Do you want to learn how to trade stocks and cryptocurrency? Join our community of traders, go to richpigsdaily.com and find the next 10 bagger. Hey guys, how you doing? This is Rich from Rich to be live and we had some more news this week from Tatt Global Alternatives. You can visit them at trytatt.com. You can also go to tattglobal.com, a nicotine and tobacco free smoking experience. We were the first ones ever to bring you Tatt and they had some big news this week on the sixth and on the third, we'll start with the news on the third of August. Within weeks of launching in Georgia, Tatt is now sold in more than 70 stores statewide. Tatt Global Alternatives, Tatt in Canada, TOBAF in America, 2TP in Frankfurt, Germany is pleased to announce that its flagship product, Tatt has recently been placed in 71 new retail points of sale throughout the state of Georgia, bringing its total store count in the United States to more than 400 as of the beginning of this month. In a press release dated June 25th, 2021, the company stated it had pre-sold its entire initial shipment of 15 master cases of Tatt to a distributor based in Alpharetta, Georgia within network of approximately 1200 stores in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama following the arrival of this initial shipment on June 24th, 2021, the company's distributor in Georgia began filling pre-orders that had already been placed resulting in the very first retail placements of Tatt on the East Coast of the United States. Congratulations to Tatt. So far in 2021, the company has built considerable traction for Tatt as a better alternative to tobacco cigarettes for smokers age 21 plus through the establishment of multiple distributor channels and strategic marketing initiatives. After launching Tatt at retail in Ohio in Q4 2020, the company introduced its e-commerce portal in February, 2021, which has received orders from smokers age 21 plus in 37 US States in addition to launching Tatt at retail in Illinois while continuing to grow its footprint in Ohio as events with live attendance resume in the United States. For example, spectator sports, trade shows, the company has leveraged a variety of opportunities for visibility and engagement with smokers age 21 plus through traditional methods, exhibitor space at business to business conventions, for example, as well as creative approaches to creating exposure for Tatt and beyond nicotine using brand elements, sponsoring the headwear of Floyd Mayweather's team for June 6th, 2021 match against Logan Paul. The company continues to work with this distributor partnering Georgia to assess the performance of Tatt in the 71 stores where it's currently sold, while seeking to solicit new placements in the distributor's network in the southeastern United States with the new Tatt facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada set to begin operating this month, big, big, big start for this month, the company's production capacity will be expanded. That's huge, thus allowing for more rapid fulfillment of wholesale purchase orders. Tatt chief executive officer, Seth DeCoscarella commented, now that we have been marketing Tatt to smokers age 21 plus in the United States for a matter of several months, much of the groundwork has already been completed in new markets where we're launching Tatt at retail. Around the end of Q2, 2021, Tatt had already proven popular in Georgia with e-commerce orders and free pack requests to Georgia shipping addresses amounting to approximately 14% and 20% of the respective numbers for Ohio, where we were actively promoting the product to smokers age 21 plus. Despite no targeted promotions on the East coast, accordingly, it wasn't a surprise that our first wholesale shipment to Georgia was completely pre-sold, nor was it a surprise for Tatt to already be carried in over 70 stores in just a few weeks after the shipment arrived. With our production capacity set to expand this month, with the new Tatt facilities in Las Vegas, our team has all hands on deck to sustain this momentum. And I believe this is just the beginning for Tatt global alternatives. And that news was followed up by news on Friday after July trade shows, Tatt has already closed 68 new initial purchase orders, brings the total US store count to approximately 500, not bad for Tatt. And we were the first ones to bring you this incredible growth story. And in my opinion, this is just the beginning. Just the beginning, you can see this company is hitting milestone after milestone. And I believe they will continue to, and it's because they are changing the world, giving people a healthier alternative to smoking with no nicotine and no tobacco. That's right. Tatt is changing the world for smokers age 21 plus all over the world. And this is just the beginning. So this is the news that came out on Friday, Tatt global alternatives Inc. on the Canadian security exchange under the symbol TAAT and on the OTCQX highest tier exchange, that's not a senior exchange, T-O-B-A-F. And in Frankfurt, Germany under the symbol 2TP is pleased to announce that independent of sales from its regular channels, the company has closed the total of 68 new purchase orders, initial purchase orders from contacts established at two Las Vegas trade shows where the company exhibited in late July, 2021 with additional buyer leads currently in the pipeline at the HQ event specialty lifestyle product show held at Caesars Palace, votes from buyer attendees recognized Tatt as the best new product at the show as well as the second place winner for the best in show award. Tatt also exhibited at Champs Las Vegas the following week, a significantly larger show with a greater emphasis on tobacco products which sold out of exhibitor spaces well in advance of the events opening day. These two events were the company's first B2P convention appearances following the launch of Tatt and Q4 2020 and the company is planning to exhibit at several additional trade shows in 2021. I love the fact that says Setti Coscarella, the CEO of Tatt was working the booth and the trade show shows me how they are all willing to work hard to build the brand and this is a team effort at Tatt. And like I said, this is just the beginning of a growth story that I believe has an opportunity to grow global in a press release day to July 16, 2021 company detailed its progress in setting up its new facilities in the Las Vegas, Nevada area which are set to launch this month and will considerably increase bandwidth for producing the Beyond Tobacco trademark base material of Tatt trademark to optimize order processing. The company has more than tripled the size of its fulfillment station in its new facilities compared to its original site on West Post Road. The company anticipates it will begin to benefit from these facilities expansion as more orders of Tatt are placed resulting from trade show leads in addition to wholesale and direct consumer sales to smokers age 21 plus as part of the company's existing commercialization initiatives. Following these purchase orders, the total count of US retailers carrying Tatt has grown to approximately 500 points of sale reflecting significant short-term growth compared to approximately 300 points of sale on record as of mid July, 2021. So they are growing quickly. The Tatt store locator map displayed below from the company's tri-Tatt webpage shows a well-established retail footprint in Eastern regions of the United States around urban centers to include Cincinnati, population 301,000, Columbus, population 878,000, Chicago, population 2.71 million and Atlanta, population 488,000. As of early August, 2021, Tatt is sold in approximately 500 stores in the United States representing significant short-term growth compared to approximately 300 stores as of mid July, 2021. Through its wholesale partners, the company has established Tatt's presence around urban centers such as Cincinnati, Columbus, Chicago, and Atlanta. Tatt chief executive officer, Sethi Koskarela, commented and we had Sethi on our show just last week from the event and that was pretty wild where we literally had members break down how many shares they owned and just on our live stream, we had members of the Rich TV Live community holding over 1 million shares of this growth story that's currently trading up over 900% since day one when we brought it to you first in June, 2020. What did Sethi Koskarela have to say about the news on Friday at this time last year? I was on my first week with Tatt after resigning from Philip Morris International as a lead strategist and not only were we still focusing on perfecting Tatt and beyond tobacco then, there were also no trade shows or in-person events where we could introduce the product to commercialization partners before launching. Despite that limitation, we were able to place Tatt in hundreds of stores in multiple states, launch our e-commerce platform making Tatt available in the majority of U.S. smokers to the majority of U.S. smokers age 21 plus and land our first international purchase order from a wholesaler who distributes the United Kingdom and Ireland. At the end of July, we had our first two trade show exhibits since launching Tatt and we are more than pleased to have closed these 68 initial purchase orders as a direct result of the connections we made at these events. Great work, Tatt, great work, Sethi, great team effort and I was so impressed with the way the booth looked, it looked great. Many of which we expect to convert into repeat orders based on the performance of Tatt since its launch in Q4 2020. So we must remind ourselves that this company literally just launched in Q4 2020. It hasn't even been launched for a year and this growth story is just getting started. Love to know what you guys think about this news. If you like these videos, please smash the like button, comment them below, share the video everywhere and subscribe if you're live. Remember if you're not winning, you're probably not watching, we bring in the winners and we bring them to you first. I was the first ever person on YouTube and all social media to talk about this company pre-IPO. The IPO at 41 cents went to 67. Today they trade at $3.65, up 900% since we brought it to day one, really proud of the results of this growth story that I believe is just getting started. 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presented by the United States Air Forces in Europe. I'm the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night, hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. The Whistler will continue in just a moment. And now the Whistler Strange Story, Christmas Bonus. With most human beings, the line between good and evil is a thin and waving one. And very often the impulse for good will outweigh and nullify the bad. Such was the case with Mike O'Call. Mike wasn't really bad at all. It happened while he was a kid. He got into trouble, gone to prison, served a stretch. And now you're out, aren't you, Mike? And you've learned your lesson. You're proving that by going straight. You're working hard at your job in a department store. You're married to the girl you love, aren't you, Mike? And you're happy. Delicious. Delicious. Nobody can cook a better breakfast than you, darling. Thank you, sir. Oh, now, Mike, don't bore your coffee. I gotta run. I'll be late. Now, a couple of minutes won't make any difference. Maybe not most days, but today's going to be a big one. It's just a few shopping days before Christmas. You know, the store's going to be jammed. We'll be swamped with work until late tonight. Besides, I don't want to spoil my record. Six months and I haven't been late to work once. I know it's fine. I'm sure the store appreciates it. You know, Elaine, I think they do. I really think they like me down there. I like my work, everything. Why, sure, Mike. How could they help? No, I mean... I'm beginning to feel like... well, that other thing's all forgotten. Almost like something's never happened. It is. It is forgotten, Mike. Everything's different now. Yeah. Yeah, it is. It's going to be a lot different Christmas than the last one, isn't it? Yes, Mike. Oh, you're a wonderful Elaine coming to see me sticking by me. Darling, I promise you there'll never be another Christmas like that. Never. I know they won't, Mike. From now on, they're all going to be really merry Christmas. Yeah. Yeah, you bet. You know, that reminds me, I haven't got you present yet. I'll try to run out my lunch hour and find something. Oh, now, Mike, you're not going to go spending a lot of money on me. Maybe next year we'll be more on our feet then. Oh, never mind. I'll get you what I darned, please. Gosh, now I will be late if I don't... Oh, here's your hat. Thanks. Bye, darling. If I don't get home before midnight, don't worry. All right, I won't. Yes, it does look like a merry Christmas is in store for you, doesn't it, Mike? For the first time in your life, almost. A real merry Christmas. As you walk down the street, listening to the Christmas carols, emanating from the radios on display in music store lobbies, and view the smiles on people's faces as they hurry along the street, you get a sort of kick out of the stores, and then you're at your own place of employment. You feel an atmosphere of happiness there. The evergreen smells good in the elevator, too, doesn't it? And you chuckle as you pass the toy department with a perspiring Santa Claus pulling on his red coat. Yes, Mike. You're getting the Christmas spirit, aren't you? Morning, George. How's everything? Good. You're pretty cheerful this morning, aren't you? Why not? Getting close to Christmas is a day of good cheer. What's the matter with you? Humboldt. Oh, Boston rampage again, huh? What is it this time? You haven't heard? No. Why? Somebody listed another 200 bucks out of the receipts last night. What? Again? Yeah. That makes about two grand that's been missing in the last couple of months. Well, no wonder Mr. Humboldt's upset. He's a detective in there with him right now. They got old Gus the night watchman in for questioning. I suppose we'll all be on the carpet like the last time. Yes. It's not good. $2,000. Yeah. The cops are probably getting pretty sore about not pinning it on somebody. Oh, look, here comes old Gus, fresh from the inquisition. Thank you, Mr. Humboldt. Gus. Hey, hey, Gus. Yeah, Mr. Humboldt. Are they playing questions and answers in there again, Gus? Gully, uh, where was you this time? Where was you that time? The only time I got to sleep, they called me down here with this. What for would I want to steal money for? I got a wife, fine wife, four kids. I steal money, I go to jail. They starve. What for would I steal? Oh, sure, Gus. They just have to ask questions, that's all. I don't know. I only know I didn't steal. This is the only time I got to sleep and they have to go rescue me quickly.  Some night watchman for you. They seem pretty sure the thief is somebody inside the store, don't they? It would almost have to be, Mike. Uh-uh, it's Humboldt. Yes, Mr. Humboldt. Why, yes, right away. I thought it's my turn now. If I start screaming, you'll know he's putting me on the rack. Okay. I'll bring a branding eye into your rescuer.  You'll probably be next. If Humboldt really does decide to catch it, they've healed catch one by hook or crook. It's strange, isn't it, Mike? Your Christmas spirit of only a few moments ago seems oddly dampened by something you can't describe. Can't even put your finger on. Just a peculiar sinking feel. But you try to forget it as almost the whole day goes by and nothing further happens. George Osburn goes in and out of Humboldt's office but says very little afterwards and everything seems to calm down. George even finds a reason to display some Christmas spirit himself. And I really didn't expect it this year, Mike, but there it was, in my pay envelope, nice and crisp and green with the best holiday wishes of the store. Yes, that's well, George. Yeah, real honest-to-gosh Christmas bonus. I can sure you thought who couldn't. Well, I don't know whether you'll get one or not, Mike. You've only been here six months, but, uh, maybe, uh... Hey, by the way, why don't you, uh, Mosey in it and pick up your pay? It's not too long. The closing's out. Oh, no, I'll wait. I'd like to pick up Elaine's present if I can get time. Oh, well, don't worry about that. Most of the stores will still be open for a couple of hours. Oh, yeah, sure. No, I wanted to get her something she liked real well in those store up on 10th Avenue. It'll be open till late. I wonder if they found out anything about that, uh, two grand. Boy, they've really questioned everybody around, though. You know, they didn't question me. In fact, they never questioned me about it. I don't quite understand that.  Yeah. Uh-oh. Yes, Mr. Humboldt. Oh, uh, yes, sir. I'll send him right in. I'll talk to him soon. He wants to see you. Oh? On the other hand, maybe he just wants to hand you your Christmas bonus and... Person. You know, you're getting to be the fair-haired boy around here. Yes, sir. I better go in, huh? You might even be in line for a promotion. You can't tell. Okay, okay. You want to see me, Mr. Humboldt? Oh, yes, uh, Cobb. Yes, uh, sit down. Thank you. Uh, Cobb, you've been with us, uh, six months now. Yes, sir. And I must admit that in that time, you've demonstrated an admirable aptitude for the work. Oh, thanks, Mr. Humboldt. Yes, in fact, there has been some discussion of raising your salary and, uh, promoting you. I even talked to Mr. Prentice, the manager about it myself. Well, thanks, Mr. Humboldt. Yes, and, uh, that's why I regret very much to tell you this. I must inform you that, uh, we are forced to dispense with your services as of tonight. You mean I'm, I'm fired? Well, I'm afraid that's it. Uh, yes. Your two weeks' pay is in this envelope. Wait, wait a minute. If I've been so good, why am I being fired? I'd rather not discuss that just now, Cobb. Perhaps later on after the holidays. It's got something to do with that missing money, hasn't it? I told you. Just go as way of saying you think I took it because I'm an ex-convict, isn't it? Now, Cobb. All right. I understand a lot of things now, Mr. Humboldt. Thanks. Thanks for the Christmas bonus. Wait a minute. Did you get it? Did he give you a Christmas bonus? Yeah. Yeah, I got a Christmas bonus all right. What's up? What's the matter? He's got fired for Christmas, that's all. What? I'll tell you about it later. I'm leaving now. Gee, that's tough. Hey, wait. I almost forgot with, with my bonus, I can pay you that 30 bucks I borrowed from you here. That ought to help with that present for your wife, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, George. Thanks. It's a terrible shock, isn't it, Mike? You're worried this morning, the sinking feeling. Your premonition was right, wasn't it? And now, walking towards home, you feel lost.  And almost without knowing you've done it, you enter a telephone booth. Drop the coin and call home. Elaine. Dad, I didn't get off early. I got fired, Elaine. They kicked me out. You're going to ask me why or do you already know? Mike. I took some money, Elaine. I might as well have. They believe it. I might as well be really guilty. Mike, what is it? I'm not sure. Elaine, I just said I might as well be guilty in that song. If I was, I'd have a lot more than I've got. I'll see you, Elaine. I'll be long. You are going straight and you are happy with your job, your marriage to Elaine. And then all of a sudden, it was changed, changed away. Because of a series of fest with the store where you worked. Your prison record went against you, didn't it? And you were dismissed without reason. And that's why there's no Christmas spirit in your heart now. Why the decorations, the crowds? The Christmas carols being sung by the usual seasonal carolers mean nothing. You've one thing in mind now, haven't you? Yes. You might as well be really guilty. That's why you've decided that you're going back to the store and take your share of the day's receipts or something equally valuable. It'll be simple, wouldn't it, Mike? It'll soon be closing time. You can get in before the store closes and hide. And there's only old Gus, the watchman, to avoid. And you know his habits. Know too that the receipts will be in Mr. Humboldt's office in bags to be picked up by the armored car at midnight. You also know exactly where to pick up some highly valuable mink stoves as well as some highly valuable jewelry in case you can't get to the cash. You recall the addresses of two men whose names were given you in prison, men who pay cash and ask no questions regarding such items. You start back in the direction of the store. Real love is you're on Tenth Avenue near old Mr. Samuel's tiny shop, the place where you were going to buy Elaine her present. And that's what you hear, isn't it, Mike? The music box on the counter just inside the store. Well, good evening, Michael. Hi, Mr. Samuel's. And what can I do for you? Uh, is this the music box Elaine likes so well? Ah, yes. That's the one. She was very taken with it. How her eyes sparkle when she looked at it. Yeah, there's a powder puff or something inside, isn't it? That's right. And when you open it, it plays the little tune. So she was saying how it was her favorite tune. Yes. Okay. How much is it? Well, it's usually priced at $75, but I'll give it to you and the young lady for $50. Beautiful, isn't it? $50? Well, yes. You see, it's a genuine antique, and the best thing I have in the store. I'm sorry. That's more than I figured. Oh, well, I'm sorry, too. I'd let you have it for less if I could, but $50 is the lowest... Ah, sure, okay. I get it. I'm sorry. Come back again. You don't get very far away, do you, Mike?  Yes. You turn. Walk back to Mr. Samuel's little shop. Yes? Oh, you've come back for the music box, Mike. Yeah, look, wrap it up, Mr. Samuel's as a gift. I'll do it myself. I thought you'd be back. Yeah, well, she'll like it. You've, uh, something else on your mind, haven't you, Mike? Maybe. I don't mean to intrude on your thoughts, but, well, you look troubled. Something go wrong. Nothing I can't fix, Mr. Samuel's. Look, is that clock right? Right on the dot. Well, hurry that up. Well, yeah, I gotta get to another store before closing time. It's almost ready, Mike. Here's the money. I got it. 20, 30, 40. Oh, the 10 makes 50. I wish I could have made it even less, Michael. You understand. Yeah, sure. It's all right. Anyway, what's 50 bucks? That's right, isn't it, Mike? $50 means little when you'll soon have some of the day's receipts from the store. Or at least jewelry or furs of equal value. You hurry out of Mr. Samuel's shop. Take a cab to the store. Your inside and mingling with the crowd is the closing bell sound. Closing bell sound. By the time the last of the crowd has disappeared, you're in the employee's locker room, hiding behind some discarded packing cases. Good night. The voices of the last employees to leave drift past. Well, good night, Mac. Merry Christmas, boy. Same to you, Eddie, and best of the missus. Thanks, thanks. All right, it's time of year. What else is there but a guy's home and family? Nothing else counts at all. Words hit you, don't they, Mike? What else is there but a guy's home and family? Nothing else matters. Suddenly you believe it again. You realize it going straight. Keeping faith with the lane means more to you than anything in the world. You wonder why you ever came here. You slip out of the locker room, hurry towards the front door, but it's too late. Old Gus is locked up. You duck down behind a counter, realizing that if he sees you now, there'll be no way to explain. You draw on your breath, ease around the counter as Gus goes padding slowly past, almost within touching distance. Coming, coming, hold your horses. Stores all closed up, mister. I can't let anybody... Oh, a patch, huh? I'm Lieutenant Driscoll. Everything all right in here? No, what would be wrong? I'm looking for one of the star employees, a young fella named Mike Cobb. Mike Cobb? You've seen him? No, Stores Empty Lieutenant. Everybody's gone home. Anyway, Mike Cobb was fired today. Yeah, I know about that. That's why we thought he just might have been here. No, not a sign of him, Lieutenant. Well, okay, sorry to bother you. I'll let you out again, Lieutenant. What's that? Music box, I guess. Only, wait a minute. What's the matter? There's no music boxes on this floor. We better look into this, Lieutenant. You shake the music box, trying to make it stop, don't you, Mike? But it won't.  But the music box in your hand is leading them to you, isn't it? The end of the counter, you straighten up, make a dash for the stairs to the next floor. There's somebody in this floor. Come on, Gus, we'll get them.  And you feel like hurling the music box back at them, but suddenly it stops. It's only the sound of your own running feet now. You duck into a storm on the second floor. Which way do you go, Lieutenant? I don't know. Maybe up the next floor. Quiet a minute. Almost as if they can hear your heart pounding, isn't it, Mike? And the infuriating part of it all is the knowledge that you're running, hiding from something of which you're perfectly innocent. They won't believe you, will they? You've got to get away, and then it starts again. And you wish you'd abate your hunch to throw it as far as you could. You hear that, Gus? You sure do. Coming from that storeroom there. Yeah, huh? Come on out with your hands up. Come on. Okay. I'll see you soon. Mike! All right, young fella. Come on out. You can put away the gun. Sure, sure, Lieutenant. It's Mike's car. He's a fine boy. No matter what they say. All right, Mike.  But suppose you start explaining just what you're doing, hiding in the store. I explain. You won't believe me. I came here to steal some jewelry and furs, but before I did it, I changed my mind. You think Mark stopped, didn't it, Mike? Yeah. Stopped a little too late to do me any good. What is the police, Lieutenant, and old Gus, the night watchman, stare at you? You know they'll never believe you when you tell how you entered the store and then changed your mind about the robbery. Made your own decision to stay straight. You know now that it was only anger and bitterness that made you entertain the thought of stealing in the first place. But now you're sure your decision was in vain. That they'll be positive. You not only were in the store with the intention of robbing it, but that you were also the man responsible for the series of thefts which led to your dismissal. Nevertheless, you find yourself spilling out your story, just as it happened, right up to the dread moment when the music box, your gift or a lane, went off by accident, betraying your hiding place. That's the way it was, Lieutenant. I guess you're pretty unhappy about that music box, huh, Cobb? Skip it. I've been unhappy all afternoon. Don't expect you to believe me. Well, there's one person that will. Your wife. See, she put us on your trail. She didn't like the way you sounded on the telephone. You mean she called headquarters? Yeah, twice. Seems she got a call from Mr. Samuels. He was worried about you, too. Yeah, so I got a lot of friends. I think so. Maybe you'll see what I mean if you'll answer a few questions for us. I'll answer one. I didn't steal any of that money. I had nothing to do with it. We know that. But tell us this, when you bought that music box at Mr. Samuels' shop, you paid for it with a 20 and three tens, right? Yeah. Well, part of that money was marked. It was money that had been stolen from this department store. I tell you, I didn't steal it. That was money I got in my pay envelope. I earned it. Give you part of it. Didn't somebody pay you a debt? That's what we were told. Huh? Oh, yeah, yeah, George Osburn. He paid me $30. He owed me. That's what we thought. Now, how did Osburn pay you? What's the denomination of Bill? He gave me three tens. You sure? Yeah, absolutely. You got the 20 in your own pay envelope? Yeah. You'll swear to that in court? Of course. What? You mean... that's all you want from me? That's all. We've been sure it was Osburn, but we wanted to clinch it. Oh, incidentally, you weren't actually fired from the store, but Mr. Humboldt wanted everyone to think so, especially Osburn.  Well, why didn't he? Well, he wanted you to think you were fired, too.  It worked, too. Yeah. It almost didn't. Well, I don't think you have to worry. Yes.


Okay Welcome to another video from my year 2017 now. We are here to talk about a little bit more about this month's prompt and I Really as I said in my first video When I read the prompt, it's all about you. It's all about me. I really thought of it as more of a question Is it all about you or is it all about me and I thought about it in the context of Do I really spend all of my time thinking only of myself? Do I bother to think about the effects of my actions on other people? Do I? Focus enough on helping out others Helping out my community. I do donate blood on a regular basis and you know, that's an easy simple thing to do Opening doors for people You know when you're at the store and you see somebody struggling to get something off of a high shelf Give them a hand That sort of thing it doesn't take a lot of effort to put at least occasionally someone else first That doesn't mean that you should never think of yourself because of course you need to make you happy And that's super important, but that doesn't mean that you should only think of yourself so that being said I created a doodle for this month and This I created her in two different versions. You're gonna get both copies and As part of this month, I think I'm gonna do a little video to Quick video tutorial of how I drew her. I think that might be actually tomorrow's video So this is her how I drew her Just for at first just plain and then I decided I really like her and you of course can you're gonna be able to Print her in and whatever size that you want You can color her in leave her black and white And I should say if you're watching this on YouTube You have to be part of the 27 my year 2017 Facebook group to get the free copy of the doodle So if you're not a member of the group Look in the description and go over there and join the group I did create Also this version of her with a speech bubble with the questions. Is it all about you or is it all about me and I printed her really small on Sticker a square sticker sheet and cardstock. I wasn't sure which one I was gonna use but I did print her out and the speech bubbles hard to read but With the naked eye I can read it with my reading glasses, but Yeah, you can read it So I have a particular idea and I did print a plain copy. I know you saw a flash of it here of our same kind of list doodle that we use for our Monthly book club. This is also available in the my year 2017 Facebook group there is a document for free doodle downloads and this is one of them the girl of course is going to be another one and I printed the plain one without a heading on it for a particular reason. So let's add her to our journal Here we go Let's pick a spot first. Do we want to put her right in the front? I? Actually, I think if she might want to go here Next to my book club list. So I'm going to cut one of these out Just really quickly It doesn't have to be perfect and we're going to get that on here. I think I'm just going to use some tape runner And towards the seam And then I'm going to take one of my girls stickers the one with the quiet the speech bubble I'm going to put here up here at the top Take some of my washi tape And then I'm going to use this space to do some journaling about what the prompt means to me maybe you want to make a list of the ways that you feel like you can improve and Maybe you're the kind of person that's constantly putting other people first and you're never doing for yourself You're always putting out for other people so how can you change that and do more for yourself not that you want to ignore those other people but Maybe put yourself first at least occasionally. Maybe you only think about yourself. So how can you? Put others first at least a little bit in small ways like I said opening doors for people Helping them get things off a high shelf donating blood simple really simple things that people just It's such an indication to me of people that just don't put other people first Waiting when you see somebody's backing up out of their parking lot stop your car and let them back up completely Don't drive behind them because you're in so much of a hurry and you're only thinking about yourself That kind of stuff is just it's small things.  So For me, I'm going to write a I'm going to do a little bit of journaling about what this prompt means to me on my list here On my on my little piece of paper I put here I may do a list of things that I feel like I can do more for others And myself and I might separate it into categories, but I want you to do the same thing Feel free to use the girl in your journal print her out color her if you wish I'm going to leave her I think black and white and go forward this month asking yourself Is it all about you or is it all about me? I am going to show you how I drew the girl Tomorrow I'm going to have a short little speed through video of the process. I did I did it on my iPad Pro And that's it for today check out the video description if you're watching this on YouTube for the links to the Facebook group The links to my website There's a link tree list to all the links places You can find me on the internet my happy mail address all that stuff's down there Don't forget though to and also don't forget to like share and subscribe But the most important thing go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it Maybe open the door for somebody else because they probably deserve it too. Alright, that's it for today. I'll talk to you later. Bye guys


Welcome to the Everton News Daily. As the impact of Everton's ten-point deduction continues to be felt, lots of stories every single day. Simon Jordan has weighed in today on the club's seeking compensation debate, the sensationalist headlines that clubs have signed as Sue Everton for £300 million. Simon Jordan has said that those clubs are simply wasting their time in this pursuit. Jordan explained that it is difficult to see where Everton gained a sport advantage over these clubs. It's difficult to prove there was any kind of advantage there relating to those other clubs. He said that at what season do you decide that that advantage was gained given that clubs have been relegated, number of clubs have been relegated during that process and across the actual auditing period Everton was nowhere near a relegation battling two of the season so therefore Everton could argue that the £19.5 million losses have appeared in one of those seasons where certainly the season where Everton got 59 points. In that report, yep, and therefore we're nowhere near relegation. So you can understand how this argument can be battered away. I get you would as a fan of one of those clubs you might feel a little bit aggrieved but it has to be stated clearly many different occasions that this is to do with the stadium, the building of a new stadium. There's a lot of these charges, a lot of this financial information there is simply regarding someone's opinion of whether that should have been used on up or a lot of it does directly correlate to the stadium. Even if you split that £19.5 million over, let's do it over three even though it was a four year reporting period, let's do it over three years, that £6.5 million a season that Everton would have been over, is that £6.5 million really causing one of those sides to get relegated? I can't say it like that. Jordan goes on to say that even if in the unlikely event there was any chance of compensation and he only names two clubs you could potentially do it, he said it's highly unlikely he would get anything. It would be a small amount, he said, I'd be amazed if it was in the millions. I saw this the other day where one of a lawyer was talking about it just generally out briefing it about the compensation and he was like the most leads could probably get us around £2 million because it was only a place, a better place even if Everton had the ten points taken off them. The problem is with the Premier League, it's not with Everton in terms of when the sanctions were put in, so it's not Everton's fault if they have been deductive points that the points were in put in last season. You can't retrospectively go back and put them in, it's not in the rules that every one of the Premier League teams have signed up to these rules. You can't then say after the event because I've seen that argument the other day with people. Well, you've agreed to these profit and sustainability rules so therefore there's got to be some punishment. Fine, then those teams who are playing in the Premier League have signed up to the thing of you can't pick and choose when you want those points taken off to help your cause. So like you said, I can understand some fans clinging on to that from rival clubs, but the reality is it's very, very difficult to prove at any point that that was a reason why you went down. You went team to relegator because you don't get as many points as anyone else. It's just the way it is. As it carries on, more information has now emerged about David Phillips, the KC, who was the chair of the commission that found Everton guilty. There's been a lot of stuff put out about him in the last few days, but it's now emerged that he sat on an FA panel who decided to find Everton a record £300,000 for a pitch invasion. After the Crystal Palace victory colour season to go, that kept Everton in the Premier League was May 2022, 18 months ago. This is obviously going to put the spotlight back on to the impartiality of this fella. We'll wait and see, but that is out there today. So that just goes on to, this case is literally changing every few hours. There's different circumstances being put out there by the analysts and other people. So it is a mess, it's a huge mess right now. We'll see what happens. Everton, of course, have got nine days to register their appeal. They are going to do it, obviously it's been discussed, but they've got to formally register their appeal. They did say on Friday that the appeal process had begun, so this will be Everton gathering evidence over the last few days. That will go in shortly. Everton's director of football, Kevin Thelwell, released a statement today saying that the blazing staff at Finch Farm are focused on the progression that they have made in recent times. Everyone six of the last nine matches were in good form. The unity is there. Kevin Thelwell talked about the backing of the supporters. He knows that every Evertonian is behind them. We'll continue to draw on that strength from them and keep moving forward. He did go on to say that he backed Everton's interim CEO Colin Sion's statement the other day about the wholly unjust and disproportionate point deduction on the sport in front to Everton. He backed that statement by Colin Sion. Everton have just simply shown that they are in the plays. I've just got to keep doing what they were doing before this news came out. They were in really good form, looking up, and that's what they've got to focus on as we move forward. Sheffield United Manager Paul Heckambottom spoke today. They praised Everton on the pitch and said that the progression is there for all to see. He said they should have a lot more points than what they've got at the moment. He said, but even with the points deduction, he backs them to climb out of trouble anyway. He said they just hope we finish above them. But he also did say that basically this can't be the only time that this has applied. This will only become a justifiable punishment if it is applied to other clubs. He said a lot of other clubs will be looking over the shoulders now. Everton will obviously be watching home with interest to see whether this is applied to other clubs as well. That was from him. Last night England under 21s beat Northern Ireland at Gullison Park 3-0. The under 21s side was captained by Everton's Jared Brantwick. The only thing from an Everton perspective is Liverpool plays that scored the goals. There you go. But a good win for Lee Carsley's under 21s side last night. Make sure you check out a new inside the game podcast on more than a game with former Everton player Gareth Farrell. It's excellent. It's out now. Make sure you go and check that out. Give the video a thumbs up, comment, like, subscribe. Do all that good stuff. See you later.


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Welcome to this virtual undergraduate open day, so I'm from the School of Finance and Management or SFM for short, and I'm just going to run through what we do, what we teach and what you could expect in terms of undergraduate programs if you joined our School of Finance and Management. So I just thought I'd introduce myself first. So I'm Helen, and I'm the undergraduate director, which basically means that I just oversee our two undergraduate programs, our two BSE programs that I'm going to introduce you to you today. You'll find if you join SOAS that a lot of us regional specialists or country specialists as well that we often specialize in one of the countries or regions that SOAS is famous for studying. So obviously, SOAS stands for the School of Oriental and African Studies originally. And I am a Japan specialist so that means I bring Japan and other East Asian countries into my teaching, but also to keep out of my research and you'll find that many of us are in discipline based departments so I'm in the business and management department. But I'm also a member of our Japan Research Center, which pulls together all the Japan academics, Japan focused academics across the school. There's lots of different regional based centers at SOAS. But we also have other themed centers as well. So I'm also a center, I'm also a member of the SOAS Center for Gender Studies, and the SOAS Center for Food Studies. You'll find that many of us sort of have that interdisciplinary focus and are members of other groups at SOAS and as SOAS students you're welcome to attend lectures and seminars of all these types of regional centers and thematic centers. So there's a lot of opportunity for going outside of your department in terms of learning. I teach on two key modules in our BSC degrees. I teach International Human Resource Management, which is a final year module for final year students, and I teach organizational behavior, which is a first year module for all as a compulsory module for all our undergraduate students. So obviously I'm in the area of employment, the employment side of management and how people and managers and people behave in organizations and how organizations behave through that personal perspective. So I'm more about the people management side, people management side of management. In my own research, I work on employment, particularly gender and employment in Japan, and I also more recently are doing research on gender and sport in Japan. So I was very interested in the Tokyo Olympics that took place eventually this year that were postponed from 2020. So you'll find that many of us teach on certain subjects, but we also have research interests that perhaps broaden out from those subjects as well. So we're very, we like to cut across different fields and work on various research projects over time so hopefully you'll find that of interest when you join us. Just to give you a flip so that was an introduction to me we have if you go into our website many of you might have already gone into our website you can see all our programs and all our members of staff there. This is just some of my colleagues here, some of my academic colleagues but you, we all have different specialties in terms of what area of business or financial management we teach on. And we all have different sort of regional interests we're all from all around the world as well we're all very international I'm from New Zealand. A lot of us are from around the world and we all teach on and research on different aspects of international business as well. We are very well ranked school of finance and management in the latest Guardian League tables from 2020. We are ranked first in London and 14th in the UK for business and management so some of you may have looked at some of these league tables this is the one run by the Guardian obviously. You can go in and look, you can choose by you can search by particular topics so we fall into the business management and marketing category, and you can see that, as I said we're 14th in the UK but actually first in London for business and management studies. And that's out of 123 higher educational institutes in the UK. So you can feel confident if you come and study business and management with us, that we, we have a good reputation and a good branding in the market. So the two undergraduate degrees that we offer our BSC management and our BSC accounting and finance. So I'm going to talk very briefly about both those degrees in terms of what you can expect from them. I teach organizational behavior as I said which is a module for both those degrees, but I'm much more in the management genre rather than the accounting and finance, but nonetheless I can give you a brief overview about accounting and finance and if you have any specialist questions on that. So I'll try and answer them and if not I can direct you towards our director for accounting and finance, but if you go into our again those are the links if you go into our website you can look in more detail at those modules, sorry at the modules in the program structure as well. I'll talk quickly about both of those. So our BSC management teachers management and management is obviously a very broad topic so I'm only going to give you a quick definition here. There's lots of different ways you can define what business and management is, but our approach is that we are teaching the study of business. Not just the private sector because we often just think of business as happening in the private sector and private corporations. Of course it does but we also teach it with a nod to a broader environment so we teach, you know, some in some of our regions of the world the public sector is very influential public and private sector organizations so we think about business in both of those sectors, and as well as nonprofit sectors for example. And when we teach about business and management we teach it within not just the economic environment that it operates in, but we also teach it with an awareness of the political and cultural environment that it operates in as well. So that's very important so as that cultural environment is very important. The cultural context within which business and management takes place is very important to us at SIRS. So if you were to study, for example, a BSC management at any one of those other 123 higher education institutes you probably would focus more on that just the economic environment and maybe that sort of Western centric UK American centric Europe Euro centric angle, but we're very keen to take it away from that that narrow scope and think about it more internationally and within particular cultures and regions that SIRS is is obviously famous for researching and teaching him. So that that's one of the key reasons for coming to so as to study business and management. So thank you for considering so as when you're when you're studying a topic like business and management. We offer a very global perspective as I said we like to think about business regionally internationally, and aware of the fact that business is not something that is just directed from the West, that it takes place across the world and there's lots going on in other countries and regions as well from that non Western perspective. We also are able to offer the study of business, you know, in theory, but also in practice so we try and combine as much as possible we try and give you all the theory that you need for a BSC. It is an academic degree of course and so you need to understand the theories and the principles of business and management, but we really try and offer case studies, and, you know, business examples of real issues facing other dealing dealing with real issues, particularly as they go global and in different cultures, for example. So we try and combine that theoretical academic approach with real real time real based examination of how business operates in reality and in practice. And we, we combine that with that conventional analysis of management if you like with that global and regional expertise so as you saw our staff are very multicultural. We are an international teaching body we come from all around the world from various countries, and we all researchers as well as teachers so we put we publish our work. We do academic journals we publish books. So we do our own research as well as bring that to the teaching environment so it's a very international body of expertise that we offer and our students are very international and diverse as well so we get students from all over the world, coming to study at SAS. And that's a fantastic learning environment you're in a very diverse multicultural group of students who bring all of their experience with them and it and it makes for really great learning in particular in, in tutorial classes where we run small groups. So what subjects can you expect to study if you study the best in management we can see all the modules if you go into our web page, but you broadly will study what management is and reflect on how management and business interacts in society. And study these are the two that I teach as I said you're studying how organizations behave, how they're designed but also importantly how people behave within organizations and some of the challenges of that, the challenges of manning managing people as human resources the strategies of managing people. You'll think about business strategy more broadly particularly global strategy, your study topics such as business ethics corporate social responsibility. That's a that's a growing topic of course that businesses want to be seen as a top employer of choice as a socially responsible business. You'll study financial elements. Even now BSE management students have to study basic accounting for example, because accounting is caught all business as we'll see in a moment. So you will, you will be studying some financial and accounting techniques. You'll see something that is included as well. And so you'll get all those basics of management that you would expect to find on any BSE management or business studies program in the UK. But what we also offer at science is the opportunity to flavor your degree with a regional country focus as well. So you can choose to study that's part of your options. So a lot of these will be your core modules that you'll study but each year you'll get to choose from a list of optional modules as well. And you can choose if you want to to flavor that with a regional focus so we offer the chance to study business and management in Japan and Korea East Asia, or in China or in the Middle East as well. So those are the regions that we focus on in our school of finance and management. So we offer that chance to learn more business focused in particular regions but we also if you want to and again it's an option. You can also choose to study a science language. So we are obviously very famous for teaching languages from our regions. And so a lot of our students will opt to also study Chinese, Korean, Japanese or Arabic, but you can choose from across all the service languages. That's just some of the ones that we we have focused on because they go along with the teaching that we do on business in those regions. So you don't have to take up that option you don't have to flavor your degree or tailor your degree with that regional language focus. But if you want to you can and that's our sort of unique selling point that you can do that. You can of course choose options from more business and other business and management related topics. But a lot of our students do take that opportunity to really flavor the BSC management with that so as branding if you like. And I'll just even in the even in the subjects that we teach that a core, we do try and bring in that regional focus anyway. So I'm just going to give you a quick example as I said I teach human resource management, it's called international human resource management deliberately because it has an international flavor. And so I teach all the subjects that you would expect to learn about if you were doing an HRM module anywhere in the UK institutions I teach you know what is best practice HRM. How, how does it operate how is it developed and particularly in the UK US context. And I teach all of the different functions of HRM that you would expect to find in any BSC module focused on human resource management so we talk about resourcing talents we talk about learning and development, monitoring people's performance and thinking about reward and compensation, how you engage and motivate employees, the types of employment relations that you have to be aware of. You teach about diversity and inclusion strategy how to quantify HM, all of these types of topics you would expect to find in any HR module. And that's really how the first half of that module operates. But because it's so as I try and make it international in the second half of the module. So I'm very aware that, as I said earlier, HRM operates in different contexts around the world. So what happens in the UK will not be the same way that managing people operates in Japan and Korea, for example. So we are very conscious of thinking about different societies different demographics different cultures in different histories when it comes to business management. So when I teach HR we also look at people management and HR in our source regions so we have module we have lectures on Japan, China, South Korea and Middle East the GCC countries. We think about how have distinctive strategies and models of HR developed there. What's the history behind them what are the current trends and challenges to what extent is their interaction with best practice from a global global business perspective in terms of inward foreign direct investment there and those countries sending. You know those countries having multinational companies coming out of there as well. And we think about what are the particular HR challenges in those regions that are very different to perhaps in America or the UK for example. So we really do delve into our regions in terms of in terms of studying HRM so we don't just study HRM from that theoretical Western based concept. So I hope that just gives you a flavor of how one module tackles the subject from a more distinctive science branding element and that's very common and lots of our core modules. So that's BSC management just to give you a flavor of that our other undergraduate program that we offer a degree that we offer is our BSC accounting and finance and the program directed for that if you have any really specialized questions about that you can contact. Kemi my colleague Kemi. But I'll try and answer any questions about that as well. So I'm just going to give you a flavor of that degree as well. So that is obviously a much more focused professionally oriented degree compared to management. It's a degree that acknowledges that accounting and finance is a very skilled and technical profession and Excel and arguably one of the most important occupational groups because every business has needs accounting and finance so that accounting and finance profession is important and is at the core of every organization, every organization will have a finance function or somebody who's in charge of finance and accounting. So and that doesn't matter whether it's a public sector private sector nonprofit sector. It's impossible to operate without operational finances and accounting methods so it's a very focused part of of business. And that's why we offer a professional professional based degree there. Although as I said even our BSC management students will study some basic accounting and finance as well because it is at the core of every business and organization. But this is a much more targeted program and it is a professionally accredited degree as well. So even though you'll study it with us at SOAS as an academic qualification, it will also be accredited by a professional body. So it's taught by accounting experts and professionals. So our staff are academics and researchers but they also have professional qualifications themselves to teach accounting and finance and to operate as accountants. It benefits from double accreditation by the Chartered Institute of Management Accounting and the Association of Gosh I can't forget what ASA stands for but it's basically the Chartered Association for Accounting as well. So after your BSC with us you would get six exemptions from ASA and eight exemptions from SEMA. And that's really important because a lot of people who study this program with us will go on to be professional accountants or finance operators in companies and the companies will often require. For example as part of their career promotion or as part of their graduate management training that you need to do professional qualifications with them. But you will automatically get exemptions and accreditation particularly for your first year of study. So that's a real selling point for our degree that they are accredited by these professional bodies. So that's all I'm going to say about accounting and finance. As I said it's not my expert field. A lot of my colleagues are much more expert in that but I can answer any broader questions that you might have. Talking about our both our programs, our BSC programs, our entry requirements are listed there and they're on our website as well. So we're looking for AAB to ABB in terms of A levels or the equivalent in terms of BTEC or IB for example. And we are also looking at Maths Grade 6 for GCSE just because you need to have some level of mathematical ability to be able to cope with the accounting and finance elements even off the management degree. So that's our only requirement is that we need Maths Grade 6. You don't have to have done it for A levels. You don't have to have studied business or economics or anything like that at A levels but we are looking for those kinds of entry requirements. Having said that if you're worried that you're not quite tracking at that level, we do offer conditional offers. We also have quite a solid clearing program as well. So you can go into clearing if you're worried that you haven't had a conditional, conditional offer. You can go into clearing as well and we can perhaps talk about that a bit more because I know we have Amani who's from student admissions. So if there's any questions about applying and admissions and what we accept and how we go about accepting applications, we can talk a little bit more about that as well. So we are ranked really well. In the most recent survey we're ranked fifth in the UK, our department for graduate employability. Our students go on to a range of different careers, but as I said we're ranked well for employability. So that means that the vast majority of our graduates are in employment internships or further study six months after graduation. So that's a really good result and we try and keep in touch with our alumni. Many of us personally link into them through LinkedIn for example to keep track of them and just monitor their, their progress and their careers and it's an easy way for us to keep in touch with them. The SOAS Careers Service also keeps in touch with alumni. And of course the SOAS Careers Service offers lots of ideas and sessions and on campus events for careers during the course of your BSE with us as well. So you can think about your career even from year one you can start thinking about job opportunities and thinking about what you might like to do after you graduate. So we have a good employability record and it's really difficult to say that if you do this degree in management or degree in accounting and finance you'll go into this kind of job because our students go into a variety of positions. So we have some of our some of the companies that our students have gone into listed on our website, but it's also all kinds of professions that they go into. Obviously a lot of our accounting and finance graduates go into financial roles or become accountants professional accountants. A lot of our BSE management students go into all types of graduate training programs banking consultancy all types of business we have a lot of students actually who come from abroad, who are working for family businesses for example who want to get a qualification back to their home countries and run help run their family business or take over the family business. Some of our graduates have even gone into fields like journalism so they can go into lots of different careers and job opportunities over time so it's really interesting to see where they've gone. In terms of methods and assessment. We, our modules have both quantitative numerical and qualitative components so essay writing ability to critically analyze research materials and and and write essays is very important but also, of course, particularly in accounting and finance the numerical ability and ability to do more quantitative analysis is necessary to which is why we asked for GCSE Max. So, most of our modules will include essay writing and assignments and coursework. And that will count towards a certain percentage of your module. There's also, we offer lecture classes so for lecture classes you'll be in a big group, and you'll have a lecturer like I am today, teaching you with the chance of interaction as well, but then for every module that you take you'll also do a seminar or tutorial class so that's a much smaller group that you'll be in. Around 15 students in a tutorial group and that's a chance for you to really interact with your fellow students and brainstorm and really delve into the into the weekly topics and that's a chance for students to lead the classes rather than lectures and academics. We also have written examinations in May June. So, the modules are all made up of assessment in terms of what percentage comes from coursework and what percentage comes from exam so similar to to your levels in that in that respect. And then in the final year of your BSE study you will do a dissertation or an independent study project ISP so that's where you will think about what you've studied over the last three years, and pick a topic that you really interested in and go out there and research it yourself and write up a 10,000 word dissertation and you'll get a supervisor for that and the one to one supervision to help you with that research project. We also offer the chance of networking so we try and invite every fortnight or so we have business seminars where we invite speakers in from the business world. So you have a chance to listen to their real life experiences of running businesses and working in businesses. As I said the service offers a lot of opportunities in terms of events and helping you think about your future career. And then we have, you will always be part of the service alumni, after you graduate so you can link into other alumni groups around the world and we have a lot of international alumni groups in the regions that we teach on as well. So just to end I'm just going to talk about some of the learning outcomes that you can expect so if you study with us of course if you study management and accounting and finance you will learn how, you know how the management of of an organization impacts performance and how you can drive performance. You'll learn about various functions that are crucial to business, marketing, human resource management and accounting so you'll learn all those different departments and functions that crucially make up the operation of a business. You'll reflect on you'll be able to reflect on how a firm's external environment impacts on its on its performance and that can be as I said, not just the market for the product or service that it's operating in. The global environment, the political environment, the broader economic environment, the global environment, the local environment. So all of the things that impact on a firm's performance that are not just internal to the firm. So we think about the sort of broader policy environment as well that firms operated in, and that can be politically focused economically focused and policy driven as well. And really the cultural environment, the cultural environment for institutions is something that's really important to us to that studying of business in the regions that we focus on, particularly in our department the East Asian region, and the Middle East region is a really important area of focus that we study on that we focus on for our delivery of teaching and learning on business and management. One of the broader outcomes that you'll get from studying with us is the ability to really develop critical thinking to enhance your decision making and critical analysis skills, your ability to appraise evidence to appraise source material and critically and summarize and critique material, your ability to interpret company financial accounts, particularly of course if you're doing accounting and finance you'll be really skilled and in depth knowledge of how accounting and finance works for an organization, the ability to interpret data and statistics, so that quantitative and qualitative ability based on critical analysis and essay writing and writing your ISP. And of course, a broader knowledge of international business environments, particularly if you choose, as I said at the beginning to flavor or tailor your degree with the study of one of the countries or regions that we are particularly interested in it so that's some of the learning outcomes that you can expect. So that is the end of my formal presentation, but we've got lots of time left for questions. So I'm happy to take any questions I'll try and answer them to the best of my ability I'm just going to stop sharing here. And also we've got a money from student recruitment on the line and we've got Nadia who's one of our current science students as well who might be able to answer anything you want to know about the student experience at science as well. Yeah, feel free to put your hand up and put your microphone on, put your video on if you like it'd be nice to see you, or you can, if you prefer you can just type into the chat function at the bottom there, and happy to take any questions. But thank you for listening. I hope that's given you a nice insight into what we deliver at the School of Finance and Management. In the meantime while we're waiting for questions, I thought maybe Nadia could speak very briefly just about what she's studying and how she's found so far. I'm a second year management student. And last year, most of the, I mean everything was online so I wasn't really able to come onto campus but this year, I've started to come on campus and we've been able to have face to face tutorials, but lectures have still been online. And last year we, I did study the organizational behavior module. So that was a compulsory module for year one students. And it was really enjoyable. One of the other modules that I studied in year one was introduction to accounting principles of management, introduction to marketing management and society. Those are business maps module and the quantitative analytical module. So there's been more options available. So I've decided to choose a language for my optional modules. And I'm studying Korean as alongside my core modules for the management. So there was a lot of space for you guys to choose what you want to study. It's not all written out for you. Thanks Nadia. I know it's only a few weeks in but how's study of Korean going? How are you finding it? It's going good. So I was, I previously studied it myself. So I would have quite a bit of knowledge on it. So my lectures are going quite well. And they did, they allow you to take a placement test at the beginning to see if you can advance or if they want you to start from the beginning. So that's a perk of choosing languages. Yeah, that's a really good point. So if you come to us with the language that you've already studied or maybe grown up with, then they will give you a placement test so you could start at the beginning. Or you might go into a slightly higher intermediate level of language study. And as Nadia said, we offer language study in year two and year three now. We don't offer it in the first year because we want you to get those core principles of accounting and finance and management embedded first, but we will be offering some more regional studies in first year going forward into next year, which unfortunately weren't available to Nadia last year, but they will, there will be more management in particular regions going forward from 2022 entry from first year onwards. But the language study if you want it comes in at second and third year. Thanks Nadia for that. That was really, I do feel sorry for Nadia's great because they had their first year online, which was really difficult. But as she said we are now running hybrid and we hope to get back fully to on campus so it's been really lovely the last few weeks going into the SOAS campus after such a long time away and having that face to face interaction again I'm really enjoying it and I hope the students are too. Thanks Nadia. I don't see anything coming into the chat. If you have any questions, feel free to pop them in the chat if you don't want to turn on your microphone or your camera or anything. We'll just wait a couple more minutes to see if any questions come through. Yeah, we'll wait, we'll wait for questions but I'll say that if anyone feels a bit shy about asking questions in a public forum where it's being recorded as well. So that other people can dial in if they haven't been able to dial in now particularly our international students who might be in a different time zone to us. But you can go into our website, you can email any of us, or you can email me to ask any particular questions that you might have or any questions that you think about tomorrow that you know you didn't spring to mind today. Feel free to email any of us with any questions and we'll get back to you. So my email is HM for mother HM 39 at so s.ac.uk we could put that into the chat maybe. Thank you. Yeah, that's my email there. So feel free to send an email after this if you don't want to do this in a public forum or any time. We've had a couple of questions come in. The first one is how that's being recorded where can we find it to watch again. They should be sent to you via email if not they'll be in a section my website if you go to our open day section will have the recordings up but it may take a little time for them to be uploaded. And the second question is, is there any reading material you recommend for accounting and finance also is there an interview for accounting finance. We don't have we don't conduct any interviews for any of our admissions process for BC management or accounting and finance so there's no interview stage. It's purely based on your documents and application through UCAS. So we assess that and as I said depending on that you might be offered an unconditional offer conditional offer you may be recommended to go into clearing or get in touch once your results come out and then we can make an offer. In terms of reading material. If you go into our website and there's a list of there's our two programs that you can click on BC management or in this case you can click on BC accounting and finance and all them and you go into that site and you'll see it'll say teaching structure. And if you go into that lists all the modules for year one year two year three. And if you click on any of them you can go in and some of them will have recommended readings in there. So any of our modules you can go in and click in there and see get a flavor of what the modules about who teaches it you'll see the academic there who's responsible for teaching it with the email address there. And it will give you an idea of the subjects but it will also perhaps give you some reading materials as well if you want to do some advanced reading or just get a sense of the type of textbooks or articles that are used. So, given that I'm not in the accounting and finance module convener I can't really say what they use but if you go into the website you'll find that information. Lovely. Thank you. And I'll just put another email in the chat. If you have any sort of admissions questions or quite general questions that are not related to the subject specifically. You can contact study at so ask dot ac dot UK, and they will be able to answer your query if not then they'll be able to forward it on to the relevant department. I'll just put that in the chat for everyone now. Yeah. Yeah, and if you if you go into science dot ac dot UK you'll see all our departments will be listed there. So finance and management is just what a school of finance management is just one of our many departments if you click on any of those departments that will take you into the website. For that particular department you can see who the academic staff are. You can see what BSC programs are offered. You can click on the BSC program see all the modules there and go into each module and see what's in there in terms of readings and subjects. So it's that kind of level of detail that you can expect from the website. You can click on the academics and see what their research profiles like what they teach on what their research interests are as well. So it's all publicly available on the website then. Okay, if there are no more questions and I think we will wrap up this session. I want to say thank you to Helen and to Nadia as well for helping with all the questions. Again, like we said you can contact Helen or you can contact the study inbox if you have any questions, and they will go back to you as soon as they can. Thank you so much for joining everyone hope you have a lovely rest of your afternoon. Thanks for joining us hope to see you at SOAS next year. Good luck and whatever you decide to do for the next chapter of your life after eight levels. Thank you.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's CIS Patch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. South Africa ranks fifth in COVID-19 cases as reported infections crossed 400,000. Leftist leaders and writers around the world have called to cancel all deaths. US Federal Watch Rock to investigate violence of federal forces in Portland and D.C. Bolivian elections postponed for a third time. MAS cries foul. We begin with an update on the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally the number of infections are close to 15.7 million cases with around 637,000 fatalities reported as of today afternoon. The number of new cases reported yesterday was around 276,000. In today's in focus section we take a look at South Africa where the government has failed to contain the numbers ever since the virus spread began. The country has reported over 400,000 cases so far, placing it at the fifth place worldwide. Despite over 6,000 fatalities so far and around 13,000 new cases reported daily, the government is pushing to reopen the economy. We talk to Lydia Cain Cross from the People's Health Movement about the situation there. Could we look at, could we talk a bit maybe about what's the situation on the ground right now because we do know that the government has been pushing for reopening and interestingly South Africa was one of the countries which did have a very strong lockdown. So how is it that despite that the number of cases continues to surge? Yeah, I think South Africa, you know, we started off with the approach to the pandemic of a very strict and very hard lockdown, one of the hardest in the world for about five weeks. And during that time there was quite slow transmission of the virus. We think that because it was mainly sort of initially a middle class inoculation into the society and we have a very class segregated society which is the legacy of apartheid and of capitalism. And so for some time the lockdown worked. But the lockdown came at tremendous cost, tremendous cost to primarily the poor and the poor black majority in South Africa. And it revealed the tremendous food insecurity within the country and income insecurity. And the state was not able to rapidly move to fill those gaps. So there was a pressure to lift lockdown both from a conservative sort of capital economy lobby which wanted to get profit going and get factories running. But there was also a pressure from the ground from people who were starving who actually were unable to fulfill their normal livelihoods which was the micro-economy in the townships, you know, the informal economy which had been decimated by the lockdown. And of course what we had needed at that stage was a very strong social support package to come in rapidly to support income security, to support food security, to bring to communities water and food and sanitation and money to allow them to survive the lockdown. But we were unable to make that shift. And so there was this pressure and a fairly uncoordinated opening of the economy. Sort of the strongest lobby pushing would get their sector open. So one of the first areas to open was mining which, you know, makes no sense in terms of a health and epidemiology point of view. And then kind of opening of churches and opening of big sectors of the economy that were not necessarily what we would consider to be essentials for life, you know, which is a more kind of social perspective on what do we need to survive and what can we keep closed in order to keep us safe. The other problem was that we didn't utilize the lockdown as we should have. So the lockdown time was really an opportunity to get two things going. The one is a mass popular education campaign to empower communities to understand the virus, to begin to know how when lockdown lifted, how to move safely in the presence of the virus. And that mass campaign has still not happened and there are pockets of education happening by NGO, social movement, health ourselves, but not nearly enough. And the other thing that needed to happen in that time was mass testing, tracing and quarantine. And our testing capacity really failed us at this time. And because we were not able to escape the logic of the capitalist system and bring together our public and private testing capacity, we still had a two system binary with private sector capacity with a short turnaround times and a few hours to one day or so. And the public sector capacity was just totally overstretched by the numbers. So we got our community health workers out, they screened and they sent for testing and within a few weeks we overwhelmed our testing capacity. So when we started to open up the economy, we didn't have the testing capacity that we needed to be able to test and to separate out those that were sick and take care of them in that way. So here we are. Now we are number five in the world. Our peak is coming later in other countries, but it's coming. And the numbers are always contested and the deaths are contested as well. But we are seeing this in our hospitals. So we are seeing the epidemic in for a long time our hospitals were quiet from a COVID point of view. But certainly started in the Western Cape province and now is moved to our most densely populated province in Kharting. And the hospitals are seeing the influx of patients with COVID symptoms short of break. So it's here. Earlier this week a group of seven prominent leftist leaders and journalists from across the world issued a joint statement demanding the debt cancellation for developing nations. The signatories of the statement state that debt suspension or moratoriums will only stall development instead of laying foundations for it. In April after a global campaign and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, G20 nations announced postponement of debt servicing till the end of the year. The International Monetary Fund followed suit with partial postponement for the poorest 25 countries. Debt from private lenders however were left to be decided by the individual lenders, highlighting the fact that at a time when they need every penny to invest in their public health care developing countries will be paying 3.9 trillion US dollars for debt servicing. Given their financial health, these countries will be forced to continue harmful austerity measures recommended by the lending agencies. News of several countries such as Lebanon and Argentina defaulting on their loans have been making headlines recently and several other countries on the verge of doing so. These countries would have to deal with the emergencies created by almost a complete halt in the economic activities due to the pandemic. The economic strain can push millions in these countries out of their livelihoods until states step in in a big way and increase social expenditure. The signatories of the letter include Brazil's ex-president Dilma Rousseff, Thomas Isaac, Finance Minister for Kerala in India, Varis Varafocus, Greece's ex-finance minister Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Ariiza, Zambian Socialist Fred Mehmet and Juan Grabois from Argentina along with noted academic Vijay Prasad. Now to the United States as the George Floyd protests continue to grow, the Department of Justice's Watchtower will be investigating federal law enforcement agencies for violence against protesters. DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz stated on Thursday that his office has opened an investigation on allegations of excessive violence on peaceful protesters in Portland and the US capital Washington DC. The investigation was announced a day after Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was reported to have been injured by a tear gas firing from federal forces. Wheeler was participating in a demonstration against a deployment of forces by the Donald Trump administration outside the federal courthouse in Portland. After public outreach over deployment of forces to quell protests, local and state administrations in Oregon have been at loggerheads with the Trump administration. Earlier this week, the state attorney general filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security over alleged unlawful detention of protesters, which many activists have claimed to be akin to abductions. Last week on Saturday, federal officers declared a demonstration outside a police association building in Portland to be a riot and used violent means to disperse the crowd. Protesters and journalists at the scene have said that the forces used tear gas and so-called less lethal munitions. In a similar incident earlier this month, President Trump deployed the US National Guard to clear demonstrators outside the White House to make way for a photo op. In Bolivia on Thursday, the Supreme Electoral Court or the TSE postponed the general election schedule for September 6 to October 18 and a second round on November 29, if necessary. The president of the TSE, Salvador Romero, said that the delay was prompted after medical experts warned COVID-19 infections would peak between August and September. This is the third such rescheduling of elections in Bolivia. However, the postponement of the elections was demanded by the right-wing presidential candidate Luis Fernando Camacho and his running mate Jorge Cuerroga. Camacho and Cuerroga were among those who orchestrated the November coup. Morales and his party in the movement towards socialism or the MAS rejected the decision and reminded that only Bolivia's parliament has the authority to approve a change in the date. Morales also alleged that the coup government wants to buy more time to continue persecution of social leaders and MAS candidates. The new decision comes within days of the Genina and his regime filing a lawsuit with the TSE to disqualify the MAS candidate Luis Arce were in alleged violation of electoral laws. Camacho has also threatened that his party would demand that the TSE ban the MAS from the upcoming elections and cancel its legal status. And this is all we have for this episode of the International Daily Roundup. For more such stories and videos visit our website peoplesdispatch.org. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.