And remember, we had asked you a question on our social media regarding our MCM segment today, which is Mantuk Monday. Hello, Monday. We had asked you on social media in relation to Kevin Boyer's Ups and Downs. How many times have you been in a relationship with your friends? I'd like to tell you that the only thing you can do is to take a piece of or exit your relationship. First of all, if you're in a relationship like this, you're in a relationship like Fiti, the romance was romancing and then all of a sudden the servers are missing, Kedogokidogo, Amanzaku Kopiga in a traditional CDA, character development, Amanzaku Kopiga Katrika development, Hajibu Sim. And I'd say, I'm genuinely funny. When in this Boyer's case, this guy actually went to surprise the partner with flowers at work. I said, how far is too far? How much is too much when it comes to ensuring that a relationship works? And we have an amazing guest today or a panelist. You've seen them here before. But let me just remember your name. John Odwar.  And then we have Jackson Adung, not Odan. You're from Turkano, and also you are a media student at the University of Nairobi. Inglis Kando, Inglis Missing. Thank you for inviting me. Welcome. Happy New Year, by the way. Last time. So I think the first thing in the story, Kevin, boy, I know one thing you don't understand. Maybe it's a cloud chasing. You know how to ask myself that question? How do you ask my co-hosts in a kind of result? But that's a side now. Let's discuss it. That's a side from the true story. Yeah. So maramingi. So Jackson, have you ever been in search? The girl them is not gal deming. Yeah, maramingi. So of petty issues, just like my friend Odwar has said. Yes, petty issues like that. But do you need reason enough to convince me to moa chane? As in what happens through thick and thin? We need to understand the issues of co-hosting. People are in control. Use the issues of co-hosting, and it's better for you to know. Yeah. So about co-hosting, there's a relationship between a male and female. So it should be easy to raise the number of documents. So we should have a📸📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷 barry, but that's not sure, it's a message. So I'm going to give you some of the documents, to help you Lisa tell me. Right. So, in the future, we will be more responsible. So, in the distance you can do anything. You can do anything you want. Oh, intentional. Intentional. Illegal, responsible. Yeah. But you're not in trouble. You're not depressed at all. You're not in moods. Of course, we're not in a good mood. We're not in a good mood. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I want us to take a break. I want us to take a break. I want us to take a break. We should take a break.  I don't know how the reason I like it. We are like, Hey, we need a break. And then so you break at the end.  And then you're ready. I think there's a lot of expectation in relationships. And it's not like you're overpromised.  Yes, sir.  Oh, you're not.  These guys say you're not going to psych them. Like, I'm not going to talk to them. Oh, no, no, no. I will walk through the ocean. I'll buy you an Indian ocean. I'll buy you a stream.  But Jesus already died for us. So after some months, after some years, after some degradation, and I feel I'm going to choke. I don't know if it's going to be like that. So in a bid to have a better alternative. Right. And after a better option. So if you're going to die, you're going to say, ah, we need to have a break. But this relationship is up and down. So sometimes you're not vibing. You're not meant to be together. Right. You're not going to complain. You're not going to complain. You're not going to complain. So in a bid to have a break, we need to take a break. Because we're going to have positive breaks. Yeah. Like you believe in sin as a, as a take a break. Like you guys were toxic. Ha. Oh my goodness. This one landed me in trouble. Anyways, I'll not say it. Do you believe like, what one is a take a break after you're married? Or say, hey, there are many choices. I'm not gonna bow. You know. You're married. I'm not going to say it's better for us. For us here. Yeah. But then now what's happening to a point where you're not going to divorce, you're not going to take a break from each other. And what are we going to do? It's advisable. It's advisable. It's advisable. Sometimes it's common that this thing is not working. It's advisable for you to take a break. It's for the benefit of your help. Sometimes you need to be toxic to make a fight or anything. You don't want to take a break. Sometimes you take a break while having a break. Alright. So that's a problem. But in a relationship, we're not even in a relationship. We're in a situation. What about when you're 12? You're just a certified. And in fact, you guys are not solo mates, in fact.  So we're allowed. But you know Kevin, there is something you let me understand What kind of situations are those? How long have you been in a distant relationship? Yes, I was in Nairobi to Mumbai. I was with the one with the heart for what? For what? I don't remember exactly. Don't tell me on the hashtag one in the morning. I'm already in space for two. She has went with love. But she has come back with more love. But you know, I'm trying to actually imagine the situation in your surprising this chick. She's at her work place. And then it's her birthday. Yes, it's her birthday. So you're trying to surprise her and do all the things right as a man. And then all of a sudden you're met with this slap that, you know... So, she's at her work place. And then from the receipts I saw, the receipts seems like they're not coming from the chick and not the guy. If you're keen to look at the screenshots. But anyway, that's the story for another time. Do you believe or so as I take a break? What's the surprise Manziako job? Especially Kuala Lumpur's one in Nanga to the extreme. Okay, let's fix your mic. Answer that question, bro. Do you believe like it's okay? Personally, I remember, I used to, was it? Let me not mention the station. There's one of the colleagues, the husband kept on surprising her all the time, with flowers, cakes. And it was to show love to her. She was a talk show host on one of the shows. And it was even being shown on TV. Now La Vial, we make her strong, it's easy. Till now they still go very strong. And the husband is so... Like his love language is more surprises, gifts and all those nice things that, you know, bring this fantasy of love. You know, Kevin is different than you in Yonasema. I think maybe I can gaze in Yonasema. But Kevin is different. That's a long-distance relationship. Love to make her five months come, and then she'll have a child. These things sometimes, long-distance relationship don't work. Right, sometimes they don't work. They don't work. But they do. They do. So maybe you're them, sometimes I'm judge, but love to make her fit back up. I love you. But to come back, you are busy Nairobi, you don't have my time, as much as you love me. Now in Abidi, it's not advisable, but what you find is right. Right. So, when you have a husband, a wife, a husband, a husband, you see, it's not an offer. If you have a situation, it's not an offer. Sometimes, it's not a gift, it's a feel. Even you pity him or her. But, the situation is not an offer. All that money, as in who says no? Who says it's not all that money? All that money. But then, in some situations, when I quote Vice Vasa, it's the chick doing the surprises. I remember there's one of my friends, she was telling me, she used to do everything for her man, especially on his birthdays. I said, I don't want to pick her. I don't want to leave. I don't want to eat. I don't want to leave the job. But at the tail end, this guy finally never accepted her. He had someone else, when he had his eye on. So, at the end of the day, how can we balance so that it's going to be a boy child and a surprise? Is it possible to have also, you know, the girl, do the surprise? Is it possible? Do they even have the capacity to do that? But of course, there's a lot of good girls out here. They have the capacity? Or have the cheddar to do that? So many of them are doing that outside there. And we appreciate them for starting. But then there was that debate of, should a woman propose to a man? Yeah. And a lot of people said no. And then I think it's related to that. Like, would you accept a proposal from a lady going down on her knees with a ring and giving it to you saying, hi, can you be my one and only forever? It's weird. They're allowed to shoot their shirt. Oh, they're allowed. Yeah, they're allowed to shoot their shirt. Like, like sometimes, you know, issue in a letter, I keep telling you, I'm saying I like, I do like this idea. So many guys think that ladies are desperate when they are doing that. Yeah, I don't want to say that they are desperate. It's like you're only thinking of that. That you're only thinking about it. Ladies don't have that conversation. Right. They don't want them to feel like a man should be, they want to provide. Because it's natural. Yeah But, so many ladies are doing it, they are relationship are working. But there are times when it looks like sometimes and I provide because not a queen is a box. Maybe they see the main chick, Clevee, just use that word. So Anajari, we'll fight for her space. All right. All right. I'm going to tell you a little bit about the relationship. Like, are you sure it's me or two? It's very tiny. Now you're going to lead, if it means let's take a break. So yeah, I think it's good to have something, something like K.R.2, something like Oath. Like maybe Oasis. So yeah, like LAPDA PESA is good. If you are two or you are not surprised too, then anyway, I think it's good to have something with Oasis. So it's a good idea. I think it's good to have a nice exchange. We'll do that next time, I will do that. So, okay, cut out to you and I say, ah, you wish I send it, I get to show it, I send it, I say, I don't move on. Yeah. You know, I would say, hey, generally, when I go up on a viattu, then they say I'm going to ask a viattu. Which one? The first dough. Like, you know, I'm going to ask a viattu. And they say, I'm going to ask a pangasuk. So, I'm going to ask you to ask a basket. But anyway, I say, think people are different. But then, there are a few little petty issues to be expected from that jam. To an extent, it leads to, you know, to separate, you know. But, you know, we are raised differently. So, sometimes, see, at a time like that, sometimes you want to cut off the dough, you want to do it with him, say. Yeah, like a natural court case. You want to do it with a viattu, you want to know what you feel like, ah, this is the dough. You want to feel like this is not a big deal. But you want to know this is a big deal. So, with the time when I'm cut off, with the time when I'm like, ah, I'm straining. Like, I was having a good, good girl, perfect girl. But the issue was, now I'm a small thing and a type of man. You know, I'm a keyboard warrior. When I'm in my type lines, I'm a sub. I'm not like, I'm not a type here. So many of them once, I mess here. So, Like you don't know how much it means to them? Yeah. You. Yeah. So, To you it's minute, but to them it's a whole mountain. Yeah. So, I'm like, eh, but now, me and my friends, I'm here, who is the Bambikinaese staff. Ok, Mom, you can tell me, how many of you have been to 10 missed calls? Yeah. Ten messages, she's like, hey, I don't know, I don't know. She doesn't know. So I said, I need a break. And she said, this is a big deal. I was like, ah, me, me. She says she manages if it was okay. Yeah. But then how do you create a balance, before I come to you, Jackson, how do you create a balance to a point, yes, there are issues in our crop up, but then there are solutions. But then people don't want to hear like, they're not open to hearing out. They're not open, like I can make up my indiaki, like that's it. There's no room for a conversation. They're not open to hearing something different, as in we'll have a semen and even, and they're out. You know, if you want your relationship to be permanent, I'm not to, to, to go along with Kiasi, let's just discuss. See, if you want to make a decision, oh, I need a break before I'm going to, if I'm going to be able to make a decision, it's up to me. Now this thing, she'll be handled this way, and I'm going to be a final, be handled this way. I'm going to repeat the same, same mistake. I'm going to repeat the same, same mistake. What will you do? It's up to me to say, oh, I need a break because I'm not, it's like I'm not meant for this one. Right. Yeah. Yeah, like prior, let me refer to that Kevin Boyer. Okay. That issue was so petty that a girl complained, a girlfriend, who she referred to as a Mueshin one. From Mombasa. The petition was, after I came to Mombasa 200, they told me that I used pads, I was looking for them. Yeah. Then the guy said, I need.. I need a rent. Yeah, I need a rent. He was like a woman. I don't need a rent. Yeah, I don't need a rent. And you know, she showed the option that you would be Mueshin. Because of this, and that was because of this, then she went on a trip to Nairobi to Kuala. Yeah. That plan, It's a personal investment. I don't know if I'll ever get a donation, but it's a personal investment. Effort one. Effort one. You know the effort? Soon I'll be selling my money. I don't have a circle of ideas. Do you think it's a personal investment? It's a veteran investment in a DCI. No, a refund. Oh, I refund back the money. No, no, no, no. Yeah, but if I had to sell, I'd refund back the money. No. Please, please, please do the necessary. Yes? No. You have a different opinion? Contrary opinion. I don't have any opinion. I don't have any opinion. You don't have any opinion? No. Okay, I compensate. Because it compensates. It compensates. It compensates. It compensates. It compensates. It compensates. You are happy for a long time. You are happy for a long time. But you are not happy for a long time. So it helps you to benefit from this relationship. Right. Like it helps you to benefit from this relationship. And then sometimes, let's not understand the situation here. Let's say there is a story. The story of what happened. Right. What went wrong? Yeah, what went wrong? Sometimes, we find ourselves struggling with this. There is a design, and if it's not there, it's in my hands. Ladies are ladies, and we must understand ladies. And then also, let me keep in mind, these are long-distance relationships. Long-distance relationship, let me say like, in low culture, I mean, in low culture now. Or at the bank or to it. In low culture, in low culture. It's allowed, your brother will help you. He'll say, well, he's a brother and I'm side here. It's why it is allowed, bro. But you know, they've not had a conversation about that. So it can't be allowed. It can't. But we don't know what went wrong. We're just assuming. We're not even assuming. We're feeling on what they gave us. So, surprise also. I think on the surprise side, I'm with Mboya. On his Amuka, Subbu, you feel like today, I want to surprise my girl. Okay. Also, he's allowed. But sometimes, with this condition, I just sometimes, I don't want to end up surprising him too. When he has flowers and I try to attack flowers. Because I don't want to eat flowers, bro. But this is a generation where people want surprises, bro. Isn't it amazing right now, your grandma, a tokenizer, out of nowhere, I say, I love you, my grandson, and I've decided to gift you this. Will you cry, and Subbu, will you be happy? To give me flowers, what money? Either. Of course, see flowers too. You can't have money, bro. These are sensible people. They're not just kids. They'll give you money. Flowers, after two days, they'll give you money, bro. Of course, it's part of that romance process of, like, you know, any romance without flowers, what kind of romance is it? Maybe it's for another country. But anyways, aside from that, when it comes to making relationships work, especially what we're going to dispute, sometimes you need to seek a second hand opinion. Yes.  I think that's where we go wrong. Any time we want to seek advice from a boy, I think what I can mislead. But if you say, boy, it's okay to prove them. Yes, it's okay to prove them. You know what I'm saying? That's what I'm saying. I don't believe in you, but you know what you want for yourself. See for yourself. You know what you want for yourself.  You want to vet. You want to vet, you want to prove them. You want to have material. But then, by the end of the day, by the end of the day, you won't be able to work.  You don't know what to do. So just sometimes, we are not making decisions for them, but we are making decisions for ourselves. And then we are making also decisions for the future. Okay. Jackson. I think for the security, and if suddenly, when you're home, when you're home to boys, after work, you are doing this so that they verify if it's right for you to go, you are going to be there. What about you, in your second hand? Is that good for you? I don't think so. I work, I work as a soldier. I work. I work while shooting. I'm the only guy with a left side. That's why it's good to work. Second opinion from Bogey. Okay. This little boy, what is going to happen? What is going to happen? Let me explain it. That's why it's good to work. Second opinion, from Bogey. Okay. This, this little thing, what is going to happen, is what is going to happen? maybe second-hand land. I'm just giving an example. After one person, who is in this area, who doesn't even know how to look, I'll give you all the details. I'll give you all the details. After a boy, who doesn't even know how to look, who doesn't even know how to look, who doesn't even know how to look, before you talk, how is he? How is he? How is his mother? At least you can keep an eye on the apple of your eye. Steps, you can take it. How is his mother? But he doesn't even know how to look. No, he doesn't. He doesn't know how to look. He doesn't know these characters. He doesn't know how to talk. He doesn't know how to pay. He doesn't know how to look. He doesn't know how to look. He doesn't know how to look. He doesn't know how to look. Every time they look, you're thinking he doesn't know how to look but he can't understand. Occasionally, when someone is coming out, I'll give him information. There's a story. People will start looking. You canadate this problem without hit man. They will get a solution. Did you know this story? Everyone was, I don't know, do you have an office husband and wife? They believe in corporate, there's nothing. Office husband and wife. Do you have a wife? I don't know, I don't know. But do you have a wife? I don't know. Office husband and wife, I don't know. I'm an office wife for Amanda. But then, how do we term the store point? Because for me, I believe that if it is or to create, if it is or to stem from insecurities, lack of trust, hard-harm, and you have to work hard, you have to have a job. You have to take long and have a good impression.  But you know when you are secure, and people learn to do it, exactly. They say, it's not all about insecurity. It's all about even security. This is my staff, but I want to protect it. They say, you're going to be a Nusa. Yeah, come on.  Let's not pretend here.  And then they say, you're going to be a trap. So, what's better is to work hard. The situation, maybe the situation, your job is more... you know, it's like you're in a truck, but there's a book they talk about, you know, how, like, they tell them to gravitate towards them, to make sure they have better deals than what they have. So, I want to talk about that. On my side, I want to say, this is long distance relationship. And there's a place where I can find, they say it's a junction area. You can find it in the village, and you can figure out what's the deal. It's a secret. It's a secret. This is my secret. And I know what's going on.   And you're going to be a Nusa. This is my wife. What are you doing with my wife? This is my wife. And you're like, but this is my wife. We are officially legally married. I have a parent. I have a husband. Not calling out to him. So sometimes it's good. To have that. The background information. Casecurity on the ground. Jackson, do you feel like in a work, in modern age at Manziaco CCTV in short, at least some boys in the area would say, Manziaco, there's a friend of mine who said, Aliona, the girlfriend of Bishtiaki, a king-year-plus flannis league, you can take her on a Sunday. So all the boys in Jordan are at home, just a neighbor, who is a estate. But the first thing I say is, I'm married, I'm from Manziaco, I'm married, I'm married. One of them has a relationship. So man, I have a guy who says that he wants to open up a store. I'm a big PM, I want to... I'm in trouble. Some day maybe, I'm going to work and I'll pay for it. Then I'm going to open up a store to buy some clothes. So I'm going to open it up.  I'm going to open up a store and I'm going to open up it'll be the break-up. But then, at John, it's a matter of love. I'm going to say, a matter of the heart. It's a different experience. Like we mentioned, we're not talking from different backgrounds. When you're to love language, when you're maybe like, we were like, for Kevin, we could surprise them. Not flowers, not pests. Surprise visitors. It's a load. When you love language, maybe in the words of a formation, when you're to love language, when you're just being present, when you're to go to Maddo, when you're to phone calls, when you're to say, Kevin, it's a matter of the heart. It's a matter of the heart. It's a relationship that's too smoothly. There are issues, but we fight apart from cheating. Of course, cheating. But when you say my cheating, the biggest leading course. Relationships could break. I think it's just knowing what you want and knowing your partner. If I know what I want, it could be that this is not what I want. I'll go, I'll walk away. Understanding your partner and knowing what you want. And then sometimes we must sell our pride. Our ego. Especially for men. Even ladies. Nowadays, ladies make apologies. Apologies is an issue, bro. This is their mistake. Most of the time, it's just apologizing. Apologies is an issue. Yes, apologizing. Sometimes we sell our pride and ego. We understand that we're meant for each other. We must understand each other. But the backbone of everything to men is differently. So we are different people. But we want to come together. So we must understand that what we value is not what I value. What she values. So let me exchange my mindset. Let me exchange my mindset. And then sometimes let me say that I'm wrong. I don't like this. And then I must also be in a position to explain what I'm feeling, why I'm feeling that's wrong. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say. Without telling you I'm feeling this is wrong because of A, B and C. Yeah. Let me give you a situation. Crazy one. There's this friend who is going to be a Demo Ake. So this guy is a comedian anyway. He's going to be a street fly and Demo Ake is going to be a hug. He's going to be a street fly and Demo Ake is going to be a hug. Demo Ake is going to be a hug. Demo Ake is going to be a hug too. He's going to be a hug too. I have a chat with you. I have a chat with you and the same same thing when I'm crashing a COSINIM tour how do you actually make that work? Now this chick has trust. The first thing you must understand is the working environment. The type of job you want to do.  I work with you, I work with you. So But that's an insecurity. No, it's a sign of insecurity. But the lady is right. The lady is right. Why do you have to hug her? The lady is right. To make me elevate to her banner, I hug almost 20 people. Ah, yes, ah, sir. She's just hugs. You have to hug her. No, I don't hug her. You know, there are people who... You don't hug her. There are other things you don't do or you don't say when you are with your lady. There are people who say, I don't hug her. So, you don't have to be able to... Hi! This is my wife. No, she's my wife.  Ah, you're not extreme. You're not extreme. You hug her. You hug her, you know. For that woman, the lady to find peace in the heart as soon as you hug her, you have to hug her and hug her for 20 minutes. Okay. So, you should understand the past of all the environmental issues. Yes, sir. So, come on. Because... you have to socialize with other people too. Yeah. That woman is the lady's social mom. You hug her and hug her. Yeah. So... the lady, you don't have to assume that you're going to be in a relationship with someone. I assume that you're going to be in a relationship with someone. And I'm going to be in a relationship with you. But I don't have any message to send you. Yeah. So, I assume that you're going to be in a relationship with someone. Ah, you assume that. Yeah. Okay. So, I want to give you feedback. Ha! You know, Paul Nicholas, I'm a person who has been in a relationship with my wife for 40 years. And she's my wife, I'm in a lost direction. But, hey! But I'm in a relationship with her. Aha! And I think I have a squeeze ofCTN to suggest patches of prior experience. I will include all of that stuff. And remember? That's the question, in relation to Kevin Boiles' ups-and-downs do you have any ideas on how to overcome your course? Aha! Mark Mayn – I think with every pre regulates powers, that makes sense, and his music, I think there are alwaysNONs in our time. And they bear this claim to their powers. Hey! our friend Ibrahim Heím Vert-Walamм ... I always say something must kill a man. Choose yours wisely.  Wow, wow, wow. Wanjiku hasan, Mary, and I say, but to the new couples when you have no pendant asana, na takam juen, nothing lasts for long. Sisi tulipendana asana, but still, i ka fika expiry date, and you're not too far from the truth. Okay, Pablo, black child, Katya, and I say, makrudia, kosa, dokosa, kujitete, na kufo, miliana, doksaidiana. And then, Rudra, J, Clancy, K, I, and I say, Heriko divorce, kuliko kutaftia na makosa, walolo, mwenye maploti za luanda. Hey, what a name! You say, piya mimi na anza kum taftia makosa. Okay, Titan spotlight, na se ma i filio, pain, Shadra kwambuia, na se ma pretty Angela. Tu ishi, rata ka niyongen, kirudi niyu mama. Okay, okay. Sao, saa. Keep your feedback coming. Remember to get makulizai in regards to our situation here, Kevin and Boya. Nipua, kutaftia na makosa, and I think we'll call it a day. We'll call it a day from there. Thank you so much, Jaksu and John, and happy new year, meeting you for the first time on the show. 2023 is going to be a banger, another banger. Okay, on that note, we're going to take a, wait, we are ending. We are not taking a break. Thank you so much for watching this husband wine in the morning segment is Montauk Monday. Thank you so much for your company. We love you for watching today. I'm Brian Sakwa. See you tomorrow once again for entrepreneurship Tuesday and health Tuesday as well. Have an amazing Monday.


Hello everyone, we are the winners of the Hall Prize AUS. The theme of the 2021 Challenge is food for good. It has been a memorable experience being our first time. We would like to tackle the issue of food waste by converting peels of fruits and vegetables to edible chairs. In the A year start, we went head to head against 16 other teams, all with such amazing ideas. We're so honoured to have this opportunity. We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the Office of Student Affairs, Mr. Rashid, Startup SBA, Professor Ali, and of course our campus director, Zohar Siddiqui, for leading us and helping us grow through this entire process. We are extremely excited for regionals and can't wait to prepare for it. I'm Manasvi Maharish Hatti. I'm Gopi Pillai. I'm Gulzaba Sheer. I'm Anamna Shah and we are Team Transcend.


You are more than what the narcissist did to you, don't define yourself as a victim, because when you see it as though you were wronged, you complain, you become very angry or worried, you want people to feel bad for you, because you feel bad for yourself, and people can sense it, people know when you have a victim mentality, they know when you feel like the world is against you, they can see that you're tired, they can see that you have a lot to deal with, but this mentality is not serving you, it just makes you look weak and helpless, it doesn't help you to advance, it doesn't change anything, but there is a way to get what you want, and that is by moving away from what you don't want, by becoming who you want to become, and it all starts by realizing that life is not against you, because it is your responsibility to take the next action and decision in this situation, and until you do that, you will never be happy, you will never feel passion for anything, which is why you need to talk to yourself, you need to realize that you don't want to live like that anymore, you don't want to be a victim, you don't want to keep complaining, because you want something more, you have goals and dreams, you want something greater, and you will make a decision to get what you want, because you realize that you were the leading role in your life, and you get to determine how you interact with your supporting cast and the other characters, because up until this time, you may have allowed the events in your life to affect or control you, rather than taking deliberate action to write your own story, because it's not easy, and it takes time, but there is always a way for you to move forward, some people choose to accept their current conditions, they will complain about it, but they won't do anything to change it, while other people will see the potential in that situation, they will see the capacity to develop it into something in the future, and when you do that, you will be amazed that up until that point, you were living your life like a hamster on a wheel, you were always busy, but you were never really achieving anything or reaching the end of a task, it was a continuous and repetitive cycle, a way of life in which you were trapped, where you were surrounded by people who didn't give you vitality or enthusiasm, people who you didn't want to be around, you did things you weren't passionate about, things that didn't make you feel alive, which is crazy, because you were doing the same thing again and again and expected a different result, when if you don't like something, you should do something to change it, instead of complaining, instead of just staying where you want and accepting it, you need to develop this mentality of figuring things out, even when things get difficult or challenging, which is what I have done in my own life, and it has inspired and motivated me, to see people achieving success and financial freedom, to see people getting what they want, and the difference between those people and everyone else is that they know they deserve it, it's not because they're stronger or more intelligent, it's not because they have exceptional talent or natural ability, they just moved towards what they wanted, they didn't see themselves as victims, they didn't cry or complain because they were more focused on the opportunity, they were more focused on what they want, thank you for watching, I now have a business opportunity that is available to you, it involves editing and posting marks for the content, where you can make thousands of dollars every month from the cover of your own home, while helping millions of survivors of narcissistic abuse around the world, you can sign up now by sending me an email, it's coaching at narksurvivor.co.uk, thank you for watching, I look forward to working with you


In this video I'm showing you a shadow simulator meant to explore solar and lunar eclipses. Now it's not quite to scale, but it does show some features that some of the other eclipse simulators don't really show clearly. So ideally this would have been an interactive that you could have come in and move things around and seen what happens to them. Unfortunately it uses flash and flash is being phased out so I decided to go ahead and make a recording. Now in this particular thing this is showing our sun, this is showing our earth and our moon. Now the moon is a little bit too big compared to earth, but just a little bit. But they're definitely too close together. The sun is way too small compared to the size of the earth and it should be much, much further away. Because of that the size of this lighter gray area of the shadows is a little bit too big compared to what it would be for the real earth and moon. But we can still learn some good things here. So one of the things you can take a look at is the shape of the shadows in general. And the main shadow is the darker gray part with the outer shadow being where you're partly in the shadow. The other thing that we can look at is the effect of moving the object further away from the sun or closer to the sun. And again we'd never be this close to the sun. We would be much further away from the sun. How does that affect the size and shape of the shadow as we move closer or further away from the sun? The next thing that we want to look at, and I'm going to refer back to some of the other simulations we've already had, understanding that the moon is going to move around the earth. So the question becomes, is where around this cycle would the shadow of the moon fall on the earth? And where around this path would the shadow of the earth fall on the moon? And again, using some of our previous notations, this was position one, position two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and then going back to one. And I haven't managed to move it exactly in a circular orbit around there, but you could kind of imagine what would happen under various circumstances as I move the moon around the earth. And again, this is not to the proper scale. Use these simulations to try to be able to answer the questions in your lab manual.


is one of our most precious assets and how we intend to ensure that under an SNP Government, wise and productive use of Scotland's natural capital is explored. Quite simply, you do not take risks with your most precious assets, and it follows that we cannot and will not do that with the environment. As the cabinet secretary made clear, this Government is deeply sceptical about fracking, and through our moratorium we have ensured that no fracking can take place in Scotland at this time. However, we have also set out the need to conduct a full research programme followed by a full consultation of people in Scotland so that any future decisions on fracking are informed fully on the scientific evidence and by the views of the people who live and work here. I would rather make progress if I may. I may bring the members back in later. Indeed, ours is the only approach that has clearly and consistently promised to engage with the evidence and the public on this issue. This Government is absolutely determined that the people of Scotland will have the benefit of the most substantial body of evidence into the impact of how frat hydraulic fracturing may impact on Scotland. I will to the member. I thank the minister for giving way on that point. Can I ask him the same question that I asked the cabinet secretary in opening, which is about underground coal gasification? My understanding is that the work programme for the research of that has been conducted at a more rapid rate, therefore you will have the evidence to make a decision on that sooner. Can you give us detail on the timescales for that place? I will, Presiding Officer. I will follow you. Thank you. Certainly, I recognise a point that Mark Ruskell fairly asked at the beginning of this debate. As he may be aware, Professor Campbell Gemell is undertaking this work. We do expect that he will be able to report later this summer, and we would hope that that will be published later on this year. There is another programme of work that the member will be aware of, Presiding Officer, which will not conclude until later, because we undertake consultation with the communities. No, thank you, Mr Finlay. Presiding Officer, we are delivering one of the world's most comprehensive programmes into research into unconventional oil and gas. In February this year, we awarded five research projects to conduct independent and impartial research into a wide range of issues relating to fracking, including environmental and economic impacts. That research is due to be completed this summer, and this Government will ensure that its results are made available to all and shared with members across the chamber. I am also happy to come back to Parliament to give a statement or lead a debate on that research at the appropriate juncture once that research is published. I would not, if I may at this moment, Miss Bailey, have some progress to make. We also need to award a further contract exam on the transport of community impacts, because that work has been delayed. Members will be aware, and we will undertake that as quickly as possible. In the meantime, we will continue to meet with and listen to the widest range of voices and views, so that our consultation focuses on the issues that matter to communities and our stakeholders. That is the right approach to take. We have put in place a range of additional measures to protect Scotland's interests on this issue, not least in securing the devolution of powers to issue and manage onshore oil and gas licences in the Scotland act. Our actions have ensured that the UK Government did not issue any licences for fracking in Scotland in the last licensing round. Moreover, we have made changes to planning policy. We have reviewed regulations to close any gaps that might have allowed the environmental regulations to be breached. Not only in our words, but most especially by our deeds, this Government is standing up for Scotland's interests on this issue. We are being rightly cautious, but no one can be in any doubt that this Government's position is on fracking. For the benefit of the party's opposite, who appear to be a little hard of hearing on this issue, Mr MacDonald, let me reiterate this Government's position. There will be no fracking in Scotland unless it can be proven beyond all doubt that it will not harm the environment, communities or public health. If Parliament wishes to take a different view, we have no issue with that. I have said no, Mr Finlay, but it will not deflect Government from the very clear, cogent and consistent pathway and timetable that we have set out. I would like to turn to wider issues on the environment, because I have said it outside that it is an important debate on those issues. Turning to other members' points, Elaine Smith made the point regarding fracking. I will touch on this issue in terms of how can this coexist with climate change targets. That is indeed the purpose of the work that is being undertaken by the UK Committee on Climate Change to establish exactly what the climate change impacts would be of such activity. Until we have that data, I think that we need to reserve our judgment and then respond to that evidence in due course. Maurice Golden referred to trying to find consensus, so I welcome that assertion. However, he went on to, if I may say so, give quite a confrontational speech. Regarding three of the five parties as being a cabal, it is not a good way to start to build friendships in this chamber. However, he made some important points, but I gently caution him that, when he is talking about growth being decoupled from negative environmental externalities, I agree with him that that is an important area to look at. However, we have to wait to see the evidence, so rather than being gung-ho about fracking and pushing ahead with it, let us see what the evidence suggests. If it proves environmental damage, I would expect him to take on board that point in relation to the point that he has just made in his speech. Climate change performance in Scotland has been criticised by a number of members across the chamber, but let us not forget, especially for the members on the Conservative benches, that the ambition of this Government and the United Parliament at the time of 2009 act went through is far greater than that of the UK Government, and let us not lose sight of that. We are, as a number of members pointed out, performing comparatively well with a 38 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions against the 1990 baseline. It is important to point out to Mr Rumbles in making our argument for us in criticising the Scottish Government and its performance in climate change. Let us not forget the impact of consequential changes made by the UK Government in rolling back the green policies that supported energy investment and domestic energy efficiency. In short, I appreciate some of that happening after the UK election of 2015. The UK Government has slashed renewable support. It has announced the early closure of the renewables obligation for large-scale onshore wind and solar PV projects and cut support for small-scale renewable projects through the feeding tariffs. More than that, the Scottish Government maintains public sector support for energy efficiency and domestic energy efficiency measures. The UK Government has axed the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund, which had a detrimental impact on our ability to meet our climate change targets. I thank Claudia Beamish for her kind words about Dr Eileen McLeod, and I share her sentiment about Sarah Boyack. Both members, as Dave Stewart acknowledged, will be badly missed in the chamber, and I recognise the work that she has done, and especially my former colleague Dr McLeod, who I wish well. However, we have an opportunity to work constructively. I take on board the point that she made in her speech, and her references to Moratorium vs Ibane. I hope that I have explained why we believe that maintaining Moratorium while we wait for scientific evidence to come forward is a justifiable position. Andy Wightman and other members who made their first speeches, I congratulate them all. Probably having time left me the opportunity to mention all in passing. Andy Wightman made a thoughtful speech. He is very welcome to the chamber. I look forward to hearing Andy Wightman's speeches in due course. He referred to work on land reform and further land reform act. That is something that the cabinet secretary looks forward to engaging with Mr Wightman and other party spokespeople on the development of land reform policy. I would encourage Mr Wightman to engage with the cabinet secretary as time goes forward. He made some good points about democracy as well. Angus MacDonald, I am glad to see back in his chamber, who is very strong support to both Dr McLeod, myself and Richard Lochhead. He very much made strong points about Christine Fergeras's support for the Scottish Government's action on climate change. Indeed, it was a point that was made later on by another colleague that Christine Fergeras's support for the Scottish action described it as being effectively quite good. She said that it was exemplary, and I think that that is the point that we need to reflect on. John Scott talked about fracking, as well. I would point out that Scotland is still a net exporter of electricity and a major contributor to the energy sector, but I see that my time is up. I encourage members to support the Government's motion and to reject the amendments that have been laid today by the Opposition. Thank you, Mr Healouse. That concludes the debate on taking Scotland forward in the environment, climate change and land reform. We will move on to the next item of business, which is consideration of business motion 277, in the name of Jo Fitzpatrick. On behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, setting out a business programme, I would ask any member who wishes to speak against the motion to press their request to speak, but now I would call on Jo Fitzpatrick to move motion 277. Formally moved. Thank you, minister. No member has asked to speak against the motion. I therefore put the question to the chamber. The question is that motion 277 be agreed to. Are we all agreed? We are agreed. The next item of business is consideration of a Parliamentary Bureau motion. I would ask Jo Fitzpatrick to move motion 278 on the establishment of committees. In moving this motion, members should be aware that the presenting officer on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau will be writing to the standards, procedures and public appointments. Committee, once it is established to ask it to consider extending the remits of four of the mandatory committees. The committee remits that this applies to are the finance committee to include the constitution, the equal opportunities committee to include human rights, the public audit committee to include post legislative scrutiny and the European and External Relations Committee to include culture and tourism. I move the motion. Motion on providing the Parliament with that information. The question on the motion will be put at decision time to which we now come, and there are five questions to be put at decision time today. The first question is that motion 226.1 in the name of Morris Golden, which seeks to amend motion 226 in the name of Roseanna Cunningham on taking Scotland forward be agreed. Are we all agreed? We are not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote is as follows. Yes, 30, no 93, there were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that amendment 226.4 in the name of Claudia Beamish, which seeks to amend motion 226 in the name of the minister on taking Scotland forward. Are we all agreed? We are not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote is as follows. Yes, 32, no 29, there were 62 abstentions. The amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is that amendment 226.3 in the name of Andy Wightman, which seeks to amend motion 226 in the name of Roseanna Cunningham on taking Scotland forward be agreed. Are we all agreed? Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote is as follows. Yes, 32, no 30, there were 61 abstentions. The amendment is therefore agreed. The next question is that motion 226 in the name of Roseanna Cunningham as amended on taking Scotland forward be agreed. Are we all agreed? We are not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote. Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote is as follows. Yes, 32, no 30, there were 61 abstentions. The motion as amended is therefore agreed. The next question is that motion 278 in the name of Joffith Spatric on the establishment of committees be agreed. Are we all agreed? Members should cast their votes now. The result of the vote is as follows. Members should cast their votes now. What the motion hatten no part of thousands ofdegenerated


Hello everybody! This video will show you how to send a picture from the screen of a smartphone or tablet PC to a computer with Windows 10. Windows 10 has got an option to send the picture from a smartphone or tablet PC to the display of a laptop or computer through a Wi-Fi connection. The main requirement for the computer you are going to use for showing the picture from a smartphone is to support mirror-cast technology. This support depends on the Wi-Fi adapter used by the computer. In this video, we'll be talking about Android, as Apple devices work in a different format which doesn't use mirror-cast. Dear friends, if you need to recover deleted data, use utilities by Hetman Software. Follow the link in the description to visit our website, download a utility for free and install it, then start disk analysis. When the process is over, it will show the files available for recovery, and you will be able to bring them back. Our blog features quick guides to solve all kinds of problems faced by Windows users. Our channeling blog offers solutions for any issues from installing the operating system to remote administration and connecting mobile devices. Our specialists will be glad to answer your questions in comments to videos and articles. So how can you send the picture from a smartphone to the computer display without any wires? Make sure your computer and smartphone are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. If they use different networks, such connection cannot be established. After that, open the Action Center on the computer with Windows 10 where you are going to send the picture from the smartphone, and select Connect. As a result, the window of searching and connecting wireless displays will open. At this moment, please pay attention. If your computer doesn't support mirror-cast, Windows will tell you about it. It means that you can't establish a wireless connection with such computer. If there is no such notice, click on the link Projecting to this PC. Connecting settings will open. Change the first setting to Available Everywhere, and the other setting to Every Time a Connection is Requested. Set the PIN code if you want, or rename the computer. Now let's move to the smartphone or tablet PC. Go to Settings, Wireless Networks, More, Wireless Display. Your device must have a function called Wireless Display or Cast Screen, as in some versions of Android. Android devices support this function beginning with version 4.2. In various versions of Android, a firmware by various manufacturers, the menu items may differ a bit. Find Wireless Connection, Wireless Display or Cast Screen, and enable this function. As a result, your device should detect a computer with an activated projecting function and show its name. I mean the name you have given to this computer in the Projecting menu. Click on the computer name to Connect Projecting. As a result, your computer will ask for permission to connect projecting. Confirm the request. The Connecting process starts. Now projecting is on. Now the computer screen will show everything that's happening in the smartphone screen. The sound is also transmitted. So you can stream your favorite game, as well as photos, videos or even watch a film. To disconnect the smartphone from the computer, go to Settings, Wireless and Networks, More, Wireless Display. Click on the active connection with the computer and confirm your decision to disconnect. On the computer, set projecting to Always Off. That is all for now. If you found this video useful, click the like button below and subscribe to our channel to see more. Thank you for watching and good luck!


Hey everybody, it's Brian. Welcome to the 13th Flutter tutorial. We're going to continue down our Dart learning curve here. We have to learn the Dart language before we can work with Flutter. And we're going to talk about generics today. And we've actually worked with this before. Whenever we've made like a list, like you can see this little snippet code right here. And it's actually has the arguments in every single program we've made so far. So we can do something like list. You know, so I had the E, so we have to define type. And we'll say things. We'll new list. And then we can add things in there. Now, we could have also said string or bool or whatever we wanted to do. So why do we need generics? What's really the value here? Well, let's say we wanted to make a function and let's just say void add. And void, we want to just take something. Let's just say a string. And we want to just add it. So let's actually come back here. Whoops, not string buffer. Geez, we just want to add it here. So we're going to say return value plus one. But now let's say we want to take the same thing. And we want to do it with integers. So now we've got to rewrite this whole darn thing. And now this isn't a string. This is an int. And you can see how now it's complaining that it's already defined. And so now we've got to turn this into add int. And then turn this one into add string. And then we'd have to know which one to call. And you can see how it gets very confusing very quickly. So yeah, we're not messing with any of that nonsense. What we're going to do is we're going to use generics. And what generics allow you to do is they allow you to actually take the type and turn the type into a variable, if that makes any sense whatsoever. And we're going to actually discuss this. But if you read through their examples, they're actually very helpful and very insightful. I went through that section in probably about 10 minutes. It was super easy to understand. So we're just going to dive right in. And we'll say log. Now we want to put these little arrows here. That means anything in these arrows is going to be a type that we're going to use for generics. And we can use that in our program now. And we're just going to print the value. So what effectively have we done here? We've said, hey, we're making a method called log. We want to use generics. So we're going to have a type. That type will change. That's what I mean by that's a variable type now. So that type will change. And here's our actual variable, which is going to be of whatever type we shove in here. And it's just going to print it out. Print takes an object, so it won't actually freak out on us. So now we can say print, let me say hello, or we can even say print and some number. And they both work. See? Down here we've got hello and then whatever number that is, giant long number. My laptop made some weird noise. That kind of scared me a little bit. It was like, it's kind of like Godzilla. It was weird. Anyway, so that is a very super simple example. We can now put anything we want in there. So let's say we want to actually restrict the type. Let's go back to our addition. I'm going to say add. And let's say t extends. And we want to extend the number class here. Now we're not doing inheritance here. That's the confusing bit. What we're doing is we are saying that anything of the t type has to inherit from the number class. Now when I say the t type, I mean this guy right here. So anything that we put into this has to inherit or extend the number class. So let's go ahead and finish this out. We're going to say return value plus one. So what we can say now is print. I'm going to say add. Just going to say one. And this should print the number two. And there it is, number two. So if we take this and we now try to do something like this, you can see how it's already mad at us saying an argument string cannot be assigned to the parameter type num because it knows it has to extend the number class. And if we try to run it, of course, it just explodes on us and says nope, can't do it. And it even tells you why type int is not some type of string or other where and then it just shows you. So that is one way of limiting that right there. So let's get a little more complex here. Let's actually work with a class. And I know I say complex, but this is actually just dead simple to work with. And I'm almost embarrassed making a tutorial on this because it's so easy to work with other languages generics get very complex very quickly. But Dart makes it very simple. I think they kind of borrow some of the best parts of other languages. But that's just my humble opinion. So we're just going to have a dog class, the dogs want to speak. And then we're going to make a new class. We'll call this stray, which is like a stray dog kind of thing. I'm going to import the dog class. And this stray is really not going to do anything. I mean, we're not going to have any properties in it. And then we're going to make a trainer class here. And we're going to import the dog class, because we're going to be working with that. I'm going to say class trainer. And we want to have our generic type in there. And in here, we want to say, okay, void add. And we want to have our t value. And whoops, I missed a step here. Doesn't make much sense what I'm doing if we don't have this. So what we're going to do is just make an internal list here. And this is not uncommon for a lot of programs. All right, now this will make a little more sense what we're doing. Then we're going to fat arrow this into animals. And we're going to just going to add the value there. So we're going to be able to add or move to that internal list. And then we're just going to say void train. And if you have no idea what I'm doing here, I encourage you to watch my previous tutorials. We're just going to do that. And then we're going to say for int I equals zero. I is less than three, because why not? And then going to increment. So now we're going to say value that speak. This looks weird. Let's talk about this. Okay, so what we're doing here is this is our generic class. The dog is just a normal class, the stray just extends. Whoops, we actually didn't even do that extends the dog class. And then the trainer itself is just a generic class. Now when I say generic, I mean it's using this. And you can see internally we're using this list and we're actually using the same type. And we're just going to add or move values to that list. And then we're going to work with that list. Now you notice how instantly it's saying the method speak isn't defined for class object. What does that mean? Well, it means that we actually have never defined this. We haven't said what it extends. So it's going to automatically extend the object class, which is the base class for pretty much everything in Dart. The base class object does not have a method called speak, which is why it's saying, ta-da, object doesn't have that method. Now, let's try to work with this and just see what happens here. And let's say, oops, I don't want dog, I want stray. Now we're going to make, you guessed it, a trainer. And we're going to say, trying to think of a good name, it's why I'm sitting here for a minute going, let's say, stray, and let's call him, why not? Let's call him Bob. And then let's do this, bob.add. We're going to add Fido into this. So Bob's going to train Fido basically is what's going on here. So we are adding Fido. We're going to train all the dogs in the list. And then we're going to remove Fido because Fido has been trained. And let's see what happens if we run this. And it says, woof, woof, woof. So now back up. Wait a minute, what's going on here? Notice how we've done a couple of things. We haven't added the generic, or we haven't added the type in here. But Dart was smart enough to know that because it's here, we're doing it. Also in the trainer class, it's still saying method speak isn't defined. This is a perfect example of what's called polymorphic programming, which means that your program changes based off the input. If we were to put a integer in here, it's going to die because integer doesn't have a speak in here. And let's actually try that. Let's say, let's say one and one, that's probably not going to work. Let's try it. Yeah, see, boom. Class int has no instance method of speak. So the same code did work, but didn't work. If you kind of follow what I mean, it works for what we programmed it for, but it didn't work for integers. So what we need to do now is go back in and modify this a bit. And you guessed it, we are going to say extends the dog class. Now suddenly it clears up and it knows that, hey, dog and anything that inherits from or extends from dog actually has that. So now this should just work fine. Whoa, whoa, whoa, there we go. So just some little caveats is you should be a little careful with generic programming. It's a bit of an advanced topic. A lot of questions that I get when I talk about generic programming in other languages is why. I mean, when do you actually use this? You'll see a lot of generics in core libraries, things like lists, for example. So if you're making a program that takes plugins, for example, you would have a base plugin that all other plugins would extend or inherit from. And in your generic programming, you would, just like we did with the trainer here, you would extend that base plugin. That would be a really good example. Another thing would be like if you're making like a music player, you would have a music player, you would have a generic class called song or file or whatever, and everything would extend upon that. And then you would have your base methods in there. So another question I always get is how do you have more than one? Like there's T, what if you wanted like a couple? You just simply separate them by commas like that. We have E and H in there. Now we could use E and H, but then you have to, in our file here, you see how they're suddenly exploding, we would have to say int and string.  Probably help if I spelled string correctly here. Yeah, really, really screwed that one up here. Sorry, guys. And then you would have to, you know, obviously work with the extra types as needed. But I'm going to get rid of those because I don't want them to be part of the example here. Just remember that generics are a bit of an advanced topic. And really, it's a powerful tool. The problem with a powerful tool is that when you hit yourself in the foot with it, it's going to hurt a lot worse.  Like if we didn't extend dog, if we just let it extend object automatically, and we throw the wrong value type or the wrong variable type in there, suddenly the program starts crashing, we're trying to figure out why. So just be mindful of that. As always, thank you for watching. I hope you found this educational and entertaining. There is a void realms Facebook group with 1700 other programmers out there. We can help you with just about anything you need. Very good group of folks. I'm constantly asking questions in there. And the source code for this and all other tutorials is out on GitHub. You can just simply visit void realms.com and the link to the tutorials is right out there. Oh, I should mention, we did have a nasty bug with our group where if you try to join, it said you don't have permissions to modify the group. We have since fixed that. So go ahead and send your your request and we'll get you in the group as fast as we can. That's it. Thank you for watching.


Well, Mr. Vice President, welcome. It is my honor to receive you and to talk with you today about many important matters that face Nigeria and the United States and our partnership and what we are committed to doing together. There is a strong relationship between the United States and Nigeria. As I was explaining to the Vice President, there are hundreds of thousands of Nigerian Americans and Nigerians here in the United States and so many who have made significant contributions to the United States, be it as entrepreneurs, as innovators to film and music. And Nigeria without any question is leading on so many important issues and some of the most important issues of our time. When we look at the issue of the climate crisis, Mr. Vice President, you have been an extraordinary leader on this issue. And I know this is something that you feel very strongly about and you've been very adamant about the role Nigeria can play in addressing this crisis that faces us all. And I congratulate you, for example, on your energy transition plan, which I know pledges carbon neutral energy by 2060, ambitious goals but important goals. And under your leadership, I have no question that they will be achieved. Today we will also discuss the urgent issue that affects the continent of Africa and the world, which is the issue of food insecurity. As you know, the United States has committed $7 billion in food security and humanitarian assistance to African countries over the past year alone. Nigeria has also been an important partner in upholding the international rules-based order, whether it is tackling the democratic backsliding that we've been seeing in West Africa or standing up for Ukraine at the United Nations. The United States remains committed to supporting free and fair elections. In Nigeria, next February, elections which we have confidence will be peaceful and reflect the will of the people. And of course, we do feel very strongly, as I know you do, that Nigeria is and must remain a bastion of democracy for West Africa. More broadly, Africa's leadership is key to confronting all of the global challenges we face. And to that end, Nigeria is key. So we look forward to strengthening our partnership. I bring you greetings from President Joe Biden. I was just with him, and he and I remain committed to strengthening our relationship with Nigeria and with Africa as a continent, as a whole. And we also look forward to hosting you in December at the summit here in Washington. So with that, welcome again, and I look forward to our discussion. Please. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm grateful, Vice President Kamala Harris, for receiving me here at the White House. And my visit is an opportunity to reaffirm the close ties that exist between our countries. The United States has been a long-standing partner and friend of Nigeria. And even as long ago as independence, you know, the United States has been a very firm supporter of all of our aspirations, especially our economic and social development ambitions. The United States has always been with us. We also must appreciate the firm support that we've received from the U.S., especially in our fight against terrorism within our borders and in the Sahel, and, of course, the very timely donation of vaccines, four million vaccines, as we battled the COVID-19 pandemic. And that, of course, is extremely useful. But in addition to, as you pointed out, our shared commitment to democracy and the international rules-based system, we very strongly believe that, you know, in the coming years we will need to work together again on so many global challenges, and they are as varied and they come up very frequently now from promoting peace and security, to tackling global health issues and climate change, and, of course, economic adversity. I must also congratulate you, of course, on the Inflation and Reduction Act, and I think in particular it's historic, especially for those of us who are paying attention to all the issues on climate change. The climate change component is really ambitious, and we think that it shows U.S. leadership in this, in the area of climate change, and we're all excited to queue up behind the U.S. and see that we get many of these objectives on the way. On our part, and you pointed this out already, the Nigerian government launched energy transition plan just last week, and this plan is important for us, because for us we see energy, especially the climate crisis, as two existential issues. One, of course, the crisis. The second is the energy poverty and the energy crisis for us in our part of the world. So while we look forward to the 2060 carbon neutrality goal, we're also hoping that within that period, even within a shorter period, we're actually looking at 2030, we'll deal with issues of energy poverty, and so we're anxious to get all the support we can, and in the last few days I've been talking to quite a few of the agencies here, the World Bank, the U.S. aid, in fact the Treasury Secretary yesterday also, and they've all been very positive and shown indications that they will be very helpful indeed. So I think that we look forward to in the coming years and months to even greater collaboration and stronger ties between our countries to create a fairer, more prosperous, and perhaps a greener also, freer nation and nations and the world. Thank you very much again for hosting me, and this is a great honor indeed. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Vice Chairman. Thank you, and welcome again.


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The format of your robot. Remember laser disk? No, me neither. I'd heard of them but never seen one, as the format was extremely rare in Europe, until I went to Japan about five years ago. It's got this reputation as being a country in the future, and yes there is technology everywhere. Some of it cutting edge, but you're just as likely to find fax machines, toaster ovens, punch cards, floppy disks and indeed laser disks. In Osaka, Japan's second city, a giant megalopolis of epic overpass and neon lights, laser disks are even today readily available. In Denden Town, the city's electronics and on a coup haven, laser disks line shelves alongside VHS and DVD. I was over there to work as an English teacher, but in my spare time I wandered around the multitude in a sly ways, subways and high streets. Exploring, walking, drinking sake one cups and eating cacao and fyoza at all hours. In the district of Denden Town, also known as Nipponbashi, there was plenty to interest the western tourists. Made cafes with young women in subret cosplay serving tea from bone china teapots in response to the delicate little bells placed on each table. Vultistory manga and anime stores with seven feet tall gondom guarding the doorways. I remember a strange and marked doorway, the only information on the sign outside being a colorful drawing of an angry parrot with muscular arms wearing high heels and stockings. I never stepped through that door, and probably never will. Another thing you need to know about Japan as a whole, and Osaka in particular, is it has a homeless problem. It seems to be no support structure at all for people with social problems, unemployment, poverty, drug dependency, not even an attempt to sweep them out of sight. Alongside many roads, under bridges, on traffic islands, and in city parks people are living in tents, divacs, and semi-permanent shacks or sheds. Some of these guys are in terrible states, I once saw an old man step out of his roadside shed in bare feet. His toes and toenails so mangled they looked like broken bones sticking out of stumpy raw flesh. Others are fairly well-dressed, like salarymen down on their luck. Even Asakage Okohin, the grounds to Osaka's famous castle, where Takuagawa defeated the Toyotomi in 1615. Establishing the 250-year dominance of the Takuagawa shop, it has inhabited shacks and tarpaulin strung up between the cherry blossoms. Despite the number of people living homeless it is exceedingly rare to see anyone begging, or even busking for change. For that reason it drew my attention when, one night while out walking in Akinashima Koen, Koen means park, I saw a lot appeared to be a rudimentary store. Outside a tiny wooden hut of scrap wood and metal, not big enough for one person to lie down in, Sam an elderly bearded man in disgusting clothes. On his feet he wore plastic bags from 7-Eleven, and in front of him, laid on the ground on a square of tarpaulin, was a random array of scrounged old tat. I glanced across as I continued walking. It had passed midnight, but in a place like Osaka that means little.   Because of the flimsy nature of walls in Japanese apartments a couple wanting time to themselves can actually find more privacy in a public park than they can at home. As I continued my walk I saw a young man practicing drums, he'd set up a full kit with bass drum, snare, toms, hi-hat, the whole lot, and was bashing away on the grass under the heavy loaded bow of the cherry blossom. I walked around the path doubling back on myself and heading back the way I came. I was getting tired and had to be up early but was enjoying the sights and the moonlight. As I walked past the old homeless man for the second time we accidentally made eye contact, just for a second, and we both looked down at his arrangement of objects. I walked over to where he sat and stood before him. My Japanese was poor so when he spoke I couldn't make it out. Partly it was due to my lack of fluency, but also it was the teeny croak he spoke in, a fast staccato like an overstimulated geiger counter. I tried to mumble a few words in Japanese but soon settled with a, sorry, I don't understand. He said and pointed to one item which appeared to be a bundle of short electrical cables with the two pin plugs still attached. The appliances they once serviced were nowhere to be seen. 500 yen I figured, about 5 American dollars, 2 pounds and 50 pence British.   A hubcap from a Toyota.   A sod and pair of trousers looking like they had recently been fished out of one of Osaka's many rivers. A 12 inch by 12 inch cardboard square sleeve with a disc inside. I bent to get a closer look. The cardboard had once been white but had clearly been soaked and dried out once or twice and stored in damp conditions. It was wrinkled and peeled and scuffed with filth. In a corner I could make out the image of three eggs in a line, the initials and each day written across them. The logo for Japan's public broadcasting station. I picked it up and turned it over. On the back was some faded hand written kanji which I had no chance of deciphering and the katakana iru fu, a la fu. I tipped the sleeve sideways to let the disc slip out into my hand and up to that point I had expected to see the shiny blackness of vinyl. Instead I saw the silver of laser disc catching the street light, shimmering veins of electric blue light motor oil on water. Even so there was significant scratching and the on patch where the aluminum surface had peeled revealing the plastic beneath. I didn't know what the disc was and wasn't convinced it would play at all. But it was significantly curious and the old guy obviously needed the money. I paid him a 500 yen coin and thanked him too politely. Thank you. Damo Arigato Gasanasu.  A few hundred feet away I heard him buttering and yelping and when I glanced back saw he was looking in my direction. I couldn't understand any of what he said and the wind blew gently taking his words away into treetops and high rise apartment blocks and the light polluted night sky. I didn't own a laser disc player so the disc was forgotten for a couple of weeks. It spent some time on the coffee table, on the floor under the sofa, propped up beside the TV, anywhere it could be ignored. I had no intention of ever doing anything with it and certainly wasn't going to buy a laser disc player just to find out the disc was damaged beyond repair. An American friend was over one day and noticed the disc. He asked about it and I told him how I had acquired it. He agreed it looked unlikely to play and also couldn't read the handwritten kanji on the sleeve but said he knew a Japanese technical expert with the equipment and know how to potentially salvage it. He contacted him and a couple of days later when he was available, we visited him at his apartment. Most Japanese living rooms have the usual stuff, seating, TV, dining table, etc. But in this apartment the living room was full of sound and video equipment, computers, digital and analog tape decks, wires stretched and tangled everywhere, monitor screens and speakers in stacks. He took one look at the laser disc and agreed there wouldn't be much surviving data but what there was he could salvage. He had a high end player called News High Vision which he said could read through defects that a normal player couldn't. That ran through a processing amplifier into the capture card of one of his many PCs and the specialist software it contained. He told us he would need time to clean it up and encode it and we should leave him to it as it would be boring to watch. We agreed and went to a nearby bar for a few beers and a couple of rounds of acutory, grilled skewers of different parts of chicken breast, neck, crispy skin, meatballs, heart, liver, cartilage, its great beer food. Our technical expert friend knew where we were and said he would be round to collect us when he'd finished. A couple of hours later when we were nicely drunk and our bellies were full, we began wondering if he would be much longer. Just as my friend was about to make a call our technical expert was suddenly standing there beside our table. His face was white and gaunt, whiter and gaunter than you'd expect from someone with such a dedication to digital technology. And he placed the laser disc with its sleeve and a black DVD box on the table. Without saying anything he turned to leave. My friend and I looked at each other and he grabbed the techie's sleeve with a, Wait! Despite his reluctance we got him to sit with us and had a drink brought over for him. He drank quickly like he couldn't wait to be out of there and wouldn't answer any questions about what he'd found on the disc. He said it was all there on an AVI stored on the DVD and we should take it and go. He repeatedly warned us off watching it. He deleted it from his computer and we would be well advised to destroy both discs and forget about them. I asked him if he could read the scrolled kanji from the laser disc's sleeve. It means nothing, he said, nothing he could understand anyway. He said it was an ancient character set and compared it to me trying to decipher old English written in the densest Gothic script. He didn't want payment for his work, he just wanted to forget about it, but I managed to force three 1000 yen notes into his hand. He thanked me repeatedly, graciously bowing his head, and asked pathetically if he could go now. We said sure and he got up and basically ran out of the door without another word. At this point we could not understand his reaction at all. He was either a very eccentric and nervous man normally, or he had seen something terribly unsettling that he was struggling to come to terms with. We of course, had a few drinks so we dismissed him as a weirdo and laughed about it. But in retrospect I know his behavior had been understandable, in fact I think he held it together well just by bringing the discs to us. Had I been in his position, I may have disappeared from contact, turned off my phone and ignored the doorbell until we went away. I may have called the police and reported us for suspicion of committing insane and terrible crimes. I may have gabbled and drooled my way into a secure mental institute where I could bang my head against soft walls until I died old and alone except for the insects in my mind and under my skin. Soon we left the bar, excited to get back to my apartment and watch the disc, and much to my regret that is what we did. With a few cans of chew-hay to keep the drinking mood going, I stuck the unlabeled DVD into the drive of my laptop. There was one file on the disc, an AVI with a random alphanaric name, something like 0-0-0-5-4-H4.AVI. I double clicked it and full screened the video. It troubles me to think back to what we saw, those terrible sights that sobered us up and kept us from finishing our drinks that has kept sleep away for most of the last five years and effectively ended our friendship that ruined our night and troubled our lives. Regardless I will try to remember all I saw of that video. A disgusting nightmare vision of what appeared to be the lost final episode of the 1980s American family sitcom Alph, the conclusion to the cliffhanger which saw him captured by the alien task force. The video began with a loud high-pitched squealing sine wave tearing through our ears. On screen was a test card padded, vertical bands of bright color at the top half, blocks of black, white and gray at the bottom. This remained on screen for about a minute occasionally broken up by pixelated blocks of digital distortion, the whole while accompanied by the high-pitched sine wave. Suddenly nothing. Black screen and silence. After a wait, which felt like minutes but could just as easily have been seconds, the screen flickered like an old videocassette presumably from an earlier analog to digital transfer, and still the occasional explosions of digital distortion from the corrupted laser disc. The NHD logo began fading into the black background but suddenly glitched out, the screen breaking up into pixelated blocks and shouting out with a burst of white noise that disappeared as quickly as it appeared. What remained on the flickering screen was a view down dirty dimly lit corridor. The floor and walls appeared tiled like some sort of hospital, but filthy and damaged everywhere as though it had been the scene of floods and massacres. Most of the lights were out and the ones that worked flickered intermittently. The only sound was the occasional electronic buzz of the lights, almost too quiet to perceive. All down the corridor into the distance were double-hospital doors with small windows in at high level.  Suddenly digital distortion ripped away the image and brought it back with the camera moving down the corridor and screaming, Someone in one of the rooms was evidently being subjected to an heinous ordeal which words could not express, only the scream of an anesthetized cutting and tearing. Up until this point we had been fairly good hewered about the video, but something about the screaming and sobbing unsettled us. This was not the sound of acting, more the sound of real agony, the sound of someone or something being maimed and mauled by hands trained in the art of cruelty. As the camera continued down the corridor and the screaming grew worse and worse, other voices joined in. Various desperate calls and screams in a range of pitches and bizarre alien languages tore out as if from beings imprisoned in the rooms leading off from the corridor, they held in response to the pain of their fellow inmates. The screams built and built to a crescendo and the flickering video distortion worsened to the point the picture was completely obscured, and just as the noise was so bad I thought I would cry more digital distortion and white noise ripped through everything. The picture returned with an image that shocked us, made us cry out in horror and surprise, and almost an absurd burp of laughter. The chorus of screams was silenced and the image on screen was so unexpected to us, the collision of the familiar childhood image with such inspeakable viciousness, a contradiction that broke our minds. Feeling the screen was alph, the alien life formed from the TV series of the same name. The shot was close up, showing his head and shoulders from above as he lay strapped to a stainless steel dissection table. White light poured down on him from out of shot making the image dark and overexposed even through the flicker of worn out video.  He sogged gently. His pain was unbearable, genuine suffering which made us desperate to reach out and help a fellow living creature. His expression of pain was both human and animal. He began to turn his head, the effort was clearly about as much as he could muster, and after a few failed attempts and tired whimpers he faced the camera with closed eyes. More digital distortion and white noise, then alph opened his eyes, beaten and bloodshot, strangely human eyes as though a person were trapped beneath elf's skin. He tried to speak. Please, I miss you. He croaked. I miss you. His words were translated into Japanese subtitles. And as the title, the word elf in the big white letters of that familiar font and its katakana Japanese subtitled translation roofu, appeared on screen. Elf let out a horrendous blood curdling scream, out of breath and panting, and kept screaming and screaming until his voice was hoarse and he could scream no more, but still between sobs and desperate gasps for breath, he screamed, and screamed, and screamed. He stared into the camera, with those teared up guying pleading eyes, staring at us, at me, as he screamed and screamed. This must have gone on for a few minutes at least and just when we thought we could take no more, just when the constant screaming was eating away at our very souls, that terrible saxophone music started. We couldn't believe it, along with the continued screams the saxophone-led theme song from the third and fourth seasons of Elf began to play. It was that same music but somehow rarer, as Elf pushed through overloaded speakers and re-recorded onto a waxed cylinder, then blasted out again at ear-splitting volume. And between interspersed cuts of jolly scenes from the past, shots of the Tanner family, credits starring Bax Wright and Ann Skadeen, and random rips of analog and digital distortion increasing in severity all the time, were images of terrible torture. A close-up of a hand being drilled, a leg being hobbled with a sledgehammer, and all the while that guy is screaming, panting and crying. The quality of the footage was deteriorating still, and as the happy memories, torture, miserable wails, distortion, saxophone music and white noise coalesced, I began to feel sick. All those terrible experiences build up to a roar and suddenly the video jumped and stuck on a loop. A split second of smiling Willie Tanner with starring Bax Wright emblazoned across, a full-body shot of Elf strapped to the tabletop with his torso peeled open revealing the beating bleeding insides of his alien anatomy. These two hideous images jumping cutting looting between each other at irregular intervals, all the while the screaming, the white noise, the distorting lump and saxophone stuck, stuck, stuck. And I swear under all the clander I could hear the maniacal laughter of Elf himself. These two images looped for so long that I began to think it was the actual AVI that was skipping somehow, but checking it I saw the VLC time slider moving along naturally. The looping continued until more serious distortion obliterated all sound and visuals replacing them with pixelated blocks and indistinguishable noise. When the picture returned it was of a lower quality still and the scene had changed. The camera, now camcorder quality, seemed to be lying slightly over to its side on a tabletop looking across the room to the autopsy table where Elf lay strapped down. Lighting was dim and a green tinge to the picture suggested night vision. The scene was obscured by someone stepping in front of the camera, a person in doctor's scrubs, gloves and apron all heavily stained with blood and feces. They adjusted the camera slightly and stepped back out of shot. Elf, who may have been lying unconscious, seemed to come to and began bumbling and whimpering and begging. No, no. Please no. His head moving side to side slightly. He appeared delirious, distressed, and barely alive. The doctor walked back into shot and stood with his back to the camera beside Elf and the autopsy table. His features were covered with a gray surgeon's hat and face mask. He stood over Elf looking down on him and appeared to be talking. We couldn't hear a word he said, just the occasional cum consonant penetrating through Elf's sobbing and pleading, and the slight movements of head and shoulders. The scene remained unchanged, except for the persistent random interference of distortion, for maybe five minutes. Five minutes of inaudible cum speech. Unchanged except for occasional sudden jump cuts to the smiling faces of Kate, Lynn and Brian Tanner, who seemed to be looking on incurious glee. It was as though the surgeon, the torturer, was explaining matter of factly exactly what he was going to be doing to Elf. The sobbing and pleading continued throughout, then a brief flash of distortion and white noise leading suddenly to blackness. I don't know how long the blackness here lasted. It may not even have been on the video. Perhaps I passed out momentarily or shock has just left a blank hole in my memory. Whatever really happened when the picture came back the scene had changed yet again. The camera was on the move, held in the hand of someone I presumed to be the surgeon, not pointed at anything but swinging about wildly with the movements of the herb. This was dizzying, producing blurred effects of blood stained walls and spilled war like an abattoir floor. Soon it steadied and swung around to the autopsy table where lay the mutilated headless corpse of Elf, jump cut to Kate, Lynn and Brian in a happy conversation. The camera panned along the body and upwards towards the ceiling, towards the source of an aurethmic drip, drip of dark liquid. There, hanging by cables and wires, was the severed silenced head of Elf, his scalp shaved and ears snipped off to allow access for the multitude in his penetrating electrodes. Although the stump of his neck hung the spine pulled from his body, and although I didn't notice at the time in retrospect it occurred to me there was something wrong. Well obviously it was all wrong. I mean there was something not as you'd expect about the spine. Rather than being the repeating structure of small separate vertebrae, the spine began at the neck as two long thin parallel bones which ran half the length and terminating at a joint where they connected to a single thicker bone running down the rest of the way. Thinking back, I have become convinced over time that Elf's spine was not a spine, but the bones I saw were the radius on the end humorous of a human arm. As the camera held on this scene for a moment and the words, created by Paul Fusco, faded onto the screen. Elf's eyes blinked open and he looked directly into the camera. The voice of the cameraman sounded, the voice of the surgeon, the voice of Willie Tanner saying, Good morning Elf. Elf screamed in guttural anguish and the credit sequence rolled. Humorous pictures of Elf drinking from the toilet, trying on glasses, peeking through the blinds, wearing headphones, all that stuff, but instead of the theme tune playing was just that screaming, desperate panting and crying.  Sick, and sick again. I rested against the arm trying to recover my strength for a minute or two and eventually looked over at my friend.  I called his name and got no response. I shook him by the knee, then the shoulder and called his name again and again. Suddenly he snapped out of it and a bit of life came back into his eyes, just a bit. He looked around the room, as if wondering where he was, and over at me. We looked at each other, shocked and disbelieving, and I felt the rise of more vomiting. I rushed to the toilet and heaved a spat and sod through my mouth and nose. As this was going on I heard the front door close. When I came out of the bathroom my friend had gone, so had the laser disc and so had the DVD from my laptop. The disc tray was open and VLC was open on the desktop, but the file was gone. Had I wanted to play it again, which I definitely did not, I wouldn't have been able to. After I had cleaned up my vomit and failed to contract my friend, he wasn't answering his phone. I went to bed and failed to sleep. I lay for hours staring at the ceiling with terrible images running through my mind. At one point I thought I heard a voice somewhere in the apartment and managed to bulk up the courage to investigate and find nobody. I returned to bed with the lights on and drifted off eventually two fits of terrible indefinable nightmares. I woke up wet with my all year in. I can't remember ever having done this before. I didn't see or hear from my friend again and over time grew more disinclined to contact him. Now if I saw him in the street I think I would turn and walk the other way for fear of what might happen, should our shared memories get together again. Since watching that video I have suffered severe sleep disorder and been through therapy to try to quell the constant obsessive repetition of unwanted extreme mental imagery. A few months after watching the video I returned home to England and haven't returned to Japan since. Although it was five years ago and 6000 miles away I still cannot get away from it. I carry the imagery with me in my head and I suspect my old friend does too. I don't know where he is or how he is doing, but last week I received an email head, alpha autopsy, from one of those anonymous temporary accounts. I deleted the email and powered down my computer. Hey, I returned after 30 years later.