Those children who arrived at our border to escape drug gang violence from places like Honduras and other Central American countries deserve the right to asylum. And I would strongly disagree with Secretary Clinton on that issue. Sending children who have braved all kinds of dangers to escape some of the most violent regions in the world telling them simply that they have to go back is in some cases sending them back to a death sentence and that is wrong.


He said, you know, Botaka and some of these Argentinian, Barun, Chilean, you know. He said, so I have all these frequent fire miles. And I was just a few days ago when we were receiving that email from Resta or from a woman in Argentina. He said, a few days ago, I gave all my frequent fire miles over to God. He said, use them for your purposes. However you want, I've been joining them for pleasure, but I give them over to you. So he said, I think I'm supposed to fly you to Argentina. And he said, I'd like to come too, and you can bring that singer Resta that you're talking about, bring her along, and another friend of your choice, Business Class. I'm not used to flying at all. Business Class, they call it the Hectitiva down there to Argentina. I said, I think you'd have to have one of those thingamajigs to travel. He said, it's a passport. They would do a call to a passport. You know, I did not know thought of a passport. I wasn't visualizing or trying to manifest anything. I was just being enjoyed. So eventually I did get on the cell phone immediately. He called my mom up. I said, I think I need a birth certificate or whatever you need to get a passport. She said, sure. And the passport got there right before we were scheduled to leave. And so David Powell, myself, Resta, and another friend named Kerry, interestingly enough, the other three spoke some Spanish flying to Argentina. And by the time I got down there, they had arranged 19 consecutive gatherings like this on 19 consecutive days or in and around Buenos Aires. And it's just unfolded. It was the beginning of a world ministry that has been very much just guided by Jesus. It hasn't been like televangelists, you know, getting on there. Send me your money and we'll go to these countries. And this has been more just go where you're going. So that essentially started off more, say, the World Trail than it started around 2003. And they have continued and grown and grown and grown. So that, and my friend Gary Renard, I heard you this year, he's on a pace right now to what I've been doing for quite a number of years, which has been a lot of traveling around the globe, meeting thousands of people. And the words that have come through from Jesus and the Holy Spirit are now, have been translated into Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish. Just, it's been amazing for me to watch. Because I don't have a big step, because I don't have a non-terrage, because I don't have what you might have with a sense of the global ministry involving lots of people and places and locations. It does involve a lot of locations, but it's highly orchestrated. It's all based on volunteers. There's no paid salaries. I don't receive the salary. Nobody is doing any of that work that I just mentioned, the season salary. And it's all just very much based on internal guidance and just in devotion to love. And that's how I met Calama. Maybe you can share a little bit about our first meeting in 2005 in Calama. Yeah, I studied the course for some time. Then I heard about this man coming to Calama in 3D. And he was actually taking a step to live the course with great teaching. And it was so attractive in my mind. So I just felt like I really wanted to go to this. So I did. And I met David. And I was just totally mind-blowing. I just, after that, I just felt I was in love with everyone and everything for 3 months. And I just felt there was so much love and light and glory. And I just rated it because it was just so beautiful to see that, wow, this is actually possible for me too to take those steps. And then at that time I was together with a boyfriend that was not at all going through anything really of this. And I felt like, oh my God, can I really stay in this? I don't feel like I'm at the same level here now. I kind of pulled myself down out of it. That was, of course, a choice in everything else. A choice I kind of got to feel. So I did that. And then David came back to Sweden again several times actually. And one time when we came there, we'd spent some time together. And then I went to go elsewhere and I went down in the subway. And all of a sudden I just had this huge experience of just coming right over me, just pouring right over me. And it was just this feeling of total love. And it was just this mind-blowing thing. The tears were just pouring down my cheeks and it was just so beautiful. And I just felt like, wow, now I'm getting a touch of this. This is so big. And that kind of experience came back to me several times after that too. That was just as a reminder as I felt that this is the state that I want to feel on a constant basis. Just feel this total love and joy and peace. So that helped me to take the steps to actually go ahead and do that too. So I was guided to, I woke up one night in 2006, I think it was. And it said, go to the peace house. And at that point I'd been listening to all of the materials that David had online. I had done about everything. And I was listening for, yeah, it was like these talks for 400 hours. And I was listening for them more than twice. So over 800 hours I was listening and listening and listening. When I was woken up with my dogs, I took the time always to listen. And having every spare moment I just listened. And sometimes during the nights when I could not sleep I was just, okay, it's time to listen, listen. I actually took a job too where I could listen during the breaks. I actually slept there too and I could listen during the nights there too. And you could pay to sleep if part of your job. It was like a home care job for a woman. So that was part of it. It was nice. Yeah, okay. Well I woke up in the middle of the night and came to the peace house. And at that point I had a boyfriend. I had the two dogs, I had an apartment, I had loads of stuff. I had a cabin.  It's like, it wouldn't work because I really feel like I'm going to dive into it. Oh by the way, the peace house, that's where Davy had the base from? It was very nice in 1996. 1996. So that was the base that came, like they were on for him. And the travels, which has been kind of where people have come. So I just felt like, okay, I can't just leave as it is now. It's like I have some things to take care of. So it came to me to quit my job. So I quit my job and it just took a couple of days. And then I didn't have any job anymore. And I talked to my boyfriend. And I said that we can't share the greatest thing in my life, the purpose of just looking at everything that is coming up. And just joining and following the guidance. And I could not share that with him. So I was telling him I love you and I would always do so. But we don't share the most important thing. And I can't continue as with this. So we practiced back and it went really fast till you left too. And then it was the dogs. I felt like I loved them so much too. But I felt like I needed to put my attention up, growing into meditations and really being where what was coming up. And I felt like more and more resistance to out and off the dogs because they needed my attention. And so I felt like, okay, it came in first with one of the dogs. And then it was the second dog. And then it was like, okay.  And it was just actually one week left. And my ex-boyfriend here was going to take care of the dogs. And he called me and said I got a job in London and I can't take care of the dogs. So all of a sudden I had this week for me to have a place for them to be at when we were on the Europe tour. So I called the entire phone list of all of the people that I knew and no one could take them, not even for like one week or something so I could puzzle it together. But it did not work. So I was like, okay, this is a pretty clear sign here.


In the room I welcome you this morning to a session titled, in a very unambitious manner, the European Union and the world. So this is really the all-encompassing panel that we'll be dealing with because you might have missed with all the focus on Donald Trump these days and we had a spectacular panel of course you know yesterday. You might have missed that the European continent is also going through some headaches and troubles these days and to talk about that about the European Union, where the continent is headed, where the union is headed. I'm very pleased to welcome an eclectic and esteemed panel here today. Each of them will get five minutes for opening statements and then we'll engage in a very lively Q&A with your participation of course.


Now we come to the part you've all been waiting for yes, it's the ask fell We've been Combing Twitter and taking in all of your comments and emails for good questions and truly questions And we're gonna do our best to answer a couple of them each time. So I have ace podcaster Martin Griffin here To read out those questions from off camera and that wonderful silky podcasty voice He's got so tell me what do we got for our first question Michael asks What can we do to make Comcast management realize that they have to have their customer service representatives actually treat their customers better? Great question we need to make a lot of noise and It can't be noise that doesn't mean anything like oh, yeah Well, I'm gonna quit because that laughter you hear at the other end of the sound of the Phone is some poor oppressed worker saying yeah nice try. We know you don't have a choice. That's why you're with us in the first place You make noise to your member of Congress You make noise to your state local franchising authority you make noise to your local state delegate You make noise to the Federal Communications Commission Why because there actually are laws on the books or the threat of laws on the books That will let you get a hook into these guys Nora asks do you believe the Trans Pacific Partnership or TPP is a serious danger to free communication And if so what can we do if it passes and becomes a binding treaty to protect that communication from it as much as possible? I think there's a lot in the Trans Pacific Partnership that we need to be worried about I think in the first instance It's very important for anybody who cares to be calling up their member of Congress right now and say no I don't want that fast-track authority. Not unless they make PPP open and take out some crazy stuff That they got in there in the intellectual property parts second thing we knew is if it does go through then we got us a fight on our hands and I always hate fighting a rear-guard action rather than stop it in the first place So let's try to stop it in the first place And then if we lose on that we'll figure out what we ought to be doing next


cted to skinny people that are in shape so there you go debunked gravity debunked garth cooks thanks for your super chat and tim prior thanks for your super chat said i can make a rainbow with my garden nose what's your point yeah you can't do it indoors and the rainbows are always dome shaped thank you very much oh gabriel k thanks for your super chat you can do it indoors yeah gabriel k said turn around your hat nathan to convince me turn around every now and i'm confused to convince them no no next next super chat hold on one second i just got something switched on me um we have one more from i think it's from flat earth debate thank you flat earth debate who said one second loading they said uh it's flat earth data and they said what causes the apparent junction of the sky and ground angular resolution limit of the eye or earth curvature what do you think mc tool peace oh my name oh my uh well yeah it's the edge of the the horizon the edge of this the sphere so i challenged him to debate on facebook he he kind of ran off so flat earth data bring it on my email address mc tune at mc tune net let's set up that debate and there i got it right there mc clown show nasa in the strongest concordance bible means to baguio or greatly deceived and in one second yeah i will show what's right above out what's up yes what's up yes there multiple meanings but it's n a s a and it means yeah so round thinker the native heber speaker said it means it means hold on the native heber speaker round thinker says to you should just say sorry i was wrong to marry and to travel to finish us to finish us off next step in the chat ask this guy in the chat the dictionary says take a breath give me one second don't please only me mute okay tim briar thanks for your time said i don't care i just want to show how stupid this guy is to clown chill out okay tim briar thanks for your time i'm very chill very relaxed i am very relaxed i am i just show this clown okay so tim briar thanks for your super chat said okay then so i have billions of people including the world's most brilliant idiot on my side okay well i'm confused by that but we want to say thanks so much for all of your support for folks through super chats and just hanging just being here i'm not joking folks you're not gonna believe me i'm dead serious when i say this we are currently setting up two debates that will shake the foundations of both one of them will shake the foundations of like religion debates on youtube and one will shake the foundations of political debates like lord willing we'll see we're setting these up and but by that i mean we're in talks with the people so like these are like big time debates that they're gonna knock your socks off so really appreciate it folks if you enjoyed tonight's debate feel free to hit that like button on the way out and just want to say thanks so much we hope you have a great rest of your night all of our speakers are linked in the description so if you want to hear more from them you absolutely can so thanks one last time appreciate our guests thank you guys we really appreciate you being here with us uh james mc tune has an after show coming up you got it i can link that in the description just send it to me via email there sure thanks guys have a great night keep sitting out there reasonable thank you from the unreasonable everybody take care


Hi, I'm Jackie Y. Rock and this is another episode of You and Your Health. Today's guest is a little different from what we've done in the past. We've had different practitioners of different healing modalities come on to this show and talk about how to more aggressively as an individual pursue wellness rather than just relying on the medical community. What can we as individuals pursue for our own wellness? And our first guest was Wendy Haley who here in Montpelier, Vermont has a practice called Lucid Path Wellness. And our guest today, Irene Mays, has been seeing Wendy for some time. So welcome. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you for coming and joining us and telling us about your experiences. Happy to. Yesterday was just a complete... Right. What did you say to me when I walked in? You were the interview lady. And it was really interesting because Wendy and I were talking after my second session and I had just said to Wendy, this should be a line around the block. How do you get the word out? And that's what we were saying when I walked into the waiting area and said, wow, that's really neat. You're the interview lady. I just saw you. And here we are today which is pretty... So you came up from New York? Yes. Where in New York? I live with my family in Westchester about half an hour outside of Manhattan. We live right on the Hudson River. It's a really pretty place called Irvington.  And I come up whenever I can get here. And yes, I plan to come up more often. And not only yourself, but... I bring my son whenever possible. He's 13 and he benefits from this enormously. I'm so excited to find out about the energy genesis. And actually this was my first experience in the energy genesis having come up a few times before. There was an earlier prototype and it continued development. And this was my first experience. And it's wonderful. It's not completely different. It is, I guess some people would say it is, but since I had the previous experiences, it was very comfortable. What was the name of the previous? The life vessel and it was smaller. It was just a different construction. It's energy medicine, very similar, light sound vibration resonance. But there was a... the person who invented the technology or communicated the technology had a different structure in mind. It's better to help deliver that energy to our bodies. And so I was so excited to try it. I couldn't get here fast enough when I found out that Wendy had her new machine. I said, Wendy. So how did you find out about her? I watched a video. My son and I had a big change in our health. It happened very, almost simultaneously. What happened? We discovered through this process, through the learning process over the last three and a half years, that we were born with a hereditary genetic condition called primary immune deficiency. And what that means if you are in general good health and the way I understand genetics is it's not necessarily a promise of health or disease or illness, but it impacted greatly by your environment, your diet, your stress levels, and so many things go into it. And I've grown to learn more about that. My mother had this, and apparently it's transmitted, it's carried by the mother. It's an ex-girlfriend's own thing. It's carried by mom, and it started to make sense as we learned more of our whole history, became better understood, the family history as well. And I had some primary immune met some very challenging infections. My son and I both got Lyme disease. Wow. We became part of that group of people that don't necessarily heal well from Lyme disease. Now, I had it before. I apparently was infected with Lyme disease and was carrying it, and it manifested as arthritis and headaches and some things that I think we now better understand to look at Lyme disease. But this was years back, and we believed it was rheumatoid arthritis. And it was triggering autoimmune responses, but I took steroids for a poison ivy infection. And my daughter and I, she's older, were doing some yard work. She got the same, she had the same exposure I did and healed very well from the poison ivy, and I just got worse and worse and worse.  We have a life to live here, folks. Let's go, you know. There was no ignoring how it was spreading and in my blood, and so I went to a doctor. I ended up in the emergency room, and they said, OK, we're going to put you on steroids. And I was very fortunately, I had been working with a doctor who practices functional medicine. What's functional medicine? So functional medicine is getting at the root cause of what. So it's, so the full picture for me at the time and still is a great western medical doctor who practices medicine. So that's what they did, they're practicing medicine. But they're not necessarily getting at the root cause. We're not talking about nutrition or not. So Dr. Susan Blum was my doctor, still is my doctor, and she is a medical doctor, so she can treat your acute, your symptoms and whatnot. But you work with her and partner with functional medical practitioners to get to the root cause of what is, you know, what's triggering this disease or the symptoms. So she said, OK, I can see why you need to be on steroids. This is serious, but it's not good for you because you have something, we had been working together to fund my immune system issues. And she said, OK, you know, I don't like this 30 days on steroids. This is not going to work for you because it will turn, kind of turn off your immune system. And you can't do that, it might not reboot. So you can't, we know enough after working together to understand that steroids are not a good solution for you. Right now. Oh, yeah. And she really helped, I mean, I showed her to think what would have happened if she had not intervened and helped. Not intervened, I asked for her help and she spoke to my medical, the other medical doctors. And so she came up with a plan for a few days on, a few days off, closely monitored. And then a month later I had a stroke because during that time, the Lyme infection, just on those couple of days on, couple of days off, my immune system was, the steroids acted your immune system so my immune system wasn't working on its own. And during that time, the Lyme infection that I had been experiencing as arthritis and got into my spinal cord and my brain and it caused inflammation. Wow. To the point where I had blood circulation, limitation in my brain. And I came home from work one day on the floor and my son called 9-1-1. He was almost 11 at the time. I was just scared the bejesus out of him. It surely did and has stayed with him. He is an amazing kid. I've got two amazing kids. And he was, he's really good in situations like that. He became very clear, you know, and didn't panic and called the ambulance. And then it became the beginning of a new journey. So where before we were working, I was working to understand, you know, what my bio-terrain was because everybody's different. But that's a lot of work. That's a lot of work. That's a, there's a lot. And then my son simultaneously also having had Lyme disease which we didn't know. And his joints were degenerating at 11. He was told he needed a new hip. Holy cow. Yeah, it was pretty serious stuff. He also developed chronic autoimmune encephalitis. So we both had the joint degeneration. We both had autoimmune markers. And then they found the Lyme disease in my spinal fluid. But it wasn't just that. It was a very big part of the picture. But the big picture was why aren't you healing? Right. And then the answer was because you have other things going on. And now it's multi-system. And, you know, it's funny, it's strange silver lining. But I am grateful that we went through this together because I know what my son is going through. And I can advocate and help him with school and doc. And he's not just describing what he's experiencing. Physically, emotionally, cognitive. Like, I understand. Right. I really understand experientially. Exactly. So I feel like I'm better able to, it's important to me that he feels understood, that he doesn't have to constantly explain this. Because on a good day, you want to live your life fully. And you want to shine as brightly as you can. And that's something that's really important to us. You know, don't hold back on your good days. You know, you don't want to run yourself into the ground. But live.  And when I get out of the energy genesis, I don't. So let's talk about that. So you were experiencing a lot of distress. Yes. And then you came across a video. Then, so there I was looking at all of that. All of these various, the immune system issues were at the core. I found a great series of interviews. And this one interview with Barry McNeill, the person who invented the energy genesis technology or brought it into the light. And he was talking about it. And the first thing that struck me was his authenticity. He was phenomenal. He was just so, you know, that feeling when you get, when you look at somebody and you say, wow, this is, I want to listen to what this person has to say. He doesn't. He seems like someone who has something important to say and is just putting it out there and hoping that it helps people. And then he said, the body does not know disease by name. And that at the time, given all of the various multi-system, bop-a-mole type issues that my son and I were trying to manage, really resonated with me because at the heart of it, it seemed like what we're really talking about is a body out of balance with many different manifestations happening. And I liked understanding the science and I had great medical doctors and great functional medical practitioner. But there was this man saying that there is an energy medicine or modality that doesn't really care what you have. You can be perfectly healthy. You want to stay that way? This is for you. If you want to feel better, I mean, who doesn't have stress? Who doesn't need to detox? Right now, given where everybody does. So I'm looking at this modality and thinking this helps everybody from excellent health to serious illness. You know, it can't hurt. I wasn't conflicted with medical treatments. So immediately, and I studied many things and I researched many things. My husband, he teaches me about my binders. I've got them all, like, okay, now we'll go to this binder. This was different. I got right on my computer and started researching. It wasn't a sales thing, so he wasn't saying you could find these. He was talking about energy medicine and what he was bringing out there. And I found out that there were maybe four or five machines in the country, maybe one or two in Europe, and that the closest one to Maine New York was here in Vermont. And so... How long ago was that? About two years ago. And that was so exciting, because I would have gone to the moon for this. I mean, I just had that feeling. And it's not that I hadn't tried many things and some things were helpful, some things were not helpful right now, some things were... But I had a different feeling about this and it was funny because I talked to... I had three locations, three phone numbers, made a couple of calls, was on the phone with Wendy. I'm going to say, oh boy, I sent her an email too. We were connected. I had my three sessions and my son's three sessions on the bugs and we were buying our Amtrak tickets. And I was just so happy that that was working. And it just felt... Well, first of all, Wendy... You know what? So she feels like an old friend immediately. And I spoke on the phone with Wendy and instantly felt very comfortable. I felt no pressure. Like, give me your questions and I will, you know, I will give you whatever information I have. I told her I saw the same... I told her about the interview. She said, I saw the same interview you got on a plane. And so I said, oh, okay. So you had the same, hmm, wow, kind of response to this. And so that felt good. That felt very promising. Absolutely. And the comfort with Wendy and I loved the idea of a seven-hour train ride, to be honest with you, because you decompress on a seven-hour, you get bugs and you read and you can't putter around. There's nothing you have to do when you're on the train. Exactly. Just relax. Exactly. And my son is great with that stuff, too. So we came up and then my husband joined us another time. And his health is good, except that he's completely exhausted because his wife and his son are working. Caregivers have a hard time. Exactly. Nobody really recognizes that. It's without question. He was already in a caregiving role. He and his siblings with his parents and then that went straight into my son and I getting... We had something that had was developing over time, but that was really when it all kind of hit the wall. And so we went... The energy genesis... The energy genesis technology as well. And he just felt... He went from feeling... Helped him with stress and anxiety and just that feeling of overwhelm. That was the thing that he said that he felt after he got out of the energy. He said, you know, my feeling of overwhelm, which he does actively try to manage with taking time out and breathing and trying to take care... He's aware of it and yet it doesn't... He has to be very vigilant about it.  I got out of the machine and I felt... Well, we have just overall sense of well-being, less stress. And then he felt the detox stuff.  He felt it. He felt it in his body and his joints. And he said, there's a lot of water. Now I understand why. You know? Because he was thinking, what could this really be doing? He's a professional musician. He does a lot of recording and studio work. And he understands resonance and hurts and much better than I do. And sound technology. He was very interested in that. And he understood, okay, get that water. Everybody drink your water. Because he really got we were actively detoxing for... And it just didn't give him all of the intense modalities that we had from western medicine to everything else. Nothing was this non-invasive, relaxing and easy. And yet, as powerful. And it was... I was afraid to get hopes up too high. I didn't want my son to get... But I did promise him, this is a no-brainer. You can just lie, you can fall asleep. Don't worry about it. Just lie there and it'll do what's magic. Whether you get what's happening or not. So, that was two years ago. Now, fast forward to today. Can you tell our audience the difference in the symptoms and how your body and your son's body is today? It is It's actually a little...  I went in for the overall. That's what really... I had so many things going on. Pain and joints. Really bad headaches and just a feeling of being sick. Was it all the time? All the time. And to some degree every day. And learning very much nutritionally. I think I had a pick-line in my heart. A daily IV. That for almost a year. And so the toxic build-up and then this medication helped me enormously. It crossed the blood-brain barrier and killed a lot of the infections that were causing a very intense state of paralysis. My left side was paralyzed. The stroke and the infections then continued. So it was in pretty bad shape. And so the medicine helped. It got me to the point where I was mobile. But I walked out of the energy genesis for the first time and felt... This is the word I use. Sturdy. I felt stronger immediately. I felt balanced. I felt like I can stand and not worry that my legs are going to buckle. And when he said, that's great. Don't fall. You know? And she gets it. She believes. She's a true believer. I walked out of there. And I felt this moving around. And I felt like all the areas that need work were getting what they needed. And she's going, that's right. And I'm Rick Lune because I'm so excited. And then after my second session one of my biggest things at the time. And believe it or not, I don't know this was not my most worrisome symptom but I was going blind in my right eye because of the trigger autoimmune responses. So I think a lot of people talk about autoimmune disease being triggered by infection. And that's one of the strong connections and it doesn't necessarily need to be Lyme disease or... But once those infections are triggered and they're in your brain and they can trigger all of these you know, autoimmune issues one of mine was that my ocular nerve was so inflamed and pressing on my right eye that I was losing my vision in my right eye and I was down to maybe 80 plus percent vision loss and I was really only seeing light and shadow out of my right eye and my legs were impacted and so the balance issues that came with that and I was very... I was kind of like, I don't want the patch yet I don't want, you know, to get I didn't want to go there yet I didn't jump on the, okay this is my new reality but I didn't want to be foolish either, you know, I didn't want to hurt myself falling and I walked out of there and walked into the waiting area and I could see it was not light and shadow anymore, I could see I was a little blurry because my eye had been my vision had been so constricted for so long and I said, well I can see you and she goes, couldn't see me before I said, well I could out of this eye but my right eye you know, I can see you out of both eyes now and that's miraculous and it has, that was it and I was told in no uncertain terms that this was going in one direction this was not going to be and it was said in a very kind way and this the person telling me this was a medical doctor, this is my this, given what I have to treat you, this is the way this goes and I couldn't take steroids which is an MS treatment so we knew that wasn't going to happen so this, so given that I couldn't take the steroids to offset because of the infection issues and I got my vision back in my right eye and the pain, it felt like there was a very intense pressure over my right eye all the time so not only was I about to lose my vision but the pain wasn't going to go away unless I had, oh vision back pain gone after the second treatment okay so you did a third treatment and what was and from that point I had my energy was just so much better, my ability to walk without the pain which I do whenever possible but that, I have a pretty high conservative threshold for not using my cane because I don't want to fall I don't want, I originally found myself feeling all sorts of peppy and then I would get somewhere and then be there without my support but that, that ability to have confidence that I could walk without my cane and get around and safely was increased dramatically and has incrementally increased with each time I've come back. How many times have you come back? This was my fourth visit Wow. Yeah and it's funny, my son and I, I mean he's, he got in there you know he did this and he's in school, he goes into school for partial day so he can't, he's not able to attend a full day in school and this helped him with his circulation of the problems with his with his hip or he has advanced bone on bone arthritis from his immune system not working and in combination with these infections and it ate away at his joints and his cartilage and it was really remarkable so we went back to hospital special surgery who where his, his doctor is, his hip surgeon or pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dr. Sink looked at his MRIs and said this kid should be this MRI, the kid that goes with this MRI is not walking around like this. He was very surprised to see any regeneration, any improved and circulate. It's just not kind of energy to practice so it was really. That's an amazing miraculous story. And when my health is perfect I will keep coming back. That's even more of a statement. It's for everybody really and I mean that, I could not mean that more sincerely. This is if you're healthy and want to stay that way you know. That's awesome. Thank you so much for coming on and telling our audience about the wonderful success and our little town of Montpelier has this right here down the road on State Street Lucid Path Wellness and Wendy Haley is available to help with people who have illness or who people who are well and want to stay well. It's a miraculous treatment that not many people know about. When I talked to her yesterday I think there are six of these units available in the United States none in the south and we have one right here in Montpelier so after the program we'll have more information listed for you to contact her to be more proactive about keeping you and your loved ones healthy. Thanks for visiting with us. Namaste.


Housing in Africa. Could this be an opportunity within a crisis? The housing situation in Africa is a subject of contention in many conversations. Tonight, we are going to shed some light on it as well as see what is happening in the African housing market. This is the Private Property Podcast. I'm Tumi. Welcome. Congratulations once again to Polina and Kosi for walking away with that 500 grand cash prize from Friday's show. I'm sure Polina's weekend was absolutely amazing spending that money. And if you want to be like her, join the conversation on Facebook by sharing this post and tagging your friends. And the person with the most shares wins 500 grand. Remember, in tonight's episode, you need to share this conversation with anybody you think needs to hear the information we are talking about tonight. In honor of Africa Month, let's take a look rather at some of the history of our beautiful continent. Number one, Africa is the second largest and second most populous continent after Asia on the planet. It is an almost entirely isolated land mass with only a small strip of land connecting it to Western Asia, which is popularly known as the Middle East. Number two, the history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, early humans and homocipians in East Africa. Number three, according to experts who research the history of the African continent, the original name for Africa is Alke Bulan. This name translates to mother of mankind or the garden of Eden. Number four, the archeological finds in Central Africa have been discovered dating back to over 100,000 years. Extensive wall sites as well as settlements have recently been found dating to the first millennium. We hope that you enjoyed learning about the beautiful history that Africa contains. Remember, if you don't know where you've come from, you might just not know where you are going. Tonight's guest boast of 21 years of experience in the African housing market. He holds an MBA from the Durham University Business School in the United Kingdom. And if there's anybody to help us unpack this topic tonight, it's none other than shelters, Africa's group CEO, Mr. Andrew Pandeka Chimponda. Good evening, Mr. Chimponda. And thank you so much for joining us right here on the Private Property Podcast. To me, good evening to you and obviously your listeners. Thank you so much for joining us and we really, really appreciate you taking our time, you know, talking about such an important subject. I mean, all of us are living in Africa currently and it's beautiful that we learn about it. So let's just delve straight into the conversation and talk about our housing markets. The African housing market is unique. And could you just take us through some of those reasons or headlines, why it's so unique as compared to others in the world? All right, to me, thank you very much. And for me, I've had the privilege to operate at Shelter Freak, where I've actually visited at least about 45 countries in Africa. Okay, so I have an understanding a bit in terms of the lay of the land in Africa. I'm currently now focusing on my PhD thesis on Africa as well and innovative products to enhance housing. Africa is unique because, like you mentioned in the fact finding, Africa has got a lot of potential in terms of population growth. It has one of the highest population growth rates. So you find that the current population of Africa might be about 1.4 billion people. When we get to 2050 that's estimated to be at about 2.5 billion. So you see a lot of opportunity. At the same time, when we come back to housing, there's a high rate of urbanization. What we mean to me is the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas. It's very high across Africa. So you find that from as far as Uganda at 5% urbanization rate, the average in Africa is about 4%. You're beginning to see that there's a lot of pressure in the urban areas. I'm talking about the cities now because the rate at which people are moving to the towns cannot keep up with the rate at which houses are being built to accommodate these people. Hence you start having a proliferation of slums. So what is unique about Africa is the migration of people to the town areas. What is unique about Africa is that there's a huge shortage of housing in Africa, which we estimate at about 56 million housing units. That is the shortage in Africa. Now to put it in perspective, it's about 22 million in Nigeria. It's about 4 million in DRC, Congo, South Sudan, 4 million. Tanzania about 3 million shortage coming close to Ghana about 2 million shortage and the like. So that is the problem. That huge shortage of housing units also presents itself an opportunity. And the high rate of urbanization rate coming in from rural areas to the urban areas or centers obviously creates a huge demand for housing. Otherwise, of course, you're going to have a proliferation of slums to informal settlements because you won't be able to cater for the huge demand for housing that is created in the cities within Africa. Thank you so much for that. And coming into this market and the African one specifically, what are currently our trends? What are the current trends that are happening in the headlines that are currently in the housing market as unique as you've mentioned it to be? Okay, I think what you could say in terms of the trends is that you are now seeing the realization of governments in terms of putting their focus on housing. Most governments in Africa have a housing ministry and beyond that they have a delivery vehicle to either try to develop housing units. You have also in Africa a realization of the need to work together to deal with this housing problem. I think just in May a couple of weeks ago in May there was an African cities summit that was held in a town called Kisumu in Kenya. You will find in South Africa you have a center for affordable housing foundation called CAF funded by a lady called Kersha Rust that tries to get all the data to do with housing throughout Africa and then of course you have institutions that are being developed. So if you look at it from a simplistic point of view, if you look at the supply side of housing, there's now a need and a shift towards developing or at least developing contractors or developers that can build at scale. You're now seeing that there's a strong realization that the biggest problem in Africa is affordability because in the past developers would build without a clear understanding of course of what the market can afford because the biggest problem in Africa is really affordability. So you need to build a housing units that are affordable. You need to provide financing for those beneficiaries that's also affordable in terms of long attorneys and then hopefully lower interest rates. So of course you need to, I mean post the pandemic of COVID, you started to see a more self reliance of different countries in Africa to be able to actually have their own raw materials because there was a huge dependency on importing as you know from the likes of China because of lower prices.  So what we're saying is post COVID-19, most countries are beginning to realize that housing construction is a very big, like I can call it panacea or it's a big opportunity for them to actually not only, you know, improve the growth of the economies in terms of the contribution of housing to the gross domestic product, which is a measurement of economic growth, but also in order for them to satisfy a large number of the populace. So governments are realizing if they can deliver in terms of mass housing across the scale, they are able to basically satisfy a big need that is needed across all countries within Africa. Of course, each country, of course, is different in terms of level of, you know, of development. What I can definitely say is that there is a use shortage of housing across, you know, all the countries within Africa and Africans themselves are now coming together to say how do we share learnings in terms of improving the delivery of housing in Africa. In the month of July alone, around the 26th of July, there's a big show called the Abuja International Housing Show, which has about more than 500 exhibitors and more than 15,000 participants to come together to share knowledge and skills to see how can we kickstart the supply side. Another trend is trying to embrace alternative building technologies. Of course, you've heard about 3D printing in terms of housing, you know, you've heard about a lot of other methods to try to reduce the shortages of housing. But what we are seeing now is that Africa is the only continent where you have a lot of urbanization without a concomitant industrialization. So there's a gradual shift towards how do we industrialize the delivery of housing? How do we get to that point where we are not focusing on the traditional brick and mortar, you know, technology to build housing, but we're now focusing on building factories so that housing construction is just assembly, reducing housing construction from maybe three months or so, a house to maybe two or three weeks or so, etc. So those are the trends. They're going to take time to be embedded within the different countries in Africa. But as I say, Africa, not all countries at the same level of development, not all countries at the same level of infrastructure development, not all countries at the same level of in terms of development of their, you know, financial systems, etc., you know, and that's what we're looking at. So what I can say to me is that, you know, when you look at mortgage penetration across the African continent, isn't it interesting to notice that if you look at Nigeria mortgage penetration usually is a measurement of how mortgages are supporting countries. Now, if you look at Nigeria, the penetration is only 0.5%. Yet it's got a shortage of about 22 million. So Africa has probably got one of the highest penetrations in Africa for about 12%. But across the board is very low compared to developed economies like America, Australia, where the penetrations are between 60 to 80% respectively. So in short, yes, there is a growing trend that we should focus not only on building houses, but making sure that the way we build them is in a manner which embraces alternative building technologies. It's in a manner whereby we try to industrialize housing so that we can benefit from low cost housing through the delivery of large scale houses. And then lastly, to come up with an affordable housing unit, there's a growing change towards trying to create sustainable public private partnerships so that the end product is going to be affordable to the would be beneficiaries of housing to me. Thank you so much for that. And, you know, as we start rounding up our conversation tonight, I just, I just wanted to talk because you have international experience in terms of studying and probably even, you know, the different work that you do. You are mentioning a lot of different countries now and which is great because Africa is big and its potential is is massive. So if we know that how the different markets look in the other different countries, there's so much learning that could happen. If we have these different, you know, engagements between the country. So looking at it internationally, what would you say attracts international investors and we specifically talking investments, you know, people who are from abroad who look at Africa as more than just a tourist site as more than just a place, you know, to come and experience the beautiful heritage that we have and looking at it as an investment opportunity. What makes Africa so attractive to the international investors. Okay, well thank you to me for that opportunity. I have to say that I think one of the key things about Africa being an emerging market. It's the potential returns and I think investors outside for as long as a project is a clear understanding of what those risks are, particularly development risk, and how those risks can be mitigated. I don't want to enter the African market why so because of the fact that the returns are high. I mean, in most projects, even if you look, I'm talking residential or even if you look at the commercial areas, you have cap rates of 9% projects that can deliver ours internal rate of returns of at least 25%. Those returns you never going to see outside. And now with the advent of COVID, there's a lot of opportunity that investors are seeing because, you know, properties are more or less, I would say undervalued because of the fact that the supply of financing has been restrained, particularly for people wanting to buy houses, which reduces the demand even though it's growing slightly. So because of that, you know, supply and demand looks at the prices going down, not only for residential, but also for retail property and, you know, entrepreneurial perspective investors are looking at Africa as it stands as an opportunity to come in and just snap up all these properties so that by the time those economies start to pick up and grow, they'll have taken advantage of that opportunity. I mean, a lot of the statistics you find in Africa is if you look at the 2020 combined GDP was about I think 2.6 trillion, consumer spending in Africa for about 1.4 trillion and by, you know, the actual working age population by even 20, 30 or so in Africa is, you know, kind of estimated about 1.1 billion. So in essence, you know, as an investor, you've got the investors that, let's say for instance, big fund managers of big, you know, pension funds in overseas, particularly in America, as in a conference, whether we're discussing ticket sizes of the only 20 investment of not less than like 30 million dollars. This is about how we package those investment products. It's about how we understand what those prospective investors are looking at so that we can tailor make our proposition or our investor value proposition to meet those requirements. So don't make no mistake, there is funding out there to be able to come in and get that invested in property. But it's the question of how we make Africa attractive in terms of that. Some want to invest in big projects. Some want to invest in big funds like you have in South Africa GE, you know, PF, they want to invest in PIC, invest in big funds so that they can use the expertise of those African funds to help them kind of manage the risk. But make no mistake, Africa is the go-to place for prospective investors at a large scale. And at an individual scale, you have a lot of the diaspora population that has left Africa to go to the UK or America, you know, to search for additional returns, etc. But they always want to invest back into their country. And the biggest investment you find they get their money is tangled in with is specifically property because they want to have an underlying security for the money they put in. And because from a management point of view, once they put in someone to rent, it's easier to manage than to invest in a business where you've got to be involved on a full-time basis. So I believe that, you know, property is the safe investment to make. You've got the underlying security, there's potential for capital growth over and above the return you make from the rent that the prospective investor will be making. Of course, rental yields may be low, but at the same time you've got the security of the fact that you've got that asset which is earning income for you. No, thank you so much for that. I'm very insightful and very enlightening, you know, there's so much that is happening on the African continent that we can take advantage of. Thank you so much for joining us, Mr. Chimpon. And hopefully the next time we see you, you will have gotten that PhD and I'll be referring you to Dr. Yeah, well, to me it's such a pleasure. Yeah, that's something which I'm working on right now on a full-time basis and I pray that I should deliver that very soon. But I just want to thank you for inviting me to your platform to have the ability to share some insights. I'm very passionate about property except I think the time is a bit too short. I mean to really talk about Africa, you really need the full week, but I'm grateful to be able to shed light in terms of my bit of experiences in terms of operating in about 45, 46 countries on the African continent in the last three to four years. No, thank you so much. Really appreciate it and have a beautiful night before. Thank you. Thank you to me. Thanks to you and all your listeners. Have a good day. All right. Cheers. And thank you to you to staying for staying till the almost the end of our episode tonight. But before I let you go, of course, I need to announce the winner of the 500 grand cash prize today. And this is the person who's been engaging and sharing the link with their friends and family. And if you do the same, you could stand in line to win 500 grand cash. So tonight's winner goes to drum roll, please. Thank you so much to Glenn. Glenn Majosi. Thank you so much, Glenn, for engaging with us, sharing and ensuring that you stay on the time. And thank you. 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In this video, I'm going to talk about estimating square roots. So when we look at square roots, sometimes when we want to take the square root of a number, you don't necessarily need to know exactly what it is. You want to kind of find an estimate. So you better understand what's going on with the square roots. And so estimation is a good way to better understand a square root. So this is what we're doing. We're estimating the following radicals to the nearest tenth. So we're just going to go to one decimal place. We're not going to worry about two or three decimal places. That's really too much that we can do mentally. So we're just going to worry about one decimal place. OK, now the square root of 27. Now you look at that. You don't really know what the square root of 27 is, but we can estimate. We can take an estimated guess to see what that is. Now to find the estimated square root of the square root of 27, what we can do is think about the perfect squares that are around 27. So notice 25 and 36 are around 27. We actually know what the square root of 25 and the square root of 36. We actually know what those are. The square root of 25 is 5, and the square root of 36 is 6. So we know what those are. So that means 27 is going to be somewhere in between 5 and 6. Now depending how close this number is to 25 or to 36, that's going to tell us kind of how close this number is to 5 or to 6. Now looking at this number, 25 to 27, there's only two digits difference right there. 27 and 36, that's nine digits of difference right there. So the square root of 27 is going to be pretty far away from the square root of 36. And the square root of 27 is actually going to be pretty close to the square root of 25. So I'm going to estimate this to one decimal places as about 5.2. Again, really close to the 5, not quite 5 and pretty far away from the 6. I'm not going to guess 5.1. Maybe if it is the square root of 26, I would guess 5.1. I'm just going to go with 5.2 for now. That's a pretty good estimate of what that is. All right, the second one over here. Now notice here that I have a negative out front. Now you might think, oh, negatives and radicals, they don't mix, so that means I can't do this. Well, not necessarily. Negatives outside the radical are actually OK. It's when we have negatives on the inside of the radical, that's when they're not OK. We don't want to have negatives on the inside of the radical. Anyway, so square root of 32, or excuse me, the negative square root of 32, get rid of some of that. So my answer in the end is going to be negative. So let's just worry about the square root of 32 now. So again, kind of the same deal over here. 32 is in between 36 and is in between 25. So now I've got to decide to myself, is 32 going to be closer to 36 or 25? So is it going to be closer to five? Or is it going to be closer to six? Well, in this case, it's actually closer to six. It's only four digits away from here, but it is seven digits away from this one. So it's about halfway in between, not quite. It's actually a little bit closer to 36. So I'm going to guess this is going to be about 5.7. Not quite in between, but still closer to 36. That's about 5.7. Don't forget the negative, that's out front. So my estimate is about negative 5.7. OK, last but not least over here. Now we have kind of a different number, a little bit smaller. But notice here, we've got a negative underneath a radical. This is what we're going to say, no real solution. We cannot have a negative underneath a radical. I put that there as just a reminder of the difference between the negative outside the radical and the negative on the inside of the radical. So we cannot look at, we cannot have any real solutions for this type of problem. OK, so anyway, that is estimating square roots. That's just a very short video on how to do that. Hope this video was helpful.


Dominic Raab says the government is not confident that he knows how many people eligible to come to the UK remain in Afghanistan. Around 15,000 have been evacuated since the country fell to the Taliban. Addressing MPs, the foreign secretary said he would be leaving for the region later for talks on those left behind. He also admitted that the UK was caught out by the speed of the fall of Kabul with intelligence expecting it to hold until the end of the year. Raab made a comment during an appearance at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee where MPs grilled him on a number of aspects of the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan last month. First of all, we do not recognise governments generally, but I think it's also important not to confer any legitimacy on the Taliban. At the same time, we do need to be able to send clear and direct signals. We've done that for some time via their political commission, which has been based in Doha. We now have Simon Gass, the Prime Minister's special envoy in the region, to ensure that we can do that and we want to have as much continuity in our diplomatic presence as possible. We want to be in a position when the safety and security allows to have a continuity diplomatic presence in Afghanistan, but clearly that's not possible right now. The Taliban has been clear it's made these assurances publicly. It will not give suckle haven to terrorist groups. The UN Security Council resolution back well up is important because although it was only acquiesced in by China and Russia, it is the beginning of the contours of a new set of parameters which will exercise greater pressure and hopefully maximum moderating leverage on the Taliban. But look, these are early days and we need to set credible and realistic tests of the Taliban and engage with them on the basis of whether or not they follow through. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.