Good afternoon everyone as we are going to discuss today's session is about recognizing stress coping strategies and psycho social care apart from this we are also an expert on physical relaxation techniques as well as importance of diet and modifiable factors for us avoiding stress in a covid there is a corona virus this is 90 we have outlined our webinar in following format see the objective of this webinar then there will be a brief introduction of covid illness and its then how we define stress what are the positive and negative stress or your stress or distress then problems psychological or psychotic problems or physical problems associated with covid related stress how to take a psychosocial care of children in social isolation or in quarantine or for elderly then there are certain special circumstances as well as we will learn different coping strategies and lastly we will conclude the session since corona pandemic begins everyone knows everyone is worried about their future about their health and there are also other factors so it's most important to recognize the illness more knowledge you have less fearful you will be and also simultaneously the covid related stress it could be in a different format like physical health related stress or the psychological illness or worsening of the existing illness or any financial issues or other business related issues we have to diagnose it at a personal and organizational level also we have to identify the stressors and also we have to identify specific health problem and what kind of management is required for that so basically we will emphasize in this webinar on reducing negative stress and its effect how to increase positive approach towards stress what should we practice discuss and how we should solve this problem and also the practical techniques which is ready to apply whatever information we are getting through different resources like television social media newspaper family and friends and other sources the most common emotion faced by all is fear insecurity it makes us anxious panicky and can even possibly make us to excessive thing say or do things what we might not consider appropriate under normal circumstances this is a simple slide showing the different kind of persons symptoms of covid covid, cup, shortness of breath, chills, fever, sore throat and headache you will also see another slide reflecting differences between covid 19, cold and common flu so the most important factor is that fever may be common in covid as well as flu fatigue is there, cup usually dry but the most important factor is shortness of breath so you need not to worry if there is no shortness of breath whatever you have been suffering is more likely either it could be a common cold or a normal flu which is easily treatable so you should have appropriate knowledge about the symptomatology of illness and how it spreads if i ask you to write a one sentence definition of stress before pandemic everyone might have a replied it differently like someone might have a financial stress in their house, someone might have a job related, someone might have to take care of their children, someone might have to take care of their job, someone might have to take care of their family but since it's a era of pandemic everyone is more fearful about health related issues and the possibility of getting infected it's basically a non-specific response to a demand a product of change or any situation good or bad it's not only necessary that the bad situation will cause a stress but even a good situation which required readjustment will have a equal impact on your psychological status simply stress is a physical or a psychological state of arousal due to external or internal stimuli which are individual pursues as a challenging or there is a possibility of exhaustion of resources and ability it's a study conducted by American Psychiatric Association and Indian Psychiatric Society the stress in population poor result shows one third reports experiencing extreme stress and one fifth have a high level of negative stress but it's only around 10 to 15 days for a month so how we are going to recognize the stress there is a concept of good stress and bad stress that is use stress and distress what is use stress it's positive stress which motivates individual focuses energy which enables concentration increase of individuals performance and energize you into emotion so use stress is basically positive stress and distress of course it's negative stress which often resulted in the anxiety or often resulted in physical problems or mental problem which is characterized by loss of motivation which reduces effectiveness and it's a it does have an impact on our physical and mental health also behavioral problems will be there then what physiological and psychological responses does one have to stress there are different kind of physical symptoms or psychological or mental science physical symptoms in form of palpitations perspiration fast and shallow breathing excessive worry initial insomnia in a longer duration or other psychological symptoms like low mood loss of interest decreased concentration job related it will result in absenteeism it will result in less productivity behavioral science like extreme anger frustration increase in implicit impulsivity also it will cause migraine headache or backache or a worsening of pre-existing illness if someone is already suffering from any psychological illness or physical illness like diabetes hypertension to which there is a possibility of worsening of a pre-existing illness there are two kinds of stress short term and long term short term specifically is limited to a particular duration or a short span of time for example someone got stuck in a traffic jam then for a time being he will have a restlessness uneasiness impulsivity long term stress is often a condition in which we experience a continual barrage of undersold stimuli for example someone is suffering from cancer or terminal illness will have a long term stress which will have a different impact then the stages of stress is also considered as a appraisal stage or coping stage appraisal is a first opportunity it depends on our previous experience experiences and personality and how we are going to react it how we are coping stage will determine our response whether it is going to be positive or negative so in brief we have to learn that the optimal stress is required for optimal performance the mild to moderate form of stress is always necessary which will help you to motivate to increase your productivity if the stress level is very very low then you will feel dizzy or your alertness will be decreased and if it's high then you will suffer from anxiety or a disorganized thinking which will also again have a significant impact on your physical and psychological status and which will disturb your socio occupational functioning we have to focus on facts reject rumors and theories as I have already told knowledge is power more you know less fearful you feel just a couple of people who don't know about the disease think that normal cold winter work is also like corona and they panic and feel insecure so it's always better to have a proper knowledge about illness its outcome and its treatment modalities then simultaneously you have to be make sure to access and believe only muscle reliable sources nowadays what's up Facebook you have to be have a show off you have to be make sure the excess and believe only muscle reliable sources do not follow sensational news like right now or I daily in the patients I add who are the sensational news safety I'm disturbed over there do not spread or share any unverified news Jesse I'm a reverse message up if you are not sure it's verified or about its surety then you should not share it with others stick to the known advice hand hygiene and physical distance these are the most important which will limit the infection of coronavirus and you have to also understand it's entirely different from common cold common cold is a routine common few is not required any major intervention even if someone get infected with corona the mild symptom does not require any treatment moderate level of symptoms will only require symptomatic treatment like analysis antibiotics and painkillers hospitalization is necessary only in case of severe symptomatology like breathing difficulties but you are nowadays you can easily see most of the patient are recovering from it what is the advantage of stress management better physical and mental health stronger immune system well controlled pre-existing illness good decision making better emotional bonding less absenteeism and compensation loss improved performance and attitude same we do have disadvantage of poor stress management it's equally in opposite direction we'll have a disturbed body system weakened immune system poor decision making impaired logical thinking worsening of pre-existing physical or mental illness poor performance disturbed relationship then how we should approach positively to present a social isolation or someone is current time keep yourself busy have a regular schedule don't think it's holidays you should have a regular schedule then always you have to maintain physical distancing but social togetherness distract yourself from negative emotions and focus on positive listening to music reading watching movies rediscover and enjoy your hobbies be physically active keeping fit and feeling fit eat well learn new skill new language develop new hobbies spend time with children and caring adults then if there is any emotional issue how you are going to handle it if it's anxiety you should practice low breathing you should be able to divert your thoughts you should keep yourself calm and serene whenever you feel impulsive angry or irritated you should learn the art to distract yourself or calm your your mind if you are feeling low lonely or sad it's also common feeling you can start interacting with others or you can start listening the music if you are feeling afraid excessively then you can ask you question to yourself what is under my control am i unnecessarily worrying about it past experiences might be possible in the past you have also hospitalized for any serious illness and got recovered how i have managed and things i can do to help myself and be positive like physical distancing and social togetherness regular exercise if the feeling wasn't a person may feel helpless hopeless and feel that life is not worth living deflected as below you have to be very conscious because it's the beginning of severe depressive illness if there is a change in sleep patterns difficulty in sleeping and concentrating bursting of health problems or increased use of alcohol tobacco or drugs in that case you have to consult a psychiatrist or any physician nearby or you can also call on a helpline provided by government persons with medical illness there is always possibility because of stress worsening of previous physical and mental health condition so in social isolation there tends to be more feel withdrawn moody or irritable you have to take special care for that they may not see get easy access to medicines or counseling you have you have to provide easy access for them to medicine as well as consultants help and support is vital from their families as well as caregivers they should have a helpline numbers and nearby hospital contact details regular medication daily routine and keeping themselves engaged will help them good health status is often helpful for you to win the battle more easily In migrants as nowadays we have been dealing with this issue this should be you should be treated everyone with dignity respect empathy and compensation you should recognize their specific and varied need for each person and family you can help them out with knowledge and other supportive measure reassure them that situation is transient and not going to last long you have to emphasize on importance of staying in a past present location if they are infected you have to reassure that the condition is curable and most of the persons recover inform them about the support system extended by central government state government NGOs and health systems taking care of mental health of children's you should provide them assurance whenever needed manage your child anxiety engage them in indoor activities in a whatever possible manner keep them in contact with their friends give them clear information make routine of learning at home taking care of elderly this is the most common susceptible population to covid 19 they also have a regular exercise they also have a regular routine they should spend their time on the christmas activities they should daily do some exercise they should get involved in daily activities connected to their loved one cut down on listening to new social media and the small arithmetic brand stimulating games will help them to keep themselves busy after recovery if someone diagnosed with corona positive and he has been treated and recovered successfully he will have a little bit stress and anxiety going back to the community he might have a fear about that his loved one there is a possibility of getting infected also he have to face the social isolation by community which is very stressful and disappointing filling of guilt maybe there as he is unable to track or trace the contact and also not able to walk or care for others there is a high possibility of psychiatric illnesses like depression helplessness or frustration use the way mentioned earlier to deal with these feelings share your positive story that the one can recover from covid coping with stress it's basically a ADC phenomena we have to be aware we have to balance our life and we have to control our stress factors and it depends on how what type of social support to give you to the other people and what type of social support do other people give to you coping with stress there are different ways you can have biofeedback session which is a progressive psychological relaxation technique then meditation or relaxation a deeply relaxed state reduce psychological as well as physiological tension regular physical exercises social support you can ask for help or assistance from other peoples from society help or assistance from others you can have a appraisal support you can have a tangential support in form of food financial assistance or goods you can have a information supports regarding illness its knowledge treatment protocols emotional supports from your family members or relatives or friend so basically we have to maintain a fix and firm schedule whether it's work workplace you should have always have a routine schedule regular exercise activities you should start managing your time as well as energy levels you should have access to nearby hospitals consultants in case of emergency you should be demand connected with your friends the knowledge or information about the illness you should share through or share or learn through proper resources and of course the whatever possible manner you should support your colleagues friends there are different stage buster my colleagues are going to talk about exercise as well as nutrition but these are the seven factors which is most responsible for relaxation that is a balanced nutrition which is one of the most important factor mental health care whenever required supportive relationship the quality of sleep physical activity and mindfulness practices this is the similar slide reflecting relaxation techniques and importance of time management bio feedback meditation exercise and diet which has been have a important in a stress reduction thank you hello everyone i'm dr. Dharam Pandey from Manipal Hospital my i'll try to convey to you people that you think that you have never heard about the treatment of stress obviously you have never heard about the treatment of stress but yes definitely you must have heard about the management of stress that is what i want to tell you that the treatment of stress is not managed we have to learn the art of dealing with stress we can't control everything what is happening like the present situation like corona and um we have uh we have a little response to it how do we respond to it how do we take up and this is uh how we are going to response to it and by the stress up the most common cause being stressful you have so So I want to say this here, avoid all or nothing thinking, either everything or nothing, we should not think like this. In life there is nothing like pure black and white, there are a lot of colors in life and you have to enjoy that. We have to look the ability, we have to learn to manage how effectively we can manage our stress, how we can deal with that. Like Dr. Sam has said, good stress, bad stress, stress is also important in our life. Stress should be there in our life. If stress is there, we will feel motivated. If it is in the positive side, so our performance is big, we are motivated. Dr. Sam has already explained it very well. When it becomes bad, it becomes distressed out of that. So I always say to that, don't be distressed with stress, de-stress this stress. We have to be de-stressed with stress, we have to get out of it. When it starts getting symptomatic, when it starts giving us problems like anxiety, physical manifestation, physical problems, we start getting depressed. When symptoms like this come, we definitely need to de-stress. Fortunately, we have a lot of ways to de-stress ourselves. We have to learn to improve the ability to manage stress around us. We have to learn how to manage our stress-free scenario and we have a lot of resources available to de-stress ourselves. The first thing that Dr. Sam has said is that you need to have export help. So there is no need to do this. You seek export help from your mental health professionals, physicians, whoever is available. You talk to them and do the process, learn how to cope with your stressful life. There are some other techniques that come in self-help, which you can help yourself to get out of stress. Like Dr. Sam has just said, physical activity is very important for physical exercise. Physical exercise is proven, there are a lot of researches that tell us that some of these stress-inducing hormones are reducing our body. For example, the level of cortiforn is reduced and we have a happy hormone in our body. The sense of well-being and happiness that is provided to us increases our body's release. If we exercise, we become our sleep pattern gets better if we do regular physical activity. So the next question is how to exercise? People often get confused about how to exercise, the gym is closed at this time. They can't go to the gym, they can't exercise in the gym. So here you have to understand one thing. Exercise is like the large muscles, the muscles of food. The abdominal muscles of our back. You can see something in this exercise. Just to sit to stand. Just simple push-up. You have to stand on one leg for a while, count for 10 seconds after that. 10 times, small chair, sit to stand. You have to put a step or a small stool on it to stand on it. You can see it on the screen. You have to involve your large group of muscles. And you have to strengthen them. This is what the physical activity is. And physically active, you don't have to exercise for 15 minutes a day. You have to become so active throughout the day.  Do your regular routine work. Make a schedule every day. If you are working from home, start your work at 9 in the morning. Make a team. And be active in that routine. And keep going. Now you are not going to work at this time. Suppose that your time is running out. You just get up from the distance and you have your office. So your physical activity level is also reduced. So try to become so active all day. You don't have to stand on your feet for a while. So it is very important to be physical active. Relaxation practice. If you are feeling anxiety, you have to do something called progressive muscle relaxation. You don't have to do anything to relax. You can sit in any comfortable position. You can lie down. And you have to type your progressively muscles. You have to do this. First, type your shoulders in such a way that you feel that those muscles are being contracted. After contracting the shoulder, relax it. Then do the back muscles. Then do the thigh muscles. Then do knee-care-round muscles. Then do the hip muscles. And feel as if all your feelings and fatigue are coming out of your feet. So gradually and repeatedly do this. Relax one large muscle. When you contract any muscle, it goes to the face of relaxation. When you leave it, your contraction is relaxed. So when you contract it, it will be relaxed. This is a phenomenon on a normal physiologist. This will happen.  Shoulder, hip trunk, then the hip muscles, then the thigh muscles, then the hip muscles. And repeat this cycle for 10-15 minutes. Until then, feel that. Yes, you are feeling relaxed. The second mechanism can be focus breathing. Everyone has said that breathing is very important. If we do focus breathing, then the waves in the mechanism of our brains go to the stage. If you are in anxiety, then if you practice focus breathing, then you will definitely feel calm. Obviously, in meditation and other techniques, breathing is very important. So if you do meditation, that's very good. You are explored in that way. If you are a beginner, then in a very simple way, you have to learn breathing. You have to breathe with your nose. And count. One, two, three, four. And while leaving breathing, you have to count again today. That is to start from eight to zero. That is to say, you inhale and let go of the breath. Exhaling. So exhalation should always be slow and longer from your inhalation. Which induces the relaxation of your brain. And with that, focus on your breathing. That you are breathing and letting go of the breath. Just focus on that and call it focus healing. And with that, you have to feel this with the breath. Whenever you are breathing, so you are feeling a fresh, taking a fresh energy, fresh air in your lungs. And it is going throughout your body. It is giving a good nutrition, good oxygenation to all the tissue around in your body. And when you are letting go of the breath, you have to focus on it. All the negative energy from your anxiety, your stress is coming out. So this is how you can practice focused breathing techniques. You will have a lot of people listening to music. A lot of people listen to religious music. So it's okay. You can listen to whatever music you like. It's better for you to listen to it with your headphones on. Put headphones on. If you say musical tuning, then try to sing with it. Whatever music you like. With that, no matter how bad singer you are. There is no need to listen to what people say. You don't sing well, nothing. Put headphones on. And with your favorite music, yourself sing with it. And with that, your brain's rhythms will be neutralized. And your anxiety and stress will relieve you. You will like it. Another very important thing is sleep. At this time, we are sitting at home in a comic scenario like this. Sometimes we are sleeping, sometimes we are struggling, sometimes we are sleeping. All the routine of sleep cycle is disturbed. So don't do that. Try to maintain your sleep cycle. Everyone on this earth needs sleep. With good sleep, you have a lot of these enzymes in your body. Nutritions or hormonal balance, they get balanced. And this is very necessary. Our body needs sleep. And in that way, body gets time to revive. Revive it. Energy revives it. This is why sleep is very important. An adequate sleep. And it is not adequate time. It is adequate means here, sound sleep. When you wake up from your sleep, you have to freshen up. It is not duration. It is quality of sleep you have to improve. After that, the most important thing is healthy diet. And we have diet cakes. We will tell you about nutrition and diet. What kind of diet you should be. And you will tell from the way of export. What kind of diet should be related to stress in these scenarios. So that you can manage the stress perfectly. So hope that you understood the thing. You can manage the stress. You can do it. You can manage. And we have to learn the ability to deal with it. And with having a good technique, being physically active. Have a good exercise routine. Healthy diet. Good sleep pattern. Or self techniques. You can manage your stress with them. And never hesitate to have a sick. Seeking an export help. Whenever you need. Because if you are able to establish a bad side of stress. You will not be able to do it. With this, a lot of physical manifestations start coming. Your physical diseases also start coming. So it is better to take care of the stress. If it is going in that direction. It is never give. It is never hesitate to seek an export advice. Whether it is in a mental health professional. Whether it is a physical export. Whether it is a diet health export. Anyone seek help always on time. Right. And de-stress your stress. Not be distressed with this stress. But thank you so much for having attention here. And I will call my ex-colleague. Very good afternoon everyone. As a doctor already discussed about. The understanding of the stress management. And during this situation. And now I'm going to how to. How we can manage the stress with the physical activity. And how we can discuss with ourselves. With the understanding of the situation. So now I'm going to discuss about the understanding. Of nutrition during pandemic. So what is the stress stress is the body reaction to change. That require an adjustment or response. The body reacts to these changes with physical. Mental and emotional responses. So what is the effect of the stress. The when the level of the cortisol increase in the body. The cortisol is the stress hormone. So the effect of the excess cortisol to the body. As you can see in the picture. That is hunger arthritis decrease immune system. Decrease metabolism depression hypertension. Chronic fatigue sleep deprivation. Migraines and acid reflux. Acid reflux disease. So what is the behavioral effect of the stress. The effect of the stress on our mind. That is mood swings feelings tear feeling. Careful loss of concentration and focus anxious. Or overthinking effect of stress on body. That is muscle muscle tension. Or nausea increase heart rate and. Distance sleep. So there is a relationship between stress and diet. So there are two type of eating. When we feel the standard stress we want to eat more. Or we want to eat and we don't want to eat. So there is a two type. There is a winch eating and starving. So winch eating. Mostly we winch eating. We want to eat more. There is no control on stress. We want to eat in between every two hours. And our choice. Food of choice changes. We want to eat fried food. We want to eat calorie rich food. So winch eating. If we continue for long term. So that gives us a weight. Because of that our weight goes on. So next one is the starving. Starving is like we don't want to eat at all. And because of that we get hungry. After some time we get hungry.  But as a result of this. It becomes a disease. That is an arrhythmia nervosa. So it is an important nutrient for stress reduction. The vitamin C. Consuming food rich in vitamin C. That is citrus fruit like oranges, lemon. Other citrus fruits. That it can reduce the stress. And boost the stress. And it can reduce the stress. And boost the immune system. Increase of vitamin C. Can help lower the level of the cortisol. A stress hormone. And the blood pressure. Blood pressure during high anxiety situation. So next one is complex carbohydrate. The sources of complex carbohydrate. You can see in the picture. That is whole grain fruits. Vegetables. Can induce the brain to increase serotonin production. And stabilizing blood pressure. As a way to reduce stress. So we need to add complex. More of the complex carbohydrate. Sources in our daily diet routine. So magnesium. Magnesium plays very important role in our. Stress reducing. So magnesium is essential for headache and. Fatty and that also improve the sleep quality. The richest source of magnesium is. Sweet potato eggs. Dry nuts seeds. Broccoli etc. So omega 3 fatty acids also. It's a healthy diet. Fatty acids also. It's a very important place. Very important role to reduce the stress. Like the resources of omega 3 fatty acids. Is. Fatty fish. Dry fruits like almond. Walnut pistachio. Flaxseed etc. So when we feel under stress. We want to eat more gallery rich food. Like sweet thing and fried. In that situation we need to go. There is a very good option. That is dark chocolate. It helps to release happy hormone. That is and endorphin. That reduce anxiety. Muscle stress and mood swings. However it is like. Amomile T. Valerian T. Are commonly used for calming effect. And reduce the stress related insomnia. Insight or anger. And there is another T. That is barley tea. That is also plays an important role. In relaxing the body. And leave the stress in thought to deprive. From its contribution of crypto fan. Crypto fan is an amino acid that is in. Necessary for sleep and synthesizing. Serotonin. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter. That is essential in the regulation of sleep. Sleep and mode. So what I think is very important to reduce the stress. So there is another. Herbs in our kitchen. That is very commonly we are using. And we are using. That is a mint. Mint is commonly used to relieve the stress. And use kindness. Peppermint oil is a lack session. Promoting property. On the gastrointestinal tissues. And it's analgesic and. Anesthetic effect. So apart from these. Nutrients that helps to reduce the stress. I want to discuss about the very handy tips. That. That is very important to release the stress. And. We can avoid the eating. Unnecessary eating. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. Maybe I may not. Mm. If it's a little. Mine. If. vegetables in your diet, salads, raw foods, vegetables and whole grain in your diet and have plenty of fluid in your diet. That is very important for a healthy lifestyle. So, eat healthy and live healthy. Thank you.


So, in my life, I went through lots of really insane ups and downs, I went through periods of massive motivation and just being in the zone creative, assertive, everything you could want in an entrepreneurial environment, but I've also went through periods of being very introspective, very depressed, very inside of myself, or not able to properly communicate. Both periods come and go in my life, so it's not that there was one period like that, one period like that, it's a cyclical phase and each one of us goes through these throughout our lives. What I would suggest to you, if you are going through that, if you are going through a period where things are slower, you're not as charismatic as you usually are, you're not as powerful or expressive as you used to be, ask yourself a very simple question. How can I monetize this? How can I take where I'm going through right now and turn it into a way for me to actually live off of? So that question really helped me open up my mind because what I used to do was to really judge the place that I was at. So, if I would be in a bad place, I would just start judging it like this is not okay, you shouldn't be in this kind of situation, and then I would trace back and ask myself, why am I thinking that? Why am I thinking that I shouldn't be in that kind of situation? And the answer always came down to you have to take care of your family, you have to get to your goal of becoming successful, and you have to take care of your business. And so by asking the question how can I monetize this, basically how can I take this situation that I'm in and actually make it worth money to me, I found that it really opened up my mind and helped me come up with strategies that would fit that situation. So whereas in high-level situations I would usually focus on getting things done, focus on my creativity, my assertiveness, my charisma. In the low situations what I would do is I would focus more on delegation, building systems, creating deep content, those kind of things that would sometimes last me for years in terms of income, in terms of being assets to me. So as an entrepreneur, if you are going through a kind of a situation like that, that would be my best recommendation for you. Ask yourself, how can I take what I'm going through right now and monetize it? Let me know if you have any questions and I hope to see you in the next video. Thank you.


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I pull enables your phone to see much like a humans do. It's used by people who are blind or visually impaired to interact with objects every day, whether it's to explore and understand what's around you, or to simply understand what object is right in front of you at any point. I got the idea when one of the first papers in neural image captioning was out. It could describe images with a sentence. This was one of the papers from one of the Google teams in computer vision. And I immediately thought of a childhood friend who became blind halfway through his life because of a hunting accident. And I would walk with this person and describe my surroundings, because without any contextual knowledge, without a narrator, a blind person has no real memories of the places where they go, the things that are around them at any experience that they might have. With an AI that can describe things around you by using computer vision, they can get better memories. They can get better visual understanding and a much richer experience. In this conference, without visual cues, you would not really have that many memories of the setting and the colors and all the things that are going around you at any given time. A lot of the research in AI is collaborative. So without the many researchers at this conference, and also not at this conference who have contributed to this field, this could have never happened. All the blind people that have used AI could have never experienced it. And we, as a small startup, could have never gotten to this point without this collaborative effort. It's really important to say that one of the really cool things about AI is the collaboration of the researchers behind it and how openly everything is being published. We would like to be able to identify almost any object in the world and understand its local context. So it's becoming very easy as we've seen with the ImageNet results to classify an item. To say that there is a dog in the frame. But it's actually very hard to understand the context of it. If it's sleeping, if it's sleeping in a certain area, if there is perhaps a lamppost coming towards it, if you're walking as a blind person, these are non-trivial problems. It's like putting self-driving car software on a person. We would like to solve that, to enable anyone to navigate more safely, and to enable general people to be more smart about the things that are around them.  But what our eyes see are not always well processed by our brains. We are ignorant about a lot of the things that are going on around us. People's expressions, what they're wearing, what the objects around us are, the plants and animals around us. This is all a mystery to us that we learned with time, with education, with encyclopedias, and very expensive universities. But AI can actually help us deliver this information right away. As soon as you see something, they can tell you a little more about it. And bit by bit, we hope that it will make people smarter. There might be a risk in the fact that robotics and VR and these technologies that replace some social aspects of life will borrow us from participating in society. And we should definitely address that by making these technologies be more open to the world. Let's take, for example, Pokemon Go, or actually Pokemon as an example. The company has always vouched for video games that encourage people to go face to face when they play. In fact, the very early video games of Pokemon on the Game Boy could only allow you to trade through infrared because the company didn't want kids to trade with each other from across the world. And they wanted people to go and meet face to face, thinking that communication should be more real today. Face to face communication can be done pretty well by using things like FaceTime or Skype. But I think we should try to work more by putting the technology in the physical world, perhaps an augmented reality rather than virtual reality for the more social use cases. From a perspective of someone working directly in AI and in trying to break the state of the art in certain areas, I hope that this summit will help people realize that the amount of work being done to create AI is really non-negligible. There are a lot of the smartest people working on these problems. And they are here not to cause wealth inequality, not to cause unemployment, but to improve the lives of everyone. But I think the most important outcome of it, of that, is that improving the lives of everyone does not necessarily mean making everyone wealthier. The biggest risk of AI is that it is a definite funnel towards the top, towards the creators of this technology to take the lack of work created by simply automating processes and funneling into the body that creates this automation. This must be addressed, and we must learn that we need to find ways to redistribute this income, whether it's universal basic income or through other methods. It's not my role right now to recommend, but I think that the discussion must continue after the summit specifically on this topic.


Games in the classroom is the best source of language learning. Using games in the classroom is beneficial for better student learning. Games are helpful when introducing new content, enhancing the learning process, or reviewing learn material. A low stress atmosphere in the classroom is created easily by adding games. From Gapville to Fizzbiz to iSpy they can help the teacher maintain a positive attitude and establish rapport with students. Games create an environment where students want to participate and aren't afraid of correction or failure. Researchers on the point Vince Gimman RTC, CPCC, BBA, somatic counselor said in his book, Let the Fire Burn, Play is the foundation for academic learning. While the left brain is more interested in outcomes or product the right brain cares much more about process the journey is what matters, not the destination. Certainly learning a new language requires both process and product however, play or games help the process go more smoothly. The product centered environment students quickly acquire what Goman calls learn stupidity they believe themselves to be incapable and lose their natural desire to learn. Games are beneficial when a teacher wants to give individual attention to students in a non-threatening way. Games automatically lessen the tension in a room. By implementing a game like activity at the beginning of a lesson the engage technique, engage, study, activate method is used to introduce the new subject matter. Thought to provoke questions are often sparked. The learning process is enhanced using games because they are all inclusive. The level one learner isn't the only student that will enjoy a game. All abilities and ages can participate. The needs of students with different learning styles like auditory, visual, and kinesthetic are met readily through games. Reluctant learners participate and contribute more when they are in a game situation. Corinne Hutt, 1979, British psychologist identified three broad categories of play. Two of which specifically work in a classroom situation. The first being epistemic play, which is used to satisfy curiosity and learn about the environment. English as a new language is definitely a new environment. The second category is ludic play, when imaginations are used to create fantasy and amusement. This part may not be fabulous for learning English but the second component of ludic play is creating or following games with rules leading to comprising structured activities usually governed by negotiated rules. July 2016, both categories are beneficial for learning languages. Games can be used for all language means. All components of English learning can be addressed through games. Writing, speaking, and reading is reinforced. Games are good for our brains. I am not necessarily a proponent of video games in the classroom but even their research studies show a little gaming can be beneficial. Constance Steinhuler and her keynote presentation at the Games for Change Festival gave some information. 1. Games provide a 23% gain over traditional learning increasing learning outcomes by two grade levels. 2. Games are powerful motivators functioning better when the learning is the playful part, not just a side note. In further research, 2012, C. S. Green and D. Babelier noted that games are even effective at training us how to learn and shapes our attention. Technology and Games As technology advances, tic-tac-toe vocabulary may soon be replaced with a digital version. Games will still be a beneficial part of learning. Games are great for language gains. Says Michael F. Young, Stephen Slota, Andrew B. Cutter, March 2012, if allowed choice reading games are inherent to gaming. Whether it is a single task or multiple objectives game style activities help with the study phase of a lesson. Games are also useful in reviewing or testing learn material. Peer motivated correction is often seen in a small group or whole class activities. This interaction is less stressful and correction of both mistakes and errors is gentle. Students are more accepting of it in a game atmosphere. The activate phase is enhanced as students mingle with each other and try out language for themselves. The importance of games Language learning progresses for the student as they aren't just watching a teacher talk through a lesson or regurgitating dry facts or cold information. It is often said, a children's work is play. The country of China ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1992. In 1996 and 2001 the Ministry of Education published guidelines for public dot dot dot education that specifically and intentionally integrated article 31 the right to play as a national educational priority. Are you ready to teach English abroad? UNICEF actively participating and internalizing through games allows us, even adults, to solidify concepts and skills. Games help us celebrate. We let our guard down. We ask for help. Games afford us a safe way to make mistakes, learn from our mistakes together, practice what we've learned and shown or teach others. In conclusion, better student learning can occur by utilizing games in the classroom. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Hey everybody, it's TJV. I wanted to create more videos on this kind of a concept where I talk about some things that are related to art and model horses, but could apply to, you know, general life things as well. So for today's video I wanted to talk about finishing projects. When you're starting out it's really easy to get discouraged.  Now, I don't believe that. I don't believe that you're a failure if you quit, but I also believe in the context of art you should never quit. And what I mean by that is if you have a really inspiring idea and you started this really awesome inspiring project, you should never give up on it. You should never throw it away. So in my personal journey I've started a lot of projects. I have a lot of pieces in a work in progress state where they've never been finished or they're half done and I understand that and I think it's okay to start something and kind of lose insight on it or inspiration or you find something else that's more interesting and you kind of push it to the side. But I have never once in my entire model horse journey thrown anything away. Sometimes it's better to start fresh, but I also feel like most of the time you can learn more by persevering and finishing that project than you would starting over or scrapping it completely. As an artist and running a social media account, it's imperative that you have finished pieces on your page. It's imperative that you're growing constantly as an artist, creating more things, finishing art pieces. So I find it really beneficial in general as a whole being an artist to always finish your stuff and even if it isn't your favorite thing in the world or doesn't turn out the way you wanted it to, finish it, post it and sell it. That way you have learned something. You have a finished piece in your portfolio whether you want it there or not. You have a piece someone else could find much joy in and own for themselves and then you make a little bit of money on it. So I've always been really intense about that that I will not throw away pieces and there was one particular piece that I almost did scrap and his name was Oscar actually because I was chatting on a live stream once saying, I think I'm going to chuck this horse out. I don't like the paint job. I'm either going to strip him and redo him. And the people on the live stream were joking that I should have named him Oscar like the Sesame Street character who lived in the trash can. So I called him Oscar and I did end up finishing him and what I learned from finishing him was way more than what I would have learned if I would have started from scratch. And I do remember Mel Miller actually telling me this at 1.2 commenting on one of my posts that I should always finish my pieces and never scrap them and just persevere and push through and it'll be worth it on the other side. And sometimes it doesn't feel like it'll be worth it on the other side but I can assure you that that actually is quite true. I believe that that builds your portfolio as well. If you're constantly starting things and getting them to that 70% stage and then quitting and giving up on them and either putting them on the shelf or throwing them out entirely and stripping and restarting you're never going to learn. You're never going to develop the skills to create a piece and then decide, okay now I have this finished piece what can I improve for next time? What can I do better next time? And I think that that is a really important cycle so I don't believe that you should ever quit on a project. And I mean you can put a pin in it and you can leave it there for three years but always come back to it and maybe pick it up with your new learned skills later on and say well now I can tackle this and now I can create this. And so I finished countless pieces that you know I finished and been like I don't love this particular piece myself but I know someone else will love it so I list those ones for sale. Whereas there's other pieces that I will create and finish and be so enamored by that I could never possibly have the heart to sell them such as Yorgue or Basilis or Denali. Those pieces will never be sold in my collection. They are my personal heart pieces that turned out in a way that works for me aesthetically. And even if I place those pieces on the show table and the judge dislikes them and doesn't place them at all they will still be my favorite pieces and that's really important. And I also think that that's important that you should keep the pieces that mean something to you and you should love those wholeheartedly even if no one else does. Because it's your art and you created it and it means something to you and it shouldn't matter what other people think of it. It really shouldn't. It should only matter how you feel about it and if you love it at the time. And I have made sure to keep period pieces. Now I look at Finnegan and I love that custom. I love him to death. He's so awesome for what he was at the time but he's definitely not comparable to my newer works. But I will never sell him because he was the time one of my very first customs. There's a lot of pieces that I didn't personally get along with that I sold but I always always finished them. And I think if you're in that kind of headspace of my art is crap and I can't finish this because it's not going to turn out as good as someone else's or it's not going to be good enough or it won't sell for enough you are thinking about art in the wrong light. Art is a personal journey and it is a growing process and each piece you create is going to be an evolution of your art journey.  You're going to love some of them more than others but you have to accept that and you have to treat that as a growing step and someone out there will love your art. It's imperative that you finish what you started and I can assure you you will find more joy and more fulfillment in doing that than scrapping pieces and starting over. Now I'm not saying that if you had a resin horse or a drastic custom even that you didn't love the color that you chose for it, stripping it and starting over. But don't quit on a piece of art because you don't feel like it's going to be good enough. There's also like the knowing stages of art and I don't know them off the top of my head exactly. Exciting start and then it'll go through this ugly phase where you'll be like I don't even know how this is even going to amount to anything ever. And then you go through a phase where there's a lot of uncertainty and it's near the end of the process of creating a piece. I'm not sure this is really what I was going for. I don't love how this is turning out and then you'll finish it and have kind of an epiphany at the end of wow I did that. I made that and it turned out pretty good. So you have to get through that like really tough phase and there is a middle phase that takes a long time like the really tedious steps in the process that makes it feel like you really want to give up but you have to push through that and that is the only way that you will get good and that is the only way that you will be able to create more and become better. Art really does matter unfortunately about the outcome. It doesn't matter how many work in progress pieces you have or how many bodies you have or how many resins you have it really only matters how many pieces you finish and say I finished this and whether you're finishing it to be primed or you're finishing it to be painted fully painted it needs to be finished it needs to be a fully prepped ready for paint piece or it needs to be a fully finished paint piece and I feel really strongly in this this has worked for me I have a lot of work in progress pieces that I may not finish but the ones that I choose to commit to I will always finish they may sit for a while but I will always go back to them they've sat for a while sometimes it's better for them because refine my new learn skills and redo what was not necessarily working in the first sketch if you want to paint paint but like paint the whole model paint the body paint the feet paint the eyes finish the horse seal it choose to keep it choose to sell it move on go to the next and you just keep doing that and eventually you will get there and that's where I'm at you know I make a bunch of pieces I'm always learning something and that's the thing about art as well is that you will never be done learning you will never be at like perfection optimum finished I've made it I know everything I can just like pump out art and it's perfect every time you will always be growing and you will never be at your max capacity until the day you die you will always have room to improve and you will always have room to learn so you'll never actually be fully perfected art and that can kind of make you crazy but that can also be very exciting to know that you know you're starting here and you have the entire spectrum to grow on to I would say that it's really beneficial to photograph your progress and your finished pieces as well because that sets a precedent for where you are going to grow to so when you're kind of feeling like you're doing better you can go back to your old pieces and think wow I made that within that year and I'm making this now and that's amazing keep on keeping on and make sure that you finish what you start and I promise you it'll be worth it even though it sucks and it's a struggle sometimes thank you so much for watching I hope that this can help inspire some of you to keep creating your beautiful beautiful art


My name is Patrick Youssef. I'm the regional director for Africa, the International Committee of the Red Cross. I'm today at the United States Institute for Peace to discuss, debate, brainstorm about potential solutions for the ongoing war, the ongoing suffering of people in Sudan, and to see with other stakeholders what can be done to change that unfortunate reality that millions of Sudanese and Africans in the Horn of Africa are experiencing. First and foremost, we need to consider this war as part of a larger set of events that were all very, very, very dangerous for the Sudanese. It's at the end of, again, cycles of war that touched Darfur, Kordofan, that had indeed split the country in two. This war that started only in April disrupted trade, disrupted commerce, disrupted people's daily life as it first and foremost hit the capital that had nine or ten million people living in it, densely populated. So all the shelling, all the bombardment, all the hostilities that happened, happened where people were living happily. That said, the economic situation before that was not good, was not right. Hence, this has disrupted so much the access to markets, to essential services. Anyone that requires today a medicine would need to ask for a neighbor or a friend outside of the country to get it. It's just a disaster. I think internal displacement on social services were unfortunately the biggest victims in this war. Hospitals are constantly being bombarded, especially in the capital Khartoum, but now more and more in Algeria. Access to potable water has not been sufficient, nor adequate in many parts, the result of which is cholera outbreaks and communicable diseases. So that's where I think putting an emphasis over the simple social services that any human being has the right to get access to is a priority in addition to protecting people, in addition to pushing the parties to protect civilians, not to attack those civilians, to protect hospitals, and a list indeed of obligations that are enshrined in Islamic law in the Sudanese culture, but also coded in the Geneva Convention. On Sudan, specifically, I think the priorities of the international community should be twofold. On one side, there won't be any humanitarian effort without a political caravan that pushes everyone in the direction, either for a solution or a ceasefire. And I think the second is indeed that humanitarian space is shrinking heavily. It's one of those contacts in Africa where very few organizations can operate. I'd like to highlight the work that we've been conducting on behalf of the parties as a neutral intermediary to save people from entrapments, to release detainees, and so on and so forth. So I think the international community must support a Sudan that has been the host of thousands of refugees from neighboring countries. Now I think it's the time for the Sudanese to feel supported, to feel protected. I don't think we have any moral high ground if we deceive a population that is constantly suffering.


Hello, my name is Curtis Michael. I'm from the Sabiganagity First Nation here in beautiful Nova Scotia. And what's the program that you're running? Initials are MHRRA. I think it's to have trouble with this one. The Big Ma Heritage Research and Restoration Association. My role there is to name it. It's to teach the Big Ma language to Smith, Francis, Read and Enlighten. I also work for M.K., which is the Miigamangana Mugnawe, the Miigma Education, as a teacher for approximately 20 years at the school here on the reserve. Well basically what I do is I make short videos online and I record them and we put them onto a secret site, members only. It's language and conversational, so the participants, they watch the videos. I said they're only 10 minutes long because there's quite a lot of information and I don't want to bore the students, really. So they'll repeat my words and my lessons and send them so I can prove them and have to watch them. Basically that's it. It's pretty interesting. What are the age groups of your students? I would say from teenagers to probably 70, from about 15 years old, maybe to 70. And what impact do you see on the students after they take the fall? You know what? When I see them in person, like at a conference or at a meeting or a gathering, I notice they're using a lot more Miigma than when I first met them. They're more confident across, I don't know, we build each other up, right? That's basically it. I hear a lot more Miigma being spoken when I go to certain areas of Eastern Canada now. Do you find an emotional impact on that? You know what? A lot of pride. I see a lot of people with their pride, like the gentleman you just voiced just here. Big time.  And I see that even the young people, adults, everybody see a lot of their cultural pride through language. What is it about what you're doing that is really effective? I don't know. You know what? When I worked with kids in the school system, I found it very effective because for the first time in my life, I've heard Miigma being spoken here in the education facility. We were the home of the residential school. We had the Indian Day School. Now at our school down the road there, the LSK, K-12 school, you're hearing it in the playgrounds, in the hallways, in the cafeteria, in the classrooms. It's a real good feeling. This is a huge question, but what to you is Indigenous education? What's that? What is Indigenous education? Indigenous education? To me, it's nothing you're going to find from a book. It would be the teachings of our ancestors, our grandfathers, our uncles.  To me, watching them and listening to them and remembering what their way is, that's Indigenous education to me. It's more hands-on. When I teach, I try to teach the way I want to be taught, not from a book or a recipe. For instance, here's an example. My grandmother would make loose skin again. She didn't write it down on paper and said, here you guys go. She told us to sit down, watch me. I had to copy her, really. That's Indigenous education to me, anyways. What do you hope to see in the next 10 years for Indigenous education?  More control by Indigenous people, First Nations people. And a lot more land-based teachings, too. We're starting to do that around here. Growing up, land-based to me was going to the wildlife park once a year. That was our field trip. Now they're taking kids out and making canoes, baskets, knives, spears, fishing, ealing, hunting. I'm proud of that, but I can see that increasing within the next 10 years. Same with our language courses. What advice would you have for anyone else who wants to teach a language program? For anyone who wants to teach it or take it, teach it. Leave the books out of the classroom. I did a lot of TPR, total physical response when I teach, a lot of visual.  Also, record every elder, because we only have a few MiGma speakers in this community. They're elders, right? I'm not fluent. When I get stuck, I go see my elder down the road or call her up, and she's always right there. But I was wishing we could record her, her stories and stuff like that in MiGma. But I guess if you're going to start, if you want to teach it, do it effectively. MiGma way.


Africa is a vast and diverse continent with a rapidly growing aviation industry. The busiest airports in Africa are hubs of activity, connecting the continent to the rest of the world, and serving as gateways for both international and domestic travel. These airports handle a high volume of passengers each year, and play a vital role in the economic and social development of the regions they serve. In this short, we'll take a look at the top five busiest airports in Africa 2022, based on passenger traffic, is a major transportation hub in its own right, and has its own unique features and amenities. 5. Addis Ababa Bowl International Airport, Ethiopia. 4. Moi International Airport, Kenya. 3. Kotoka International Airport, Ghana. 2. Tambo International Airport, South Africa. 1. Kero International Airport, Egypt.