One of my favorite art space distributions is endeavor OS now I'd probably be using endeavor on my main system if it weren't for the fact that I like Arco so much But I did actually use endeavor on my laptop for Two or three months, and I really enjoyed it in a recent release They actually came out with two new window managers for us to try out So today we're gonna be taking a look at the BS PWM version of endeavor OS So let's go ahead and jump right in now. We're gonna be installing this in a virtual box Virtual machine. So let's go ahead and start this up so this will log us into a Live environment that's running X FCE and in order to install BS PWM We actually have to hit this here. Well now why they have these two separated out. I'm not sure maybe Because they're being maintained by separate people not exactly sure So because it's kind of like Manjaro does where Manjaro has the three official versions And then they have several community spins. This is kind of the same So we're just gonna select BS PWM here now let's up into the Calamari's installer. We'll select American English That's the proper time zone That's the proper keyboard We'll go ahead and erase this. We don't need a swap Let's probably using EXT4 I would guess So we got basically all the basic developer stuff here that you'll need This includes the video codecs and video drivers and X org and all that kind of stuff and then BS PWM And then you could add printing support or the Accessibility tools and stuff, but we don't need any of that stuff right now. Let's just go ahead and hit next We'll type in her name here and sweep I think that's fine and We'll just type in BS PWM I guess vert And Very long password and then we'll hit next and then install and install now Now this shouldn't take too very long But I do know that sometimes it's hung up around the 8% mark as it says here that even if you don't see any progress You should just go ahead and be patient. It even says be patient a couple times So we're just gonna be patient and I'll cut the video here and come back a few moments later Okay That was the longest Linux install I've had in almost two years That was almost 15 to 20 minutes it was closer to 20 minutes worth of Install right there and they weren't entertaining 20 minutes if you know what I mean like Normally you can see the progress bar go, you know, like one percent at a time even if it's slow This one gets stuck at 8% and then I get stuck at 41% and there's a good reason why they've put those Slides in there and says be patient because if they hadn't said that I Would have stopped it thinking that it was, you know, not working so That is weird that it's just a little weird because this is not an And there was isn't like some special sauce or whatever that's you know installing Gentoo and compiling everything from scratch. It's just installing arch. I Almost could have installed arch in that time. In fact, I have installed arch in that time I'll granted it was with a script, but you know, it was very quick and this was not quick So there's something weird with that Anyways, we're installed.  I Don't know why the screen is flashing That's something to do with not being in full screen, maybe Yeah, okay So we're just gonna power this down that way I can remove the the installation media from virtual box if I have to and I have to We'll start back up again Here we go. So this is light DM. It looks like Which is not surprising that seems to be the one that most distributions are settling on these days I know Arco is transitioned to SDDM because of a driver issue with light DM Let's go and sign in here. See what we got. So this is BS PWM as themed by the endeavor OS team or the community, I suppose We got poly bar up here. Welcome app and Dense notifications from my system, of course So let's go ahead and take a look at this well welcome apps. We got update mirrors update system Which we'll go ahead and do we shouldn't have anything here because it should have been an internet install Yep, good. Okay. Good. We got Package cleanup and configurations is something you can schedule to clean up your packages your your Pac-Man cache and probably I don't know if this would work on your like a you are helper cache, but maybe it would So you can schedule that if you want to Which apparently I want to why not so this is going to be comparing the packages that were installed using meld This year to change display manager, so this will allow you to go to do something different So we just changed that to SDDM. We can do that. Why not? That's cool. I Changed display resolution Reboot is required to for the changes to take effect. Okay. I knew that and Changed the default wallpaper choose one of the endeavor OS wallpapers I wonder why it wallpapers is on here now three times So you can download more might as well. Why not? Sure Wonder how you move I Thought in BSPWM you move the when floating windows around using the super key or the alt key I mean, it's usually one of the other right, but that doesn't work. Okay But we're gonna close that All right, so that's the welcome app ahead also has some Links to the wikis and your documentation stuff and some tips and stuff for using the UR and hardware and Bluetooth and Such and then some more apps that you might want to install. So we're going to just go ahead and Don't show me this anymore Okay, I remember. All right, so this is BSPWM, so we should be able to hit super enter for for terminal. Let's see. I'm betting This is termite. So let's see if neo fetches install which it is. So yep, this is termite So we're running endeavor OS Linux and we have a kernel of five dot eleven dot fifteen So that's like bleeding edge, which you'd expect because this is an arched Linux distro 787 packages at install we're using bash five dot one dot four And this is like I said BSPWM using the arc dark and arc XD themes And we got source code pro is the font in this terminal and I guess I this is termite, which is a Fantastic choice. I love myself some termite. So let's see sort of super queue. Does that quit it does? Okay, so We should have the standard layout here for BSPWM, which we do It's nothing special there we have Gaps is so let's go ahead and take a look at the BSPWM RC file. So let's see that should be located in Dot config BSPWM and then yep, we have So we'll Vim into BSPWM RC and Vim is not installed by default Interesting so pseudo pack man. Oops Dash S What is it with distributions is lately and not installing them out of the box I Mean I understand via is probably always there, right and I bet you nanos there It is So they install nano them and Vi comes, you know, I was pretty solid because it's Linux, but not them That's an interesting thing that is just I've noticed. It's not an Ubuntu. It's not in Now in devro s. I'm pretty sure it's not in one of the other ones that I've just recently tried didn't have them either popo s That's just an interesting choice. I just thought that Vim was much more popular than that But anyways, it doesn't matter. It's now installed. So we'll just Vim into BSPWM RC so We're starting sxHKD from the right at the beginning. We've given ourselves some Workspaces here, even though they don't have those labels when you go up here Interestingly that that's those are going to be defined by poly bar not here. So I guess that's just the way BSPWM does it We got gaps here and the ratio for the window So you notice when the when you spawn a new window this window over here is just a little bit bigger than this window here Borderless monocle that's for when you make things full screen. I believe And these are some rules for different applications mostly to allow them to be floating or whatnot And then we'll screw down a little bit. We got some borders some here some more auto start functions here for different scripts and nitrogen and Pi com here and the network manager applet and then a cursor prompt And that's literally the whole of the BSPWM RC file Which is very minimal where it's very nice. I prefer minimal configuration files. So there's just not a lot here now Our key bindings are going to be an sxHKD and Then we'll them into sxHKD RC. So we got super enter for turn super D starts Rofi So this is what Rofi looks like out of the box. That's pretty neat I'm not sure that color really goes with the rest of the thing they got going on here Because it's different color blue than everything else unless my eyes are deceiving me. It's more. This is more of a Nord color But you know, whatever that's something you can change very easily It might just be my eyes because I've never you know, my eyes are kind of blind Super control D gives us show open windows. So super control D That's the like though that just shows you the open windows. Okay, and then SSH sessions, which is also Rofi power menu super shift E It's also Rofi Okay, and then make sxHKD reload as configuration files, which is super escape, which is pretty much default for SSXHKD Closing kill is super shift Q Super alt Q or an R will restart the window manager Super Y will start the Will do the send the newest mark to node to the newest pre-selecting on so this is where BSPW I'm completely always loses me. I don't understand the whole pre-selection stuff that it does like supposedly if we I Don't even know what that does. I have no clue. I just have not used BSPWM enough to understand what it does So that's a me problem. It's a deficiency that one of these days. I'll actually go through and Fix and actually learn what BSPS BSPWM actually does but That day is not today So this will change the window state super T This is some complicated stuff here because you don't see this very often in sxHKD even though it's completely possible to do so changing the focus and That's it. That's the entire sxHKD file There's nothing here really to open up a ton of applications outside of the Rofi stuff So after you get done with Rofi, you don't have any key bindings for any application So that's just something you'd have to go through and you know add in afterwards if you're going to use this I would just use my own sxHKD file But the two configuration files I've looked at are both very very minimal and that's really cool because You don't want a lot of cruft Especially if you've used BSPWM before or use a window manager before because chances are you have your own Things that you we're gonna want to put in there And you don't want to have to go through and spend a whole bunch of time Pulling things out and having to uncomment things or remove a whole bunch of comments and stuff It's one of the few complaints I have about ARCO Linux is that their configuration files for every window manager of theirs I've tried all have just a ton a ton of comments and them stuff and well, that's great for new users for people who have you know Are just installing it because they want to you know use their stuff and know what they're doing It can be kind of annoying, but that's mostly just me being a whiny bitch. So Let's go ahead and take a look at the application So let's close this and we'll do super D and I can't make this any Actually, I wonder if I could so let's open back back up and zoom in So we'll just CDN2.config S a we're just do this live right on camera. We'll them to SS Vim into SXHK DRC and We'll see if we can easily change this font size. We can Make this 16 That way you can actually see it and then super escape should reload the SXHK DRC file And then we can do super D. Yes, that's bigger. Cool. All right, so Just a brief run through of what? That long installation actually went through and installed so so far at the top here. We have the about XFCE stuff So this is going to be using like a little bit of an XFCE back in so you can probably this probably has like the XFCE hardware manager and stuff like that bulk rename which is which comes with Thunar a Celluloid for multimedia. I love that this has like a description of what the stuff is competence here I'm assuming is PICOM also here because yes PICOM is also here. That's the second distribution in a row They had both PICOM and Compton installed That's just really weird for me because Compton is depreciated as far as I'm aware So we get the configure EOS update notifier Customize will customize look and feel this is gonna be the XFCE. I know this is this is LX appearance. Okay So in terms of themes you don't get a ton of things here. You just get ARC That's it. What about icons? Same thing with icons. You don't get a lot. There's ARC XP and paper That's it. Okay. So if you want extra themes, you're gonna have to install them yourselves. That's I mean, that's probably a good thing So we have Firefox as our web browser H top is installed by default icon browser light DM Reader setting so that's to change the light DM theme meld MPV for videos nitrogen for wallpapers Pulse audio is here QT Reflector simple is going to be for changing the mirrors for Arch Linux the Arch Linux mirrors removal drives the media software token termites here Thunar is your file manager and UX term is here and X term is here and Vim is something I installed So that is it in terms of software that's installed out of the box. No That just leaves me scratching my head because I'm not sure why the install took so long then They didn't install anything. So what was it downloading there in the background? It doesn't make any sense. So That's very curious to me. So this is a very very minimal install of Basically arch Linux.  That's literally all they've seemed to have done If you're you're looking for an arch based distro, this would be a good option I'm not convinced that it's the best one out there. I I'm having some I'm having some issues with that install. I'm not sure what's going on there I'm having a feeling that it's a little bit buggy And that's not really how because I don't remember that happening when I installed it on my laptop It was much quicker and I don't really care about the time I mean the time is odd More it's the way it does thing how it gets hung up on certain percentages and just Doesn't look like it's doing anything. That's very weird Especially when they've gone to the trouble of actually opening up a terminal in the background to show you like the progress of What the it's doing and to show you what's doing in the background and To have that just kind of back there hanging as well It's very weird because it's supposed to be doing something It's supposed to be showing us what it's doing and yet it doesn't it's very Weird but in terms of I mean, I'm gonna switch back to this for a minute in terms of design. This is very pretty so we've got the 10 workspaces up there at the top it does have in like a keyboard shortcut cheat sheet thing Which you'd have to zoom in on so it shows you a few of the things I bet you this probably gets it veal a grep and your probably either greps out your sxhk drc file or Even it might just cat it out even I don't know But it's very simple and if you need to get to that you probably can assign that to its own key binding if you wanted to There's so few key bindings. You probably don't even really need it So that's that's that's really cool. It kind of reminds me of the thing that the awesome does only you know It's not quite as well put together There's a power managing button up here as well But like I said the design of this is very well done. It's very pretty and I really expected it to be because the X FCE Version of endeavor OS is also very pretty. So I'm wondering if the install problems that I was having Have to do with this being a community edition Maybe it's because it's not officially like part of the family or whatever that the reason why I was hanging up I'd have to go through and install the X FCE version again see if that thing has the same problems I mean, it's not a big deal. I mean As long as you have 20 25 minutes and to To burn it's not like it's not like you can you know at the end of the world because it seems working just fine So that is a first look at endeavor OS I think I still prefer our go to it just a little bit because it gives you more options that install It also has a lot bigger selection of window managers and stuff, but As a successor to antra ghost which when antra ghost was alive, it was my favorite arch based distro It was just always the one that I installed because it was just really really good And it seemed like the community was you know, also very good And that's one thing that endeavor kind of has inherited because the endeavor community is also just fantastic So if you need help if you're having some problems or whatever Definitely endeavor is one of the friendliest communities at least on the arch based side, you know what I mean? 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Hello and welcome to Newsclick. Today we have with us Professor Ajaz Ahmed and we will discuss the recent results in Turkey and the implications for Turkish society. Ajaz, this election in which we are getting the endorsement as it were of the presidential form of government, how do you see this for Turkish society and Turkish political scenario? I think this is a watershed moment in the history of Turkey. There is a moment of absolutization of power that Erdogan has been seeking over the entire period of his tenure first as a Prime Minister for three terms. Then he became a president in 2014 and then there was the recent referendum last year which changed the presidential system. The referendum was actually very narrowly decided. They won only about 51% or so. But in this new system which is actually Erdogan's brainchild, you have virtually all the power of the legislature and the executive concentrated in the hands of a directly elected president and the post of the Prime Minister is abolished and so on and so forth. So there is absolutization of power institutionally through the kind of process that I just talked about. You also have a situation in which for example 40% of Turkey's generals are in prison, so are many other military officers and so on. A major political party, the HDP, people's democratic party, the presidents of that party had to fight elections from prisons. So you have a system in which within the last three years about half or more of the administrative structure of Turkey has been dismantled, half the judiciary has been fired, half the bureaucracy has been fired. So every institution has been decimated over a period of time with arbitrary power in which Erdogan has placed his own people to the point, you know, in the judiciary, for example, you have a situation where you don't have enough judges. So freshly graduated law students are being appointed judges and they don't even know what the rules in their own courtroom are. So this is a moment of an absolutization of power. What is also very, very worrying is that there is a very radical change going on in the educational system where the Islamization, where he said in 2006, I am going to produce a new generation of Islamist youth. And that is going forward very fast. Public schools are being dismantled in some cases, actually physically demolished. And new schools being created, this Imam Khatib schools as they are called, which is their word for what in India and Pakistan we call Madrasas. And the entire neighbourhoods, you don't have public schools, secular public schools anymore, and you have this. All of these processes, I think, are going to now get even more accelerated. So this is a total transformation of Turkey institutionally, socially, politically, in every respect. And this is a high point of that. The other part of it is that the presidential form of government, he has the right to also appoint judges. That's also not for the parliament. Exactly. And the parliament really has very little powers. I mention only the legislature and the executive, but also the judiciary. And as the head of the religious affairs ministry, he's also the religious head, because all these Imam Khatib schools are actually state run. And he can, with his presidential power, he can legally demolish all the secular schools and replace them with these Imam Khatib schools and allocate immense amount of money. Right now they have huge allocation, new huge allocations for that and so on. So every aspect of Turkish society, the power is this new dispensation, this presidential system, as he's calling it, but it's not a presidential system, the sort that they have in France or anything like that. This is an absolute power. This is actually quasi-monarchical. Sultan Erdogan. Yes, as people figured out 10 years ago, this is the building of the Sultan, who is also something of the CEO of this new liberalized economy. So his part, CEO part, Sultan as some bit said. So yes, it's absolutely theoretical, monarchical part. The other part is, of course, what's happened to the media, that number of media houses have been shut. Again, a huge number of journalists have been either sacked or they're in prison or they're in exile. The highest number of journalists in prison anywhere in the world. Yes. The largest number of journalists. Exactly, as you said. I mean, the number of professors who left the country, the ones who could manage to, but he has been impounding passports every civil servant or an academic or a journalist who gets arrested. The passports are impounded not for him or her, but also their families. So if a military had done it, the Turks have always complained about military coups and so on. No military coup ever meant that far. So you're also holding the families to hostages as it were? Yes.  And, you know, the amount of, you know, just the numbers that one can keep rolling off, who are in prison, who have been fired, who had to leave the country, etc. You know, those military coups have grew some as they were. I don't believe reached this far in and they never transformed society the way he has. He's transforming society. So this is Muslim Brotherhood in power because AKP is really Muslim Brotherhood. Now we know what Muslim Brotherhood in power is and that is what was being feared in Egypt. That is what the problem was in Egypt that the Egyptian society was caught between the devil and the deep sea. You had the Muslim Brotherhood on this side and very, very autocratic and corrupt military system of the other. And you basically had a choice between the two of them. But it was very clear that if the Muslim Brotherhood really stabilized their rule in Egypt, this is what would happen. This is what they were carrying. And that was what they were writing into the Constitution. And this is the, you know, it's a great irony of history that the Muslim Brotherhood has come to power with such absolute control over state and society in the one country that was by far the most secular, certainly in the Muslim world, but I think next to the French probably in the world. And that's where, so it's, I mean, the grand job of this achievement is also something that has taken up the knowledge that transforming a country so thoroughly criminalized and secular and modern into this caricature is remarkable. Now, stepping away from the political, since you've raised the larger picture of how the entire society, which was, as you said, Kamalist and secular, though, of course, it also had its authoritarian side to it. Yeah, secular, secular, Kamalist, authoritarian, yes. But at the same time, this transformation from this strong secular, in fact, really banning various even manifestations in public spaces like the fares, the headscarf and so on to this is a huge transformation. But what explains this? What are the social forces which allowed this to happen? Apart from the fact that, you know, there was OK, there is always something which is running, always has its critics. Yeah, well, I think what began to happen was a split in the very Turkish bourgeoisie, where the old established bourgeois houses, capitalist houses, the old bourgeoisie, let's say the Istanbul bourgeoisie, was European, Western, Kamalist, whatever you want to call it and so on. And then there arose what came to be called Anatolian Tigers, which is from medium and large towns of Anatolia. That large sort of hinterland, there was that whole sort of big bourgeoisie, which began to compete and the entire, for example, export sector of Turkey that developed so rapidly was in the hands of those people. The trade with EU was actually in the hands of those people. Even the investment structures between EU and Turkey was usually an alliance. And so when these people actually came to power, they were socially conservative Islamist, but they were very much pro-EU. They wanted very badly to enter EU because of that. But so part of it in terms of classes, that is part of what happened, part of it is that Kamalist secularism did never properly entered. The countries never properly transformed the countryside. They never properly transformed the hinterland of Anatolia. I remember going there first in the 70s and going to smaller cities there and getting frightened at really the difference and how much hold of the imams and so forth there was in those petty little towns. So there was that, that Ataduq actually made a compromise in which this Ministry of Religious Affairs, he nationalized religion, he did not abolish it. So he thought he would control this phenomenon by appointing prayer leaders in every imams and so forth in every mosque and creating endowments which were controlled by the Kamalist state and so on. But that taking that secularism deep into the social structures of the hinterlands and Anatolia and so on, which was a very different kind of project than simply giving them modern education, mathematics and science and so on and so forth. So there was that and there was the transformation of cities like Istanbul, for example, where the as new liberalism began to come in and that came in before Erdogan came. The victims of that whole process in the countryside began to flood into the big cities with their resentments against this high big bourgeois world of Turkey and so on. There were a number of processes of that kind, that's all going on, all along the class scales, very different things but began to gel. Also the Kurdish issue because Kamalists had one problem, which is they did not accept any other identity except the Turkish identity establishment of the Kamalists. People don't remember that Kamal wanted even a part of the Iraqi Kurdistan as his original map of Turkey included Mosul and this, that and the other. Because he said these are Kurds and Kurds and Turks are one people for him and in the original constitution that he had which was suppressed and came out in 1960. There was a clause for full social, linguistic, cultural autonomy for the Kurds. So this Turkish is one language and Turks are one country and etc. Anti-Kurdish business that later Kamalists actually cultivated has nothing to do with the Tatuk himself. Actually his closest general was actually a Kurd who briefly became the president. It's not to do no very famous, very famous figure in the history of the Republic. It was a closest ally, it was actually a Kurdish who then became president. So this was not the other Greeks. It's later day equivalents of that tradition who started doing that. And one of the things was that in the beginning, in the beginning AKP was very, very clever. It understood that in the middle class and liberal middle classes, there was a great hatred of the armies, army for its repeated interventions in the economy. There was a desire for Europe and there was a desire for peace with the Kurds. And Erdogan's forces realized that the threat to them came from the armed forces and they had to conduct a purge of the armed forces. And they therefore Erdogan and his party made all kinds of peace overtures towards the Kurds. There was a period around 2006, 78 when I used to go to Turkey and I found that the most left-wing intellectuals and activists were so pro-AKP because they were making friends with the Kurds and accepting the European human rights protocol for the resolution of Kurdistan. So strategically they were very clever. They won the liberal modern Kamalist middle class on the question of war and split the Republican Party, the Kamalist Party, the Republican People's Party. Because the high command and sort of, you know, the diehards of the party remain anti-Kurds. But their middle cadre became soft on the AKP on the Kurdish question and so on. So they were also strategically based. Now they have brought everybody else together against them. Do you think this is also the result of this election? The Kurds on one side, the left forces, in fact both are with the HDP in this election as well as earlier and in the political process that's taking place. But do you see a sort of getting together of the HDP and the CHP and all this kind of forces against this kind of authoritarian presidential rule? They have been in a certain sense together for now, for several years. This is a process that has been waken. Just last year when there was this 257 mile march from Ankara to Istanbul led by the Kamalist, which culminated in a demonstration of 1.5 million people in Istanbul, which in India, I cannot surprise you all that much, but for Turkey it's a huge number, 1.5 million to be found in one place. So there was all that. And again, they have won elections only by, I mean presidential election, he won only by 51.5% or something. His party did not get a majority and so on. So there is a polarization. But strategically, he has captured all the positions of power, dismantled all the institutions. Now he'll be in power until at least 2023, which is the 100th year of the founding of the republic. And in these years, he will have time to consolidate institutionally and culturally and socially a lot. So what I would say is that there is a polarization, this polarization will only grow. But at the moment, the balance of power is very much in this way. If we see the rise of various, shall we say, right-wing forces in the world, this is obviously one kind of blueprint for the religion. Those who use religion as an identity, and I'm really talking about Muslim Brotherhood, the Hindutva forces, even the Trumpist, ethnic, right-racist forces, if you will. But all of these are essentially on a similar project, dismantle the secular democratic state in some sense and replace it with a clear politics of this kind. Would you say this is a larger project? And I have been actually writing on certain concepts. One that I've been writing on is the whole question of a new kind, historically new form of political state that is arising, which is, which provisionally the term I use is post-democratic, although I'm still looking for a better phrase. A type of state that combines elements, institutional elements of liberalism, and a great deal of practical, strategic elements of dictatorship and fascism. And in some cases they may be secular, although in countries like India and Turkey, the crux is the religious identity that they have. So in the wake of a very great secular consolidation, they have been able to create this massive religious identity, very powerful in both countries by now. So this is, elsewhere it is race, more than religion. In many places, it race and religion get played together. It can be Catholic versus Protestant, it can be, you know, the, in the American case, it is religion is not the predominant element, predominant element is race, but this business of the, you know, the Muslim ban and so on. We had again, we have a situation where, like Turkey in the United States now, all the three branches of state are in the hands of the Republican Party and so on. So you're seeing this emergence of, as the system breaks down and the challenge from the left is still very weak, that you have this emergence from the right of consolidation of this kind of historical kind. So some form of ethno-nationalism, taking the either race, religion, whatever I did, I sort of don't really use nationalism. I think they like saying nationalism. That's why I don't say it. Although in India, of course, it's a redefinition of our nationalism. Yeah, sure. Yeah, but xenophobic, it's a very hysterical form of conducting politics when the rational forms are in crisis, highly irrational forms. Yeah, right, that's what I actually see. Thank you very much, Ejaz. Ejaz, I hope that we'll see your long article that you said you are finishing, that we hope that we'll see it soon and we'll have a conversation on that as well. I think that would be very interesting for our viewers. Okay, Ejaz. This is all the time we have for NewsClick today. Do keep watching NewsClick. Watch our YouTube channel and do visit our website.


My name is Ricky Cassidy. I am standing in for Dennis Isaki, as the host of Politics and Land in Hawaii. Dennis is a wonderful mentor, he's a surveyor, and he is attached to land. He's, I'm happy to say, slightly older than me with a plethora of experiences with a whole bunch of people. He's got a fine mind, he analyzes stuff and challenges people with ideas. And I've always admired that about Dennis. He brought me on the show maybe once and told me I talked too much and nothing will change, except now that I find myself wearing the shoes of him on the other side of the thing, I'm gonna try and shut up to the best of my ability. In this inaugural segment, Dennis said, hey, you know what, the world's your oyster, but why not try Luke? And I really like that because Luke just went from council into the legislature, and that is as good of you as I could think of, except on the federal level, of people, politics, and how it affects land. So on that, I'm gonna open it up to Luke, ask him what it's like, what he sees, what he learns, and what he hopes for. Welcome, Luke. Thank you, Ricky. How about it? I don't know, that was a big question, what I've seen, what I'm hoping, what I'm trying to do. Yeah, I mean, you were very active at the council level. I hesitate to use the word progressive, but you were activist. So on that deal, I give you full marks for getting in there and thinking through things, identifying problems, coming up with solutions, working the political process on the local level. And now you've gone to a very different one, where instead of a few people that you interact with, you interact with a ton of people with a different hierarchy and that sort of thing. My belief is home rule.  So if you wanna teach me about local Kauai, and then share that abstract, push and pull it any way you want. Yeah, there's kind of a lot there in that question. I can start with a little bit of my perspective of why I first ran for the county council, and then why I ended up going for the state legislature. Like you and certainly like Dennis, I am most interested in land use policy. And I first got, I served on the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Kauai General Plan update. And I have, you know, everybody always asks, how did you get into politics? And I feel like I have the least inspiring story for how I got into it. But I was really serving on that CSE for the general plan and becoming extremely passionate about really land use policy through that process, both because I think we have a great general plan. And through that process, I saw that oftentimes, or sometimes at least, our decisions around land use have made our housing problem worse. And so clearly how well-intentioned public policy can make these problems worse, but also through the general plan, which has a really clear vision for the future and how to solve our housing crisis, how well-intentioned public policy can make our housing problems hopefully better. And so I wanted to hopefully help you on the better side of that spectrum. And the Kauai County Council and essentially every county council statewide are the land use bodies for the district, right? Planning commission and then council. So I saw that to really make change. I had to try and run for the county council and I served on the council for four years and it really was a great lesson in land use and also in the difficulty of making change. I think we did a lot of really good and exciting things at a county level. And then for me, part of the recognition through that process was realizing that our housing crisis statewide is this issue of statewide concern, right? So while the councils are making legislation that's impacting each individual island, if you look at the housing index, the Federal Reserve has a housing index where they're tracking cost of housing statewide and that's, you can see each island essentially just mirrors each other identically, right? So there's only so much that any individual island can do to try and solve this crisis. So for me, it was trying to looking at the state where the state gives lots of power over land use authority to the counties, but in my opinion, the state should start pushing those counties to reform zoning and permitting in a way that can incentivize home construction in the areas that we need it statewide, right? And then no island can solve this crisis on their own. So that was kind of my journey in a quick nutshell there. That's a good one, starting with the general plan because everything starts there. It may not sound exciting, but it is your blueprint. And then where you ended up was what the state can do to help the county. And you mentioned costs. If you, and I do see that the state has levers that can contribute to lowering the cost of affordable housing, which basically is unprofitable and sits us up with the nexus that, you know, you have to build market in order to get affordable. Anything you can reduce the cost by and usually that's financing and financing at the state level and the bed level really makes, you know, everything same. So, you know, I track you really well on that and I'll salute you for thinking that through. You came up with an idea that I initially disagreed with that I told you. You said put EV plugs into all the affordable condos on the island.  And I came up with all the reasons why logically you may not do that, but you forced me into then looking at it from the other point of view, which was yours. I give you the floor. Tell me, you know, what led you to go there? So, yeah, in and much of the policy we were pushing, which ended up passing was to require that around 15% of stalls and any new parking lots have to be EV ready, which means infrastructure in the ground ready to go for EV chargers to plug in. So it doesn't mean 15% have to have an actual, physically installed EV charger. It just needs the receptacle for a future EV charger. And the reason to do that, in my strong opinion, which we went back and forth on for a while and I appreciate the dialogue Ricky, but was that it's extremely expensive to come in after the fact and rip up a parking lot to install the conduit necessary for EV charger, right? And it's why often if you're trying to retrofit and install, it can be like 30 grand a charger. And it's why we don't see a whole lot coming online in existing parking lots. But if the infrastructure's already in the ground, coming in after the fact and just plugging that EV charger on top is not that expensive. And there's a whole lot of rebates that can help cover that cost. So I felt like it was really important going forward that we ensure that new parking lots have that infrastructure in the ground ready to go. And there is a real conversation around affordable housing and the fact that obviously we have, on Kauai we need 9,000 new homes by 2035. That's in our general plan. Some segment of that will be filled by subsidized affordable workforce housing market. And clearly we're not getting enough market housing or affordable housing, we're not getting any of it. And cost is gonna be a youth partner. If it can't pencil out, it's not gonna get built. And part of the reason it's not cancelling out, I think as, or it's not penciling out is as you alluded to all these extra costs that we have added on in multiple ways, mainly I think time, permitting time, it's gonna take you years to get anything through, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And so anytime we add additional costs onto that, we're making these things less likely to get built, which I think was the root of your argument. And in my opinion though, when we are building affordable housing without access to EV charges, we are then locking essentially lower income folks out of the EV market, right? If you can't charge from home, you can't have an electric vehicle. And we're at a place where essentially already EV cars over the life are cheaper than fossil fuel cars, that price is gonna continue to decline rapidly. And so by not building affordable housing with EV infrastructure, you're locking those people out of the low cost alternative and not only the low cost alternative, but the alternative that we need to get to to avoid catastrophic climate future. So in my mind, it was important to ensure that we were including EV infrastructure in affordable housing. And it's also important in my mind to ensure that we are subsidizing that, right? That we need to do everything we can to make sure that these affordable housing developments pencil out, if the additional cost of the EV infrastructure is a barrier, then the government should be helping subsidize those costs. Yeah, I like my joke, some of my opinions are bad. I researched it, I saw that you subsidized it. My original position was don't add a single cent of cost to the thing because that could translate into one unit not being built. And as you and I know in the supermarket line, we see people and we want to help everybody, especially those most in need of shelter. So, but what really changed my mind was the Economist magazine did a special on housing, on cars yesterday, I listened to it. And the rate of increase of electronic vehicles are supersedes the useful life of a 30 year building or a 50 year building.  But the thing about the present is that it always changes. And if you get your hands on a problem, you can make it better over time. Besides that, any other problem? I'm just disappointed that I'm not the one to have convinced you. I think we spent, we went back and forth by 10 times via email and I wrote you. We both in response to the writing novels back and forth, but yet it was the Economist that finally convinced you. But as long as you're convinced, then it's okay with. And I just want to acknowledge too, you're right. And there's a whole lot of unfortunate things about the EV industry. There's also clearly issues around lithium and battery sourcing and environmental issues with mining. I think that those issues are still dwarfed by the magnitude of climate change. And I'm not somebody who is saying that we should just replace our current, you know, all vehicle infrastructure with the EV infrastructure. We also need to make big strides towards reducing the need to drive, right? We built our communities in a way that you have to drive to do anything, to get to work, to get to the store, to get to school, to get to the park. You got to get in your car and drive. And I think that's been a monumental failure and it's putting huge costs on all of us from the cost of road infrastructure to time spent in traffic, to health. I live next to a highway and I got black suit all over my house, right? To health impacts from driving. And so we do need to, as we're going forward, try and transform our community. So we are not so entirely dependent on automobiles. But I do feel strongly that hopefully by 2035, 2045, we're looking at a future of 100% electrification of our vehicle transportation. No, it's a biggie. And I give you full credit. And the thing of policy that's always interested me is getting your facts. And then it's kind of like watching a game. And Wayne Gretzi once said, you know, I'm good because I look at where the puck is going, not where it is. And it's for that reason that, you know, people should talk to one another and try and read as much as possible.  Are there any other things in your, rattling around your head that you'd like to address? No, I'll still leave it to you to direct your direction of our conversation here. Happy to talk more about housing and housing needs. I'm happy to do that. My background basically was I worked or I came back to Hawaii kind of late. Gentry was the only one that would hire. And the reason for this, it was about 86, 87, is that that was the heyday of housing production. I worked at the company where the goal one year was a thousand homes. And that year, 3,000 homes were built on Oahu. You look at it ever since then and hardly anything got built. There at that time, there was a successful nexus between I'll build the same house, 60% will go market, 40% will go affordable. That ratio changes a lot. That was then and now is now. I mean, the cost of land and the cost of construction and the regulation has grown up immensely in that time. But then about four, five years ago at the ledge, I was seeing the dialogue change a little bit, but what really changed it were the numbers, the absolute numbers of those in need. This is our community. This is us. Sitting in a public place like you, thank you for your service. You know, Eurocoli is suffering, I know sometimes. Don Chang went to sleep at the end of a 12 hour session on DLNR, BLNR the other day and I, you know, I can't say enough for people who serve. Okay, then I'll give you another thing I think that could really improve and it's counter cyclical. I think it's fair to pay public servant, elected and appointed or come up through the ranks, more money. And the reason for that is especially at the frontline, those guys, they're working and they're doing it for the best of us and the better those guys are, the better we are. So anything you could speak to that, you know. Yeah, I guess I wasn't expecting this to go to talk about salaries. It's on the Kauai County Council, we had to every year essentially approve, every other year approve our own salaries increases, right? Salary commission would come up with recommended changes that come to the council for approval and it was always by far the worst vote we would ever take, right? We would just get in and this was just adopting salary commissions increases, which were generally cost of living, you know, inflation based increases.  And if you are a young person on Kauai who is trying to pay rent or a mortgage at current rates, you can't live on 60,000, right? It's extremely difficult. And so like everybody, you know, my generation that I know, we got two and three jobs just to make it, right? Whereas if you're older and you're retired and you have a mortgage that's 1500 bucks a month or whatever, then yeah, you can do it and that's fine. But I think by keeping public sector wages artificially low for elected officials, we are sort of self-selecting for retired folks or a lot of ways, you know, pushing young people out of it or if young people do come in, their time is limited because they're forced to work another job. So yeah, in a lot of ways I would agree that I want to make sure that we are, you know, paying a living wage at least to elected officials and a wage that is gonna attract really good people to come into the profession and that it is really important. You know, we're making decisions that impact tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. And yeah, so that is important, you know, but I do want to address the housing issue a bit. You had mentioned, you know, I think you said it's City and County needing 3,000 homes a year and building 1,000 or what is even worse than that, right? We need 9,000 by 2035 and we're building somewhere around 100 and something new homes per year. It might be more in the last two years, but essentially from 2010 to 2020, it was averaging about 100 homes per year. And we have even more homes than that turning into vacation rentals every year, right? So I think we don't have super good data on our occupied housing stock, but from everything that I've seen, it looks like we're going backwards, right? For the new homes that we're building are often gonna be second homes for people. And then we have existing owner occupied homes or long-term rentals that are becoming vacation rentals. So every year we essentially have less supply. And so I strongly believe that we need to be doing everything that we can to reach that 9,000 figure by 2035, you know, which is disincentivizing vacation rentals, right? Part of supply is gonna come from that. Trying to incentivize owner occupied housing, certainly trying to figure out ways that we can build more housing, more subsidized affordable housing, but also more market rate housing, right? And that's, you know, the major challenge of our time. And I feel like every alarm bell there is should be ringing that we are essentially failing on that year after year after year. I hear you very loudly. Your numbers are pretty good. The challenges are there. The way to increase housing, there's a number of ways vacation rentals have, one of the things I've noticed, and I'll jump right into it, it's vacation rentals have grown up. Obviously we have the highest quality of living, you know, I'd say the Pacific Rim and we cannot help but attract people. The key to having a safe and a healthy community though is to balance the visitor local in a way that the locals feel and appreciate what they're giving up in terms of traffic and crowdedness with a higher quality of life. And that feeds back into the visitors with the spirit of Aloha. Kawhi's pretty awesome about that spirit, but you just can't, so anything you can do to cut the cost. You mentioned a long time ago, I went through subsidy and I said the biggest subsidy goes to the poorest people, the biggest amount. If you take that amount and instead of doing it at the 30% or the 60% of IAMI, which is legalese for poor, pretty poor, somewhat poor than normal workforce people, you get a bigger bang for the buck at the workforce level because you're only giving a little. And the politics, forgive me for being political, has always been, well, let's help the poorest. And that's honorable and good, but how do you gotta try and set up a model of cost benefit and ask yourself, and I throw this out, you can explore it or not, but if you create more housing at the workforce, those guys move into it and it creates empty housing right enough and the housing ladder idea. So I mean. Yeah, no, 100%. I mean, I'm not even just creating housing at the workforce level, but if you're creating market rate housing, somebody's moving into that and that ladder goes all the way down. And I always, I feel like people often wanna corner me or others into the sort of maximalist position, right? When you start talking about TVRs and then people say, well, it's not all TVRs. Yes, clearly it's not all TVRs. They're part of the problem. But when you say, you know, lots of people owning second homes or buying up housing here as second homes, remote work, right? Clearly that's not all the problem either, but that's some of the problem. And yes, clearly like just only building market rate housing isn't gonna fix this problem either, but it's certainly a component of it, right? So for me, I've always just said, it's all of the above, right? Lots more money for subsidized housing policies in place to ensure we are building workforce housing and all the way down to the 30% AMI, right? And we do need all of that and you're right. The bigger break for the buck is gonna be the less subsidized, but we do need support all the way down to transitional housing. And we need to make it easier for people to build and we need to do sensitive and incentivized TVRs and we need the infrastructure in place to build a build more multifamily units and we need to give homeowners as many options to convert their existing home to rental units. The only way me as a legislator salary to live on Kauai is to rent out my downstairs that pays half of our mortgage and it provides housing to a couple moved into it, each of them moved out of an existing place, right? That opens up two other houses on the market for them to move into. We could only permit that as a legal rental unit because the County of Kauai before I got on the council passed legislation allowing ARUs to be permitted, right? So these policy changes have real world impacts, allows me to own a home, allows two people to live in my downstairs, opens up two units down the line, right? So it's that kind of thing as much as possible. So, and I always try to sort of explain it in a nutshell, it's there is no nutshell here, just do everything we can essentially. And the one thing I do often push back on though is do everything we can except avoid converting large swaths of agricultural land to housing, right? I think that we do need to focus our housing development and in my personal opinion within our existing towns in and around where the infrastructure exists. And partly because we don't want to be consuming agricultural land, right? That land we should as much as possible keep it as, maybe it's not being used for ag right now but as least an insurance policy to get it used for ag at some point and also just the infrastructure costs of trying to build single family home neighborhoods on agricultural land that are disconnected from communities. Again, forcing people to cars, but road networks are incredibly expensive, right? Water and sewer infrastructure just in places is incredibly expensive. And we just cannot afford to develop in that manner. So, and again, this is all like our COE general plan is an incredible document because it's so clearly lays out the problem, lack of homes and the solution, build lots more homes within our existing town cores, especially Lihui town. Now that exercise of the general plan I personally didn't participate in as much as you did but I'd show up every now and then and try and get the balance between tourism and community. And I was really happy to see the number of experts and then the number of heartfelt community guys. And I got to get you to say to people, if you wanna change, you wanna be meaningful and make a meaningful change, look at that, just participate in that, make your voice heard.  And the transition from sugar to tourism. And now what? Post-tourism, second homes, vacation rentals, I mean, how do we deal with our high quality of life that's declining in sense to many visitors but accommodate the future. To many visitors, not enough locals. Now that's a simple thumbnail and all of that. And just to answer that kind of briefly, the question is how do we transition away from an over-dependence on tourism? In my opinion, it's charged tourists more, right? If you have a business and, right, Disneyland, if Disneyland's overcrowded, what does Disneyland do? They increase the prices to get into Disneyland. And so we are not Disneyland and I do not ever wanna compare Disneyland but we have a similar problem, right? And we have some solutions there and increase the cost of visiting here. We have no real control over airline prices but we have lots of control over the price of visitor accommodations through property taxes and through the TAT, right? And there was a big effort at the legislature this year, the green fee, the idea of charging people to visit our parks and natural resources. That didn't pass because it wasn't clear exactly how it's gonna be implemented. I think it will pass in the future. But in the meantime, I've pushed every year to try and increase our property taxes for vacation rentals. In my mind, it's insane that every year we lose owner-occupied homes to vacation rentals and yet the County of Kauai charges vacation rentals less property taxes than for hotels, at least per assess value. And we're the only island that doesn't charge them at similar to the hotel rate. So as long as if you own a home in a visitor destination area and you have the legal right to vacation rent at home, you're kind of crazy not to, right? Your opportunity cost is not vacation renting that house because you can make so much money off it. It doesn't even make sense for you to live in there, right? Rent the house out and live somewhere else and that should it be, right? County, that's like in my mind a market failure. The County of Kauai should make that less attractive by increasing property taxes on those vacation rentals. We got no minutes left. I totally subscribed to that. And yeah, I'm renting myself. And thank you for thinking this through. I mean, we stopped far too short of what can be said.  So I'm stoked about that. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ricky for taking the time and thanks for arguing about me about EV policy all those months ago. And thanks for coming around finally. Well, the best thing about living along is getting smart and you're gonna live a long time if I have anything to do with it. Me, I'm trying to lobby with God to see what happens in the next step. But thanks again, cheers. All right, thank you, Ricky. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


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Dear students, I welcome you in the course of Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and Decision Making. This is module number 264 and the topic of discussion is using emotions to solve problems. Remember, when we have to solve problems, we have to think differently. We have to think creatively and we have to control our emotions, that is, our emotions who do not create roadblocks in the development of our progress and in the development of our decision making. There are a few things that we need to understand in terms of emotions and problems. It is said that the ability to use emotions to facilitate thinking recognizes that thinking is assisted differently by different moods. Now, this is a very important perspective. This is a very important explanation in which we associate thinking with moods that different thinking is associated with different moods and all these things are very important for us to understand because without this, our creativity and decision making can be challenged. Now, why most of the time emotions are ignored? We have some reasons for this which we see one by one. For example, there is a myth of rationality and that myth is that emotions were seen as irrational, whereas these things practically do not prevail. Managers work to make an emotion-free environment, which is not something we should be appreciating, which is not something that we should be putting effort upon. The view of emotionality says that emotions were believed to be disruptive. It is also said that emotions interfered with productivity and many a times it was the belief that only negative emotions were observed. We need to be very conscious about all these things because unless and until we cannot know the originality of emotions, we cannot give them appropriate vocabulary, we cannot develop our own emotionally-intelligent, emotions would be taken up as something which is going to have interruption in our productive and positive performance. Remember one thing, that now we know that emotions cannot be separated from the workplace. This is a very important perspective and finding which is even supported by the research that we cannot separate emotions from the workplace because as far as the workplace is human oriented there being emotions would be a very important factor. If we compare emotions and leadership, then remember that the leadership which embraces the emotional side of directing, organization, pumps life and meanings into management structure and bringing them to full life. We have discussed many times that the personal values of top management are the cultural values of the organization. In the case of top management, if we look at the leadership perspective, then we have to be careful of their thinking patterns, their emotional context, how they are able to relate to themselves with the organization, with that work, with that profession. Obviously from there, we will have a clue generator which will move down the hierarchy. Remember that in the management perspective, the leadership role is very important and leadership will be able to define how people define their work, their engagement, their involvement, their loyalty and how they develop. Another thing is that symbolic management is effective because it draws on the qualities of the heart and the head and we have to see where we have to use symbolism, where symbolic management would be more efficiently and effectively demonstrated so that we can present ourselves in a better managerial stance. Being managers, we see cause and effect, being managers, we see means and ends. So for us, it is important that we receive things in a holistic view, we perceive things in a holistic view because overall, when we see the whole picture, then we can understand its complications and its associations. Dear students, our managerial stance, whether it is omnipotent or symbolic, we have to see how the creative thought process generates for us, how we can control emotions, how we can be effective leaders with the help of emotional intelligence so that we can promote organizations and support organizations. Thank you.


how long is it going to be prolonged, how many more Ukrainian civilians and also Russian soldiers that have been forced into the military are going to be killed, how much more Ukrainian territory is going to be destroyed, much more of a global set of consequences, including the environmental consequences, the economic crisis, and the famine that is attacking large parts of the global south because of the consequences of this war, all of that, and the potential threat of an escalation to a nuclear exchange, the most dangerous and the most deadly possibility that could come from this. And what should be the position of our movement, those who support Ukraine's right of self-determination and yet see the consequences of this war going forward, if our goal, as I think it should be, is to end the war, not to extend it indefinitely as long as it takes, as President Biden describes it, by providing all the weapons that Ukraine might ask for. This is going to make things worse and not better. It's going to extend the war and not lead towards a way of ending the war, which I think has to be our goal.


Ni kumbe unani kumfoz, kama jo nani, jo baby Anu kumbe unani affect, unani smartphone kit Kastoma, karibu wa inu money Kenfa nasu whatfifone facebook, whatfifone channel on twitter hashtag is what inu morning or wcw So it is that time to have strong people I say people because two Wednesdays Two Wednesdays ago we had gentlemen Strong people are going to come and they are going to tell us the experience Tell us what they are doing in the world to make it a better place Cue in Michael Jackson Hashtag what inu morning or wcw Or at color ni wcw But chamu himuni nansiki money today Good morning How are you? I am doing good First of all you look amazing Thank you If you are not sure, do you look fantastic You look like you are about to go to Sampare After this I am very happy to see you Mwaka 859 It's okay It is what it is Please introduce yourself My name is Nansiki Mani I am a student of Kireji Women's University And I am also a founder of Spirit of Giving Community based organization And I am 19 years old I was not found in anything when I was 19 In fact I was busy trying to help myself I was discovering things And things that I am not able To say out loud on TV But it is what it is What inspired you and why at 19 Okay personally I mean to leadership So way back in high school I was really interested in mentorship Did you have a mentor yourself? Personally no I did not have I wanted to become a problem solver in the community So I tried to look for some ways On how I can be able to help out So what happened is When I was in high school I did not love how the mentors Used to mentor us At Nilianda Sijuina Kukumoja I am sure you used to get such stories As in there was a lot of illusions They were not straight forward on how they are mentoring us So I was like What if there will be a young generation A young people who will be telling us facts Telling us the real things Telling us this and this is what happens And I came to realize that There were no young people Who could mentor the young generation When you look at the campus I mean to the high school level We could get the mentors Who could come to school to mentor the students It is what was there So I got really motivated I want to say That what you are saying sounds a little bit like The current It is something that they are celebrating in the United States Where we have the first female first Female vice president Not only she is female but she is of color That means she is black And she is also of Asian descent And I am sure just seeing her face Just being called vice president Is enough for a whole generation of sures Who have dreams who want to do big things Is that what you had in mind when you started this? Okay personally I knew what I really wanted in life When I was in high school I used to also study During the holidays Because I guess The age level I took what I wanted to say So I was more into focusing And I knew what I wanted in life So When during holidays I could study entrepreneurship I was under an organization Which could keep me busy Holiday? Ya holidays Ya ni mefunga shule Ya ni mefunga shule So what was your obsession? So During that organization I had a lot of interest So they were teaching about entrepreneurship Financial capability Social asset building So I used to find that The order was teaching them Not them teaching me So I developed some interest Trying to involve myself into lively activities Ya I'm going to tell you a six years When I was in high school I was a geek Picking up and up Sana, Sana, Sana And that kind of Set me apart from Very many people Ya Ya Ya ni kwa po ni mega nga na Kucho man So how did you How did you work through that Kus I'm sure when you're very headstrong When you know what you want And you're not afraid to say it I'm sure there are Some type of people who will tell you About to learn Just relax Just have fun in high school You'll know You'll live once How did you go through that Okay So back in high school The life was very difficult for me Personalistic when you are sharing And when people are going to Eat or maybe do something together There is no people who will sit in a group I guess it's all the high schools Usually sit in a group Talking So I used to find that When they are talking I find myself asking Myself a lot of questions Like what are they saying I used to get that ashamed Like you don't know shame So you find yourself So what I decided is That is not the way I'm supposed to stay So I have to go on with my own life So I used to be alone I became a leader So I was a focused person And in terms of leadership It was also another thing Which was so stressful Because I really wanted I used to fight for the rights of the students For gender equality I mean for equality If it is duties Distributing very them equally So I was just focused They say it's lonely at the top Is it true? Ya sure it is Ya Ya But I'm so impressed by you And if it's not true But okay let's get into the meat Of the matter What do you do When did you find it Because you're a founder That means you found it So when did you find it So when I cleared the high school Now that is coming next year That was last year Last year was 18 years So I was really I thought that Life will be very easy To get You need to reach my goals To reach the opportunities That I really needed So life in that journey Was not that much easy Because I wanted to grab everything I was like I'm done with the high school So this is my time To get the opportunities And to do what I love My passion Such things like those ones So I tried to I've ever been confused You're just confused You're like You're so much confused You don't know where to go You don't know how to start it Because I don't have someone to guide me It is only me who knows What I can do What I'm capable of doing So I'm just like that So not unless And go of myself using my phone To enter online Get to know people People to help me out To reach my visions To reach my goals Though it was not an easy journey So last year I worked for a team It was known as A2J Crew Africa That was addicted to Jesus So I worked for them It was just like a charity work But that group It was all about ministry Ministry of God Going to win souls So I thought It was my vision Like this is where I will I will do it to the next level So I continued the journey We did it together I gave them ideas I had ideas with me So I could give people ideas They work on it But unfortunately They did not work on it I stayed around six months I quit at this year So they are So I'm just learning I'm learning things Getting to know people Getting to interact myself With different leaders Of different university Then I became passionate Mentorship So I tried to Make groups We make groups more than 10 times Failing Group was up Like group You can't do alone You can't do charity Or mentorship alone You have to work with that team Who believes in you I made a group of Almost 10 times Failing What happened What failed Is it that the people were not as passionate As you were Or they were not available Mama haikwatu na jeepa So now like the first one I made it Yani I made several So the first one I made it It's not working It became a dating site Up to date they are dating Allah And you allow one I did it by the way Thank you for putting people together Although that was not the point Ya, that was not the point So it was like If these people have turned into dating Automatically we can't work this journey together Because what you talking about So we can't work the journey together So I decided to Slash it away It came up with another one Mojakena maju And it also became a dating site So I had to slash it off Then I tried I kept trying Because I was passionate about it Because I could not have peace In my heart Because my heart was just beaten for the youth For the teenagers Something like that You're not sleeping You can't sleep Because you're feeling that You have not yet done something It's just like you come in You come and give someone an idea But those people are not buying the idea It's just that you don't know The way forward to go about it So I met now that group Known as A2Jcro Africa I thought that was my dream come true I learnt a lot I can't regret being with them I learnt a lot I learnt the challenges on how to work with people So I left that group Because on the way I started going to universities To mentor the university students I've gone to a university of Nairobi Kabete What year are you in? And what year are you in? I'm a first year What time of first year? What giving you confidence To touch up into people older than you? So it just comes automatic You know So a guy Known as Tony Manyara He called me out for the talks For the mentorship So I got famous in here And Kabete Because that passion should grow So then I started going to ICS college in Tikka But now that one was tricky How can you go to advise people of your own age? It sounds funny Like it sounds funny Going to mentor the You're the same level all of you But I had to do it It just came automatic I started going to a high school campus Ya You know it's just because I can hear the passion in your voice Otherwise Why are you advising me and we are together How did you overcome that? Like now personally I believe in greatness And I believe in leadership of a woman And because a woman can be able to do anything You can also be able to multitask And a lady She's passionate and she can be able to do anything Like I knew that everything is possible I knew I can make it I knew that I can make it personally And so I told you is I like being a problem solver According to if it is my friends If it is family or anywhere So I like to look for solutions Like now when I look at my circle Most of the people have kids Most of the people Like Your age mates Ya my age mates And I was like If these people If these people they don't They don't get someone who can support them Either not financially Mostly the physically The emotional love Who will mentor them Who will guide them So I have to Keep on pushing to show them that Everything is possible And making a mistake It's not the end of life You can be able to To go to the next level And you can be able to be a motivation To the next generation Looking at this time that There is high teenage pregnancies Which have risen And I'm 100% sure by the By a few years to come We'll be having a lot of single mothers And we also need to hold them And work with them this journey together Ya, afaikwa chiliwa Kusu wa isama listening to Is it your mum or your dad Because someone must have given you this wisdom No, no, no Even my mum cannot be able to stand Belia wa itu Ya, so I used to I used to I used to I used to believe in people I believe in people I believe in listening to an ear Because there is also depression Depression is running Ya ni a lot of things are happening To the youth But they just need someone Who can listen to them Someone who can hear them Wana wana But now So I went Now January came Corona came So after quitting It took me like four months To know which is the next step Which is the next step If I may interrupt you What did you do for those four months As much as What did you do in those four months after you quit For some time Uma joveni mtu anangaliangam tu kuativi Anana me omoka Ya, so I expect Uli kwa skumoji uli ka If you come Ba kwa suma mungu tu nusili Lafufu the next day kafa nika And then shwa usha kwa I need them to understand That there are some days You won't want to do What you love to do I need them to understand That it's hard I need them to understand That's part of the process Masaebu Tamadali Don't think it's very strange Or it's very unique to you It happens to everyone So what did you do in those four months Okay, like what I can say is First of all let me go back to When I was in high school I used to pray for my future I used to say this is what I want to do You speak it You speak it I speak it I spoke it Like an example is Before deciding on which course I wanted to do I used to tell people You see that magazine Or that newspaper I used to read newspapers Getting knowledge Like I was much interested into the world Getting to know and to learn ideas And I had some tips Of what I really wanted So when you were selecting some courses On what to do I used to tell my friends By the way Why don't you do business administration That is the best course There is a unique course in terms of business It is wide So I used to find myself advising people In terms of business So I was advising them to do business So I used also to declare I had a strong faith in me I used to say I will go to a university But I could not tell you Which university I will go So I could say I will go to a university I wanted to do something Which I will be talking I don't want to say It will hinder me from my passions I just need something for talking Talking, sharing ideas Being passionate about it But now there are a lot of challenges Because no one understands you You want to do this You want to do this You want to do this You want to do this I could find myself I can't do anything I can't do anything But I am in this side I am in that side So until my parents will ask me Are you not seeing that you are confusing your life Pick one thing And stick to it I have also had a lot of it But now my parents are very supportive Ni nile ya upole They could tell me Are you not seeing that you are confusing yourself Because you are good at this side You are good at this side You are good at that side You are good at that side Why don't you choose something In ita kufitu kwa You just do one thing At least you don't limit yourself But I don't have any problem You do in all of them That is what she told me So earlier this year Challenges were very many As a lady As a lady Many people will discourage you Because they have seen the passion in you They have seen a lot in you And others will also approach you for sex So that they give you that chance Thank you for saying that Excuse me I don't know who needs to hear this Please normalize doing business with ladies Without wanting to have sex with them Thank you So you find that A lot of people they see what it is in you And they are like Let's do this Give me this I give you this Give me this and give you this And I was like No, I don't do that And if it will take me long No problem I will just wait When God's time come He will do it Sklyoku high five So I kept on pushing But people will just approach you Mostly the men They think that you are desperate By the way They think that you are desperate Since they once They tell you that Oh I can support your project What you will do is Just give me sex I give you money I connect you So and so And I'm like No, I don't do such things I believe in God And the right time will come I know it is not the right time Right now So I'll just keep on pushing Ya, I mean But then I said Na ringa sana But life was in my song Na ringa sana But this is where I am Because I believe in who I am So earlier this year That is January The journey was just smooth And I was like feeling to quit The team that I was working with But now I'm always patient I like giving personal An ear and eye to see So there is how you can tell yourself You can say something But you have to be patient At least you have a clear thing Had to be patient Now I quit Though it was It was not that good I quit in a Let me say in a badly way I quit in a badly way So it took me time to heal It took me 4 months to heal To heal up That I've ever been betrayed By someone Like I've never been betrayed By someone So me personally I've never been betrayed By person By anyone So that was my first time To be betrayed In a completely To be betrayed completely So like me Like I used to I'm very good Yani I have that heart of giving So I give almost everything Yani I'm always there For all my friends For anyone Even for a stranger I make friends very fast And I trust very fast But that time I used to trust Very very fast I like what you said by that time So life in me kupigama bares So that time I used to trust Okay, I usually trust people very fast Personally I trust very fast Because of intelligence Amulis attracted to intelligence My self is atro So Amulis attracted to intelligence When I find you are intelligent Automatical get attracted to you Because I would like to learn something from you And even if you are my friend Or if we meet today I'll have to learn something from you That is a sure bet I like learning ideas from people Either you meet today Or we meet any time That is a must There is nothing new in terms of mentorship I just grab what you say Grab that Grab that So that is what I do Like I will make sure Any type of friend that I get Or anyone I usually meet I have to learn one idea from that person Ya So I got time to heal It was not easy I used to pray to God Manzei God sukuji saasa I used to pray to God I'm very pushed But now I'm like You have no friends Because you've been betrayed If you marry me Because the kutin was It was very bad for me I guess it was just a changing point of my life I did not know That's why I say that it was God's plan So during the 4 period month I was like thinking What can I do I was like What if I do this If I be sharing ideas with people Who are interested I'll be giving them ideas They buy it But I don't work Like I don't be part of it Ya ni ni kwa behind the scenes Because I'm very pushing about this day But I don't have people to work with So I was like Let me do this I share ideas with someone They do it But now I'm like I don't have people to work with Just want to be behind the scenes That way my heart will be very happy That is what I wanted But now I joined myself First of all I had already deleted all the contacts I did not have anyone It was me and my family Because I needed that time to heal To compose myself To wake up You know to think It took me almost 4 months What is the next level to do? Imagine I can relate I can truly relate to what you are saying Sometimes life can put you to your knees You don't even understand Uo uli kwa na jum nendo Suddenly Umeteleza wuka Kusya namutwa nangu kaha din namu kona It is what it is Ya ya sure Like now before corona came That was 14th march I was in High school That was the largest number I've ever met My whole life They were 1200 students So that time Then the next Now because I was a leader Now that time before I quit I had to multitask myself To balance myself I attended this one I attended this one the afternoon So it just went Life in a bit bana Like he ni akuna manyanaju I used to pray to humble myself And I tell God God just do your ways Because I don't know What is about to happen next Like I've never been Not having anyone Like you've been betrayed by Those close people Who you are just close with them You did work together But now psh What you do Because they have been told bad things about you And they believe it Those people who have covers Like now an example If someone come and says That you are bad No one will ever believe Because there is how you have carried yourself In terms of how you Maybe you do your things So you have a cover Of friends Who just cover you up But me I did not have a cover I did not have a cover The only cover which I heard it was God And I stood with saying the truth Because when you do something wrong I will always tell you you have done Something bad So I will tell you But now telling someone the truth It's Just telling someone the truth Like you are not doing something good Just like that So Life continued I gave ideas to different friends Others used it Others did not use it Were you getting paid for these ideas? No no no no Like give them for free Come and tell you Why don't we try to do this and this and this But now You will see yourself that And yeah this is a nice idea Then on the way to Nakusana Any some piti piti things And me I don't like having issues with people Anyhow I was too good Anyhow I am too good I felt myself just being too good So I said it like this I thought I went to a charity event Now my friends Now other friends Not friends Now other friends We could do with them charity So I said Kindly add me to all the charity groups that you know We kind of use one then I thought Kajuliza What am I benefiting from all these charity groups Nothing Okay what am I benefiting from them Nothing I was like nothing Nothing Because there is no any benefit Like you have a call in you But You don't know what's next I told myself No Come on Nancy There is nothing you are getting from all these I went and gave a friend of mine the idea Like this and this is what I want But I don't want to have any leader I want to be me Only me alone Because I know To work with people sometimes it's very stressful Say it again It is very very stressful Kusaw kumalimko Kusababu mnodi ya kiyomoka Let's say like we partner I and you In terms of maybe a project There is one who sells almost everything Maybe you sales the group Anywhere you go Who sells everything But not me on the other hand I'm not maybe that socially to people Something like that At the moment when you do a project On your two of you It is a must It is a must Because one of the person you'll be thinking The other one is much better than the other Or because Any there is a lot of things Which might happen on the way So I wanted like I wanted to be my own boss Because I know what I want This is me This is This is what I love doing So I decided I gave a friend I created a group Kitambu But one of the members What I did is I created a group So I was thinking I was thinking I was thinking I created two heavy I guess that was August I was thinking What type of an event I can come up with Because Now I was Now a bit confused I gave a couple of friends of mine The ideas Not giving them an idea When you want to When you want to start something Don't go and give your friends ideas No Which are them Already what you have planned for Because that person Atona you are not serious We have two thoughts So I did not have thoughts I had already worked on it I told A couple of friends The ones I don't know Like now I don't know you I just come and tell you This is what I am interested in doing I would like you to be supporting me That is it So I worked with people Who I don't know them Like who don't know me I did not want to work with people who know me Because there will be that jealousness Invinence And it will not progress That is why I came to learn I came to learn something is Never work with people who you know Work with people who you don't know you That is very powerful Never work with people Who you know They will never help you They will never help you Because you will be loving You will be having jealousy Of the progressive of that someone I used to think That women We are our own worst enemies Sure We cannot stand to see each other But I have had A group of friends And all we have ever done Is just wanted the best for each other And that is it Kama mimi nikona I have confided in you I have told you ok in my life Nona nikona job Nikona nikona pesa Maybe for now what I want Now is to start a family And I tell you that And maybe for example I know As As very much physically I am sitting here Touching touching things That there are people who will clap for you Even if that's what they want But when do we part They will clap for you Like good job Like kuna sezon Sezoni akon doi Yanguina kamsawa But let us all be happy for each other And we are not many We are not We are not many See I have looked But the ones that are there Yeah sure Sure definitely they are true So I came up with the group I had to look for a name I guess the group it was I can say it was a foundation Of prayers I prayed I prayed I guess it's just a revelation Of what I would love to do And the group is named Spirit of Giving I named it Spirit of Giving Because It's a gift Not everyone can be able to give by the way Not everyone can be able to give out something So I came up with the one Okay there is Now starting the foundation Moja kajaribu kuhiaribu Like she came She wanted to be like the boss She wanted to be like the boss And I refused I removed them In the whatsapp group Because By that time I really knew What I want And singipenda amtuani bring down Because I struggled to be there Because I failed several Almost ten times Coming up with that team I told God Man say God Stegi nime choka kunga nisha watu kuwa Becoming a date is such Even up to date their dating And it is good Until I had to tell God That is not what I want Okay but you might be the start of A very happy marriage But that was not the point No that was not the point I was like no This is not what I want I want something great I want something big So I came up with an idea I came up with an event I was like What type of an event can I do I came up with a street kids event I wanted to do it Where was it? Uku town No, kakete hivi I've ever Your heart beats for mentorship But before you reach there Nudya bado sujiya nini sujiya kwa stable I have not been stable by that time Like I don't know what I want I decided There is a lady in FB I saw what she was doing And I got interested in what she was doing She could donate sanitary pads To the young ladies And talk to them So she approached me She told me I love what you are doing now me I love what you are doing And I would like you support me I usually help the girl child But now I don't have finances Because of some few issues So she was doing an event in Kibra So I decided I told her No worry I'll know what I will do Let me first I'll just give you the feedback I thought I'll use once So I was very passionate about mentorship And I was like How do I even How do you even start by Telling your parents You know First of all I did not tell them Before coming up with an event I got a chance to act So I'm also a local I'm also an actress At local TV in Oro So I act Kikuyu Centrosinema Do you know Mubani? No See that kashu I just that I forgot in this room I act Centrosinema I'm an actress there The local television So before that chance came I was that in that process Of healing myself So a friend of mine Who is the president Of Kiriru Immense University And also a founder Of Tuas Learning Shady I'm heart-reshara So she told me I told her jokingly By the way me wanna act So later I got a chance Boone ite You know jokingly I just few days she called me And told me Eh we are going for a set And I'm like What? I don't know how to speak Kikuyu Like you try to You try to see yourself And you're like There's some people who speak much better than you So I'm going to say Nairobi So obvious it's not that fluent I can remember now you have to go Our director Misha Amwambia So you have to attend It is a must you attend And I'm like how Like okay I composed myself But that was also a partial Back high school So like I'm all round I can't do anything I got a chance I went I did I did not go for auditions by the way Ah yeah Wolling ya tukazi Eling ya tukazi bana Wolling it on Okay So we have some very interesting photos From Anansi's Instagram page Maybe you can look at that before We go Aki Jamani One time you wish I don't understand what's going on But anyway As my very able team Works on that Anansi how can we support you So personally I've been doing mentorship In campus High school And community Right now Now I'm into community I donate sanitary pads Soaps T-shirts Ya And boxers I met a boy child and girl child I met a boy child and girl child So Anyone who have sanitary pads Anilete Anilete Ya Maybe boxers If you would like to donate anything You can always reach me out On my Facebook I'm Nansiki Mani You'll see just a picture of there Of a lady Who is holding sanitary pads I believe Ya Ya So I'm going to So I'm into mentoring the boy child And the girl child You can donate any T-shirts Sanitary pads Ya What are we looking at over here What are these What's going on here So these one When you look at these These were sanitary pads Which were Which were thrown For the girl child As in this pose though Ya this pose They are used No, they are not used They are just thrown away They were just thrown away What do you mean? These were just thrown away This one was a picture Of Kiyapu County This Kiyapu County Where the pads were just thrown Ya na elam kwa wami Giyadim na tukutu Ya see wami mi Like this one is just a post from A place where I just got it Like it is very bad This is just a disposal Someone did this And it was very hurtful You can imagine So I had that pain Like what should someone Dispose all these When I need these sanitary pads This is the first time I am seeing Something like this in my life So na easy So na kuni kutuba zime tupo How? But okay Hashtag is Why in the morning Alright What else are we looking at here? So this one is We were donating at Kasarani Mweki These are sanitary pads As you can see We have the panties Now these ones were For the girl child And ya We have two hips We have two children Okay Alright So for Mweki Was it like a home? No That one was We Like it was just a A place we had looked for And anyone Who could be available Could attend Mostly the teenagers We teach them about Early pregnancies Mental health Gender based violence And also the general life And later we Offer them sanitary pads Because not Not everyone can be able to afford And just a full package And a panty That one up there It's a boxer Wow Meanwhile Alright So this is the last photo What are we looking at? I think I am seeing tissue Ya tissues And that one is a pad So this one it is At Kibra Here we had gone To mentor the girl child And the boy child So we donated So this is what we do If anyone can be able to donate Sanitary pads or tissues Can always reach To me Are you open to Monetary compensation Like instead of me Going to buy pads Just give you money Ya you can Okay Alright so what would you like To tell the audience In conclusion In conclusion What I can say is I appreciate for everyone Who has ever supported me Physically Financially Or emotionally We all appreciate And being A young youth I would like to I would like to urge Other youths Can also come up With the same project To help the young generation Ya Ya see mimi kama For Lantain I have visions Of voting for half a president In the near future But Africans We are still telling women That they cannot Eat certain parts of the chicken I try to find Facebook I try to find on Twitter Hashtag is why In the morning Thank you for staying With us on strength of a woman I think this one Is a bit more strength of a lady Seeing as how Very very young she is But her passion Is the strength part My name is Val Or at Colomibel Please do not go away We are not done with you yet