All right, boy, thanks so much for joining us here. Look, you're just stepping off the practice field right now. We still see the sweat coming down your face.   So let's go back. How did you get into football growing up in St. Louis, my hometown as well? Like how did all that start? Football, so my parents were Nigerian, immigrated over, big on soccer. So we, me and my brother played soccer very competitively ever since we were little. And so when I went to school, I eventually went to school out in the county, Ladoo area, and one of the kids, you know, saw I was really athletic and said, you know, I have this guy, you know, if you want to go, I play basketball. It's like, if you want to play, you know, for this team that's traveling and stuff, you should meet this guy. So I drive over to his house and we still have a great connection now. He's my financial advisor, Bandy Palin. And you know, he takes a look at me, he takes him, he has a basketball court in his house. I shoot a couple of shots and he's talking to my dad and stuff. And you know, we all make a great impression on him and he lets me join the team. And two years after that, he's joining or making a football team. And I'm sitting there thinking, you know, I'm really good at soccer, traveling around the country. I didn't want to play football at the time, but said, you know, I'll give it a chance. All my friends from the basketball team were playing. I'll go give it a chance, play football. And it's always fun at recess, recess too. So that first year I played, I think my first run, I was running back in the day, I was a lot smaller, broke a long run, like 60 yards on a 29 tall sweep. I remember the exact play. I came across, ran down the right sideline and I really fell in love with the game then. But even then, growing up, it was still like, it was my third sport, technically. I played, you know, soccer first, basketball, baseball and football. So football was my third sport and then mixed with the academics and mixed with the other sports I was playing. I had to quit because I didn't really have time for it. But then high school came around and it was time to choose between soccer and football. I kind of got burnt out from soccer and I've been playing so much as a kid and then my brother had chose the football route that I just went and chose the football route as well, trying to start that up again. I mean, so how did you get to Yale? So going to Burroughs, you get a lot of good connections and they kind of put kids in the Ivy League that way. My dad always wanted to, my mom too, they said we're gonna raise some of the most hardworking kids and some of the most intelligent kids. They had that written on our whiteboard in our house. And so every week when we got home, we had a meeting about how we can better ourselves in the classroom and life, all this stuff. My dad worked at a town, so it was like only family towns when we got home in the weekends. We have like a three hour long meeting on how we will be able to better ourselves growing up in life lessons and stuff. And so early, even in fifth grade, he's like, you know, I'm shooting for you guys to go to like the best schools around the nation. And obviously the Ivy League was in his dreams. So it kind of became my dream because I thought, you know what, I wanna be successful. And then also kind of growing a school out of where I lived over there in the more affluent counties. You know, you kind of learned that, you know, these guys got a lot of good stuff. So in order to get that good stuff, and I was taught that academics was the way to kind of better your life to get that cool stuff. So that was kind of my goal as soon as football, I realized it could be an option for me because my high school coach, coach and NFL, Gus Ferrat, he told me, you know, whatever school you wanna go to, I feel like you got a chance to just take this football more seriously or schools you wanna go to. And I was like, oh, Ivy League, like that's where I'm trying to go. So he sent my tape out to them and they got back to me with Dan a couple of weeks because of his word and what he's done in his career and stuff. They weren't recruiting me until he sent the tape out. And then they kind of all got back to me and I had offers from basically all of them then a couple of weeks. And then I got to basically choose whichever one I wanted to go to. Well, that's fantastic. You said something that seems very applicable to what you do in the NFL. And that is every weekend, your family would have meetings. You said they would have stuff on a chalkboard or whiteboard and how you can be better and goals and things like that. Did you understand when you were younger exactly why your parents were putting you through that? You know, as a kid, you're never gonna know. I wanted to go out and play basketball. I wanted to go out and play with my friends or just go watch TV or something. But definitely grateful for that. Cause also one thing that kids are not getting anymore, like your attention span is goes out the window nowadays. Like TV shows are only 15 minutes long now. We're cutting out ads and all this stuff.  So sitting through a three hour long meeting with your parents where you can't look at anything but your parents on the whiteboard. That's definitely also teaching you something on one respect and being there and meetings and stuff and just being able to pay attention and try to really be involved in everything that's going on. But I think it definitely taught me a lot cause you don't really know that you're getting all these life lessons until lessons hit you in the face. And then you're like, oh, I learned about that when I was a kid or oh, this is what my dad was talking about when I was younger and you kind of just are very thankful that you have parents there and they really gave their everything for me and my brother to grow up in. Everything was dedicated to us after we were born. So very thankful for that. This is a great jumping off point cause you talk about all the education at home, at school, you know, John Burroughs at Yale. So we're just come off a period of summer Memorial Day, right? We all grew up understanding what Memorial Day was, but we're also in the realm too, where the Tulsa race massacre or Juneteenth, of course, Juneteenth where slaves in Texas were notified of their liberation two years after the emancipation, proclamation by Abraham Lincoln freed the enslaved. Did you learn about like, I didn't learn about Juneteen or Tulsa race massacre a couple of years ago? Yeah, I didn't learn about that in high school. I think we did have a class though, we had AFAM. So I think they would have learned about, I did not choose that elective. When you were in college? Hmm, I was high school, John. High school? So it's a very progressive school. I'm sure they learned about that in AFAM, but it's not something that I, I think it was my senior year, it was only a trimester long. So it's not something that was really focused on. You had to choose it as an elective, but I'm sure they learned about it there. But even then I think that, especially if a progressive school like John Burr, I don't know why that's not in the curriculum, especially now that I know more and more about that stuff. I don't even know how much my parents knew about it when they immigrated here. Obviously they're not from, or I'm born here, but I feel like they were very much be a part of, you know, African history. They should, that should be taught in schools since you're in kindergarten. And I think the more you kind of learn about history, you can't, you shouldn't erase it. It should be there in textbooks. It should be there to learn from and understand where we might have been wrong and hold us accountable as a country. But really that's all I have on. I think that we should just be more aware of it and kind of learn from it. What about the progressive learning? I mean, it seems to your generation, I'm more than twice your age. You guys seem to be learning and you talk about being progressive that the high school you went to, but learning more and more about things that we, that I never would, I was never taught about the Tulsa Race Massacre or things like this. What about being in this period where you're being educated and being enlightened where you can share with a younger generation who still might not be taught about that in their school curriculum? I think it's very important now. I think that's how change is made. Basically, stories being passed down, it wasn't passed down to us. So now that it is being shown, a lot of times on social media is where we unfortunately learn all of our stuff. But, we then we kind of dig deeper into it. Now we kind of have our own information on it, our own thoughts and stuff on it. Then we can pass it down to our kids now that they're growing up with this information and kind of learning how to internally accept it or kind of learn from it so that we can understand each other's differences and really kind of coincide as a nation.  But I think when you've accepted and trying to learn from it and come together as one, then it's very useful. Now, you've met all kinds of challenges, whether in life, athletics, is there something right now outside of football where you're saying, okay, this is the goal or this is something I wanna do next outside of sports? Outside of sports, ooh. I wanna help, people helped me growing up. I don't think I would have been here without the help of a lot of people I went to school with, their parents, kind of reached back and saw my family, I wouldn't say struggling, but not doing as well. Definitely couldn't hand, it's not a handout. We always like to say definitely just a hand up, people who are trying to get up, kind of showing that effort, I think deserve a hand up. So there's an organization I do work with in St. Louis, Live for Life. And I think that, and they're basically, kind of giving education and sometimes shelter to these kids who are needing to go through school and definitely trying to get to the next level of trying to use their education better themselves. So when I do hit my next count, I think that's one thing that kind of motivates me is that I can help other people the same way I could be helped. All right, four way, hey man, we appreciate you taking the time. Well done, always good to chat with another fellow St. Louisian, best of luck to you. Thank you, appreciate you.


Hi friends, I am Dr. Amritlar Mascarinis, Consultant Spine Surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Millers Road. So today we are here to discuss with three of our guests about their spinal ailments. Then we have Anushka, a young lady who had come presented with the deformity of the spine, what we call scoliosis, which can be quite deforming and could be a cosmetic problem and could also lead to pain and complications in the future. So we had to plan her treatment and she did undergo surgery and she will be doing her as her inputs on what she went through before during and after surgery and so that it can be a message to our viewers, as to young viewers, as to how they should look at their spinal problems. We have Anushka here, she is 20, she came to me with the complaints of a deformity of the spine. Of course she was diagnosed much earlier and at the age of around 13 maybe and then the doctors then felt that she did not need a surgery because the deformity of her spine was too small. So the deformity we are what we are talking about is scoliosis which is the sideward bending of the spine and it can have its own effects on individuals. So Anushka, could you share with us what were you going through before the surgery? What was it that you were feeling? What were the things that made you come to a spine specialist and seek help? What were those main factors that disturbed you in your life that made you say, okay, yes, I think I need to undergo a surgery of the spine? I was diagnosed with scoliosis much before I met the doctor but with time I think it became progressively worse and also the external deformity, the external appearance of it became worse and also in general just daily things like being able to sleep or wear certain kind of clothes, all of that slowly became a little bit more challenging and so that's when my parents and I decided that maybe it was time to consult a spine specialist and just make sure that we do the right thing to treat the disorder. So what made you conscious? Is it your own appearance in the mirror or was it some friends commenting or strangers commenting that hey, there's something? No, so I would, it was never negative comments, it was more like people would notice because it was pretty noticeable but it was never in the negative, it was more out of concern that they would come and ask me but yeah, personally just looking into the mirror and seeing it and also not just the external appearance but more like being able to do daily things like if I want to do some sort of exercise or like I said sit a certain way or sleep in a certain position those also became more difficult. Also with progression of scoliosis one develops pain and in the long run there can be weakness in the legs and the spinal deformity becomes much more rigid and progress is gradually and that can lead to severe problems much later like at the age of 40 or 15 and that could be a problem for individuals and at that point it becomes a much more challenging surgery so it's better to address scoliosis and such deformities at a much younger age. There's a popular myth among people that young children should not undergo surgery and that's really not true because the spinal canal the size the space meant for the nerves is fully formed by the age of 6 to 7 years and the deformity the bony structure gets fully formed by between the age of 10 to 16 and fusing the spine correcting deformities really doesn't lead to loss of height people have another apprehension that they lose height because of while we fuse and put so many screws into the spine. So that's not true they don't lose much most of the growth happens in the long bones of the body like the thigh and the leg and all that. So were you concerned when I told you that you'll need to be we'll need to put screws and do a major surgery which would last probably for about 4 to 5 hours. I think I knew I was mentally prepared when I walked in I knew that I might have needed surgery but for my parents definitely it was more of a taken they were taken aback a little bit reasonably so it's a pretty major surgery but I think for me the focus was more on the outcome because I was it wasn't it became a little bit more difficult to do like I said the daily thing so the focus was more like after everything I'll be a lot more comfortable but so I wasn't very very apprehensive of the surgery. So was there a lot of pain after surgery or was it manageable or comfortable surgery because it is a big surgery where we put an incision which is more than a foot long we insert screws which are like about 18 to 20 number we put rods in there do a manure which corrects the deformity and straightens a crooked spine which has been crooked for a long time so there's a lot of muscle imbalance which has to be corrected and there's a big incision so was there a lot of pain was it a torture to an unbearable experience after surgery? It wasn't unbearable it was completely manageable it took some time for me to get comfortable with my body after the surgery but it was definitely not like after the torture. Yeah okay good that's important to know because we all we are on the constant pursuit to reduce the patient's pain after surgery so that their surgical experience is much better. When did you walk after the surgery? People think that after surgery means bed rest and no walking around for a month or two. When did you walk after surgery? Two days after the surgery. And how many days were you in the hospital after that? Five days. So usually the surgical course is postoperative course is typically three to four days of admission and then the stitches come off by two weeks and within a month you were back to college. Did it affect your college life? Did it affect your academic pursuits? Definitely not I was I mean it took me around in a month I guess I was able to handle long days of college and things like that. Carry your backpack? Yes and now it's six months in and I'm able to handle 12-13 hour days very very easily and so it didn't take a lot of time away from college and things like that. So when I look at scoliosis there are certain aspects to it one is that of a pain factor, two is that of a cosmosis and three is the psychological impact it has on a person and also four whether it affects academics because usually we're dealing with young individuals. So in these four factors did you get a change in the pain perspective before and after surgery? Did it help in pain? Definitely did because the protrusion was a lot so it was very uncomfortable to lie down in it I don't know my back or to sit a certain way and things like that but now that's kind of evened out a little bit I'm able to do those things more comfortable. Cosmosis? A lot a lot. So cosmosis is major and academics not affected? No never made a difference and before surgery after surgery I mean the surgery didn't really stop or poses any obstacle with my academic perspective. And what do your friends say? I mean everybody who's close to me can like see a difference huge difference and they're very very happy that I went through with the surgery. So to put it in a nutshell you have two or three things to tell our young viewers on how you will. That surgery can be scary but if it's done but your doctors know what they're doing and if only they see that you require surgery they would recommend it to you and if they do it's nothing to be scared of everything is monitored and that you would be a lot more comfortable after you get the surgery so if that's the best thing for you you should get it done. And inside into your surgery we do have these devices during surgery which monitors your spinal cord function so that we can do a safe surgery. When we correct the deformity of the spine we actually monitor we put electrodes in the scalp as well as the legs and we pass electric current through the spinal cord to make sure that our screws and the deformity maneuvers correction maneuvers do not affect the spinal cord so that the patient is able to walk sooner after surgery. So a lot of planning and teamwork goes into surgeries which complex surgeries like scoliosis and tumors and so many other spinal surgeries. So that was Anushka for us thank you very much for your insights Anushka.


Hello and welcome to the session. I am Deepika here. Let's discuss the question which says a solid iron pole consists of a cylinder of height to 20 cm and base diameter 24 cm which is surmounted by another cylinder of height 60 cm and radius 8 cm. Find the mass of the pole given that 1 cm cube of iron has approximately 8 gram mass. Use pi is equal to 3.14. Now we know that volume of a cylinder is equal to pi e r square h where r is the radius and h is the height of this cylinder. Also mass is equal to volume into density. So this is the key idea behind our question. We will take the help of this key idea to solve the above question. So let's start the solution. Now according to the question a solid iron pole consists of a cylinder of height to 20 cm and the height of this cylinder is to 20 cm and base diameter 24 cm is surmounted by another cylinder of height 60 cm and radius 8 cm h1 be the radius height of first cylinder. This is our first cylinder and this is our second cylinder. Therefore this is equal to 24 upon 2 cm because the diameter is 24 cm and this is equal to 12 cm and h1 is equal to 220 cm. Therefore volume of first cylinder is equal to r1 square into h1. This is equal to take pi is equal to 3.14 into 12 square 20 cm cube. Let us take this as number 1. Let be the radius and height of second cylinder. Therefore r2 is equal to 6 cm and h2 is equal to 60 cm because it is given in the question also. Therefore volume of second cylinder is equal to 22 square into h2 and this is equal to 3.14 into 8 square into 60 cm cube. Let us give this as number 2. Now volume of the iron pole is equal to volume of first cylinder plus volume of second cylinder. Substitute the value of now from 1 volume of first cylinder is equal to 3.14 into 12 square is 144 into 220 plus 3.14 from 2 into 64 into 60 cm cube. Let us take 3.14 common. We have volume of the iron pole is equal to 3.14 into 144 into 220 plus 64 into 60 cm cube and this is equal to 3.14 into 31680 plus 3840 cm cube and this is again equal to 3.14 into 35520 cm cube. Now mass of 1 cm cube of iron is equal to 8 gram therefore mass of 3.14 into 35520 cm cube of iron is equal to into 3.14 into 35520 grams and this is equal to 1.4 upon 100 into 35520 upon 1000 kg because 1 kilogram is equal to 1000 grams. Want to convert grams into kilograms we will divide it by 1000. This is equal to 840 upon 1 land. In the fractional form we will convert this into decimal form. So this is equal to 2.26 kg. Answer for the above question is 892.26 kg. I hope the solution is clear to you. Bye and take care.


need life say. All right, question. Are arranged marriages worthwhile than we give them credit for? Okay, we're going to wrap up with this question. I love this question. Are arranged marriages more worthwhile than we give credit to? So during my trip to Chicago, when I got picked up at the airport, I was picked up by a young Pakistani man when I say young, he was 37 years old. And I was my cab ride was an hour and 20 minutes. So we had an intense conversation. And it turned out I asked him about his life and he's married to children. I grew up in Pakistan, he had family members here. So they brought him over. And he said he was he's his marriage was arranged. And I said, How do you feel about that? He says, I love it. I love it. I go why? And he said something very profound. He said, you don't marry the woman or two people aren't marrying each other. It's two families merging together. So you've got his mother and father, her mother and father, her siblings, his siblings, and they're merging this and whether those siblings have, you know, married to one another type of thing. And you're merging families together. And he says, you have the strength of the family to hold and support the relationship. And he says he loves it. And it made me think about America where we literally kick children out out the door at age 18. There's an individuation. There's really a lack by the way, and here in America, two families could, I mean, I've seen this happen over and over again, where two people get married, but the parents don't like each other and they create tension or they don't like the one, they don't like the the the the fiance or they don't like the the the groom. I mean, they and they undermine the relationship. The families and by the way, families can undermine the relationship. And also if you're divorced, children continually undermine relationships. So imagine in the Brady bunch where, you know, Carol Brady, if Mike Carol Brady's kids couldn't stand Mike Brady and vice versa would have undermined the relationship. So with arranged marriages, there's a lot, there's a bigger picture involved. It requires really thinking about can these two families merge together? Because here in the United States, we no longer operate from, we no longer operate from tribes, villages and communities. We don't operate from that, you know, that strength of the tribe. And there's no tribe accountability. That's why when I said, I'm your big brother, if I could be there on a first date and I had the shotgun pointed the guys fed because there's a sense of accountability when you have a tribe and these days when you're meeting total strangers, ladies, there's no one to protect you from a stranger. There's nobody to protect you. I don't necessarily mean physically, but certainly physically is important. But I mean emotionally.  Okay, I would do that for a client. I get a matter of fact, if you're dating someone and you want me to get on the phone with them to vet him, I mean, it's going to charge I charge a shitload of money to do this. But you know what? I'm your protector. My job is to ferret out. Does he value you? Or does he devalue you? And because the tribe in the arranged marriages were all about valuing each other, they had a greater chance for success. So to answer your question, which I love wrapping up on that one, arranged marriages actually do have greater sense of success, not always, but a greater chance of success. All right. Jennifer says, I like wait a minute, I like the idea of arranged marriage seriously. Well, there you go. All right. Does my content sink in with you? Is it resonating with you? Please let me know. Please give me a thumbs up, hit that like button, share this with your friends, subscribe if you haven't subscribed, tell your friends about my channel, check out the link to a free discovery call with me. If you can't afford coaching, check out my private group called midlife love mastery. This is a group where you can have direct access to me on a regular basis for just a nominal fee and I shoot personalized videos just for you. That's my group. Check out my podcast, check out my Instagram, check out my free gift we're doing. Join my mailing list today. Check out the list because I'm doing a free call where you can call in to ask questions next week. So do all that, check out the links below. All right. I think this will be a great place. Did I, did I bring value to you? Please let me know. Say Jonathan, this was valuable. Please let me know. All right. We're going to wrap up today as I always do.  I'm going to reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm asking you to turn to someone, a pet, a teddy bear, a pillow and give it or them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love and let's face it, we could all use more love in our lives. I want to thank


Welcome to Sheboygan County Government, working for you. My name is Adam Payne, County Administrator and co-host of this program with Chairman Tom Wagner. And as you know, every month we strive to focus on a different department, generally have a different department head to share their roles and responsibilities. And today I'm very pleased that our District Attorney, Joe DeCeclos with us. Welcome, Joe. Thank you, Adam. Thank you, Tom. Pleasure to be here. It's good to have you here. We were just talking a little bit prior to the program. It's been, I think, since 2010 since Joe's been on the program, and it's not a reflection of our feelings about Joe. Frankly, he is one of the busiest department heads working for Sheboygan County. He's been with the county now for 27 years. September 5th, 1989 was my first day as a prosecutor in Sheboygan County. And it's been how many years as the elected? I took office as a District Attorney in 2003, January 2003. So it'll be 14 years by the time of retirement. And your last day working here will be January 2nd, 2017. At midnight. At midnight. Which I won't be staying. We're going to get every bit of value we cannot have here. We've gotten such value from you and your team, Joe. It's just been a pleasure working with you for the last 18 years in my role as county administrator. And it's just good to have you on the program today. And it's a bit of a fond farewell or reflection of the program where we're going to learn a little bit more about Joe and his roles and responsibilities, the good work that his office does, and give him a chance to look back a little bit as well as look forward. So let's start with setting the stage. We clearly are going to have viewers out there that haven't met you before. Tell us a little bit about yourself and when you first started as a prosecutor. Well, I'm originally from New England, as you may tell, from my slight accent. And I was a what was then a paramedic, although it was before that certification level was created, we would call mobile intensive care specialists are mixed for short. And I worked in a hospital and a rescue squad. And in my capacity of that, I was actually subpoenaed in for a court case and went to the courthouse and I was going to testify. But since I was working that day, I had my scrub whites on with my sethoscope. And apparently the defendant saw me and talked to his attorney and they accepted whatever offer there was and I would get to testify. But that just fascinated me. It really fascinated me. And I decided that I might like to do that. And so I applied to a number of law schools. Wisconsin accepted me. I had a couple of those accepted me there on the east coast and I figured, hey, I'm going to do this. Let me go somewhere I've never been before. And so I came to Wisconsin in 1985. I graduated in 1989 and I was 20 years old at the time. And then September 5th of 1989, I was hired by the NDA Jim Frisch in the Schwoing County as an assistant district attorney. So it's been 27 years. So prior to that experience, you were heading down kind of the medical career path. Well, I was pretty much at the top of the pay scale. I've been doing it for 13 years. So I was pretty much at the top of the pay scale. And quite frankly I was just looking for some other interest. And you go to the courtroom and that sparked you going back to school, going to law school. Right. It was just one of those coincidences where I think, I just try it. I'll take the law school admission test. I'll apply to school, see if they bite. They did. I decided to go to Wisconsin and off I came. And so you graduated from UW Madison with your law degree and then came right back to Schwoing County? Well, I was at Madison for the law school tenure. Right. And I went around, after I graduated, I went all over the state trying to get a prosecutor's job. I only wanted to criminal law and I didn't want to defend anyone. I wanted to prosecute them. And I think I had like 200 bucks in the bank left. 200 bucks to my name when Jim Frisch hired me. And I was like, oh, thank God. I'll be darned. And the other thing that prompted me was I learned in law school that if you graduate from a Wisconsin law school and you're going to practice in Wisconsin, you don't have to take a state bar exam. And I had been pretty much had it with exams. I mean, I was an older student. Right. Right. I was surrounded by like kids and I just had it with the exams. And so I decided to stay and I was fortunate to find a job in Schwoing County. So you're hired as a prosecutor. You worked as a prosecutor for a number of years and then at some point made the decision to run as the elected department and the district attorney. I did. Yep. And I made a decision in 2002. I won the election in November that year because they coincided with the presidential elections. And I took office in 2003 and I've been there ever since. And have you had any competition ever since? Only for the first election. For the first election. The very first one. But after that, no. I'll be darned. And tell me a little bit about your staff. How large is your staff? And I know you have kind of a unique mix. You're a unique department in that you have both state prosecutors and county support staff working with you. Share with our viewers a little bit about that relationship. How that works. Well, we have 7.5 full-time prosecutors to clean myself. They're all state employees. They're benefits and salary paid for by the state. We then have a county staff of 14 in our office. They're all obviously paid by the county. So in effect, we have two budgets. Every time budget time comes around. We have a state budget and we have the county budget. And the county provides for not only the salary and benefits of everyone that works in our office, but the operating costs and things of that nature. The state only pays salary and benefits. And so, and pretty much the state just tells us what's going to happen. Whereas in the county we have some leeway to adjust our own budget and to make decisions based on what's best for the office, what's best for the county. Yeah, I mentioned there's quite a difference from the state because here as we both well know sit down, we talk it through. What are your needs? What are new initiatives? What's happening? And of course for every department that's different, ultimately the county board will decide. And at the state level, I can't imagine you have a lot of input or those kinds of discussions. There's absolutely no input whatsoever. They just tell you. Even for salary and things of that nature, they just tell you. So we never have the opportunity to negotiate. Not to the degree we appreciate with the county and try and figure things out. Sure. So as you think back as your years as a prosecutor and as the district attorney, what have been some of your more memorable cases?  That's just, you know, the way your memory works. And certainly the two 13 year olds that committed the homicide against the great grandmother, one of them that sticks out. We have a current case pending where the woman's alleged to have strangled or suffocated rather her toddler child. I mean, we've had a number of homicides. We don't have a lot of homicides.  But we've had a few. We had drug deals come up from Milwaukee to erase the competition. And there's been homicides there. We've had, you know, multiple day trials on those. And we have a lot of heroin cases. And I'm talking about not just delivery of heroin, but people deliver it and then someone dies from it. And that's under Wisconsin law. That's first degree reckless homicides, a serious, serious offense. And that is just blossomed in the last eight, nine years. And then we have some odd stuff. I mean, we had people remember, I think his name was Jiffy. He was a dog that was just huge. It was obese. It was just a huge dog. And it was in the winter. It apparently got wet. It's laid down on a sidewalk and it froze to the sidewalk. The owner couldn't get it off. They called police. Police called the Sheboyin County Humane Society. They came out and had some warm water get it off there. Actually took custody of it and get it down to its proper weight. I think it was even featured in one of the Fourth of July parades, I think at some time. And there was a misdemeanor charge against the woman because the dog was just in terrible shape. And anyway, so, and I believe he was adopted by someone else, he's doing fine. We've had some strange cases like that. Any case in particular that is the most memorable or that haunts you a little bit or disturbs you to this day, or has there just been so much on your plate at this point? There's nothing you haven't seen. Well, there's nothing we haven't seen. I always think maybe this will surprise me, but it doesn't. I think the two 13-year-olds and the grandmother were very disturbing. I think there was one young woman who gave birth at a workplace and killed her newborn infant. There was a trial on that. These things kind of stick with you. And I do the child pornography charges too. I have since I was an assistant as an attorney. One thing I will not miss as of January 2nd and that's just really, it's just tough to do that because we have to view the videos or view the photographs. And these little kids being sexually assaulted and it's being distributed. So, yeah, those things I won't miss at all. But it's all very disturbing. We know going into this field, it's going to be disturbing. We know that. But still, it's I was talking to someone from the office. Someone's been there a long time and she was telling me that the other day a man in a pig or pig can say where it was, come up to her and say, that's a very nice dress you're wearing and walked away. We get really suspicious and paranoid from what we do. And she said to me, I kept my eye on that guy. I wasn't sure what he was up to. You know, there are some people that just are nice people and say, hey, you're looking pretty good and don't want anything else. And yet our view is that, what the heck's that guy up to? That's the same with going, you know, just walking down the street, you see someone standing by, you know, I keep an eye on this guy. That's from the nature of the job and it gives you a skewed view of society because all we see are the criminals. We don't see for them what we see victims, we don't see for the most part, you know, the many, the vast majority of people that are good citizens, they do the job, they pay their taxes, you know, they support their schools, they have great kids. We don't see those people. We think about law enforcement and how they so often are dealing with people that are making bad choices and the law enforcement officers can get jaded and our 18 years of working together or interacting, you know, I've never once asked you how do you and your staff manage that kind of emotional, disturbing conduct, behavior, information? I, you know, I'm sure our viewers can share, can feel, you know, in our own homes things happen or in our families things happen or we may know someone or something bad happened, but when, and we know how emotionally trying that is on all of us, yet when you're dealing with it every single day and at the level that you are, how do you, what do you do to stay balanced? What do you and your staff do to stay grounded? The most important thing is to leave it at the office. You don't bring it home. It's a job you have to do and it can get quite emotional, particularly during a trial when you're trying to secure a conviction of someone has done something really nasty to someone and then when, and we do win the vast majority of our trials just the nature of things and when you, when you get a guilty verdict, it's very satisfying, but then it's time to go on to the next thing. So you really don't have time to reflect at any length on the emotions you may have during a particular trial. I think children as victims is the most emotional for any, for all of us and unfortunately there's a lot of those around the county, but you have to put it aside, you know, and you have to divorce yourself from what you have to do, what you see, what you experience because you have to do it at your job from your everyday life. That's amazing. It's amazing the work that you and your staff do. Last question I'll turn it over to Tom. Have there been any programs that you've created or initiated that have helped with this challenging workload? Well, we do have some diversion programs in effect. The first one was created by my predecessor with the check forward unit and then when I came on, we had a final way to raise revenue and so we had a county ordinance which created this check diversion program. You know, it's a misdemeanor, depending on the amount of the check, but it's a misdemeanor issue or a check that bounces. So what we try to do with this program is give the people a chance to pay whoever it is, most of the time, it's a merchant back. They pay a fee of $35 or 20% of the total amount of the checks, whatever it's higher, and then we give them about nine months to a year to pay back that merchant. Merchants really like this. I mean, you know, we don't charge them a fee for this and it brings in some revenue into the county. It's not a lot, but it brings in some. We also have Judge Sirkevich, Angela Sirkevich, began a veterans court about two years ago and we participate in that. We have a prosecutor that's on the veterans court and that's aimed at getting veterans of our military, the assistance and the counseling they may need because of their experiences in a relatively intensive treatment program, while at the same time allowing them the opportunity to not be convicted of crime because it was a serious crime. That's not an option. And then we just began our alcohol and drug treatment court, which was two years in the making, and that's for high risk, high need persons who addicted. We started about two years ago because of the heroin influx and opiate influx and it's gradually expanded to include alcohol, which everybody knows is a drug and we're just now beginning with that. I think we have six or eight people in the program already and it's another way to provide high supervision, high amounts of counseling to these people rather than just sending them to jail or prison. We're trying to decrease the cost and expense of jail and particularly prison and we think these programs will assist in doing that. Decrease cost as well as really give people the support they need to break out of those. Yeah, they got to break out of them. They'll do the rest of their lives. They're always in addicts. It's like an alcoholic, it's always an alcoholic. With their heroin addict or opening up, they're always going to be an addict. The key is give them the tools to get out of that. They're always going to be an addict, but to give them the tools to understand why they're addicted to it, look at the problems that may have caused the addiction, and get them into a position where they can make good decisions for themselves. And that hopefully becomes productive citizens. Excellent. Thank you, Joe. Tom. Thank you, Adam. Joe, it's been a pleasure working with you the last eight years. You and the law committee had a time for a long time. That's right. Eight years ago when I first got on the county board, my first assignment from then, Chairman Van der Steen was on the law committee where I first met you really and worked with you and it was a pleasure working with you then. It's been a pleasure working with you all through the time. So congratulations on your retirement. You oversee one of the 19 departments as Adam had talked about, but yours is unique because it's part state, your state employees, as you talked about the district attorneys are, but the county employees are there too. How does that work within the office setting when you have kind of multiple employers with the different employee groups? Well, even though we have multiple employers, I'm the guy that everyone comes to, any DA in the state. It doesn't matter who their employer is, the state of the county they go to the DA, they have problems and stuff. I like the thing, we had a lot of people that have been there a long time and we have a very good even though we're just inundated with work, we have a very good morale in our office. We encourage people to do something's bothering let's talk about it, let's not let it fester. Let's, you know, they have suggestions that make things better. We'll be happy to listen to them and if they're good suggestions, implement them. And I just am particularly proud of the level of morale we have in the office between not only the prosecutors but and the staff, but among everybody. I just like to think I had something to do with them staying so long and being content in their jobs and doing their jobs well. I'm sure it does. How many assistant DA's do you have and what is your total budget? We have 7.5 prosecutors by the latest legislative bureau analysis procedure, which is a bipartisan independent entity that advises the legislature. We are four and changed prosecutors shy of what we should have to handle a caseload. The need for prosecutors has gone up since the previous evaluation. What is it, 117? What is it about 140? And we really haven't gotten any relief from the state. Unfortunately, I mean in 1990, when I was hired, I was a county assistant district attorney. In 1999 the state took it over. We're going to pay for this, we're going to, you know, we'll take care of that. And just to be honest, they just dropped the ball ever since. And I think the last time we even got a half position, that's the half of the 7.5 was in 2002 if I'm not mistaken. And every year I've asked for more people and I'll think anyone in the state's gotten it. With the exception of the public defense office that over the last two budgets had 63 positions added and we had three, which were simply making half time, three quarter time, into full time. So it's not us versus them thing, but we need help too. So that's one of the significant problems we have. We still have the same amount of work to do that is, you know, it keeps increasing. Now budgets are just under a million dollars a year and that budget would be just the county budget. The state budget, they just tell us what it is, that's it. But the county budget is just shy of a million dollars a year. And I know your relationship, if you want to take a, here's your chance, relationship with the county board over the years and with the state attorney general's office, because you have to have two relationships. Right, and the county boys have been great. I mean they've been, you know, we don't agree on every single thing and we've, you know, I've had some moments of not conflict, but difference of opinion.  And I think county board and I, the law committee members particularly, because they're my main contact, we've always been on work things out. They, you know, people listen to what your problem is, they'll listen to what solution you have to offer and they'll make a decision. Because, you know, the county board is essentially the fiscal watchdog for the county. And anything involving money or more money or increase in tax levy, they take a very close look at that. And there's got to be a compelling reason, I think for anyone to be successful or to find alternatives to that. And I think over the years, we've been able to do that with, I know those county board members I've dealt with have passed them out there anymore. There are new ones now that I'm just dying to deal with, particularly on the law committee. There's a couple of new people on the law committee. But as long as we're going to always sit down and talk about it and just not shut off the conversation, it'll work out and I think that's what has happened over the years. I really appreciate the county board being willing to listen to the unique problems we have in our office and to listen to our proposed solutions and to offer counter solutions or alternative solutions. I really appreciate that. Well, thank you. I think the key there is that there's back and forth in discussion before decisions are made. Yeah, you get ticked off to someone and say, I'm not talking to that guy again. What does that accomplish? Not much, right? Yeah, it doesn't cover anything.  He is. And he's assuming because of the fact that he's running unopposed. Any thoughts going forward with the new DA that you want to? Well, I think the DA is in good hands. ADA, Joel Hermanski, is the only one on the ballot. So as long as he beats out like Mickey Mouse on down the road, it'll be fine. And he's been there 10 years, about 10 years. You know, I hired him out of Marquette Law School. He had a live experience with the Milwaukee DA's office gun team. They'll have teams down there. We don't have teams. We don't have enough people. And Joel, I'm very confident that the DA's office will be just great hands with Joel. I really do, I see. One thing I was afraid of, I didn't want someone coming in from the outside and deciding, I'm going to revamp everything. We really have come to the point where our organization is out of necessity, not out of choice. And for someone to convince them we're going to do a thing, all is different here. It's just not going to work because we tried them all. It just doesn't work. Joel knows the problems in our office.  And he's a good communicator. He's an excellent prosecutor. So I'm very confident that the Schwoing County DA's office will be in good hands. Very nice of you to say. What do you, to end with, my question is you're, and you talked about a little bit earlier, your concerns about crime in Schwoing County going forward, what are your biggest concerns relative to that? Well, you know, we had just an explosion of heroin, opiate use in the county. It's not just this guy, it's the whole state. Exactly. But in fact, you know, we have, you know, we do after hours warrants for the police. You know, crime doesn't end at five o'clock, Monday through Friday. So we're unavailable. Police need an immediate search warrant to help them get it to contact the judge, to take their testimony, whatever. And we have to make it faster and easier. We have these templates for drugs where all the drugs are listed. Well, prior to about eight years ago, heroin wasn't even on that list because it has so few heroin cases. Now, it's heroin, opiates on the most types of cases we have. So there's just, and we had the, you know, we had the first prosecution of someone who supplied heroin to a person that died in Schwoing County about eight years ago. And that was the first time that ever had been charged in the county. I mean, we just didn't have this before. Although, I really like to say that even though people, you know, look at the drug problem and some of the other problems we have, Schwoing County is still a very safe place to live. It's a very good place to raise your family. It's got great schools. It's got good community cooperation. So even though there are, you know, an uptick in crime, particularly some of the serious crimes with drugs, I think that, I still haven't lost my impression of Schwoing County as just one of the best places to raise your family to have kids to be safe. Frankly, coming from the district attorney, that's saying a lot because you obviously see the side of life that is not so positive all the time. So that's very well said. Thank you, Joe. Sure, Tom. Well, we only have a couple of minutes remaining and you've covered a lot of ground, but I wanted to go back to that reflection moment. 27 years. 27 years doing very challenging important work in the community. You talked about some of the challenges, some of the memorable moments, some of the good improvements that have been made. Any regrets, Joe? Anything that you look back on and you wish you would have become a doctor instead of a district attorney? No, I actually thought about that before I applied to law school and I would have to take somebody, I was a political science major, so I would have taken so many lab sciences, I couldn't do it, and then came the subpoena and I said, oh, this is what I want to do. No, I don't have any regrets. I mean, I miss the east coast just terribly. I miss fresh seafood and clams just terribly. And when I go home for my one vacation every year around Christmas and New Years, I just stuff myself with clams and mussels and all. It's not that bad though because I can't see the other side of Lake Michigan, so it's kind of like the ocean. So I really had no regrets. I never thought I'd be doing anything for 27 years because I had been bouncing around. I was in the Peace Corps, originally out of college. I was working in General Dynamics, inspecting nuclear submarine construction. I mean, and then I became a paramedic. I mean, I just didn't know what I was doing and now I found what I really like to do and I will miss all the people terribly, but I got to be honest, I'm not going to miss this job at all. 27 years being a prosecutor is more than enough and it's time for the younger guys to take over. Any foreshadow on what lies ahead for Joe DiCecco? Well, I'm going to stay in Sheboygan. I mean, I really like Sheboygan County. I live in the town of Wilson. I am going to teach more at Lakeland University, sorry, Lakeland University, pot time and I enjoy that. I've done that for several years now. And I'm going to travel more, but my home will be here. Wonderful. Well, thank you so much for spending 30 minutes with us this afternoon. I hope you enjoyed listening and learning more about District Attorney Joe DiCecco. Every time I spend time with Joe, I learn something and he has had a remarkable life, tremendous experience, and the value he has brought this community. I don't know if there's anyone, anyone who lives here that fully appreciates your role and responsibilities and what you and your outstanding team do. So thank you, Joe. And thank you for your kind remarks. Good to have you here. And thank you for joining us. Next month we're going to continue to focus on the court system and that important responsibility, our family court commissioner, Ryan O'Rourke. He's going to be here. He's only been family court commissioner now for a little over a year. And I'm sure you're going to enjoy hearing from him and learning more about the family court commissioner's responsibilities. But until then, thank you for joining us. And Joe, best wishes in retirement. Thanks so much for joining us.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. Just a quick note before getting into this short video to say that I'm currently in the process of splitting up my channel into various different channels. One of them is going to be called Daniel's Tech World. It's already set up, but I'm just finishing some things regarding it. And that's where you're going to be able to find going forward videos about Ubuntu and Kaden live and other topics in that nature. So now let's get into the actual video. Okay, in order to manually set the link speed on your ethernet connection in Ubuntu, you want to go down to the bottom right of the corner and click on edit connections in your network manager GUI. Then you're going to want to find your internet connection and click on the settings cog wheel. If it's not there, then you can add it by clicking on the plus symbol and creating an ethernet connection, but it's here. So clicking on setting on the first page, you're going to be taken to the main ethernet settings. And this is where you can change things to manually set a static link speed for this ethernet connection. Under link negotiation, you can choose ignore or manual. In this case, we're going to select manual. And then in the speed, you have four options, 10 Mbps 100, one gigabit for a gigabit throughput and even 10 gigabits per second. And you can also manually set the duplex between full and half click on save. And those parameters should be saved. And you've now created a manual static link speed for this ethernet connection in your Ubuntu computer. Just remember that this is setting up something on the software level. In most cases, if you it's best to leave your link speed to automatic, and it works out of the box, but if for whatever reason, you want to do it manually, this is it. But you do need to make sure that the network interface controller, the NIC, supports gigabit throughput or above on its port, because nothing you change on the software level can make that work if it's if the hardware doesn't support us. Thanks for watching this video. If you want to get more videos from me, feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel.


So far in this course, we've been talking largely about blockchain as a technology, but technologies are just tools that enable us to do things. The interesting part of the blockchain is really what it enables in terms of new forms of distributed organization. As one commentator noted, the blockchain is an institutional technology, not an information technology, there's an enormous difference between the two. Institutional revolutions are things that don't happen very often. Blockchain technology enables new forms of networked, distributed organizations, something that runs very much contrary to our existing organizational paradigm, and that's what makes it somewhat difficult for us to understand. The organizational model of the industrial age that we inherit today was one of centralization in order to achieve economies of scale through mass production, thus reducing unit cost and providing for a mass society. The technologies of the industrial age selectively favored centralization of production with enclosed hierarchical organizations. Manufacturing is in centralized factories. Transport systems are centralized around transport hubs, education within schools and universities, entertainment centralized within mass media organizations, and governance centralized within state-run organizations and so on. The information revolution is in the process of taking us into a new world of distributed networks as the organizational paradigm of the information age. The combination of telecommunications networks and computerized coordination enables us to replace centralized management within closed hierarchies with open networks. As the underlining technology matures, we're able to convert more and more systems that were previously closed and centralized and have them managed through automated networks, and the blockchain is just one more stage in this process. We saw this with the rise of the online platforms like eBay, Uber or Alibaba, social networks, blogging, etc. that built massive networks of users exchanging goods and services. But these platforms were still dependent upon the centralized organization to manage the shared database for the computing infrastructure, for the algorithms, for financial transactions, and to enable trust and authentication in the network. The decentralized web takes these platforms a step further by offering a shared, open and secure database that can be trusted by all parties and a set of protocols for the secure exchange of value between organizations and individuals peer-to-peer. The web platforms are open networks. This means they do not just optimize within a given organization, but can enable coordination across whole industries. Indeed, this is why and how they're quickly supplanting the closed organizations. What centralized organizations enabled was trust, cooperation and coordination within organizations. But what the blockchain enables is trust, coordination, and cooperation between organizations and between individuals. If we look at how our society and economy is currently organized, we'll see many closed organizations that are internally optimized. But when we look at the inter-organizational space, it's extremely inefficient along many dimensions. If we look at the way businesses coordinate along a supply chain or the way nation-states inter-operate in the global political system, we will see there is huge redundancy and friction caused by discontinuities. A classic example of this is the border system between nation-states and the bureaucratic procedures for obtaining a visa for moving from one nation to another, which creates a massive amount of friction at the inter-organizational space. And it's because those organizations don't have an effective inter-organizational infrastructure for collaboration and coordination. This greatly reduces the overall effectiveness of these systems and the delivered outcome for the end user. When we look internal to these organizations, they look like efficient, well-oiled machines. But when we look between them, the whole space is very inefficient. The whole space is very ineffective at delivering overall outcomes. And this is part of the significance of the blockchain because it provides a shared, trusted database between organizations. It has the potential to switch the dynamics within economy and society from competition between closed centralized organizations to collaboration between organizations and greatly strengthen working capacities across organizational boundaries. The results of this would be much more efficient overall societal and economic outcomes. Indeed, we can note that achieving coordination across organizations could result in quantum leaps in delivering outcomes and our capacity to tackle major global challenges of today, such as environmental degradation, where weak existing inter-organizational institutional infrastructure has gained little traction. In this respect, the blockchain has the potential to give us not just incremental improvements, but an order of magnitude greater capacities within society through collaboration within whole ecosystems. It is precisely this coordination across organizations, industries, nations and people that is required to provide the resources needed to tackle some of today's most complex challenges. And it's precisely this that is significantly absent within existing institutional structures. Because of the centralizing forces prevalent within the industrial age, we live in societies that are operated by many different closed organizations, many different companies all producing cars and competing for market share, many different governments that all focus on the interests of their citizens over those of others, many different healthcare providers, transport providers etc. The result of this is though a huge amount of inefficiency and redundancy when taken as a whole, many different companies all recreating the wheel within their own organizations and expending huge amounts of time and energy on trying to get ahead of their peers. We assume that this is the normal state of operations that it's just human nature in some way, but in fact it's really just a function of the institutional structures we have built over the past centuries. As game theory will tell us, people respond to the incentives and the socioeconomic forces acting on them. In the absence of cooperative structures, competition is often the optimal strategy for individuals and organizations. But once there is the institutional structures to enable trust and coordination between members, cooperation can become a much more viable strategy for the agents involved. Because the blockchain enables this shared and trusted database that doesn't belong to any single organization, it makes it greatly more possible and viable for organizations to collaborate on a single solution or single source and achieve much better results for each organization and the economy as a whole. As an example of this cooperation across different closed organizations, we could think about the design and construction of a building. There may be many different companies involved in this process, all creating their own designs and diagrams for the building, with each having to continuously contact each other to access, exchange and cross-reference all this information. Given a single shared database, they could though or collaborate on a single design of the building, making for a greatly more efficient overall process, while at the same time each organization would benefit, and thus the overall results are more efficient. Likewise, the same is true for identity. We currently have many different copies of our identity spread across many different organizations, governments, social networks, employees etc. But each of these only has a partial understanding of us. Currently we're recreating the wheel for each organization, while data and reputation does not move well between them. Instead a single identity could be created on the blockchain that belongs to the individual, with each organization then contributing to this data, as they work together to create a more complete record of identity and reputation. In so doing we've moved from all those frictions between these closed organizations to collaboration and synergies between them, creating something that is greater than any of the parts they had before. The same for a supply chain, instead of each participant holding their own documents and records during each stage in the supply chain, a single record for the item could be created on the blockchain, with each organization then contributing their information to it, to create a single source of truth that is accessible to all as needed. While at the same time being more secure than having separate records in each centralized database. The end result of this new institutional technology is a much greater capacity for inter-organizational collaboration and powerful ecosystems that are greater than the sum of their parts. Given that all our current systems of organization that are centralized could be decentralized in this fashion using blockchain technology, we can see how it really could enable a reorganization of society and economy. Organizations within society rarely operate in isolation, they function as parts of ecosystems and the value for society is not created by any one but instead by the flow of value across the ecosystem. It's not Apple that delivers our iPhones, it's a massive global supply chain of hundreds of different organizations collaborating. Whereas our previous institutional structures optimize for individual organizations, the blockchain optimizes for the value within the whole ecosystem and thus potentially a much greater value for society as a whole. The information revolution is changing the world from disconnected to connected, the genie of hyperconnectivity is out of the bottle and connectivity along virtually all dimensions is proliferating daily. As a consequence our systems of organization will change from being based around fixed structures and boundaries to being coordinated via connections. Instead of the control of components through fixed hierarchical structures, organization will emerge out of the interaction and the exchange of value along those interactions. Enabling that will require a massive build out of secure friction-less information networks, this global cloud computer of the blockchain. To understand better how this shared database that enables inter-organizational collaboration works, we'll talk about distributed ledger technology in the coming video.


Remission is one of the five clemency powers that is available to both the president and the governor. Remission means reduction. In case of remission, there is a reduction in the time period of sentence without any change in the nature of a sentence. For example, a person undergoing 10 years of rigorous imprisonment after remission will undergo only 5 years of rigorous imprisonment. Here, there is no change in the nature of sentence but only reduction in the time period of sentence. To remember the difference between commutation and remission, associate the word commutation with the word change because in case of commutation, there is a change in the nature of a sentence. Also, commutation and change start with the same letter C and associate the word remission with reduction because both words start with the same letter R and there is only a reduction in the time period of sentence. Thank you.


All right, let's bring in the aforementioned Josh Brannon. Five goals tonight, 100 for your career. Josh, what does that number mean to you? To be honest, I don't even know until Coach told me after the game. It's pretty awesome, I guess. I've got to give a lot of credit to my teammates, though. All I don't want to do is just one. You know what? I understand that, right? You trade all those goals in to win a national championship. I get that idea.  Can you take me through? Why is it that you're someone that says, I don't care. I don't care what it is, what deck I'm being dealt. Like, I'm going to go out and give that type of effort and do everything I can to lift my guys up. Yeah, like I said, again, all I want to do is win. I want to help my teammates. Coach is a tremendous coach all four or five years and kind of do it without him. He's a great leader. And yeah, like I said, I just want to win. I love to go out here every day and just compete. I know one of the cool parts you've been able to do it with some of your close friends, right?  Yeah, especially talking about close friends. One of my close friends, Cam. I've known Cam since middle school, played with him in a high school club. Yeah, I've known him since he was a little kid. It's awesome to play with him alongside with me. I'm starting to think, man, we might be able to do this for forever. You're not starting to have any of those feelings, are you? No, no, we haven't thought about it next year or anything. I understand that. Josh, this team obviously was a difficult start to the season. You guys played a heck of a schedule. Coach mentioned some of the things that you had to fight through personally. This stretch recently, playing really good lacrosse, how do you feel about the direction that this team is headed in? Yeah, like you said, we didn't start off hot. But I think every day we go to practice, compete, and we're just trying to get back on track and win an awesome championship. All right, who do we need to give a shout out to? Who's watching? And who's helped you along your path the most? You want to make sure you say, hey, thank you. Definitely got to give a shout out to my parents.  I love them. That's all that matters.


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If you like the video, subscribe to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day and stay current on our ever-changing and vast inventory here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the 18-inch polished aluminum wheels and it has Nexon, Rodean, HTX2 tires. These are LT27570R18s and I would say that they have probably about 60%, 70% of the tread left on them. So very good amount of tread left on those tires. Framing underbodies in very nice clean condition. This is a clean title history out of Oklahoma. Front fender is in excellent shape. It does have the LED headlamps, LED running lights and LED fog lamps. I will turn those on at the end of the video so you can see just how bright they are. The front bumper is absolutely perfect. No dents or dings on there. You get the chrome-trimmed grille and the hood is in excellent shape. I didn't see a single dent or ding on there. Passenger side front fender is absolutely perfect. And the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of this 2022 Ram 2500, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck here, the truck, and of confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you sell the video, that it was helpful and that Brett sent you back wheels in excellent shape as well. And the back tires have a little bit more tread than the front tires. That would say 80 to 90% of the tread left on these back tires, they look almost new. Frame and underbody back here looks great. Definitely advantageous to get a vehicle from Oklahoma as all the remaining factory exhaust and the underbody is absolutely perfect. Lower rockers and cab corners are in great shape and you do get the factory chrome step bars. You also get the fender flares, part of that Laramie package, I didn't see any dents or dings on that box side. Coming around to the back, rear bumpers in pretty nice shape. Does have the backup parking sensors, the full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring and for full disclosure, there's just a couple little dings right there on the rear bumper but it does not affect the performance of the truck. Tailgates in pretty nice shape. There is just a little bit of touch up on the passenger's side top there but other than that, pretty nice. Has the power drop down tailgate, very nice spray and bed liner, a little bit of light duty usage back here but nothing too bad and this one does have the 115 volt 400 watt plug-in and some nice side box tie downs. That spray and bed liner goes on to the tailgate which is really nice. That tailgate shuts nice and solidly, you also get the LED tail lamps on this side going down the driver's side, just as nice that passenger's side, no major dents or dings on the box and for full disclosure, this back wheel is just as nice as the rest. Cab and doors all look really good on this truck, didn't see any dents or dings on them. It does have the heated fold up tow mirrors built in directional signals, they fold up like so and in like that. Take a quick look at the back seats.  Smells very clean inside this truck, I don't think it's ever going to smoked in.  Got storage underneath there, nice Berber format, carpeting is in really nice condition as well. You get two USBs, two USB C's and 115 volt 400 watt plug-in back here. Side curtain airbags on the front seats, child safety locks on the back doors and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic on this truck. Show you the VIN sticker here, no previously owned in Canada trucks here, tire and loading information sticker. Up front you get the bucket seats, no rips or tears on these seats, you get the Laramie stitched into the backrest, suede and leather mesh and then you get the gray piping on there as well. Both these seats are heated and power and power driver seat and lumbar, Berber floor mats up front, auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows locks, mirrors, these mirrors do power fold in, I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly and then you get the suede bolster on the door and the wood grain trim as well. Hop inside, check out the miles, the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see this one has 53,877 miles on that seven inch LCD display, digital speedometer, compass, battery voltage, oil temperature, you can change all those corners to read pretty much whatever you want. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean, comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls and gear selector on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. This one has a push button start, push button four wheel drive, the eight speed automatic transmission, this is your Uconnect 5,8.4 inch touchscreen radio, you get AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities as well as Bluetooth, AUGUS, USB and Alexa hookups, you also have your climate controls here including your dual climate controls, heated seats and heated steering wheel controls, this one does have the factory navigation system, the snap system supposed to be five times faster than the Uconnect 4 system, there is Highway 41 so that is working nicely, then you get all your different apps in here, I'm not going to go through everything but just kind of show you what it is, basically these are just links to different parts of the radio, it does have Android Auto, Apple CarPlay capabilities and I believe they're wireless in this vehicle, this one does have the off-road pages which are pretty cool, I'll show you that in a second, along with the backup camera, they made these backup cameras HD so you can get hooked up to your boat camper trailer the first time every time, then you can zoom in on that receiver hitch for even better results, then the off-road pages right here, so these are pretty cool, you get the steering angle, as I turn that steering wheel you can see the tires turn, the angle changes and then you get latitude, longitude, altitude as well as the transfer case, so it's in two high, four high or four low, you get your accessory gauges and your pitch and roll, so if you're outside in a satellite signal it would tell you if we are pitched any degrees to the right or backwards or forwards, this one also has the Alpine premium sound system, down here your more tactile volume tune and climate controls, including the dual climate controls and your heated seats and steering wheel controls, factory brake controller, stability control, tow-haul mode, front and rear parking sensors, two USBs, two USB C's and an aux jack and down there is your 115 volt 400 watt plug-in, you get the keyless entry with remote start and I do apologize that tailgate is not a power drop-down tailgate, it's just a drop-down assist, cup holders, key, or I'm sorry coin holders as well, passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition, no rips or tears in there, you get the speakers in the ceiling, part of that Alpine premium sound system, the headliners in really nice shape, you get map lights up here, assist and SOS buttons, power side and rear window controls, home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems and an auto dimming mirror, we'll start it up and take a look under the hood, also check out all those LED lights in the front, starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out, very nice and clean truck, all those lights are working nicely and very bright, under the hood we have the 6.4 liter V8 Hemi engine, engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth once again and this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, shocks are doing a great job holding that hood up and there is the emission sticker and I would highly recommend this truck for make quality and condition standpoint, I think whoever's going to get this one is going to be very happy with it and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our 550 new cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons, you name it, we've got to go to the website right there summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summitauto.com, if you want to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heaven you be truck walk rounds on YouTube, in fact in a second we'll see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel on the upper left, a link to all the ram 2500 truck videos I've ever done in the upper right, link to this vehicle on our website and the lower left and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right, click those, check us out. 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tenders will be looking to end their 3 match T20 series against Australia early Tuesday morning Caribbean time with a win to avoid being whitewashed. The winners are down 2-0 following their 34 run loss in Sunday's second T20 in Adelaide. Glenn Maxwell blasted an unbeaten 120 from 55 deliveries to lift the hosts to a mammoth 4 for 241 of their 20 overs before Marcus Toines with 3 for 36 and 2 wickets each for Josh Hazelwood and Spencer Johnson took Australia to the win despite a well-played 36-ball 63 from the captain Robyn Powell.


From London, England, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 London. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here's your host, Dave Vellante and Paul Gillis. The banks of the River Thames here at London Excel, Excel London, it's 27 degrees here, sunny, beautiful. I thought I was going to snow this morning. Just by short walk over, it felt like I was in, back in Massachusetts. But nonetheless, Bharath Vasudevan is here. He's the director of product management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Within the software-defined group. Welcome to theCUBE, thanks for coming on. Oh, thanks for having me. So how's Discover going for you? Discover is going fantastic. It's great with all the anticipation for all the things that we announced yesterday, watching the excitement with customers, watching the excitement with partners, being able to help curate the experience for them has just been fantastic. What are the customers talking about? So they're really excited about Synergy. We were here a year ago and we announced it, but you know, since this isn't version 10 or version three of the same product, we've spent the last year really crafting our message, having beta customers, test Synergy, all in the hopes of bringing it out when we go from hundreds of customers to thousands of customers, so they can experience what a lot of our beta customers have had. So really, being able to deliver that for them has been, they're waiting for it and we're ready to give it to them. So help us understand sort of, first of all, the organization. So the organization's been sort of retooled. The cloud piece has been folded into the software-defined piece and then there's the bespoke server storage and networking components. Sure. Under Alan and then Rick Lewis is your sort of, you know, the guru of software-defined, if you will. So that all kind of makes sense. Software-defined is kind of the future. Help us understand both the organization and then let's get into the portfolio. Well, sure. We'll start with every customer is on their own journey. Every customer is on a journey from a world where it's traditional infrastructure, buying servers, storage, networking, to solve workloads. And we have an entire suite of products dedicated to solve for workloads. But what we've run into is that many of our customers are saying, look, this new public cloud thing has gotten in the way of things. RIT is not fast enough and it's not agile enough to start delivering against our consumers' needs. So what we've found is, they're just running out to the public cloud because they're faster. Now, when I talk to customers, I ask them all the time, this is one of my stock questions. What is your service level to deliver a bare metal VM? And what we get is different answers ranging from three hours to three days. Now, what I can assure you is that no developer is waiting three days to get a bare metal VM. They're going to turn around and they're going to go straight out to the public cloud and they're going to have their operating environment up in 30 seconds. Now, with the software-defined computing group, what we're trying to do is we're trying to address why customers and constituents are going out to the public cloud in the first place and trying to deliver against that. We're trying to deliver against it in the form of hyperconverged and incomposable. They solve many of the same problems but they solve it for a different sets of customers. And that's really where we're putting a lot of our emphasis and focus on trying to make hybrid IT simple. And that can start with private cloud, all the way through to public cloud. So is your bigger competitor the traditional infrastructure companies or is it Amazon? So I would say both in a certain sense. Really, what we want to be is that advisor to customers. We know one size doesn't fit all. That's why we have traditional infrastructure and converged infrastructure. And that's what Elan's team is going to continue to deliver. But what we've also got is we've got focuses on things being more software defined both from a hyperconverged and composable space. So as customers are ready to make that transition we're going to be their partner and give them the right destination all within the HPE portfolio. I want to better understand the portfolio and just lay that out. And I want to explore the channel and how that's changing. Because this portends a significant change for the way in which you get to market. But let's start with the portfolio. How should we think about the portfolio? So within the software defined group we've got things like hyperconverged. And hyperconverged today solves everything from a customer's perspective when they have virtualization prevalent. They're within a two socket workload. They're on a moderate amount of scale. Really what we've seen the biggest opportunities that we've had have been from large enterprise customers but their proximity deployments. Right, things at the edge of their network where they may not have the SAN expertise. Generalists. Yeah, where we want to give them a user environment that drives simplicity. What we've even found out is a lot of times the more expensive higher end virtualization admins can now be tasked with more things that are befitting of their role. And some of the more tasks, things that we've described as VM vending can now get managed by more junior people or more people that can just service requests without tying up the more experienced resource. The other place. So the simplicity making virtualization invisible? Well, it's taking the complexity out of virtualization. What does that mean? So today, I need to go spin up a VM and here's a classic case. This developer needs a VM, goes into the trouble ticket tool, hits I want a request. It sends out four requests, depending on how these things get serviced. Could take three days, could take three hours, but this person's waiting and not being productive.  Self provisioning them? Self service. So none of this is self provisioning. But when we talked about yesterday with the hyperconverged operating environment 2.0, it's this whole concept of workspaces. We're going to provide the right access for the right role for the users who are going to be interfacing with the system. You've got the main admin that can do things like carve out workspaces. You've got the workspace owners that understand their users. And lastly, you've got the users that can just come in self service unencumbered from a lot of the IT service request stuff. Okay, so coming back to the portfolio, the HCI 380, sort of the flagship. The hyperconverged 380. And then, right now, so then continue on the spectrum. So fully virtual today, limited to things that scale up to two sockets. Really, it's the rack form factor. I moved to composable. Now composable delivers a lot of the same things, but with much fewer constraints. Now I can do physical. I can do virtual workloads. I can do container-based workloads. I can do two socket workloads. I can do four socket workloads. I can do four socket large memory workloads. I can start moving at a data center scale instead of a rack scale. So from a scaling perspective, there's also limitations and benefits of one architecture over another. Now, the cool part is, when we talk about the ideal scenario for customers that are needing to move down a software-defined path, we have hyperconverged for them at their remote office and we've got composable in their central IT. And together with technologies that are HPEs, intellectual property, things like OneView and things like VSA, we're able to start tying a lot of those things together. How about their legacy investments? Can you make that part of the composable infrastructure? So what we have done is specifically with the introduction and the proliferation of OneView, we're allowing our customers a pathway to composable. They can start experiencing attributes of composability by adopting OneView, and we've got many programs in place today to start driving that adoption, incenting customers to go do that, so they can start experiencing composability. Okay, so I've got a hyperconverged 380 is my flagship hyperconverged product. I got composable, what am I buying when I buy composable? How do I engage with you? So right now, our customers can order it. We're going to start delivering early January. It being synergy product. There's a synergy 12,000 frame. There's a synergy 480, 620, 660, and 680 are the four different compute modules. We've got the D3940, which is the storage module, and an array of fabric choices that go in the back of the frame. All of that is ready to order today and ready to fulfill in early January. So that's integrated. It means composable, meaning I can, through OneView, choose a fluid set of resources. So it's called HPE Composer. It's an embedded instance of OneView and that's exactly what you can do. So when we talk about attributes or benefits of composability, we talk about this concept of fluid pools of resources. Really what that means is, as I start adding more capacity, I'm effectively going to have a catalog that's going to get populated with all of the new parts that I've added into this environment. Then I've got software to find intelligence that's now allowing me to create templates that are repeatable to do hardware provisioning. So every time I need to spin up another X, I can go invoke my template, find out what's available for my fluid pool, and then be up and running. And you talked about moving from workload to workflow. You're in the workflow business. So talk about what that means and then I'm really interested in how the channel is adopting that. So let's be clear, workload is the table stakes. If I can't solve for workload, I'm not in business. So for many customers, solving for workload is what they need right now. But for a different set of customers, not only do I need to solve for workload, but I need to solve for workflow. And that's where we're stepping in. It's not what do I need to solve 10,000 mailboxes or 5,000 VDI seats, but how do I run a workload during the day in a different workload at night? That's what the power of composable. How do I handle seasonality? So define what workflow, I mean, what do you mean by workflow in this context? You're talking about getting jobs done and the time that you have? From the time I open the box, how fast till I'm up and running? Once I'm up and running, what if I need to make some changes? What if I'm a developer and I need something for a day? The way we've spent, the way we've sold with traditional IT in the past, I'm buying my exchange system, I'm standing it up, and it's going to run for three years. Somewhere along the way, I might have a Microsoft service patch update, I might have hot fixes, things like that, but by and large, it's a static system. The way you have apps to get released every two weeks now, the way they're hitting compute is very different than standing up exchange for three years. The way they need to spin up, tear down, spin up, tear down, traditional IT is not really set up to accommodate that. What we're trying to get to is optimizing for workflow. Again, now with this unified API, it makes it easy for a lot of our partners to interface into our equipment. Okay, so let's line up the horses on the track and talk about HPE and its differentiators. You're competing against Nutanix obviously in the hyper-converged space, you've got VCE, to an extent you've got Exadata or engineered systems, whatever Oracle calls it, that's within Oracle. You're supporting SAP in a big way and there's some others out there, but why HPE, how do you stack up to the competition? So let's start with, do we all agree that one size does not fit all? Sure, because that's actually what I run into the most, specifically with Nutanix, they will go into a customer and tell them everything can run on hyper-converged. And in most things in life, I don't tend to agree when someone's like always or never or this is the only way to do it, I don't buy that. So if we agree that there is not one size fits all. Well, when you're under a billion, that might work. Well, and if you have one product in the bag, it's real easy to say one size fits all, but we want to have the answer for all of our customers, wherever they are on the journey. We have a comprehensive portfolio. Now, if I look at some of the challenges with our friends in Austin, depending on which sales guy you talk to, you're going to get a different answer on hyper-converged. Is it a vSAN ready node? Is it Nutanix on PowerEdge? Is it VxRail? There's a lot of choices that their customers are going to have. For us, it's pretty straightforward. It's all of our own IP that we've invested in that we continue to deliver against and that's our answer. Whether it's composable, whether it's hyper-converged, we're going to listen to our customers, understand their needs, and then get to the right infrastructure. So you're arguing a much simpler portfolio, but you cover the spectrum. That's right. Okay, and what about VMware? Where do they fit in all this?  Today, we do what our customers ask. We've got an offer, our HC-380 today is built on vSphere. They continue to be a great partner of ours. Does OneView supersede vSphere? Well, so OneView, in fact, we have OneView for vCenter. It's a plugin that we've built. So customers who use the VMware set of tools can seamlessly integrate with OneView. We've built that. It's been in market for a couple of years now. It's a fabulous product and it's how many customers who are standardized in the VMware tools interface with our equipment. Okay, good. Channel, things are changing in the channel. We're moving from box seller to solutions and solutions are no longer just SAP and Oracle and Microsoft and VMware. You know, there's a whole new set of solutions that are coming out. Talk about the channel in that transformation. So I've spent the last year plus doing channel partner outreach programs.  And that was really the answer for the last five years.  But now there's a proliferation of form factors. There's a whole different set of players in the game. So now as we go educate our field, educate our customers, we have to educate our channel partners and we're doing the same thing. Let's enable you to have a discussion to go move, transform your business from workloads to workflows. In fact, our four transformational areas are one of the easiest ways to frame that discussion. We're assisting our channel partners in up leveling their discussions and frankly moving beyond procurement. Because if you're selling to procurement, procurement does not care about workflow. You got to penetrate into the line of business, move to the C-suite, start showing comparisons from a financial perspective. We've got tremendous programs like flexible capacity around different ways to finance, lease versus buy, OPEX versus CAPEX. These are more of the buying decisions, not just what's going to satisfy 5,000 mailboxes.  But again, workload is your table stakes. If I don't have that, I have nothing. And all of our product has been around and time tested and our customers believe our products work and we believe it too. Degree education process.  I've said, some people at HPE disagree with me, but I've said you kind of got there early and then it took a while for you to really get the product set to where you wanted it. It feels like you're there now. You know, another great point to talk with channel partners, let us invest ahead of the curve. And that's really to your point. We were there because we knew that's where the market was headed. So we've learned what we've needed to learn and we're ready to go execute. And you're exactly right. We knew where we were going. We've stuck to the strategy for some time now. And now we're ready to execute and start deliver. Will you be number one in this market? I believe we defined composable. Everyone else is playing catch up right now. Farah, thank you very much. Great job unpacking the portfolio and helping us better understand where you fit relative to the competition. Appreciate that. Thank you very much for having me. You're welcome. All right, keep right there. Paul and I will be back to Excel London. This is HPE Discover 2016. This is theCUBE. Right back.