Hello and welcome to this week's Encompass Live. I'm Krista Burns, your host. Encompass Live is Nebraska Library Commission's weekly online event. We cover NLC activities, any library of topics that may be of interest to Nebraska libraries and librarians. We do this every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Central Time. It is free, it is online, and it is recorded for future listening if you need to. This morning we have Susan Franklin from Hastings Public Library who will be taking us through putting Facebook to work for your library and talking about what they did with using Facebook for the Perkins Library at Hastings College. Go ahead Susan. Hello everyone, thank you for joining us and I appreciate your patience as I move through my first time presenting in Central Live. Hopefully you won't know the difference. My goal today is not to show you how necessarily to set up a Facebook page for your library but to show you how we are using it to do some of the work that a library needs to get done. And really it just enhances which we'll get into that. Everything you already do. So it provides one more outlet or way to accomplish the goals and duties of your library. Okay, so what is Facebook and who uses it? Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family, and coworkers. And what Facebook does basically, they've coined this term social graph. So they're digitally mapping your real world social connections. So in other words, in a personal way, you can connect through Facebook to your elementary school chums, to your high school chums, to former teachers, to college mentors, to family and friends all across the world, colleagues, etc. So what Facebook does is make that connection live again. And some of those connections, at least for me, have not been live for a long time. Facebook's mission is to make the world more open and connected. And it's doing a pretty spiffy job. There are over 175 million active users, supposed to be minimum age 13. Of course, we know that there are younger kids on it. And question mark as to how old the oldest users are. Facebook is officially a pop culture icon. It seems wherever you go, someone is talking about Facebook. It's applications and memes. So much copied and widely distributed ideas, or in the case of Facebook lists, those of you who have Facebook accounts know about the 25 things meme, which asks you to tell 25 things about yourself and then your friends, family, and whatnot get to comment on those 25 things. The 25 things is so widely known that people are writing about it in the New York Times, they're writing about it in things like Entertainment Weekly. Just last week, as I was starting to prepare for this presentation, of course, Facebook redesigned launched its new redesign. So in Entertainment Weekly, fearing the new Facebook redesign made its pop culture big events of the week, which is sort of funny. Okay. Statistics who is on Facebook, the 35 to 54 year old demographic has grown 276.4% in six months, which is crazy. The 55 plus demo is not far behind with 194.3 growth rate. And the 25 to 34 year population of Facebook is doubling every six months. So in other words, guess what? Facebook is where your users are. And as anyone who deals in publicity or social networking will tell you, we need to be following our users. This you're not going to be able to see really clearly on the slide, but I'm going to give you a sort of brief history of Facebook. I'm not going to get too bogged down, but it came on the scene in 2004. And originally it was Harvard students, college students only. It was simply a directory. So it listed your name, your contact info, a picture and your interests. And it was work intensive. So if you wanted to find out what picture Krista had posted, or what Michael's contact info was, or what Carolyn had recently put on her page, you actually had to go to the person's page and look. And you'll see as we get to that point, that has changed. In 2005, Facebook opened itself to professionals, students from other colleges and even high school students. In 2006, a news feed was added which highlighted friend information on your own home page. So instead of me having to go to Michael's page to get his updates, now his updates are coming to my home page displaying on my home page when I log in, which is a wonderful thing in terms of ease. In 2007, the term social graph was coined to describe how Facebook maps out people's connections. And again, it's important to remember that these connections exist in the real world. All Facebook does is map them out and facilitate the ease with which you maintain these connections.  You don't, you're not looking to have friends or members that are complete strangers to your library if that makes sense in the same way that I don't want Facebook friends who are complete strangers to me. So Facebook maps out real world connections. In 2008, Facebook had a redesign graphically which made the wall the central focus. And this was a huge step in the direction of helping people share immediate experiences.  And everyone could see it. And it was a great way to let people know in real time how you as an individual or you as a library what you're doing, what you're feeling, what you're working on, et cetera. In 2006, another change was made. Companies, government entities, organizations, et cetera, were encouraged to join Facebook as, you know, I'm not sure, as pages. I'm a little unclear because when Hastings College started its Facebook presence, you couldn't have an institutional profile. So you had to have a group page and we'll get to that. And then just last week, a merge, two weeks ago, March 11th, shift happened. Facebook underwent another redesign. The layout is different. The emphasis of information is streamed. So it's more of a real time flow than even before. And then public figures, celebrities, organizational profiles, look, act, and display their content more like personal ones. And that content is integrated onto your personal page just as the information that your friends and family and personal contacts are posting. 2010, what's going to happen with Facebook? Your guess is as good as mine. Is everyone still with me? Yes. Excellent. Okay. All right. So the value of a web-based social networking system is fairly simple. Facebook, and of course, there are other sites, but Facebook is, makes the most sense to me. Facebook allows you to translate your personal or institutional self into an online presence or entity. So moving your library to a cyber presence. It allows you to make connections to family, friends, colleagues, patrons, and others. And again, based on existing real-world contacts. Then you can base connections on similar interests, activities, hobbies, groups, et cetera. So you can find people who are also members of American Library Association or you can connect with the folks at the Nebraska Library Commission, things of that nature. And you can share contact and interact. So you can comment, you can contribute, you can get feedback, you can have dialogue with your connections. Tech guru David Lee King predicts that an eye-thru and effective social networks will someday be like air. That is to say they will be integrated seamlessly into our lives. And for some of us, they already are. If you're a Facebooker, you're getting email notices, you're checking it. Some people Twitter, people have blogs. So David Lee King is saying that it's going to happen. We're going to be surrounded by social networks. And he says that there are three things needed to make social networks like air. The first is identity, who you are. So you need to carry that out consistently across social networks. Contacts, who you know. So presumably no matter what social network you're using, your contacts are going to remain the same because they are real world contacts. And then activities, what you do. As I said, Facebook is just one way to experiment with integrating social networks into your library. And the great thing is, it is as easy as Kings 123, quite literally. So the first step, identity, who you are. Facebook says it's a customizable presence for an organization, product or public personality to join the conversation with Facebook users. And those statistics where I said, your users are on Facebook, that's where they are. For example, my direct users, college students, most of them have Facebook accounts. Some of them are slightly too extremely addicted to Facebook. And they're already there. It's just we need to be there. And to do that, you translate the essence of your library, of who you are as a library, into a Facebook page that then speaks volumes about your information, your users or your fans, if you have a page, your events, your photos and video, your wall and your updates. Pause, and I don't want to be confusing, but when Perkins Library started its Facebook presence, Facebook was anti-institutional. It was anti-organizational. It said that a library or a store or a company could not have a profile. You could only have individual profiles. So Susan Franklin had an individual profile. Then, if you wanted a presence on Facebook for your library, company, business, organization, you had to create a group page. So we created a student named it because it speaks to who we are and what we do. I recline on couches living on coffee and J-Store, Friends of Perkins Library. Group in Facebook. Several years later or a year later, Facebook became non-anti-institutional and we contemplated switching, but the disadvantages, so migrating our content, making our members rejoin a page, losing certain functions and utilities seemed too large of a task. So we decided if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The caveat is this may change. Now that pages have undergone another redesign and another utility change in that now the, as I said, the information is seamlessly integrated, we may want to make a change, but I'm not quite convinced we're going to do that yet. Stay tuned. All right, group versus page. Our group, we have basic and contact info, officers, members, events, discussion board, wall, photos, links, and video. And a crook coercion, any way we can get them, including Facebook badges on our webpage, which Facebook at the bottom of your profile or your page, you can actually at the bottom of your personal profile, there's a clickable button create a badge and it's really easy. You plug in the coding and there you go. Word of mouth. We have signage in our computer labs. Hey, we're on Facebook. We put that we have a Facebook presence on all of our library literature, brochures, flyers, training handouts. We promote it to our colleagues on campus statewide and nationally. Of course, we have some people who are interested in what we're doing at the library because they are our personal friends and family. We have members who are student assistants and library groupies. And yes, we have them. Free coffee might be the reason, but we have them. Media outlets, we promote in our HC announcements, which is our daily email announcement to staff, faculty and students. We take the opportunities when they arise, when we have events to get the word out in our college newspaper, TV station and radio station. And then we also have alliances with professional association or entities, such as HC Broncos has a profile, a local bakery has a profile who is one of our members. So any way you can get them. Now, if you're in a school environment, you know, I would recommend having some guidelines for friending if you're doing a group, but with the page that should be taken care of, I think. All right. And then finally, third activity is what you do. And here is to me where the true value of Facebook is. As I said, it gives you one more place to carry out the core activities you already do. So your programming, your services, such as reference, your library instruction, your public relations or visibility, connecting with patrons, the list is endless. Everything you do in your brick and mortar building in the course of operating your library, you can translate that into Facebook. Hang on slide. There we go. This is simply what we do on Facebook. So these are some examples. We use Facebook to inform and announce, to create events and gather RSVPs, to provide reference, to nurture network and professional collections, and also to collaborate, to connect with our users and provide a way to converse with them about feedback concerns. And then instruction and library skills. And finally, publicity, telling the story of your library. All right. So inform and announce. Obviously, you have basic information on their hours. We post our break information. We post special events. We post our contests. So one more way to get the word out. Now, does this replace putting an email in Hastings College announcements? Does it replace hanging flyers in the dorms and in the buildings? No, of course not. But one more way to get the word out. And you'll notice Katherine Brockmeyer from NLC posted yesterday, best of luck on Encompass live tomorrow. So I appreciated that. Events and RSVPs. So Facebook gives you a utility for creating an event and allows you to spread the word very easily. You create an invitation. You send it to members and whomever you want to get it. People are able to say, yes, I'm attending. I may be attending. No, I'm not attending. And again, part of the fun part is, even if someone is, even our students abroad, can participate in our on-campus events through Facebook by posting wish I could be there or whatever the case may be. So I'm going to try to go back out. And no, that's not what I wanted. Bear with me one second while I find my group. So we have an upcoming event. And it's a video contest in honor of National Library Week. And so you can see we're the host. It makes you put a type of event. So I put causes rally, the time, start time, end time. Okay, hang on. Sorry about the roller coaster. Not sure why it's closing. You can describe it. And then this is where you invite people to come. And you can, you'll notice we have four confirmed guests. I just posted this on Monday, I think. No one has written anything yet. But it's a way to invite people and get participation. All right. So we have used, we've used the events and creating an event on Facebook for our band book celebration, our Halloween celebration, our gingerbread decorating event, and our YouTube contest. But you could use it for anything. Hey, this is National Library Workers Day. You could use it for observances to not just physical, you need to be here, events, if that makes sense. Reference in Reader's Advisory. Within Facebook, you can instant message and you can also message much as you have an inbox and outbox. And you'd be amazed. I'm hoping you can see the screenshot. But it's amazing to me. Facebook reference questions and Reader's Advisory have, Facebook has replaced email for most of my students. They can see that I'm online. They can pop up a chat box and say, you know, I'm trying to get into an e-book. I'm having trouble. What do I do? So it's quick. It's easy. It's point of need. Some funny examples. Fairly frequently someone will pop up a chat window and say, you know, I'm having problems in a database and I'll say, okay, well, which database are you in? And they'll say, well, I'm in the back corner in the computer lab in the library. And so I'll just get up and go to them. But it serves the purpose because they have windows open. They're in the middle of a search. They get stuck. They don't want to abandon the computer and someone else to come along. So it makes sense. And it's really convenient. Network collaborating professional collections, indispensable. From campus, local, regional, statewide, nationally, groups and collaborations. So staff, faculty, even the Hastings College Facebook presence, they're all our members or friends. Local librarians, Linda Gardner, that's you. You're right here in Hastings, different library. Nebraska Regional Library System. Librarians and members. Some of the system administrators are on Facebook. But Cynthia, Claudette, Carolyn, you're in my region. So that's one way we could connect more regularly than we do. Other Nebraska colleges and libraries. So Dana, UNL, Wesley and I know that they all have presences on Facebook. And they're my personal friends. And also I am, we are reciprocally members of one another's library groups as well. State level, Nebraska Library Commission has a page. I have national library contacts, people that I have met at conventions or in other ways. You can belong to interest groups. So anything like American Library Association, ACRL, different divisions of ALA, special interest groups like intellectual freedom or using technology to teach. You can find those and participate in them through Facebook. There are instructive groups like library secrets is one of my favorite. And it is College of DuPage is one of their librarians page that gives tips and tricks on how to use the library, how to conduct research, how to use resources. And then I've used Facebook to collaborate both in a work group with three other people across the nation and to put together an NLA NEMA presentation. So again, it's whatever you want it to be, however you can think of to use it. Susan? Yes? There's a question from the text chat. Actually earlier Catherine said hi with Michael. I missed that earlier. Okay. But he also was asking about when you're doing the text chat. Is that generally done via the chat or messaging? Chat. Michael, are you chattable at the moment? Okay. Hang on. So you'll see over here. Oh, hang on. Where are you, Michael? He's on his Facebook right now. Is that what you're talking about? I was talking about Facebook chat. Sorry, not to be confusing. It looks like he's going to... Yes. So Michael, when you log on, if you'll chat me up, we can demonstrate. And again, the thing about using Facebook instant messaging is if your users are already on, they can see that you are online. And literally I have Facebook on every single time I am on a computer, whether it's at home or at work. And that means it's not unusual at 10.30 at night for a student to say, here's my research topic. I'm stuck. What do you recommend? Or how do I get my hands on this? So if... Exactly. So you can see Michael popped up and actually you can see it has a history. I had asked him... Or did you... No, I had asked him yesterday, but he went offline. So we can carry on a nice little reference interview or whatever the case may be. Whoops. And you have to type correctly. But it's as easy as that. I also have people who... I'm going to close this window, Michael. I also have people who... Uh-oh. I did it just as you were. Sorry. For extended questions, I do have people who prefer to Facebook message me instead of sending an email. They're already in there. They check Facebook message more frequently than they do their Hastings College accounts. And so it just... Yes, Michael. I can't have typing skills. I do. I need to... I can have Cheeseburger Cat. So either way, again, I tell people when I'm training, I tell students when I go into the classroom, I do not care how you contact me when you need help or have a question. I don't care if you email me, pop into my office, call me on the telephone, call me on my home phone, instant message me, message me in Facebook or send a carrier pigeon. It does not matter to me how they get to me as long as they get to me when they have a need. All right. Does that answer the question about chatting? Yes? Okay. I'm going to continue then. Connecting and dialoguing. So again, you're visible to students, staff and faculty. What you're doing, what you're posting is right there in front of people. And I'm going to go to my own profile. And I'm going to tell everyone I am giving an encompass live presentation online right now. And I'm going to share it. So there it goes. So now, anyone who is friends with me is seeing that I am giving an encompass live presentation online right now. And you'll see, go ahead. Sure. Go for it. And in the meantime, I will bring to your attention down at the end, or down at the bottom here, you can post links, photos, videos. I'll skip that one. Flare, library love. You can do a variety of applications and sharing all right here, which is one of the new enhancements of Facebook, which is great. So here's what you just did. I do. There we go. See, so now anyone who's friends with me knows that that is what I am doing right this very second. This is good. All right. I'm going to switch back over. So connecting and having an open dialogue, visible to students, staff, faculty, our members. They can leave comments and feedback. They can write on our wall. We can post on our own wall. So here, the inbox messaging and instant message utilities. And also, Facebook gives us a way to stay in touch with foreign exchange students. So after students come from other countries and study here for a semester or a year, we can keep in touch with them for forever, as well as our students who are here and then go abroad to study and also alum. So again, that's one of the values of social networking tools such as Facebook. Those connections are there for life or until you decide to break them. And I've given just a few examples of things we've connected with, posted. Thanks for the hot cocoa. Even though I currently make my living at another library, Perkins will forever claim my deepest loyalties. While I wish Hastings and North Platt were closer, so I could have decorated and consumed gingerbread men and women, I noticed from the pictures that there were definitely both sexes involved. Of course, we were not sexist in our celebration. You can also do library instruction and teaching of library skills within Facebook, which is great. So in your applications and boxes section, which we're going to go to in a second, you can use WorldCat within Facebook. You can use JSTOR within Facebook. And I won't read these to you, but you can see that I have, every time we do discover a tool that is used in Facebook, we promote it. So we put it on our webpage. We put it in HC announcements. So again, you have to, just because you're doing Facebook, you don't abandon the other things you're already doing. It's just one more way. So if we go over to AppShare, we are going, okay. So in my boxes, you can see, you can search on JSTOR provided that your library uses JSTOR. You can search within Facebook. So imagine how nice and convenient that is for students, particularly because they're already in Facebook. So if they're using JSTOR for research, they don't even have to log on to our databases. They can do it, log on to our databases in Facebook, which is just amazing.  Here are my LOL cats. Here are my pieces of flair. Here are my postcards. Good thing I brought my library card because I'm checking you out. Sorry I called, emailed, or I emmed you from three feet away, which couldn't be more true. But again, here's Worldcat. So whatever your, I don't know why buses popped into my head, but whatever you want to find, there you go. Worldcat right there in Facebook. Amazing, amazing, amazing. All right. Publicity and telling your story. So we document with, yes? Then Michael has another question and a text chat. Wanted to know if groups can chat? Meaning like when you're logged in, are you logged in as yourself or has Hastings College? I am logged in as myself. Groups can chat in terms of, it depends on what you mean by a group. Like HC Broncos, that's their profile. So it's an entity. Michael, what did you have in mind? Can you log in as like Hastings College? But I don't think that's how it works. No. We each have a profile and then the students can see. And on our home page, whoops. Can you see the screen? No, I didn't. Hang on. Okay. On our home page, we have our Facebook badges. And we're small enough that our users know us by first name. So they can simply click on, they can click on online friends and see that Bob Netterm, I mean, I can see Chris is on there. So I'm going to pop up a chat when I have a question and chat with her. Does that answer the question? Probably correct, although I'm not the person to ask since we don't have a page, but I have never seen like, I've never seen NLC or Grootcock Library show up in my friend's thing when I'm chatting. So I don't, um, yeah, I mean, it's the thing where they are only the students who are already friends with us personally or whatever are going to contact us in that way. Does that make sense? It's one more way. However, they all know that we are on Facebook and you can message some, you can message anyone on Facebook without being a friend. So I have instances where students, you know, don't want to be my friend. They have no interest in being my friend, but they will still message me and I'll get a notification that I have a message in my inbox and I can communicate with them, answer them without us having to be friends. Does that make sense? All right, so the publicity and telling your story. We document all of our displays and things through photos. So you can see right now we have a women's history month display. Oops, sorry. You can see our gingerbread event and on and on. Every display, every, this was our band books edible event, which this is an awesome cake, the Great Gatsby cake, the famous cover. So again, it tells, by putting the photos on Facebook, it tells our story. It documents what we're doing and it lets people interact. So someone who is not, who's a former student said of the Art Deco frosting, perfect. So otherwise we wouldn't have had an interaction or a connection with that former student. All right. Here we go. So that was as easy as one, two, three, right? You create your identity. You let people know that you're on Facebook, invite them to, and with a page again, it's much easier I would assume with a page because the page isn't going to see your family vacation pictures and whatnot. So that layer of privacy is taken away. And then your activities. So this one, two, three gives you increased visibility and avenues for service to your patrons. And to reiterate, as I said, Facebook is simply one more place we can connect with each other as professionals, as librarians, as library workers, and our patrons. It's where you can experiment, adapt, adjust, explore how to use it for your benefit. Just because we use it in the ways I've outlined for you doesn't mean that that's going to work for your particular library type or environment. So the key is, as with anything else, model yourself after others, experiment, adapt, adjust, explore. Even if Facebook doesn't have exactly what you want, it's a worthwhile endeavor. As Kristen and I were talking about, just wait a month. Facebook might be able to accommodate your specific need if you just give it a little time. Because it's social, it's going to keep on changing. It's participants, you wouldn't believe the number of people, the number of groups that are complaining about the new Facebook redesign, demanding changes, this, that, the other thing. And Facebook listens to its users. And so it will keep refining and adding and changing. And so you just have to be able to go with the change. As I said, we use it to inform, invite, announce, instruct, network, connect, document, engage, publicize, communicate, and probably things I'm missing. The possibilities are simply endless. Here are some tips for adopting Facebook, and they are adapted from 10 social networking tips for libraries by the librarian in Black. So do research. Whether that research is reading articles about how to implement it, whether it's the help pages in Facebook, whether it is looking at the group sites or the pages of libraries that are similar to you, do your research. See how people are using it and how you might like to use it. Be dynamic. You cannot expect people to like your page or return to your page or use your Facebook presence if you're not dynamic. So you need to post links or video or tips or information or pictures. You need to be adding content for people to interact with. Use a photo that puts a face on your library. Right now we have a picture of our library. Eventually I would like to have our actual shining, smiling faces. Number four is hidden in there but it is very important. Have fun with it. As I said, this is an environment where you can show a lighter side. You can pick out humorous, funny links and information and push it to people to get them to interact with you. Adapt. As I said, change is going to happen. You just have to roll with it and know when to cut bait. So if you think Facebook could work for you and you try it and you've given it enough time and it's not serving your needs, it's not worth your time, ditch it. There might be another social networking tool that is more appropriate for your needs and then go find it and do the same thing. Do all of this same stuff in that environment. Questions. Questions you can ask on your microphone if you have one or put it in the text chat. We've got that up. Anything more you wanted to know about what they're doing or anything that you guys have maybe done? Yeah. Or elsewhere that you want to share. Thanks, Laura. Repeat the questions. As far as Krista said, we'd be interested in knowing if anyone has experimented in Facebook. What you've done, if you have any ideas, no? Okay. I hope to see you all on Facebook soon. Please. Yes. Oh, sorry. I was getting some feedback there. Yes. Claudette, you're exactly right. Some schools may block Facebook. That is, you know, that's something your IT people and your policy people have to negotiate. You have to negotiate with them. I will just tell you that there are so many pieces of research, pieces of solid evidence that Facebook isn't just, you know, it's not just a fun and games thing. It is a tool. And yes, you can get bogged down. There are all sorts of applications. You can vampire bite people. You can send little green plants to people. You can do all sorts of things. You can play all sorts of games. But it's how you use it. It's just as with anything else. The internet, you know, you can do the same things on the internet. And I realize schools have privacy issues. But I would definitely make a case for the usefulness of Facebook. And I don't know how easy it will be for you to convince your IT people or the people who make the policies. But it's where the students are. It's where you should be too. Okay. Claudette, does that give you a nice non-answer? Michael, I can't seem to, my cursor's frozen. I cannot seem to open your link. That's a group that was set up by people here in Lincoln for the South Branch, Lincoln City Library South Branch Library location possibly being closed. They set up a group in Facebook to get people to sign up and get the news out and still, you know, work towards trying to keep it from being closed. And so there's a group in Facebook called Save the South Branch Library group. That is awesome. Again, one more way for Facebook to be used in a way that, you know, how wonderful. I don't have to go to South Branch to sign a petition. I can do it from my jammies at home. So advocacy, that's one more thing you can add to the list of things you can do. As I said, use it, make it your own. Whatever your needs are, they're going to be different from my needs or NLC's needs or, you know, whatever. So that's awesome. Other questions? Laura said that at this presentation, she's going to go and make a Facebook page for their library, the Stanton Public Library. That's wonderful. And that brings me back to hope to see you on Facebook soon. You'll of course have a personal profile before you can set up a page. And I would encourage you to friend me. And I'm more, I definitely want to join your groups. And I didn't cover any of the procedural stuff. It's pretty intuitive. It's pretty easy to set your stuff up. If you have questions about that process or anything that I didn't cover that is the nitty gritty sort of stuff of setting up a Facebook page, please let me know. You have my email address, my work phone number. You can Facebook me, email me, call me. I'm more than happy to help. If there are no other questions, thank you very, very much. Oh, hey, look at that. That's awesome. Thank you very much. Thanks a lot, Susan. That was great, definitely. So thank you very much for attending today. It was recorded. This will be available a little bit later today or tomorrow. Hope you'll join us next week for our next week's Encompass Live where Sally Snyder from the Nebraska Library Commission will be talking about summer reading programs and who chooses to see how that all goes down. Thanks a lot. Bye bye.


President Mohammed Buhari has pledged a fair deal for the Shakira people of Delta State. Buhari gave the assurance when he received the Oluwawari Kingdom, his royal majesty Shola Emiko Ogyame Atuase III. The traditional ruler and his chiefs were at the state house in Abuja online state. Buhari thanked the monarch for the visit and declared admiration for his patriotism. Oluwawari commanded the president for sending a high-powered delegation to his coronation. He further pledged the loyalty of the Shakira people to one united Nigeria. Incidentally, these issues are the focus of your administration, security and the economy. The first point, the underutilization of the Delta ports. There are four ports in Delta State, Wari, Koko, Sapele and Burutu. However, these ports are underutilized and can make substantial contribution to the Nigerian economy and improve the security in our region by creating jobs for the teeming population of unemployed youths, thereby reducing insecurity in the Niger Delta. We believe that this is a win-win for Nigeria and also a win for the Niger Delta, the reconstitution of the NDDC Board. After the forensic audit of the commission, we believe that your excellency will soon reconstitute the NDDC Board. As an interested party, we only have prayers for your excellency's ears. We genuinely want a better deal for us in the Niger Delta as we believe charity begins at home. By this, we mean that we Niger Delta's must be ready to put the betterment of our people first in all that we do. Putting our people first is the only way to make our lives better. Some members of the National Assembly have disclosed that they had not stopped on the process of amending the country's 1999 constitution. They are sharing Nigerians that the amended document will be ready before the end of the ninth National Assembly. They said they have adequately secured the amendment of the constitution to a logical conclusion. A member of the House of Representatives from E4, a federal constituency of the state, Isiaka Ibrahim, said Nigerians would see the progress made so far by the lawmakers concerning the amendment of the constitution as from January 27th.


A typical high-end film production generates several terabytes of data per day either as footage from multiple cameras or as background information regarding the set. The EU project in part has been researching solutions that improve the integration and understanding of the quality of the multiple data sources in order to both support creative decisions on set or near it and enhance post-production as well. In order to test the integration of the technology developed within the project, the in-part team met for two days on two different sets to record some test data. I'm now setting parameters for LiDAR scanner. This is the LiDAR scan to get very accurate 3D geometry of them in the picture site. Then it rotates and then should raise the beams to get the accurate distance from the sensor and then get also some photos to get colours and then finally we construct some 3D geometry of the set. We're looking at web rendering of the LiDAR scan which was taken about an hour ago, half an hour ago. Hansung from University University just approached it and registered it and then we've come to the point cloud and you can see it's downloading more fine high-resolution data. I think it's about two and a half million points. Okay, this is the Sperm camera. It's kind of a spraker camera. It has VCR lens on the top of the tripod and it rotates 360 degrees to scan the whole scene. So actually it covers 180 degrees vertically and 360 degrees horizontally. The raw data that we've used are the spherical images from the Sperm cameras which are the images that capture the scene around the camera 360 degrees. We have five of those stereo scans and we feed them to automatic algorithm that merges them together from different position. And in the end we have some kind of point clouds from those spherical cameras and as you can see I can add another scan from a different spherical camera set. So I took the reference-stated photos of the capture site. We did some mirror scan in the morning and then I got here around 20-30 photos and then using this photo recap tool I crewed the process of this kind of scene as a full 3D scene. Sure, you requested from only photos, 3D photos. The point cloud is actually color-pulled and the orange alert means high precision and the violets mean low precision. I can actually see that the capture area is captured quite well and I've got some buildings and the bushes in the background are not captured so well. All these 3D reconstructions can be registered together in one 3D scene and shared via the web. Once the video from the cameras has been ingested it can be added to the 3D unified scene and visualized. Annotations and metadata can be added in the scene. Once the video is dumped on the computers it is analyzed by automatic algorithms. If we take some action that usually came across a real video shooting we have chosen some activities based on the capture parameters. So if we try to simulate a real scene we have multiple actions. The witness cameras shoot all the time. We don't have speeds so the idea is that we will run algorithms on site or after the shooting. Our algorithms can perform temporal video segmentation based on visible human activities. Each video segment can be annotated by our developed algorithms and tools which perform human activity recognition, face clustering and short characterization. So we are doing some action synchronization which works on a low level and produces metadata for faster searching in data because the case is very neat, slower or faster shot so you can cut it air-flutish better and reproduce this kind of metadata. Here we capture the shot which is slightly out of focus. It's not clearly apparent on the shot so we developed a filter which actually visualizes the focus and here we can see some sort of color coded viewfinder. We actually output an XML with the metadata which we extracted from this shot and here we can see the sharpness of the shot plotted over time. So with this technology it's much easier for the reviewers to see the shots after the day and to saw the shots which are nicely focused and contain good data. Most of these new tools produce results on set which saves a lot of time and money on the production and post-production stages. They made such an impact that they are already being used in industrial partners Double Negative Visual Effects and Film Night Limited. All these huge amount of media and data generated is then passed onto the production stage. Film Night Limited introduced Flux to the Double Negative team a post-production server and management tool which provide a revolutionary new way to store, classify and browse assets. Double Negative Visual Effects is a company specialised in digital post-production mainly of major feature films. The company fits perfectly in the scope of impact solutions. Film Night Limited is an established market leading innovator in the digital film, broadcast and commercials post-production industry. Film Night's role in impact is the development of browsing tools and system architectures for data management solutions. A normal film production generates thousands of files. It is impossible to annotate manually and navigate through all the assets without having sorted them. Flux Manager provides many solutions for data managing. Hi, so today we've had Film Night in, Port Gang and Ant have been over using Flux Manager on our production data here at Double Negative pointing out two shows Mission Impossible and Vista Terminator film. This has been a good test because we've been using data with respect to the impact project to date of a couple of tens of terabytes of information but the production size data sizes are much more significant into the hundreds of terabytes. So, Port Gang, how useful has the test been for you to survive? It's been very useful. I wouldn't say it was a very successful day. There's still a lot of work for us to do to make that happen more smoothly but I think it is obviously only through tests like that that you find out where the real problems are. And as we've sort of seen, looking at the British today from the Flux Manager there's a lot of data we have and a lot of it is quite clearly unsorted when it comes in from on set. And that's been a lot of challenges that we've been having to deal with both the amount keeps going up, show on show, the different types of data and that leads to a lot of manual processing and a lot of frustration and also duplication of data as we sort it. We need to verify that we don't lose anything and there needs to be a relationship between files once they've been sorted and unsorted and we would like to move away from that scenario. Simon has been working on some of that with our own systems. How do you see Flux Manager helping out through what you've found so far? Yeah, it could be quite useful. It's able to read a massive folder with lots of intravenous data types. Most of what we have, what we get from set is probably images in various sources but also lots of video streams that come in in very different formats. But it's not just about the size of the data, it's about the number of files and it's about the type of files that we have and in the specific case of Flux it is very much structured around the idea that you can have economies of scale by treating sequences as if they are essentially a single file with some extended properties. But the good thing is that we can take the metadata that we collect from what I assume is quite a typical modern, heavily 3D-oriented production and tune the system to fit into that environment. The whole point of the Flux architecture is that you can add your own metadata into the database and that can be things that can be scripted and automated to a large degree or it can be plugins that actually extract metadata from the images themselves that have been developed by Flux. Very much so. We found it very useful in our own in-house software jigsaw as well helping us to extend as a result. In our own agreement this is a key problem for the industry as a whole and any tool that can make the data management easier, more flexible and more automated is a good thing. While there remains work to be done to take full advantage of the Flux Plus platform in a real production environment the integration of a metadata-based workflow, at least for colour on set and post, has progressed well. Filmlight has been promoting this new workflow over the last 12 months in a wide range of events, demonstrations, workshops and showcases. The reactions to these events have been consistently positive and the early adopters are full of praise. In September 2015 the IMPART project organised two special paper sessions at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing in Quebec City, Canada. This conference is the reference annual conference on image processing with over 1,000 attendees from all over the world. Hi, I'm Alan Evans from UPF and here we are at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. It's quite a big deal for us to be here because IMPART has organised two special sessions within the conference. It's pretty much the biggest conference on image processing in the world. It happens every year as you can see, it's quite a big venue here. We've just finished our second special session, it's quite a big success. It was really good and yes, we're really happy. Hello, I'd like to welcome you on this special session. The University of Surrey and Double Negative presented a joint paper on the management of multimodal big data for film production. Universitat Pompeo Fabra presented a paper on the visualisation of this data. The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki presented a technical paper on improved methods for K-means clustering. The Brno University of Technology published a paper on quality assurance in large collections of video sequences. The ISIP special sessions were a fantastic showcase for the academic work of the IMPART project, demonstrating the quality of...


Behind the bar at the Mandalay Bay with my friend Sean, he says he goes by Mike. All bartenders are Mike here? All bartenders are Mike because you called me and then my bartender right next to me, Mike, so we're all Mike. That's good. So what are we pouring tonight? Oh, we are pouring a lot of nice alcohol. We have some very good stuff. We got Kettle One. We have Bombay Gin, very good. I like Bombay Gin. You like it, don't you?  Yeah. We were in India on a riverboat cruise and they ran out of gin. In India? Yeah, seriously. It's called Bombay Gin for crying out loud, right? Right, I know. Yeah. It was a travesty and then later on they ran out of tonic. No, you can't do that. Seriously.  What's seltzer water for? Seltzer, soda water. What would one, what do you put in soda water? No, gin and soda, you know. Ew. Gin goes with tonic. You haven't tried it with none. No, no. See, she hasn't had my drinks.  So you said half soda, half tonic. Yeah. Yeah. So it cuts the sweetness down a little bit. Yeah, it's good. Presbyterian did you say? Presbyterian press, yeah. It's really good. Yeah, you'll like it. Oh well. Yeah, as a matter of fact the next one will do that. All right, so the next one, this is like my 11th I think, right? You'll like it even more than the tonic, I bet you. Thank you. That's a throw-down there, Steve. I think we better do it. Yeah. All right. Well, I appreciate your insight into CES and that you brought to the show. Oh great. Thank you. Yeah, and give me your website. I'll go check you guys out on the website. All right, that's good. Yeah, I do a lot of Apple stuff. My phone's always Apple, so. Oh, nice, nice. All right. You will, Sean. Okay, thanks a lot. Or Mike. Yeah, Mike number five.


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How's everybody's day or week? My week was so boring. I'm green on the week, but God, so boring. Like I did it. I mean, I had a solid Friday actually. I had a solid Friday. I mean, my week, for me, I've been starting my week on Friday mentally because it's like after like, I don't know, the webinar day for me, my week starts kind of on Friday. Friday was awesome. Monday, I didn't place a trade to yes, Tuesday, Tuesday, I was green Wednesday. I just Wednesday, I was like kind of break even and today I'm kind of break even. I only won two out of the five days, didn't trade one of the days and break even the other two days. So today we are going to be talking about why your lines aren't hitting and how frustrating that can be and what to do about it.  I probably get, I'm sure every mod in here gets at least a call like this, something along the lines of this every single day, you know, about like, dude, like what is it about my lines? How come they don't hit at all? Like, you know, the thing about lines guys is not all lines are going to hit and you guys know that. Like if you're constantly always missing, then there's something wrong. And so we're going to talk about that today. So the market sentiment first and then, and then we'll bring you on on the fly. I'm pretty sure Vick is a line trader, right? Just straight up like Faye, like there's straight up plastic line trader. So be probably good to get his, his opinion on, on hitting the lines too. So yeah, so last week, where were we, right? Last week, it was kind of like a watch out above themed market, right? Everything was just ripping and, and that's, and like we talked about last week, that's kind of the, that's a tell when, when the, when the bullish, when the bullish market is getting a little out of hand, right? You can't say you are starting that, that's when the, that's when the bullish market is kind of getting a little bit out of hand, right?  It's like a parabolic move on the chart. So, you know, we were, we were in that kind of strong bull market and, um, like it, and then we started, and then on Friday, we had those three faders and like I even thought like, you know, at Friday, that's, you know, it'll be the tell if we get a lot of faders on Friday, it'll kind of be the theme for this, like this week's market will slow down. So, you know, so like I wrote finally getting the much needed retracement on the spy on the COVID second wave. The question to ask is how much was priced in, right? If, you know, if a lot of it is priced in, it was a great dip by opportunity, which now that we have a week's hindsight, it was because the market definitely bounced off of it. Um, if the cases continue, I think the, the, the, the reflash, the fear area is two 80s, right? And I thought that small cat bullish is prevails, but it's getting, um, it was getting weary of its ability to continue. And I'm going to be looking to short the week stocks this week, which, um, I was trying, I was kind of trying to do this week. So this week's market, you can see like the kind of, I should, I should keep a couple, we kind of fit this kind of pattern here. I feel like we're kind of in a, in a very light sellers market, not a strong sellers market, but a light one, right? But we were also in kind of a light buyers market too. It wasn't, it wasn't low float mania by any means, right? Like for those of you who know, like low float mania is when every single day you have like five low floats, it doesn't even matter. Like just, it doesn't even matter. There's no news, just anything with the low flow just pops up 200%. Like we weren't in, like that's a strong bullish market. We weren't in that market. So we're kind of this, we're kind of this along the edge. It's just a moderately ranged market. Um, I do think we're on the sell side though. The range is decreased a little bit from last week as shorts of regains of dominance. And that's kind of normal, right? In a bullish market, you're going to see range a lot bigger than in the small, in the, than in the, than in the bearish markets, right? Because when stocks are in a bearish market, um, range can only be defined on the upward part of the range. It's not like a stock's going to gap up 30% and then tank to minus 50%. Right. That's not going to happen. Range is going to be defined by how bullish a stock is. So like the stronger the bull market, that means the stronger the sell market, because like they need to, like when the, when stocks go up 300%, now we can, it can come down 300%. And that's how the range, you know, you're going to see stronger and bigger range in those buyers markets than you are in the smallest in the sellers market. And that's why when we start to see those blow off type, that volatility, that range start to get kind of parabolic. That's why range is a really good indicator of where you are and what's to come anyway. So shorts this week regained some dominance. They kind of overtook the helm a little bit. And I think that was very indicative on Friday when we got those faders. Um, one thing I really like about this market is we're still getting a bull a day, but we're seeing more faders than continuations of these bull market of these bullish stocks, right?  This week's reclaims are not as, you know, they've been very hard to attain the reclaims have been stuffing. I've been very, I haven't taken a lot of reclaim trades this week, which is normally kind of like my favorite ish kind of trade to take, but I haven't been taking them just because I just know that we're not in the market for it, right? And so like, actually did it today. There was a time there was a stock today. What was it? I already forget it was AM, AMD. Like, I mean, there, there was a lot, actually, we can go over it right now. Or like, there's a lot right here where, um, right around here, this is where the stocks like going to reclaim if it's going to reclaim, right? It's going to just like pop, make a hire though. Here's a second attempt where like, if we were in a bull market, I'm buying right here, but no way right now. Like we take, and then you get this other time where you get back over, view up and stuff, and like you can get chopped out of here, like three, four or five times and eventually maybe you are right, but here you're going to like buy here and sell and buy here and sell. And it's so easy to get chopped up here.  Wait for confirmed strength and then look for the dip. And that's what I did here, but that's kind of like, if I'm going to be longing anything, that's what I'm doing. I'm waiting for confirmed strength and then I'm buying the dip. All right. I'm not at all going to be aggressive as a long in this kind of market. But other than that, we're seeing resistance, like try to hold a lot harder. It's a short, basically when we, when shorts gain more confidence, what, what happens in the market is when, like on an, on a specific scenario, when a stock goes to push VWOP, actually there's one right here. When a stock goes to push VWOP, actually I was short, I was short for this one. Right. When a stock goes to push VWOP, by the way, I was so mad at the stock today, I was mad at it from the second it just tanked at the open. But anyway, when a stock pushes VWOP like this, you know, like it's going to, like it'll, it might like test and play like it wants to hold. It's going to do that in every kind of market VWOP is going to try to hold. But in a shorts dominated market, this kind of secondary push, shorts are going to be less afraid like I was of this push. Now this, this very near, like my stock was 25, it went to like 26. And I was close. I had my finger on the exit button, but I'm like, you know what? This market's really weak. The stock had a huge tank at the open. Let, you know, like I'm going to move that stop up to 30. And I'm really glad I did. Now I didn't make a good trade out of it, but because that's because I was so pissed at it, but like, this is the kind of situation in a very specific scenario, when you're in a shorts dominated market, you're going to see shorts be more hesitant to fall for it, right? To, to fall for that trick, right? And you're going to see buyers, you know, like it get more fearful and less demand is going to go into those pushes in the first place. So it's all kind of self-fulfilling. And that's a specific example of how, like, when it comes down to the moment of like, is it going to continue or not? Shorts are going to, you know, by not covering, they're going to be placing, they're going to be helping the stock not continue. Right. It's, it's all, it's like a team effort. We're seeing resistance trying to hold a lot harder like that scenario. Right? Long seem to be, you know, more afraid of dumps in those dump areas. And we're seeing harsher drops from the contested areas. And when I, you know, I mean contested areas, I mean areas like VWAP, right? Areas like, you know, oh, we just went over prior close, like, and we're consolidating, but longs might be too afraid. And they're, you know, they're going to see a harsh drop from that contested area. Yeah. So the pattern, it's basically been stuff city, like this kind of week, like, besides the crazies, and what I mean by the crazies is the thing about the crazies guys, what I deem the crazies, I'm talking about the IMRNs, the JFINs, the, the CARVs, what was the one today? Or the UONEs, right?  Yes, a whole lot of money can be, can be made. But the other, the other day, maybe yesterday or a couple of days ago, I posted something kind of mean in the chat, but like, I didn't mean it to be mean, but I did mean it to be harsh. What I, what I said was, I said something on the lines, like, if you lost on, I don't know what, whatever the crazy stock of the day was, if you lost on this stock today, it is your fault. And what I meant by that was it is, yeah, car, it is your fault. Meaning it, I don't want, like there is, should be no scenario when you're trading these stocks that you ever in the slightest get into your mind saying, Oh, this truck, this stock traded really weird today. Right. This stock traded really weird. Oh, it was very different price action. Absolutely not that, like the, the kind of stocks that are carved, this is completely 100% normal price action for a crazy stock like this. You know, this is absolutely normal. You know, like we're like, it just, like it has this epic tank, epic tank again, and then climbs all the way back up here has this major drop, but snaps right back. Like I'm sure this candle was annoying for some people. I can just tell, right?  Well, thanks guys. Thanks for showing up. Peace out. Thank you so much for watching our video. You want to see more of our videos, please subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking the button here. We do our best to post a new video every single day. If you have any questions about MIC or any general trading questions, please text Tosh using the number here. Also, stay up to date by watching some of our most recent videos right over here.


You're welcome back. It's still the run-up. And today we're discussing two issues. First of all, we'll be talking about what happened in the courts, where the Senate president has been made the senatorial candidate for his senatorial district instead of the person that we knew, Maschina that we knew. And we're also going to be talking about the biting conditions Nigerians are facing in the case of Naira's scarcity. But for the first issue that we're discussing, we're joined by Barrister Evans O'Felley, who is a constitutional lawyer. Good morning and welcome to the program, Barrister O'Felley. Good morning and thank you. Okay. Well, like I said, some people will be rejoicing. Some people will be sad. But for most of us, we're just confused what really happened. What would you say about the judgment? Right now it's out of the court, so you can speak freely about it, I'm sure. What do you make of the judgment that has brought in Ahmed Lawan instead of Maschina? Well, I don't agree with the demand of the Supreme Court, except that you cannot go higher than the Supreme Court. It is very clear in our laws that every pre-election matter must be commenced by or in 18 months. And that is captured by the parties' direction of the federal High Court 2022. I am doing a purple of election petition too, so I should know. And I know that even when we file matters for pre-election matters in the courts, there were instances where the court asked those who came by originating summons to run, who came by a rate of summons to run from back to originating summons. Now, the Supreme Court, the major reason it gave is that because Maschina alleged crime fraud, that it ought not to have commenced the proceedings by originating summons. Now, it's supposed to have commenced the proceedings by a rate of summons, in which case you will call witnesses to validate the claim that there was a criminal infraction in the process of the election and all that. And it was on that reason because if you come by originating summons, what the court will do is to look at documentary evidence, you attack all documents. And that is the way the federal High Court have already established by its practice direction. And that is how you commence proceedings. Now, the lawyers to machina commence their proceedings by originating summons. Well, here is the Supreme Court saying that because they alleged criminality and fraud, they ought to have come by a rate of summons to enable them called witnesses so that they can be processed. I mean, I know all that. If you look at the whole thing, I mean, the election that was, the primaries that was conducted on the 28th of May, 2022, the current day President Ahmed Lawan did not contest that election. He withdrew from it and went for that to contest the June 6 presidential election. So, and that election of the 28th of May is the one that was validated by the trial court, okay, that Ahmed did not contest that election. So, he ought not to have clinched and then become the candidate just because the process of commencement was related to someone and not a rate of summons. I mean, our laws are very clear. If you look at even the electoral act, okay, it clearly defines who a candidate is and who an aspirant is, okay, but why do you not participate in primaries? You should not emerge as a candidate because the conditional precedent, okay, for emerging as a candidate of a party should not be by judicial pronouncement and judicial validation. It should be by participating in the primaries of the party first, okay. In this case, here is a man who did not participate in the primaries and now the judiciary is not overriding the electoral act to validate his candidacy and then make him the candidate of a senatorial district. It's quite unfortunate. It's an unfortunate scenario. I mean, for me, it didn't come to me like any confusion. It came to me like gross manifestation of injustice and we should desist from it because when judgments like this are pronounced, it becomes precedent for subsequent judgments, especially when the judgment is coming from the Supreme Court. Subsequently, lawyers are going to go to court and subsequent elections can vast this position and hold the Supreme Court hostage to this decision. And then the Supreme Court will have to keep validating this decision on the right itself. I mean, that is why if you look at the minority judgments, two justices who did or took a different side to the issue, they clearly stated that Ahmed Lauer didn't contest the election. So if you do not contest the election, how do you not become, the judgment came to me like taking a poisonous leap to a purification feast. I mean, we must learn to keep the mosquito devised slave because we have no guarantee that if he sees the bottom of the cake, it will not do the same. Justice must be premised on merit. Justice must be that which is seen as manifestly done. The era of technicality and the era of using commencement proceedings, legal technicalities is gone. The era of judicial rascality is gone. So and the Supreme Court in its judgment to have said so, that technicality should not become the basis upon which judgments should be delivered. But this particular judgment appears to me like this record is taking itself away from that era. A man that did not contest, who even accepted his fate after the Court of First Instance record have said he cannot emerge as a candidate of the party by virtue of the fact that he did not contest the primary selection. So what is the extent of section 29 of the lecture? Instead of for you to become a candidate of a party, you must submit, you must first contest the primaries of that. It is not even enough to contest the primaries. The primaries must be monitored by INEC. It must be validated by the relevant authority and the requisite bodies before it can become a valid primaries upon which you can have a candidacy. But here it appears for me, we have taken a different course to what the law is talking about. Left for you, what should have been the judgment in this case? For me, the judgment should have been that since a man did not contest the primaries, he should not become a candidate or the flag bearer of the party in that constituency. The person who contested the primaries and emerged the winner should because Ahmed Lawan, his eye was in the presidency and then he went to contest that primaries. All of a sudden he lost it and turned around. That primaries was on the 6th of June and on the 7th of June, 2022, he turned around and they conducted another primaries where he did not emerge. Whereas the one of the 28th of May, 2022, was not cancelled by the party. That one imagina emerged and still subsists. Ahmed Lawan went to contest the primaries for the presidential seat on the 6th of June, lost. Came back on the 7th, they organized the primaries where he did not emerge. Whereas you have a subsystem candidate who had already emerged for the one before now. For me, this is injustice. The Supreme Court ought to have made the pronouncement that Machina become the candidate or are to worst, are to worst, the Supreme Court ought to have ordered for a rerun if there must do justice. Would a rerun have been, have still been legal according to electoral laws and every other law guiding this kind of process? Would a rerun at this time still have been legal? There was a rerun last week in Abia State. The candidates for the PDP died. Yes, and there was a rerun. There's a replacement now. Okay. So I'm just saying that if the Supreme Court wants to really do that, the worst they could have done is to order for a rerun and not to turn it around for a party who did not contest the primaries at all to now become the candidate in that constitution. I mean, the people voted for Machina in that constitution. These persons were representing the larger society. They are delegates representing the larger state. And they have given their mandate to that effect. All of a sudden, someone who did not contest the election, would not have to take the mandate from the person who contested the election. Okay, Barista, it's just, it's just confusing. Now that they say, the Supreme Court has said that it is law and that is the candidate for that senatorial district. So Machina has lost out. The people who, like you said, voted for him have lost out. Is there something else that they can do to hold the party and hold the instrument that brought Lawan to that position? You know, can they still do something else to hold them? They cannot do anything. They cannot do anything because the Supreme Court is a fan of each house. So if a Supreme Court makes a mistake, for instance, it just stands and sets a president for the rest of the, for rest of us to come and maybe suffer it? Well, if the Supreme Court makes a mistake, the only point where you can call for a review is when there's a clerical error, typographical error, or there's issues within that they can force within typo and all that. Okay, that's when the Supreme Court, you can go back to the Supreme Court and ask for a review. But you cannot go back to the Supreme Court to ask the Supreme Court to opt on itself. The Supreme Court have used judgments to opt on itself on its own violation, not at the instance of any party or persons or group of persons telling the Supreme Court to opt on its own judgment. You see that you see that you see it was a 3-2. Okay, 3-2 in the sense that 3 of the justices gave judgment in favor of Ahmed or two dissented. And if you read the provisions of the law that were cited by the two dissenting judges, and you marry to the letter acts, and the fact of this case, you will find the logic therein. Okay, for here we are faced with a condition where you cannot take the Supreme Court to any other court. The only place you can go from this is heaven. Okay, and that is the process. And we're saying that this kind of judgment indicts the judiciary. And for me, I don't think it's in good light in my own estimation from what, because I mean the reason given is just so that the Supreme Court didn't even look at the practice direction that was issued by the Federal High Court. I had similar case in Asaba in pre-election matter where I was in court, in a particular day, where they called acts, all the councils who have commenced their proceedings by rate of someone to work on that, to reigniting someone. Okay, well here the Supreme Court is even, they are the fact that because of their alleged criminality and fraud, and that is just the reason. Okay, how about the merit of the case itself? Okay, let's put aside the issue of fraud that was alleged. Okay, if a man had not contested the primaries, and the other party had raised fraud in the process, is the issue of fraud more important than the conditional precedent, which is that session 20, now the electoral act says you must contest. You see, this is the fear, this is the fear barista, because electoral acts that was amended in 2022 is what gives the people so much confidence that the elections of 2023 will be better, the political climate will be better and all that. But this one setting a precedent, does it mean it has just rubbish the electoral act? Because if this is not respected, what is the likelihood that any other thing in the electoral act will be respected? I mean we've seen cases in Aqaba, where Aqaba became, suddenly became the candidate for his senatorial district, which people feel shouldn't have been. We saw the one before the electoral act, it can be excused, where a governor in emo state came forth or so and then after all that happened in the courts, he became the governor and he's still the governor till today. We don't seem to understand what is going on. So does it mean in the electoral act, it's just something that we cannot even look to because the provisions of that act may be flouted by anybody anytime because of any reason? Well the truth is that the electoral acts still remain the extant law on election, election matter. The constitution remains the ground norm, okay? The reason we advocate that the courts upholds the provisions of the electoral act and the constitution. It is only in doing that that we can find the reflection of the people's hope and aspiration in the candidacy of politicians, okay? Now but where there's destruction or the tractors or where you have judgment like this, it makes rubbish of the said law. People have argued about who is a candidate and who is a candidate, okay? When you become a candidate and when are you an aspirant?  When you emerge the winner, you become a candidate, okay? Those are established issues of law in the electoral act, okay? Which is very, very clear, okay? Interpretations should come in that light, okay? Well here we're saying that the fact that a man alleged fraud is not a reason you should get to see the merit of his case and then focus on the technicality of the mode of commencement, okay? If you think that the mode of commencement was wrong, you should have ordered that the case be re-litigated or start de novo. I know that time is of essence now but the Supreme Court could have done that because a man did not convince in a particular way, is that enough reason why he should lose his mandate given to him by his people? I mean, the thing is if let's say the electoral acts were like the 10 commandments and the fact that you cannot become a candidate in an election that you never contested has been struck out as it were. That means we have just nine commandments as it is now because any time this thing comes up, this judgment that has been given will be set as a president, will be set as an example. This is what has happened, which means the electoral act and its effect is reducing. So can we still have hope in this electoral act, granted that even before the election we have seen instances where it has been set aside and something which is opposite what is the provision in the electoral act is being done? What hope do the Nigerian people have in both the electoral act and the electoral process itself? Hope is not all lost, hope is not all lost in the case at hand. For me I feel it is a patent error which the Supreme Court must in subsequent judgment correct. Why we live with the pains of what has already been established? We should not go back there. You know what Lord Denin would say that we must try as much as possible to keep the stream of justice clean at all times. If we pollute the stream of justice, we are going to have the outcast effects and its consequences in society. I mean people will begin to lose hope in institutions of government and the worst thing that can happen to a country is where people now lose hope completely in every area. Judiciary is a hope of the common man. If everything has gone wrong, the judicial system must not go wrong because that is a system that is meant to correct every other processes. And let me say this that if not for the judiciary, even as much as we talk about its inefficiency right now in the press of this judgment and if not for the judiciary, this Nigeria would have long been destroyed by politicians. I can tell you that it is politicians that are dragging the judiciary ruthlessly this way. Politicians will come up with all kinds of gimmicks. You want to contest the presidential primaries and at the same time you want to retain your seats in the Senate. And then you pulled out from the state primaries to conduct contests at the center, then lost them, came back. Primaries has already been concluded yet the next day you now have to conduct your own primaries. And the other one has not been validated. What are we doing? Does this confirm what people have been thinking that the judiciary has been compromised? The judiciary has been bought over. At least a chunk of the people involved have been bought over. And it may be a problem for Nigerians. Is this not an evidence to that effect? Except that we don't have material evidence to that effect. I know you would say that. But it is deductive. Whoever implies that concept, I will not blame the person because it is this kind of thought is stemming out from what is seen. In as much as I will not yield totally to that fact because of the want of material evidence. Over those who have chosen to think and act that way, I will not blame them. I would not blame them in the sense that if the judiciary had avoided what has just happened, nobody would think of you that way. Okay, there should be quality before the law. The fact that somebody is a president does not mean that at every point it should be made to get away with illegalities. We should come to that point where the judiciary will sit down and pronounce okay, an incumbent president wrong and take him down out of office. We should go to that level. That is the only point where we begin to build confidence in our democracy and in our development. I choose to speak the truth, irrespective of who is who delivered the judgments. Irrespective of I don't care about that. What I care about is the laws that I have read, its provision, except the courts want to strike a session 29 of the Electoral Act. If that is struck, it will therefore mean that anybody who does not contest permits can come from anywhere at any time and emerge as a candidate. And that will not be what a civilized country should put up with. And the international communities are watching all over the world. People are looking at how we are conducting ourselves. How we talk about developing Nigeria and we conquer a political system that does not give truth to reason and that does not do what is appropriate. It is quite unfortunate, I must say. Okay. Well, when the politicians do wrong, we run to the courts, we run to other places, we do so many things. But when the courts go wrong, we hardly ever say anything. And sometimes, like they say, power corrupts and absolute power absolutely. So if the courts are allowed to do the things that are wrong as well, or are very shady, confusing to the people who may not be learned gentlemen, what do we ask people do to make sure that the courts themselves sit up? Because, for instance, they had, we had answers because the security people were doing what was not right. We had Occupy Nigeria when the politicians were perceived to be doing the wrong thing. We've had so many things like that for every sector of our society. But I can hardly remember any time we've done anything because the courts have gone wrong. Now, I don't, I'm not talking about a revolution or some kind of thing, but what do we need to do to show the courts that we are also watching and we need them to do the right thing? Because they're the last hope of the common man, as we always say. What can we do to have these checks and balances with the courts? Well, it is also the people to stomach or jettison or protest against illegality. Illegality to one is illegality to all. Okay. Hardly will you find people demonstrating peacefully in the streets of Nigeria as a result of a pronouncement that is perceived illegal or that is preoccupied with what is not right? Okay, hardly will you see that. But it is up to the people to decide whether or not it is proper to leave and stay by this kind of pronouncement. The ultimate issue about the legal system and the provisions of our laws is to enhance society, re-engineer the process, so that at the end of the day justice is seen, to be manifestly done. But where, when and how injustice are perceived wrong? Okay, Barista Evans, I think we've lost the audio there, but I would like to thank you, even though maybe you can still hear us. We'd like to thank you for coming on the bus. Okay, you're still there. Well, we've run out of time anyway, but we're glad that we had this perspective from you and so many people in the camp of the person who won will be glad by now. We'll be happy, but a lot of Nigerians like us are very confused and now that you have told us some of the things that we needed to hear, we know what happened there and what we'll be looking forward to in the future. Well, but like you said, all hope is not lost. Thank you so much for being a part of this show today. You're welcome. Okay, we've been talking with Barista Evans Ufeli Esquire, a constitutional lawyer, and when we return from the break that we're about to take, we'll be looking at the Naira redesign and still taking some views from the people of Nigeria. We'll be talking with Mr. Athiophilus Akkatuba on the twists and turns of the Naira redesign and how he feels about it. Stay with us.


So you want to make a mold of something. You've got the mold making material, you've got the object you want to mold, and you've got countless creative ideas of what to do with that mold. But what can you use to contain that silicone mixture that is easy, efficient, and effective? You need a box. If you want something quick and readily available around the house, look for milk cartons or plastic containers. You can also use cardboard boxes as they are stable and ready to use since the floor and the walls are already put together for you. For example, we used a milk carton to clone this king-tut figurine. The mold popped out easily and it was simple to discard. If you want something more specific to fit the size of your object, it's quite easy to build your own box out of cardboard, foam core, or plexiglass. Let's take a look at how we were able to build a box for our king-tut figurine using plexiglass. Here's what you'll need. A cutting mat or a safe surface to make cuts, sheets of plexiglass, a ruler, an exacto knife, and glue. You could also use strong tape like tuck tape or silicone gel, but in this example we'll be using glue. Next you need to determine the size of box you'll need. We recommend allowing about half to three-quarters of an inch of space around your object so you can capture every detail and the mold is strong and durable for many many more duplicates.  The sheets are fairly thin so they cut easily and snap off with a little pressure. In this case we needed four sheets that were the same size and a smaller square piece for the base. Only five walls are needed as the open space is where we will be pouring the mold making material. Now each piece is covered with a protective sheet so just remove any of those and you are ready to build. Grab your glue gun and start fastening the walls together. You want to be careful and thorough with the glue. Any holes or breaks in the plexiglass can cause the mold making material to leak out or shift during the curing process which is something we very much need to avoid. You can add your object to the box as well to ensure that everything is fitting properly and once you've covered every last gap you're ready to have a little fun with mold making material. Simply glue your object down into the box, mix up part A and part B of the mold making material and cover your object with the mixture. Three or four hours later you'll have a solid mold that's ready for you to take to the next step. As we mentioned earlier you can use tape to build the box but you'll want to use a strong brand of tape. There's more room for error if you're using something like clear scotch tape. It looks clean and nice but leaks can often occur. Beyond plexiglass you can build a custom box with other materials like cardboard and foam core. The same strategy applies to cutting and fitting the box together but if you decide to use tape such as tuck tape or packing tape not only do you want to tape the sides and corners together but you'll also want to line the inside of the box as well. The tape helps the box to become waterproof and also allows for the finish mold to easily be pulled away. There you have it you're not building a skyscraper but you are building something that will A stay together, B not leak, C pull away and D not waste any mold making material. So good luck in your mold making adventures try not to box yourself in and stay creative. Mold making material is available now on artrezen.com