How you do. Thank you, thank you all. I know you've already been briefed by Don Regan, Mac Baldridge, Hal Kingen, and Clayton Ryder, so I also understand the importance of brevity in a speech. You'll remember that George Washington gave an inaugural address of just 135 words and became a great president. Of course, there was William Henry Harrison. He spoke at his inauguration for nearly two hours, caught pneumonia and died within a month. I told him to keep it short. Well, I'm going to try to stay someplace between the two of them there, but it's an honor to speak to you. And before addressing the matter at hand, I want to take a moment to acknowledge all that you've done to provide our administration with encouragement and support. I'd especially like to note the work of the pro-trade group and of common. Citizens were open markets and expanded trade. Of course, some of us have had our differences, but I think that's to be expected. But on issues from deficit cutting to tax reform, the men and women in this room, all of you and the organizations you represent have stood with us, sharing our same enthusiasm and braving the same battles. So for all you've done, my friends, I thank you. Something else, I just happened to have a feeling that we'll look back on these years with a certain amount of pride. I hope you feel the same way. To come now to the issue of the day, world trade, I'd like to begin, if I may, with first principles with the absolute fundamentals. It was David Ricardo who first advanced the theory of comparative advantage back in 1817. And it's absolutely not true that I remember reading about it at the time in the newspapers. But I do remember studying comparative advantage back at Eureka College in Illinois, just as you studied it when you were in college and just as economic students continue to study it today. The reason Ricardo was proven of lasting importance, his formulation was a breakthrough. He held simply that if each nation concentrated on the production of the articles that it could produce most efficiently, then traded those with other nations to obtain the articles it needed, not some, but all nations would be likely to see their living standards rise. And with that insight, it became clear that tariffs and trade barriers blocked rather than promoted prosperity, that indeed the advance of nations was itself bound up with the advance of free trade. And so widely as this accepted as a fundamental of economic thought, and so clearly as it understood that our own nation earns tens of billions of dollars every year in foreign markets and has millions of jobs tied to exports, that it's safe to say everyone in this room supports the principle of keeping world trade unfettered and free. So too does virtually every serious economist in the country, and so too I believe does nearly every member of the Congress. What then is it that brings us here today? Well, I'm afraid there's only one term for it, and it isn't all that pretty. Special interests. Yes, the adjustments that we've had to undergo in recent years to put our economy back in good health has been especially difficult for certain sectors of our economy, notably sectors that are import sensitive. But there can be no excuse for protectionist legislation. Really, it's destructionist legislation, legislation that would in fact hurt the nation and injure even those few it was originally designed to serve. And there can be no excuse whatever for bills like the omnibus trade bill that the house has already passed. Forgive me, I called it a trade bill and I meant to say was anti-trade bill. Even when we took the small step of assisting the shakes and shingles industry, legal under international law, we encountered immediate retaliation as the Canadians imposed restrictions on U.S. produced books, computers, and semiconductors. An indication of the bitter trade war the house bill would provoke. Within America itself, the house bill would pit industry against industry, worker against worker, and region against region. Those who support this and other protectionist legislation often claim that our administration doesn't have a coherent trade policy. And I have to tell you that one sort of touches my temperature control. What they really mean, of course, is that we don't have a protectionist trade policy and they're right. What we have instead is a policy, every aspect of which is aimed at keeping world trade free while making it more and more fair. This policy contains three main elements. First, we're going after unfair trading practices more aggressively than any previous administration. And permit me to mention just a few. Action in September 1985. I imposed deadlines for resolving two long-standing GATT disputes, one with Japan on leather goods, the second with the European community on canned fruit. Result in December of 1985, Japan improved market access for American leather goods and reduced tariffs on 137 items to bring the leather dispute to an end. At the same time, the European community agreed to eliminate canned fruit subsidies, giving American producers the chance to compete. Action in March 1986. I indicated my intention to retaliate effective July 1st against new European community restrictions affecting as much as a billion dollars in U.S. farm exports. Response on July 2nd, we announced a provisional agreement with the European community, an agreement that will keep its markings open to our exports and thus avoid a transatlantic trade war while we negotiate this dispute in GATT. Action in December 1985. I directed the Commerce Department to investigate whether Japanese semiconductor chips were being dumped in the United States. Response. Last month I announced that we had reached the framework of an agreement with the Japanese that would bring an end to predatory pricing in the U.S. market and in turn improve American producers access to the Japanese market. These negotiations should be made final by the end of this month and if not, we'll go forward with the enforcement of our trade law. The list goes on and on. In addition to the cases just mentioned, I have instructed Clay Yatter to bring other unfair trade cases against Japan, the European community, Korea, Taiwan, and Brazil. The message to the world is clear. The United States stands for free trade, of course, but make no mistake, trade must also be fair. The second element of our trade policy centers on new and more liberal agreements with our trading partners, agreements under which they would fully open their markets and treat American products as they treat their own. This is vital. International trade as measured by the GATT rose only 3 percent last year, down considerably from the 9 percent growth rate of 1984. So it is that our administration has for months now been advocating a new round of GATT talks. And I'm pleased to say that the preparatory committee is now meeting in Geneva. Indeed, it could have its work completed as early as this week or next. When it does, the stage will be set for the trade ministers to commence the new round of talks this September. This new round will prove of particular importance in removing barriers to those areas of trade such as agriculture and services that are growing so rapidly in importance. I've saved perhaps the most important aspect of our trade policy for last, exchange rates.  In recognition of this, last September, Secretary Baker hosted a meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York of the finance ministers and central bankers of the five major industrial nations. There, all five agreed to engage in much closer economic cooperation. And since then, the dollar has dropped against European currencies and even more markedly against the yen. Needless to say, this will prove helpful to American exporters and import sensitive industries. Later this year, as order books begin to reflect the new exchange rate relationships, our exports should begin to grow relative to our imports, a good start in bringing the American trade deficit into balance. And to prevent undue currency fluctuations from disrupting this improvement, at the Tokyo summit, we forged an agreement with the other national leaders to coordinate economic policies more closely. An aggressive stance toward unfair trading practices, a new round of get talks and exchange rate stabilization, these represent a sound and formidable trade policy, a policy that has already done much to achieve results. Indeed, I would submit that the realities of world trade have already began to shift in our order, or our favor, I should say. And that, as I mentioned a moment ago, later this year, we'll see our trade deficit begin to shrink. But that still leaves us with the special interests. In this town, opinions tend to lag well behind the realities. How then should we deal with protectionist sentiment? No doubt we can all agree that the House Omnibus trade bill is out. We might as well declare an open trade war has passed that monster. Beyond that, dealing with special interests becomes a question of tactics. Perhaps there are as many answers as there are men and women in this room to that one. From my own part, I want to stress that there is a great deal of common ground between the administration and thoughtful members of the Congress. We support, for example, legislation to permit a new round of trade talks, a $300 million war chest to combat unfair foreign subsidies, stronger protection for intellectual property rights, and reform of antitrust laws to make American business more competitive in the world markets. At the same time, we understand that there's much under consideration in the Congress that we simply cannot accept. So we're determined to press on with the right trade policy, and most important, to do all we can to shift the political focus away from negative protectionist legislation to positive pro-growth policies, policies like comprehensive tax reform and spending reduction. For in the end, the protectionist sentiment has about it something of the sideshow. The main question is not how to shelter the American economy, but how to bring it into still wider contact with the rest of the world. Not how to protect it from competition, but how to release our boundless talent, creativity, and know-how so that America comes out of the competition a winner. After all, it's not protectionism but economic growth that in the past three and a half years has created more than 10 million American jobs. You know, I've lived to see American agriculture become the most productive on earth. I've seen American entertainment from movies to rock and roll become popular around the world. And I've seen American innovation transform the world economy for all time with the development of the computer and the microchip. And after all that, well, I just have to believe the Americans can still out-design, out-produce, out-sell, out-innovate, and out-compete anybody on earth. My friends, you and I, and virtually everyone in the government, know that Ricardo was right, that vigorous world trade leads to higher standards of living for all. So I ask you to stand with us again in our dealings with the Congress on this matter. And please join us in urging the Congress to stop shirking and get back to its real work, not fostering economic timidity, but promoting economic incentives, innovation, and growth. Now, I took more than 135 words but it's a little less than two hours, so I'll call it quits here. And again, just thank all of you and God bless you for all that you're doing.


Hello and welcome to D2C revolution by exchange for media. You will be surprised to know who are in conversation with today. We have with us Priyanka Gill, group co-founder of the Good Glam Group. Welcome Priyanka, how are you doing? As I say, PG always, our favourite. It's fantastic to be here and welcome to the Good Glam Group daily office. Yes, I have seen the Rajasthan run and this seems like heaven. I am loving it. When it came to establishing such a big brand like Good Glam Group, what were the challenges that you faced in the beginning of the years and how did you tackle those? The Good Glam Group is interesting because why are there brands at the corporate level? We also have many other brands, be it MyGlam, Selona, Organic, Alessane, Botanica, Mom's Co, which are our DTC brands that we run. But then we also run brands on the media side. Perfect. So Scoop, Pooper, Smiling, Tweak. And then we have the Good Creator Co, which is one of the largest influencer brands out there. So it's interesting how we woven together a bunch of very, very well-known brands and then they all come under the Good Glam Group umbrella. You asked me what the challenges of doing that. I think the first most important thing is we recognise that each brand, each platform has to stand on its own. At that time, all the good principles for brand building come into play. What is the brand voice? What does the brand stand for? What are the brand values? Who is the brand addressing? What need gap is it solving? How is the brand talking to consumers? So that gets solved at an individual brand level. And then when we aggregate it and when we build the Good Glam Group story together, how do all these brands tie in? You have the Good Brands Co where our beauty and personal care brands sit. You have the Good Media Co where our media brands sit. You have the Good Creator Co where influencer brands sit. And then of course you have Good Community, which basically kind of ends up being this one-foot thread that ties all of it together. So I think we've had a lot of fun over the past. We just turned two this year, by the way. I think we turned two yesterday. Congratulations. Thank you. So the Good Glam Group is two now. So we've had a lot of fun over the past two years putting all of this together. And I think it's been a privilege to be the co-founder of the Good Glam Group because I don't know anywhere else where you're able to raise $220 million in a year and then go out and acquire 11 companies in a year and then aggregate those 11 companies to form a single brand that is the Good Glam Group. So it's been a real privilege and just to see it all happen. Talking about money now that you've mentioned, speaking of numbers now that you've mentioned, I saw that last year the group went under some losses. But then there was also very aggressive acquisition happening around. So how did that happen? How did you manage that? What was the plan behind that? All the aggressive acquisition happening all around? So honestly last year I think we were a lot less aggressive than the year before that in terms of acquisitions etc. And our acquisitions are always very very strategic. So we have this matrix if you will of the types of brands we'd like to build for the types of consumers we'd like to reach. And if we find a brand that basically fulfills a gap in that matrix, that's when you go and acquire. So there's a lot of thought that goes behind when we acquire a brand. So I think our strategy is now well known and we've of course spoken to you guys many times about it now. So yeah, it's basically acquisitions happen on a neat gap basis and there has to be a really good fit between the founder, the vision that the founding team has and how does that align with our vision here at the Good Lam Group. And also what is that special multiplier that the Good Lam Group ecosystem can add to the story of the brand that we're acquiring. So once that that's a lot of criteria to fulfill by the way. So once all of those things fall into place that is when we actually go and acquire. So I think we've frankly done one of the best jobs that I've seen maybe even globally. I don't know if there's another story where 10-12 companies have come together and all those 10-12 companies are still there and doing really well. All the brands that we've acquired have grown over 200%. Which is a fantastic track record to build, especially at our scale. Yeah, definitely. And I feel that one thing which really impresses me personally about this brand is that every segment of your brand caters to a different target market and they really get deep into it. So if there's Mom's Core, there's Baby Chakra, there's St. Botanica, they just cut through the market and reach the consumers problems which is really nice. It personally impresses me a lot. But the one thing that really comes to my mind is how do you maintain a seamless consumer experience all across channels because the age group that you cater to, the product that you offer, everywhere it's very different and it's not easy to maintain that kind of a uniformity all around. See honestly at a brand level there is a high degree of uniformity that gets maintained across channels. So then say a MyGlam product is being sold and be it it's been sold offline, it's been sold through the physical stores or it's been sold through market places or it's been sold through our own DTC platform that we have for MyGlam. There the continuity of communication is always maintained and that's the secret to building a brand. So regardless of the channel you need to tell the same story. While the communication for MyGlam might be diametrically different from what we say for Cesarona, right? But again within the channels for Cesarona the brand we will maintain the same tone of voice and the same communication and it need not be the same that we might do for another brand as such, right? So we actually don't see a confusion that you're kind of alluding to because for each brand voice tone message, reason to exist, reason to believe all of those are very well defined and all channels basically follow the same playbook and that need not be the same for all the other brands you might have in the company. Makes sense, quite makes sense. Also congratulations recently Dya Mirza invested in Baby Chakra, right? I would love to know what does she bring to the table and what was that decision all about and how did it work out? You know I think and you would have seen it's a pattern that I think it's successfully developed and followed now. Being able to partner with celebrities who have a very engaged social media following and not just bring them on board as say a brand ambassador that everyone else can do but get them in as a strategic partner for us for our growth journey at the Goodlamp Group because they genuinely believe in what we are doing they believe in what we will do in the future and they want to really partner with us, right? So we've done that many times now, of course starting with Manish Malhotra whose luxury makeup, I mean it's our brand, then you have Shraddha Kapoor, right? And of course you have Twinkle, Tric, her content platform. Twinkle is for what? Oh is it? Her content platform is part of the Good Media Group and the Goodlamp Group we recently announced a JV with Akshay Kumar again along the same lines so every time we've gotten brand ambassador Beat Karina Kapoor, Beat Twinkle Khanna Patrik Akshay Kumar whose JV we just announced so all these celebrities who are partners with us have also become investors in the Goodlamp Group Along the same lines there of course aligns beautifully with the ethos of Baby Chakra She herself is a mother, she believes in the brand values that Baby Chakra really strongly positions itself in be it telling mothers to read the label under the label for her campaign standing for clean products that are actually good for the baby or for the mother and so yeah so she's basically come on board as our investor and through her we want to continue to amplify the message that Baby Chakra so beautifully puts forward and we really welcome her into the Goodlamp Group family Amazing, now that you mentioned the word clean I really wonder that nowadays this term specifically clean, authentic, vegan, gluten it's like every overexposed word here so how do you feel about it that when it comes to differentiating your product I know as a brand it came well ahead of time all the other brands are using this word now but as a new user when I open the browser and I see 10 brands in front of me with this terminology how will I differentiate who's making a fool of me and who's not you know that's actually the campaign that we ran for one of our brands which is Organic Harvest so where the entire convention was that by adding two boons your brand is not natural and the idea is to actually read what's inside the product to see the concentration of the products and organic is better than natural so I think you're right there's of course an over usage of the fad words out there and as a consumer all of us need to be really aware of is it lip service or does the brand really believe in that in those words Mike Lamp for example has been PETA certified has been clean in the truest sense for the longest time so that's been the story for as long as I at least remember Mike Lamp similarly where Organic Harvest is concerned our entire reason to believe is the fact that's actually American certified organic at which not too many brands can lay claim to probably are one of the only brands for skin care and now make up in the country that can say that so the idea is the idea of certification is important so when we say that we are cruelty free we just don't say we are cruelty free we say we are PETA certified right it's not just us saying it but it's being said by a very well-known certified agency when organic harvest says that it is organic it's again not just the brand claiming it but it's actually American certified organic which is again one of the highest levels of certification that you can get similarly for mom's squares well right so when they were certified or if I remember correctly it was a Swiss laboratory that certified them to be really clean so we take these labels very seriously and as a consumer I think as consumers too I think we should really know what we're buying into and investigate a little bit more so if a brand says that they're natural it's not just we're putting two drops of lemon and collings of natural but like organic harvest certified by with an American certification saying that they're actually organic and not just natural right so it's yeah I think but the really interesting reason why all of this is the consumer in India she's a very very well aware and a very demanding consumer so she literally is expecting products that not only deliver value but they're actually good for her as well so all of these words have become buzzwords or fat words because consumers demanding them which I think is a great step because once a consumer demands something it surely makes all brands up their ante and deliver better product so the consumer today she's no different from a consumer who might be sitting in the suburbs of New York in Brooklyn say or she's sitting in Jabalpur but demands because of social media actually the same which I think is a great leveler and it's forcing all brands to become better because of that okay so we've done a lot of brand talk let's move to the consumer side in the past one year what are some of the consumer behavior shifts that you've noticed so you know the consumer is an ever evolving set of folks for us right and some very interesting shifts have been happening so one is there are two segments ring extremely well one is the high end luxury segment and the other is the value segment so in a way we're almost seeing a polarizing towards those two ends so the middle of the group consumer that is slightly kind of in a way dissolving into either of the two so that's one the second thing is we are seeing a big shift from tier one to tier three customers as well especially at the good lamb group we've actually seen quite a significant shift towards how much we've penetrated well into the tier three tier two tier three segment two so its consumer demand is not just existing in the big networks in the big series but even for online DTC brands like ours right it's actually kind of extending deep into the hinterlands of the country too we've been talking about that for a while but we're actually seeing it physically kind of take place now and it's great to see our products kind of because we've been serving all the pin codes for a while it's really good to see our products basically going all the way across and then the third thing as I said is how aware the customer is and how demanding the customer is so she pretty much wants everything she wants value, she wants a great product she wants something that stays she wants it to look interesting she wants it to have a very distinct story this idea of personalization is very very important so at the goodland group we've always believed in co-creating with our users really listening deeply to what the customer is saying and then building products in response to what we hear so we've been kind of co-creating with the customer for a while and of course you'll start seeing some very interesting renditions of that now come forward so the customer wants to believe in the brand story and she wants to be part of that story and she's really looking for authenticity so it's hard it really pushes the bar for what we need to perform as a brand but that's also what makes it so much more fun and challenging but also coming to your IPA plans I think people are planning for the same and what are some of the things that you want to keep in mind before you go all out and all public so look and of course we've publicly stated that public markets is what our ultimate ambition is and that's still what we're building towards being public market ready is now thankfully a well defined state of affairs we've seen so many of our other startups come to market we've seen what they've done well we've seen where we can learn from them too so yeah I think it's exciting times and I think next year is going to be very interesting general elections are going to happen so I think we can expect some level of buoyancy come back to the market because of that and at the Goodland Group we are pretty much its eyes on goals and the listing in the next few years is what we're looking at sounds good coming towards the end just keeping it simple for you upcoming festive season plans this is festive O&Ds of course one of the big parts of the year for us and plans for O&D start well way before of course the season hits we're doubling down on our collaborations with our celebrities and you'll hear of some very interesting launches that are going to come out of that I can't mention any more than that right now I know but I wish I can you'll be one of the first to know when we actually release the news for that one of them I'm really particularly really pleased about so that's going to be a lot of fun and apart from that we're really kind of playing down into our omnichannel strategy where we're looking at physical retail marketplaces and of course our DDC and time campaigns that seem to be across all our channels of sale all of that is basically happening right now and I think fingers crossed this O&D should really smash how well we did in last O&D and may it be a good one for all of us definitely last question one tip that you wish you would have known as a younger entrepreneur and all other young entrepreneurs should know I wish at that time I knew that it is a marathon and not a sprint because I think that hyper enthusiasm that you have as a young entrepreneur your words not mine it's very exhausting and just pacing yourself and self care again is a buzz word but again that's a really important word and taking care of yourself right I always say that you look at it in three parts of the whole one is your physical readiness are you eating well, are you working out are you sleeping well as entrepreneurs often those things just go out of the window and once those your health are not optimized you begin to see a negative impact on all other kind of parts of the journey that you're on the second is your kind of mental wellness right are you meditating what are you doing to calm down are you taking time off in the early stages you really completely kind of forget to actually do that and then the third part is the partial part of life right I remember when I started out I think my social life was negative not even zero and luckily my friends stood by me and my family stood by me I would not have stood by me at that point but I really had no time to do anything except for and that again has a detrimental effect on how you're able to perform so yeah I also had a known early on I try and balance all three parts of kind of the whole just so that you can be a better founder a better team member a better leader and literally lead by example so I think I lost count the number of times I physically burnt out so I think we should try and minimize that as much as we can wow amazing advice I think that also applies for me even if I'm not an entrepreneur I'm still working all the time and I need to listen to this I'll replay this part of the clip again and again for myself to take care of myself I'll do the same because I can dish it it's very hard to execute this is the right time to wrap up this discussion thank you so much for tuning in with us this is Jai Neetakor, C.K. and Priyanka's Gil P.G wrapping up for you see you in the next episode very soon thank you


Hi, I'm Matthew coast head dating coach and founder at commitment connection calm and today We're going to talk about topics to talk about with the guy so one of the questions that I get all the time is is what do I talk about with a guy and so Let's first talk about What doesn't work? when talking with the guy and You know as far as You know what we're going to talk about here is how to be more attractive in your conversations and so You know some of these topics that we're going to talk about of what not to do you can talk about them But just don't expect a guy to be attracted to you for these topics and the first one is guy topics Right and a lot of women think that they need to learn guy topics in order to have a conversation with a guy and the truth is is that that can be a plus in a relationship or it can be You know something that's added to What you're doing, but don't expect a guy to be attracted to you When you talk to him about guy topics that it's they aren't attractive to guys Even guys that are into the topics that you're learning about like, you know sports or whatever That can be interesting and cool, but it's not Necessarily attractive. So just remember that the next one is talking like a guy So making fun of a guy like his friends do a lot of women see guys making fun of each other And then they think oh, maybe I should start making fun of him too because that's what guys do together, right? And if you do it every once in a while, it can be a cute thing But if you're doing it all the time, it is just not attractive in any way So don't don't rely on that as a good tactic And then the next one is relying on commonalities, right? And so commonalities can be a good friendship thing, you know If you are trying to make friends with a guy That's a great thing to do is talk about commonalities find out things that he's interested in and talk to him about those things That can be really really powerful But if you're trying to attract a guy Don't expect him to be attracted to you because you have a bunch of commonalities Expect him to be friends with you because of that And so the the last thing to not do is have expectations around Your conversations so a lot of times women will try to get a guy to Respond to her in a certain way when she says something to him and this is really unattractive And a lot of times women will get upset and they'll be like well He didn't respond the way I want him to and that is just incredibly unattractive and doesn't work for friendship or a romantic relationship So what does work? the first one is telling stories telling stories is a really powerful thing to do and we've been telling stories since way before recorded history and and It's something that we just sit back and listen to stories and people love stories So if if you can get good at telling stories that can be incredibly attractive to men so tell stories about your values, you know talk about stories about other people and Things that align with your values. It can be a great way to screen guys another thing to talk stories tell stories about is things that That are that you've done that are exciting So tell stories about exciting things that you've done if you haven't done any exciting things then go out and do some exciting things Because exciting things are exciting and they make other people excited about you So that can be really powerful and and attractive and then the last story telling thing is to tell stories that convey Your feminine side so you're nurturing loving caring side that can be really a powerful When talking to a man about that and it can make him see you as potentially relationship material and so the next thing that you want to do is talk about what he's Passionate about so find out what he's passionate about and this doesn't necessarily have to be his job Guys will talk forever about whatever they're passionate about and so if you can figure out what he's passionate about And you don't have to know anything about the topic Just get him to start talking about it and just ask him questions Be curious about and ask him even if they're stupid questions, you know Most guys would love to talk about what they're passionate about And then the last thing to talk to guys about is talk about fun and exciting things that you're going to go and do in the future so this goes back to that whole thing about having an exciting life and Being interesting and doing interesting things a lot of women want to put off the whole Doing interesting things until they have a guy to go and do those interesting things with but I'll tell you right now that it's way more attractive to a guy when you already have Interesting things that you're going out and doing and then you're talking about those things then you know sitting around going well I'd love to do some interesting things if I had a guy to do it It's it's so much more attractive and he'll be so much more attracted to you if he's like Oh, she's already doing all these awesome things that I want to go and do I'd love to be a part of that You know that that's way more powerful than being like yeah, I haven't done anything interesting, but I'd love to do some someday, you know So that's it for today if you want more information on how to attract a quality man into a committed Loving secure relationship make sure you go to my website at commitment connection calm and take the quiz I'm Matthew coast and I'll speak with you again soon


Welcome to Spotlight Advanced, I'm Liz Wade. And I'm Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Jess Wade is a research scientist at the Imperial College in the United Kingdom. In fact, Wade is a good scientist. But Wade is also a woman. This can make her job a challenge. Sometimes it does not matter how good a scientist she is. That is because the people she works with treat her differently because she is a woman. In a video for the website NowThisNews, she says, As a woman, people expect you to do the day-to-day tasks, or order the food, or get the meeting room, or look after the students, those kind of things. And there is a problem with those jobs falling on women in subjects like science and engineering. These are kind of housekeeping jobs. These jobs will not get you recognized as a scientist. They are not work that will get you a better job. Wade wanted to change this. She did not just want to make her own life better. She wanted to make life better for all women. In this way, she would make life better for all people. Today's spotlight is on Jess Wade's work to recognize women in science. Wade is not the first person to notice that women in science do not get the credit they deserve for their work. She learned about this issue from Alice White. White is a scientific historian. She helped Wade understand the problem by thinking about Wikipedia. Wade explained to NowThis News, Alice told me that of all the people with a page on Wikipedia, only 17% are about women. You could be looking up some kind of new solar material, or you could be looking up a building in Florence, Italy. And the people that you read about will be men. And that frightened me. Wikipedia is the fifth most used website in the world. It is a free collection of human knowledge. The English version gets over 500 million views each month. There are over 300 different language versions of Wikipedia. Websites such as Google, Facebook, YouTube and Amazon use Wikipedia for information. Anyone can write or change Wikipedia. The idea is that lots of people working together on something will be better than a few people. Wade believed she could use Wikipedia to recognize women scientists. So she learned how to create new pages on Wikipedia. She learned how to add to pages that needed more information. She began by writing one new page each day. The first woman Wade wrote about was Professor Kim Cobb.  Professor Cobb did not have a Wikipedia page. So Wade wrote one. Next, Wade wrote a page about Susan Goldberg. Goldberg was the first woman to be editor of National Geographic. Goldberg did not have a Wikipedia page. So Wade wrote one. Then Wade wrote a page for another woman. Then another. Wade told the Guardian, I have done about 270 pages in the past year. I had a target for doing one a day. But sometimes I get too excited and do three. She says that Wikipedia is a great method for representing these women. She continued, Wikipedia is a really great way to involve people in this work. That is because the more you read about these amazing women, the more you get so inspired by their personal stories. Wade has been recognized for her work writing on Wikipedia. She has even won awards. But this is not her goal. Her goal is to make the world a better place for women in science. She speaks to girls at schools about choosing a job in sciences. She buys copies of books about women in science and gives them away. She would love for other people to help her write Wikipedia pages. But more than that, she wants everyone to help in any way they can. She explained to NowThis News, We could all do a better job of celebrating the women and underrepresented groups who are in science and in engineering and technology and in any job where you are in the minority. I think that at every chance we can, we should try and support someone else. And if you have been given a chance, that is so great. But then you have to help someone else at the same time. So what can you do to encourage women in science, technology, engineering or mathematics? One simple way is to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science every year on February 11. This day celebrates women from around the world who work in areas of science or technology. Patricia Espinosa is an executive secretary for the United Nations. She explained the need for a day like this. Amazing women through history have affected the world of science in important and life-giving ways. From the 4th century astronomer Hippartia to Iranian mathematician Marian Mazarkan. There is too you, you of China. She discovered the anti-malarial drug Artemisinin. Yet women do not have enough representation in science and in engineering. This stops everyone from getting a better future for current and future generations. The International Day of Women and Girls in Science should celebrate their achievements, but it should also push all nations and organizations to find ways to open the doors to this large group of talented people. You can also do something every day of the year to recognize women in science. Every person knows girls and women who are or could be good in science. Encourage them to consider a job in science. Name someone for an award. Tell her to speak at a conference. Put her forward for a promotion or better job. We can all do something, even if it is reading Jess Wade's own Wikipedia page. Are you a woman in science? What other ways can people recognize women in science? Tell us what you think. You can leave a comment on our website or email us at radio at radioenglish.net. You can also comment on Facebook at facebook.com slash spotlight radio. The writer of this program was Adam Navas. The producer was Michio Ozaki. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. You can listen to this program again and read it on the internet at www.radioenglish.net. This program is called No More Women in Science. Visit our website to download our free official app for Android and Apple devices. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye.


Sorry about filming the screen with the camera. I always apologize. I hate when I do that. I couldn't install a screen recorder on here, but I'm going to be flipping back and forth between different display managers so there's no way to record that fluidly. So you may not be able to see anything, but I'm going to explain stuff real quick. In the previous video, I just talked about the Chromebook. Now I'm going to just show some usage of it. So again, you have Chrome, you have Chrome extensions. Again, I talked about a previous video about how there's a lot of things where if I was to open this up and type in Linux, or that's Linux Mint, Linux, just to do a search on Linux. Lots of times when I would click on a link, it worked that time, but lots of times what it ends up doing is it thinks I long click and it brings up that menu. But that's not a problem because I have Vimium. And if you use Chrome or Chromium, I suggest installing Vimium. I'm sure that there's probably an extension or plug-in or whatever they call them on Firefox. That's the same thing. But basically with Vimium, I'm able to use my keyboard to interact with stuff. So if I was to click on the Linux.org and bring that up, now I can hit F on my keyboard. And what it does is it puts these little yellow tags next to each link. And I know you can't see that, but they're letters and I can type in the letter and go to that link. So if I type in SD, it's going to bring me to that link right there. So I don't have to click stuff. And Vimium is just a great thing to have. If you're used to Vitton key bindings and you want to use them in your web browser. So that's just a side note on that. Again, I talked about installing Turmux. So here I have Turmux. And if I go into... I have it set up just like I do on my Android device. I have a hidden folder called .bin in my home directory with my own personal scripts. And again, I use Turmux because it allows me to interact with Chromium OS. Chrome OS. There is a Chromium OS though. With the clipboard and stuff like that. For example, I have a tiny URL command. And the biggest drawback to this on my regular desktop, when I'm on my desktop or i3 on this. I've created keyboard shortcuts for pretty much all these scripts. Where on this I actually have to go here and type it. But let's say I was at filmsbychrist.com and I wanted to get a tiny URL for that. I just copy that URL and I type tiny URL in my shell and it's going to grab a tiny URL, put it in my clipboard for Chromium OS and give me a QR code just like it does on my Android device. And that is why Turmux is so nice because it will interact with Chromium OS. You can install that API. So check out my videos on Android about that. And you can have it open the web browser if you want. So if I type in... So that URL should be in my clipboard now. I should be able to say Turmux, I think it's just Turmux open, Turmux open. And I can paste in that URL. Which one of the annoying things is normally on the shell you go use Ctrl Shift V to paste and Turmux it's Ctrl Alt V to paste and if you Ctrl Shift V it adds funny characters and you got a backspace. That's kind of annoying. But I can do Turmux open and say open that URL and it will open up the web browser here to that. And the biggest drawback for Chromium OS in that aspect is normally I create shortcut keys for that where this I have to usually tab into here and type out the command. I just type TIN and hit tab and there's the tiny URL one and I hit that and it's going to generate the tiny URL. There's nothing in the clipboard so I didn't get that there. But again this biggest drawback to this is it won't access my SD card. There's some sort of restriction on Chromium OS and the storage that way. Again it's a mixture of using Android applications which are confined on Chromium OS which is restricting the Android applications. It's annoying. But if there's an application I want that doesn't run in Turmux or I want to use a GUI application. In Chromium OS you can hit control alt T and that will open up this shell. And if you've put your device into developer mode you can easily type shell and you have a shell that you can now use pseudo commands and run stuff as root. And if you've used Crouton which I'm not going to go over the installation of Crouton I can type in again. I know you can't see it. Pseudo enter true root. I do that. Type in my password. Make sure you guys can't see my keyboard here and I'm pretty sure I just typed that wrong. Let me try again. Okay. And now I am in a full Debian shell here. So I can type in commands I can use apt aptitude apt get install whatever I want from Debian repositories with ease by default with the Crouton install you can tell it with desktop environment you want. I originally installed XFC but then I changed the script to load up I3 so I have it set up so I just type I3 and hit enter and now it's going to start up Xorg and this again is not a virtual machine. This is in a true root. So it's running natively. It's using the Debian file system. It's just using the Chrome OS kernel. And now in here again normally I use the Windows key Windows key with quotation marks there as my modifier key. You don't have it on here so I just switched over to the alt key which can be annoying in some programs but I can use alt enter opens up my shell here I have Tmux not termux but Tmux running in here so you can see like my conky output from when I started this command but I just hit ctrl a c to create a new shell and now I can install whatever I want I can type in things like blender which I installed at the end of the last video and it loads no problem here and I only play with this for a few seconds before I record this and it's a little confusing because of the mouse setup there is no right click you have to hit alt click I think to right click but if I had a separate mouse I think I'd probably be fine there's no F12 so again you have a row of keys here at the top which are in Chrome OS you know your brightness and contrast your volume keys that sort of stuff in Linux they work as function keys in Chrome OS you have to hit search and those keys work as function keys normally in blender F12 is your render key which you could probably change there is no F key only goes up to F11 here there is no F12 so I have to click the render button over here to render but it renders you know basic things like this cube no problem I can type in a sphere add a sphere grab that put it there I can clone that put it there clone that put it here clone that put it here I can add in a plane and I can scale that up like this again then I can click my render and just I mean this is very basic you're not going to go do an in-depth render but it took one second to render that out if I normally I add I like doing ambient occlusion environment lighting and changing that to multiply and then again can't hit F12 I'll go back to here and click render and here it's taken a little bit longer probably two or three seconds three seconds to render that out so again you're not going to be doing in-depth blender stuff but like at the intro of my videos I'll have you know little blender animations with text and stuff and this is at half of 1080p resolution let me put it up to a full 1080p and re-render it again you're not going to get much power out of this but it is it is doable and I'm going to bet let's see five six probably close to 10 seconds for one frame which if you're doing a video at 30 frames a second let's still go in okay just shy of 12 no just over 12 seconds for one frame so no it's you're not going to do you could do stuff but it's it's rendering out it's gonna take forever if you do it at full resolution and even at half 1080p it's gonna be resolved but you could do it and same like I said with Caden live you could work with proxy files and I bet you can edit it no problem but when you go to render it it's probably gonna take forever to render it it's but you know what back in the 90s I had my computer was slower this than I did rendering yeah I wasn't doing 1080p was doing you know 720 by 480 resolution but yeah back then I had to say yeah this five minute video render it and then I go to sleep and wake up the next day it's done you could do that with a machine like this so yeah control Q to kill that but you can see I can also start up GIMP and load up GIMP but right here this is the same as running you know a regular Linux distro if I want to go back to Chrome OS I hit control shift alt and this arrow key here arrow back and now I'm back in Chrome OS control shift alt I go back to my Debian desktop with I3 I can go back and forth because I'm using Tmux not turn up to Tmux in my shell the actual same shell it's over there I have here I do think that if you're running stuff like if I try to open do I have fun are installed so turn off file browser I try to run that here in the shell I think it kind of hangs until I go back obviously it's not going to pop it up in Chrome OS but yeah as soon as I got back here it loaded it up so it's like you're trying to load xorg stuff while you're not an xorg it kind of hangs until you get to x into xorg if that makes sense if it doesn't then you probably have no clue what I'm talking about in any of this video but yeah full Debian install and I can quickly switch back and forth and that's it that's just a quick look at Chrome OS and running Linux in a chur root and again I used Crutan which is a very popular very easy to use script but if you're familiar with chur roots and the bootstrap you can pull down your own and install it but this is very easy because it's got xorg configuration set up it automatically shares your download directory which I have had some permission issues with if I'm trying to save files to the download directory I think so if I move into downloads here let me try to touch a file touch to well that work no problem so I have a touch file and if I come into here and open up my file browser and I go to downloads up it's right there that's the empty file I just created so you can interact back and forth in here in term X there's some issues of going into sd card I actually made a shortcut link in my home directory under Debian called SD card mp3s because that's just one of the SD card was called and now I'm on my SD card and I can interact with this which as you can see is actually a bootable Linux is true this SD card is actually carrying a copy of Debian for this chur root and it's also carrying Linux mint that I can boot into but again I had keyboard issues which are probably easily fixed but that's just a quick look at using a Chromebook and having full Linux even though my machine isn't supporting the Linux apps which a lot of new Chromebooks are it doesn't matter because I can flip over this and I'm running Debian anyway yeah so it like I said if I want to run Gimp in here I could I guess I could run Gimp in Chrome OS if I had a newer Chromebook but I don't need to I can just do it here and yeah I have i3 running which is pretty lightweight it's not really using that much more processing power than it would if it was in Chrome OS anyway that's it that was just a quick look to show you how this works biggest drawbacks are just the keyboard not being a standard keyboard but there's workarounds for that I do thank you for watching as always I hope that you visit films like chris.com that's for decay there's a link in the description as always I hope that you have a great day


So it was a test to see how quickly the base could pick up and move without a lot of planning. What we would normally like to do is a lot of detailed planning to make it a very smooth move. We wanted to see how quickly we could do it in the short time. So this week we're part of what's called the Northern Lightning Exercise. It's taking place up in Wisconsin. And so in addition to picking up and moving, we are also testing the air cruisability to go take part in a large force employment. So multiple aircraft working together to exercise our flying skills. The 185th has been extremely accommodating and helpful. And we want to thank them for everything that they've done to bring us here. So it just worked out that they were gone this week and they had the ramp space available to take us.


So I decided to go red What do you think? This is actually a color called copper a glaze and for those of you that are into wigs This is Renee of Paris and this is Audrey Audrey's actually a style that's been around a long time But I'm just now reviewing or this was sent to me complimentary From a wig studio one in exchange for review. I filmed a review for their channel I don't quite know when it'll go go up on their channel But it's a full review, but I wanted to share it with you guys because I really haven't I Didn't do a video this week. It was just one of those you know, I Don't know. I have no idea. I mean I was busy busy at work very stressful at work and a lot of things Coming down all at once at work and so I was really busy with that then I thought I would do a vlog and I never really did the vlog and Then I get a couple of ideas for like a collab. I haven't done a collab in a long time That I wanted to try to do with the few people But I never got off my duff about that and it's just been like do you ever have one of those weeks? yesterday Saturday Was I just I said to my mother on the phone this morning when I talked to her. She's what did you do yesterday? I said, you know what mom? I did Nothing, I had a day where I did absolutely Nothing and I I loved it, you know, I didn't I mean I did do something because I actually got I Actually did a zoom class at eight o'clock. So I did do some work related stuff on a Saturday But I never got dressed I stayed in my t-shirt and jammies all day and have a cut dress, right? I I never put any makeup on so when I did my zoom call at eight o'clock. I just sit to everyone Hey, I'm sitting under my back porch listening to the birds having a coffee Moderate moderating this I'm not turning my camera on I Didn't I didn't because I would have scared them to death, you know No makeup my hair not done Nothing, it would have been really frightening But I had a day yesterday where I just didn't want to do anything. I kept thinking what the heck. I am so Unmotivated.  I should just be doing stuff. But yesterday was a big nothing for me So I never got a video done I did record today the review on this piece because I wanted to send it off to Wix Studio one so could go in there their rotation.  I did send that off But that's about it. Jay said to me earlier. He said you want to go out for an ice cream? I went nah When he came home from golfing this morning he goes you want to take a ride up the coast? I said nah So I felt really bad because Jay's birthday is June 3rd and We were going to celebrate by going out to dinner, but the place we went to go to dinner with at Required reservations and when I call for reservations, they were booked all day Saturday and Sunday So we're gonna call tomorrow After we hear what the weather is going to be like for next weekend and see if we can get in You know on Saturday or something So yeah, he got a drone for his birthday not from me not from me from his son and daughter-in-law sent them sent him a drone and He's been wanting one, you know, quite frankly for a number of years and I've just always considered it to be like a big waste so You know, he can use it for real estate because he can film drone shots of houses and stuff like that So if he gets really good who knows he could probably sell his services We'll see what he does, but I think part of the funk for me is just you know, I summer is here or almost here and I'm sort of having it like I don't know.  I Think he just had a bug fly in my mouth. I'll delete that. So anyways, yeah, I was sort of like You know, I feel like I'm having a pity party, you know type of thing because I want to go camping I want to go to the beach, but I'm so spoiled because when I go to the beach I just walk a few feet and I'm in my camper my RV, you know the thought of having to drive down drive home Just not the same. So I'm kind of like I'm being a crybaby about that. I Didn't get a couple of new things this week. I did I got a pair of Two pairs of shoes actually got a pair of flip-flops got a pair of flip-flops last week I wanted to get a eyeshadow palette. I didn't I was very very strong. I held off on that But I got a top I get I got three tops that I returned to Amazon They were so disappointing and they looked so gorgeous on everyone else. I got them They were the thinnest crappiest tops and they were small. I mean a size large I swear to God Would be like a two-year-old size. I couldn't believe it. I looked at that. I said you gotta be kidding me you know and then I Yeah, I don't know.   I'm sorry to all of you Ladies that review the Amazon finds and love their clothes. They're they don't work for me I'm probably too fat. I'm probably my body shape is probably too real for those clothes That makes sense. So So but I did order two tops from Macy's I should get them this week and I'm kind of really looking forward to that and We do winterize the motorhome Yeah, yippy yippy right no place to go but we do winterized it and so far knock on wood Brush your fingers so far all the systems seem to be working It always makes me a little nervous Because until you actually go out your shakedown cruise the first time camping you you never really know so This week was crime con. I know you guys think I'm probably wacky for having like this passion for true crime audio books and podcast but anyways crime crime con was this week and it was an Austin Tech Says I tell you I Would have loved to have gone. Oh my gosh Anyways, you know all of the the podcasters that I listened to on a regular basis with there And I thought that was just like so stinking cool. I would have loved it now next year. It's in Vegas Vegas, baby. I Don't know next year. We've got a lot of trips planned So I don't really know if Vegas is gonna be in the books at all for anything like that But I'm really But it would be nice it would be a fun thing to you know do something like that Sorry, yes, I close clothes line in my backyard. It would be a fun thing to do something like that close my grown because I Just love that stuff and you know the thought of of Doing a crime con or a convention like that just sounds amazing to me. So anyways So I wanted to just show you this wig and I'm just going on a gab sesh, right? But I do kind of like this. So Jay said to me he goes, hmm I kind of think I like you in that copper shade and I was like you like me in this copper shade. It's like such a Copper shade such a different color, but that's what he said. I have a clock somewhere. Uh-oh. Oh Look what he's getting his hands. What do you have in your hands? Sunday night cocktail Yeah, so do you like this color you said on me, honey? Yeah, didn't you sound hesitant now? You are like such a bologna artist So anyways, um, yeah, so he's finally as old as I am Yeah, 37 no 67 Oh my god, I don't know why I was thinking of 37 only because I had posted this picture I'll superimpose it in here and it was the two of us in our mid 30s. I think it was like 1989 We weren't even together. We were at a relter event and I remember very distinctly the pearl necklace. I had on that pearl necklace and It was just beautiful.  Anyways, so Yeah, I guess I'm just apologizing in a long roundabout way for not having any content on but The other thing too is my eye is really really been bothering me I think this week I'm gonna have to go back to the eye doctor because It's really hard for me to even look in bright sunlight, you know so I think I have to go back to the eye doctor and Have to take a look at it, but I will enclose a clip of this The inside of the cap for those of you that are gonna watch this for this wig review Renee of Paris. This is a synthetic wig. It is a workhorse of a wig I mean, I think it with will hold up to almost any conditions There it's very basic. It's so it's very very affordable It does not have any kind of a monofilament or monofilament or lace front It does have permatease and there's a good amount of permatease But I think the permatease is kind of needed for the shape. I think the shape is really cute It's an angled bob. It does have some fringe. So the fringe the bangs are I Don't hold me to it because I don't have any notes with me little under five inches like 4.75 or something like that and my forehead is from up here to here is About five inches. So I think it's pretty close So you can either wear the fringe down if you want it and like cut it or you could just sweep it off to the sides Like I do I just sweep it off to the sides. I really like that. I Have a long nine-inch face. So if you have a shorter face, this will look longer on you and My circumference is 22 inches. This has very little give very little stretch So if you have a bigger head than me, this might be too small for you But depending on the sale going on you can pick this up for under a hundred bucks And I think the fibers are so pretty and I think it's so realistic So I wanted to share that with you and just say hello. Sorry for being missing in action but Yeah, once I get my Stuff together Get back on a regular schedule. Anyways, thank you guys so much. I'll talk to you later. I'm a redhead Just want you to see these fibers close up You can see the very gentle blending of the darker Copper and the lighter copper And you can see how beautiful these layers are done. They're really done nice and the nape is beautiful So inside the construction of the cap you can see a closed lace Sort of a rose Design right here. There's a lot of the permatease in this piece lots of permatease And then you can also see that you have the air tabs also have the rose lace design And it does have some flexibility. There's a I can feel a stay But not like any kind of a really heavy It's right here actually and then you have a brass draper juster in the back This is not going to be for anyone that has a super large head There's your stay in here little very delicate metal metal stay or wire stay here. I Have a 22-inch circumference and this fits me snug. So if you have a really big head I don't believe there's a whole bunch of give here and it may not be good for someone that has a larger head than I do But I think she's super pretty and I like the color So thank you so much for joining me and thank you once again to Wake studio one for sending me this beautiful piece from Renee Paris This is part of the fashion collection. And as I said earlier, this is not a new piece But oh, it's a timeless piece. So thank you so much