there's no chemistry there how are you gonna like be thrust into a situation where you're kind of semi-separated is a bit awkward and like not want to go you know find a closet so i didn't finish the book i gave up at like half eight and i nearly scratched my head and i wonder where's god when you need i'm so angry i only i've only read 30 pages but i'm fuming i'm fuming how are we i'm still ill if you watch my previous vlog which was me reading kendo and cardigan as book jesus i still ain't healed i ain't healed recently in my last video i posted would have been the um book series is that i need to finish this year it's not the last video but go off sis for the most part series is that i have loved and i want to finish this year i get such a feeling of satisfaction from finishing series honestly it's addictive like when you it's addictive enough finishing a book but when you finish a series you really think you are that bitch like you think wow i have just gone through all those books what i thought i would do this week is make progress in a few of those series the ones i'm most excited for and um take you along the ride so these are all quite popular series is here on booktube i'm going to show you the books now and then it's going to be a reading vlog of me reading them so i've picked three books from different series they're all actually the second book in three part series so i'm really not going to finish any series in this video but i'm going to be making progress in them so the first one the one i'm going to read first is girls are still in shadow by the tata nyang if you recall girls are paper and fire was one of my favorite books of last year i adored and so i can't wait to get into this one a few people have not enjoyed this one who did enjoy girls are paper and fire though um they say it definitely suffers from middle book syndrome i've heard that natasha wanted to make it a duology and she was convinced by the publishers to make it a three part series and that you can definitely tell that from reading this but to me there's rarely a book that i can say this feels like home and girls are paper and fire just feels like home to me i think it deals brilliantly with the topics it covers and also it was a big part of me getting into reading this uh in 2019 i read it in florida i bought it and read it in florida on holiday and so it just it has such happy feelings to me you know when i think about reading it and so i can't wait to read this i'm gonna start today and i feel good about this i feel like there's something about the tasha's writing and these characters that is just like at the core of me but we shall see i could also not like it then next we got gemina by amy kofman and j christoff this is of course the second in the illuminay files illuminay was the first book i read this year in 2020 and i gave it five stars i've actually struggled with five stars um this year i think i've only given out two or three so far and i'm about a week into february at the moment so um i haven't given out loads i've read about 14 or 15 books so yeah i'm definitely reading less five stars than i would usually so i'm really hoping like all of these books i'm excited for i'm really hoping that this will prove through and be another five stars if it's on par with illuminay and a lot of people say it's even better then i can't see how i'll give this five stars i'm also going to be buddy reading this with nicole from nicole on her books as always i'm always telling you to go and subscribe to her because she's just like the love of my life i adore her so definitely go subscribe to her and she also purchases for me she also gave it to me for my birthday god the way this is told this is holding a multimedia format um i adore i think it's such a welcome break the same way something like graphic novels is where you switch up your format this i find you read so quickly because of the all the different um like types of stuff that you've got going on in this book so again i can't wait to get to this i cannot wait and then the last one i'm not even in frame get a groupie yourself beggin um the last one i'm a bit scared for is probably from the most hyped up series like out of all of these on booktube and i'm going to be reading seige and storm by lee bar dugo now this is of course the second one in the shadow bone trilogy and i'm nervous i gave shadow bone three stars i didn't love it the reason i want to get through this series quickly is so that i can read six of crows in quicking kingdom which i think are going to be five stars for me but i think this series are kind of going to be three and four stars for me i'm actually not expecting a five star from this we can hope but i i don't think we're gonna get it we follow elina and like her special powers and there's mal who's a tracker they've been friends since birth and there's the darkling who's like he's a bad guy but like you know yeah i'm gonna go start girls of storm and shadow again i'm so nervous because it's like the best just it's just so good anyway it's gonna be i don't want it i don't want it to take girls of paper and fire for me if it's bad like if it's not what if what people said is true i don't want it to take it like i want to hold girls paper and fire pure in my memory so i'm basically reading this in this video to make myself read it and get to it or go see and i'll check back in once i have some thoughts on this book uh if you haven't seen my last reading vlog was me reading kentall garley jenner's book and reading that has definitely put me in a little bit of a slump it took me a few days to kind of get back into reading again i'm now about halfway through girls of storm and shadow i was actually quite nervous going into this just because a lot of people who really enjoyed the first one didn't like this one um i know that kayla from books and lala gave it like one or two stars and i picked this series up on her recommendation you know like girls paper and fire is one of her favorite books of uh last year so when i saw it she gave it a bad rating i was like okay and so i wanted to take a little bit of time um to collect my thoughts before like telling you what i think and i really like it so far um i think it's definitely slower i think the beginning is slow i think it's kind of a mix of that and the last book i read that meant that i read the beginning quite slowly we are in a different location in this book to than we are in the majority of the last book and i think it struggles to kind of cement itself a little bit but we're traveling around a lot in this one we're going to a lot of different locations which i actually think works well for it because no setting is going to have a basis in the story like the one in the first book did you know what i mean be like so core to the story and so going to all these other little places enables us to explore a lot of different parts of the world a lot of different cultures within the world i always worried we would never kind of revisit a lot of the characters we visited in the way we spent time within the first book um from that location but we actually do and i really i've enjoyed there's only like one section one chapter with that so far for me but i really like that as well because that was something when i was coming into it i was saying you know i really want to spend time with those characters and catch up with them and see what kind of place they're in after what happened at the end of the last book so i'm really glad that she's found a way to mix that together and have what happens in those chapters affect the rest of the story as well so i think that's gone really well there's something about natash and yang's writing that i've always said it kind of feels safe not in like a it's not adventurous way but if you feel safe while reading it you know it feels very homely as the word which i think is really important when we're dealing with the subject matters that we are if you don't know the first book girls are paper fire and in this one i guess the whole series there's there's heavy trigger warnings for rape and sexual assault so the king has a group of paper girls who are forced to sleep with him and our main character lay is one of those paper girls so i think her writing feel it i have never really felt that with author before but it feels to me very comforting assuring what it's doing but very like soft this is so weird i've never like spoken about writing but i think how something to counteract the kind of heaviness and the darkness of those topics is really helpful and um in this one we're dealing a lot with trauma how how people feed their trauma and try to mask it and this one as well another topic that we're covering which i think is quite interesting and which i didn't expect was to kind of look at just how power corrupts universally i guess in the first book we follow the demon king and he's just kind of like outright evil right there's a lot of discussion on how when men are given power they can think they're well meaning but it's always going to end up hurting people and sacrifice is always gonna be made and maybe the people who are making them aren't the right people do not in me for now at least i i'm not disappointed by it i don't think it's going to be five stars like girls with paper and fire was to me but i'm often great at betrayed that for sequence in this you know sometimes i'll give a first in the series of five star and the second or two star um and so going from five to a four which is what this is sitting at roughly for me now isn't as painful and i still feel fairly like okay it's fine you know the second book or the second album why is always difficult so it's much later in the evening and i've just finished girls and someone shadow ignore my yoga mat by the way we're just uh we're just gonna usually i come to like these check-ins with a bit of an idea of what i'm gonna say am i in focus even i don't know what i'm doing anymore it's a mess i think i'm gonna give it four stars i really enjoyed it it was kind of the same amount of enjoyment for me throughout it there were some twists and some of those i saw coming and some i didn't i enjoyed the aspect because the ones i didn't felt very like realistic and once i knew about them i understood what happened i was like yeah okay do you know what i mean does this book feel a bit empty maybe i had heard that it was supposed to be on a tassel and yang wanted it to be a um two book series and she got convinced to make it three books i i think she's fleshed it out very well and there's not a lot of scenes that don't feel like they have a place there but it doesn't necessarily feel as high stakes as you would want it to she's intertwined the story very well that for us we can't necessarily cut out parts of the story that you would want to because it's connected to what happens in other parts which obviously wasn't her plan she's interconnected it later when she realized she was going to make it a three book series so that things were all connected so i can't say oh i think this bit should have been cut because it has a knock on effect or something else but i think way way way back in the in the drawing process i think maybe the series would have been more comfortable with the geology she's one of the most vivid writers i've ever come across like have you noticed how whenever i start thinking of that book the book that should not be named i start coughing i'm not kidding when i said it made me ill like it's bad vibes bad energy just all around just like not not conducive for success in comparison to the rebels city of india by kendall and carlie janer i said in that video how i i could never envision where i was like i could never i didn't know what any of the settings looked like i didn't even know where we were half the time like what kind of setting we were in whereas polar opposite of this and part maybe part of the reason i enjoyed reading it so much was that the test from yang makes sure like her settings are some of those vivid i've ever read i can picture everything in such great detail without necessarily other reference points like she she creates such original landscapes and settings i think i love being a lay lay to me is a great character but she's in a relationship in this book which isn't entirely healthy and i think because we we feel for both people in the relationship for both her um and her girlfriend i don't want to like name names i don't want to spoil anything but i think it is commonly known that she falls in love with um a girl in this book right in the series so it's not entirely healthy and i don't know if it's discussed enough her partner's actions when they're bad or portrayed as bad but i'm not sure the dynamics of their relationship particularly towards the end are reflected by outside individuals enough their relationship is very insular it only occurs between them two and so you've never got anyone else saying to her no that's not the way this should be happening um i'm not like crying by the way it's my my cough i don't want to i feel like i sound so sad like no one ever tells everyone is just my voice yeah no one's ever telling her that's wrong and so i think it sometimes it almost believes into like that whole am i crazy thing i mean like the girl she's in a relationship with is is not a bad character by any means not a bad person but she's flawed and um yeah i'm just not sure the dynamics are are fully gone into enough particularly with a series that deals with you know sexual assault and i think i think obviously sexual assault is very separate to relationships but her her perception both of their perceptions of relationships are going to have been affected by what they went through um and so i think the pair are linked in some way in this book so um yeah i just would have liked to see i mean we will get that in the third book but um a bit more of a look at the dynamics between them so but i really loved all the new characters in this to me it didn't feel like we were with new characters it didn't feel drawing it felt like these were people that we knew all along and i just there were a few easter eggs on there for fans and i just really enjoyed it and it makes me feel kind of like more of my taste levels because people who i often are very similar tastes um weird didn't like this but everyone's gonna like different books and i'm here to tell you that girls of stormy shadow isn't as good as girls of paper and fire i don't think anyone is out here saying that but i still think it's very good and i think if you love her writing if you love the core of the story i think she's actually traveled it through very well considering we are in completely different settings this time completely different situations i think the core of the story is still very much there so um yeah i'm gonna give it four starts so now i'm gonna start gemina um i'm budging reading this from the cove from the cove in her books and this is quite long it's um 659 pages but they're usually quite a fast read so i'm hoping i'm gonna get through this quite quickly because today is wednesday night so i've got thursday friday saturday and then i upload this vlog on sunday night but usually i spend like the whole of sunday editing so embarrassing how long editing takes me like everyone else like oh i edited a video saying it took me three hours and i'm like i wish any video already took me three hours yes i'm in my pajamas i don't want to hear anything about it so i didn't read anything yesterday i literally read one page that ain't good i have got 36 hours to read uh about a thousand pages which i mean like it's not that bad i've seen people read more in that time but like for me i don't do that on the reg i am like 25 pages into gemina i'm loving it straight away i mean it's just incredible i mean i i don't think it can do any wrong i think i'm gonna love it again we've got a lot of different mixed medias and just the characters we're following different characters from what i can tell predominantly but i'm still like obsessed with all of them and they're they're such uh individual unique characters so different to what we've seen already my aim today is to get about halfway through this and then tomorrow um there is the what is it actually called hang on i'm really bad at at readathon names okay it's the basically readathon run by brit and there's a 24 hour readathon and i think i'm gonna like semi take part in that all my plans are tomorrow is to read so my lunch is already made dinner will be made i'm not gonna have to do any cooking tomorrow which always takes up so much time i'm just plan plans are go to the gym tomorrow as well and read so the plan is to still finish this in time to edit this on sunday if you're seeing this on sunday you'll know if i've done relatively okay but like i'm scared because this ain't me this ain't me i don't read that much that fast oh my god ignore how bad that spot is okay i'm gonna go read the next hour until i need to go out then i'm gonna go out then i'm gonna come back and i'm gonna read more and i'll just keep updating you but i hate myself morning i literally i've just woken up i haven't done anything yet this morning i haven't brushed my teeth i haven't had anything to drink i just came and picked up the camera and i thought right there's a vlog straight away so um i did try to set alarm this morning and i didn't get up with it um i was just really tired i don't know if my mind but so it's like what is it like corpus nine right now and um last night i managed to get to about page like 285 of this so um i was aiming for like 300 and i did pretty well considering when i was at like 150 i thought oh there's no chance i'll probably only get to 200 but then i let um oh my god it's too early i sped through um like page 200 to 280 so yeah i think i think i'm gonna be getting through it a lot quicker now the pace of the book picks up and because of the way it's written when the kind of pace of what everything's going at picks up you're reading it quicker because um there's some pages that are like really short um really short things to i guess like keep the pace going for you so um you know it's so good these books are incredible these books are incredible like i really haven't been out here reading anything like this at all like they're just in my opinion in a league of their own they're incredible they are they just i can't stop going on about them the stakes in this one didn't feel very high for the first 100 pages you were kind of like okay what's happening but then the stakes rose very very suddenly very suddenly like it was crazy so um yeah i can't wait to read the rest of this i'm going gym at about um i gotta leave at about half 11 and so i've got like two and a bit hours now um obviously i'm gonna be having breakfast and sort myself out a bit first but i reckon i can get a really good chunk of this done i'm gonna aim to get to at least page 400 of this before i go gym and then when i come back it's just getting through it you know getting through as as much as the books as i can i need to check in on twitter and see what everyone's reading for the readathon um and see how it's going for everyone so yeah i'm gonna go get some breakfast and i'll check in with you in a bit uh i'm so angry i'm i'm so angry at this character i'm so angry i'm so i'm so i'm i'm so angry i only i've only read 30 pages but i'm fuming i'm fuming yo what this series is so good at doing is pulling oh my god i've gone really red it's like pulling twists out the back that you could never have seen coming you're just like and you're like how did i not predict that because then you feel dumb but then you're like oh my god why why do i hate everyone god i i was ready to throw my book across the room i was ready to throw my book across the room i was so angry okay i want to get back to reading yo i okay i just got back from the gym and had lunch i'm not even gonna try to look good for you right now because it's impossible after that gym class oh my god i feel like death i i i feel like i feel so tired it was so hard but um yeah back home the book just keeps getting better and better like i might even prefer it to illuminay and considering illuminay is my favorite book i've read so far this year like we're gagged we're gagged everyone's saying hi to the panda by the way it's good luck to give him tummy rubs okay uh i'm exposing her word we are i i don't know how they do it and i think it's really clever that they've switched characters but they're all still connected and the store oh my god it's just so good it's just so good and i don't know how they managed to create all these amazing characters that i like i'm obsessed with that i love so yeah i'm gonna go carry on reading my arm hurts i need to start putting this on the tripod when i check in because my arm gets so tired okay bye wish me luck i've had enough i've had enough i'm checking out i finished gemina it's gonna it's gonna be five stars it's gonna i mean the thing is with this series of books they are so full of tension like you're rooting it and you're like like skipping the pages and some a new development is constantly happening something is constantly going wrong that they've got to deal with um in both the books and so you're just full of tension like i feel so wired of tension right now um if i said i'm giving it five stars i'm giving it five stars it's five stars it's incredible i don't know if it's better than a luminae or not to me it is similar did i say all this before i think it's going to be very similar the series or it is to the barrel of nightingale series or the winter night trilogy in the sense that that series was all five stars and like i can't differentiate between them in terms of how good they are they are just all that good they're all on the same level and they kind of all blend into one story where like you can't separate it it's just one big story it's not separate books it's like a whole arc do you know what i mean i don't know if i'm explaining that very well but that's what it feels like to me i uh it takes you through every emotion i was screaming i wish i was filming myself because i was angry i was so angry and upset i was so angry and upset and then like it's it's turns around on you it's full of twists oh y'all wanted a twist eh come on illuminate let's get and you just ah god i'm just if you haven't picked up this series yet please get to it right now i'm trying to stare into yourself please go go read it right now i don't care about what elf whatever else you've got on your tbr i really don't care unless it's something that's very nice and get on which case maybe pick that up first but no i don't mean that i mean i've been speaking about that longer in case you listen to me which i'm pretty sure no one does so anyway um go read it go read it and the thing is you'll see it and you'll be like 659 pages but you read it so fast like i really don't feel like it took me that long to read it because you know some pages are let me find something that doesn't like spoil it some pages are like that right or like this like that but you'd also have pages like this where it's like surveillance transcript of a surveillance camera right so it doesn't actually take that long to read and it's just it was just incredible like i want to go and reread it and i just need to i just need to i don't know i need to read everything that Amy Coffman and Jay Kristoff have written both together and apart because it's just incredible just incredible so um i did actually finish that roughly on time i finished it like five or ten minutes after four i think it's probably like half or now because i had to set the camera for everything but we're gonna start Siege and Storm by Lou Bardugo and i've got to finish this tonight really yeah i mean there's no excuses i've got to finish it tonight i don't think this is going to be as good a read as Gemina i'm ready for more of the darkling listen i'm just i i think i've said this before listen i don't know why i've said too far so i'm just gonna say it i'm so happy i'm reading these in the era after Ben Barnes been announced as the darkling because it means i imagine him as a darkling and i think it just improves a reading experience okay so i didn't finish the book i gave up at like half eight and i really scratched my head and i wonder where's god when you need him i gave up but i got how far did i get like 80 pages in and i'm actually enjoying it a lot more than Shadow and Bone you know we might have a full star on our hands i mean it's only days but i feel actually like this book is better like i'm enjoying it a lot more a lot has happened in a very short amount of time which i think with this series benefits it because you know the writing you know Lee Bodger has come a long way in my opinion i think you need that quick pace to keep me interested at least so um yeah i think it's and i think it's better written than Shadow and Bone as well i think it's way better written i think there's been parts i've read i'm like oh that's nice you know but yeah sorry that i gave up what can i say so so after i gave up trying to finish this on Saturday night god at like 70 pages 80 pages i i then didn't read any more until really this morning day is Wednesday so i went three days without picking this up now i it wasn't like i didn't read i just read other books the problem with this is i don't think it's a bad book it's not a bad book at all like i'm enjoying it but like that there's nothing that makes you want to pick it up like in those days where i didn't read it there was nothing that made me want to pick it up and i don't think it's necessarily worse than Shadow and Bone but i don't think it's an improvement i've been reading this all day at first you know i was like i'll check in at 150 pages and i was like okay 200 and then we made 250 because i've been waiting for something to actually say to you i've been waiting to have an actual opinion apologies my hair is like crazy by the way i've been waiting to have an actual opinion because thus far nada i i just haven't cared like i haven't i've just been like oh okay fine i haven't had anything that i loved to talk to you about or anything i was outraged about you know like it was just chill it was just whatever i i didn't care i'm not gagging i think the problem is you could say that Girls with Stormwind Shadow was very similar to this in the sense that like it's a kind of you know we travel somewhere book and not loads happens i mean something are we still have 120 pages something to happen but like in that series i'm very attached to the characters i think the characters are very well rounded very developed and i don't think these characters are i don't care about any of them any of them not even any real like side characters i just don't care i really have nothing to say to you like i'm reading this Horace book and i have nothing to say to you about it like i just don't care i just don't care i just want to finish it it's not a bad book like i i'm enjoying it but there's nothing to talk about like it's bland like it's like the equivalent of quaker's oats like maple porridge right like you bite the sachet and you put it in the milk and it's the maple flavored one right it's nice you eat it and you go like yum nice right but but after a few speeders was like this is samey and it's nothing to write home about no one's gonna be saying that's their favorite breakfast no one's gonna be saying that's oh that's the best breakfast i've ever had like it does the job you go oh yeah nice but there's nothing to say about it it's just bland porridge i don't hate mal yet i don't hate him i don't hate him i think like he's not really annoying me at all but everyone says he does something and i'm trying to predict what he's gonna do oh another thing the romance in this book oh come on could you i sounded really posh i'm not posh i was like oh come on could you get anywhere boring like they're not even there's no chemistry there how are you gonna like be thrust into a situation where you're kind of semi-separate it's a bit awkward and like not want to go you know find a closet or something do you know what i mean like not even speaking to each other there's a complete lack of communication that's what bothers me i can't stand like a communication when there's no good reason if there's a good reason i don't care that can be kind of like but this is no good reason for them not just not communicating how they're feeling or i just that's irritating me that's the main thing that's irritating me like guys why can't we just sit down and have a chat so final thoughts i have none this book was just so i don't even i don't even have any i don't have any positive feelings towards it but i don't have any negative feelings towards it like i'm just completely unbothered about it and i i i read it yesterday and i feel like nothing happened i okay question also am i supposed to hate mel now because everyone says he does something in this book or is it the next book that makes you hate him he's done some stuff in this that make me think oh he's just an idiot but i don't hate him like i don't think he's a bad person i understand where he's coming from am i the only one who understands where he's coming from so i gave it three stars it's probably more like a 2.75 but like i usually give oh i don't know three it was fine it was fine there we go i've made progress in some of the book series that i really wanted to get to this year i feel really happy actually i've made progress on one of these because then i've only got one book left in each of the series and it's the final book which is quite exciting so yeah i'm really happy that i made progress i'm sad this video took longer the film that i wanted it to but you live and you learn and uh yeah i hope you enjoyed the video and i will see you very very soon with another one thank you for watching bye


Jess Phillips will probably be most familiar to our audience from her disastrous and cringe worthy campaign to be Labour leader last year.  She's written three books in the past four years. They're called Every Woman, One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth, including lying about swearing to Diane Aber, the woman who was subject to the most abuse of anyone in Parliament. She's also written Truth to Power, Seven Ways to Call Time on BS, presumably by getting pretty close relationships with Rupert Murdoch's various outlets. And also everything you need to know about politics, my life as an MP. That's the new book. I think the title is actually quite apt. Everything you need to know about politics, my life as an MP. Me, me, me. Her upcoming book is, as you can tell, if you can count, the third to be released in four years. The Times and Sunday Times have given many a long sympathetic interview to Jess Phillips, enabling her to speak Truth to Power, presumably that's what they're interested in. She has given them another. This is the fifth in the last two years. And as you'd expect, all manner of topics came up, including Navarra media. We speak days before the vicious battalion spend by election amid momentum, activists demanding Starmer resign as leader if Labour loses. It retains the seat by a squeaky 323 votes. Phillips believes the hard left Stoke George Galloway's campaign with its crude appeals to Muslim voters and was gleeful about the prospect of Labour losing. But they would make the same charge about me, wouldn't they, under the Corbyn years? She compares activist journalist Owen Jones and Navarra media writers to noisy, overexcited children who have had too much sugar. Who cares what they think, frankly? Wow. Ash, we are overexcited children who have had too much sugar. Do you accept that analysis? I've actually been trying to cut sugar out of my diet, but I don't know about you. But I suppose she was getting at something else. Respond to Jess Phillips. Look, oh, that is true. I'm an excitable person. I'm a happy bouncy person. So sue me. That's what I like about you, Michael. It's what I like about Aaron. It's what I like about everyone that we work with, is that we're actually really passionate about what it is we do. And we also find meaning in politics and the principles that we stand for.  Don't vote for us, but please vote for us. But we understand that if you don't vote for us, it's because we're dreadful. We're absolutely beyond salvaging.  We, I think, try and make a positive case for our politics as well as on this show being critical and skeptical of received wisdoms and the kinds of propaganda that you see in establishment media. I'm really comfortable with Jess Phillips looking at all the things we do and going, I don't like that. Because, guess what, Jess, the reason why Navarra media exists is because politicians like you on the Labour right have absolutely failed people in this country for decades now, right? You weren't speaking to people's material needs. You certainly weren't speaking to a lot of people's social values. And I'm afraid that when people look at that wing of the party, what they see is a set of politicians who are venal, who are self-serving, and who also don't have any backbone. And you look at, I'm afraid, Jess Phillips herself. She markets herself as, you know, I am resilient. I'm tough. I'm a straight talker when she was standing for Labour leader. She threw in the towel after the first round. She couldn't take the heat. Now, that wasn't because, you know, the left were mounting a particularly spirited campaign. I didn't think that was going on when faced with really the mildest, you know, kind of observation and questioning she crumbled. So we might be overexcited. We might be noisy, but at least we tough it out. At least we will be people of our word. You know, we'll say that we are here to hold the government to account and also be critical of the Labour Party, where they are deserving of that criticism. And we'll stick to the thing that we say we'll do. It's not as if the first time Navarra Media came under any scrutiny or hostility or, you know, antagonism that we were like, oh, God, this seems pretty hard.  No, we didn't do that. So I'm perfectly comfortable with Jess Phillips not liking us. I've just been pondering the title of her new book, everything. I know I mentioned it in the intro, but it's just everything you really need to know about politics, my life as an MP, like how obnoxious and arrogant can you be?  Does she really just think politics can be summarised by her life? You know, it's, it's, it's amazing. And especially as when, when people are actually asked, what do you believe? She had nothing to say at all. So politics for her is just what she does, what her plans are tomorrow, and it doesn't have any meaning beyond that. So here's the thing about Jess Phillips. Like I've spent a lot of time, like slacking her off just now. And she is, I think, a very capable and able self promoter, a very ruthlessly capable self promoter. And what I think she's worked out, as well as I think some other Labour MPs, is that you can try and build outwards, right? You can build outwards by taking people along with you by talking to people who really disagree with you and saying, here's what I can offer you. Here's what we, this movement, this party project can offer you. Or what you can do is kind of cultivate very chummy relationships with people who exist within this very incestuous little circle of, you know, Murdoch journalists and, you know, Bluetick commentators on Twitter. I know I am one, but I'm the cool kind, like a regular Bluetick.  And because she's, you know, in a relatively safe Labour seat, it doesn't really matter that she's not doing that work of saying, well, here is how a Labour government is actually going to better your life. Essentially, what, you know, what she can do is go, you know, here's the work I'm going to do as a constituency MP, that's fine.  You know, that's a great shtick. But like I said, it's not something which stands up to actual pressure, right? She had the opportunity to run for Labour leader, she bottled it. And so she's gone back to doing what she does best, which is write a book with me, myself and I, the Jess Phillips story in the title, and, you know, pitch herself as, you know, the kind of sensible, moderate, as opposed to the kind of loony, infantile, childish, nasty left to the times. I mean, it's a great grift. It's a living, you know, are you going to begrudge her a living? Kiss Tharmus said that he was all about jobs, jobs, jobs. This is hers. Which you already got one. She's an MP and she gets paid quite a lot to represent her constituents, which was my constituents, my constituencies, my constituents that you've written three books in four years.


What's up nerds? I'm Ben and today I'm here to talk to you about the Golden Globes which went down today It's the first big award show off the rank. Did anyone embarrass themselves or the big surprises that went down?  I don't know. Why isn't just one thing that does everything? Why? Why? Why make it hard? Anyway, the Golden Globes, right? So Every year I kind of sit down and I'm like, I'm gonna say some good stuff here You know why? Because the celebs at the Golden Globes Plied with alcohol and I feel like that's always a recipe for disaster and that's what I want to watch I want to disaster This year the thing that's being talked about the most actually happened before the awards on the red carpet there's this random random woman that was serving drinks to people water and She managed to photobomb a lot of people along the way So first and foremost right off the bat. That's probably the thing people are talking about most So do make sure you check all those photos out in detail because some of them are quite hilarious Jamie Lee Curtis is probably my favorite of the bunch But the actual awards, I think this year is a bit of a mixed bag really Probably the thing I was looking forward to the most was seeing how the two hosts Annie Sandberg and Sandra Oh would go and I'm actually a bit disappointed with their performance. They they played it safe I think in the current climate It's not cool to be scathing and mean to people So I think they pulled that stuff back a bit. This is not the Ricky Gervais show that we're used to It was they're trying to be kind. It wasn't a skating was a bit more It was a bit nicer There was a couple of clever jokes here and there more from Sandra Oh rather than than Sandberg, but overall I thought they played it quite safe I actually think two of the presenters on the night Amy Polo and my Rudolph did a great job And they're probably a better pick for the Oscars than what these two would ever be Unless Kevin Hart decides to Let everyone convince him you should do it after all which I don't think is going to happen Let's start with the shock wins on the night So I would honestly say I wasn't expecting Bohemian Rhapsody to take out best drama on the night And I wasn't expecting Green Book to take out best musical or comedy But I think that just goes to show what a kind of average era was at the cinema and the best films I still think weren't even amongst the nominees like, you know a quiet place and leave no trace And I don't know Avengers Infinity War. I mean, I know Marvel put everything into Black Panther this year But I don't think anyone actually thought Black Panther was going to win But yeah, Bohemian Rhapsody seems to be a big mainstream audience favorite But it's it hasn't received the same kind of love from critics So that's why I was genuinely surprised when it took out that award and in the case of Green Book There's been a lot of controversy as to whether that film is accurate and portraying that character's life and whether it's historically accurate Um, a lot of the headlines are talking about a star is born getting snubbed But I didn't generally think that Lady Gaga or Bradley Cooper would win I I heard later on in the piece that Glenn closest performance in The Wife was quite strong And she ended up winning to everyone's shock and surprise Over Lady Gaga and you could hear the gasps from the audience. They were genuinely shocked, especially Glenn close She was pretty shocked. No one's been this shocked since I found out Glenn close was in hook Playing that man with the beard. Remember remember that? That was weird. Okay. So the acting categories The one I was most disappointed in was actually a television category uh, Amy Adams got the snub for Sharp Objects and uh, Patricia Arquette won for Ben Stiller's series Escape at Danimora I thought Amy Adams in Sharp Objects was the best performance I've seen in any HPA show for a long time So that's the only one that's the only category. I really was kind of rooting for someone Um, Patricia Clarkson did win for that show playing a mother if you haven't seen Sharp Objects, do check it out Uh, PS Budd Richard Madden won for Bodyguard, which is a lot of people's favorite show on Netflix last year Very tense show. I think it was well deserved Rami Malek took out Best actor in a drama for Bohemian Rhapsody and he was clearly surprised clearly stoked. He's a really nice dude I don't anyone who criticizes Bohemian Rhapsody. I don't think anyone's criticized him in that film As I said before I never actually thought Bradley Cooper would win in this category I just he was sold in that film But I think his direction of that movie was more impressive than his actual performance And I think Gaga outshines him in that film. So I think this was always Rami's to win And on the other side You've got best actor in a comedy or musical and this was always going to go to christian bale And let's just face the facts. He's going to win freaking everything over award season including the oscar and his speech was quite humorous because He kind of alluded to the fact that when he opens his mouth He says things he regrets and I think he was kind of what he was getting out there is, you know, that Very well-known moment in Terminator salvation. You know the one. Let's cut to it now.  Are you professional or not? Yes, I am.     Ah, da da da da like this in the background.  But yeah, I just thought it was funny in this current climate that he referred to that moment because I honestly think if christian bale blown up on a film set and was made public in that way Like tomorrow he wouldn't be given a second chance, but because all that went down before this current climate I think he got a free pass he's undoubtedly a great actor and He thanked the makeup artists on this film and I think that's that's kind of warranted because much like gary elbin last year They wouldn't have won if it wasn't for the fat face like let's let's face the facts If you have a fat face, you're gonna win an oscar The least biggest surprise of the night was probably lady gargoyle and mark ronston taking out best song for shallow Someone pointed out to me the other day that That song doesn't have a second verse and Now that I've heard that I don't know if I like it as much It's weird. Would it have been that high for them to write a second verse? Well, they're trying to keep it Under a certain amount of time are they thinking about oscar's night when they perform it? And they want to perform it in full but that it can't be too long and because it's going to be like It's definitely going to win oscar's all right. I don't even know why they're bothering with that category Like they should just name the winner already And she's definitely going to cry on the night because man she cried today She loves a good cry But I think nerds everywhere rejoiced when spider-man into the spider-verse took out best animated film Sucked in Incredibles 2 you've got all the money But really this is like there's no one debating that this is this is the best animated film It should go on to win The oscar and yeah, it's just great to see fill lord and chris miller after the year they've had They brought it home. They brought home strong Solo solo is a distant memory now So, uh, yeah go web go So roma is obviously a big talking point because it wasn't eligible for the main drama category But it was in foreign language and that's just a kind of weird thing that the golden globes have a weird rule Where you can't be in one category and not the other category. So our funds are crying got up there Twice so you got up there for foreign language and best director. Look, this guy is going to win a lot of oscar's This this film's had a lot of money put behind it by netflix Is it going to be a historic win for netflix come oscar's time? We'll see what happens over the course of award season because quite often These big films They suffer from fatigue and by the time the oscar's comes around They want to give it to that film that no one's expecting Yeah, so overall this year's golden globes for me were a little bit forgettable I actually do think this is one of the weaker crops of films. We've had in recent times Um, and that was echoed in everything in this award ceremony. Obviously last year Times up all this kind of stuff that was going on There was a lot of um powerful speeches and that whole thing was going on. So it kept the award show kind of Um, like interesting to watch This year it was kind of like that was all gone. There was a lot more color, obviously Not as much black being worn on the red carpet But yeah, it seemed to be everyone was trying really hard not to offend anyone in any of their speeches And as a result of that I think we lost a little bit of the fun of all the speeches I heard today only one of them stood out and it was Olivia Coleman who won for the favorite And um, I think she was pretty tipsy and she um, yeah, she she dropped the f-bomb She swore a few times and she just didn't give a fuck like straight up and that's that's great But I wanted to see more of that like that's what the gobs globes is for because it's a golden globes Like what the hell is the hollywood foreign press association? Anyway, no one even knows So yeah golden globes. I give it But probably like three stars out of five. Um, yeah, so that's it for me for this wrap up We might do a few more of these over the course of award season and we'll definitely do something special for the Oscars Until next time. I'm Ben and we'll see you nerds at the movies Um, and even Mark Ronson was tearing up a little bit as well. God bless his soul Um Was it the right way around? Shit But


of our toolkit for HFE-based multivariate schemes. And this is joined work by John Charles Fouyere, Ludovic Perrette, and Jocelyne Ricketham. And Jocelyne is gonna give the presentation. So, hi, everyone. Today we'll talk software toolkit for HFE-BH multivariate schemes. So, co-work with Jean-Charles Fouyere and Ludovic Perrette. So, today we have the emergence of the content computer, and it is a danger for the multivariate geography. For example, for RSA or discrete algorithm problem-based schemes. So, for this reason, NIST has begun a post-contact geography standardization process in the end of 2017. And one year. So, there is 69 candidates, and one year after, we have only 26 candidates at the second round of the competition. And in particular, we have four over the nine candidates in the signature schemes are multivariate. We have libraries for code-based, and that is based on multivariate, based on schemes, but we don't have libraries for multivariate schemes. So, for this reason, we close the gap with MQsoft. So, what is MQsoft? It is an efficient library implemented in C, and we use the SSE and AVEX2 set instructions. Then, we have in particular implementation of Matsumoto email-based scheme. For example, we have Quartz, GUI, and GEMS. So, GUI is the candidate at the first round of the competition, and GEMS is at the second round of the competition. And for Quartz, it is in 2001, we have NSE competition, it is an open competition, and Quartz has to meet for this competition. And we have also generic application. We have arithmetic in GF2 to the end, in GF2 of X, and in GF2 to the end of X with a linear-type route-finding. We have also operations for multivariate code-based systems in GF2, for example, evolution or change of variables. And finally, we have constant time connection against the timing attack to protect secret data. So, what is Matsumoto email-based scheme? So, the idea is the public key is a multivariate code-based system in GF2 in our case. And the variating process considers us to evaluate the system. For the timing process, we need to invert the public key, and the public key is a component of affine transformation and a special trapdoor we generate in secret system. So, to invert the public key, we need to invert the affine transformation and invert the trapdoor of the secret multivariate code-based systems. In particular, for the HFE-based signature schemes, the trapdoor, the universal trapdoor is just to find the root of a new right polynomial in our case, in GF2 to the end of X. So, for the performance, for Quartz in 2001, we have a fourth signal for the key perseneration, 10th signal to sign on approximately one millisecond to verify a signature. And today, with the N2-soft, so with the new hardware with the Azure processor, but also with our implementation, we have a factor 2,000 on the key perseneration, a factor 500 on the signing process, and a factor approximately 400 for the verifying process. So, the performance for the NISC candidates, the gems on GUI. So, for gems, we have a factor approximately three for the key perseneration. Whereas for GUI, we have a factor between 13 and 26 for the key perseneration. For the signing process, we have approximately a factor two. And for the verifying process, we have a factor between 60 and 100% for Azure processor. And here, we have an example of the architecture of our library for HFC schemes. So, we have the free cryptographic operations, the key perseneration, the signing and verifying process. So, in red, we have the part I talk in this talk. So, for the key perseneration, we need to generate the secret meteorite systems. And for this, we need the multiplication of GF2 of X. So, this is an crucial part of the key perseneration. Then, for the signing process, we need to have the root filing in an univariate polynomial. And for this, we need a arithmetic. So, multiplication is fine in GF2 to the end, but also a arithmetic in GF2 of X. So, here also, the multiplication is on crucial part and also the squaring. And finally, for the verifying process, the main part is just to evaluate on the multivariate quadratic systems. So, the arithmetic is an important part of the verifying, no, the signing and key perseneration process. So, we have generic libraries. For all value of N, we have the implementation of the arithmetic. So, we have a magma, a computer, algebra, software. We have NTL, a C++ implementation, really efficient. We have also print a C implementation, when print is adapted to the binary field. And then, we have a GF2X, a specialized library, just for the multiplication in GF2 of X. And also, we have the implementation for a specific value of N. So, we have a several contexts. We have the context of the binary AT curves. So, we have a five value of N, our standardize. So, we have a specific implementation for this. And we have also a specific value of N for the implementation of GUI. And with MQSF, we have a generic implementation on tie N equal to 576. So, we use a C implementation and we have the AVEX2 instruction send to improve the libraries. We are specialized specifically for the SCALAC Intel processor, but also, recently, for the hardware processors. But, generally, we are efficient for all Intel processors. So, for the multiplication and squaring in GF2 to the N. So, we create GF2 to the N by GF2X consented by a N-degree irreducible polynomial. And we need to have a constant time implementation to be protect, again, the timing attack. So, the multiplication is the most important operation. And for this, we use a PCM-muclic instruction. So, the generation computes the product or 263-degree polynomial in GF2 of X in Y instruction. So, the idea to use the schoolbook algorithm by block of 64 bits. And when we want to multiply two blocks, we just use the PCM-muclic instructions. Then, when the value of N is enough large, we use the Cartov algorithm just to reduce the number of code to PCM-muclic instruction. So, the instruction, this performance depends on the processor. It is faster on the Scalic processor. And so, it impacts when we choose the Cartov-soul-bar-soul-book algorithm for the value of N. Then, for the performance, we have a compare Magma Intel and N-Q-soft for the multiplication in GF2 to the N. So, we have approximately 600 cycles for Magma. We have 200 cycles for N-T-L between 40 and 90 cycles for N-Q-soft. Then, for the squaring, it is a particular operation because to put as a power of two is the characteristic of the field. So, we have a special property with the linearity of the Frobenius and the Morphys. We have the sum of the square and the square of the sum. So, we have a specific implementation for this. So, first, you to use the table lookup of square. So, the idea, we have a special instruction which compute 16 or 22 times in parallel the fact to search eight bits from an index or four bits, search the eight bits in the table. So, if we take four bits, we want the eight bits corresponding to the square, you can use this instruction to have directly the result. So, the instruction is particularly faster on other processors. But for the Scalic processors, we use directly the PCM-Lucidico instruction to compute each block by itself of the square. So, for the performance, for the squaring, we have with magma of 500 cycles. We have 150 cycles for NTA. And for NQSF, we have between 20 and 40 cycles. So, in particular, the squaring is between factor two and factor four faster than the multiplication. So, it is really efficient. Then, for the verifying process, we need an efficient evolution of a multivariate quadratic system. So, we need an efficient representation. So, for this, we can use the representation equation by equation, so the idea. For each equation, we set a monomial order and mistook the coefficient one by one. But it is not efficient on the GF2. The most efficient representation is the representation coefficient by coefficient or monomial representation. So, the idea is to unpack the coefficient of each equation for one monomial. So, we can represent this as just one equation in a big field. So, for example, here we have two equations, the red equation or the blue equation. So, if we create the extension GF4, you multiply the red equation by one, the blue equation by alpha. And if we do the sum, we obtain just one equation, but in the big field. And so, we set a monomial order and mistook the coefficient one by one. So, this representation is already used in 2006 and today we continue to use this in NQSF. So, an example of how we use this representation. So, the verifying process and the public process. So, here we don't need a constant time representation. We just use a variable time representation. So, we set P, the public key representing as one big equation. And we can naturally use quadratic representation of the public key. So, for example, here, the coefficient P23 corresponding to the monomial X2 by X3. And in our example, we want to write P in the vector 1, 0, 1, 0. So, to do this, we begin to initiate an accumulator to the constant of the multivariate quadratic system. Then we look each flow of the matrix. If the variable is one, we know each monomial of this flow is one multiplied by something. So, we look each column. If the variable is one, we have the monomial is one by one equal one. So, in this case, the version is one and we add the coefficient to our current accumulator. But if the coefficient is zero, we know the monomial is one by zero equals zero. So, the version gives zero and we don't add it to our current accumulator. So, we repeat this process. If you have one, we add the coefficient and if you have zero, we don't add the coefficient. Then what happens when the variable is zero for a row? We know how the monomial of this row is zero multiplied by something equals zero. So, the version is zero, we don't look zero and we go directly to the next row. So, and we repeat this process. If it is one, we look each column. If it is one, we add the coefficient and as we have zero, we don't add. And if the variable is zero, we don't look the row and we have finished the example. So, here we have just 25% of the coefficient are not zero. It is normal because the other case, we have one for monomial, it is one by one. So, with this method, we have natural value factor four of speed up for the evaluation. And in MQsoft, we just improve the discretization with the unroll loops and also with the Euclain division just to have a faster access of the variable x1, x2, x3, x4. And we have also special faster discretization in constant time, useful for encryption or for the signing process also. And particularly on Skylake, we have a factor 10% on the state of the art with the specific of x2 sections. And finally, the last most important operation for the signing process is the root signing in jf2 to the n of x. So, how we find the roots? We use the better categorisms of the principle is you have the polynomial x as the power 2 to the n minus x. This polynomial, whole roots are whole amount of jf2 to the n. So, if we take this polynomial and we compute the gcd with f, we have the polynomial g and this polynomial has a minimal degree and contains all roots of f. And when we have this polynomial, we can use an equal degree factorization algorithm, for example, the Kantor-Zasenov algorithm to find whole roots. In practice, to compute directly the gcd is bad because the degree is really high. So, in first, we compute the modernization of the x as the power 2 to the n minus x modulo f and then we compute the gcd to decrease the degree. So, in our case, the first step is the most important step because it is really long. But we are, in our case, with a specific polynomial, we have an hfe polynomial and we have a particular structure. We have quadratic form because for whole monomials, the degree has a aiming rate at most 2. So, it is naturally quadratic form with the number of coefficients is the square of the log of d, with d, the degree of the hfe polynomial. So, for the first step, we can compute this with a repeating scoring algorithm. So, it is really simple. We have x and we compute the square and we do the modernization at each step just to reduce the degree during the algorithm. And in the binary field, we have, when we compute the square, a whole degree term are zero because we have the linearity of the Frobenius-Andomorphism. And then for the modernization, for a random polynomial, we have a complexity big O of the square of d operation. But in our case, f is sparse, so we can replace the complexity d by d by complexity d by the number of coefficients of f. So, by the square of log d operation, in particular multiplication in gf2 to the n. And we want to improve this algorithm. So, we have an id. So, for e, a step in particular, we set the gradient division of the square of xi by f. And we set for f and q a particular split. We split the polynomial in two parts. The lower part are dense polynomial and the higher part have a special particular property. Whole degree term are zero. So, half of the coefficient are zero for this polynomial. So, by definition, we have these properties, the probability one and two. But we have also this third property if we have d and even integer. And we have the id to remove to f just the largest a degree term. And we ask what happens if we split the result. And if we split the result, we have the degree of the lower part decreases, is divided by two. And the higher part, the sizing increases. And it is interesting because the higher part increases and the half of the coefficient are zero. And if you have this for f, you have this for q. And the id, if you remove many terms in q, we decrease the complexity of the modal reduction. So, with the id, we have a theorem. We just remove a parameter f of a degree term in f. And if you remove a whole degree term, for example, we have a factor two in the modal reduction. So, a small example here with a degree 130. So, we remove s terms. We remove, at each time we remove one term, we have the degree of the largest a degree, the largest a degree term is divided by two, at each time. And we mark the speed of, if we remove all terms, is 100%. In particular, if you remove only three terms, for example, you have already a big part of the speed of. You have a 77% for s equal to three, for example. So, it is interesting. Then, we are asking what is the impact on the security because the HGP is a part of the secret key. So, we look the Grumner-Bedil attack. So, the id, we have a complexity against HGP by the scheme in a big o of n of the power omega by the degree of frugarity. So, the degree of frugarity is an tool to analyze the security and omega is the, exponent is the complexity of the product matrix. And we mark in our case, if we don't remove terms, we have a degree of frugarity, it is five. And if you remove terms, it is always five. So, it is okay. But for other degree, for example, if we take big d equal 514 and we remove many terms at the end, we have the degree of frugarity decreases. So, in this case, it is injures for the security and it is not, we must not remove two terms. But if you remove only, for example, three terms, we have already a big part of the speedup and the security is not impacted. So, to conclude for the rose findings, for the performance, we compare NTA and magma M2 soft. So, in mega-stakers, we have 1,000 and 4,000 for NTA. For magma, we have a similar performance. But we remark, when we remove three terms, magma succeeds to improve the algorithm. But we think it is because magma use on a variable time implementation. It looks if a coefficient is zero or not zero during the multiplication. Whereas in N2 soft, we know if the coefficient is zero or not zero. And so, we have a speedup with a constant time implementation for the Frobenius map, the redness current algorithm. And we have also a big speedup between factor seven and factor 13. And for the conclusion, so M2 soft is a really efficient library in CIF. So, it is also as efficient as generic libraries. No, it is most efficient at the general libraries. But for the specific computation, we are similar or faster also. We improve the NIST candidates. And you have a strategy with the parameters S to improve the same process. But we think we need to improve, to study in depth the security against other attack, for example, Minerank or other. Then, in the route finding, we need to use the GCD and at some moment, in constant time. So, we think with the previous talk, we can solve this problem. And finally, we think with a new instruction set, AVEX512 are also with the VPCMU QDQ in the S-flagged processors in the future. It can improve, release the multiplication and the cryptographic operation. So, thank for your attention if you have a question. Okay, so we are a little bit behind schedule. So, if you have any question, please let's take them offline. And now, let's all thank the, all the speakers of this session.


Why 254, imagine? We have Junrita Muridi who is the Deputy Chairperson of Strait Talk Association. I also have Robert Ndegwa who is the Brand Manager of Strait Talk Organization. Lady and gentlemen, you are so much welcome to our studios tonight. Thank you very much. So first things first, what is Strait Talk all about? Strait Talk is a group formed by the youth and it's a group to address the issues facing the youth. Most importantly, we look on the issues of depression because we see most of the youth today are committing suicide. We don't know why. Some of them don't have good guidance from back home. People are facing economic issues leading them to drug abuse and other things. So we find a forum where we as the youth can help ourselves because you look at the counselors, most of them they are not young. So you go asking for advice and you just get advice which you cannot apply. So we find a solution whereby as the youth how can we help ourselves to grow ourselves because in Kenya the youth have been greatly neglected. Thank you. So maybe Robert can tell us what was the inspiration behind this particular name Strait Talk? The inspiration was after a certain girl was abused sexually and because she had no one to talk to, we had to reach to her and talk to her. Then we found out that we can maybe use a bigger platform to address these issues because we understand that it is not just one person who is facing such things. There are more people out there who are facing such things and we want to address them in a more bigger platform so that we can be able to reach more people. So what's the motive behind this initiative? The motive here is to change lives. It is to change so that when you condemn and say that drugs are not good, you must show that person how are they not good, how are they not going to affect me or they are going to affect me. For example, there is this joke that goes around our campuses. When you take weed, it is going to make you go high and you are going to read so much, study so well throughout the night. Then tomorrow you are going to remember everything and pass those exams. But in the real sense we don't talk about health, the long term effect. What is going to happen after we use marijuana, what is going to happen after the excessive use of alcohol you get. So it is to address these issues so that you can know them. So that even when as you take those drugs, as you abuse them, you know it's not good and it's not good for your health. So I meant to understand that a person that is abusing drugs takes quite a long time to maybe recover and get back to their senses. How do you plan to deal with such situations to make sure that you've changed these people completely? I think right now we identify the persons and then we make sure that they have changed rehabilitation centres. It's quite an issue because some of the parents are not willing to pay because they are like how can you abuse drugs and then expect me to pay for you. But we are looking on to educating our parents and even looking for funding from elsewhere to help our members to curb the issue of drug addiction.  We hold events actually, that's what we have been doing for some time now. You see when we hold a big event and invite a big artist, people are going to turn out in big numbers, they are going to come. So when they come we use that opportunity to address them and also we can address them like in this platform right now. So this is another way of addressing the youths. So let's talk of maybe a conference of what you have spoken about. Has it been productive enough to reach the target group you want to reach? Yes it has been productive because after reaching those people, after holding those events, you find that some want to have more reach to us. The contactors and tellers have been facing these and these and these and we try how we can help them. But so far we are not at a point whereby we can rehabilitate those who have been affected by drugs or anything. That's why we do not have enough funds for now because we just started not so long ago. So John Rita maybe you can take us through the process that you take as an association to ensure that you deal with a person's depression. Okay on matters of depression first we ask the person like most of the times most of them send me emails. They don't want to speak out in public maybe on the Instagram page, on the Facebook page they don't want. So when they send the email I'll send the issue in anonymous. I can not say that it's Robert Ndegwa who has said that he has depression. So when I send I will get discussions from all the teams that talk in our various groups. Then we'll find the solution which we can help the person according to the level of depression. If that is mild depression mostly in Kampas you find people are depressed because maybe they were at Brooklyn, they broke up with their boyfriends. So when you send them the feedback and they talk to you, you tell them you have to do this procedure to detox yourself from the depression. Like then after like a week you check out on them and you'll like you see how they are going on and most of them are going on well actually. So is this the same case with dealing with people who are abusing drugs? Does it take the same like period? Okay with drugs is kind of difficult because like drugs the addiction is almost permanent so it has to go up to rehabilitation. But with depression it's so easy because it's about the mindset with depression. Mostly in Kampas the depression is not that serious. It's about petty issues, financial crisis, something small. But with the drugs we have a long way to go. I'd say that but we'd like to ask for support from government because the minister of youth is there to help the youth and most of the youth do not get help to curb these issues especially on drug addiction. Most of them have come from the rehab centers and they have gone back to drugs. We don't know why and we are trying to look for the solution to that. So Robert I meant to understand that this organization also helps young people who have business ideas being a position to acquire funds. Talk to us about that. I'm going to give an example with myself. I'm a kumbri that Jamukiniata University of Agriculture and Technology and I take a bachelor's degree in economics.  And that's why I'm in a position to reach those people who have business ideas so maybe we can know how we can help them. Now when I talk to them most of the times I use an example of Waren Buffet. I guess right now he's the second richest in the world if I'm not wrong according to the last statistics I read. And the guy became rich after doing so many partnerships. Now the thing is when you find a kumbri with a business idea he's going to tell you that he has no sources of finances but this is how we advise people. If you do not have enough funds we believe that you have a little savings. You can partner with another person then after you partner you can use that partnership and maybe go to even greater heights. Because myself I started with partnerships before maybe I put up some of my businesses in Jujja and out of Jujja you get. But saying that you are going to start alone unless you have the full amount. Now but when we find that the business idea is so huge and maybe it's a multimillion idea of which bird will come out to pick up we can still look before funds from NGOs maybe even the youth fund from the government. So far we have been able to motivate a few individuals like for example straight talk association it has people from all campuses. I'm from Jikwat we have June from another campus we have Ivin from another campus and others from other campuses so that we can be able to reach each and every person. Now like from my area what we've been able to do who have come to us with business ideas I've last with June I've last with Ivin then we've seen how we can do it. Now you find that then by the end of the day if the business becomes successful I'm going to get a share she's going to get a share but eventually the owner of the idea is going to get the greater share. In Jujja we have one of our friend in Gashororo so far he has a hotel we have another one from Jujja but has put Abotik in Ghidorai but it is just after they brought their business ideas on table then we discussed and decided how we can help them. So if you are from Jujja and you know I'm from there I talk to people because I do politics but I'm in opposition politics happen to be among the leaders in the opposition politics Jujja Pluto is there for you Pluto is there when you need to talk to straight talk association we can be able to help you not necessarily to fund your ideas but we can do some partnerships and you are going to see your way to somewhere when you partner in your first, second or third business maybe you'll be able to sponsor yourself in the fourth business you know Yes So maybe Junrita talk to us about how is it for you as an association to accept an idea that comes in especially a business idea and sure that you are going to cater for it to the fullest Okay in business we look for the viability of the business I think so although I'm a lost student I know some business but in business we look for how the business is going to help us because if you come with an idea that is maybe for fetched or which will not generate income that idea might not be so welcome so when we have the ideas which are let's say market to the we come together we join as a group and we say who wants to be a passionate in this business just as my friend has said and then the ones who are ready to put up their savings into the business they join and after some time you see that they are getting progress you see that someone has opened their own business out of their first business which they were together maybe they were together five then the next time they have their own separate businesses maybe where you come from up counts you set up a business you employ someone there because in Kenya the issue is the issue about the youth and economies because most of the youths want to be employed employed in jobs where they will get a job where they will be paid like they will be paid every month but then sometimes it's so difficult so you have to start your own business you can even start a business of maybe farming maybe you have like maybe I have a shamba but then like I have an ancestral shamba at home and then I'm not utilizing it I can talk to someone else let's say I can talk to my friend Robert or someone and then they are like I would like to plant potatoes so we come to an agreement that this will be a percentage this will be my percentage so after that the first time maybe we want to grow as much we go to the next time then we can start now going our own separate phase to make more bigger businesses because when you start as a person pekiako it gets so difficult most of the time the finances it becomes a serious issue so do you guys have like a social media platform where we can find you? yeah we have our Instagram Page Street Rock Association and our Facebook Page Street Rock Association so Facebook, Street Talk Instagram Street Talk remember you can still be part of this conversation by simply sending in your question or comment beginning with the word news or tweeting us if one annula at 2254 channel the hashtag to use is why 2554 update so how are you planning to promote talent growth? yes for example myself I am also an artist and I understand what many artists go through in fact I have a friend of mine who is a spoken word artist who is called Mr. Weg and there is a time he wrote in his status that we as artists have bills to pay so I discourage artists from going and performing free shows completely because most of artists they do it as a work they do it to get means of livelihood so I discourage them from doing free shows even us Strike Talk Association when we do this kind of shows there is that entry fee and whatever has been paid by people we also have that platform for the upcoming artists when you wanna chipuka then we give them a chance to perform whereby we are going to give something small at the end of the show and we give them a platform and we pay them after they perform that's how we help them then we motivate them and talk to them those who have talents and have not been able to make their way through we still help them for example we have an artist in EMB Records he's called Peter Peace he just released his first song like 2 months ago Peter Peace came to us he told us he has a talent but before he joins the campers he want to see something out of the talent coming up so it was a very hard task to even convince his parents that the son has a very great talent so I went in EMB Records I booked him a space to record he recorded, did an audio and the other day he did a video and right now he's going somewhere not Peter Peace when he goes on and does a collab with another artist at least we can say that there was a seed planted in a stretch talk association that's how we go to him I also think on the same issue especially on the ladies most of them they come to they inbox me and they're like I'd like to do modeling I'd like to do acting but I don't get the platforms so right now we have an agency in Nakuru okay our child lady Iveen she's recruiting members they are females to join the agency so they can contact her on Instagram at Royal Temptress and then they can join them and then on the acting we are majoring on forming a group where we can make our own films or maybe we can go to perform in theaters because we have many poets many spoken word artists many script writers but then when you go to national theater when you start acting the first time they'll give you a very small role and most of the youth they just give up at that point so we are looking for a platform where we as the youth can start as our own because even right now on TV the people who are always acting are the ones who are always acting even when you are kids yes so like the upcoming people they you find that you are upcoming you have talent you don't get the platform so you want to start our own films we go across the country having small kids and stuff so what are like your target your biggest target Brooke for now our biggest target for now is to start our own talent club with our own dance crew our own actors our own singers poets and everything and also to reach more compasses because right now I think we are in Kenyatta University or Kenyatta University of Agriculture we want to reach to other universities because we have very many compasses in Kenya and if we come together as the youth in Kenya we can make a change because it's time for change and the time is true so Robert when I hear about street talk association I'm probably interested in knowing how you are going to deal with pertinent issues that are facing young people in a way that they are facing young people in a way that they are facing young people in a way that they are facing young people in a way that they will understand you know young people are stubborn Yes now myself have ever been a motivational speaker of which I still do motivation I remember when I did my KCSE and I became a high school teacher mathematics teacher for a month from four before near KZ dreadlocks before joining university and there is a school I went to talk to that is talk to young people and there is something I realized that when maybe somebody who is grown and maybe even more mature and have a suit and end up in a leisure sometimes it becomes so tricky for them to even comprehend what he is saying but when we go with a team of young people like from university and we visit a certain high school this one is going to say that I'm from KCSE University I do this course the other one will say I do actual science from KU University and will be able to to present like all courses maybe I do a business course is doing a health course is doing another kind of a course now after we talk we ask these high schoolers to see us then those are interested in doing business courses they are going to see that guy who does a business course others are going to see that one who does a certain course like I'll be able to mentor those minds specifically that want to do a business course you get the other one will mentor those people who want to do medicine who want to do surgery pharmacy and that kind of a thing so we are able to reach them at the point of need but when it comes to general motivation we just tell them that you can do it because you have the brains and you have God so do you currently have partners in this organization or the people you are looking up to maybe you want them to partner with you yes right now we have shares so that people can come and buy shares maybe we start but if you are there and you have millions but you have money in bank and they are doing nothing let me tell you something in straight talk association we love people with multimillion ideas and they can turn those millions you have in your account into billions so if you want to partner with us the flow is open for anyone you are going to benefit and you are going to benefit we want to see actors in straight talk association acting in Hollywood films we want to see musicians performing in very great platforms as in we hear someone that started in straight talk association is the next whiskey next diamond platinum so if anyone wants to find with us or find us you can join in you are very welcome so maybe your final words Jun Rita and Robert your final words are concerning this particular topic and maybe to someone who wants to get involved with the organization okay my final word is that straight talk is home to all the youths you are welcome whether you are in college campus KMTC any other college any other higher education platform and also I want to thank our members for the supports so far I never knew that the group would go this far actually I had given up and I texted the chairperson and told her let's dissolve this group and she was like no once you start planting a seed you must watch it until it grows so thank you to team straight talk and we are requesting for more members from other campuses if your campus is not yet our member please find us on Instagram at Street Talk Association and thank you so much for this show Robert Now towards something on what Junha said Street Talk Association we just don't involve ourselves with only campus students the floor is open for everyone even those street kids because we usually even perform those street walks we visit those kids we go even to children's homes so we are not closed to university students we are open to everyone who can join us now we can continue to interact with you and follow me on my IG handle that is thepluto the underscore pluto THWE underscore pluto and twitter activistpluto because what I understand is we want to liberate from the bondage of deprivation from the bondage of poverty from the bondage of poor education and any other kind of bondage so you can feel free to interact and to even find us thank you thank you so much generator and Robert for coming through we really appreciate it so you've heard it it's not about the problems that you have of course no one saw the problems in the world there are people who can help you and these are the street talk association thank you so much for joining us tonight on the program my name is Yvonne and you'll enjoy the rest of your evening


One more question to write down. One mole of an ideal gas is allowed to expand. One mole of an ideal gas is allowed to expand reversibly and adiabatically. Write down the question. One mole of an ideal gas is allowed to expand reversibly and adiabatically from a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius. Adiabaticity. From a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius, if the work done by the gas in the process is 3 kJ, if the work done by the gas in the process is 3 kJ, what is the final temperature? CV is given. 20 kJ, CV value is this. One mole of an ideal gas is allowed to expand reversibly and adiabatically from a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius. If the work done by the gas in the process is 3 kJ, final temperature is what? CV value is given, 450 is one of the option we have. What is CV? Yeah, it's 450. 450 is the answer given in CV. It's 150 answer, 450 is the answer given in CV. The answer is 150 Kelvin, check your calculation. Yeah, it's 150. Yeah, it's 150. It's 150. The question is what? The question is final temperature. The final temperature is equal to final temperature. What are you getting? 177. 177. What? The options are 150, 150, 400. One mole of an ideal gas is allowed to expand reversibly and adiabatically from a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius. Over and you have to go to the next table. Okay, then. What we need to use NCB data? Okay, next slide down. Second law of fruit is, right? So before going into the statement of this law, first two, three things we need to understand. Right? Sir, what happened in the first law? What do you expect more? What do you expect more? Sir, there is no actual statement to it. What did you do in the last class? Sir, what do you expect more? Sir, what do you expect more? Sir, what does this mean? Sir, they have a proper statement. Sir, they have a proper statement. Sir, they have a proper statement. Sir, they have a proper statement. Sir, I see you. First of all, I want you to understand this second law of thermodynamics, One thing we have to understand here, that is spontaneous and non-spontaneous process. What is this spontaneous process? Which does not require any extra movement. What are you going to do? On its own. On its own. What is this process if I take you to the roof and push to come down? What is this process? Spontaneous. Spontaneous. It's spontaneous, its process is, like you said it's correct. It is a process which takes place on its own. Far after proper initiation. Initiate and then leave. That process will be done. Right? So diesel petrol if you burn it, then it will be done by itself. So that is also spontaneous. One process where you have now. Spontaneous. It's non-fire. Yeah, so that's what it is. Either it takes place on its own or after proper initiation. Initiate and then leave. If it is happening, it is spontaneous. Diesel, diesel it is spontaneous. That's what it is. Yeah. I was taken on fire and spontaneous. No, no, no. I said the process is when the fuel catches fire. Right? So that requires initiation. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. Yeah, right. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. Yes, yes. Okay, guys. See, first of all, for any process, try to understand this. For any process to take place, there are two criteria we have. Okay? One is don't write now. One is energy criteria. And other one is for a randomness. Energy and area of randomness. Any process, if it is going from high energy to low energy state, that is spontaneous process because low energy state is what? Stable state. Right? Energy criteria means what? Any exothermic process. We can understand exothermic process is an energy raising process and we are going from high to low energy state so it is possible. Right? But we also know there is also endothermic process possible. Right? So endothermic process also takes place. Right? But in this process, we are going from low to high energy state. Right? But still since it is taking place, so there are other factors also which because of that factor only this process is taking place. So what is that factor? Okay? So for example, you see if water, H2O liquid, when you heat this, it converts into a vapor phase, right? H2O gas. Right? So here we have more energy, less energy, but this process takes place. Right? So what is the factor for this that we need to understand? Exothermic process is what? Suppose we have what example we can take exothermic energy releases, right? H2O, vapor. So CO plus H2O, CO is minus. So that is exothermic. No, that is endothermic. Combustion of hydrocarbons, exothermic process, energy comes up. Combustion of hydrocarbons, many examples are there. Combustion of hydrocarbons, energy comes out into this. Okay? Exothermic process. So exothermic process, fine. Endothermic process we have here. Like I said, here we have more energy and here we have less energy. But since the process is taking place, obviously we have some other factor because of that this process is taking place and that factor is nothing but the randomness. The randomness of any system we define by a thermodynamic term we call it as entropy. Don't write this now. Just let me explain this what we are going to do. Right? So entropy. So now we have two factors for a reaction to take place of process take place. One is energy factor and another one is entropy. So energy we call it as enthalpy, delta H. And entropy is S, delta H. So for any process if you have to understand whether the process is taking place or not you have to consider these two factors. Entropy and entropy, right? In reactions also, right? In reactions also. Now actually if the process is I will come back to this point. Is spontaneous process takes place on its own or of a proper initiation? No, it is not like non-expertimist process does not take place. Condition for any process of take place whether it is spontaneous or not. I am just trying to make you understand what factor we need to consider to understand the physicality of any process. So we have two factors in helping at randomness. That is improper here. So when we have these two thermodynamic terms so you have to consider these two factors to understand about the process. So what we did in here, we combined these two factors with the help of temperature and we have given a new thermodynamic term which formula is this and this we call it as Gibbs free energy. You try to understand the significance of this. Why we require this Gibbs free energy? If this delta G is not there then you have to consider two factors delta H and delta S. So what we did, we combined these two factors and we have given a new thermodynamic term. And with this thermodynamic term we can understand whether the process is spontaneous, physical or not. That is the significance of Gibbs free energy. Because entropy depends upon double, we will discuss that later. This is the whole thing which we need to understand about here. Another process is spontaneous and non-inspontaneous process. So spontaneous process are those process which takes place on its own or after a proper initiation. So this is the unit for delta S. Delta S is joule per mole per degree or calories. It is energy, see first of all. What is this unit of this? Energy. Energy. What is this? Energy. This should also be energy. Right. So this is equals to energy per Kelvin is delta S. Yeah. Take it. Okay. So a spontaneous process are those process which takes place on its own or after a proper initiation. For example, flow of water down the hill. Right. Non-inspontaneous process are those process for which we need to put some extra effort into it. And continuously it does not mean that non-inspontaneous process does not take place. Okay. It takes place by some external source, external energy. You stop that energy, the process won't take place. When you switch on the motor in the household, the water goes into the tank, into the roof. Right. Through the pipe. If you switch off the motor, the water does not flow into the pipe. Right. Because we are going from low energy to high energy. Right. Low potential to high potential. For that you need to give some energy into it. Right. So this process is what? This is non-inspontaneous process. You should switch off the motor, the water does not flow. Right. But when the water comes down the hill, it's high to low. Easily it can come out. Right. So that's why it is an spontaneous process. So first of all you just keep this in mind that non-inspontaneous process does not mean that the process does not take place. It takes place when you supply energy into it. So both process possible. One requires continuous energy, supply of energy. And one, it takes place on its own or after a proper initiation. Correct. Right. So for any process we have two factors like I discussed. Energy and randomness. Energy means enthalpy, randomness means entropy. These two conditions, we are combining these two conditions, these two thermodynamic term and we have given a new thermodynamic term that is Gibbs free energy. And on the basis of this only we will define whether the given reaction is feasible or not. And the condition for that is what delta G less than 0. Right. Delta G is equals to 0, the system is at equilibrium. So why and how we get that condition delta G less than 0 that also we will discuss. Right. So first of all you write down this term spontaneous process. Spontaneous process. Spontaneous process. Write down. There's a process which has a natural tendency. Process which has a natural tendency to occur by its own. To occur by its own. Or after a proper initiation under a given set of conditions. Example you write down. Flow of electricity. Flow of water down the hill. All these are, all these process does not require any initiation. Right. Burning of fuels. Carbon. Requires initiation. Burning of fuels or carbon. Requires initiation. Right. That is also spontaneous but it requires initiation. Okay. Write down this line. Spontaneity means, Spontaneity means feasibility of a process. But Potential difference. Even like the flow of water. Even also the heat flows in because of difference in temperature. That is also spontaneous. Two objects at different temperature well comes into contact. Heat. Transportation. That is also spontaneous. But there's a continuous energy. Even the flow of water. There's continuous gravitational energy. So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, So, And where are we Okay. Distinct. Another thing, So, So, So, So, so, So, heat flows from high temperature to low temperature that is spontaneous current electricity flows from high potential to low potential that is also spontaneous. So, whenever you have potential difference flow of current will be there potential difference is 0 there is no current no flow still gravity is there. So, gravity we are not considering in that way so, all the process becomes on its context is not taking place right. So, that is not we are considering. So, example what did you write all these three examples we have carbon and fuel burning is also spontaneous, but requires initiation next point you write down spontaneity means the feasibility of a process and the process can be very slow or extremely fast resting of iron is also an spontaneous process very slow right one note you write down all natural process are spontaneous and irreversible in nature irreversible in nature next point non spontaneous process write down it is a process it is a process which does not occur on its own which does not occur on its own or or by any initiation example flow of heat from cold to hot body diffusion of gas from low pressure to high pressure diffusion of gas from low pressure to high pressure one note you write down flow of heat from cold to hot body cold to hot air spontaneity is not taking place it is hot to go to school is hot to go to school Can you say that any any any reaction is non-sporters no it is a different it is non-sporter this one yes see water when you boil it converts into vapor right so boiling is a non-inspontaneous process but evaporation is an inspontaneous process in that also the water is converting into vapor water both the process one is spontaneous other one is non-inspontaneous boiling is non-inspontaneous evaporation is spontaneous we are getting vapor only driving force here it is what in in both the process driving force is entropy because of entropy only the process is taking place because gaseous particles has more entropy than liquid particles it has more random motion now when you see if you have two gases one at high energy other low energy so high energy more randomness will be there so that gaseous particles will have high entropy right so both process evaporation and boiling evaporation is spontaneous boiling is non-inspontaneous continuously we have to provide the heat okay non-inspontaneous but in both the process we are getting vapor the driving force is still same and that is entropy not energy right that's why we have two conditions two factors for any process to take place one is enthalpy other one is entropy to understand the process is feasible or not you need to consider these two factors and later on to you know reduce our effort to combine these two factors and we have given a new term that is history energy okay so right now next one note you write down it is not always true that non-inspontaneous process it is not always true that non-spontaneous process does not occur at all non-inspontaneous process does not occur at all it may take place when when the energy supplied from any external source from any external source okay