this is how you will be receiving lectures in your place. So, we are actually connected this laptop using a plain data card to the AVU server as if I am connecting from outside and this is the reception and this is equal to the right hand side which was minus the earlier gradient plus mu times this turns out to be the Laplacian of presently what we are writing here is of course the non-conservative form, but in fact what happens is many times the non-conservative form is easy to manipulate when it comes to some of the analytical solutions that we will work out later perhaps most likely tomorrow morning. However, when it comes to the CFD applications especially for finite volume techniques the conservative forms of equation turn out to be more useful. So, either way what I have done let me switch back to the document the slides what I have written here is on the left hand side the non-conservative form which I had just written explicitly on the whiteboard a minute back the middle part is essentially the same as the left part. However, written in conservative form and the right hand side is again the various types of forces acting in the fluid which comes out to be pressure forces the viscous forces these two terms and the body force. Now, again please remember that this is a differential equation. So, as with all differential equations this equation is also on a per unit volume basis. So, in that sense this minus dp dx is to be interpreted as the net pressure gradient in the x direction on a per unit volume basis. The next two terms together can be considered as the net viscous force on a per unit volume basis and rho times gx will be the net body force in the x direction all these are in the x direction of course on a per unit volume basis. Similarly, the generalized vector form which is written analogously from the above equation is also on a per unit volume basis. So, this is how your participants will be able to see the lecture. Occasionally when the teacher is not concentrating on the slide the full view of the teacher will be visible that is controlled from this end during the transmission. And ordinarily a teacher including the body language gestures etcetera will be visible in a corner. There is one of the reasons why your auditorium should be such that even a person sitting in the corner should be able to see this clearly. So, an adequate luminosity projector and a fairly large screen would be adequate for this purpose. What you see on the left hand side is what is available as a list of all users. So, ordinarily all your remote center names will appear on the left hand side. So, what happens is you see the question mark there this question mark means somebody from the remote center has request there for an interaction. So, some one of the participants has a question and the coordinator has pressed some button on the A view which you will be doing at your end and that comes as a question mark. Now, like in a classroom if you are a teacher and if there are five people raise hands you may still want to continue completing whatever explanation you are giving and at an appropriate time you will ask one of the students to ask a question. In exactly a similar fashion the teacher can go to any one of these question mark thing, but since the person is not present physically that person may not know that he or she is being selected or that remote center is being selected. The usual protocol followed by the teachers here is there is a question from such and such remote center. Now, we will go over to that remote center and over to you. Now, the moment we say over to you we will click here and that remote center video will be available on the screen to all others including the teachers. So, we will see that when we start the interaction you are supposed to start at 12 o'clock, but as happens with all teachers you fall in love with your own voice and continue explaining a little bit more and the sense of time is sometimes lost. We had requested two of our colleagues Professor Bapat was the earlier head of mechanical engineering department. So, he is at VNIT Surat and we had requested him to interact from Surat. There are about 1400 participants. So, we are waiting for him to start the interaction. So, you can have a glimpse of how the interaction will happen at your remote centers. There is there is going to be an interaction with one of the centers. So, I will request other centers to stand by. Hopefully, we will be back in about 10 minutes and we will try to complete this session at 12.30 as scheduled. SVNIT Surat, are you able to see us and hear us? Professor Puranik. Professor Puranik. Can you hear me? Yes, please go ahead. Yes, please go ahead. Yeah, I think the reception here is fantastic and I could attend your lecture for five minutes and it was excellent. The slides are very, very nice and I could see in the center a lot of seriousness over here when I came here. There are around 30 to 35 participants at this place and the facilities are wonderful. So, I heard from most of them, I mean I talked to one of the persons outside and he had given a very, very positive feedback. However, just to listen from them, I would like to ask a few questions to a few participants who would like to give us some feedback because this course is taken very, very seriously at IIT Bombay. Professor Puranik and Professor Atul Sharma have really worked very hard to prepare for this course and any feedback from you to them, right, now because it's just two days that this workshop has started. So, any feedback from you will be very, very important and beneficial for them in order to improve something for the next 10 days. So, I would request one or two participants to tell us something about if everything is okay or if you feel that something could be, you know, change or something like that. Thank you, Professor. Myself, Vikram Rathod, I teach fluid mechanics since last few years. I'm very happy with the content first, lecture delivery, the talk and the explanation is also done is also very, very good. The approach, how we should also teach to students, that also we've got. Some of the body language also, how you are explaining, that is also very, very nice. So, in total it's a really excellent lecture delivery as far as the competition fluid dynamics is concerned. Thank you, sir. I'm just very curious to know because this course is mostly mathematical course. Are most of you taking notes down here or you are sort of depending on the PPTs that will be given to you or that will be available? Can you write down with the speed with which he's presenting, however? Right, very good. So, most of you are taking notes and writing down things also. Very good. Can one of the ladies give a feedback because you are in minority here? Myself Rathmi Keshwani. I'm coming from Skate, Surat. I belong to mathematics. Actually, I have joined this course thinking that I must be aware how in mechanics they are using. So, actually I want to learn something about mechanics but the lectures are very nice. Sir is going very, very well but for our side, from our side I don't know many of basic definitions and unless I know definition how can I, so it would be better that some terms are explained in beginning or some messages given that before you come to this course you have to cover these topics so then it could be done. And secondly, it would be better if some tutors are given first I can practice over something then I will like to appear for test. In a very, means one and half day still I'm not habitual to sit here also so it is very difficult to appear for test. And at this level you can't expect that by trial and error I select some any. Thank you sir. Myself Tusharpi Gundrania. I'm faculty at Government Engineering College, Surat. First of all I want to say that I feel immensely, immensely lucky that I'm able to attend such kind of an programs. The expertise of an IIT's, such kind of an expertise is not available at our local center but definitely other by center probably they are such excellent program. So, I feel myself lucky in that sense. Secondly, the way Professor Koranik explained everything is so nicely he's going very slowly and explaining every terms. So, as by looking at all these things look like very tough but once he explained we came to understand everything. Next I want to say that where the question and answer session going. If you have our doubts we can solve but still we can learn lot of things from the question asked by the other centers. That is one kind of very good interactive section. Next thing is that I'm teaching fluid mechanics at UG levels. Usually book we refer we all have this mathematics but the physical significance of all these topics we came to know from here. So, I say that really is a good session and I will be attending such programs in future and I will encourage some other teachers to attend such kind of an program. Myself Paru, I am from Applied Mechanics site. I am working as a lecturer in Sikapithawalla College of Engineering and Technology, Surat. Also I am PhD student of this college, SVNIT. My topic is also bridge and I am also working on CFD. It is a wind analysis which is very helpful which is taking place of wind tunnel analysis, wind tunnel test. So, I want to use this CFD in bridge and also in Applied Mechanics site. So, I am trying to get the base for the my PhD topic on CFD and this is also very helpful to me for PhD and also I will try to give this knowledge to the students also. I will save this knowledge to my students of this my colleagues. Thank you very much. Well, these are some of the feedbacks. I think we will stop at this stage. These are very encouraging words for all of us at IIT Bombay. So, let's just analyze these sample feedbacks that we got. First, let me comment on the technology. The view that you could see of the remote center, the clarity was dependent on the bandwidth. Now, if I had a larger bandwidth, I would have received the same video and audio with much greater clarity. That's the reason why we are prescribing a minimum one Mbps sustained bandwidth and do go back and ask your remote center coordinators or if you yourself are remote center coordinators, ask your technical people whether the internet bandwidth coming to your institution is a shared bandwidth or one is to one bandwidth. Because sometimes people take you for a ride by saying one Mbps, but effective bandwidth available is only 254 Kbps, 256 Kbps. So, just ensure because the clarity is clearly related to bandwidth. Otherwise, in the earlier days when we used AVU, AVU incidentally is a system developed by Amrita University who have been our partner in this project. And this tool today is matured enough. You can see that teacher can write notes, teacher can have very clear cut slides. Incidentally, the slides are not transmitted as video stream. So, what happens is the slides are preloaded by the teacher on to the server. It can be done even 5 minutes prior to the beginning of the lecture. And then these slides are transmitted independently to the receiving unit not as a video thing. And that is why you cannot otherwise get this clarity if you are transmitting a picture. But the teacher is visible.  This interaction is very critical. You would observe one point which one participant made that I learn not only from answers to my question, but I learn also from answers to somebody else's question. And this is exactly what happens even in a classroom. Someone asks a question. 10 other students who might have the same question lurking in their mind will get an answer. This is the argument I had given to the ministry and to UGC four years ago when they said how will you scale up how much interaction will be required. So, I told them that interaction requirement does not grow linearly with the number of participants because most people would have similar doubts and if one fellow asked a doubt and that doubt is clear, it is helpful. Additionally, of course, we have chat session which we reserve for the coordinators to send any urgent message. The second point you should have noticed is the lack of audio discipline as I call it. I am sitting at a remote center and I ask a question. Now, usually I can, I will know if I am sitting in front of you that you are able to hear me, but I am sitting remotely so I am not sure. So, I will say, am I audible? Now, by the time he says yes, several seconds are gone. Since I do not hear his yes, immediately I repeat the question, am I audible? Of course, you are audible. If you are not audible, you would not be sitting there in the first place. Now, this is the discipline that you have to inculcate. You observe that the lady, she started speaking without bothering you whether she was audible or not. The protocol here is once the control goes to you, you should start speaking. If you are not audible, then the teacher will know immediately and the teacher will signal something like this. You are not audible. So, that time we can have a written. Believe me, for every interaction we waste almost half a minute to one minute in just enabling that interaction. This is the delay time and that is the reason we have deliberately kept our sessions for one and half hours instead of one hour because any interaction, first of all, it will have to be larger scale and it will have to be extended. But as long as you control this, so please advise all the participants that once you are given a mic, start speaking. If there is a problem, I will tell you and you should keep watching the teacher whether he is saying thumbs down, in which case you should see whether the mic is gone or not, etcetera. The quality of the audio equipment that you have and the video equipment that you have is very vital. This I think will be discussed by my colleague Mr. Sajjan tomorrow because when you, some people had only webcams and webcams do not give a good quality video feedback. So, we are suggesting that you must use at least minimally a handicap. Now, that handicap needs to be connected either on a firewire interface or on a special interface which requires a video capture card. Now, some people had some problems in getting those video capture cards particularly at remote places. I think he has arranged for some five or six cards if there are emergency requirement at any remote center, we may even consider giving that card tomorrow to interact with him. So, you will agree that if A, your audio video infrastructure at your end is good, then you will be able to listen to the lectures, the same clarity that as if the person is giving the lecture. B, the upload banware is also important for your center and the particular participant asking the question to be visible to the entire community. You observe for example, there was a slight darkness when that center was being shown and that is because there is no front light coming on to those things. Now, when the question is being asked, it is useful to switch on the lights in front so that the person is visible. See to the local people the person is visible and that person is interacting with the local people. So, they know who is asking the question and so on, but the rest of the country does not know that. Third, you will also saw, you also saw with absolute great clarity and very succinctly people were making their observations. I was just analyzing the three observations that were made. There were three people that we heard from this. The first person was clearly an accomplished teacher and a researcher and he was giving the feedback from that perspective. So, he found this was good, this was good, this was good, this was good. The second person was a mass teacher who was completely at sea and she was effectively shouting at the organizers as to why she is going to be going to have to give a test and how can she give a test without the basic finger. Now, this is the issue of mismatch. Now, you will notice there were several questions, should we permit teachers from science colleges, should we permit teachers from polytechnic, should we permit teachers from management. Fortunately, our subject is a rather broad subject and is applicable to most people, but these kind of questions will come. Believe me that engineering research often has a certain difference from research in general sciences and certainly research in management, but if our topic was not that broad then there could be a problem with some of the participants. One most important point she made is that if she was forward that before coming to workshop please read this, this, this then she could have read it and she would have been better placed. Please reflect upon this and suggest if we could upload something on the modal up front and request the participants to read that and come. There is hardly any time for this workshop, but since you will be engaged with us over the next 2, 3, 4 years in different workshops perhaps this kind of feedback between you and us should be a constant thing and a constant interval. The third one you will notice the third person was see every person speaks from one's perspective. The lady spoke from her perspective of being a mathematician, the first person spoke from being a accomplished teacher and a researcher. The third person was a PID student himself. Observe that 80 percent of his observations were related to his own PID issues which is natural because every participant is coming for he or she to gain something from that work. They are not cared about the general. There was one more observation I do not remember who made it that this gives an opportunity for IIT expertise to be made available. Now, this is a bunk of myth which must be demolished very quickly. Professor Puranik and Professor Atul Sharma are the experts. They incidentally are in IIT Bombay today. They could have been anywhere. That is the point we also need to stress. That is why in the T-interval when Professor Joseph, when he mentioned that he has been giving lectures on how to do effective teaching because many of the people remember we also discussed this and he would like to give some lectures and I said very well we will be arranging a workshop on effective teaching in engineering colleges. In December it will be another 10 day workshop and at that time we would definitely like to invite him to our teach. The point I am trying to make is that in each of your colleges in some subjects there will be extraordinary expert teachers but they are not visible to others. So, this is what you know we are talking about pedigree in research journals A plus AA and I said there could be some very poor quality papers in base journals and there could be best papers in some small country. Pedigree works like that. Pedigree is a brand which gives you generalized average conclusions but it does not apply to individuals. IIT has a brand name and a pedigree and therefore on an average the teachers here are accomplished. They are accomplished researchers, they are good teachers but I would again emphasize that when he said that we are getting to listen to experts which is good we are very proud that they are in IIT and they could have been anywhere else. In fact, before coming to IIT they were somewhere else and they were as good as the reason why they were perhaps a point. The point I am making is that over the coming years some of your centers have to evolve as nodal centers and then independent hubs where you start giving courses and workshops like that, funded or non-funded but you start giving these lectures and courses to other participants across the country. There is no reason why this methodology cannot be adopted to teach students directly. So, these are the possibilities but I hope the small brief sample of what you will see is good enough to convince you that this method will work. This primarily for those coordinators and those centers who are joining us for the first time, of course there are several who have been participating in our venture for quite some time. Let me now switch over to I am cancelling my lecture on research for product development and interdisciplinary research. I will give live during the main workshop but I want to talk about Akash Tablet project and give a demonstration of the critical application of which you are so curious tomorrow during that time. Before I am shifting tomorrow's lecture here which is a very short thing you are already familiar with this program. So, what we generally do is that we do assemble the chat but chat window we would like to reserve for emergency thing. Please understand that if all questions are bombarded on the chat session from 117 remote centers and let us say two centers are some emergency problems. Now, I will miss out those emergency problems, the lecture is there besides email is accessible by all organizers here but chat is accessible only to that teacher. So, remember if professor Karmalkar is teaching then only he can see that chat window at that point. The questions can be forth in fact Moodle is the right place. So, pose additional questions on Moodle. Please filter them or consolidate them at your level first when they come here we will transfer them. So, we will carry on.


is a halloween book list complete without milling? this is a weird little book the phantom is like kind of the actual worst i scream okay guys it's your ghost host and i'm here today to talk about some hauntings so i've got 10 books to talk about today and all of them have either a ghost or a haunting or both i'm a little kind of maybe sort of cheating on this because of the maybe it's a ghost maybe it's a haunting and you'll see when we get to like the ones that i'm like that's a little bit stretching it but regardless all the books i'm going to talk about today are books that i generally recommend so even if you feel like it's a bit of a stretch to put them on a list of ghosts and hauntings it's still a good book so it's still worthy of attention and invention these are in no particular order they are not from most spooky to least spooky or from least fitting the prompt to most fitting the prompt they're just the order honestly of size like so that my stack wouldn't topple so that is the rhyme and reason for the order so without further ado let us get to the books first on on my list is the woman in black by susan hill this little book packs quite a punch and on a related note if you ever have the opportunity to see the stage play that is based on the book highly recommend i mean i can't guarantee that the production that you'll see is good you know because all depends on the particular director in the cast and etc but i saw it on stage a few years ago now and it was so scary i screamed in the theater and this is not a cinema this is like a a fancy paying many monies for your ticket type theater and i screamed but anyway the woman in black is a very short little gothic spooky ghost story that is all told from the perspective of the person who experienced this he's telling it like on christmas eve telling this thing that happened to him this ghost story and so he is like his kind of similar premise to dracula right because he's a lawyer and he's gone now to this place this really remote place to sort out the papers of this of the deceased because you know the estate papers etc so he goes to this remote house which is being haunted by the woman in black so this house is isolated not just because it's in the countryside the place it's like the locale and it's already very remote but also the house itself is even more isolated because it can only be accessed by this causeway that gets flooded when the tide comes in at night so during the day you can get to and from where this house is but at night you cannot get across so you're just stuck there at night so he's thereby himself going through these old papers from this from the deceased and of course the house is haunted and oh my gosh it is so spooky an atmosphere i mean the book is too it's it's genuinely chilling and i feel like it really does a good job setting the scene and and putting you in this situation where you feel the kind of dread and isolation that he would feel and the stage play at least the staging of it i saw there's like a whole part of the play where they turn out all the lights like the only lights visible in the house are like the exit signs but it is pitch dark not just on the stage not just in the house the whole all of it pitch dark and the only light that is used is him lighting matches oh my god this is so scary anyway um i recommend the book i do not recommend the film the film is terrible but the book and the play very very good very creepy next up is already the book that is the most um stretching it but whatever rebecca by daphne jamor yet this book i would argue is a haunting if you don't know the story of rebecca the titular eponymous rebecca herself is deceased and the book is named after her so there you go already this is a ghost story because the lady on the the title she's dead so our main character who is an unnamed narrator she's this young ingenue and she meets this very wealthy man who is considerably older uh while she's in montecarlo and he falls in love with her and marries her and takes her back to his house mandorle and this house is a grand old estate he is very wealthy this is a famous old house she's just this young girl who's not very rich at all doesn't really know how to manage a house and she is his second wife his first wife was rebecca and rebecca is all over the house she's left her mark everyone remembers rebecca the only person who's never met rebecca has no idea what rebecca was like is the narrator so she already feels like she's sort of you know wrong-footed because she sort of has to step into the shoes of this deceased woman she has no idea what her now husband's relationship was like with his wife was it good was it bad was it neutral um she's rebecca was clearly left her mark whether people liked her or hated her she seems to have been a formidable person people had opinions about her monogrammed r's on everything in the house everyone all the servants are accustomed to how rebecca used to do things so it's just the specter of rebecca that is haunting mandorle and is haunting her narrator in not quite a literal sense but in every other sense so which is kind of the point of the story is i mean that's that's why her name's on the cover because even though she is dead even though the main character is somebody else the main character is rebecca so i would certainly say that this counts as a haunting next up i have a phantom of the opera this is unpopular opinion because it's the book not the musical the musical is well loved and it's like the longest running show on broadway etc etc and i love the musical don't get me wrong i do but few people have read the book and even fewer of those people like the book i've read the book like three or four times i read it a lot when i was in high school i really really liked it this is a classic it was written in originally in french this is translated from french and it is much more of a dark sinister story than the musical the musical is kind of unapologetically romanticizing a pretty toxic and horrifying situation the phantom of the opera is a crazy serial killer who is disfigured and a squatter in the opera house it's i mean on paper the phantom is like like kind of the actual worst so the the fact that you come away from the musical kind of emotionally invested in the phantom is a testament to android woodweber's musical writing music writing skills but the phantom of the opera the original story that that musical is based on which android woodweber doesn't actually like the book he kind of hates the book which is i don't know that's this whole other thing like why'd you write a musical based on a book you hated sir the the original story is a lot more of a of a gothic monster mystery not well not really mystery because you do know what's going on but um yeah it's much of a more of a gothic tale um so i mean the the plot does largely the musical if we've seen it the it isn't diverged too much in terms of the broad strokes it does follow the book pretty much exactly is more in the details and more in the nuance of the various situations the nuance of the character dynamics that is different and it is very different for one the phantom even though the cover of this book has gone with the musical version of the mask the phantom in the book his whole head is like a death's head like he looks like like jack skellington only ugly there's no little half mask is gonna do the trick like his his whole head is stuff of nightmares they mention they pay lip service to this in the musical they do but they don't really elaborate on that other than to use it as a plot convenience to sort of explain away anything he's able to do but he is a genius a sort of engineering technological genius because before he ever came to the opera house he was um he did work for a shaw or a prince or something constructing elaborate uh amusements i guess so the fact that he's able to haunt the opera house is a testament to his technical skill that he is able to construct elaborate things that make it seem like it's a haunting or enable him to move about to the opera house undetected because he's figured out a sequence of trap doors and behind the scenes whatever so there's a lot more to his it's basically he's a torture genius that he looks like the stuff of monsters or the stuff of nightmares but he is like a prodigy and so when you combine this incredible intelligence with being treated like a monster well then he's gonna use the gifts that he has i.e his mind against the world which has treated him like a monster you treat me like a monster fine then i'll be the monster that you treated me as he is obsessed with christine dae that's the same as the musical he is also um you know into music it's not just building stuff you know that that's all a thing so like again he does give her lessons he's obsessed with her she is a ballerina singer in the opera house her father was a swedish violinist which again they briefly mentioned in the musical but it's kind of a bigger part of the book like her childhood with her father the violinist how she knew ral when they were children and what it's like being sort of kidnapped by the phantom it's a just a lot more sinister and a lot more sort of grappling with the phantom and why he is the way that he is and and what he's actually doing it's not glossed over in an elaborate musical number where i guess there's some trapdoors and some gizmos it really kind of goes into like everything he's able to do and how genius it is but also kind of like horrific because he is able to basically elaborately torture people by bewildering them in like the phantasm of his creations so like it takes a genius to do this but also like that's kind of sick that you're putting people through this so i love the book and i would definitely say the phantom is haunting the opera house next up i have the unsuitable by molly polig this i read for the first time last year and i blanked is a lot more than i expected to i mean i expected to like it that's why i bought it but this is a weird little book i don't know if i can like universally recommend it it is it is a strange book it's kind of like if you took like oscar wild or like the importance of being earnest and that sort of that tone of sort of social commentary and social comedy and comedy of manners and um mixed it with like i don't know what's really horrifying because it is it's kind of really scary or not scary but like the the haunting aspects of it are kind of gnarly big big trigger warnings for self-harm because there is a great deal of self-harm in this book like a lot it's kind of the entire plot it is not a it's not a bug it is a feature it is literally the plot so if you have if you don't want to engage with the book that deals with self-harm do not read this but so in essence this story follows a young woman who when she was born her collar bone is broken as she was being born and this i forget if that's the thing that killed her mother or it was sort of all part and parcel but basically her mother died giving birth to her and she has this huge scar from when her collar bone was broken as a baby and our main character this either is happening or she believes that this is happening that her dead mother's ghost spirit soul is in this in like the scar tissue of this huge unsightly scar that she has like all of the because like it's not just like a mark like this is all kind of like crunched and smushed and there's like lumps of like scar tissue flesh that healed weirdly so like she always wears really high collars this is taking place like Victorian era-ish so she wears like really high-necked dresses to hide that but there's like all of this like nists from when she was born and she broke her collar bone so she hears her mother's voice and her mother has some very interesting ideas and she won't leave her daughter alone her daughter really has no interest in getting married and who would want to get married to somebody who's crazy so she kind of doesn't mind hiding that she's crazy because she doesn't want to get married to any of the guys that her dad wants her to get married to her dad is not a swell fellow but when she does want her mom to leave her alone she physically attacks her own scar because that again either really does shut up her mom's ghost or at least in the mind of this young woman that shuts up the voice of her mom which is in her mind now there are things that mom's voice tells her that it seems difficult to explain how the young woman would know these things independently in order to if like if this voice was only in her head if she's imagining if she's schizophrenic like the mom's voice tells her things that is like new information that she would have no other way of knowing so anyway it ends in a i didn't know how this was going to go where it was going to go and i didn't expect the ending when i when it came to that but along the way you know because she's trying to be paired off her father's trying to pair her off with dudes that she doesn't have any interest in marrying so there's sort of this like comedy of manners that feels very like oscar wildish except for the like dead mom's ghost that's in her scar is also a factor so it's just like a very strange little book and it was just so unlike anything i've ever read and it was you know genuinely kind of horrifying at times because of you know because of the self-harm and because of just generally things going on in its household and what her father is like having to just like live like that it was kind of horrifying but it was also very funny at times because of the banter that was this comedy of manners so i guarantee you if you read it you've never written something like it and i i really enjoyed it i really did and it's not terribly long so give it a go maybe next up i have the graveyard book my neil gayman is a halloween book list complete without neil gayman so if you don't know anything about the graveyard book this is a middle grade book this is also it's either my second favorite or it's tied for first of all neil gayman's books that being my first or equal being ocean at the end of the lane graveyard book again is the middle grade book and it is neil gayman's retelling of the jungle book by reddard kippling but instead of a jungle we are in a graveyard instead of jungle animals we have ghosts and ghouls and goblins and this sort of thing actually no goblins ghosts and ghouls and things like that of that nature that are raising a young boy who lives in the graveyard the way that mogul lives in a jungle so it's a lot more sinister but it is sweet and funny as well because it is a middle grade book but it is a middle grade book by neil gayman who does not like to pull his punches even when it is for children our main character his parents are brutally murdered that's where we open and as he is escaping the his parents murderer he winds up in the graveyard and there the ghosts and other things of the night that inhabit the graveyard they they protect the boy and hide him from this killer and then the boy has nowhere else to go so they take on the responsibility of freezing him so he grows up being parented and tutored and taught life lessons life skills the birds and the bees by by ghosts by ghosts and um his his main caretaker mentor who is decidedly not a ghost but is also a dead thing it is a charming book i did not expect to feel such feelings reading it it's neil gayman so i expected to love it and it was praised pretty much the moment it was published as being like well gayman did it again this is great but i didn't expect to cry at the end of the graveyard book and i absolutely did um so i highly recommend it it is an absolutely charming story the nods to the the original jungle book are interesting if you sort of try to figure out who might be the kind of parallels to the individual animals from the jungle book and this is again much more chilling and honestly like the the antagonist the sheer con type character i suppose is really kind of terrified like the way i talk about core line like graveyard book overall is less scary than core line because it's really only that part of it that is but that part of it is like kind of low-key scary even as an adult so uh you know it's gayman so you know what you're getting um and it is an absolutely fantastic look i highly recommend next up i have the handsle wood by melissa albert now it's been a minute since i read this so it's a little bit fuzzy i would like to read it again because i did like it and i haven't read the sequel yet because of that that i read this too long ago and i would need to reread it before reading the sequel in essence the main character of this book her grandmother yes wrote a book called the hazelwood and it is like a completely out of print and is missing cannot be found but has like a cult following for those that were able to read it and this girl starts being followed and haunted and pursued by things that were from the grandmother's book did i say it was called the hazelwood because it was not called the hazelwood it was called tales from the hinterland but the hazelwood is the home where her grandmother lived lives in any event yeah this girl is being haunted by imaginary things and people from this missing cult following book written by her grandmother and of course she goes to the hazelwood this house and very haunting spooky things occur at the house that's both all i can say and largely what i can remember about what happens in the hazelwood i mean i do remember more specifics but they're spoilery specifics but yeah uh again as far as why it belongs on this list i think that is clear i did really like it and i gave it the highest praise really that i can give a book and that is that i found it to be incredibly gay menesque i would recommend next up i have on the lighter side my plain jane by synthia hand brody ashton and jody meadows this is the only one in the series that i've read they wrote three books about various jeans and now they've moved on and they're applying their skills to various marries i own all of them all of the jane books and all of the and the first of the marry books this is the only one i've read so it's on the on the basis of liking this and i've got all the other ones but so my plain jane is taking the story of jane air but sort of telling it with charlotte bronte in it where they're like friends jane air and charlotte bronte and it's basically like jane air meets the ghost busters and it's meant to be lighthearted it's not meant to be taken seriously which is why it could get away with doing a lot of stupid things that are very sort of campy and it leans into being campy it absolutely knows what it is it's not trying to be a very serious jane air retelling and it's not trying to act like there are intense stakes and this is the story of high drama it's meant to be a fun romp with ghosts with lots and lots of winks and nods to the original jane air as well as to the life of charlotte bronte and just the bronte books in general as well as nods to the ghost busters and just being a fun little story in its own right with lots of ghosts because basically like this this universe is a version of the ghost busters is kind of a society and they're recruiting i forget now if it's jane or charlotte but one of the two of them is like real good at seeing ghosts you know sixth sense style and they're they really need this skill on the payroll so to speak so um they're trying to recruit her that's why she goes to thornfield hall it's a part of her mission anyway yeah so if you like a fun story if you like something that's inspired by classic well sort of reverently poking fun at it and having a good time then i recommend this book i think it's quite fun and clever for what it is next up i have house of salt and sorrows by erin a craig i feel like i've been talking about this book a lot recently where i just like didn't talk about it at all and all of a sudden now just a whole bunch but anyway house of salt and sorrows is a retelling of the 12 dancing princesses which i have not seen anyone else retail at all so it's just refreshing to have something retold that isn't cinderella or beauty and the beast when it came out the cover was certainly intriguing but i neither expected to like it as much as i did nor did i expect it to be as spooky eerie and atmospheric as it was so in general i thought it was an excellent debut i just thought it was a good book that i had a good time with and was miles away better than a lot of other new releases i was reading at the time or that i've run sense but moreover i was surprised by how chilling an atmospheric it was at times there were multiple times when i was felt it was genuinely eerie because it's very much the sort of like seaside ghosts kind of atmosphere and the the 12 dancing princesses storyline kind of becomes quite sinister and i have to say i didn't love the ending it does have sort of a shoehorned in romance that kind of almost i mean i have no idea if this is true but it sort of feels to me like the author might have been pressured into putting it in there because it doesn't really feel like a belongs with the rest but the rest i thought was most excellent very engaging again quite chilling and atmospheric and it is very ghosty haunting seaside things so absolutely deserves to be on this list next up i have jackaby by william ridder this is the first book in a series i am currently in the middle of that series closing close to the end and i do so far at least the first book has been my favorite and the most charming and the most it that it is the thing that jackaby is the first book is the most so what it is is jackaby himself the character he is basically like if you threw together in a blender doctor who surelock from the new adaptation like the from surelock not from surelock homes but i actually know a bit of surelock homes as well if we're honest just okay just any iteration of surelock homes with doctor who but made it ghosts so he's not an alien what he's able to engage with the supernatural and he behaves a great deal like an amalgam of the doctor and surelock homes because he's a sort of a centric detective was a little who says things that you don't necessarily know what he's talking about but he knows what he's talking about which i mean the doctor does as does surelock homes but he's sort of got a more youthful quirky energy which the doctor tends to have and all of the sort of weird unnatural unexplainable phenomena is more in line with like what the doctor tends to be dealing with rather than what surelock homes tends to be dealing with and it's just a great time i absolutely devoured it it's just fun the characters are fun and very memorable the plot is engaging and it's uh it's a great spooky haunting read because i mean if i didn't say largely the supernatural that he's dealing with is some ghosts and things so yeah jacobie last but not least i have ninth house by lee bardugo this is again one where do you check out content warnings and if basically anything is going to bother you then don't read this because it has just about every trick or i could think of it's not for the faint of heart um but so basically this is based on actually lee bardugo's own year spent in yale which is where she got her degree yale does really have secret societies but so lee bardugo has written a yale where the secret societies are really just very uh various forms of necromancy ability isn't it is it necromancy i think it's necromancy and our main character in ninth house is you guessed it in the ninth house and so she uh she sees a lot of dead people that's kind of her thing this is not spoilers this is not a revelation on page one our main character sees dead people so yeah i don't think i need to explain why it belongs on a list of ghosts and hauntings um this is basically dark academia but with that sort of like magical haunting ghostly twist and it has again just about every trigger that i can possibly think of in it so it's not a light read but it is certainly a haunting one yeah so that does it for my list let me know in the comments down below if you have read any of the books on my list if you now plan to read any of the books on my list if you will never ever read any of the books on my list if you have already read all of them and you think they're all terrible so this is a terrible list whatever you want to let me know i post videos on saturdays other types as well but definitely saturdays so like and subscribe join my patreon if you feel so inclined and i'll see you when i see you bye


Hello everyone. So here I have a confession to make or a confession. Basically, I'm gonna Well, yeah confess because all this time I've been doing these videos and you know I did the course and the book and all that you know how to be a successful freelance translator And I've been trying to focus on teaching how to be a successful freelance translator or how to be a successful freelancer in general and Throughout all this time. I've not once I've checked all the videos not once Have I tried to focus on how to be an unsuccessful freelance translator?  I'm gonna make a video for you This video is to teach you how to be an unsuccessful freelance translator These are just a couple of tips a couple of the preliminaries But hopefully if you follow these steps, they'll be enough for you to be an unsuccessful freelance translator They're just the basics. So anyway, let's get started with it. First of all how to be an unsuccessful freelance translator tip number one Here you have a choice actually either never answer your clients or Wait, so this is simple when you get a request for a translation or maybe you've sent out an application And they ask you for more information either a don't respond at all Or if you have to respond because the email there is there and it's bothering you So you have to get out of your inbox. You have to you know, do something with it at least wait to respond I would say wait at least I don't know 48 hours Anything more than 24 will work but 48 the longer you can wait the better Just make them wait for that response because then this helps them to know that they're gonna have to keep waiting Every time they need a response for you, okay? So it at least you get them used to it right away that they're gonna have to wait a long time for you to respond So tip number one never answer your clients or wait as long as you can to do so tip number two Miss your deadlines here if they give you a deadline. They say we need this Thursday by noon Then try to deliver it. I would say earliest by say Thursday 3 p.m You know because there if you know if you feel embarrassed about it something like that at least there You can still say oh, I was working on it But there was a problem with the email or there was a problem with the this or that or whatever excuse you can come up with Then just send it, you know around 3 p.m. But if you can it's better just to send it Friday Whatever send it during the weekend. Who cares at least there you can be sure that well to be unsuccessful Tip number three Don't proofread your work. This is a big one because too many translators there Translate and then as even when they're done translating They go through and proofread their work to check for mistakes to make sure they translated something correctly that they didn't miss something out or didn't use Something incorrectly and they go through it again to make sure that it's written Well and written in a way that sounds fluent if you do that then you're just gonna be successful So I mean make sure you don't proofread your work I would translate it very quickly and then just just close the document Don't send it right away because that goes against tip number two, but just close the document right there and don't deal with it anymore after that Tip number four, I think we're at what do I have? Oh formatting formatting Format get about it That was a bad pun I don't even think that was a pun anyway forget about formatting because a lot of times you're dealing with PDFs and Or you're dealing with charts. You're dealing with graphs You're dealing with a lot of stuff that needs to be formatted And if you deal with Microsoft Word, you know what can happen you do, you know, you add one Space or one tab over here and then suddenly Everything changes and all the format changes you have new columns you have this that and the other I would just not worry about that In fact, whenever you do the translation, just type it up Don't worry about the formatting at all if the initial document They gave you was five pages and suddenly you have seven pages and two of them are just on one column here And then that I mean that doesn't matter forget about format formatting Don't even think about it And if you have weird formats, it's even hard to look at when you're typing get through that. That's what it takes So don't format good Tip number. I think we're at five. I'm totally losing count. But anyway tip number five. Oh This is actually a good one because it helps with the other tips wait until the last minute to translate Because this ties in well with trying to miss your deadlines. I was tip number two So here wait until the last minute if you have that deadline, let's say Thursday at noon I would wait until say Thursday when you wake up to do it The best way to do this is to procrastinate a lot. So like the days leading up to it Say you're gonna start working, but there are a million other things you can find that can take up your time Maybe you need to put in order your room. You need to run a bunch of errands You need to you know, make sure everything is just so you need to find the right place to do it Because you go to a coffee shop, but it's too loud go to another one is and it's not loud enough I mean, you know, you need some sort of noise around you So keep doing stuff like that until the very last minute And so you don't get started with your translation until the last minute And then this makes it like I said a lot easier to then miss your deadline It also makes it a lot easier to not have time to proofread your work and and to forget about formatting So these really tie into each other and you know one of these tips can help the other ones So keep that in mind Tip number six, I guess Don't deal with follow-ups. Oh, yeah follow us because a lot of times you'll be setting a translation Especially if you've been paying attention to not proofreading and formatting and all that they're gonna have questions about your translation Don't deal with that stuff. You did your translation. You sent it in don't deal with follow-ups They have questions about anything or they want to know about your formatting or maybe a mistranslation or whatever they you know They're talking about just don't deal with it Once again, like I said if it's really that email in your inbox is really bothering you then reply But wait at least 24 48 hours before replying just so they know that they got to take their time with you Come on, so don't deal with follow-ups is My recommendation Tip number. I think we're at seven here seven. Oh Yeah, of course once all this is done Add complications for payment what I mean by this is at this point. You want to tell your client Okay, I know I charge you a hundred euros, but actually there's also a tax an eight percent tax So you owe me a hundred and eight euros. Oh, and by the way, I don't accept PayPal I don't accept bank transfer. You have to pay me by cashier's check So please mail it to my place even though it's international Can you mail it and in my local currency because I need it that way all these are great ideas for complicating the payment process and this is really good because it makes it a lot harder for them to pay you and So it makes it a lot harder for you to receive your money and you know, that's awesome So what you should do is just try to figure out different complications as much of the ones I've listed or if you can come up with other ones then feel free to add those as well There are other ones that I've heard of can say oh But since you're based in this country and I'm based in that country Then I need this stat in the other add it on to it or other payment Complications give them the wrong bank account number and then have them go through it a bunch of times before you tell them Oh, no, that's the wrong bank account number, you know pay me and another account or something like that just try to add as many up complications as possible for the payment and you know anything you can do to delay the payment as much as possible and And yeah, that's about it. Those are my top. In fact, you know what actually I'm gonna give you a bonus tip right now Now this is more advanced. That's why I'm using it as a bonus tip and not one of the main tips But find a way to charge per target word instead of source word So if you get a PDF if you get a stack scan document something like that you can tell them look I can't count the number of words there So I'm gonna charge you per target word and then when they say okay to that up to a center price per target word what you can Do is make very long sentences try to make your very long sentences even longer and longer and longer and longer and longer See what I did there do stuff like that try to add Adjectives anywhere you can instead of saying well, that was the gentleman's jacket You can say that was the gentle that was the jacket belonging to the gentleman or something like that Just add more words whatever you can do and because they certainly they totally will never realize how awkward it sounds of course not and That way you can get a lot more words and then you can get totally get paid more Which will then get delayed because you're gonna be adding complications payment That's something they definitely will not pick up on at all. I mean, how could they and so just made it make it As wordy as possible. It's also because it's definitely worth your time Trying to come up with different words for the extra sense You'll get for each word that you add and making a really awkward Translation that you get to send them as proof of your work that you can do So anyway follow my seven steps plus the bonus and you are sure to be unsuccessful You can thank me later


As Anambara elections draw closer, Governorship candidates and Eagle Elders for him urge the federal government to get military out of the south-east. And on the collapsed building in Ikui, death tolls still under rise as Governor Songulu visits. This is Plus Politics, I am Mary Anacor. Candidates for Saturday's Governorship elections in Anambara state have spoken with one voice on the security or insecurity threatening the polls and urged the federal government to urgently demilitarize the south-east zone and stem the heightened tension between the security agencies and the utes. In the same vein, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission Professor Makmoud Yakubu has restated that the election in Anambara state must hold. We're joining us to discuss this are Analyst Sonny Maduka, Francis Chilaka and Security Consultant, Best Man Jumbundzi. Thank you very much gentlemen for joining us. Thank you Mary. Alright, I'm going to start with you Best Man because you obviously are a security person and one of the major problems or one of the reasons why many concerns have come from Anambara and without Anambara is because of the insecurity in the land. But I'd like to ask you, for someone who's looking from the outside in and all of the reports that we've been hearing, what do you think is the reason for the insecurity in Anambara state? We've heard the candidates for the elections, especially the former central bank governor, saying that the insecurity in the state is politically motivated. Is that what you think? Oh, remember I was on plus TV earlier in the year and I made a statement and I said, when the elites, the leaders, those who should know in South Eastern Nigeria, when they were obligated their responsibilities to non-state actors and when they were supposed to oppose the activities of these non-state actors, they all kept quiet and keeping quiet then has metamorphosed into what we have now. So it is a function of both political and well to a large extent, there might be some substance in the agitations. But by and large, I think it is the failure of the elites to control the narratives in the Southeast that have led to where we are today. You're from the Southeast, if I'm not mistaken. And you're saying that this is mostly failure of the elites, not necessarily the leaders but the elites, which means that you're talking about, it cuts across whether those who are holding power or not, the leaders of thought, the traditional leaders and the government. It's cut across. I made an example on the paper I submitted recently. I said the difference in the Southwest is that the Southwestern elites will not abdicate their space for non-state actors to decide or to shape their narratives when suddenly it will start his own.  But in the Southeast, most of the elites were playing the whole street. Most of them were looking for political elements. Most of us kept quiet and it has snowballed into what we have today. Like I said earlier too, there will be some element of substance in the agitations but it will never work where you leave the space for non-state actors. And that's the consequence that we have today. Talking about substance here before I go to others, the substance that you're referring to in the agitations, one of the reasons why they have been continuously sat at home is because they're saying, iPop, that their leader needs to be released unconditionally. Now there are other issues that might also have substance, I guess, which is that they have been getting the short end of the stick. They have not necessarily been listened to. They've not been catered to as every other part of the country has been catered to or listened to. And I'm going to ask you again, as a security person, in dealing with these issues, whether it be political or not, how well has the government, not just the state governors, but even the federal government dealt with this issue as opposed to the federal might that we see every other day? Really, the issue of release of non-state actors unconditionally might not just be realistic. Because what some of us will have to take for is the free and fair trial. A trial that is free and fair does not manipulate it. Who's to determine the fairness and the fairness of the trial? Because that, again, is something that needs to be called to question. Can we truly, looking at how the judiciary, how a bit wonky our judicial system has become and how much influence the executive has on the judiciary, can the common person have trust and hope in that wonky system?  Yeah, the corruption everywhere, we have corruption in every strata of Nigerian social, political, economic life. But you see, judiciary to a large extent, I'm not saying they are perfect, I'm not saying they are where they ought to be, but to a large extent they've maintained a level of appreciation that's probably magnified in other sectors. Now again, when you say release somebody unconditionally, are we setting the right precedence? Now, it didn't start with this government. We've had agitations all over, even from Abbas on job. When Gani Adams was doing his own in the southwest, how about a shoot at sites? Any OPC person? It doesn't make you write, but at least we involved. And the failure of government, the failure of institutions, way back is what I'm feeling today. And the governments, yeah, I might not give a pass mark to this government on how they've handled the issue of agitations, national, all these ethnic nationalities. But to a large extent, I think they should let justice take its course and we cannot abdicate the space to non-state actors. Now I just mark the end of the nation. Okay. Dr. Madagaw, I'm interested in where Besman dropped it off. He's saying, he's talked about abdication of responsibility. He's talked about the fact that we can still depend on the judiciary to have a free and painless case for Nambi Kano. But that's not necessarily the crux of the matter. An election is coming up in a few days and all the candidates who are running for office, traditional leaders and those in the state are saying, we do not want the level of security, especially the soldiers. We want them to be taken out from the South East so that we can have free, fair, incredible elections. What should take on this? Okay. I think the problem is, as I just pointed out, the issue that the foundation of this problem, we have to look at the foundation. It's not about the state actors. I think we're having connection issues with you. So I'm going to go to Mr. Chilaka. Just as I asked the question, can we trust the process in the case of Nambi Kano, but also the people in the South East are saying, we do not want the army. It's an election. The police is enough. We've seen how many thousands of policemen have been already posted to the South East, especially to Anambara state and knowing that the election is on Saturday.  We've also seen all kinds of things happen in Anambara. Should the federal government be risking that? I think let me start with the issue of Nambi Kano and the position of the Igbo leaders and the religious leaders asking for unconditional relief. We need to tell ourselves the truth. I do not believe in it to be shared and to do anything good because one, and I don't even believe in the government doing anything good because you need to ask yourself, why wasn't Nambi Kano brought back into the country? We need to find, we need to look at issues politically where they are. How was he brought back into the country? If the way was smuggled back into the country, does it show you that the government is ready to give justice to him? That is on one side. On the side of the election, I am really, really, I must say that I'm really, really shocked and I'm very, very unhappy that the government has decided to deploy this number of soldiers, police, security personnel just to Anambara State. You know what is going to play out?  Federal government is saying there's going to be an election. Now, tell me, who would come out with this number of security personnel? Who would come out to come and vote? Well, most of us have said that the elections will hold and that they're guaranteeing some level of sanity and safety. They're guaranteeing that people can come out and vote. I want to correct something. iPop has not necessarily said that everybody should sit at home. iPop is saying they as a group will sit at home. But whoever wants to go out and vote on that day can go out and vote. So really, they're not standing in the way of voters, are they? Already, you know that there is fear in the South East. People are already afraid because we're all here every now and then it's a fight between the police or the army or the unknown gunmen. So what is the guarantee, you know, when you ask people to come out and vote? You know, what is the guarantee? When nobody has been able to arrest this so-called unknown gunmen? And when we allow them, when the government allows them to open, you know, it is after they finish operating that you not see the security agencies coming out. So it's not just coming out to say come out and vote. People need to be assured that there is no security. And then on the other hand, with the number of, like I keep saying, the number of policemen out there and soldiers, it can also be difficult for people to come out. People are already scared. I didn't want to wait. I think I have already said it from day one that the issue in the South East is an issue for dialogue. I had expected that before these elections that the federal government would have entered into dialogue with all agreed parties to find a way out. But it appears that the federal government is insisting on, you know, being forceful about it. So the question is, if tomorrow, even Saturday, you know, answer bullets going up in the sky and all of that, who would now be the one to protect the people? Now, just as you said, it is actually fear that the city at home could harm, you know, the election via voter apathy. But then the Southeast Monarchs and religious leaders had on Monday called for the release of Namdi Kanu. They also asked for dialogue and adoption of political solution to resolve the issue. But it's Wednesday. We have Thursday, Friday, and then it's Saturday. If the federal government and the state government were interested in a resolution of sorts, could that have not been done before now? And again, why has it taken so long for all parties concerned to come to a table to deal with this issue? If this is the resolution that the leaders in the Southeast have come up with, including the governors, there's been a joint statement by all the candidates, by the way, asking for demilitarization. But why has it taken so long close to the eve of almost the eve of elections? Well, I would say this to you. I think that a lot of people have thought that elections were not vote, considering the hostility to vote in the state. And when it dawn on everybody that elections were vote, we should look for ways to protect the lives and properties of those who would come to exercise their civic rights. And I think that it's better late than never. The decision to ask for negotiation, the decision to ask for a roundtable discussion is not too late. The windows are still open, and I implore the state government and the federal government to take advantage of that. I hope we have him back now. Yes, great. Now, I want to go to other issues that have been raised in this communicate by not just the joint letter by the candidates, but of course the leaders in the southeast. They're talking about the fact that they've heard addressing the use in the southeast. They've said that they've heard the cries of the young people, but they're urging them that those issues will be addressed. They will come out en masse and vote peacefully and in an oddly manner and then of course hoping that the issues that they have raised will be dealt with. Now, I'm not in any way saying that the young people in the southeast should not listen to their elders, but I'm asking, what's the certainty? Again, I just asked Chilaka the question judging from the time that this has been going on, if there was a willingness on the path of governments both at the federal and state levels to deal with this issue, could it have not been dealt with before now, but so what is the guarantee that this is not just lip service to the young people so that elections can hold, but when the elections are over, is there anything that these young people can hold on to? Will there be a change of attitude towards the people in the southeast? Will they be listened to? Well, let me just start with what Francis said. The problem in the south is that they hadn't had push-off leaders in the federal government. Just as yesterday OBJ came up and said, look, you need to listen to this young man. The monarch, some of the governors have even come out to say, look, it's time to listen to this man. What we are seeing in Anambra is nothing but an issue of dominance, military dominance. You see, you don't see anybody coming out except few people who just manage to come out because the tension there is much. How can you put up 40,000 police people in a state? 260 are more cars for a election. Military everywhere. How can you come out? Most of us that are here are telling our people, look, be careful. I wanted to travel. As somebody said, don't travel. This is the problem of the nation in the east. And the best way to solve this problem is not by a military might or telling people that we can dominate you, we can deal with you. And that is what the federal government is doing. This is a time for us to have a sovereign pressure in thinking. Thinking deeper. How do we dialogue with people? How do we see that human beings matter? Of course, you know, where people can be saying we will dominate you, we will deal with human life matters. And if we know that, then we don't need to do this dominance in miniaturism. This is democracy for crisis. This is not a military dictatorship era. But one we are seeing now. But Doctor, this is not the first time that we've seen soldiers deployed for elections. This has happened consistently under this administration. So this is not the first time. So why are we crying foul now that is happening in Anambra? We must start from the time to start talking about the abnormalities. The absurdity in this regime is becoming something that you can't even fathom. For instance, soldiers, as far as I'm concerned, are only on the list, whether it's a critical breach, understandably. But today, what we see is a military analysis to quell internal crisis, which is not supposed to be. That's why we have policemen. So now you are bringing a ministry, you are bringing our workers, you are bringing every type of security into one state. It is, believe me, nobody will come out. Mosul, it has no credence. When you talk about people that people will respect, they used to will not respect Mosul, because to them, Mosul has betrayed them. When they pass it, they have a little bit of credence. It's empty. And that is why I am still advocating. Many of us are talking, please, whatever is going to take the further government. Come out of your high house. Discuss with people. Let's talk. There's nothing wrong in talking. A lot of people are saying certain things. For instance, let me give you an instance. Some people, people, some people men people, some people destroy people. And at the end of it, they are giving, what do you call it, they are giving freedom. They are giving, they are calling the pen time. And they are giving incentives. How on earth can you justify that as somebody who is talking? And you are judging that person. It's injustice. Let's go to the round table. Let's know what is wrong with our country. Because as I said, today, my brother, my sister, we're having a problem at our hand. And at Lambra State, it's a test case.  Because the military presence there alone is enough to destroy people for coming out to vote. But it's the military not there. I might be wrong. Again, perception is key in issues like this. The military supposedly is there to protect people, to make sure, to keep the peace, to make sure that these unknown gunmen and these perpetrators of violence do not take over or hijack the elections, I'm guessing. And so is the police to keep the peace, should that not be an assurance of sorts for people to come out and vote on mass, at least as an assurance? No, no, no. In fact, the presence of military right from the beginning without shouting that there's a way to democratize the Southeast. The presence of Southeast is even why we're having this seat at home. Because we've discovered that many people, when they go out, they end up being jailed or being arrested and called and let them either have hope or it's here. Many of the youth are in the jail today. So the best option, the best strategy that I hope came out with, oh look, instead of our youth being killed or arrested or whatever, let's sit at home. Sit at home is a strategy. It's equal to tell you that the presence of military is not welcoming. Isn't that a flawed strategy? You are saying in one breath that you want to have free for credible elections that you can choose leaders that would be able to reflect what you want and the gains that you want in the future. But then you want to stay at home and not come out to vote. So who's to say that that election may not be hijacked by the same politicians who you do not want to come back to office? Is that not a flawed strategy? From the beginning, there's already flaws in there because what you're seeing, if you look at from your opening statement, the political-motivated idea. So what we are seeing today are military men from the federal government. And that's why they are muscling everybody because they have probably a candidate they want to vote in. That's what I'm seeing. If you want to put up a credible election, everybody should be free. There should not be tension, but today there's tension everywhere. If the Anambarians stay at home, have they not helped? If what you're saying is anything to go by, you have helped to put the last nail in the coffin because that's what supposedly the politician wants. If you're saying somebody wants to hijack the elections for a particular political party, then if everybody stays at home, of course you give them room to win. Why not come out and exercise your franchise? This is my question. No, look, look, look. There's going to be clear cards, open and free fair elections. As of today, you know, when you bring in the military, you are no more bringing fairness to it. When you bring in anything that will give tension to civilians that are going to vote, you are no more bringing fairness to it. So these are the issues from the foundation that's falseness now. Let's give this idea about election a free will. Let police be in charge. But bringing in the military, you know what 260 or more car means. If you use that in a situation for any of this, it's not a state that we're having problem. I think most of what we're talking about bandits will have gone. You're bringing this if we place that people say, look, we are going to see that it's not a world zone. So that's the problem. There's already falsehood and there's already foundational falsehood in whatever we want to deduce because there's already a conspiracy theory that somebody wants to use this to intimidate others so that they will be a judge, the winner, come after the 60 November elections. Okay. Let me move to back to best man. You've heard what all the guests are talking about. Everybody seems to be saying that the presence of the military is a deterrent of sorts, not necessarily to the unknown government, but even the voters themselves. So it's a few days to elections. How do you deal? How do we deal with the issue of voter apathy vis-a-vis, you know, the militarization or the militarization of a number of states? I was listening to Mr. Chilaka and I could sense a feeling of populism and I'm trying to be, I mean, to be to the gallery as it is. I have been involved several in polling in elections in Nigeria, both as observer, as well as on the starting level. Even of two things. Even there is no election in Edinburgh postponed for dialogue, for there to be a more conducive environment. What can stay happen tonight? What can I say announced tonight that we're postponing the election by two, three weeks to give for much if the election must hold. I even believe the security on ground are not enough. I remember in the state during the election, the people were saying they wouldn't come out to vote. But when they saw the number of security personnel, police, soldiers, civil defense and others, it gave them confidence to come out. It is either the alumni election is postponed for this dialogue that we talk about or they should even deploy more security to give the people confidence to step out and vote. Because this, the presence of the military, the presence of the police, the presence of security apparatus is the only guarantee that will make anybody step out to want to vote. So, and you see, when people make a decision that to the war zone, for example, it doesn't follow. Don't forget, Niger State alone is bigger than the one on southeast put together. Don't forget, Borneo alone is bigger than the one on southeast put together. I will deploy more military men to the north than any part of the country in the last 10 years. So, let's be honest. I agree totally in dialogue and that the dialogue that failed to happen before also contributed to where we are now. So, if you are going to just wake up tonight and say, following ideas, we postpone this election by two or three weeks to allow for further engagement with the agitated people or they should even send more personnel to Anambua if the election is going to hold on Saturday. There are so many people that are not in Anambua today because they feel they are not secure because of the security person, they are not even enough. Okay. Quickly, because we're out of time, I'm going to give Francis and Dr. Madukah just quickly a minute to just wrap this up. Francis Bestman is saying that you're playing to the gallery. Well, he talked about the Kitih State and I got the last one and I would keep asking the kind of situation in the Kitih State as I've been, is it the kind of situation in Anambua today? I don't know when last you went to the north southeast and I think it's when people talk about the southeast, let them just don't sit down somewhere and talk about southeast. Go to the southeast and find out what is happening there. You cannot walk on the street of the southeast today as in Nigeria. You cannot dress up properly and be walking and driving your car very well in the southeast, especially Anambua and New York State. It is hot. So all they're saying is that when you militarize the whole environment, you are also creating more fear in the minds of the people. Okay. In other words, we're saying right now that the Nigeria Police is incapable of internal security. But that's why you have the army. Isn't that why you have the army? If you say the police is incapable, that's why you have the army. You know that the crisis we have that has gone out in the southeast was caused by the army. When they started their AK dance and all the dance they went to do in the southeast, this is where the problem started. We must stress ourselves back to where the problem started in order to find the solution. All right. Dr. Madagart, your last two cents, please. Yeah, because I want to take on and say, please, sorry. I was in the east just a few weeks ago and I wish you, you didn't see what we saw and see how our youths are being handled, arrested. You cannot wear black and black in the south. You cannot wear yellow and yellow.  Every pole in the southeast is manned by many three. So the scenario you presented in Akiti is very, very different because when you're talking about Akiti, there was no war then. As of today, let me tell you, there's war in south. It's whether you want to believe it or not. And you cannot fight war with war. Dialogue is what we can use to down the tension. Just like you said, I think the third argument can still extend this election period so that dialogue will be, you know, taken into consideration. Thank you very much. All right. I want to say thank you, Dr. Obe, Sonny Madukai. I beg your pardon, Francis Chilaca and of course, best man, John Bonze. Thank you very much for speaking with us. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Yes, we keep our fingers crossed and look forward to September, November, the 7th in Anambra State. Hopefully all things go well, but we'll take a quick break and when we return, we'll be analyzing the Koi building collapse as we speak. Dead bodies are still being brought out from under that rubble. Stay with us.


Matt, I know base running was a big emphasis heading in to last season. Now you have some rule changes, pitch clock, bigger bases. How does that affect what you guys do? I don't think it changes a ton of what we do. We had these rules in the minor leagues and we kind of stuck to what we do well. Good consistent habits, things like that. So we'll continue with that. But I hope the bases encourage you guys to be more aggressive all around baseball. I'm biased and that's kind of what I want to see. But I think it might take a little bit for our guys to get comfortable in spring training, but we're going to stick to our point on what we do.  What specifically are you telling them and trying to get them better at the bases? What day was it? Two days ago. Three days ago. What were we doing? We were taking leads off first. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, which is an important question because we kind of segment our base running into different parts, whether it's base stealing or rounding the bases and routes or actually speed development too. So we try to touch all of it. The other day when we were at first, we're doing a couple of different things. Number one, it's important for our pitchers to get comfortable with runners, as is every year, but especially this year. So we're just working on consistent leads and getting jumps, getting comfortable with getting jumps off our pitchers. But at the same time, they can work on pick offs, holding the ball, pitching quicker, depending on the pitch or whatever the case may be. So it's kind of a two-par practice there, but that's what we're doing. Who's speed impresses you? With our returning guys, I mean, obviously you get excited about, you know, I know he's not new, but Bader being a newer addition, I feel like he's a healthy Bader and at the end of the year, he was getting healthy, but I think we're going to see a much more aggressive Bader. And then IKF, obviously, obviously judge, but I think you go around, there's some sneaky athleticism throughout the lineup. Are you surprised how well Judge moves, considering his size and his stature? No, I'm not. I mean, I've got to see him work out when he'd come to the complex years ago and then getting to work with him a little more last year. He's a good runner. He's not a good runner for his size. He's just a good runner. He checks all the boxes of where you want guys to be mechanically. He's a really good runner. He's an exciting guy to watch, literally every angle of the game. Thanks for the time. Thank you guys.