect immediate metadata and maybe even one that doesn't you know that automatically uh uh collects GIS data so that you do not have to collect that separately but that's really the next step so for now i just thank you um listening to it what it sounds like is that the problems you're trying to solve are not really about digital anything they're about the nature of how you handle teams right they're about understanding what people's possibilities are and how people respond to their roles within teams so they apply even if you were in a pre-digital age even if you've been recording these on yeah yeah but i think 90 of problems in digital data management are not about the digital at all there are loads of problems about the digital that i did not even touch upon because i hope somebody else will take care of them like you know the regular migration of our data formats for instance you know i mean this is we have funding for five years you know this nobody will look after that if the archive uh that cannot find a good way of doing that but yeah as PR on the project we're on these sort of issues could have been looked at earlier than they were and uh i say that to john watch out this is i hope you are paying attention do you think that now do you think that i'm paying now i'm not saying you're paying this no i'm not saying that i'm saying that i'm saying you will i'm saying you're adding you know the next three months or something all the indications i knew will make those mistakes okay but i'm sure that you tinker with the workflow constantly constantly it really needs looking after like a potted plant yeah yeah but the first problem is knowing that you need one knowing that you need one and that you need to look after it so you kind of need to acknowledge that that that is important and in my experience this is my third language documentation project and so we are not trained for that we are not prepared for that and there there are no easy templates for this uh so you know we really need somebody to take that on yeah the way we look at it is the systems aren't the workflow yeah they know they aren't support the work yeah exactly so the workflow is the human factor yeah and the human knowledge so and the systems are always lossy they are and they can be actually real obstacles so it's and it's hard to build good systems that scale and the systems the systems in you know and digital humanities are often very clunky and very very frightening especially for humanities researchers who are not dedicated digital humanities people you know so it takes a lot of hand-holding and determination to overcome that and my experience as well


Hunter DAV's Deputy National Communications Director, and with me today I have our Assistant National Legislative Director, John Retzer. We have some great news in the ongoing battle to prevent veteran suicide, but before we get into it, I just want to remind everyone, if you are a veteran or you know a veteran in crisis, please, there is a new simplified number for the Veterans Crisis Line, 988-PRESS-1. You do that, you get connected to a professional who can help you get the issues addressed. But again, we got a new VA policy in place here that addresses a battle to prevent veteran suicide. And John, if you wouldn't mind, please tell us a little bit about the new policy. Yes, the new policy that the Department of Veterans Affairs has just released just this week, as a matter of fact, on January 17th. So it started on Tuesday of this week with emergency suicide care policy. And this has been a policy that we have been waiting for. And over the past year, VA has announced and continues several additional efforts to end veteran suicide. And one that you had drawn up at the very beginning was dial 988-PRESS-1 to our Veterans Crisis Line for our veterans to quickly connect with caring and qualified crisis support, which is 24-7. However, this new policy, the emergency suicide care, allows the Department of Veterans Affairs to be able to provide, pay for, or reimburse for treatment of eligible individuals for emergency suicide care, additional to that with the transportation costs and follow-up care at VA or non-VA facilities. And some other things that are really critical in this process is that they're also allowing and have the ability to make appropriate referrals for care following the period of emergency suicide care. So there's continuity there. And then they can also determine when they have that veteran who's in need to see if there are any other eligible VA services and benefits that they may be able to be entitled to or to help them assist that process. And then finally, there is this referral that eligible individual for appropriate VA programs and benefits following that emergency suicide care. That's great news. So essentially any veteran across the country can go into any medical facility if they're having a suicidal crisis, get the care they need, and it is at no cost to the veteran. Is that correct? Correct, yes. And so the most important thing to remember is that the veterans do not need to be enrolled in the VA system to use this benefit. So don't have that stop you from reaching out to the community care that's there so that you can take advantage of the suicide emergency care system.  So it's very important that we are able to get the word out on this additional resource to apply this policy to save lives. That's great. So and this new policy was actually made possible by the Veterans Comprehensive Prevention Access to Care and Treatment or the Compact Act of 2020. And I understand DAD's legislative team was busy advocating for this legislation up on Capitol Hill. John, can you tell us a little bit about the efforts that went in behind getting this legislation passed and how folks who might be watching us today could get involved in our advocacy efforts? Yes. The DAD's advocacy with regards to suicide prevention, we were encouraging, we were influencing VA and Congress to understand the importance to bolster mental health resources and ensure continued progress in reducing veteran suicide as their top clinical priority and to make sure that it's possible that the Compact Act was enacted and full to provide all the resources and means that were streamlined and with easy access for our veterans to take action to seek help during their crisis. And one of the ways that we highly encourage anyone to get involved with the DAV and our critical policy with regards to bolstering mental health resources is by signing up for the DAV CAN Commanders Action Network today to protect our veterans during this crisis that is preventable. Awesome. Great news there. Appreciate it, John. Again, the big news here, any veteran across the nation can go to any medical facility nationwide if they're in suicidal crisis, get the care they need at absolutely no cost. That's big, that's huge, and we hope it goes a long way in reducing the current endemic of veteran suicide. If you want to get involved, again, please join the DAV Commanders Action Network. You can do so by going on to davcan.org. But most importantly, if you or a veteran you know is in suicidal crisis, please call the Veterans Crisis Line at 988 and press 1. John, I really appreciate you joining us today and appreciate all the viewers for tuning in.


Zelensky's position on Crimea scared Medvedev. Russia's Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on his telegram channel about the need to fully route the Kiev regime and take retaliatory acts against its key figures. The Russian politician commented, in particular on Kiev's statements about the need of new arms deliveries and the intention to return Crimea. What is it? The contradictory gloom of a drug permeated conscience, delirium of uncertainty, pressure on its patrons, general persisting paranoia, no doubt, all this together, he said. The response must be as follows. The mass destruction of the personnel and military equipment involved by the neo-Nazi regime in the counter-offensive with a maximum military defeat inflicted on Ukrainian troops, a full route of the enemy and the final disposition of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime with its full demilitarization on entire Ukrainian territory. Retaliatory acts against the neo-Nazi regime's key figures, regardless of the places of their location and the limitation period, Medvedev said. According to Medvedev, the Kiev dog continues to bark, demanding more weapons to reduce the number of victims, return the Crimea, and also calling for support for Ukraine and stating that the war can go on for decades. This is also a hysterical manifesto of the Kiev regime in order to consolidate the Nazi elite, maintain the morale of the troops and receive new support from their sponsors. The politician writes, earlier it was reported that the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced a counter-offensive of the country's armed forces in the Crimea. The head of state said that in his opinion, the Ukrainian military would be able to push back Russian troops and return the peninsula to Kiev's control.


No single Caribbean country should attempt to achieve national health insurance in the region through unilateral measures. This is according to Dr. Kester Nedd, facilitator of Tuesday's health presentation. Dr. Nedd presented to a number of health, medical and finance professionals within Saint Lucia's public and private sector on the topic of health care financing. A neurologist by training, Dr. Nedd is also involved in health systems, policy and information technology within the sector. Additionally, Dr. Nedd heads a consortium of companies charged with the task of reviewing national health insurance within the region. We developed a model of financing health care for the region that we think is unique. We did this with work we did in Grenada and work we did in some of the other Caribbean islands who already have national health insurance. And what we came up with a system that we borrowed, we borrowed from various islands and other parts of the world. Dr. Nedd says the suggested model would not only support the population's health needs, but also strengthen already existing insurance policies. He says the model is currently implemented in and out of the region. We are suggesting for Saint Lucia that we implement such a system. It comes with technology, it comes with expertise that you may not have on the ground, but it offers training opportunities for young people, new talent. Dr. Nedd says a collaborative effort among islands will ensure cheaper rates during the implementation phases. According to a World Bank article, quote, UHC provides countries a way forward to address unmet needs and health inequities. Hence, the World Bank has, quote, embraced UHC as part of its mission to eliminate absolute poverty by 2030 and to boost shared prosperity, end quote. Minister for Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs Hon. Moses Jabatis says the presentation was timely ahead of Saint Lucia's implementation of universal health care. We have decided to implement universal health care in a phased way, and we are working feverishly towards the beginning of this implementation process. We have appointed a director of universal health care in the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, and we are working with doctors, professionals, and so on to begin the process. The Health Minister says an announcement will be made soon regarding the rollout of UHC. He says Dr. Nedd's presentation was indeed an eye-opener and looks forward to engaging other professionals as his ministry looks toward the unveiling. For the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, I'm Saint Justin.


The finger-width method is a novel and accurate way to estimate portion size for foods that have a close resemblance to a geometric shape. This method was found to be more accurate than traditional household measures such as cups and spoons. This article was authored by Alice A. Gibson, Michelle SHHSU, Anna M. Rungun, and others.


Hi there, I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here with the 24 Tags of Christmas 2017 And this is the sixth and last video in the series four tags in each one and I give them all away So be sure to leave comments here on this YouTube video as well as the others And you can also leave comments on the blog for an extra chance to win so yay for winning free fun things in the mail and Today, I'm going to be doing these layered different Tags using different stamps from purple onion. Oh my gosh, Stacy Yakula. Who's one of their Designers and I say Yakula. It could be Yakula. Yakula. I don't know how she pronounces it If anybody knows, please let me know because I always say her name wrong probably Nonetheless, she does the cutest cutest little images little critters that are just they're adorable She has an Instagram account that is highly inspiring because a lot of times you get sneak peeks of what the upcoming stamps might be Because she just draws pictures of these critters doing different things and She doesn't draw them as stamps She just draws them as cute animals and then suddenly six months later. They're a stamp and I love that But anyway, I decided that I would do something that I haven't done in a long time Which is some layering of the image because a lot of these images have a bunch of different parts to them and I start usually by coloring one and that gives me an idea of where the highlights and shadows are and I get Familiar with the image so I know which parts are in the very front and as I'm coloring it I sort of think about what pieces I would layer And what pieces I would build up like on this one I was thinking definitely that fuzzy part on the top of his hat has to be up front and his face has to be up front Maybe his feet and his hands should pop up above his body And the chair you can build a bunch of layers into because it it comes forward to in your Direction as you're looking at it because the back of the chair is in the back and the Seat cushions on the bottom are in the front. There's those two arms off to the side that can be toward Toward the front of the image and not in the very back So I have the one and I can then take a couple other Stamped images of the same one and just color the bits that I'm going to color to layer and Sometimes I color more than that because I haven't decided exactly how much I'm going to do But I don't put as much detail in the the parts until I get to the very front So like this one might have the most detail in it and the most contrast in his hat Because that's the piece. It's going to be in the very very front. You won't see the other ones But here I've got him trimmed out just fussy cut out a bunch of parts of it so that He pops up from the the chair in the back So he definitely looks like he's sitting on top of the chair and then here's the cushions and the little critter himself His ears are in the layer behind so his ears are going to look further back And then I have his head cut out separately So his head pops up and see the rich color that I put in the hat And then I put his little feet and his little little hands which I actually trimmed out together Because then those kind of kick out toward the front And then I just had to re-add my little polka dots onto the chair You could do any kind of pattern that you want on it And this is definitely the kind of tag that you want to tell the person it's an ornament Because it takes a good bit of time There's been some of the tags this year that I've made that are really quick and easy And this is not one of the quick and easy ones, but oh my gosh how cute So as we did in some previous ones, I'm using some gray color to color the The fuzz on the hat and then going over it with white because that's going to give some dimension And some pop to that white if you just do white scribbles on top of White paper you don't see much, but you definitely see it more when you've got it on top of Some gray color, so it's helpful to add some color to things like that All right, so I just had to add him then to a tag So I die cut with a really fancy Lawn Fawn die and gave Half of it is black. So I added a black layer on top of that on top of the blue And then add it on my image and it's just so stinking cute. Look at all these delicious layers I'm going to show you just the layering portion of each one of these others So you can kind of see how I build the images So I've got my main snowman. I'm going to add on the scarf All the way down to his little lantern that he's holding and his little little mittens And then the hat I'm going to build in a couple parts And with some images you might find that there's like one part that that can be built up like that that the hat Needed a couple layers because it's got the the brim And the band that goes around and stuff But just do your your best coloring on the very top layer whatever's going to be on the showing on the top of the image And then to add the buttons on And give them dimension I added them on using some glossy accents So I'm just going to take my little quick stick To pick up those beady beady little buttons And glue them all on And then I added him onto the same fancy die cut blue Circle and I just added some snow I used a lawn fawn sloped hillside's die To make a little hillside for him.   It's popping towards you in space And then each one of the The wheels something as would you call that the wheel wells? Is that what they're called? I don't know what that's called They're like shoulders on the wheels or something like that Anyway, did some crazy coloring on those to make them look really dimensional since they were in the very front And he's got his little yellow hat on And then I added on some parts for the wheels to give them a little more pop as well And he's got a little round tag to be on as well.  You get a good view of how much dimension there is on little tags like these They're so fun to make even if they do take some extra time I personally think they're worth it because look how cute they are So somebody's going to win one of these in the mail Make sure you leave comments in the description or in the doobly-doo down below and then leave comments on my blog And then hop over to my bible journaling channel to learn how to make little books Out of chocolate bars both nuggets and the little fun size, which are not fun size And you can go see how to make those you can actually turn them secular by writing your own little messages On papers instead of using the bible verses And that's about it. That's the last of the tag series I will be announcing next week on my blog the winners So good luck to you leave comments all over the place and I will see you next time. Bye. Bye


trading Simon Michelle joining us from FIG security Simon we're seeing these these bonds weakening particularly there on Friday yields moving higher stronger economic data I guess supporting the view of you know the Fed hiking rates sometime this year so very much seeing investors taking to risk absolutely good afternoon Leanne so after reaching those lows last week on concerns and I suppose people are looking to lock in some safety by increasing demand for bonds we are seeing that slightly reversed we're seeing people move out of bonds take on some risk moving to equity markets for example we're seeing that in our market here and also take on a bit more risk in the bottom bond market we've seen credit spreads or the risk premium on bonds narrow to its tightest point this year as well we did see some pretty solid economic data coming out of the US and that seemed to outweigh the the Turkish coup that we saw there as a result of that strong data we are starting to see that this pricing for Fed rate hikes sort of firming up yeah absolutely I mean I think you know on the back of Brexit and that flight to safety a lot of the market suggested that the Fed just wouldn't be in a position to be able to increase rates this year at all and really you know priced no action from the Fed but now starting to see people put that back on the agenda and I think that's been you know on the back of a more stronger trend in some of the data recently I think it will still be affected by global factors and you know if we continue to see more downward movement more central bank support as you've been speaking about that could inhibit the ability for the US Fed to move I think obviously if you bring that back here to local factors we're certainly expecting a possibility of the RBA cutting rates so you know there's still a lot of volatility about that in straight direction. Simon Tony Davison from Henderson Maxwell here I just note that some of the yields on the longer dated bonds out there treasury bonds for instance are at pretty much historic lows if you look at the 10 year in Australia the yield has actually slipped substantially in the last 12 months since the last S&P 500 high and yet we've got equity markets get continued to go up you know do you think at some point there is the prospect for a significant reprice in sovereign yields out there or do you think that this is just sort of a new normal that we're operating in? Yeah good afternoon Tony and look that divergence is really interesting I mean you've got the bond market saying one thing and the equity market saying the other and normally when you get that action one of them's not telling the truth and they come back into alignment I think a few factors here I mean obviously 38% of all sovereign bonds in the developed economies are now in negative yield there's not a lot of room for further movement by central banks or further support by central banks in that negative territory that cheap money is obviously making it very attractive to be able to leverage into some of those markets but I think that's being inhibited by the growth and inflation forecast so you know I think when I'm looking at the bond curve it's saying you know there's just not a lot of potential for growth over the near to medium term but investors are still happy to pile into equity markets I think on both sides of it it's really about investing on income not particularly not particularly on growth so you know it'll be interesting to see over the next three months whether it is the bond market that's giving us an indication of what's ahead or whether the equity market will continue that strength yeah it is going to be very interesting Simon we'll leave it there really appreciate you joining us thank you thank you very much


Welcome back, it's the Ballots 2023 and we've been looking at the economic impact on the elections and of course, we'll actually take the conversation wider right now, Marianne has joined us yet again. Yes, we're going to talk about vote buying because you cannot talk about elections and not talk about the financing. I know that in 2016, if I'm not mistaken, CERAP and several other non-government and governmental organizations had taken political parties in the country to court asking that they make their party finances public. As we speak, that case is still in court. Political parties are yet to let us know how much they spend and I must tell you that even sources of the abundance, as much as we continue to pursue that case, 2023's election and campaigns have actually shot through the roof in terms of party financing. As much as the parties are yet to tell us what it is, how much they've made, who are the people who are sponsoring those political parties, there's still a huge question mark around that. And Moqtaka, coming back to you, it's interesting that we have an electoral act, we're all excited that Mr. President signed that act, but we've done everything but follow the rules in that book. Why? It's an angelic factor. INAIC is supposed to be the one that should look at the books of the political parties. They are supposed to be independent, but you and I know that we've not done that aspect of it. And then like you said, the case is still in court, but when it comes to judgment, there has to do with politics, the judgment gets, but when it comes to issues like this, we have challenges. It has to do with INAIC. Nobody is talking INAIC from doing its role as an empire to say, okay, who and who is sponsoring this. It's already out there. It's for INAIC to just go ahead and begin to do supervision and implementation. So I don't think it has anything to do with the political party. It has everything to do with INAIC. And then INAIC will tell you that we don't have the manpower also to do that, or we don't have the resources to follow up with these political parties. It boils down to what has been the challenge in Nigeria. Systems. We don't have systems in place. We have strong men in place. If we have a very strong INAIC chairman who wants this, I want to live in legacy for myself. I want to make sure that political parties funding are being traced and no one is contributing. You see that. You see that would have been achieving that. But again, once you achieve that, when he goes out, all the person comes in. You see it because there's no system in terms of monitoring it. So definitely I think the challenge has to do with INAIC. INAIC has to do that. Okay, Ben. Ben, why would you say that our politics, our election campaign and all of that are so monetized? Because before we even went to the polls today, lots of people were complaining about the whole Naira crunch. So, I don't know if you remember one particular politician said that he needed a specific amount to do his campaigns. And he was actually, he meant about that he's not getting enough cash for his political campaign. And your election is all about cash. Why should it be so? Why? That has always been because the politicians are monetized every process of the election. And this is the first election that will have few movement of cash because of the cash crunch. We normally have cash moving from point A to point B without anybody. Even the banking, the bankers knows that once the time you see a politician comes in, we won't forget the issue of the address that go into body lump, the missing billion band that find his way there.   Now, those challenges are still there, but now they try to do it cashless. But lack of trust, the people don't trust them. Even when they give, say okay, where will go for us? Who doesn't trust who? Yeah. Nanyam. So you're saying there's a trust deficit when it comes to our politicians? Of course. You know that. Okay. What we're being joined right now by Chomal Kulil, someone from Abuja who just casted her votes. And- By which time? Yes, yes. Incredible. Even though, you know, we heard that a lot of people in Abuja were able to cast their votes early. People, the electoral officers turned up early enough. But I guess that there's some parts of Abuja that did not enjoy the pompous of INEX process. Choma Okola, it's so good to have you join us. Good evening. Choma, you need to unmute yourself so we can hear you. Great, great, great. Good evening. Okay. Yes, we can hear you. Okay. Yes. Okay. Choma, sir, an idea of what happened at your polling unit and where exactly did you vote? Hello. Yes, we can hear you, Choma. Go ahead. Okay. I can hear you. So I'm saying, tell us where your polling unit is in Abuja and how the process went. Okay, my polling unit is at Dankoji Philly Station, NNPC, Dankoji NNPC Philly Station in a pole resettlement. Okay. So we were there since morning and we have up to 4,000 people, like more than 4,000, according to the court par that was trying to do the accreditation. He said there are more than 4,000 and people were there since morning and a lot of people are still there. I voted few minutes ago. Wow. Wow. I voted few minutes ago. At what point did the electoral offices come? They were there in the morning, but some people that were there before me said they weren't there early enough, but they came in the morning. Okay. So I'm wondering, did you experience any form of irregularities? Was the process slow? Was it fast? What exactly was it? There was nothing like irregularities, just that people were, the officers, the officials there, they were trying to distract people. I don't know what was happening. At some point, they said we should leave where we were to enter inside the pole station. At some point, they asked us to leave the pole station to go to somewhere else that even though the pole station said we can't stay there, meanwhile, it's an NNPC pole station. So we had to move from there because of light. We had to move from there to another corner. And when we got there, there was still no light there and they told on the light at the pole station. Later on, people started the broad generator and the wired lights kind of. So that was how we voted. People are still there. A lot of people that haven't been accredited, they are still there. Millions. We were there and we started raining. People were singing the national anthem. People were singing NYSE anthem on that tunnel in the rain. People were singing. So people are still there. Chanting. We must vote. We must vote. Yeah. You talked about no irregularities, but you also talked about where you guys voted and lack of proper visibility, as it says, the lightning and everything. Would you really say that this might actually muddy the election? Do you think the polls might be credible in that area with all that you have said so far? Why should it be credible? Because a lot of people might have left having waited for so long and you wouldn't blame them because they've been there since morning and up till now if not haven't voted. And there were very few officials. The machines were not enough. At some point their ink finished. It was individuals. The people that came to vote that went out to buy ink for them. Wow. It means, obviously from all that you've told us, it means that the people in that area were resolute and wanted to make sure that they casted their vote before they left that polling unit. Well, we want to say thank you, Chama, for sharing your experience with us. We can see that you're using the touch from your phone to enable us to see your face. Thank you very much for coming out to vote. We appreciate it. He wants to know like say. All right. Thank you. Because Mary and I'm wondering how voting in the DAC without much visibility, anything can actually go wrong. And, you know, because we also have to be careful to not void your vote. That's the thing. And so you need to be certain that you've, you know, you have to vote in who you are supposed to vote for. Inside the box and not outside. Outside the box. Because a little bit outside the box. It makes that vote, you know, invalid. I mean, Nigerians are very resolute. Yeah, they are. People that generate us. They say we will light up this place. Nothing is going to keep us from voting. Definitely. It's not the first time. Some people, I'm sure maybe she didn't go there. Because I've even been bringing food for some people to sit down to eat. We see places where somebody is saying on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook saying, I'm going to my unit. I'm bringing food. What are you bringing? I'm pulling. So anybody in this polling unit, are you bringing? I'm drinking drink. Are you bringing food? You know, I think it's an election that we all will be proud of at the end of the day. Let's talk about voter turnout. I want to go back to something that we discussed earlier today. People came out early, very early. People got chairs, canopies, just as you said, food. But then in some areas, the electoral officers never showed up on time. And people have stayed. For example, in her case, they've been there for hours. And this is, I mean, you see, they're under the dark. Will all of this be able to dampen the morale of the people who have come up? Because they might not. Don't forget we have a new entrance of voters. These guys may not be as resolute as us. They may not have had the experiences we've had voting over the years. How does this affect the psyche of all of these people? Personally, I think they are more resilient than we have been voting before. Because they really want to vote for the first time. I've seen that, if you say they will sit down here until they are all around social media spacing. Look, I mean, bodies would not seem any official. They are targeting any. So you definitely know that Nigerians were resilient. At this time around, I will cast my vote no matter what. I want to call for a video. I'm sure, guys, you're standing by to give us that video. There was an incident in Chakandeo, Agungi, where a young man had to pursue after people who took the power. I think the, what's it called? The ballot box. The ballot box, yes. I think that we had that video on our YouTube and it's, you know, running. But I wish we had that video so we could show people. So this young man who was able to run after the guys who searched the ballot boxes and was able to retrieve one of the ballot boxes somewhere here on the island in Lagos. Someone responded to that video and said, this is the beginning of a revolution. Do you agree? Well, I agree. But we hope that the revolution does not take it, you know. But again, it's positive because I see that also. Then again, it's an indictment of security apparatus that we have because if there's any time I've seen security beefed off an election, I think the military were involved, fighter jets were all over playing the air and then we could have pockets of incident. You know, the challenge is we sometimes don't want to do things right with data because the security agencies know the trouble spot. They know the trouble spot. So what you need to do is to beef off security in the trouble spot. Not briefing up a lot of security in places that you know election normally go peacefully. In Lagos state, we know the trouble spot. The security officers know the trouble spot. They know where some voters will want to be decentralized because of the belong to a political party or they believe they belong to a certain political party. So the security agency knows that. So if they are ready to do their work, they will do it. So for me, it's an indictment of security agency. If at this age we are still getting people that are snatching by the law of justice, then we will do an incident in other places. The video that I've been trending, like a video that happened in Yanukwaja where they thought we were arrested by the security agent, by the soldiers. They were arrested. We see incident where somebody wanted to snatch a bus in Kogi state. He was actually killed. So we have pockets of incidents like that. But for the first time, like your guest from reverse to the accord party candidate said, the violence are not widespread like they used to be. What do you think is responsible for the reduction in the violence? Because you see, I always say that the people who are engaged in ballot box snatching, the people who are causing mayhem and violence and carrying machetes and guns to polling units are Nigerians. What do you think has happened? What tips the scales? I think it has to do with the enlightenment of Nigerians and again, maybe the suffering of Nigerians. A lot of Nigerians have suffered so well. For the past eight years, I can tell you, a lot of Nigerians have gone through a lot and they are not ready to say, look, we can continue doing things like this. I have an incident that happened. I didn't know that it happened in Lagos. I was talking to a young man just yesterday. I said, are you not going to vote? He said, I am not voting this time. I said, but you belong to them. Why are you not voting? He said, no. All what I do is that they just come to meet me. They even called me yesterday. They met me and normally what they would do for me is that they would give me an amount of money and would connect a PVC of people. They would not vote. I would give them money.  We need... So definitely it comes to a point where Nigerians have to... When you are pushed to the wall, at a point you have to... Some people are still benefiting from the violence and some people... I mean, it's always the politician that starts it, their agents and then they have people that... But I think Nigerians are wise. If you look at even the pocket of violence that you've seen, you've seen that the people are very calm. Some places, the people were calm. They don't want to...  They will come back the following day. There must be an election in that polling unit. With more securities will be brought in and an election will be held. Okay Mukta, a lot of people expressed their enthusiasm to participate in this particular election, this time around. But would you say that the cash crunch that we've had in the past few weeks would have dampened the morale of some people and there might be a result of some voter apathy that has been reported across several states? I think it's some state that would have dampened the apathy, but for some state it may have even moved them to go to the boat to vote. How so? Because if you listen to some of the governors, if you look at the governors on those states, they were saying that the policy was meant to dampen the morale of their own people from coming out to vote. You could say that affected them. If you look at them, the governor also made mention of that. But in some states, some parties were ready that it's good for us, let everybody come to vote. So what we've seen is that those that normally vote for the conscience or the vote, these are candidates, these are the right person, they all came out to vote. For those that used to vote because they would have to give them money to go and vote, they were mostly disappointed that they were not coming out to vote this time around because they said there's no need for me coming out because they didn't give me anything.