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Hello and welcome to Issues and Answers. I am Lissa Joseph. In this edition, we're talking the Citizenship by Investment Program, the CIP. And January 1st marked five years since St. Lucia has entered into this global competitive industry of the Citizenship by Investment Program. And with me is the Chairman of the Board for the CIP, Mr. Ryan DeVoe. Thank you so much for coming through. The discussion is going to be very wide ranging or centered on CIP. In the last five years, St. Lucia has had many successes when it comes to the CIP. There have been legislative changes to ensure our competitiveness. We've also launched the CIP bonds to reflect the time that we're in. And we talk about the success that we've been having with that with the Chairman, Ryan DeVoe. To start us off into what St. Lucia has been able to achieve has been sort of recognized by the United States along other international watchdogs, if you want to refer to them as that. And in a recent article, as recent as the 30th of March, 2021, the United States government cited the Citizenship by Investment Program in three Caribbean countries for lack of transparency. In its latest Human Rights Report, and in the corruption and lack of transparency in government section, the 2020 report identifies the CIP programs in Antigone, Barbuda, Dominica, and St. Kitts Nevis as citizen concerns and oversight and corruption due to lack of openness. You know that for St. Lucia, this has been quite a concern of its own ensuring that there is transparency and that governance is optimal, which is why there have been several legislative changes to ensure that. So, Mr. DeVoe, thank you so much for coming through. And this is a wonderful point to start off our discussion, because for the CIP program, there is always constant oversight, not just locally, but internationally as well. How did you receive this news that St. Lucia has not been cited by the United States report for lack of transparency? Thank you so much for the opportunity to be here and to demystify I guess a lot of what CIP is and so on. With regard to the recent article that you referenced, I think we're very pleased that the work we've been doing from a due diligence point of view, the relationships we have which are ongoing, very proactive, very open with the US as well as with many other international security and due diligence agencies where we have very good relationships. And so, I mean, one of the things we had worked on with them was to say, you know, we need that to be recognized because, you know, we hear it when we have these interactions on security. And, you know, I get involved in some of those meetings, Nesta Alfred as well, you know, with the intelligence community and we do those fairly regularly. And it's an integral part to the integrity of our entire program.  And so we, because I would say historically, you know, the region was painted with a broad brush. And so the fact that that distinction is being made, I think is recognition of, you know, the work and the effort we're putting in to ensure that these programs or, you know, the program in St. Lucia is well run, is transparent, you know, is run with integrity, etc. So we're pleased. Now, since its launch in 2016, we've seen a few amendments to the legislation for the CIP. Walk us through what would have been the sort of game changing pieces of regulation you believe that has positioned St. Lucia to not just be considered as having great transparency, but also positioning us in the marketplace for success. Sure.  Obviously at the time it was controversial. And, you know, we've carried that on by making changes now to the actual product. So in terms of, you know, who's eligible, you know, we've increased the ability to add in, you know, additional persons, whether it's parents or children or even adopted children now.  And so again, even if I go back to, you know, some of those changes we made, as I say, in the donation amount, which was controversial, but that's where the market was. And so if St. Lucia had stayed, you know, way above others and we were new as well, you know, we would not have been able to achieve what we've done. I think, too, from a legislative point of view, I would highlight as well, you know, the work we've done around the National Economic Fund. And that was always in the initial legislation, you know, had not been put in place. It's finally now in place. And that is the mechanism, you know, where funds are placed to then be, you know, used within our economy. And obviously that's been one of the big, you know, where the CIP funds gone.  I've learned, you know, through this process that nothing happens as quickly perhaps as it could in the private sector. But, you know, at the end of the day, we have been steadily working on these things. And they're all there to ensure again that, you know, the transparency, the integrity of the program is where we want it to be. And so, I mean, I'm very proud to say, in the annual report last year, we had noted the National Economic Fund had been set up. You know, it now does have a functioning board. It has a bank account. It will be audited as it goes forward as the CIP is audited. And all of this will be information that, you know, is, you know, will be available and should be and needs to be available to the public of St. Lucia. So they know exactly what's happening. What's happening with the funds. We'll speak more specifically to the National Economic Fund, the NEF, because if we refer to it as that moving forward. But in terms of the marketplace itself, five years in the game, this is very, very young for St. Lucia. And we have some programs who are probably old as 50 years and so forth. When we look at what St. Lucia offers versus the competitors, what are some of the adjustments we had to make moving along the way. I know we spoke about the revision of the donation for to 100,000 US dollars, even for families and dependents and so forth. But in terms of the operational changes you have to make in order to remain competitive. Sure.  We've recently hired a marketing director for the unit. And that's a positive step as we now, you know, see marketing as being an integral part to, you know, the success of the unit.  And, you know, when we analyze the market, Dominica was the leader and their price point was the 100,000 investment.  And so we decided to match that. We then saw, you know, our single applicant segment growing and our numbers, you know, building quite nicely. We realize, okay, in the family segment, you know, that was a space where we were not and we've had Antigua make, you know, changes that probably position them from a pure monetary point of view.  And again, you know, we've seen now our, you know, the number of bond applications, I think for last year was at 65.  And again, it's responding to, you know, what the market wants and so on. And it's a very dynamic process.  When you talk as well, marketing, I would have to discuss, you know, the marketing arrangements we have for the jurisdiction. So in the early days of the program, it was based on, you know, we had specific agents for specific geographies. And, you know, by definition that, you know, then excluded other participants for those geographies. And so one of the fundamental changes we wanted to make was to, you know, make it a very, again, transparent, transparent arrangement where, you know, whoever brought a successful file was rewarded for that file. And so, you know, last year, not the year just gone, but the year before, was a very heavy year for us in terms of, you know, renegotiating those arrangements. And making it very open and transparent so that, you know, whoever brings you business is rewarded. So you can be from any part of the world once they've brought the business.  Correct. So there's no sort of exclusivity happening in any part of the world. Correct.  And so, you know, there was a conflict and therefore, you know, a lack of interest, really, to introduce businesses in. I'm sure if somebody else is going to benefit.   You're rewarded based on what you bring. It's the same for, you know, the arrangements are the same for everyone in terms of commission structure. And as a result, we've seen, you know, how our numbers are up over 115% this year from, you know, under 200 to over 400 this year. So can you tell us how many applications we have granted, at least for the last year? In terms of, I can tell you what has come in. So there's always a bit of a lag. I do have information on granted. I can get it as well for you. But in terms of files that have come in, we had 195, I believe, last year. And this year we've had 415, if I'm correct, I'm going on a bit of memory here. But, you know, which is an increase of 222 or 115%. And that's files in the door. So then you enter the period of, you know, all of the due diligence that we do. By legislation, we seek to approve files in, you know, less than 90 days. Our average, I would say, has been in the 50 to 64 day range at the moment. And again, we've done a lot of work to, you know, bring that number down.  And then as well, important to note is the finances, you know, once the application is approved, the applicant then has a period of time to submit money as well. So the application numbers coming in the door, you know, there is a bit of a lag in terms of when we see it approved and then when we see, you know, the money come in. We're due for a break. When we come back, we'll continue the conversation. We will get a firmer understanding of what the National Economic Fund is and how it works. Stay with us. We'll be back after this break. Thank you for staying with us. And the discussion is with Mr. Ryan Devo. He is the chairman of the board for the Citizenship by Investment program. And before we went to break, we were discussing the number of applications that we've been able to grant. And then we can expand on that in terms of the revenue that has come in as a result. Right. So just to give some numbers there because you asked me. So, you know, we had 193 applications received in the period 2019 to 2020. And in that period, we would have granted 144. So some would have been, you know, in process when the year ended, right? And then for the year 2020 to 2021, which would have just ended in March, we have received 415 applications. And we would have granted 285. Now that may seem like a big difference. But again, the momentum has been building, you know, towards the end of the year. And so those are files now that are in process. In terms of the contribution, I think last year we were about 131 million. If my memory is correct in the annual report. And this year we would have crossed about 204 million since the beginning of the program. So, you know, that's an increase, you know, a fairly significant increase again. And then as I say, you know, the momentum that's there in the pipeline is now going to carry on into the next fiscal year. So overall, you know, we've seen a big shift in terms of the success that the unit has had. But at the same time, we realize there's always work to do and, you know, we're always seeking to figure out how we continue to make it better. So we were discussing earlier, we alluded to the National Economic Fund. And so the one would assume that all of this money, the 131.2 million dollars from last financial year, what we're expecting to be able to accumulate over 200 plus a million. Does all of that money go into the National Economic Fund? Okay, so let me be very clear, Lisa, because there's a lot of questions around the money, right? So when I gave that number of the 204 million, that is from the inception. So that's over five years. Of the five-year period. That's what CIP has contributed to St. Lucia, right? As of last year, it was 131 million. So you're looking at, you know, an increase of about 73 million this year to, you know, to St. Lucia. The National Economic Fund was set up, I believe in January. I forget the dates, but, and as I say, now has a functioning board, has an active bank account and so on. So whereas historically, the funds would have gone to the consolidated fund of St. Lucia. And through the budget process, you know, it was detailed there where those funds were being spent. Now you have those funds going to the National Economic Fund. So there is a separate board that governs the National Economic Fund. The PS of Finance is the chairperson of that board. It is prescribed in the legislation, you know, what the fund can be used for. And there is some level of discretion, but, you know, it notes capital projects. It notes refinancing of debt. It notes buying of St. Lucia bonds or, you know, such other things as ultimately, I guess, the cabinet may decide. But, you know, you now have this National Economic Fund that will be audited and will produce its audited reports. I'm hoping they will follow in, you know, the tradition we've set at CIP, which is that our audits are done every year on time and filed on time. And, you know, again, this is information that should be available to everyone that wants to know about how this operates for the country. And for us, we do have, you know, the qualifying investment options that are there for our applicants. The COVID-19 bond relief, its preliminary time it has been extended till December for 2021. Speak to us about this bond and there was quite an appetite for the COVID-19 relief bond, even over the government bonds, the non-bearing, non-interest bearing bonds. The COVID-19 bonds have been quite a hit in the marketplace. Yeah.   And therefore, you know, you need to find ways to refinance that or pay it off. Ultimately, I think, you know, in the majority of cases it's refinanced. And so again, when we looked at the market, I mean, we had seen that in the very first year, we had had 7 million of subscriptions to our bonds and it had just fallen off. It really hadn't, I think over the remaining years, we'd had one more, one million of further investment into bonds. So, you know, clearly the market was saying the product wasn't, you know, attractive, vis-à-vis the other options that I have.  And so that's where, you know, we repositioned the investment amount of the bonds from 500,000 to 250,000 or up to 300, so depending on, you know, how much in your, how many persons in your family and the period you're going to invest for, it's between five or seven years and between 250,000 and 300. And, you know, we've now seen, I think it's 66 applications for that.  So I think, again, you know, when we did this, there was uncertainty. Some people said it wouldn't work and, you know, I think we can look back now and say, you know, we tried something and it has worked. And what for the CIP, the approved real estate projects and that is something too that is not completely understood by the public as to how this mechanism works. How much of a success have you had getting these real estate interests out in the market? So you have, at the moment, two active projects that are, and again, you know, there's a process by which these projects would become, you know, eligible to be invested in. So it goes through, you know, maybe just to describe that process quickly.  The numbers are analyzed. You know, we ask for more information. It comes to our board eventually. We decide, we think, you know, this is worthy of further consideration or it's not. If it's worthy of further consideration, it goes up to the cabinet to be considered and ultimately that's where it's approved. So, you know, once it's approved, then it becomes an eligible project. You'll see it listed on our website, for example. So we have the Alpina project, which is part of the SH, and you have the Canels project in Canels, right? Galaxy, you know, the group behind that. And then, you know, so once they've been approved, now, you know, those groups are out in the market selling their projects and persons can invest into those projects. And what we do is set up an escrow account where the funds go and it's, you know, it's stipulated in the escrow agreements when those funds can be used and so on. And the investor, the developer, is then able to use those funds, you know, for those projects in due course. The money does not come to St. Lucia directly. It doesn't come to the National Economic Fund, et cetera. It sits in those escrow. There are fees associated with that option, which is paid into the unit and then ultimately, as I say, to the National Economic Fund or, you know, in terms of, and so for the real estate option, you know, the fee, the administrative fee would be about 30,000. So that's paid in addition to the 300,000 that the investor would pay into the escrow account. And again, we have processes that, you know, monitor what's coming in. We need to know that it's come in before the citizenship can be grant. You know, the passport issue and those sorts of things. So again, there's a lot of control over how all of that works. In our remaining moments, I want to talk about the CIP in terms of the benefits to St. Lucia because, again, you know, that's ability for the public to fully understand what is CIP and how it works and how we can work for the country. But the board firmly believes that the CIP is certainly a sort of, it's a benefit stream for the country. Can you tell us and explain to us why that is? I think perhaps, you know, the first benefit you would look to is the financial, right?  So as I indicated earlier, you know, the ability to refinance debt like through, as we're using the bonds or you could simply use money from the National Economic Fund to pay down existing debt, you would save all of that interest cost that the government has on an ongoing basis, right? To the extent that, you know, the National Economic Fund talks about capital projects. So whether, you know, we're going to build a school, a hospital, a road, you know, whatever we decide, I mean, that's a direct benefit again to the country in terms of, and as I indicated over its five years, you know, it's been 204 million raised for the country. So I think, you know, it's certainly, it's a meaningful contribution to the overall finances and as we continue to grow it, it will become, you know, more and more important. And then, so that's the finance side, right? I hope that's clear in terms of understanding, you know, how St. Lucia benefits.  You know, some of them have their own businesses have been very successful globally, etc. And I don't think we've done a good enough job at this is, you know, how do we now leverage that to create more goodwill for St. Lucia, to create, you know, whether it's, you know, can we leverage scholarships for our young students? Can we leverage, you know, your business coming into St. Lucia and setting up? And, you know, there are many other pieces of legislation being looked at by the country to try and help do this, like our headquarters at, for example. You know, as I say, you see, you know, what these persons have achieved and done. I think there's opportunity, you know, to bring more of that.  And so I think, you know, the impact can be very meaningful. And indeed, I think when we look at the reports put out by, you know, the international agencies that analyze our economies, they recognize, you know, how important these programs have been to the region. And speaking of that, in the remaining minute that we have, often we've heard Prime Minister Hon. Alan Chastney, who of course is the minister with direct responsibility for the CIP, he has said repeatedly that it's about time that the region considers having an OECS-CIP program. And that is important, I think, on several levels. But he always makes the point that when you have someone who has been granted citizenship in Dominica, then they do have access to St. Lucia like any other OECS national. So from your viewpoint, your vantage point, the benefit of having an OECS-CIP program, very necessary at this time, especially coming out of COVID? Well, I think, you know, St. Lucia is a huge proponent of that. And again, when we drive, you know, the integrity and the transparency that we believe we've demonstrated, we've, you know, done here in St. Lucia, we think that's important for the region. We think it's important for sustainability. When you talk about, you know, due diligence and having a common standard, we fully support it. Our own Nesta Alfred is, you know, chair of the regional committee of the CEOs. And so that is an agenda that we definitely support. You know, you've seen recent traction with the ECCB looking to, you know, try and facilitate some of that.  We've had parts that haven't worked well. So it's going to take time, but I think it's something just to be clear that St. Lucia fully supports and we would like to see, you know, more of it, you know, into the initiative continue to be pushed. And hopefully, you know, we could achieve meaningful progress. And we hope so too. And we want to thank you very much. It's a Ryan Devoe, who's the chairman of the board for the CIP, the Citizenship by Investment Program, giving us a little insight there into the CIP and coming up on its fifth anniversary, five years of doing wonderful things for St. Lucia, being competitive out there in the global market. And of course, we are beginning to reap a very tangible benefit as a result. This has been Issues and Answers. Thank you so much for watching. I'm Mr. Joseph. Until next time. Thank you.


Now imagine if we could turn category five hurricanes like Maria into category one hurricanes like Franklin They would become far less dangerous for humans with this 40% reduction in peak wind speed and the damage to homes livelihoods and Infrastructure would go down roughly by a factor of 200 Now how to do it? Look into the eyes Not into my eyes, but the eyes of the storms Maria has a distinct beautiful eye while Franklin is flying with his eye closed The strongest winds by far are in the eye wall right next to the eye where the fierce rotation of the eye Meets the inward flow to the low pressure area, which is what caused the hurricane in the first place Project storm fury correctly targeted the eye wall in an attempt to weaken hurricanes They did cloud seeding in a larger ring by spraying aerosols from about 12 airplanes They did manage to weaken hurricane Debbie in 1969 the only storm came so far But their method doesn't work for most hurricanes because they don't contain enough water of the right temperature Now we have supercomputers and huge weather databases We've learned that eye walls break down all the time in nature Often due to subtle changes in the turbulent flows in and around them The aim of this project is to target the weaknesses of these eye walls by artificially generated turbulence We also know from a completely different context a fusion reactor that a vortex is Momentum can be diffused by controlling the turbulence Now as in the fusion reactor There are probably many ways to produce the required turbulence because we're basically just disturbing airflow options are spraying tons and tons of dry ice or smoke from airplanes or unmanned ships inserting physical obstacles or doing cloud seeding We'll do thousands of realistic modification Experiments safely and cheaply on the supercomputer until we're confident that we have found efficient and reliable methods After that as a result of the project will propose real experiments Starting with hurricanes far out at sea safely and will work towards a future with much less destruction by hurricanes Thank you. Thank you, Svante. That was great judges you may ask Thank you, Svante. So how realistic it is that this can be done by for example airplanes Okay, so in project storm fury which used like a more schematic more grand scheme now We're disturbing the local airflow Which is a smaller project than to surround the whole eye wall and they manage this one storm with specific Circumstances that are not often occurring But that was with 13 airplanes only and they succeeded twice two days apart So when we're going into the finer scale flow, we expect that Just a few tons of of these particles and maybe a dozen airplanes Something of that order now we have to research this more carefully, but that would be the scale roughly Thank you. Any other questions? Yes, it's a it's kind of brought in fascinating and I hope you succeed and great that you're the airplane machine learning is such an interesting case has has can you Can you move to other sort of geo engineering challenges from from the way you're structuring the data and the platform you have Like say I mean fires like huge fires. It's a maybe less of a climate Phenomenon, but could you move to other? Other big scale phenomena of you know that are for example astrophys fire's big forest forest fires like how to Maybe not with the tools here because we're now we're focusing on the flows and the physics of turbulence and flows but there's a lot of initiatives in this weather modification for example my Institute finish meteorological Institute is participating in rain making in the United Arab Emirates So there's more and more of this kind of initiatives Thank you. Oh one question. Yes. Go ahead. Well, I might be I don't know anything about this area really but Somebody told me that it's not good that we do this rain making and put this particle up there Tell me about the environmental aspects of changing the weather's in in this way Okay, I read one report by some environmental Authority about for example silver iodide is one of the used chemicals the quantities according to that report at least were Really negligible there or very minute their environmental impact. So I wouldn't say that that's an issue with this research Thank you. Thanks. Thank you so much. I think that's one thing you are a rainmaker


We're going to talk about the Titans, obviously they reported today, took their conditioning test and they'll have a team meeting tonight and then they will hit the field tomorrow. I think when you look at training camp that you have to build a certain foundation, hopefully with the foundation of effort and finish, technique, fundamentals, accountability, building trust, those are all things that we believe in. Day one of camp practice as the Titans begin another climb they hope will lead to a deep postseason run. Don't take anything that we do out here for granted, don't take this opportunity for granted here, don't take practicing with each other and getting better and building a team. Break them down and let's roll, here we go. Good job Elijah. I try and think of a key word and then focus on that throughout practice and today was efficiency. The rookies were out here a couple of days early and it's hot, we're getting a lot of reps and later on in practice your technique starts to fall off a little bit and that's when you need to be most efficient so I was focusing on today. This is how we practice, this is what the expectations are and the ones that can battle through it are going to be the ones that end up sticking around helping us win, developing a role because they have a foundation. Today marks step one of what the Titans hope will be a long journey that goes well into February. Training camp practice number one in the books for the two tone blue here at St. Thomas Sports Park. The place that I want to start though is with AJ Brown. I think it's a fair assessment to say that I think we could see AJ Brown take a substantial leap in year three. AJ Brown might wear number 11 but hands down he has been the Titans number one receiver in week one of training camp. For me like I'm always a student first, you know I'm always trying to watch something to learn, put it in my game and it's offseason and I wasn't really able to like get out there as much but as soon as I got back here like as soon as I got back I just felt comfortable like you know like I said I could do whatever I want to do when I want to do it. Some of the back end receivers, Justin Rodgers, Marcus Johnson, those guys who stood out. This is just six for me so I've seen everything you know the good the bad and I think just going through those training camps and learning that obviously you got to do it every day. No one cares what you did yesterday and nobody cares you know what you did last year or your rookie year so it's just staying consistent honestly and just doing it over. Obviously this is a team sport and what you can pass down to help guys, to coach guys, to help them understand the game, not take the game the way I play the game but take little things from me you know what I'm saying and everybody has to be coachable but you have to make it your own and go out there and be the best version of yourself. It's perhaps the biggest question facing the Titans this season. How will the defense do? 2021 marks a new beginning for the Titans D as they look to turn things around. Let's go man. Let's be detailed today. Let's be detailed. Nice job Rich Sean Evans. I've been super motivated the entire off season working my butt off making sure they're working on every part of my game to make sure I can be the best leader I could possibly be for this team. Have a day corners, have a day. Shot. Way to fight through that one. We're still just building our foundation just right now. I've been really impressed with just the energy and the tempo and just the excitement of training camp. I think guys, especially guys on the defense, we've been really practicing and playing with the chip on our shoulders because we obviously know that last year wasn't good enough. I think that's just been a message you know just throughout just everybody having a chip on their shoulder and trying to you know put last year behind and you know build a whole new team this year.


Okay, I'm looking at a viewer question. This is you know, I just saw this comment on a video that I did back in 2009 Which was on creating GUI interfaces using glade designer here something that I Haven't done it since 2009 I never really did much and I'm just gonna start by saying in general if you're a programmer I recommend you don't use programs like these where you kind of create the interface with a what you see is what you get Type interface.  They're fine But if you're really looking to become a programmer, you really want to go right in code right code It's quicker and easier to write Creep button than it is to open up program like this drag with stuff around then save it and then pour it into your code Trust me. You're gonna have cleaner code if you do it yourself That being said I haven't here the comment here from Logan Graham Said how'd you get glade to look like that? Mine has an empty side panel where yours has all those things in it Yeah, so I read that and I commented that I haven't played with it in a while And so then I quickly installed it and played it and yeah, it's completely different And I only played with it for a couple of minutes But I got enough to where I could put buttons and labels and stuff on there So let me real quick after apps install played I Installed and I just uninstalled it real quick just so you guys can see the process of installing it. I'll type glade Of course, you have to spell it properly. Here we go They're gonna say do you want to take a survey? I'm gonna say no. I'll make this full screen here actually Let's do Okay, let's do New there we go, okay See how this is what the interface looks like From what I remember what I played with and again, I only played with this for a couple of minutes I clicked up here and Then I type in something like There's a list of stuff here and again, this is just a quick answer for that guy Wasn't clicking over here. Okay. Maybe I should have played with it. Oh top levels. Here we go That's what I want. Let's do a dialogue So I click that and it creates a dialogue window Then you still have your buttons and empty empty spots there for you this little template here You just double-click this and type in button and then pick take the pick the type of button you want I can put a button there. I can click over here and type in button and put a button there up here I can come here and type in label and Add a label to actually quite a little nice interface once you play with it again just for a couple minutes. I can Choose the different things over here so I can go to label and I can type in Hello world I click on all these buttons and you know, there's different options. I can check here Somewhere in here there label. I can say Button here. I can choose this and type Clothes or something. So that was just a quick thing the guy wanted to know Basically compared to if we look again at my video from here where it was very much Like you would see at least back in the day most programs Like if you came from visual basic and stuff where you can drag and drop and stuff this stuff over It's definitely very different here Again, I can then do another top level here. I can create GTK window and it actually creates a new window in my project here This is just an empty window and I would assume that I could do Yeah, so like not a list box. What do we call them? So a grid you take a layout. Let's see what that does Divide that up Horizontal Put one nothing man. It's been well since I've used any type of editor like this delete that Vertical Horizontal boxes, what do they call those list box button box? Qtk box there we go and it looks my default is vertical and I can change it here to horizontal There you go. So now I can come in here and I can put a label Like so and then here I can put in a button button Down here I can put in. I don't know what we'll put down here entry. That sounds good And of course you could probably scale this out spacing. There we go space them out if I want Add an extra vertical line there if I want There we go that kind of evenly spaces them out kind of sort of yeah gave each one I mean the label is still small, but it's the box. It's in is spread out. So again That's that's just a quick look on how to drop stuff in there Again, I haven't played with an interface like this in almost 10 years And I really don't recommend again on the down laying it You know it is these are great for if You know you don't do a lot of programming and you want to create something real quick Yeah, you can use this But I really recommend learning type the code because it's a lot easier just type one or two lines of code to say create Window and box then it is to come in here create all this export it add your code And it's your code and you have multiple files and it just becomes a mess and your code becomes sloppy And your interface is very static at that point I mean not that you couldn't change it, but it's a lot easier to have your interface be more You know flowing and easily changed as the user Interfaces with it if you actually write out the code then if you use a program like this anyway, that's it. I hope that What do I say Logan? Logan Graham, I hope that that helps you out some People like this video films by Chris calm. That's Chris. Okay. There's a link in description. Check it out As always, I hope that you have a great day


So, a warm welcome to the 24th session. In this session, we would now build on the linear time invariant concept or linear shift invariant concept in the context of discrete systems. We call that when you bring linearity and time invariance or shift invariance together, a lot of things get simplified. In fact, in the continuous time case, we saw that one single experiment on that system was enough to characterize the system completely. The same principle will now extend to discrete systems. So, let us now focus in this session on linear shift invariant systems in the discrete context. And let us explain what you mean by linear shift invariant. Of course, we have individually defined the components of linearity and shift invariance, but we need to aggregate them together. So, let us assume this discrete system S is linear and shift invariant. That means three things happen. S is additive, homogeneous and shift invariant. Additivity and homogeneity together constitute linearity, as was true for continuous variables. And now we need to ask the same question as we did for discrete systems. Can I perform one experiment on that discrete system and say everything that I want to about the discrete system? What does that mean when I say, I want to say everything that I would like to, what am I really asking for? I am asking for being able to give a complete input-output relationship. After all, what is a system? A system is a mapping from sequences to sequences, when talked about in the discrete context. So, what we are asking is, can I make one experiment on that system? Can I look at one input-output relationship and say everything about the input-output mapping that that system implies? And once again, the answer is yes and the answer is essentially the same as what we had for continuous variable system with a little difference, that it is easier to understand that answer here. In fact, that is the reason why some people like to begin with discrete systems in a discussion on signal and system. We have preferred to begin with continuous time system because it is easier to relate continuous variable or continuous time systems to the natural world, to the real world. But understanding is probably easier with discrete system and therefore, let us now define the simplest possible sequence that we can have in a discrete system context, namely the unit impulse. So, now we proceed to define what we call the unit impulse sequence. I do not need to say too much about impulses because you have said enough in the continuous time case. But what you would really want in a unit impulse sequence is just one non-zero point. So, in fact, we can define this unit impulse sequence very precisely in a discrete context. The unit impulse sequence delta n is defined to be 1 for n equal to 0 and 0 for n not equal to 0. So, it is very simple. It is a very well-defined sequence. At 0, it takes the value 1. At all other points, it has the value 0. So, you can see that this unit impulse is what its name suggests it should be. An impulsive non-zero point in one location and 0 everywhere else. You recall that in the continuous time case also, what an impulse really meant is a sudden very short-lived phenomenon. An impulse is exactly that. A sudden very short-lived phenomenon. And of course, for the continuous time case, we had to work hard to understand the impulse. We had to begin with a pulse and we had to make the pulse narrower and narrower, but preserving the area. All those ideas are not required here. Here, we have a very well-defined sequence. It is one at a point chosen, namely n equal to 0, 0 everywhere else. There is no mathematical complexity in the definition. It is a sequence like any other. Now, let us perform the experiment of giving this unit impulse sequence to the discrete system as an input. And let us observe the output. Now, in fact, let us take an example. Let us take that taxation system again as an example and ask some questions about its linearity and shift invariance and then look at its unit impulse response. So, you will recall that the taxation system which we had looked at in an earlier discussion gave you the output. Let us call it, you know, ST, taxation system if you like. And the system looked like this. It said that at any instance of measurement, maybe a periodic measurement takes place of population and the instance is indexed by n, you have a population of x of n as a function of time and the tax collected is y of n at that instant for a particular service. And you will recall that at any instance, the population has paid tax over two instances, a tax of alpha over the current instance and a tax of beta over the previous instance. So, for two instances that population pays tax. And let us ask this question. Is this system linear and shift invariant? Now, it is very easy to see that it is additive. We have already established that. You will recall that my student actually showed that the system is additive, already established. Let us quickly prove that it is homogeneous and shift invariant. So, let us multiply x n by a constant gamma and give that as an input. See, if you gave gamma times x n as an input to the system, ST, then you have alpha times gamma x n plus beta times gamma x of n minus 1 as the output and that essentially is gamma times the original y n, where y n is the output to x n. Therefore, the system is homogeneous. Now, let us also check its shift invariance. Let us replace x n by x n minus d and give it to the system s. Of course, you can see the output is going to be alpha times x of n minus d plus beta times x of n minus 1 minus d, which is the same as alpha of x n minus d plus beta of x n minus d minus 1. And anyway, this is the same thing as y of n minus d and true for all d and all x and therefore, the system is shift invariant, a formal proof. But after all, this also has a very simple physical explanation. Suppose, I were to have the same patterns of population as a function of instance and if I were to look at the taxation pattern, I would see the same taxation pattern shifted if I shifted the whole population pattern. So, as long as the taxation rule is the same, the taxation pattern remains the same, essentially the taxation pattern remains shifted by the same amount by which the input is shifted. That is what we are essentially saying. So, if I had a certain set of population measurements at succeeding instance and I preserve that pattern and I shifted that whole pattern by d samples and I looked at the taxation pattern after the shift was executed, then the same taxation pattern is seen, but shifted by d sample. That is what we are saying. It is good to get a physical interpretation. Of course, a formal proof is always nice and we must complete a formal proof anyway in all situations. So, this system is linear and shift invariant. Let us give it a unit impulse as the input. So, we have delta n being given to the system S t and we query the output. Very easy. The output is going to be delta n times alpha plus beta times delta n minus 1. This is very easy to understand. This is essentially alpha at n equal to 0 and beta at n minus 1 equal to 0 or n equal to 1 and 0 everywhere else. A very simple sequence. So, at 0, it takes the value alpha. This is the value of n. At 1, it takes the value beta. At all other points, it takes the value 0. So, once again, you have only two non-zero points here and this constitutes what we call the unit impulse response of the system. This is just to give you an example. Similarly, any discrete system can be associated with a unit impulse response. But what is important is to study the unit impulse response for the context of linear shift invariant system. That gives a great service to that linear shift invariant system. In fact, now I am going to state a theorem straight away which is very similar to the theorem that we had for continuous variable systems and I am then going to prove it. I am going to state the following theorem for discrete linear shift invariant systems. The unit impulse response characterizes the system completely. What do you mean by characterizing the system completely? It means that given any input x of n, I must be able to determine the output y of n given the unit impulse response. So, I need to complete a formal proof now to show that if I have this unit impulse response, I can write down yn explicitly in terms of x of n. I shall do that in the subsequent session. Thank you.


Listeners, the latest anime from Studio Mapa, created by Gene, written by Dai Sato and directed by Hiroaki Ando.  To combat the threat, players have risen, earning fame and fortune by destroying the earless. In this world, we follow Echo, a young man dreaming of adventure, joining players with a mecha of his own, as well as finding the mysterious Jimmy Stonefree. This all changes when he meets the mysterious Mew, a girl who's lost her memory and is a player herself. Together, the two characters will embark on a journey to find answers and possibly save the world in the process. In all honesty, the main reason I tuned in for Listeners was the art. I am a big fan of Dai Sato and his work on one of my all-time favorite anime, Eureka 7. I saw a lot of similarities between Listeners and Eureka. Echo is clearly a more confident Renton, Mew, a spunkier version of Eureka. There are vague hints of resistant forces, and like in Eureka 7, there's the tragedy of the scub coral. Now we have the earless, who are the misunderstood creatures. Years before the start of the series, Project Freedom Festival occurred, a last ditched effort by the world government to get rid of the earless. In it, multiple players gathered along with the character of Jimmy, whose exploits made him a legend worldwide, but his mysterious disappearance left a large gap in said world. When we're introduced to the character of Echo, he is living with his sister in a scrap town known as Liberchester, her main character dreams of grand adventures, meeting his idol and experiencing a life different than a mountain of scrap. Change comes with his discovery of an amnesiac girl who is a player with an input jack. You see, I should probably mention that Listeners is riddled with references, homages, and Easter eggs to music culture, from punk to rock, country, famous bands like The Beatles, Nirvana, The Who, iconic singers like Prince, Pink Floyd, Robert Johnson, so much more. If you love music, this show will be a pleasant reminder of its power to connect the world, and I guess that is one of the themes of the show. Players have auxiliary ports, if you will, which they plug their amps and sort of unveil large mecha to combat the ghostly earless. In a lot of ways, Listeners is the blended smoothie of Eureka 7 and Kingdom Hearts, or at least to me. The characters are varied and diverse, with a plot that is both a journey of self-discovery and an examination of human prejudice, as well as the effects of war and false idols. Like any good story, Listeners relies on its lead characters to carry the plot forward. At 12 episodes, the series doesn't have a lot of time to set everything properly, and instead we get our information in real time as Echo and Mew begin their journey, exploring the concept of earless, players, love, and war through their inexperienced eyes. Echo is a hopeful dreamer who glorifies players. Mew, on the other hand, she doesn't remember much, but she's fearless, a bit confused, but fearless nonetheless. And it's this sort of interesting dynamic between the two characters that makes you want to root for them and keep the story going forward, the way they stumble and grow as characters, maybe as friends, or maybe something else. Unfortunately, Listeners should have been longer, like way longer. At 12 episodes, we get constant exposition dumps on themes that would normally take seasons to explore and understand. We never quite get the true nature of our enemies, instead the show opts for a traveling adventure with quick glances at world building. This world is quite big and rich with history. Unfortunately, it isn't explored all that well, leaving the viewer with thoughts as to what exactly is happening and why should we care about secondary characters that don't really contribute to the overall plot. The big question of Jimmy Stonefree, his origins and disappearance are crucial to the story, and even then it doesn't get fully fleshed out until the final episodes. Normally this would be standard story procedure, but in Listeners, there are more questions than answers and the viewer is left filling in the blanks. A lot of episodes are dedicated to the physical journey that the main characters are going through instead of them learning, you know, lessons or evolving as characters. Another problematic element for me was the actual lore. It may have been me, but I never really felt like I understood everything 100%. A lot of concepts are thrown around, but are sort of muddied, carelessly thrown in between echo and muse development. The true nature of the earless, the motivations of the government, how players first began, the actual process of them fighting and their abilities. It's all kind of rapidly explained in quick succession to each other. The story beats and pacing aren't as smooth as Sato's previous works. In Odeca 7 for example, we had 50 episodes to develop a protagonist and fully realize his journey. Here in Listeners, we get an abridged version, along with a brushed sequence of events that lead to a world being transformed by the final confrontation. The villains in the story come in two different sizes. You got the earless, who depending on the human factions can either be atrocious or misunderstood creatures. The human antagonist border between predictable megalomaniacs or clueless do-gooders. Yes, they are extremely well designed, but if the motivations aren't fully fleshed out, you kind of risk a disconnect with the audience. Like I'm probably hating on the series more than I should, but I'm simply bothered by an interesting story being resolved in the way that it did. Listeners has a ton of great concepts and truly unique visuals, rich character designs and wonderful set pieces. Fantastic artwork, wonderful voice acting. The usage of music as a theme that connects humanity and how the villains are devoid of sound is genuinely great. Echo and Mew both have charming personalities and a naive nature that will appeal to viewers. The nature of players themselves and the mechas are great. I'd love the blend of CG and traditional animation. The robot designs themselves are all pretty unique and different from what you expect when you talk mecha. Some of the secondary characters are pretty interesting and they do a good job at fleshing out the world, but unfortunately, Listeners suffers from being too short of a series. At 12 episodes, this definitely felt like it was supposed to be a longer series, but had all these plot elements just crammed in at the last second, if given more time to explore its setting, developing our villains and motivations a little bit more, as well as detailing the show's lore, Listeners could have been one of the modern greats in my honest opinion.


I just got off the star call. We get a lot of questions about CRMs, organization, taking care of your clients, being organized. And here at our company, we use Radius Bob. For any insurance agents, you can get a discount on our members area at SecureAgeMeter.com. What Radius Bob does, it'll integrate with your Gmail, it'll integrate with Google, it'll integrate with your Google Calendar. So if you want to put your client's birthday in your CRM and you want to show up on your iPhone, you know, then there's some connection there. I just learned from an agent in Hawaii, he actually puts every client, he actually puts information in a, he creates a new contact for every client before he leaves the home. What that does is, it puts your information in there, it puts your date of birth in there. And so he can, he can actually, number one, he can have all the information in one place. Yeah, he'll keep the file, he'll keep a CRM, all that. But it'll show up in his iPhone later that hey, this is, this is that person's birthday. And so he's able to just jump in and text them real quick. And so think about bringing some extra value, do you, do you write a thank you card when you leave the appointment, you know, to go to, so that the client will get that. Do you think about their birthday, their, their kids, what's the small things?  I loved your newsletter. I loved the fact that you send a recipe every month. Like be that, be that guy, cause we're in a crowded world, crazy crowded world.  Like it's a crazy, you got people on Facebook trying to sell you stuff. Like it's like your friends and family trying to sell you knives, you know, whatever, it's a crazy world. The biggest thing is be unique in a crowded world. So what will set you apart from the next agent that jumps through their door and to say I can save you $2? Like will they take it or will they not?  I was a captive agent. I had anything I could do back then. But they said, hey, because of your service, because of your newsletter, because of the fact that you answer the phone when we call, because of the little cards, because of all the little things that you do, we'll never leave you. So people recognize that. But also what I mean by being unique is stay top of mind. So when you think about, you know, when you think about, hey, I've got clients that will have moments in their life where they may need insurance, they may need life insurance on their spouse, they may need Medicare, they may have a family member or friends to say, who's your insurance guy? When that happens, who will they think about?  You want to be that. You want them to be fans of you because of how great you are to them. So be unique. Stand out when they, you get referrals. If you don't get referrals, maybe because they don't think about you when they think about insurance. Make sure that anytime in the future, when someone, social media, blast social media, your friends, make sure everyone knows, hey, this is what I do. When they think about something that happens in their life, will they think about you?


I just discovered that Haripriya comes from a native town called Chikabu Lafour, my mother's place. That's the place where we are now setting up the leadership academy, it's fifty kilometers from Bangalore. Namaskaras, Adguru. Namaste. So nice to be interacting with you. Thank you so much. I think it's a waterfall. Your presence makes all the difference. Thank you. See, I want to mention this. I have actually never believed in any gurus or kidneys, farm eegis. I've always felt my mom is my first guru and my teachers and my directors who of course directed me in all my movies and of course life experiences. But later when I started watching your videos, it makes so much sense and they are so practical. Everybody can apply to their own lives and I can look at you as a father figure. Seriously. Seriously. So for few of my questions or few of my confusions, your interviews have given answers. Thanks to you for that. And from then onward, I've started following your all the speeches, all the interviews. You inspire a lot of people and everybody can relate to them. Thank you. Firstly, I would like to ask you that everybody would be coming to you with a lot of questions and with a lot of confusions. So you will be explaining the lot. So you'll be analyzing their problems and you'll be giving your explanation and you'll be traveling the lot and you'll be giving a lot of interviews and you'll be doing a lot of interactions. But have you ever felt I need a break or I'm exhausted or I have to take some time out for myself and come. This is a question like a father, I mean a daughter asking her father about his well-being. I want to ask you first because I'm going to eventually end up asking my questions because even I have my questions and confusions. I'm going to end up asking the same. But before that, I want to know how are you? Growing. I go blank seriously. I remember one incident last year when I met Sadhguru. So after talking to him, I wanted to take a picture. So I asked him, can I have a picture with you? He said yes. And I went blank and I was just sitting idle.   To take a picture, you have to come sit here. Then I realized yes, I have to get up and go sit beside him. I was just sitting opposite him and I was just looking at him and I was lost seriously. And a few questions I want to ask him. So in that, the first thing would be I've been working since I was 16. So it's been 12 years of my journey and work has become my routine. I've been working every day like I've completed so far like 39 movies or something. So when I get a break for a week or 10 days, I feel restless. I know that I would be starting another project after a week for sure. But still I would be able to enjoy only those three or four days. After that, I feel like I'm doing some mistake. I have to get up and do some work. So I'll start doing all the work at home and still there'll be some time left and I feel so jobless. So how do I overcome thislessness about my rest? If you come to ease within yourself and above all, if you're genuinely doing something that you really care for, why would you need a break? Those people who are doing things that they don't care for, they're always looking for a break. Thank God it's Friday, that's a culture. And they tell me, some surveys say that seventy percent of the Americans hit their job, not dislike, hit their job. So five days of a week, if you're doing something that you hate, you think those two days are going to be fantastic, but that's not how it'll turn out. If you want those two days to be fantastic, at least you must practice five days how to make it fantastic. So this is the fundamental. In many ways this is the very fundamental that we're talking about. What I'm normally addressing is just this, that what you call as myself is right now a collage of things that you do. People say this is me, but what they mean by me is their home, their work, their wealth, their property, their this, their that, so many things. They're a collage of things. If you are a collage of many things, obviously there is no substance of your own or not being found at least. So this is why spiritual process that if you simply sit here, you're still worthwhile. But this to happen, you must get the order of things right. Say you have a body, you have a mind, but all these things you gathered from outside, so there is something called as you that you, right now if you want, we can call it just life. If you put body in the forefront, it will always want to do a few things. It wants to eat, it wants to sleep, it wants to reproduce, it wants to die. It's all body knows. It'll always be wanting to do something regarding that. If you put your mind ahead of everything else, well it just doesn't know what to do. It will simply scratch you all over the place because most of the time it doesn't know what to do. If you put your life in the forefront and body and mind to serve the life, that's how life should be. That you have a body and mind to serve this life. But right now your life serves your body and mind. Most people, their entire arrangement of life is just about their physiological needs and psychological needs. That's all. To settle their physiological needs and their psychological and emotional needs, their whole arrangement of life is just around this.  The significant aspect of your life is that you're a living being right now. That is not even in the experience. So both the body and mind will feel very inadequate. Particularly the mind will always feel inadequate because it's trying to run its business with a very small bubble.   So always it'll feel inadequate. It has to do something.  Then where's the question about break? This is a break. Hello? Since morning we've continuously worked one, two, three, four, five events. But this is a break. Right through the day it's been a break. I've been on the motorcycle. What better break? So why is it first of all people are doing things that they don't care for? Because they think they'll get something. If you're doing something that you don't care for, naturally it'll be burdensome.  But to get that point, most people are under deathbed. So I'm trying to see if we can make them get it a little early so that there'll be some worthwhile human beings to at least be with an interact. This is again a personal question and many girls would want to ask this question for sure. Anybody say that, okay, you have to get settled down in life, especially when it comes to a girl or a woman's life, you have to get married and settle down. So for that we have to find our soul mates. Soul? I mean the partner, life partner. Soul doesn't need a mate. It's only the body which needs a mate. Okay, so the better half, like whoever we get married to. Oh, you're calling him the better half? That's nice to know. I'm the best half, so he's the better half. So I forgot my questions at Guru. I've been working since many years and I've given more importance to my career, so I've become very workaholic. So I haven't given much attention towards my personal life. So now when my mom asked me to, okay, you have to settle down now, so I have to choose the person. But now I've gotten to a place where when a guy is looking at me, so I'll have a confusion there. Okay, is he looking at me? Okay, this is a good looking girl. Or he might think, okay, she's an actress. I want to go get a selfie with her. Or there is a little wrong notion that actors or actresses are little easy, okay, we can go get them. So with what notion he's looking at me? So I don't give them even a time to understand me or know me, just I talk to the point, just go from that place. So then how will I know anyone other than my workplace?  So they're not able to come out of their comfort zone. They're not able to interact with men comfortably because we don't know with what intention they're looking at us. Just ask him. True, but what if their answers are not genuine? The thing is, we have learned how to make a problem out of everything. If we have no success, we'll make a problem out of that. If there is success, we'll make a problem out of that. One problem is, in a way the question is, are they coming to me as a person or they're coming to me because of who I am? So anyway, you're taking those week long breaks.  If you're in Karnataka, maybe they all know you, so maybe it's just a fan moment. It is a, it is a dilemma that both men and women are facing today. Because in this culture at least, are everywhere for that matter. Manages were very stable. Though within the house a whole lot of turmoil happened for many people, still they were stable because one thing was, let's say if you look back hundred years ago, there was no way a woman could live alone, simply out of question. She had to have a man to protect her, otherwise it was just not possible. So she would anyway stay. Another thing was, there was no economic freedom, so she would stay. There would be no social status, so she would stay. Another thing is, the moment man and woman met, there would be children, so she would stay. Now children you can choose whether to have or not to have. Financial freedom you may have by yourself, you made your money. Socially it is no more a problem, you can live by yourself. Law protects you, you don't need your man next to you to protect you. So all these things have disappeared. So the only other things are unindividual human beings, psychological needs, emotional needs and physical needs, which should make them go into a marriage. The nature of human being is such, once physical needs, psychological needs and even emotional needs, don't stay stable. This moment it may be strong, tomorrow morning it may not mean anything. So because of that, the very institution of marriage is in a big question mark right now. Unless somebody falls in love with somebody and it means a lot for them to be with someone, just as an institution, it is a big question mark right now. Unless two people really bond together and marriage or no marriage, it means a lot for them to be together, unless that happens, simply for needs, getting into an institution because you have a certain need, those needs are no more the way it was. So in a way the whole, the whole human societies are at crossroads because without the stability of man-woman relationship, because when human children are born this way, see if a tiger is born for him, ninety percent is natural instinct. Ten percent is education by his parents. But for a human being, only ten percent is by instinct, ninety percent is by education. So when you are born, well at least fifteen, twenty years you need nurture, care, support.  Wherever you go. But if you are any other creature, within a few days or weeks you would just walk away because for them most aspects of life are naturally instinctually built into them. Only a little bit of learning, but human life is not like that. A whole lot of it is learning. So because of that a stable marriage has been vital for the growth of individual human beings.  But when you are a two-year-old child the stability of marriage was very, very important. I mean your parents' stability, isn't it? It was very important and valuable. But today you're thinking on those terms. So these are civilizational crossroads. In a way the whole human species is going through this right now. You have to go through it too. But how do I choose? That's why I said you must be in a place where they don't recognize you. About developments. So do we have to concentrate on the developments or the preservations? Development or preservation? Preservations. Nature. Because now for the transportation, for an instance, for an example, for the transportation we need roads and for the railways. We have to cut trees and we have to plant somewhere else, but people are forgetting that. So now we are with you joining your campaign and all. But still the preservation also like how can we do both at a time? We have to develop as well as we have to preserve. See, these things need not be seen as contradictory. We can develop, we can make amenities for the people who live here. At the same time, we can still maintain very rich natural resource. It is just that it is done in an unplanned and unbridled way. That's the problem. There is no larger considerations when we are doing a project. And another problem is, there are activists who simply protest against everything. Already some people have started Kaviri calling how it's the worst thing to do. So by the time we go to Tamil Nadu, it will pick up. So they will always be this. So because of them, also the policy makers tend to do things under hand sometimes, simply because if you announce these people will anyway protest, these people will protest, every damn thing. If the roads are blocked, they will protest. If you try to make, enlarge the road, they will protest. Everything they will protest because they are making a life out of activism. That's their profession. So they have to be protesting something to be seen. So they are always protesting. So policy makers' hands are kind of forced sometimes to do. Well, there is of course corruption, there is of course other things, all those things are there. But what we need to understand is, say everywhere I go, people are continuously telling me, Sadhguru, you're talking about rivers, but you're not talking about sand mining. They don't know a thing about sand mining, believe me. They just read some nonsense in the newspaper and they talk. We have already built it into the Rally for Rivers policy that it is perfectly okay to go into the river and take some sand. If you're doing it by hand, by spades or pickaxes, you're taking some sand, it's not a problem. Only if you take large-scale machinery into the river basin and start digging it up, it's a problem. So we suggested a policy which most probably will be implemented because it's already a recommended policy, different states may start implementing it. So we suggested below three thousand square feet, that means a simple home that somebody is building. They can use river sand. Any major projects, they must use manufactured sand. Only thing is, when we pass the law, we must give anywhere between twenty-four to thirty-six months for the industry to come up.  Well, I've built my house. I'm happily sitting there.  Now you say sand will ban the sand. What will you do? You will go to that fellow, that contractor and say, I will give you double the amount. Please get me some sand for my house. So he will go in the night. This is all happening. He'll take the truck in the night into the river bed and dig it up and bring it for you and he will charge you three times. First time he'll give you double.  Now you have built your house halfway up.  Now suddenly sand mining becomes so super lucrative. No law can stop it. Any way they will do it. So in policy we can set it up in such a way that everything can be controlled. If there is no long-term policy, all short-term needs of things, ban this, ban that, banning anything is not going to work. If it's lucrative, well people have banned drugs all over the world but it's one of the biggest businesses because it's so lucrative somebody will somehow do it. So you can make… similarly you can make… they've made sand also very lucrative. They will anyway go and take it in the night. Do what you want. Nobody is going to guard the entire length of the river day and night, day and night. Somebody will find some place to do it all the time. So the important thing is development is needed because the same people who complain about ecological damage, they also complain about lack of development. They're using everything.  How will it happen? Okay then let's turn off the lights, all right? Let's turn off the lights, live in a very ecologically… shall we do this tonight? Hello? Very eco-sensitive life you have in the night you will know what it is. If these lights are not there, this is elephant country and you're sleeping in a tent all the best. So it's always nice to go on talking about this. See, we have identified in this country, largely we've identified what's a reserve forest. There's no way we should touch it. It's finished. That part of the land should be left. But now you talked about the project. The significance of this project is this, most people are still not understanding what I'm saying. We're talking about raising large-scale tree cultivation in farmland, in this land. This is somebody's land, see they've plowed it obviously. In this land you can grow but when… suppose you own this land, why would you grow a tree if you cannot make use of it? You will grow it only if you can make use of it, isn't it? So this is all. If you make it lucrative for the farmer, he will grow it. If it is not economically sensitive, sensible, nothing will succeed. Right now, this plan is economically sensitive to all the people concerned, to the farmer, to the government and to the larger public. For everybody, this is good. It is lucrative for the farmer. So he will want to do it but he needs some support. Government is willing to do it but government needs some revenue. Government will get a lot of revenue from this in the form of taxes. What they will not get on agriculture, they will get on tree cultivation because they can't tax agriculture in the country. But tree cultivation timber can be easily taxed. So they will get revenue. People will have assurance of water and better life in the country. And above all we are importing seventy thousand crores worth of raw timber and 1.2 lakh crores worth of timber products. So if you are everything in the country, let's say you want a piece of furniture, it will cost much less if it's grown here. Right now most of the wood that you see in any new building is all imported. How much imported would cost and how much the local would cost, it will benefit you tomorrow. You want to build a house tomorrow, you'll have reasonably priced timber. You don't have to buy imported timber. So in a way it benefits everybody. That's why it will work. One thing about food, I'm a foodie. I'm a foodie. Foodie, yeah. I love to eat. So during shoots, yeah, I avoid but when I'm at breaks, yeah, I hog on food. But I'm an animal lover too. So that's why you eat them. No. Not really. When I see some incident when somebody's... People say I love my food. So you love animals, so you put them in the food. No, I've tried many a times like, okay, I have to quit eating non-veg. I have tried that also. So I've stayed away from non-veg for a week or ten days. But the minute when I see somebody having non-veg, I'll be like, okay, from next month. I don't know. How do I come out of this? Of course, even I have two pets at home. And I don't know, what do you say, Sathgura, about this whole thing, this non-veg and not eating non-veg? Whether you're planning to eat the pets? No. No. They're like my babies. That's what they say. Even I've seen people talking to the chicken and all very nicely. And next week they'll eat them up. Are you vegetarian or non-vegetarian? I'm a humanitarian. Humanitarian! Today there's substantial documentation to show that plants are as sensitive as any other creature.  Only thing is they don't scream. They do scream. You don't hear. That's all. There's enough evidence to show that they do scream. It has been recorded like this that if let's say an animal comes, see, among the trees, let's say there are, let's say a thousand or ten thousand trees here. Let us say an elephant came and starts eating the leaves of the tree.  I don't know whether it'll recognize an elephant or not, but it is being eaten like this. And within minutes, if the elephant goes there to the other trees, all the trees would have produced a certain amount of poisonous material in their leaves. When the elephant tries to eat that, it will sound, it will taste bitter and it's poisonous, so it won't touch. So among themselves there is that much sensitivity.  It is just that we must do it with some sensitivity only to the extent it's necessary. You should drop this idea of being a foodie. We all eat food. We must eat food otherwise it'll be cruel to this one. But becoming an identity with food, not right? Because that means we will indulge, we will not just nourish ourselves. We have a right to nourish ourselves. As a life, we have a right to nourish ourselves because this is how the food cycle is in the world. But we don't have a right to wantonly take another life just for pleasure. We have no business to do that. We have every right to nourish this life. But we have no right to enjoy taking another life. So don't call yourself a foodie because food should never become the identity. For survival, for nourishment, we will eat whatever we have to eat given the moment. Thank you, Satguru. Thank you so much.


Hello and welcome to another episode of our special series, Beating All Odds. COVID-19 has locked all of us down in our houses. Offices are shut, factories are closed, production houses are locked. In these times of crisis, there are leaders who are still telling us how to run our businesses, while working from home. They're trying to contain the damage this deadly disease can cause to our economy. With me today is such senior leader, Mr. Ashish Prasin, CEO APAC, Chairman India Densu Ages Network. Welcome to the show, sir. Happy to be here, Nazia. Sir, to begin with, I want to understand from you in these times of crisis, how should we ensure that our businesses, our agencies, our brands, how do they stay relevant and healthy and active? Look, I think you have to look at things stepwise. First of all, you have to look at the safety of all your staff, all your people, everybody that you deal with. Nothing is more important than human life and their health. After that, you've got to put in place plans so that business continuity happens to the extent that it is possible. We had a business continuity plan which was well rehearsed. We had also learned from the fact that our China office went into lockdown kind of a scenario much earlier.  And they're making sure that we're able to operate in a secure environment as much as is possible in this. So those are the physical preparations that you have to do. Equally, I believe in times like these, the best thing is to communicate more than to communicate less, particularly as leaders because there's anxiety with everybody. There's also a great need to be transparent. When you're in a crisis, there is no sense in looking at it from as a too rosy a picture as too optimistically, but at the same time, there is no need to be excessively pessimistic either. But you have to accept reality and share that with your team so that everybody knows what is there to come and so that you can prepare for it. For example, we know that the next few quarters at least are going to be terrible for advertising and particularly for some parts of advertising. And it's going to be a long time before things start coming back to normal. So first, accept the facts. Then also accept the fact that there is going to be light at the end of this tunnel. It's not, you haven't hit a dead end. The world hasn't come to an end. This is a phase it too shall pass.  These are times where you have to cut the fact. Everybody is under pressure at this moment, but you mustn't cut the muscle because when the bounce back happens, when things come back to normal and they will, things will come back to normal. When that happens, you have to be, you have to ensure that your company is in good shape to take advantage of it as well. So it's a very fine balance. And I would think it is the duty of leaders to be positive and to communicate a lot with their teams and the teams in turns to communicate a lot with their teams and so on and so forth. And my mantra really is that while we're practicing social distancing, we actually have to practice more of virtual proximity in times like these.  So you're managing many markets affected by this particular crisis. Where do you see India in terms of, when you compare, how long will it take India to recover or are we recovering, will we recover faster or something that we can learn from other markets? So look, we've been experiencing this now from let's say around the middle of Jan or so. Our China offices were the first offices that started going into lockdown before the Chinese New Year. So Shanghai Beijing, Wuhan, we have an office in Wuhan about 275, 300 people there. So those started going into, so we've been actually living with this now in APAC for more than two months, I would say. So it's not new in that sense. Ironically, today as we speak, the only offices that are somewhat functioning or nearly properly functioning are in Beijing and Shanghai. Wuhan isn't yet open, it's still work from home, but it's quite likely that in a week or so, even that will open up, right? So that's taken about two, two and a half months for it to come into that. Different countries will react differently. Some like Singapore have tried to keep basic stuff going, but went into distancing and went into some of these measures in a very controlled way pretty early in the game. Some like Taiwan actually have managed very well in spite of the fact that there was a lot of cases initially, they pegged their reported cases in a few hundreds, which was remarkable the way it had started over there. Korea is a great example where it just went out of control for a while and then they came back in such a nice way that it started leveling out. So on the other hand, you're seeing some very alarming increases in Southeast Asia, parts of Southeast Asia like Malaysia and so on. So it's different in different markets. In some markets like Myanmar, I'm not even sure whether they're doing enough testing so that the information is right. I think in India, the next week or so is going to be very crucial because everybody is now doing PhD in WhatsAppology these days and everybody's an expert on flattening the curve and what is the Italy trajectory and what's the Spain trajectory and so on. So from whatever information I can gather from the experts and I'm not relying on the WhatsApp experts, I think it will largely depend over the next seven to 10 days as to how much of containment we've been able to do and that will determine how badly India will be affected. Have you already started making recovery plans for your plans? It depends on which market in China, yes. In Taiwan, yes. In Hong Kong and Singapore, maybe a little bit. But in markets like India just now, we're well behind on that because we're not even fully into, we're still in the lockdown. So I think recovery plans is slightly far away at the moment. I think the most important thing that you have to remember, one thing which I keep sharing with my colleagues is that there is a finite period after which the infection hopefully will come under control. I don't know whether that's going to be one month, two months, three months, but they say that with the heat, et cetera, et cetera. And if the government has done the lockdown, hopefully it will come into control and let's hope that happens fast. But the mistaken impression that people have particularly for a market like India which is so complex, it's not as if when that happens that suddenly there'll be a switch which will be switched on and things will come back to normal. Because remember factories are shut, labor has gone back home. The liquidity which keeps the economy greased and working is dried up completely. So even when the medical part of the emergency start getting more under control or get over, the economy is going to take much longer to come back to that. So I think the recovery plans, et cetera, are a distance away yet for India. We don't know how bad the medical emergency part will be. I do hope the lockdown is not extended too much beyond this. It was very necessary to do so to flatten the curve and to keep the social distancing happening. But beyond the point if that's extended, I think the impact on the economy will be very long lasting and that's the fear. And I don't see recovery happening. If we have a good monsoon, because we always underestimate the impact of monsoon in our country, if we have a good monsoon, then I think we can start looking at a recovery around Diwali time. Coming back to these days, we are all at home. Our television consumption has gone up. Our digital consumption has gone up. Still advertisers are shying away from advertising because of course most of the outlets are shut. They don't have much to sell. But do you think it is also in certain ways right time for certain brands to engage with people? It depends on whether you have a need to advertise. If your production is shut, if your outlet is shut, if there is no other than essential goods, that's true for almost every industry on that. What are you going to advertise for? And the other big concern which everybody is running a business and the biggest problem just now is going to be liquidity. Everybody is going to conserve cash. Will you pay your wages first or will you want to pay for advertising first? Unfortunately, advertising is one of the easiest expenses to cut down. It is right that from an efficiency perspective, it is probably a great time to be buying media because television viewership has gone up, digital consumption has gone up, gaming is a great opportunity. Gaming is just going through the roof and we saw this throughout Asia Pacific. In fact, at times like these, all of that happens. But who has the need to advertise is critical. Some of the FMCT brands, cleaning products, etc., great opportunity for them because their products may still be selling. But even they will at some stage want to conserve cash because it's still not life as normal for anybody. So the one thing that you must remember is that this is very unique.  In 2008, when we had the recession, most countries were hit. Some more, some less. India was relatively sheltered because we weren't that globally aligned, etc., etc. But this is different. This is a medical emergency. The whole world is impacted and the impact is as severe as a total lockdown on that. So this is unprecedented. It's kind of stuff your parents or grandparents told you about the war days or the partition days where you were looking for food and survival was an issue and so on and so forth. So this is unprecedented. I don't think any managers in this generation or maybe even one or two generations before have had the experience to rely upon, to fall back upon to see how this will be tackled. And therefore anyone who's trying to take this as business as usual is making a big mistake. What are some unthinkable takeaways that you're going to take? I mean, you will have from this experience. How do you mean unthinkable? I mean, you have a long career of 33 decades or whatever. The things that you have only learned during this phase. I mean, your business. You can be locked down in your house and you can still do work. I've never worked from home ever in my life, not a single day. I hardly ever take leave unless I've gone on a holiday out or whatever. But the fact that if you're forced to, you can work from home is in itself a big learning for me. I think on the positive side, you get to spend a fair amount of time with your family. Of course, I'd like to see statistics afterwards whether divorce rates go up after the lockdown is lifted or not. But it's nice to be with the family and to be spending time. I think, and it gives you, does give you some time to catch up on your reading and for reflection and so on. But strangely, I find myself working longer hours now than even in the normal because, you know, because I handle APAC, the time zones are very different. And I think one big challenge, as leaders, it is our job to be positive. You cannot let your team lose hope because these are very, very difficult times. And I keep telling them that, yes, it is very difficult and you must be transparent that it is very difficult, but there is hope at the end of this tunnel. And so one of the pressures you have to put on yourself is that you have to remain positive because only if you're positive, positivity is infectious in a positive sense. So your enthusiasm cannot win. And I think that's one of the learnings from something like this. And of course, the need to over communicate because these are times of anxiety. Everybody is worried. People are worried, will I have a job? What's going to happen? Will my client pay up? Will businesses fold? And these are all genuine concerns. Will my family be safe? What's going to happen? So all of us have anxieties, all of us at this time. I think the more we talk to each other and the more support we provide each other, the better it is at times like these. So I think these are some of the key learnings. So before we close, I would want you to say something. I mean, your piece of advice for youngsters who are in your domain and they're sitting at home and struggling with work or anxiety. I mean, what exactly should they do right now? Look, I think the first thing is that accept the reality.  Everything will be hunky dory in 15 days or one month. Forget it. Either they don't know or they're lying. So accept the reality that this is a difficult time and this difficulty is going to leave an impact for some period of time. But at the same time, there is absolutely no need to be despondent. For the middle term and the long term, India is in the best position possible. Our economy will do well. Advertising is very responsive to economy. And just like how when it's going down, advertising is going down much faster, when it goes up, advertising will go up much faster. Use this time to upgrade yourselves. There are many things that you want to do, but don't get... Look at the amount of courses that are available online today. And not just digital courses and Coursera related courses, but so many hobbies or anything that you do want to do. Use this time to upgrade yourself. It's a reset opportunity. But be positive, because there will be light at the end of this tunnel. And advertising and marketing will come out stronger from this than ever before. But be prepared that you are in for a long haul and the winter is coming. So therefore you've got to be prepared for it. So the more you prepare yourself and the more positive you stay, the stronger you're going to come out of it. Thank you, Ashish sir. Thank you so much for talking to us. It was really inspiring. Stay at home and stay safe. Thank you and you too, Nazia. Thanks, bye.