Hello everyone and welcome to the 7am to 7.30am session of the 2019 Open Simulator Community Conference. In this session we are happy to introduce a presentation called Taking Stock of Proven and New Educational Simulation Use Cases. Our speaker today is Kay McLeanon. Please check out the website at conference.opensimulator.org for speaker bios details of sessions and the full schedule of events. Thank you, son. Good morning. Kay McLean, I was going to give you a little bit of an intro too, Kay. Let me let you continue. Kay is a professor of practice at the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement. She created the Tulane SOPA Metaverse and has been creating and using virtual world learning simulations in online economics and business studies courses since 2008. Kay uses a student feedback thing to continually refine and expand the educational simulation she creates for use in her e-courses. For more information on Kay's work, please see this website, which I will post for you in local here as well, just to make sure everybody's got it, and that's sopamedaverse.wp.tulane.edu. Well, this session is being live streamed and recorded, so if you have questions or comments during this session, you may send your tweets to atopensimcc with the hashtag pound oscc19. Welcome, everyone, and let's begin the session. Okay. Thank you, son, and thank you to everyone who is an early bird riser today to attend this session. On the screen now, I've got the bare bones agenda for what we're going to talk about. I thought a review of the Opensim Educator Affordances could be useful. Also, I wanted to detail some particulars about the educator learning simulation use cases that I have found to be proven, and when I say proven, I mean learn or feedback proven. Also, it's an important development, or I should say multiple developments in Opensim capabilities and options. And then I thought it might be worthwhile to take a look at what is the common denominators for effective learning simulations, and then close with a discussion of what might be considered at least fixable, but nonetheless impediments to the wider educator use of Opensim and also even VR and all virtual simulations. But before we get started, I wanted to call your attention to the Mentimeter poll that I have set up, and I've just got two questions set up in this poll, and the speakeasy HUD, I realized I corrected the slide this morning, but I didn't correct the text in the speakeasy HUD. I just added the right code to the text chat, which is 83.96.88. And there's just two simple questions. I thought it might be fun towards the end to detail your findings. I haven't integrated this Menti poll into my presentation, but when I get to the end, I thought I'd tell everybody what the results were from the survey. And the first question is just asking you for your experience to find out where the audience is, and then I'll leave the second question towards the end. Looking first at the educator affordances in Opensim, I want to start with the bottom line first, which is that the most important affordance is how Opensim can easily be used by academics or non-developers, that is, to create and test simulations. And I'm going to repeat that. Opensim didn't exactly turn out to be what we all thought it would be, where online classes and online meetings would occur with educators across universities, within universities, in classes. In other words, the critical mass, you know, still, at least in my classes, is about one in three, where I would like it to be 100%. But that doesn't mean that there still aren't affordances that we need to keep in mind and take advantage of. So the first affordance is private grids, the ability to be completely FERPA compliant. Also, I can pre-create avatars for my students, pre-position avatars, pre-load their content into their avatar. The grids can be self-hosted or low-cost hosted. I mean, the cost of an Opensim island or region or even larger grid is ridiculously cheap these days. And of course, the scalability, the ability to duplicate and replicate every aspect of a simulation. There's an extensive array of free or creative commons content. For example, there are giveaways, educator giveaways that came from an early flip grid simulation on Expo Region 3, and you can see the coordinates on the screen now. There's also an educator commons in Wright Plaza. There are script recipes in the OS grid, and you can see the coordinates on the screen now. I'm bringing my speakeasy up to be in concert with what's on the screen. Turning next to the proven use cases for education simulations in Opensim, in-world meetups and discussions are the mainstay of virtual learning. Also, students can even collaborate in-world on the creation of content or just stage meetings for group project discussions. Still, in contrast to the empty building malady characteristic of the early use of Second Life, where colleges and universities built realistic but empty campus buildings, there are the sky's the limit options for other types of learning simulations. And again, I can't say this enough. We have only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the types of learning simulations that can be easily staged and, most importantly, learned or tested in Opensim. Case studies, role play, and even the use of virtual world sets to make 360 video is possible. Simulated experiences, including experiences that are too dangerous or costly to stage in the real world, can be created in the platform. On the screen now is my prisoner's dilemma scenario, which is an example of how students can learn in groups about the bias against cooperation in society. And there clearly is nothing more effective than learning firsthand or having a demonstration of a particular concept or outcome. Content delivery through displays, working slideshows, vocabulary flashcards, and more have proven highly valuable to students. And the types of things that I first put in simulations like slideshows and vocabulary flashcards, I will confess I just put in as filler in the early days in Opensim, and they have turned out to be the most highly rated by my students. That is, students clearly find the immersive capability of viewing content and interacting with content in a virtual world to be something that grabs their attention, and that's why it's valuable to students. But beyond that, students can even test their knowledge with in-world quizzes that are easy to create. Now, moving on to less effective use cases, it wouldn't be fair if I didn't disclose what didn't work out for me, and what didn't work out or was not valued by students were elaborate long simulations. And on the screen now is my data detective game that takes up an entire island. It has extensive tutorial stations, an entire city, and an extensive game scenario. And in some, it turned out to be too time consuming. Still, once again, my ability to easily and inexpensively set up this extensive simulation that ultimately proved to be of little interest to students is really quite remarkable. Turning next to the new and emerging use cases, I believe we're at a turning point or an inflection point for OpenSim. At this very conference a year ago, my Tulane colleagues and I detailed how we're using VM where virtualized viewers to provide student with access to the Firestorm viewer, even on a low-end computing device like an iPad or smartphone. And if you have an interest in this use of OpenSim, you can go back to the video of that presentation from 2008. Now we have access to a VR-ready viewer. On the screen now are the virtualized viewer, and what you can see is I successfully tested the virtualized viewer on my iPhone and a 10-year-old iPad. So our VR-ready Firestorm viewer is something I've just started to experiment with, but my early review is that it has a lot of promise. Also, we have access to Scenegate, a streamlined viewer that one of my colleagues is going to be speaking about later today, and yesterday you heard about the fake VR Google Cardboard viewer, and when considering all of these new or soon-to-be-available VR capabilities in OpenSim, it's going to be expansive and increase the array of content and potential users that could in fact relaunch the platform back to the hype cycle for 2020 or 2021. Also, using in-world content out of world is a little used option in OpenSim. That is users can or educators can make custom graphic images, can make talking avatar, head video clips, once again set up sets for 360-degree video and more. So returning for a minute to the Mentimeter poll, once again the coordinates are 83, 96, 88, and let me get to that, and of course my text, the speakeasy text is wrong, and this time I'm just asking you what you think is the major limiting factor of virtual simulations, and again when I get to the end I'll detail the findings, or what you are finding in your work is the most limiting factor. So with all the affordances and use cases I've detailed, the next question is what is it about the different use cases that have staying power that is contributing to what is giving them their staying power, and in my view the main reason for the staying power of the different simulations that I found are extremely useful to students is that students can easily use them, students find them engaging, they find them and they find that they contribute to their learning outcomes. So I ask them to rate the simulations on engagement ease of use and contribution to learning outcomes. So and in terms of the staying power that's it in a nutshell, it's their usefulness to students. Now of course institutional culture is another factor in the past predominantly on-ground chalk and talk faculty or institutions had less interest in virtual learning, but as more and more programs moved online the use of virtual learning simulations has become of interest, yet if the culture of an institution is focused on what's the latest development or the new shiny technology, proven affordances of platforms like Open Simulator could possibly be passed over. Okay, quick note for you, a lot of us are running into problems with the mentee. It gets after you fill out the first slide, it gets to one that says to refresh, but it won't get past that. Okay, let me, I just, it just cleared up on mine. I don't know why. Okay, thank you, thank you son for jumping in. So again the main factor influencing the staying power of virtual simulations is listening to the findings that I've collected with learners. In turn the first step for being able to ascertain which simulations are valued by learners is to the ability to easily develop and modify simulations in world or the main feature of Open Sim. Again, I believe learner tested is the bottom line. So turning to the challenges of mainstreaming the use of virtual simulations, developing a more robust community of inquiry remains top on my list. We had the sled listserv when educators between 2008 and 2010 were mostly in Second Life and then when Second Life ended the educator discount, a large group moved to Open Sim, and we had a few different listserts that have since dissipated. Some of us are on Miwi and in Facebook, but I would love to explore with colleagues, you know, developing even more noncommercial communities of inquiry. Viewers are not LTI compliant for our learning management systems. Boy, wouldn't it be nice if we could just walk off the page into a simulation from our canvas or blackboard or desire to learn learning management systems? I'd like to see more up to date educational turnkey kits with animated mesh, for example. I'm saying here overcoming the trough of disillusionment, but perhaps Open Sim has kind of fallen off the hype curve. It would be nice if VR capabilities catapulted us back onto the trough of disillusionment. We use Zoom at my institution, and there was a layered application, I think it's called ZootUp, where you could use your Zoom platform to go into a virtual world, and it made me think that it would be nice if we thought about layering applications. That was talked about a little bit last yesterday in the discussion about HUDs and discourse, you know, layering different uses. And of course, we're going to have to wrap up now because of our time. Thank you. Thank you, son. Let me take a look and see. If anybody has a question to post in chat, I don't know if we have enough time, son. What we can do is, if you're willing to meet with them at your booth later, that might be the best way to do that, or if they want to IM you with their questions, that would be great. IM me sounds good. Real quick, our experience with virtual simulations, 24% in OpenSIM, 76% multiple, and the top factor is limiting. It's almost a third and a third and a third equipment needed, use difficulty, and faculty setting up. So cost fell off the scale. Thank you, everyone, and thank you to the conference facilitators. Well, thank you, Kay, for a terrific presentation. And as a reminder for our audience, you can see what's coming up on the conference schedule at conference.opensimulator.org. And following this session, the next session begins at 7.30 a.m. in the same keynote region, and it's entitled Echo Voice for Open Simulator. Also, we encourage you to visit the OSCC 19 Poster Expo in the OSCC Expo 3 region to find accompanying information on presentations and to explore the hypergrid tour resources in OSCC Expo 2 region, along with the sponsor and crowd funder booths located throughout all of the OSCC Expo regions.


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Okay, so far we've been doing a lot this year on web development both client side with javascript and jQuery and server side with PHP And as I said, I keep building up to you know, we're gonna obviously take these web applications and make them kind of standalone applications in some cases, but basically make them more of a application you would install and Whether it be on a phone tablet Linux Windows on Mac and It's all the same once you write the program if written properly you should run on every operating system a major operating system With little to no change. It's just a matter of packaging them So first thing we're gonna do in this tutorial is just make a very simple jQuery searchable List application and then in the other videos in this series. We are going to I'm going to show you how to package them for different operating systems Android Windows Linux I don't have any Mac or iPhone OSes, but the concept will pretty much be the same, but first we need a very basic application I haven't really gotten this jQuery mobile in any of my tutorials, but you'll see here It's very simple to we're just going to use some examples off their website and create a very basic application So here we go. First thing I'm going to do is I am going to Google jQuery Mobile or just go to jQuery mobile comm here. You can go to downloads and download the jQuery mobile script but what I'm actually gonna do is I'm gonna click on this themes which brings you to their theme roller and Let's make this full screen here and we'll get rolling and this makes it very simple for you to design themes and They recommend having a few different themes that you can call from so if for example I can make this kind of a a red theme over here and all this though This looks kind of ugly as it is you can call colors from different elements So it's good to have a few different things so that later on if you do want a certain bar to be red to make It stand out you can make one thing red So you know just drag some colors over and create some themes whether they be ugly or not You can add more if you want and obviously this is theme a b and c So at this point, I'm going to just click Download my theme they require to give it a name. It doesn't really matter what you name it I'm just gonna call it list since we're making a list application And I'll say download zip and it downloads a zip file with everything you need in it. So now we'll Close that up a little bit and let's go full screen here What am I doing full screen here? There we go And at this point, I'm going to that I downloaded that zip file to my downloads folder I'm just going to copy it to my working directory here. So I'm going to copy from my downloads jQuery Every time you download a jQuery mobile theme, it's going to be called jQuery mobile theme and then have a Random number after that. I'll copy it to my current directory and unzip it and And now I can say I can open it up in my web browser There's nothing server-side in here. So you can just run it locally, which is good for what we're doing So I'll just use my Google Chrome and open up the example index HTML and This is what it looks like here. They just give you some examples of a slider bar here and and some buttons Nothing doesn't know if it really does anything at this point. We're going to clear most of that out anyway But if I Google search jQuery mobile list view Or I can just go to the documentation page which if I just do list view it's going to bring me to the documentation on their list view with all their different options here and So I'm going to come over here to the side and I'm going to find a Inset search filter bar and once again, I'm not going over the details of this Their documentation is really great and I'll probably do maybe more in-depth tutorials in the future But for right now, I'm just going to go to this example And look at the source code and I'm just going to copy This list view here So we have a list view Filter is set to true It has no theme set so it's going to fall to a although we could choose different themes since we created three of them And that inset true. I think that just makes it not go the full screen kind of gives it this Let's go back here kind of gives it this rounded look where if you didn't have that it would be more like this list view over here Also, you notice that they highlight when I hover over them and they have little arrows. That's because these are Links so they have the Hyperlink reference here. They don't really go anywhere. They're gonna link back to itself But I'm just going to copy that and Then come down to my editor here. I'm going to use Vim as my text editor But obviously use whatever editor you prefer and I'm going to open up the example HTML that we were looking at Obviously, you probably want to change the title for your actual application and here it's linking to The JavaScript on the website depending on what you're doing you may want to do that You may want to download it probably in a future tutorial will probably download them since we're going to be creating standalone Applications all depending on whether your application is going to require Interaccess or not If you're going to require it might as well hosted online you can host it on your own server But at this point I'm going to come in here and I'm going to go down to the div tag that says Content and I'm going to delete everything inside that div tag You can also see that the content div tag is set to data theme a Which is going to be our default theme, which is the the gray theme I Will paste in our list here save that and if I go back to our Web browser here go back to the tab where I had opened up the index dot HTML and hit f5 to refresh You can see our list view here, and you can see that the search filter is actually using our theme B theme Which we might change because that's actually kind of ugly right there, but we have a filter set to true if I go back into the code here You can see that it says data filter true And that means that we have this little search bar at the top of our list and we can start typing so you can see their Example is lists of of car manufacturers, so I can start typing I can type in C Now knows it down to all that contain the letter C if I do see H You can see Chrysler and Porsche are the two that come up because they both have CH's in it One thing I want to note this is you know obviously great for mobile devices The list is very easy to click also great for desktop applications, which is what another thing we're going to be using it for here That's why I'm using this as an example That but the search filter here. I find if the list is extremely long Mobile devices such as phones are a little slow so you can see how fast I type and it quickly finds it all If I had a list that was like I'd say over 50 or a hundred things in the list It takes two or three seconds for my phone at least to filter through the list Not the end of the world, but something to keep in mind if you're going to have extremely long lists You might be better doing Requesting stuff from the server using PHP or whatever server side script and calling requests. That's what I do on my website with the List of videos but once again Depends on the size of your list this list might be generated on the server side any way depending on what you're listing if the list Is going to change you may want to be dynamic But that's something to keep in mind if the list is going to be really long and you're going to want to run a mobile devices Might want to think of a better way to filter through and I'm saying if it's over 50 might want to test it It's over a hundred you probably want to narrow down the list because it looks like I don't know There's what 20 to 30 things in this list So double that it might start running a little slow on a mobile device just saying okay So we pretty much have our mobile or application which can be run on mobile or Desktop application and this is great. This is something that Once again, you can set up on your website and have people go straight through to the browser Which I personally recommend I think mobile devices or even desktop devices if it doesn't have to be local I think it should be on the web. I'm not saying I mean I understand that a lot of people don't like cloud-based stuff because you're giving away your data But I'm saying in a way that you can create your own application on your own server I mean servers are so cheap now you can get yourself a pogo plug for 15 to 20 bucks run your own web server on it Also, if you're not requiring server side scripts, you can host it. I'm pretty sure on something like Dropbox So definitely depending on what you're doing different situations But that's our basic application But since we are going to be making this a program that you may want to run completely locally without any server-side stuff and and You know, you may or may not want The user be able to use this application with or without web access. So if you don't have web access It will be installed locally. That's where we were talking about earlier It's linking to the full links of all these things except for our CSS theme which is created with the roller Which is in a sub folder here. You may want to download all these things locally So I'm going to do that real quick as part of this tutorial So this this CSS the jQuery mobile CSS file I am just going to I'm gonna put it all in the main folder here. So I'm gonna say W get That file so now you can see if I list out that file is now here and If I go back into my script here, I can now Just remove the link and just give it the file name since it's in the local directory the current directory and I will do the same for this. I'll highlight that and Copy the address and then I'll highlight this So now I can W get This and I can W get This one as well So if I list you can see I've got my to my jQuery my jQuery mobile a javascript in here So now I can go back into my index HTML here and just give it the file names and we can obviously go back and Make sure I did everything properly by f5. Everything looks good. Everything works fine It's just all running local now rather than going out to the internet for that javascript stuff all depending on What you're doing with your application and of course as I also said earlier You might want to give it a different name So if you're running it in a web browser, it will show up as a title will say my list view Okay, so we got our basic application once again, we'll run on pretty much any device with a modern browser right now But we're going to look into packaging it to make it seem more like or make it actually a standalone application That you can install on your machine locally rather than opening it up in a web browser Because there might be situations where you want to do that So I hope you continue watching this series as I release the videos over the coming weeks Be sure to check out the annotation for the full playlist So you can see them all in order as they come out. Thank you for watching Please visit filmsbychrist.com. That's Chris the K. There should be a link in the description and I hope that you have a great day


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This video is a little bit different. In it, I'm going to tell the story. A story that has to do with the library. It has to do with this book. But it also has to do with the research, the scholarship, the philosophical detective work, or quite frankly the obsession that resulted in this book. It resulted in a lot more. This is just the tip of the iceberg, you might say. In my first encounter with the Christian philosophy debates that took place in France in the 1930s, I had no idea that they comprised something that might turn into a book like this. I'd heard something about them because I had done my dissertation on Maurice Blondel, who was one of the major players in these debates. One of the players who actually has been very much left out in the English-speaking literature on the Christian philosophy debates. So my book, I provided translation of quite a few of the documents that he had. Actually, not all of them, though. Only about two-thirds of his pieces. I knew that there were some other French Catholic figures who played a role in it, but I didn't really know that much about it. I knew I wanted to translate Maurice Blondel, in part because only a few of his works, mostly early works, have been translated. As a matter of fact, that's still a project that I'm interested in. I'd run into a young guy named Adrian Papst. He was involved in the radical orthodoxy movement. He was studying at the Institut Catalique de Paris, and he had an interest in Maurice Blondel as well. I ran into him at a conference on Continental Philosophy of Religion at the University Lancaster in 2000. Well, he sent me through the mail some pieces, including this one, the account of the session of the Société Française de Philosophie, when they talked about the notion of Christian philosophy, when that was the key issue. He also sent me another piece. You can see his fancy writing, the Revue Neoscholastique de Philosophie. This is by Blondel, and it's called Pour la Philosophie Antigrale. I didn't know about this piece at the time, and I didn't know about Blondel's intervention in this. I got these in 2003. I read the Blondel parts through. I wasn't that interested in everybody else at first. After a while, I started looking at it more carefully. What I realized was that there was a really complex debate going on, where there were a number of different positions being staked out. They didn't all agree with each other. I knew about some of the figures, like I knew about Etienne Jeunceau. I knew him from this book, which I've read before. I knew him as a scholar of medieval philosophy. This is his book on Bonaventure. I also knew about Jacques Morintin. I didn't know much about Emile Brahier, although he had written a history of philosophy, because I tended not to rely on secondary sources. I didn't know about Léon Brunschvig very much other than he had been somewhere involved with Blondel, and so I started doing research on this, and then it just started spiraling. I found reference after reference, shooting off in different directions, and I realized there was really something here that was well worth investigating. I myself became captivated by it, and I thought, you know, nobody seems to know much about this. Why not? Well, it's because a lot of these things haven't been translated into English. If they're not in English, people assume they're not important, and if people assume they're not important, they don't get translated into English. So then my next stop was the library. Around 2004, I started carrying on more research, and I found myself hitting the library, which is where you see me now, obviously. This is not exactly the same library because most of my research was carried out at the University of Notre Dame's Heschburg Library. At that time, I was living in Indiana, and I was only about an hour and a half from the Notre Dame Library, which is an excellent library for the sort of research I was carrying on. And the more that I went, and the more that I started researching, and the more journals and books and databases and bibliographies I started going through, the more threads there were to work out, the more I had to follow up with things. And I had no idea just how vast the literature that comprised the Christian philosophy debates actually was. I still don't actually have all of it in hand. I don't think anybody does. One of my great goals is to someday accumulate all of it, at least in photocopier digitized form. So, at this stage in the story, what happened was, I knew that Blondel and Brunchfig and Jilson, Moritone, these people were involved. And I would keep on going to the same floor, the 13th floor on the Heschburg Library, and I would just take out an entire decade of journals. I started with the Revue de Metaphysique, Edith Moral, and the Revue Néos Galastique. And I would just take out the entire section and just pour through it, and go really from about 1925 all the way through 1940, and look for any sort of reference to Christian philosophy. After a while, I started to realize I saw patterns. There were certain authors who were publishing in certain journals. There were certain dialogues that were taking place back and forth through different journal articles. And sometimes it would actually switch. It would go from the Revue de Metaphysique, Edith Moral, to the Revue Tomiest, or from those to the Revue Néos Galastique, or it would spill over into Etude Philosophique. And I started just going through, like I said, and looking through journal after journal after journal, article after article, and at first I was only looking at titles, then I actually started reading through them. And after I had exhausted the French philosophical journals, I started looking for references in Italian, and German, and Spanish, and even, you know, in the English-speaking journals. And I found some here and there. And then I came upon a bibliography that really helped me out. And there's a whole long story there. In 2006, I had been going back and forth to these libraries, and by that time I'd actually expanded it, so I was no longer just looking in philosophy areas. I'd actually found the area of the library that had all the theology and the popular religious journals. And I was going through those as well. That's how I found a lot of interesting pieces in things like Vientilexuel and La Nouvelle Revue des Jeunes. And I actually found a lot of unsuspected works that are not actually part of a bibliography by some of the major authors in these Christian philosophy debates that just hadn't been compiled by digging through these. Anyway, back to the story. So in 2006, in the summer, I had actually been selected to be part of the Erasmus Institute Faculty Summer Fellowship with Alistair McIntyre, which was focused on practical rationality. And I was by far the most junior and, you might say, least decorated when it comes to publications. A member of the fellowship group, there were ten of us. I think that I was in primarily because McIntyre was intrigued by the fact that I had done prison teaching, but that's an entire different story. While I was there, I got to stay at Notre Dame for the period of the fellowship, and we were housed and fed. I had access to the library, and so every night, instead of drinking or playing the banjo that I had brought along, I did some of that as well, or just convincing with the other participants, I was spending after dinner probably a good three to four hours in the library every single night just digging through the journals, the books, anything I could find that had to do with Christian philosophy and especially with these debates. One of the participants, Tobias Hoffman, who was at Catholic University of America, he found a book by an Italian scholar that had a really good bibliography for at least part of the debates, and he found it, gave it to me, I started looking through it, and now I really hit paydirt, and I started, you know, finding more and more. I was photocopying piece after piece after piece, but even still with that, Boliolo didn't have, that's the Italian scholar, he didn't have all the references in there. I kept finding more and more and more. I would sit down and just go through year after year of Revue Tomiest. I would go into a section of the library where I thought there might be something, sort of like a prospector digging for gold, and you sift through a lot of things. You find a lot of other interesting things on the way too, by the way. If you have a photocopy card, it can get very expensive as you find things that tie in with other projects, but the key thing was I kept finding pieces that I could use that needed to become part of the compiled materials for the Christian philosophy debates, and so my collection grew and grew and grew, and every time that I came back from the library, back to my home in Indiana, I had another two, three, if it was a very good day, maybe four or five articles that I could add to my growing hoard, almost, you might say. I still haven't actually read all of them. I've skimmed all of them and read through most of them, but I haven't actually had the time to sit down and go through each of them line by line. Oftentimes, when I would read through a piece, I would find interesting bibliographical references, which then would have to be tracked down. I'm showing you this just to give you an impression about how much literature we're actually talking about, and this does not actually comprise all of it. These are all dossiers that I have prepared. For instance, here's Brunschwig's contributions. Louis-Paul Couchette's contributions. Later writings like Germain Grise, people who were involved tangentially in the debates, much later scholars like Thilette, correspondence between Jules So and Mauritain and other people. These are all photocopies. These are all the things that I found in the libraries carried down to the seventh floor or to the twelfth floor or the eleventh floor or the second floor of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library and photocopied bit by bit by bit over years. That gives you an idea of the extent of my obsession, but it also gives you an idea of the extent of the sheer subject by itself.


Welkom. So we have their manager, their director sorry, in studio and he'll be telling us how coincidence came to be. Karibusana. Sante. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Nice to be on the show. So kindly introduce yourself now to MBA what you do. Alright. My name is Silas Ekesa and I'm a founding member of the Youth Talent Network. Youth Talent Network is a firm that was founded not long ago. Last year. And the main aim is to just nature, talent, same power. We are working in the age bracket of 5 to 35. Okay. 5. That's nice. So we believe that that's where the potential is. And also that's the age that goes through a lot of issues. Yeah. In terms of trying to graduate from childhood. That's true. So we are trying to help the youth through various forms of talents. One of them is music, we have dance, we have poetry, we have painting art, we have modeling, we have acrobatics. Yeah and then we have bodybuilding. So we do the auditions, we get the best and we design a program for them so that we can match them and empower them. Yes. And we believe that within the 5 years that we always issue a contract, they will have developed into individuals that can sustain themselves. It's true. People who have connected with their fans and able to do things and stuff on their own. So that is how coincidence came to be. So what happened? You told me that these are your babies. Coincidence is your baby. Coincidence, what happened is that when we first did the auditions for the musicians and dancers, we got quite a number of applications. And then we chose the best from the applications. And these are I think the best that we found.  So we are here to, you know, like this panel boys for these guys, they tell us what to do and we do. So when we organize for their first meeting so that they can do some team building and get familiar with each other. They decided let's think of them that can represent us well. And I think there were various suggestions but eventually they said it's very coincidental that we are here. It happened that he loves music, he loves music, he loves music, I love music. So why don't we just be a coincidence. Ah, interesting. And that's how the name was born. Yes. So let's get to the coincident band members. Kindly introduce yourselves gentlemen. Let's start from here. Okay, my name is Mr Lee. Jina Tuya Amtani. Amma Jina Agu Kamili Milari Semiyu. Natoka Nakuru. Most specifically Freiria. Yeah. Karibu Kwaesakit. Asanti. Namibaru Niko Incident Skruu. All right. Okay, Milipto Jan. Amma Kupenda Jan the DJ. You know the DJ. Natoka Makueni. But Saina Pakutengela. Okay. Welcome. Thank you. Eyo. This is Bella Boy. Jinalahom. Amma Amma Ibarlogiko. Kristian Niam. I'm Kel Fise Kesa. Yeah, I come from western Kakamega. But I work in Machakos. Yeah. Welcome to the E-Circuit. Welcome to some wonderful things here. Yeah. So I understand you are a band of about 7 members. Where are the other 4? Someone explain to me. Okay. It's not that I work with Fika. Just because of maybe 1, 2, 3. You know, it's a busy day. Yeah. For some of us. And so I work with one member. They are committed elsewhere. But they promised at some point. If we organize again, they will be here. Because they really, they were after to come for this. So that at least they can come and see what happens. And also introduce the coincidence in the flow. Yes. For the first time. Yes. But we believe that next time we shall be here. Yeah. They are amazing. They are amazing. Yeah, I had the music. Yesterday we were somewhere in a media house. The members of this group from Kost. We were in Mombasa. At about 4 pm. And so these guys were represented. Over there. So they are doing the representation to be here. So today they are representing their members who are in Murana. Who are in Mombasa. And some of them in Migori. Okay. Nice. So each of you has their own particular music career. Could you kindly talk to us about that? Let's start with the DJ. Okay. And how you transitioned to Coincidence? Okay. We had auditions. Then we had dancers, musicians. Now we have two places to play music. That's because we are entertainers. I play DJ. I get Kuaapo. That's why I'm Kuaapo. Okay. So where were you DJing? I was DJing. Do you think? Are you an artist? It's nearly always up until Karachi. He's not a dancer. He's a dancer. Okay. You can see him somewhere. All right. He's a dancer. Okay. I was a dancer. Okay. Okay. How did you transition from your own music career into Coincidence? Okay. Personally, I'm a musician, rapper. I've been in the industry for a long time. I'm a youth talent network. Facebook, Palevi. I've been in the industry for a long time. I've been in the industry for a long time. I've been in Facebook, Palevi. I've been in the industry for a long time. I've been applying. After a while, I've been calling. I've been in the industry for a long time. This is an opportunity. This is an opportunity to grow up. This is a good opportunity because you can't go to TV. It's something good. It's a good opportunity. We need to mentor more talents. Thank you. What about you? This is awesome because it happened that we saw auditions through Facebook and we helped. We knew once you were about to do something, you learn something, you have passion because you take the chance. This opportunity comes in your way. So I happen that I should also try this coincidence. I didn't know more about it but I was just trying the opportunity and by good luck I went and I qualified for the auditions and I'm seeing good things happen and I believe that for more people outside there coincidence is real. If they happen to see anything to do with coincidence and you are able to do something in each category you see that you feel somewhere calm, apply go for auditions and be somewhere and personally I'm a rapper. So you have two rappers and a DJ. Why are you hoping at some point in your life you'd end up in a music band? Did you see that coming? Personally I can say I'm someone who dream big in life and once I have the ability always dream big that some point even though it may take long but at some point I'll be somewhere big just like I see myself maybe some years to come just like five, seven years to come I know that I'll do music internationally that's what I know. So I believe in myself and I'm passionate in myself that I can be great. You know coming together seven people that's not a small number of people and each person has their own ideas, their own opinions how do you work that in coincidence since everyone has their own opinions maybe what you have, the vision I have for music is not the vision I have for you and how you tackle those challenges as you go along. Okay. Kiki kwa zatun eka kila kitu kotebo kila mito wongero ea kiki usiskeka wumifiniwa semamalina kufiniwa nirin kila mita kisha toa idea yangoma tunataka tunapushyana tuto elin the best kama umendika miska riko chinibadu tuna jaribu yani kwa kitu kali kabisa iwondo iwondo rajingana napa evi akuna seyana yani tuko free yani nika tuko kama brothers and sisters kuna usiskeka wumifiniwa kidogo usiskeka wumifiniwa kidogo na watu watu wandastand ju iku atu atiki tutu me imetokia tu ibu nika atu mungu alitokia tuwa katu sa idea pa tuwa penya pa evi and so far nuna kila kitu kupo wama zi Was it your idea ilku idea ya nu personally kukam together as a group Amma it was the idea of Mr. Asailas tulii tuwa na tu kambiyo rukon za tuchaguengoma tunataku tuwa kujenezu ideas individually alas sa tuchaguesa gani do kali gani duni za penya kwa market for now kulikonezu gengeto or something gengeto zina kujaga after after after after so you think it's end that we eventually we again get on lakisa atu kwae mua ataka ita hiti takuja tu polepoli ya ni okay that's you know music it's a skiza niki tutu kupolepoli na flow na kila kila age kata kona maraposti kona inyona imba kona dance kila mtu ya ni the group is it's hold hold so done oh sorry kukua kwa co incidenti kubenefeeta in that short span of time in that short span of time okay for now mi sikuwa lume se ane sikuwa nimetu kia gabi sa ata sayi I think it's the first time kutugia wa TV ata place tutu kuna meet ni cost so na pata ato kukua kutugia cost isi sana kini sayi atilistu inakutu na figo ko sabutu na figo ko na pata na wajiji wengine ma music ma music saza so tilistu na tokiya na sayi mi ni sayi dia sana ju wile saza mixte wene sikuwa na nimi ni gini wibisa kutua mixte sayi ni kumbele sayi na niki anabali sana na kutugia na machines okay so kindly tell us about dance with you what was the idea behind dance with you the idea behind dance with you the idea behind dance with you as you've been told by Larry idea iil kuja after sikuwa kapa moja no na anile kumitu mi to coincidental because tu pata kila mtu ako nabiliti ake na iya kutu kawana kuja pamoja tereza kufanya kitu kuwa no na so tu kapa moja kila mtu ako idea first to onekwamba at least to come up with something kita create a good picture of ourselves as a coincidence so tu kawana like to create this dance with you dance with you this just like if we say dance with you in quarts it speaks a lot ina leta hele umoja pier naule umoja ndu na panya na pati platform so na pati the objectives about me set then it also depends the way for us as a group of coincidents okay so in the five years that you hope to to be in coincidence and time in your contract what do you hope to achieve first thing i may not say that it's automatic that automatic that contract after five years because of course when you are under somebody platform there are things you also have to consider because it's not mandatory that after five years we shall then quit the group because we shall still come back and give back to the to the group you may find that even after five years we are still together because maybe after those five years so it's not that after five years we shall part we may remain still together we may renew their contract because it's not guaranteed it's not guaranteed okay jan what do you hope to achieve in the five years or more or less that you will be there to me says it's a less it's not that I am less I am more or less I am more or less I am less I am more or less I am less I am less I am less I am less I am less I am less I am more I am less I am less I am less I am still Iroha za ni Huberi ni Baka Afrik. Ni Pengya hohe luali. Iivu tuzulizimani julika ni nyini jisama mese kiwi angu. Iimdu kitujile kila mitu ata. Kila mitua ataku gave. So after you five years na ata kandilukue... Somebody big as a musician. Ii uendu gulya kila mitu? Alafuni, come back ni help the community kitukayo. Mu tanime toka, peiku incidents lizima tawajenka ii vuyiwe. Alright, thank you so much. Mr. Sibiu, I'm Silas. When are the next auditions kwa kliyali kuna atuene wa benefits ana from that, so if you could share your next plan so that anyone who is watching out there when it's happening next? Good question. In terms of music and dance, in fact we have a vision of doing at least six songs next year. So for the coincidence group and then we'll also be doing one to introduce another group so we need to make a call for more crew members. We are looking forward to having like two groups, one doing R&B and another one doing hip hop. Yeah, because we realize there is that kind of, if you keenly listen to the music you realize there is some kind of, you know, you can alienate these guys within that line. And so we need, there is a need for us to get a vocalist, male and female and you also need a rapper, male and female. So we'll be calling for auditions early next year. So that's like a month away or something. Yeah, people should watch out. So people should watch out on our social media platforms. Where will auditions be if maybe you have the details? For these guys who applied we did it simply because we realized, if I can remember, I didn't mention that when we did call for auditions we got 279 entries and only seven were able to pay the audition fee. Oh, there's an audition fee? Yes. Only seven? Yes. 400 shillings. Yes. And then we looked among the crew. We have a group of very good dancers. If you go on our Facebook page you'll see them from Kakuma Refugee Camp. And so we thought we cannot leave them out because they did not manage to pay the 400 shillings. So we paid for them. We had some youth from Kilifi who were victims of early pregnancy. We chose some of them. We registered them with our money. We got some youth who were previous drug addicts reformed from Mombasa. We also took some of them and then some from Kuali and then we had some from Migori. So we did cater for some of them. We paid about 54. 54? Yes. So those ones we paid for them. And we don't have a problem having very few people registering for auditions. And we don't have a problem with people failing to pay or rather to raise that money, the audition fee. Why? Because you know the state of youth in Kenya. We have a lot of problems in terms of poverty and stuff like that. And that's what you're trying to approach from the society. We want to make youth independent, sustain themselves at an age. So for auditions when we realized we have that problem and because we had those so many applications. So we did ask all of them to send us a video of what they do. And so it was very original and edited. And the 54 that we gave the slots, we were basing on their talent. We have dancers and musicians.  And then for these guys they were brave enough to risk their 400 shillings. And it has paid? In fact it has paid already more than 100% or 200% whatever they paid for. And so these ones at least they came and they sang to us. And they did very good work. We had to go with Jan because we also have connections with the learning institutions. And sometimes you want to go for performances. So we thought we would need a DJ. That's how he came on board. And he later played another role and he played it so well. I can't tell you if you will see it. That one is for later because we are running short of time. No, goodness. We are enjoying. I enjoy it too much, I know.  So that's the only one who wants to do that. So if you go to, if I have to read for your social media handles, if you go to Facebook just check at Youth Talent Kenya. And if you are going to Twitter look for at talent underscore Kenya. And if you're going to Instagram, at Youth Talent Network underscore Kenya. That's where we are. But these auditions, the first place we post is either on our Facebook page or our website. So our website is www.talentkana.co.ke. Okay. Very operational. So that was a very fruitful discussion. And I hope anyone who was watching got the information and they will actually show up for the audition. Yes. The good job you're doing and we hope to see more groups and more people who are coming through so that you can see what the talent that you're bringing up. Yes. If someone has a talent, don't be afraid. Just sure. When you call for auditions, just submit. Maybe we might have a favor again, we might give you a free registration or something like that. True. You'll never know. Yes. So just apply. So thank you so much guys for coming through and we wish you the best in your music, in your DJing career and we hope to see you at the top. Yeah. So up next.


Hormones are what make us men and women. They determine our energy levels, our male and female performance, our quality of life being greatly dependent on them. I'm sure most people are familiar with how popular male performance boosters are, testosterone, various drugs, billion-dollar industry. I would argue the female equivalent of that can be equated to birth control, probably another billion-dollar industry. Some of you may remember a video I made several months ago. How to boost testosterone naturally.  The origin of Frankie's ball grease, but I wasn't joking. There's a lot of truth to this we will discuss. Before we understand how to increase your hormones naturally, I want you to understand and value the information I'm releasing in this video. I haven't seen anyone else talk about this and I'm uncomfortable doing so with how much I've been plagiarized, but I do want to help people and plagiarism is a risk I have to take. So if you guys can please share the video, you can support me through the various methods down in the description. It's important to note that you need to remove endocrine disruptors from your diet and lifestyle. Chemicals, antibiotics that inhibit natural hormone production, they alter your levels. That could be birth control in your drinking water, taking birth control itself as a female, estrogenic herbicides like Achesine and Filaumete, various chemicals on thermal receipt paper, plastics. Again, the main problem being in men, they lower your testosterone and boost your estrogen. In females, they boost your estrogen and lower your testosterone, which moves us away from how we should naturally perform. Yeah, males do get the short end of the stick in this regard, but it is still detrimental to females. I have a video titled, Mikaela Peterson Wants to Feminize Men. Check that out if you want to learn more about these endocrine disruptors. Guys, do not underestimate how difficult it can be to remove those from your diet and lifestyle. Your drinking water has to be clean. All the food you're eating has to be clean. What you're cooking stuff in, what you're handling on a day to day basis, very, very difficult to do. Once those are removed, there are two primary things you can do to restore your hormone status. One is to ensure your body has all the required nutrients to synthesize those hormones. That can be achieved by following a nutrient-dense animal foods-based diet, plenty of wild quality land meats, as well as seafood. You could also take certain supplements. Two is to consume the parts of the animal that promote those properties. For males, that would be the testes of the animal, the milt of the fish. For females, that would be the ovaries of the animal or the eggs of the fish, a.k.a. caviar. This brings us to the main culprit nutrients lacking in our diets. Of course, if you understand an American diet, you're probably lacking everything. But even on a high-quality carnivore diet, you're only consuming wild caught fish, grass-fed beef, you're likely still lacking two nutrients, vitamin D in the form of vitamin D3 that our body synthesized from the sun, and vitamin K in the form of vitamin K2 and K4, which is obtained from high-quality, fermented animal products. We're not out in the sun as much as we used to be, and clothing prevents the absorption, you know, people are inside working all day. Every single group of indigenous people fermented animal foods. When a food rots, the bacteria produce vitamin K2. Why do you think so many people love cheese or crave cheese? It's that vitamin K2 content, the fat-soluble vitamin content. Yeah, if the gut is healthy, you can synthesize some vitamin K, but no one really has a healthy gut microbiome now, and no one has been eating a pound of raw cheese per week since they were a toddler. So you've never gotten enough vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 at any point in your entire life, including now. These two nutrients are important for the hormone osteocalcin, a calcium binding protein.  What we're focusing on today is outside of those developmental stages of life, as we are now adults, not children, you know, no point in crying over spilled milk.  Don't blame your parents, though. Osteocalcin plays many roles in the body, even in our adult life. Glucose regulation, energy metabolism, brain development and function, and relevant today for males, the cells in your testes, same with females in the ovaries, actually require osteocalcin to produce testosterone or estrogen. It makes sense why we see vitamin D deficiency being associated with metabolic syndromes like insulin resistance. That being said, vitamin D without vitamin K causes issues. High osteocalcin is related to prostate problems, likely because the osteocalcin is not being utilized by the tissue. In this trial, just vitamin D supplementation increased testosterone levels around 20% in men. We see a simulation in the production of testosterone with vitamin K2, notably in the form MK4. We have to note in this study that vitamin K1, the plan form, was not effective. Just another lie vegans tell you, when in reality, you need the animal version of vitamin K. As you can assume, this translates to females as well. Vitamin D is essential for full gonadal function in both males and females. The action of vitamin D on estrogen biosynthesis was partially explained by maintaining calcium homeostasis, however, direct regulation of the expression of the aromatase gene should not be neglected. What's important to note is that with men, we have the problem of low testosterone, and the goal is to boost testosterone and minimize estrogen that's higher than normal. With women, we usually have an imbalance, usually too much estrogen and not enough testosterone. So in some cases, vitamin D actually reduces breast cancer risk by regulating these two normal levels. It's kind of interesting because in men, you'll see testosterone go up and they'll feel better and perform better, become healthier, and women, you see estrogen go down, they look better, they perform better, they're healthier. And just like we need these vitamins to stimulate the synthesis of testosterone in the testes, they stimulate the production of hormones in the ovaries as well. Same with vitamin K2. It plays a role in modulating estrogen function. And guys, I'm not a biochemist, I don't want to read these studies all day, but it's important we have established the idea that these nutrients are required for our normal bodily function. In this case, hormones. Vitamins, minerals, fatty acids are the building blocks of humans. And if we're missing them or the ratios are off, you end up with a lot of the modern problems we have today. If you can't get 10 hours of sun per week, maybe even more depending on your skin color in the spring and summer, you definitely need to supplement. I suggest anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 IU per day to start. You guys can check out my previous video on vitamin D and tanning. For vitamin K2, I've seen people use well over 45 milligrams per day initially to fix their deficiency. But a normal dose from food is less than one milligram. That being said, if you are deficient, if you think you need to take this, watch my vitamin K2 MK4 video for more information on that. You can get these supplements on Amazon. I have them a bit more affordable on organsupplements.com.  When you take that vitamin K2 orally and you literally feel the energy after taking it, this is different.  But even if you do get these nutrients, you might need a little extra help due to modern problems. Back to what we said earlier, eating the reproductive organs of animals. The easiest way to do this would be, go to a fish market, get some fish or eat some whole fish like oysters, shellfish. The milk and row in the fish, the sperm and the egg are the corresponding male and female organs. And they will have bioactive hormones that will help you as well as nutrients conducive to reproductive health. Yeah, you have to go to the fish market, pick out a bunch of fish, filet the fish, hope that the reproductive organ is present. It's the right time of year. That is a bit of a pain. So that's why I offer salmon caviar, fish eggs on Franky's free-range meat. And I'm looking to get some milk as well. On organ supplements, I do offer a beef testee supplement. And I am going to add a female fertility supplement in the very near future. I mean, on a budget, you can go to a local Asian fish market and probably get the raw or milk or cheaper fish for free if you ask them to save it. But if you're buying fish yourself and trying to find it by fileting it, you might have a difficult time doing that. So definitely talk to the fishmonger, slip them a few dollars, ask them if they can save you those byproducts of fileting the fish because those normally go in the garbage. So if you want the convenience of a pill or an approachable food or don't want to smell like Frankie fish fingers, you can check out my salmon row or supplements, whatever venues you have nearby. So thank you guys for joining me. Again, I genuinely did not really want to share this information. I feel like I could have made a lot more money on it, but I've already given away so much for free what's a little more. So if you guys want to support me, you know, we mentioned organ supplements.com. You can go to Frankie's here and eat meat for quality animal foods at an affordable price. We have Frankie's naturals. You want to try the bald grease, then you don't need to supplement vitamin D. You can go to frank-final.com for a free carnivore diet meal plan. If you want a description of what vitamins you need in your diet, and if you guys do want to support me, you can go to my Patreon, go to my PayPal, support the future of high quality animal nutrition. Thanks again for joining me, guys. Enjoy the rest of your day. Don't get, don't get too horny, boys.


Ac am wnaeth pethau y tair yn gweithio'r cywpeth cwmwynt a'i gyffinio, os byddwn yn ei rhaid diogel i'w cyffinio cwmwynt y cydyniad amaelig a'u cyfathio cyllid. Cydda'n amser fy mod i'r gwaith gyda cyfathion bwysigiau i gael y cwmwynt, ac yn cyfathio'n cyfathion. Mae wedi meddwl y gallwn yn gofyn i'u blaen i gael, felly eu tro byddwn yn hyd yn gofod o'u potwyd sy'n fynd mewn bod ni'n yw i gael, ac i gael eich cyfsigiai eich gwelltyn yn cael ei ffymdd. Gwestiwch Bond. For the opportunity to contribute to the conference today, I am truly as someone pointed out to be this morning, not even out of the womb when it comes to the cooperative movement as I only joined last September. When I was asked to do this, he asked me to do it very much as a newcomer to the movement bringing some of my experience from outside to the table. I spent my career developing sustainable business programmes and building sustainable brands for mainstream businesses large and small, so the likes of Asda and Unimiva are the sort of organisations that I've worked with in the past. I feel a bit like a sort of poach a cum gamekeeper standing here in a way. In those organisations I fought to get sustainability on the table during a time where there was absolutely no recognition at all to business. At what it's like doing business through a sort of sustainability lens. It was either viewed as a cost or from a corporate responsibility perspective a box to tick. I remember one particular occasion where I was working for Unilever and I was sitting opposite the head fish buyer for Sainsbury's. We were negotiating a deal and they could be a particularly cutthroat that he made, the two Sainsbury's and Tesco's. He looked to me and said, Amanda just get me sustainability will you? He said I don't know what it is but if the big tea have got it then we want it. That was pretty much my life for about a decade. When I joined the cooperative movement last September I did so in a way because I felt driven to. At the time I was writing a chapter on a book on sustainability and tipping points in society in which the Royal Society was sponsoring. In that piece of work I was calling for business to be much more proactive about stepping up to the challenges humankind faces with bold mainstream at scale solutions. I was highlighting that to deliver on this in the long term will require new approaches to how we are going to do business and a really honest reassessment of the values that underpin why mainstream business does what it does and what it's role in society was. I was writing in there about how new business models were needed and new approaches to sustainable economic activity were required. I sat there writing this and thought well actually I'm basically writing about the cooperative movement. Then Christmas 2011 when an executive role came up at the East of England Cooperative, a vibrant independent co-op. I jumped at the chance and was pleased to get a role. I do believe the timing is right. The opportunity is here now for the movement once again to come into its own. Whether it be the economic tsunami of 2008 or the summer riots a couple of years ago or just the entrenchment of austerity into society and everyday life there are tipping points all around us that are signaling the changing shape of the world we live in and consequently the changing needs of our members and the communities we serve. The question is can we realise our opportunity? It is out there. We could pick up on the themes of community and sustainability and really transform our prospects if we do more than we're doing now. And as Pauline was raising this morning if we communicate it better, the building blocks of cooperation and our business model very much feel right for the 21st century and I keep hearing that and that's great but we do need to change. We do need to transform and develop ourselves. I was excited listening to Pauline's presentation this morning. I think that she got it bang on and I share her desire to see the movement recognised and grow. But there's a lot of work to be done. There's a lot of work to be done on identity and participation and sustainability because to win in this area we need to be consistent, we need to be authentic and we need to be transparent. They're absolutely key. So it was part of the sort of transformation that we need to face and just briefly for my slot I wanted to consider three haws if you will. And the three haws are how you can't beat and join them just doesn't work, how we need to go beyond shared value and I'll explain briefly what that is and how local really is our opportunity. So how you can't beat and join doesn't work, well what do I mean? What I mean is that I think what we have done is allow ourselves to be perceived as the same as everybody else. We recently conducted in depth, far reaching research in the East of England which sought to understand what people think of us, not just the East of England co-operative because as we've said there's confusion, people are not really sure who's who or what's what so it's really about co-operative retail. And the overwhelming message back was that the co-operative movement, who we are, what we do and why we do it isn't well understood and it's even quite misunderstood. So we've kind of perceived to be the same as other retailers and it is problematic to join them if we have problems competing at the basics. So I think we'd all agree we've all seen the different graphs, price goes up the top, it's part of you sort of getting you in the game as it were. And then we saw Ben Reid's presentation yesterday and showed Tesco's buying power, 74 billion euro or thereabouts it was next to ours, 8.8 billion euro. So whilst Waitrose can pledge to match 7,000 of Tesco's prices or lines, we can only pledge to do a couple of hundred. And even if we do join a European buying group and we compete again on price, it is just part of getting us into the game. When we looked at Tesco's presentation from the IGD yesterday, she showed how we need to add value through products and service innovation and we need to brand it strongly. All of which needs to be very relevant and immediate to people's lives. We don't have a survival strategy, let alone a growth strategy without understanding that we need to innovate further to differentiate further the way we are now. And no matter how exciting or stand out our corporate offer could be, we need to build powerful branding that communicates who we are, what we do, why we do it and why we're different to our public. So for me, if you can't beat and join them is a wasted opportunity. We need to stand out from the crowd, not be chasing the leaders. And business has largely got CR and sustainability licked. Unfortunately thanks to people like me. Much has changed since I began 17 years ago and I was doing groundbreaking programmes for Unilever at the time. Now it's becoming business as usual. Businesses are moving from corporate sustainability initiatives into more sustainable business. They've worked out that it's not just about old CR about focus on their impact today, but it's about looking into the medium and longer term. They're sust that it's not just about managing risk, it's about risk and opportunity. It's not about cost, it's about value, not about communicating, it's engaging. They've got it, they've got it licked. And that's, it's not without virtue in a way. If you look at the results from Mark Suspence's plan A, they have been impressive. They had a net profit of over 70 million as a result of plan A activities in 2012 compared to 50 million in 2010. And they're all sorts of ways that they make up that 70 million. I was standing in McDonald's the other day for the first time I must say in a decade with my kids on the half-term holiday. And I was struck by how they reinvented their offer through the years that I've done sustainable business work. I followed with interest particularly the development of that organisation because they are seen as such a big, ugly multinational. But now they win awards and like other businesses it's served them well in providing assurance to the public and its investors. It's not all necessarily true, there might be a lot of people who argue with it, but they're very good at communicating and they're very good at playing the game. And I'm very well acquainted with the sustainable living plan, the work that I did for them 15 years ago in the early of mid 90s and late 80s really has formed the basis of their sustainable living plan now. And their goal now to double their business whilst halving their environmental and social impact through their value chain is actually aligned directly with their growth agenda. And they're actually leading the way. That multinational with all of the things that go on in multinational supply chains still they get to lead the way on this discussion. Which I find shocking in a way and part of the reason why I'm standing here. But they have seen market share and investor confidence increase while that of their competitors perhaps aren't quite as good at telling the story have contracted. And it's a far cry for when I work with them and at that time Greenpeace were out sailing down the outside of Blackfriars building while the chairman was inside saying what should we do. And that was the beginning of the sustainability story. Regardless of size, medium or large. As I said I think CRR business have got CR linked. And there are even different definitions of it. This definition shared value was set out by two guys, Michael Porter and Mark Craver in Harvard Business Review in 2010. And it's been quite useful for building the business case for sustainability. Taking the view that long term sustainability relates to business creating economic value in a way that adds value to society by addressing its needs and challenges. Right. However context is really critical in this discussion. And that in some ways really adds our opportunity. Brings our opportunity forward. The focus as austerity bites even deeper into society and resources become scarcer than the reality of the need to change fundamentally how business does business will really come forward. And what we get is basically businesses having to stop sort of thinking so much of our business value and the concept of social value within this starts to come forward. And that's where the opportunity is really for us today. At the moment business provides the life support of nations whether it be water, drink, roads, medicines. In the long term success for business tomorrow will be to help customers change their lives and live differently. And as a cooperative movement we're well positioned to go beyond the shared value. Shared value is still about the profit motive and we can go beyond that. We can use it and go beyond it. As austerity and trade system resources can trade to get works worse PLC will be cornered in that way. First and foremost we need to put our membership of that out there. Our member value at the heart of our communications and our actions. We need to bring together our retail and our uniqueness. I'm completely for integrating those messages into our communications in every store, on every window, in every door drop we actually need in a campaigning voice to be saying who we are and what we do. And we mustn't be shy of that. But that's just a basics. We need to be more sophisticated from that. And Ursula's example of the early over three yesterday is a really good example of the cooperative movement having the opportunity to get more sophisticated. Building our own local and regional ecosystem so that we use our business model, our products and services to reach into people's lives and dovetail with the social and environmental needs of the day as it were. Are there many questions that phase businesses today to help build loyalty? There are two to the key ones that come out. Does your product or service improve my life and what are you doing to act on the things that matter in my life? We need to be sure that we respond to this and we need to look at some of the concepts that are out there. It's interesting, Ursula was talking about pharmacies and libraries. I'm on the page looking at what Jamie Oliver and Richard Branson are doing with money lounges and recipes. They're all about bringing people together and using the opportunity to socialize and learn. So we need to think about our offer and perhaps do it a little differently or take the opportunity to do it differently. We can also add value through our products and services. Mark's expenses have got their shopping concept, which is really about recycling clothes. Sainsbury's have worked on getting the green deal in their stores. There are products and services that we can start to bring forward that help change people's lives. We also did an initiative recently at East England College, which was called Reducing the Strength. This is really interesting. What we did was we worked with the Suffolk County Council and the Constabulary and also the local NHS. Basically what we were doing was we took strong cheap beers and siders off the shelves because of the antisocial issues that exist in Ipswich. We actually did it to all of our stores in Suffolk. That's interesting. It was very brave. What about obesity and diabetes epidemics? Food retailers are on the front line of the calls from academia and politicians to do something about that. Will we be part of leading the way on finding solutions between choice and changing behavior? There is opportunity in all of this for us. Just to start to draw to a close, for me local really is our opportunity. If we're seeking to develop strong, active and engaged membership, so I think of the participation that Pauline was bringing up this morning, we need to understand how we market our movement of collective action. I do hear within the movement as well as without and they're not understood or misunderstood. We need to solve the problem of making a movement which is all about the value of we relevant in a world where it's all about me. Not me personally, you realise, but the individual makes the decisions. The answer is in local. It's not just the side over the door. It's not just Sainsbury's local or Morrison's local. We did our region wide market research. We wanted to get under the skin of this and find out what really matters to people. The big things matter. They don't complain to issues. These things matter, but resoundingly what people care about is me and mine. It starts at home, the streets I'm in, my neighbourhood, my village town. The clear message was do something that matters to me. Help me secure a future locally for me, help me with investing in my region. Help me locally and you help make my life work. So to be relevant and immediate to drive loyalty and engagement we need to make our movement the local region or ecosystem. That really builds on the LM3 concept. We need to go further than that. So I won't go through our source-loathe initiative that we started in 2007. You heard about that last year from my colleague Roger Grover, but like Lincolnshire, that's very much a starting place for us. But we're looking at how we can go further. How can we position ourselves as the engine of the regional economy? How can we build our cooperative ecosystem to be central to local regional sustainability? We can help people, individuals to live more sustainable lives with new products and services. We can work to build a truly local supply chain to benefit local businesses and communities. We can ensure our profits go back to local communities and we can connect individuals to it. But can we also add another cog to the whole engine? Could we develop a member benefit programme that helps people locally work together to keep the pound local? And to drive locally beneficial behaviours basically. So what we're looking at at the moment is a new member benefit programme that will do just that. A programme which will link up regional partners to create incentives and benefits to members. Parts, hotels, days out, use of the local swimming pool, getting a discount. In a region where 50% of the regional tourism actually comes from within the region. We're in a really strong position to do something interesting with that. Also, the most important bit for being finishing is to be effective at hyperlocal. We need to get personal too. So we can tell them what the organisation does for the region as in LM3 and that's great. But actually what we need to do is work out how we can bring it to life for the individual. So what's the individual's impact in the region? We need a convincing way to show that we don't just do initiatives that we are the local community. And a way of doing this is to show the relationship between the members and their community. So we need to move beyond talking the same language as other businesses about corporate responsibility programmes and local activities. What we need to know is show that we're not just connected to communities, we actually are them. How could we do this? Well, if you think about just things like club card do their quarterly report on what your point status is, couldn't we do a quarterly report or could we digitalise it thinking about what Cecil was saying yesterday to show how services have contributed, how our services and an individual's use of those services has actually contributed to the local economy? We don't have exact data on this, but it is out there. That's what Facebook effectively does. Facebook builds its social graffing around that whole concept. So what we're looking at now is how could we do that? How can we take this further? I believe that yes, the time is now and yes, we could redefine convenience and retail around social environmental sustainability. I think there's a real opportunity there. I think we've got an opportunity to position ourselves as champions of sustainability, but only by going beyond the limits of where mainstream business is, because mainstream business is good at it. We need to challenge what they're not doing and show leadership in helping create new social norms and changing behaviours. And we can do this because we're co-operative. So we can take global sustainability in the local agenda and make them our own. Not just through our products and services, our supply chain, our curements, but also through partnership, and most importantly, by personalising it and looking at new ways of how we can make it relevant, such as through social graffing, and immediate to individuals. And if we do that right and get our core messages right, our positioning and our branding right, then we have much more opportunity of really embedding our movement into people's lives. Thank you.


When we talk about the maritime agreement, there's not one agreement. There's different things that have to be signed because the parties can't sign with each other, nor can their proxies, meaning the companies can't sign on their behalf. So it has to be completely separate agreements, which leads to even more complexity to the suite of agreements that we have to do here, where the U.S. had to play a role because they can't sign with each other. So each party, Lebanon signs with the United States, Israel signed with the United States, Total signed, or on behalf of the consortium, signed with the government of Lebanon, they're a licensee. They have a separate agreement that they signed with Israel that we helped craft. And then there is a number of other agreements in order just to be able to get to the point of exploration.


Well, my first contact with Oldham University had been a Danish teacher that came as a guest lecturer to my previous university, and his classes were actually fun. So I thought, you know, that says a lot about Denmark. I like the degree, I like the offers that the campus had, and I also like the prospect of staying in Denmark afterwards, living in a country where women are equal to men and where, you know, you know that you will have stability and safety. If I wanted to move to the best potential country, I thought probably Denmark was the one. Because it's Scandi without being cold northern Norway, and it's educated, and healthcare, and system service, everything works, safety, security. There's been lots of help since I got here. I would say even since before I got here, I received help from university and support in finding housing explanations on what the paperwork that I have to do is, how to figure out my CPR number and set up my taxes, all of those not so fun things. I think one thing that surprised me was the freedom that we're given. So I was used to us having a little bit more homework. I would say almost more babysitting, and here we didn't have that. I feel like here in all those, we were told from day one what the curriculum was going to be, what the readings were going to be like, and you're just expected to do it. So at the beginning I thought, ooh, I don't have to do anything. And then I noticed, no, no, this is on my own shoulders, and I have to take responsibility. And it's, this is where you choose to either step up or die of stress in an exam period. They put this tag of hooger to anything that's basically unproductive but enjoyable. And they're like, oh no, no, but we're doing hooger. It's like, okay, sure, let's hooger. Let's go for a beer because it's hooger. Well, let's watch a movie because it's hooger. We're staying home because it's hooger. Cookies, hooger. I think that's, that's a nice one as well. That's something I've absolutely adapted, taken for my own. The libraries here are amazing. Like the library, like the main library from the university, so pretty and it has so many facilities. You have a really good canteen and tons of different types of study areas. You've got the quiet ones and the loud ones or medium ones. You can sit on a chair or you can seat on a bean bag or like one of those eggs that hang from the ceiling. There's so many options. There's a punching bag and a ping pong table. Every lecture you can think of that will help you study better. That was really impressive. Most of the universities kind of spread through Ouse, so the center of the city. So you actually find buildings that you didn't even know that they were part of the university and apparently the IT guys are studying here or something like that. So it's really blended in with the rest of the city I guess. Ouse has the luxury of being right next to C, that having the forest inside of it.  But at the same time it has so many cultural events and so many opportunities, a lot of diversity which gives it a bit more of a big city vibe in that aspect. So you get, I think, the perfect combination of both. There's so many bars and there's so many young people. I always say that the city is bubbly because you just can tell that there's life.


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What's up guys, Alex here and today we're going to be going over some of the frequently asked questions regarding the new royalty free video section in the freedom dashboard. So let's jump right into it. I'm going to be reading off of a doc that I created that I'm going to actually link in the description down below so you guys have that access to that as well. And if you guys have any extra questions that aren't mentioned in this doc, please leave them in the comment section down below so we can add to this and make it a better piece of knowledge for you guys to access in the future. So the first question is can a Freedom Partners video that uses Reuters video footage get copyright claimed after being uploaded to their channel? And yes, it is possible for a partner to receive a copyright claim on their video, even if all restriction guidelines were met and the footage in question was altered enough to be deemed fair use. So this can rarely happen to people, but it does happen. So I'm going to mention it.  And all you have to do is dispute that and usually it gets cleared up within a few days. So let's jump into the next question, which is what are some of the restrictions that Freedom Partners might encounter when using certain pieces of footage from Reuters? So as I mentioned in the previous answer, there are restrictions sometimes when using footage from Reuters. So some of these restrictions might be time delays. So if something's published on the dashboard, it might not be able to be published in video format on a YouTube channel for a few days or maybe a certain time of day that it can be used on that channel. And also it might not be available to certain countries. So if you're publishing from the United States, maybe it won't be available in something, it might not be available in a country like Germany or maybe somewhere in Asia. Just you never know we're going to come across. In order to find those restrictions leading into the next question, where can you find the restriction guidelines for pieces of footage that you download from the dashboard? All you have to do is when you click on a piece of footage in the dashboard where you find the download button underneath of that, you're going to see a description of the video and you'll see any restrictions for that piece of footage if there are any. And it's rare to come across that, but always be sure to check that section before using that piece of footage in your own video just to be safe. And the next question is, what if you get a claim even if you met all the restriction guidelines?  This is news footage and you have to make it your own. So lots of people are going to be tapping into this resource, especially within the freedom community now that this is a new feature for everybody. So you have to make it your own thing because Reuters looks down upon people that just take their footage and re-upload it without making it their own. And that's really not what this is about. This is about taking that footage from Reuters and editing it and mixing it to make it your own piece of work that you can upload to your YouTube channel and feel safe about it. So that's the best way to approach using this footage. So even if you met all the restriction guidelines and you're using this footage in a fair use manner, there's a very small chance that you might get a copyright claim on this video. All you have to do is open a ticket with support.tm stating what your issue is that you met all the restriction guidelines that you used it in a fair use manner. And usually you can just dispute those and they'll basically go away if you met all these restrictions but always be safe contact their support team just to be sure. And yeah, you should be good to go after that. I think that's all the questions that have come up over the past few months and they're listed in the stock as I said in the description below. But if I didn't answer any of your questions, please leave them in the comment section down below. We'll add them as they come in if lots of people are having the same question. And yeah, so I guess I will see you guys in the next one. I hope this was useful and take care everybody.