CHAPTER XXII A WEEK AFTER ARRIVING AT ABRANTES, SEEN I don't know who you really ought to apply to for leave, he said, but as we are sort of a half-independent core, it seems the simplest way for me to take the responsibility. Nobody is ever likely to ask any questions about it. And now that it will simply be a matter of hard drill till the army moves again, you can very well be spared. If it is company work, it is the captain's business. If the two regiments are maneuvering together, they will of course be under Bola McWhitty, and I should be acting as Brigadier. I should like to go very much, Herara said. I have not yet had the pleasure of introducing myself to my family and friends as a Lieutenant Colonel. Of course, I would add to my people when I received the commission from Lord Beersford, but it would really be fun to supply some of my school fellows in combat. So if you think that it will not be inconvenient, I should like very much to go. Then if I were you, I should start it once.  You can get to Sarantarum tonight, and to Lisbon tomorrow afternoon. Is there anything I can do for you? Yes, I wish you would ask Don Jose if you will, through his friends at a portal. Find out whether my cousin's mother was there at the time the French entered, and if she was, whether she got through that horrible business on hurt. I have been hearing about it from my friends, who were a couple days there before the force marched to Braga. They tell me that by all counts, the business was even worse than we feared. The friends came upon some of their comrades tied to posts in the Great Square, horribly mutilated, some of them with their eyes put out, still living, and after that they spared no one, and upon my word I can hardly blame them, and in fact don't blame them at all, so long as they only wreak their vengeance on men. The people made it worse for themselves by keeping up a desultory fire from windows and house tubs when resistance had long ceased to be of any use, and of course seeing their comrades down in this way infuriated the troops still further. I don't suppose it will make the slightest difference in the world to my cousin, whether her mother is dead or not, for I fancy from what Mary said that her mother never cared for her in the slightest. Possibly she was jealous that the child had the first place in the father's affections. However that may be, there was certainly no great love between them, and of course her subsequent treatment on my cousin destroyed any affection that might have existed, but either by some deed executed at the time of marriage or by Portuguese law, Mary has a right to the state of her mother's death, is clear from the efforts they made to get her to renounce that right. Still, there is no more chance of her inheriting it than there would be of her flying. As a nun, she would not actually have to renounce all property, and no doubt the law of this priest-ridden country would decide that she had done so. She tells me, and I am sure truly, that she refused to open her lips to say a single word when she was forced to go to the ceremony. But as, no doubt, a score of witnesses will be brought forward to swear that she answered all the usual questions and renounced all worldly possessions, that denial will go for nothing. Besides, Herara said, it would never do for her to set foot in Portugal. She would be seized as an escaped nun immediately and would never be heard of again. I have no doubt that it would be so, Herara, and as she has a nice fortune from her father, you may be sure that she will not trouble about the estates here, and her mother would be welcome to do what she likes with them, which is after all not unreasonable, as they are her property and descended to her from her father. Still, I should be glad to learn, if it does not give any great trouble, whether if, as is almost certain, for the people from all the country ground took refuge there, long before the French ride, she was in a portal, and if so, whether she got through the sack of the town unharmed. No doubt, Mary would be glad to hear. I am sure Don Jose would be able to find out for you without any difficulty, Herara said. Indeed, I expect he will soon be going back there himself. Now that there is a British garrison in the town, that the bishop must be utterly discredited there, and a good many of his junta must have been killed, while the rabble of the town has been thoroughly discomfited. The place will be more comfortable to live in than it has been for a long time past. Is there anything else I could do for you? Nothing, whatever. A quarter of an hour later, Herara left for Lisbon, bearing many messages of kind regards in Terence's part to Don Jose and his family. Terence's last words were, By the way, Herara, if you should be able to find, at any store in Lisbon, some Irish whiskey, I wish you would get six dozen cases for me, or what would be more handy, a sixteen or eighteen-gallon keg, and could get it sent on by some cart coming here. I should be very much obliged. It had better be sent to me, care of Colonel Corcoran, my old fusiliers, abrantes. I should like to be able to give a grasp to my friends when they ride out to see me. But have a barrel or cases sewn up in canvas before the address is put on. I would not trust it to the escort of any British guard if they were aware of the nature of the contents. Wine would be safe with them, for they can get that anywhere, but it would be too much for the honesty of any Irishman if you were to see a cast labeled Irish whiskey. A week later, Colonel Corcoran said when Terence wrote in, By the by, O'Connor, there is a cast of wine for you at my quarters. It was brought up by an ammunition train this morning. The officer said that a Portuguese colonel had begged him so earnestly to bring it up that he could not refuse. It was Harara, no doubt, Colonel. He has gone down to Lisbon for a week. Ah, I suppose he sent you a keg of choice wine.  I have been wishing that I had something better than the ordinary wine of the country to offer when you come over to see me. I will send over a couple of men with a cart in the morning to bring it out to me. On leaving that evening, Terence invited all the officers who could get away from duty to come over to lunch the next day. Bring your knives and forks with you, he said. And I think you had better bring your plates, too. I fancy four or all I can muster. The next morning, Terence told Bull and McQuitty that he expected a dozen officers out to lunch with him. And I want you to lunch with me, too. I know that Captain O'Grady and others have asked you several times to go in and dine at mess, and that you have not gone. I hope today you will meet them at luncheon. I can understand that you feel a little uncomfortable at this first meeting with a lot of officers as officers yourselves. But, of course, you must do it sooner or later, and we'd be much better doing so at once. The next thing is, what can I give them to eat? I should be glad if you will send out a dozen foraging parties in different directions. There must be little villages scattered among the hills that, so far, escaped French and English plunderers. Let each party take four or five dollars with them. I want anything that can be got, but my idea is a couple of young kids, three or four ducks, or a couple of geese, as many chickens, and, of course, any vegetables that you can get hold of. My man Sancho is a capital cook, and he will get fires ready in two or three assistants. They will be here by one o'clock, so the foraging parties had better return by ten. If there is anything to be brought, you shall have it, Colonel, both said. McWhitty and I will both go ourselves, and we will get half a dozen of the captains to go, too. Between us, it is hard if we don't manage to get enough. By ten o'clock, the officers rowed in, almost every one of them having some sort of bird or beast hanging from the saddle-bow.  Half a dozen fires had already been lighted, and Sancho had attained as many assistants, so that by the time the Colonel and fifteen officers rowed up, lunch was ready. After chatting for a few minutes with them, terrace led the way to a rough table that was placed under the shade of a tree. Ammunition boxes were arranged along for seats. Although but a portion of what had been brought in had been cooked, the effect of the table was imposing. While Connor, the Colonel said, have you got one of the genie, like Aladdin, and ordered him to bring up a banquet for you? I have not seen a winged thing since we marched from Coenbra, and here you've got all the luxuries of the season. No wonder you like independent action, if this is what comes of it. There have we been feeding on tough rationed beef, and here are the contents of a whole farm yard. Almost all the officers had been out before, and Bola McWhitty had been introduced to them. They now all sat down to the meal. I'm sorry Major Ordisco is not here, Terence said. He could not get away, the Colonel said, from the other end of the table. If the general had come round, and there had had been a field officer left to meet him there, there would have been a row over it. I have brought pretty nearly all the officers with me, and I dare not stretch it further. O'Grady, Terence said, I wish you would carve this hair for me. I have no idea how it ought to be cut. I can manage a chicken or a duck, but this is beyond me altogether. I would do it gladly, Terence. Faith, it is a comfort to find out that there is something you can't fill. And so, with much laughter and fun, the meal was eaten. You have not told us yet where you got all these provisions, O'Connor, the Colonel said. It is too bad to keep all the good things to yourself. It has been the work of eight officers, Colonel. They rode off this morning in different directions among the hills, and there was not one of them who returned empty-handed. The wine is fairly good, the Colonel says he sat down his tin mug after a long drought, but it was scarce worth sending all the way up from Lisbon. That has to follow, Colonel. I thought you would appreciate it better after you had done eating. I have not had such a malice as with left-athlone, O'Grace said when at last he reluctantly laid down his knife and fork. But, Jabas, it would be all up with me at the French for to put in an appearance now. But, Faith, I don't think I could run a yard to save me life. The tin mugs were all taken away and washed when the table was cleared.  One mug is good enough for us, if we liquored up a dozen times, which, by the way, we never do, one of these wines is pretty well like another, and if there was a slight difference, it would not matter. When the board was cleared, a large jug was placed before Terence, and some water bottles at various points of the table. I thought, Colonel, that you might prefer spirits even to wine, Terence said. And you are, I told O'Connor, a good glass of wine after a good dinner is no bad thing, but after such a meal as we have eaten, I think that even this basely spirit of theirs, which, after all, is not so bad when you get accustomed to it, is better than wine, it settles matters a bit. Terence poured some of the spirit from a jug into his tin and filled it up with water. Help yourself, he said, passing the jug to O'Grady, who sat next to him. O'Grady was about to do so when he suddenly set the jug down. By the powers, he exclaimed in astonishment. But this is the real crater.  The others are all waiting while you are looking at it. If you feel too surprised to take it, pass the jug on. O'Grady grasped it. I would defend it with my life, he exclaimed. In the meantime, the Colonel had filled his mug. Gentlemen, he said solemnly after raising it to his lips. O'Grady is right. It is Irish whiskey and good at that.  O'Grady said with a sigh as he replaced the empty mug upon the table. I had almost forgotten the taste, and had come to take kindly to the stuff here. Now I shall have to go through it all again. It is like holding the cup to the lips of that old heathen tartarus, and taking it away again. Tantalus, O'Grady. Ock, what is the matter? When he has been dead and buried thousands of years, how he spilled his name. Where did you get it from, Terence? I asked Tarara to try and find some for me at Lisbon. I thought it was most likely that some English merchant there would have laid in a stock, and it seems that he has found one. Do you hear that, Colonel? There is whiskey to be had at Lisbon, and ask not know it. Well, Captain O'Grady, all I can say is that I shall at dinner this evening move a bonus censure upon you as mess president for not having discovered the fact before. Don't talk a dinner, Colonel. There is not one of us who could thank us sat down to a rationed beef as such a man as we have had, and with whiskey here too. I move, Colonel, that no further mention be made of dinner. I have no doubt that Terence will give us some divv of bones. There is as much left in the tables we have eaten before we start home tonight. I will do that with pleasure. In fact, it is exactly what I reckoned upon, Terence replied. I think, O'Grady, we must send to Lisbon for some of this. It is only a thank, Colonel. Faith, I will go down for it myself if I had to walk with praise in my boots and had to carry it back in my shoulders. Can I find Harara there? he asked. Yes, I can give you the address where he will be found. Any help, Colonel? All for the hurt he said, I must, and I am sure all present will join me in the matter, protest against Captain O'Grady going down to Lisbon to fetch Whiskey for the mess. He must know, sir, as well as I do, that he would never return again, and we should probably hear some day that his body has been found by the side of the road with three or four empty cakes beside him. There was a general burst of agreement. Perhaps Dr. O'Grady said in a tone of withering sarcasm, it's yourself in a like to go to be the messenger. There might be a worse one, O'Grady said calmly, but, as I believe the Captain Hall is going down on a week's leave tomorrow, I propose that he, being an Englishman, and therefore more trustworthy than any Irish member of the mess, would be on such a mission, be requested to purchase some for the use of the mess, and to escort it back again. How much shall I say, Colonel? That is a grave matter, and not to be answered hastily, Doctor. Let me see, there are thirty-two officers with the regiment. Now, what would you say would be a fair allowance per day for each man? I should say half a bottle, Colonel. There are some of them that won't take as much, but O'Grady will square matters up. I protest against the insinuation, O'Grady said rising, and, moreover, I would observe that his mighty later would be left for me after each man had taken his whack. That is sixteen bottles a day. For a continuance I should consider that too much, but seeing that we have been on a decent liquor for a month, and may have but a fortnight after it arise to make up for last time, we will say sixteen bottles. Make it three gallons, O'Grady said pervasively. We shall be having lots of men drop in when it gets none that we gotta supply. There is something in that, O'Grady. Well, we will say three gallons, that is, forty-two gallons for a fortnight. We will commission Captain Hall to bring back that quantity. If you say forty-five, Colonel, it will give us a drop in our flasks to start with, and we are as likely to be fifteen days as fourteen anyway. Let it be forty-five then, the Colonel assented. Will you undertake that, Captain Hall? Willingly, Colonel, I will get the whiskey emptied into wine-casts, and as I know one of the chief commissaries in Lisbon, I can get it brought up with the wine for the troops. After sitting for a couple of hours, the Colonel proposed that they should all go for a walk, while all those who preferred it should take a nap in the shade. I move, O'Connor, he said, that this may need be adjourned until sunset. I think that will be a very good plan, Colonel. The proposal was carried out, O'Grady and a few others declared that they should prefer a nap. The rest started on foot and sauntered about in the shade of the wood for a couple of hours. Then all gathered at the table again. At eight o'clock, grilled joints of fowls and ducks were put upon the table, and at nine, all mounted and rolled back to a Brontes. How many of those grilled joints have been filled, Sancho? Eight, sir. That is not so bad, Terrence said to McWhitty. That is twelve bottles, and as there were sixteen in our three cells, that is only about two bottles between three men. I call that very moderate under the circumstances, Colonel, McWhitty said gravely. I have drank more myself many a time. There were a good many hours over two, Terrence added. You may say it was two sittings. You will see that we shall have a great many callers from the camp for the next two days. A fortnight later, Terrence received a letter from Don Jose, saying that he had heard from his friend on the portal, and that they informed him that the senora, Johanna O'Connor, had been killed at the sack of a portal. She had left her own house and taken refuge at the bishops. That place had been defended to the last, and when the infuriated French broken, all within its walls had been killed. Terrence was not altogether sorry to hear the news. The woman had been a party to the cruel imprisonment of Mary. No doubt his cousin would feel her death, but her grief could not be very deep. And it was, he thought, just as well for her that her connection with Gorgigo should be altogether severed. Her mother might have endeavored to attempt her to return there. Though he felt sure that she would not succeed in this, she might at least have caused some trouble, and it was better that there should be an end of it. As to the woman herself, she had been in agreement with the bishop, had been mixed up in his intrigues, and her death was caused by her misplaced confidence in him. Of course, she had not known that he had left the town, and thought that under his protection she would be safe in the palace. She must have been a bad lot, he said to himself. Evidently, she did not make her husband happy, and persecuted her daughter, and regret her death no more than any other of the ten thousand people who fell in a portal. A few days later he received letters from his father and Mary. Being under eighteen, he opened the former first. My dear Terrence, I have heard all about you when you're doings for Mary, and I am proud of you. It is a grand satisfaction that you should have won your lieutenancy, and that you should be on the general staff, as to your being a colonel, although only a Portuguese one. It is simply astounding. I don't care so much about the rank, for the Portuguese officers are poor creatures, not one in fifty of them knows anything of his duty. But what I do value is your independent command, that will give you opportunities for distinguishing yourself that can never fall in the way of a subaltern of the line. And I fancy, now that you have got wellsy at the head, there will be plenty of such opportunities. I was delighted, as you may guess, when I got Mary's letter from London. I had just settled at the old house, and mighty lonely I felt with no one to speak to, and the wind whistling in at the broken windows, and the whole place in confusion. So, putting aside Mary, I was glad enough to have some excuse for running away. I took the next coach for Dublin, found, by good luck, a packet just sailing from London, and I got there a week later. She is a nice girl, and a pretty one, but I suppose I need not tell you that. I told her it was a poor place I was going to take her to, but she would be as welcome as the flowers in May. But she only laughed, and said that after being shut up for a year in a single room, and having nothing but bread and water, it would not matter a pin to her what it was like. She was in a grand house, and Mrs. Nelson insisted on my putting up there. We stopped there three days, and then we took ship to Cork. We had to prove that the money lying there belonged to me, that is to say, that I was the person in whose name had been put out. I had all sort of botheration about it, but luckily I knew the Colonel the Regiment there, and he went to the bank with me and testified. Then we came down here, and Mary hadn't been here a day before she began to spend money. I said I would not allow it, and she said I could not help it. The money was her own, and she could spend it as she liked, which was true enough. And at present the place is more topsy-turvy than ever. I won't have anything to do with giving orders, but she has got a score of masons and carpets over from Athlon, and she is turning the old place upside down. I shun't know it myself when she is done with it. There is not a place fit to sit down in, and we are living for the time at the end at Kinnelly, three miles away, and drive backwards and forwards to the house. Except that we quarrel over that, we get on first rate together. She is never tired of talking about you, and when I hinted one day that it was ridiculous you are being made a colonel, she spurred up like a young Bantam, and more than hinted that if you have been appointed Commander-in-Chief instead as Sir Arthur, it would not have been beyond your deserts. My wound hurts me a bit sometimes, but I am able to get about all right, and the surgeon says in a few months I should be able to walk as straight as anyone. And so goodbye, I don't think I ever wrote such a long letter before, and as Mary will be telling you everything, I don't suppose I shall ever write such a long one again. Terence laughed as he put the letter down, and opened one from his cousin. Dear cousin Terence, here I am with your father as happy as a bird and as free. I sing about the place all day, my heart so light it should be perfectly happy where it not that I am afraid that you will be fighting again soon, and then I shall be very anxious about you. Your father is just what I thought he would be for what I know of you. He is as kind as if he was my own father, and reminds me of him.  When we came it was only fit for owls to live in. So of course I set to work at once. Your father was very foolish about it, but of course I had my way. What is the use of having money and living in an owls-ness? So I have set a lot of men to work. Your father won't interfere with it one way or the other. I had a builder down. He shook his head over it, and said it would be cheaper to pull it down and build a new one. But as it was an old family house, I could not do that. However, between ourselves, I don't think that there will be much of the old one left by the time we have finished. It looks awful at present. I am building a new wall against the old one, so that it will look just the same. Only it will be new. The windows are going to be made bigger, and there will be a new roof put on. Inside it will all have to come down. All the woodwork was so rotten that it was dangerous to walk upstairs. It is great fun looking after the workmen, and though your father does keep on grumbling and saying that I am destroying the old place, I don't think he really minds. As I tell him, one can live in a house without windows nine months in the year in Portugal, but it's not so in Ireland. One wants comfort, Terence, and, as I have plenty of money, I don't see why we should not have it. You can sleep on the ground and go from morning to night and wear clothes when you're on campaign, but that is no reason why you should do it at other times. The weather is fine here now. At least your father says it's fine, and I want to get everything pushed on and finished before it changes to what even he will admit is wet. The people here seem all very nice and pleasant. They are delighted at having your father back again. I drive about with him a great deal, and we call upon the neighbors, who all seem very pleased that the house is going to be occupied again. The poor people seem very poor. I don't know that they are poorer than they are in Portugal, but I think they look poorer, but they don't seem to mind much. I have made great friends with most of the children already, and always go about with a large bag of sweetmeats in what your father calls the trap. I think of you very often, Terence, and your father and I generally talk about you all the evening.  Do take care of yourself. We shall be very, very anxious about you as soon as we hear that fighting has begun again. I hope you think very often of your very loving cousin, Mary O'Connor. She will do a world of good to my father, Terence said to himself as he put down the letters. After being so long in the regiment, he would have felt being alone in that old place horribly, especially as it has, of course, been a terrible trial to him to be laid aside, just as a big campaign is beginning. She will keep him alive, and he won't have any time to mope, even if, for no other reason, is a lucky thing indeed that I was able to get Mary out. I shan't feel a bit anxious about him now. End of Chapter 22 and End of With More Echeruna by G. A. Henty


So this is crazy. I know people ask me all the time like what why is the scale not moving? Why is it moving this way? What's the scale? What's the scale? What's the scale? And what I want to do is I want to take a couple minutes and just talk about how the scale can make you fat But to get to understand how that works. It has to do with biochemistry You know, and if you know anybody right now that's on a fat loss journey or health journey And they're using the scale as the as like one of the main metrics of their success It's gonna mess them up It's one variable of many that impact how your body is gonna respond to getting healthier and People will say to me like well muscle weighs more than fat Well, but if you didn't do anything to gain muscle, then that's not the reason why it's not working There's other variables in there. So I want to be very very clear with y'all We're gonna talk about how the scale makes you fat, but to do this I need to get some feedback from y'all.  Or do you have a scale at home better question? Do you have a scale at home down below tell me if you have a scale at home and then do you weigh yourself? How often do you weigh yourself?  Her name is Amy. Amy is a wonderful soul. She's an amazing individual big heart Just passionate, but Amy's one of those ladies. All right, so I got Susan weighs herself or has a scale at home scale at homes Wow Wow We should break those we should break those scales. I'm just telling you let's get rid of them They messed us up. So I'm gonna talk about I'm gonna talk about Amy. Amy is a strong Independent woman big heart Compassionate, but she struggled with her weight her whole life her whole life She struggled with her weight and I got to work with Amy. She works hard I would harder than everybody else. She does everything right. She follows all the rules and Amy was on this journey.  So Amy was going through all the stuff Well, she had some things that were just out of whack, right? So I put her on a ketogenic plan She's having great success. She feels better her energy's better Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba three weeks in a row the scales moving scales moving and boom scale that move now When you would work with me when I worked with Amy What happened was is in my office. I had a scale I had to because to get the measurements now I wasn't using the scale was only one variable of many that decided our success, right? It was one variable of many But that day my office somebody took my scale in my office. So it was in a different location Well, normally I don't let anybody see what the scale says because I know the psychology of what the scale does So we go down away. She saw the number. Well, the number went up from the week before But when Amy walked in true story What that when Amy walked in?  She was happy. She felt good. She felt calm did she look good She's like Dustin. I feel awesome. These numbers are gonna be perfect Well, the scale went up So we walk back to the way to walk from one end of the gym to the other of the gym She had the walk of shame her heads down.   It actually can slow down the production So if you get on the scale if you get on the scale, I have a secret about Amy. I'm gonna talk about in a second if when you get on the scale and You have a emotional reaction Positive or negative If it meaning that if you lose weight and you're like, yeah, I lost weight. I'm super stoked But then if that scale doesn't move and you you have a reaction of disappointment and frustration You should get rid of your scale.  I'm gonna get that scale to move I'm gonna go kick its butt or you know, I don't really care Then I don't care if you have a scale because it's not causing that emotional reaction I watch this happen to my wife, but here's the story about Amy So Amy if you get to know Amy, I probably won't she had a unique cycle her cycle is actually not normal she didn't have a regular hormonal cycle and We were working on getting her healthy and her cycle had started to shift over the handful of months We're working together. Well, guess what? We moved her cycle to a 28-day cycle and yes If you get healthy, this can happen So her cycle was coming early when you're with ladies you all know when your cycle comes early your body has to Go through some shifts and changes. She started retaining fluid a little bit more her body was shifting a little bit more Well, guess what the scale didn't move because she didn't drop body fat the scale Moved up a little bit because her body was retaining fluid because it was supposed to do that But the scale moved anyway the wrong way She'd been working out hard. She'd been in fit. She looked magnificent. She looked greater clothes were fitting better Everything was fitting better, but it had this impact on her. So I had to teach Amy that Psychologically, she is not in a place that she should go on a scale because it's ultimately going to limit her response She's not walking around with her head down versus her head out Even though she's doing all the right work to have the right results And if she say when she stayed patient we work through it and she obviously looks great feels great and lives an awesome life So I want to be clear here y'all that it's super super super important that if you don't Use a scale is only one variable of your success It's one variable of your success and too many people get on a call with me and they're like doesn't I'm not losing weight fast enough Well, hey, you were freaking unhealthy when you started. Sorry being mean, but if you're doing the right stuff Meaning if you're eating low carb, right? You're eating less calories than you're burning, right? You're drinking ketones daily because that has to turn on the metabolic switch if you're not drinking ketones daily You're just not going to get long-term results. I'm just telling you because the glute for transporter needs to be activated So you can metabolize fat better. So Metabolizing fats are really important if you're doing all that and your scale isn't moving fast enough Here's the reality You're unhealthy your ketones and being ketosis and transforming fat loss is about optimizing health and wellness and if you if your body isn't responding, right? Your body needs to get healthier first the human body doesn't care how much you weigh cares about reproduction and staying alive That's the truth Humans want to reproduce and stay alive. That's what our body cares about. Does that make sense? You care about the other stuff it as a human species doesn't care about all that other stuff You guys like in the beer and I like it my wife's trying to keep me to get me to keep it So we're gonna we're gonna see how it goes. So But I want to be clear here if you're plateaued or you're not losing weight the right way or you're not losing weight fast Especially when you start plateaus after three six nine months mean something else and I'll shoot another video on that I have videos already out there, but I'll do a live on that too, but here's the reality Y'all don't give up on what's going to work You have to be patient if that glute for if you're not metabolizing and burning fat efficiently It takes time to turn it on that's why the ketogenic diet and dieters aren't getting results and Maintaining it because that isn't turned on ketones help turn that on and activate that switch So you want to be drinking ketones, but don't quit because this is what happens I meet people like Jen who started three years ago It didn't happen fast enough for her. So she quit three years later She's now 40 pounds heavier feels worse and she's like alright. I'm not gonna quit this time I'm gonna finish it through so then after three months her body switches over She now looks amazing down 60 plus pounds feels great lives her life And she's like if I just wouldn't have quit three years ago, where would I be today?  Don't quit y'all don't quit. What's up, Lisa Grossman? How are you? I hope you're amazing But here's the reality y'all is the scale is a one variable of health metric It is a variable and it's important go use it my recommendation for most people if you're Emotionally attached to your scale meaning if you let your emotions be dictated by a number on a scale and a lot of you out There there's a few that are not I want to give you Hey, what's up Joe? I want to give you a little tip weigh yourself once a month Once a month the same time you gotta do it in the morning.  She went the doctor at 3 o'clock in the afternoon after a meals food hydration hasn't pooped yet I go and you weigh yourself at home in the morning. I Gained seven pounds throughout a day like from the morning till I go to bed It's a seven-pound swing if I weigh myself at a different time Seven pounds it's gonna change right throughout the day. Well, that's kind of crazy, right? So just keep that in mind y'all as you're going through this is that be careful with that scale weigh yourself once a month If you can emotionally handle it do it once a week, right? I don't think anybody should weigh themselves every day I don't think it makes any sense to do that Even if you can control it and if you really are emotionally wrecked by the scale Twice a year go to your doctor get an appointment and do your scale twice a year But schedule your appointment at the same time and then follow a plan that works That means drink two meals a day or sorry eat two meals a day Drink your ketones once or twice a day eat low carb eat high quality foods and have fun Still do some fun stuff have holidays and Christmases and enjoy your life and make the best decisions You can move your body exercise more the basics y'all Health and wellness is not hard. It's not complicated. It's actually very very simple But doesn't always make it easy because we have a lot of things in our life that we like and we do So just keep that in mind. I did have a one question. I'll have to answer it for real Love gal. I love the name real love gal. What are ketones? ketones are energy so ketones are of food our body our ancestors have lived with and have Used our whole life as existent. So prior to this amazing little product back in Ancestral days our ancestors lived in ketosis means that they didn't eat a lot of carbs and sugars or much food at all They almost ate no carbs and sugars and they would live off their extra body fat that they would store typically in the summer months they would live off their body fat and that would provide energy called ketones and So the other way to get the ketosis was a hardcore diet where you'd never have carbs and sugars again Meaning no pastas. No rice. No bagels.  So that's what that's how you get into ketosis But basically ketones are an energy you drink. We have a product that you put in ice and water I'm drinking one right now you drink it down 30 minutes later.  It helps with sugar and carb cravings It helps with energy and focus and mood It also helps improve sleep. So it helps us get to our natural primitive state so that we can do the things that we love to do my challenges is most people come for fat loss and When they they quit too soon Because things don't think that they're working fast enough and they have to remember that ketones do help with fat metabolism It just can take people longer to burn it my sister. It was two months eight weeks that girl complained I'm not losing weight fast enough. I'm not losing weight fast enough Well, guess what she's down a hundred pounds now if she would have quit anytime in that eight months She would probably be 200 pounds of weight now But she was able to stick to it because I basically said I'll disown you as a sister because she didn't understand is that she Had to get healthy first Her body had to start working better first her digestive systems don't need to start working better Her muscles need to get re-established She needed to get vitality back and a life back and health back and all those things improved Well, when those improve fat metabolism got really good She burned fat burn fat burn and fat burn and fat like like no other It just took time She didn't lose a hundred pounds overnight the truth is it took her I don't know maybe a year and a half to lose 80 and then it took another I don't know two years two and a half years to lose the last 20, right? But she wasn't focused on that anymore. She was focused on living the best version of herself So if you don't know a ketones are and you're checking this out for the first time Send me a message or if somebody invited you to follow me Send them a message and we can get you either a trial pack or get you on the challenge and you can try it out You're gonna love it. It's it's gonna change your life But definitely reach out to whoever invited you or just hit me a message And I'll make sure you get set up with whoever invited you so that you can get your ketones and try it out Um, you know, I love doing q&a. So I'm gonna stay on for a second. If you guys have any questions Let me know but uh real love gal. I love the name though. That's super cool Um But just be careful It's hard when you when when you know a lot about something and you want to Hey, this is really fun. Just for fun If you if ketones have impacted you somehow put down below what they've done for you How much weight have you lost? How much sleep are you better? Are you a better mom? Tell me a little bit about one of the benefits that you've had. I love hearing that it always fills my heart But it's really hard because when you know something Like like I said losing weight and getting healthy. It's actually really simple It is it doesn't make it easy y'all. I get it. I was really sick in my 20s I had an autoimmune disorder getting healthy was easy or simple, but it wasn't easy I had to change a lot of things that I I did my whole life So remember What's really important for us guys is this is that we want to go through a journey and you got to get healthy So when you're looking at using ketones, please judge them on how much better your life is and give them at least I mean 60 90 days 60 90 days joe crafford down 78 pounds Merlin down 65. What's that Merlin? I haven't talked to you a while. We should talk. Let's chat. Uh, send me a text Merlin Let's get on a call um Melanie carns is down over 50 pounds sleeping better better mood or skin looks better She has straight teeth a ketone do not straighten your teeth But working the proof of business can give you the opportunity to straighten your teeth Uh anti-aging down 40 lost 42 pounds in five and a half months awesome job That's super amazing Aunt peg down 39 pounds on peg. Yes 83 Inches that's super awesome sleeping better ultra becky is down 21 pounds here y'all i'm down zero pounds just so you know I want to be clear here. I haven't lost an ounce But damn i'm looking pretty good. I'm just gonna tell you I got the shred timber happening I'm got the i'm leaning out I increased my ketones by one for september And I've increased my workouts because I needed the extra energy for my workouts Help with productivity levels when running a busy hair salon and being signal mum mum I love it when people say mom with m-u-m mum mum Uh, that's super super awesome. What else do we got here? We got anti-aging better mom weight loss I mean, they just keep rolling in. This is super cool. Um, my question I I'm always open for questions if you have questions put it down Uh size 16 to a size eight energy sleep less cravings awesome janet. That's pretty amazing down 42 pounds again Um, man, they did burpee challenge dustin time. I like burpees All right, y'all so i'm gonna go if there's any questions i'll stick around but I do want you just to protect yourself from the scale Psychologically is what messes us up the three p's of the secret to your success Number one, you got to have a product if we're not we live in a complicated world You need support you need you need an accelerator. This is one of the p's it's product Prove it represents the three p's you got the product number two is the people Probably the most important thing is people you need the right people why I love doing these zooms is because I get energy from you guys positivity. We're a community. We're a team Um, this is a good one.  You need to lose 100 pounds It's gonna take time for you to get healthy If you've needed to lose more than 20 pounds for more than two years You're not healthy your body needs to get healthy. So weight loss should be a priority But it shouldn't be your fundamental foundational priority. Your priority should be get healthy And how do you get healthy is you're gonna eat two meals a day Drink your ketones once or twice a day move your body as much as you can Start focusing on low carbs and high quality foods To see how simple it's that simple doesn't make it easy y'all my my kids like food that I can't eat Right doesn't work with my my autoimmune stuff, right? My wife likes foods that my autoimmune doesn't like It doesn't make it easy. I have to avoid when they go out for ice cream. I have to avoid those things Yes, I do because it's important to me to be healthy Does that make sense because my system doesn't isn't allowed to have some of the things that they can have And get away with it. So but here's a testimony. I just got uh cj cg cg at saint germain I'm hoping i'm seeing that right my prosthetic leg Can fit now because my leg and my feet were swollen and retaining too much water That's pretty amazing and saint germain um is cg cg cg. I don't know if i'm saying that you're your first name, right? Mike I mostly don't know this but my father my stepfather who's passed out Uh, he had a prosthetic leg ever since I've known him And from the half the knee or below the knee down and it was funny is you be cg cg It's crazy how many legs we went through and the insurance didn't cover it. So we had to pay a lot of money It was and we didn't have a lot of money growing up. We were pretty pretty poor And so he had to always just use the leg We had belts and we had he had to move multiple socks if he changed his health changed his leg size changed So finding a can consistent process there for prosthetic is really really important. So, um, I actually lived many years that way Working with him helping him try to find the leg so That fit and then finally after many many almost 20 years We were able to get him a new leg that was more adjustable Because at the time he basically had a belt that held his leg on It wasn't suctioned on there was no nothing like that It was like a belt and it was just a cup that he had to hold and he always gets sores and stuff on it So it was crazy. So anyway a little bit about my personal life.   Go do it. Don't try anything. Do things go do it Change your life But at minimum start with our challenge and um, and we'll go from there. So, uh Lysia, um, I got my questions, but I don't have a what the question is So I'm on nine platforms. So if you wrote a question a long time ago, I don't see it So rewrite the question. I'll try to answer it. Um, I'll stay on for just a minute for you if uh to answer your question But on all the other platforms I'm going to say goodbye. Have an unbelievable thursday shred timbers on I have my before better picture coming It's happening y'all. I got some leanness coming. So, um, if you're in shred If you're if you have a challenge and you're challenging yourself for september Feel free to hit me a private message. Tell me what you're going for in september Let's get healthier than ever and let's help other people get healthier ever. I have uh, uh, um That's a great question. She's asking a really technical medical question. Um, that is a very complex question. Lysia, uh I think I said your name, right? That is something you're gonna have to work with your doctor on.  Dr bretcher is a really dear friend of mine. Uh, brilliant man Uh known my I'm known for 20 years almost 17 years and great friend But one of the smartest people and greatest humans you'll ever meet. But the guy knows his stuff. Um, Um, he's a cardiologist out of southern california And he's also a writer very well known very worldly known and uh, but definitely go work with uh, go go google his stuff Dr bretcher from diet doctor.com and then go find a uh, doctor and talk with your doctor on that So I hope that helps but yeah, that's any of you have a big complicated complicated situation You're gonna want to work together with your health practitioners and your health doctors and That only is a great approach to do so y'all hey scale makes you fat stop weighing yourself At the end of the story. I can't help myself. I talk about more stuff. So I gotta go. I gotta go. Bye y'all. See you


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Hi Shorjit, thanks a lot for that great set up, so as I said, we're going to be switching gears a little bit here from talking about the DHIS2 design model, to a little bit more about how you're modeling your requirements for your Trumper program in country. And there's a reason that we do this, which I'll go into, but generally we find a lot of people are just trying to transition from their paper records into electronic tracker system, but tracker opens a lot of potential for different ways to use data for different levels of your health program, and we'll sort of talk about how those design decisions that you make now at the early configuration stages might influence data use down the line. So the outline of the session is building trackers that support data use, and deciding on what are the most important indicator outputs from your tracker program. And in order to do that, we'll be talking about how you might gather different indicator requirements, who to involve, and what to review with that process. So this presentation comes from the Tracker Implementation Academy, but we'll just briefly touch on some of the core key concepts of that. And the Tracker Implementation Academy reintroduced this concept of the tracker house. And this is basically a way of thinking about your own tracker program, the types of requirements that you need to succeed with taking your tracker to a large scale. So there are some foundational things. Some of these might be outside of your control, such as the infrastructure to deliver data over the internet, certain privacy legislation and policies, of course, funding and having the support of key institutions behind you. There's also a number of key considerations that you might need to think about as you're planning the tracker, like on posting a security, whether this will be during a secondary data entry, whether you use Android. And then of course, also that the top here, we have the real goals of your tracker program. So that's impact on health policy on some clinical or performance improvements at a local level. And of course, data use to actually make all of those changes happen. And so today, we'll be talking a bit about this interplay between the design and configuration process, which you are now all taking part of through this Academy. And this core goal of your trackers, which is improving data use in your health program. So we're bringing this up now at a kind of an early stage of the Configuration Academy, as we just talked about the data model, because we really see that there are a lot of decisions that are made upstream about the types of indicator priorities that you have that really affect program design, and then the types of data that are available to use downstream. So in six to 12 months after you've launched your tracker program and you're reviewing the data that you have in your system, you might be seeing that there are some missing gaps that you can't go back and course correct now, right? So you might be say upstream, you make the decision, we need our program to capture X. This might be we need to capture TV clinical visits and laboratory results. So you might just say we need to repeatable program stages because these are different encounters are capturing the same events. And then downstream again, 12 months down the line, you might be saying actually, it would be really interesting to know what is the delay between when the request is made for a lab from the facility level between when it's actually returned and reported when the lab result is reported. But then you say like, well, we can't actually do that because these are two repeatable stages, we haven't thought of a way to link the laboratory, the laboratory event to the clinical event. And so then you have to do some, you know, fancy workarounds with SQL views or API queries to get these data, which might have been very simple to collect in the first place that we've thought about this requirement initially. So maybe some of you are thinking, we've already worked with aggregate data sets, we've already worked with events programs before, what exactly makes tracker analytics different and why do we want to bring this up here? And it's really because the patient's longitudinal record, right, this this enrollment day that you're collecting is a new dimension for data analysis, right? Now you have multiple events for a single program stage, you have their entire their entire health record over time. Maybe you want to connect different programs together for some interesting, more nuanced analyses. And so this really opens a lot of opportunities for different types of analyses. You also have more end users, you're probably have different people who are our key stakeholders in these data, whether that's at the facility level, if you have a healthcare provider that is entering the data directly, or maybe the patients themselves will also be receiving messages based on their healthcare record through program notifications. So you'll have a lot more stakeholders and probably more demands for specific types of data analysis as well. So this is both a real big challenge, right? But it's also a great opportunity to really reimagine data use in your own project context. So now you're not just doing the same old aggregate reporting forms, but you have a lot of opportunities to introduce useful analyses into your routine health information system. But in order to do this, they means we really need to actively plan for data use. That's defining each indicator that you really want to in clear, precise terms, determining who exactly will use this indicator and when. So it's not just a matter of we want to know the number of patients, but we want to know number of patients on a monthly basis for a district integrated meeting with a bunch of a bunch of different care providers to present this and make some decisions. Maybe describe how it would be interpreted for decision making like we want to know the number of patients so that we can increase resources or we can change change some different types of administrative decisions or you want to know about linkages between different projects. And then also assess indicator feasibility within the tracker design. Can you actually make this work with DHIs to analytics or possibly some other system and then prioritize implementation, which ones are actually most important to consider and which ones would be nice to have that are non essential for for starting out your tracker program. So sure, she just gave a great introduction to the DHIs to tracker data model. And so as you now know, there's the aggregate data model. There's an event data model and tracker. And within tracker, you have all of these different events within a individual's enrollment. These are tied to the the org unit of the enrollment and your unit of the event themselves. And within each event, you also have different data elements, a specific program stage that is linked with and the track entity instance record. But now I want you to like slightly shift from you're not just going to be trying to represent your form in DHIs to data model. You also need to think about the data use that you want to see in your program long term. And so just as we were going through these IDSR forms in the in the last millimeter exercise, you should also be thinking about what are the data outputs that I want to see for my tracker program and how can I make sure that I include all the requirements for those analytics outputs in the requirements for DHIs to design. So try to keep both the starting point of the case reporting form that you're working with and also this the end points of dashboards or charts or analytics in mind at the same time. So when we start start out with these programs, sometimes you'll want to do a indicator requirements assessment, right? So that's that's starting to come up with a wish list of different types of indicators that you want to see from your program. And I want you to consider who is requesting this type of tracker data? Where is the real demand for a tracker program coming from? But in practice, who uses the tracker every day and what are their incentives for working with tracker? So our typical tracker users are going to be mostly the facility staff or M&E officers or whoever is entering in these data on a routine basis and whoever is consuming the dashboard or other analytic outputs. Those are the people who will be mostly using the system, right? Some of these large scale trackers, you may have thousands of users, but only maybe a dozen people working on the Ministry of Health or IT staff managing that program. But the typical tracker designers that we see with making inputs to how the program should look are overwhelmingly going to be from this top level, right? They're the people who have to decide on the types of features that their tracker program is going to have and the types of indicators it needs to collect. And so this mismatch can sometimes cause problems with actually incentivizing people to enter quality data on a timely and efficient manner. So the indicator requirements assessment, you might have a list of the different types of stakeholders who want certain data elements or certain indicators within their tracker. And so just as one example, you might be talking to a health system manager who is deciding on resources to provide to different hospitals for antenatal care or for maternity wards, right? So they might be saying that it's essential for us to know the number of hospital deliveries per month and by method so they can get a sense of our health system. And it would also be great if we could know the time of data these deliveries happen so that we know how to staff our hospitals accordingly. But then you might be also talking with the data entry personnel who say that what they really want are, you know, some ways to make clinical decision-making. So getting a list of a patient's risk factors that were observed later on in pregnancy and maybe also getting some type of feedback on how many people were actually getting their blood glucose tests done at the right intervals. So these might be people who are actually working at the hospital and want to see line lists of their patients and which ones are critical and also know how well are they providing care according to guidelines, right? The problem is that sometimes when you're coming up with the indicator requirements, if you don't talk to these data entry personnel who are actually interfacing with the patient and actually entering data, then maybe you won't get that type of inputs on the types of indicators that are essential to consider when designing your tracker. And so sometimes these nice to have indicators are what gets prioritized over the data that frontline workers really consider most useful and essential. So that brings us to some different approaches that we often see people make to designing a tracker program. And those of you that have years of experience working with DHIS2 or other data collection and analysis systems might have encountered projects that fit one of these types of models, right? And this isn't really normative, but this is just how people often approach the problem of introducing DHIS2 tracker in a new context. So sometimes we see that there's a paper disk screen approach that people take. So you really have a limited budget and you're just trying to maximize the efficiency of these routine reports that you have to do like this IDSR form. So you basically are just trying to get this paper form onto digital outputs to improve the efficiency of data collection. And this might be quick to get started, but it can be difficult to really maintain and scale because you haven't really considered how these data elements on paper are actually useful for anyone if they need to be collected or maybe you haven't considered how many at times or how often each point needs to be collected. So they may be redundant or misleading and the design does not really match the end user's workflow. But it can be quick to get started and just show a proof of concept. On the right you see like a maximal dataset approach and this is really when you get someone who's more familiar with doing like a demographic and health survey in charge of working with the DHS2 tracker. Because for them they really see this as a way to capture as much data as might be useful to get a better understanding of the client or the patient and the types of services that they might be receiving or lacking. So they might go for default to collecting more information that might be useful later on down the line in hopes that they can develop some sort of data use strategy around those data. But the end result is that oftentimes if you provide more data elements in a program than you really need then the end users might become overburdened with collecting so much data that might limit the actual quality of the data if they're skipping over fields that they never use. And also you have some privacy concerns because you're not really using the data that you're collecting on these real people. So often what we might recommend or what we see to actually create the most long-term support and generate quality tracker data is a more user-centric approach. So this takes an initial time investment upfront of course and it requires doing some focus groups with your key stakeholders to really talk through how they're currently collecting data and what types of indicators they might like to see for their health program. And maybe you develop a system incrementally and share different prototypes with all these end users. But that really gets a lot of great buy-in from the different clients and probably will also do a lot of the work of eliminating all of these unnecessary or redundant questions or just impractical indicators. And it also might help you as DHIs to configuration experts to really understand your user stories and your user base well. So some of the sources that we might consider for indicator requirements. So in each of these methods you'll probably be using a mixture of all these different sources for your requirements gathering. So the first might be the current aggregate reports or the current case reporting form. So what is the current frequency of routine paper reports? Maybe this is a monthly epidemiological surveillance form or sorry weekly. And what are the expected disaggregations? So you can see here it's broken down to cases under and over five years of age of malaria. And are there existing data reported into aggregate at the highest quality currently? So you know how much can we expect that these data are actually being reported on a timely basis and are they actually relevant for the care program? If they're not relevant at all maybe you don't need to include them in the tracker program that you're designing. So here's an example of an M&E framework from the Ghana Health Services National Malaria Control Center. And here we can also see that you know the M&E framework also includes indicators as well right? So maybe we have some process indicators here. We have some outputs, some number of people trained, a number of beds, a number of nets procured and distributed. And then we also see some outcome metrics as well. And so maybe your M&E plan could also incorporate tracker data as well. So maybe you need to go back to the program's national strategy and say hey we can actually contribute some data for program monitoring purposes. How would you define these different indicators and we can try to do this in DHIS to tracker as well? And should these that be done you know monthly, annually, etc. Finally, one more thing you might think of is these more advanced analyses. So maybe some of these couldn't be done in DHIS2 analytics but you would still want to collect data on them that you would want to then put to some other statistical software or you might want to do some more advanced DHIS2 program indicators to try to assess them. So maybe one example of this would be doing an assessment of linkages between HIV and TB programs at different district or facility levels. So you can try and get you can try and assess how many people are enrolled in both the TB and HIV programs. What is the sort of gap between when they're enrolled in both or other types of data elements might be related to each of them. But here's just like a list from the the global funds list of recommended analyses by program and topic area. And so these are all topics that you might want to consider talking about your health domain expert on your program to see what is the like a very high impact analysis that we could do with individual level data and maybe try to work that into your program somehow if it's really essential. And then finally you might also look at different quality of care indicators. So if your tracker program does actually track an individual over the course of a different a different health area. So for example here this might be an internal care program. You can actually assess is this person receiving care according to the national clinical guidelines they should be following. So in this example for tetanus immunization we see that in the first ANC visit if they had not been vaccinated for tetanus and they should get their first dose at week 28 and their second dose at week 32 right. So maybe you could actually start capturing tetanus immunization information in your ANC tracker to assess the the effectiveness of this of this quality of care metric or to improve your services as well. So finally I'm thinking about Beyond Ireland with program stuff really does involve like talking with the people who are actually gathering these data and might find the most useful. And so really the there's a huge world of possibilities for what this might include and it requires talking with people who provide services on a routine basis to actually ask them what they might need. So maybe for a nutrition program this is a percent change and infinite wait since a previous visit for example. So that's sort of calculating from a previous event what is the the change in a data element value. You can do cohort analysis for something like ART nutrition and HIV program. You can also do more time to event analyses but at more CHW level for connecting a ANC ANC record on time of delivery with the CHW's postpartum care visit. And maybe even doing some relationship analytics if you're something like a malaria program to see the number of new cases that are linked per malaria per index case of malaria. So that might require using relationships analytics and for program indicators. And so in order to to actually get to that point right you have to be configuring the program to meet the requirements to gather that type of data but it does require talking with all these stakeholders. You might be saying how does this actually impact my tracker configuration in like real tangible terms. So think about this discussion we just had on program stages and some of you asked you know when should it be a repeatable program stage when should I make it two stages. So again that depends on the requirements of not just the data entry workflow but also on the requirements for indicators that you will get at the end. So maybe if you actually do want to get the time between two different events then you can make it two different non-repeatable stages and you can create data elements that would track the difference between the two just as an example. But if you do want to capture within compared to different data elements it's usually better to keep them all within a single stage so that you can actually link the two data elements together. But I mean this also gets back to other types of data element questions like which ones do you actually want to include the types of data value type like is this a yes no binary choice do you want to include an option set maybe make it more generic. And then on top of that are there different data value ranges and warnings and show hide errors that should be included for that type of data value. Are there skipped logics just to get to that question to make sure you have quality data and what are the types of relationships that you might need as well across other different types of other types of programs. And sand goes for the different access levels. So if you want to collect data on community outreach for example maybe this you should include the community units within your org unit hierarchy as well and provide a way for chw's to enter data or to report data at that level. Okay but the the key takeaway is because I know I'm cutting into your break now but before building a program is to really write down the expected data outputs that you want to see. So program design might impact your analytics options for routine statistics and it's really important to write down the indicators that you want to see out of your DHIs to tracker at this early stage. She'll also consider balancing a smooth data entry workflow and all the downstream information needs. So you should be looking into these data that you might need but if you can't really find a good use for it right now and you know that it's going to take an extra 10 seconds for the data entry clerk or care provider to find us information and enter it in then maybe it's not essential to include in your tracker in the first place and to improve the workflow you could remove this type of indicator. It really is a balance here and there's no so it's more of an art than an actual science to it. But you should also consult with all of your national strategy guidelines project plans and also your stakeholder group to consider the types of information that they might need on a routine basis. And I especially say this to include the information needs of frontline users not just those who are providing the requirements from the top down and really ask people how will the more efficient data delivery model of DHIs to tracker help with your program monitoring or program monitoring on like a weekly or daily basis because now you're getting these data in sort of in in real time you can do much more much more nimble analyses as well. And then finally also you know be specific about what these indicators are measuring like actually write down are you counting the number of clinical visits or are you counting the number of individuals for this indicator because sometimes you might see that there is actually a mismatch between what you get in your tracker data and what you get with aggregate data and a lot of that has to do with just the definitions that might be different between the two. And so it's important to be really specific about what you need by each one. Oh and that includes by the way also thinking about your population denominators as well for all of these indicators if they are a percentage. Finally some other next steps to just consider if you were going to sort of think about this as an exercise during your break but maybe just spend a couple minutes you know writing down in a sketch pack what indicators are most important to your project. You can think about this from a different a few different types of perspectives right like the MOH might really care about X but I know that the M and E managers or care providers really care about why they might be a bit different. And then start ranking your must have indicators and really define them in detail. And then also think about how can you deliver some key performance indicator to people at lower levels who are actually capturing this data so how will you plan to deliver those important indicators not just up to the central level but down to the facility users or front line workers as well. And then finally sort of thinking about when you actually say that you really need these indicators what key decisions do you actually plan to make based on these tracker data. So what is the real end goal for your tracker and then sort of work backwards from there to see which indicators you need to include and when you see no indicators you can include you can start configuring to the appropriate requirements. Okay so that's all that I had for the presentation but I can see if we have any comments in the slack now or we can take it to break.


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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel Critical Overload here's just about Chuckie season 2 in this video here again today And we may have gotten the biggest thing that indicates to us that Glenn Glenda will be returning in Chuckie season 2 Outside of just the teases that the promises of us getting some returning cast members Or returning characters that we haven't seen in a long time Bunker casting who is a casting agency based out in Ontario where Chuckie season 2 is currently filming put up a casting Call for Glenn Glenda doubles and the dates are still to be determined But they are coming up quickly so that leads us to believe that this is related to the upcoming Chuckie second season Of course, and it says the characters identify as gender non-binary between the ages of 20 to 30 years White 5 for 210 pounds size 2 size 2 shoe size 6 Glenn Glenda you see those two names and then it actually points out who actually might be playing both of these characters Or at least Glenda anyway, it says Glenda's played by Lachlan Watson Now Lachlan Watson is who you see here now This is what she's been posting on her Instagram to this is recent in kind of backs up That this is indeed related to Chuckie season 2 she has a hairstyle that many of you would associate with Glenda Glenn and The other thing is the fact that this is based in Ontario I saw people already speculating this isn't a real agency the agency is real from what I've gathered the thing About though is of course, why would they just outwardly put this out there? I mean, it's not it's not uncommon as much as it is not as highly anticipated for People to find it and then share it all over the internet like this This page doesn't have a bunch of likes But it is a legitimate agency and here you see her what I can only imagine is her on set somewhere for Chuckie season 2 dressed in the attire of her appearance as Glenda and It looks like we have at least the Glenda actress confirmed because What I already know people at start talking about is she playing both Glenn and Glenda if she is doesn't that contradict what? We already saw at the end of seed where Jennifer had that voodoo pregnancy. She had two babies and I would imagine they developed rather quickly Given the fact that the pregnancy was also very rapid given the nature of it all being very voodoo because people also pointed out that Her aging wouldn't line up because Glenn Glenn and Glenda shouldn't be around the ages of 20 or so But what if this is going to be brought up? Going off back up to the fact that these two aged very quickly because of the nature of their birth being Rooted in voodoo because we know they were twins. There was a boy and a girl The soul of Glenn went into the boy the soul of Glenda went into the girl and it looks like Lachlan Watson is going to be playing Glenda now she's from she's from that Sabrina show on Netflix I believe so this is exciting if it ends up being true if we've actually put managed to identify another cast member in Chucky season two and confirm that Glenda will be back in full effect Not full effect, but in some capacity for the upcoming second season No word on if she again will be playing glenn. I don't think she'll play glenn if she does I mean, I hope they try to rationalize. Well, how what happened to glenn Because glenn again was his what they were their own separate people by the end of cedar chucky They weren't sharing that body anymore Unless something else happened that resulted in glenn being trapped within glenda and the body of glenn is dead So we have that same scenario coming up where they are doing this split personality thing on screen I know a lot of people haven't wanted to see this character ever since it was introduced in cedar chucky We know chucky referenced the kid on the first season talking about his queer kid with jake trying to earn jake's trust And the fact that we also tiffani herself. She referenced glenda I think she said glenda was the one who gave her that bomb that apparently didn't kill anyone since everyone's coming back But hopefully we'll get to see maybe what glenda's reaction is if this isn't again the person who's going to be playing glenda If this casting call is again pertaining to chucky season two because this could be related to something That's not for chucky. I do have to just throw that out there since they didn't highlight Chucky season two in the in the title. No word of the project was mentioned It's just the fact that you have glenn and glenda Doubles being sought after and then mentioning the fact that there is a need to match a Actress named lachlan watson for glenda And then when you go to lachlan's instagram page, you can see things that would kind of point to the fact that okay She yes is going to be playing chucky's daughter in season two um Now this could be related to something else where they just coincidentally happened to be Sharing the same hair color as glenda and glenn and glenda are of course not Uncommon names it could be something that is related to something else being gender non-binary Even though again that's what the these are like big clues that this is the case that is glenn and glenda from chucky So this is all pretty exciting for me. I'm glad I came across it glad people started sharing it online of This casting agency I think they are not going to necessarily I don't think what they did here was wrong as much as it was Again, not something that people again are anticipating when they put these out there For people to just find it and then you know spread it all over the place like that It's not really something that I think is really expected Because if you or someone who watches my jeepers creepers videos the jeepers creepers 3 had this had this same thing Where there was a lot of casting calls being put out there People were finding them They weren't like easy to find in the sense that you just type them in and they pop up You had to know what agencies were posting them But people were finding them by doing if you do enough digging you'll find stuff But it looks like lachlan wassen Watson will be portraying glenda in chucky season 2 potentially because We'll have to see again if it's actually confirmed Through anyone in production with the season because again, I do have to point out it could be related to something else I think it's related to chucky season 2 Uh glenn and glenda and the way she looks in her post I think she's playing chucky's daughter. Maybe she'll team up with tiffani adult tiffani not adult tiffani What i'm gonna say was human tiffani and try to track down andy and the and the tiffani doll that he has with him And that truck of chucky dolls. They're trying to spread across the nation And again, maybe we'll get to learn what she's been up to as far as like again the aging pointing out 20 to 30 years of age I think this is going to be explained through the fact that they are again aging very quickly as opposed to most people Because of the fact that they were born through voodoo reasons because again jennifer's pregnancy in and of itself is rather rapid So maybe they have grown at a faster rate than other people because they were only born in 2004 or three and They shouldn't be 20 years old at this point. They shouldn't be 20 years old. They should be teenagers Uh, but again, this individual who's portraying glenda Maybe won't be a teenager because glenda and glenn have grown up very quicker due to the fact They were born through voodoo, but let me know what you guys think about this down in the comment section below Do you think this is related to chucky? Do you think this is confirmation that glenda will be involved in some capacity in season two? Uh, let me know all that down in the comment section below if you think is related to something else Let me know what other project you think this could be related to because it seems to be chucky Uh, if you haven't already, of course, make sure you subscribe turn on post a kick your name is video in the description I'll link some social media accounts on facebook twitter and instagram You can message me there, of course There's any movies news or if you'd like me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video and in the description I'll just go ahead and leave a link to that casting call so you can read it yourself I'll see you in the next video


We're here at Beyond 2015, the Global Youth Summit taking place in San Jose, Costa Rica. And I'm very pleased to be joined by Sharon Nassimiu-Telewa. Sharon, thank you very much for being with us today. Thanks for having me. And Janine Tevez, Janine, thank you very much for being here. Thank you for having me. Now, you're both with telecentre.org. Sharon, perhaps you could tell me a little bit about telecentre.org. So telecentre.org is a foundation that is an unprofit foundation that was set up in 2005. And it was basically set up to bring technology to the grassroots. Our motor telecentre is community technology people. So the aim is basically to bring technology to the women and to the youth in grassroots, especially in rural areas, because we find that there are people who don't get the same opportunities that maybe we get in other areas, in terms of access maybe to computers and in terms of access to the internet and in terms of access to maybe interpranial material that they can use. So basically that's the telecentre.org in general, in brief. Great. And Janine, you've been with telecentre for about two years now? Yes, I've been working with telecentre.org foundation for two years, almost two years. And tell me a little bit about what you do and about your experience there. So we're working together. The global program of telecentre.org foundation is the telecentre women. So in the Philippines we have a campaign under that program. So we work to give digital literacy to women, grassroots women, and to empower them for their development. This is the first day of the Global Youth Summit here. What have been your impressions of the summit? So far I can say that I'm very actually impressed by the summit. First, the fact that it's global, I can comfortably say that I've met a person from practically every part of the world, and that's very impressive. And I find that all these are youth who've come here with, everybody represents a different organization, a different country, and they all have something to say. They all have a voice. So I think it's a very great initiative, but the voice of all these people is coming together to share our ideas and to be able to be mentored by people so I can say it's been a great experience so far. Jene, what have been your impressions? I just loved connecting with my fellow youth who are also interested in ICT and development with ICT. So that was very cool. I thought I didn't know I was belonging in a big crowd like that, so it was very great. Now there are something in the region about 500 delegates here, but the conversation is going on throughout the whole world and Telecentre is very much assisting there. Can you tell us a little bit about that? You find that, as you said, for example, our Telecentre is basically involved with setting up Telecentres in the grass roots in the very, the innermost areas of every country. So you find that Telecentre.org came up with a program whereby Telecentres in different regions, for example, in Kenya, where I come from, we had our Kentel organizing all the Telecentres and our network, they came together and they had mini sessions, they had mini sessions that emulate this summit and also during our program, they are youth converging at Telecentres and they are able to follow, they are able to follow the proceedings and not only follow what is happening here, they are also able to share their own ideas at the Telecentre, ideas that are at their local level. So I can say Telecentre.org, I think it's playing a very great role in this summit. And in terms of your impressions about what impact this is going to make in the future? I think it's going to have a great impact because just for today, I think the the topics for the sessions are very interesting and I found it very hard to pick one session to go to because I wanted to go to everyone and also it helps us develop as ourselves, but then it helps us get our ideas together from other youth as well, so you know, how can we help develop and how can we help the improvement of the world? Thank you very much, Nathan. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Thank you.


while since I had a jam on stream, so that's just a sort of a use for clock actually, but it's cheaper in terms of patchbox stages actually with the new sequencer using the FM mode on rings, which is super cool. Really feeling this jam, tempted to get some more modular setup, I mean the responsible thing would be to tell you not to do it because it's expensive but you know, it is also a lot of fun. Ask lots of questions for people that know what they're doing, would be my suggestion. Or there's a good way to stream and also transmit audio like in the stream here. So I'm using my audio interface that's working in with OBS. OBS is a nightmare. To get to work with audio interfaces sometimes. This one works. A lot of modern interfaces will work but ask for advice in forums and stuff before you shell out. But yeah OBS webcam, that's the audio interface, that's all it is. Cool stuff, OBS videos and tutorials. Thank you, that's what I will say to that. It really is quite wonderfully zen when you un-patch every... Yeah it's a modular grid, so if you go to modular grid and search for cross-lite sync, there's only one public. It's missing this filter which I haven't added because I only got it today. But it won't be in there. Right in the day, it's Pamela's new workout which is just get PAMs. You'll want to get this. Stages which is a segment generated as an embellishments and sequences and LFOs and all sorts of stuff. That's rings or clone of rings rather which is physical modelling. That's Beehive which is a model of Plats which is a macro oscillator. Both of those are originally musical instruments. These are just smaller versions as a disting. That's Filter, Live or Skate. That's a bunch of VCA's which I'm under-utilising recently and I'm wondering whether I should look at putting something else in that slot. Those are both Panas mixer output. I'll see if this one has a beat. I don't know whether it will. Everything's in tune. Everything's in tune. Friends on the stream. This was sort of more BT in an ego but instead of springing in tune some of those steps later, I was going to start also going to others. I'll be using for the reverb, that's it. On YouTube or not Switch because I have an audience on YouTube or not. Switch, big attack, it's Swedish actually. Let's see if we can paraphonic stuff with this as well. Well, Singleton we're using, it's a combination of the sequencer and also Panas is doing quite a lot of the sequencing. We can actually take some filtered noise into rings and have it push the filter gesture in the direction of cable management. That's been sequenced off the main sequencer. Low pass gate, modulating some of the there being modulated by doing LFO's. I'll go back around to it. That's rings. It's been sequenced by as was plaits. If you're being so chill and I saw the good conversations going on in the chat, that's always lovely to see and I will see you again soon.


record on this computer. Boom. We are recording. And, uh, yeah. So who's here now? Are you here, Alex? Are you here? Does anybody want to come on or I can just riff and rant on a couple of things. First set, guys, let me know. Let me know what you want to do. Oh, awesome. Dude, that was here. Sweet. Let me bring on the man, the myth, the ledge. Once that guys, I'm going to bring on the Giggle factory. I call it Bow the Giggle factory. Hello. Yeah, what's up, buddy? Can you hear me? Hey, Tosh, what's up, bro? What's up, brother? Dude, how'd you do today, man? I saw you were kicking butt with these longs recently, man. Who, who are you? What did you do with modern rock? Dude, you're like a long trader now. So that's the thing with trading guys. It's like, you know, one, one moment. The short side of the advantage, the next moment, the, uh, the long side of the advantage, right?  You got pumpers pumping anything, regardless of chart, broken chart, doesn't matter to them. So you have to keep that in mind. There's a famous saying that says the markets can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent. So remember that guys, the markets can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Yup. All these smart guys are getting killed. These fundamental guys, I said, oh, these companies are worthless. Like the GMEs are worthless, but you know what, man, they are worthless, but it doesn't mean that you won't go broke and become worthless as well. Now the thing that I'm so blown away, man, is like, I know we don't do, do this usually, but dude, I have to toot your own horn and Alex's first second man. You guys this last week and a half have been going like long. It's such the right time. Just like we finally like use our own teachings, right? It's like, dude, any time all of us are warning against a short, it's like, why aren't we flipping long? But you guys have been doing it this week, dude. You know what? I, we, we, we should be going along a long time ago. Remember every time that there's a hot chicken play, we always say avoid, avoid warning warning. Right. So all I did was went long air time. I, I warned Alex to do his YouTube live. It's like, dude, I have to close my eyes and click the buy button, but you gotta adapt. Dude, that's what it is, man.  And so we just get lazy sometimes cause we, we take for granted the fact that, you know, it's like, we've been training a long time and this stuff is like, like basic instinct for us now. You know, bro, Midtown's got it good. Whatever we all worn short, he just goes long. Seriously, that's, that's, that's exactly what you need to do.  So, um, so instead of freaking, just avoiding it and watching it and waiting for the short, I'm like, fuck, why not go along? And then short when it's broken. And plus, you know why?  Correct.   Even bow is going long. So I'm, I'm not only making money going long. Actually, I made more money going long. Yeah, like guys, even, even Alex bow, like Alex was longing load in the morning because he knew that, that this style right now is in the morning. If you're short pre-market, dude, it's pretty much a bad idea, right? Cause these have so much range on them. It's like, where's Alex's chart? I know he posted it, but dude, he was killing the freaking, oh wait, that was the short. Dude, he hit it both sides. Freakin nut.  What you need to realize is the process works for long and short. Guys, look at this. This is what Alex did in the morning because he woke up so early and recognize what market conditions we're in. This is a long, this is a long. Dude, this is what I'm talking about. And then when the process comes, look at what he did for the short. He flipped short. And then he was able to capitalize on both sides. Once there was overhead, come the open, like, dude, this is not biased. This is the freaking chart and style that we teach every day based on price action. It's not agenda, dude. It's the chart is literally telling you what you should be doing.  How the guys on all these plays? Dude, it's definitely been the hot, it's been the hot play lately, man. It's been like the number one play, seriously.  But for the past two days, I mean, the first bounce all day long, some of these stocks never ruined, never broke the major supports, right? And so we, we talked about V1, we talked about that. There's just so much to learn, guys. I mean, I, I mean, I just can't repeat that within five minutes on the free webinar. But one day alone in the main chat, you the commentary alone, I mean, I'm really tired, guys, I mean, I've been up every day, very early this week doing this, helping you guys. So this is kind of like, I'm kicking back, I'm glad that Tosh is taking over. So I love hearing him talk.    But guys, this is this is the shit that we're talking about, man, seriously, this is the stuff that we're talking about. If you get too complacent in your trading, and you think that you can just short this all day, I say, guys, look at the range. I don't even want you to pay attention. They're friends that look at the dollar numbers. This is a wipe your account in one day type of chart. So notice this was my this was my note from yesterday. So you know, I was looking pre market and this dude, I wrote this yesterday. That's why it's all the way back here. I was like, I'm waiting for a death kennel or I don't get in. This is process, bro, not one death kennel, none, none, none. I didn't short this at all. And then once this happened, bro, you take it off screens and come zombie hour.   If you do not know the lines, you don't do not know where to sell. If you do not know, not to average town, like CMBC says right, CMBC talks about cost averaging seriously. I mean, dude, you get so what usually happens is you first the shorts go broke, and then the longest go broke. Dude, it's so freaking true, man. Look at the pets, man. It was freaking $18 this morning. Right now it's five bucks. Bro, isn't that crazy? And this and this could go down to three for all we know. Like the point is, guys, if you're just adding blindly to one side, whether it's long on the way up in front side, or it's I'm sorry, if it's short on the way up in front side, or it's long on the way in back side, like this is complete backside. That's not a plan. This is these are account enders like these are not things you want to do the number one thing that we teach at MIC is stop trying to be a hero, stop playing against trend, the trend fighters, the guys that are like, dude, I'm the biggest dick in town. I'm gonna long, long, long, long, long, and then I'm gonna bolt like quote unquote bully this stock, right? Like the guys, the short sellers who have million dollar accounts on SCKT yesterday, you cannot bully stocks forever. You can do it once or twice and then guess what dude, one day it absolutely smokes you in the algo rips a new one right up your butt. So the whole point is the number one thing that we teach guys is learn how to ride trend. And the way to do that is through the lines to know which side you're on to play time based trading and know things like zombie hour to know that in reversal hour at 2pm Eastern actually shorts have the edge for an hour. So long should ease off the gas pedal like there are certain identifiers that we teach every single day with live commentary that is going to show you when to push when ease off the gas pedal and when it just bail entirely like I do not trade after 1030 and I was telling I was telling the guys here about I was like dude, if pets did this move in the morning because this was my pre market lines, right?  So yes, it's still followed the lines that I like but I'm not going to be a hero, right? I'm gonna I'm gonna do my process. And then what was another one CNET today that was another good one man this hit the line perfectly in the morning man right here, right before zombie hour you caught a nice mobile. I saw you catch man was a little late in the day for me but I saw you catch this right here. That was nice. And again guys again where do I always draw my lines man the previous tops where and then to the next top the next point of interest. Do you guys have any questions for us? Any questions at all done by 1030 ha ha you guys will have to walk me through what you do for the rest of the day as well. Well dude, Brian if you knew the level of PMs and emails we had we get through every single day you'll know where we're at. We are not trading all day bro. Well, maybe Bow is but he's got 20 years of experience and none of us are trying to follow that lineage. I really don't want to trade I trade to educate you guys to be honest. I rather just walk up. But you know what I gotta keep you guys safe educate and I'm having fun educating guys. Well and that's another thing guys you do realize that after yesterday on SCKT you do realize Bow made all of his money in the morning and stayed all day so he could keep you guys safe on not shorting this right.