Honestly, it's not the worst way to make a few bucks. People are gonna be horny, and if you have a stomach, they'll pay you to indulge their weird kinks. If you're lucky, you can get commissioned by a suspiciously wealthy furry and have your rent paid for a few months. Sure, you've got to draw their seven-foot wolf O.C. farting on Pikachu, but hey, money's money. I've dealt with all kinds of weird fetishes and kinks as a part of my career. Farting, pissing, stat, burping, egg-laying, hypermuscle, inflation and expansion, gyro, sounding, vor, diapers and feet, just to name a few. At this point, I know the designs and anatomy of the overwatch dolls and rouge the bat like the back of my hand. I have limits though. No kids and political figures. Loly grosses me out, and the thought of drawing a new Donald Trump makes me want to puke. Other than that, I'm pretty amenable to most things. I'm bringing all of this up to make it very clear that I've got a strong stomach for folks kinks.  Though to be fair, the foot fetishists are degenerates, but mainly because they're super annoying.  It started a few weeks back. I was scrolling through Twitter when I get a message from someone going by Woody Chuck. Hello, I would like a commission, they said. I gave them my prices. Woody Chuck was willing to pay, and told me their commission idea. I want a pick of a naked woman in a wood jipper. She needs to be inserted feet first. She's in up to her hips, so only her torso upwards is visible. She needs to look like she's in pain. Like, a lot of pain. Okay, that's a new one, I'll admit. I've done gore stuff, but the wood jipper thing isn't something I've been asked to do before. Hell, I don't think I've even seen anything like that before. I decided not to let it bother me though. I've been asked to do erotic sake-sanobashi fan art before. A wood jipper isn't too over the line. And I asked Woody Chuck for more details. How should the woman look, what background did they want, that sort of thing? Woody Chuck replied that the woman should be slightly chubby, have dark skin, black hair, green eyes, and a scar on her left cheek. The background should be an abandoned cabin. I said okay, and asked for payment. I like to get payment first, as I'd rather not spend hours doing a nuttles the Ikebna inflation pick, only for some smug to just ghost me, which has happened before. Woody Chuck did pay though. I got some money from a PayPal account with the email chipper at yahoo.com, and then got to work. Over the course of a week, I sent Woody Chuck various sketches and images of my progress as the commission progressed. Honestly, Woody Chuck was a bit of an annoying client. They kept asking for very minute changes, and would sometimes want me to redo an aspect of the image they already approved. Sure, they weren't the worst client I've ever dealt with, that would be a guy who asked me to do a pick of some character buying Wonder Bread, of all things, but they weren't my favorite kind of client. Eventually though, the pick was done, and they were happy with it. I was happy with my money, and went about my day while Woody Chuck probably jerked off to the woodjipper pick. Hey, no judgment. The next day, I get a message from Woody Chuck asking for another commission. Another woodjipper picture, but this time with a different woman. Also, this woman was to be bleeding, half alive, and missing all her fingernails and teeth. The word snitch should be written in blood on her chest. I agreed to do it, and after getting payment, I worked on the commission. Woody Chuck was a bit more annoying this time around, demanding constant changes. They kept saying, no, that's not how missing fingernails look, or, you're doing it wrong. Finally after a week of this back and forth, they said, I'll just send you a reference pick. I was sent a low-res picture of a woman tied to a chair. Her mouth hung open, revealing that she was missing her teeth.  Her brown eyes were bloodshot and her makeup was running. Her fingernails had been removed, with her finger is still bleeding. The blood stained the chair's wooden arm rests and the ropes tying her arms to the chair. She was topless, with the word snitch written in blood, most likely her own.  I thought. A part of me hoped it was a frame from a movie or some obscure porn or something. Sure, the camera quality was bad, but maybe that was a stylistic thing from whatever this was from, right? I did a reverse image search on it. Maybe it was AI? Usually I hated AI art and would always be disappointed to see that sort of thing, but in this case I'd be happy to find out some goober used mig journey to make a gore pick instead of, well, I didn't want to think about the alternative. I took another look at the picture. Holding back my disgust, I focused on the fingers. Five on each hand, all in the right place. The style wasn't the overdone uncanny almost realistic look that a lot of AI images had. Nothing about the face seemed off in an uncanny sort of way. And the eyes. I don't think AI could replicate the look in those brown eyes. There was genuine fear there. There was no way this was AI. Fuck. Okay, I told myself. Calm down. Just ask Woody Chuck what this is. Maybe it's an art project or a frame from a movie they made. Just write back a calm logical message and get to the bottom of whatever this is.  I wrote back. Reference. What's this from? Me. This guy's got to be messing with me, right? I mean sure, the pic looked realistic, and sure, I couldn't find anything like this anywhere else, and yeah, it wasn't AI generated, but it's not like this guy actually tortured a person and then sent proof of it to some porn artist for a commission. I bet it's just some angel pie don't get because I'm not part of the Woodjipper euro community. Maybe if I was more plugged in, I'd get it. I did a quick search for woman in Woodjipper, which led me to an image of a murder victim named Marilyn Branson. A woman who looked a lot like the woman I drew in Woody Chuck's first commission. A woman who died in a similar way to what I drew. I don't scare easily. Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and Jeffrey Dahmer aren't as scary when you draw them in a three way.  I looked more into the Marilyn Branson stuff, eventually coming upon a lost media hunt for some old creepypasta. I found a post where someone found the creepypasta after getting it from a person called Chipper, minus the E. I thought of Woody Chuck's PayPal email, and the pieces began falling into place. The OP of the post mentioned getting an email with the subject line Snitch that ended with the phrase, See You Soon. The picture Woody Chuck sent showed a woman with Snitch written on her chest. The OP mentioned they had brown eyes. I remembered the horrified bloodshot brown eyes of the woman in the picture. I sat back, stunned. A part of me kept coping it was an ARG or that there was some logical, reasonable explanation. But, I knew the truth. This was real. I didn't know what to do. I wanted to send this info to the cops or FBI or whoever, but OP did that and look where she ended up. I wanted to keep quiet, pretend this was fake, and just finish the commission and never think about this again. I couldn't though.  However, I didn't particularly want to die either. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to think about this. I couldn't deal with this. No, I did the only logical thing. I went to a bar and got blackout drunk. This all happened yesterday. I don't remember what happened last night.  I went to the bathroom and threw up, then collapsed on the cold tile floor. My phone buzzed. While I was rifling through my pocket to get it, I felt a random piece of paper and some sharp things. Weird. I didn't remember those being in my pocket when I left. I grabbed one of those sharp things. It was oblong and the bottom was caked in what looked like blood. It kind of reminded me of a fingernail. Confused and worried, I took them all out. There were 10 in total, and all of them were caked in blood. Oh no. With a growing sense of dread, I took out that piece of paper and read it. Good to see you in person. Really loving your art. Hope that Uber I paid forgot you home safe. Finish the commission, or I'll be seeing you again soon.


Hey everybody, welcome back to Retro Tech. Today I wanted to do a follow-up on a story that I covered actually about one year ago exactly from today and I hope everybody's doing well and I thought maybe I'd bring you a new story you're guaranteed not to read or see about probably anywhere else in the mainstream media and that is an article here from the register which is just a tech IT site I guess so the reason I bring this up is it's a follow-up to this story where there's a CRT monitor class action lawsuit from 13 years ago now and there's an update to it so I thought I'd bring this article was sent to me yesterday and I read through it and I read through the interesting stuff here so it's just going to go through some of the highlights on here because it's quite interesting on what's actually going on so first off 13 years ago there were first court papers were submitted so this is 13 years ago they submitted the initial filings and since then there's been 5,733 additional filings in the case so that means that the attorneys have been really busy with this one this is about CRTs that were made between sold between 1995 to 2007 which is a pretty long time period in the life cycle of the CRT this is actually right about the time when the patent ran out on Sony's Trenitron and then these companies everybody except Sony almost pretty much that didn't make the Trenitron tube had to get together and they decided to do an antitrust price setting where they all raised their prices to make sure that they were making enough money as well as competing still with Sony so that was the original case but again these are new this whole thing centers around allegations that the group of CRT manufacturers again got together there's the original defendants now look don't get excited because they've already closed off the list of people that can file or sign up to get on this defendants list or not the defendants list I'm sorry the people who are in the class action actually get a payout but again the this was filed originally in 2007 the brands that were alleged to be part of this scheme were Hitachi, Toshiba, Phillips, Samsung and Matsushita as well as well there was a small group of attorneys as well as a large group of plaintiffs who signed up to be part of these classes and pretty much fast forward there was a settlement it was 563 million dollars paid out to a fund pretty much and that was finally supposed to be done in 2015 but of course after they decided the amount of money fast forward five years of the present and the lawyers are still in Oakland California filing more paperwork and filings to argue over who gets what's left of this now 513 million dollar settlement which I'm not I mean somebody did take in notes in this latest filing that there was an expense of 29 million dollars in it and then maybe some attorneys fees they got paid no matter what so again the court has not made and the judge in this case has not made a decision regarding this so the lawsuit so still the lawyers are going at it and they will make out well though so that's what they're all fighting over this will continue to drag on until the final court and John Tiger or whoever else is the judge and this finally makes a final decision and then it exhausts all the appeals so this is really what happens in these lawsuits I mean these get drawn out incredibly long this is how normally every class action suit happens so basically if you bought a brand new CRT monitor from 1995 to 2007 and it was one of the brands I just mentioned they were price gouging by setting a price that was way higher for their product and then flatlining that like trying to make an even playing field with Sony saying we're setting our price here and then everybody else in the industry is going to set our price within that parameter to compete against Sony if you want to go to Sony you have to deal with their pricing the rest of us are going to be on one pricing pretty much so that they didn't compete with each other they were just trying to compete with Sony for the most part so this latest filing comes from this Scarpula who is Francis Scarpula an attorney for one of these subclasses which is the class action the people that are part of one of the subclasses who signed up goodness between 2007 and I think 2015 ish they signed up for that eight year period to be part of the class action excuse me and so basically if you run through this whole objection I did read the whole thing it's so much legalese it's ridiculous but there are still a bunch of objections from this attorney's group and it's it's still deeply rooted in things like problems with how the class was class members were separated and they were treated inequitably basically saying they weren't valued high enough the class cannot be certified because again and that's three different objections here for basically the members and the way the members have been she or classified or even legitimized some of them were saying they were not legitimate multiple class representatives do not have standing again that's the same kind of deal here's that twenty nine million dollars removed from the sediment as a tribute to claims from the or s and nrs so these two law firms maybe we're getting money which is from the complaint comes from them which is interesting so I don't know why that means they claim that somebody else was getting attorney fees or whatever but then and then finally class members was legally defective the notice so again they want to go ahead and send a new legal notice to every class member which I'm sure is hundreds of thousands of people probably the attorney fees request is excessive so then you got you know more legalese on what they define as excessive there's not really an example or it doesn't say the exact amount of money that the attorneys were trying to get but at the long the end of the day the only people that make out rich on these deals is the attorneys because once it gets down to it and they have a 500 million dollar pot the attorneys who are working on this are going to end up with probably oh I don't know maybe 50 60 percent of that pot on top of they'll probably charge the class members all their attorneys fees which from what I can tell is going to be between at least 30 to 50 million dollars for this long of a time and this much paperwork and sub lawyers and you know subcontracted lawyers and paralegals all kinds of things that's how this works they're going to do all that and then out of that 500 million there might be 200 million left and then that's going to get split out and sent out to I don't know a hundred thousand a million people who knows and then so they you know it's going to come down to where people are probably going to get like a check for 15 to 25 dollars and that hasn't even come to fruition yet and so the only ones who really make out like winners here are the law firm but I do see you know I will show you they so this is a this is an interesting thing about the law you get involved in a case like this and you literally have to keep it open and while there's a huge payout at the end of the day once it's done it can obviously take years and probably sometimes you know maybe it never get paid out who knows so you know that's but that's what they're looking for is that big payout at the end for years of work and some of sometimes lawyers can go bankrupt chasing these kind of cases so anyway that's just an interesting update if you want to see the original story I will put a link to it I did have a video here's that video Sony's competitions pays millions for cheating on TVs so that was the original video again back in May 30th if you want to check that out there's some more information there but it's just a really interesting kind of advancement in this thing and again if you ask me personally what I think I just think these attorneys are going to continue to duke this out and Bill eventually somebody eventually probably will get paid because these are big companies who actually have the money and are still in business and have had to make these settlement payments probably already to this point it's just this money is either sitting in an escrow or a fund or something waiting to get paid out I'd imagine so just an interesting story here and I definitely working on the d24 I've recapped one of the boards already and I've got the first video actually coming on that really soon look for that next week and then we'll get into just a whole long series on that d24 because I really want to completely go through every board kind of there are some surface mount capacitors that are definitely bad on some of the boards that's going to need to be replaced and that's something we've never worked with because they're not really in other pvms or bvms very much I mean really other pvms and bvms that are lower end don't have surface mount components or they have components but not capacitors so that should be an interesting thing and thanks again everybody and I'll see you guys next time with some more retro content


So, good evening ladies and gentlemen. Thank you Manoj for accepting my invitation. I'm delighted. This year I think as a departure we have a very different chief guest and you will hear him shortly and I think this is probably a reflection of the times that the investor now is beginning to play a very important role in everyone's lives. So, ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you for the 14th year in succession to present to you the analysis that Madison's team of media professionals has done and put and give you our findings. I must add my own words of welcome and thank you once again for coming to this event year after year and motivating us. It's your presence that motivates us to continue to put in the hard work year after year and also put together a bunch of enlightened speakers who are thought leaders of our industry so that we can all go back a little more enlightened than when we came. So, although I'm smiling, I'm afraid there is not much to smile about for the traditional media industry as indeed there has been little to smile for many industries, particularly adexes, largest contributors, FMCG and Auto. What a year 2019 has been when media found itself battling serious headwinds. As Naval recalled, it started with the largest medium television battling the NTO order and got further bruised by the willful collapse of the popular FTA channels and ended with a dull festive season on account of the economy slowing down in quarter three and quarter four. The only blip we saw was surprisingly in the second quarter because of IPL, World Cup and the Lok Sabha elections. As we see it, the year can be neatly divided into two halves, H1 and H2 and the two halves behaved very differently. H1 grew very well and higher than our forecast at 20% on the back of the three events I spoke about, but H2 collapsed with a growth of just 3% over H218. In fact, H219 de-grew by as much as 7% compared to H119 whereas in all previous years so far, H2 has been the larger contributor to the year. This report now recognizes an important split amongst various media and that is traditional media versus digital media. Whilst we estimate that in 2019, ad-ex grew at 11% versus our midterm projection of 13.4% and last year's growth of 15%, this figure of 11% according to me hides more than it reveals. During the whole year, digital media grew at a whopping 32% but traditional grew only by 6%. Traditional media when viewed through the lens of the two halves presents also a dismal picture. While H1 grew very well at 18%, H2 de-grew by 5% and it de-grew as much as 15% versus H1 2019. A quarter-wise analysis shows that in 2019, growth in total ad-ex and at traditional ad-ex came mainly in the second quarter and quarter two unlike in all earlier years was the largest quarter contributing 29% to the year's ad-ex. When you combine traditional and digital, it is because of digital's high growth of 32% that we end 2019 with an overall ad-ex growth of 11% which compares actually quite well with 2018's ad-ex growth of 14.6%. In absolute terms ad-ex has grown from 60,908 crores to 67,603 crores and increase of 6,695 crores which you could argue is not so bad considering it's the second highest addition to ad-ex in a single year in recent times though 11% is growth rate is the second lowest growth rate in 7 years. It is significant to note that 56% or more of this growth came from digital. Global ad-ex and when we speak about global ad-ex it's mainly the 12 large markets is now estimated at 498 billion US dollars with India at 9.7 billion. Interestingly, India grew by more than twice the average global growth rate of 5.4%. However, we lost our pole position of being the fastest growing advertising market in 2019 to Russia and slid to second position. If some of you will recall, Russia a few years ago was also at the pole position. I must mention China because it's always in the news for either the right or the wrong reasons. China's ad-ex growth rate dropped from 12.5% in 2018 to 10.4% and it comes third rank in terms of growth in 2018. Major markets contributing to ad-ex are US, China, Japan and UK and these four contribute almost three quarters of the total. China has been for some years now the second largest advertising market. India maintained its rank at number 12 though its share moved up from 1.8 to 1.9%. Coming back to Indian ad-ex, despite taking many knocks during the year, television continues to be the largest contributor to ad-ex with a 37% share and it grew by 8% the third lowest growth rate in a decade. Print follows with a 30% share of ad-ex but with a low growth rate of just 3%. In fact 2019 is the fifth consecutive year that print has grown the least of all mediums. Digital that grew by 32% last year now contributes a whopping 23% to Indian ad-ex. I may mention though that globally digital has crossed the 50% mark. Radio and outdoor too have grown at a slow pace but more or less maintain their share of ad-ex. Cinema in 2019 grew significantly by almost 30% on a very small base of course and continues to be the least contributor to ad-ex with a share of just 1.6%. You will see from this digital growth rate share trend line that it has grown its share significantly almost every year to reach 23% today and most of the share growth has come from television and print who in 2019 lost 1% and 2% share points respectively. Cinema has moved up significantly by low base, radio and OH are steady. Digital as you can imagine is galloping and eating into traditional media as this chart clearly demonstrates. In terms of categories the top 5 categories of ad-ex continue to be FMCG, auto, telecom, education, education and e-commerce. It's refreshing to see that auto in spite of the sales set back it has witnessed in 2019 has not lost confidence in advertising and continues to be the second largest contributor to ad-ex at 10% though its share has moved down by 1%. E-commerce share growth continues unabated and it now contributes 5% to traditional ad-ex having replaced household durables. I must highlight that for this category contribution analysis of figures are restricted to TV, print and radio but OH and cinema with an overall share of 6 or 7% is unlikely to change either the pecking order or growth rates. Whilst growth on traditional media in 2019 has been low at 6% the categories that contribute to this growth are FMCG, e-commerce, telecom including handsets, education, and real estate. E-commerce which last year contributed only 5% to growth has now moved up to 14%. A 10 year review shows that during this period ad-ex moved up from 25,000 crores to 68,000 crores growing at an annual compounded rate of 12% which may be considered not so good for a developing economy that wants to hit the $5 trillion mark in the next few years. The average growth rate of 12% perhaps has come down because of two poor years 2012 where growth was 5.2% on the back of global slowdown and 2017 when growth was 7.2% on the back of global slowdown and 2017 when growth was 7.4% because of demodernization and GST. In the last 12 years a significant change in the shares of various media can be clearly witnessed while television continues to be the largest contributor to ad-ex with a 37% share, print has lost a significant 17% share points, digital is established at the third largest medium with a share of 23%. Let's take a look at who are the top advertisers in 2019. While advertising is generally considered to be a big boys game and no new advertiser can penetrate the top 10 list, this year we have a surprise in our top 10 list, top 5 list in fact. The new kid on the block is a digital game Dream 11, a cricket based game signaling that gaming could soon emerge as the major category in ad-ex in the coming years. Three of the top 10 advertisers are from the FMCG sector, others are from diverse categories like telecom, auto e-commerce and consumer durables. HUL continues to lead the pack which spends of about 3,500 crores followed by Amazon, Dream 11, Reliance and Baruti. Top 50 advertisers account for 33% of ad-ex. Top 10 advertisers account for as much as 14% of ad-ex and contribute to 43% of the top 50 list. All these figures were marginally higher last year indicating that the big are not getting bigger but many more are emerging at the lower end. Though by the time you reach rank 50, you are down from a spend of 3,500 crores to 100 crores. No wonder large advertisers are coveted. Top 50 advertisers now spend 78 crores of their budgets on television plus digital combined. This number is significant when we compare the total ad-ex figures where combined spends is much lower at 60%. Interestingly, if we consider TV and digital separately, then the top 50 advertisers spend 62% on TV and only 16% on digital versus the ad-ex share of 37% on TV and 23% on digital indicating that large advertisers are over-indexed on TV and under-indexed on digital. In the next five lists, Oppo Mobile and Vinny, makers of fog, make a debut, make a debut with Vinny moving all the way up to rank 10 from rank 37. In addition to Dream 11 and Oppo, we now have six new players in our list, Baiju's, BJP, MRF, Swiggy, Havels and Kia Motors. Among the top 50 advertisers, there are a large number of shifts in the pecking order reflecting the year that it was with only three players maintaining rank. 24 players dropped rank and 15 gained rank. Among those who moved up many ranks are Apple, Asian Pains, Coke and Amul. Those who lost rank are Vodafone, Flipkart, Honda Motors, Rekhet and Benkeesha or RB as they are now called and there are as many as eight new entrants to this elite list. Let us now go on to our forecast for 2020. A forecast for 2020 for ad-ex is muted. In arriving at this projected growth figure for the whole year, we are guided by the expectation that the economy should bounce back only in the second half of 2020 as also indicated in the government's own economic survey published on January 31st of this year. We see the slow down tapering as we get into quarter two and ad-ex bouncing back only in time for the festive season. Therefore, we see a subdued H1 for ad-ex but a buoyant H2 especially quarter four. We expect ad-ex to grow by 10.4 percent taking ad-ex close to 75,000 crores and increase of more than 77,000 crores of which 62 percent will be contributed by digital. At this growth rate, Indian ad-ex would have added more than 21,500 crores by end of 2020 in just a short span of three years. When viewed through the lens of traditional media and digital media, we see widely varying growth rates with digital continuing to bloat with a 28.4 percent growth but our expectation for growth for traditional media is subdued at 5.1 percent combined it ends up with a 10.4 percent forecast. Now why 10.4 percent? We expect traditional media to gain from IPL, ICC T20, World Cup, some state elections, mobile wallets, e-commerce and OTT. Digital has achieved scale with velocity and this should see it grow further and therefore maintain its growth rate record. We also expect digital to gain from the aggression of e-commerce dot com and OTT players and because of a greater realization in the largest ad-ex sector FMCG which is under indexed on digital that digital plus TV combo works best in today's AV focused environment. We also expect a wide variation of growth rates across mediums ranging from a low of 2 percent for press, 5 percent for radio, 6 percent for outdoor and 7 percent for TV to 20 percent for cinema and 28 percent for digital. This slide shows you the likely market share each medium will reach by the time we exit 2020. This chart looks very different from what it was even a few years ago. Notice that digital which only a few years ago was relatively small now will have a market share of 26.6 percent virtually the same as print at 27 0.4 percent. Print as recently as 2008 was virtually half the ad-ex at 46.7 percent but has come down in the last 12 years to just a little more than a quarter and may now even move to rank 3 from rank 1 which it maintained from inception to 2008. Our expectation is that TV will continue to be the largest medium with a 36 percent share of ad-ex though with a subdued growth rate of 6.8 percent. Let's look at television a little more closely after a rocking 2018 when TV ad-ex grew by 19 percent it grew by only 8 percent last year lower than a midterm projection of 11 percent reaching a total of about 25,000 crores. This is less than half the growth rate achieved in 2018. In terms of absolute numbers TV ad-ex has added 1860 crores ad-ex is largest contributor with a 37 percent share demonstrated that it can be vulnerable because it lost 1 percent its share point that it had gained in 2018 to close its share at 37 percent. At the time of finalizing this forecast the Supreme Court verdict on the NTO order is awaited. If the NTO 2.0 comes into effect in our view was broadcast a subscription revenue will be hit it is likely that viewership or long tail channels will go up and consequently so will TV spends on them. Leaving that uncertainty uncertainty aside and keeping in mind that the economy is likely to perk up in age 2 we project a modest 6.8 percent growth for television this year. An analysis of FCT or time being by various genres shows that English movies English niche music infotainment Tamil have all de-grown during the year whereas Malayalam, Kannada, kids and sports genres have all gained. The largest contributor Hindi GEC which contributes substantially to revenue was almost flat in terms of FCT. Hindi movies shows an increase by 9 percent having attracted some of the FCT that in the previous year went to FTA channels which large networks abandoned in the beginning of the year. We venture to estimate that in terms of revenue sports genre has grown the highest by as much as 47 percent and Hindi GEC by about 7 percent which leads us to conclude that despite a soft market these two genres have been able to command a rate increase. It is significant to note that time spent on TV moved up gradually in this digital world that we live in from 3 hours and 22 minutes to in 2016 to 3 hours and 52 minutes in 2018 but in 2019 it marginally declined something that should give TV content creators and managers something to think about. FMCG continues to rule the roost in TV ad-hocs contributing 49 percent although its contribution also came down by 1 percentage point. Telecom and auto follow with 12 percent and 7 percent e-commerce gained dramatically during the year by as much as 20 percent and has reached 1320 crores. The main categories that are fuel growth of 1860 crore in 2019 is FMCG at 740 crores, telecom at 275 crores mainly handsets and e-commerce at 220 crores. Predictably contribution of auto to the overall growth is negative at minus 4 percent. There is a marginal decline in FCT telecast in 2019 unlike most previous years when FCT has gone up year on year perhaps because of the disappearance of FTA channels. Length of average duration of a commercial has remained steady at about 23 seconds now for a decade. Taking a closer look at print in our estimate print grew by 3 percent in 2019 lower than our previous year midterm projection of 5 percent. While some may consider 3 percent to be a low growth figure viewed against the global backdrop where print is de-growing in most western countries a 3 percent growth could be considered heartening. Print has added 588 crores to ad-hocs during 2019. Whilst this is the third consecutive year print has grown less than 5 percent it continues to be the second highest contributor after TV with a share of 30 percent. Given that the slow down is expected to continue through H1 we expect print advertising market to grow during the whole year by 2 percent which should take print ad-hocs to 20,446 crores. At this growth rate print share of ad-hocs is likely to fall to 27 percent. Predictably in terms of volume there is a 3 percent decline in 2019 but the average size of the ad has remained the same at 56 column centimeters. Hindi publications continue to be ahead of English publications contributing 35 percent of the total volume. English publications come behind at 25 percent. There was a time not so long ago when English publications dominate print ad-hocs because of their high rates. Leading dailies like Times of India, Hindustan Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran and Rajasthan Patrika all have seen a drop in terms of column centimeter consumption. Such de-growth has not been witnessed in the last many years. Again FMCG, auto education, real estate and retail continue to be the main cash cows and contribute 50 percent to ad-hocs. E-commerce is fast emerging as an important category for print and grew by 14 percent. Political parties are estimated to have contributed 200 crores during the general Lok Sabha elections to print ad-hocs. Nearly 65 percent of print's growth of 588 crores is accounted for by four categories education, e-commerce, real estate and retail. Print continues to draw its strength from a large diversified category portfolio and as many as almost 200,000 advertisers and it takes as many as 12 categories contribute more than 70 percent to print, whilst it takes only four categories to contribute the same number to TV ad-hocs, which has only 12,000 advertisers. Taking a closer look at digital, digital ad-hocs made impressive gains during the year and achieved a growth of 32.1 percent, the highest growth achieved by any medium taking the digital ad-hocs to now almost over 15,000 crores. You could argue that this growth belies the fact that India is in the midst of a slowdown. We expect digital to continue its growth path, though the projected growth rate is a little lower at 28 percent. In absolute terms, digital would have added almost four and a half thousand crores substantially higher than 3,700 crores that it added in 2019. This will take digital ad-hocs to almost 20,000 crores similar to print's 20,446 crores that we are projecting. With a bit of luck, digital may overthrow print to occupy second place in Indian ad-hocs in 2020, though the itself. Digital has grown at a compound annual growth rate of more than 30 percent over last five years. It was only 6 percent a decade ago. Its share of the pie is expected to grow to 27 percent by end of this year. Looking at digital ad-hocs by various verticals, we find that it is more or less equally divided between four major segments, search, social, video and display, with each contributing between 20 and 30 percent to the total. Consumption of video in digital is going up year on year and in 2019 video spends grew by as much as 59 percent. The video vertical is now the highest contributor to digital ad-hocs at 30 percent and almost all of digital, 94 percent is on mobile. 52 percent of digital ad-hocs came from what one may call classical advertising that is display banners and online video. Interestingly, if we were to combine TV plus online video, because that is how the consumer views it, TV growth of a mere 8 percent would increase to 14 percent. If we were to do the same thing and combine print and digital display, prints 3 percent growth would increase only to 4 percent. Implication is clear. Consumers and advertisers seem to prefer the audio visual medium. No wonder Madison's TV plus tool is gaining traction. Will our TV barons who also own successful OTT platforms move to a combined offering of TV and digital with or without third party measurement this year? Taking a closer look at outdoor, outdoor too got impacted by the economic slow down and has grown by 4 percent in 2019. Transit media by 3 percent and conventional outdoor by 4 percent. In terms of absolute numbers, OH is now a three and a half thousand crore market and contributes 5 percent to overall ad-hocs. I think globally OH is 7 percent. We expect outdoor to grow by 6.4 percent this year, taking the total outdoor advertising market to 3,700 crores. OH share of media is expected to grow in the coming years with the development of infra projects like Metro in a larger number of Indian cities and emergence of many smart cities. Retail, consumer services and real estate are the top 3 categories that contribute more than 40 percent to OH. Highest growth though amongst OH was recorded by guess who? The media category itself, I believe a terrific endorsement for the outdoor medium by people who should know their media or is it a case of the other man's wife being more beautiful? Taking a closer look at radio in our estimate radio has grown by 5.4 percent last year to become a 2,260 crore market and has maintained its share at 3.3 percent. It grew by 116 crores while in the first half it grew well like many other media. At 18 percent the media it took a big hit in the second half when it de-grew by 6 percent on account of slowing down of the economy and reduced government spending. We expect radio in this year to maintain the same growth rate of 5 percent that it achieved in 2019. E-commerce has emerged as one of the main contributors to radio's growth followed by FMCG, BFSI, education and retail categories. These categories collectively contributed 60 percent to radio's growth of 116 crores. Lastly let's take a closer look at cinema. Cinema has grown by 30 percent in 2019 in line with our projection and contributes now to almost 2 percent of ad-ex. Cinema that has not been the favorite of too many advertisers in the last two years has gained some momentum having gained grown by 37.4 percent in 2018 and 30 percent in 2019. Though the base is small cinema is the only other medium besides digital that has grown so well. We are bullish on cinema and in 20 percent in 2020 we see three factors that will further propel cinema. Selling on reach rather than by theaters, selling on audiences on cost per thousand basis and with better analytics supporting which movies advertisers should back. We are estimating a conservative 20 percent growth given the low base which will take cinema ad-ex up to 1255 crores in 2020. Finally I would like to end with some advice for all my advertiser friends. Last month Madison put out a white paper on what advertiser should do in the slowdown that we are currently facing and released a 10 point marketing playbook. I like to highlight the points we mentioned in this white paper and if anyone of you wants a copy of it please let us know. Our first recommendation is to temper expectations from the rural market for 2020 not of course for all time to come. This is because for the first time in 7 years consumer growth in rural is slower than in urban markets. Secondly we advise that pick your markets carefully because all states in India are not going through a slowdown of equal intensity. Markets that are less affected by the slowdown are Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Maharashtra and Gujarat. In the current context it makes sense to go for premiumization because the well healed and the salaried are less affected by the current slowdown. So while generally the advice is that to take advantage of a country like India you need to go mass we believe in the current circumstances as a short term measure, premiumization may be a good idea. Focus on modern trade and e-commerce. Share of modern trade has crossed the threshold of 10% and e-commerce is expected to grow from 2% to 2019 to 5% in 2022. So you need to be prepared to write this growth. Our fifth suggestion is to invest in brand love. It is tempting during slowdown to advertise to resort to short term promotions but our advice is not to succumb to such temptation and in fact focus on building brand equity at a time like this. A sixth recommendation is to manage your brand portfolio tightly and we believe this can be done very successfully with the use of analytics which would help maximize your ROI. I don't know if this advice would go down well with my advertiser friends but we strongly believe that at a time like this you should not under invest. If you invest below the threshold point our view is that you waste the entire advertising budget. Another recommendation we have is that what we call ESOV that is excess share of voice which represents the additional share of voice over share of market has a high correlation with brand share growth. So try and achieve that in the current context and you have a better chance of winning brand share. Milk existing assets most advertisers change creative too early before the copy actually wears out and our last recommendation is make TV and digital your go to media. Without television stand alone ROI on digital campaigns comes down and digital can add to incremental reach of television at higher frequencies at a much lower cost. So it makes sense to add digital to your television campaigns to improve ROI. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen for listening to me.


I welcome to the 24th meeting of the Criminal Justice Committee. There are no apologies this morning. Our first item is to decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. Are members agreed? Yes. Thank you very much. The committee will now consider an affirmative statutory instrument, the advice and assistance of Summary Criminal Proceedings, Miscellaneous Amendment, Scotland Regulations of 2022, and I refer members to paper 1. The SSI makes amendments to the current advice and assistance regulations to support a sheriff court initiative that seeks to encourage appropriate early resolution of summary cases. I welcome, as Shregan, Minister for Community Safety and her officials to this morning's meeting. I now invite the minister to make a short statement on the SSI. Good morning, convener and committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee about the advice and assistance, summary criminal proceedings, miscellaneous amendment, Scotland Regulations of 2022. Those regulations have been brought forward to support the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service evidence and procedure review through which three sheriff courts will pilot an initiative to test the benefits of earlier engagement between the Procurator Fiscal Service and defence agents. The purpose of the pilot is to encourage appropriate early resolution of summary criminal cases, and facilitating such appropriate early resolution will both benefit an accused person and reduce the volume of cases within our courts, aiding the overall efficiency of the justice system. Renumeration of the legal professionals involved also has to play a part in achieving these benefits. Currently, more favourable fee arrangements are available when a pleading diet has taken place in a case that may act as a disincentive to earlier resolution. Two situations have been identified where a case may resolve without proceeding as far as the pleading diet and so give rise to less favourable fee consequences. One situation is in cases that involve the service of a complaint, but which are susceptible to resolution should the Procurator Fiscal Service agree to drop the case and not call it. Secondly, there are cases that involve disclosure and or crown or defence engagement prior to the date a complaint is served such as undertaking cases and again they may resolve in a way that allows the Procurator Fiscal Service to again drop the case. The provisions in this instrument will amend legal aid fee arrangements to allow an inclusive fee to be paid to defence agents at an earlier stage of proceedings having regard to both of those scenarios, and a pleading diet will no longer be required to trigger payment of the inclusive fee, so that gives a brief overview for the committee on the regulations and happy to answer any further questions that the committee may have. I appreciate that the SSI before us is specifically around the payment of legal aid fees and the consequence of the pilots that I might have on that, but I wanted to ask more widely about the pilot itself. Would it be fair to say that the purpose of the pilot is to, or one potential outcome would be to reduce the number of cases that proceed to a trial diet and can ask what the benefits or indeed perhaps the consequences of that might be? On the face of it, it might appear that that may encourage lawyers to sit in a smoke-filled room and do deals together rather than people feel like their cases should proceed to what normally would happen to a trial. Is it the case that we may see an increase in the number of deals being done where there already is perhaps a sense of a feeling of a lack of transparency around what is discussed in those private meetings and, of course, the outcomes that are delivered where we have already heard numerous concerns as committee from victims and victims organisations about the consequences of not being kept in the loop around deals such as this? I just wondered what the Government's thoughts were about the pilots and how they would be received. The first thing to be clear about is that this is work that has been carried out by the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service. That is part of their evidence and procedure reviews. That is something that they are working on themselves to encourage appropriate early resolution of summary criminal cases. In doing so, as you rightly pointed out, that might reduce the number of summary criminal cases that are going into the court system, but I would stress that we feel that that would only be for cases where that is appropriate. That is the first thing to make clear. The pilots will be taking place in Dundee, Hamilton and Paisley. They have already started on 5 September. Those are an attempt to look at ways in which things can be improved and that efficiency can be improved. I think that that will bring benefits to a right across the whole system. I think that it will benefit the accused and I also am quite clear that it will bring benefits to victims as well as the court system itself. What they are looking at within the pilot is to resolve cases at the earliest opportunity without the need for the trial to be fixed, to reduce the need for full disclosure where cases can be resolved, reduce the number of cases that are called for trial and to reduce the number of witnesses that are unnecessarily called and preserve trials for cases that cannot easily be resolved by other means. As I said, I think that there are benefits involved in that. Specifically with regard to the regulations that are in front of you, I would see them as perhaps removing a barrier that exists within the system. I think that it might be an appropriate way to describe it as many of those cases would have gone on to court when perhaps with the right fee arrangements it would be more appropriate for them to have been resolved at an earlier stage. I hope that answers the member's question. Thank you. It partially does. I do read between the lines in terms of what you are saying around the current arrangements and why it may not necessarily benefit both parties to resolve cases in this way rather than in a traditional fashion. I guess that it still raises a slight flag. I think that you used the phrase benefits the accused. Surely we should not be making any changes to the system that benefit anyone. The system should be fair and transparent as appropriate. I wonder what parameters would be around what types of cases it would be appropriate for this way of dealing with them. If we were moving in that direction, would certain types of cases be excluded? For example, who would make that decision around whether a case could be resolved in this more informal setting? I also note in the policy notes that no public consultation was carried out, which says that due to the technical nature of the regulations, but I would say that this is not just a technical move, it is quite a substantial shift in how we are trying to clear the backlog of cases by dealing with them more efficiently, but perhaps in a less public way. I wonder if you could comment on that as well. Just to be clear, the pilot and the improvements to the processes that the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service are carrying out are work that they are undertaking by themselves, although obviously the Scottish Government is supportive of moves to make the system more efficient. Those regulations were shared with the Law Society of Scotland and no comments were received on them. I did say that I believed that this change will benefit the accused, but not solely the accused. I think that we need to be clear on that. I did say that it would bring benefits to victims. I also think that it would be beneficial to legal practitioners as well as efficiencies across the whole system. Obviously, we are in a position right now where, in some cases, there is a backlog that we need to resolve. I anticipate that changes of this nature will lead to less cases going to court, which will obviously have a beneficial effect on the number of cases that are going through, which I think is something that we are all interested in seeing. Martin, will you be able to give a little bit more information for Mr Greene about the—obviously, I set out in my statement the type of cases that it would apply to, but perhaps Martin can give it a little bit more information on that? It is limited to summary criminal business, but sheriff court cases. I understand that pilots are overseen by sheriffs. It is a case management system, essentially, to ensure that cases proceed in the most effective way. What it does is to remove one potential barrier to that. If everything else that the SCTS is doing to improve that was in place, but that was not, then cases might still proceed to the trial diet, even though otherwise they would have been able to be settled. That feeds into those processes. That is very helpful, thank you. I welcome this pilot. I think that the minister is to correct to identify that funding arrangements can affect how work is done and cases are prepared. It would be very helpful if a full and detailed report could be provided on the pilot once it is concluded to committee members. Perhaps that is something that the minister could take away so that we can understand what happens and what implications that might have. In terms of the regulations themselves, I was going to ask whether you consulted with the law society or representatives of criminal defence agents. You clearly already have had a level of engagement, although there has not been a great deal of feedback. Will you ensure that you obtain detailed feedback as the pilot proceeds and, indeed, as the regulations are rolled out, to ensure that the feedback from that side of the profession is captured, given all the concerns that have been raised about the problems in the funding of criminal defence work, given cuts in legal aid over a considerable period of time? I do not accept all the characterisation that the member has put forward as part of that question. We have shared the regulations and, as you have said, we have not received a great amount of comment on them. I also want to clear again that the pilots are not being run by the Scottish Government. It is not a Scottish Government initiative. We are not controlling it. We are not directing it. I think that if the committee is interested in a report on how the pilot is being run and the conclusions of it, that is probably something that the committee could take up with SCTS directly. I am sure that they would be happy to facilitate that. Although the pilots are only taking place in three areas, that is an attempt to support the direction that the pilots are going in and to make sure that the legal practitioners' barrier to resolution in appropriate cases at an earlier stage is not there in terms of the fee structure. That will allow for earlier payment for the legal practitioners, so I hope that that will be welcomed. It does not just apply to the three areas.  Pauline McNeill, I think that you are wanting to come up with that. Thank you, convener. Good morning, minister. I do welcome those important regulations. I think that some members of this committee had actually questioned the legal board on behalf of practitioners about the fact that there was a disincentive to settle cases early. I am quite clear in my own mind that that is helpful on every level, so I support those regulations. Given what you said to Katie Clark—this is a matter for the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service—what is the Government's role in it, if we have been asked to consider it? Who then determines what you would expect to see in a pilot? How do you measure its success? Will that be the Government, or will it be the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service? Therefore, it needs clarification. If it is all a matter for the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service, what is our role in it, to pass it on today? That is being run by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service. It is part of their on-going work in order to improve efficiencies in the system for everyone. I will perhaps give a little bit more detail on how that is working. However, in terms of the role for Government, that would be in terms of supporting the work that they are doing legislatively. That is an example of that. We are, through those regulations, removing that barrier that, as the member has characterised, may create a disincentive to appropriate early settlement. We are changing the law to, obviously, support that work. Justin, do you have anything further to add on the CTS pilot and how they are going to be, perhaps, measuring it, et cetera? No, I do not have any specific information on that, but I would expect, and I am conjecturing here, that we should be able to show through the case flows, and we can tell through legal aid board data, when cases settle and such like that. There should be a demonstrable effect. Thank you very much. Please, good morning. I am just wondering what the inclusive fee is going to be. It is £550. How does that differ to what the current system is? If the case progressed, it was the £550 fee. That fee is now going to be payable at an earlier date. My understanding is that there was not a set fee before that, so it depends on the type of case and at what stage it was at. I will let Martin give you a little bit more detail on that, if you can. It depends on what stage things settle earlier. There are fixed payments and fee tables that apply to a case that settled at an earlier stage, or where work was done prior to that. My understanding is that cases would proceed to the diet, and the concern is that they did not need to proceed to the diet. It is not very easy to specify in the abstract what the fees would be, because it would vary in each case, but they would be less than they would be if they settled at the diet. The change ensures that the same work is being done except for the diet itself, in terms of turning up and putting forward the accused person's position. The bulk of that work is done anyway, and therefore the need for the diet is really only there as a procedural step that is in place. At least the feeling is that there is no need to keep that procedural step in place. I think that the fees will probably be the same, but the diet will no longer need to take place to trigger that payment, as it were. Cern has been a huge problem in the share of courts for decades, and this is what we are talking about. Is there not a risk that, financially incentivising a defence lawyer to persuade their client, to recommend their client that they should take a guilty plea that that is perhaps not in the client's best interests? I do not think that anything changes in terms of the defence solicitors' duties to the court and the law society rules about the way that they deliver the service. I would not have expected that to make any difference. I think that the key around a lot of this seems to be that this is the appropriateness of the settlement. The Crown will not be taking, I would not have thought, any different settlements that they would not have otherwise taken. It should not necessarily make any change in my understanding of what will happen. It will just happen on an earlier stage without the need for others being involved where they do not need to be. I think that the other thing, just to be clear for the committees, is that this approach really does reflect what the legal profession has advised the Scottish Government that fees should be better targeted to the preparation of cases to aid that early resolution. It is something that I think will support better cash flow and capacity for defence agents as well. On the last point, the nature of the crimes that this would cover are obviously summary, but that can include acts of violence and so on. Victims often complain that the system and the process is quite opaque. They are not kept in the loop. They are not told of disposals. They are often left in limbo for significant periods of time. I just wonder if there has been any consideration given to inform them of disposals as part of this change, because it seems that there is even less chance of being told if there is not going to be the formal hearing that is going to now be not needed. As I understand it, that would relate to pleading diets. I would not always expect victims' witnesses to be there, but the communication of the process of what happens is that there are initiatives under way, as I understand it, in the Crown to address that lack of transparency. That is where I would expect those issues to be picked up. What we do in relation to those regulations is simply to remove the barrier in terms of legal aid. The wider initiative that SCTS are undertaking seems to be quite relevant points in relation to whether you are going to have those efficiencies, how you communicate what has happened in a case.  I understand that this is business of the court and the Crown, but I wonder if it could even be a stipulation that you make a requirement that, as this has progressed, there is a need to inform victims and witnesses. Otherwise, there is a real risk, I think, that they will be left not knowing the outcome of cases. If you have been a victim of violence in particular or some other crime of that nature, it seems only right that that should be front and centre of any such change. I think that, as Martin said, there are, as the committee will know, number of initiatives in this area. I think that we are all clear that better communication is beneficial. I am sure that that is something that will be looked at by the Crown and SCTS in the work that they are taking forward on that issue. Thank you very much. Thanks, convener. I welcome to the minister and your colleagues. I just wanted to put on the record that I am very supportive of this. I mean this, I think, as Russell Finlay said, the churn within the court systems has been a massive issue for the last criminal justice committee in the previous session, and I imagine probably before then. We should really be welcoming any sort of steps to address this, and I think that it is really good that the ministers recognise that and bring forward something that has the potential. That takes me on to my question, minister. I wonder if—I know that it is obviously a pilot in your review above—you get any sort of early indications, any early assessments of what impact this might make on both the Covid and the longer-term backlogs. If you do not have numbers, that is okay. I know that Kate Clark has already asked for an update in due course, but is there any sort of early assessments of what it might mean in terms of numbers? We do not have any data of that type at the moment, but I am quite confident that this will have a significant impact on resolving cases appropriately at an earlier stage, which, for all the reasons that we have discussed, I think will be beneficial across the system. Okay, thank you very much. If there are no more questions in that case, I will invite the minister to move the motion number 05162, that the Criminal Justice Committee recommends that the advice and assistance summary criminal proceedings, miscellaneous amendment Scotland regulations of 2022, be approved. Formally moved. So the question is that motion 05162, in the name of Ash Regan, be agreed. Are we all agreed? Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much for attending, minister, and that concludes our consideration of the SSI. We will move into private session now and details of the next committee meeting will be announced in due course in the business bulletin. Thank you very much.


This is when The narcissist knows you're done when you move on from the narcissist And you go no contact That doesn't mean that they know That you are done That doesn't mean that they know that because they are very arrogant and And audacious so they think they're the best thing since sliced bread They think you can't do any better than them as though whoever You move on to or whatever situation You go into it Will never be as good as what you had with them. Well, at least that's how they think in their minds And it may not always play out that way in reality But in the beginning when you go no contact when you cut them off They're assuming that it's not going to get any better for you as though You already had it as good as it gets with them So they're not really thinking that you're done They're looking at it as though it's only a matter of time until you come back Until you start messing them or they might just think that you're waiting for them To come after you because many of these narcissists are very delusional They really think that you still want them That's how they think Even after you've gone no contact Many of them just can't believe that you want nothing to do with them They just can't believe that But there is a time when They do begin to realize That you aren't done that you no longer want anything to do with them that there is No going back. Yeah, there is a time when they realize that And it's not just because you cut them off. You went no contact Or you start seeing them blog them on social media No, it's not just because of that But it's also because when you Find a higher purpose When you find something greater than what you had with them when you Find something that you are passionate about Something that you believe in Something that matters more to you than anything else Something that they can't destroy Something that they can't take away from you. Yeah when you find that They know There's no going back They know you're done. They know it's all over for them But what they will try to do when they know that you found something That you believe in Something that you are passionate about And this could be A religion spirituality It could be a job Business Or maybe a family member or friend that you care about It could be any of these things, but there's something that you hold is more significant Something that is more important to you than the narcissist when you find that In most situations, yeah They will assume that you were done they will assume that there is no going back, but of course there are some Narcissists were so crazy and delusional that they will try to come back and and Mirror Your passions and interests they will Re-customize their false self just for you and Yeah, they were like to so they've changed So they're no longer about what they were once about They've cleaned up their act and now they're on the same page as you so if You've become more of a religious or spiritual person Or whatever it is that you're passionate about whatever it is that you're doing They're like like they're about that too Even though they know they're not they're fake They're not about anything for real and that is why What's most important to them is a source of supply They are addicted to people and they can't be alone Because that's It's most important to them Which is why they may Come back I try to love bomb you trick you all over again act like they're about what you're about Even though they know fully well that they're not But they may still try some of them But as you continue along your path to purpose Your mission your objective in life to become The best version the most righteous version of yourself Who you are always meant to be? Before you got involved with this narcissist Yeah, when you become that As you continue on This purpose and you don't let them distract you you don't let them sway you Yeah, when you continue doing that At some point They do get the picture They do realize that you're not coming back Because that dysfunctional behavior Does not resonate with you anymore. You've had some time away from them You've had a chance to heal To practice self-love and self-care and when you do that Because that that is it that is the missing ingredients That's what you were missing all along is that love for yourself You become secure with yourself When you do that this toxic behavior no one on the resonates with you You just can't be around it anymore. It brings you down You don't like it because you know you deserve better than that You already know that And that is why you left them Cut contact you moved on And you focused on a higher purpose that is why you did that And yes, those of you who have done that I am very proud of you for doing that And I want you to continue doing that You need to continue moving away Distance in yourself from them Because you should already know that they are no good for you They mean you know well and as you continue To strive for this higher purpose All they can do Is try to bring you down to their level That's all they can do. It's like this crabs in the bucket mentality They're not gonna lift you up How are they gonna do that if they're beneath you they don't share the same ideals and standards as you do They don't believe in a higher purpose You do and that belief is very powerful.  They are not to be believed in They are not to be valued Why should you value them? What did they ever bring a value to you?   That's what you deserve But that's it. That's when they know that you're done When you develop self-love When you start taking care of yourself When you start putting yourself first Instead of always holding them as the main priority in your life When you realize that you are more important your needs are more important And you focus on a higher purpose Something that you are passionate about Something that means something to you I'm any of you You may be still stuck Where you're actually thinking that this person cares about you Because they act like they want to help you They act like they want you to be better But they don't that's why they want to keep you stuck That's where they devalue you in the first place Why would they devalue you? Why wouldn't they want you to become Confident in yourself That's the whole point to keep you down To make you become progressively worse Because they don't want you to move on.  They like empathy They don't consider you They're only thinking about what they want and what they can get out of it And it benefits them to devalue you and keep you stuck keep you locked in as their supply I need you to know that I Need you to be aware of that Because again, even though you may Cut them off and go into contact that does not mean that they're gonna leave you alone because that is The greatest fear Is that when you move on You start to realize your worth you start to develop self-love because they know after that you're never coming back They already know that Because a person who loves themselves, they're not gonna put themselves in that type of situation They're never gonna do that Once you develop self-love and this belief in yourself. There is no going back You just won't click with them anymore It's game over and many of you who do go back or you give them another chance it's because You don't really love yourself from the core if you did you would never go back you would never give them another chance Because you would know that not only because They are deficient in self-love but also because they lack self-awareness They can never change They can never Realize That the problem lies with them Although we must take responsibility at the end Because we should realize that we are Deficient in self-love But yes, they never Realize that That's not something that they can accept. They can only project it onto you They can only assign these parts of themselves That they don't like to you If they don't like something about themselves, they have to disown it But the only thing that you can heal the only way that you can heal and move on and Really love yourself or real is to own it You have to own it first before you can change it Before you can make it better. I don't know sometimes they do Kind of give you the tools to do that When they devalue you because at some point You just can't take it anymore, and you're like, okay Maybe I am Exactly what you say I am and I'm gonna own that I'll be that And I'll walk away from you as well And I'll carry that with me And then you move on into a new situation And it's like, oh darn, I'm in it These people don't see me like that They see me like something else Something I never thought I could be, something better, something greater Maybe something I always thought that I was, but I was brainwashed, I was told that I'm something different, something bad Someone who will never be enough And when that happens There is no going back after that Once you realize Who you really are And You realize your worth You realize that you're okay. It's too late.  There's just no possible way for them to reach you And they can try and mirror you, they can try and trick you But as long as you have that self-love You're gonna know, you're gonna know that it's not real You're gonna see it a mile away So at that point there's nothing they can do They know that you're done and they're forced to leave you alone And that is when you get to move on And Be who you want to be Be who you choose to be Be what always meant to be Before they got involved Before they tricked you, they valued you They made you feel like you're nothing Because that's exactly how they feel Especially when they're around you And yet they try to project those feelings onto you So yeah, that's it When the narcissist realizes You're done This is what they do Just been walking around in this park But as you can see it's getting quite dark now So I'm gonna head home I've enjoyed my walk, I love being in nature As you know I hope you enjoyed this message tonight If you did please give the video a thumbs up down below Help our community And Let me know your thoughts down in the comments Let me know if you agree with this Or not And Share the video, subscribe Before I go Here's Nala, sit next to me in the next one Alright, that's it I hope you enjoyed And I will talk to you in another one Bye


Ac yn ei bwrdd i'w meddwl y dywedon. Ac ydw i'w meddwl ydych chi. Rwy'n golygu ar gyfer fitnes ac ynweithio. Rwy'n golygu ar y balau a'i weithio y ffilm. A oesod, eiddo a'r pethau ar gyfer y rhain. Rwy'n iawn, fel ffordd, mae'n golygu... Ymgyrch yn ennill.. Mae'n golygu eu ffordd yn ystod o'r cyffissen Producedor i'r cyflodau amdaniadol. ond rydyn ni'n bywyd i ddim ydych chi'n mynd i'ch hunain, ond mae rydyn ni'n bydd y cant o'r busb. Felly rydyn ni'n bydd i'ch hunain. Let's get into it, because this is really energy boosting food. Right, I need that right now. An a cair crou aput li yw'r unigus? I've heard a whisper, so we have this plain Greek yoghurt on sweet end. You can use full fat, you can use low fat. It doesn't really make a difference. It doesn't make a difference, okay? Fats, they are healthy fats and unhealthy fats, but yoghurt is one of the, you'd say the healthy fats, we need a certain amount of fat in our diet. So how much would you say per day that people, you know, should we have something every day? Yeah, it doesn't have to be yoghurt, but you know the general world health organisation talk about things like 30-40% fats per day in your meals. Healthy fats. Healthy fats. So not doughnuts. So see pizza and things of that nature, they don't really kind of qualify. We're talking about the fats that are in fish, in dairy, and meat products as well. So what about these, so you're just loading in, how much are you putting in? I'm putting in, it's not a secret recipe, there's going to be information on our Facebook page, the exact details. So I'll say I'm putting some bit of yoghurt, and then we're going to move towards our secret ingredient. It's all secret, it's all secret. I think I'll go for the berries. Okay, what are you going to put in then, which berries? Blueberries. It's all healthy. You know, fruits are good for you. When fruits are, what do you call it? When they're processed, they do, you know, the process makes more sugar if they say, for example, blended. So you have to be aware of that if you're something that's watching your sugars or being careful. So at the moment, smoothies seem to be quite... The rage they're in right now? Yeah, they're right now, aren't they? So is it something that we should all be buying one of these blenders and having some... It wouldn't be a bad idea. It wouldn't be a bad idea because there's ones you can, you know, spinach. They don't have to be even fruit, you know, there's smoothies that are like, almost like meals, if I can put it that way.  Smoothie bars and stuff like that. Very interesting. Okay, what's that in your hand then? So we've got the chia seeds, but these are on-ground, but you can get them really ground down, but we're going to use the on-ground. They look very interesting, all right. As you can see, so we drop it just... So am I the guinea pig here who's going to try this? Well, yourself, myself, the camera crew. Okay, brilliant. All on sundry. Actually my mouth is watering, which is really bad because you've hardly put anything in there. No, that's good. That's good. Salivating. All right, so what's next? We've got the vanilla. So you have some, you know, these vanilla extracts. Vanilla extract, indeed, indeed. So in that goes. Yeah. Okay, so in terms of sort of making quite a healthy recipe there, aren't you? So is it something that's recommended, you know, from Ahadith, Golan, religion, what is it? Is it just something that's scientifically something that we all should be gearing towards? Well, we've got it on both levels, right? We've got both levels, right? We've got both levels. So we've got the sayings of the imma, the prophet and the imma, peace and blessings be upon them about, you know, not overeating and things of that nature and be careful of the type of food you eat. You know, Muslims, we tend to like to make sure we eat halal, but the food isn't always pure. So these are like more pure foods, right? Less additives and stuff of that nature. And better to make it yourself, isn't it? Fresh is always good. What else do we need? You've got all the berries there. You want to make it really exciting, right? I think you should. OK. Let's go for some raspberries then. A few raspberries wouldn't go a miss. And they wouldn't go a miss. And again, fresh. I know they sell these frozen, but I like fresh. I like fresh. You don't lose too much nutrition, nutritional value with frozen, but I mean, you can't beat fresh, right? That looks good. You can't beat fresh. Oh, this is getting nice and colourful. OK. So we're going to get our lid on. Here it goes. Wish me well. Oh, I think you need to. Do you not need any liquid in that? Nothing else. I mean, ideally I would have used ice. Ice water does the trick. OK. Drop a bit of ice water in there. Because that would help to, I suppose, loosen it up. As I said, the exact amount is on there. So this is how it's looking. So how will this help weight loss? I mean, that's got all the natural ingredients. But in terms of what are the benefits of the berries and nutritionally? They carry fruit in particular. So you've got your yogurts, your healthy fats, your calcium, your proteins. Then you've got your healthy sugars and vitamins and minerals in your blueberries, raspberries, and the flavouring with the chia and the flavouring with the vanilla. OK. Right. Blast off. All right. So we're going to take blast off now. We're going to blitz. OK. You ready? Yep. Go for it. Pretty animated, this machine. No way. OK. You can actually just take the machine off. Yeah. Give it a quick shake as well. So the consistency is sort of like a milkshake but thinner than that. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. But more nutritious than milkshakes made by certain chain stores that we won't mention. But you get my drift. Yep, definitely. Oh, look at that. That is looking awesome now. Let's go again now. OK. I don't think there's going to be much for the camera crew left back here after we... Oh, no. We should be nice. They're good guys. They're good guys. I didn't say there wouldn't be none. I just said not much. So while you're doing that... I don't know if the viewers can actually hear me. But Imam Sajad. I know that there's rights of the stomach and he talks about... We mentioned about the halal and eating halal and also not to overeat. So when it comes to sort of like keeping a moderation... There's portions. There's something to do with portions in terms of that treatise. What was that? Refresh my memory. It's basically that you have a third of food, a third of drink and keep a third of your stomach for air. And I think it's the moderation, isn't it? So you're eating, not overeating. So the overeating can have effects of you being sluggish, eating heavy meals. So I'm just assuming that when you look at nature's creation, you always feel this kind of freshness, don't you? This energy and I suppose it's the right energy rather than if we eat too much meat or too much of something. Which is perhaps not so healthy the sugars that manufacture sugars. Process sugars. Yeah, process sugars. So in those terms that would probably be quite sluggish. I'd imagine having a cup of tea with loads of cakes and you'd feel that lack of energy although the boost initially. The rush and the crash with the sugars. But also I'm thinking about, scientifically now they talk about not just recently but for a number of years that numerous small meals would be more beneficial than the big meal that would make you sluggish. The small meals keeps your metabolism ticking over. So you find that people in the sports industry in terms of sports performance, even bodybuilding where the whole thing is to look, this is the aesthetic of your body. They eat many small meals throughout the day every few hours but they're very small. Is that good for people who don't exercise as much or to eat the smaller meal portions of meals in the day? Yeah, in general. So not just for sports people. You know sometimes that you have a meal and they say oh if it's a large, somebody might have shared you food. Eat half of it and leave it to eat the rest in an hour or something like that as opposed to just, you know, I'm going to finish it all because that's what's been shared. But portion sizes is a whole thing, it's a whole knowledge base in itself. I can't wait for this. Is that done now? No, no, no. I'll do it a little bit. I've got to get the consistency just right. It's got to be, you know. Oh, I see. Okay, it's getting smoother. All right, that looks really good. Smoother, smoother. Yeah, lovely. All right, so let's go. So I'm going to lose pounds drinking this. Supposedly. I had, I did have a fear. I had a fear that I would, you know how this nightmare that it would.  So how, is this sort of something that, so if I had, you talk about spinach smoothies and all that. So is it good to have sort of one thing a day? This is more of a, you know, natural fruit one. So would you say have a vegetable smoothie and like nutritiony with this would be, is it only be providing some nutrients? Yeah, only some. You couldn't have this for the whole. Like I said, I'm going to make a large amount of this and sip it throughout the whole. That wouldn't be ideal. Plus they're better off, you're better off having them fresh.  It's quite thick now, isn't it? Is that right? It's a nice consistency. That looks really delicious actually. I'm sure it will taste amazing. Or fresh, wholesome ingredients I've got to add. So if someone's looking to, you know, lose weight, what would you say, best time to have this kind of smoothie in the day? Well the technical term is managed their way. Okay, managed it. I hope they manage their weight. But you were saying seriously, that when is it best to have these? You can have it in the early portion of the day, but I mean, probably sugars late at night aren't best and dairy products and things of that nature just, you know, aren't ideal. So the earlier portion of the day would be best. Sort of like a breakfast smoothie? Yeah, that would be best. That would be better. So I shall one for you. Oh, thank you so much. Right, so. For me. This is breakfast time, so.  Thank you so much. Okay. It's a bit nervous. No pressure, no pressure. Does it look bad if I don't try it too? Delicious. It's really good. Well done. It's not sweet and it's just the right sort of thing. I love yoga. I love yoga. But it doesn't overpower it, does it? No, no, no.  It's a good recipe. It's quite refreshing, I think, in the morning. I could imagine having that sort of when I'm not. Haven't got time for breakfast or something. I mean, and we use water, but if you use ice, for example, that, you know, when it's, you know, the weather is super hot. I imagine a hot morning, some ice. So have it quite. Yeah, yeah, really refreshing as well.  That's really good. Okay. So anything else about, so what else could people add in that sort of other berries? So you can use different berries. You could use, we have straw berries, different fruit, but blueberries, as I said, they have their own antioxidants and this, you know, help the immune system, things like that. So blueberries, you know, berries are pretty strong on that as well. And then in terms of sort of, if you manage your weight with your food intake, how about exercise? How would that supplement somebody? So how much should they do as a minimum per day? So they're trying to sort of improve on their food intake. What would you say about the exercise? Half an hour, 20 minutes, half an hour a day, you know, if we're at a five, let's say the working week is good. It's good. It's a good average. To do what? And that doesn't necessarily mean hitting the weights jam. It doesn't mean, you know, being on a cardio machine or anything of that nature. It means even, all right, if I'm going on my commute and I use public transport, maybe I'll get off the bus or whatever. Two stops, two extra bus stops on my way there, on my way back. And it's just a little power walk. These little things, I'll take the stairs to the fourth floor. Over mothers at home or if you've got your baby sitting with grandkids and you're in the week, you could always take them to school walking, couldn't you rather than? Exactly. Take them to school walking. So just a bit of exercise. You sometimes see the mothers, you know, pushing their prams and doing exercises in the park. You know, it's all movement. Exercise is movement. So it doesn't have to be a regime put together by a personal trainer or you don't have to attend classes. Those are good for people who are in the groove or taking the plans. But maybe you've been inactive for a long time and, you know, it can be intimidating to say oh, you've got to join up to a gym where you've got to get a personal trainer at the expense. So just start by walking. Just start by a movement. A power walk.  Movement.  So what you eat, rest. So it's exercise, nutrition and getting good rest. And that's good for the body and the soul. That's a good combo, yeah. Which we haven't really discussed but in general another day. Another day. Another smoothie. That's all we have time for this morning. But I would definitely recommend this recipe. So next up we've got the morning a politic section and the discussion is amazing. Thank you.


Well, it's interesting yeah, he's undercover All right, let's go for the entry for Eric. Okay, so here was the first entry here boom short it stop here drums Do you understand it? Do you see what you did below? Yes, boom. I'm pretty much born. Yeah, you ran It's good So why did you know where to put the stop No, I got in I'm thinking I got in the 1793. Yes Before you had I thought you said the stop should have been 1750 1850 this is where I'm not calling the dollar This is where you're getting screwed up in your head about the interest rates, but you should know well today I was looking at two things, but you got to know You got to know where it's at You got to have the chart up and look at it and know that if you're getting something at 90 something if I'm saying 50 And that's above it. There's a dollar above it So 1793 or wherever you got hit when the stops 1850 Okay, you're gonna just have to pay attention because there's nothing You've got in it, right? But then you totally ignore the stop and I'm telling you that this could have gone against you it didn't and it's fine But you still got you got to learn how to do that, right? Because I don't have time to give the dollars so you got to know that if I say 90 something and then if I say a Smaller number for this stop. It means it has a number. I've had a bit that's higher It could be 1850 it could be 1950 could be 2050 it depends that this is a cheaper stock for example What was the other one the other day? Did CN have one above the thing? There was one of the ones that was Because like I could say 2350 the stop might be 2502 you never know some things are smaller stops and other ones You know what it's like I know I know it's all good and everything when the trade works But you if you got it in company you have to protect yourself to the high in this one here was 25 14 Loan of the day was 2350 to so it dropped from 25 something to 23 something so you know, but it took all day It took all day I'm just saying you still have to pay attention to the numbers of the thing you have time to do it You're not acclimated enough because it was the first week doing it to do it fast enough But the point is you've got to do it because what if it doesn't work? Anyway, because yeah, I have that $200. Well, you said you would have covered it But the point is it it doesn't matter.  Oh staples. Gosh, how can we forget? This was insanity This one here This really was a failure yesterday because look at it today Institutions come in it with all the big flaws. Well, look at the whole chart in this, but it's just here this You said well, la la, but if you had to stop here if you would have said well, I'm gonna just cover it The length of this bar here is 50 cents the second bar between two minutes from 917 to here it's 70 cents So if you were supposed to have to stop here, I don't know why you have done this here But say sure today you're supposed to have to stop here You're like well, I'll just cover it. Well, where are you getting out? You're getting out like way up here by the time you press it I mean, this is a moving alive time that we watched the yesterday and it went to you know I mean it's seconds that you have to do it and then the water has to get sent It's not just you pressing it the water has to get sent to the ECM and then it has to get filled This is like second second seconds, but this is also happening in second second seconds. This is not a slow moving thing That's why sometimes when you press the button to get out of something You don't or get into something. You don't have an exact fill like you press it Then it's a couple pennies in you press it's a couple pennies up. Do you know what I mean? Because it would have to be sent. I mean it's as this is as close as a lot of time It's trading is never gonna get for us people, but it's just the point that you have to have to stop it All right, let's have the dylan chart is tarp up staples here. I Think it's just a good example something that's just down a lot It's just down a lot is backing up, but I would never go on this our institutions buying this No, none of the chart the chart's in a downtrend, but for the gap down that happened here that failed It's getting by now through the second day through somebody's buying it Do I think that this changes the trend in the chart? No what I buy it now. Do I think it's gonna drop again? Yes, do I know when no? But I wouldn't buy it so It's very choppy was choppy was actually training smoother today than it did yesterday Does anyone want to go over anything else? And then I'm gonna just here Google's coming in now. It's an 843 79 Does anyone want to go over anything else here about the week or anything today? Anything at all? That's what Yeah How's everyone doing? You took out the son paper at 10.06 and make work in six minutes. He did the zoomsie trade Oh, I thought you did that in for real journey on me said Journey woman, you have to decide if you're gonna be one trade day or two trades a day Again, you can't change your mind all the time. Just like Gallagher can't change his mind The amount of the risk you can't change your mind or your mind of the days of the trades Are you doing two trades a day or one trade a day? Are you doing retakes you and doing one trade? You should be doing one trade today. That's it I You risked a second I don't think so because you risked more on this trade here Which is fine. It worked in Google than you did in the previous ones the last two weeks You risked more so I don't you know make up your mind. Hey, what's crazy? Absolutely crazy, but did work. I felt that it would gapped up fell then in the morning got down Dropped you wouldn't have had to do a retake in this to make money I think the easiest one was the one that was the zoomsie and this is still going is it was still in this at all It's good get to 27 So do you want to do two trades for a moment or do you want to do one trade if you wish 2800 if you wish 2700 in Google that's more than you rest in the option in target. It's more than your rest of the other options Again, I don't care what you risk. I'm just saying figure out a number and and and pick it If you had risk 2700 in Google and we're at 1900 review about now. Yes, knowing that you could have possibly made 4,000 probably got out I think you would have got out because you made the decision to go out the other day I said, what do you want to do? You said I'm gonna get out. Yeah You made it yourself. We played a tape. I know well That's why it's like interesting because when I when I ask you like I said, do you want to do Costco? And you said you said I said no the answers. No, then you don't want to do it So if you have to think about it the answer is no, that's the machine That's the tell-tale sign if you're questioning it that the answer is no Holding it or getting it or taking it or doing it or doing a second trade or whatever Do you know what I'm saying? Your intuition is trying to tell you something I Think the journey women if the idea of you risking more and doing one train would be would be better off for you right now I think that that would they have better results for you Risking a little more and doing one train not doing the two I know you let one do a second one in one of your second one But I think risking more and doing the one trade is better so that when they when they really go and work And fall hard you will make you know You'll have a good what you think is a good amount of money in the one trade that works and even when it's a small win Then you'll feel okay about it I and I think you should I think you should do one train and do the good amount and then not do two I think it is I think it is easy I think you know gala had when you get out of the mentality of trying to make huge trades If you would decide in your head that you are perfectly acceptable and okay with not having a $10,000 winning option trade this year if you can live with that and go to bed at night and get up in the morning and face Yourself every day and accept that that's the better thing for you to do is to do You know to get out with the profit like you did in the last two in the last week, then I think you'll be fine There's nothing wrong with making you know, $1,900 or $1,600 in one train Posted last year. Yeah, I made those. Yeah The jail 10,000 8,000 so you see that you're like, well, you know, but now he thinks every trade is going to be that okay It's not That's just reality That is the reality. That's the market not every trade is going to be a huge win But it is absolutely possible to be consistent with what you're doing with the picks and making money And I've never been more consistent than I have been in 2017 There's reasons for that But the reality is that it is about the consistency with it and not letting it get under your skin if something goes longer Then you think here, we're gonna do a little exercise. We're gonna do we're gonna do a little exercise here Just hang on one second. I'm gonna bring up a PowerPoint Aaron, where are you? Stop it. I'm gonna do a second little lecture here that this will take


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