Alright, so a very quick video for you today guys, it's going to be a little tip on how to have more vivid dreams and how to remember them better. This won't be a complete guide because there's a lot of things you can do for that, but it's going to be a very quick sort of couple of minutes video just explaining some things you can do in combination, right? You should do all of these things at the same time or during the same day and it will let you have much more vivid dreams and you'll be able to remember them much easier. So, all you're going to do is during the day you're going to go to the gym or go and exercise, do whatever your favourite exercise or workout is and do it as hard as you possibly can, literally like go really, really go for it, exert yourself as hard as you physically can and then also during the day make sure that you drink lots of water and what it is is like a build up effect of all of these things that will make you so desperate for sleep that when you have it you'll have very nice dreams. You'll have a deep restorative sleep, you'll feel great in the morning and you'll probably have a lucid dream but it's not guaranteed, right? So yeah, drink lots of water during the day and then as you get ready for bed, right, as you get ready to sleep in the evening make sure you have your a fairly small meal like not a huge meal but have something to eat at about six to seven and then at seven o'clock when you finish your meal don't have anything else to eat at all for the whole evening like not even a snack because you want your metabolism to start slowing down and shutting down ready for sleep. A lot of people have snacks during the evening, I used to do the same like you know eating all the way through to when you go to sleep which is alright you know I mean it keeps you going but at the same time it keeps your metabolism going and in order for you to fall into a deep sleep you need your metabolism to be slowed down along with your heart rate, your temperature, you need to drop your temperature, that sort of thing.  So don't eat anything after seven, drink a lot throughout the day and then just before you go to bed try doing some sort of relaxation routine like an hour before you're going to sleep either have a nice hot cup of tea, you can have lucid dreaming tea like Garusea or you can use herb and mate, you can use all sorts of relaxing tea leaves, mugwort, there's all sorts of things you can use and just have a nice cup of tea, read a book and this is actually a great time as well to go through your dream journal, look at past dreams and that's it just go to sleep and you're more likely to have a very vivid dream. So go ahead try that out, leave a comment, let me know how it goes, I'll see you next time. Also regarding yesterday's, not yesterday's, Friday's video I believe or Saturday's, it was an April Fool's and yes it was a joke. I like to think that at least a few of you went to bed surrounded by small apples and it'd be quite funny if you did but yeah serious videos are now back to normal and for those of you wondering yes I was trying not to laugh as I was filming that one I'm not very good at keeping a straight face so I had to do quite a few takes, you can see that. Use like paprika and you can about this big and um


Boy it's tournament time. It's car Michael day. Let's go. Now I'm having my lineup. Let me show you guys my line up This is the harvest tournament. This is my third game The not big final 32 so I did not get a buy I had to play four rounds if I win four rounds on Saturday Let me show you guys the team. I'm actually rocking for this tournament This is my third round the first two games were actually blowouts Didn't have to show you guys I had car Michael game one He didn't get his feet in one time put our boy Metcalf back in the lineup. I'll show you guys exactly the team I'm rocking with this weekend for the EA major, but this is what we're rocking right here We're using Lamar Jackson at quarterback with just gift wrap. No gunslinger. I don't really think you need it that much Obviously DK Jamar Chase Devante Adams Donald Parham, Jr. Is my tight end. We do have 50 50 Most feared I showed you guys this team on the last YouTube video pretty much the same thing the one player We did add obviously is a keep to leave honestly He's just a Joanne Johnson or that that Jalen Johnson from the Bears, but he's six foot one instead of six foot tall Really good man and zone corner. He's a slot archetype. I was hoping he could get deep knockout But slot doesn't get that in the fourth bucket yet But so we're gonna use to leave as one of our corners same thing I told you guys from the beginning Justin Simmons Is gonna be our free safety a mining hooker is our strong safety with medium knockout on our strong safety And we want to use Paul Krauss with deep knockout on our left corner back He's gonna be in deep blues. He's gonna be making plays Breaking on the ball knock out any corner rounds deep streaks anything like that This card is definitely outdated right now But he's the only card in the game that has deep or deep zone knockout deep out zone Whatever it is. We see his 88 speed. He is tall obviously 63 Krauss So he's a little bit slow, but because he has that deep knockout He can actually be a forward to get beat if that makes sense. We're gonna use her Devin White here That's a Jair Alexander slot. We're gonna use von Miller. We're going to use K Von Thibodeau. That's our team Like I said, this is my third game. You're watching third game because the first two games We're not YouTube worthy one was about 28 nothing The other one was like 31 to 7 got it done defense was playing really well But two players that I shouldn't be on the field with really so That's one thing man. If you're not if you're not going to be top 32, there's nothing wrong with being in the 50s There's nothing wrong being in a 60 because then you'll get the matchup of the 500 seed or the 400 seeds So even though it's not just top 32 or die You still want to have a good seed so you're able to go ahead and not get easy games But you know, you're not playing the best comp in the world the first couple rounds That's what we did, but this is my third round game. This is where it started to get sweat Man, it's against this guy. He was in trips tight end. So definitely give me a good game then so But we're warm fingers are fingers are the mind is fresh Martian 5050 come on.  Oh my god Just snap throw a drag gets in there from the three hooker.  What play killed me?   Nice patience. Nice stick everything man. Come on I should have never clicked on nothing and I went for the pick. That was such a bag That was such a bag, but I clicked on it went for a pick because it was so bad God damn. We're strapping right now. Oh, come on.  Please go out of bounds God damn it man.  I can't wreck it.   Why dude?   Let him go out Oh Why we have hooker there literally why we have him there.    Stop moving people around.  Good job. Good pursuit boys. Absolutely good pursuit Absolutely beautiful pursuit there boys. I mean 89 main most feared team team might as well Holy shit, man. God damn.  I won't work again Just come on dude. There's just no way we run into each other like that.   It's literally wide open or go down.


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I am really pleased and very grateful that I have been given this honor. I am humbled, especially because of its ink award. It is very important that we do not forget no matter what form of writing we appreciate it today. It all comes from print and ink. The genesis of all forms of writing is here. I believe that people get worried about print's future. I am not concerned that much because I feel it might change form and shape but the spirit of it would never die. It will take a very different form. The way we consume print will become very different but the spirit of print will live forever. The property of ink awards is something which encourages and inspires people to do great work in the arena of print. It is a commendable effort and all the people who are associated with it and working hard towards making it a success, my best wishes for them and for future as well. I am very hopeful about the way that print is going to be there. But one thing for sure, and I try to express it, if it doesn't study print, I would say he or she would be incomplete. It is a ground in education you require. When we talk about music, we talk about the soul of the character. Your control on your soul, on your voice has to be great. So for that you learn classical music exactly like that. No matter which form of advertising communication you practice, print is like your foundation. For the classic print advertising, you will be able to learn the art and craft of writing for communication business. So I think it's a must that youngsters study that medium and learn print. People are in a hurry. It's what happens. Change is always in a hurry. So let's not forget, it's only things that transform you. What is change? Things that transform you. The idea which of changing forms a shape. And in that change, let's not be uncharitable towards what print is. And I'm not saying that you need to do some artsy or charity to save print. But people love, would do, I would. I would do anything to save print as a form. Because I love written work, the sanity and the power of the people. But I think trying to not write it off before it's time is what I would request. And also understand the transformation. What I mean by transformation is that, even if you might be reading digital, digital reading, print. Genesis is still there in the classic print advertising of this print and form. I appreciate that. Don't be in a hurry to write it off.


Hi, aspirants. In yesterday's United Nations inaugural function of the World Geospatial Information Congress, our Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that technological advancement in India is an inclusion and not an exclusion. So, what is this inclusiveness and how it is creating growth in the country? As a serious aspirant, you must know it because this is what present in the GS3 syllabus of your main examination in UPSC. So, if you are an ambitious aspirant, do watch this video continuously. Now, let's start with the term Inclusive Growth. See, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Inclusive Growth means an economic growth that has distributed fairly across the society and creates opportunities for all. See, in broad terms, no, this inclusive growth means equality of opportunities for all economic participants in the country. As we can say that equality in all aspects, that is equality in health, education, food security and social protection. Then it also includes a method of growth that is environmentally sustainable, then aspires for good governance and aids in the creation of a gender conscious society. See, some of the key elements of inclusive growth include skill development, financial inclusion, then technological advancement, economic growth and social development. So, these are all some of the elements that need to be addressed to achieve inclusive growth. See, so far we would have seen many things about the financial inclusiveness or even we saw some of the inclusiveness regarding the climate change mitigation measures. Now, let us see about the technological advancement in India in the aspect of inclusive growth. First of all, let's have an idea about technological advancement. See, technological advancement is the improvement and innovation of the utility of science. Technological advancement occurs when technologies become more precise, accurate, efficient or more capable. And these scientific and technological advancements have made many important changes throughout the history. Remember, the smartphones now we are using, which is evolving day by day and it is now helping us in many ways such as to do money transactions and hearing songs, watching movies, browsing through the information, etc. etc. This is itself a technological advancement, right? And note that even this technological advancement like mobile phone or smartphone is creating inclusiveness. How? Now, let's see the technological advancement in India as mentioned in the news article and how it is creating inclusiveness. First, let's talk about the Swamvitwaski which got mentioned in the news article. See, Swamvitwaski means survey of villagers and mapping with improvised technology in village areas. Okay, this scheme is a reformative step towards establishment of clear ownership of property in rural inhabited areas. How is this done? It is done by mapping of land parcels with the help of drone technology and by providing record of rights to village household owners. So, what can you understand from this? So, the use of this technology, inclusiveness is portrayed, okay? And interestingly, India is not only focusing domestically in the aspect of inclusive growth, but also involves the neighbors in the process of inclusiveness. Take for example, the South Asia satellite GSat-9 which is formerly known as SARC satellite. It is a communication and meteorology satellite operated by the ISRO for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. See, this satellite is serving the needs of some of the SARC member nations such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Here, you can take the India's technological advancement in the space sector which helps in facilitating connection and communication in India's neighborhood. See, this is also an example for inclusiveness. Then, India has given a boost in the manufacturing of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles and opened up the space sector to private entities. So, the participation of the private sector in this is an example for inclusive growth. So, we saw how the village inclusiveness is occurring. Then, we saw in the international level how India is promoting inclusive growth. Then, we also saw how the private sector involvement is creating inclusiveness. Now, let us see about the indices that are used in measuring inclusive growth. First is the Inclusive Development Index. See, it is an assessment of one out three countries' economic performance that measures how countries perform on economic progress in addition to GDP. And this index is prepared and released by the World Economic Forum. See, the index has three pillars, namely growth and development, inclusion, then intergenerational equity and sustainability. Then, in the recent 2018 assessment, Norway tops the chart followed by Iceland and Luxembourg in advanced economies. And where is India standing? See, India has been ranked 62 out of 74 emerging economies. Here, India is ranked below the neighboring countries. That is, it is below Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Evidently, Pakistan has been ranked 47. Sri Lanka is standing in the 40th position and Nepal in the 22nd position. So, by knowing this ranking, you would have understood why this inclusive growth is very much important for a country. See, only by creating inclusive growth, an economy can grow at a huge level. Then, let me tell you one more index to measure this inclusive growth. Take the Social Progress Index. The index is published by the Non-profit Organ Social Progress Imperative. See, the SPI measures the well-being of a society by observing social and environmental outcomes directly rather than the economic factors. The social and environmental factors include wellness, that is, including health, shelter and sanitation. Then it also includes equality, inclusion, sustainability and personal freedom and safety. So, regarding this index now, in the recent 2021 assessment, Norway has stopped the index followed by Finland and Denmark. Then, what about India? India has been ranked 117 among the 168 countries, which is much behind the BRICS nation. So, these are all some of the indices that we are using in the measurement of inclusive growth. So far, we have seen what is inclusive growth and how the technological advancement is creating inclusive growth. Then we also saw how the inclusive growth is measured using two indices. Now, let me tell you what is the issue prevalent in achieving this inclusive growth. See, in India, the major challenges for inclusive growth include lack of adequate employment opportunities despite India having the largest working population, then lack of adequate education and skill development and the lack of social and physical infrastructure. All these are also the major challenges for achieving the inclusive growth. So, we saw the issues, right? Now, we have to address the issues. So, now, let us talk about the possible solutions. See, the central government along with the help of the state government, it should formulate policies to eradicate poverty, which is the foremost problem faced by India in achieving inclusive growth. See, as I already said, what is the concept of inclusive growth? Involving everyone in the economic growth or financial growth or you can say in the nation's growth, okay? So, the government should also promote sustainable development practices by keeping in mind the future generations on also the government should ensure that the inclusive growth will help in the empowerment of vulnerable and marginalized populations. See, only by including everyone in the society, you will be able to achieve a holistic growth or what we can say a huge growth, okay? And thus we can conclude that achieving inclusive growth is equal to achieving nation's growth, okay? So, that's all regarding this topic and if you want to know more about the financial inclusion, we have covered it through schemes like hotel pension Yojana, then Pratamandri Mudra Yojana, etc., etc., okay? And for more updates regarding the UPSC preparation, watch our Hindu news analysis regularly.


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Thank you so much for staying with us. This is why in the morning and we are looking into the judicial leadership of CJ Maraga as compared to his predecessor Dr. Mutunga. We have mentioned so much into what Dr. Mutunga did and what Maraga has come in and done following the footprints, veering off and of course looking into the service of justice. In partiality we have talked about and now we want to look into other things that CJ Mutunga did and what CJ Maraga has been doing. And when this time is coming to an end, what kind of legacy will he be leaving us with considering even the president will be leaving. So we have two men to watch as to what they will be leaving us with. I'm speaking to Jack Muman, he's a political activist and political analyst, a Cyrus Elito. Now gentlemen, before we went on that break I was saying CJ Dr. Mutunga he supported and strengthened the judicial training institutes as a nucleus for jurisdiction training and an institution of higher learning. What has Maraga done to this dream has improved on it or he hasn't Cyrus? I can say he has improved and what I look forward to is his successor to implement it fully. You can say he has improved. He has not done it to our expectation but he has done best on the budget that he had. And remember the judiciary has also been facing issues with the budget allocation. And this is because from where I see it and I said this thing earlier on is that because he decided to dine and wine with the executive. Unlike his predecessor who never dined and wine with the executive. He knew I'm here and I'm part and I'm an arm of the government independent as the executive is and as the legislature is. Because there are three arms of government. So let me play my role. So that is what Nani came to a time and forgot. So he decided also to go in rallies with the president, meeting with the president. When you dine with them, they'll use you and they'll dump you because they want you to implement the idea and not the idea of monenji. And when you're independent then you'll be serviced to monenji. So those are the things that he did. And you see Maraga he'll be remembered for two things. One, notification of election 2017. Two, sending an advisory letter to the president on the dissolution of the parliament. We'll be looking into that in a bit but for now into considering the dreams of his predecessor Dr. Mutunga. Has he lived by this? Yes he has and I don't want to be seen as all in grief for the chief justice. But I think he has tremendously done well. I agree with my co-panelist Syros that he has done, though not to our expectation, but at least up to where he could depending on the kind of budget education that was given to the judiciary. And one thing that I still don't agree with Syros, I don't think it's correct to say that the chief justice has been dining with the executive. I think it has been a challenge because the three arms of government have not been working hand in hand and that is where we've always had problems with the achievement of the judiciary. As a alien vision by the predecessor of the now chief justice. Because the executive has always held it's ground and the legislature has always held it's ground and the judiciary has worked on it's own. So it has always been a friction between the three arms of government. Alright now, one maybe as we look into final things or what Dr. Mutunga did, he spearheaded independent and principled dialogue, consultation and collaboration between the three arms of the government. You have just rightly said it is not okay to say he dined with the executive. You have been saying he dined with the executive that is CJ Maraga. But for him Mutunga he looked into the dialogue, consultation and collaboration. We have seen the CJ Maraga complain how he is being treated. I had the critic say he has been a cry baby into what he is being treated. What do you make of all this?  And the executive has used the parliament and the judiciary to some extent to achieve it's own agenda. Organized the mana inch. So the parliament has been using as a rubber stump. The judiciary has been just sitting there and watching, saying nothing. When even bad laws are passed, you shall sit down and not give directives. And that's where now mediation needs to come in. Just to come in, just to weigh in on that before it goes. I don't understand when you say that the judiciary has just been sitting there when bad laws are passed without giving direction. It's known and it is in public domain that so many court orders have been issued and they have been disregarded. So even if the judiciary issued orders or directives and they are not obeyed. So I don't understand what else is left of Maraga. Then I think the question should be if the court orders are not being implemented or adhered to what's next. Now for example, if the river Hilary, you have a case today in court, you don't respect the court orders.  You'd be arrested. Who does the arrest? The arrest is done by the police. The police is under the executive. I don't object. It's under the executive. But you see this is an independent organ. You should be up to task to execute your mandate. Because judiciary's mandate ends when they issue the order. The police is a service provider. In books it is. What you're trying to say is we have a problem. We have a problem, a big problem, not just a problem. If the court issues orders and then someone disobeys the orders, an executive order will come, I'm forgetting the name, someone will be arrested and taken to court. We have seen our leaders being arrested and taken to court, then they are bailed out. What if it happens to the high authorities? What if? What if the orders now come, assuming they want to arrest the president, which we know according to the books and the law, it can. But now there are limitations. If we have this problem, the court orders are not obeyed. What's next? Who is to blame? What will we do? In your own opinion. I think that is a very grey area. It's a very grey area that needs to be looked into. Consolitatively as a nation, we need to find, we need to navigate around that grey area as a country. Sayres we have a problem. What do you think we should do? The biggest problem we are having in this country is psychofancy. When we know this is the right thing that we need to do, but we don't adhere to it, just because someone somewhere has not directed us to do so. Psychofancy has led us to be where we are. And being led by individual people in the name of CSOs, activists, just to not to champion the agenda of monainchi, but to champion an individual's agenda. You see there is a difference between monainchi and an individual. Because there are so many constitutional things that are not being adhered to by the executive, by the parliament and by the judiciary. But you see as a civil society, we sit there relaxed looking at it and watching at our comfort zone. Waiting for just being button pressed or remote controlled. So much civil society have believed that we need to join the mandamano thing that has always been called by the so called opposition led by the former premier. And that has been a very wrong notion. So the civil society has blindfolded this country for a very long time. So what we need to do as monainchi, we need to develop what we call a civil education. Now we need civil society now what they need to sit down and see what are we going to train our teacher, our people on civic rights, on how to handle their leaders accountable, on how to ensure that there is good constitutional adherence. So this is now what the civil society needs to sit down and look into. So we shall have a good country, a better country when good champions rise up looking at the constitution. We have a problem in the implementation of the constitution. Now this is what we are going to focus on, this is what we are going to do to ensure that the implementation of the constitution is fully implemented and we are not going to achieve this if this one is not achieved. That is what the civil society now needs to do for us to be at a better place or else this country is going in a very wrong direction. All right, Jack, during his tenure, Dr. Mutunga is believed to have been on the frontline to fight corruption. He was someone who he said to have been against corruption. Coming to CJ Maraga, what do you make of him? Well, like Sarah said before, CJ Mutunga, in his life or rather when he began his public life he was an activist. And CJ Maraga has come out as a soft spoken person and there has been a person who works behind scenes. When it comes to matters corruption, I think it wouldn't be a fair to judge him as a person but it would be rather fair if we judge ourselves as a nation during his tenure as a CJ. Did the executive support him? Did his team in the judiciary support him? Did the legislature support him? Did the Kenyan populace support him? I think from that point of view then we can be able to know what steps or rather what gains or losses we made as a country in corruption during CJ Maraga's tenure. We've had a very serious corruption allegation and corruption cases during Maraga's tenure and we all know how most of them have gone and how others have gone without wanting to mention because some of them are bigger names and so I think as a nation we are losing the fight against corruption not CJ Maraga.  Kenya is a very resourceful country. We have got a lot of resources. If harnessed and put into right use, Kenya would rank among the best countries that anyone would want to live in. But going the way it is going, most investors are pulling out of this country. I don't know what will happen in the coming generation. Alright, enough. What has CJ Maraga done in the fight against corruption considering we have a case of the dams via Rol and Kimarell two years down the line? And as I stated earlier, the judiciary should have come up with the mechanism of expediting the corruption cases because it is something that is ailing the country. It is something that needs to be looked into seriously. We need to look at the economic crimes. We need now to set a precedence and say this is how economic crimes are going to be dealt with from now henceforth. And as an institution, as an arm of government, this is the direction we are giving so that we can save our country. Maraga has mentioned several times that there are corruption issues within the judiciary mentioned, but I have not seen him take an action towards it. So if the institution itself is corrupt, how are you going to handle corruption issues that will face other normal Kenyans who are not part and parcel of that institution who just expect what is called service delivery from the institution? So this is a challenge and I call upon the next CJ who will take up from Maraga that these are some of the key issues that should be looked into. The corruption cases and the other economic crimes that are there. Because one, I can give an example of the drug cases. The High Court was dancing and playing around with the Akasha issue. But when they were taken to America it only took a few days for them to be hundreds of centers. So what is the difference? In everything that we do we borrow a leave from another country. When Maraga issued that ruling on the election it is something that was borrowed by other courts. Because I am very sure when you refer to something in the law you always refer to a ruling that was made by a certain judge, certain place, at a certain time. Because they may look similar in one way or the other. So this is a big problem with this issue of following cases in the country. I believe the judiciary thing institution that was formed it was meant to update the judges, the magistrates on how to handle cases in the modern society. And how to expedite cases so that we may not have backlog of cases in the courts. Let me say something on that. I want to believe that going forward even as Sarah says that you will wish to see the success of Maraga doing much better than what Maraga has done. We will change or rather we will have many more chief justices coming in. Let us look at the chief justice not as a person but as an office. Let us empower the office. Let us empower the office so that whatever comes from the office is seen as coming from the chief justice's office not from the individual who hosts the office. Enough of the comparison. Let's talk about now the CS Maraga. Two things or three things. The nullification of the elections that is 2017 and the advisory that he gave the other day and the complaints that have been there from the appointment of judges and the budget cuts which has been said over time again that it has become an impediment in expediting the cases in terms of the budget. They need money but they can't have the need judges, they don't have and then the respect that has been given to the office of the chief justice. Now first things to look into is the recent advice to the president I want to begin with you Jack when he gave this advisory. Do you think he was trying to find some position like I still have a say because many people are saying he is trying to be relevant? Not necessarily trying to to communicate his position but I think it is following what is written in the constitution. Article 261 sub article 7 mandates him to advise the president to dissolve parliament in these circumstances or rather in these circumstances. So by advising the president to dissolve parliament I think Maraga was acting from the contents of the constitution and it is up to the president to refer to the constitution which I believe he has read and understands what it says and do what is needy for what is expected of him. Though it is a big it is rather an awkward position that we are in as a country because at the moment we have a lot of issues that we need to deal with as a country even the country doesn't have money if we dissolve parliament today that means we have to hold an election I don't think we have that money to hold an election but according to the constitution that is what is required of the president to dissolve parliament because they are failing before them. Secondly Maraga did not just advise the president to dissolve parliament out of his own will or his own resolution Remember there have been petitions before him five of them last year from individuals and one petition this year came from the Loso site of Kenya asking him to advise the president to dissolve parliament so he acted in respect of these petitions that have been written in the constitution Now Osiras do you think the CJ was trying to find his place and is it fair to call for a dissolvement of parliament at such a time? When you champion for something you need to work and ensure it is well implemented We championed for this constitution in 2010 and then we should adhere to the constitution because it serves us for him he did what is right as it is envisioned in the constitution and that is the plight of the common one engine When he ended the ruling on 2017 about the nullification of election he looked into the evidence that was stable and advised the IBC on what to do which didn't do up to now and as I've only said we shall talk about the ills of IBC when election will never fail us but right now no one is talking about IBC the parliament that needs to look into IBC issues is seated comfortably discussing other things the civil society that needs to talk about the IBC itself seated comfortably like there is no issue and there is a very big issue constitutionally when we look at the IBC issue when when subs delivery will be done by the same IBC it will be it has not done well IBC has conducted several by elections and they will be conducting so in Mombasa which no one has complained about okay so these are some of the things that we need to look into so constitutionally he has tried to ensure that the constitution is followed to the latter and that's why you've seen him the issue those court orders to even our leaders who don't obey the courts so he has tried on his own to follow the constitution to the latter and that is what you want the only biggest problem we have is the loopholes in the constitution that are not fully implemented and when this question is fully implemented then Kenya will be safe but we have just to add on that I think I fully agree with Sairas that we have the best constitution and the only problem is the implementation of the constitution and respect of the same constitution and I think I don't know if I should bring in this because I don't understand why we are clamoring for another constitutional change when we haven't fully implemented the constitution that we have right now we are calling it inclusivity inclusivity that is what we call it that's the most perpetuated agenda well inclusivity will not solve the problems that we have in this country unless we change our behaviour as a people still right or new the current regime has been accused time and again of defying code orders this particular advice by CJ Maragatu the president do you think what you will be at the attitude well I can't speak for the president because the decision lies with him and mine will just be to ask the president to do what is expected of him by the constitution do you think it is fair for us to have a by election such a time at this particular time I don't think it is fair and so even if the president did not follow the advice of the CJ I think a process should be put in place to bring people on board all stakeholders to discuss this matter and have a way out on the issue rather than the legislation that inform the CJ advisory so people should come on the table and talk about this come up with the solution if not if we don't have a way out sometimes it is said that there is no gain without pain then we can take it we can go for a by election if the president so dissolve the parliament code orders have been disregarded in the past many of them, a number of them has been mentioned this particular one will hit and that's what I want to agree with the statement beta MP gave in parliament the other day we should not personalize the advisory of Maraga to the president but rather look at it the way we are supposed to look at it constitutionally in other words code orders have been ignored and this government has been known for ignoring the code orders which is a disobedience and that's why I only say let us live by example for chief Justice Maraga I think now this is the time he now needs to borrow advice from Mtunga now this is where mediation needs to come in why am I saying so? the parliamentary service commission met and decided to file a petition regarding the same advisory which is the constitutional as well so this is now where now these people need to sit down and discuss this issue because this chief justice was issued an advice to the president parliamentary commission has gone to the same court which is headed by the president so we need this now brings a quagmire to us as the citizens because we are the ones who are suffering remember what is the push today in the same thing that will be pushed in someone's advantage today we are championing for the that's gender and we see what we always forget we take the gender thing to be pegged on our sisters our mothers the female gender that's where we get it wrong but if we can sit down and look at the issue of gender in a very sober way actually we have to think critically but now my biggest question is the gender rule that has not been implemented the persons who are in parliament today were voted were elected members by as people who failed and or I should have voted for it's a culture that we have in this country we have many tribes culturally which is a very bad practice or a very bad culture that we have in some areas like from where I come my home county which is Busia county we have seven constituencies out of the seven constituencies none is represented by a woman so you see in this they divide but because of the culture that maybe exists in this local area there is this belief of it must be yes men are leaders which is a very bad notion so I think I still go back to the constitution and that is why now Maradha's advisory comes in the constitution mandated the parliament to come up with a law that will balance the leadership in both parliaments but it has not been done if it had been done by then once they assumed office in parliament if they had passed the law balancing the parliament as the constitution says then we wouldn't be at where we are now maybe we would have had a formula representation would be balanced say as you respond to that tell me if the electorates happen to elect male gender only at some point the parliament will have the appointees now should the appointments be centered to the female gender for us to achieve that gender let me say this he has come out very clear on that point and I want to ask the same question even if parliament is dissolved today will we achieve the gender gender role I'll tell you now because of the the concerns he has raised I happen to come from Bungama County and you don't have an MP who is a woman apart from the women there and even the women reposition was contested in Bungama Bayaman that's a serious idea he came out clearly to elaborate that the constitution says a person we represent the the interest they didn't specify any person who has interest for women how many votes did he get he was bad where the IBC was bad he mentioned something earlier in our conversation about civic education civic education should be conducted but now let me say the civil society should come up hand in hand team up with the IBC team up with the judicial service commission team up with the law set of Kenya because these are some of the why did I mention the two the law set of Kenya understands the law the judicial service commission ensures the law the constitution is fully implemented and the law is adhered to so when the civil society teams up with these now to carry out a civil education to our people and tell them so that we get out of these stereotypes then we shall be able to achieve this gender because you never know tomorrow my daughter may decide to become a leader does she have to go for the women seat only and yet she can be an MP we've seen women who have done good work we have Dr. Naomi Shaban she's done exemplary work as an MP by then leave along right now she's a woman but then she was an MP she did an exemplary job so there are people who can give service delivery to the people but achieving it it's another theory that needs to be implemented that needs to be worked on and that's why I call upon the civil society to sit down go back to the drawing board because this is a very serious concern constitutional concern Jacka as you weigh into that kindly paint us to a picture of if the president goes by the advisory and today dissolves the parliament ok, before I go I delve on that just word on what she was saying even if today we had the solution of parliament and we went back to election I don't think we will come back with the realization of the agenda rule and picture of if the president dissolves parliament today I think we are going to be in an awkward situation as a country because not everyone else means well for this country it's my belief because we have selfish individuals among us for example today if the president decided to dissolve parliament IBC on it's side is not fully constituted and someone someone will run to court put an injunction which will be pushed for one year or maybe someone just got to court and run to have IBC disbanded so that it is afresh reconstituted and if it is disbanded the BBI will have to wait so we will not have IBC in place we don't have parliament we don't try and even if the parliament is not there today we don't have I don't think we have budget in place for an election if an election was called unless parliament is in place to approve the budget where we will get money to hold the same the same election that we will be wanting to have after the dissolution of parliament so I think we are going to be in a very awkward situation but the blame still solely lies on the same parliament had they done what was expected of them by then then we wouldn't be at where we are so there is also lack of political goodwill because if there was political goodwill this is something that cannot be achieved through a fair election I'm not saying not fair election, a free election I'm not saying free and fair because there is no free and fair election in Kenya it's only free we are free to choose but we don't choose fairly we are still not going to achieve a third gender role a formula has to be put in place to do the balancing and I think this is where a brain should be put together and come with a formula or an arithmetic to balance the two parliament another question that people keep on asking is that as much as we call upon to give women their positions what have they done the position that have been given what have they done to the society they are the same women reposition they are the same who are accused of corruption even the governors we didn't expect to have women governors being quoted on serious corruption allegations so it also tins their image because when you come there you should lead by example that women cannot be mentioned in corruption cases but we can deliver this one will motivate the society when a woman goes for when a man goes for let me say a gubernatorial position he will pick a fellow man as deputy when a woman goes for a gubernatorial position he will pick a man for deputy where the reverse you see so it's like they don't believe in themselves what if a woman will pick a fellow woman to be deputy you saw in kitui tenu din gilu pikt a man as a deputy but much the late laboso picked the current governor as a deputy ike renyaga he picked the deputy as a man and when a man is vying he picks a fellow man then why can't we say the governor is a woman the deputy is a woman let them also lead let them also come out of those inferiority complex they surrounded themselves with for us to achieve this for us to achieve this which it should also be practiced by themselves not only wait for because we are the first run up then you will be given a nation slot in the nomination then another thing that also look at when you talk of political, when you mention of political goodwill is and I've already stated we need to institutionalize our political parties ok because political parties say they have a stronger say to some extent in some areas let me say for example in some regions jubiliyeda say in some regions same to ANC and other parties Waiban and the rest so if these parties are institutionalized whereby they will come and say nominations are done fairly and squarely because there is no democracy in nominations I can tell you that one for free and when nominations are held if a woman is competing if she wins the nomination let her be given the certificate ok so if this for example for Waipa that's good in Ukamban let's say we are going to start by giving lots 4 or 3 women in this women get out and compete and go out and tell your people these are also individuals because we need to achieve our constitutional mandate these are our people we need also to elect them we need also to test them let us go to the western region we have Fort Kenya, we have ANC and ODIM so let them also talk and that's why now we need political parties as institutions not individual individuals having so much power on political parties for example if our parties in Kenya were like the ones in Tanzania party in Kenya were like the ones in South Africa ANC Ganas follow the suit then we could not be talking about all these things these things can be achieved on political parties when they become institutions but if they are the way they are we shall never achieve this agenda as we finish up let's look at some of the comments from our viewers now we have Emma James he says this is CJ Maraga have never seen or had anywhere Maraga having a chat with Kenya youths Kenya's youths where does he get all the advice from as far as judisha leadership is of concern a youth he is asking can you tell us so what role does the judisha has to play with the youth youths I never have kind words for my fellow youths we are complacent we wait to be given handouts we wait to be called in a meeting the first question I will ask what am I going to get I am not looking at the idea I am going to table but I am looking at what am I going to get okay it is much important of what I am going to get then what I am going to give out so we need to get out of that kukun we need to realize ourselves we need to know that we are the future of the nation we are the builders of the nation if you are young you are supposed to build a nation because when you are old you need now to watch at what you build now start thinking on how to build but you need to sit down relax your mind and watch what you build and become philosophical what I would just want to tell viewer Emma youth youth will stand up to something and stop standing up to someone because most youth of this nation don't stand up to anything just like Sayra is saying even today as a political activist if I convened a sitting so that we chat away on an issue with the youth just he said he mentioned the first question will be what are we being given who is coming and what is he giving who is coming and what is she giving so let us confront issues as individuals not because someone else is there confronting the issue so let us stand up to something we have Joki watching from Eldoret he says Maraga is fine and all his rulings are wise for an example wanting to dissolve the parliament on concern of the gender rulings has him fair for me he has done a good job we agree with this he acted according to the constitution this is another one on the youth as well Bang Bang he says no CJ Maraga has taken youths enough what else should he be doing to the youth you see there ever I asked your question one day all those things concerning the youth you are not you are not 50 years you are below 30 if you are reaching 30 then you are reaching 30 now but I asked your question who held your hand and told you you can come and work at the station see yourself self driven so we need to be self motivated let me see an issue that is pinching me because the issue that is pinching me the same issue that is pinching you and if I don't rectify the issue today it will really affect me tomorrow and when it affects me tomorrow it will be pinching my grandchild my child so these are some of the things that we need to sit down and that's why I always keep on calling upon the youths let us get out of our comfort zone let us get out of the handouts let us not believe in the handouts let us use our minds in the right way the orengos that you see today who were championing for the constitution long time ago he came to parliament when he was around 29 years old so when did he start championing for the constitution he was a young boy by then so this is what we need to do so this is what we need to be doing right now as youths let us not just sit down waiting for discussing how because how many youths sit down to discuss the constitution I'll tell you out of ten one but how many youths sit down to discuss Manchester United Arsenal Liverpool how many youths sit down to discuss that how many youths sit down to discuss about let me say kavi model how many but very few discuss the constitution something that affects them daily alright let's finish up by going through all of them Eman James was watching from Mombasa thank you so much they asked me from Machat thank you Jabani Mukiza Teshutoni Nyeli Bang Bang and Agustin Kavifia thank you so much for watching and of course I also have a fan who wakes up every morning to watch it you know kwaumka usubusi among many other firms that I have come to non-risk but thank you so much for always watching our show and getting something from us here being a youth you need to learn as much as you can thank you gentlemen for coming and of course trying to picture the kind of situation we are in looking into the leadership the judicial leadership of CJ Maragas compared to CJ former CJ Doctor Mutunga how things have been how things are and maybe what we expect and even today we'll be expecting the results from the conference where the president is holding in terms of COVID-19 restrictions whether the kavi will continue and even if or whether our clubs will be open or the economy in general whether it will be opened they have been my guest Jack Momali political activist and political analyst Cyrus Litzua thank you so much for keeping us company and of course for your comments many maize deriva Hillary I'll be seeing you again in the evening for now a very good morning to you have yourself a very good day goodbye


This is how I meet my living folks. Scottish singer Annie Lennox may live a more private and low-key lifestyle than many celebrities. However, she still maintains a Hollywood home full of glamour. In 2018, she purchased her current 2,700 square foot modern estate, which still had touches of classic style, along with three beds and three and a half baths. The $4.38 million restored estate was initially designed by architects Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman in 1962. Annie lives in Los Angeles these days, but she called the UK home for many years. She formerly owned a five-story home, spending over 5,000 square feet of space in Notting Hill, London. This home had five bedrooms, including a master suite that stretched an entire floor. That being said, let's dive into Annie Lennox's gorgeous homes and lifestyle. Annie Lennox, the songwriter and philanthropist, was born on December 25, 1954 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Lennox's early life was characterized by a deep connection to music and a determination to pursue her creative passions. Growing up in a modest working-class family, Annie discovered her love for music at an early age. She attended the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she honed her skills and developed a strong foundation in classical music. However, it was the dynamic music scene of the late 1970s that called Annie to embark on a transformative journey. In the early 1980s, Lennox achieved international fame as the lead vocalist of Eurythmics, a ground-breaking musical duo formed with collaborator David A. Stewart. It's like sweet dreams are made of this and here comes the rain again, catapulted Eurythmics to stardom. Lennox's androgynous style and soulful voice made her an influential figure in the evolving landscape of pop and rock. Beyond her musical career, Annie Lennox is renowned for her philanthropic efforts. A committed advocate for social causes, Lennox has passionately supported initiatives related to HIV AIDS awareness, women's rights and humanitarian issues. Her contributions to these causes didn't go unrecognized. She got accolades like an OBE, which is an order of the British Empire in 2011. When it comes to her lifestyle, Annie Lennox maintains a private and low-key personal life. When details about her homes are often kept confidential, it's known she's owned residences across the globe, including in London and the United States. Her commitment to privacy allows her to balance the demands of her public career with a sense of personal sanctuary. Let's kick things off with Annie's current home in the Hollywood Hills. She was famously searching for sweet dreams in her hit song and these days it seems that Annie lives at one of the sweetest pieces of real estate around. The arrhythmic singer purchased a stunning three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom mansion back in 2013 and it appears it's where she still lives to this day. The home has a sleek look from the outside, blending modern luxury with classic touches throughout and spans 2,723 square feet of space. Annie doled out $4.38 million in the restored estate, which was initially designed by famed architect Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman back in 1962. It was said that Annie bought the home, located on a lot spanning over 33,000 square feet, to be closer to her daughter, Tali. At the time, Tali, who's a model, tragically lost her boyfriend in a boating accident and moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Annie's mid-century modern abode is in the Hollywood Hills and, more specifically, on a hillside overlooking Runyon Canyon Park. There are features like covered patios off of the home, offering stunning views of the city and hills, and elsewhere, a sauna and perfectly manicured gardens. The two-level home is open-planned throughout, like a modernist pavilion with an oversized brick fireplace and sprawling balcony. Third bedroom is set downstairs and boasts its own private veranda. Even though Annie's home has been meticulously restored with careful consideration to maintain the historic fabric of the house, including that classic 60s oversized brick fireplace, there are many modern elements. This includes her state-of-the-art European kitchen and an infinity pool outback. The living area is extended with a long balcony where you'll find sunset views. In the kitchen, there's a minimalistic feel with its long wooden island with white marble top, as well as long horizontal glass walls on each side that have breathtaking views of Southern California. The home is called the Johnson House after the original owners who received the place as a wedding present. Annie's master suite is located on the main upper level and offers a chic en suite bath and plenty of closet space. The second bedroom is also located on this floor. The inside of the home purchased by Annie, who won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2004, has a crisp, light feel with off-white hardwood floors. The ceiling has exposed post-hand beams, giving it a rustic feel and compliments the floor-to-ceiling windows. Her entire home makes most of the natural light feel all of the glass and light-colored interior details. Annie's living room is centered around a white fireplace, which is next to a deck that has panoramic views of the gorgeous area. The deck is lined with couches along the wall and has a wooden plank floor. The listing at the time, which had been held by Steve Frankel of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerich, called it one of the finest examples of Buff and Hensman's classic post-hand beam. Noting how its exquisite architecture and walls of glass seamlessly connect an exceptional modern interior with manicured lawns and gardens against the backdrop of an unparalleled canyon setting. Annie's home in Hollywood is no doubt gorgeous, but let's not forget that she formerly had a five-story mansion in London, more specifically a nodding hill. The singer called the UK home for many, many years, and when it came time to sell her lavish pad in 2013, she was looking for a whopping 12 million pounds. But it's not that rare for a neighborhood like nodding hill. Nodding hill is a pretty part of London, known for its colorful terrace houses ranging from pastels to bold, bright colors. There's quite a lot to do around here too, whether it's walking the beautiful streets or going to a shop or cafe. Annie's stunning five-level mansion here spent over 5,000 square feet of space, as well as offered five bedrooms and multiple baths. Not to mention, her luxurious master suite actually spanned an entire level of the home. Her master area was fitted with a spacious sitting room as well as a modern bathroom. TripAdvisor spoke about nodding hill in the past, stating, as West London's friskiest corner nodding hill more than manages to retain plenty of the same appeal that's brought the affluent area so much worldwide attention. In this attractive cobblestone neighborhood, a delectable variety of eateries, independent shops, galleries and street vendors offer a delightful window into how to live the good life in London. While it's a lovely place to spend time living in the area, does not come cheap and it's certainly exclusive. As you can see, Annie Lennox has lived in some stunning homes just as stylish and iconic as her. While her London and Los Angeles properties are very unique and different, they're both welcoming in their own way. One was elegant and classic, her home in nodding hill, while her current residence in Hollywood is sleek and modern. Which did you prefer? Before we go, answer this question for me. Would you prefer a home with multiple levels or more of an open concept, one to two level property? Let me know in the comments below. Don't forget to hit subscribe and turn on those notifications so you never miss a video. I'm Kerr the Vampire Slayer. Follow me on Instagram to chat and I'll see you next time. Bye. Hey everyone, it's Kerr or Kerr the Vampire Slayer as you might know me and given my love for all things house and home, I recently wanted to get more hands on myself and I started tackling DIY projects at my own house. Being a new homeowner, there are plenty of unexpected things to fix and it's cool to learn what you're doing and hopefully be able to fix it yourself. 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According to the Swine Information Center, pork is an excellent source of a number of nutrients, including iron and zinc. When you see on a label that something or other is a quote-unquote good source of some nutrient, that's actually a legal definition, meaning it has to have at least 10% of the daily value of that particular nutrient. It says nothing about the excellence of the food source itself. So, for example, you could throw a multivitamin into a scuba sewer sludge and legally call it a good source of half a dozen things, but it would probably kill you. It's not good at all. It always comes back to food as a package deal. It is impossible to get the calcium in dairy, for example, without also getting the hormones, or the iron and beef without the saturated fat. So these aren't necessarily good sources of nutrients after all, because we can't get one without the other, unless we get our nutrients from non-animal sources then we don't have to worry about the saturated animal fat, cholesterol, and the rest. And there's a bonus that comes when we get, for example, our iron and zinc from whole grains, greens, beans, nuts, and seeds, the fiber, folate, phytonutrients, etc. It's a package deal, but in a good way. It's like order now and get a free gift. One of those phytonutrients, though, phytates, or phytic acid from the Greek word phyton, meaning plant, can partially inhibit mineral absorption. Now, phytates are actually good for us. They have a wide range of health-promoting properties, such as anti-cancer activity. But because it binds up some of the minerals, that just means one has to eat more whole healthy plant foods, or eat mineral absorption enhancers, such as garlic and onions. In fact, the whole allium family of vegetables was recently found to have promoting influences on the bioaccessibility of iron and zinc. Here's the bioaccessibility of iron and zinc in a serving of brown rice cooked with one clove of garlic, cooked with two cloves of garlic. We see the same thing with onions. Here's normalized data for brown rice plain, then eaten at the same meal with one thin slice of onion, or two thin slices of onion. So up to 50% more absorption. But if you don't like garlic and onions, then you can get the same mineral absorption from just eating a whole grain serving and a half.


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Hey, folks, welcome to the podcast. So we're doing a special series of podcasts, which I'm recording over Google Hangouts. So we're doing audio and video, because for some unknown reason, people don't want to come see me face to face right now. But there's always opportunity. And the cool thing is I'm able to now podcast with people from all over the world. So we're going to get an amazing, eclectic mix of people from different industries, different perspectives, to share their story and tell us their thoughts and feelings on what's going on right now. And all of that cool stuff. Hope you enjoy it. Please subscribe in all the usual places and enjoy. And we are live. Thank you everyone for joining us. Thanks also for all the comments and feedback from the previous episode. It's really, really useful. Thank you so much. Today, it's really great to be joined by Sandra Perio, who is the Strategy Director from Chail, UK. And she's into brands, consumer, retail, and really, really excited to hear all about online and offline retail and technology and all of that cool stuff. So Sandra, welcome to the podcast. Hi, hello, everyone. Thank you for having me. Pleasure, pleasure. We spoke, we were just saying all fair. We spoke just during, I think it was during the first lockdown and you said, yeah, it's all great. I love working at home. Is that still the case? No, it's not. Well, I have to say that at the beginning, I did like, because of my, the nature of my work as well as strategists, obviously, everything is brilliant. I needed space and time to think what was happening. So I think the lockdown was quite actually a nice space to reflect on what was happening. But the second lockdown now is difficult this time, I have to say. I think that now we have a clear idea of what we need to do and yeah, this lockdown is preventing us from doing it. So it's become frustrating to be at home. But I have a nice condition of work, so I don't complain. But yeah, I want to look back to work. You want to go back to the office.  Do you see yourself like, you want to go back five days a week? Or do you want to do like a combination? I don't see coming back to work five days a week. I think that in everything in life, and we will talk about offline and online retail in the next hour, but I think that on and off the office is also, they are pros and cons in both. And I think in the very near future, we will try to find the balance in between these two. So I believe that for, I believe that I will go back to work two days a week, back to the office two days a week from January. But let's see how 2021 unfold. But I believe it will be probably, if not 50-50, it will be something like that. I think I can see myself five days a week back in the office. In fact, to be honest, I'm in the office right now. We have overlocked down. We we've got a great new, we use an apartment, actually a really nice apartment in Allgate as our office. And it feels like a really nice home from home. A friend of mine is an interior designer and she shout out to Lucy. She came in and she designed our workspaces and made us some nice furniture. And so we've really like just evolved, if you like. And I like, I like to get out of the house and I like to, my commute is really cool because it's a bit of exercise. You get to listen to a podcast or do some thinking and stuff.    You know, they get up and they're on the work, then they're working earlier and they're working later.  Plus they're working at weekends. It just, it's relentless, you know, it's just, I like some routine and just a bit of separation, I think. So, and leading us on, leading us on to like commerce.  You know, and obviously Christmas. I mean, if you haven't bought shares in Amazon, probably now's the time to do it, right? Yeah. You know, so I just think it's fascinating. And let's talk about like how, put on the thing, how tech's changed in the way we shop. Because I know Instagram have just started doing e-commerce. Facebook have been doing it for a while. How have you seen that all develop? Well, it's interesting that you mentioned Amazon and Christmas because this is, yeah, we are in a moment where everything is crystallizing and the importance and the the beauty of social commerce is getting more concrete. So, yeah, Instagram as a ramping up is shopping capability since a few years now. I mean, it's been around since quite a while, but now they develop Instagram checkout so you can basically do all the purchase experience in the in the in the app. So this is a this is a revolution for what you can pay. You can actually pay also in the app. Yes. So it's really, really simple. You don't have to open different platform in order to complete your purchase. So it's becoming really, really simple. The same for Facebook that they introduce a Facebook shop shopping. So which is the platform that at the end, this is a platform that will aggregate actually all the conversion from Facebook, but Instagram, WhatsApp. So they'll make it to one shopping platform. Yes. So everything is becoming more and more simpler. But why it's interesting is Instagram is becoming very critical during 2020 and during the lockdown to promote small and independent business. So it's very difficult as we know, you said that a lot of shops have been unfortunately forced to close, but also on a positive note, a lot of small and independent shop and restaurants pivoting their model very, very quickly. And they would not be able to do that without the help of tech, without the help of social platform for social commerce.  And they have obviously had, yeah, so you could obviously let your network knows what is your favorite spot, but also provide some information such as I feel safe there. The owner is really nice. So I really want to support him. So you could buy gift card, you could buy takeaway. So Instagram in that sense play a great role at keeping a local business alive for a certain time. Obviously, it doesn't fix everything, but it helped some business. So what is very interesting is social commerce. They are by providing tools of e-commerce tools which are the platform and the process in order to provide a very smooth and seamless customer experience to shopper, that's one, but also by providing small businesses with data understanding of their customer. This is also helping this small business to refine their offer to pivot their model because there is a need for everyone. There is a need of extreme agility right now in commerce. And yes, big brand like Amazon, they have the capacity to be very agile, although they are also it's a monster to move. So they are limited. But small businesses, they can be very, very agile if they have the right tools and social commerce, social platform are definitely delivering that. Oh, I think it's amazing. Because also, obviously, there's none paid and paid. So if you just think about, I don't know, you have a clothes brand or something and you're taking pictures, which I guess offline, which we can speak about, and you're posting it. It's free to distribute your content. It's free to distribute to millions and millions of people. Maybe if you get the hashtags right, it goes out to a few more. The stories are great as well. So you've got those, the gifts and stuff like I'm a small business and I'm supporting the NHS and all of those things. So yeah, I think now it's to your point.  I think now it's almost, I'd say easier, but you can get out to more people than you would have done if you were just an offline coffee shop with no Instagram, no Facebook, no Twitter, no TikTok. It's possible. Obviously there are a lot of brands and a lot of people on Instagram and I think that we get in touch following an article that I wrote a few months ago regarding Instagram and I was mentioning the fact that obviously this is a great tool, this is a great platform and it provides really what small business and brands need to reach their customers, but obviously it's crowded out there and it's so I don't know how much you can achieve with free access to these tools.  I think a business still needs to invest a little bit in promoted posts in order to reach some customer, but in theory and if you give that tool attention and if you invest in that tool, you can obviously win big because what I find fascinating with Instagram is it's a very different type of commerce. It's a social commerce, so the lead that you are creating are stronger because socially is more emotional and there are so many things, so in shop marketing cognitive bias, so there are so many things that are triggered when you are on Instagram. Visually I mean instantly we connect the context of use instantly we can relate and also peer validation which is probably what is the key to the checkout. So yeah it's fascinating and you mentioned as well because I work for Samsung and offline retail experience mainly and I'm a peer defender of offline retail and I do love Instagram because I think Instagram bridge the gap between the online and offline because if you look at what the brand are posting, there are many posting real-life experience. They are posting photos of their shop. We talk a lot about Glossier who was an online peer player that became so that grows so fast on Instagram, but then they open a store, they open a few stores actually because the world and they were keeping posting photos of the shop, how welcoming it was, how the people were, how the product looks so you have your sales assistant showing how the product is really and it was providing the sense of reality. So Instagram even if it's online provide that offline reality feel. Yeah so obviously all the pictures are real life pictures right so to your point I don't know maybe you're a clothes brand and I get tempted by clothes all the time on Instagram because the little adverts come up in my feed and it here's like click here for the shops I click but all the pictures you're right are like a model or real life scenario wearing the clothes so it's yeah it's all the pictures are offline pictures online yeah yeah and and we saw we saw a lot of initiative during lockdown of assisted shopping so someone going through the store obviously on his own because of security measure then showing people that in Instagram live so you have live reaction and that was that was this is something that I was discussing back in last year actually but I do believe that in social platform because TikTok is actually currently launching a business offer that just launched TikTok for business in in the US and so it's TikTok for business so they they it's basically my understanding is it's quite similar to Instagram so some some businesses will be able to open a professional account on TikTok and they will be and they will be able to have so it's a part in partnership with Shopify so they will have access to some shopping capability she can do like a cool TikTok dance and then maybe like you see what the clothes brand is and then you can exactly and what is interesting is they are launching with the with a big campaign to support a black small and in small business so they have this massive challenge called the hashtag shop black and it's a challenge and it provides exposure to it's small businesses and and help and help people to to buy so um so yeah all of that happened so all of that our real life real life use of products in context and and promoted by a small business owner which became the most influential people recently the TikTok is amazing you go on there and I mean it's just the views and the videos is outstanding I think also the age range has increased over lockdown as well like it was quite a young platform I probably still is but I think I've heard that the age range has widened a lot uh over lockdown as people are like what shall I do today I'll let's do a TikTok dance and stick it on um but no just kind of I guess circling back to the e-commerce and I think for small businesses it's it is great because without without these platforms what has you have done right now I mean how would you have got your product out how would you have sold anything and and I love the I love the blender hadn't the before I spoke to you if a few weeks ago I hadn't thought really about the fact that in such great detail that all of the pictures are offline stuff you know like if you've got a beautiful shop on Savile Road doing you know high-end tailoring all of those beautiful pictures go online and then maybe people the the end sale might be online but the connection between the two is really is really important so so I know you love offline retail so um so do you think then more people now if we look if we look a little bit forward they're going to be making the purchases online but offline is important to those to those purchases um I wish I had a crystal bow to be very precise on that one but I don't um but I think that what I can see for the future of offline retail is a is a differentiation of type of store so you will have a multiplicity of small store that will extend online shopping experience so you will have click and collect you will have a pick up you will have drop you know all of this um capability so we will see that in the street we will see that small shops where you can just have a transaction quick transaction think yeah and uh but alongside that you will have also house of brands you will have with them with a bit with a theater with with uh really the the the brand it is in this ideal version of itself where you can play with product uh you can obviously um go on a discovery journey so I think that shopping is there at the moment the industry is really and rightly so for many reasons but focus on convenience and transaction yes yeah because this is what technology allows us to do and which is to make this journey so easy that obviously um you do it quick and you don't think about it too much um but there is also as I say shopping is social activity and it's entertainment for many many many shoppers so um on the Saturday this is something oh you you call your your your friends and you you meet in the store and you go on a discovery journey yeah now you you know when you go to night town for example you know 100 percent that you will see something incredible visually incredible at least and you don't even need to buy anything you just go for wow what the the world they create you know oh yeah no I actually love that I used to work in fashion actually and um I know that's my excuse for saying that we're about to say that I really love going shopping um I uh I used to love on the weekend going to Liberties and then going to Selfridges just having a little walk around check it out see what's going on try a few clothes I might be might be convinced to buy something but um but you're right like I always used to like go into town for the day and you check out a few shops you'd grab a drink have a have a pint down the pub or something you know like it's a whole it's a really like nice nice day out right on the weekend like so many people obviously used to do that um so I think that that will still happen because so obviously we will have I will not say that um there will not be more store closure there will be because the the the entire brand they need to rethink their retail architecture yeah yeah because for some it's expensive right like if you you know it's not it's not cheap to how I mean the prices have probably gone down now but you know if you're a smaller brand it's expensive to have a shop in a in a in an oxy street or Registry or something like that and you know if you're making the sales online and you're investing the money in paid advertising on instagram which really works then maybe maybe you won't you know maybe to your point it's going to be the big brands that are going to have like really really cool like you know come to the come to the apple store um maybe they don't ever make any sales there maybe actually I think even an apple you go in and then they're like okay pay on your phone you know like I think that's what I'm sure they I think that's what happens right I think that's what happens I bought one of the stylists from there recently and the guy was like oh pay on your pay on your phone or something so so I think it's it's going to be a really interesting like intersection between like technology offline online like it'll be interesting to see oh yeah absolutely I think that the stores will become a statement I mean it's a statement because everyone knows that it's expensive uh is not necessarily a center of profit if you if you consider old KPIs I think that the difficulty everyone had at the moment is uh you know online offline it's different lines different silo so and it's difficult to understand what exactly has triggered which channel really triggered the purchase so I think there is a need for more fluidity internally from brands agency and all that in order to consider a big the journey has a hole definitely and so or change the KPIs because the the the store the the value of the store the KPIs has to have to change but it will become a statement so only big brands will afford probably to have big stores that you know a big temple almost brand temple and but also what is interesting what we learn for as well is that you will have a lot of retail space empty and obviously you can convert that into home or flat but you can also convert that into pop-up space for retail for online player yeah yeah yeah I think the way forward for brand that cannot afford a permanent store would be um would be residents collaboration with established big brands and so maybe department store can find their way here um again and um and pop-up store so um we're depending on the demand so it could be completely data driven we'd like to think that but um based on demand based on season based on events cultural events you can switch the store and and allow an online brand to have a physical present because I think to do commerce and to grow you need that physical presence you need that physical experience 100% yeah and also for other brands like and if you if again if you go to like high-end tailoring or um yeah could you could show stuff like that like you want the experience I want to go into my tailor I want him or her to measure me up I want to feel the fabric you know that whole experience of getting a suit made or or even if it's buying like some something tech related like going to apple stores pretty cool it's just good to hang out a little bit and see what's going on and feel it and and also the great thing about cities like London Paris you know all of these places it's so buzzy you know when people are shopping and like you know they're fun they're having a chat with their friends they're grabbing a coffee you know it beats the whole experience you go for it you go for a little shop you get tired you go to your coffee shop you have a drink and something to eat you go for next thing um I think the pop-up idea is great I've also heard um some of the prestigious um right um streets in London like Savile Row and some of the others um I think they're giving away space like you know like the rates have come right right down you know because they want they want people in there and so to your point it could be a pop-up um and there's a lot of a lot of businesses go under unfortunately they'll there'll be more space available and so if you're it's maybe you started off online you'll end I think it'd be a real real mix and I mean yeah I really hope these places get back up and running I went to Otter Street the other day and there's like no one you know no one at all I think I think the the shopping will change fundamentally and and I and everyone was saying that he has a the 2020 has just accelerated the change the change was coming anyway so it just really accelerates all of these uh transition for retail and so we will find uh I have no doubt that there will be a model that will be found uh will be fine sorry um where uh offline uh space have their role to play and it's clear and where online has a role to play and it's clear because online shopping is also fantastic I mean he has been life-saving for during lockdown I find it amazing that my mother-in-law who never never shop online now she's she's set up she's uh she's enjoying it she's independent again because for for a large tank of population they they felt not they they were not obviously nobody was really free during lockdown but uh when you don't um when you are not used to use a technology to um to to buy what you need on a daily basis you feel really really frustrated yeah and a lot of yeah definitely and a lot of a lot of people of either that age range or who aren't used to using tech because some people don't trust it I can't put my credit card details in how can I but this pandemic I mean you know the lockdowns I mean we weren't really locked down right we had Netflix we had entertainment on demand Amazon were delivering a card over delivering everyone everyone was delivering right so you could literally buy anything I'd love to know what the stats are about the increase in sales online versus I mean I'd love to see the data when it comes out a lot of people have migrated online but to the limit of the online capacity so off-liners still have a great role to play and you're right because I yeah it's interesting that much more is offline still even now you know like I used to go to still do like there's a really great local like fruit and vegetable shop near me in north London so over the lockdown I like you need you walk up you get your stuff we were doing a cardio as well so it's always been a bit of a mix um yeah like it's also it was the only thing you could do during lockdown it was it was such a pleasure oh I'm going to the butcher or I'm going to the fishmonger I was so happy so um it was if you obviously if you felt safe to do so um it was it was quite a pleasure to go shopping I love it I actually probably got like for the food stuff I was like I really I want to get great quality food so I like I would queue up you'd queue up for the butcher right if you know they've got great meat or or you want to get great cheese or a lot of it was interesting like I was you kind of you'd want to spend a little bit more on good quality food if you if you could but then again if you can't get out and you're on yourself isolating or you know you're vulnerable or whatever then it's cool like someone was delivering food you know yeah and I think I think they're also giving priority to people who were vulnerable or self isolating and stuff like that so yeah I mean fortunately for everyone around in in in this country and others you know you you'd always have stuff available it wasn't you wouldn't get you're not going to go without no but I think that's what was interesting for me is it was demonstrating that you need both you need online and you need also offline because because you need that capacity to go the convenience store is so important so and I think a lot of people have come to realizing that so now sometimes when you have the choice of because a convenience store is traditionally a little bit more expensive but then you realize how important what the role in your in your local community so then you're all right so I will I will spend a bit more or as you just mentioned your the daily or the the premium shops then you come to the realization that these are important and you don't want them to disappear so I think that I hope that when everything settled everyone will find his place his new place definitely with his role reinforced by 2020 experience yeah I was speaking to the the convenience store so the one that does the nice fruit and vegetables up in Tofinal Park near where I live he said he's this business has ever been and then the guy next door the butcher I I I often see the guy and I'm like hey how's it all going and there's like middle of lockdown he's like oh my god like we're so busy I'm like trying to get more meat for my supplier like I didn't want to do I'm working like every hour I'm staying open later so there's some real success stories even over this time from some you know some offline retail like these types of these types of shops and yeah I'm you know I'm convinced that there's a deaf there's a role to play for both offline and online and it interchanges you know I might see something on Instagram and I'm like oh I'm going to go down to the shop check it out and maybe I'll buy it there or I see it offline and I buy it online so I think you know it's just it's just with the pandemic everything's on steroids at the moment you know all of these trends are just like it's crazy right it's like you just it's very interesting yeah yeah I'd love to see like if we speak again in it in like six months or 12 months like what what it ends up looking like like what is the new you know the new rhythm to yeah to it I I hope that um what I can see come here what I what what we talk about is all of that has replaced the the human even if we were talking a lot about technology and technology will remove the hassle of retail they will change transform completely operating model in retail and it will change a lot of things but you will also have the consequence of refocusing on the human so the the person so you will go to the store to see someone because everything else you can do online so when you go to the store you are really really with the you will have the desire to meet people look like people or think like people or have an experience with a product a guided experience with the product so and the social commerce as we talked earlier so where people were very keen to look at videos stories of people shopping or people demonstrating there the product that had them go through the the go through the lockdown so or the gym kit or the the food processor kit all of that um but all of that as a one commonality is is the human was at the heart of all of it so and I hope that um after years of a conversation about robot technology and how all of that will destroy or will change the retail and destroy the faith of retail I think what we can see and I and I will definitely work toward that goal is to show that all this technology as only one benefit is just to replace human in that experience and and make the experience even better so making the share of the experience and the center of the of the experience and not the fulfillment of little tasks that can be easily replaced by technology definitely definitely because you know we like um you know this like our senses you know this like sensory branding and so you know you go to a shop and you get the smell and the feel and the look and then the shop assistant dressed in let's say the clothes of the of the brand with perfume on and you know like you just get that whole like sensory overload that really like gets you in do you know I mean or like it's amazing right smell is so important I mean visual and so important for me when I enter a store I instantly you are you are immersed in the in the in the brand in the brand story but also you can then check you are building memories you are checking whether or not the brand is telling you the truth online and when you enter a store the way the store is layout the way the care that has been given to the product presentation to the sales person to the smell to all this little detail all of that is the bank of memories then then the brand can activate online because these are deep emotion that you can play you can you can use in the future so so important so important I've been loyal to the brands that I used to buy before lockdown so there's a certain number of brands that I really like to buy for clothes and because um I don't I just buy into the whole I used to buy them offline I like the experience the smell of the shops the people were nice to me I felt the product I've worn it before so everything I've bought now actually while whatever lockdown is just stuff I bought before because I just I'm in you know I'm like I'm sold if I know where I'm going like I love I love the t-shirts I buy um I didn't know if I'm uh I haven't bought a brand that I haven't bought so I haven't bought a brand over lockdown that I haven't already bought you know I haven't been sold on only only online like I'm sold offline and on do you know what I mean offline and online I think I saw some piece of research I think lockdown did drive discovery a lot of people have tried new products um but most of them out of necessity because they were like short age or or or they could get delivered or something like that so I think it has tried the discovery which is quite great for challenger brand or no for me I think it's for grocery I definitely try new brand some of them I will keep some of them not but but for a big ticket item or a home item definitely rely I rely like you I rely on my past experience and and I go where I know the quality is meeting my expectation yeah it's true I just really careful because it's so easy to spend more money online right you just press buy yeah and it gets you by the meantime you can it's so I am amazed how easy it is to send back um product now so easy they can and collect it from your house you don't pay anything right so but it's but for the retailer that's tough I mean you you make a sale but I don't know what you can return 30 days some are offering more maybe 60 days so you don't really know how many sales you've made until like let's say 60 days has passed from that item being sent out but then suddenly you've got the cost of sending it out so either you do that yourself or you're using Amazon as a as a distribution service which costs um but then also you've got the return cost too because someone has to pay for that so it's interesting what you know once it all comes out in the wash um you know how profitable it is um I yeah I imagine that I really imagine that more people don't return either for because they're lazy for a lot of people they forget as well sometimes yeah yeah that's just on a previous point you have a IKEA who has a 365 days return policy really I would be very interesting interested to know how they have a how they work internally there that's interesting yeah I mean maybe to your point people don't can't be bothered I mean but yeah discussing around I don't have a you know solid piece of research yeah maybe I don't know it's interesting it'd be interesting to see what the stats are um I think it depends on the value of the product obviously I work for Samsung so it's high ticket it has the high value product so I think people care and they do return if they're not satisfied but in the fashion industry and probably also groceries if yeah it doesn't work if it doesn't work the answer a lot of people are just keeping the item but for fashion industry I don't have the data exactly but I would expect it's still worth it it's still I think it's quite high my cousin's a fashion designer he's got a great brand called James Lakeland and he was saying that the returns are more online I might be misquoting him more online than offline because I think what happens is people they order a few yeah like I'm not quite sure what size let me let me order three of them oh I'm not sure what color either I'll order a couple of sizes of a few different colors so maybe they make a sale so you make like the sale but then like you get a bunch returns because it's too small too big or the wrong color yeah yeah I would be this is a good point I think I need to do some research on that because what was interesting in lockdown as well is the the delay to get a refund was extended as well because obviously they were they were really really busy they had to face an increased amount of order and but also return so then to get a refund you know you could wait a month more over a month so obviously when you do have that habit to order a multiple size or multiple product knowing that at the end you will just keep one or two you cannot really do that many many times during the month because otherwise you would have a lot of money waiting for you know a refund money waiting oh that's true that is very true actually that is very true I think they they're watering themselves at some point but yeah it's definitely clear I can see my sister is like that I mean I can relate to that story a lot oh it's funny well it's Sandra thank you so much for joining me I love love the conversation and it's going to be super interesting to see how how all of this lands but I certainly I certainly agree like online and offline you know go hand in hand I think nowadays so definitely cool well enjoy say enjoy your second lockdown but I hope we're out of this soon and I hope you get back to the office soon and thank you so much for joining me thank you very much have a great lockdown thank you see