The Niger Save Nigeria group, NSA, led by Mrs. Uju Kennedy, has inaugurated a campaign in Abuja and it's to empower the Nigerian youths and provide health care for the less privileged. The convener of the group, Mrs. Uju Kennedy, says the Niger Save Nigeria was inaugurated to build a strong structure right from the grassroots and she has taken it upon her to protect the interest of Nigerians. She then urged Nigerians to support Genumbus candidacy, not in that Nigeria, under his watch, would witness unprecedented human capital development and positive economic and industrial revolution. Since independence we've had problems and we are praying for God to intervene. So every government you think they don't want to do well is not all about the government. It's all of us. What have all of us contributed to make the Nigeria a better place to rule? Why do you think when people go up there they start singing us some other songs at times? Why do they do that? It's because of the challenges of our country and I'm praying that God will help us. So it's not just about the government. It's about the nation itself. All of us have a role to play. Let's all come together. Somebody like Kepita, he has a lot he can offer Nigeria. Let him queue behind and take a party he can play. Everybody should queue. All hands should be on deck. But the person amongst the three that I know that we carry the commoners along is no other person but Ashwaju. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


My name is Andrew Ip. I'm a director of our Outcomes and Value Care Division and also a member of our lymphoma division. So really we're in the new age of immunotherapy and treating lymphoma at this time and what that means is we have a very exciting type of therapy platform called CAR T therapy where we're basically engineering a patient's own immune system cells and basically designing it so that it's a killer type of cell and that it's only going to kill the cancer cell and not other parts of the human body. And that's really the most exciting part of lymphoma treatment at this time. It's a huge type of research. Twenty-thirty years ago we only had one type of chemotherapy for diffuse large B cell lymphoma called CHOP CHOP and then we developed an antibody drug called Rituximab and fast forward to twenty-twenty-one we have many different types of therapies ranging from oral pills to immunotherapy drugs like I just mentioned CAR T is extremely exciting because patients who've progressed after two or three lines of therapy can be cured up to sixty percent of the time with CAR T therapy. Well when I treat a patient I think the first thing that has to be focused on is the biology of the cancer which is really the best way that we know how to treat lymphoma is if we have a target we're going to go after it and that's what we know with the CAR T treatments with CD-19 which is basically a marker on the lymphoma cell. And after the biology though I really do try to look at the patient as a whole person whether they're 75 but very fit then I will give them something more aggressive or if they're more very very sick and lying in bed all day then I know that something like combination chemotherapy might be too too harmful for them and we have to take that into account what what to do to not harm the patient but to still benefit the patient. So here at John Thur we have a new outcomes in Valley Care Research Division it was formed when I joined the cancer center in 2019 and the whole goal of this division is to really understand based off of all different variables whether it's their electronic health chart or a survey they fill out for us but understand what's the best outcome we can get for the patient with all the information that's available to us.


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Now what is automation? It means that there are a lot of softwares out there that you can use to help you automate your posts every month. So then that way you don't need to be on your phone every single day worrying about what to post, figuring out the hashtag groups, figuring out about your captions every single day. Doesn't work like that, right? That's the reason why you want to automate this so then that way you can set it up and you can forget about it for the whole month. Some of the very free and easy scheduling tools include later.com, Sprout, Social and Buffer. These are the three that we have used, but we recommend using later. You can actually sign up for a free account with more than 30 posts per month. Now these tools, what do they allow you to do? It allows you to actually publish on Instagram automatically. You can actually schedule your first comment. That means that even after your post goes live, you can actually automatically type in your first comment, whether it's hashtags or whether it's like, hey, you guys check out my link in bio or something like that. You can actually schedule that first comment, which is a very useful tool as you become more and more savvy in Instagram. Also it allows you to preview your Instagram feed. If you want to make your feed much more aesthetically pleasing, you can actually put in your first 15 posts and you can kind of play around with which picture goes where. Sometimes you want to want to put quotes. Sometimes you want to put in a block text, testimonials. This is a great way to play around with your Instagram feed. So then that way you can create something that looks beautiful. And then you can also save all the hashtag groups that you created in the previous lesson into this and you can automatically click a button and automatically all those hashtag groups will be added to your post.  There's so much more that you can use with this and I'm just listing out the tools that we personally use and we find it super helpful. Now, why is it important for you to have an Instagram automation tool? Because it just frees up so much more of your time. I don't know about you, but I really enjoy spending time with my friends and family. So if there's anything that can really take me out of my work life, I would definitely invest in that. And plus this tool is free. That's the reason why I do all the work all within that month. We batch all the month of content to work on it in one day instead of doing it every single day. It just saves you so much more time. And on top of that, you can actually work more on your operations of your business, whether you would be working on a nine to five or if you're working on the logistics, you can forget about your social media. You can just create this and forget about it. It also builds the consistency within your post. What does that mean? That means that you can create something that's beautiful. And on top of that, when you create content on a regular basis, there's a schedule that people actually see your posts more and the more touch points that people see your stuff and more of the fact that you're staying top of mind, the more that they will buy from you. Simple as that. The best reason and the most exciting reason of why I like these platforms is because it allows me to track the performance of each post. Are people liking it? Are people engaging with it? Are people sharing it? Are people saving it? All these type of insights are in these Instagram, um, this platform later.com. Why is it important for me to know that? Because we want to know what types of content that our customers are preferring because at the end of the day, everything that we post, we don't even know if the market is liking it or they're engaging with it or they're just scrolling off because they have no interest in it. Whereas if we created posts and we create a content that's engaging that people are saving, that people are liking, that means that's the type of content I want to create more of in the future. Give you an example. If I took a picture of my bubble tea kit in a box format and no one likes it because it's boring, it looks ugly, the picture is just not aesthetically pleasing and they scroll past it, then that means that it's not doing its job. Whereas if people are liking sharing the posts of us pouring bubble tea into a Mason jar and a lot of people are liking it, sharing it and engaging with this post, then that means people are liking more of content of more action type and aesthetically pleasing content and that's why I would do more of that. So this tool allows you to actually see the analytics so then that way you can increase your chances of getting seen and once again, this will help you increase your sales slowly but surely. Now, the four simple steps to get started. First up, go to later.com, create an account. Second, choose the plan. Free is completely fine. I started with free for a whole year before we upgraded to a paid one. Go through the onboarding tutorial and this is a link to do so. Once again, it's in the resource tab down below and actually go and learn the platform. Learn the platform, learn how to use it properly and then start scheduling the content that you have created from your photo shoot, from the content that we have taught you, the eight different types of content and the hashtag groups that you have created. We covered this in lesson 6.3 all the way to 6.5. So you should have everything already created and all you do in this step is just take all the pieces and ingredients that you have created. Now plug it in, right? That's why we're doing this whole module in this sequence is for you to make it. So it's like super, super simple for you to create content. Now, a pro tip is that you can utilize this feature, this specific feature so then that way you can actually easily and quickly add your hashtag groups into your caption. You can add a click of a button. You can actually add all those hashtags into your post. Once again, link is right below. Now it is your turn schedule your first 15 posts. I can't wait to see how this works out for you. Once you're done, definitely show it to us. Tag us, post it into the group.


So, we have been discussing about earth pressure analysis finding out the active and passive earth pressures which are acting on the walls and in most of the situations we have talked about the Rankine earth pressure where the wall was smooth vertical backfill was horizontal and in the previous module I introduce the concept of sloping backfill and this is where we had computed the Ka value. So, the situation was like this that you have a retaining wall and rather than being the horizontal backfill the backfill is inclined at an angle of I and then I had shown a conceptual diagram that how the element or the triaxial element which normally we consider as this where we have sigma 1, sigma 3 acting gets modified to a different form of the element which looks like this in case of the sloping ground or the sloping backfill. So, this is the ground surface all right very close to the hills you may find this type of a situation one of the practical examples of this situation would be you have upside a lock and then this is where the road is. So, in the Healy Terrain and what we do is we create a retention scheme over here. So, this becomes a retaining system now one thing which is important over here is the free body diagram of this element which I did not draw in the previous module. I hope you will realize that at this depth z we have sigma z which is acting and what will be the value of this sigma z. So, let us complete the free body diagram first we have sigma z we have the earth pressures PA or PP depending upon the direction all right. And then once you have lifted this element or the ground surface by angle I what is going to happen there will be a shear stress which gets introduced all right. So, this is how the element looks like. Now, from this point onwards we should be knowing how to compute the value of sigma z. So, normally the procedure is if I consider this as a backfill and I want to find out the value of stress at a depth z can you compute this. Normally, the sign convention is along the length of the slope we take the slice width as d this is one of the slices which is constituting the entire soil mass all right. So, this is one of the slices which I have taken the entire continuum has been divided in small small slices and this is how one of the slices looks like. So, we take the width of the slice along the length b this angle is i. So, this becomes b cos i this is a convention which I will be using henceforth in most of the inclined situations. Now, what is the stress component which is going to come over here this is perpendicular to the surface all right. So, sigma z is perpendicular to the surface. So, this is equal to what is the weight of the block unit weight multiplied by b into z and cos of i divided by b all right. So, this is a stress which is sigma z and this will be equal to gamma into z into cos i okay. So, what we did is we took the help of the Mohr circle and we implied the concept of axis rotation. So, if you remember what we did in the previous class is this is the Mohr circle for the material this being a pure frictional material we have assumed this as the friction line all right and then we use the concept of rotation of axis. So, this is the plane on which the new sigma z is acting all right. So, this angle is i and we computed this was o, a and b at this point the value of sigma z is equal to gamma into z. Now, what you are observing is the sigma z on plane inclined at an angle of i that is at point b the value of sigma z is gamma into z into cos i. So, what is the shear stress associated with this? This is the shear stress and this is the normal stress axis all right. So, if this is gamma z this is gamma z cos i the shear stress associated with this would be equal to gamma z cos i into sin i fine. Now, this concept will be utilizing in slope stability analysis also everywhere. So, we know the normal stress which is acting on the plane we know the shear stress which is acting on the plane and the best thing is if you substitute i equal to 0 you can cross check whether you are going to get the same state of stress or not. So, if i is equal to 0 what is the shear stress is 0 that means in this case where i is equal to 0 this element assumes the form of principal stresses shear stress becomes 0 and you have sigma 1 sigma 3 acting on the system in which the equilibration is being done is this part okay. So, please remember this analysis is what we have done for purely pi material frictional material C component cannot be included over here because it is a Rankine wall the only thing which we are defining is the inclination of the angle i okay. This is one of the cases now you must be realizing that it is not so easy to deal with non-ranking earth pressure situations alright. So, under these circumstances what we need to do is we need to introduce the concept of Coulomb's earth pressure theory. So, I repeat in most of the situations what you notice is neither the retaining wall is going to be vertical in most of the real-life situation. So, this is the retaining wall you must have noticed when you cross by the high base you know there is some batter inclination this is taken as theta and the backfill is also not horizontal. So, this is also inclined at an angle of i now this phase could be vertical depending upon my requirements. So, this becomes a simple gravity retaining structure and what we want to analyze is how much earth pressure is going to get mobilized on this system. So, these type of situations can be taken care of very easily by adopting to Coulomb's earth pressure theory alright. So, Coulomb's earth pressure theory was given in 1776 quite much before the Rankine's earth pressure theory and what it assumes is again the similar assumptions homogeneous soil mass, isotropic granular material only thing is that the wall is inclined and the backfill is inclined alright. So, there are few assumptions which are made in Coulomb's theory what we assume here is that the wall is rough. So, the first assumption is that we have a rough wall and the backfill is sloping what is the significance of this the roughness of the wall is defined by an angle of delta and this delta is approximately equal to phi by 2 to 2 phi by 3 it is limiting value could be 10 degree or 15 degree alright. And I hope you can realize that normally I will be less than 5 this condition is imposed everywhere even here also when I say I is going to be less than 5 angle it is very important to understand how the wall friction is imposed on the retaining wall like we did earlier there are 2 cases one is active and passive situation active earth pressure passive earth pressure. So, active earth pressure when we talk about is draw the perpendicular on the wall surface and then under active pressure what is going to happen this is going to be the slip surface and this angle we assume as theta alright. Now under active earth pressure the block is pushing the wall out. So, that means the direction of the pressure would be like this. So, the reaction which is going to come on the block or the wedge would be opposite to this this angle as we defined earlier is delta which denotes the wall roughness this is what is taken as the positive better. So, this is how the earth pressure gets mobilized what we assume is that the direction of Pp and Pa is known and the point of application of Pp and Pa is also known and which is assumed to be H by 3. So, if the height of the wall is H we assume that the pressure is acting at H by 3 which is reasonable. Now if you do not assume the direction of the pressure alright then the problem would become redundant. The another thing what we assume here is that this slip surface passes through the heel of the wall this is the heel of the wall alright. So, the slip surface passes through heel of the alright this is the third assumption the first and the fourth assumption would be it is a isotropic material cohesion less homogeneous and uniform material alright. So, isotropic homogeneous material and which is cohesion less the basic theory was on cohesion less material okay anything else which is very important and which we have missed out. One more assumption here is that the wedge which is sliding either down or up. So, when I say passive earth pressure in this case what is going to happen in this case if this is the wall this is the perpendicular to the wall at H by 3 H is the height of the wall. The tendency of the wall is to push the block up inside the backfill correct. So, how that is going to happen that is going to happen when the point of application of Pp is like this. So, this is the angle delta this is the sign convention which is normally used alright. So, under these circumstances what is going to happen remember we had talked about when we were discussing the active and active earth pressure theory this is the case where the scooping effect is coming in the picture. That means when this type of pressure gets mobilized in the real life the wall is moving inside the backfill you will be having a sort of a hump formation on the surface. In this case what is going to happen in this case there will be a sort of a depression because the material gets adjusted. So, this volume of the material gets adjusted in the space which is getting created because of the movement of the wall on the left hand side and on the right hand side. Now suppose if I ask you to draw the slip surfaces actual slip surfaces because of the mobilization of friction of the wall.  And this is the point where you have so what is the angle associated with the passive earth pressure 45 plus 45 minus 5 by 2 alright. So, this angle is going to be 45 minus 5 by 2 this angle is going to be 45 minus 5 by 2 provided the backfill was horizontal clear. So, in this case we have to compute these values. So, this is how the log spiral curve surface gets generated. What about the case in the case of active earth pressure? So, active earth pressure the material has a tendency to slip down it has to be a bit of a concave surface and then it would join somewhere here. So, this becomes the surface. If I define this as a convex this becomes a concave surface. So, this is the influence of the earth pressure on the wall. So, by all means we are assuming that these blocks are rigid bodies. When you are assuming this to be a rigid body we can use the concept of limit equilibrium here to solve the problem. And hence the concepts of limit equilibrium can be employed. So, now I think you understand why I had emphasized upon the fact that we assume the point of application of the earth pressure at h by 3 because if you do not assume that that becomes another unknown. So, the magnitude of the PA is principle unknown. Theta is unknown which can be obtained analytically beta and delta will be known. Best way to obtain delta would be you conduct a direct shear test make half of the block of the sample by using the same material and half of the block of the sample would be of the soil and shear it along that surface to get the value of delta. These are real life problems where you know people will approach you to help them.


We all know, here on my immediate right, Honorable Chautika Khoma, one of the first members of parliament for UPND, many years chairman of information, he held various portfolios in the party, gained next to Honorable Khoma, his Honorable Captain Mono, equally former member of parliament for UPND, chairman of security defense. The Secretary General, member of the National Management Committee, colleagues from the press, obviously today is a turning point in my political career, because as many of you know already, last year in the run up to elections, I left UPND to join the patriotic front, but early this year I resigned from the patriotic front, both are the Central Committee members as well as a member of the patriotic, and therefore since that time when I resigned from the patriotic front, I've been an ordinary citizen in Zambia, but interacting with everybody. I wish first of all to offer my sincere apologies in the bottom of my heart for injuring the feelings of many of my colleagues in the UPND, in particular the feelings of his excellency, the President of the Republic of Zambia, the President of UPND, his excellency, the President of HACA in the HIPAA. Many of you know that his excellency, the President has been a friend from a long time ago. My childhood friend, we were at school together, we invested together, we were in the UPND together for a long time, and therefore he stood by me and I stood by him for many years in the UPND stretching over a period of more than 20 years. And therefore to have left him in the Eleventh Hour was injurious to him, and I would like Mr Secretary General to convey to his excellency the President my sincere apologies to him for the actions that I took. I regret that action and therefore Secretary General, please convey to his excellency that the chance can come, I am very sorry. Equally I would like to Secretary General convey also to the First Lady in Tintin, Ichilema, my apologies to her. You may wish to know that the First Lady, as my tribal cousin, was very welcoming to me. Each time I visited their home, I found it very welcoming, very friendly, and sometimes even at the community house, which is for some reason always cool of course, I would freely even enter her kitchen and demand for tea, and she would gladly do it. So she was at the head to find that the person that she trusted so much at the beach, the health bank, I will depart. So Secretary General again conveying my sincere apologies to the First Lady. It's your show now. Thank you very much SG for giving me this opportunity to be at this place briefly. Since my brother has already introduced a protocol of standing while talking, I will also stand. First I would like to thank you SG for having time in your busy schedule to host us at this Secretary General's office where I am rejoining my party, UPND. I am told at the end there will be questions, but some questions maybe I can answer them. But some of the media people maybe have not seen me for quite some time because for the past six years I have been an ordinary member and quite in the rural area in the trauma district. My name is Captain Kosmas Mono. I am the first MP for Sri Lanka for UPND in 2001. Meaning I joined UPND in 1998. In 1998 when it was formed UPND has been my party which has made me see the width and breadth of Zambia. In 2016 I resigned from UPND and towards the erections I was invited by PF to stand in Sri Lanka when they saw that I was a popular person there on PF ticket. I did that and complained on PF and lost. His excellence has brought a lot of change to Zambia. One, he has dematerialized the kadas. My dear those of you who have never faced PF kadas at close range, if you don't know how life is, how the crocodile lives in water, ask the fish. Those kadas were scaring me, not only to ordinate the citizens, even the police was running away.  Farms were taken, houses were taken, the rail lines were uprooted. Now if you look at what the president has brought. There is calmness, there is no cardalism. The involvement is of peace. I know those who are brutalizing Zambians are missing that scenario and they are complaining and criticizing. But I think this is what we, this is the Zambia we are all aiming for. Look at the fight for agonist corruption. Have you ever heard of the universe being a story? You are not talking of a primary school or a secondary school, a universe like that, all of it is a story. How many primary schools, how many secondary schools were stories in a similar fashion? We need to give the president a lot of support as Zambians. One of the critics was, I laughed, he was talking about how the president dresses when he goes to Pongwei to open farms there and whatever. Now, me I'm from military. We are taught how to dress according to occasions. You can't put in a suit when you are going to the farms. You wear according to the occasion. And I think our president is the most well dressed president to any occasion. We are aware of some of our leaders, former leaders who used to go and dance now in the neighboring countries. And they were there showing us that there is nobody to complain. I think let's not pay attention to some of these people. When a European is implementing these programmes like free education, they are jealous. No, now you have brought free education. There will be so many children, no classroom, what what have you. But you see, his excellence is very intelligent. He brings free education.  The classes are few. He has given them CDF to go and build more classrooms. Then what and buy more desks? He has recruited the teachers. What more do you want from such a man? Why should you keep opposing such a man? Surely you want him to come to your constituents and start building classrooms. I think he can't go that far. It's up to the communities now. The MPs, the headmen, the chiefs. Everybody in that community to see their priorities. If they have no classroom, use the CDF and build the classrooms. They don't need to come here. When they left, they injured our feelings. Indeed, they injured our feelings because we know what they did at an hour of need. We know how they sacrificed when the party was completely getting finished. They stood there. Every time Charles stood up, 26, 27 and going forward. You could see the courage of a man who is defending a system and institution which is at the rock bottom. Then you start wondering what courage has that man. Today, when I'm personally criticized for bringing in people like him, I keep quiet. I'm called all sorts of names. I just keep quiet. It's not because I have no feelings, but it's because there are certain things that I know what my attackers do not know. They do not know where this party came from. I want to tell you this. Every time when we are in a national management committee or we have a big meeting, that is all UPND, I look back and look at the people that are gathered there. Then I ask myself in my heart and say, how many were there when we started the journey. You find that the people that are there are from Madadeko. Others have come from the MMD, FDD, PF, UNIP. They are there. People that managed to cross River Jordan and reach the canal. Though that were there at the beginning of our journey, a good number of them are gone six feet under. So if our policy at the party was to just stand on ground and say, we are not going to receive anyone, we are not going to receive anyone, today we are going to belong to history. The dangers of history like every other party that you know about. But Hakain always told us. He said, you are criticizing others. You are taking others for coming in the party. Where do you come from? Then you realize, I was UNIP. You realize I was MMD. Then you realize I was PF. You do not want others to come in. You have heard of very good policies that were being illustrated by the gentlemen here. And you do not want people to participate in that revolution. You want people to start insulting the good policies that people are enjoying currently. I want to tell you this, much as you feel, there is time to sit down, enjoy. And then maybe when we are tired of enjoying, that's when we are inviting people to come and join us. No, the human being is a very strange animal. You close the door for them today, and you will find another door open somewhere. At the time when you start running to look for them, they will tell you, sorry, we are no longer part of you.


Hello, and welcome to the David Ann Show, presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Grant Royce, joined by Stevenson Crospector, head coach David Ann, a coach that I wore a few weeks in the season that he got a couple races in here about. Let's talk about both men and women, how things are going so far. Yes, we've been really happy with the progress that we're making right now. In our sport, it's still early. So with us, the regular season is all about kind of building up to the meets later in the season, but we've seen some really good progress. And a lot of the freshmen are starting to improve and step up, and then the upperclassmen are still doing really well. Yeah. First on the men's side, we talked about the preseason. We're kind of big free with the Kida, Pat, and Idris. Who's maybe kind of stepped up, maybe kind of moving to that four or five spot to kind of round out your lineup. Yes, so we got a couple of freshmen and Samuel Isman and Jonathan Walmack, but then also Anders Chattin and Taylor Farnsworth have really been stepping up. So we're hoping that two out of those four will get closer to Idris and the Kida. Yeah, absolutely. And like I said, obviously the goal is the Carver's Championship in the Nancy Regional. Hopefully have five, six, or seven of runners already strong at that point to score. Yeah, absolutely. And on the women's side, we said several newcomers have really stepped up in addition to what was already a pretty strong returning core. Yeah, so it's been really exciting. I mean, like I said, every week we see progress, and especially with the freshmen and newcomers, just because it's all new training for them. So they really improve a lot from week to week. And just seeing that improvement every week has been amazing. Yeah, and obviously that Kelly's back, she's healthy, a troll, and then Mikaela, Emily Gates. So pretty strong returning core as well, just like you said, the freshmen are really kind of stepped up and are adjusted with new training. Yeah, so we have a really solid top eight on the women's side. So it's going to be really exciting. But also as we get to the later season meets, we can only run seven. So it's good that they're pushing each other and helping each other improve. Absolutely.  So what's the outlook for the next few weeks? So this meet this weekend, it's called the E-Town Short Course Invitational. So it's a little bit shorter than what the athletes normally run. So it's kind of low-key. But also, it's good to gauge where they are right now. And I'm really excited to see how that goes. And then two weeks down the road we go down to Salisbury for the first kind of, I'd say, somewhat important race of the season. Yeah, a little bit more intense competition. We wouldn't be here about sit-married. There's a lot of Division I schools, so it's a good early test. But obviously, some of it's usually competing against the regionals to be in Salisbury and as you prepare for competition. Yeah, and even the meet this weekend, there's quite a few teams that are going to be there from the region and the conference. So it'll be exciting. And just exciting to see how the individuals stack up to, especially Pat Watson. Yeah, absolutely. And I was going to talk about Pat, you know, he's got a strong chance to hopefully return to the Nationals and make there a serious run there. Yeah, he's been impressing me every day. So it's exciting. Like I said before, we just got to keep him healthy and keep the training consistent. And I think he can really surprise some people. All right, Coach, we'll wish you the best of luck and we'll chat probably once again right before our other conference championship. Yeah, thanks, Greg. All right, for Dave Redan, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Dave Redan Show.


Hello, thank you for coming. Today I'm gonna share the story of how the team at Betterment secretly swapped out the entire front end for several of our apps last year in order to launch our new brand identity. So my name is Chris LaFresto. I lead front end architecture at Betterment and I love helping engineering and design teams find ways to work better together. I play some non-computer keyboards and you can find me at Chris LaFresto on GitHub or Twitter. The last year, Betterment spent six months creating a new brand identity. This meant reimagining the company's mission statement, photography style, logo, color palette, the entire user interface of our web and mobile apps, online calculators, emails, everything had to change. So from start to launch, the entire project took six months. It was the last two month stretch when we built everything. Now this is an aggressive timeline. We did it to ourselves. The agency said expect at least 12 months for the brand exercise. So we said, how about half? How about half that? We could aim for Betterment's birthday. It'll be at the end of May, that'll be great. It'll be after tax season so no one will freak out if their tax form suddenly looked different. It'll be before the summer because nobody reads press releases from the beach. Whereas it happens, we delay it a little bit. So in March, this is what our homepage looked like. But by May, we wanted to snazz it up. New colors, photography, new content throughout all of Betterment.com. We wanted to apply this brand to our retail app. So this is what our summary page looked like in March. But May, we wanted new navigation, that new word mark in the top. Everything's tighter because it's on a grid system. Now, investing involves risk. Past performance does not guarantee future results. But it does look like this user's about to have a really good two months. So we got that going for us. This is what our portfolio page looked like. Basically the project requirements where you see that over there? Yeah, can't look like that anymore. So if this seems wildly impractical, buckle up. Our mission is to redesign everything in eight weeks in secret. We want this timed big reveal. All of our apps change at once. Articles appear online. And then we'll just bask in the beauty of our brand new brand. Then we thought, well, since we already have to touch everything anyway, while we're in the neighborhood, what if we made everything responsive? You know, it never was the crisis. So what are we talking about here? So these designs were never gonna work at these small sizes. It was going to take a lot of work to get from that to this. Reconstruct all our CSS, all our HTML by May. So you're probably thinking, this is gonna be fine. We'll just whip out our trusty feature flag framework, design system and get to work. So at this point, it is helpful if you already have one of each, which we do. If you don't, no worries. Hopefully this story peaks your interest. Now big projects are risky in part because they change a lot of code. One of the best ways to cope with this risk is by slicing your work up into tiny pieces and shipping them one at a time. Now this means shipping incomplete work. So that's okay. You wait until it's ready. You hide it behind a feature flag. And once it is ready, flip a switch and turn it off. Now a huge advantage of this approach is that you can solve problems one at a time when they pop up. You can see what's working, what's not changed your mind about things and you're not jerking your users around as you figure all of this out. But a rebrand is so big, it touches everything. Like how do you put everything behind a feature flag? So at first we didn't know how, but our engineering principles dictated that we had to find a way. The only way to have a worry-free launch day was to not ship any code on that day. Instead, we'd have to get to a point you're happy with, flip a switch and turn it on. So Better Mint's feature flag framework is called Test Track. It follows visitors and users across devices. We have clients for Rails and JavaScript and all our mobile apps. And we use it all the time to run experiments and dark deploy features. If you don't yet use feature toggles in your workflow, you should definitely consider it. It'll change your life. There's a few gems out there that make it really easy to get going, some really great services out there. But slicing of work doesn't do much good if each slice ruins the last one, which is often the case when CSS is involved. So for this project especially, we needed to assemble new interfaces on the fly across multiple apps, see what worked, see what didn't. And the best way, or really the only way to do this efficiently and creatively, is with a component-oriented design system, which would give us reusable components. Now Better Mint's design system is called Style Closet. It lets us share patterns and components, evoke Better Mint's look and feel across all of our apps. Now if you don't have a design system, don't worry. We had to rewrite ours entirely as part of this project. But the important thing to remember is that both Test Track and Style Closet were already integrated in all of our apps. So otherwise, no way that this eight-week project timeline would have been remotely possible. Like investing in our systems over the years had put us in a good position such that what once would have been deemed wildly impractical actually became the basis of our project plan. But we didn't know what that meant at the beginning of the project. We were just wondering, how in the world are we going to do this? Like forget Gantt charts and press releases. We just need a halfway believable way to get this out the door. How can we get from here to there at all? To which the engineers say, I don't know. But also spike, just do something.  This is why I like to ask myself, what's the dumbest thing that could possibly work? Well, here we go. We already ship a design system into each app. So I thought, what if we create a rebranded version of the design system? Then each app already has a SAS manifest. What if we made a second one? We used the rebranded system behind a feature flag. And then finally, we know that the new responsive designs need different markup. So what if we had some view logic that understands the feature flag and knows how to keep our world separate? The stuff that's in production and all the new rebrand stuff. That seems reasonable enough. So we got to work. I spent about one minute writing the beautiful rebrand CSS that you see here. I wanted something garish, so I figured white on blue ought to do. And I wrote some JavaScript autogly styles on in our design system doc site. So with the old styles, the typography demo looked like this. But with the new vastly improved styles, it looked like this. So it was at this point, I mean totally nailed it, right? So at this point, I started going up to designers one by one, telling them I had started the rebrand project so they'd get really excited and ask to see it. And then I would show them it. And it looks on their faces, varied. But we had what we needed. We had a way to do new style stuff without messing up our old style stuff. And we shipped this to production. We actually cut a minor version release of style closet. And I met the next step was to try to get this dumb stuff into an app behind the feature flag. So I upgraded retail to the latest version of style closet, made a new rebrand SAS manifest that pulled in the rebranded system. And this is what we wanted to put behind our feature flag. So in our application layout, we added logic to use the new style sheet if this test track feature flag rebrand enabled was on. Now in public, no one's gonna see this nonsense. This feature flag is initially off for all of the users. But engineers working on the project or anyone else keeping tabs can use our test track Chrome extension to flip rebrand enabled to true and get the new styles. And we shipped this to production on day one of the project. On launch day, all we had to do was log into our test track admin site and flip this rebrand enabled flag to true for everybody to go live with the new brand.  But things are holding together so far. So for our last trailblazing trick, we're gonna juggle old and new markup at the same time. I ported the CSS for a few of our cleaner more modern components, the header and progress bar and footer that you see here. They set about making the demo page work for both the old and the new worlds. That's when things started to get a little weird right away. We had CSS selectors that referenced colors, the colors had changed. So we already needed to view logic for a pretty silly reason. And there are much bigger markup changes coming. Starting with this SVG logo and the grid system, but getting hacky and hand wavy, things are holding together pretty well so far. So we decided to push ahead and see if this would work in a real world situation. And an hour later, we had an answer. It did not. Even on the simple pages, I mean like most Rails apps, we used layouts to share, page structure and parcels to share, chunks of markup. So even to hack this far, we needed a lot of logic in a lot of places. And so far, this was just a reskin. The actual redesigns, we're gonna rearrange all of this content. So I found myself gazing at this ginormous SVG. No longer so sure we'd be able to share one set of markup. Let's recap. We wanted the ship, a rebranded design system, and we did it. Lots of work to do, but we're off to the races. We wanted to use this new design system in our apps behind a feature flag. And we did it. Oh, you already knew that. But as for the view logic necessary to set up the new brand, nope, way too complicated. Not gonna work. But the good news is we're transitioning out of that terrifying feeling at the start of a project when all we know is there's a bunch of things we don't know. Followed by a bunch more things we don't know we don't know. This pile of unknown is best faced head on. We strike out, plays a trail. We'll make sure one way or another we can get from wherever we are to wherever we need to be. So we have our styles worked out, but the tangled view logic showed us that what we really need is a separate view layer for this feature flag. Because all of our problems will go away if we can just add rebranded versions of views without touching the existing ones and have a bit of logic that just determines which one to show. Now this is a specific requirement for which Rails has a pretty great answer built right in. Action pack variants. So whether you realize it or not, like we're all familiar with the Rails template resolver. When a controller is rendering a request, it's the resolver that knows where to find the right view on the file system. So that's controller path slash show dot html erb. What I didn't know was that after that html format, the resolver checks for an optional variant that you can define. So let's say that you have a website that serves colorful high res pictures of robots. But you're looking at your logs one day and suddenly realize that you have a lot of traffic from experimental Kindle browsers that can't see color.  Oh man, here we go. So the controller can do a browser check and say hey, there's a Kindle making this request. I'm gonna set request dot variant equals Kindle. And that'll make the resolver first look for a Kindle template. If it doesn't find it, it will fall back to the plain html erb. It's been serving the rest of us all along. This is built right into Rails. So luckily when I said out loud, what we really need is a separate view layer for this feature flag. The coworker of mine, matter of fact, they replied, well, we can use a variant. All we had to do was move this rebrand enabled check from our application controller, our application layout into our application controller. It's a few lines of code and we were in business. We realized we wouldn't have to make changes to the existing views for the entire project. And even better, we could just delete them after we launched their replacements. We were excited. It was additive and therefore completely safe to just make new rebranded versions of everything. We couldn't break anything, even if we tried. Challenge accepted. Obviously we could. Obviously we did. But our bugs ended up being real bugs pertaining to real features, not project config gotchas. So our focus shifted to all the stuff that needed changing. We audited our design system, all of our apps, and came up with a long list of pages and components that needed to either be reworked or rebuilt entirely. As we thought about how long it would all take, something had to give. So style closet began life as a way to share patterns across our apps. But it was tough going. The apps weren't built with this system in mind. Our components never just worked when you dropped them in. There's always a fight. Our apps all had these complicated CSS code bases that few braved, even fewer loved. I actually included Captain Sully Sellenberger on this slide to assure us it's gonna all be okay. But the fact of the matter is as this peer reviewed, totally factual study indicates CSS is hard. It gets harder as the team grows. It gets harder as the code base grows. And our old system suffered all of the usual pitfalls. CSS is globally scoped. You introduce a new thing, something else breaks. So we'd compensate by scoping our rules more strictly in a show of strength. That doesn't stop anyone else from making their change more important than yours. But then perhaps most insidious is that in reality, you have to use these so-called reusable components at your own risk. Now swapping out our entire view layer represented an opportunity to start fresh with a new CSS architecture. And so we decided to rewrite our design system. This isn't out of the blue. We've been working towards this. We had internal prototypes, drew inspiration from all manner of open source projects and untold numbers of medium articles. We were confident enough to make a leap because we felt we'd be able to move faster with a new system than continue to fight the old one. So we put together a wish list. Sensible defaults. Wanted zero config for an app to get going with the system. Default element styles, so that semantic markup automatically looked good. We wanted cohesive systems for spacing, typography, grid, breakpoints, color, as well as the ability to apply these system styles consistently in either SAS or with utility classes in our markup. And finally, a suit CSS naming convention. It's like BEM so that our components could defend against inward and outward bleed to achieve true reuse. So let's dive in. We built a lot. We're gonna move through overly quickly. We created an exponential spacing scale with increments that are all multiples of four, used it to create spatial relationships within our components throughout all of our layouts, every space you perceive. So you could apply a padding using this SC spacing function, which was using a unit tested SAS function. If you're assembling page markup in an app, we provided corresponding utility classes built with those same SAS functions. So to apply the same padding, you could use a utility class selector without needing to write CSS in the app. We had a new color palette, so we made a conventional naming scheme. So we had functional access in SAS. We created color and background color utility classes. We had five primary colors, four secondary variants of each. And then for betterment's complex data visualizations, we created a gradient system with 100 color stops for each primary color. Our previous responsive efforts used an ad hoc set of max-width media queries. So we took the opportunity to research and standardize on a much simpler set of min-width media queries. Now, constraining this breakpoint set allowed us to create responsive versions of each utility class. So it's easy to specify a default padding and then loosen it for larger viewports and still not have to write additional CSS in the app. We created a linear scale of typography sizes based on the spacing scale. We had font size line height combinations optimized for our new font. And then we'd adjust line heights and some header font sizes responsibly. In keeping with our goal for semantic markup, looking good by default, we created a vertical rhythm system applied as bottom margins to typographic elements. Again, based on the spacing scale, adjusted responsibly. We built a 12 column grid based on Flexbox. We had fixed width gutters based on the spacing scale, adjusted responsibly. Inspired by the Dropbox paper team, we designed a new icon set in Sketch on conventional artboards. We wrote a script that uses Sketch tool to export SVG files, optimize them, generate view parcels, and a corresponding Rails helper. So designers can now change or add icons by updating Sketch and just opening a pull request. Engineers can pop them on a page using this SC icon helper. And then we recently made this interactive icon builder in our design system docs site so that engineers can generate the ERB for the icon they're looking for. We built all the traditional components, design system classics like card and button. For the first time though, these components were truly reusable. We could put them in anywhere and they would work thanks to our suit CSS naming conventions. If we could drop them in, they'd all play nicely with each other. We also built layout components with built in content slots. And these components served a dual purpose. It made it easy for our team to start building responsive pages because they did all the heavy lifting, taking stacked content slots and then putting them on the grid at larger viewport sizes. But they also served as examples for our teams for how to build these components with our new patterns. And we built visualization tools so that you could see the underlying content slots and grid. These are actually all browser screenshots of betterment.com, visualized with our style closet Chrome extension. And as we built each new piece, we used the visualization tools to check our work. So suffice it to say, an action-packed productive few weeks with unprecedented levels of collaboration between our engineering and design teams. Like for the first time, we had designs expressed by a system built with the system. And then as teams began to use the system, we immediately noticed a step change in the pace of our UI development. Pages that used to take a day would spring to life in about an hour. Engineers ended their demos saying, I didn't write any CSS and it's responsive. Now I don't want to paint too rosy of a picture. There was a learning curve, there was a lot of work, but at this point, we knew we had made all the right strategic choices. So the only remaining question was, can we hit our deadline? When can we launch the new brand to the world and return to our regularly scheduled program? Now a fixed date and a fixed scope are not a winning combination. We were stressed because we didn't seem to have a way to punt on anything. Like a brand isn't something you can turn part way on. We needed all of our pages to be in on the action. We had two levers we could pull, the date or the scope. We didn't want to shift the date or we didn't know how to shift the scope, so we were stuck. So maybe just to lift our spirits, we looked at everything we'd already done. We had used view variants to great effect. We now had this secret rebrand mode that internal employees were testing behind the feature flag. And then while reliving the insight that led to this, we had this moment of clarity or deja vu, or I don't know, it may have been amnesia. We just did the exact same thing again and made a lighter weight reskin mode. So with just a few tweaks to our variant logic, we wired up a switch that teams could flip on to reskin a page. So with a single line of code, you'd get a new variant, which meant new colors, new fonts, and some breathing room. It wasn't gonna be the end of the world if a page or a section wasn't quite done by the launch deadline. We could get on-brand enough in the meantime without having to completely solve every last technical problem. And it yielded surprisingly good results. We even chose to leave some of the deprecated systems reskinned permanently until their ultimate demise and deletion from our code base. But most importantly, we had decoupled done from launch. Constraint really is a wonderful thing. So we were debriefing after the launch and kind of pondering how we would have arrived at these results with our normal iterative processes. And we're not sure that we would have. We definitely not as creatively and efficiently. We shipped more code full of better ideas more quickly than we thought possible. And we eliminated far more debt than we created. Some of us, well, we were so relaxed when we saw, okay, not only did we hit our birthday launch date, but we were so relaxed on that day. And some of us may or may not have been sound asleep when we flipped that feature flag on. Constraints improved our plan and improved our results quantifiably. So there's many, many reasons to be careful when intensifying effort around project deadlines. By definition, you're subverting the notion of sustainable development phase. And it's a fantastic way to turn working software into buggy software. So we analyzed pull requests that's during and after the project. Now, because we're doubling down on the design system, the style closet repository, saw the most dramatic spike. There's 247 pull requests. Now, for a perspective, this represented 49% of style closet pull requests ever. But that first half had been spread over two and a half years, not 54 days. We shipped 44 releases of style closet, which means we were releasing every workday. Then we launched and we're immediately back to normal. So at the very least, even accounting for recoil and recuperation, there reflects a lack of panicky showstopping bugs. With Betterment.com, you kind of see a column before the storm. We knew all of the content was on its way out the door. Then you see this huge spike, because we built an entire new WordPress theme with our new design system. And we turned it on on launch day. And again, immediately back to normal. Now our retail app is part of a repository that contains other apps. So it's not as clear of a signal here. There's a delayed spike, partially because we were waiting for the design system, partially because there was a bit of a rush to aim for that deadline. But then we're immediately below normal. So we told ourselves it's probably easier to work in the new world, although it was now summer. But we were thrilled. This is what we had hoped to see. Now let's take a look at all the CSS that we wrote. The CSS rules are assigned a numeric specificity, highest score wins, in the case of a tie, last one wins. So Harry Roberts of CSS wizardry, came up with this sort of experimental notion of a specificity graph. On the X axis, you plot rules based on their order in the cascade. On the Y axis, you plot their specificity. And he mused, loosely speaking, this line should be smooth and trend upward. Because if you write a dodgy rule, some poor unfortunate rule that comes after it will have to fight back. And that'll show up as a jagged graph indicating developer pain. So on the left, we have style closet one, some of our better CSS, not great, not bad. On the right, we have style closet two. It's much better, smoother and it's a much lower specificity. But it's really fun to see and explain the graph features. You kind of see our CSS reset, then it's flat. That first bump is actually a visualization tool, flat. Then we see this tangle of some old form styles that we didn't have time to rewrite.  These are important by design so that our apps can freely use them in their markup. But this same analysis is so much cooler in retail. So on the left is the old CSS that was no fun to work with. On the right, wait a second, that's almost entirely style closet. The in-app CSS is basically all the way over on the right. The system to app ratio is fantastic. It means dramatically less work in the app to build the features with the new system. So that's quality. Let's look at quantity. Way, way, way down. Retail's CSS code base went from about 10,000 lines down to about 2,000 lines. That's on par with what we saw at betterment.com. The old WordPress theme, about 12,000 lines of CSS. The new one, about 2,000 lines of code. Now remember, we're not just matching functionality. The new code base supports dramatically improved user experience, responsive. And it adds all of these components that made it possible to build all of our application interfaces up from scratch as quickly as we did. Well, let's look at the payload size. In a nutshell, more system, way less at the app level. The design system payload went up about 57%, GZipped from 23 to 36K. But if you look at what retail is shipping across the wire, it dropped by 54%. 86K down to 40K GZipped. Now this is far less CSS from a far more capable system. And we actually have experimental style closet three builds that are weighing in around 24K. So we're back down to the original payload size. So with all of that behind us, what are we doing with our new found leisure time? Well, standardizing the view patterns across all our apps freed up a lot of time and creative energy for a bunch of new stuff. Reintegrated webpack pipelines into all of our apps. Then we've since built a Rails component framework inspired by JavaScript frameworks. It establishes a clean foundation for a hybrid front-end architecture in which Rails stimulus and react each play a part. And we're building form interactions, animation frameworks, data visualizations and lots of features. All based on the system we launched last year, which has been improving by the day. So I was listening to a James Corden interview and he relayed something that his dad used to say. That the difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something. We accomplished impractical things in a seemingly impossible time frame all because we made a decision to just do something, to commit to shipping and to commit to finding clever compromises in order to do so. The stories I've shared involve dozens of people who are eight action packed stressful weeks, problems and changes, mistakes and inventions, distractions and debates. We didn't lose our cool, we actually had a lot of fun because nothing really beats tackling tricky problems with good people. Thank you.


Hey everyone, I hope you're well welcome back to my channel, or if you're new here. My name is seppy and Today, I'm coming back with another daily vlog in the life of a junior doctor I'm gonna bring you guys along to my day off and then to my uncle weekend Which I hope you guys will enjoy I know that you guys have been giving me such good feedback on the past few vlogs That have been like this in theme So I hope that you're doing this one to kick start the vlog. There's actually something I want to show you at the start of the video To kick off this vlog I really wanted to show you guys Something that I've been wanting for ages and I'm so lucky to have finally I'm actually sharing it with my sister signer because it is so amazing and it is my yo-yo desk pro 2 So this is my new desk. I got it from sitstand.com. 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I sound a bit nasal And I look so red first thing in the morning is when my hay fever medication is at its lowest concentration So I literally have taken one now and hopefully you'll kick in within the next hour or so And then I will look less red and stuffy and it will sound better. So I want to apologize in advance for Something like this but yeah, welcome back to another vlog and I have Loved the response that you guys had to my previous vlog of me showing you my life in the clinic and a lot of me at Work and just being able to share that side of me with you because so many of you have known me since I was a Medical student here on YouTube and some of you are joining the journey now So yeah, I'm grateful for all of you. Today is my day off. It's Thursday It is my only day off on the week the way that my schedule works now I usually only get one day off in the week if I'm lucky and that is because we run clinics in the days that I'm not working full-time as an NHS doctor. So Yeah, that's why today is my only day off and I'm using it to film For you guys create content. I want to film my Zara haul. I want to go to the gym I have an audit that I need to finish. I've literally done everything for it I just need to write up what I found like the conclusions basically So that is what I have left to do I have a return to H&M if you guys watch my H&M haul. There was a couple of t-shirts that I wanted to return So I need to do that I've just basically got a little like odd bob jobs and then in the evening I'm going with three of my friends to some sort of like rooftop bar thing So I'm looking forward to that and then tomorrow is Friday Saturday and Sunday as well I am on call from 9 a.m. Till 9 30 p.m. So yeah, I'm I haven't done it on court in ages just the way that my rotors worked when I finished my last job Versus starting this new job like I finished on like two weeks of no on calls and I had annual leave like 10 days and this new job I've had two weeks of no on calls as well. So I literally haven't been on call in a month Which has been blissful, but yeah, it's gonna be a rude awakening to have three days in a call Three days on call in a row, but I well it is what it is It comes with a job and I actually love on calls because as a junior and you work a lot more independently when you're on call Versus when you're on a normal ward day, which I love So yeah, I'm just excited to bring you guys all along for that right now I'm just drinking on my coffee this cute mug was gifted to me by my hospital mess society I make Nespresso's every single morning, especially on my way to work I'll just have a long Nespresso in my like little blue floral chilies Mug, but today I'm just having it at home. I'm not feeling hungry yet But I will probably eat something in the next couple of hours I just have my diary out and I am Planning out my day for any of you guys who watched my birthday gift haul Saul got me this diary, but she got it one size smaller She got it in the size small and I changed it and I got a medium and I'm so happy I did that I think a large would have been too big and a small was too small I think this is the perfect size for a diary in your bag So I was saying we probably want to get a large one for our clinic, but more like Not in a diary format But kind of in a diary form basically more like a notebook format so we can write like all of our clients the treatments They've had etc and like follow-up stuff But we'll see like what what people will get inside that and if we get this notebook or not I will show you Yeah, also speaking of stuff. I want to get Unnecessary purchases. I saw Olivia Jade had the pink Bottega bag and I am obsessed and now I'm thinking do I buy myself a pink Bottega to say You know well done. You've been working hard or do I just be honest and think now You don't actually need to buy yourself something right now and you should save that money. I don't know We'll see what I do And lastly before I put this camera down I have had the COVID jab in this arm yesterday is my second one. I'm now fully vaccinated Yay One year on from COVID and today is one year since I graduated med school as well It's nice to know that we have moved forward in the pandemic And I'm so grateful to be living in the United Kingdom where we are managing to vaccinate I believe more than anyone else in the world So thank you God and thank you to everyone So it's 10 a.m. And I'm gonna go to the gym now I'm just wearing these leggings from forever 21. This sports bra is from bow and tee I got it a long time like last summer and I showed you guys in a vlog and then my trainers are these pink Nike ones and Yeah, I'm just gonna go for like a 45 minute workout I don't like to do longer because then I feel like it takes up my whole day Because I could easily do like a two-hour workout if I wanted to sometimes So that is what we're aiming for Guys, I think for my next dancing comp. Sorry. There's shakes By the way, I don't have a stand for my camera in my car But I need one because they always want to talk to you guys in my car But I think for my next person dance competition. I should do come run a woman So let me let me know if you guys want to see another dance comp And also if you want to see come run a woman or who you would want whose music you would want So I'm back from the gym I quickly got changed I'm in this t-shirt and my Ugg slippers and my mama's gonna come with me. We are going to get I'm getting a pedicure I think my mom was a manicure She's actually taking so long. It is frustrating me. We're gonna be late But I need to grab a protein shake my hands are shaking because I haven't eaten yet in the gym I only drank my BCAA drink So I can't find my protein shake They find it one sec So I'm gonna drink this protein shake is the you fit It's got 22 grams of protein and they say you should drink protein shakes within 30 minutes of your workout in order to restore All of the amino acids and proteins that you lost during your workout and build muscle So that is why I'm having that I haven't had breakfast yet But I'm taking my laptop to where I'm going for my pedicure So I can do my order at the same time and that will save me a lot of time rather than sitting there Being bored because it takes ages to get pedicures and stuff But we're gonna be late if my mom doesn't hurry up. This is the annoying thing about Iranian parents. They're always late Miraculously we've managed to make it on time to the nail shop mom You were taking ages to get ready. Yeah, to be fair You did your makeup really fast because you have makeup when I told you sign this colony be abby I wasn't joking when I said I was going to multitask and do both things at once Because otherwise, I won't make it to have a pedicure. Let me see come closer So beautiful Sorry don't mind how messy my car is but I got white toes. I don't know if you guys can see Too dark, I don't think so Your nails actually look so much better in this light. They look so pretty mom very elegant. I love it. Honestly, I miss We're discussing what to eat because it's currently I was saying to my mom it's so good that I woke up so early I woke up at 8 30 Because now I've done so much of my tasks for the day that's only 12 30 now But I haven't had any food like physical food. Yeah, I've had my protein Jake, but I'm getting really hungry now So my mom make a omelette for you. I might make it myself. I'll see what like Such a lot me. Yes. Oh my mom makes me the best salami avocado bagels for work And then I have that with like a salad And it's the best I Because he are sure is like for Iranian call bus call bus guys It's like the this the meat that you put like the dry cold meat So look at how busy this coffee shop is wow So, yeah, I'm gonna have a sandwich. I'm gonna film my Zara Hall and Just going out tonight. Yeah So even though it's my day off. It's not really my day off Because I still walk but I love doing I mean, I love everything that I do but YouTube doesn't feel like work Exactly. Yes, but those of you who don't know my mom also has a YouTube channel music. Yeah them off So this is the ingredients that are gonna go into my egg. We've got one egg I'm gonna put a tiny bit of mozzarella I'm gonna mix the egg with some chillies and garlic and then I'm gonna top it off on a bagel with some pepperoni Which I absolutely love. So even though like I'm not on a diet I'm just trying to eat healthier and I try and eat what I like and what I enjoy And maybe like just try and control my portion size, but about three weeks ago I stopped drinking soft drinks like I don't drink Diet Coke Fanta Pepsi, etc I do drink sparkling water and I do drink Sometimes I drink energy drinks when I'm like tired and I need an energy boost or whatever But I don't drink soft drinks anymore before I would say the only fluids I would drink was Diet Coke with my food and coffee in the morning, which is awful But I've noticed that since I stopped drinking Diet Coke I really don't crave sweets and sugar at all and I remember one of my friends in school Her mom went to a yoga retreat in Portugal when she came back I was at their house and I was having sushi and a Diet Coke and she was like you shouldn't be drinking this Diet Coke It makes you crave sugars it makes you go away and I was just like oh really and I wasn't taking it seriously But now I see how right she was that being said this isn't the first time that I've quit soft drinks before and I was About ten I think I quit for three years Then I drank it again for a year then I quit for another two years And then I just restarted again when I was 15 because I went to Iran and in Iran like it's either like water or Soft drinks and there's no juices really unless you go to a juice shop in which they have a lot of juices Behind my dad's like what you're watching me? Have you said hi? Hello, you know you have to come in the frame I have already thank you say hello Good afternoon. I know how much have I done today and it's only 12 30 How much so I went to the gym. I've got my pedicure when I was there. I took my laptop I did my audit because you wake up early. Yeah, do you like my toes? Nice Love you. So this is the start of my Omelette, this is the start of my mom's omelette. She's making the sign up She adds like really large chunks of tomato onion mushroom Chili's and then she cracks an egg over it and she learnt this off of our lovely Afghan neighbors They're our close friends and they always make that for breakfast and I love that But today I just fancy that and then this is This is my egg mix. I've put like chili flakes in there some black pepper some salt And some garlic and I'm just gonna stir that into this once the mushrooms are a bit more fried This is the bagels that I'm using. It's the wolverton's protein bagel. My mom got these I just like thin bagels. I don't care if they're protein or not because let's be real bread is carb not protein But yeah, I just like thin ones and you can get loads of really nice thin seeded bagels In like grocery stores and stuff. I'm just gonna put this pepperoni and some mozzarella onto this It's gonna be like a really loaded bagel that update on the omelette and you guys can hear my dad playing His instrument in the background. He's playing the tar yum Me and my mom are literally laughing at how huge this mozzarella is like look at this knife. It is so long Oh my god So I popped the mozzarella bread into the microwave just to make it a bit more gooey and I'm gonna put this on top Here's my finished product. I've just topped the pepperoni with some guacamole And then the egg with the bagel and then I'm gonna flip This onto this. Let me do it one second. I can did it my name, please Oh, look at that. What a loaded bagel. Yummy. I am a chef. What can I say? So I am on call now. It is sunday and I'm just going to drop off some emergency acidic tap samples to the lab So emergency samples some hospitals have pod systems and then emergency samples you have to like Drop it yourself by hand, which is what I'm doing. But there's a lot of running around. Honestly on call You get your steps in So behind that box I just stood you is the rest of the lab Where they do all the bloods of the samples is the biochemistry lab and then connected they have the microbiology lab And as you saw it says on there if you have an urgent sample, then you need to hand it to them physically I was thinking they really need like a little call button because I'm just going to shout out to my kiwi Um, yeah, also for lunch today I have gorma sabzi for me and my friend navya and my mom made it shout out the goat So I'll show you our lunch Wait, it started now. Oh So this is one of my best friends navya. We are like really really close even though we literally met um few months ago It feels like a lifetime. There's people coming behind us. I'm shy. Oh, here we go. We do it again So I just made navya take some pictures of me for the thumbnail of this vlog Um, so today is sunday. How much better is today versus yesterday? Oh my god, a million times better Yeah, so yesterday was like really really busy today. We actually have time to go for lunch Whereas yesterday we were forcing that lunch break in which is good and we have gorma sabzi This fresh out the shower vibe is honestly not a vibe Whenever I come fresh out the shower my face always looks so red. I can't even I can't even deal on a side note. I hope that you guys are like my eyelash extensions I personally really like them. I know that some of my followers always say that they look too long or that I can fly away With these lashes, but they're absolutely my fave. I'm gonna end this vlog here. I am very tired these days like honestly Crazy tired, which is the sad reason why I haven't been posting as frequently But I'm gonna try and fix that trying to go back to posting twice a week. So fingers crossed everyone Stay motivated with me. Um, I'm just trying to stay on top of you know going gym Going to work going to the clinic trying to create content on here trying to create content for instagram And trying to manage the instagram for our clinic too. So I feel like sometimes I am doing a lot In case you guys are wondering if I do think that I do sometimes think I'm doing a lot But I never think it's nothing that I'm not capable of doing I do think like we set our own limits and our own standards and we have 24 hours in a day Which is plenty of time to do So much like I actually think we shouldn't limit ourselves Into you know what we can do, but I also am aware when I get too tired Um, so I do give myself breaks and I'm sorry that means that you guys didn't have a video for the past week But I hope that you guys are enjoying these little Vlogs where you come to work with me and have that whole insight Into being a doctor Because I know I wish I had vlogs like this when I was looking to apply to med school So I'm finally gonna say goodbye. Um, I just want to thank sitstand.com again for sponsoring this video And for the amazing desk honestly guys genuinely Sigh, I love that desk. I love that desk. I have an exam coming up in july Um, so yes, by the way, you still do exams when you qualify as a doctor So I need somewhere to study as well And I actually wanted a new desk and I was just really lucky to be able to work with such a great brand So if you guys want to check it out, it's linked in the description the discount code is across the screen And I will see you guys in my next video. Love you so much Bye


Dux-victrix. Hey Chicho, do you think World War 3 will be fought as numerous proxy wars through the world and not as a centralized conflict? I think it's gonna be both. We're already in World War 3, it's already being fought, governments against citizens, and multiple proxy wars, and if we're unlucky we're gonna see the big boys go at it. I hope we don't. And by the way Iran is one of the big boys. Iran is one of the big boys. Israel's already involved, right? So one part is already in. They're in deep, they're in dark, right? If Iran gets involved, all the big boys are joining. All the big boys are joining. Please appreciate this. United States has brought multiple fleets in shooting range of aircraft carrier destroyers. Iran has those missiles. Russia has those missiles. China has those missiles that can take down American aircraft carriers. If Iran is attacked, okay, if Iran is attacked, I think we'll have a few days of reflection to see if it's going to stop. If the attacks are on the severe side, China and Russia will try to talk Iran into not retaliating. But if the attack continues on Iran, more than a day, two days, three days max, I say. We might see a long period in a week, and after that it's a free-for-all. I think if it becomes clear that Israel, United States are not going to slow down, and it wasn't just one hit, they're gonna continue to do this. I think you're gonna see aircraft carriers and ships being annihilated. I think you're gonna see a rise rising up of Africa from Morocco all the way to Pakistan, India, like the way we have never witnessed in the world ever. Okay, and remember Pakistan has nukes. Okay, it's an Islamic nation. It has nukes. Some people say every station control is manned by American troops, and they will never allow Pakistan to use those nukes, but I think United States is in an extremely weak position. Okay.