Hi, today we're going to speak with Konstantin Karinopoulos and he is in Eastern Europe and in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, where his company Neil Performance Materials operates the only commercial rare earth separation plant currently running in the Western world. Good afternoon Konstantin, how are you? Good afternoon Jack, I'm well. I am indeed in Tallinn in Estonia and I'll be heading to our plant in a couple of days after my meetings here in the capital of Estonia. You spoke last week at a conference in London on rare earths, in fact you were the keynoter, so I'd like to ask you two things. One, what do you think about the rare supply and demand situation outside of China today and what was the conference thinking about it since you spoke to a lot of people? One thing that intrigued me is that the list of attendees of that conference which I saw did not seem to include any Chinese companies, is that correct? There was one Chinese company, a magnet producer, but it was their European commercial staff that was at the conference. People from China cannot travel easily because of COVID restrictions, they need to quarantine here or they need to quarantine when they go back or both and in fact this is one of our problems. We still can't easily travel to our plants in China and our staff cannot easily travel out of China either. Well on that note what is the current situation with regard to demand and supply of rare earths outside of China? As I said at the conference we're very impressed with the type of growth that we're seeing in demand in Europe which is primarily driven by green technology, energy transition by applications, essentially electric vehicle drive trains and wind power. The reason I'm in Estonia is we're trying to put together our strategy and our plans on how to take advantage of what you said in the introduction that we have the only commercially operating rare earth production plant in Europe, because in the western world I guess Linus is plant in Malaysia, I think we should assume Malaysia. International baseline intervenes. Okay, I stand correct to Jack, but so regardless the fact remains that what the EU and the member states in Europe have done in terms of creating an environment that where consumer demand continues to grow and EV production is growing faster than anywhere else outside of China leads us to believe that this is the market we want to be much bigger in and given the fact that we have the only production site in Europe it puts us in a fantastic strategic situation to take advantage of it. So we would like to expand production in Estonia. Our recent deal with energy fuels and the start of shipments of mixed rare earth carbonate from Utah to Estonia gives us additional raw material security. Our current suppliers in Russia have maintained their level of production and level of supply to us. So I think we feel pretty good about securing sufficient rare earth feed materials outside of China to continue to grow production in Estonia and even go further downstream which is something that our customers in Europe are expecting us to do. So demand is growing in Europe and perhaps more importantly what is growing is the sense that Europe needs to have localized resilient, transparent, circular supply chains and I'm trying to throw all the key words in a simple sentence, but you know last week two weeks rather ago I did the rounds in Europe before the conference in London and I passed on some of them in my comments to doing my keynote address to the conference. I referred to some of my conversations with our big German Tier 1 and OEM automotive customers in Germany where we were told in no uncertain terms that by 2025 automakers in Europe and some of the big ones that is made it very clear to us that they have instructed their supply chains to have 50% of their supply chains on drivetrains located in Europe in a transparent, resilient form. So 2025 is like today, tomorrow. In order for that to be achieved we need to start and the whole supply chain needs to get moving like yesterday. So we're very keen on this. I think that we need to let our viewers know one thing that they're not aware of. The European automotive market and in particular its manufacturing capacity is much larger than US own domestic capacity. In fact, if you look at Volkswagen, Volkswagen actually produces more vehicles than GF and Ford combined so that Europe is I think you're saying the key market and it's certainly the key non-Chinese market for your company at this point. The thing is in the United States we've been talking about this quite a bit but heating the air doesn't do a lot of good in producing wear of permanent magnets. Well, I will put it a slightly different way, perhaps a bit more diplomatically, Jack, that the Europeans started sooner and they started by having regulations that encourage a customer consumer adoption of EVs and the European automotive manufacturers responded very, very quickly because they sense that the market was there. If the market is there and demand is not there, you know, why would anybody move and commit capital if the market uncertainty exists? So I think that's the fundamental reason why the European EV industry is a little further ahead than the US EV industry and that's a bit of a paradox given the fact that it was Tesla that started things moving in a large commercial way but Europe has responded both in terms of government and corporate initiatives and right now, as it's obvious, they are the fastest and the biggest growing and the biggest and the fastest growing market outside of China. And my second question, which you've now elated into, what was the conference? Is this your opinion? Is this your view or do you find this to be the general view of people who attended the conference, which included quite a few Americans? I think there was general consensus that that is the case and if you look at the audience that attended the conference, there were a few tier ones in the drivetrain business and they were all from Europe. And the whole conversation was about producing rare earths, magnets, motors, drivetrains in Europe. I didn't see any North American based OEMs, I didn't see any North American based tier ones. The European presence was pronounced, of course the conference was in London so it's a lot easier for German tier one companies to travel. But that was clearly where the interest was. There were a number of development companies, big producers like MP Materials, Energy Fuels and Linus were there. But in terms of the demand, clearly the demand side of the equation was represented primarily by European tier ones. Quite frankly, I think your company is certainly leading the pack in redeveloping a rare earth permanent magnet industry in the west which will now say it consists of Europe and someplace called North America. So thank you very much and I look forward to hearing more from you in the future about what's going on in this market. Yeah, this is a very exciting time for the rare earth industry. By the way, the other comment that I made is that we need a bigger boat to paraphrase the sheriff and Jaws because there isn't enough rare earth, there aren't enough rare earths, there aren't enough downstream applications being produced today to satisfy the EV needs if you believe in the projections regarding the EV industry. So we're all in this together and we need to do so in a very responsible manner both in terms of our environmental footprints but also in terms of our cost structures and pricing structures which will be necessary in order to take appropriate advantage of the opportunity that's presented in front of us. Thank you very much. Jack as always. Thank you. Okay Tracy.


So in today's show the five tips to become the best sales person ever on planet earth period boom. There you go Let's do that. Come on. No, man. Let's see what you got for us. Cody. Let's do it. Well. Thank you for having me man I love the show. Love you guys. We've been hanging out for the last few days It's been unbelievable.  Okay, so those listening keep listening Okay, I would say tip type tips man tip number one and I know Roger appreciate this understand the value is in the relationship Like the relationship piece of what we do is always the most important thing I mean, we've been we've been hanging out since early 2017 four years now. Yeah Simply because we both invested in the relationship early on not knowing any, you know, I any idea where it would lead Mm-hmm. We just knew we both knew that that, you know, the values in the relationship You guys do an amazing job of investing in your people from a relationship standpoint, right from a sales standpoint If you're an agent listen, right? That's what you probably are I mean you the whole point of the cell is to build rapport find common ground get someone to know like and trust you like That is the piece man. So it all starts the cornerstone of every cell is the relationship What are what are some ways that you found over the past? math is hard this early in the morning, but Let's call it 11 years. Sure. Yeah. Yeah That you found are like some great or great ways to build the relationship Or even maintain it kind of throughout the sale and after yes I feel like the best way to build rapport because everybody was asking like okay You say your rapport is important And I'm like, okay, the best way to build rapport is to ask good questions and then shut up and listen Shut up.  It really is right. Yeah, if you didn't see on Instagram Then you gotta go follow me at Cody that askings on Instagram Yeah, it's it's that piece right like it's that's that's that's where it all starts but I always build rapport by Listing the people like so many people want to talk. I hire salespeople every single week And then like dude, I got the gift of gab I can talk to anyone.  You're cursed It's not good man like the best salespeople talk the least Yeah, the best salespeople ask the best questions and then they listen and then they formulate their solution around the answers That's right.  What is he doing? You just kept doing it So Cody, I think the thing that I appreciate about you the most is that you've invested in continuing to give value constantly by putting it out there and That's created a lot of relationships for you by you giving value and showing up and Showing up and showing up like you're always showing up And so the the the moral of this whole story is when you're in in any type of sales It always starts with what can you do for them? Not what they can do for you right and if you lead with that it's always a win So sure, that's one of the big reasons why we have done what we've done from a YouTube standpoint is because I've known right even when we had 351 subscribers in in the first 365 days and dozens of listeners dozens That as long as we kept putting out the content that we would be able to help Tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands if not millions of agents one day It's kind of like insurance man like the people listening like life is gonna get really good You're gonna help a lot of people you're gonna make a lot of money You're gonna change your family's future forever create a lasting legacy. That's unbelievable Unless you choose to throw in the towel and quit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and and we'll talk about this in a bit But that's where the idea kind of for your 8% That's right nation came from is that I think you said the stat is like 92 percent. Yeah of insurance folks Just decide to go for a year in the towel. Yes And if you were like, man, you know, I Only am getting X amount of views on this YouTube video. Like, you know, no one's watching my stuff I'm just not gonna make any more videos. You wouldn't be at 30,000 subscribers on your YouTube channel You just got to keep going through it and learning and and you know, I think we've talked about this this week I've just like looking back at your first YouTube videos and like oh my gosh Too much you're producing today, like, you know, but the content the value was there And you just got to keep doing it in the same way for our clients The value of the products we sell. Yeah is there and it's there for their family when they're not there Right, you just have to keep getting out there every day believe in your product and have the conviction And build that relationship one thing that uh, coach Burke said this week that I thought was a great kind of Of overcoming an objection is oh well, I already already have insurance. I have an agent Okay, well, you know quick question You know, I'd love to be your agent. When's the last time you talked to your agent? Hmm. Oh, oh, it's been a while.  Our relationship is valuable And it's not just this product that I'm using to cover your family But it's also our relationship to make sure that, you know, you're doing well You know, he really focused on this piece that we're talking about the value Is a relationship to overcome, you know an objection like I already have Yeah, you're not just saying it you're doing it, you know, I mean even the whole Even the whole youtube thing is is a lesson for the agent listening Like I didn't know anything about doing it. I wasn't any good. I'm stuck And I'm still half as good if not 10% of the I was good as I'm gonna be, you know But I showed up and did it anyway and didn't get lost in all the details Like I have this new phrase I coined when I was on my Texas training tour speaking of 600 insurance agents Well that registered, I don't know, you know, that made it actually show up But on that tour I talked about how details delay Right details delay. I'm learning that from you, buddy The more you think about all the things you got to do The less like you are to go do them, you know, so Yeah, I mean the amount of agents are like, well, I have to perfect my presentation And I have to buy the perfect leads and then I have to, you know, leave at this time every day like Just get out there and do it Get out there and do it never never never gonna be perfect for context of Austin's comment about coach burt We are here in beautiful Nashville Tennessee this morning on a beautiful sunny day It's blasting in here. It is and it's crisp and cold outside We're in a little bit of a snow. I don't know what to call this Looks like you're motherland Yeah, it looks like Canada on a bright, you know, February day But we're actually in Nashville, Tennessee And we're down here at coach burt's personal interest boot camp and then we stayed on for sales mastery with this guy Thanks for asking coach burt And so that's that was the reference point there and it's been an incredible Incredible three days We're gonna have a podcast as well. Yeah, and so we're investing in that relationship too, you know, and and again back to our back to our listeners The relationships of the people around you and your organization if you work with a group if you work with a team Lean into those people who are producing lean into those people who have good character who work hard who show up who You know make things happen every week when things get tough They put their you know, they they lean forward not lean back Those are the people you want to lean into when when it comes to your client relationships Lean in how can I serve the client? Who else in their families can I serve like understand that the value is always in the relationship? Um, I can't stress that enough. Yeah, I think that brings us really well transitioning to tip number two if I may Oh, yeah, go for it is to invest in training You're here investing in training. Yeah, um and the relationship. Yeah, I've personally been to a numerous amount of Events conferences retreats.  You are so modest I'm like, yeah, I've been to quite a few training.  Um, it's it's gotten you to where you are today Thanks, buddy. I've been thinking about okay How much has I've actually invested like the last three years because I've seen everything change the last three years Like the last 36 months have been life altering And I've probably invested close to 350 thousand dollars just in me. I'm not talking team. I'm not talking ads I'm not talking a conference. I'm not talking anything else. I'm not talking. I'm not talking the holy smokes I'm not talking the 50 grand a week we spend on staff I'm not even talking about that. Yeah, like I'm just talking about All the things I'm doing hiring coaches going to $50,000 masterminds paying $21,000 for conference tickets like all the $25,000 for coaching programs like all this other stuff because As I heard one of you say last night We are Our most valuable asset. Yeah. It's us It's us. Yeah, you're you're your biggest potential You're your biggest asset god gave you unique giftings and abilities and if you don't realize the the opportunity to invest in that and Well, I mean you could you could go with gamestop Right, you could go with AMC Like we're all gonna get rich. Let's do that. No, and you see what happens It's up and down right it continues to go up and down But when you invest in yourself when you invest in yourself You get the highest return every time every time 25 years ago when I was first exposed to this idea of sales sales training conferences Um, I was invited to go to a business seminar and I was blown away. I was blown away by the speakers and um We're going to talk about maybe one of your guest speakers coming up on the 8% virtual Yes, that that impacted my life less brown. Yes, and uh, I got to see less brown give his talk on It's not over until I win and I got goosebumps right now. Just saying that okay like right now Just saying that title boom. I mean it was powerful I mean there was a thunderous standing ovation at the end of that thing that I will never forget I never forget it. I lived in that moment. It was etched And I spent we spent probably 300 bucks then for rosemary and I to go to that On that was the tickets and then we had to get hotels and food and the weekend And you know like it was it it wasn't easy to make the decision to go I didn't know what I was going to get but I went and I was just blown away and ideas were planted Experiences were had that I will never forget and it was the impetus to launch the career, you know, and I started investing myself. I was putting about 60 bucks a week into audio and uh, I was putting another 150 to 200 bucks a month going to seminars every month I would go to a seminar and we were driving four or five hours away to go to these things For training and I was doing a book of the month club then and you know That's where I started reading some of the the great books that that I've I mean I've got my shelves are full of them And then it's overflowed into the office. Yeah, so But these things are life changing and when you realize that you are your biggest asset Do not skimp on that man. Do not put a price tag on that But yeah, man invest in training and I know some people like we go to college guys for four years Right, we rack up hundred thousand dollars in debt And then you spend the next 10 years trying to pay off your student loan debts And you think is it applicable when only 27 of the college graduates have a degree in the area of their study Only 27 62 of them don't even have they have 62 of college graduates have a job that doesn't even require a degree And yet this is the system that we're in So what training can you invest in here in in this business? Because if you're listening grow to you in this industry totally Right. Well, what can you do to invest to accelerate your growth man? And What's what some ways that they can invest cody? Yeah, I mean, uh, well immediately for free well march 5th and 6th We've got eight percent virtual at eight percent virtual.com the number eight percent spelled out virtual.com Less brown as you mentioned. Just man. I was really excited when you announced that just released. Yes Thanks to roger you you helped Get that ball movement. So thank you. Awesome. Okay, uh roger short. Who's your, uh, you know fearless fearless leader here is In chris ball are both on it. That's fantastic, man. I'm excited about it. Yeah, uh, brian tracy sells legend Oh my gosh And one of one of the foundations to your sales career Totally My first book I ever picked up sales wise was the art of closing the cell By brian tracy. I used a lot of his training techniques from that audio book And that ship changed my life. I was able to interview him recently and It was so surreal like i'm sitting there just getting goosebumps listening to the guy like why am I talking? Why am I asking any questions at all? Why don't I just shut up and listen to this dude?  It was it was truly one of the coolest moments of my career Yeah, it was really good. Hey, if you enjoyed this I got another one.  Hey, I get asked a lot man. I say, hey, how do you continue to level up yourself? I had someone earlier on zoom say dude. I'm thinking about I'm about about to make six seven hundred thousand dollars this year I don't want to get complacent Well, you start making a lot of money


Welcome to INSITE, produced in partnership with Lakeland Public Television, serving North Central Minnesota. Today we are chatting with Teresa Eklov, Executive Director of Faith and Action for Cass County. Teresa has generously agreed to share some of her experience with us. I'd like to thank you, Teresa, for joining us today. Thank you. So providing services to the elderly in a geographically dispersed rural region has very, very specific challenges, and your organization has been doing this for quite a while. Talk about the challenges that you face in ensuring that our elderly Americans have a good quality of life here in Cass County. Right. Faith and Action for Cass County is a volunteer-based program. We have small staff and a lot of volunteers in the community who are matched with needs that we see in the community. Currently in terms of transportation, in Cass County, Minnesota, there are no bus systems. There are not any taxi services that you can hire. So if your friend or neighbor or family member can't give you a ride to see the doctor for your appointment or to pick up a prescription, you are stuck. There are not a lot of options. But our Faith and Action volunteers can provide that access to services by giving people rides, by providing that transportation. The volunteers also do other friendly, neighborly, helpful things. They help with homemaking and chore services, changing light bulbs, lawn work, dishes. If you go into the hospital for a knee replacement or hip replacement, it's weeks before you can bend over enough to mop up a floor, and pushing a vacuum cleaner is just impossible. So to have a neighbor or friend that's great, but some people who retire up in this area, they don't have a lot of those connections. They're far away from family, and they just need an extra helper, an extra friend. So Faith and Action tries to provide their neighbors helping neighbors by connecting our volunteers to the people that need those kinds of services. Talk about the footprint of Cass County. How many people are in the county who require the kinds of services that you provide? Talk about the area of the county and population density. Sure. Cass County is a large county in that it's about 100 miles from north to south, about 70 miles wide, and it is not very densely populated. There are a lot of lakes. It's a retirement and tourist destination. So it does not have a large population, and yet about a quarter of that population is age 65 and older. So we are struggling with finding enough people to provide the services for those folks who are aging. Another piece with Cass County that's important to know is that the largest community in Cass County is just a little over 1,000 people. So we do not have a public hospital. We do not have big medical centers. We do not have large regional community services. So many people will visit their local clinic for their basic connection with the doctor, but if they need any kind of services, dialysis, specialists, any kind of treatments, tests, surgeries, they will need to leave the county. And the math is very compelling here. If you take a look at the situation that you face, you have 25% of the county being served by 75%. So it's a very high proportion of people requiring service versus people able to provide those services. You also have rather high poverty rates. So the people who cannot afford to serve because of their own circumstances, that drops out of the 75. So you're only talking about 60% of the 75 who would even be in a position to serve. And you need to take the children out of that. And you need to take the children out of that. And then you start to subtract. You need to take the children out of that. You need to take the people who are struggling to get along. They're not at the poverty level, but they're struggling to get along. So all their time is absorbed in that struggle. And so you really have not a one-to-three relationship. You have a one-to-perhaps-one relationship, or maybe it's even tilted in the other way. So the math here is extraordinarily compelling. How do you ensure that you can connect, given the size of the need and the scarcity of the resource in people and time, how do you connect those two elements when there is always going to be some shortfall to manage? Well, we look at the services that people can hire. You can go outside of the county and hire services that can come in. But they are difficult to find, to locate, and to coordinate. Sometimes they don't want to go as far into the county, and they can be very expensive. So the volunteers that we work with are all from, they're very active in their own community area. We work real hard at Faith in Action to provide that very personalized match-up of what a volunteer is able to give and do within their community to what the need is. And I think by doing that, we are able to locate resources, people who can help fill in those gaps, and that is a lot of what Faith in Action does. We don't want to replace the existing programs. We don't want to take the place of services that could be for hire, those businesses need support too. But we know that there are a lot of gaps, a lot of people who can't quite afford things to hire, people who just can't get that far, people who need those helpful neighbors. So I think our key, our strength lies in providing that very unique match-up and building those relationships between volunteers and people in the community who need the services. So part of your analysis is about gaps and part of your service is about gaps and ensuring that you're not supplying services that others can either supply or that the consumer of those services can pay for. That's correct. So you're focusing on where the need is greatest. And then you're also scaling, you're categorizing that need and you're mapping that need to the people who are volunteering. So you have a match process. Does this require high managerial overhead or is this more of a self-managed organization in which the people with need communicate? And then the people who have capacity select and then you're managing those needs that are not automatically fulfilled. We tend to manage it in the office with just two staff people, primarily by- So you're lean in terms of your administration as well. We work very hard with very little, but we screen the volunteers and ask them what they're willing to help with, where, how far they're willing to serve, and we have a very complicated database of information that helps us to match up the volunteers with the needs. People who would like to receive services, they can just call and we can get things set up. We try to make it very easy. We don't have a lot of barriers. We don't have any income guidelines. We don't even have age restrictions. We actually will provide services to anyone of any age, although 70 to 75% of the people we serve are age 65 and over. Talk about the faith in faith and action. One of the things that strikes me about the name of the organization, it seems to be a translation of values into action, of faith, but not in terms of a desire necessarily to convince somebody to take that faith, but instead to experience that faith through the actions that your volunteers take. That's exactly correct. That's how we envision our mission of compassionate volunteers serving people in need. Every major faith has a component about serving your neighbor, about helping the people who live with you in your community. Yelling the world. Every single faith does. Even though we were formed in 2001 by a group of friends who attended several different churches and said our church can help so many people, but we can't help the people who won't come to our church. So we need to be able to reach further and be able to provide those resources further out in the community. So how can we work together? They saw this model of faith in action and thought it would work very well starting with these churches that partnered together to help with services. Here we are 16 years later with over a hundred volunteers located all throughout Cass County. It's an amazing thing. And it only works with the partnerships that we have. Teresa Ekloff, thank you so much for sharing the experience that you have in delivering services to the elderly in Cass County. And thank you so much for your insights.


This 2014 Dodge Charger RT Max is stock number 21T 204A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used Dodge and Dodge Charger headquarters as well as sports car headquarters. This 2014 Dodge Charger RT Max has the 5.7L V8 Hemi engine, pumps out 370 horsepower. This car has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has four brand new tires and brand new brakes all the way around. Phantom Black Tri-Coat Metallic is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality, condition, and options of the car before seeing it in person. 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We are back with another eyeshadow review. You guys have no idea how good it feels to actually have eyeshadow palettes to review. There was like a lull in eyeshadow palette releases and boom, boom, boom, we've had like five in a row. They're all rose tone palettes. So we have kind of another rosy pinky mobby palette to review, but I'm excited about this one because I'm telling you right now, it is more beautiful in person than it looks online. Artist Couture launched their third Supreme eyeshadow palette with this style packaging and 12 shades. So I ordered this off of the Sephora websites. I'm trying to get this up as soon as possible because you can get it at a discount if you're a Sephora VIB member right now before the sale ends tomorrow. So if you want it, that's definitely the best place to get it, but it is also available on the Artist Couture website as well. So this is the box that it's going to come in, the Supreme Mods by Artist Couture. It's a very simple box. 12 month shelf life, full T-free and vegan, bulk made in USA, assembled in the Dominican Republic. And here's the list of ingredients. If you do need to pause and take a look at it. And then the packaging is going to be the same as the Supreme Nudes palette and the other palettes that have launched and we have the same information on the back here. It is a magnetic closure. You have a mirror right here and then here are the 12 shades. So we have a mixture of mattes, shimmers and metallics. So there are three main finishes in this palette. Take a look you guys. One thing I'm noticing from looking at it on the website compared to in person, I think the colors are definitely more punchy. This palette is prettier in person than it is online. Particularly you guys know the bottom row. It's much more purple, I feel like in person than it is online. The matte shades up here look pretty true to color online but this row definitely runs more purple and then this shade is a little bit more bright and punchy in person. So that's just kind of how it would differ. I was super excited about this palette because I love the Artist Couture palettes in these formats. But so many rose palettes have launched recently that I wasn't super excited about the color story. I thought it was a nice addition but it wasn't necessarily a color story that I was excited about. But in person, so much more beautiful. Just in case you picked up any of the palettes recently that have launched. So you can see kind of how the tones compare to one another. Here it is compared to the new Patrick Tau Rose dimension two palettes. The top two rows kind of similar in terms of mass. Bottom row is very different on the Artist Couture. And then another one that I have out on my table here that also just launched is the Melt Cosmetics Gemini two palette. This one is definitely much more warm. These two are a lot more different. So online they describe this palette as modern mobs. So that was the inspiration here. So let's get to swatching. So I have overexposed, risqué, provocative and then stripped down. So if you look, this is kind of that more nude row right here which is really gorgeous.  Okay, so this shade Risqué, lots of dimension here. And then I noticed stripped down wasn't giving me much. I'm gonna do a second coat. Definitely added more, but the shadow feels a little bit more kind of on the drier side to me. Not in love with that. Okay, let's do kinky, lust, audacious and obscene. These are more in the rosy tones. The mattes are kind of close, right? Tones are different, but similar depth levels. This swatched a little disappointing to me as well. The shadows just seem a little drier to me. And then my favorite row, Royale, sex appeal, seductress which is more of a shimmer. I'm gonna feel my order palettes to see if they all feel a little dry. That's pretty. Sex appeal, while it looks really glimmery in pan and it is glimmery on the arm, it's definitely not as glimmery as I thought it was gonna be. That's crazy pigmented. Okay, so these are definitely mauvey shades. Leaning more mauvey purpley as opposed to all the rose tones that have come out. Really, really pretty though, but I'm gonna grab my older palettes to see if I notice a change in the feeling consistency. Why is there so much honking going outside? Okay, I'll be right back. Okay, false alarm here. I am feeling supreme bronze and supreme nudes and these also are a drier formula. So I just wanted to make sure that they swatched like that, that this wasn't a new formulation. But no, I think they definitely are the same. So Artist Couture is just one of those formulas that I feel like applies better than they swatch. So I'm gonna do this eye and we'll see what we think. I'm excited. I had quite the interesting experience with this palette. Let's get into it. This is a look now. If you're new to my reviews here, I mean, I try to create the prettiest looks that I can but I'm more focused on trying as many shades as possible. So I'm gonna start off with a refer number 27 and we're going into overexposed. It's a nice matte shade. You can see it's a little powdery. So make sure you tap off your brush. Now for me, this isn't exactly a highlight shade. It's a pinker tone and it's like a shade deeper than my skin tone. So it doesn't necessarily highlight under here, but if you're deeper than myself, which is not hard to do, then this will work as a highlight. But for now, I'm just gonna have it peeking through the entire look. So that matte is great. Then we're gonna go into provocative over here. This is a really nice, mobby, kind of dusty rose shade. I guess more mobby than rose, but I'm gonna use this as my transition shade. This actually is deeper than it looks in the pan. I've blended it out, so it's a little softer, but you can get some depth with this. Again, like all artist couture mattes, blending really beautifully and really smooth. And then I'm using the same brush and I'm going into lust right here, because I wanted to see how these two shades that I just put on my crease deferred. Again, these are really powdery. I should have just tapped my brush off before I went in there because I got messy. And you can definitely see the difference which I'm happy about, because I don't love how many shades in this palette are within the same depth level and they're not too far apart in tone. So you wanna make sure that you're getting the biggest bang for your buck. You want them to be different, and they definitely are. This gives a very different effect than this one right here, so that's great. The undertones are definitely strong enough here. And then if you wanted to go for something more brown as opposed to rosy, you do have these options here as well. I'm gonna say across the board, the mattes in this palette are super, super nice. I'm very happy with the matte quality in here. They're pigmented, they're blendable.  So we're gonna go into Royale right here, and this is gonna bring more of a brightened, pinky element to the look. And you can see how that totally changed up the look. So this is also a really great shade. And I went in with quite a light hand, and it really is kind of transforming this look. So really happy that this is in the palette as well. This can take it from day to night, from neutral to colorful, so I love this shade. And then finally, the last matte we're gonna use is Prestige. This feels a little like drier, but the quality on it is really, really beautiful. So you can see you get quite a lot of depth with this. You can even use this as an eyeliner. Gonna blend that out. So very easy to use, very happy with this shade as well. And you can even make it deeper if you so wish. And I am getting a little bit of fallout from the mattes. Nothing crazy.  Okay, let's get into these shimmers. I'm gonna tell you up front, the shimmers in this palette aren't my favorite. Now, like I said, artist coutures, shimmer formulas in general, they feel a little drier, but most of them apply it just fine. I don't like the formulations he put in here. I think there are too many glittery shades. And the glittery shades, they just don't adhere to the lid like I would like. They don't have enough of a creamy base to really stick to the lid. So the glitters kind of get everywhere. It's really messy. In the other Supreme palette, there's a lot more shimmers there. So the shimmers are going to allow you to get more of a pigmented base. Like look in the Supreme bronze. This is really the only glittery shade. The rest are the shimmers. So they lay down enough pigment. They're not messy. Same thing in the OG Supreme Nudes palette. This one, the only true shimmer that kind of lays down a pigmented base is this one, but it still has some more glimmers in it. So you'll see what I mean. I really have to like dig and press to get what I'm looking for. So I'm gonna start off with this shade right here, which is the most kind of traditional shimmer formula in here. It's pretty. I'm not mad at this shade. I think this shade, it's pretty. There's really nothing to it. I think it's a nice addition to the palette. It's nice. I like it lays down that base. Great. We're gonna go into obscene here, which is the glittery formula. I want you to notice how I have to kind of like dig to get enough of the product to get color down. And I actually love this shade in this palette. I love that it adds a warm element, but I'm getting a mess underneath my eyes. It's just a dryer formula. I don't love the shimmers here. And that color is fine as well. So then I'm taking Sex Appeal, and this shade to me is just underwhelming compared to what you see in the pan. I want you to take a close look at the brush. You see how it's just really peasy and messy? And I'm gonna apply this to the inner third of the eyelid. I feel like what you see in the pan is not as exciting on the eyelid. And it's really, really messy. And I'm not gonna show you this one. I tried to apply, okay, I guess I will. The Risque, this looks super gorgeous, right? It is the messiest shade. I cannot get it to adhere to the eyelid really. So I'm just putting the glimmers kind of everywhere. I've got a little bit, but when I tried to put it on with a brush over here, it just got everywhere. There is no real base to it. I just feel like I'm picking up pure particles of glitter. Yeah, I don't like this shade. I think it would be nice if you use a glitter glue. I don't know, I'm just not in love with the shimmers in this palette. They're too messy. They're not creamy enough for me. They're mega mess on the eye. It's gorgeous, don't get me wrong, but I just think there's a better balance of formulations in the first two palettes. I don't like the selection here as much in the formula they decided to go for. Let me put on some concealer. Okay, and then on the lower lash line, we're gonna use some of Royale. Love this shade. It's one of my favorites in this palette. I just think it's so pretty and transforms this palette. And then we're gonna go into prestige. And then we're gonna use strip down. I'm gonna put this right here just so you can kind of see what it looks like. It's a bit of an underwhelming shade. Again, I just want a really classic, creamy, pigmented shimmer. And it's pretty and you can build it. I think I'm in a bad mood today. I don't know, I'm not happy. And then we're gonna go into obscene. Put it in the middle. How pretty is that though? That made the look so pretty. Okay, let me do liner lashes, all that good stuff. And then I'll be back to give you my final thoughts. The final look with liner lashes, the whole getup. It is a gorgeous look. It's a purpley look, so you know I love it. So here are my final thoughts on the palette. I like it, but I definitely don't love it. It's not my favorite artist couture palette. I highly recommend Supreme Nudes, Supreme Bronze over this one, even though I like the color story better. But the shimmers, they just aren't the best. Not my favorite. In terms of all of the palettes that launched recently, I think the Patrick Todd palette is better. I'd recommend that over this one. I do think though I like this better than the Melt Cosmetics Gemini 2 palette. The Melt Gemini 2 palette, I have a whole review on if you wanna check that out. It was just too grungy and deep for me. The shimmers were also too dark for my preferences. Like this is a palette, even though I'm being super picky because this is a reveal channel. Just realized my mirror was in the way. This is a palette that I will get used out of because I do like the colors. I like the looks that you can create. But it's $45. But actually, of all the rose palettes that I've reviewed lately, this is the best value. I'm not saying that it's cheap, but Melt is expensive. Patrick Todd is expensive. Charlotte Tilbury is expensive. This is the best value and I do like it. But if you do want it, get it on a discount and just know what you're in for. It's a gorgeous palette and I do love the color story, but I just hope as usual with my reviews that this video kind of allowed you to create a more mindful purchase. Yeah, you got it. It's very odd because I feel like I gave this palette such a negative review, but I actually do like it. Just disappointing because to me, I am oh, in my opinion, it's not as good as the ones I've launched recently. But anyways, I hope this video was helpful to you and that you enjoyed this review. Thank you guys so much for being subscribed to my channel and liking this video so that I can continue to do what I do. And I will catch you guys in the next one. I guess I have a good one.


Hey everybody, this is Brian. This is our fourth C++ tutorial. As you can see, I just left everything right in. If you're wondering, yes, I'm recording all this in one big chunk just because I have, I think, like an hour of free time left. What I wanted to cover in this tutorial were comments. I haven't really covered comments too well in previous tutorials, and I've got a couple comments from you viewers saying, hey, discuss comments a little more. Why do you need them? Well, if I just hand you this program, you've got to sit here and read. He's including a preprocessor directive. He's using this namespace. He's making an integer called age, and you can guess. Well, maybe he's going to get the age and then turn off. Oh, yes, down here he's getting comments or a way of commenting your program. So, use to get the age. So you can say use to get the age, or you can remind yourself, the program starts here. Things of that nature. You should use comments. I don't really use them too much in these tutorials because, well, I'm very limited on time and bandwidth as far as what I can really do with these videos. So I try to really, you know, just explain everything as I go. But for your usage, you should really comment very detailed what you're going to do. For example, I mean say hello. Get the person's age. Tell them what they entered. I mean, this is really how your program should look. Wait for exit. That way, when somebody picks up the source code, or you know, five, six years or not, pick up the source code again, you can go in and instead of reading the code, you can actually just read the comments and go, okay, this is used to get the age. Say hello. Get the person's age. Tell them what they entered. I mean, it's much easier for you to understand. Another thing you should realize is that in C++ you can have multi-line comments by using a slash star and star slash. Anything in here is considered a comment. You notice how it's all green. So everything in between those is a comment. So you can have multi-line comments. Well, that's very useful. Let's say you want to comment out a block of code. You can quite literally just take a huge chunk of it and do that. That way if you're testing something and you want to temporarily take this out, you can just do that. Well, this is Brian. A very short and easy tutorial. I just wanted to go over comments, what they are, why you should use them. Thank you for watching and I encourage you to keep practicing with CNC. I'll get very comfortable and understand the preprocessor directive, the namespace and the main function. That's all for this tutorial. Thanks.


Hello friends, I am Dr. Kiran Chowka, Senior Orthopedic Surgeon, Joint Replacement Surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Eshwampur. Today, I will just take you guys through the process what happens when a patient gets admitted for the joint replacement surgery. At my center, we usually discharge the patient in 3 days if it is a single joint or else 4-5 days at the end for both the knees if it is replaced. What happens is, at the time of admission, usually we get the evaluation done before surgery, we get pre-insert check-up and once the patient is fit to undergo the surgery, we admit them the previous night so that the patient is comfortable the night, they will have a good sleep. In the morning, we take them for the surgery. The surgery usually takes around 60 minutes to 75 minutes for one joint and they will be staying in that OT complex for next 1-2 hours and then we shift directly them to the ward and then where their rehabilitation starts, the process of rehabilitation. The day one itself, if they are courageous or if they are confident enough, if they are comfortable, I make them stand, I make them walk a few steps at least the same evening. Next day morning, they are absolutely made to walk with a support and with our physiotherapist help and 48 hours from the time of surgery, I change the dressing and put a waterproof sticker with which my patients are allowed to take a shower, they can bathe and they can use the commode by themselves. They are even encouraged to walk all by themselves with a walker support. If they are even more confident, they can walk without the support. In fact, I almost like 95% of my patients, I encourage them to climb the stairs from day 2, that is 48 hours from the time of surgery. At the end of 72 hours, I discharge my patients if it is a single and 96 hours, that is 4 days or 3 to 4 days from the time of surgery, I discharge this patient who has underwent both the knee replacement surgery also. By doing this thing, the confidence level of the patients also increase and that also helps in the faster recovery for the post joint replacement surgery patients.


That concludes the debate on retail and town centres in Scotland. It's now time to move on to the next item of business, which is an urgent question. I call Liam Kerr. As the Scottish Government, for what reason, the constitution secretary reportedly referred to the statistic that Scotland has 25 per cent of Europe's offshore wind resources. At a meeting with European delegates on 4 October and in newspaper columns of 17th 14 oes wrth 22 oes. In light of an email indicating that officials had advised him that the statistic was inaccurate on the 28th of September 2022. Cabinet Secretary Angus Robertson, can we please have Cabinet Secretary's microphone? Can I just ask you to check that your card is in Cabinet Secretary. We will just… Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. It's a matter of fact and I hope not to ond, Scotland is exceptionally well-endowed with renewable energy potential. As renewable technologies licensing grounds and completed schemes develop at home and abroad, so does the statistical context. An example of that is last year's Scotland licensing ground, which was the world's largest ever leasing ground for floating offshore wind with developer ambitions at over 17 gigawatts. The statistic that the member highlights has been used by both the UK and the Scottish Governments, but is now considered to be overtaken by developments. That's why I am no longer using the statistic. The Scottish Government has committed to provide Parliament with updated statistics in due course, and I am confident that it will confirm that Scotland is well-placed to be a significant European leader in renewable energy production. I hope that the member will join me in using them to promote Scotland at home and abroad. I thank the cabinet secretary for completely evading the question that I asked. Cabinet secretary, I have an FOI that says that he presented this statistic as a fact on the 4th of October to foreign politicians. Since foreign politicians and the people of Scotland in his columns on the 17th and 18th of October were potentially misled by the cabinet secretary, what action has the cabinet secretary taken to ensure that foreign politicians know what the truth is, to ensure that he is tracked down and corrected to anyone else to whom he has repeated the misleading statistic, and to establish which of his other colleagues have similarly repeated the misleading statistic so that they too can ensure that they were giving out accurate information? I, the Scottish and the UK Governments are no longer using the statistics that have been overtaken by developments. However, it is important not to inadvertently create the impression that Scotland is not a nation with significant renewable resources. It has immense natural resources. When projects that are awaiting under construction or already operational are added to the current reported potential pipeline, the total potential capacity reaches over 40 gigawatts, the equivalent to producing enough electricity annually to power every home in Scotland for 17 years or every home in the UK for over a year and a half. There is appalling disrespect for this Parliament in the cabinet secretary's refusal to answer or even address the question that I have put. Of course, there is a bigger picture here around what this says about this Government, because on 8 November 2022, I asked Minister Lorna Slater when did ministers first become aware that they were using a figure that, to quote Scottish Government officials, had not been properly sourced? She said that ministers became aware of the issue on Tuesday 8 November. In an email dated 16 November 2022, the cabinet secretary wrote to his constituent that ministers became aware on 8 November that it, the 25 per cent statistic, was not an accurate figure. Cabinet secretary emailed me last week, stating, and I quote, officials emailed advice to my private office against using the 25 per cent statistic on 20 September 2022, which suggests that the information that he gave to his constituent was not correct. At page 41, under the heading Honesty of the Ministerial Code, it says, holders of public office should be truthful. At section 1.3c, it says, given that the circumstances that I have detailed suggest that there have been major breaches of this code, when will the cabinet secretary and minister Lorna Slater be tendering their resignations in disgrace? It was an interesting speech rather than a question, was it not? The statistic, and I will say it again for the member's benefit, who was just keen to read out what he had written before he arrived in the chamber clearly, the statistic that the member highlights has been used by both the UK and the Scottish Government is now considered to be overtaken by developments. That is why I am no longer using this statistic. I have also made clear in an earlier answer to him, and I am sorry that he does not see that that is good enough. The Scottish Government is committed to providing Parliament with the updated statistics in due course. I hope that he will join me in using them to promote the renewable sector in Scotland. Colin Smyth Thank you, Presiding Officer. The cabinet secretary was advised by his own officials in September not once but twice not to use the 25 per cent figure. Can the cabinet secretary tell us why he ignored that advice when pushing the bogus stats to a French Government minister, then he doubled down by citing those dodgy figures in newspaper columns and in speeches? Why did he do that? Why did he ignore that advice? Given how important the principle of truthfulness is within the ministerial code, should he not refer himself for investigation under that code? Colin Smyth Can I just point out to the member that the potential of Scotland's massive renewable energy is recognised internationally, especially among our northern European neighbours? Can I just ask members to ensure that we are all able to hear members when they are speaking? The member asked the question and then just proceeded to barack me. If he will allow me to— Colin Smyth I should continue. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Can I say to Colin Smyth that his colleague in the Norwegian Labour Party Andreas Bjellan-Eriksson, the State Secretary for Energy— Well, I'm sorry that Colin Smyth isn't interested in this, because his colleague in Norway most certainly was. I met him at the beginning of this month in Tromsa, and his and him and his colleagues are extremely keen to co-operate with Scotland because they recognise that both of our countries have so much renewable energy potential. I agree that we want statistics to be as up-to-date as possible, and I hope that Colin Smyth will join me in using them to promote renewable potential, the investment and the jobs that we'll bring and make our contribution to combat the climate crisis. Alex Cole-Hamilton Thank you very much indeed, Presiding Officer. Nobody in the chamber is disputing that Scotland has tremendous offshore renewable generation potential. What we are disputing is the bogus statistics, which artificially inflate that statistic on the world stage. Now, twice we've seen some fancy footwork from the cabinet secretary, trying to say that the statistic has been overtaken by developments in his words. But the fact is that if that development he's talking about is a realisation that this figure was in fact always mints, then he is quite right. This was a mash-up of reports and academic research going back to 1991, which excluded the renewable powerhouse of Scandinavia, and we have raised that several times in time again. In fact, I challenged both First Minister and Lorna Slater on this figure when they told me that it was outdated when it was in fact never true. They dodged my parliamentary questions, asking them to correct the record within the requisite time, and that correction has never been lodged. So can I ask the cabinet secretary why there are no consequences for any of these ministers, including him? Does accuracy, transparency and accountability, both in Parliament and on the international stage, matter so little to this Government? Can I just point out to the Liberal Democrats that this is a statistic that was used by the UK Government? I think I'm right in saying a Government that included Liberal Democrats. The member is absolutely right to say that we should aspire to the best statistics that we can have. That is what we are working towards, and I hope that he and the representatives of other parties will do everything to promote renewables around Europe and the rest of the world rather than trying to undermine Scotland's reputation. Does the cabinet secretary not understand that Scotland's renewable wind potential does not need made-up or exaggerated statistics and that, by doing so, he and his Government undermine Scotland's natural resources reputation? I have to assume that the member is not aware that it is a statistic that was used by a Conservative-led United Kingdom Government. This is a statement, that is a statement of fact. It is also a statement of fact that statistics need to be updated. That is exactly what is going to happen. I hope that he and everybody else in the chamber will use that to promote Scotland at home and abroad. That concludes the urgent question. The next item of business is consideration of business motion 8062, in the name of George Adam, on behalf of the parliamentary bureau on changes to this week's business. I call on George Adam to move the motion. I move, Presiding Officer. I call on Stephen Kerr to speak to and move amendment 8062.1. Presiding Officer, I move the amendment in my name. Yes, I am trying everything I can because I would have thought that members on all sides of this chamber would want the issue of the teachers' strike properly aired in our nation's Parliament. What is this Parliament for if it isn't to address the major issues of today? The people of Scotland are watching and listening, and today, right across Scotland, pupils are not at school and parents and carers are doing their best to cope with yet another day of disruption. Haven't our young people had enough disruption to their education over the past three years, and yet this Scottish National Party Government won't agree to send a minister to this chamber to make a statement and to answer questions? Is it so unreasonable to expect the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills or the Deputy First Minister, because he's the one who's really running this shambola co-operation to come to the chamber to make a statement and answer questions, but this Government doesn't want to send the haplish Shirley-Ansonville anywhere near this chamber to answer a statement or to make a statement or to answer questions? I thank the member for giving way. He makes a lot of noise. Has he got a proposal to solve this problem? John Mason asked to have a proposal. Yes, it's to amend the business motion so that we can have a statement and questions tomorrow. I'm very grateful to Stephen Kerr for giving way. John Mason asked, does he have a proposal to offer? If, as I know, the Stephen Kerr party joined me in meeting EIS reps up at the National Poetry Library this afternoon, he told that all the talks conducted by Shirley-Anne Somerville and John Swinney contain absolutely nothing new other than that there is no more money, what would you like us to cut? Stephen Kerr. I'm grateful to the members for their interventions. I agree with Ash Regan. Ash Regan said that Shirley-Anne Somerville has not been, is not now listening to the concerns of teachers and parents. Shirley-Anne Somerville has lectured me, she's lectured all of us, about how she wasn't going to negotiate with the teachers' representatives because that isn't how negotiations are done. However, what do we hear this morning on BBC Radio Scotland? The same Shirley-Anne Somerville telling us that she and John Swinney were finally going to negotiate with the EIS. I give way to Michael Marra. Michael Marra. I thank the member for giving way. Does he share Labour's concerns about the—I'm glad that he will—regarding the number of young people in targeted constituencies in the ministers of this Government who are losing extra days of education? Does he think that the minister should be in front of this Parliament telling us what accommodation can be made to make sure that they receive the grades and support that they require? Stephen Kerr. Absolutely. I agree with Michael Marra. I absolutely agree. Suddenly it's the done thing for the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to go to the negotiation table, just as they've been asking for months. Given the way that Nicola Sturgeon praised her favourite Humza Yousaf for preventing strikes in the NHS, because he was on top of his job if anyone believed that, I actually feel sorry for Shirley-Anne Somerville because clearly her boss thinks that she's not up to her job and that's probably why John Swinney has been at the table with the EIS. I don't think that I have any time. Perhaps you would like to listen to what one parent wrote to me. I am writing to express my extreme disappointment and frustration at the ongoing strike action by teachers. As a parent to S5 and S6 children sitting final year exams, I am deeply concerned about the impact that this is having on my children's education and their future prospects. I am particularly dismayed at the apparent lack of progress in resolving the teachers pay dispute. It's unacceptable that our children's education should be disrupted in this way and I urge you all to do everything in your power to bring this situation to a swift and satisfactory conclusion. I'm also concerned about the Scottish Government's handling of this issue. It is clear that additional resources are needed to support our children through this turbulent period and I would like to know what steps the Government is taking to address that. I could go on, but I respect the fact. I could go on because there's a lot more that parents have written to me to express their concern about the disruption to their children's education that might not mean very much to SNP members. It means a great deal to Scotland's parents and carers. There's lots that could be said on the subject. There are many questions that need to be asked. What is the SNP Government doing to bring this dispute to an end? Other than the endless three repeating, as the Cabinet Secretary did this morning on the radio, how terribly disappointing it always is. What is the contingency plan to support pupils facing important exams? What plans are in place to ensure that the exam timetable is not disrupted? What is the contingency plan to get exam papers marked? This isn't scaremongering, but it's crashing what they're facing. How can we credibly look to parents, young people and teachers of Scotland in the face when their Parliament isn't even prepared to hold this SNP Cabinet Secretary to account for this unfolding mess? Who ever thought that I would be the calm cooling effect in any debate? Here we are, and I'd like to remind members that, possibly when we're talking about bureau and future business, Mr Kerr's outburst has nothing to do with the subject matter, nothing to do with the current negotiations. Mr Kerr asks what will solve the current issues with the union cool heads. That's what's going to beat in your chest and shout and bawling in this chamber will not do that. I'd also encourage Mr Kerr to talk to his business manager. He knows how the system works. As you know, the Parliamentary Business Bureau is set up so that we can have these discussions and make sure that we have the discussions regarding parliamentary business and not just automatically drag it to decision time at 5 o'clock in the evening, but the Parliamentary Bureau is the ideal forum for these discussions. On the actual issue that Mr Kerr said last week about... Can I just ask the minister if you could just... Yes, thank you. There's conversation going on across the aisles and I'd be really grateful if we could just get out of this habit because I'm seeing it on too many occasions. Can we please hear the minister? I think we've finally heard through Mr Kerr what he was saying. It was something very similar to last week and my answer would be a referendum to my answer I gave him last week, which is discussions are on-going, negotiations remain at a sensitive and critical stage and a statement would therefore not be appropriate at this time. But in closing, the Deputy First Minister and the Cabinet Secretary, both cool heads, are speaking with the unions at this very moment. Thank you. The first question is that amendment 8062.1, in the name of Stephen Kerr, which seeks to amend motion 8062, in the name of George Adam, on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau, on changes to this week's business, be agreed. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we'll move to a vote and there'll be a short suspension to allow members to access digital voting.


Hello, I welcome you all once again to my channel, Explore Education and Dr. Rashmi Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, SS Khanna Girls 2B College, University of Palahava. It is my email ID, the lecture will be in bilingual mode and I am discussing a new topic under the heading of inclusive education. Yesterday, I have discussed with you, special education, concept of special education, integrated education and inclusive education and today I am going to discuss in detail the concept of inclusive education and the lecture will be very useful for various purposes such as your competitive teaching examinations as well as for your general and professional educational courses. Okay, so first of all, inclusive education, we have discussed yesterday that inclusive education means the education of the society, the education of the society and the education of the society. We include all types of disabilities in inclusive education and differently abled students, all sorts of different abled students are brought to mainstream education. This is what we study in detail. Inclusive education is an approach to schooling in which students with many different kinds of disabilities and learning needs are educated in classes with non-disabled and typically developing students. That means Samaveshi Shikshah is a practice of schooling in which different kinds of disabilities, many types of disabilities, learning needs can be achieved, but that will be taught in the same class with non-disabled and developing students. In an inclusive arrangement, students who need additional support and services spend most of their time with their non-disabled peers rather than in separate classrooms or schools. An inclusive arrangement is that the child who needs additional support or services spend most of their time with non-disabled peers, which means those children who don't have any kind of disability or disability, instead of teaching them in a separate classroom or school. The term inclusive education is most often used to mean the inclusion of persons with physical and mental impairments such as sensory or mobility limitations, intellectual disabilities, language disorders, behavioural disorders and autism spectrum disorders. Look, we have to influence everyone. Whether it is a physical or mental issue, impairment or a sensory or mobility limitation, there is no problem in listening, there is no problem in walking, there is some intellectual disability, its IQ level is less, there is some language disorder, there is some behavioural disorder, ADHD is in Rome, there is some behavioural disorder, there is some autism spectrum disorder. We have to include everyone in a similar classroom. Some educators and theorists also use inclusion in a broader sense. Some people use inclusion in a broader sense. They say that an educational system is designed to ensure access for all groups that have been marginalised in society and in schools. They say that in schools, in the society, any group, any symbol that has been marginalised has been left on the border. Meaning, you are not able to bring it to the mainstream, in the centre, in the middle. What are all those inclusions and inclusive education? Thus, inclusion is sometimes invisible as the deliberate and self-conscious structuring of whole school and classroom environments so that they are accessible and congenial, not only to students with impairments but also to those who can face exclusion or disempowerment due to their ethnicity, social class, gender, culture, religion, immigration history or other attributes. Meaning, they are saying that you should include everyone in inclusion. It is not necessary that they have a disability, a disability, in fact, all those groups and people who have been separated from the mainstream society and are marginalised, what is the inclusion? It is our deliberate attempt. Meaning, we deliberately created such a school, such a classroom environment that we are accessible for everyone. Meaning, reach everyone. Whether it is according to their social status, their gender is male-female, their culture is not considered as a good culture, it is not considered as a good culture. Any religion, any of their immigration history has come from somewhere, it is a tradition. In the case of any group, it is differently abled. Everyone's inclusion is an inclusive education. Because inclusion also has this broader meaning. It sometimes endures as a means of achieving a more comprehensive form of social justice. They are saying that because inclusion has such a big historical meaning, so sometimes we can also believe that the inclusion that we are presenting, the different abilities of our disability, can also be said as a way of achieving social justice. We are doing justice from a social perspective. We are making education accessible for everyone. Now, its historical and legal trend. Since when did it start? In the past few years, what kind of work and decisions were made that led to the inclusion of inclusive education? So, inclusive education is an outgrowth of several social and political movements that have emerged since the middle of the 20th century. They are saying that from the middle of the 20th century, many such social and political movements were created that led to the inclusion of inclusive education as an outgrowth. They are saying that the first such federal law was the Education for Handicapped Children in 1975. In 1975, there was a federal law called EHA, which means Education for Handicapped Children Act. In 1999, the EHA was replaced by another federal law. Another law replaced it. As time goes by, the law is improved. It is seen how it can be improved. So, the second law was the Individuals with Disabilities Act, in the name of an idea. I, Individuals, D for Disabilities and E for Act. Then came the statement of the United Nations in 1994 and the UNESCO's DAKAR, the Wild Declaration on Education for All. The concept of Education for All is very important. It was a movement called Education for All, in the name of the United Nations. I have discussed this a little bit in the past. Here, in detail, you have to go to inclusive education. So, it came in 2000, the Wild Declaration on Education for All. See, there are very recent things. Now, it is going on in 2013. It is not an old thing. Note the importance of inclusive schooling. It starts after the importance of inclusive schooling. The Education for All movement is a global commitment to provide equal quality basic education to all children, youth and adults. They are saying that the movement came in the form of a global commitment. It was felt in the whole universe that we all have to give equal quality basic education. This commitment arose in the context of the World Conference on Education for All of UNESCO in 1990. They are saying that the UNESCO Conference on Education for All has come out of this commitment and was later revised and discussed in the standard rules on the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities in 1993. They are saying that the UNESCO World Conference came out of this commitment and was later revised and discussed in the standard rules. And when the UNESCO World Conference came out of this commitment on special needs education, access and quality, the International Conference of Dakar in 2000, and the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006. In this way, these conferences and themes have been coming out. And what later on has been known as the Salaman's statement, is the result of the World Conference held in 1994 where the term inclusion appeared for the first time in the context of special education. They are saying that when Salaman's statement came out, the word inclusion came out. The result of the World Conference held in 1994. The World Conference that took place in 1994 first came the word inclusion in the history of special education in literature. Before that, the word inclusion was not used. So in 1994, it is not such a past. It is only 6 years old and 22 years old but it is 28 years old. So it is very recent according to literature. Then if we talk about the RTE Act 2009 in which we saw the view of the Vaishwit and if we talk about the Indian view of the world, then the very own very popular right to education act that came in 2009 embraces that inclusion. The right of children to free and compulsory education, which is known as RTE Act 2009, a landmark legislation has many provisions to ensure quality education for all. Children including children are at one page groups, such as they should you will go, they should you will try the socially and educationally backward classes economically weaker sections and with it differently abled. It is said that in 2009, a landmark was proved in the area of education and it is said that we have to include everyone. So what happened after RTE, every school is now an inclusive school. Because it is an act, you cannot deny it and it is said that we have to include everyone. So now every school is a landmark, you cannot deny it. Now it is RTE Act 2009 after. Then India has been a signatory of many declarations. India has also been a signatory to international declarations. Now it is being discussed in India, like the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education and Bivako Millennium Framework for Action and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that emphasize the need for fundamental education policy, shifts to enable general schools to include children with disabilities. It is said that we have signed so many international conferences so we had to bring it ourselves so RTE Act 2009 has embraced it. It has admitted it.  Then the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Integrated Education for the Disabled Children revised 1992. The RTE Act 2009 provides for children's right to an education of Equitable Quality Based on Principles of Equity and Non-Discrimination. It is said that the RTE Act 2009 has the right for children and the children have the right that they should get schooling based on Equitable, Samata Moolak, Gunovatta Poon and Samata and Non-Discrimination. For example, the Samagra Shikshabhiyan 2018 which is a progressive form of Sarva Shikshabhiyan. In Samagra Shikshabhiyan, they have Universalization of Secondary Education. It is advised to improve the quality of education ensuring equity and inclusion at all levels of school education from pre-school to senior secondary schools. In Samagra Shikshabhiyan, Sarva Shikshabhiyan has been taught. You can say that since we have signed on international declarations, it is a global commitment that we have to give inclusive education to everyone. The policy will be included. By default, it will be included that we have to accept inclusive education. This is a historical and legal trend. How did he take this role? If we talk about the principles, we discussed in UNESCO that there are five main principles on which inclusive education has been kept. Every child has a fundamental right to education. Every child has the right to go and must be given the opportunity to achieve and maintain an acceptable level of learning. Every child has unique characteristics, interests, everything and learning needs. Education system should be designed so that the educational program is implemented to take into account the wide diversity of these characteristics and needs. Those with special educational needs must have access to regular schools to accommodate them with a child-centered pedagogy capable of meeting those needs. That is, the school system will change itself. The methodology will change itself. The teaching style will change itself so that your needs can be catered. And regular schools with this inclusive orientation have the most effective means of combating discriminatory attitudes, creating welcoming communities, building an inclusive society and achieving education for all. How did all this start? From the concept of all, from the concept of EFA, it means that this is the way to deal with discriminatory attitudes in the society, in the education system, in the education system, which we do. Instead of this, we do welcoming communities. We respect them so that we can create an inclusive and inclusive society so that we can achieve education for all, for all. Apart from this, what we will discuss in general are the principles based on inclusive education. They promote equity, community, opportunity and the rights of children. Students with disability in education care and contribute to reducing discrimination against them. What we want is to reduce discrimination Inclusive protect practice aims to minimize or remove these barriers and support the success of all students in ensuring that academic standards are not compromised. What are the principles based on inclusive education? Access to education, to education, equity, and treatment. Relevance, participation, accessibility, and empowerment. And what is important is to empower the less empowered. Management is a very difficult and inclusive classroom. It is not so easy to include everyone. How to change the challenges? How to create and maintain the order, structure, and safety?  Because a normal child needs to cater to them.  There can be minor issues. How to build a structure? How to ensure their safety? How to meet the learning, social, and developmental needs of all students? How do you develop all the children who need them, who need them more? How to get rid of them? How to find them? How to confront the ever-present risk of stigmatizing those who are perceived as different? How to make sure that you don't stigmatize them, don't give them any excuses, and don't consider them to be inferior? What can we do? Three strategies for effective inclusion. You can use these three strategies to influence them. What are they? A flexible approach to giving students the support they need. An integration of universal design and differentiated instructions. Instruct them accordingly. And the normalization of the reality of human differences. Even if we don't have any disability, we are different from each other.  And then barriers, here comes an inclusive classroom. Quite an theory. There are 3 sets of barriers that currently limit the opportunity for people with disabilities to participate in society in equal terms with non-disabled. What are the obvious advantages and disadvantages Systemic barrier created by the system. Second is societal barrier which gives us society. Third is pedagogical barrier which gives us education. Systemic barrier is policies, practices or procedures that result in some people receiving unequal access and being excluded. We make it like this that disability is unequal access. We talk about reach but where is reach? Systemic barriers through learning are barriers created by the education system itself. We have made it ourselves. We are saying that typing speed is so much. For a disabled person, we have said that the disabled person who has some type of typing speed will also be able to do it. So we have not set a system as a barrier. So how will he participate equally? First is societal barrier. Like fear is in their mind. They feel awkward. They are worried. They are not interested. They become ignorant. So this is societal barrier. This is what the education system has created about pedagogical barrier. As a teacher or instructor, it is important to understand how adults learn which includes understanding learners' needs, motivation for learning, cycle of learning, characteristics of learning styles and the sequence in which learning needs to occur to be effective as a learner. When a teacher or instructor does not have this knowledge or fails to demonstrate it, it is considered a pedagogical barrier. First, we will talk about pedagogical barrier. If you would like to know a little bit about it, there is a topic of endrogology, there is a topic of utegology, there is a topic of pyragogical barrier, there is a topic of cyberlogical barrier. So what is endrogology? The higher education students who have not been able to learn about disability and have become adults, now they have to learn how to teach them. They have to learn how to teach children. If you teach an adult like a child, that means you are wrong, right? So in this way, these are three barriers. Systemic, societal and pedagogical. Then if we want to build an inclusive education system, then what things will be there? Systems, that is, commitment and resources across education ministries and throughout the schools. I have made such a decision that the ministries, schools, the rest of the schools are connected. Support for teachers and students working in learning and inclusive environment and for the children who are working, we will have to provide support. Cultural change. This is a cultural change that we should respect for diversity. We should respect for participatory learning. Partnership will not be done by schools alone. It will have to be done by parents, teachers, organizations of people with disabilities. And monitoring. We will have to see how things are changing, whether they have done better, how many things have been learned. We will have to make a second report. And the important thing, if we ask you, what is the importance of inclusive education? There is no shortage of importance. Educational case. All children learn more effectively. We will learn from all the good things. The normal thing is that if the disability is so big, then we have all the problems. If everything is going well, then we have to do better. And if there is any disability, then we can do at least this much. Okay? And economic case, it is cost effective and it contributes to a special education. You have to build a school, you have to recruit teachers. It was a very costly special education. And inclusive education is cost effective. The social case, it contributes to more inclusive societies. They are saying that you can get a social society. Will there be a social society as well? You will get a social justice. What else is there? All children, it promotes understanding. It ensures that children with disabilities are equipped to work. Apart from this, what does inclusive education promote? Participation in public life. In public life, everyone's participation will increase. Exercise of legal capacity. Work and employment. Adequate standard of living. So there are a lot of benefits. If we want to give an inclusive reflection of what is good and what is bad, then inclusive education has many strong proponents. But it has also drawn criticism. Many of these are going to speak in a different way. But it also has a problem. How? First, while some are insisting that all children can be successfully educated in this way. Other raise questions about the limits of inclusion and its ability to work well for everyone. Particularly, some children get into later elementary school and beyond. They are saying that we are assuming that we will teach everyone. But inclusion is also a limit. It does not work for everyone. Second concern which is a perennial challenge for all democratic institutions that strive for equality and fairness is how to balance needs of those who require extra attention and resources against the needs of typically developing children. A normal child who has extra attention how to balance how to complete the syllabus of the classroom is very difficult. Third concern has to do with the need for resources. There are so many resources. Schools and colleges and institutions do not have normal resources. If you want inclusive education then you will need more financial, material resources. You will need training. You will need a lot of support. So inclusion is not just about positivity. These are the shortcomings that are difficult. But overall inclusive education is the most progressive concept under the heading of special education. I have completed the concept of inclusive education and I hope that this topic will be more clear to you all. 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