My name is Sarah Longman. I'm the Supervisor for Indigenous Education for Regina Public School Division. My program is not a standalone program, it's a program within an organization. So my I guess work that I oversee is the Indigenous Education components within the School Division. So I oversee I guess the academic standing of all the self-declared Indigenous students in Regina Public School. So right now we have about 4,300, between 4,300 and 4,400 self-declared students. When we look at those numbers we break down that self-declared pool of students. 73% of those students are treaty status and then the rest are non-treaty status.  I think we have 10 who are our Inuit students. So we have them when they come into our School Division we have them self-declared. Let us know who they are and it helps to focus our programming dollars. It helps to make decisions in terms of our strategic plan and and how we do our budget allocations for the students. It helps for us to make our decisions around delivery of different programs for example because of our demographics and who we are and where we are in the provinces sketch one. A large number of our students are Cree from Cree Background. So one of the pieces they share with us and it's volunteer they share with us their status numbers. So from the status numbers you can pretty well find out the location of the band. So most of those treaty status students are from Cree Background. Therefore when we offer our language programs our Indigenous language programs we focus on Cree because that's who our students are. So I oversee the students. I look at their attendance and monitor all of the students on a regular basis to see how they're doing and try to make sure that our students are doing well. They're being successful and they're not falling through the cracks. Oftentimes we do have students who need students in the family that need extra support and this is just by like I said following our database and taking a look at our students in high school how many of our self-declared students are acquiring the credits that they need for that semester and are they going to be on track to graduate. So we follow them again through the data to see how well they're doing academically especially in the high school and what we can do from that is if I see a student who is falling behind in the credits that they've earned at the high school level I can tap one of our Indigenous advocate teachers who are trained teachers that work with Regina Public and they are of an Indigenous background themselves. So if I'm looking and I'm going through the data and I'm looking at credit attainment and I see you know within one school high school a number of self-declared students who are not on track to graduate they're losing credits. I you know call the advocate teacher and then they pull those students in and they take a look and they reveal okay which assignments are missed which assignments can be recovered it's called a credit recovery and what do we need to do to try to get the student back on track to make sure that the student actually graduates on time. So one of the programs I guess I oversee is the Indigenous advocate teachers program. The Indigenous advocate teachers I'm really happy to say that they are in 9 out of 10 of our high schools and we kind of take a look at all of that data and where our students are or our biggest student population is and you know where they're experiencing credits that are not being completed and we put an Indigenous advocate teacher in that high school and then their jobs is to take all of those kids who are self-declared within that building and to track their progress of all of those kids. They do that by connecting with the families well and trying to engage the families doing you know going to the home and talking to the parents and you know explaining the importance of attendance but also looking at what are some of the barriers that might be the way preventing students from attending. So it could be transportation sometimes. It could be issues that they're having with their peers. It could be financial hardships. It could be you know personal health reasons. I mean there's a number of reasons so the advocate teacher works with that family and the student to try to make sure that they you know the student stays on track and actually can graduate. So we have we started four Aboriginal advocate program in our elementary schools as well. So again we took the elementary schools and we looked at where our highest needs are so it's a needs-based type of allocation of an advocate teacher and we have four elementary schools in our school division that have a high number of Indigenous students. So that's where we position an advocate teacher in the elementary. So they're they do they do a lot of work connected with students. A lot of times the students may not feel comfortable talking to the teacher about a mark that they received and they will you know go to the advocate teacher and say can you come with me or can you go and talk to the teacher about this grade and you know can you talk to them about letting me redo this or you know there's all sorts of different things but they play up a huge role in the lives of the Indigenous students. So that's kind of one of the programs that I get to oversee and watch and develop. Another program would be our elders in residence program. So to support our Indigenous students in the building first and foremost we have our elders in residence program. They you know provide cultural understanding, cultural connections, affirming culture. They're just all around positive role models for our students. They are you know the best huggers and sometimes our kids just need a hug and they're they're so good at that. They're also there to assist and bring their expertise and their knowledge into the classroom and learning space. So we have predominantly non-Indigenous teaching staff a large number and they don't have the same level of understanding and knowledge as our elders do around our culture and around our values, our protocols, our knowledge, all of those different pieces.  Can you come in and talk about you know the the constellations from an Indigenous worldview to complement the the work that we've been doing on looking at the constellations. Things around treaty what is what does treaty mean? You know with the treaty training curriculum that came out from the ministry. Our elders are huge in helping provide us support for that. They also our elders also connect with our families so every now and then our Aboriginal advocate teachers if they're going up to home and you know they kind of sense that perhaps the family would like to have an elder to come in and do a prayer.  Our Aboriginal advocate teacher will team up with an elder and the two of them will go and visit the family and have conversations and see how they can help support whatever that family may be requesting. We have you know oftentimes a lot of our urban families don't or are not as closely connected to a lot of our culture and a lot of it is urbanization and colonization and the impact of residential schools and all of those pieces. So our elders play a huge role in helping our kids to reconnect. We have a lot of Indigenous students who are in foster care or have been adopted into non-Indigenous homes and they're trying to find out who they are. They're trying to find their identity they're trying to get their connections in place to their community. There's all of those different pieces and of course our elders you know as soon as they hear an Indigenous last name they can almost you know pretty accurately tell them where their families from based on their name. So they do they do all of those things but they're very skilled at developing relationships. So you know we see a lot of different institutions and a lot of organizations working with bringing in cultural awareness training for their staff. We see that in so many different sectors and so many different humongous organizations and you know we found it our experience has been it's been our elders and the relationships that they've been able to build with our non-Indigenous colleagues that have been have had such a huge profound effect on opening the mind to different ways of knowing, creating an openness about you know thinking about other worldviews, thinking about how they incorporate this other worldview into a very westernized curriculum. And just just just becoming friends you know just making that person to person that human contact has been so important and our elders are so good at doing that. Again when we are working with our elders and residents we try to we try our hardest to ensure that our people that are working within our elders program are very much mere who our community is. So in our community here we have our Lakota Dakota people we have our Cree and then we have our Anishinaabe people and our Métis people within that group within those language groups we also have some people who are very very closely connected to their culture and we have others who have been disconnected for lots of reasons. So those same dynamics that we have within our population we try to get our elders to reflect that. So we have some very traditional elders who've been able to maintain and keep their language and also elders who've been able to you know still keep some of our traditional ways of knowing them well. We also have some of our elders who are this is probably a really bad term but I call them contemporary elders so they don't have for for lots of reasons they've lost the connection to speaking their language they don't have their language and they you know their sense of understanding our culture is very much a contemporary way of looking at it. Our elders all serve a really really important role to our community our family members who have been disconnected from their culture tend to tend to gravitate more to our elders who are more contemporary rather than our elders who are very traditional. So our contemporary elders really open the door I think for a lot of further questions for a lot of further learning and understanding that happens. So they all play a really critical role a crucial role to our students to their families the students families as well as to our educators that work with us. So they're all kind of working towards a better understanding of our culture and our knowledge and appreciation of of our traditional ways of knowing and bringing and bringing that into this western curriculum and fusing the two roles together so it makes sense for the learners as well. I also get an opportunity to work with our elders advisor council which is another one of our programs and our elders advisor council is a little bit different they don't work so much one-on-one in the school like the elders in residence do. Our elders advisor council sit side by side with our board of trustees so if we're looking at our organizational structure within a school division our trustees are elected officials that actually run in their election on a four-year cycle and they get voted in by the community to be a trustee. Those trustees then you know are kind of at the top of the organizational structure followed by our director of education and all the other folks that kind of fall underneath underneath him and so so they play a critical role in you know our strategic planning. The elders that sit side by side with the trustees again you know very much like our elders in residence they offer their cultural understanding they offer the cultural knowledge and they guide our trustees making decisions that impact the indigenous students the indigenous community. You know things like we recently developed and implemented a smudging policy so of course when you're working with bringing in something like smudging into a very public institution there's all sorts of different policies that will collide so for example we have an occupational health policy that directly collides with our smudging policy. We have no smoking policy that directly collides with our smudging policy so for our trustees and our elders to work together to kind of navigate a space for how that policy could develop be developed and how it could be implemented at a grassroots level the the trustees will rely heavily on the expertise of the elders on what that would look like. So they do a lot of that with our with our trustees so so forming policy and and of course policy always informs practice as well so we have that group as well. We do a lot of in terms of our our teachers and our school administrators we do a lot of work on helping to close the knowledge gap of non-indigenous educators and administrators. Many of our folks that we work with have a solid grasp of curriculum and instructional pedagogy and all of those technical pieces that come along with having a teaching certificate but a lot of them will have grown up in a very western education system an education system that has not included indigenous history things like you know they don't understand residential schools I mean it's getting better you know our new teachers that are coming into the systems now understand and know our history when residential schools they understand what they schools are all about they can make the connection between some of those federal imposed schooling systems and the connection to some of the contemporary things around murdered indigenous women for example they can make those connections but not all of our educators can do that we still have a lot of gaps people who've gone through entire systems of education who are very highly educated that have never had an opportunity to learn about our history around the residential schools here in Canada. It's only been really really recent lost decade that people have been exposed to that information so we still have large knowledge gaps of people who don't have that understanding so what are the work that I do as I try to provide as much as that of that background for the staff as possible so they can re-engage in a culturally proficient way with our families with our with our students and of course with our elders in our community so you know what are what are the long-term residual effects of the residential school and how does that play out in our classrooms on a day-to-day basis so we talk about trauma and you know how trauma plays out in many of our students who have been exposed to violence in the home who have been exposed to you know some of the chronic issues that have come through intergenerational trauma and how do you build a safe learning environment for those students so that they're not triggered time after time after time so for example a small example as you know many of our children who've grown up in with violence around violence will react to to certain loud sounds and oftentimes those loud sounds you know is could be one of their triggers and when someone who is experiencing trauma unresolved trauma they will react and respond to that trauma to that stimuli in the environment not knowing exactly what they're responding to so a lot of the work that we do is is trauma-informed practice teaching our educators and our staff what trauma-informed practice looks like we do culturally culturally affirmative I guess resources bringing in contemporary representation of who we are so we try to do away with all of the stereotypes that are inside books and teaching educators about the impact that has on some of our young people especially our young kids who are just starting to read and they can't make sense of the context that rely on the pictures and if the picture is filled with a negative cultural stereotype you know the kids will buy into that so I guess part of the other the other important piece of work that we do is is you know Indigenous education is not only important for Indigenous kids but it's just as important for non-Indigenous students as well they need to understand that they themselves have probably some stereotypes that they need to work on they need to have those stereotypes replaced with accurate information otherwise there's a whole bunch of assumptions being made about a culture that's totally and accurate some of those stereotypes left unaddressed will turn into something really big and ugly and it turns into before you know what that's racism it's the seeds of racism and so a lot of the work that that I do with with educators is you know helping them to bring in good content good accurate information good literature from our own Indigenous writers accurate representation of who we are as Indigenous people to help break down a lot of those stereotypes I also do a lot of work with trying to bring about a solid queer language program which is really really tough to do trying to align resources trying to you know clean up the stuff around the interchangeable use of different dialects for example so a lot of our non-Indigenous educators wouldn't be aware of you know the difference between the th dialogue to Korean and dialectic but kids who are learning this language can definitely differentiate between the two dialects at same time so again you know working with the educators to to understand those pieces of language is huge so a lot of the work you know as well as managing the students and managing some of these programs have to do with you know always thinking of what are some skills that I need to bring to our non-Indigenous educators so they can do the absolutely best job of engaging teaching and building pod for Indigenous learners and their families so that's huge that's a lot of work I've been in this job for six and a half years now it's a fairly new position that was created within our school division to kind of have some kind of oversee all of the programs that we have in place however there have been people that have been doing this for long before me so we've had we have you know cultural our cultural liaison person who's been there for a number of years as well and his job is to connect with our community and to find the people in our community that are really talented at doing things so you know he's pretty connected to the community so if someone is looking at can we have someone come into our fine arts classroom and bring in Quilling he'd find a person in the community that knows how to do Quill work and we'll bring them into the classroom and connect them in the learning environment with the educators as well so he's been he's been doing that work for for a long time so I think within our school division I'm going to say safely we've been kind of doing this work and it's been built on every time something new kind of comes in I think it's probably safe to say it's been 20 years that has been happening so it's fairly fairly young I guess right so yeah I look at the number of first of all our self-declared students so when I first started doing the self-declared work and trying to measure the exact number that we had in our school division our numbers were actually quite low it was 2700 six years ago and and today we're at 4400 so it's not like we've had a whole influx of indigenous families moved to the city in the last six years I think we've done a better job of promoting culture in a very positive way so now our numbers went from 2700 six years ago to around 4400 now so that's a significant increase in students and families who self-declared the other piece that I look at is our graduation rates for our First Nations meeting with students that number has increased I mean it's nowhere near where we need to be but it's a heck of a lot better than where we were when we initially started so we are you know we're around 57% grad rate we used to be around 27 so we've improved by about 30% and I know that we could do better in how we do this work so you know how is the gap closing I mean it's a tough gap to measure I think the other gap is just the number of non-indigenous educators now who are incorporating on a regular basis indigenous ways of non-indigenous knowledge and that's a tougher get that's a tougher number to try to measure but certainly you know if we look at things like you know smudging in schools and the only first role this thing all people were really apprehensive and kind of not sure on how they should do it and of course there's this being predominantly non-indigenous people doing this and now we've got schools that sponge on a regular basis we have entire schools that smudge on a regular basis we have you know we have on the 28th of March we have our annual feast and round dance coming up for we join a public school and something we started four years ago so this will be our fourth one and it's hosted by a different high school so when we talk to our elders advisory council about how we could do this they suggested to us that we uh do you know each high school kind of be the host do we go in kind of this clockwise direction in selecting the host so this year we're kind of up in north now and so our northern school high school is going to host this feast and round dance and it's also in partnership with all of the elementary feeder schools around that high school so it's um being put together by predominantly non-indigenous staff and I mean that's a huge task of course they're being guided by you know we we provide direction guidance and our cultural liaison you know puts the important pieces in place but a lot of the planning a lot of the preparing of the food is done by our female elders so our female elders will go into the school and work with the staff the female staff on how to cook the food um prior to that we had a you know a couple months ago we had a ribbon skirt making night where we had one of our our community ladies that knows about ribbon skirts come in and do an explanation about it and anybody who was wishing to make their skirt at that time she would take them through that so there's been a lot of work and you know just to see I guess a level of of how receptive people are now and incorporating what we do and how we do things into a very Western structure is is astonishing to see I mean honestly I just never ever believe that we would be at this point and you know just it just goes to the work of you know the Indigenous advocate teachers the elders that we have in place you know our trustees and our elders advisory and putting together the all of the pieces come together so we could see something like a feast around us being held in one of our predominantly you know white middle class schools and neighborhoods so I don't know how we would measure that in terms of numbers you know the openness is just I just know that you know we have grown leaps and bounds from where we were you know seven eight years ago to where we are today I thought I used to know but then I've kind of changed my my understanding as I went as I went along and became a part of it I don't know if we've really figured that out yet because it's so big you know I think it encompasses a few pieces I think it's it's it's certainly our traditional ways of knowing it incorporates our worldview it incorporates our language incorporates our relationships our relationship with our land our relationship to our identity our kinship relationships all of those pieces are part of it and coming together and knowing who we are as Indigenous people knowing the difference between being you know an Indian woman and being an Anishinaabe very very different and I think that journey in between those two pieces of definitions I guess is is kind about Indigenous education means to me you know and then talking to our elders again and thinking about what they say you know they talk to us and I've heard so many times and it's kind of cliche now but you know education is our new buffalo is the other thing I've heard as well and you know if you think of a system and a structure in place and it's something that we need to sustain us to sustain sustain who we are as Indigenous people to sustain our communities our well-being you know our future our young people education is is where we need to go it's what does that education look like is is kind of a huge question for me because I see the the best of both worlds for our students you know understanding our culture and our language at the same time knowing how to utilize technology and using that technology to promote who we are but also to share our voice in a very powerful way to unify you know the tribes of Indigenous people around the world like around the world so that we you know all become a unified force when we're looking at things like you know the the the pipelines and the deforestation and you know the murdered missing Indigenous women and technology is huge and bringing those issues to to light and bringing people together so I think it's a little bit of everything it's a little bit of you know taking the best of of the Western world finding a way to utilize that to promote and sustain who we are as Indigenous people at the same time reconnecting with our cultural language at a very deep level and using those values to to move us forward while bringing the next generation behind us so laying a strong foundation for the little ones that are coming behind us I have huge dreams I want I want to see you know I want to see Indigenous directors of education and the public systems I want to see you know our schools reflect and have a high number of Indigenous educators so that our kids have those role models that they they can look up to so they have teachers who have a similar lived experience yet can demonstrate to them what resiliency looks like we need to have those people within our institutions we need to have our non-Indigenous people clear space for Indigenous people to be the ones at the front we need our Indigenous or non-Indigenous allies to kind of step back and and allow Indigenous people now to to take the reins and take the lead I think all of the answers that we need lie within our our communities and I'm going to be very biased but it's it's about our women and you know I really see Indigenous women taking a strong stance and shifting and and changing things for our kids for our communities in the next 10 years I'd love to see you know the graduation gap closed I'd love to see you know our students not only you know graduating and with a grade 12 and finding you know a job I want to see you know our Indigenous kids coming out with an engineer degree I want to see them as doctors I want to see you know our Indigenous kids walking through the hallways of Harvard University because of every single right to be there I want to see our Indigenous lawyers who are Indigenous pharmacy pharmacists and I really love to see them you know walking hand in hand with their language intact and their identity of who they are and these are going to be our folks that are going to kind of lead the way so that's my dream for the next 10 years


Let's see how the question and answer method might be used in math. In this example, the teacher and students each get 10 sticks, and they count them together. The teacher could ask questions related to facts, such as, if I divide my 10 sticks into two equal groups, do I still have 10 sticks? Or, what if I put them in groups of 7 and 3? Do I still have 10 total? The teacher could also ask questions that get the students to think, such as, if you divide your sticks into two groups, do you still have 10 total? Or, if I take two sticks away and put the rest into two groups, do I still have 10 sticks total? Lastly, the teacher can ask questions that relate to real life, such as, what things do you see in our room that you could put into two groups and count? Thank you.


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She is eminently qualified. I can't talk about HGH, you know him, but this lady here, she is eminently qualified, she is an educationist, she has been a parliamentarian, cabinet minister, but above all, she is well-steep, not only herself but her family, steeped in the Christian principles. She is a good person, she is a good mother. This nation is lucky that we have these two people that are bringing us together. With those two ways, Mr. President, may I invite you please? Yes. May I invite my coach here, Dr. Enes Wanza Honorable to also say a few words. Mr. President, to be elected, it is just a matter of time and days. Now fellow Zambians and Madam Vice President, let me just say one thing. When a lion attacks a village, whether you quarrel among you in the village or not, stop quarrelling and deal with the lion or you are in trouble. Mr. Zambian, chisi chomwe mushovo mwen. That's what I know. At this point in time, Mr. President, your job is to show this country that the divisions they talk about are a creature of those who talk about them. We have lived for 57 years together. What can divide us today? When a boat is sinking and there is a boat somewhere, you start looking for anything to hold onto. And sometimes even a straw in a lake, you think it can protect you if you want. Once the boat starts sinking, the job of those who know how to swim is to get as many people out of that boat as possible. And that's our job. This alliance is about taking Zambians out of the quagmire we have seen into the hope we want, the Zambia we want. Mr. President, I don't want to take time. There always will come and we will articulate these issues more. For now, let me just be the one privileged. So in my coach here, these are privileged areas. The first one introducing the president to be, come of August to the podium. My duty is to first and foremost thank the people of Zambia who have been anxious, extremely anxious to keep us away from this. I don't have to explain. You've been reading, you've been following. In their belief we shall file our potential nominations who come and indeed it has come. Thank you to the people of Zambia. I'd like to thank our alliance partners. Obviously when I say we, in this context, I mean Madam Nalumango express our gratitude to these able men. The leading parties would have been a running mate. But they did that right, see that opportunity for the greater good of the people of Zambia. These are great men and I want to thank you President. We discussed in our private meetings with the talent that you hold. Talent pool of management committees is the best leadership managers want to reunite this country. To reconstruct this country. Reconstruct it from the economic side with the lyric at the moment. Which is delivering nothing for the people of Zambia. So we can be able to also rebuild the social fabric and destroy it. By those that probably think that it's a joy right. Public office is serious business. Public business is not a game. And this team will deliver this country. We will not let you down. I should not say more because we say a little bit outside. Simple as to say thank you media. Thank you for the electro commision. I know. And I think we all know the pressures they were under in order to disqualify us. But it was not possible. But thank you the pressure from us in the political arena. But we ask them to remain strong to continue doing that. Because you choose the leadership to save the people. Not to be saved by the people. You choose the leadership to unite the people. Not to divide the people. You choose the leadership to be inclusive. Not to exclude citizens. And that's what this leadership, your leadership, collective leadership will do for the 18 million Zambia. How can I say thank you to all of you presidents. I think somehow along the way as we work hard to deliver we shall find time and space. Appropriate time and space to say thank you. This is only the beginning. Thank you to you all for witnessing this process. With a bit lengthy, I'm not sure why. But we enjoy it. Thank you so much. God bless you all. We love you. Because we have no time. I must quickly say how we shall move from here. I'm sorry I didn't consult you, but the chairman was consulted. We are going to walk up to the gates and go across the road where podium is ready for us to address our people. In the meantime, I'd like those of you who are in charge of security to please help the ease passage of the presidents onto the greatest road and across the podium. Thank you very much.


In this session, Joji will look into how MERSC technology has adopted agile EA inspired by agile lean practices to accelerate the digital transformation journey organizationally so warm virtual welcome Joji George over to you. Thank you, Steve. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Oh, thank you. Hi, everybody. Thank you. Welcome to this session. I hope you and your family are healthy and safe. This is I'm dialing in from Bangalore. Before I start, let me give you context to this. So, when I joined MERSC, the idea was to, you know, start the digital transformation journey there and the last six to seven years, right. I have been mostly involved in in the transformation journey is in two major domains. One is healthcare and other is obviously transport and logistics. And without much, I'll just jump into the first thing. So before we start on that, let's look at some of the key drivers, which is, which is, you know, making digital transformation I must have in today's world, right? And this is also from what we see in the industry today. And it's from the top, you know, the connectivity. We are all in a connector world today. We have social media mobile apps, you know, a lot of IoT cloud.  And that's having an impact on the behavior that the customers have, right? They want a multi channel experience. They want things to seamlessly move around. And that's one of the big drivers for digital transformation. The second aspect is obviously about the expectations that and the new digital native solutions out there. The expectations from our customers are, you know, increasing like never before. You know, it's not just important enough that we do our traditional things. So the traditional organizations like most and others. We have, you know, adopted digital in every form and factor that they could do so that they can not only be in the race for digitalization but also be not disrupted by the digital disruptors that we see in the industries. So our key factor is about speed and agility. And this is nothing new in the digital world. We know everything is about having speed and being agile in what we deliver to the business. And key to that is obviously that in the new world, it's all about being faster rather than slow. One of the errors when we said being big is enough for small players in the market. And finally, the competition is increasing as never before. We have digital players out there. We have the traditional businesses. So the only way we can, the traditional companies like most can survive is, you know, be there. We can take these still as the competitive advantage to what they do and serve its customers much more better. With that, if you look at how this is all getting, you know, translated and data is one single factor which is driving all this. Let me dive a little bit into where we see ourselves from a real world example. On the left is a story representation of what a transport and logistics industry is going through. The expectations that the customers have is all about how can we not only do just transport my cargo from point A to point B. It's also about, you know, how do I get complete visibility to that? How am I, you know, knowing all the exceptions that happen? It's also about what happened to the cargo I send out. If it's about your fruits and vegetables you send out, you want to know whether it survived the whole transit. So there are multiple factors that is driving here those things. And if you look at transport and logistics as an industry, we have way behind in digitalization. There's a lot of still paperwork happening. There's a lot of handouts because of the nature of the business we cross borders on the land and on the ocean. And that's a pretty complex business to be in. Customers all but today demand the ease of business and the flexibility that we see in many other industries. And one of the industries which is closest to what we do is airline and they demand that, you know, we are as fast and flexible as the airline industries. Which means that we have to manage multiple integration, integrations not only within the ecosystem we work in but also with the customers themselves. We integrate directly into their enterprise systems so that they are able to manage and orchestrate their supply chain better. Now that help what we are doing from technology standpoint is obviously the use of IOTs with data and cloud to enable all that and also to integrate with the new ways of integration in technology. So on the on the right is Q-scan from the healthcare. At GE we were the first in the industry to launch a digital platform. Today that platform powers many AI applications and those applications are helping physicians and make better decisions. And if you look at it today, the relevance of some of these applications are even more than those four or five years back. And in this era, in this times of pandemic when we are in a lockdown, things like virtual board meetings and telemedicine is even more important and that all started many years back. So if you look at that, this is all possible because of the data we generate and are able to harness the power of the data. And we heard a lot of speakers talk about that. And that's about the terabytes and petabytes of data we are able to make sense out of. Shifting gear to how does he play a role in that, right? And let me draw upon the story we have. Another is a traditional 100 plus year organization, which has multiple businesses internally and used to operate in in silos, obviously, and then the mergers and accusations obviously didn't help much in getting that even better. However, when we started the digital journey became very clear that we have to have a centralized enterprise architecture as a function that will help us quickly transform this. And then we shifted from the left to the right, but as is normal with any transformation journey, the, the culture, the cultural aspect of the organization, the ways of working in the organization. We meant that we are following a traditional centralized model, which may meant that we have many multiple reviews and approval processes in place. We were not able to get the agility we wanted as a businesses didn't see the perceived outcomes that we wanted. And what it quickly led to was obviously a not a true agile way of working. We moved away from being talking about minimal viable products and, you know, you could delivery times to multi year plans and programs, right? Which naturally did not go very well with the organizational ambition of being a digital organization going forward. However, when we, while this was all happening, we, we two years around two years back we formed a digital organization within Merse. And that's where I joined to head architecture. And that was for us a green field to start and look at how can we disrupt ourselves and take some of the learning from the agile and lean process into the architecture practice itself and also within the organization engineering and stuff right and we found what we call the agile operating model. But before we, we know we know that right. Right. There is not a work just technology that has multiple aspects to it as a process. It has a process part to it as a technology part to it and then we see the agility that the business brings up. The class is popularized by Leibon as the domains of agility. We also look at all those aspects and say how do we take into consideration some of those good practices that brings for business really be it from a agile organization perspective, be it from processes like, you know, from and save or from a technology practices like DevOps, you know, and the content practices. And what you see is a, you know, a, a attempt at that which combines some of those learnings with the principles and practices that we have into a gap. And we found that. And we try to experience this. This talk has was focused on two key elements. The first is about minimal viable architecture, and the second is about DevOps right. How do we iterate faster, and be together with the needs of the business. And the philosophy was that how do we move away from architectures seen as an ivory tower and rather and not focus on too much of a friend design and but take architecture to the teams and work closely with the teams and I treat architecting and delivering in tandem. Now that meant that we also have had to bring in some changes within the engineering operate organizations. We said the teams are agents of the architecture. Architects are there to support and be there throughout the lifecycle of the products that we're doing. And with each learning with the feedback loop, we would iterate through that and then, you know, deliver in a faster mechanism. Now, when while this this was happening, the, the, the idea behind digital was also what we is typically called as the pie model, it model. And we still had the traditional and we had digital on the way. And within the enterprise architecture team that we had, we also looked at a lot of the good techniques we have today to enable transformation within the business itself. Right. How do we enable that you know the business process optimized. We took business capability model as a framework to look at and map the whole business that we have today with the most. And that led to creating what we call the applications landscape, and we started looking at how do we rationalize that. In a century old organization, obviously this landscape we have technologies and platforms, which is like two and three decades old to some of the latest which is based on cloud and big data. Then we also looked at what is the reference architecture we are looking at. What is the target we want to achieve in a couple of years from now. And it's also led to a lot of changes within the organization and say, how do we move from the traditional hierarchical organization to be more general organization. And that's a journey we are still continuing today. We are in a phase that we are the next piece of the transmission we were looking at the things that we had in digital and bring that into the whole organization and make digital code to the organization. And for that, we're also looking at taking some of these agile concepts and architecture concepts and say how do we take that across the whole technology organization that we have today. And it's not done. We see this as a big, big factor in the whole organizational change and the, and the thinking process of how do we accelerate the journey we are in, and how do we take some of these learnings into the organization. One of the big example we have is that we have architecture as a centralized function within the organization, so that we can use that techniques within that to develop new business processes with and optimize the current business process so that digitization is faster and we can get the results that the business is looking for. Yeah, with that I will conclude my talk here and thank you for your attention and I will respond to the queries we have any towards the end. Thank you.


is another arrow in the quiver of the three-part portfolio, right? That's right. Talk a little bit about the V-Class and maybe the details there. You know, if you step back on what folks are after in this new data center, they're trying to handle kind of this unpredictable multi-tenancy, right? Handling all those mixed workloads and changing workloads. They are trying to deal with security and quality of service. They're trying to maintain kind of persistent access to data that's maybe moving around their environment. They are thinking about pay-as-you-grow models and keeping capacity utilization at as high as absolutely possible. And, you know, they're driving on self-configuring, self-provisioning, self-tearing systems to kind of keep the operational side down. So you've got a set of criteria that, frankly, is showing the cracks in the architectures of 20 years ago that we've kind of been working towards. And with the new V-Class, it's our latest extension to the family that's really built on that. And what we kind of view the V-Class as sort of a benchmark for folks who are trying to deliver mission-critical storage capabilities in this new data center. The V-Class extends the lineup about 50% higher in terms of overall connectivity and to IO and disk. It supports some workloads as much as three times faster. From a virtual machine perspective, it really drives up the scalability of VMs in your environment. And it does all of that with a whole new level of efficiency really built into that Gen4 ASIC.  You get a more granular reclamation capability. Even your remote copy or DR capability between arrays gets zero detection, gets a thin capability to it beyond the thin aware capability built into it before. To build on that, it was more granular around thin provisioning. We used to do it at 128 megabyte block sizes. It's now 16K. So whatever the math is, it's 10,000 times more efficient. What have you. So we're really sucking out all the extra unused stranded space and then giving it back to the general storage pool. Thin. So very, very thin.


In this lesson, we'll be talking about another way to implement a mono-alphabetic substitution cipher that doesn't rely on addition like the Caesar cipher. Instead we'll be looking at what we call multiplicative ciphers. So instead of using the Caesar cipher where we added a key to each character value, let's look at what would happen if we instead multiplied by a key value instead. So here is our plaintext alphabet with corresponding numerical representations. And let's multiply each of those values by three. So in this example, our key would be the value of three. If we can see that these numbers get rather large, bigger than 26, but we know that's not a problem, we've seen that before with the Caesar. So we'll mod all of them by 26, and we can see the first few characters work just fine. We get ADG, JMP, SVY, kind of incrementing by three until the end of the alphabet. And then when we mod 27 by 26, we get one, and we wrap back around. Not perfectly, we don't go back to A, but we're offset by one, giving us the ciphertext character of B, and then so on down the line for the next group, and we get to the end of the alphabet, and we mod by 26 again to get the last little piece there. If we can see that this is a valid mapping, multiplication gave us a one-to-one relationship between the plaintext letters and the ciphertext, no repeats. But let's try it with a different key. If instead we had chosen the value four to be a key, and we multiplied everything by four, you might already see a problem here. All of our ciphertext-intercripted character values are even, and if we mod by 26, they're going to stay even. Remember, we're just kind of reducing by multiples of 26. So the first handful of characters seem fine, the ones that are already zero to 24. But when we get to the second batch, well, actually, things still look pretty good. No repeated characters. Notice this third batch here. When we get to the letter N in the plaintext, when we mod by 26, we get back to zero, a little too early. There's a lot of other ciphertext letters that haven't come up yet. And in fact, when we do the last batch, we see, well, the first half of our mapping is the exact same thing as the second half. This is considered an invalid mapping. For each character in the plaintext, we're supposed to go to just one and only one character in the ciphertext. But we can see here that that is not the case. We have repeated letters in the ciphertext that go back to different letters in the plaintext. And there's no way for somebody who received a message that was encrypted with this key to know if they have a letter A in the ciphertext, whether it came from the letter A or the letter N in the plaintext. This is not going to work. So why did it work for one and not the other? Let's take a look at some other key values to save us time. Let's just take a look at maybe what we've got three and four already up here. If we'd used a key of two, that would be an invalid mapping. Key of six is invalid. Key of eight is invalid. Key of 10 is invalid and key of 12 is invalid. Well, let's check out these odd members over here. Key of five was good, seven OK, nine's all right, 11 works. I'm feeling pretty good. Oh, key 13 does not work. In fact, key 13 seems to fail in spectacular fashion. We only have two letters used in the ciphertext A and N. So let's dig a little bit deeper. Maybe let's try the remaining values for keys. Well, here we are again, key 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 do not work. The remaining odd ones do. So we're able to figure out here that for the valid multiplicative ciphers, keys for a 26-letter alphabet that are valid are one, doesn't actually encrypt the message, but mathematically it's fine, 3579, not 13, 1517, 19, 21, 23, and 25. What we don't know is why those are valid keys. Take a moment and think about what it works with these numbers or what properties do these numbers have and what properties did the keys that didn't work have. See if you can make a guess. And to help us maybe solidify that guess, let's look at languages with other alphabets. So if we look at the Italian alphabet, it only has 21 letters. And I did this work prior, so you can trust that it's correct. The valid keys for those multiplicative ciphers, so alphabets of 21, are one, two, four, five, eight, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, and 20. And their invalid keys are 3679, 12, 14, 15, and 18. Notice we're not listing zero as an invalid key in any of these. Zero is going to be an invalid key for any multiplicative cipher. If we multiply the plaintext number by zero, you're always going to get zero. You got no shot at it working. So we're going to kind of leave it out of the conversation. It's implied. If you look at the Nepali language, it has 64 letters in its alphabet and we got a long list of keys here. Our address works out to be all of the odd numbers, one, three, five, seven, nine, 11, 13, all the way up to 63. And the invalid keys are all the even numbers there. Russian has 33 letters. Technically it's 10 vowels, 21 consonants, and two modifying characters. And if you consider all 33 of those as letters, we get the valid keys listed on the screen here. Notably absent are 369, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21, 22, 24, 27, 30, and so one more example, the Hawaiian alphabet, modern day Hawaiian alphabet, consists of 13 letters that are on the screen, which includes that single tick at the end. The valid keys are all of the numbers. There are no non-zero invalid keys for Hawaiian. So maybe update your guess and we'll get a conjecture here that maybe we can prove in just a moment. All right, here's our conjecture. If our key, which we'll represent with letter K and the size of the alphabet, which we'll represent with letter M, share some common factor other than one then K is an invalid key. Let's see maybe why that's the case here. So let's choose a key of six and an alphabet of size 26. We can see that K and M share a factor of two. So instead of writing as K equals six, let's write it as K equals two times three. And instead of writing N equals 26, let's write it as M equals two times 13. We call this the prime factorization of these numbers. And there's actually a theorem in mathematics called the fundamental theorem of arithmetic that guarantees that every integer can be written as the product of its primes. This is often used when we're looking for common factors between two numbers. If we'll write it as the product of their prime factors, it makes it easy to identify which prime factors they have in common. So here we can see it's two. When we look at the values for M, that other factor, in this case 13 should always be guaranteed to be smaller than M, which makes sense if we split up M to be the product of two other numbers that aren't one, those numbers must be smaller than 26 if they're going to multiply to equal 26. So that 13 is guaranteed to be smaller than M itself, which means that if we go over to 13 in our plain text, which is the letter N, let's look what's gonna happen when we multiply by K here. We're gonna get 13 times six, which is the same thing as 13 times two times three, which is the same thing as 13 times two times three. Multiplication order doesn't matter. So if we kind of take that 13 and two and multiply them together, we get 26 times three, which means that, oh, look at that. Then whatever number we get is going to be a multiple of 26, which means that when we mod by 26, we're going to get a zero. And lo and behold, it is true. We would have got 78, 78, mod 26 ends up being zero. We end up getting the letter A much too soon. We would not want to see the letter A again anywhere on this mapping. But if you think about it, maybe I just got lucky? No, I don't think so. Let's try it again. Let's try it with a different alphabet with a K of 12 and an M of 21. They share a factor of three. So let's go over again, look at that non-shared factor from M, which is seven. Seven is guaranteed to be somewhere between one and 20. It has to be. So if we go there and we multiply again by our K value, by rearranging the factors, we are guaranteed that we're going to have a three in our key, because that's the shared factor, which means we can guaranteed group it with the non-shared factor in M of seven, which means that we're guaranteed that this product is going to be a multiple of M, 21, which means that we know with certainty that this product will be zero and be mod by M. Let's take a look at an example where we have a K and an M that don't share any factors. So we have a 13 letter alphabet, so M is 13 and let's try a K value of five. So if K and M only share the factor of one, then there is only non-shared factors left. So if we go to the non-shared factor of M, like we've been doing, we're actually have to go all the way out to 13, which doesn't actually exist. And if we were to go out there and do five times 13, since that must be a multiple of M, it's the only factor, the only factor of M besides one is itself, when we mod by 13 to figure out what letter shows up there, we'll look at that. It's A again, which actually makes sense. We have not repeated. We've used every letter in the plain text alphabet as a cipher text letter before we repeat, which is what we're hoping for. So I think we've done a good job explaining why our conjecture must be true. Let's call it a result. So we could summarize our work as saying, given some multiplicative key K that we're going to use for an alphabet of size M, K is a valid key if and only if the greatest common divisor between K and M is one, meaning that the only shared factor, the largest shared factor, and in this case, the only shared factor, between these two numbers is one. And that actually leads us to a definition. Numbers that have that property in mathematics have a special name. So we could say if any two numbers A and B share no factors other than one, meaning their greatest common divisor is one, we can call those numbers relatively prime or also co-prime. We'll see that these types of numbers in this relationship is extremely important for our work in cryptography, especially around operations that are fundamentally built upon multiplication. Now let's take a look at how we could use a key to decipher a message that was created using a multiplicative cipher. So here we've got our mapping from plain text to cipher text again, using a key value of three that one worked out okay. And we've got our cipher text now, we just kind of flipped it a little bit with its corresponding numerical values, if you want to bring that back to the plain text alphabet. Well, let's see what we can do. Since Caesar we were able to add a key to in cipher and then subtract that key to decipher, addition, subtraction, inverse operations, it might be a first natural guess to say, well, I multiplied by three to encrypt, let's divide by three to decrypt. But what we're gonna see here is that mod that we did in between the mod by 26 to wrap around these numbers is gonna throw a little issue here into this process. Everything's going great for those first letters where modding by 26 didn't actually change the value, but as soon as we get to b, which has a numerical value of one, and we divide it by three, we've got issues. We divide one by three, we get one third, and one third is not integer. And our entire system for converting between letters as numbers is built on the fact that every letter has an integer representation. One third does not correspond to a letter. And in fact, if we were to follow this through for all of the remaining characters, none of those numbers are divisible by three, meaning none of them have integer representations, meaning none of them have a character that we could map to. This is a problem. The good news is we have a solution. Instead of dividing by k, we can borrow a trick we learned from the Caesar cipher. We could actually multiply by the multiplicative inverse. So as I mentioned, we did this with Caesar. We saw that we could subtract by the key value k, or we can add by some other key that we called the additive inverse. So let's see how that might work with multiplicative inverses. First, let's review real quick from Caesar. So when Caesar, we did our plain text p, we added on k, and then we added on our additive inverse, which we decided in an earlier lesson that we could compute by doing 26 minus k, pretty easy to do. And that would give us a plain text value of, or sorry, a value of p plus 26. So we take p, add k, add on the inverse, we get to p plus 26. We might be thinking, mm, that's not back where I started. Did I really undo the encryption? But remember, when we mod by 26, p plus any multiple of 26 is equivalent to p itself. So we really are back to plain text again, assuming we mod by 26 after we're done adding on the additive inverse. And remember, additive inverse, when we're talking about any two additive inverses means they simply sum to zero in the mod that you're working in. So in our case, mod 26. So that could be in numbers like three and 23. They don't actually add to zero as an equation, but if you were to add those together, get 26, and then mod by 26, they are in fact equivalent to zero. And we can see that here. So let's see how this would look like with multiplicative inverses. Multiplicative inverses mean that if you multiply them together, they multiply to one, or in this case, are equivalent to the number one and whatever modulus that you're working in. We'll keep thinking about a 26 letter alphabet for now. So if I were to take my plain text number and multiply it by K, I want to multiply it by the inverse of K and by the inverse, I mean, I want it to multiply with K to result with an equivalency with one. If I do that, I'm essentially multiplying P by one, which means I'm back to plain text again. So how do we find these special values of K inverse? Let's say by looking at our valid keys in mod 26, here are their inverses. And let's just verify that these are in fact the inverses. We'll dig into how we can compute these in just a moment. But let's verify, let's multiply them all out. And then we're gonna mod all of those answers by 26. And we have verified in fact that one and one are inverses of each other. K has a multiplicative inverse of nine, and later down the line nine has a multiplicative inverse of three. Five and 21 are multiplicative inverses of each other. Seven and 15 are multiplicative inverses of each other. 11 and 19 are multiplicative inverses of each other. Then we got a bunch of repeats. And then we can see that 25 are multiplicative inverses of each other as well. So every valid key has a multiplicative inverse that we can use. Let's just real quick verify that these keys work in practice. So we'll try out a K value, a key value of three, and it's inverse of nine. Let's just pick a couple of characters that we computed earlier. We saw that J went to B, K went to E, and 11 went to H. Let's take those B, E, H, and see if we can get them back to J, K, L. We'll take their numerical values, one, four, and seven, multiply them by the inverse key of nine, mod by 26. And we can see we get back to nine, 10, 11, which correspond to J, K, L. So this process does work. We've verified that multiplying by K inverse works to decipher a message that was enciphered using a multiplicative cipher. But we still have this lingering question. How do we find these inverses? We're working with a 26 character alphabet now, but what if we worked with a different language or a larger alphabet? How can we compute those inverses? Well, in an inefficient way, we need to just try every number, say N, that's less than M, to see if K times N, your key, times this value that we've tried is in fact equivalent to one after you mod by N. So that'd be equivalent of saying, say I've got a key of seven and mod 26, I'm just gonna try all the numbers less than 26 to see if any of them multiply with my key to give me a one after I mod by it. That's gonna work. And if it does, then we'll know that whatever number we just tried is the inverse, but it's kind of bad because you might have to try a bunch of numbers. When we're working with an alphabet with only 26 letters, trying 26 different things, computer can do that pretty well. But in this course, we're ultimately gonna be working with modern encryption systems where our modulus, the M that we're working with is going to be in the hundreds or thousands of digits long. Trying all of those is not just kind of an annoyance, it could take lifetimes or thousands of years for even the best computers to try all of these. And we're gonna see that brute force method of finding an inverse is not the way to go. Luckily, there's a clever little bit of math that's gonna help make this a little bit more efficient for us and we're gonna learn about it in our next lesson.


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I see what you're trying to do. You're trying to poison me, father. She calls this her apple juice. I think we finally need the priests to come do something about this. Hi everyone, thank you so much for watching. My name is Jonathan, this is Noodle and this is Tools of the Trade, the show where we find out what items everyday entrepreneurs need to get through their day. Now I'm so excited for this week's episode because we are featuring Daniel Smith of Soundbag. This woman has created a product that so many people love and we are so excited that she curated a box for us. But I have to say we are going to be doing things a little differently this week. We put our stuff in a Soundbag. Hey my dear. This is the Soundbag. So this is the product that Daniel is so known for and I am truly in love with it. This is the burgundy color. Essentially the Soundbag is the perfect bag for musicians, photographers, multimedia artists, anyone who needs to carry production equipment with them. So this is perfectly sized for a 12 inch vinyl records as well. It's got tons of pockets. It has a middle divider that totally comes out which is really cool. So you've got all this space. If you need it, it's got side pouches. It's got a big one back here. It is essentially a very, very economical bag where you can fit a lot of stuff in it. So the first item we've got in here are an Olympic Mountain mix of milk chocolate. It looks like trail mix. This is something that any entrepreneur or any business person, any human can keep on themselves to keep energized throughout the day. I don't know about you, but sometimes two o'clock will roll around and I'll just be like, why haven't I had chocolate? And then I'll be able to go in here and I could grab some. Noodle, what do you think? It's trail mix. Prince. Oh, you know what? Probably because it's milk chocolate and he knows. He knows, he goes, I see what you're trying to do. You're trying to poison me, father. The next item we have is post-its.  So I think this is also a really important item for any entrepreneur to have because this, I think this speaks to organization. So Danielle, when she came up with the idea for this, she had just graduated FIT and she met a music producer who literally told her, you should make a bag for these kinds of things. And then she did. What's so fabulous about it is this woman saw a need in the market and she satiated it, right? That is the ultimate supply and demand. And I bet she was organized the entire time.  I, for one, am not able to do that. So if I were to start my own business, I would want to hire a secretary, like Noodle or someone who could keep my business affairs in order. Enjoy his beautiful haunches. He's sturdy, he's really stable. The next item we've got in here is coffee. You gotta love it. Whether you have started a sound bag or you are a massive restaurateur or you're the CEO of a magazine, coffee, right? It is the great equalizer. This is also a really nice blend. It seems it's already pre-ground. It was founded in Sweden. So, you know, really pulling on all the stops for this. But I think this is a really important thing for anyone who just realizes what they need throughout the day. I think this kind of goes really well with BAM. Will pick me up, right? Okay, the next item we have in the sound bag are shoes. So Danielle told us that she loves fashion. And I can imagine that anyone who is associated with the music industry or, you know, any kind of creative industry in general absolutely has a sense of style. But Danielle also told us that comfort is the name of the game a lot of the time. So I love the idea that she is able to dress up and be herself and then also when she needs to, like, get down and dirty and do the work, she just likes a pair of colorful sneakers. So I think this is a great addition to anyone's wardrobe. And did you see how well they fit in the sound bag? All I'm saying is all this stuff was in there. And there's more. There's more to come. I can't, I actually also can't even wait to look inside. I actually, like, see the stuff in here. Okay, so the next item we've got in the box, I know we can call it a box, is this beautiful sound bag are fine line markers and pencils. I know that Danielle, as anyone who is a designer, an industrial designer, anyone, they love to sketch, right? I'm sure that she's got a ton of sketchbooks. She's got a ton of writing utensils just like this for when she needs to write down or draw an idea that she had for a product or, and I know this is another thing she tells you she likes to do it all. Anyway, the next item we've got in the sound bag is, oh, it's an iPhone battery case. Ooh, ooh, I've always wanted one of these. When you charge this, it also charges the phone. So when your phone's battery dies, it'll automatically sort of use this as a generator and then you'll have a whole another round of juice for your phone. She calls this her apple juice. This woman is brilliant and that's why she's the one we're featuring on this show and I'm just the one talking about it. What do you think of that noodle? He loves it. He's thrilled. He couldn't get over it enough. Okay, the final item we have in the Danielle Smith box, it's a big thing, a tic-tac. I think these are a great addition and you could imagine she's bringing clients in, she's trying to pitch a bag, she just comes up with a whole new print that she wants to get investors interested in and she's got stinky breath. Not our Danielle, not our girl. She smells bomb because she's always got these on her. They're wintergreen. Dogs can simply cannot have tic-tacs but as someone who has recovered from having really bad breath I have to admit that I do live with someone who does have perpetual heinous breath and it's noodle because he's a geriatric pug and he only has four teeth that I can brush and he's stinky. That's okay, you're stinky. You're stinky, don't get mad. We're just speaking truths here. I'm so thrilled with all the items that were in this bag. I'm so thrilled we just didn't even have anything because this is so great. I'm really blown away with people who are so creative and are able to just graduate college and be like, no, I'm going to go after it, I'm going to do it and Danielle is very young and she's accomplished a lot. I'm just super proud of her. I've never met her and I'm super proud of her. If you liked this video, please like and subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to ring the bell to get notifications.  Thanks for watching. Thank you so much for watching. 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I go jewelry and got it at the end this morning and it's time to get right for the day because what is going on? I'm breaking out, y'all, in my scene cause y'all know how that goes. How to use the Fenty Trade-Up Blog Tube, right? 5% AHA face mask. I love the Trade-Up Body Scrub and Fenty is sponsoring this video. I'm so happy to be partnering with Fenty. Y'all know I'm a Fenty girl and the Fenty Fem Sale is here. Fenty Skin from Fenty Beauty. Butter Drop is my ish. They got it on pack. Everything that I'll be using from this video are gonna be my Fenty favorites and they'll be linked down below. Fenty Fem Sale is going on from March 20th through the 25th. Today's the day that you really need to pay attention to our March 20th through the 21st because you get early access. If your girl has a cold, you can use kind of a 30 to get 30% off in early access. We love early access. And for the very first time ever, I'm so happy about this, y'all. The Fenty perfume and the Body Cream are gonna be on sale during the Fenty Fem Sale. Yes, so please use my call before it sells out. I bought this for my own money because it smells so good, y'all. So good. And y'all know Fenty got it on lot when it comes to Body Cream. And let me tell you, this is my holy grail. I just had to read up. It's with the perfume doubled up, baby. Endless compliments. I swear to you. I remember when I was going through TSA Pre-Check. I talked about this on my TikTok. I was going through TSA Pre-Check and I had just this alone. Like I said, it's the perfume Body Cream. So you can really just wear this. Like, this is the moment by itself. So I remember I was going through TSA Pre-Check and he was like, ooh, what you got on? I was like, oh, the Fenty Body Cream.  And I was like, yeah. So this is what I told everybody about this. But y'all, when I tell you endless compliments of this on top of the perfume, make sure y'all pick this up during the Fenty Fem Cell and you can use my code, Kyra 30. You aren't able to access the early access. It's okay, girl, because you'll still be able to shop the Fenty Fem Cell during March 22nd through March 25th with 25% off. But I highly recommend using my code Kyra 30 during the early access during March 20th through March 21st. All my Fenty Feds will be linked down below. And I love that all the Fenty Cherry products smell like cherry because y'all know my obsession with cherry is real. Apply this with your fingers if you wanted to, but I just really like to use my face mask applicator so I can easily distribute it all over my face. And like I said, I have events to go to. I have a trip coming up so I really just wanna make sure my skin is at its best so I can show up as my best self. Cause I love my skin to speak for itself. And instantly, every time I use this mask, I see such a huge difference. It's so much more brighter, more even. And I love that this has the AHA in it because I love AHA products, especially when I'm fighting acne. And all you need is a thin layer. You don't need to go too grime. And I'm always sure to get this area back here cause that's where I get the most break out, especially on PMS days. And PMS seem like, oh my God. I look this sit for a little bit and then wash it off in the shower. And like I said, I'm gonna use the Cherry Dubb triple acid AHA body scrub. I love the scrub because it helps lighten up my underarm areas. I love that it gives me a nice even shave, especially on my legs. So let go. Skin though, yeah. Y'all needs to go get that face mask immediately. I'm about to hurry up and moisturize my body because I like to moisturize my body straight off the shower. And like I said y'all, listen, when I say super thick, so hydrating to the skin, watch the magic happen. And like I said, last 50 p.m. still, this was not available. So please go use my cold, Hyra 30 intake advantage. Look at my chest. I smell so good. You gotta get ready for the endless compliments. If you don't wanna be complimented on how you smell, baby, I guess you can see your way out the doubt. And I love to go in with my favorite Butter Drop. This is the shimmery one. And it smells like cinnamon rolls.  Hey y'all, no, I wear sunscreen every single day, okay? And I love to go in with the Fenty Skin. This is the Hydra Visor. And I love that this is SPF 30 and this also has night cinnamide. So you're gonna get those skincare benefits as well. And y'all, when I say the glow, just off this product alone, your skin is going to instantly glow. You're going to be glowing. I recommend this SPF to a lot of people. Especially to people who don't know where to start when it comes to SPF. I definitely have to protect my skin because I just use the AHA face mask. So I don't want, so my skin is definitely gonna be sensitive to the sun. So love using this product. And I love to also take it underneath my eye cause I don't use the eye cream. So I love to get those night cinnamide products right underneath. So we can be looking nice, bright and even. I'm gonna go in with the Fenty Skin Lip Oil. This is hydrating and straightening. And this is in the scent Melon Treat. Oh my God, I feel so good.  And then I'm just gonna do a little bit of makeup, like no makeup makeup look. Let's go, so. My skin looks so good y'all. That face mask alone definitely transformed it cause I was looking scary. I love my Fenty each drop stick, okay? I'm into number 14 and 13. I mix the colors. And when I say skin light, I use this all the time. I'm not really into like foundation anymore. Who could go ahead and blend this in with your fingers? But I'm just gonna use a brush today. This looks so seamless. I'm gonna zoom in for y'all cause y'all don't understand how this just is amazing on our skin. It blends out so well. I'm gonna go in with the Fenty Longwear Hydrating Concealer. And this is in the color 290W. And with 210W and I just lighten it up even more in my inner corners to give me that bright under eye. This is the Fenty Cheeks Out. This is the Cream Blush. And this is in the color Summertime Wine. I feel like this looks so good on any single skin tone. Look at that color. And I just like applying this with my fingers just so it blends so effortlessly into my skin. And I don't contour my nose every day. So this trick I learned just doing spontaneously just to take blush on your nose y'all. And it gives you like that sun kiss. Look at that. That sun kiss. Like I was in a sun all day, effortless look. And I just love this on my skin tone. I'm just gonna go ahead and blend out that concealer. This is so hydrating. It looks so good. I love. And then next I'm gonna go in with Bronzer. This is the Sunstalker Beige and Gal. Just gonna take my brush. And lastly to set everything, I like to go in with the Pro Filter Matte Foundation. And when I say this, it makes my makeup last all day. And this just gives you an airbrush finish without looking cakey at all. And lastly I'm gonna go in with Hella Thick. This is my favorite mascara to say. I just got a lash live. So all I wanna do is enhance that. And when I say best mascara, it really takes my lashes to the next level. And then lastly, my favorite lip gloss. This is the Gloss Balm in Sweet Mouth. It's the best ever. 10 out of 10. It's the perfect nude pink. I look so cute and so fresh and so ready to take on a day. Actually I'm gonna add some more blush on my nose. And more to my cheeks. Ooh, so pretty, so effortless. And to top everything off, like I said, the Fenty Pop Foam is now gonna be included in the Fenty Fam sale. So make sure you take advantage. All the products that I use today will be linked down below. And thank you so much Fenty for partying with me on this video. Love y'all so much. Love the Fenty Fam. Oh my God y'all. Y'all just do it for me every single time. But yeah, I'm ready for the day. I'm not gonna get my hair done. At least the face is sitting real. But yeah, so everything will be linked down below and do not forget to use my code during March 20th and March 21st. And then also the sale will be continuing from March 22nd to the 25th with 25% off. But like I said, better take advantage of that 30%. But yeah, let's go get our hair done. Hey y'all, so it's been a little later. Got my hair done. She's cute. So now I'm about to pick out my outfit for Ancadette's hair because I like him to approve my outfit. So well, he likes to do it. Anyways, it's not one of the four. No, I didn't. Girl, you just said that two seconds ago. I literally named that brand Buggings. Should I do it like this?  Oh, put it under the collar. So you see somebody said not she switched it already. Yeah.  She had her mom with her. She about to do a pixie. So like this. And then tie it down here. Ooh, I'm excited. Yeah, just fix your hair. Okay, hold on. Can you come help me? That's why you're here.   Cut this room. Go in the hole. You know how to do that. I can do it. That's our camera. I just be... He just approves. I just approves. And then I change a few things here and there.  So like this. I love that. You do? So cute, y'all. Brand new. It is brand new. I think that would have looked so sexy if it was booty shorts. Does my booty look good? I'm gonna cut these. I just got one. It looks so good. I love this wash. The wash is cute. Maybe I should like roll them up. Please don't. Oh, why? Don't roll them up. That's so cute. No, it's not. It's different. Let me see. Yes, it is. I don't remember. Please don't. Are you gonna put a belt? I feel like the string there or not. The strings do a lot.  Actually, leave it on the road. Leave it, leave it on the road. And then put this one. They can't get tucked in. Put it over. Over might be cute. That's so tacky. You're in your tacky cowgirl era. Ooh. Yee-ho! This ain't tacky. I kinda like this leg more. This one? Yeah. Because this one looks more forced. Like you're like, like you're doing a lot. Like I want to show. Like you're trying too hard to show that you have a jib on jibu. Right.  Let me show it off. Yeah, you see, somebody said, I can't see the outfit, but those boots definitely short shorts. I'm not doing that. How about if you change the pants? No, I like these pants. I'm sorry. They make my butt look good.  That's all right. This ain't tacky. Hey, hey. Yes, this is cute. And then what bag? You're looking at you, girl.  I'm taking it. Yee-ho! We need, oh, so this is what I'm saying. Who texted her? Oh, my man. Something that don't concern you. What's your password? I don't know. OK, what? You look so cute. Thank you. I'm so happy to be your friend. Oh! I'm actually so happy I'm your friend. Oh, that is so nice. What earrings should I wear? Not those. No. I'm going to wear... Bitch, it will take a flying out the drawer. Oh, my God. Not the will take. I'm trying to match my accessories. Y'all know I always wear a furry jewelry.  Why are you kissing me? Ew, stop it. If you're not my man, why are you kissing me? I'm kissing your man. You're... Why don't you fit all of them in, though? Or should I wear these big ones? These? Yeah. These are going to be the go. Stop! Why are you so mean? Oh, yeah, these are the go. I don't need you to tell me what... Good I know. You don't need confirmation from me. No, I don't need the confirmation. Those are sick. I need an organized my jewelry immediately. You want to organize it for you? Maybe we'll have an organization party. I'm supposed to organize your closet. All right, that was so easy. Put this for us. So put your jewelry inside your bag. No, I'm not going to do that. Yeah. You don't stuff your bags? I mean, sometimes.   No, you didn't. Let's probably pack my makeup. What is wrong with you? What's your makeup bag? Y'all, this Fenty. I use all Fenty products today. Not to say I always use the eardrop. But baby, the skin. When I went to my hair appointment today. Oh, she was like, oh my God. She was like, did you get your makeup done? Your skin looks so good. I was like, no girl, I just put on like my everyday routine. Ooh, you know what you should do? I actually don't want you touching my products.  Actually, I think I have another applicator.  If this is still on my lips when I go home, what color is it supposed to turn? Somebody said it looks purple. Should I put one more layer? No, maybe. Maybe you should. Why are you laughing? No, it is. It's good. I had to put my pajamas on. It's time to get ready for bed. You should let me do your makeup one day. Yeah, we can do it all next week or something. Actually, I'm not making plans with you. I come through, babe. I'm still waiting for our Wednesday cooking. I was supposed to have it six months ago. Do you know how to get stains out shirts? No, I'm not a dry cleaner. Thanks to me.  No, it definitely worked. It doesn't look as bad as it wiped off. Yeah, it's pretty much the same. It looks cute. Yeah, so now you just have to put your lip product over it, like a gloss. Where's my bag? Come on, can you get my pocketbook? Yeah, you guys want to see my new bag? OK, great.    I have a concussion. Now I need to go to the hospital.  Now I need to go to the hospital. Come on. This is for Christmas. This is what she asked for. Nice. No, it actually looks like. Good morning, y'all. Today is travel day. I'm about to be on my way to Austin, Texas. Today I get to go see party next door with Billboard and Delta. And I'm excited. I'm just so grateful for this opportunity. And I just can't wait to take you all along with me. So I'm going to show you my airport outfit. So I have my sunglasses from Puma, which I dirtied it from at the red up. I love these. And then I just have on these two pieces, this cross necklace. And then it's like I always say, because it's nice outside. And I think it's going to be hot in Texas. So why not? And then I just have on these, my orange slides. But anyways, let's go. Just got to Austin. This ain't Texas. Yeah, I'm a little drowsy, girl. I have like me on Mamosa. Girl is feeling herself. I have to do a little bit of work. So I need to work on that before I have my fun. So I'm about to do that. I'm about to give me something to eat. Rest up for the night. You never know what's going to happen. But we in Austin, first out by Southwest. I don't know if I said this, but yeah. And we're going to see party next door tonight. I don't know what to expect with South and South by Southwest. This is my first time being here. But like I said, I'm grateful for this opportunity. And I cannot wait to take y'all along with me. So, but yeah, I'm about to, what's it called? I'm about to decompress. And once I get dressed for the day, I'm gonna check back real much all. But yeah, let's go to the rooftop and get something to eat. And then yeah, I'm gonna decompress. Yeah, mm-hmm. Took a nap. I'm here with the billboard and Delta. Like what? Billboard? Delta? I'm just so happy for this opportunity. And they're taking me to go see party next door. Cause party next door is performing at South by Southwest. I'm gonna just keep the glam very light. I woke up a little late. I don't wanna add lashes. I just really wanna keep my face natural. You don't know what to expect when going to South by Southwest. I wonder if I'm gonna know somebody there. And I do have to meet with the photographer with billboard and Delta. I'm gonna take some photos of me. I just can't wait. So I'm gonna make sure my beak looks good. This ain't Dex's. Hey! Yesterday I did a full face of Fenty Beauty. I loved how it came out. And then when I went to my hair point, she's like, girl, your skin looks balalis. So we're gonna try to recreate that. I'm trying to down so much water because I need to go to the bathroom one more time. If you know, you know. These Fenty Longwear Concealers, bomb. They're so good in hydrating. I love them. The longs of skin looks good. If you have cake, go! My makeup, it's a lot of this. Okay, period. We're out the door. I'm gonna turn into my vlog so y'all see what happens tonight. Hey! Hey! Oh, and for perfume, I have on Fenty, but she's cute. That's where the entire purpose out here is. Providing specific experiences for those diamond members. Yes. We're a span, right here. Yeah, I'm here. Thank you so much. I'm sure there's not more than two. Thank you. It's the next day and I'm getting ready to go home. Last night was so good. Party next door, he's the one, okay? Wow, he had the crowd. The crowd was so lit yesterday, including me. And I couldn't believe this was a work trip, but it was so fun. This is probably my most favorite work trip, you know what I'm saying? Because I've been in my concert area already, you know? And I was just feeling the vibes. It was so fun. I got to meet the other influencer they invited out here. Her name was Ken Rich. She was so fun and so nice. Wala, if you're watching this, I love you, girl. Quincy, Meg, y'all were the edge. The whole Billboard team that I met was there so nice and so welcoming and the vibes were just chef's kiss. And yeah, y'all, back to reality, but a vacation is coming up real soon. But yeah, I'm just so happy. And it's a beautiful day here in Austin. I don't wanna leave yet. Hopefully it's nice in Atlanta. I need to start going to more rooftops because this hotel has a rooftop and the view is gorgeous, like it's a vibe.  So I'm like, I need to start going to more rooftops in Atlanta and feel the vibe at home. But yeah, it's been real. I'm about to get ready to go to the airport. And I just love y'all so much. And I still have to get a giveaway together for our Instagram for hitting the 400K milestone. So let me know what y'all want I need to do that, like ASAP. And I have so many clothes and just stuff. I need to get rid of. I need to put stuff on right up. It's time to get outta here. My ears mess. It started to rain a little bit last night. And I met a couple of y'all last night. Y'all was lit. My girls, I love seeing my girls. Y'all make my day. Y'all make my day. Some of y'all was from Dallas, Houston. Like people came from all over Texas just for this. And it's so crazy how this event, I didn't know what to expect. Like I said, I never heard of South by Southwest until Billboard reached out. And it's crazy how Delta put on this event for Skull Miles members. I knew Delta was my favorite airline for a reason. Listen, the vibes were their drinks. You got two free drinks if you was a Skull Miles member. Obviously the concert.  Those bars are all over the place. And then also, obviously it's in grass. So, you know, it's a festival vibe. So some people obviously got to stand. But the most unique thing that I've seen, they were passing out blankets. Delta blankets so you could sit on the floor. I was like, okay. Accommodation. Oh wow. So make sure y'all go ahead and be a Skull Miles member immediately. So you can be at the next one. I'm pretty sure it's gonna keep getting bigger and bigger. So I wouldn't, you know, put it past like the future artist. They might have Beyonce one day. Oh, and party next door announced that he was about to have an album out. I was late too. Can't wait for dad. And then I was sending videos to Aaliyah because she loves party next door. So this needs to be curled. A little decent, but they're bored. But yeah, it's gonna be a long day for me. Y'all, so we just came out of church today, Sunday. I wish it was Sunday, Friday. But you have to go dye blonde hair. No, he's getting his own blonde hair. We're going to the club to smoke some hookah and praise the Lord. Yes, God. Cadet wants to do everything because we don't do a lot of things here. Cause we both, we busy. So now that he has me, he wants to do everything but we just came from church. The word was so good. So basically that was just talking about that if you are a man, you need to lead the family. Like if you want your woman to submit, you need to lead. Yeah. And don't be submit and why I submit to your husband, but key word wives. Cause if you don't got to bring on your finger girl, you don't need to submit to nobody. Okay. You don't even got to follow that man to Walmart. That's what he said. And Jesus, the Lord said, I'm not your wife yet. So I don't need to do nothing. The Lord said, I don't got to get you some purple shampoo. I don't know. But yeah, y'all, it was such a good word, but we're going to be on our way. Maybe go get brunch. I don't know, we'll see. But yeah, I'm just so happy. I made it to church today cause I've been wanting to come back. I just been so busy and it's just so hard to squeeze it in. But I was like, you know what? I'm going to, you know, make it a priority today. And I was actually invited to this brunch, like a brunch I would have wanted to go to. But sometimes it's okay to say no. You know what I'm saying? So I just said no. And here we are. So now we're going to our own brunch. Yeah, basically. At the same place you were supposed to go to that. Cause God going to provide me with a brunch. I don't need nobody else to provide me a brunch. He going to do it for me. That's true though. Oh yeah, this is my outfit y'all. I wore this. This is actually my first time wearing this. This is from Nordstrom. I love it so much. And I love, what do you call this detail right here? Like a flipped over situation going on? Yeah, it's cute.  I want to get the new Bottega sunglasses that have a clear lens. The clear lens ones. Y'all needs to go get those. But. Oh, you know where we should go to eat? Y'all, so I'm in the mall. I really shouldn't be vlogging right now on Linux. But I'm about to go on Allo for the first time. Y'all know I'm going to have support and a little lemon right now. But I just want to see what they got. So let's see. This color is cute. And then here we go. Hello. That's what I see. Guess how much these like in here? $150. Just a little lower. $100? $120. Girl, please. I can make those for you. I'm getting a one pair. That color is cool. Sure. Don't get in my chocolate. I'm going to pick them up. I want a cup of pudding. Y'all, look at these ladies. These aren't giving me a smash. Let's see the price. It's decent. I mean, not right. This is not bad. I'm not a real. Okay. Thank you. A medium and a large. Thank you so much. Of course. All right, and I'm ready to my island singing. Hi, I'm Liam from Jamaica. I'm a big supporter of Cairo and it's an amazing team. Y'all, if she's a Jamaican influencer, see y'all got to go follow her, period. It's so nice to meet. All right, y'all. So we just came from the mall and we're about to get something to eat. I'm starving. We're about to go to Binky's.  That's how you hit my glasses. But y'all, why is downtown not giving? Like, ugh, you can't even be cute downtown. It's just, mm. But anyways, they are my friends. But anyways.  Oh yeah, baby, tight, because you never know who's running. Okay, under the arms. Secured. Bag secured, literally. But yeah, we're about to go to Binky's. I can't wait to eat. I'm starving. And then I have work to do later. And then also I'm about to take some pet shots today. So it's gonna be a productive Sunday. I have to clean my house. I gotta do laundry. But anyway, let's go. Y'all, so I just got home. It's been a good day. I just remembered. Anyways, so y'all know how y'all can be moving and grooving all frickin' day. And you just be like, I... So anyways, I just got in, cupping in my pajamas. And y'all, this food, I'm about to devour it. I got a turkey wing with candy-m's and mac and cheese. When I tell y'all, this food is so good. Anyways, I'm about to go ahead, sit my happy self down and eat this. And then later today, I need to clean my house a little bit. And then later, I'm gonna take some head shots. But anyways, I'll check on y'all later. Hey, what's up? Hey y'all, so it's a little later. And I'm about to start my makeup. Honestly, I'm just about to regret I've been obsessed with the Fenty products. What y'all seen in the beginning of the video? Sorry, I need to catch my breath. It's basically what I'm about to do because it's just so good. And I forgot to tell y'all, I use the same technique during the Billboard concert, hold on one second. The Press Matte Pro Filter Foundation that they have is elite because I got a little emotional at the concert and, you know, cause I was happy, I'm an emotional person. And girl, why did my makeup still look good? Yes, so that's my sign to keep it as my staple. And also I have oily skin anyways. So the glow is always on shine through, you know? And y'all need to shop those products down below cause like I said, it's so good.  Base, obsessed. Y'all gotta go get these Fenty products. And like I said, the Pro Filter, I just, y'all my makeup exploded in my carry on bag but this Pro Filter Soft Matte Powder Foundation I'm in the number 340 in combination with the e-drop stick. Y'all. Oh my God. Anyways, I'm about to pack up my clothes and head over to the studio. So let's go. But the face is so cute. All right y'all, so I just got to the studio. Yeah, so my pajamas. And I'm about to iron my shirt, see what accessories I'm gonna wear and then get to shooting. Wow. Take that, actually take that hand and bring it a little bit higher, right there, perfect. And then for these, I'm gonna turn this back. Put that hand on your inside. Yeah, there we go, right there. And then for these, I'm gonna turn this back. Put that hand on your inside. Yeah, there we go, right there. Yeah, there we go, right there. A little bit more. This one? Nah, your right hand. Yeah, put it on the inside of your thigh a little bit more. So what you was doing, but just like if you extend your arm all the way, like all the straight, there we go, perfect. You're kinda like that if you were to hold the shirt with both your hands. Yeah, there we go, yeah, just like that. Yeah. If you kinda look off, like I'm not even here. Yeah. How was your photo shoot? It was so good. Y'all gotta check out Tommy.4k, right? Yeah, that's me. On Instagram. And yeah, we got the headshots in. We got the shot. It's very like clean girl, classy. Y'all know I love my girl, jewelry, so I definitely kinda accessorized a little bit. But yeah, that's a wrap. And I just need to get some new headshots in.  Hold on, I'll do it one more time. All right, y'all. So we just wrapped up the shoot. Like I said, we just got some headshots in. I just wore this white button up and some jeans. We kept it very clean and classy. But I definitely did sneak a little cute little variety and just to mix it up a little bit. And I just wore gold jewelry. And yeah, because I made posties on Instagram. And also Tommy shot me. This studio was still cute. Like it has like a cute little glam session area. Obviously the main attraction right chill. And yeah, but it's a wrap. But yeah, I still have some work to do to get done tonight. That is due in the morning. So I'm about to go. But like I said, y'all, these fancy products that I still have a lot to do. I still have a lot to do. But like I said, y'all, these fancy products chef's kids like my face. He was like, wow, your makeup looks really good. Did you get it professionally done? I was like, no, I didn't myself. So y'all better click the links down below because baby, what? Yeah. Oh yeah, you never take. You never took any. I never got any like photos of me like with my vlog camera. Oh, you're re-giving it to me.  You're hot. Poppy. My man said, oh, black, it's not your cream. It's so strong. Drink it. No, redo it. No, girl. Girl, go to...  So y'all, I just got to Cadet House and we just made espresso martinis.  I'm about to do some dangerous things tonight. With me? And we'll choose so, um, back.  I literally took a shower, put some clothes on and came over here on a Monday. Normally I'm at home. Later. That's another yummy yummy fire. I want you to try that dress on.