I wanted to talk about the work which was carried out over a two-year period by SCHR just very briefly. SCHR is an alliance of seven NGO networks and the Red Cross Movement, ICRC and IFRC, where we carried out some work to basically try and answer the question of whether or not it was objectively possible to differentiate between principled actors and others. We decided to focus on the principle of impartiality, see whether it was something that we could actually measure and assess. We decided to focus on the principle of impartiality because we felt this was core to the humanitarian endeavor. This is about prioritizing resources and responses and basically based on needs. We really zoomed into that principle and tried to look at what would it take to measure it. We had a whole conceptual approach which was about identifying the different key moments within a cycle of project or organizational decision-making where the principle of impartiality would be relevant and important and then test it out. The work we did is not finalized, there's still a lot of work to do but I think there's enough to be done that has been done that we can already draw some findings from. Basically, we came up with an operational framework looking at where in the decision-making cycle of an organization would impartiality be relevant. We identified three main areas. The first being what we call the institutional predisposition which you could also call the policy and the processes that you have in place which are about the institutional commitment which are about the strategic and policy decision-making and the support to staff in terms of training and commitment across the organization. Then we identified the program planning and design stage and at the final stage the actual response and the monitoring and evaluation of the response. Those were the three stages and for each of these stages we came up with a bunch of indicators that we then tested. I won't go through any of the details. Just to say that the institutional commitment stage we tested through self-assessment which gave us some interesting findings in so far as was some organization may not have policies in place it doesn't mean that they don't have practices but it's also very clear that when there aren't policies and clear guidance in place the space for interpretation is very very large. It was also very clear that if there was this sort of policy framework in place the chances were that strategic decision-making and operational decision-making would more systematically examine the question of impartiality than it would otherwise. And then we carried out a sort of very light peer review of different organizations operations in Columbia looking at specific projects and testing the whole indicator framework around the program design and program implementation. Very broad findings. We think it is measurable but it's measurable on the condition that we can contextualize the decisions which have been taken. We need to understand the context and we need to understand why these decisions have been taken based on the context. So it isn't just one size fits all and yes or no tick box. It's very much a whole thinking and analyzing and decision-making process which needs to be looked into. It's very clear that there aren't any easy answers. In most cases we're not able to be impartial but there are very clear reasons for which we're not able to be impartial. And what's important there is to make sure that the people in charge, the people who are making these decisions have the elements to balance the different components and reach a conclusion as to why they are making the choices that they're making. One of the biggest obstacles to impartiality that we found was the issue of funding. The issue of lack of resources which stops organizations but also let's be honest local authorities and local actors from going to try and look at needs outside the areas that they're already operating on because they know they wouldn't necessarily get the resources to answer these needs. Obviously we've got issues of access linked to security. There's also logistics reasons. Another important finding and I think I'll stop, two more important findings that I'll highlight. One is the fact that when you're looking at the issue of impartiality you need to decide at what scale you're looking at. If you're looking at the issue of impartiality at the scale of the project you may actually be meeting the basic indicators. If you're looking at the level of the department, the country, the region or globally it's a very different game. And the question is for us very much about how do we make sure we balance these different levels and again how do we make sure that we have a rationale for the decisions that are taken. The last point that I'll make is that we found that the issues of examining the principles were taken very, very seriously by the teams, especially the teams on the ground. But they tended to be a confusion between the principle of neutrality and the principle of impartiality. Which in a lot of cases didn't matter as the right questions were being asked but could matter hugely in a conflict or in a really insecure situation when you actually have to make a trade-off between applying the principle of impartiality and appearing in the perception of your neutrality. Thank you very much and I'd like to flag early on. I'm going to come back and ask you a question about this pragmatic nature. I mean I'll let you in on a secret. ICRC is a very principled organisation but we're also really pragmatic. I should also say that, look I'm not speaking in any official capacity for MSF. Of course my experience, 15 years in MSF means that a lot of what I'm going to say is based on that. But I also over the last couple of weeks have spoke to, I'm based in London and I've spoke to people from some of the other major NGOs just to see if they have any, what's their take on this. So I'd like to say a few things. In keeping on the pragmatic side, I think in MSF one of the things I was very proud of is the degree to which we view ourselves and act as if we are a principled humanitarian actor. In other words the principles actually matter and we talk about them and we get in fights over them and we pull each other's hair out over them. These are ideas that are alive and well in the discourse of the organisation. And how do you make that? What does that look like up close? Well it looks like training of staff. And I think almost every organisation has some sort of training where they basically tell people here's what impartiality is, here's how neutrality is defined. But it also comes back to the organisational structure and capacity. If you for instance want to be independent. What are the implications of that for instance in a medical organisation? It means that you will have in-house expertise on medical issues. So that you are not dependent on the expertise of others. Logistical independence, what does that mean? What does it mean if as an organisation you must wait for a UN helicopter or a UN convoy of trucks versus your own? And so looking at it from the organisational side there's quite a bit of discussion that comes out of the principle. There's also just the fostering and we do have debates about things like what does impartiality mean in a given context. So fostering what you might call just a lively discussion. And then I think something that Kate just talked about and that is the idea of deliberate compromise. Of course these are signposts, these are beacons, but in the very, very often perverse circumstances in which we operate, being impartial or neutral, independent is of course an exercising compromise. And how do you go about that and making sure that the compromises you make are first judicious ones but also that they're done deliberately. And to look at the principles not as a formula but as a framework, they reinforce one another but they also come into tension with one another and you must make trade-offs between principles. But I also wanted to say maybe just away from the pragmatic to drift a little bit into sort of the global view and that is that we don't actually, structurally, and I haven't talked to any organisation that actually goes out and really tries to say are we acting impartially, neutrally, independently and to measure it, to assess it. You can look at the sphere standards. And the sphere standards will tell you all about how many latrines per square foot and very, very detailed guidelines on what it means. And yet when it comes to impartiality, neutrality, independence, there's very little in terms of some sort of tangible guidelines, targets, anything like that. And what it appears, if you look at it with a slightly cynical eye, is that to a certain extent these are assumptions. We are humanitarian therefore we're good and that means we're neutral and impartial and independent and we know that we compromise on those things but the goodness of our actions outweighs what we're trying to do is help people and that outweighs these sticky points like principles. And to a certain extent we believe in ourselves that way and we do not look. I have not seen rigorous attempts to really judge ourselves or to admit the extent to which we are no longer impartial, no longer independent and no longer neutral. We redefine those things individually in organisations so that you can get to a point where you are essentially taking funding from a belligerent party to work in a war zone and many, many organisations don't see a contradiction of that for instance independence and neutrality. I'll just wind up by saying on the other side of that discussion an academic named Mark Bradbury says assistance that is policy driven rather than provided on the basis of need is no longer humanitarian. And what I'm getting at is I think too often there is this assumption that because we're humanitarian we're more or less in line with the principles rather than seeing that label that we all aspire to of humanitarian as being a consequence of our pragmatic actions on the ground in the degree to which we adhere to those principles. And what I think I am hearing in some of the discussions around the World Humanitarian Summit but elsewhere is that the double standard by which I will say the large western NGO applies these principles. The principles have become a bit of a bully stick with which to say that other actors, military actors, other governments are jeopardising that they have to respect our independence and impartiality and neutrality. It's used very much to push back on external threats and it is also being used to safeguard fortress western NGO against all those other NGOs that want to become part of the humanitarian mission of the humanitarian project. And it's a way of saying yeah but you're from that country you can't possibly be neutral like us as if we are somehow divorced from the ideology for instance of western governments or the ideology of our main donors. So I think there's a real danger in this double standard. I think it is one of the, it is going, it is a weak point in terms of some of the negotiations around globalising humanitarian action where if it becomes viewed as some sort of western imposition the way for instance that human rights in some circles is seen the way the international criminal court is now being seen as something kind of western it's used to beat up on others if humanitarian principles go down that route it will go down that route because of our actions and it will be a shame. Thanks everyone and I'm delighted to be here. I've been with the Red Cross for four years and I pretty much joined the Red Cross because of the humanitarian principles. I felt there was a principled organisation I really was committed to the principles and I thought I'd come to the Red Cross and find this spirit of the principles imbuing everything that we did everything that we said that there would be these live debates where we were tearing our hair out and I have to say I was a little bit disappointed. I think that collectively the humanitarian community looks at the principles as if there are some kind of God-given normative ideals that are derived from above and I think we have forgotten the fact that they are actually practical tools and that they have an ethical basis but that ultimately they were derived they were distilled because of a process where they were found to be useful to give us access in situations of conflict and I think that we've lost some of that I think we externalised as Mark was saying the threats to humanitarian action we talk about humanitarian action being politicised being instrumentalised we talk about the blurring in stabilisation agendas between political, military and aid efforts we now talk about the criminalisation of humanitarian action due to counter-terrorism laws and I'm not rejecting any of that I think all of that is very important a lot less time looking at our own actions and questioning whether we are being principled whether these principles that we exclaim that we hold ourselves aloft about were actually using them in the way they were intended and so coming into the movement I was also interested in whether this issue about whether the principles are just for international actors we say that they're global we say they're universal actually they're talked about a lot in international circles but here we have a federation of 189 different national societies how are national societies applying the principles and are they relevant to today's crisis and do they help us gain access and improve our security and so we started a small research process looking at how different national societies were applying the principles in practice what they actually did and trying to unpick whether or not it helped them gain access and how they went about this and there were a lot of national societies to choose from and so we chose the ones where they had been applying they're known within the movement for applying the principles well and so we started with the Lebanese Red Cross which it's first of all interesting because it's a Lebanese Red Cross in a context which is now considered to be predominantly Muslim and so how does a national society using the Red Cross in that context gain access but also it had grown up out of a situation where it had suffered a number of different security threats during the 15 year civil war and had gone through a deliberate process of trying to apply the fundamental principles and fundamental principles in the Red Cross being seven rather than four and so it was an interesting exercise to see whether or not this had given them any benefits and I have to say it was pretty extraordinary you go to the Red Cross and they run the National Ambulance Service on a shoestring they've got I think it is 2,700 volunteers who volunteer 12 hours a month and then or 36 hours a month and 12 hours one weekend and they have access pretty much all over the country in the context where there's 18 different confessional groups where politics, where business, where even your mobile phone is kind of decided upon confessional basis these ambulances have access pretty much everywhere in context where even the government doesn't have access and it's fascinating to understand how they've done that and what they've done is pretty much take that bolster off the wall they've said you know we are going to apply these principles and first of all extraordinary leadership let's down to what Mark was saying is creating a culture where the principles are alive and so the leadership started this process where their policies were reviewed their strategies were reviewed and there was a deliberate process of applying the principles in all decision making they looked at their hiring policies and made sure that they were hiring volunteers from across these confessional groups and had this deliberate policy of that if you ring the Red Cross and you want the Red Cross ambulances to provide services you can't choose who the Red Cross is in this different context you can't say it needs to be a Maronite or a Christian or a Sunni Muslim it's the Red Cross and because we abide by these principles you accept us and so the Red Cross volunteers are hired on their basis of an ability to demonstrate the principles and you talk to them and they talk about the Red Cross being a form of sanctuary in a context where everything is decided on confessional grounds and people come to the Red Cross because of this sanctuary and that creates its own ethos in ambulance stations the news isn't played because that might spark off difficult conversations and then you talk about at different stations about how does this influence your decision making you talk to people about the extraordinary decisions that they have to make how difficult it is when they hear that you know one of their relatives has been affected in some way in some crisis but by a process of triage that they have to decide to go to someone else and to provide medical services first to someone else and what that actually means you are talking to someone else who was involved in a siege in a refugee camp and their brother is part of the military services and while the brother is responding to the actual conflict they are working on providing medical services to those wounded so the most extraordinary and inspiring tales of volunteers working across this now quite conflict affected context and I feel that we need to do more as a community to really understand how we put the principles in practice that we talk about them a lot that we may use them to create a fortress but there is not enough attention to the strategies of how we can apply them in practice what they actually mean what space they provide us and where the red lines are but then also about what they don't do because the principles are tools they are not going to grant us access they give us potentially a seat at the negotiating table so also a very realistic understanding of how far we can go in context where aid is compromised where aid is instrumentalised


Hey Virgo, welcome back to the channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. If you're new please smash that like button and subscribe if you enjoy the reading. This is going to be a weekly prediction love life and career for this week coming up.  We'll see what drama shows up in your love life, your regular life, everything else going on. Just keep in mind some of the messages may or may not happen for you. Come back at the end of the week and you'll find out. Okay, this is the channel for Virgo Sun, Moon, Rising, or Venus, but all signs are welcome. And I hope you guys had a great weekend and also personal links, everything you need to know. There's a link in the description box below this video. Okay, you guys. So and I do have an announcement at the end of the reading here. So please stay tuned. Alright, let's get into this Virgo Sun, Moon, Rising, or Venus. What can Virgo expect this week coming up in love? Okay, so you have the queen of pentacles. So Virgo, that's you in your own story here. Now you could also be have a connection with a Virgo Taurus Capricorn. But it looks like you're trying to assess something for the week ahead. Okay, so you got your mind, you're preparing. Wow. Okay, right when we needed it, you have a decision to make. I think some of you, you could be looking at a past relationship, deciding if you want to go forward with that relationship or what to do about it. You could have recently met someone. I feel like you might be you got the chariot here. Okay, so hmm, try it yet. This looks like Virgo. I kind of feel like there's Gemini cancer also. There's a little element here of whether or not you are either going to go visit somebody or ask somebody to visit you. This is a lover. Okay, let me see. Now you might get invited out also this week as well and you might be trying to decide whether or not to go. Okay, let me see what else is going on here for love. There is something here, though I do feel like you may get a message, see something online or get a text message or call someone that your twin flame that heart to heart person, you know, the one that you just adore and the one who adores you is going to be making their move towards you this week. Let's see what else is going on. Oh, wow. Yeah, there's a devil. So it's definitely twin flame There's there's I'm hearing something's not over. There's something is not finished. I don't know if that's with you or with another person, but it looks like there's a Capricorn as well. It looks Virgo like somebody just cannot let you go and you cannot let them go either. Okay, for sure. Now for others, there is some type of predictive message where somebody is just really attracted to you really feeling your energy wants to come see you or will be reaching out. You know, this could be past present future. I'm just going to put it right there Virgo and there's like a real strong magnetic attraction happening here. Alright, let's get some clarifying cards. Okay, for some of you. Okay, you got the tennis sword. Some of you. Well, it looks like there's a betrayal here, but also a surrendering to love. Okay, wait, clarify, clarify, finish clarifying something ended. Okay, so the King of Wands. So for some of you, there was a relationship or that had ended. And it looks like going forward, there is some kind of I feel like there's a King of Wands areas Leo Sagittarius. And mostly it feels like this person is just coming after you like just wants to get together with you or be together. Virgo, I'm going to have to say like there's definitely a decision being made here, weighing some options about another person going forward. So I feel like you're going to hear because the six does represent some type of communication. It can be reconciliation. I feel like this week going forward, you're going to hear from someone. Fire sign energy could be sun, moon rising or Venus. Whatever their sign is this this person shows up or it could be like I said, another earth sign. This person, there's a lot of thinking, there's a lot of decision weighing some options here. Even though something's over, it's just not done. I feel like someone doesn't want something to be over here. And I feel like there's going to be some type of communication between you and another person here, where somebody wants to come in, you know, either invite you to go be with them, or asks you to come be, or asked to come be with you. Okay. So you might be at a distance to this person might not that could be just like, well, you meet up, can we meet up getting in the car? I figure you might be kind of like, you don't know, you're just, you get the message and you're kind of like, I don't see a reactive, but I do see you're kind of like, thought this thing was over for once. Okay. Looks like no. It looks like something's not over. And, and, you know, this person also may have ended something with someone they are with or were with. And that situation comes to an end. Okay, Virgo. So as far as love goes this week, I do feel like a big decision is being made in regards to love, in regards to a relationship, a twin flame, at times toxic, at times not, a little bit of back and forth, whatever the situation is, there's a reunion for sure. Okay. Or coming together with someone. Now let's take a look at just your life in general. So, let's see, for this week, the Hierophon is here. Okay. You're definitely going to be making a decision this week about your career, okay, about your work, how you can make more money. I feel like some of you are going to be kind of contemplating whether or not to take a job offer, because it's coming in, or whether or not to seek employment elsewhere.  Yeah, you've got the page of wants. There's a lot of excitement in regards to your, now, did I say life because it looks like we're doing career. So we're going to go career. We'll do life at the end. It looks like there's a lot of excitement and enthusiasm, receiving a loan, applying for a loan, starting up a business in your career. Some of you look at this, yeah, see the cards are just kind of saying this is the way it's going. Whether or not to invest in a company or to invest in, you know, you could be dealing with your stocks or cashing out on some money for one case as well. I definitely feel like you are in the market to capitalize this week, either on your own skill set or leaving one corp, going to another or going off on your own or taking a job, a new job, yeah, with some of you could be a hospital, it could be a government position as well. Okay, just hearing not a lot of money there, but you know, some of you might be, yeah, this is all about your career. I feel like you're getting like some ants in your pants Virgo this week about taking maybe some of your savings and investing some of it somewhere, you know, you got to spend money to make money. So with all this pentacle energy, it looks like a surefire, a good deal is something that really gets you excited about investing in. Let me see. Okay, there you are Virgo. King pentacles, you are like all business minded this week. As far as like work goes, you know, your career, Virgo, that's you got that down pat and no need to worry about you, you will find a way. Virgo will be the one to like, when we pump gas at the gas station, well, only in Jersey and Oregon that we pump gas. So just pretend you're from these states. But you'll be the person who's like, you know, filling up somebody's gas tank, and then the following week, you'll own the gas station, like that's pretty much how it works for you, Virgo. And I feel like your mindset is, you know, how can I capitalize on my career to make more money or to climb this ladder of success? You definitely have a beautiful new money opportunity coming in this week as well. And you may be receiving a raise. It's definitely a new job, for sure. There's promotion, there's investment, new income. So this week looks really great for your career and your income. Okay, now you have the night of pentacles. So this is overall life messages. Okay, so I feel like somebody is going to be paying you back that money that's been a long time coming. This is giving you some money that I feel like you have been waiting for.  It's been a while. It's definitely coming. Okay, some of you have some serious creative juice flowing through your veins. Also, this week, I see, I see some you're going to start seeing results of some things that you've done previously. Okay, whatever that might be. Now the wand is very physical. So you may be maybe some of you have joined a gym a while back and it's starting to pay off. You're seeing the results of that. Okay, definitely cool. I have to stop saying okay, okay, okay, okay. So there's definitely going to be some growth, something that you invested in or you invested in yourself or you paid for could be a fitness trainer, or maybe you put money into renovating a home. The money definitely though I see like a payout and it's a long time coming. Okay, so this is awesome. This is like this is what you want like some this could have something to do with a new project that you started or this week you decide to actually like you've been sitting him and in on thinking about whether or not to invest in some type of new project whether that's your physical self, your emotional, mental, spiritual, whatever it is in your life. Even I feel like for a while maybe just trying to figure out should you put your money towards this because Virgos are now that's what they do, you know, they kind of think about it first before they don't just get crazy about some new kind of opportunity that's going to give you growth and results. So I feel like you do it this week for sure. Let's see what else do you have? Okay, you have the emperor and the queen of cups. Okay, there's an emperor and a queen of cups who are I want to say getting getting in balance getting things making things I don't say right but bring there's peace between an emperor and a queen of cups. Yeah, there was a lot of there was a lot of defensive. You were involved in something and I feel like it was some kind of conflict or you were defending either an emperor or queen of cups or trying to help a couple sort out some stuff and it looks like this week it looks like they actually there's like resolution. Now you maybe you were a mediator for something could have been your brother and sister could have been like a parent and a and a child. You know, it's two people but one of them is pretty stern head of household type father type. You could have also been in a situation with someone that there was a lot of arguing or defensive energy and it looks like there's peace this week. Looks like you guys are going to like temper things and I don't want to say compromise but it's like agree to disagree call it truce is what I'm feeling show me this emperor. Yeah, it looks like the emperor. Yeah, look at that. The world in judgment.  There's reconciliation. So there's like forgiveness. There's healing and some kind of struggle. It could be a boss you and a boss. Boss lets you go. You know and and you're just kind of like thank you. Thank you. Yep, there was your sign. Let me see here. Father figure giving you some money. You find out or you like there's a will. You get some money coming in. There's peace in the family situation. Everything gets sorted out this week. The world there's like a new chapter here. Lessons learned. There's also immigration. Someone is going to be coming from afar and staying for a while. They're saying as well gets approved for maybe like a visa or something like that. There's some good stuff happening here this week for you guys. Seriously. Let me say the only negative thing really that I saw was the tennis swords and the devil card by in in in context with the other cards. I don't feel and along with the message. I don't feel it's really negative. I just feel like for love is something that you might have thought was over was done. I feel like there's definitely on another person's side that they just like can't let you go. Definitely cannot let you go. There's a very strong physical and something might have ended as like coming back to being reborn again. I just want to see this judgment. Okay. Yeah, I just you know, okay. I definitely see good news coming to you this week. You know, in just your life in general, I feel like um you definitely have uh I don't know if it's a family situation or coworkers or um some friends or um something along those lines or some discord and it feels like um after some time of defensiveness, nobody's talking. Everybody's kind of ghosting each other. Nobody's committing just to apologies or trying to work things out. I feel like things get worked out this week and people start talking again and there's peace and everybody's just kind of like, all right, let's just you know, let bygones be bygones. Let's sort it all out. Everything's gonna be fine. I like the energy. I like it for this week going forward. Let's see what other messages or messages do you have for romance angels? Okay. So you have retreat, true love and let your friends help you. Okay. So you definitely have a true love situation happening here this week for sure. This is the romance of a lifetime retreat disconnect from the world. I feel like there's going to be a little bit of time spent with someone in private or no one's gonna tell another person about this situation and um maybe just some very close friend might find out about a love situation that you are rethinking because somebody comes back into your life or somebody new shows up here or is like kind of reenergized or relationships reenergized and I feel like you're not going to say anything really to anybody.  Here's my number just here's where I'm going. That kind of I don't know picking up that energy or letting somebody know where you're going to be going this week. Okay. For some of you, that is a reconciliation with a past person. All right. What other messages for Virgo? Does Virgo need to know? Okay. Well, fear and anxiety showed up in the reverse or sideways. So this gives me a sense that there is a little bit of fear and anxiousness this week. But it looks like you have it under control. You're not letting it get the best of you. Okay. Because getting the best of you would pretty much put it like that.  And it looks like you are managing or will be managing it very well this week. I'm not seeing there is anything to be fearful and anxious about, but maybe you have a struggle with that at times. So it looks like you're managing it well. Breathe in, breathe out. Okay. You also have highly logical mail. Okay, let's see what's going on with the highly that could be somebody. Oh, so highly logical mail and committed love relationship. Okay. So maybe that's what your fear and anxiety is about. Okay. Some of you might be highly logical men, right? And you struggled with getting into a committed relationship or weren't sure about a committed relationship with anyone and or even if you wanted that in your life, maybe it brought a lot of anxiety and fear to you. Especially if you're a lot more introverted. But it looks like you are coming out of your shell. The men, Virgo men kind of coming out of your shell a little bit being and your logic is kind of helping you with that because your your head's like, Hey, what's the worst that could happen? You know, like your positive thinking about, yeah, you're just kind of reasoning your way through the struggle of getting involved either for the first time or again. Or maybe you were playing with the idea or you always just thought, no, not not for me. I don't think I can do that. Or I just rather date and keep it just surface with people. Looks like you might be considering this now finally and squatching squashing your fears and anxieties about that. And for the female, those who like the males, I should say God forbid if I don't have to what to say anymore, female male, I don't know who I'm talking to. But I'm just gonna say for the ladies, there's definitely a very logical male showing up this week and ready for love, man, ready for love. And this male is squashing his fear and anxieties about a committed love relationship with you.  They were logic and reason, everything out. This might be someone that shows up this week, you'll recognize them by their emotionless bones. They're more heady and more verbal, the more analytical and more logical. Okay. And this person, I feel like, just as I was saying for the males is how to struggle with committed love relationships, maybe they're an introvert or they're, they've had a lot of fear of anxiety, or they've always been a bachelor or bachelorette. I want to speak to the ladies too. And yeah, that's changing. So there you go. That's happening this week for you. And oh, there's a good thing. Good news about money. Good news about money. That's what I'm saying. So you're definitely gonna hear something. Like I said, it could be money, career, new job, new investments, could be hitting a lottery of some sort, or finding some extra money in your coat pocket. And the queen of dropping my cards, the queen of it. Okay, so you also got future plans and choosing a path. So yeah, definitely got future plans ahead of you. You need to make a decision, whether that's in love, life, career. I feel like you're going to be faced with a couple of different paths for your future that you're going to be making. Now, that's the second time the arguments in separation. Okay, some of you, this is your path is to separate from someone because of a lot of arguing. And you need your some of you are making some plans, separating yourself from someone. You're choosing a different path. You're not staying and fighting. You're not arguing with anyone. That's a different path for you, Virgo. Okay, somebody else could be doing that too. If you're trying, you're like trying to argue with somebody, I feel like that person is like, you know what, I'm still going to make plans with you, but I'm not choosing to stay in this argument. I'm going to choose a different path.  You've been chosen for one another even when times are tough and seem back and forth. This love is meant to be. And yeah, it's time to reconcile this week.  Okay, Virgo, let's just get a couple of messages of love. And then I'm going to close it out because I have to get over to my other site and get that other video up. Also, I just want to tell you guys, we have, I think we are over $2,000 raised between my two campaigns. So please do click the link in the description box below or the link here for the fundraiser for our rescue.com or rescue kids now, which is my website for the National Center for Missing and Exploded Children. It's the campaigns are running to it's a fun, they're fundraisers to raise money to stop the child trafficking and to help find these missing in children or these missing children. And yeah, any amount you guys can give my family asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I said, just donate to my fund. I don't need anything else. Let's just try to get these kids save these children. That's all I care about. So yeah, you guys, if you can do that, any amount, I don't even care. Don't donate a couple of coins, drop a couple coins in the coin slot for me, will you? And this would be great. And I would greatly appreciate that. Other message for you, Virgo, you have support lean on your inner circle during this time this week, especially Virgo, that's a second message you got regarding that. So this week, especially lean on your inner circle, you're going to need it this week. Not exactly sure why but get your ducks in a row with these people that are there for you. Okay, there is someone who is unavailable to meet your needs in a relationship because of an addiction. They're currently active in an addiction. So this could be family, friend, lover, you know who this person is, is someone's not currently able to meet your needs, could be a boss, whatever the situation is, consider that. I feel like that's a strong message consider that the reason you're not getting your need met with someone, whatever it might be is because someone is completely trapped and active in their addiction and that puts you, you're not first priority. Okay, and if that's your situation, and you're understanding that, then take a look at that. There's nothing you could do about that. And this person is, they're just they got, you know, they got some bad juju on them. Okay, you also have past life love. Again, some of you, like I said, there's a past life love situation happening here. For someone you feel like you've known forever. Okay, also children. So some of you might have a might have children with a past life love, or there's a connection to children with a past a past life type of lover as well. For some of you, this is an energy of like, I feel like you guys, you in a past person, maybe you met as children, that person is going to be showing you up showing not showing you up showing up this week. Someone that you knew, who was a past life love when you were children when a lot like when you were when you were a child. Yeah, this is very significant this week, Virgo, it could be that person who's coming in a past life love might want children. You know, past life love is just someone that you connect with, or that you've connect with where it's the soul recognition. Okay, could be reincarnated. All that jazz. Okay, let's see. There's some kind of connection to children. Okay, and you also have go slow, take time to get to know each other, I'm hearing. So you don't have any regret, because somebody wants to go slow, they have regret and remorse for the way they treated you. And or that could be your energy Virgo. Okay, so this, like I said, this is a weekly prediction reading. So I'm going to leave that strictly right there. And then tomorrow I will be back with your charms and all of the other good stuff. And yeah, I hope you guys don't forget I am running. Here's the announcement for the personal readings. I have a discount 45 minute discount and reading for the month of August. So definitely go check that out if you want to book a reading with me or brandy we're both available. And I'm also I updated my Facebook page. I have a an actual page I'm trying so you can follow me on Facebook the link will be in the description box below. And there's also a regular page business page that you can follow me as well on there if you want to leave reviews or if you just want to check out all the specials and all the stuff that I have upcoming announcements and stuff like that. Alright, you guys. So yeah, I will see you all back here tomorrow. Have a wonderful evening. And love yourselves. Love each other. Make a choices Virgo and I will see you all back here tomorrow. Take care.


Nine to twelve weeks, your baby is going through a really active time of development. The remainder of the fetal organs are being formed. The baby's heart has the four chambers, the kidneys are there, the stomach, the bladder. You'll start to see their fingers form, you'll be able to see their eyes on the ultrasound.  You can see development of the brain and the spine and all of the organs. From the twelfth week on, the baby just grows.


Welcome to the journey. Today we're going to give you the ultimate guide to using Pinterest for your business. Already be a fan of Pinterest in your personal life. I know I am enjoying the pretty photos and getting plenty of DIY inspiration from the platform or fashion tips. But if you're watching this video you probably realize it's power as a visual search engine that can be used to grow your business. And though Pinterest for business is different from Pinterest for personal use, it's still user-friendly. And once you fully learn how to use Pinterest for business and implement all the Pinterest for business tips and tricks, hey, you'll truly understand the power of the platform. So let's start off with why businesses use Pinterest and it got a little statistic here for you. With over 320 million monthly users, Pinterest isn't the largest social site out there. However, it's continuing to grow quickly, increasing its active user base by 26% in the last year alone. Hey, that's impressive. And Pinterest is unique in the way it seems to walk the line between being a social network and a search engine. So naturally. It sees two billion monthly searches. Holy smokes. That's a lot. Well, that's less than Google's a hundred billion monthly searches and bings more than 11 billion. It's pretty significant, right? And unlike users of most other social platforms, those on Pinterest often use a site with a shopper's mentality in mind. And part of the reason that users approach the site with this particular mindset is because it's organized like an online catalog. And the results are staggering. 97% of people say that they use interest to plan their purchases and 87% of pinners purchase something because of Pinterest. But let's talk about how to get started with Pinterest. And that starts with setting up a Pinterest business account. This is the first step to using Pinterest to connect your brand to new and loyal customers. And that's just to set up that business account. And you can do this three different ways, depending on how involved you've been with interest, either adding a business profile to your personal account, converting your personal account, or signing up for a business account.  So let's talk about creating Pinterest boards after signing up for an account. The next step to using Pinterest for your business is to create some boards. And these are where you save, collect, and organize your pins, which is great. And you can do this from your profile. Just enter the name of your board in a short description regarding what it will contain. And don't forget to choose a category for the board and that'll help with your SEO. And to be effective, you're going to want to create 20 to 25 boards from the get go. And the key to success here is relevance. Don't create boards sharing recipes if your brand is nothing to do with food. Your audience will wonder about the connection or lack thereof. And once you have your board set up, it's time to create your first pins. And you can choose from three different ways to add new pins. You can either upload a photo, enter a link to a website, or use the Pinterest pin it button. And if there's a photo you want to use as a pin saved on your computer, it's easy enough to quickly upload it to a board. And once it's uploaded, you can add the photo in the pin editor, then enter a destination link within the given field. This is where people will be directed when they click on the pin. And if you're pinning something from a website, drop in the link and Pinterest will grab the image for you. Ideally use photos that represent the recommended Pinterest image size, which is between 600 and 735 pixels wide with a two to by three aspect ratio. Good to know photos with the landscape orientation don't perform as well on Pinterest. By installing the Pinterest pin it button on your browser, you can make this process super easy. When you click on it, the button will automatically select the images on the page that you want to pin from. Then all you have to do is pick the image that you want, add a title and description if they don't automatically generate and pin it on your selected board. And no matter how you create your pin, you want to optimize the title and description with relevant keywords and related hashtags. You should aim to have at least 25 pins per board from the get go and then keep adding to it on a regular basis. Yeah, and add a custom board cover photo. At this point, you may want to upload a custom board cover photo and Pinterest also offers the option automatically generate board cover photos based on recent pins. And to set a custom board cover photo, note that you can choose from your existing pins or upload a new photo or video, but only business accounts can upload videos to their board covers. Now that we know how to get started, let's discuss some of the best practices for pinning, such as how often should you pin? Now at a bare minimum, you want to pin at least once a day. Pinterest rewards consistency with greater reach. Don't worry about overwhelming your followers than avalanche of pins. Pinterest smart feet, algorithm shuffle things around. Though one pin a day might check the activity box. In reality, you're going to want to aim for pinning or repinning 20 plus pins per day spreading out across your various boards. Yeah, most brands opt for 80% repins and 20% of their own content while others do the opposite. And you'll need to play around with this ratio to figure out what you can keep up with in the way of content generation and what resonates best with your target market. Now I am a fan of tools. If you give me a new tool, I'm going to test it out and try it, but these scheduling tools such as tailwind, viral tag and buffer make it possible to plan out your pins without having to be glued to your computer all the time. So when scheduling posts, don't forget to check out the best times to post on Pinterest, really just to help maximize that engagement. So you might be wondering, how can you get more eyes on your pins? As with SEO for Google, you'll want to be savvy with your use of keyword rich titles and descriptions. And hey, don't forget to add a call to pin or call action as part of your description. Doing so can increase engagement by 80%. Now, how do you maintain your Pinterest boards? Well, your business's Pinterest board should relate to your business in some way. These boards should also be optimized with keyword rich names and descriptions and all the pins should fall within that category and topic. And it's not enough to simply keep piling content onto your Pinterest boards should aim to do an audit of your board at least once a year just to make sure the content there is still relevant. Yeah, that's great advice. And part of maintaining your boards is arranging them. Those that deal with your website's main content should be at the top while boards with content that generates a lot of repinning or click-throughs should come next. And the one major exception to those general rules is seasonal relevant boards. So you'll want to keep them at the top at the right time a year and bury it at the bottom the rest of the time. On the surface, creating and maintaining a Pinterest for business account is a fun exercise in visual creativity. However, you also have to be willing to put in the hard work to optimize your content and really ensure that your audience is growing and interacting with your pins. Of course, if you follow these Pinterest for business tips, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work. Just don't forget that the work doesn't end once you start getting traction. Maintaining your Pinterest account is an ongoing process. And hey, it's not enough to pin. You need to promote your best pins, respond to pinners when they engage with you, maintain and update your boards and measure your performance to fully access the potential of the highly visual platform. All right, that's a wrap. We just took you through the ultimate guide to using Pinterest for your business. Be sure to comment below and don't forget to subscribe to our channel. While you're there, make sure you ring that bell so you get these episodes first. This is the journey. We'll see you next time.


Ukraine has an arsenal of high-tech Western arms to fight Russian forces, but is also deploying custom-built mini rocket launchers that use parts taken from a Soviet era system. The mini-grad uses pipes from Soviet-designed BM-21-grad multiple rocket launchers developed in the 1960s and can be mounted on pickup trucks, providing additional mobility for the counter-offensive kiosks began in early June. Gaul, a member of Ukraine's 108th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade, said the mini-grads were not as accurate as the advanced Hamar's rocket systems Kiev has received from the United States but made it possible to get closer to enemy lines. The 108th Brigade of Territorial Defense shared footage with Reuters said to show impacts of grad rockets it fired on Russian military positions in Zaparizhya region. Ukrainian military analyst Oleksandr Muzyenko said there were three advantages in using mini-grads their mobility enables them to move fast, units that have them can fire on a target without waiting to summon artillery from elsewhere, and they offer extra firepower for lightly armed infantry units. They are a bit different from what they are used for, we cannot say that we are more impressed by this than the BM-21, we can move closer, we can... We are using three, why? Because we are sure that three charges will fly there where we need to. To release 10, 8, 20 charges at one point does not have any effectiveness. We have got what? This is a sniper rifle, we can use three, manually, change the position, move over the charge and work further on other targets. I don't know what the material is, I think it will be interesting, it will be on the back and on the back. The first advantage is that they can be used directly by the unit, 4-territorial defense or other military units, they are here, these are not only artillery brigades, missile military artillery, which need to act, to invite them to come, to attack and so on. This is on the spot, and you can identify yourself, what is the target for this attack, this is the first. Second, this is a slightly armed, mobile and fast technique. Very fast you can go, shoot and go back, much faster than this you can do with the science of the game, but usually closer with more risks. And third, it is actually an additional fire force, as a rule, and a slightly armed infantry. Almost 15 years ago. Well, that's right. Well, you know, we have, just in the steppes, especially the historical tradition of good use of different mobile devices in order to attack them. That's why Ukraine and the Ukrainian units, let's say, develop certain types of weapons, which give the opportunity to gain weight, even with the units where such weapons would seem to be the next.


The Interparty Advisory Council, IPAC, a coalition of the 18 registered political parties on Friday, raised concerns over plots of entering government by unknown peasants, saying this would scuttle the nation's democracy. The national chairman of IPAC, Yabaji Sani, told journalists in Abuja that the allegation if true was treasonable and a civilian coup. He called on the Department of State Services to name, arrest and persecute the plotters of the interim government in accordance with the law to serve as a deterrent to orders. The DSS had raised the alarm that following the 2023 general elections, some aggrieved peasants were planning to destabilize the country by instituting an interim government. The Interparty Advisory Council, IPAC, condemns in strong terms the call and plot to install an interim government in Nigeria. It is a civilian coup, treason, absolutely unconstitutional and democratic and unacceptable. IPAC rejects any attempt to scuttle, subvert and truncate the nation's emerging democracy by reactionary and with progressive forces. It is in attempt to overheat the polity, cross confusion, political upheavals, impasse and quagmire, as was the case in the infamous annulment of the June 12, 1993, precision election that necessitated the hasty set off of an interim government by General Ibrahim Babawangida, which was headed by Chief Enes Sionaka in August 1993. Council notes the statement by the Department of State Service, DSS, that it has uncovered a plot by some persons to violently disrupt the nation's peace and install an interim government. Council demands that the country's intelligence service should name the plotters, arrest and prosecute then in accordance with the law of the land to serve as a deterrent to others who would resort to self-help to achieve their selfish political ambition. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Yeah, let's transition to cricket now on the sports mic zone, after a nail-biting finish to the West Indies Championship, Guyana Harpy Eagles are celebrating a successful defense of the crown. The Harpy Eagles comprehensively won their final round match against the combined campuses and colleges by eight wickets on Friday, leaving them to sit back and watch the outcomes of the remaining fixtures in the round. However, a draw between then-leaders, Wynald Islands Volcanoes and fourth-placed Lee Wood Islands Hurricanes, along with a shocking defeat for Barbados Pride at the hands of the West Indies Academy, made way for the Harpy Eagles to lift the Headley Weeks Trophy and take home the US $250,000 cash prize. Here are the final standings. The Guyana Harpy Eagles finishing with 103.8 points ahead of the Wynald Islands Volcanoes 98.2, the Lee Wood Islands Hurricanes 94, Barbados Pride finishing in fourth, 92.8, just 0.8 points ahead of Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies Academy 71.6, the Jamaica Scorpions 59.4 and the combined campuses and colleges 30.2 points. Congratulations to the Guyana Harpy Eagles, went into the final round in fourth position but they found a way to get the job done, they did what they needed to do and now we have Tevin Imlak, he is the captain of the Harpy Eagles team. Tevin, welcome to the Sports Mag Zone, how are you doing today? I'm doing pretty fine, happy, happy place, obviously we won, so feeling very good. What have the last two days been like? Mix emotions, we went into the final day, obviously we already won our game, so waiting, nail biting finish, hoping that the academy could come through for us, it was a mix emotions. One time you feel like you're there, next time you feel like you might not get it, so definitely mix emotions. Take me specifically through those emotions because I'm sure you probably as a team watched a lot of the final day between Barbados Pride and West Indies Academy, West Indies Academy on top at one stage, then it looked as if the Pride had it, then the West Indies Academy sneaked it, just take me through the roller coaster of emotions through Saturday. Yeah definitely, the case where, you know, we were hoping for some rain to be honest, let me take you some time, but yeah, it was a case of just hope, we knew that the academy, they have some good players and they can pull it off, but it was a case of Barbados not getting too far ahead, because obviously if they would have had a massive lead, they could have pushed the game a lot more and could have gone a bit hard at them, so it was a case of us just there hoping every weekend, every run we were following and every time we could, you know, fast, the academy is like, you know, we lose the weekend as a team, so it would definitely be a roller coaster ride, but when the academy won the game, you know, it was just jubilation, everybody was just, you know, crazy and happy about everything at the end of the time. Yeah, talk to me about how significant this is for the Guy in a Harpy Eagle setup, because no stranger is to winning regional four day titles, I think you are seven from the last nine now, so this has become a consistent thing, but Tevin Imlak is a relatively new captain with some new players in the setup, so from that standpoint, I suppose it's extremely significant for this bunch of guys. Yeah, definitely, I mean, you know, coming in as a pretty, it was a pretty inexperienced backing lineup, to say the least, a lot of the players, you know, would have had one or two seasons in most, and you know, to see, you know, where the team started and where we end up at the end, you know, it showed a lot of character and it showed growth.  You know, we had, also, Niall Smith and young Isaiah Thorne that, you know, they show a lot of growth throughout the tournament from game to game, especially young Isaiah Thorne, I think he was special to see him, you know, the growth that he made, the stride that he made throughout the tournament, start his first game, you know, a bit nervous and things are necessarily going his way, and then, you know, from there, just, just seeing his consistency and his growth throughout, you know, we'd love him to look at Niall Smith coming back from injury and leading the attack as a fast bowler, it was brilliant to see. Yeah, for us, I'm in for more, taking 29 wickets in the tournament for the Ghana Harpy Eagles, the number nine bowler, as far as wicket taking is concerned in the tournament, the only Harpy Eagles bowler in the top 10 this season, with Niall Smith getting 20 wickets, the next best, and you spoke about an inexperienced batting lineup. Kevin Sinclair led batting for your team, getting over 500 runs, but you were impressive as well, 485 runs for the season and finishing in the top five. Talk about the importance of those two contributions, Kevin Sinclair, but also how do you see yourself as leader of this group and taking on that responsibility with a bat?  He's a brilliant cricketer, and I was just happy to see him, you know, move from stride to stride, you know, every year he's been consistent for us, he's been doing well, year-go, year-come, and it just shows that this is good. On my end, you know, I was just happy to contribute, contribute to the captain, you know, obviously, you know, being in that role, you need to lead from the front, you need, if you're going to ask players to do stuff, you know, you need to show that yourself, so I'm happy to, you know, just be a part of the runs and add value to the team. Yeah, and just to follow up on the question about captain C, Tevin, does being the captain of the Ghana Happy Eagles ever come with a lot of pressure, or has your team made the job a bit easier for you? Because many times on this show, we talk about when players are handed captain C, you know, it can be a blessing, or sometimes it can be a curse, because it, of course, affects the players' own performances. What was it like for you? It was challenging, to be honest, because playing with the players, like playing with them and not having a leadership role is much different from being in that position, because obviously, you know, you have friends, and at times you'd have to make some tough decisions where you might have to take them off, or, you know, you might need to drop someone for some reason or the other, so, and, you know, players are always, they always want to do well, and they always want, you know, they bar in the hand, they always want to make a difference as a beautiful Ghana person, the players that we have. But, and that makes it a bit challenging, you know, having to manage that and, you know, deal with that aspect. But, you know, it's been brilliant still. We have a, what I call it, think tank, you know, we have the support staff, the coaches, you know, a lot of senior players, like Grisame, for example, Yurikishmoti, you know, these guys that you can lean on, you know, to ask for advice, because as a captain, you can't see everything, especially the young captain, you might not, you know, be able to see everything. So it's very easy, it makes it a lot easier when you can lean on these other players for advice and stuff like that. It makes the job a lot more easier. So I had a lot of support from the back home staff and, you know, a lot of the players, but it was challenging, it was different. Obviously, this time around, I didn't have the opportunity to keep. So, you know, that's going to be a different challenge I'm going to keep and captain as well. So I'm looking forward to it, but time will tell. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exciting stuff. And you know, you touched on the coach, you touched on the back room staff and it's always good when a captain gets the support from those, of course, behind the scenes. I've noticed something though, when it comes to Gaena and sports and it's something that has been on my mind. And every time I interview our Guyanese, I'm going to ask them because we have seen a massive development in sport in Gaena on the whole. It's not only in cricket. I've seen the women cricketers as well do very well. The Guyanese female cricketers have spoken to players, of course, footballers, just different aspects of sport. What do you think, Tevin, is the reason for this sudden rise in Guyanese sport? Yeah, I mean, in Gaena, we're a big love of sports, to be honest. And have the support of the government of Gaena, they're always willing to help. For example, going into the season, the president assisted on the team with gears to start a tournament which was excellent. It was the first time something like that had ever happened. It was brilliant to see. It's just a reflection of where we're going and the work that goes on behind the scenes to make Gaena sport better and moving forward. Tevin, I have two questions for you before we go. One, your development as a cricket, a domestic cricket, you play for DCC, the Demarara Cricket Club. Can you talk to us about the club and how influential it would have been in developing your game? Yeah, very. I started there, I'm still there at the moment. It's a club with rich history. A lot of cricketers, great West Indian players would have come from the club. And there are players that are still very involved in the club and the development of the club. That's Roger Harper's club, right? Roger Harper's club? Yes, he's the president at the moment. So it's just a rich history and the environment that they create allows for young players to come true and develop and move forward. And quickly, you had missed the first two rounds because you were on an international duty, which the Guyanese had lost one and drawn one. But since you took over as captain, you've won five in a row. Can you say what specifically was your impact in getting Gaena back on the winning track? Because as I said after the first two rounds of the season, Gaena were without a victory and your title defense looked a little shaky. But somehow you took over as captain and you just won five straight and the title is now yours. Can you say specifically what your input was in trying to get the team on track to the title defense? It's tough to say. Those first two games we had... I started with saying that the team was very inexperienced, especially the back and line-up. And those two games we started forward, because it's always going to be difficult when you have four debutants playing there for this game. And it's even more inexperienced than what we had. So coming back was just me, but it was Guru Kishmoti that brought back some stability to the bowling attack and myself as well with some experience. So I think that brought a bit of confidence back to the team. And we did a lot of good things. The forest innings of the West Indies game didn't go so well, but the second innings was brilliant. We scored 200 runs and the team just... We picked up some momentum from that. It was just brilliant to see players stepping up in this one situation. It came out as the every brilliant 100 against Jamaica in a situation where... And he was struggling a bit for London and he came up and showed character. He just showed the strength of the team and individuals coming together to make this thing work. So I won't put it down to me alone or myself or what I did. I think it's just a complete team. Yeah, you're definitely a team. And Tevin Imlaqi spoke about savers 100 at Sabina Park. I was rather impressed with your 100 as well against the Jamaica Scorpions because you had to retire her initially, didn't you? What was the issue? Yeah, would you? It was just shoes, man. I got a hit on my hand. The hand just started getting weaker and weaker. I was worried about getting out at that stage when I could have came back. It made sense for me to just retire. That point was tough because we had just lost and we could... Everything happens for a reason. I'm a strong believer in that. It worked out to me. Yeah, there you go and then you came back to your entry, which ultimately helped significantly in Guy and a Harpy Eagles going on to win the title. One quick one before I go and maybe it's just me. But has anyone ever told you that you sound a little bit like the former West Indies captain and current limited overs coach? Darren Sammy? No. Maybe it's just me, my friend. Congratulations, Tevin. I enjoyed this one very much. Yeah, thank you. Was it just me? It was just you. He sounds like Tevin. We go to break.