The Niger military has launched a joint military exercise, codenamed Enduring Peace in Benway State North Central Nigeria, one in all criminals, including kidnappers, armed robbers, headers of families, or even cataracters, to think twice about the activities all dealt with mercilessly. Commander for Special Forces Doma Hilari Nzanhu issues the threat at the official flag of the exercise in Teodok Makodi local government area of the state. The military exercise Enduring Peace, which was officially flagged off by the state governor Haishan Aliyeh at the Teodokou camp, Eigen of Makodi, the state capital. Exercise Enduring Peace, holding simultaneously by formations and units of the Nigerian Army in Benway, Kogi, Nassarua states, as well as the federal capital territory. Aliyeh, who expressed confidence that with the flag off of the exercise and the joint efforts of other security agencies, the later arm of insecurity that are operating in the state will be flushed out. Let me use this opportunity to warn all criminals, kidnappers, armed robbers, cataracters, and farmers to think twice before indulging in any activity that is against the law.  The exercise is aimed at addressing the various security challenges facing Benway state and by a station, the entire nation, the needs to ensure a stable and long lasting peace environment. It is my very firm belief that why we have them, not only in the host community here, conversations are already going on, very top ones to ensure that where skirmishes of crises are still written, they're coming in there to do us the favor of ensuring that peace returns a hundred percent in Benway state. Pray that the peace and the dream of Benway Nigeria will be fully returned and Benway stands out for this peace.


Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Fort Worth Report. So this week I am at the Fort Worth Stockyards to talk with Jeff and Brenda about the Cow Kid Roundup Camp. So Brenda, can you tell us a little bit more about the camp? It's a summer activity that we do. It's to give our visitors an opportunity to have a hands-on with the activities that the drovers represent. And we do the cow camp on each and every Saturday and Sunday from 1.30 to 2.30, behind the exchange building at the historical Fort Worth Stockyards, May through September. And what age group would you say the camp is for? Well actually the age group is all because we want to take the children and the adults to also educate them about our history of the Western heritage that we have. It would be hard to put a senior on a stick course and let them run around the deal, but if we have the smaller ones we let them get to do things like that. We let them pretend that they're actually a real cowboy. Well it's interesting too, the older people, you know, they love the educational part.  We had a group today and I happened to catch them on the street and she goes, you know, I never knew what those things were for until I saw your program. I said, those things, you mean the spurs? Yeah, you just move the horse this way and you move the horse this way. And it was just kind of like dancing in a nice way. I said, yeah, most people think that spurs right here that aren't horse people. Just jab them and make them go fast. We teach them about the saddles. We teach them about the longhorn because if it wasn't for the longhorn, Texas may very well not have survived after the Civil War. I mean, we were broke but we had millions of longhorns and gathering those longhorns and getting them to the meat markets in the east is what saved Texas and that's why we do the cattle drive. And can you tell us a little bit about the cattle drive? What we do is twice a day, 11, 30 and four o'clock every day is a reenactment of the cattle drives of the late 1800s. The cattle drive was the only way to get the cattle from here to the train, to the railheads in Kansas. So back then they were moving herds of three or 4,000 longhorns. Now we have 16 minimum each cattle drive because one for each decade that the Texas has been in existence. We actually have 18 longhorns right now. But the idea is to have at least one for each decade. And for more information about events happening at the Fort Worth Stockyards, just visit their website at fortworthherd.com.


Good morning. We begin our live coverage on NASA television of mission STS-85 here at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center in 5 Room 3 of the Launch Control Center. Today NASA will embark on the 86th space shuttle flight and its 16-year history of the shuttle program. The near-11-day mission features the deployment and retrieval of a satellite designed to study Earth's middle atmosphere and significant tests of hardware that could be used in the assembly of the International Space Station. This is Shuttle Launch Control. We have the flight crew at their breakfast table. We have pillow commander Jan Davis. She's flying for the third time today. And we have Bob Kirby, shuttle rookie, flying for the first time today. And Commander Kirk Brown making his fourth time in flight today. First time as commander. Kent Rominger, two-time shuttle veteran. And we have Steven Robinson flying for the first time today. And Canadian astronaut Bjarne Trigveson also flying on the shuttle for the first time today. Crew has been awake now for just about half an hour getting ready for the first flight day on their upcoming mission. Crew is ready to go. They came to Florida Monday evening and have been at Kennedy Space Center preparing for the flight over the last couple of days. We've got Commander Kirk Brown who's just walked into the suit-up room following the weather briefing. This is his fourth flight and he has overall responsibility for commanding the flight. This will be his first flight as commander. He served as pilot of three previous missions on STS-92. And we have pilot Kent Rominger. As pilot he will assist Brown at the flight controls. This will be his third flight and his birthday today. He's 41 years old. He will also be assisting commander during the rendezvous and retrieval of the Krista Spa's payload and will also be involved in several payloads including the solid surface combustion experiment. We have Canadian astronaut Bjarne Trigveson making his first flight on the shuttle today. Trigveson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. We've got Jan Davis. She's making her third flight today. She's the payload commander with overall responsibility of servicing tasks. She will operate the robot arm to deploy and retrieve the German Krista Spa's payload. She'll also be involved in the manipulator flight demonstration which is a small fine robot arm. And we have mission specialist Robert Kirby making his first flight today on the shuttle. He serves as flight engineer and will assist the commander and pilot with ascent and reentry checklists and in monitoring all vehicle systems. And we have mission specialist Steven Robinson. This will be his first flight. He is the prime mission specialist for the Krista Spa's payload and he will work with Jan Davis with the robot arm activity and will operate several experiments. We're now looking at the final inspection team on the top of the mobile launcher platform. This crew has binoculars and they perform photo documentation of the vehicle configuration and cryogenic surfaces. They collect data with an infrared scanner. They're looking at numerical data and they correlate it with infrared data. Crew's getting ready for a 10-day mission. And the CDR contract. CDR Houston, you're live and clear. Good morning, Curt. We see you up close and personal there. Now we see the birthday boy getting into his seat, the pilot. He's only gone to two handrails, one in the center of the near the windows and one on his right side. And then as they hold his parachute he pulls himself down into the seat. Can we get a QC on 143, please? QC, QC. Last crew member in, Bob Curving, in the MS2 seat. I've got you here. I'll give you a step 570 to work for us if you want. They've performed a fuel cell purge on channel 153. Okay, and we'll put that into work as well. QC there? The fuel is all we've got. Copy. We're at range weather. We're at low constraint to launch. And how's the manager? Manager, we're not, the MFT is not tracking anything. And it looks like we're going for launch. You're clear to proceed with launch counts. Copy that. And discovery looks like everything is ready to go. You guys have a great mission and we'll see you back here. It's good colors for the mission. And NPD, you are clearly launched. My profile test of the orbiter's aero surfaces has started. The orbiter flight control services are being moved through a pre-programmed pattern to verify they are ready for launch. And the three main engines will be gimbled in position for launch. And flight crew, close and lock your visors, initiate 02-flow. On behalf of the launching, good luck with your mission. And Romo, happy birthday. We're about to light your candles. Thanks for that birthday wish. It'll be the two best candles I ever had. I discovered copy visors in 02-flow. You're left to go for ET, LAT2 pressure 6. 10, 9, 8. We have a go for main engine start. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Booster ignition and liftoff of discovery on a mission to study planet Earth. Houston is now controlling. The roll maneuver is complete and discovery is now in a heads down wings level position headed to a 160 nautical mile orbit. All three main engines now throttling down to 67% of rated thrust as the orbiter passes through the area of maximum aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle in the lower regions of the Earth's atmosphere. Telemetry indicates all three auxiliary power units and fuel cells continuing to perform well.


So saying keep it clean. We got some really, really good news with Baltimore Ravens and then we got some really, really bad news, kind of scary news with the Baltimore Ravens. We gonna talk about all of that before we get into it. Make sure you subscribe to the channel, turn your notifications on so you do not miss not a single video and leave a like on the video because y'all have been doing that and it's been helping out a lot. So I appreciate y'all like crazy for that. Now let's start off with the good news. Do we wanna start off on a positive note? We wanna start off on a more lighter note, a happier note. So we go all smiling whatnot. And what that good news is first and foremost the heart of the city that run to Vegas hoodies. Get yours. If you get it by today, you order it before Wednesday, then it's guaranteed to get there before the game on Sunday.  So make sure you hit up the link in the description and then use code engraving to get 20% off your order. They really hooking y'all up. Now, somebody or actually somebody's that could hook us up would be the NFL. And what I mean when I say that there was a lot of coaching job openings. Now I can't even say this off season, but this season, because the season's still going on. But there's been a lot of guys that got fired. A lot of guys will came to mutual agreements, to part ways, we know what that language really means. But anyway, there are a lot of openings. And with those openings, we were scared. And we still got a little bit of fear in our hearts, but things are looking a little better for Mike McDonald and Todd Munkin. Well, at least in the selfish eyes of Ravens fans. Cause y'all know we want them to stay. We don't want them to go anywhere. We want them to stay our offensive and defensive coordinators for sure, because we've seen the level of consistency and the impact on these Baltimore Ravens in a positive way. However, a lot of job openings, that would mean increased chances for those two to leave. But a lot of those jobs have been filled. The Patriots, they hired Gerard Mayo. The Raiders, they hired Antonio Pierce. The Titans, they just yesterday, last night, they hired a Bengals offensive coordinator, Brian Callahan. So that helps the Ravens out in a couple of ways. The Falcons, it's looking like it's going to be Belichick. That'd be something, Belichick in Atlanta? Ooh, that'd be something right there. But we're going to see. We're going to see. I mean, even Gerard Mayo in New England, in Boston up there, whoo, whoo. So, but anyway, that would be something, but cause they done had a second interview with Belichick and stuff and they've been talking to him. So we'll see what happens with that. Now with the Chargers, the Chargers is looking like Jim Harbaugh. Cause there's been a lot of talk that Michigan gave him an offer, but the Chargers, they ready to hire him but Jim Harbaugh is looking like he's a lead candidate for the Chargers job. And with that Pete Carroll, Pete Carroll's another one. Cause it just came out a little bit ago that Pete Carroll could be in the mix for that Chargers job. But if it's Jim Harbaugh, and this was interesting because it came from Aaron Wilson, who used to cover the Baltimore Ravens a long time ago. He said, how might a potential Jim Harbaugh staff look if he was offered and accepted, accepted the Chargers job? Per league sources, his offensive coordinator could be Greg Roman. I stopped reading it after that. I stopped reading it after that. Greg Roman, now again, Greg Roman, great introductory offensive coordinator. But I think for Justin Herbert, if he get, like if they hire Greg Roman, I think Justin Herbert could be threatening to retire. He said, mm-mm, get me out of here. Nope, I ain't doing it, uh-uh, no sir, no. But anyway, it could help him out, could put a lot less pressure on him because they'll have a good running game. But anyway, but John Harbaugh, I'm gonna see you, Jim Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh. Not John, John, we talk about you later in a little bit. But with Jim Harbaugh, with him expected to get that job, it's not official yet, but him being a leading candidate, that could remove Mike McDonald and Todd Bunkin from the Chargers opportunity. They're still the commander's job. They're still the Panthers and they're still the Seahawks as well. So there's still a few openings. So we'll see how that goes. But with the Seahawks, Dan Quinn, he was a guy that a lot of people feel like could go to the Seahawks. So that could be potentially one less opportunity for Mike McDonald. And again, I know I ain't trying to hold Mike McDonald and Todd Bunkin, but we kind of all, but we want everybody to get their bread. That's one thing that we always talk about on here. I love people getting their bread, getting their opportunity. So if they did end up deciding to leave and get an opportunity elsewhere, it would be great for them. It would be amazing for them and we would be happy for them. But for our own selfish reasons, we want them to stay because they've had just so much success and so much of a great impact on these Baltimore Ravens in the time that they've been here. Obviously, Todd Bunkin, this is his first year. And then Mike McDonald, this is his second year. It was interesting because somebody in a Ravensplot community on Twitter, they asked a really, really good question. They said, if you had to choose one, which court data would you rather the Baltimore Ravens keep? Now I know initially, most people say Mike McDonald, Mike McDonald, Mike McDonald, because he has been the hot name around the NFL. But I could see how people could say Todd Bunkin as well because people could be like, whoa, we want Lamar to have some continuity in this offensive system. But then when you think about it, every time Lamar Jackson gets a new offensive coordinator, he wins an MVP, so hey, maybe it might not be so bad, but I get it, you want consistency, you want to build on that. Just like we've been building off of Mike McDonald with his consistency, he's got a lot better from year one to year two. We want to see the same thing with Todd Bunkin because this offense is just getting started. They just getting started. This is their first year. So imagine how they could be another year, another year more comfortable in the system, another year more comfortable in the scheme, another year with great health. Like there's just so many different factors that play into it that could benefit the Baltimore Ravens. But something that doesn't benefit the Baltimore Ravens is the bad news that we got to talk about. And Warren Sharp, he highlighted this just today. And it is something that we definitely want to keep an eye on because it's kind of scary. Because we know the Baltimore Ravens going against the Kansas City Chiefs, they're going to be a tough team. The Kansas City Chiefs, they have all the experience in the world, Patrick Mahomes, two-time Super Bowl champion, two-time MVP, has broke a countless amount of records. He is just an amazing player. But we know with Patrick Mahomes, he sort of has that Tom Brady effect. I like to call him, he is the Steph Curry of the NFL because amazing player could do everything. You know, with Steph Curry, when he hitting his threes, when he doing his finger rolls, doing the layups, everything going good. When everything going good, it's going good. Going great, as a matter of fact. But if things ain't going their way, they can get very whiny. They can get very pouty. And we've seen that with both Steph Curry and we see it with Patrick Mahomes a lot. But something that would not go in the Baltimore Ravens' favor is as follows. Warren Shaw said, the NFL pushed the panic button. They have a ref in their rotation who is a massive edge to road teams. Road teams win at the number one highest rate with him. He penalizes home teams in ways no other ref does. And he's the one that's going to be calling the Chiefs in Ravens game. So I was like, oh, wow. Now again, I am still very confident in the Baltimore Ravens to take care of business. I do still feel like they will take care of business because this has got to be the year. It has to be. They have so much just that's going in their favor. They've taken advantage of every single situation. Anything that's been in their way, any obstacle that's been in their way, they've hammered it. They've gotten it done. So with this one, I see this as just yet another obstacle. And now it's already tough. You're going against a tough team. But it's that much tougher when you got to go against the refs too. Hopefully they won't have to. Hopefully they won't have to. And hopefully this will be Sean Smith's his way of calling a nice clean game. But we'll see. Anyway, continuing, he said, it was fascinating. It was a fascinating decision to put Sean Smith on the Chiefs game. In the last three years, with other refs, the home teams went at 55.9%. But with Smith, the home wins drop to 40.8%. With other refs, the home teams covered a spread of at 51.1%. But with Smith, the home cover rates dropped to 37%. He said, is this merely coincidental? Or is there a reason why home teams lose so often with him than with other refs? And Warren Sharpe said, he worked with NFL ref stats and uncovered some wild penalty trends for Smith. These trends certainly helped drive the result of home teams losing as often as they do. And he said, how do road teams win so many games with Smith? Example number one, false start penalties. The NFL averaged the last three years, 4.6 more penalties on the road team. And he said that makes sense because of crowd noise and how that would hurt a road team more. However, under Sean Smith, the referee, that's calling his Ravens Chiefs game, in the last three years, the 34.8 more penalties have been called on the home team. And in an article, he said that it details out many classes of penalties, which are often judgment calls, specifically with roughing the passer and unnecessary roughness. He said, league-wide, these are called a slight degree between seven to 12% more on the road team. So that's the norm. But with Sean Smith, he calls between 37 and 71% more on the home teams. That is such a wide cap. Like, you go from seven to 12% more, that okay, that's 5%, but you go from 37 to 71% more. What is that, 34 more percent? Like, whoa, that's a wide margin. And he said that the NFL had many refs. They could have assigned to Casey and Baltimore. They chose one who historically has called things pro-the-road team. This doesn't mean Casey will get the calls, but as with every ref, it is interesting to note his penalty trends. And that is a very, very good point. Just something to think about. And again, we already knew the Ravens, they had to bring the A game. They got to be on point. They got to take care of business, regardless of who the referees are. And I know you want to say, oh, you can't really worry about that. And yeah, Ravens got more important stuff to worry about, but you would just hate, hate to see stuff like that impact the game, because we've seen it. Again, we've seen it happen for the Ravens, where it's impacted. We've seen it happen against the Ravens, where it's impacted the game. Because it could be a big play. Oh, it's a big chunk yards play. They get a 35-yard run or 45-yard pass. And it's like, oh yeah, let's go, baby. Then you turn around. And it's a yellow flexing right there. In so many games, that has changed everything. That can be a drive killer. That can be a momentum shifter.  So now, along with the Kansas City Chiefs, the Ravens have one more obstacle that they got to get through. But we are very confident that these Baltimore Ravens, they can and they will get that job done regardless.


If you were going long here, where would you place your stop? Maybe somewhere here? Or here? Now think about all the retail traders in the last hour that have done exactly what you've just done. And watch this. Here, 17 contracts just got stopped out. You can see exactly where and how many stop orders were just triggered. This is not an indicator. This is raw data. And this is edge. Were there more stops than expected? Perhaps nobody was stopped out. What does that tell you? How can you back test this information and fit it into a trading plan?


If we start with a sample of radioactive atoms, in a time interval delta T, some of them will undergo radioactive decay. Let's say that the number of atoms that do undergo decay is delta N, so the remaining atoms are N-delta N. Here we can write the rate of this decay. That will be the number of atoms that decayed, that is delta N, per unit time. So the rate of decay becomes delta N by delta T. In this video, we will talk about what this rate of decay depends upon, and also how we know if the rate is fast or slow. To begin with, we can say that the number of radioactive nuclei, they are decreasing with time. We started with N and now we have N-delta N. So delta N here, the final, final Nf-ni, final number of remaining nuclei minus initial number of nuclei. That will be a negative number, since we have less active, radioactive nuclei after time delta T. So the rate of decay is a negative quantity, and therefore we had a minus sign before it. And turns out that this rate of decay, it is directly proportional to the number of radioactive nuclei. Let's try and get some intuition of this. Let's say here you have, here you have a group of, let's say a group of 10,000, 10,000 carbon-14 radioactive atoms of carbon-14. And in a different group, we have, let's say we have 100, 100 radioactive carbon-14 atoms. So the same radioactive isotope of carbon, but we have different N. We have 10,000 here and we have 100 over here. And after some time, let's say after one second, after one second, it's possible that 100 carbon atoms over here, the decay, they undergo a radioactive decay. You wouldn't really see that with carbon-14. These are just random, completely random numbers, but let's assume them just for the sake of our intuition. So in one second, 100 carbon atoms undergo decay from the first group. And here, here we have 100 of the number of carbon atoms in this sample as this one. We have only 100 carbon-14 atoms over here and over here we have 10,000. So here we have 100 of the carbon-14 atoms compared to this one. So for every 100 atoms we saw decaying here, we will really expect to see one carbon atom, one carbon atom undergoing a decay from this group. One carbon atom's decay per second, just because we have a smaller amount. So if you think about delta N by delta T, delta N by delta T is much less for this sample. Only one, here delta N is just one, only one carbon atom undergoing decay in one second, but over here 100 undergoing decay in one second. And we can also see this if we have some data on half-life of any random sample. Let's say we have some random sample X and if we start with 100 radioactive nuclei of that random sample, after one half-life, only 50 will remain. And after one more half-life, 25 will remain. And after one more half-life, around 12 will remain. So we see that in the same interval of one half-life, in the same delta T of one half-life. Initially when we had 100 radioactive nuclei, 50 of them decayed. And then when we had 50 nuclei remaining, only 25 decayed. And then when we had 25, only 13 decayed. So delta N is decreasing, delta N by delta T is decreasing as the number of remaining radioactive nuclei that is N as that number decreases. So the rate of decay delta N by delta T, it is proportional to the number of radioactive nuclei that is N. And when we remove this proportionality, we get a constant which is called the decay constant. This right here is called the decay, decay constant. And this is denoted by lambda. This constant is specific for a particular nuclei. It will have one value for carbon-14, it will have a different value for some other radioactive atom. Let's say some radioactive isotope of carbon, maybe carbon-15. It will have a different value for some radioactive isotope of nitrogen. And it has different values for all the different radioactive nucleates. But what does that different value tell us? So we can take a similar looking example to understand that. Let's say again we have two groups. Now we have, instead of carbon-14, let's say we have 10,000, we have 10,000, some other radioactive isotope. We can take anything we can take. Let's take nitrogen-16. And another group we have 100 of the same nitrogen-16. And let's say that the value of lambda is more for nitrogen-16 compared to carbon-14. So how would that look like? If the value of decay constant is more for n-16, it's possible that in one second, in one second, out of 10,000, we have 500 decays, 500 decays per second. And here, because the number is 100th of this, we will have 5 decays per second. But if we compare this nitrogen-16 to carbon-14, whose decay constant would be less than that of nitrogen, we say that lesser number of decays happen in one second. So what decay constant really tells us is how likely a radioactive atom will undergo decay. What are the chances that a radioactive atom will undergo decay? If the chances of an atom undergoing decay are large, then the decay will happen quicker. So a large value of lambda tells us that there will be a rapid decay. The decay will happen quicker because higher value of lambda tells us the chance or the probability that an atom will undergo decay is large. In this case, in this case, we see that the probability of one nitrogen-16 atom undergoing decay is much more than the probability that one carbon-14 will undergo decay. And a small value of lambda tells us that decay will be slower. This will be a slower decay. So this right here is a very important equation, which is that the rate of decay that equals lambda into n. And the rate of decay, it's called, this is sometimes called as, this is sometimes called as activity, activity of the sample. We can spend some time talking about its units. So one common unit for activity is, and I'm writing all that over here, one common unit is called curie, C-U-R-I-E, and it is denoted by capital C, small i. And this is equal to 3.7 into 10 to the power 10 dKs per second, dKs per second. But there is one SI unit of activity, which is called becural. This is called becural, and it is denoted by capital B, small q. And the relation is that one curie, this is equal to 3.7 into 10 to the power 10 becurals. So one becural is basically equal to 1 dK per second. These are the units for activity. We can also try and represent activity in the form of a graph. We know that a sample of radioactive atoms, they undergo dK exponentially. So this n varies as e to the power minus lambda t. That is how it, that is how it decays exponentially. So if activity is equal to lambda into something that varies exponentially, activity also varies exponentially. So the same graph that we drew for an exponential dK for any sample of radioactive atoms, the same graph holds true for activity as well. We can say that there is some initial activity, which reduces to half a0 by 2 in one half-life. And this reduces to a0 by 4 in one more half-life. This number can also be verified experimentally. And the instrument that is used to count the number of radioactive dKs per second or to measure the activity of a radioactive sample, that instrument is called a GM counter or a Geiger-Muller counter. So Geiger-Muller counter. This instrument measures the activity of any radioactive sample. So that's why it becomes very important to know the activity of any sample because it can be experimentally verified. You can actually count the number of dKs happening per second with the help of this instrument. And it's very interesting how this instrument works. We are not going to the detail of that. But as soon as it detects one radioactive dK, there is a clicking sound or there's a crackling sound which this instrument emits and one can actually take a note of that. So we saw that the rate of dK, it depends upon the number of radioactive nuclei present and also this dK constant lambda. This dK constant tells us whether a dK would happen rapidly or slowly. Turns out there is one more quantity which can give us some insight into whether a dK will happen rapidly or slowly. And that is called a mean life. So let me, let me make some space. Let's say we have this group of radioactive atoms and because radioactive dK, it's a random process really. You can never predict when a radioactive dK will occur. All of these radioactive atoms, even though they must be of the same radioactive isotope, they will undergo dK at different time instants. That could look somewhat like this. Maybe for this much amount of time, nothing happens to the topmost atom and then it immediately decays and it differs for different atoms. So a mean life is nothing but calculating all of these times. Maybe this is T1, T2, T3, this could be T4, this could be T5. So it's just adding up all of this, dividing by the number of the radioactive atoms present. And there is some integration and calculus involved in this. We will not be going into that. But turns out after doing all of that calculation, you get mean life, mean life, which is denoted by tau, this to be equal to 1 by lambda. And let's see if this equation makes sense. Lambda is a dK constant, which tells us how likely it is that a radioactive atom will undergo dK. So if the value of lambda is high, if an atom has a very high chance of undergoing dK, then it's true that the mean life of that radioactive nuclei will be very less. And if this lambda is less, if the rate of dK is very slow, then the radioactive nuclei will remain radioactive for a longer period of time. And so the mean life also would be more.


Siniwa kwa siya kwa kwa ni senqirande n手 ulamia iniswa mwa kwa wanikunia kwa kwa wanikunia. Uwe kwa wajad na wa wajan i sezade kwa wajat na wajakunia. Siniwa kwa kwa ni senguaya. Wajad nahubutia na mwa kwa na. Uwajaka kwa wajad ni senqirande na kompa zisha na kwenya na wajakunia ngatiaa na wajakunia kwa wanikunia. Mwa ni senqirande Faith. Sama ni senqirande na kompa zisha na kwenya. Sintiwa kwa nanu kwa wanikuna hindi nafu ni senqirande na kwenya. Are you unemployed? What are you doing to get a job? Is it stressing you? Do you feel like your desire to get a job is giving you what we call depression? Are you depressed? And do you know someone who is going through this particular season of life? To help us in this discussion, I am with M.D. Jiru. He is a M.D. Jiru, the artist. Right. I believe in him. Kabisa. Asande. Karibusana M.D. Nashkuru Ram. I am M.D. Jiru. We can go with M.D. M.D. Now, tell us something about yourself. For someone who is meeting you for the first time. Who is M.D. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you to our viewers. My name is M.D. Jiru, the artist. I am an elder. I am a speaker. And I am a jack of many trades. Wow. Karibusana, my brother. M.D. himself. And of course, remember, we are coming to you live from the broadcasting house here in Nairobi, Kenya. We are also streaming live through our website. That's at www.kibc.co. www.kibc.co. www.kibc.co. I want to talk about matters concerning our career today. I want to talk about unemployment and depression. I want to first of all start with understanding this. At what point should someone say that they are depressed? How can you pick out a depressed person? Of course, in reference to unemployment. Okay. Yeah. So, on a day-to-day basis, we do encounter stress. But prolonged stress leads to depression. So, when one is unable to do the normal functions that they normally use to do, they are usually in a state of depression. Waking up in the morning, it should not be a big deal. Maybe you can sleep in for a few minutes. I want to sleep in the whole day, especially now for this unemployed person. Now that's a case of depression. And according to statistics, there are so many cases of causes of depression. But one serious cause of depression is unemployment. And someone may wonder, so how do I deal with it? How can I cope with this state that I am in where I am depressed? Yeah, you know, we don't just work to get money. Working also gives us a sense of meaning, a sense of purpose. So once someone is unemployed, once someone doesn't have a place to go to work, they are deprived that sense of purpose, that sense of meaning. I remember some time back a couple of years when a police officer was being interrogated for one of these jobs and there were some corruption allegations. And that person said that if they lose their job, they can even die. Because of their life working as a police officer. It has been their life long dream. It gives them the identity, gives them a sense of purpose. It defines who they are. So if they lose it, you've killed them. They have lost an identity, they have lost a sense of purpose and a meaning to life. Atatu je fika ii pointia mani. These first three things are a recipe to depression. Identity, self purpose. And ladies and gentlemen, even as we talk about this, I feel free to ask your questions about this. What are you doing to cope? Many youths are unemployed. So this discussion is so relevant to you that you must be part of it. Head over to our social media platforms. The hashtag is why in the morning. And drop in your comments on Twitter. Tag me at Ram Maguko. And the official station handle is at Y254 channel. Engage with us. We do value feedback. We shall sample them even as we continue with this discussion. Md, you're good. I'm asking, I'm trying to find out about this aspect of coping. Very, very important coping mechanism. But now let's divide this discussion into different areas. One, let's talk about those who are unemployed. They have never gotten any job at all. Two, let's talk about those who have lost a job. And they are now home. They do not have anywhere to go to. And finally, number three, let's talk about those who do not have the ability to apply for any job because they say that they have not gone to school. They don't have the papers. They don't have any form of experience. At least option number one is unemployed but is applying for a job. But option number three is unemployed and they do not have the ability to apply though they believe that they do not have the ability to apply because they do not have any qualification. So it would be the name Django. I ended up finding all jobs there. I was in Manguo because of unemployment. Let's talk about these three groups of people. Let's start with number one. You are unemployed, you are applying for jobs. They are not coming through. Every single day you get, we regret to inform you messages. And sometimes Kenyan employers don't send. They don't have even the cut as you send. Sometimes they don't reply. It kills you. How can you cope up? It does, it does. So number one is you need to come up with a structure. You know 24 hours if you are not doing anything it's such a long long time. So you need to come up with structures. As much as you are applying for a job you need structures that will keep you moving. Moving in terms of keeping you occupied during the day or structures in terms of you just keeping on applying for jobs. What structures are you talking about here? Okay, keeping you number one. For example when going even for a job interview even when performing a job break you are not doing this job. You have to be in the right state of mind. So you need structures to keep you in the right state of mind. So one of those structures is like exercising. When you exercise you feel good. So you first need to allocate time for exercise. You need to allocate time for exercise. You need to allocate time to read. I remember when I was in this show some time back I said that reading is an exercise to the mind. So you need to keep your mind engaged. So physical exercises, mental exercises. Keep you in check. Then you also need to feed the inner being, the spiritual being. Spiritual exercise. Spiritual exercise. So you need to pray, whatever you believe in you need to engage in that belief. Because now here we have a problem here of somebody who is going through depression and you mentioned exercises. Things that keep you active. They get into drugs. It keeps their mind off of the stress and they feel like at some point if I smoke this or I drink that it releases all the stress and at least I have a moment of peace. Let's talk about handle that. What do you think about that? So once someone doesn't have structures in place they will fall to distractions. In physics they see that nature aboze a vacuum. So these 24 hours that you are not maybe part of it you are spending it sleeping this other vacuum will be occupied by distractions like alcohol, drugs and other forms of distraction. That's why I encourage someone who is unemployed to come up with structures and better if to even do voluntary work so as to give their life a sense of meaning. And even as you talk about that now there are those people who decide to watch movies. Is that a good thing? No, it's not. It's a series. Four seasons. Some people have ten seasons. You want to start watching that series all day, all night. Just keep you occupied. If you may be staying with your parent and watch series from morning till evening that's your job. But I applied for this work and I'm waiting for the response. It's good, it entertains. But up to what extent? So you can't watch movies the whole day. So you need to break down. Maybe in the morning I'll go for an exercise. I'll do my exercise routine. Two hours of my day I'll do voluntary work. Then in the evening maybe from around 3pm to maybe let's say 6pm because you have so much time at your hands and you can watch movies. So you submit some time of the day. Then something else that you need to explain about depression. The moment you exclude yourself you are more prone. So if you spend your whole day watching movies you are less prone in yourself. So you are more prone to depression. I was mentioning in the book that you need to have two hobbies. If you are in this scenario you are more prone to depression among them being unemployed you need to have two hobbies. One that will get you out there. One that will sell you.  One that will make you interact with people. Secondary you don't need to forget your problems to bury your problems like an ostrich. When you ostrich you bury the head in the sand during fire.  If you are out throughout the day maybe you are unemployed and you are out throughout the day you do not have time to reflect but if you balance and you have time to reflect indoors at one point you will start reflecting and if you continue like this without a job things will not be good for me. But now Adi I am really worried and this is what I know many people are going through outside there watching you this day We have so many regrets emails that we get and as you mentioned sometimes we don't even get a response How can someone maintain that motivation to keep on applying for jobs because you mentioned spiritual exercises you are praying but you keep the more you pray the greater you inform How can a youth watching it get that motivation to keep on keeping on? Okay So that's a very important question The motivation motivation comes and goes but we need to be committed and commitment is not easy I want to answer this from the autobiography of Nelson Mandel When I was studying the autobiography of Nelson Mandel I was wondering how can one man with standard prison condition for 27 years 27 27 years nimingisan So I saw that Nelson Mandel had structures and also in my book I mentioned about prison because I am using the extremes if one can cope with the prison conditions most likely they can cope with if this condition if the systems that apply for someone in prison they can apply for someone who is an employed So what did Nelson Mandel used to do? One, used to read So that's exercise to the mind Also Nelson Mandel used to exercise used to do Kalis 6 this body what do you call it exercises that you support yourself with your own body weight push ups pull ups and all kind of stuff So back to this person who is an employed you not apply for a job today and get an invitation maybe even next week it will take a period of time even when you get the job you will realize that it is not what you really really expected So you need to have coping mechanisms like shock absorbers That's why I am advocating One, you need to exercise the brain exercise the body and feed the inner person and when at it find your purpose in life because Jim Non once said that purpose help us to pull us forward you know there are those days that are birthdays if you have purpose at least your purpose will pull you forward forward forward keep you going you will not give up and in fact you said that I love is that sometimes you will not get an immediate response you may apply for a job in January and they respond in the next 12 months or 8 months in December or in the next year but you will get a response but to keep on going if you are to get to the goal that you set for yourself I am looking at the aspect of these youths who are job seeking applying and at least instead of depression what do you do when people keep on asking you because you are like what are you doing yet your mates are getting jobs your mates are getting employment and you are here your mates are developing and growing and you are still in the same place you keep on getting compared to your mates who have achieved and gotten jobs yet you haven't and to make it to us you might have graduated at the same time you know you might have achieved an effort you know so your mates who you went to school with you graduated at the same time they have gotten jobs they are doing well but what is important is effort okay let me be a bit personal because even in my book I have written it from a personal perspective okay I have been in and out of employment for a couple of times and at one point I was out of employment while staying at home you know and my mum used to encourage me that get out there you don't wake up in the morning and you just sit there watching television and any day I would come sometimes I would even think that and she would give me fair to go to that interview because she could see effort effort so not having a job is not an issue what's the effort that you are putting into it also when you go to the job maybe you have been unemployed for 2 years it's unfortunate but when you go to for an interview they will ask for the for those gaps in the CV for these 2 years what have you been doing you know you can tell the panel the interview panel that I've just been applying for jobs but if you say something like I've been doing voluntary work you know now it changes the dynamics so the key thing is effort no one can be crucified even those people living with unemployed people no one can crucify you for not for not having a job something else that you need to clarify most of the people who are unemployed those people who graduated dysentery they either stay with parents, siblings, relatives and all that you can't wake up and just watch a movie the whole day wake up and do house chores no one else is going to job at least leave them some of the duties wakutu me pika numbai kusafi some organization you add value but when you are at home and you are at work and you are at home and you are at home and you are at home and you are at home and you are at home and you are at home and you are at home and when you are at home the house is in the same state you have not even moved a pillow even if you throw it away you will get grass you will get peag, at least they will come and find you have cooked and there is some food ready even if they are going to pay your rent they will not fill the page Uh bubbles stiko so So, loss is such a painful thing which ever kind of flows, it's such a painful thing. Infact when people are kond, they are usually kond because they don't know how to cut their losses. When you listen to kond stories, most people when they are kond maybe 10k, send 2k zingine, 3k zingine. That is a kond man talking to you. Ya, because people are not good in cutting their losses. Even when relationship end, people are not able to say, see maisha, you want to try and pursue. It's human nature. You want to get back together, try to see if it will work again. You break up and then you get back together again. Ya. So, pia kwa job, kwa job scenario, you have lost your job. Ina uma, but kuzue na kwangashida. I think infact they should be canceling services for people who lose their jobs. Remember at the start of our conversation to say that job gives you identity. Job gives you meaning. Job gives you a sense of purpose. Now you have lost that. So you can imagine the loss. Where do you get your sense of purpose? Where do you get your identity? If you were identified with that particular job. Ya.  How do you cope with that? That's pressure man, that's pressure. So, infact I have written a book about that. Although I have not yet released it. So in that book usually I walk through people through a process of mourning. Just like romantic relationships. When a relationship dies, you don't jump into the next relationship.  It's not gofa. So you can't choose a job today and tomorrow you are paying for a job. Let's make that clear. You are saying you should give it time. You give it time. You mourn that loss. You grieve over the loss. Then you enter into a better state of mind. But brother, so there is... Okay, I'm asking myself this question. How do you mourn a job? How do you mourn for a lost job? You grieve about it. How do you grieve? Different people grieve different ways. If it's for maybe it's for ladies. You can call your girls and go cry over it. Liyeni pamoja. And I think ladies are more... Ladies have an advantage. Because when a lady loses a job for example is going through a loss.  But if a man loses a job, he can't call fellow men and they start crying over the lost job. They will most likely buy drinks to him and do that to himself. There is somebody who has a question. Let me say that question again. Nadakusu iswa li tema. Even as you get that question for me, let me ask you this. So someone has just lost a job. And after they have lost a job, yes there is that set of deficient that they go through. But now I am going to look at this from a different angle again. Because here we are talking about losing something. It might not necessarily be that you have gotten fired. What about the motion? You got demoted from that job that you used to have. And now you are at a lower ranking position. You are meeting the same people, but the motion will be better. It can't be depressing. Talk about that. So it's very depressing. Now there are so many dynamics to it. There are so many dynamics to it. Once you are demoted, accept it's hard but at least it's like in a relationship. I will compare most of this with romantic relationship. Someone can tell you that they have not broken up with you. They just want to separate with you. At least it's comforting. It's not a break up. Apon niku cheso ona cheso pier. But at least that's a soft landing. So once you are demoted, that's a soft landing. At least you have a job. So you accept. At least you have a job. Then depending on the dynamics and the kind of maybe office politics involved in all that, you start looking for another job. You start looking for another job. Then you leave the job. Depending on how it plays out. So start looking for another job. As you are doing your current one now. And don't let people know about that. That's very important. Now if someone is trying to cope with demotion, should you confide in people because this is something that some may feel embarrassed about talking with someone maybe a problem. Good. Confiding to people, that's good but who are you confiding to? If you are demoted, don't go confiding to your colleagues. Maybe that colleague was in your position. There is someone who is even happy celebrating that you have been demoted.  You will give negative feedback and it will reach your boss. So don't confide to your colleagues. Relax. Confide to people outside there. Confide to people outside there. And nowadays it's very with this current generation that you have you confide to people they screenshot it. They post it all over. That's why it's important to journal. I was reading somewhere that if you are going through emotional events let that emotional event in that person. For example, instead of writing today I went to the job and I was shocked that I received my emotion later. Let it in that person. He removed yourself from I say he went to the job and shocked to him he found his emotion later. Now that you are removing yourself from the scenario you are able to come up with solutions. Write whatever you write. It's a way of getting it out. I love the fact that you are saying even if you want to confide in someone don't just talk about work issues with your colleagues and your bosses. At some point it might circulate around. Now that you are a colleague and you want to engage in your work because you were talking about your work with the workmate. That's where we need to be careful about. Let me add something before it slips from my mind. Everything that happens to us and this I run the hard way and I'm still running it it also depends on how you interpret it. It's all about interpretation. That emotion you can celebrate it. For example, let's say you are a manager that means a prestigious title but more responsibilities. More responsibilities more work in hours. Let's say you are from a manager and then you move to just a supervisory position. The workload will reduce. Yes, the prestige will come down but also the workload. Now that I have more time I can spend more time with my family I can spend more time with my friends I can, you know also you can be like now the back doesn't stop with me less stress. It all depends on how you interpret it. It also depends on how you interpret it. You can add something to back that point. Yes, quite. There was this famous photographer called Kevin Carter. He is most known for the photograph that he took of that European child. With the bird. At the background. I was trying to do some research and I found that Kevin unfortunately committed suicide and some of the some of the things that led to his suicide or his depressive state is that the nature of his work you are saying that he was not able he felt that he was incapable of helping people like that child also when he went to cover war and all that he felt that he was unable to help people. Now look at the interpretation. If Kevin did not capture that photo the world would not have known that the scenario at in Ethiopia. If Kevin did not cover the wars people could not know of the predicament of the people experiencing the war but he gave a wrong interpretation. I am not judging the wrong interpretation to whatever happened to him you see I don't discuss the fact that his work was depressive but the interpretation. Back to this person who has been demoted if you give it a wrong interpretation it will eat you up. But if you are like now you can spend more time with friends you won't get depressed. You will not get depressed. Wow That's the MD himself. Now let me ask you we moved to the par category of people and here we are looking at those who they are saying you know what I don't have a job there is nothing I can do about it because I have not gone to school I don't have this particular paper or qualification for the matter. This guy decides to go for odd jobs manual labor maybe it could be in some construction house somewhere or you can choose to become to wash people's clothes in the estates. But now the money you get is not enough for you. They go through a state of depression what is your word for this group of people you know I don't want to down pray this group of people but most of the time disappointments comes with expectations that group of people and from observation that group of people that maybe they don't have papers they are usually not disappointed they don't expect much in fact it's easier for a graduate to be to fall into depression because of lack of a job than a closet drop out or a closet lever let me put it in perspective a graduate has high expectations also the society has high expectations on the graduate but this closet lever is like I'm sure I didn't advance so much with my studies I don't need to find a way out so this group of people they are less likely to be depressed but what happens to them they are more likely to be resigned those is a scenario whereby people whatever whatever will be job beneath a kujani they are the same group of people who if you ask them what kind of a job would you want to have what do you say they are resigned so they are not usually disappointed in fact job beneath a kujani you know that answer it's not quite it doesn't give you much to work with and you wouldn't know how to deal with this particular individual it's not easy to deal with them it's not easy to deal with them so they are mostly under the category of resigned they read aliz nai alizined type of life so the only thing for them is that they can just be empowered they can just be empowered they can only be empowered only talk to them so that they can know how to respond so is that what you say can I add a dynamic to an employment there's this unique dynamic it's not unique I was doing research on depression, suicide and all that and they realized that people who live alone they are more prone to depression and suicide now someone who is living alone they are single and they lose their job that's a dynamic that I don't know how you can explain it but a dangerous dynamic very dangerous you are single you stay alone you had a job and you are paid for your rent now you get to lose that job you have no one to go home to when you are two of you go home to share the bad news not even to cater for your bills to share the bad news but now you have no one to go to it's you and your perus you enter that someone who is depressed and is in that position can they come out of it is it possible in fact depression is it's a face usually research shows that usually in our course of life some people will fall into depression so it's something that you can get in and get out of it but now there is this tendency to end up borrowing money you borrow and borrow to the point that it becomes stressful you have so many loans to pay and there is no income to pay for this money so this person ends up being depressed gets into lots of things that end up taking much of their their money but let's talk about that kwa lones mingisana na kwa depressa zadyu atalipa lones and it's an unfortunate scenario very unfortunate but it's what is happening currently in our society so the first thing in all this it's state of mind you have lost your job state of mind how is your state of mind you know someone once said that sometimes it's not about the money it's about yes money money will solve most of these problems but sometimes it's not about the money ok let me divide a bit most people when you ask when you ask most people why have you not started that business idea that you have been talking about they will be like I don't have capital you know I don't have capital so it's not lack of capital that makes us not start businesses what is it it's lack of ideas you know it's lack of ideas but we hide it under lack of lack of capital so if you can if you can find creative ideas of starting your business without money when money comes it will prepare the business to the next level if we can deal with the state of mind and they are in a good state of mind do you know even banks when you talk to your bank manager they can structure you alone they can give you more time but you need to be in a good frame of mind to go and talk to them if you are a business if maybe you are a business person you can ask for more credit in terms of goods and sell so before we go to the borrowing we need to go to the state of mind how is the state of mind how are they dealing with this loss so once we we work on that this issue of borrowing money will sort itself you know most people are depressed they end up getting to have so many loans and they don't have money they don't have money they don't have money because they don't have anywhere to go and it's quite a sad state of affairs but they can come out of it they can come out of it let me also add that now when you are depressed your body goes into survival mode you know and when you are in survival mode you are not creative if you take money if you borrow money from someone it's not money to fund an idea it's money to consume money to pay rent money to survive so it will be something recurrent but if maybe your mental state can be revamped you know you can even be like instead of paying lent this month to fund this idea that will generate more money sure I love that even as we try and come out of that and wrap things up ladies and gentlemen MD is an author and as you are talking I'm sure you heard you picked out points that he wrote this book about the book that you wrote what is it's name and it talks also about depression let's talk about that book the book is called preps the antidote to resignation anxiety depression and suicidal thoughts what is it all about it's all about those things that we can do to come out of depression and for those people who are not in a depressive state if they do these things they will not fall into depression so it's both cumulative and preventative okay alright and is it out the book is out although I'm working out with a few people I'm planning to I feel philanthropic okay I let me give a backstory this book is from a personal experience I suffered depression some time back after a job loss so we were actually talking about what you went through wow so I felt like when I was going through that period of depression one of the things that really helped me get out of it is reading books and I felt that I can give back to the society through writing a book and giving out there so I'm trying to to finalize with a few partners in there how we can distribute the book and give back to the society for free because even the ideas in the book things that I can see that have invaded the ideas it's typical things ya ni witu tuza kawidan kazi bring together then kwa observe watu engini, then kona this is what people did when they were depressed and they got out so you're saying that it's not yet out you're planning to release it if someone wants the book they can leach me via my socials via email address and I can send them I can send them a soft copy but back in the day when we were young chapa tizi kipikuwa and konanja san kids wala kuna po ile akonza so there's someone out there who may be learned me fika muisho so we can't wait for another month for us to funeralize with the partners before the book is out if they reach out even today I can send the book to them how can someone get a hold of you over social media via Instagram my page is there is maktaba digitari and also I have a page by the name mdingiru mdingiru one that's on IG most on Twitter but I have not been active mdingiru are you on Facebook okay my account disappeared that's IG many people are going to IG I don't know why but I will join you and talking of IG social media once you are going through certain battles in your life kindly get out of social media subconsciously we humans tend to compare ourselves with others in IG people post the complete story half stories behind the scenes share something when people lose jobs some people go back to their parents home even for 40 years we tend to fly and squeeze them into the cinema and they will come back and post to you but we tend to trip cost and post to you so when you are going through page this person to graduate he end up on vacation you know but easy way to hard full people don't post especially when you are going through an employment just get out of social media you will end up even posting things about your job about your former employer and it's going to be a bad thing for you wow I want to submit this discussion to a close 20 seconds to have a final word give us your parting shot as Dr Kenyan is watching you today that's your camera there so my parting shot is I will my parting shot is from the book and it's preps any time you are going through a hard situation you cannot pray preps what's preps is prayer reading eating healthy exercising leading a purposeful life and S scheduling your life and sleeping once you get the book maybe you will get in depth of what I am praying to thank you so much I appreciate the work you are doing keep on changing lives I wish you the best of course a big thanks to MDG for making time to join us today you are talking about depression and unemployment on career talk of course that brings us to the end of this particular discussion but we still have more coming up on why in the morning