As Israel's brutal attack on Gaza enters its fourth month, the health infrastructure in the besieged territory is in complete shambles. What has been the impact on the people? South Africa's case against Israel in the International Court of Justice will be heard on Thursday. What has been the response from the international community? This is a daily debrief. These are your stories for the day. And before we go any further, if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit that subscribe button. Israel's brutal bombardment of Gaza has had a disastrous impact on the health system and health workers of the enclave. Israel has attacked hospitals and killed health workers. And the blockade it has imposed has led to a shortage of supplies and a drastic deterioration in health conditions. As this gelicidal war enters its fourth month, we go to Israel to understand the extent of the impact. Anna, thank you so much for joining us. So the impact on health care and health workers is something we have been regularly talking about on this show. It's a fourth month of Israel's brutal attack. So maybe could you first take us through what is the overall health situation, especially questions of the impact of outbreaks of diseases really on the minds of people now? Well, for the past weeks, of course, we've seen the announcements that had been coming from the WHO, from other UN agencies from very early on in the war. Now we are seeing them happen in practice. The WHO is still reporting that hundreds and thousands of people have contracted respiratory infections in the Gaza Strip. They are also struggling with diarrhea, with skin rashes, with health conditions that, you know, in standard conditions, they wouldn't be so dangerous. But in the conditions that people in Gaza are living right now, they could be deadly. This is something that has been reported and warned about not only by the WHO, but also by leading global health and public health experts from across the world. So the number of these cases has now reached so much that, of course, it's difficult to predict the extent to which it could even grow even further if there is not a ceasefire immediately. The thing that is making the situation even worse, of course, are the living conditions that people are now in. There's the increased level of hunger that's present among the people, especially among those displaced, who, of course, are the majority of the people right now. The lack of food and access to any kind of nutritious meals is ensuring that the consequences of what we are seeing right now could continue even further in the future. Some of the latest numbers that have come out of the UN agencies the last couple of days now say that all children under five in Gaza now do not have access to adequate amounts of food. So they're at risk of hunger. That would mean that in the medium term, we're talking about the generation of people who are stunted, who have experienced famine. So this, of course, it's something that's difficult even to imagine what it can mean in practice as we go on. Then, of course, if we stick to the public health situation, we're also talking about the amounts of people that are concentrating and that are finding shelter in the same space. Again, some of the latest UN data now says that UN, so UNRWA shelters are now offering shelter to so many people that over 400 share one toilet and just to scale that up in some of the worst scenarios that people have imagined, it would put one toilet to 20 people. So you can imagine the scale of which people are living right now. Right now in this context, the other important aspect has been attacks on health workers which have also continued. So could you maybe also take us through what have been the latest details from there? Of course, so since the beginning, together with journalists, health workers have been one of the favorite targets, if we can put it that way, of the Israeli occupying forces. And as hundreds of, so as over 100 of journalists have been killed, we have also seen several hundred health workers dying from the attacks. Even more have lost family members. Again, some of the latest figures show that and some of the latest reports show that MSF staff in the central part of Gaza, again, has suffered attacks from Israeli military. Some of the family members have died including a five-year-old child. So this is an ongoing attack and apparently Israel is not going to stop. Of course, we are not only talking about those who have, who were killed, we are also talking about those who have been arrested and whose situation still remains unknown. As we know, the director of one of the Al-Avda hospitals, Ahmed Mohana, has been disappeared essentially over 20 days ago. It is closing up to 25 days now. It is still unknown what his fate is and what the fate of his colleagues who were taken away with him is. This of course means that the health system in Gaza, which was already facing a shortage of health workers, of course, before the war, this latest war began. They're now dealing with an increasingly difficult situation. Some hospitals have been on an on-stop call for over 90 days now. They don't have anyone to replace them. They're being chased away from the hospital where they're trying to deliver care. And some hospitals indeed are now reporting that there are only a couple of medical workers remaining in those hospitals trying to provide care to hundreds of people. Some hospitals have said that this now means one surgeon and only two or three emergency health staff when the needs are incredibly more. This is also something that the WHO has warned that it's an immense, immense problem. And that without a ceasefire, we cannot really talk about the health system in Gaza keeping on. And then finally, also specifically important to maybe talk about persons with disability who are enduring, especially a double or triple blow at this point of time. Yes, so that's as different reports have also warned that there is now no safe place in Gaza, even so reports are now starting to come in, highlighting that the bombardments are not only killing people, they're also causing an unprecedented number of people being amputated. And this is a problem. So the amputations are not happening only because they're medically necessary. They're also happening because they are the only thing that health workers can do at this point with this amount of supplies that they have. So the starving of the health system in Gaza has meant that there is not enough medical supplies available for health workers to provide some other kind of care. Of course, we could also talk about how many orthopedic surgeons are there, how many can still work with people. But essentially what the bottom line is that doctors and nurses and other health workers are forced to amputate people, including incredible numbers of children, because there is no other thing to do. So this is something that's going to stay with the people for so long, and it's essentially something that will require even more effort in the future to rebuild the health system that can support them further on. Thank you so much, Anna, for giving us that update. Proceedings begin on Thursday on South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocidal acts. The case filed by South Africa is a comprehensive indictment of Israel's crimes, both before and after October 7th. South Africa sought emergency provisional measures to stop the killing of Palestinians. Now the global response to South Africa's case shows the kind of divisions that have emerged over the past three months, and the hypocrisy of countries to the global north. We go to Abdul to understand these responses. Abdul, as the hearings are about to begin, very important to not only look at of course the petition itself, which we talked about in previous episodes of the show, but also the kind of international support, solidarity, however you can call it that the petition has received as well as other responses. So let's maybe first take a look at some of the countries which have come out in support of South Africa's move. What has been the response to these countries? Well, ever since South Africa has filed the petition and there has been support pouring in from different parts of the world, mostly of course the countries from the West Asia and North Africa, members of the OIC, Organization of Islamic countries, which basically came in support of the petition, which also include most of the West Asian countries. One should not forget the point because there have been reports indicating that how a large number of countries from the reason have been silent on it. But that is not the case because they are already by default a member of the OIC. They have been supported the petition. Apart from that, individual countries like Turkey, these are again members of the OIC, but they have also pronounced their support individually as well, like Jordan, Turkey, and then other countries in the region, they have come in support of it. Apart from that, there are countries in Latin America like Bolivia, Venezuela, and other countries who have basically expressed their support to the petition. Apart from that, there are also countries in, say, East Asia like Malaysia, which has basically expressed support. So overall, you see countries from across the globe. Apart from, you can see the countries in Western Europe and Northern America, most of the other parts of the world have responded to the South Africa's petition in the ICJ about kind of trying Israel for its genocidal war in Gaza. Apart from this, there are different human rights organizations from across the world who have supported it. In fact, the cases which were filed in the ICC, the International Criminal Code, related to some individuals in Israel who have been, of course, in the ICC, you cannot prosecute a state. You can only go against certain individuals or the groups. So those cases have also, those people who are the countries which have filed cases in ICC have also basically tagged along South Africa's petition in the ICJ and they are supporting the petition. So it seems there is a widespread support, particularly among the global South for the South Africa's petition in the ICJ against Israel. But on the other side of the coin, we have those who have responded, either refused to respond or responded in very hostile but not necessarily very surprising ways. So maybe could you take us to some of those countries you were talking about, especially countries of the global North? Among all of them, of course, the U.S. is the primary. You can say actor, because what its stand is, most of the countries in Western Europe will basically imitate that stand. And if you see the press conferences held by the U.S. spokesperson, officials, basically, and even Antly Blinken, when he was visiting West Asia, apparently to basically find out solutions to the war in Gaza, he, what his response had been, is completely dismissing the claims, the merit of the case, saying that none of these is true. In fact, the 85 pages the South Africa has submitted, also include the fact that it includes the statements officially given by Israeli high officials about how Palestinians need to vacate Gaza, how Palestinians are compared with animals, how the blockade on food and other essential commodities has been repeated, and how the killing of children and innocent civilians have been justified, attacks on hospitals have been justified, and so on and so forth. All those statements, those are in public domain, despite, and they're also included in the petition. Despite these facts glaring in front of everyone, the U.S. has basically completely said that the South Africa case has no merit. That basically shows and reluctance to admit certain facts and basically to continue kind of campaigning for Israel's fictional right to self-defense and basically put all the blames on Palestinians which are occupied people. The similar, of course, most of the European countries have not responded to it. In fact, the UK foreign minister, David Cameron, basically said that though he hinted that there can be some violations of international law by the Israelis in Gaza, but he of course had not completely said that what Israel is doing in Gaza is genocide, and he can't do, of course, because UK being the closest U.S. ally. Other countries, France, Germany and others, they have not responded to the petition. They have kept a strategic silence, of course, but one can guess where their stand lies. They basically are not in favor of the petition, and they will most likely oppose it wherever possible. Thank you so much, Abdul for the update. And that's all we have in today's episode. We'll be back with a fresh episode tomorrow. Do visit our website peoplesdispatch.org. Follow us on all the social media platforms. And if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit that subscribe button.


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Bonjour à tous et à tous, je vais commencer ma présentation. Ma présentation aujourd'hui est sur le voie recordant et les langues avec Lingua Libre. Lingua Libre est un projet dans le mouvement Wikimedia. Je suis Hugo Lopez, Wikimedia dans la résidence à l'université Toulouse, en France. Je suis professionnel pour les années 10 et j'ai été actif dans le mouvement Wikimedia en 2004. J'ai été expérimenté en créant l'éducation de l'éducation et la ressource. Et même si vous ne me connaissez pas comme une personne française, j'ai été expérimenté par mon ancêtre, j'ai été expérimenté par la nation Occitane. Et c'est relative à mon speech aujourd'hui parce que je ne parle pas Occitane. Et c'est pourquoi j'ai été invité à Lingua Libre. Parce que la langue de mon ancêtre n'a pas été transmissée à moi parce que des raisons politiques et historiques. Donc pour aujourd'hui, on va parler un peu de la langue de l'université, puis de la langue de Lingua Libre. Je vais faire un démon et puis je vais discuter sur les problématiques et les limitations qu'on a. Donc pour la langue de l'université, à l'extérieur dans la base de cela, vous avez une grande famille de langues, mais vous avez aussi environ 7000 langues across the world. We have 350 Wikipedia, so we just have 5% of these languages on Wikipedia. And if you zoom in, you could see language, 7000 languages, and not just 15 families, 7000 languages. And even in some countries like Indonesia in particular, each valley can have its own language. So this linguistic and cultural diversity should be better documented. So the dimension we are interested by with Lingua Libre is to document languages, but also within a language you have accent, regional accent with different place, different pronunciation like British English, American English, Indian English and the English language should not be always represented by British and American. We should be represented, give visibility to every community which speaks this language. You also have different voices in France, my case study. We have different pronunciation with older people and younger people because the older people, the French language was not their native language. So they have a strong influence from their background language like Occitane or Breton or Alsatiane. We also want to document the diversity of genders, so we want different voices. So for language diversity, the diversity of our language, their word expression voice are probably documented and accessible. So what we want to do with Lingua Libre is to record, share and make visible this expression at large scale in an easy and quick fashion. And that's why we made, we developed Lingua Libre. So for a shortened traduction, Lingua Libre has its background history. It's come from in France for the past 150 years. The government have prevented the local language from developing and from being spoken. So now most of them 20 out of 25 are nearly dead. And five are still spoken on a daily basis. So the French government, under the influence of European laws, started to support our local language. And we created Lingua Libre via collaboration between French University in Strasbourg and Wikimedia France. So we created the recording tools to document first Alsatiane by linguists, by academics. For e-learning purposes. Now Lingua Libre of course is available for all languages supported by Wikidata so we can record all languages on the world. And we even have a Wikipedia page in about 10 languages. So you can find more information on Wikipedia as well. For the concept, the idea behind Lingua Libre is to... So we have languages and their pronunciation and their voice. We want to document them. We want to document them. So we have the speaker. We speak this language. We want to make it face single-page apps. So Lingua Libre, where you can record this language. This create data. So we create quickly a set of audio files that we can use later. And this audio file data can be used by e-service like e-learning or Wikictionary and so on. I will make a demonstration now of Lingua Libre. So basically the interface looks like that when you enter the recording studio. So... So when you go on Lingua Libre you can connect here when you are not connected you connect here with your Wikimedia Commons account. So here you log in. And here you have access to the actual tool. When you click on record, you access the tool. Here you can change the language so you can put in Chinese, Spanish or all the whole set of language. It's accessible on Translate Wiki so you can also translate into your minority language. Once you access the tool, you first do a test. So... So I start the test. Addishat. Addishat. Addishat. Addishat. Addishat. Addishat. Addishat. Yes. When we unplug that work. Yeah. Addishat. Addishat. We will try like this. So when we get here we are at step 2 the speaker. I will do my best for making the demonstration and explain to you. So when we are here we are 5 steps to define the speaker. So this application was built by linguists. So we want to define who I am. So I can use my Wikipedia username. I'm saying I'm a male because for statistics and this kind of present. And here I can add a language so I add Occitan. I'm a beginner and my learning place is Toulouse. This is my place where I live and I'm okay to share this data so I go to the next step. You can add all a bunch of languages but if your language is not in here you can contact the administrator. Here I can add a word. So by example I do means hello and goodbye or I can load here I'm on Occitan and I can load a list of word. So this one which is already in the system which was provided by other contributor. Okay. So now I have a list of word to record so I can speed up my work. I go to the recording phase now we are in the actual recording studio. So we have some shortcut if I want to move faster jump some word. Return to some word if I want to delay or just keep some word so I use the arrow to go faster on the space to stop the recording. So now I will record this. Okay. I press this button and I will start the recording. Aliskera Atardera Bola Kakasbar Consolament Desaaba Desaiba Divagator Engolidor Espira Pinter Goteja Javeliza Marginal Navigatriz Particularitat Polidor Raspaudia Raspaudia Rimadis Cirmenthejar Tolerable Aliskera Atardivada Bola Cascanthejar Consolant So you see the speed of the recording and if we are fluent with this language we can go faster. I'm not fluent. Oops. On va au next step. I press pause. This is a review phase. Okay. This is okay. If this one is not okay, I can uncheck it. So I will not send it to commands. And then I can send my 24 audio commands. Okay. And you can see here, they are sent to commands. So this is directly sent to Wikimedia commands. Okay. So that's done. That will be on Wikimedia commands. I turn back to my presentation. This is the idea. We generate data. We want to generate data so we can send it to commands and then it will be automatically updated to to dictionaries, to several dictionaries French and others. And we can also download this data for example. If you go here, I can then look for Occitan and here I have the Occitan language and I can download it. And there is already 14,000 words in Occitan. And there is also some statistics about Occitan. So and this page is accessible here. Okay. The dataset page. I will go back. Oops. So now we have data to feed some web apps. We already have some web apps. And now I still have a few minutes to talk about the limits. So in the past five years, we recorded nearly nine over 900,000 recordings May default on various kind of language. We have large language like France. We also have a Filipino and this kind of language. And we also have a smaller language like Surui, which just have 2,000 speakers. We also have sign language. That's a new project I will talk about tomorrow. And so the question are different with this language. For example, the smallest language sometimes don't have writing system. So that's harder to record and document. But on the statistics side, we made some data visualization of our progress. And we can see that most of the language, of course, are larger language. But now we want to, we have to and we want to move to the smaller language. And of course, we still have a base with Europe, which is very strong, especially France. India also has a strong community and West Africa, which are the three plus active. Although one of the shortcoming we have is when we send the audio automatically to the dictionary. Right now it's mostly sent to the French dictionary, Kurdish, Swaley and ODI dictionary. But we need to make more bots to send to other dictionary like the Chinese dictionary and so on. So there are in terms of quality of the data, we have between the large language with larger population and the minorities. And we also have huge base with 90% of our audio which are still male. And of course, that's really younger people but we want elders to contribute because they have different accents. We also have statistics for the coverage of major language, large language and minority language. The largest language are covered at 2.3 so Polish, American and so on. For smaller language about 2 million people, we start to have a third of them but when we are about marginalized language, of course where there are over 6,000 smaller language we just have 1% of them. So we have to be great there because it's where the linguistic diversity is. And so the objective we have is to create more one of the objective I have at least is to create to to nurture more services like deductionary and revitalization of languages like OXITA and like other minority language. We have some friends from Taiwan there is a great project in Taiwan for revitalization and we have to learn from this team from this team in Taiwan. And I think the Wikimedia movement is a key place if you want to document the diversity of language because as you can see outside with the map of the the attendee of the Wikimedia. We are a global network and we are focused on culture and so on. I cannot see. We are focused on culture so the global community of Wikipedian is ideal to reach every corner of the globe. And that's about my presentation and you can contact me later for question and answer. We have time for question and answer.


Hello Monet Cafe art family. This is Susan Jenkins and I'm so glad to be back from the cruise that I announced Last week that I was going on my husband's company cruise. It was awesome But as you know that if you read the announcement, I had to postpone Announcing the winner of our February painting challenge. If you're new to our group every month We have a painting challenge category where artists upload Paintings that meet that particular category criteria in the month of February. It was streams, brooks, creeks, any little flowing body of water and wow Did you guys submit some amazing work? But I had to wait until I got back to my cruise to announce the winners That I typically announced on the first of the following month, but we have two Categories that we announced winners and one is beginner one is advanced a beginner Category is basically someone who's been painting Really in any medium for less than a year even not just pastels and the reason for that is we don't want someone Who's been painting in watercolor for 20 years to still be considered a beginner and in that beginner category I'm sure that makes sense and we also have the advanced category both category winners of every month will receive a prize We currently have that going hopefully and keep it going But right now we have it through the pan pastel company each winner will get a choice of some selections of pan pastels so I'm gonna be announcing the winner. I thought this would be a neat way to do it right here I'm gonna feature some of the Advanced category paintings that I really loved. Here's here's the album. We had over 200 paintings submitted for this month's challenge and you guys know I always say this is one of the hardest things I do in life Because these are amazing But I thought I might let you join in on my process and how I do this I typically just go into the album and start going through paintings kind of Noticing what's beginner and what's advanced and then I pull out some of my favorites I don't pay any attention to the names. It doesn't matter if you've won before or not You'll just you would have to if you wanted a second time you just get some more pan pastels They allow you to choose different colors. So I'm gonna show you some of the paintings in the advanced category that I have Kind of just stood out to me as some awesome paintings. So let me go back here kind of start to the beginning I think I need to pull my screen down a little so you can see them better. Yeah. All right This is a painting. I wanted to point this one out because it it caught my eye And I noticed it was from of our faith one from one of our faithful members Angela Moffett Angela's been in our group for a while and if I think I'm correct in that she just came out of the beginner category and Into the advanced so now she's just been over a year painting And I just am just so proud of how far she's come and this is a lovely painting Angela and welcome to the advanced category nice work This painting here. It just grabbed me for its sense of light The values are spot-on with this you really get the feeling of the time of day it is it just feels like the warmth of the Sun overhead and I love the brick work here often as artists We put too many details in and we think we have to draw every brick and this is just very well done I want to see if I could make some of these a little bigger And I just love this. This is really really nice Kathy zap or zappy or zap a I hope I got that right And now this one is from Cindy Mira Kenakria, perhaps I said that right and This one don't you feel the sense of movement in the water? And I love the looseness of it. It just really draws you in You want to just kind of play around and look around at all the different movements in the water? that water fall that's to the Mitter to middle to upper left there. It has that sheerness to it just like water really behaves So nice sense of movement beautiful color palette and beautiful colors in that water beautiful work Cindy this is another one by the same artist and I loved how the water you really could feel almost like the stair step Effect of the water going down that little brook. I've seen places in the mountains of North Carolina they look just like that and Lovely sense of depth and movement and color here this one by Donatella Nimbreni I wanted to point out because it's got an excellent Rendering of loose grasses. We often as artists get in a bad habit of drawing things Almost like soldiers or or just the same You know the same stroke or the same movement and this has that looseness to the grasses the little hints of things Not even it like a broken line in some of the grasses, and it's just lovely nice color palette nice movement this one took my breath away by Donna Teresa and I just felt a sense of calm when I looked at this and Sometimes there's a painting that just really makes you just take a deep breath and wish you were there And I really felt that way with this painting. I love how there's a coolness to the foreground Notice the water in the foreground is cooler and the water in the middle to background is warmer You really get the sense that either there's a trees behind you that's making a shadow or perhaps clouds overhead and What an excellent painting. I really love this Donna nice work This one is by Jared Gunnerson and I've been admiring his work in our group for some time and he just gets better and better. I love his Impressionistic style and almost a geometric feel to this particular painting notice the tree work in the distance the very subdued geometric shapes that are just nondescript and The color palette is gorgeous Beautiful work Jared keep it up. I do believe I think you won one of our categories before It's hard for me to keep up and remember all these things, but a nice work I love this painting as soon as I saw it. This one just had a nice Easy feel to it. I think maybe this was done with an underpainting maybe a warmer underpainting I loved the looseness the bits of underpainting showing through and Just a nice easy color palette That just felt very comforting to me. This is Jennifer Richard Moreau beautiful work This one I loved it's got such a nice Impressionistic feel almost van Gogh-ish to me or perhaps Monet really actually And I don't see a lot of heavy contrast in this sometimes I have a habit of doing that a lot in my work But often I like paintings that are maybe Softer in contrast and this one is so lovely. There's looseness in those trees and And just the the cool colors in the grasses in the water there is just so nice nice reflections Kathy Chisholm Capola beautiful lovely lovely painting. This one is awesome by Linda Fabricante Cole. I love the big masses of shapes. She did she didn't get overwhelmed in Breaking everything up with detail. It's just enough and that big wide waterway that draws you in is so nice with the Loose grasses and foreground a lot of times grasses in the foreground Can create a barrier to her eyes coming in but she kept them so loose and painterly that it it's just invites you in I love the color palette in this beautiful painting Linda this one was just very well rendered quite nicely and And well done overall. This is aura brown and that water just pulls you right into those background trees I loved the rendering of these evergreen trees. You've got a real knack for that and Nice shadows. I love the very cool This is a perfect example of what we talk about a lot If you want to create depth in your painting the background the furthest trees in the back Notice how light they are in value They're cooler in color and they're paler less chroma in the background And this this ends up making this painting have a lot of depth a nice painting aura This one by Patricia Wilt is just so well rendered. I love her stroke work and especially the Like the sky holes and the warm colors and tones behind those background trees and that splash of purple The water is rendered beautifully This one just pulls you in and the color palette is just fantastic beautiful painting Patricia This one by Paul Gustafson. I believe if my memory serves me correctly. He mentioned that he struggled with this He I don't think he's been doing pastel long, but he has a Obvious experience. I think it was an oil painting and it shows He's got a nice sense of style I love the water in this one you can feel that it has a sense of movement to it and the color palette is so soft and Pleasing so whatever you're doing Paul, even if you were struggling keep it up I think you're gonna just get the totally the hang of pastel art and you already are This next one. Oh, doesn't it just have that sense of brightness? You can tell this is a super bright time of the day because of the warmth of those grasses and she kept a very Analogous Color palette here that feels very soothing. I get the feeling of that sunlight That's just hitting the tops of those trees and grasses great sense of movement in the water over all a beautiful painting Sinchita Vishwanath, I think I said that right and this is Sandy young She actually did both of these paintings look at these beauties aren't they gorgeous Sandy have such a nice soothing style I'm always I always feel at peace when I look at your work. I can tell you have a love for creation and This painting is so well rendered. I love the rocks in this You get a little sense of movement of the water the composition is beautiful Just draws you in it. Look at those lovely clouds. She has just enough there and that doesn't I really feel like a cloudy day You've seen before And she kept her values harmonious with the cloud cover. So well done Sandy this one Don't just look how gorgeous. I love the Sun and the Sun's reflection in the water You've done an excellent job at creating the rendering of the water to be believable Just pulling you right into this beautiful painting. This one just felt fresh I thought it had a nice energy to the trees in the background I like that big massive rock overhanging the water. I got a sense of its mass nice work Susan Elizabeth Clark and This one here by Toby Reed Toby. You've done a beautiful job here. The composition is gorgeous And I think this looks like a subject matter that would be difficult to paint But you've done it so beautifully with with just enough detail to Get a sense of what it is you know this Rock cliff coming off a mountain with the water that comes out of the rocks and gathers together and and Tumbles down and you've created such energy and a beautiful color palette That just makes my eye want to hang out in this painting for a while. I love the looseness to the trees You've done something that sometimes is very hard for artists to do which is To not overwork it and you've done a beautiful job on this Toby so without further ado these were some of the paintings that I I loved and Let me go back here and Give you my selection. It's so hard. Oh my gosh. These are all gorgeous my winning selection for this Painting challenge is this painting by Donna Teresa Now I wanted to give you some of the reasoning because I thought sometimes you guys might think why'd she choose that painting? Sometimes some of you say that's the one I would have chosen to But as you can see from all these paintings, that's a hard choice. So I thought I'd give you the reasoning I thought this one just had that wow factor and it felt truly like art I like when a painting gives you a feeling and an emotion I think that's the beauty of art is that we as artists can take a scene that or a something that's in real life and transform it into a feeling and that's what I got with this painting and I just got it has such a nice dreamy feel to it and just something that I would love to just look at for a very long time and and you know just maybe Read my Bible and pray and just have artwork like this just to motivate and inspire me So Donna, this is a beautiful painting You are in the company of so many beautiful paintings within the whole challenge not just these that I pulled out to look at so congratulations Donna and You will be receiving some pan pastels as an award a congratulations award And also this lovely painting will now become the header image to our Monet cafe art group on Facebook Bravo. Yay Congratulations to all of you. I am so pleased with my art family and our happy little group here in Monet cafe


Good day, mate. 40 here. I mean, I think, well, that's the Magnificent View. 40. I'm sure the people in Sydney they want to preserve this marvelous city, one of the world's safest big cities. I'm sure they're going to be very careful about who they allow into their country. Well, you're only saying that because you're kind of some kind of fascist. You're some kind of xenophobic nationalist guys. Why would you not want to share this with the world? Secretly, when we're living in a time of a climate emergency, man, this is from the New Yorker. One of climate change's many compounding injustices is that the highest costs will be borne by those who have contributed the least to the problem. Okay, so those people who contribute the least to climate change, we should be welcoming them here into Sydney.  So what Australian needs is the importation of about 10 million Somalis. I mean, I think it's only just, don't you? Several low-lying island nations, including Tuvalu and Kiribati, are destined simply to disappear. In Bangladesh, some 2,000 people arrive every day in the capital, Dhaka, many driven by storms or rising seas that have made village life difficult. In Pakistan. Okay, so that sounds like awful suffering. I mean, what can we do as Australians? What can we do as Americans to invite these poor suffering people into our homes and most importantly into our hearts? This past summer, flooding caused by supercharged monsoon rains killed 1,000 people and forced 600,000 more into relief camps. In 2016, the United Nations. This man-made climate change, we have to completely revamp our economies. We have to give up all ideas about nation, nation-state, our country, our people and start welcoming in Africans and Bangladeshis into our homes and into our hearts. Since High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that globally, an average of 21 million people were being displaced by weather-related events every year. The UN's International Organization for Migration. Guys, weather. Because of the weather, we need 21 million more migrants to the first world. There's all sorts of weather going on that's not as nice as this, guys. And so, to compensate people who are suffering from weather, we need to invite them to Australia and to California. It has projected that by 2050, as many as a billion people may be on the move. In the coming decades, huge populations will need to seek new homes. Guy Avince, a British journalist, has written, either you will be among them or you will be receiving them. That sounds nice, doesn't it? I can't wait. A billion people, right? I don't think we'll be among them, but we'll get to receive a billion climate migrants from Somalia and from Bangladesh. Doesn't that sound nice?  Thank God for climate migration. Almost as much as climate change itself, this great displacement will test national and international institutions. One possibility is... Oh, come on now. More than testing national and international institutions, we're going to test whether we're hiding, pointing on to medieval conceptions of the self, that we have some kind of porous cells. If you have a dozen Somalis moving next to us, that's going to have some kind of negative effect. It's going to transform us from our old hide-down, traditional medieval views about love of our people, love of nation, and help us to ever come. You know, any ties that we have to ancient folk ways and to bigotry, and to fear and distrust of the outsider. I mean, climate migration is going to be a fantastic opportunity for us to open our hearts, open our homes, open our minds, open our countries, open our communities. Perhaps most importantly of all, open our legs to receive the vibrant, suffering, energetic Third Walters who want to penetrate us. Climate refugees will be welcomed. This could happen because it's the right thing to do. Yeah, climate refugees should be welcomed, guys. It's the right thing to do. I'm sure you agree with me. It's probably going to be the right thing to do. Trying to protect this live stream from the wind. I learned from JF Garabee, the most important thing for a live stream. It's in Sydney, in 2008, 2000. How do you like it, mate? It was a good experience. Now, JF says that the audio quality is the most important thing for a live stream. So, I'm trying to protect. I'm using my body as a shield here to protect the high quality audio that you expect from my live streams. Or it could happen for less high-minded reasons. As Akka Ramon, a former foreign secretary of Kiribati has observed, countries like Australia need workers, while the citizens of countries such as Kiribati will soon need a different place to live. These needs are complementary. The EU, too, faces a labor shortage. Complementary needs. This is marvellous. We're going to work together. People were warm and welcoming.  Did you get in some cottaging at Hyde Park? Very nice cottaging going on at Hyde Park, mate. You know, you can go to Hyde Park, get in some cottaging. And it's frequently a complementary experience, just like Australia needing workers and these third world nations needing to move. So, it's like a win-win. It's like a complementary... I also remember a heavy homosexual feel to Sydney. Oh, yeah. I mean, I know you mean that as a compliment. So, yeah, Sydney is one big gay disco, right? And that's part of what makes Sydney so amazing. Communique, issued by the European Commission in April, noted that there's a strong economic case for allowing in more legal immigrants, especially since the transition to a climate neutral economy will require additional labour and new skills. Climate migrants could play a key role in decarbonisation, providing a new kind. Yeah, that's what we need. We need climate migrants. They could play a really significant role in decarbonisation. So, how do we select for migrants who can play a key role in decarbonisation? I mean, that would be awesome, right? Bring in some migrants and get some really powerful decarbonisation going on. A really powerful cleansing experience, man. I think that would just be tops. So, I'm just kind of lying on my back here, just ignore me and just hanging out. You may think, oh, 40, you're trying to pose in some kind of seductive way, but I'm an intellectual. I'm a very spiritual man. I'm a very respectable man. I'm just lying on the grass in a seductive manner and trying to score some action. You would be completely wrong if that's what you thought was going on right now. I'm just stretching out to provide you with the highest quality audio experience for this livestream. But yeah, I remember when I was back in the 90s posing for Playgirl. I was asked to do poses like this, but that's a long time ago. I'm just a different man now. I'm not like that anymore, right? I changed. Times have changed. Feelings change. Of win-win narrative. Another possibility is that climate migrants, like millions of migrants before them, will be despised. Oh no. Rich countries, including those in the EU, will try to keep refugees out, and those who manage to slip in will be herded into camps. That's bad. In an effort to gain power, right-wing politicians will vilify them, and this will encourage yet more racism and xenophobia, a social feedback loop. Georgia Maloney, who recently became Italy's prime minister, has said that her country ought to repatriate the migrants back to their countries and then sink the boats that rescued them. Both the effort to limit climate change by replacing the world's energy systems and the effort to adapt to climate change by erecting dykes and seawalls will take place in the context of climate change, which is, say, a cyclone's drought, fire, and sea level rise force millions of people to flee. It's possible that cascading crises will accomplish what 30 years of climate negotiations have not and unite the world to seek the best way forward. Or it's possible that the same forces that have prevented cooperation in the past, nationalism, corporatism, sectarianism, fear, will, under the stress of climate change, only intensify. Why? So far, average global temperatures have risen by 1.1 degrees Celsius, 2 degrees Fahrenheit, and the budget for 1.5 degrees Celsius. Okay, there's one good thing in this article. I heard some really good explanations for how climate change actually works, so let me see if I can, let me see if I can pass forward that. That's from the New Yorker. Climate change from A to Z. Come on, mate. Get back. I want to, I want to show the people the good stuff here. That climate change from A to Z. Often lasted well into the night. The topics ranged widely from aeronautics to vulcanology. The society devoted several sessions to considering the instruments that would be needed by Solomon Augusto Andre, another early member of the group who had decided to try to reach the north pole via balloon. Whatever the quality of his instruments, Andre's voyage would result in his death and the death of his two companions. Sad. A question that particularly interested the physics society was the origin of the ice ages. All over Sweden lay signs of the glaciers that had, for vast stretches of time, buried the country. Rocks with parallel scrapings, strange, sinuous piles of gravel, huge boulders that had been transported far from their source. But what had caused the Great Ice Sheets to descend, carrying all before them? And then what had caused them to treat, allowing the rivers to flow once again and the forests to return? In 1893, the society debated various theories that had been proposed, including one linking the ice age. I don't know about you, but my theory is evil white men are responsible. Whether it's climate change, glaciers. There must be evil white men responsible. Yes, this is the Sydney Opera House, mate. This is a view I'm up here on the little gentle grassy hill at the Royal Botanical Gardens. It is 5.41 pm. It is 72 degrees Fahrenheit, mostly sunny, heading, we've had a high of 73 degrees today, going for an overnight lower of 52 degrees. So right now it's about 20 degrees Celsius. It is to slight variations in the Earth's orbit. The following year, Arrhenius came up with a different, and he thought, better idea. Carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide, he knew, had curious heat-trapping properties. In the atmosphere, it allowed visible light to pass through, but it absorbed the longer wave radiation that the Earth was constantly emitting into space. What if Arrhenius speculated the amount of CO2 in the air had varied? Could that explain the glaciers ebb and flow? The math involved in testing this theory went far beyond what was possible at the time. Arrhenius didn't have a calculator, let alone a computer. He lacked crucial information about which wavelengths exactly CO2 absorbs. The climate system, meanwhile, is immensely complicated with feedback loops nestled within feedback loops. Arrhenius, who would later win a Nobel Prize for an unrelated discovery, plunged ahead anyway. On Christmas Eve, 1894, he began constructing a climate model, the world's first. He assembled temperature data from around the globe and made ingenious use of a set of measurements that had been taken a decade earlier by an American astronomer, Samuel Pierpont Langley. Okay, this is from 1864, and he basically predicts very things that are supposedly driving climate change today. It's amazing. Langley had invented a device, a ballometer, for gauging infrared radiation, and had used it to determine the temperature of the moon. Arrhenius performed thousands of computations, perhaps tens of thousands, and offered labored over this task for 14 hours a day. He was still calculating away as his marriage fell apart. In September 1895, Rudbeck moved out. In November, without having seen Arrhenius again, she gave birth to their son. The following month, Arrhenius finished his work. I should certainly not have undertaken these tedious calculations if an extraordinary interest had not been connected with them, he wrote. Arrhenius believed that he had unraveled the mystery of the Ice Ages, a riddle that had hitherto proved most difficult to interpret. He was at least partly right. Ice Ages are the product of a complex interplay of forces, including wobbles in the Earth's orbit and changes in atmospheric CO2. His model turned out to have another use as well. All across Europe and North America, coal was being shoveled into furnaces that were bellowing out carbon dioxide. By thickening the atmospheric blanket that warmed the Earth, humans must, Arrhenius reasoned, be altering the climate. He calculated that if the amount of carbon dioxide in the air were to double, then global temperatures would rise between three and four degrees Celsius. A few quadrillion computations later, vastly more advanced climate models predict that doubling CO2 will push temperatures up between 2.5 and four degrees Celsius. Okay, that's kind of amazing that he anticipated our modern climate change models back in 1864 just using CO2. So I'm sorry that a custom is marriage, but sometimes you have to sacrifice for science, right? We all have different hero systems, meaning that we all need to feel heroic, right? And if we're not accomplishing things that are heroic, then we need to attach ourselves to people, communities, societies that enable us to feel heroic. So if you're not making breakthrough scientific calculations, you're not making earth-changing YouTube live streams, if you're not creating amazing works of wooden sculpture, you have to attach yourself to some community.  So you have to attach yourself to something heroic. Imagine that you're part of a greater whole if you're not out there creating heroism yourself.


One of the analytically solvable forms of differential equations is known as an exact differential equation. To understand exact differential equations, let's go back a little bit. Given any relationship between two variables, we can use implicit differentiation to produce a differential equation. For example, suppose I want to write a differential equation corresponding to the relationship x squared sine y plus y equals 25. If I differentiate with respect to x, I get, and I can rearrange this to get a differential equation of the form. Conversely, if I run into this differential equation in a dark alley one night, despite its rather terrifying form as a non-linear first-order differential equation, I happen to know that it came from x squared sine y plus y equals 25. Which means that this is a relationship that solves the differential equation. Let's think about this a little more. In single variable calculus, we viewed the relationship x squared sine y plus y equals 25 as defining y as an implicit function of x. But a different way of looking at this comes from multivariable calculus. In multivariable calculus, we viewed the relationship x squared sine y plus y equals 25 as defining a level curve of the function f of xy equals x squared sine y plus y. In other words, it's a curve defined by this function equal to a specific constant, in this case 25. It will be convenient to adopt this viewpoint. So consider a level curve of the form f of xy equals some constant c. The total derivative of f with respect to x is going to be the partial derivative of f with respect to x, plus the partial derivative of f with respect to y times the derivative of y with respect to x. Now if you haven't seen this before, the useful thing to keep in mind is this is essentially implicit differentiation using partial derivative notation. Now here's the useful thing.  So why is this useful? This allows us to construct a differential equation from a function of two variables by finding partial derivatives, or, working backwards, we can find the function of two variables by integration. So let's try to solve our horrifying differential equation. So we might begin with the idea suppose the solutions correspond to the level curves of f of xy equals some constant. Then our total differential must equal 0. Now equals means replaceable, so our differential equation, which is equal to 0, and our total derivative, which is also equal to 0, can be said equal to each other. So if we compare our equations, we see we have dy dx on both sides. On the left hand side it's multiplied by x squared cosine y plus 1. On the right it's multiplied by the partial of f with respect to y. But if the two sides are equal, then it must be that the partial of f with respect to y is x squared cosine y plus 1. Meanwhile, we also have the leftovers. Well, the leftovers 2x sine y must be the partial of f with respect to x. We can find f by anti-differentiating, and we have two possibilities. First, since this is the partial of f with respect to y, we can anti-differentiate with respect to y, and that gives us, or since this is the partial of f with respect to x, we can anti-differentiate with respect to x and obtain. Now we have these two constants, so let's think about this a moment. We got 2x sine y by differentiating with respect to x, and so that means this c1 could be a constant, but more generally it's a constant with respect to x. But this means it could be a function of y only. In other words, if this c1y was a function of y only, then when we differentiate with respect to x, this term vanishes. Similarly, we got this by differentiating our function with respect to y, which means that c2 must be a constant or a function of x only. And here's the important thing, the two functions have to be the same, and so we know that x squared sine y plus c1y must be x squared sine y plus y plus c2x. And that means that c1y must be y plus c2x. But wait, remember, since c1y must be a function of y only, that means c2x can only be a constant. And so c1y must be y plus a constant. And so the level curves of f of xy equals x squared sine y plus y plus a constant correspond to a solution to our differential equation. Now, since the actual solution will be of the form f of xy equals sum constant, we can omit this constant of anti-differentiation for our equation for f of xy. And so we can just say that capital F of xy must be x squared sine y plus y. Now, a good rule is that our final answer should not include any new functions or variables. And so while we do have all the necessary information, the solutions correspond to the level curves of f of xy equals c, where f of xy is equal to this function. It's better if we write the solution without any reference to this capital F function at all. And so we can just say that the general solution is x squared sine y plus y equal to c. And this leads to the following definition. An exact differential equation is an equation of the form g of xy y prime plus h of xy equals zero, where there is some function f of xy, where the partial of f with respect to y is our g function, and the partial of f with respect to x is our h function. In that case, the solutions correspond to the level curves f of xy equals constant.


This study explores the effect of three management practices on soil water balance and plant growth in relation to ebopotranspiration, ithy, and yield, y, and thus the consumptive water footprint, WF, of crops. The management practices include four irrigation techniques, four irrigation strategies, and three mulching practices. The study found that reducing the consumptive WF is essential for increasing competition for freshwater. The results show that drip or subsurface drip irrigation in combination with organic mulching can reduce the consumptive WF by up to 28%. Additionally, deficit irrigation increases the reduction in overall consumptive WF. The study also found that growing crops with sprinkler irrigation has the largest consumptive WF, while furrow irrigation has a smaller consumptive WF compared with sprinkler, even though the classical measure of irrigation efficiency for furrow is lower. This article was authored by A. D. Chicala, M. S. Kroll and A. Y. Hoekstra. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


If you're focusing on all of the input and your input is just negative, negative, negative, negative, the output of the way that you think and the way that you feel all day long is going to be negative. That's just a fact. Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast. I'm your host Rob Dile. And today we're going to be talking about how to stay out of negativity and how to get into positivity based off of the things that you're doing, thinking, and obviously the information that you're consuming. So if you are listening to last episode that I put out where I talk about the world is feeling really heavy right now, that to me is very obvious. And you know, how do we, if we feel these heavy thoughts, how do we lighten the load so that we feel better? Because ultimately we don't want to stay feeling heavy or depressed or sad all day long. We want to try to lighten the load and make ourselves feel better so that we can go out there and serve the world at a higher, you know, with our higher purpose that we truly want to go after. And it comes down to what you focus on. And if you've been listening to me for a while, you've heard me talk about what you focus on matters. You can't, I always can say that the mind is like a garden. You can't go into a garden and plant strawberry seeds and expect that somehow tomatoes are going to grow the same way that you can't focus on negativity and all of the negative stuff happening all day every day. And just expect that you're going to feel positive. If you just focus on the negativity, you're never going to feel positive. It's negative seeds that go into your mind are going to obviously create negative trees, negative plants is the way of thinking of it. Now, let me be very clear though. What I am not saying is not to be informed. I'm not saying that I'm not saying be completely ignorant and naive to what's happening in the world and not pay attention to it. That is the, that is not what I'm saying. That's the exact opposite of what I'm saying. But what I'm saying is to be very, very clear of to what you do want to consume.  So the input is going to create the output. If you're focusing on all of the input and your input is just negative, negative, negative, the output of the way that you think and the way that you feel all day long is going to be negative. That's just a fact. And so I'm going to give you a couple of tips and we're going to talk about some things that you should really think about and be very clear of the first thing. If I'm going to give you a really big tip, try to stay off the social media as much as possible right now. And I don't mean once again, don't be informed.  If you feel that way, then I don't want you to go on to Nancy's Facebook or accidentally see her posts. One thing that I will 100% recommend for you is that you know exactly what you want to be on. If you're going to be on social media, you're going to go to exactly whatever it is that you want versus just scrolling through and seeing number one, what people are posting, but number two, the comments stay away from the comments because that's just where you really start to feel bad.  I spent literally the other morning, like five minutes on social media and I felt like crap for like the next two or three hours.  They have their own opinion. They stick to it and then they won't see life from other people's viewpoints. And so if you're going to be on social media, try to stay on social media the way that you want to be on it versus just accidentally coming across stuff and please don't look in the comment section. That's where you don't want to. I've never seen somebody be like, you know what? I'm really glad that I read through all of those comments. Well, I'm really glad I'm glad I got into that bickering match on somebody's Facebook post. Please don't do that. So the first thing is stay away from social media as much as you possibly can. Second thing, try to stay away from the news as much as you possibly can because here's the thing that I do know is that the news sensationalizes evil. It takes all of the evil and all of the bad and it puts it out there and the reason why is because the human mind concentrates on negative and they know in the re let me just talk to you real quick about why the human mind concentrates on negative.  We had to remember where our friend was killed by a lion. So therefore we wouldn't go past that place again. We had to know, you know, what type of berries our friend John ate, you know, I'm sure there wasn't a guy named John 50,000 years ago, but we had to remember what berries he ate so that therefore we didn't remember it again. So we needed to remember the negative because the negative staying thinking about it kept us alive. But nowadays it's it just makes you feel bad. You know, you don't have to worry about being attacked by a saber two tiger or by eating the wrong berries from whole foods. So therefore, obviously when when the news knows this is how human psychology works, they're going to put out the negative because then you're going to watch the negative because you need to focus on it. That animalistic part of your brain wants to focus on the negative. And so they always put out the negative. The more people that watch, the more money that they make off of their ads in the, that's the way that they make their money off of all of the ads, everything that they put out there. So the news will concentrate and sensationalize the bad and the evil. So if you want to feel better, stay away from the news. That's a huge tip I'm going to give you. Another thing I'll tell you as well, stay away from negative people. Like if you know that your uncle Sam is that's funny that I use that uncle Sam. If you know that your uncle Sam is the guy who loves to talk about the negative or about the conspiracy theories, or he's a big supporter of someone that you're not a supporter of. And every time you talk to him, you feel like shit, then don't talk to him. Stay away from him. I'm not saying you got to kick him out of the family if you love him. But there are just some people in your life that you should probably spend a little bit less time with because it makes you feel better when you're not around them.  So why don't you just try to stay away from people like that as much as possible? And what you're really trying to do is you're trying to create your own bubble. And in this bubble, you are in control of all of the stuff that comes into your mind, everything that you see, hear, feel every single aspect of your life. You're creating your own bubble for you to go out and be the best version of yourself, because if you're the best version of yourself, you're going to be able to create a better environment and be able to impact the world and other people around you as well. So create your own little bubble. So what are you listening to? Are you happening to listen to positive podcasts like this and going on to YouTube and listening to things that are positive and having conversations and who are you hanging out with? Who are you listening to? So who are you listening to on the internet, on TV, through everything that you listen, but also who are you hanging out with that you're also listening to?  For instance, I know that we've all listened to something, maybe it popped up on the news, maybe it popped up on a podcast, I don't know, and you listen to it and it makes you feel worse hearing about it, right? But then you've also listened to something before where you listen to it and when it gets done, you're like, man, I'm fired up. I feel good about myself. I want to go out and do some good in the world.  Wouldn't you rather feel the second way excited, fired up wanting to go out and do something with your life versus hearing something and it bringing you down? That's just by what you're hearing. So what are you listening to? Who are you listening to? You know, another thing is what are you watching? Are you watching, you know, all of the stuff and reading all the stuff in the comments and the news feeds and all of those things, or are you taking time going on to YouTube and focusing on things that you know you will feel better after listening to them or you'll feel more excited or you feel more educated or you're learning? The great thing about being alive right now is that there is so much information at your fingertips in this very second. You can literally pick up your phone and learn anything that you want to right now. So why don't you go and actually be in charge of the things that you're learning every single day? What are you reading? Are you reading through the newspapers? Are you reading through the comments or are you sitting down with a book that you want to read and you're actually being very diligent on, you know what, I do want to read this book. I do want to read a book that's going to make me feel better and I'm going to feel like I learned something and I'm actually progressing and I'm taking my mind to the mental gym so that therefore when I'm done, I'm stronger mentally and I'm able to go conquer the world and help everyone around me and help my community. You know, so what are you listening to? Who are you hanging out with? What are you watching? What are you reading? Once again, I want to be very clear. I'm not saying don't be uninformed. I'm just saying make sure that you're not conforming.  Make sure that you're creating your own bubble of what you want to learn, of what you want to be a part of, of what you believe in and whatever you feel from your heart is what you're supposed to be doing, is what you're supposed to be doing. So how often are you listening to, is this what I'm supposed to be doing right now or could I be doing something better for myself? Could I be learning something better for myself? Once again, not saying don't be informed, 100% be informed, but make sure that you're very diligent of creating the bubble that fosters the mindset, the life, the reality that you want to create. And as I said in the last episode, the world needs leaders so much right now. So what I want you to think about is what I'm watching, listening to, reading who I'm hanging out with. Are they creating me into being the leader that I want to be or are they holding me back and making me stay in the same place because of fear, all of the fear mongering that's out there or because I don't feel motivated when I read through the comment section. Because the better that you are, the better that you will be able to go out and serve the world. That's the most important thing. The one thing that I know about humans, I've worked with tens of thousands of humans over the years is that we feel the best. We feel the most alive when we are impacting other people's hearts. We're impacting other people. We're looking at somebody and no matter how much, you don't have to go out and impact millions of people's lives.  You are making a change, but you can't give away what you don't have. If you have a cup that's not filled up, you can't help somebody else. So you've got to fill your cup up first. And I want you to do this. I have an assignment for you if you're up to it. I want you to take a pen and paper and ask yourself three questions, three questions, three simple, simple questions. And I learned this from P Diddy way back in the day when he used to have a TV show that was called, it was called making a band. And he did this thing called stop, start, continue. And I started doing this years ago, like 14 years ago when I was running teams and I would have my team come together and we would go over this and stop, start, continue is three simple questions. And I want you to write them down and answer them and ask yourself how you can take these three simple questions and put them into your life and implement whatever you get from answers that you're about to answer here. So number one is what do I need to stop doing after listening to this episode? What do I need to stop doing? Maybe I need to stop scrolling through my Facebook news feed and looking at all of the people's yelling at each other and bashing each other and not listening to each other and throwing out their opinions in the comments. What do I need to stop doing? Make a list of things you need to stop doing. Second thing, what do I need to start doing? You know, I need to start doing. I need to start replacing my social media time with reading a really good book that I've been wanting to read. That's what I need to start doing. And what do I need to continue doing? I've been doing a really good job at waking up in the morning and going through my morning routine and focusing on my meditation. I need to continue with my meditation because it helps me start the day off right. So what do I need to stop doing? What do I need to start doing? And what do I need to continue doing? And you take the answers to those three questions. And all you do is you look at your schedule and say, okay, where can I start doing this? Where can I take out these things I need to stop doing? And where can I make sure I continue doing these things? Life is not that hard. It's actually very simple. We make it much more complicated than it needs to be. So think about that. What do I need to stop doing? What do we need to start doing? And what do we need to continue doing?  I want to help you become the leader that you deserve to be and that the world needs. In order to do that, you need to be very, very clear on what you need to stop doing, what you need to start doing, what you need to continue doing and work on creating yourself to be the best that you possibly can be. Because once again, the better that you are, the better that you can serve the world. So that's what I got for you for today's episode. If you love this episode, please share with someone that you know and love. Please go ahead and tag us on your Instagram, put this in your stories, tag me in it, Robdial Jr, R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R. I'll go ahead and reshare them as they come in.  Make a permission, make someone else's day better. I appreciate you. I love you all and I hope you have an amazing day.


The Inspector General of Police, Suman Baba, has ordered an investigation into the comments by controversial artist Habib Okikola, also known as Portable, that he founded a cult group. Portable had in a viral video boasted to have formed one million boys cult group, a group which had caused unrest in many parts of Lagos and Augustines. A statement by the force spokesperson Muir Wahidjabi said that the IDP has ordered the Lagos Police Commissioner to investigate his claim.