Welcome to our entrepreneur pitches from Haiti in Mexico. I am Dana Afonsoa, program officer for economic development for Haiti from the Latin American and Caribbean team at the Kellogg Foundation with my colleague. My name is Stan Frías, good afternoon everyone. Also a program officer for the Mexico team and the international team for the Kellogg Foundation. And we're thrilled, we're thrilled, we're excited to share with you what feels to the both of us like our best kept secret. We've had the honor and privilege of working with all of those entrepreneurs for many, many years. I'm sure that many of you have had numerous conversations about risk, de-risking, anything. I think in our language we do feel that in many, many ways those entrepreneurs are at the forefront of change and we've worked with them for many years. We're wanting to share into what we know are tremendous, tremendously powerful and exciting opportunities in the context of Haiti and Mexico. This year we really wanted to showcase the work of these amazing entrepreneurs. We think what makes them unique is that they come from community, they're leading initiatives from community and they're representing really the opportunities and how innovation can face challenges in rural context. We've been working with some of them for many years. We think they're at a fantastic stage to be invested on and to partner with and we're very, very happy to have other investors join us as we've invested in these communities as well. We think that their voice is very important also showcasing the leadership of communities in Mexico and Haiti and really bringing solutions based on community to the forefront. We had a panel this morning, it was very interesting, some of you were there showcasing this and today is really a celebration, a celebration of their work, a celebration of Mexico and Haiti of these rural and indigenous communities. Thank you and with that, without further ado and again do connect with us and engage with us if you have any questions after because we're more than happy to share everything that we learn and everything that we've learned from them. So thank you and hope to connect with you soon. Thank you. Hello everyone. My name is Dani and I'm here representing Dos Tierras. We are an artisanal brand that aims to and is making a difference in the lives of artisans from marginalized communities. Unfortunately my friend and partner Guillermo Jester couldn't be here today to share our vision and all of our achievements with you but I'm very much excited to be able to do this here today. Our other two founders, Tania Gomez and Reina Jiménez are both artisan leaders from Chiapas. According to Coneval's Tony Tony report in Mexico, poverty rates are alarmingly high. Over 58% of the Yucatan population and a staggering 78% of the Chiapas population are living below the income poverty line. So our mission is to focus on projects that have actual economic impact in these regions to address this particular issue. Dos Tierras was born out of a dream and more than 20 years of experience working with artisans in various regions across Mexico. Guillermo, Tania and Reina came together to create a collective brand that not only showcases the cultural diversity of our country but also revalues traditional textile techniques for the international and contemporary market. We released two collections per year and we feature home decor textiles such as pillows, hammocks, table tops and a small fashion capsule collection. Let me show you here on our previous slide. You can see some of these. All of the items, all of the products that we develop are designed and inspired by these traditional techniques of these two regions that we work in. Currently we sell our collections at trade shows in the US and Mexico and we cater to both wholesale and retail customers. However, our primary source of income actually comes from collaborations with renowned brands and designers. We produce hundreds and sometimes even thousands of items annually for these partnerships. We've had notable collaborators that include West Elm, Forehands and soon we will be collaborating with Aeromexico, which is Mexico's largest airline. Now in our first year as an independent company, we've sold over 15,000 items and collaborated with nearly 300 artisans from Yucatán and Chiapas and we generated sales of $375,000. Now this represents a very significant growth of 55%. This is compared to when we were members of the NGO A2 Artisans and all of the production and administrative costs were being covered by them. To continue our growth, we are seeking an investment of approximately $150,000 or in-kind donations. This can be goods and services. This is going to help us achieve our goal of growing by 100% or more, which means that we aim to sell at least $700,000 worth of products this coming year. With this additional support, we can enhance the quality of life of the 300 artisans that we collaborate with and we can increase their income through sustainable projects. Now our main income currently comes from custom design production. We believe that investing and exploring other commercial channels such as e-commerce is really going to unlock new opportunities for us. This obviously also comes with the recent surge in e-commerce due to the pandemic and so it represents a significant potential for us to expand and reach a wider audience. Now, I have showed you and showcased our impressive results. I've shared what our expectations are for the coming year and I've explained to you what our business model is. However, I believe that it's crucial for you to really understand who we truly are. I want to give you three words for this. This means thank you in Sotsil, Seltal and Maya. These are the languages of the artisans we collaborate with and this embodies our gratitude towards them, towards their craftsmanship and the opportunity that we have to uplift their communities. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much for your time and for being here. Please feel free to scan our information over here for more details on this QR code. We really look forward to connecting with you. You can find me around as well and we greatly appreciate your consideration and you being here. Thank you very much. Good evening, everyone. I am from Haiti and my name is Magalino Eldres, the founder and CEO of Caribbean Craft, a company that has been working with artisans across the country. Featured in Ford's magazine, New York Times, Vogue, Better Homes and Gardens for the work that we've done. Over the years, we've developed collections for anthropology, Potry Barn, Crate and Barrel, West Elm, Donna Karen, to name a few. We attended major home decor shows such as New York Now, Shop Object, America's Mart. Our company generated $1.5 million in a year in revenue for artisans. Hearing all this, what's the problem? We all know that Haiti has been going through the past three years major crisis that greatly affected the artisan craft sector. The international buyers were forbidden to come to Haiti. In addition to the long list that is on the screen, the access to market became the most pressing issue. Once again, we had to find a new solution to keep artisans employed. More than ever, we had to make sure that they kept their job that is in a country like mine a true luxury. We had to readjust our strategy and step out to the world. But how? With a market-driven approach. We created something unique based on alliances. By creating these alliances in and outside of Haiti, engaging fully our diaspora and partnering with institutions on the ground to help us develop our own expo, our traveling arts and crafts expo, to create a new sales channel for artisan groups in need of a job. A sales force unit is designed to be the engine of all activities as we want to move forward with a market-driven approach. The wind of hope is playing a key role. Our traveling arts and crafts expo between January and now was featured five times in the United States. Our online platform is fully operational for direct sales and giving visibility already to 14 groups. While at Korean Craft, we continue to serve as a mini hub for the sector. By doing so, we aim to retain jobs, which is crucial at the moment. Too many companies are shutting down, people are giving up, entrepreneurs are quitting. We need to remain in business. We want to create new jobs. And we also want to bring back the revenues of $1.5 million for year one and double by year three. Besides the alliances that we're seeking here in partnership, we are also seeking for a grant of $300,000 to invest in our communication strategy on marketing and sales and investment of $750,000. We believe in the sector. We remain committed to our artisan. And we are proud to say that we are a resilient company, adjusting through difficult times while developing a very strong plan for a bright future. On behalf of the artisans and our very powerful dream team on the screen, I thank you for your attention and look forward to continuing our conversation with you whenever you want to reach out to us. Thank you. Hello everybody. Welcome for being here. I am Monce and I am here to represent the 83 women artisans who are part of juxtamination. Juana Lopez Diaz is an artisan from Chiapas, Mexico. The lack of market value and opportunities discourage her to continue the practices that are part of her textile cultural heritage in search of a better paid opportunity. Her involvement with NGO Impacto, founded by Adriana Guerrevere ten years ago, encouraged her to pursue these textile traditions in Mexico. Juana's story is just an example of the 83 women who make up the social enterprise, juxtamination. Historically, women belonging to the indigenous people of Mexico have been subjected to three oppressions, by class, gender and ethnicity. 65% of indigenous women over 12 years are engaged in unpaid activities. 18% receive an income of their work and only 1% is an owner of some type of personal property. Artisanal activity is not seen as a source of income for women and their families. On average, a woman artisan in Chiapas, Mexico receives $1.6 per day selling their pieces at lower prices. Formed by seven cooperatives of Los Altos de Chiapas, Juxta is a commerce platform that connects artisans with consumers who are conscious and who want to pursue new products. Women in Juxta Nation are producers, owners and partners. 80% of the cost of production corresponds to the artisanal labor of the members, which they receive upon delivery of their pieces. This increased their income by 500% without increasing their working hours. By becoming owners of this enterprise, they receive additional profits of the sales. In the long term, they will have financial freedom and they can self-manage the enterprise Juxta Nation. This improves the quality of life of their families and their communities. The sales market is looking for better options for consumption practices. On a study by GlobalScan on sustainability, they found that 1.1 billion of women are responsible consumers who are seeking high-quality products that are artisanal, ethical and sustainable. $723 billion dollars are in the world textile industry. In Mexico's textile market, it is equivalent for the 4% of this, and in five years, our goal is to reach the 0.01% of the national market of Mexico. In Mexico, there are 12 million indigenous artisans. 742,000 are textile artisans, of which 67% are women. Currently, there are 83 women who are part of Juxta Nation. We are planning to bring new members. This is what we want to do. We want to have 4,917 members who represent the 1% of the women artisans in Mexico. Today, we have strategic alliances like NGO Impacto and Ensemble Artesano to help us reach throughout Latin America and Mexico. For the 500,000 investment, we are searching to scale the growth of the enterprise. This will allow us to reinvest in the growth and expansion of Juxta Nation, allowing us to make national and international commercial alliances and to make Juxta Nation grow. This will set a new precedent in the textile sector with master artisans of Mexico and Latin America. The essence of Juxta Nation is based on social commitment, generating gender-focused enterprises where women increase their income by reducing their working hours. And this, in turn, reduced the environmental impact of the processes' productions and the safeguarding of their cultural heritage. The future of fashion is sustainable, timeless, artisanal, and female. Together, we work this path, Juxta Nation. Thank you. I'm Sebastian Mortimer with AgriLog. AgriLog is a agricultural services company. We provide three key services to farmers in Haiti. We're looking to solve a key set of problems. One of them is low crop yield, lack of access to financing, 60% post-harvest loss, and limited access to local buyers and export buyers. We do this through what we call a flex concept. With flex, we provide financing, logistics, and expertise. One of the key areas of finance that we're doing today is a small accelerator where we choose small projects that we put capital into. Usually, these are amounts ranging from $5,000 to $10,000. On the logistics side, we take a full operational control of the crops, meaning from the farm and to the final buyers. This includes processing the crops, storing it in our warehouse or co-chain, and the export process to U.S. markets. On the expertise side, we also provide business management services to the farmers, meaning accounting, marketing connections to buyer groups, and also partnerships with universities and other institutions, such as the government or, for example, minister of finance for farming. Right now, we have pilots running nationwide. These pilots have allowed us to reach around 2,600 farmers. The key crop right now in our pilot is peppers. So if you like hot sauce, we export peppers to the U.S. and also mash it in a process, which is a process before converting it to the hot sauce. Our goal right now is scaling these operations to be able to reach more farmers and more distribution. Right now, we're at a run rate of roughly $800,000, and with a $2 million investment, this will allow us to reach a $18 million run rate in 18 months. This target is based on discussions with our distributor groups that we're already selling into, and they're asking us for more product, more product, but this requires capital and time and investment. The use of funds is fairly straightforward. We're investing in the farmers directly into the infrastructure to allow us to process more products. What we've seen so far is for every $1,000 investment into the program, we're able to increase farmer income by $500 per year. As I mentioned, our key asset is a $2 million investment. In addition to that, we're looking for partners in the agriculture sector. This includes food importers, a new program, the government, and for example, institutions such as universities that have agricultural programs that can provide technical assistance to our farming operations. I just wanted to invite you guys to visit our website, AgriLog.ht. This is our good friend, Kabe. He is the leader of one of our key cooperatives in the north of Haiti. With him, he's been able to increase his income but also provide services to his community. One key example is he provided water fountain and cleaning and arranging, for example, the small road work in the area. I invite you to reach out to us on either our website. We've been featured by CBS News and other news companies so you can see more visuals about our operations. Thank you for your time and thank you for Kellogg for inviting us to this presentation. Good afternoon. My name is Pierre Noel. I'm the Executive Director of the Haiti Development Institute. Going up in Haiti and world Haiti with my grandparents, I often had to take care of livestock before school and after school. Also, once a week, we would find time to go irrigate the land. Sometimes we would stay at nine until dawn. I knew then that lack of access to water, lack of access to facilities, machineries, and lack of access to financing were key obstacles to local farmers in Haiti. Over the years, these gaps have grown quite a bit and they have made local life for local farmers almost virtually impossible. This is why HDI has partnered to actually propose the AgriFood Enterprise Entrepreneurship Center. This is a one-stop shop that proposes and it is informed by work that we've done with thousands of rural farmers over the years. This center will provide three key services. It will provide farmers access to training inputs and it will also create a space for storage and processing that will help to reduce the devastating post harvest losses. Also, it will create a space for entrepreneurship and training for farmers and young people to ensure that we have agricultural enterprises. Now, 43% of the Haitian population is currently insecure. That is one of the highest in the world. As we look at this, Haiti is a country of remarkable beauty. It's also a country full of resources and potential. Now, as we look at the post harvest losses in the country, post harvest losses in Haiti is about 50% for vegetables and fruits and 33% for cereals. That's actually a whopping $452 million in losses in income for smallholder farmers. And this is why we're proposing this center because this center will do away with all the losses and reverse this trend. This one-stop shop will be built on 40 acres of land owned by HDI, worth about $2 million. It will help to accompany farmers like Marie, like my late grandfather, who would have used this service. Now, imagine where we are in a place where farmers in Haiti can access services financing. They can access an entrepreneurship center that will create enterprises and also will get young people in Haiti a renewed interest in agriculture. This center is going to revitalize agriculture, but also it will create an economic boost for the 200,000 people who live on the Akadem Coast. It will also give farmers a space to reverse the loss that we have from post harvest losses. What we're seeking for this initiative is $5 million, with $3 million of that in grants and $2 million in investments of diverse types. This initiative is catalytic for communities and for people like Marie to help to take care of their families, and it is also catalytic to give young people in Haiti a stake in their communities and in their future. Please join us in creating viable communities in Haiti. Thank you. Hi. Good afternoon. My name is Manel Modelo, and I want to invite you to take a deep breath with me and to visualize yourself within this landscape. From 2013 to 10 years now, we have been working with and for small farmers from coffee growers from Chiapas, southern Mexico, to set up an innovative economic development model that aims to break the vicious circle of poverty and to unlock the potential for sustainable impact. In close and in-depth conversation with them, we are addressing the three main challenges to reach prosperity in rural communities. First, small farmers require credits to invest in their plots and improve productivity and therefore income. Also, their cooperatives require credits to sell that coffee into direct markets and get better prices, and they all need also access to knowledge through training and technical assistance, to make things happen, but also to empower them as a primary subject of what we do. The synapses model does that while putting the impact on rural communities at the center of what we do, and by coordinating and synchronizing those three main services in a way that works for them. In other words, we are setting up an open environment which from any smallholder or cooperative can take advantage of. We have two social enterprises for financial inclusion, one for smallholders and a new one for cooperatives. We have a channel, a trading company, to export the coffee and we also have an NGO with five integrated programs that empower farmers, leaders, youth and women. We have demonstrated the results for more than 3,000 families and eight cooperatives so far. The synapses model works and we want to grow and scale it and scale also our impact. We are asking for $5 million through four years to get the necessary scale for systemic change. But that is not the most important thing that we are looking for. We need passionate partners that are committed with rural development and are willing to work with the most vulnerable and impoverished people. We also need new and fresh talent and creativity to work with us through this new path of growth and scale. And more than capital, we are looking for sustainable wealth for all of us. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Hola. How are you today? Good. Hi. I have my audience. So, hi. The first thing is that I really appreciate all of you being here and the intentions that brought you here above all. And, well, I would like to make a little bit of the change in the way we approach social development. I want to make it through our smile, through our good news, through our happiness and through sustainable ways in a very economical point of view. So, let's see. Okay. Next. Ready? Because I am. So, hi, everybody. I'm here to present you a remarkable opportunity that not only addresses a unique challenge faced by the thousand, sorry, by over an 11,000 of beekeepers in the Yucatan Peninsula, but also taps into the ever-growing honey market. In Yucatan, these beekeepers represent more than a quarter of all Mexican producers, and it's time we empower them to thrive. Let me introduce you to Mukap, a project that is destined to revolutionize the honey industry. For decades, honey companies in Yucatan have act as intermediaries standing between the hard-working beekeepers and the end customers. Mukap, hence, represents nowadays a monumental shift and a way to professionalize beekeepers in the region and with it to elevate the quality of life. Given the fact that the honey market shows no signs of slowing down, Mukap operating as a social business and using a short-circuit commercialization model is now creating an ever-growing win-win scenario for everyone involved. Ergo, by having invested in training, skills development and ensuring beekeepers are equipped for success, Mukap is now supporting its local economy with real employment opportunities within their communities. Our product is second to none. We take pride in overseeing every stage of production from the hive to the customer hands. Our customers trust our product because it's traceable, offering confidence and security. The honey is differentiated by its origin steaming from endemic flowers in both monoflora and multi-flora presentations. And the product has already found its way to the shelves of major retailers such as Walmart, among other relevant Mexican franchises. In 2022 alone, we sold 49,000 pieces, generating over $29,000 in sales. And this is for families which income used to be, I'm going to say some data, I'm sorry, but this is very important because their income used to be a little bit less than $6 per week, per family. So this is just the beginning. We know we have the capacity to increase our production by 357%, unlocking an immense potential in this market. From our stash of socially relevant data, the social investment over the past 12 years from the Legorettor-Nandes Foundation, the WKK Foundation and the Ray Dalio Foundation has transferred MUCAB's big keepers into self-managers, self-learners and agents of change. Having overcome what we've named the social breaking point, and a real, real, real social return on investment have been reached with ourselves, profits, and above all, noticeable increase of quality of life. This journey is very far from over because we are committed to seeing the MUCAB project throughout for the next five years. We firmly believe that the incredible people behind MUCAB have the power to change not only their lives, but also the destiny of their communities. Together, we're taking the big keeping industry to new heights. Join us in this incredible journey towards empowering big keepers driving its economical growth and delivering a high quality product to the world. Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Patrick DeSous. I'm the executive director of Kazele and a funding member of the Haiti Food System Alliance. I don't know how many of you have been to Haiti. I would like to present you to Moise. Moise is a young, energetic farmer and a client of the Haiti Food System Alliance. Haiti is in trouble. Forming communities are in trouble. So I want you to meet Izzé and Sarah, one of the millions forming families in Haiti. Izzé and Sarah, they're harvesting a little small plot because we do have a lot of small scale farmers in Haiti. So the sector is curated by NGOs for many years we have a lot of investment that was made in the agriculture sector and on seeing now we're still having a lot of difficulties to see the result. And what we have now, if you look at CNN and other news outlets, you see a lot of forming communities, the people, they're moving to the US, moving to other countries for better livelihood. I want you to look at the screen. That's Haiti in 1980 and Haiti today. So in 1980, we used to produce in all of the regions and now what we have, we have more Haitians. In 1980, we had about 6 billion and now we have about 12 billion. So we're not producing enough for to feed the nation. Now you see, as you see on the table, 60% of Haitians, they're living in poverty and 40% of them chronically food insecure. Local production only meet 40% of the national need compared to 80% in 1980. So we want to do something, we live with a new salary. That's what we create the Haiti Food Stem Alliance. The Haiti Food Stem Alliance is what we call a agriculture value chain optimization approach to the problems we're facing right now where it's led by locally led organizations, proven organizations that well know by the international community, farmer centric and we're promoting radical collaboration. What we do, we deliver resources, services to farmers like Moïs, you saw at the beginning, smiling and so far we have achieved, we have supported 30,000 farmers and help feed 40,000 Haitians most renewable. So what we're looking for exactly, we're looking at like a combination of 2.5 million. 1.5 we're going to use it to improve our program, have a strategic plan, pay for the staff and the secretariat and we need 1 million to use it as a revolving fund so we can use it and trade credit to make sure the farmers like Moïs you see at the beginning and it's there in Sarah, like you saw it's there in Sarah on the second slide to actually make ends meet, pay for the school traditions for the kids and actually make a better life for them. Thank you. This apparently is just a jar of a gourmet product. It looks like a tropical habanero marmalade but for us it's our tool to bring social innovation to low-income communities in southeast of Mexico. My name is Carlos Ponce Leon and I'm the founder of Ethic Foods and I want to share with you our recipe to social innovation gourmet. Our first ingredient is working with the producers of the raw materials. We use a method of agroecological to have the best quality of products and ingredients possible. Then I want to introduce with you with the stars of our story. They are Atala, Maria, Juana and Marbella and they are the women who produce and transform all our products. There are Mayan speaking women who live in low-income communities and they work together to make like the products of marmalades of tropical marmalades and tomato all products like hot sauces like watermelon and pineapple. When they start to work with our model they increase their income in 30% and nowadays we are working with 27 families who most of them are women. Now we have reached like the coffee please certificate that is the national certificate we have FDA and we start to sell the products here in New York and we will be in the East Coast very soon. Also we have these partnerships like A2Artisans Mexico who is the nonprofit which we work together to bring all these opportunities to the communities. Now we are seeking for $220,000 the health investment and the health to ground and that will be used to improve our marketing strategy and to find more small producers to increase our impact and still spread our and to spread our recipe with more people. Dioz Botic, thank you. Hello. I'm Drico DeCasi I'm the managing director of Alina Energy and today I'm going to tell you a little bit more about Alina Energy. So Alina Energy is a solar renewable energy company and the first thing I want to start with is our origin story. So our origin story starts with a seven-year-old kid who sat in a dark room. This seven-year-old kid was sad to say the least. The reason so is because it was the summer. It was the summer and he thought that he was going to go to sleep late and he was going to have fun with his family and friends but unfortunately it got dark and all the lights went off. Well, there were no lights but it was off. But what happened on that day was something that was like a miracle. We had this incandescent light bulb that was in the middle of the room. This light flickered and then it turned on and from there the whole neighborhood erupted. People were ecstatic. They were yelling, saying they gave power, they gave power and that was the reality back then. We were all excited and so from that day on I made the commitment to myself that I would make sure that no kid ever gets that excited for electricity. So one thing that we from then on one thing that we decided to do was to ensure that electricity or the availability of electricity becomes a normality and it's not, we don't get excited for receiving it for one hour but we get disappointed when we don't get it. And so as I clickered it doesn't seem to be work. Got it. So the problem is so when we, so fast forward now let's say 20 years later we looked into the problem, we dug deep and we tried to figure out why is there an electricity problem in Haiti. And one thing that we saw was the problem is magnified in rural areas. So while the country the electrification rate in the country is 72% only the electrification rate in rural areas is only 15%. And this is because of a combination of things. So one thing is the upfront cost of electrifying those areas. And the second reason is opportunity cost the ability to accurately size and the fact that households aren't so close together. So we came up with the solution. So this solution allowed us to address these problems. So we don't go into the technicalities of this solution. But one thing that I'll say is we've partnered with experienced suppliers and we found a way to deploy at a rate that's 70% faster than the solutions that's on the market today. And then in addition to that we save our consumers 60% with this current solution. So what we've done to date is we've raised enough funding to provide 50,000 people with energy. In addition to that we've created over 200 jobs and by 2025 we believe that number is going to be over 325 jobs. We've assisted entrepreneurs which means we've helped them increase their standard of living and in addition to doing this in a clean way where we're providing them with clean energy. So what we're asking for today is approximately $4 million. What this $4 million would do is it would help 100,000 people not get excited when they receive electricity for one hour. It would help children be disappointed when they go on to turn on the lights and it doesn't turn on. So this $4 million would energize 23,400 households in addition to the 10,000 that we've already energized. Thank you very much.


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Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great and for anyone new to the channel, as always, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris, and in today's episode, we're going to be continuing on with our VGC Series 8 content, playing a little bit of a different take on your regular kind of Kyogre build. And not seeing the Tornadis, Tornogre, we're seeing Wim Ogre. So Wim's a cut and Kyogre kind of the predominant kind of lead in this team that was, I'd say, taken a lot of inspiration from a post that I saw on Twitter recently from a Japanese player called Jekyll335. I'll leave all their socials down in the description if you want to drop over and follow them. They posted a clip of their showdown match with the Wim's a cut and the Kyogre, taking advantage of Cotton Sport and Tailwind. So Cotton Sport is a double target attack, drops the speed by two on a pause in Pokemon, so you can really take advantage and win that kind of Tailwind war almost with your against your opponent, which is phenomenal in situations where you're going up against those really fast offensive teams. Just to give you a bit of an edge with Skaft Kyogre, just to make sure that you all get in that double damage every time. Rest of the team is made up with some highly used Pokemon. We've got the Regi Alecki in there. We've got the Magnet on it just to give it that extra boost. We've got Choice Band, Urshifu. So we're really going for a lot of power in this team. And then we've got a little bit of support again with the Indeedee that brings terrain control for us if you want it with the psychic terrain to stop priority attacks. And we also have redirection there with the Follow Me, which helps out pretty much most things on the team.  I'll throw up the rental at the end of the episode. We'll get into the details of the team as we go through a couple of matches. So hopefully you enjoyed today's episode. And without further ado, let's find our first opponent of today. OK, first up today, we've got Luke playing a team of Zassian, Zapdos, Exkudrill, Sanderkonda, Amungus and Rillaboom. So really interesting team here, especially with that kind of sand core that we're seeing there with the Sanderkonda, Potenti G-Max, Sanderkonda with the Exkudrill. It's going to take advantage of that sand stream when it is put up onto the field. Zassian going to be the restrictor of the team. You're kind of looking at predominantly going to be Zapdos, probably the other Max Pokemon or the main Max Pokemon on this team to provide speed control for my opponent. But, you know, the two grass types do make it difficult for Kyogre to perform as well as you kind of would like to see it perform. So depending on what my opponent brings, if they bring both of them, we've got to kind of make sure that we're able to deal with both of them before Kyogre has kind of that free reign to kind of clean up. So maybe Kyogre not the best Pokemon to bring up top. Regi Alecki feels pretty good, although we've got to kind of still be a bit wary just because of the sand core that we can potentially see here. Regi Alecki, do we want to go Regi Alecki?  I'm going to bring Whimsicott Urshifu. I'm going to bring Kyogre and, and, and, and, and, and Thunderous, I think we'll go with as our last one and lock in before we finish it up. It's very tricky like Thunderous we need here, because I think for the grass threats in particular, like Thunderous does so well against them, you know, so we need that like mitigation. We need that check for them to like free up Kyogre. But it's going to be tricky to get it onto the field. Of course, when you're looking and staring down at potentially something like Exkidro here, the Urshifu not so great in this situation at all, I will say right now, because the Airstream is going to come out and do a bunch of damage to us. So we've got a couple of options. What we could potentially do is taunt the Amugus, we could go that way. Airstream is not going to take us down. And then we would have the opportunity to maybe Airstream the next turn or we go tailwind now and go for a big. I think we tailwind now and go for a big, fat, wicked blow into Zapdos. It's probably going to go into Amugus, but at the same time it's not going to be the worst case scenario, I don't think. Because seeing the Amugus kind of makes me feel like probably Rillaboom's not come to this match, because then you've got Zassian for sure in the back. Yeah, and maybe, maybe Sandicondo, maybe Exkidro, I don't know, maybe Rillaboom. Rillaboom probably makes more sense actually, doesn't it? It really does. Okay, well we're going to see Zapdos max. We kind of expected this to happen. We'll get our tailwind up, which is always going to be useful for setting up that Kyogre to come in in a little while. And we do get the wicked blow, banded into that Zapdos, which is huge for us. Which is huge. So the Amugus, we're going to see the art into Whimmy. Okay. So we can cotton spoil the next turn. Kind of wanted to get damage onto the Amugus, because now Oshifu is probably going to get put to sleep, which is not ideal. Which makes it a little bit more tricky to get something like Kyogre onto the field. But at the same time, not the end of the world, not the end of the world. Because we can go for a cotton spoil now. And I think, can we switch Oshifu out? Probably better than switch Oshifu out, right? And get something like Thunderous on the field. Although I kind of prefer a clean sweep with Thunderous. Get it in like unchecked. I'm going to just wicked blow into Amugus. I'm going to let Oshifu go down. If it goes down, that's fine. I think my opponent has to kind of pick here. Do you go after the Whimsicott? Or do you go after the Oshifu? I mean, you could potentially just airstream Oshifu and then clear smog or something into Whimsicott. But with the switch out now that we're seeing from my opponent Zassian coming in, we're going to be able to put it down to minus two as well, which is phenomenal. And with the Amugus kind of out of the picture that makes things way better for us. If you do lose Oshifu here, that's kind of fine for us, honestly, because we get the free switch into Kyogre. Even if we lose Whimsicott here, it's kind of fine for us because we get the free switch into Kyogre, which is exactly what we want, right? There's a speed boost for Zassian, but it's still minus one, you know? And we still got a tailwind up. And I think the Zapdos is probably in range now for the Kyogre to pick it up with a water spout. And we're probably able to do enough damage to the Zassian in the process where we're going to be able to really dent it. We may need to switch around a few things. I think it's probably good to switch Oshifu out now, in all honesty, into Thundurus because then we've got the check if Amungus comes back onto the field, we'll be able to break a sash, get rid of the Zapdos. It depends if the Zassian stays on the field or not. I would imagine it probably doesn't.  But then if we get Thundurus onto the field, this turn and that does transpire, then we're sitting in a really good spot because like I say, the Amungus's sash will be broken if it's potentially got a sash, but we should do enough damage to it where Koba Berry's not gonna allow it to kind of take a max airstream from us either, especially an airstream with another water spout. So we'll see what my opponent goes for, but getting Thundurus onto the field now is always gonna be a good plan, I think. We'll see. No switch out from that Zassian and we just obliterate the field. Okay. I didn't expect it to take down the Zassian. I thought the Zassian might be able to actually take that, but we just do. Just do, bye-bye Zassian. Okay, well, that makes things whole lot easier for us. And of course at Kyogre, the thing about the scarf is where you gotta remember that we've got so much speed control with it, but it doesn't really necessarily rely on that speed control so much, you know? And it is the really boom and the Amungus in the back. So makes things tricky for us, of course. Of course it does, because we don't wanna get put to sleep by the Amungus. By the Amungus, that's the thing. Grassy Glide just gonna kick Kyogre's butt here. Let's be Max. Let's be Max. Let's be Max. We could waterspot. Like we could waterspot, that's the thing. Like we could potentially bring in Urshifu here. I kind of wanna get rid of the terrain as well. That would be more useful for Kyogre in late game, you know? It's not really the play. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's get rid of the terrain, because then it frees up Kyogre a little bit later on. We may see a fake out as well, and we may see a Thullerisk get knocked out. Oh, put to sleep, I should say, by the Amungus here. But with Urshifu, we're kind of all right. We just need to get a bit of chip damage onto Amungus potentially. If it is sash, I don't know if it will be. But they're definitely gonna spoil Amungus' thunderous here. And rage powdering, that's interesting. Okay, well, that means that makes things so much easier for us. I think you had to go for the spoil, potentially. Grassy Glide will hurt, of course. Yup. But now we can just get rid of the Amungus' next turn. The Grassy Glide's gone. So when Kyogre does come back onto the field, we're gonna be able to just ice beam. The Raila Boom and everything will be fine till when pit us out. But I mean, it's not really a big problem, is it? We'll go for a Wicked Blow, and we'll go for an Airstream. I think the Amungus probably is good. If it's got Cobber Bear, it's probably able to take an Airstream, I think, from this range. Yeah. We need Urshifu to wake up. We do, we really do. Because it's sporing us right now. It's sporing us. Come on Urshifu, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up. Because we're both in water-spot range if we get the Wicked Blow off. Come on Urshifu, come on.  Grassy Glide would be enough to get us. Yup. All right, well, yeah, there's a spoil. I mean, the water-spot will be enough to get the Amungus. But we're gonna spend our last turn maxed. Urshloop. But then, thunderous. I mean, it's gonna be able to deal with Relaboon pretty easily, right? We just need to go for the fly. It's not like they're gonna have protect. I think the biggest worry here would be, the concern would be, obviously, if we do see Amungus pull out a protect here. That wouldn't be ideal. But I don't know how likely it is. Probably gonna happen. Probably gonna happen, isn't it? Right now. Let's see, let's see. Come on, opposing opponent. Let's do this. Well, we've got a guaranteed sleep turn, so we know thunderous is not doing anything this turn. But I think if you're my opponent, you probably wanna get damage. Like, you're gonna go after the Kyogre, I think, with Relaboon, for sure. I think a Grassy Glide here makes a lot of sense. Oh, that's not what we wanted to see. That's not what we wanted to see at all. Because now, yeah, the ice beam then, in this kind of situation, would obviously be the better play. But I still think thunderous is all right. I mean, the damage that we're doing there is like phenomenal, really, isn't it? The Kyogre's pretty burst. Grassy Glide, be able to pick up the knock at, yep. And now we're not maxed, but we can fly. They're gonna get at least one turn of kind of damage onto us, though. So, fly. Fly away, thunderous. If I mean if we wake up here, then it's done. It's done. It's just worrying what the Relaboon has other options for. Could be banded as well, you know? I don't think it is, though. I don't know. The damage on the Earth, you feel, is probably a lot more than what it may have been. And it has only clicked the Grassy Glide, but then when does Relaboon really click anything else, you know? Soon find out, I'm sure. There's the rage powder coming out from Amungus. Now, it'd be interesting to see what this... Ah, we do get the fly. Okay, it'd be interesting to see what the interaction here is, because they've rage-powdered us this turn. But then, the next turn, if they don't rage-powder us and they protect Amungus, it'd be interesting to see. Because now you would think, okay, well, we've targeted the Relaboon, which is now targeting the Amungus because of the rage powder, but then, is that just this turn, or is that interaction locked us into Amungus? Whether Amungus can now protect and the Relaboon can Grassy Glide for free, or do they have to rage-powder again? Be an interesting one to test out, at least, wouldn't it? You know? Because you click in your target, but I don't know if that gets interfered with when rage-powder interacts with these double-target attacks. We'll soon find out now. If it does that, that's a good mechanic to use. No, it doesn't do that. So my opponent had to rage-powder there, and now it's kind of done. But they can just go for the old protect stall, because we have to go fly, don't we? I mean, they've probably not got a way to damage us, so we may just see the forfeit here as well. Let's go iron tail. Let's risk an iron tail. We risk getting put to sleep, but you know, let's see. There we go. So we don't have to play through that. Very good game to my opponent. Nice way for us to kick off with today. It was a little bit all over the shop in some places, but we managed to get the win. Kind of had a clear sight, a line of sight for us to be able to do that, and we got to see the win me in action as well, so that was always good. Like I say, good game to my opponent, and we'll hop into our next episode game of today. So next up today, we have Diego playing a Rillaboom Urshifu Rotom Heat, Porygon 2, Meowstick, and Sylveon. So an interesting team, no restricted on here from Diego though, which is a big kind of red marker, almost to say the least, because the restricted in this format give you such an advantage. Not playing them kind of feels like putting my opponent a little bit of this advantage straight away. They do have the Rillaboom, which is going to cause us all sorts of issues. Of course, I think if we can stop trick room going up here, it's going to make our lives so much easier. We'll go Whimsicott, it's got the taunt there. Thunderous, I think does an incredible job. Kyogre can come in, deal with the Rotom Heat, and then to round things off, probably want Reggie, Reggie Leckie. Does well against the, or maybe Urshifu, maybe Urshifu. Just that Sylvian gives us a lot of issues if we see that late game, whereas DeeDee with the redirection could help a bunch. Yeah, and it helps us out against Meowstick, if it does start to go for Prankster shenanigans, I guess. Or Urshifu, which one? Let's go Urshifu, I think. Really, overall, Urshifu's got Poison Jab, so a band of choice, a choice band, Poison Jab onto the Sylvian. If you can get a bit of chip damage onto it, you should do a decent amount of damage. Can't believe we're not playing a restricted Pokemon, though. That is a big surprise for us, so Digo obviously doing well, getting to master ball without a restricted, so big props there, and let's not get caught out in this one, because I feel like we could quite easily get caught out if we're not careful. So we're gonna see Meowstick and Rillaboom. I don't feel really too pressured right here, that it's gonna be fake out on both Pokemon on the Poison side of the field, but we've got a clear shot at going for an airstream here into the Rillaboom, and I think just going for a taunt into Meowstick. Now the issue here would be, if they fake out into Whimsicott and go for that, go for the Trek Room with Meowstick, now that would put us in a really awkward spot. But, I don't really feel like we've got too many other options right now. There's not really anything in the back that we wanna switch in, like Kyogre doesn't wanna come in. If we can remove the Rillaboom early on, that helps Porygon 2 coming in. So at least we're not gonna see a fake out, we'll be able to get a taunt off into the Meowstick, which is useful. Unless we see the Meowstick go for a fake out, potentially. But the damage onto the Porygon 2 is gonna be really useful. We can taunt that the next turn as well, prevent it from setting up a Trek Room, just really try and lock my opponent down and try and make use of Thunderous while we got it on the field, because I think that's the big thing. Reflect coming out from the Meowstick, definitely gonna help my opponent be able to take some big attacks, for sure as we get the taunt off into the Meowstick. This is where we see a mental herb, isn't it? No mental herb, okay, we get the Airstream, which is useful. And a bit of damage into the P2, but the reflect really helping out there a bunch. And I wanna max, I think max knuckle this next turn into P2 and taunt it. It's probably gonna be a way to kind of play it. If we cannot use our Restricted here as well, I feel like it's probably a little bit more of an even match. Throwback to series seven, I guess, which we'll have in series nine, which is only four, five weeks away. Yep, I don't know what I'm gonna be doing when series nine comes around, because I feel like we kind of covered a lot of stuff in series seven. I don't know if it's really... Content that I'll be redoing. I don't know, we'll have to have a look at what we kind of plan on doing. So we're gonna see the P2 go for the max, which makes a lot of sense, but we still needed to cover the trick room there. If it didn't max and it went for the trick room, we'd be in a lot of trouble. This team doesn't like trick rooms, so we've got to do all the kind of countermeasures that we can along the way to kind of prevent my opponent from getting that trick room set up. So we are gonna get the taunt into it, which is helpful, I guess, in some sort of ways, but the max knuckle gonna start boosting up this thunderous, which is the big thing here. We do have access to steel spikes as well, which we can throw onto the Sylvia in the next turn, max hail storm. Is it gonna be into the wimmy to get rid of it? No, into thunderous, okay. The assault vest should help us out a bunch. Yeah, that's useful. Now, this is where we probably wanna make some decisions. Like, do we go after the Sylvian here and just go steel spike into the Sylvian, try and nuke it? Like, double tap into it? We still got our sash intact with Whimsicott. And then worry about the polygon too a little bit later. We should take an attack from, yeah, I think like a plus one steel spike would get the Sylvian, especially if we kind of pair that up with a moon blast as well. Um, the defense boost might help. Well, it's not really helping anything out, you know? We kind of would preferably have like a special defense boost against what's out on the field, but I'm pretty confident that we'll get the Sylvian. My only worry would be if we see it protect, but we're not gonna see that. So this plus a moon blast, yeah, will be more than enough. As long as you don't see a stray berry pop up and save it's bacon. I think the thing is if we lose Whimsicott, it gets a little bit more scary because, now they're going up to the thunderous, just because we haven't got access to that taunt to prevent the trick room later on in the match, which is not ideal. Okay, well, like I say, when he's still sticking around, thunderous still on the field. But a fake out coming out will not be the best thing. You kind of wanna see Rillaboom come out here because I think if Rillaboom comes out here, it's not the best play for my opponent in all honesty because that grassy terrain is gonna end in a couple of turns. So it's gonna mean to get it back up. My opponent is gonna need to switch out to get it back in again, which is really disrupt up to their momentum, but now they're making a better play with the Meowstick coming out, which makes it more difficult for us, for sure. Is it worth keeping thunderous out now? We could, well, the super power might be useful later on. And getting Kyogre out into the field now isn't a bad play, because then we kind of can maybe force. They're gonna max hail storm. We kind of need to wait a little bit, a little moment. Let's get Urshifu out and let's go for, let's go for that taunt into Meowstick. We might see a fake out and attack into Wimmy here. Could be possible, but I think you're probably more inclined to try and fake out the thunderous because of the boosts that we've got there. And the danger that it's kind of thrown up onto the field for us. Fake out. Oh, they're double tapping into the Wimmy, which is, I don't mind, I really don't mind. So you get rid of the Wimmy here. Yeah, that's fine. And now we get Kyogre onto the field. They're not maxed anymore. They can throw up a light screen, but we can double tap into the Porygon too. They got one more turn of the grassy terrain, I think. I think, I think, I think, I'm not too sure. I really want to lock into Wicked Blow rather than close combat. So grassy terrain. You're going to stick around. Taunt wears off, that's the problem. But not such a problem when we got water spout and Wicked Blow, which should be enough. It should be hopefully is enough, hopefully is enough. That's what we need because we need to remove something from the field now. The Rillaboom's still going to be scary to face because it gets the grassy terrain up when it comes back in. You kind of need it to come onto the field now. Wicked Blow. And water spout. And hopefully it's enough. If we don't see light screen now, then it's definitely enough. But I'd imagine now sticks, we've seen what fake out, reflect. There's blatantly trick room there, I think as well. Potentially, potentially, maybe not though. We'll see. We'll soon find out, but water spout here going to be enough to kind of close this one out. We're having to rely on our restricted Pokemon. So Diego forcing us into using this Kyogre here. There's the light screen. I'm hoping that this is going to be enough between the two water spout. Get the Meowstick, so this Wicked Blow is enough. I'm not sure if it will be, you know. We're banded, we're banded. It has to be enough. Of course it's going to be enough. Of course it's going to be enough. Yeah, yeah, no doubt about it. No doubt about it. The grassy terrain disappears from the field just in time for that Rillaboom to come back onto the field. Okay, well, let's see.  They're going to go after the Kyogre here. And I think that's fine. Because I think we've got too many Pokemon left on the field. I mean, they may go after the Oshifu. I doubt it, though. I think you just go after the Kyogre. No, they don't. Okay, they're going for the Oshifu, wanting to get rid of that. Now that's just, yeah, too much. Because that, plus the Wicked Blow, is going to be enough to clean this one up first. And we do pick up a win, but you've got to take your hat off to Diego and not bring in restrictors and kind of really taking us to the wire in this one. Making it very difficult for us, but we do manage to get a victory in the end. But like I say, big props to Diego and a nice one for us to kind of finish off with today, I guess. So hopefully you have enjoyed it, friends. It's not too often we get to come up against an opponent that's not using restrictors in a restricted format. So in, like I say, big props there and we'll jump over now and get you the rental code for today's team. Okay, friends, here is the rental code for today's team. If you do try it out, like always, I hope you have a lot of fun with it. I think scarf Kyogre is a really interesting kind of take on playing Kyogre in this format. You kind of predominantly see it with Mystic Water or another item, not generally seen with the scarf too much anymore, but I think it's something that's definitely worth looking at. It's one of those items that allows Kyogre to play completely differently to how you would normally play. You're not looking at it as normally something that you're going to max, whereas you've still got the option to, but you're not generally looking at it as a maximum. You're looking at it kind of a month to come in either late game sweep up or early game to kind of cut through things, to kind of pave a way for one of your other Pokemon to kind of do the work after that. So something like thunderous to come in late game after the Kyogre has done its work with the Water Spouts early game, that the Whimsicott with the Cotton Spore is really good tech, I really do like it. I think the fact that it's a double target attack as well, and it's coming off pranks that makes it very valuable. Like I've said, the team struggles a little bit with Trick Room, but you've just got to kind of plan the matches out pretty well and position Pokemon in a way where if you can't deny the Trick Room, at least you've got options to kind of get some return on your attacks. You know, you're getting knockouts where possible with the big hitters that you've got on the team, like Oshope, you've got redirection there to kind of help out with those tricky situations. But overall, I really do enjoy the team. And if you try it out, I hope you do as well. So we'll wrap things up there, friends. Have a great rest of your day whenever you're up to and I'll catch you for another episode very soon. So thanks for tuning in. Take care of yourselves and bye-bye.


Hello, guys. Good morning. So today I'm going to explain one of the interview question. Most interview question, it is like one of the most commonly encountered exception or error while we are trying to build a spring good application from the scratch. So I have one spring good application or forget about the naming conviction. This was for one of the interview questions that I have attended with the mobility. So I have one main class. I have one controller. I have injecting one service, but when I'm meeting the IPA, I am just retaining a string. And this was the service that is getting injected. Forget about the logic. This was for the entire question that I have written. So now let me run this application, run and see. So the reason for explaining this interview question is when I have attended one of the interview in three years back, and I was asked to develop a spring good application exposing on the STPA and I ended up with this page and I was rejected in that role. So this was an error page. White label error page. I know what blue label, red label, but I was not aware of what is white label. And the restriction was I cannot use Google there. So I couldn't resolve this issue at that time. But later on I came to know how we can resolve this. So if you know how to resolve this, you can skip this video. So the easiest way to resolve this issue is using what you want me to use. Okay, so let's use component scan. Okay, using component scan. So basically why this issue happens is if you see the main application package structure, this is below the controller. So the application will not be able to scan anything about its package. Anything above that package anything below it can solve like it will resolve, but it will not be able to read anything above. So here comes the internet component scan for our rescue. Now let me run. I have to restart it as I'm not having the reputation of DevTools. So it got restarted. Let me hit this service again. Yes, it got resolved. Whatever string we pass, it is coming back. Now let's see without components scan, how can we resolve this issue? Okay, so to resolve that issue, now just from here we can just copy this. We need to restructure the package. Refactor vn in here. Okay, so now if you see it is the controller package is below the main application. So now let's stop and rerun our application. Okay, so if you rephrase this, so I guess again we are getting you will know. So these are the two ways like two easy ways with which we can resolve the white label error page issue. Yeah, that's it from this video. If you liked the video, you can press the like button and thank you for watching. Thanks for your time.


Cezanne Hall for Winter 2021 with all my favourite effortlessly chic outfit ideas. As you can see, I have a rail full of beautiful new-in-clothes from the Winter Collection at Cezanne and I'm going to be sharing two, possibly three different ways I would style each piece. As you can probably tell, I am hugely excited to show you all what I bought. I actually think this might be my favourite collection they've done all year. So let's begin with a little bit of sparkle and something I'm thinking about wearing for Christmas Day and that would be this beautiful deep navy shirt. How pretty is that? Let me bring it a little bit close so you can see all that lovely detailing around the edge there. So this has been made from 100% organic cotton, so big tick from the stars. Check that label off because I'm sure about this one. So you've got all this lovely embroidery detail across the chest as well and then those two frills that come over the shoulder there which is so pretty. I don't know if you remember but I was saying the other week, a couple of years ago, that I really needed a couple of new pretty blouses in my wardrobe because that's the sort of thing one for Christmas parties and dressing up a little bit that I felt like I was missing. So this definitely fills a gap for me. So the bit of sparkle is coming from this beading detail that you've got all the way around the neck and a sprinkle of it across the chest and the shoulders. It's a sprinkle rather than a splash which is just my cup of tea. So this first outfit is kind of what I'm thinking for Christmas Day this year. I've mended it before but I do have this thing where I like to get it quite dressed up on Christmas Day which is just ridiculous because I end up cooking half of the day and it's not the most practical thing to be dressed up in some of your favorite pieces but I can't help myself and I just love the feeling of being all dressed up on Christmas morning. The second look I'm sharing hopefully that you don't need to save your sparkly or glittery pieces for best or for special occasions. It does feel really effortlessly chic which is pretty good because that is in the title of this video. And it is a bit of a high low look which is something I'm also really fond of. Obviously the high with a little bit of sparkle and the two lows with my jeans and my blazer. Like most people for the last couple of years I don't really go out very much so I do feel the need to use pieces like this as much as possible in the daytime as well. You want to really get the most wear out of your wardrobe possible so don't say things for best.  See if you can make it work for the daytime and I'm imagining there would be at least a couple of high low outfits you could create. Next on my row is this beautiful mini dress made from 100% merino wool. Now I'm not sure how they do it but Cezanne's merino wool tends to feel like cotton in a really nice way. I've got really bad eczema on my hands which I'm sorry it looks awful today but sometimes merino really irritates it and makes it even worse but for whatever reason and very lucky for me Cezanne's doesn't do that to me. It feels very smooth, very cooling on my skin. As we know minis are particularly on trend this season and I don't have an awful lot of them in my wardrobe so it was definitely a gap that needed filling. I was only going to buy into that trend if I found something that really suited me which this definitely does I think. I hope so anyway. Now there's a couple of reasons why I feel particularly comfortable in this and I wouldn't in say another type of mini dress. Firstly I would say I really like long sleeves, obviously it's very practical for the cold but I like that look as well. I love a puff sleeve, it's a bit like camel for me I can never resist. Having a little bit of detail at the shoulders just helps balance you out a little bit and for me as well this one is about those little details that maybe you wouldn't spot straight away but it does overall make an outfit look more expensive because of them. So two different looks there with this dress, one particularly dress down just pairing it with my loafers. You could toughen that up with a leather jacket maybe that would look quite cool and this second look which I think is my favourite between the two but do let me know in the comments section which you prefer. This look just naturally feels a little bit more prosium which is a star I'm very fond of. So next up to this very pretty baby blue cardigan that I'm wearing. Can you tell I am in love with this cardigan? I think it's beautiful. Pretty cardigans and just beautiful knitwear in general seems to be quite a running theme I see on street style images from Paris and I think part of that is down to the little details, those pretty trims and gentle frills. I think that sort of encompasses a very traditional French looking cardigan for me. So this one is actually available in a lovely deep golden tone if you prefer something a bit darker. They've also got red if you prefer a pop of colour and they've got a really nice accrued version as well. So I thought with my new darker hair a baby blue might look quite nice. Now lots of people ask me is Cezanne's knitwear itchy and like I was talking about before there is some magic that they do with their knitwear that enables me to be able to wear pretty much all of it. This one for instance has been made from blend of wool and mohair and I would have said traditionally I could never wear mohair it would drive my ex-mopotic but for some reason like I said before I am able to wear Cezanne's. I don't find them itchy at all they're not scratching against my skin and that's brilliant for me because it kind of opens up this whole area of clothes that I wasn't able to wear before. So a bit of a running theme here the cardigan has got very slight puff sleeves which are pretty. However the shining glory with this cardigan has to be that beautiful open work detail to the knit. So you've got it going all the way around the neck and coming down the front and then you've got that gorgeous crochet detail as well just finishing it off beautifully. So two different outfit ideas for you there but in all honesty I think this cardigan is absolutely beautiful I know I'm going to be able to mix and match it into lots of different outfit ideas. A definite keeper. Now before I move on to the rest of the row I had a little idea that I just wanted to run by you all and see what you thought. I often think how lovely it would be to be able to meet some of you maybe do a bit of shopping go for a cuppa put the world to right so I was thinking about getting in touch with the London Cezanne store and asking them if I could do some sort of event in store and invite you all to come along. Timeline wise it's possibly something we could do for the launch of their spring collection set. We could have a few drinks on me of course and try on a few pieces that are new in store and give you my styling advice. Obviously the nature of YouTube means that a lot of you are all around the world which kind of blows my mind when I think about it so only a small portion of you would actually be able to go to London but maybe we could livestream the event so you could join in and I could take questions from you on the laptop and you can see all the outflow ideas. I don't know if all this will work it's just an idea but I do know it will be really lovely to meet as many of you as I possibly can. So do let me know in the comment section below if you'd either like to come along to the Cezanne store in London or would you like me to livestream it so you can see everything that's going on. Do let me know what you think in the comment section below. I am slightly nervous that I'd organise something like this and maybe three people would turn up but as three people could have a really nice time. Next up in my Cezanne shopping spree I went for this beautiful silk blouse. Now as I was saying earlier I definitely had a gap in my wardrobe I was missing some pretty blouses some nice shirts and particularly looking for things that would cross over nicely for all different sorts of occasions. So this shirt is actually quite a classic with Cezanne it's one of their best sellers. I forgot to mention one of the most important things it's made from 100% silk and it feels beautiful. I just love the quality of their pieces I don't think I have ever had an item from Cezanne that I thought hmm not sure about the quality there they're always amazing always beautiful and when I look at their pieces in my own wardrobe I can imagine I'm going to be wearing it in 10 years 15 years time and although they follow the trends and they tick loads of those boxes they do it in their own special french way so it feels really original. And then in this second look I went for something a bit smarter possibly for workwear with tailored trousers loafers and then a beautiful classic wool coat. I would wear both but I would equally wear this probably in about 50 different ways a very versatile and beautifully made piece. Next up in this Cezanne haul I bought something that I've wanted for a very long time the Leo boots. These are a classic at Cezanne that I finally got round to spoiling myself to. There are lots of different reasons I think these are the perfect looking ankle boots but let's start with that gorgeous colour I just adore it I can never resist it so I know it's going to mix and match into loads of different outfit ideas. The quality as with all of their leather items is beautiful and the other bonus I think with this particular pair is the heel height. I could quite comfortably walk around in those all day and it wouldn't kill my feet and it would give me a little bit of extra height which is always a bonus. And another clever trick is that they laminate their heels as well so it minimizes them getting scuffed. Also I did a really lovely shoot yesterday for a friend I met on Instagram she's launching a collection of recycled cashmere pieces and a beautiful pair of organic jeans and I styled those boots with one of her gorgeous jumpers I think I've got it here on the rail look at this for a match they were made to go together I will link to her collection in the description box below because I think it's absolutely worth a look this is the one that I want to buy for myself actually because as you know I can never resist a stripe so it's not an ad just a brand that I would highly recommend and she's a really lovely lady too but back to Cezanne and my beautiful boots that no doubt I shall be wearing on repeat this winter. Now to another beautiful Cezanne top like the dress this ones were made from a hundred percent merino this for me is going to be one of those everyday workhorses in my capsule wardrobe you could easily add another layer underneath if you needed to it's just one of those very versatile pieces so like I mentioned you've got that higher neck which feels really elegant and that lovely bottom detail just coming over the shoulder there so as you can see in outfit one I went pretty tonal with lots of different shades of grey one of my favourites for this winter I paired it with my charcoal gastave trousers love the shape on those and then I've added my pointed toe ankle boots on my feet and I've finished with this beautiful grey male coat in the second look I was hoping to share just how lovely grey and navy look together I absolutely love that combination and it's something I've been wearing an awful lot so far this winter so I've got my skinny jeans on there my ankle boots again and one beautiful blazer that I cannot stop wearing because I absolutely love it to finish off yes it is a staple piece but it's been made so beautifully that I hope to have it for life as you will have seen throughout this video I am a little bit in love with my new navy blazer how beautiful is that it's effortlessly it's very french and I absolutely love it so it's double breasted you've got a classic collar and then this lovely piping detail over the pocket but of course the shining star with this one has to be those amazing gold buttons which just ooze Parisian style to me so this one is available in the navy that I went for but also a charcoal grey one thing to note I did size up to a 40 in this whereas I would normally go with a 38 thinking about winter because I do want to be able to wear this throughout the season and mix and match it with all my chunky knits underneath you might have also seen on my instagram feed I styled this recently with navy stripes underneath it's a classic look of course that's always a winner in my book and I was also wearing this very same jacket in last week's french style chic video if you've missed that I shall pop a link in the description box below and as a bit of a brucey bonus I also started like this dressing it up a little bit to make it work for the evening and thinking about all those christmas parties we're going to be enjoying sometimes I think you can go into a store and not be sure what's going to suit you and you don't fall in love with it until you try it on and it surprises you and other times like that with that blazer you just know yep that's my style through and through I have to have it next up to my beautiful grey wool coat now I wanted one of these coats for quite a while but I couldn't decide what colour so grey was something I was definitely missing in my own wardrobe and when I spotted this new in for winter 2021 I couldn't resist I'm gonna have to put it back on the rail because it's actually very heavy made from 100% wool and as you can see it's got a lovely mixture of different grey tones in there which just gives it a bit more depth and makes it feel a little bit more special it's definitely more tailored than some of my other coats I've bought recently so again that was an area that I seem to be missing out on it's double breasted it's got quite a straight cut piped pockets and obviously the tailored colour it obviously works beautifully with all those shades of grey that I showed you before in this outfit idea I decided to style it with the leather trousers again so to keep it nice and toasty I've added my big chunky roll neck that one came from Reese again a couple of seasons ago so if there is a similar one available I shall link it in the description box below it's obviously one of those pieces that's going to be incredibly versatile in my wardrobe so a very welcome addition to my rail and that just about completes my last Cezanne haul of the year I really really hope you love all the pieces that I chose as much as I do and it'd be really nice to hear your favourites in the comment section below so it's nearly Christmas and I am very nearly nearly at 100,000 subscribers on YouTube which is amazing and I am so very grateful to all of you I try not to think about the numbers too much because then I get nervous and it scares me a little bit doing my videos it's almost easier if I think that it's just a couple of people watching however Walter keeps reminding me I am very very nearly there to 100,000 subscribers so if you can help in any way to get me just that little bit closer before Christmas I would be very grateful do have a wonderful week everyone and I will see you back here next Sunday with lots more outfit ideas and fashion advice take care


Continuing with the Living and My Purpose Journey video series and this video will be focused on fears. What type of fears that you have. What may be blocking you from walking into your purpose and I mean you. I'm really talking about me girl. So the previous videos I had to remember correctly we had my introduction and what this series would be about. What I've been doing basically also creating a career vision board which has been going wonderful and now we're going to talk about my fears because I think that is really important to determine how you're going to tackle those fears and address those fears so that you can get through that and begin doing the fun stuff which is working towards finding a purpose in life which and I say you I mean me really. So I want to give you guys two resources to look into because I'm assuming that some of you guys are going to be following me during this journey. One is Erica Jackson and I mentioned her before. Her entire get up I should say is about fear and release and fear and she does it from a spiritual perspective. I met her a couple years ago at a women's convention here in Phoenix, Arizona and she was so mind-blowing that I had to search her out. So I've been following her. She also offers some self-development or self-help guidelines and books and audio all that jazz on finding your purpose in life. I've created I've purchased several of her books. I actually went ahead and read her vision book and since her core focus is fear that she has tons of information and resources. So I want to be linking her what's up down below. She does offer a couple of freebies too so please check her out. Another one actually is a fellow youtuber which is where I got a lot of my information that I'm going to be sharing with you today. I just discovered her last week. Isn't God good? And it was a hair related video because she's a natural hair youtuber and she has beautiful hair. And her name is TJ Loves being natural and I'm gonna be linking her site down below to at least her channel down below. So let's just get right into it. Before I do that I want to give you guys an update on some milestones I have hit. It has been a very productive month. Word is February 28th. I think March 1st. Let me tell you I've gotten so much done and there was some things that I wasn't as good about and I'll just let you guys know about that because I believe in being transparent, transparent and transparency I should say with my own stuff too because it holds me accountable okay. So the first thing is I got baptized. Amen which was very very instrumental for me as a believer in Jesus Christ. So I got baptized that was on my vlogs if you follow my vlog videos. I tried my, I'm laughing, the next one. I tried my best not to look at any ratchet TV. So I definitely don't watch any Real Housewives of Atlanta. I didn't look at any blogs. I didn't look at any reviews. I saw two episodes of married to medicine which is pretty good all month. So yeah and I didn't do too good with that but I tried my best okay. I completed my career vision board and I'm not sure what I'm gonna be releasing these videos but you should have already seen that prior to this. Now I will say that I haven't really been focusing on the vision board because unlike my career vision board, my goals vision board, I really took weeks to look at it after I was done. For weeks I was looking at it. I was meditating almost on it. I was y'all was soaking in soaking it in which is why I think it's been so effective for me. With my career vision board not necessarily. I felt like it was just something I might do listed it out the way but I really need to focus on it. Now it is saved on my desktop. It is saved on my phone. That's how it works but you also need to be looking at it and visualizing your goals manifesting okay. That's how they work okay. What else? What else? Another thing I didn't do too good on. Got to lose any weight. I didn't gain any weight. I'm still fluffy. I didn't gain any weight but I didn't lose anything. I should put it like this. My weight will go back and forth. One pound, three pounds, two pounds, three pounds. So that's all water weight. If it's less than I think honestly if it's less than five pounds that's all water weight, gas bubbles. That's not a real weight girl. No but what really has helped me before I get into the fears. What really has helped me is staying focused, not getting distracted, keeping my short-term goals in mind and looking at the bigger picture okay. And I should also add not being discouraged or not feeling defeated when I haven't reached a small goal. So yeah I didn't lose any weight. That don't mean that I'm gonna be like alright girl I'm done. I'm not even gonna try to lose any weight anymore. No we still got what? Nine, ten more months in a year. I'm gonna keep at it okay. I'm gonna keep making small changes in my lifestyle so that I can have a healthier lifestyle overall. Does that make sense y'all? I think a lot of times we get discouraged easily and we're not looking at the long-term goals you know. You just keep at it. Don't be discouraged and don't give up okay. So yes I feel good where I'm at right now. There's a lot of things that have came up. I've been praying about you know I've been praying and asking God to bring people into my life to bring situations into my life so that I can grow and it has been happening okay. Challenge when you get challenged with things in your life that's an opportunity for growth.  That's how I've learned to thank you guys. So speaking of let's go right to the fears. So like I said definitely look up Erica Jackson and the YouTuber that I mentioned and I'm really going to be just sharing with you some things that I've done some steps I've taken and a lot of this I did get from the YouTuber but a lot of it I already knew about and I knew that these are things that I needed to do in order to address my fears and tackle them okay. So one of the first things you want to do is to list your fears. Jock them down no matter how crazy they may be. I'm afraid to take control of a project. Why is that? Okay that's what I'm talking about. I'm afraid I mentioned in my other video I'm afraid of reporting. I don't want to do them. I refuse to do them sometimes. So why is that okay. On a personal level I'm afraid of not being enough. Not being enough for my husband. Not being enough for JV. So what I have to really do is do a self-evaluation or self-analysis. Okay so why am I afraid of reporting? Why really am I afraid of getting sick? What past incidents or incident? What triggered that fear? So that's what I have to do and I'm really and I'm not going to share with you guys all of them. I'm going to give you one example. Okay identifying the fear. Why do I have the fear? What's the root cause of this fear? And then how can I tackle this fear which for me personally since I am a Christian one of the ways is with scripture. So I'm going to be lining up a very specific look. The Bible is there for a reason. It's not there for you to just take to take to church on Sunday and go through it and say uh-huh. Amen. So for an example. Because I know people are like well how are you gonna do that Vivian? How are you gonna use scripture? Okay I'm gonna show you. So one of my fears is I have it written down here. It's leading. Taking control. So then I list several reasons why I have this fear. Filling as a leader. Being responsible for someone else's failures. Being fired. And just being being responsible for failures in general. So that's one of the reasons why I'm afraid to lead. The reason why I have this is because it has happened at a previous job I was at. It happened at Apollo Group. The entire department was let go because of a failed project. Okay but not only that but I have some other things that have happened. I'm like I don't know if I want to I don't know if I want to be responsible for all that. Okay so then what is the benefit though of me becoming a leader and owning a project? I'm gaining a skill set. A possible promotion if it's if it's successful. So what are some ways that I can possibly overcome this fear? Well how about I host an impromptu training with my instructors. How about I take some a new elements administrator under my wing and kind of mentor her or him. And just take ownership of an upcoming project. Just volunteer okay. So those are some ways I can get through that particular fear. When it comes to scripture okay. What type of scripture can I look up? Let me go right to my Bible okay. Don't be afraid to use your phone y'all. So here are some scriptures in regards to leadership. I like this one Proverbs 1114 where there is no guidance that people fail. But in a bondage of counselors there is victory. So that is what I'm going to be doing. I really do think that fear can it is a nasty thing you guys. And I I suffer from anxiety but I will say this since I've been getting up with that with that schedule and that routine. I haven't been feeling any anxiety at all. Isn't that amazing? I haven't had any type of anxiety like that. Any type of thoughts that come up. I immediately let it flee from my mind. I don't have time for that anymore. I don't focus on the negativity. Things are going to happen. Let's just be honest. There's some things are going to happen but right now all things are great. And while I'm in this moment I'm trying to remain as positive as possible. And I think that's one of the another reason why I've been so productive in the last month or so. So that is it you guys. That is how I'm going to hopefully hopefully be tackling this. So that is it you guys. Thank you so much for watching and thank you as always to all of my new subscribers. Take care. Bye. And then just some other images here again that are aligned with my career path. SharePoint, SLPs.


kind of person Diana Alejandra Palma Jamaica, Adriel Mitchell, Grenada, Robertson, Valerios, Curacao and Brian Scott of Trinidad and Tobago. Is this another massive moment for Diana? Kayden Prasad is a talent but this is a field with depth. They have been brought back to the standing position. Off they go. Prasad of Diana was the only one on the two minutes in qualifying. He's a 155-67 performer. Did that at the Guyana Carrifta trials in early March. Has the build for the event. Tall, silky smooth. He's a delight to watch in this 800 meters. But it's the Jamaican who goes to the front. Keondre Kelly. He's the fastest in the field on personal best Kelly at 154-83. Brian Scott of Trinidad and Tobago steps into focus as well. He's in second position. Prasad is in third. There are two Grenadians in the field. Two Jamaicans as well with Alejandra Palma coming forward on the wide outside. And Kelly the Jamaican leading with Prasad. Dangerous deploys popped in on the inside. Has to be careful Prasad because he wants running room and sometimes you can't get a lot of that when you're topped in on the inside and that's where he is. And look at him having to just ease back to a little others to go forward as he tries to get running room and maybe may have to come on the outside. But it's the Jamaicans one and two at the moment. Deandre Kelly leading Alejandra Palma also in there as well in the top four for Grenada. Adriel Mitchell saw it's Palma of Jamaica in second position. Kelly of Jamaica in front. Here comes Prasad now of Guyana. He's making a big move on the outside. The Chinese torrents to the front. Kelly responds. Alejandra Palma trying to go with them. The Grenadian. Adriel Mitchell trying to snatch a medal. It is Kelly of Jamaica. Prasad of Guyana. This is a terrific finish. Deandre Kelly holds off Prasad and strikes on a 17-800 goal. It's very tight on the line for bronze. Mitchell might have pipped the Jamaican. Alejandra Palma will have to wait on confirmation. But there is no doubt that the winner is this young man, Deandre Kelly. 156-31 he did brilliantly to hold off the surge from Kaiden Prasad of Guyana. Water race. Yeah, Palma just letting up at the end there and sort of sauntering over the line and giving the Grenadian room to run. We're yet to see whether he was able. Palma did in fact get the bronze. 158-05. Mitchell of Grenada 158.10 in fourth. The Jamaicans swept the sprint turtles and now they are 2-2 in the 800s. Deandre Kelly. This was always going to be a stern test. They'll have more stern tests. The Jamaicans in the under 20s, that's for sure. But Deandre Kelly handled this one with great professionalism. Here's another look at it. The Guyanese making his move here. Kaiden Prasad. Kelly responds to the challenge and together they fight down the home stretch. Kelly always held the advantage. Prasad made one final push here again. Kelly holding his form though strong, composed, believing in his abilities and paring to the line to win the Honour 17 boys 800 title. Fantastic race. Prasad giving it his all and as we've said throughout this broadcast, Guyana poised to host the Carifter Games two years hence all things being equal. Their program certainly growing in strength and we should see more youngsters coming through that program. Kelly 156.31, Bessaud 156.53 and Parma 158.05. Well they were the three fastest coming into the event and they have delivered Mitchell 158.10 to finish fourth for Grenada. Scott Bryson, Valerius and St. Louis rounding out the field. Trinidad and Tobago said Martin Curacao and Grenada. Wow, do you think that was hot?


Developing a good topic for your assignment makes searching for evidence easier and results in a better final product. Developing a good topic is a process, and in this video we'll show you how to follow this process when you need a topic of your own. Step 1 – Choose a topic To select a topic, start by thinking of aspects of your field that might be interesting to pursue, such as science education or diabetes treatment. You can also try strategies like thinking of topics that interest you or where you have experience, or subjects where you think there's a need for more research. You can also ask a professor for ideas. Search for general topics that interest you on Wikipedia to get a general orientation to a subject you want to investigate further. As an example, my general topic is going to be reduction of in-hospital infections. Step 2 – Turn your topic into a question Once you've decided on a topic, take that idea and think about it as a question. What do you want to know about the topic? Here are some examples of the types of questions you can ask. How is blank made or done? What is the value of blank? What are the causes of blank? What is the relationship between blank and the outcome of blank? For example, for my topic, I'll ask what is the relationship between hand sanitizing stations in emergency rooms and in-hospital infections? Step 3 – Refine your question Once you have an initial question, you can refine it using two different techniques – PICO and concept mapping. PICO is great for quantitative clinical topics, whereas concept mapping is good for qualitative or non-clinical topics. How to use PICO? PICO stands for P – Patient, Population, or Problem, I – Intervention or Exposure, C – Comparison, and O – Outcome. To use PICO, answer questions about each of these elements. For example, for patient, population, or problem, what are the characteristics of the patient or the population? What is the situation or disease you're interested in? For intervention or exposure, what do you want to do with the patient, person, or population? For example, treat, diagnose, or observe. For comparison, what is the alternative to the intervention? For example, placebo, a different drug, or a surgery. For outcome, what are the relevant outcomes? For example, morbidity, death, or complications. Sometimes it can be useful to add a time frame to PICO. When you include the time frame of the topic, this is called PICO T. When you add the time frame, you have to ask over what period of time? Here's an example. A question using PICO T could look like, In P, do or does I result in O when compared with C over T? If I fill this in with information I want to look at from my topic, my new question would be, in emergency room visitors, do hand sanitizing stations result in fewer in-hospital infections when compared with no hand sanitizing stations over a year-long pilot period? That's a more specific question to look at. I chose PICO because it's a quantitative clinical topic. If my topic had been qualitative or non-clinical, I might have chosen concept mapping instead. Here's how to use concept mapping.  To create a concept map of your topic, step one, write down the broad topic, issue, or problem. Step two, write down all the relevant words, phrases, and ideas related to that topic that come to mind and draw lines to connect them to the topic. Step three, branch out with words related to your subtopics in the same way. And step four, review your map to re-examine your initial topic question. Look at the subtopics and their connections to see if there are ways you can make your question more precise. Here's an example of a concept map. First, we write down the broad topic, issue, or problem, which will be eating disorders. Now we write down the relevant words, phrases, and ideas related to that topic and connect them to the topic. I can think of anorexia, bulimia, teenage girls, body image, portrayal in the media, and Canada. Now we branch out with words related to our subtopics. I can branch out from body image to self-regard, focus on weight, negative self-talk, and body dysmorphia. And I can branch out from portrayal in the media to TV and film, social media, and Instagram influencers. Finally, we review our map to re-examine our initial topic question. So I'm interested in looking at anorexia specifically, teenage girls in Canada, and I'll look at the effect of TV and film. Now my question becomes, how to support portrayal of women in television and film influence the level of anorexia in teenage girls in Canada? There we go. You know the process for choosing and refining your topic. Explore the rest of this module for more details and examples of this process.