Welcome to the Leading with Purpose. Each episode is an exciting journey, offering an exclusive opportunity to hear from Vermont's impactful leaders. Whether from the fields of business, government or the nonprofit sectors, these leaders share their personal and professional experiences, unveiling the challenges and achievements that have shaped their paths. Leading with Purpose elevates itself by providing viewers with an insider's look at dynamic organizations that promote positive change throughout Vermont. Join us on this transformative journey as Leading with Purpose unveils the stories of leaders shaping organizations and transforming Vermont with purpose-driven leadership. Discover the power of leadership that goes beyond success, leaving a legacy of positive change in its trail. Hi, we have Montpelier, a live board director, Katie Troutes with us today. So thank you for coming to our show, Katie, and I will ask you some questions so you can explain and express your leadership vision and all the wonderful things you did for our community. Ready? I'm ready. Thank you. Great. Welcome again. So, Katie, can you provide a brief overview of your leadership journey and how it led you to where you are today? Sure. So, growing up, I was actually a very shy child. I loved performing, singing, dancing, music in my house. And I wouldn't have thought that I would have found myself in leadership positions throughout time. But over time, it became clear that I was a community player, that I was a social person, and that I enjoyed academics and often went my own path, exploring different interests of mine. So I think that independence kind of led me into jobs where I was a manager or in charge of a project. I went to college at Bates College and graduated with a degree in anthropology because of my interest in all the many countries and cultures around the world, and I loved to travel. But shortly after that, I started pursuing music more heavily, and I became a music teacher, a private fiddle instructor. And I had been going to some workshops and classes across the nation to study the fiddle and the violin. And that led me to coming back to my home state of Vermont. I grew up in Cabot, Vermont, and I found some partners to start a non-profit music school. So this is where I think I really stepped more into the leadership position. That school is called the Summit School for Traditional Music and Culture, and it still exists here in Montpelier. I was the director for eight years, and then I became the director of Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph, Vermont. And I took some time off when I started a family. I have two young children. And as I was re-entering the workforce, I was performing music and I was teaching a little bit on the side. But I decided I really wanted to work for a community non-profit, and I saw the opportunity of a vent coordinator come up at Montpelier alive. And I really enjoyed working alongside Dan Groberg, who was the director at the time. And Dan really helped me get to know Montpelier alive and how the structure of that organization worked enough that when he left and I applied for the director position, I felt pretty comfortable with the prospect of leading that organization. So now I am the executive director of Montpelier alive. Yeah, great start for us to know you a little bit better. So how would you describe your leadership style and how has it evolved over the course of your career and how your leadership contributes to both organizational success and also community impact? Those are great questions. I have thought about this quite a bit, and I do think that my leadership style has evolved tremendously since my time at Montpelier alive and as I've matured and grown as a parent and a community member. I think I've always been very collaborative, and even though I grew up being an independent young girl, I always, as I said, have been very social. And I've played with a lot of bands in my music career. I've collaborated as a teacher with other instructors in different programming. And then I've always just really enjoyed and respected other people's perspectives. Maybe it's a little bit of my anthropology background. I'm a listener, I'm an observer. So I think that's really bled into my work as a leader. And it's been really beneficial, especially with working with a community organization to be a good listener and to really hear what the community need and desire is and to collaborate with my staff and colleagues. So I think that's been very beneficial, although I do believe that I've gained a lot of confidence in the past couple of years. As a human being, as a parent having two children, you really have to step into that confident role at times in leading the way for them and guiding them. But also in recent events with Montpelier Alive, I've been forced to really stand up in front of the community as a public face for Montpelier and for Montpelier Alive and to have confidence in my knowledge and skills. So it's evolved into maybe a stronger leadership position that I feel like I'm taking on now and I continue to be a collaborator, a social person, a team player, but I also think I've developed this new confidence. Yeah, so I've heard like listening skills, collaboration skills and also having self-confidence, which help you to have great projects for Montpelier, right? So can you share a specific initiative or project where your organization has made meaningful contribution to the local community? Yeah, I mean I think that Montpelier Alive historically has always had a lot of impact, but it's fallen under the radar a little bit. It's behind the scenes. We're always doing projects to beautify and make our town more vibrant and attractive, including distributing flowers and hanging baskets and engaging with volunteers to help us with public art initiatives and murals. There's a lot that we have done, but in recent time during COVID and now just following a massive flood event in downtown Montpelier, Montpelier Alive has had even more impact in the support it's offered businesses and we have started a lot of new initiatives that address community resiliency, rebuilding and adapting our downtown so that it can endure climate events in the future. So I would say that a lot of our work more recently and that I've played a big role in that's been impactful involves this business support, fundraising for businesses, marketing businesses and meeting their needs as they've recovered from the flood. Yeah, so in what ways do you believe purpose-driven leadership can transform not only organizations, but also entire communities? I think that Montpelier Alive is a great example of that purpose-driven leadership model. We love the community we live in. We have a lot of heart and soul and passion behind the projects we do, behind our everyday activities. The people who work for Montpelier Alive are active community members who care a lot about their downtown and that creates the most impact that we can have. Our investment in our community and our neighbors and our businesses is so strong and so I think it makes our impact very visible because we put all of that heart and soul and purpose behind what we do. So can you share a success story with us that highlights this purpose-driven leadership approach? I know you have many. Yes, well once again, following the disaster that we have recently encountered in our downtown, the success story that's come out of it is that 80% of the businesses that were shuttered in the first place after the flood have reopened and a lot of the businesses are very determined to do their business in downtown Montpelier. And I think that proves that Montpelier Alive has been effective and our leadership and my leadership has been effective in bringing them back to Montpelier, in encouraging them in those results of all the businesses being open. And also the state of our downtown, it's a beautiful place to live and work and right now there's art in many storefront windows including empty storefront windows. There are illumination projects across downtown and Montpelier is getting a lot of recognition on a national scale despite the flood and despite what's happened there. So I think that that is a success story unto itself and has in large part happened because of the people who have been involved. So I ask questions to learn about your region as a leader so far. So do you want to add anything else that I haven't asked you? Just that I think that when you can find as a leader something that you can really get behind with that purpose with that meaning and that passion and heart and soul then as a leader you will become closer to your greatest potential. So aligning those skills of leadership and finding the work that really drives you can have really impactful results. And I'm finding that along the way with my work with Montpelier Alive. It's great to hear. So for last thing can you please share a leadership quote with us that inspires you in your leadership journey? Well when I think about those who have inspired me, who I consider leaders, I think of my parents. And they were also very collaborative and social and just delightful human beings and their leadership was not called out by everyone. But to me as a child growing up with them they were leaders in all sorts of ways and they really created a path for me and encouraged me along that path. So something that I think of all the time is the way that they encouraged their children was by telling us to always just do your best and that's all you can do. And I think that's important to recognize. You know we're human beings, we have limitations, but if you try your best and you do your best and that's sort of my mantra then there will be good results and they may not be perfect but you will be living up to your potential if you are trying to do your best. So I think of that. Yeah it's a great statement and mindset that we should teach this more to our kids so they will trust themselves as future leaders. So I really enjoy our chat. Thank you for sharing all these wonderful insights with us and thank you again for being with us today. Thanks for having me. As we conclude another inspiring episode of Leading with Purpose we want to express our appreciation for joining us on this transformative journey. Throughout this series we have had the privilege of delving into the lives and leadership styles of Vermont's most impactful individuals. The exclusive journey we have shared have allowed us to hear firsthand from influential leaders across the business, government and nonprofit sectors. We have gained a unique understanding of what it truly means to lead with purpose. The heart of Leading with Purpose lies in its commitment to showcasing leaders who are committed to giving back to their communities, demonstrating how leadership extends far beyond office walls. We hope you have been inspired by the generous actions of these extraordinary individuals seeing firsthand how leadership can make a lasting impact on the community. We invite you to continue on this journey with us as Leading with Purpose explores the stories of leaders who are not only shaping their organizations but also transforming Vermont through purpose-driven leadership. Thank you for being a part of this inspiring community and we look forward to sharing more impactful stories of leadership and purpose in the episodes to come.


This this is way how a man shows you he's he's actually showing you respect when he all right Let's talk about those five ways a guy is gonna show that he respects you You know, it's interesting because this morning I did a video a short video about how Women how men excuse me. What was it about? What a woman can do what a man thinks is respectful from a woman So I thought I'd do the reverse here today. So if you did happen to catch that I wanted to say covering both ends of the spectrum being the men and women and Lately I've been really fascinated with the idea particularly in the dating process I've been fascinated with the idea of around respect and what I mean to say it seems to me Seems to me lately that there's a lack of respect by both genders in the dating process I'm repeat there There's a lack of respect from both genders from the dating process from certainly things like ghosts Sting and and not returning a phone call to taking a long time to respond just to give you a few examples but and and and you know, it's interesting swiping on someone and then never reaching out to them I'm using mostly talking about dating apps And certainly when someone writes you a beautiful letter and not Acknowledging it and I not to suggest that you have to do that all the time But I certainly believe that there's a level of respect in the beginning stages that I think translates to the two We'll talk about the pre-dating and then the dating period And I think because there's a lack of respect in the pre-dating that it does bleed over into the dating process And I believe that is partly because human beings operate rather selfishly in the dating process I'm repeat that I believe human beings operate selfishly Now I think part of the reason is that For the most part when you're meeting a total stranger and you know nothing about them You don't know their background. You don't know their history. You don't know their friends You know so little about them and these days in the dating realm Most of the time not always but most the time we're meeting total strangers And so because of that folks tend to focus more on their own needs Instead of the needs of the other person and that just makes sense, right? You know and and think about this even dr. The Gottman's who I talk about frequently in my video And if you haven't checked out the Gottman Institute I highly recommend checking out their website because there's a plethora of Information to help couples really bond together and such that's their air of expertise Well, I read something some years back talking about the three phases of love is we start from the phase of I need my needs met I need my needs met. So what are the needs that you know, for example men need they operate from the premise? I want sex as an example Now I'm going to use an example from a woman's perspective. I need a man to pay for the date, okay? And and that's not coming from a either one of those isn't coming from it's not coming from the other person's point of view It's coming from your own individual point of view So can you see why the dating process right from the get-go can right from the get-go? Can be a little bit disrespectful if you're operating from your own needs now, certainly You're not going to operate from a place of you know, think about it Operating from a place of giving to another who hasn't given to you And I don't you know giving love to someone you don't know yet that makes sense and Certainly the early stages of dating is kind of a feeling out period of one another But there's also this lack of respect that I've noticed Certainly in the area of Communication in the area of communication there almost seems like a disrespect and this is just my point of view here From what I've observed and believe me I've talked to Thousands of women in the dating realm and I can tell you that I've seen a lot of Disrespect from that from what I've heard from my clients now I can tell you as a man out there who's single looking for love. I felt Disrespected by women. So can you see why it's a dysfunctional dating process today? In fact, I I continually say this I say this with real sadness that it's a rather shit show out there Part of it is because these devices and I want everyone to think about this for a moment, you know, I was reading I was watching a video with two evolutionary biologists Talking and this had nothing to do with dating, but they were talking particularly of the effects of technology in our world And how think about it literally elect, you know, if the humans beings I don't know how long they've been on the planet with her 200,000 years, but certainly civilized human beings. We go back 10,000 years. So if 10,000 years, do you realize that? Electricity was invented only a hundred years ago. So there were none of these things There wasn't even this way for me to communicate with you So we are in brand new territory because of technology and in particular the technology Surrounding the dating realm this online dating process and think about it think about this for a moment if right now in history We didn't have online dating During the pandemic in fact, how are people going to meet our people going to connect? They weren't going out to work. They were stuck at home Many of many people were not all but they weren't meeting in their work environment. They weren't even socializing. So we only had this Medium to meet people and why I'm saying the challenge with this is that and I'm gonna get to the point of gaining respect in a moment But I think this is a really important point is that, you know, most people and I and I said earlier This has to do with communication Most humans weren't designed to communicate via our phones and what I mean particularly with our thumbs That's not a real Very few of us were trained at Communicating with our thumbs and what I mean to say is we don't necessarily what's here doesn't come out in our thumbs Because it's oftentimes short, you know bursts of conversations You know text message was really designed like hey, I'm running five minutes later. What's your address to your house? It wasn't for true communication and furthermore think about this if communication is 90% non-verbal I mean, it's it's it's in three dimensions as you're seeing hands moving You can you can see the facial gestures and and more importantly you can get their pheromones involved This is where a lot of communication is missed and there's a lot of struggle going on and this is where a lot of the disconnect happens in particular with a level of respect because most humans haven't really been prepared for this much Technology and I got to share something with you all My computer crashed yesterday and I went into an absolute panic attack I mean literally I was shaking so much that I called my son. There's a picture of Colin I said Colin please meet me at the store I gotta buy a new computer because I gotta shoot a video today and I was in such terror Because I'm a I'm in that baby boom Gen X period where we didn't were raised with technology I mean, I was sharing with my son I grew up when there was originally black and white television and it was a big deal when we got our first Calculator when I was growing up.  That was a big deal in the house a Calculator now they give them away at grocery stores and I'm bringing this up is because humans weren't designed That was certainly we are designed for that's not fair to say but we I don't believe we were prepared for this much infusion of technology in our lives and When somebody said that computers were user friendly, I can tell you I was trying to figure out the Lighting on my keyboard with this new computer and it took me an hour just to figure out how to do it And this was after doing research. All right, so you're probably going Jonathan. What about the topic? Listen, I think this is important to understand that a lot of disrespect is usually centered around The inability to communicate effectively with our thumbs number one I also believe that the vast majority of human beings have terrible relationship skills and Emotional maturity skills if you're not familiar with my emotional maturity chart I show it pretty frequently, but I believe roughly, you know 60% of the population has dysfunctional relationship skills and what that really means is that ability to really To really communicate effectively with another human being and this certainly true in the workplace as well There are a lot of people that don't like each other that work together because they have poor communication skills So What does this have to do with this topic? How does a man gain your respect? Well, I think how a person shows up in the early stages of the dating process gives you an indication if they're actually capable of Leaning into a healthy happy relationship not leaning back But leaning into a healthy happy relationship So we're gonna talk about those five ways a guy is gonna show gain What is the topic again five things men do to gain your respect? Having a little brain fart right now. So here's my notes. So let's talk about it right now One thing I do want to say though In the Gottman's work and I by the way, I talk about this book Frequently the eight dates by doctors John and Julie Gottman and why I bring this up is this is a great book To help you understand the mechanics to a healthy happy relationship and this actually creates eight separate conversations That are critical to determining if you're a good fit with one another and the beauty of this book It actually is a great basis for developing emotional Or developing intimacy which eventually leads to emotional safety and think about respect feeling respected and Feeling trust in a relationship Makes you feel safe feeling respected feeling trust and trust is all about I want you everyone to think about this This isn't about fidelity. This isn't about trusting that your partner won't sleep with someone else real trust is The person cares about your feelings as much as you care about your feelings The person cares about your feelings as much as you care about your feelings You know it fascinates me and I've mentioned this before I'm doing another squirrel here for a moment I'll get to the topic in a second.  You might not know their two closest friends You might not know where they grew up where they went to high school There's so many things you don't know about a person and yet the penis will get to go inside the vagina with little or no You know real Awareness of who this other this person is isn't that fascinating? I mean it didn't used to be that I mean I'll tell you when I was single growing up I mean we had to jump through a lot of hoops before we got laid Well, this was if we didn't meet someone at a bar because if you met someone at a bar Alcohol had a way of breaking down all kinds of their Boundaries and I'm not recommending that I'm just saying, you know used to be that's where we met people That's when I was growing up We'd go dancing we'd go to bars because that's where you met people now We can meet people online and the beauty of meeting people online is we can actually pre-qualify our prospect if we choose to learn the skills to ask better questions in the early stages to Determine does this person share my values is this person's lifestyle blendable with mine and lastly does this person? You know, maybe you can ask enough questions where you can determine is this person even emotionally mature enough to be in a relationship All right. I've gone through my little rhetoric now. I'm gonna get to those five things I know you're waiting so and I see that the the chat box is rolling right now. So number one Number one, he listens and acknowledges your point of view. He listens and acknowledges your point of view and more importantly He listens and acknowledges your feelings One of the fundamentals of good relationship skills that actually help couples last the go the distance Is that ability to listen to the other person's point of view and actually Acknowledge and accept that person's point of view as being true for them Conflict resolution skills is one of the weakest skills for most couples And it's actually one of the primary reasons why they end up breaking up is because they have poor communication skills When they get into conflict and usually most people when they're in conflict is I'm right. I'm right. I'm right. I'm right. I'm right I'm right. I'm right. I'm right. I'm right. I'm right. And there's not finding that common ground Not finding that common ground And so it's really incumbent upon people at least my recommendation is to learn better communication skills This is why I continually recommend the book non-violent communication by Marshall Rosenberg non-violent By the way, this should have been titled compassionate communication Either way, there's a link below to all the Jonathan recommends books in the in the definite the description there, okay? And in addition, this is a new book. I'm just starting to read and I'm loving it It's called I hear you the surprisingly simple skills behind Extraordinary relationship and this gives you great examples of how to just tweak your communication Just a little bit so you can actually feel seen heard and understood and remember when I said earlier You know, most people operate from the premise of getting their own needs met I have a theory in dating today Usually two people show up in their egoic self Trying to be seen heard and understood and they're mostly Vomiting on the other person instead of actually engaging with them in healthy communication They're oftentimes just spouting their resume versus really engaging with another person So healthy communication skills listening and acknowledging the person's other point of view number two This this is way how a man shows you he's he's actually showing you respect when he express expresses Gratitude for your efforts Towards him he expresses gratitude for your efforts towards him And what I mean to say is when you do something kind He's actually acknowledging it not from a passive. Thank you perspective I by the way, I want everyone to really adopt these three words in their lexicon And that is the word of gratitude actually more than three words but gratitude Grateful and appreciation Gratitude grateful and appreciation. I know gratitude and grateful are kind of the same But they're they're still just variations of the same word. I believe it's a lot better to use the word I really appreciate that you took me out to this really nice restaurant versus. Thank you for taking me out in the restaurant It has more power the word appreciation Has a lot of power the word gratitude. I'm really grateful that you were kind And by the way meant this is what men should be doing. So I'm giving you the reverse here But it doesn't matter whatever it's like, hey, I really appreciate when a guy says I appreciate I'm grateful I'm you know, it says the word gratitude that you you made dinner for me the other night That's a heck of a lot more powerful than just thank you. Okay number three number three He apologizes in a healthy way. He apologizes in a healthy way We are all gonna have disagreements and there are always gonna be times that men do some bonehead moves I I have to tell you I've said some bonehead things right from the get go I know a lot of you put me up on a pedestal. I am not as evolved as you think I am I'll show you the coffee mug in a second. I've said bonehead moves and apologizing in a healthy way looks like this It represents the four Rs the four Rs and that is to are actually there's technically five Rs But there's four of these is to recognize What was done wrong or what might have been said wrong number one to recognize it number two to have either regret or remorse For what happened regret or remorse number three you take? responsibility take responsibility for your actions and lastly you offer some remedy So it doesn't happen again Recognize regret and remorse responsibility and remedy when a guy actually apologizes in a healthy way That is because he's trying to gain your respect. He's trying to show you he is a genuine trustworthy guy And yet sadly and this is sad Most human beings they're they're liberal of apologies. Oh, I'm sorry that happened. I'm sorry that happened I'm sorry that happened That's like that's not an apology Apologies taking ownership having a little bit of remorse You know, you know, you know trying to come up with a remedy taking responsibility That is a genuine and sincere apology and number four He compliments your Accomplishments he compliments your accomplishments. Wait, you know, it's funny I was with a friend the other day and she told me something that happened in her life And now at the moment it escapes me of course I'm on camera now and it totally escapes me and of this friend I just I was so happy for her accomplishment that I complimented her You know, that's a great sign someone is into you that they're trying to gain your respect When they they acknowledge and compliment your efforts your efforts in your life, okay, your accomplishments Okay, so it's this is a little bit different than expressing gratitude for your efforts This is more about complimenting you and being your cheerleader and when a man is a genuine cheerleader and go, oh, that's nice Oh, that's nice.  Did you have a good day? I hope you had a good day. Hey, have a good day Did you have a blessed day? That's like the rhetoric today I'm talking about encouraging people to go deeper than the surface and lastly and most importantly number five is He is transparent about his relationship desires He is transparent about his relationship desires and I'm going to show everybody my example So you can get an idea of what this looks like but my real and by the way, I was just talking to another Male friend last night. We're having this whole debate About how he he's actually over. I mean women are shocked because he literally leads with this is what I want in a Relationship and this is what a relationship looks like. I'm like, are you listening from my playbook? He I loved it and this was someone I never spoken about before I know I said friend but more like a social acquaintance and I was like I was like Fascinated and I'm like me too of the same thing So let me just share with you just to give you an example what transparency looks like in the way of a relationship And I say this frequently so you all most of my regulars know this rhetoric I'm looking for a relationship where we spend three or four days and nights a week together Doing shared activities hobbies mutual interests spending time with family and friends traveling together teamwork building skills Both in our personal professional life intimacy both physical and emotional intimacy that leads to either moving in together or getting married That's my desire. Is it going to look like that? I don't know. It's not an absolute But at least I have a clear understanding and I articulate that that's what transparency looks like and given That this is the most important factor in a relationship is being Transparent with another. I'm also a big proponent of being vulnerable and authentic with someone vulnerable authentic and transparent the vat as I call it When a man is transparent about his Relationship desires. He's treating you with a level of respect And my hope is that you're actually experiencing these kind of men. I know it's frustrating out there So let me just say if you need some support in this area Then check out the link to a free discovery call with me because my area of expertise is teaching you how to vet for those Emotionally available men and teaching you how to ask the right questions based on your individual personality So I can help you avoid the looky lose out there and there's a lot of looky lose out there And those men and there are plenty of men who are seeking a serious relationship I had a friend show me her her hinge profile today And I was reading the guy's profile and I mean either he's full of shit Or I mean and I don't believe he is because I I I really looked at and I'm like wow This is a sincere man And there are a lot of sincere men who are thirsty For a serious committed relationship. We have to throw out look at I don't want to throw out the baby with the bath water because let's face it I I said 60 of people are dysfunctional. I didn't include those 20 who have clinical issues in their lives So yes, there's gonna be a lot of people that aren't a good fit for you And at the same time when you show up just like what I just shared here today, everything goes both ways When you show up that way You actually will become more of a magnetic attractor for what you want. Does that resonate with you? Give me a thumbs up. Give me an amen. Okay All right, this will be a great place to wrap up today I hope you found value in what I shared if you did Please post a comment below on anything you want to add. I do my best to read them all Please like this video right now Please share it with some friends some more people can find me and if you want to talk to me If you want to schedule a discovery call with me check out the link below Check out my podcast follow me on instagram Check out all the books I recommend and if you can't afford coaching check out my group called midlife love mastery The link is below. All right. I'm going to wrap up this video as I always do first off Giving myself a big gigantic Jonathan barrow of self love I'm going to reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay I'm asking you to turn to someone a pet a teddy barrow pillow and give it or them a hug of love Because hugs are a great source of love and let's face it. We could all use more love in our lives I want to thank


Hello, this is Dr. Oliver Pereira and this is the second part of my introduction to mediation and moderation. I will first summarize some of the key concepts from the first presentation. I have said that mediation answers questions about how predictor influence outcomes. I have introduced a simple ordinary d-square-based mediation model where the total effect from x to y from a predictor x to an outcome y is partitioned into different effects, a direct effect c, which represents a direct effect of predictor x on outcome y, and an indirect effect represented by the multiplication of paths a and b, which represents how the effect of x is transmitted to y through m. The key inferential tests concern the indirect effect a, b, and this requires re-sampling methods, for example bootstrapping or Monte Carlo architectures, to estimate the confidence intervals and the distribution of this indirect effect. In this presentation I will talk firstly about confounding. I will then present a case where the analysis and the mediation model will involve multiple mediators and I will talk about longitudinal mediation models. It is important to always keep in mind that mediation models are causal models. They make assumptions about causal mechanisms and causal links. Therefore it is important to think carefully about the causal mechanisms we assume in a model and how we can control for the threats to the validity of the arguments we are putting forward with our models. If the predictor x in a model is an experimental variable, for example treatment that participants receive if they are randomly selected to receive it, as long as participants who receive the treatment and those who don't are otherwise treated in the same way during the study, we can be confident that the treatment is the only plausible cause for differences in the outcomes between the two groups. But often we cannot run experimental studies and furthermore while the predictor in an experimental study can be randomly allocated, the mediators cannot. And the mediators are assumed to causally influence the outcome. So the association between the mediators and the outcome may be due to a third variable the inferences both. I will work again with the example I made in the previous presentation. And this is an example of a treatment that is applied on our soil in order to promote successful growth of our plants. The treatment may work partly because it effectively eliminates fungi and other organisms that hinder plants growth. However, there are some possible confound as they may explain this causal link. For example, the pH or acidity in our soil and the rain may explain this causal link because the pH can negatively influence fungi. And the other hand, the same level of pH can be optimal for plants. This is a fictional example, obviously, but some confounders like that are possible. So in this case, the indirect effect of treatment through fungi reduction will be biased and confounded. And we would argue that the mechanisms of action of the treatment involved fungi, but this would not be true if some other uncontrolled mechanism, H, can explain the link between the mediator and outcome. I take this chance to add an important clarification. We need to be clear about what is being confounded in this example. And here the pH confounder is a confounder of the indirect effect from the treatment to the outcome. In other words, if you are interested in better understanding the mechanism of action of the treatment, then you would want to make sure you control for counter arguments that may indicate that the treatment is not actually working by acting on fungi or other mediators, but there may be some other mechanism at play. However, if my main interest was testing if the treatment works and promotes plant growth, whether the mechanisms of action are through fungi or involve pH does not really interest me. And all I'm asking is whether the treatment is making the plants grow or not. If the treatment was testing using an experimental procedure on a substantial number of samples, I can be confident it works if I notice that there is better growth after the treatment. The point is that pH in this example does not confound the total effect from the treatment to the outcome. If my interest is in estimating the total effect of whether the treatment works, I don't need to adjust for other confounders like these. However, if your interest is in understanding the mechanism of action of the treatment, then pH is an important source of confounding of the supposed, hypothetically indirect mechanism of reduction of fungi. And I will highlight an important resource for reflecting about causal models when you're thinking about the controls you need in your models. This resource is based on direct acyclic graphs. Here I put the link to the web page Duggity.net, which is also available as an R package. And directed acyclic graphs are ways to represent the reactions of causal inferences between variables. The graphs are called directed acyclic because the edges in the graphs represent a direction of causality between variables and those do not flow back onto themselves, so they are directed and acyclic. These graphs are useful in representing conditions in which we can correctly estimate the causal effect of a predictor on an outcome. And we can add the variables that may be considered as confounders, variables that we can observe, but also there may be confounders that we cannot observe. Here I represented the example I made just in the previous slide. And in this software, in this web page, I can specify that I want to estimate the total causal effect from the treatment to the outcome growth. And you can see here that if I select that I want to estimate the total causal effect, I am biasing paths that I need to control for. So if these were all the variables that were important in this particular study, then I wouldn't have to control for confounders if I were just interested in the total effect. Of the treatment. However, if I want to estimate the direct effect of the treatment or conversely the indirect effect, I will have to control for fungus and pH level. The point is that the directed acyclic graphs can help you describe the supposed causal pathway in the phenomenon you're studying. And they represent them in a qualitative way, but that can also help you check the type of adjustments and tests that you need to be able to run to identify and estimate correctly the causal hypothesis. So I think they are very useful tools that help you by your thinking and your hypothesis and also specify what type of controls you need to apply to in your models. So back to an example of confounding in mediation. In an example in the previous presentation, I tested a model whereby the effect of family income on grade 12 math scores was supposed to be mediated by grade 8 reading scores. And again, I've put some scripts in the material with this module that you can follow so you can run the examples on R. But we can think of many factors that might act as confounders in this pathway. For example, maternal education attainment may influence the child's course in grade 8 and grade 12. So it might have an effect that confounds the mediating pathway through reading in grade 8. Another variable that may bias the supposed mechanism through grade 8 score is gender. Girls may be more academically driven and do better in grade 8 and 12. So using the process macro in R, it's easy to control for similar confounders. All you need to do is add an option COV for covariates where you can list a set of covariates. In this case, I added male and maternal education as covariates in the model, as you can see in the gray area. Adding controls for these confounders, the indirect estimated effect of high income on math 12 scores is 2.84 whereas it was about 2.82 without those confounders. And note that in the process macro, the total effect of high income on math scores is estimating assuming the covariates are held constant or else it is estimated why controlling for the covariates. The resources provided with this module, you can find more exercises where you can test and apply the process macro in R to estimate different mediation models. So please look at the resources provided. Another common scenario in mediation is when parallel mediators are being supposed. In this scenario, the predictor influences the outcome through two mediators or more. And these mediators are supposed not to cause the influence each other. And this does not mean that they are independent each from the other. The mediators can be correlated with each other for example. And this scenario may be particularly useful in testing the different sides of indirect effects across different putative mechanisms. For example here, the effect of family high income on grade 12 math scores is being supposed to be mediated by grade 8 reading scores and by grade 8 math scores. And however, for the sake of example here, I'm not supposing that there is a direct causal link between reading and maths, but this is just for the sake of example. Taking this scenario and use it ordinary least square estimation, the values of these mediators are estimated as linear function of the predictor. So the outcome scores are estimated as a linear function of the predictor high income and the sum of coefficients for the different parallel mediators. So if we have two predictors as in this case, the grade 12 math scores are estimated as a linear function of a direct effect of high income, the C pathway. And the sum of the coefficients, the B's that represent the effect of the putative mediators on the outcome. Thus, the B1 coefficient for example represents the change in grade 12 math scores for one unit increase in grade 8 reading scores for children with the same family income and keeping the grade 8 math scores the other mediator constant. So controlling for the other mediator, which means that there are two specific indirect effects in this model. One through grade 8 reading scores, which is given by the product of the paths A1 and B1. And the other indirect specific indirect effect is through grade 8 math scores, which is estimated by the product of A2 and B2. And the total indirect effect is basically the sum of these indirect effects. So in the shaded area here, I've put the syntax that you can use to estimate a similar model. The coefficients estimated through this macro are in the graph here. And the output of the macro can also be used to estimate the indirect effects. So here we have two indirect effects, one through reading 8 scores and one through math scores in grade 8. And we can see that the indirect effect through reading scores in grade 8 is estimated to be 0.72 whereas the indirect effect through grade 8 math scores is estimated as being 3.20. In the syntax, I've also asked the package to estimate contrast. So contrast equal 1 is basically asking a test of difference of the indirect effects. So a test, a test, the null hypothesis that the difference between the two indirect effects is equal to 0. And the results show that we can reject the hypothesis that those two indirect effects are equal to 0 because the confidence intervals of this test do not cross 0. So we can reject the hypothesis that those two indirect effects are equal. The difference between those indirect effects is equal to 0. Using the process macro is also possible to build models that include pathways of inference from one mediator to another. So serial multiple mediators can be included. And here in this example, I assume that reading scores in grade 8 casually inferences math scores in the same year. Once again, please note that I'm making this assumption to illustrate how to estimate a similar model, but from a substantive point of view a similar assumption of a causal link from reading to math scores in the same year is difficult to justify. But if you wanted to test serial multiple mediators, then you'll have to indicate that you want model type 6. So you write model 6 in the syntax of the process macro because this option invokes models with serial multiple mediators. But also note that the order of the mediators after the M option, it's important by writing read 8 before math 8. I'm instructing the software to consider reading 8 as a cause for math 8. So the order of the mediators after the option M so specifies the order of the influence in the serial multiple mediators model. I will talk about mediation models for longitudinal data and in one of the references provided with these resources. There is much emphasis on the fact that mediation models applied on cross sectional studies can only provide accurate estimates of mediation effects in various rate of conditions. And when these conditions are not met, which is cross sectional studies will provide bias estimates of mediation effects. And the results can be very misleading. So this makes sense because as I emphasize on different occasions, mediation models are causal models and they assume some processes of influence, mechanisms of change that take time, that necessarily take time to unfold. If, for example, we apply a treatment to our soil to promote plant growth, we would need some time to observe the effect of the treatment on the supposed mediator, the reduction of fungi, and some time to observe the consequential effect that the reduction of fungi has on plant growth. And then truly mediation models entail longitudinal data in most cases. So it's important to consider that and be very careful in making causal assumptions without data depth and designs that justify those assumptions. And with longitudinal data, we can also consider more complex situations. Here predictor X measured at time zero at the start of the study can affect a mediator that we observe at time one. And the mediator at time one can affect the outcome that we observe at time two. The previous level of the mediator, the level of the mediator at time zero at the start of the study can also affect the mediator at time one. And seemingly the previous level of the variable Y at time zero and time one can have an effect that we observe at the end of the study at time two. So these are auto regressive effects that reflect the stability of individual differences across time. And if we can control for these effects, we can also have estimates of the direct and indirect effects that are more reliable. These more complex models can be estimated using structural equation model, for example, which provides a more flexible approach to mediation analysis, one where different types of variables can also be included. And indeed, panel data can be used to test more complex model like these. In this case, the three variables are collected at three time points. And note that unless the predictor X is a variable that we can control experimentally, then we also need to model the correlation between the predictor and the other variables at time zero at the start of the study. And these correlations are represented by the gray arrows at different time points. We can then assess the auto regressive effects of the three processes here indicated by the dotted lines. And the effects of X from X to the mediator M, A are assessed on two occasions, as are the effects from the mediator to the outcome. So we have different estimates of the pathways from the predictor to the mediator from the mediator to the outcome. And while at the same time we control for stability of individual differences in the process. So using path analysis and structural equation analysis, we can also use this model to test the stationarity of the causal processes. For example, if the magnitude of effects from predictor X to mediator M and from the mediator M to the outcome Y change across time. And we can also test other hypothesis about the differences, the changes in variances and covariances across time. Here those variances and covariances are represented by the gray circles and arrows. So we can test more complex models that can also give us more reliable estimates of and also more complex estimates more information about the pathways from supposed calls to mediators and outcomes. Here I put a reference that uses, used this approach. In this study, the researchers show the anxiety sensitivity, which is the tendency to interpret unpleasant physiological cessation as dangerous, prospectively predicted alcohol problems, but not alcohol consumption across high school. And interestingly, anxiety mediated the anxiety sensitivity effect on alcohol problems across high school. So you can look at this reference to see an example of how this approach can be successfully used to estimate to provide evidence on mediation mechanisms and how some predictors can affect outcomes through other constructs. The use of structural equation models also allows to integrate other types of models into mediation analysis. For example, if the moderator is observed over repeated periods of time, we can use latent growth curve models to estimate the interceptor slope of these outcomes. So the initial status and the rate of change of the moderator and these parameters that represent change in the moderator over time can then be included in the mediation model and test if changes in the mediating variable are responsible or transmit some of the effect of the independent variable on the outcome. And I refer also to resources I have created for the National Center for Research Methods on latent growth curve models. Finally, it is also possible to use mediation models to apply them in situations where the predictor and the mediators are at different levels compared to the outcome. For example, in this scenario, we have children who are clustered within classes in a school. The intervention may be delivered at the level of classes and the moderating mechanism that we hypothesize can transmit part of the effects of the intervention, maybe also at the class level. For example, the intervention may work by improving teacher-pupil communication. So the intervention is a moderator that is also at class level and this moderator in turn influences individual children's results. There are packages that can run these types of analysis. However, structural equation models that also integrate generalized linear models provide a more flexible approach. One that allows to consider observed as well as latent variables in the mediation model and can include different types of variables. For example, binary, ordered categorical and counts. So thank you for your attention and please look at the exercises provided with this module which will guide you in building different mediation models. Thank you again. Bye.


Right, so hey guys and welcome back to another Python tutorial So this video is going to be a lot more chill than the previous tutorials we had just to kind of dump it down for New beginners that are joining my channel So in this tutorial what we're going to be doing is we're going to be programming a simple GUI digital clock that you can flex on your screens Let me show you an example of what I mean Let me run the program I already have coded up just to show you what you'd be having at the end of this tutorial Let's run this up and as you see right here. We have a little digital clock showing up on my screen So it just updates each time a second pass is by and it shows us the most Updated time so that's all we're going to be doing in this to this tutorial. We're going to go through today So first of all what I'm going to do is open up with your studio code like always and Then in there what I'm going to do is close my existing files and create a new file I'm going to zoom in a bit as well. Just so that you can see easier and then save this as Let's just call it a digital Clock Dot pie Because it's a digital clock, of course So first thing you want to do is import to kinter So we're going to be using a label from to kinter and we're going to be using the tk from to kinter so from Tkinter import tk, which is pretty much going to let us create a small window or a screen and then from to kinter Import label. We're just going to be allowing us to put some text to our screen. Cool. So first of all we want to define a master screen So if I do master equals tk and then open close brackets and run that up for you It should open up a small window But before that we also need to put it in a loop so that it keeps running So we do master dot main loop And now if I run this we should have a little pop-up window. So as you see right here, we have a little pop-up window So now let's give that window a title. So master dot title Digital clock And now what we want to do is go ahead and create a label on our screen. So clock equals Label and the master is going to be where it's going to be placed. Then we're going to set our font size to We're going to set it to calibrary type and then we're going to set the font size to 90 so that it pretty much covers up the screen nicely I'm going to set my background to gray You guys can go ahead and put your color preferences in there and I'm going to set my foreground, which is the color of my text to white Cool. So now what I'm going to do is go ahead and pack this clock onto my screen So what pack does is it pretty much puts this label at the center of my screen? Now as of now if I run this obviously nothing's going to show up. It's just going to be a little Kind of label which is in the center of the screen. We've got to put text on there So for this we need to have a function that pretty much calls itself again and again every time the time updates or every few seconds So that's what we're going to be doing. So let's create a function called def get time Now this function right here is going to be getting the time for us and then updating the label Every 20 every 0.2 or for a millisecond. So before that what we want to do is import time And let's also do import system So these are the two modules that are going to help us gather the time and store it as a string So time variable equals time dot string F time So in here what we can do is format the time that we're having as a As pretty much how we want it to display. So I want to display Percentage i which means hours then I want to percentage m which is minutes then I'm going to use percentage s which is seconds and then lastly percentage p which will show either a m or p m Cool. So that's that done. We've got the string showing up now. Now what we want to do is use clock Clock which is the name of the label that we created dot config so that we can add some text to it So text equals Time variable So that's the variable that was storing the time for us Now what we want to do here is go ahead and use the clock dot after method, which means every Point two of a second. We are going to run this function again So every every zero point every second of a second So like every 200 milliseconds, we're going to run this function again so that we get the most recent time and it's being put on our label Cool. So once we're done with that, we also need to call this get time function once after the Label has been packed on our screen. So get time and run it now. And that's about it. Now if I run this quickly As you see right here, we are able to see our little digital clock on the top of our screen So that's a nice little startup project for you guys to flex on your friends or something like that It's it's pretty good. It looks like a neat UI You guys can also change the design if you like. So for example, if I wanted to change the background to black And foreground still to white and if I run it now It changes whatever I want. So background is black and then the foreground is white Um, what if I wanted to change the font size? I can go ahead and do that over here So I can do 100 instead of 90 And then it goes slightly bigger Um, also if I wanted to change it to a different font family I could do it so by typing in aerial in here for example instead of calibrary and it should adjust automatically So as you see it's aerial now Um, also if you wanted to What else can you do with this? You could also add some extra text to it like an extra label. So you could do something like um Label master comma font equals aerial Let's go with font size of I don't know. Let's say 30 and then let's do comma text equals uh digital block foreground equals white And background equals black just to keep being consistent And then we just use a dot pack so that we pack it onto a screen in the center Cool. So as you see right here, we could also do that if you like Obviously, it's up to your personal preferences how you want this to be designed But hey, that's what you can do if you like as well So that brings an end to this short tutorial guys. Hope you have learned a little bit during this short tutorial. Um Hope you would be able to use this to create a sort of your own project You can also create an alarm out of it if you like by adding a few um functions and buttons onto the c y And that's it if you guys would like to donate to the channel directly You can do so by either signing up as a patron and using the patreon link in the description You can also um use a super chat emoji or a highlighted message when this video premieres Also guys do consider joining the discord channel and following the socials for some more fun And I will see you beautiful faces in the next tutorial. Peace


Hello everyone, I have some very exciting news. So teachers are today, our students of today and tomorrow, we stand on the brink of transformation and there's a revolution in teaching happening, not just from teachers getting more connected with education research and cognitive science, but also this explosion of artificial intelligence, particularly the generative side of chat GPT and how it can make the working lives of teachers a bit more efficient. But this revolution doesn't come from grand schemes of high tech solutions, although they are useful to get things started, but from the simplest, most straightforward of places. So some of you will be very familiar with my five minute lesson plan here. So the digital version. So I'm gonna log in and just show you what it can do. But you know, I worth mentioning 14 day trials so you can play to your heart's content and see why five million teachers around the world have downloaded the original template and there's a small group of people have been playing around, I shouldn't say small, several thousands been playing around with this five minute lesson plan, the digital version for many, many years. This has been available for quite some time, but last week we published a artificial intelligence version of this to allow you to work even more efficiently. Now, one key thing here is that it follows the five minute tried and tested curriculum planning methodology to ensure that no kind of balls are dropped. So you're still thinking carefully about your curriculum intent, how you implement it. Well, the software here produces this for you, then you just need to refine it and then take it a little bit forward. So let me just put an example in here. So I'm gonna do a little demonstration and I'm gonna do a little webinar in the near future just to go through this in greater depth. I'm just gonna put my face down here so you get the screen a little bit bigger. So I love the little tag features. You can see I've already got some original ones here. So let me just add in here. I'm going to just type in design ideas and I'm gonna prepare a lesson for next kind of week ahead. Press next step. Now, this is where the more detail, the more specificity you add, the more accuracy, the more likely you'll get the response that you need. So just as an example, I'm gonna keep it quite simple for now, quite wide. I want year seven students to design a range of first ideas. So stroke sketches. Let's see how this responds. That's my typing. Of a child's first toothbrush. We're just gonna explore drawing techniques. Exploring drawing techniques using the range of drawing equipment. So pencils, crayons, chalk, that type of stuff. But I'll come back to that or refine that, but let's just see what I get back. So there's all your subjects. So I didn't need to put design technology. I did at the title, but you don't need to necessarily repeat it here. Change your lesson length if you need to. I'm gonna say for a year seven, so I didn't really need to put that in the top. I can add some additional context. So for example, I might say five children were absent or the lesson is in another room, such as moving to a technology room or going outside or to the library, whatever it would be. So we're going to, in this case, have a wide range of example toothbrushes in the classroom as a product analysis. Analysis, okay. I'm gonna press, create my AI plans about 45 seconds or so, 30, 45 seconds, obviously more people use it. We'll learn how it responds, but it's gonna produce the detail. If I'm not happy with it, I can edit it. I can re-change the parameters in here and look for even more accuracy or more detail. But let me just keep things simple for now and just show you how easy this is to do. So there's some thinking required in your parts, whether you've already got your schemes of learning, schemes of work in place, which you should have, maybe a copy and paste into these boxes rather than me typing it like I've showed you where I'm thinking on my feet and see what it can do. So what's the harm in signing up for a little 14-day trial to see the power of your curriculum plans into your medium terms, into your one-off lesson moments for the week ahead or for even cover lessons or job interviews. There's great power here. So I think in the next few seconds, I should get a lovely little template back. And what I can do with this is I can download it as a PDF. Here we go. I can go into the individual boxes. So let me just show you a little demo here. So if I want to just go into the big picture, edit the details. I'm not quite happy with some of the terminology. All I need to do is simply highlight, delete, edit, bullet point, those types of things. So there's what I could do here into little kind of bullet point stages. If you get stuck with any boxes, so press done here, I can go to the next box just like that. Anything you're not sure of. So what is stickability? Press the I box. You get a couple of prompts from me here and a little 30-second video explainer. Once you've checked the whole area and the kind of stages, checking the tags, if you're seeing something you're not happy with or you want to save it for the future, review the content, whatever you need to do, it's all there for you. And then you've got this nice little download feature which will download a PDF. So here we go. And I can print that off, upload it online, share it with a colleague, whatever I need to do. And that's it. So slightly, six and a half minutes there, a little demo, but you get the idea. With practice, you get more accurate, reduce your workload and see how you get on. So the team at Angel Solutions and I and then Fitpatrick done quite a bit of work here to make the working life of teachers that much easier to manage. So we're all in a kind of sea of paperwork, lost in a labyrinth of planning. So I suppose this allows us, that five-minute thinking process is using the power of artificial intelligence to make our working life a little bit more efficient. So have a look, let me know what you think. Thanks for watching. And I hope it really makes a difference. Let me remind you of that web address again. So it's the five-minute lesson plan.co.uk. I'm gonna do our webinar and go into lots of different subjects, different age groups to show you all the different things you can do in different lengths of time and see how we get on. But other than that, let me know what you think. And I hope


And moving on to our next category, which is the Synergy Award, this award also invited the shortlisted entrance to come and make a presentation directly to the jury to impress upon them why they feel they should win a trophy in the Out of All Neons Awards 2017. And to the honours, we invite on stage Mr. Somit Robanacharya, CEO of Madison, all of you on stage, so we have the shortlisted nominees for Synergy Award team. When it comes to 360 degree marketing, I think that it makes automatically get more heated and more interesting because there is that much more scope to do more innovative and interesting things. And I think with the universe of the consumer shrinking and kind of condensing right down to his mobile phone, it's very interesting to see how anything which is more larger than life and more organization to anything which is more smaller but equally meaningful which is more related to a more one in one organization, how that translates to the consumer, how the consumer feels about the closing at an emotional level is what truly makes a difference. So I think when we were discussing and we were debating, we were looking at not just whether a tick mark was done across the 10 things that are possible in marketing but what we were really seeing is whether the role of each medium played out beautifully, whether it was giving the consumer experience, whether it was appealing to them at an emotional level, whether it was appealing to them at a functional level, how each role in the broad sector of 360 marketing played out from a consumer standpoint is what we were trying to arrive at. And definitely again some very interesting work done by a lot of brands, but I think what made a key difference is how the flow was condensed into that one mobile phone which has become like the go-to personal communication device for any consumer. And the more beautiful it condensed into that one-on-one organization despite being a 360 campaign, the more it made a difference in terms of between the mediums. Pons medal goes to trophy winner. By the way all of these shortlisted nominees came and impressed upon the jury while they thought that they should be the trophy winners in the Synergy Award. This was a window of opportunity for them to see how transparent and interactive the jury is. Let's find out who the silver trophy winner is.


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This is the breakfast and plus TV Africa time for us to look at the front pages of a national deal is we call it off the Press right here on the breakfast. We have Chris came the one do who joins the conversation this morning Chris many. Thanks for being with us It's it's it's showing that you actually detribalize Nigeria exactly So so how what in another name to your name Chris came the Muhammad one Go for we need to get straight to the crux of the matter. We're out of time We start off with the leadership Chris The interesting conversations across the pages this morning and the first in the leadership He talks about the 2023 campaigns begins in 2023 days.  I think that there might just be you know a mix up with that paper. So as I take The nation newspaper now on the nation newspaper PDP crisis. 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They also were reviewing that over Dizzle issues or cost of operation and trial of parents guardians out-of-school children begins September 12th says of baski trial of parents Guardians of out-of-school children begin September 12th says of baski Interesting one right there and we're bringing up this point Of course kids Chris can they wonder to he was his take on what the papers are saying this morning. So Chris let's start with the the part the nation it also echoes what The Guardian is saying given space and attention to the crisis in the People's Democratic Party We can say he'll crush his detractors and also saying that Articule Kawa and are you are sharing positions ahead of 2023? What are thoughts on this as captured in the nation newspaper and also the Guardian newspaper? Let me bring you up to speed on the remix. That's some remix of What is it was a So what is saying is that just a remix And that whoever gives me is who I'm going to give so it's no longer so they sweet them You depend them is not now who did mean I have to give that was it done That was the remix of that song and I inside time that I wish them Govna we care to be nominated for head is next year He has so many songs now they can win him as a new Entrance the one that what a boo, you know the one that put a boomist I was sat on all over the place that The person that won had no His song. I think we can we can make a very good Artist so they probably should have a word for the best singing governor Yeah, basically they should play take a category for that so that we can all go to Atlanta next year To What is happening is Is nothing new it's just that the gladiator since the beginning and there seems to know Truths Insights and then the neck of Pdp Meeting We'll be having a meeting they make a man meeting in the next 48 hours That in itself would determine whether how you will remain as the German national chairman of PDP or whether he will go Betz the article come from what I'm also reading at the beginning and saying that Are you is going nowhere betz? The problem is that Nigeria sir I know those students of history, especially our politicians. Let me just give you a brief in 1999 the Southwest did not vote for um And he won the general election in 2003 yes, the South West okay further. Oh, this is our best thing. This is a man from our side Let us know the good for Mollusia go about so the Southwest governors And who are mostly in the 80s then decided wanting to vote for Ambassador as president then vote 80 governors ass as governors You know what happened at the end of it all That boomerang and PDP won all the states in the Southwest except for Lagos That was when I showed you a black man to know boo That was governor so that attempt boomerang so if any of these people going around as oh We're going to get another candidate who vote for the president and the president and put somebody as governor in our state It has a work man second one in 2015 some governors some people left for the end end PDP You know that to join a the nearly for the APC then Coffee message ask yourself today Where are those people all those people that let PDP I went to join a piece today They are nowhere to be found people like Sarah K and rest of them so many of the governors from PDP So what I'm saying in essence is that our leaders should be very very careful The governors of these governors of PDP should be very careful And the ones I'm even between most is Maki in there because Maki there is only governor among those for governor They're moving around that's how the second term outcome is not coming back Week is not coming back. It was just not coming back. It was the best case scenario They are moving to the Senate, but Maki has a second term and APC is very strong in In your state, so if it is like I don't be talking and trying to destroy PDP a party He himself is going to be a candidate in 2023. Then he's is making a big mistake But let's meet how this pans out in next week's and see what the PDP neck will come out. Whether are you remain or go? All right, Chris, let's take a look at the Daily Trust newspaper Let's you know go back, you know to the Bible You remember the story where I know that you were Christian and so you probably remember The encounter where the angel said to Mary that she was going to have a son and she said how can this thing be? When that she's a virgin and she has no husband On the Daily Trust the federal government is saying that in security would actually he will eliminate Let's read it the way it is. I like how the Daily Trust caption said will eliminate all terrorists by December That's what the federal government is quoted to say and my question is how can this thing be? You know the federal government is always setting targets And I remember when the former chief of Amistath Berata came became chief of Amistath He gave a say within three months that also they're about that They're going to eliminate Brooklyn Haram and the rest of them and on to he left you couldn't do that Um, I also remember that when this government came into place the minister of information Lemon man told us that what is now happening now is the last kick of a dying horse That horse is still jumping around the party you find that horse at the back beach Moving up and down. So Our leaders have been trying to set unnecessary targets for themselves But the good news for me is that that's any doubt. I'll give you to this go at least in the last few weeks We've seen some high level of Uh They are taking the the military are taking the facts to the to the terrorists and they've recorded so many successes Uh, especially in the north and you can agree with me that the attack has not been as As vast as it used to be Just here a little attack here and there now and even at that they the the military seems to be using the The new military aircraft that be that was acquired especially into canos to effective use Then my worry is that few days ago the chief of never stem chief of estaf came out to say that they are having issues with using the Airplanes on air force planes. Why because they are also running Short of aviation. Well, you know the problem within the aviation industry where the commercial operators are already crying That they are not having enough issues over that So expensive the chief of estaf is also crying at that This may affect the success so far be recorded especially in the fight against uh insurgency So I would I pray for the government the needful they find it always you tell us that um, they would eliminate insurgency by By a December this year Even the greatest of countries united states of america ocean the rest of them have not said that it's totally eliminated terrorism and rest of Um, so but let them keep their eyes on the board. Forget about giving orders on the services targets When it comes and we it's not just we know you don't need to tell us Just three days ago plus about 30 Uh, uh, 20 people. We are kidnapped in somewhere in non-postage While they were coming from a wedding. That is also part of terrorism and rest of them. So Uh, but let them keep on doing what we and But setting on a certain target is not for me because at the end of it If you don't be able to meet that target, then I just will see you as a failure. Why don't you just keep fighting and do the job? Interesting. Let's move on to the part you need to pay for a craze. Can you wonder when? The the picture right there, you know a picture story on the front page is one that leaves Makes the term the tummy turn um, I mean I I covered the The apothecary building collapse. It was quite gory the questions have had a very very tough deal a very bad deal As far as building collapse are concerned in in in legal state the commissioner for for um, uh, uh Urban developments and fiscal planning for whatever better way to have not defined it. Well, um, he's had his work cut out Uh, the the latest is of course, they say formal building collapse Copsies have been recovered and the commissioner has resigned What are your thoughts on this? Let's start with the entire building collapse And the fact that more bodies are being recovered and then you speak about the resignation of the commissioner That is a collapse too many and this is not the first time it happened over and over In Lagos and we said the problem is that nobody's been brought to book to account for uh, for this Uh and um I'm a journalist True that that that particular building had been seen several times and he was removed by the contractor and government Closed their eyes to it and we learned that the guy was always posting that he has people Over wherever and that is why so you can see that for me The the resignation of the commissioner is political to me. It's just political He's supposed to be that commissioner if he wasn't prosecuted because that means he has not been doing his job If he's sitting in his office and such is happening. What did he do about it? Not only the commission don't forget that sometimes a good the general manager general manager of the One of the authorities was also suspended. I both remember Do the last collapse that the general manager was suspended? I'm Chris is it possible sorry to interrupt remember Is it possible that a commissioner would know about every single application for every single building that is made in Lagos state a city that is the most popular on the continent Why No, no, no, no, no, I'm talking about maybe you have officials in the in the in the agency you have um So Why are you blaming the problem of Nigeria economic, social, uh, insecurity? Why don't you just be blaming the stars? Why are you giving the responsibilities everything for As far as this as far as most of this concern Anything happens here in cross tv You as a staff may not be heard responsible the managing director of plus tv with the head responsibility That is what is Responsibility so that is why he is the CEO of this so So the same thing goes around so once I give the responsibility You are supposed to get the right whether he's there I'm telling you now that they have been report that that please have been seen and don't see who sit and don't see We go at the commissioner. He has enhanced his family secretary He has those under his controllers and rest of them who are supposed to be reporting to him That is why he's the commissioner of land in and over planning or whatever you call it But that is never here for here for me I've only said that Most of this issue we have is because the those in the ministry are always going with these contractors What are the impact assessments that are supposed to be done on that duty We saw what happened today With one in the queen a collapse where a building was made for about 17 plus and somebody took it to 21 And there were people in government who didn't do anything about it until that building collapsed and killed several people including So They must have done the different but I see through that until we start holding those In charge accountable and mention that they are prosecuted We'll continue to have this kind of problem Yeah, he is the commissioner for fiscal planning and not a band involvement Idris Salako. Well, let's quickly Let's quickly take a look at the punch newspaper The top corner of it talks about 11 states universities Shroning Asu and the federal government threatens the union We haven't really, you know looked at the issue I mean most times Understanding the dynamics and what's really going on. Why is the government? You know not agreeing to the agreement that they had in 2019 If you follow if you look through I mean some of the content or the issues that asu is asking for revitalization of universities Moving across. I mean I I graduated from a university and if you look at the structure of this university There's really nothing to write on about This lecture is some of them who are professors are still earning 500,000 Naira as a professor 20 years ago over 30 years ago And some of them who are also professors right now Senior lecturers don't end up to 350,000 Naira Are the consents of asu not, you know, legitimate? Why is the federal government not shifting grounds in this conflict situation? Next I would have been surprised that we finish this review Without you coming up with the issue of asu I know how passionate you are with The issue of education and especially as a consents asu And the lecturers so I'm not surprised they're coming up with it. We come here every week I would discuss the Scottish last week and I get my view On it and I said that it's high time that I have to meet different So that we can open up the universities We might have we might have this agreement But in application that I've already said is a given take you can also Remain and stand at the point and say that you can't do anything about it My concern is not even about lectures and these people that are saying that too Last week or this week early this week You know, you said in March with a report that Out of schools to turn in and there has risen from about 13 points Over 80 million it is 50 million And that is just Certainly speaking to them and I was asking I hope that they also put Into content and add the university students that are out of school now because they're also Out of school in the past seven months ago But the rest of students are not those in federal and state university have not been to school But if this thing lingers then what is happening? What is going to happen because we're not sourcing great the waste the state universities are tried now to start Remove themselves from the astro strike a level of state universities Have decided to pull out of that strike and My university the one at the left of my first Negotiations yesterday matriculated their student that means that The out of the strike that means that moving on So I think this is the best time for us to be able to come on. Yes An agreement was signed and we continue to play that Chris we're ending this conversation now my point here is Chris I mean It should ask to shift grounds or the government should shift ground because it's a conflict situation and you have both parties Not willing to compromise But if you look at, you know, who should be shifting grounds If you if you if you if you move across the entire, you know, universities In the country you look at the infrastructures really nothing to write them about How many times chris have you had that people are coming from other paths of the world to, you know, to be part of the Nigerian education We're talking about infrastructure now. We're not even talking about I mean if you look at the welfare some lecturers have passed on Because so far they haven't even earned anything from february and some of them are dependent on this salary to take care of their Medical bills and other people are already changing profession. What becomes of our education system? Really, who is winning in all of this? Is it supposed to be politicized because that's what it looks like now Messi, I'm a chartered mediator and also a chartered arbitrator Of united kingdom and I tell you that in arbitration It's it's leave and take you don't remain understand that means that you're not going to arbitration What we're having is an issue. I'll say the time with a number that the government Is will be well-ported for refusing to abide by agreement signed with us Right the fact you don't sign an agreement and go back on it But the first remains that there is no way 100 percent of those issues are taken to be resolved So as well, I expect as it were given a government Certain factors if you mean certain did this certain demand. It might not be 100 percent We call off the strike. I give you another Automator if you give another Of our six most to be able to meet that if you don't meet that my primary response on sign not only I'm talking about the student We are talking about as to as to their students the higher home that paid off campus and for the past one year They are ready to aspire and they're going to pay again That's all right. All right, Chris care wonder we have to go And we are passionate about this matter because of time We have to go we thoroughly enjoyed your Your analysis this morning and we look forward to having you same time next week Ranka did Indeed um, uh, that was a Chris has been Chris kendrick kendrick mohammadu one do Oh, should I choose a different one? All right, Chris Yes Yeah, absolutely. Thanks a lot and have a fantastic day. We'll take a break now when we return We have our first major conversation. Of course. Let's check out what happened today in history. We'll be right back