This 2019 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Short Box XL STX is stock number 1443Z. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin near new and used heavy-duty truck. Headquarters this 2019 Ford F-250 has the 6.2 liter V8 engine, which pumps out 385 horsepower. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go inside the truck all the way around the truck under the hood, start it up during this video. This color is magnetic metallic, and we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, and options of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and want to subscribe to our YouTube channel where we do videos of our new and used inventory each and every day here at Summit Auto in the upper right hand part of the screen is a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Click that and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates every time we do a video here at Summit. This one comes with the 18 inch painted alloy rims and it has Continental Conta Track LT 275 65R 18 tires. And these tires have I would say probably about 60 to 70% of the tread left on them, frame and underbodies in really nice clean condition. Front fender is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. Headlight lenses are nice and clear and the front bumper and lower valance are in excellent shape as well. No dents or dings on them. You do get the chrome trimmed grille and it comes with a very nice super duty factory bug shield. The hood is in great condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on there and the passenger side front fender looks really good as well. Passenger side rim no major scuffs or scrapes and I was like showing the magnetic metallic. It's got a lot of metal flake in it. Really a cool color. Looks really good in the sunlight. So I always like showing that you can see the metal flake in that paint. As you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is and how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by you can but just can't make the trip down. You can still see the truck here, the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that 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 decision let your salesman know that you saw the video that it helped you out and that Brett sent you. Back rim is in excellent shape as well. No scuffs or scrapes and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody excellent condition. I will point out that this one does have the camper package with the anti sway bar right there. Not all of them have that especially on the 250s. Frame and underbody looks really good. Cab corners and lower rockers excellent shape as well and you do get a set of factory painted step bars. Coming around to the back rear bumper looks great. It does have a full towing package of course which includes the receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. The rear bumper no denser dings and the tailgate. Excellent condition as well. This one does come with an X-Tang solid fold tonneau cover. That's in really nice condition. I didn't see any major imperfections on that. Also comes with a bed mat and then like the side bed liner stuff. So it's a dirt liner on the sides and then a bed mat on the bottom. And I don't know if this one has the fifth wheel prep package. It's hard to tell on it. You'd have to look at the original window sticker. But anyways, beds really nice and clean. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly and as you go down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger's side. No dense or dings on the box. Really nice condition and for full disclosure this back room is in excellent shape as well. Driver's side doors really nice too. This one does have the telescopic tow mirrors. They are heated and have directional signals in them. They telescope out, they fold in. Inside the XL package gives you the gray cloth interior. There are no rips or tears on the seats. Really nice condition. Smells very clean inside this truck. You do get weather tech floor mats in here and the rubber floors. Auto headlamps, telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks and power mirrors. We'll hop inside, turn the ignition on, check out the miles and the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see this one has 29,928 miles. You do get a digital or a compass on there. And you have all your information settings in here as well. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. You get cruise controls and information center controls on the left. Bluetooth and information center audio controls on the right. Six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. Comes with the AM FM radio. And that's all that you get there. It does have the stability control. And this is also where your backup camera shows up. And that's working nicely. Turn down four wheel drive, factory brake control, your climate controls and volume controls are right there. As well as your heated mirror button. You do get a USB down here. Two 12 volt power points, passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears on there. And the headliner is in nice shape too. You get map lights up there. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood. Back seats are in nice condition as well. You can see how they fold up there. And then to get them down there's a strap that's on the other side. So we'll get that down so you can see how nice and clean that seat is. No rips or tears, latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Very nice and clean. Comes with this carpeting back here. All other are the rubber floors. Like I said, these seats fold up like so. Side current airbags, child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors and inside of the doors all look really good. We'll start it up and take a quick look under the hood. 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 will have been able to verify the quality and condition of this truck inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.2 liter V8 engine. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. And once again, 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. And this truck is 100% ready to go. There's your mission sticker right there. And I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. If you want to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons, you name it, we got to go to that website right there, www.SummitAuto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at SummitAuto.com. 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Heavy metal contamination is a serious global health concern, especially in developing countries. Conventional remediation methods can be costly and generate toxic byproducts, so there is a need for an environmentally friendly solution. Bioremediation using microbes and their extracellular polymeric substance, EPS, is one promising option. EPS is a complex mixture of high molecular wave biopolymers, including proteins, polysaccharides, uronic acids, humic substances, and lipids. These polymers have an anionic charge, allowing them to bind positively charged heavy metals. This article reviews the biosynthesis of EPS, its ability to sequester heavy metals, and the current research on its use in bioremediation. Challenges associated with commercializing EPS are discussed, along with potential applications for its use in detoxifying contaminated environments.


To bat means to hit something, such as a ball, with a bat or club. BATTER A batter is a player who is trying to hit the ball. CACHE To catch means to use your hands to stop and hold an object that is moving through the air. FIELD To field means to catch or stop and throw a ball. FIELDER A FIELDER is a player who is in the field while the opposing team is batting. GLOVE A glove is a padded leather covering for the hand that is used to catch the ball and that has individual thumb and finger sections. HARDER Harder means working or doing something with more energy. INNING An inning is one of the usually nine parts of a game in which each team bats until three outs are made. MOUND A mound is the slightly raised area of ground on which a baseball pitcher stands. OUT OUT means no longer batting or on a base because of a play made by the other team. PITCH To pitch means to throw a baseball to a batter. PITCHER A pitcher is the player who throws the ball to the batter in baseball. PLAYER A player is a person who plays a sport or game. RUNNER A runner is a player who is on base or is trying to reach a base. Agent nouns are nouns that indicate someone or something that performs the action of a verb. Usually they end in ER. For example, Ana says, these baseball players are playing baseball. In this example, our playing is the verb to play. And the players are the people or nouns doing the action of playing baseball. So this means the players are the agent noun in the sentence. Each team has many players. Pitchers pitch the ball. Catchers catch the ball. Batters bat the ball. Runners run the bases. Fielders field the ball. Now you try it. Runners run the bases.


Okay, continuing with our Android series, we're looking at working with boot animations. And again, this is kind of a more advanced tutorial. So I assume that you already know how to unlock your boot loader again, the fast boot, and get into torque, which I already am in here on my device. And you've watched previous video where I showed you where the boot animation is located, how to pull and push it to the device. Now we're going to pull it apart and we're going to look at it more. Now on my desktop here, I'm in my downloads folder. I have three files currently. I have two videos, and then I have a zip file. The zip file is the stock animation that I pulled from the phone. So you would normally go in there, you would mount the system, which we'll do in a moment, and then you would pull that off. But once you do that, you can just unzip it. But I'm going to unzip it to its own directory. So I'm going to make directory, and I'll just call it stock, and I'll move into stock. And then I'll say unzip, and I'll go from the upper directory, stock bootanimation.zip. And that will give us a few files here. It gives us a PNG file and a text file, which we're not going to worry about much in this video. So in this video, we're going to be looking at making video animations for your boot screen. You can do on some devices, you can do video, but then you can also do a series of images, which we'll look at in the next video. I like that I think the videos are a little bit easier, easier to add sound stuff, less options you have to put into that text file. The text file, again, we'll talk about more in the next video, but it tells it basically what to loop and when, and what to play and when. If you cat it out, we'll just look at it real quick. It just tells you, it just has a one, a zero, a zero and a one. Most likely you can get a little more advanced with it, but we're not going to worry about that too much in this video.  And I will play both those files. They should play in a row. So it's a cube that I, or I'm sorry, we're not at the one I made yet. This is the stock one. So here's the stock Motorola. It plays this fancy little animation. Lots of noisy sounds that you're not hearing right now. And then it gets to hear that little, the flashing Motorola is the loop. And the loop, which is the one that is labeled as Moto Loop in this case, it will play continuously until the system's ready to boot.  If it's ready to load, it will just play it once and then go into the system. And again, your files might be named different, but they'll probably, they'll be in a numeric order. But for your device, you can just go ahead and pull them down, unzip it and then replace them. And as you can see right here when I played it, it tells us right here on this particular phone, it's a 1080p. In this case, it's 1080 by 920 because it's vertical, which in most cases, I hate vertical video, but on the phone for a boot animation does make sense, although you don't have to do it that way. But we're going to replace that with an animation I made in Blender, which looks something like this. So this is it in Blender. It's just a short little loop, which I cut into two files. It's one where the cube is zooming out and it rotates once. And then I have it rotating, you know, a few times for the loop. So I'll end that. I've rendered those out and they are currently in my downloads directory here. So what I'm going to do is I am just going to copy both those MP4s that I've created and I'm going to put them into the current directory, just overriding those. Now, if I play out those files again, you'll see my animation. There you go. Now, again, this is an animation that I created. All you have to do is make sure, basically, I think it's very flexible in what it could be, like as far as frame rate and stuff. But you want an MP4 format and you want the proper resolution. And then just, like I said, if you extract your stock animation, just rename it the files that are there. Otherwise, you can name it other stuff, but that's just the way you know you don't mess anything up when things are going to play in the right order. Now, all we have to do is zip it up. But you have to zip it up a certain way. I'm going to use zip. And normally, I just be able to say zip and I'm going to put it, I'm going to call it bootanimation.zip, the ..slashes. I'm putting in an upper directory from here. And then I would say asterisk for all. But that won't work. But it's very simple. You just do dash zero, not open zero, qry. Now, you can look up in the man directory, manfile for zip to see what those options mean. But those are the options you need for Android to properly use this zip file. And that is it. Now, we just push it to the device like we did in the last video. So right here, here it is. So again, I'm in this directory. I have these videos, which we don't care about anymore. The stock folder that we extract to, the original stock boot animation that we can push into the device. And then we have the one we just created. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to ADB shell. Again, I'm already in twirple. Let me go ahead and turn on the screen here so you can see. And you can mount it in here by going to mount and saying, unchecking where it says read only and mounting the system. But again, we'll do it from the shell that we don't have to reach over to the phone at all. And I will just say mount, device, block. And then it might be under boot device. It might be something else we're looking for by name. And we're looking for our system. And we're going to mount that on system. And as I talked about in the previous video, this phone is a little bit different than most devices. You should normally find your boot animation under system media. But on this particular one, it's under system, system, media, just to be inconsistent about things. Ignore those warnings. But there it is right there. So that's where we're going to push it to. I'm going to exit out of my phone. And I'm going to use ADB to push our boot animation zip. We're going to push it to this folder here. And that is it. Now on the phone, I can go home, reboot, system, do not install. Maybe we can focus the camera a little bit here. There we go. And it will show the still image for Motorola. But then it should play my little animation. And again, we'll talk about some of these other images and how they're actually partitions in a future video, hopefully, if I get to it. I've got a lot of things I want to talk about. There we go. There's my boot animation. Come on, focus. Sorry about that. But you can see that it's playing. And it looped. And then that's it. So you can put any video on there. Obviously, you don't want it to be too long. You just want to make sure it's the right resolution for your screen. You name them proper or, then you zip it up that proper way and replace it. And that is it. That is how you create your own video animation. Now, again, if you go to your device, you pull the stock image, the stock zip file for the boot animation, which I do recommend you do, and have a backup copy of. And then extract that. Look at it. And it doesn't have video files. It has still images. We'll look at that more in the next video. But again, you can basically just replace those images. And I don't think it's picky about, I think, it could be PNGs or JPEGs. I don't think it's very particular. But you also have to zip it up the same way, though. But we'll look at that in the next video. Again, I hope you enjoyed this video. Hope you learned something new. 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Okay, perfect. Hey guys. Hey everyone. Thanks for Joining us today and welcome to another product school talk. I'm Cassandra from product school. Super happy to be here with you guys Thanks for your patience As many of you guys know we teach product management courses coding and data And we just released a best-selling book the product book and you can get a free Free copy if you comment book now So this week's speaker is a Sue Smitha. Is it senior product manager at Oracle? And he's also an alumni from Stanford University. So hi Sue. Welcome Thanks for joining us today. So sure So I know you have a presentation prepared for us I'm gonna give you a couple seconds to get that set up and guys while he's setting it up just as every week We will be taking questions after so you can comment in the Facebook chat and we'll take them Right after his presentation He is set to go All right. All right. Thank you so much And everyone thank you so much for patiently waiting. I know we were supposed to go live a little earlier Technology bugs always creep in at the last minute, but here we are So today we were talking about what are the mindsets? What are the attitudes you as a product manager should have? Many of you already had those traits. Many of you already are Exhibiting the work that a product manager does on a day-to-day basis, but it's a hard nut to crack I say that because there's so much that you as a product manager have to do And and this as this word cloud comes up You would see so many different roles that a product manager has to play That person has to be a CEO of All things because you want to make sure the product you are working on is delivered in time On the budget with the resources that you have to make sure that when it goes out it has the right quality as well and it's not just the Requirements that you write. It's not just the product marketing Documents that you generate and the collateral that you prepare But you have to run the show for everything that has to happen So if something goes wrong if a engineer falls sick and cannot Cannot come up to speed on Getting the product ready You have to find another engineer in time because you have already made your commitments and so and so forth and so There are there is a long list of words a long list of topics that you as a product manager need to be Worried about that you need to be thinking about You could be I could pick up another word from here and talk about let's say go to market You are also the face of the product to the customer if something goes wrong in product You are the ones who are going to take the first bullet You are the first you should be the first line of defense and you should be the last line of The person's taking the credit for it, right? You will have to suck up all those bad Issues the bugs that comes around But at the same time gatekeep all the heat that you get from the customers And and prevent and protect your engineers behind the scenes who are working hard day And they are putting their blood and sweat into developing the product Design thinking is another one. I presume a lot of you have heard of this term design thinking But it is it is very crucial that you have to empathize with the customer You have to really go deep down with the customers to know what is bothering them What is it that they are actually looking to do with the system? They may ask for Something in the first time when you ask them, what are the requirements? But as you dive deeper into that conversation on that one requirement and ask the why questions like five times You'll probably realize what is it that the heart of their need their requirements? And where do you need to focus your energies on? By developing the right product the right functionality that the customers are interested in In today's day and age. It is difficult to go away from innovation You have to be on your toes Thinking of new ways of solving the problem You have to evangelize you have to talk to people about the solution Internally within the team so that many people would buy into your thinking Many people would buy in to your solutions and your products so that you have enough backing When you do the prioritization later on People already know that yes, these are the things that must be practiced up at the top Prioritization should not be a afterthought it should not be a surprise to anybody It should come naturally and when people see that you have prioritized a functionality over the other they know already what the reasons are and that can happen only when you evangelize and Socialize your ideas in the team that you're working with as well as across the breadth And as we talk about the breadth Let me also first take you towards my professional journey of how did I became a product manager and And what was my background like? I was not a Product manager by default by academics by any means My roots are in development writing code doing the web applications and stuff and and after having my bachelor's done My conundrum was I was in a catch 22. I don't have a Work experience and so Companies would not hire me and it sort of goes into that circle and so I Was naive and we've co-founded with a bunch of other friends a company We had about three customers and four projects across those three customers that we worked on for about a year And it gave us amazing amount of knowledge of what it takes to run a business What it takes to build softwares for not just one or two users, but multi users What it takes to sort of provide that's level of services We may I don't I don't claim that we were on top of our game by no means right? We were still no vice. We're still learning and At that point of time we we say well, we have now a year of experience What's next right and that is always playing on my mind and you'll see as it goes along in this slide I decided to sort of take a break or I would say take another route and get a master's in CS get really much more stronger foundations for my Core beliefs and how the software products should be made right getting a master's really got me into a much more Better shape I would say than where I was when I began my career I was able to ideate and think of solutions that would help the customers very soon I was sort of alleviated to be the tech lead and and also a team lead to to take a team of four five seven engineers and Build software for the customers and at this point I was really moving fast because I knew how things are what needs to be done and Where me where we need to go with this product. What is it that the customer will say? Wow, this is a product that I want to use right, but again after a certain point it becomes stagnating for me and I feel what's next I Have to figure out what is that next thing that challenges me It is important for you as a product manager to not stop at what you are Already doing best you know what you're doing best you need to challenge yourself You need to come out of your comfort zone so that you have a much broader vision broader understanding of what software's what things are required in Getting the right software in the in the hands of our customers To understand that and to get on to the business side of it. I went back to school decided to get an MBA In addition to my work experience NMA really helped me a lot. It gave me the good communication skills that I Required for becoming an evangelist for the product that I'm building and I'm getting built oops Rocky and at that point you want to be this domain expert that knows the domain in and out as I said You want to be somebody who knows of the back of your hand What is in the product and what is the customer going to ask next when they run into an issue and it is that Position which really catapults you into very differently when customers can trust you and they know that if I if a Customer asks a question you not only know the answer to that, but you could predict what their next questions are And that is where you want to be as a domain expert now being a domain expert in one domain While it is great, but for me it is not enough and so I come back to my question. What's next? Where do I go from here? And and I'm on a constant journey of Going between the professional world and working and at the same time getting more certifications getting more Educational pieces taken care of and now here I said I sit with in front of you with these all variety of Educations that I could get around but now I am not only a fast learner a domain expert But I'm an entrepreneur and I'm while I'm working at Oracle There are different projects that I'm working on which allows me to do intrapreneur work Right, so I'm within a bigger organization But Oracle gives me the space to be this intrapreneur if I have an idea and I if I could Elucidate them into a right way put it into a document with a plan and everything They give me this platform and I believe that I am now ready With my experience of being an intrapreneur to go out into the world and be an entrepreneur for myself and Be that next startup that I have always dreamed of I could do that, right? So again, I'm not I'm not sitting tight in my chair With the fact that I'm already an intrapreneur, but I want to challenge more myself as I talked about my journey and You may have noticed that I'm talking about the domain expert But then I'm also trying to get a very different view on it, right?  This is sort of a typical hierarchy that you would see in a company and Let's put you in the middle of the hierarchy What is your circle of influence and that defines what is your social circle? Where do you spend most of your time? If you are spending most of your time here with your manager with your peers and your product team You're talking about becoming the domain expert and you have the product depth But that product depth is not Sufficient you need much more for yourself to grow in this hierarchical maze And what can get you out of here is not just the product depth. So let's take a look at what is This product depth giving you It makes you laser focused on the product that you own which is great But then it prevents you from getting any vision outside of your product And so if I were to pull you out of your product and put you into something else Think about what would you do next? What is your next step? If you have not done your socialization across The horizontals then you are within your product depth if only you could find another company doing exactly the same thing You'll find your next opportunity Right, and it is difficult in today's day and age that everybody other companies may be doing exactly the same thing So what's a way out to this and what I call is product breadth Now you're still the same place in the hierarchy But if you can influence the director at your manager level if you are managing up nicely, even if you have More than three tiers of your manager Voting for you and rooting for you and say no, I want Suha's to be in this and that capacity Your manager has no reason to not promote you to not give you more responsibility Not give you more authority a bigger team Whatever you are looking for your manager will have to do that for you and this breath is what gets you places in my view Now that I've talked about the breads and the depth Let me also give you what is the gray matter what I call? What is the mindset that you need? What is the attitude as a product manager that you need? From a mindset perspective, you have to be laser focused when it comes to me On the customer front, you cannot take your eyes off your customers if they are looking for something else and if you blink They'll go somewhere else. You have to be customer focused. You have to be solution driven You cannot give the same solutions for the same problems over and over again You have to be that leader who who plays by the example You you set the example if you have that attitude of setting that example for others to follow You will continuously be that leader you will not have infinite amount of time to learn and and Drive up to any problem to any situation You have to be on your toes and ready to learn fast the faster you learn The faster you can solve a problem I was talking about socializing your ideas and networking Networking is where people will know what you are working on people will know What your strengths are and if they have a need they will pull you and say so has I would like to Get you to work on my project to work on in my company and so forth You'll have to also then constantly play a liaison Between multiple different teams you have to be a cross functional cross departmental player who can talk technology To the engineering folks who could talk business to sales and marketing who could talk strategy to your executives and and still be this one person who can Who can take the product forward and only this collaborative? Attitude or mindset will make you ready for what is coming up next From an attitude perspective, I've gone between the mindset and the attitude But make sure that when you are looking at a functionality a feature requirement. You just don't go emotional Yes, if the customer says that they needed they needed badly look at the data Because sometimes when customers say that they need something's badly. They don't even know what the exactly is that they need Look at the data. Look at and see where things are and what would give them the best Results for what they are looking for And always stay open to challenges because that is where your next frontier is if it is challenging to you That is where you need to grow that is where you need to Look into to see what more can you take on and Showcase yourself when you network with others that you can be that person that people can trust and depend on when they face a challenging situation and And be ready to be the janitor level right you cannot say this is not I that is not my Responsibility if it is your product Anything and everything is your responsibility You may have to be very well a jack of all trades. You may have to know everything But if you set an example You are also setting an example for others to follow that you could lead other teams and lead other product managers the way and in the direction that you want right and so Constant innovation constant challenging of the status quo constantly Stepping away from your comfort zone will see you grow much more in a much different Person that you are That being said going towards the concluding sort of slides the key key take away There's two is for you to challenge yourself and improve yourself if you feel comfortable Then that is the exact time when you need to think about and say what is next? What's the next frontier? people are talking about IOTs and Artificial intelligence and machine learning take up a course if you don't if you don't know what that is take up a course Of course era or old a be People are talking about going into blockchain. I don't know and I'm looking into blockchain now Just to get myself familiarized because then when you are in that networking Situation you could make a very intelligent sounding Conversation that people would know and and take you seriously Listen listen to your customers listen to a team for God's sake a lot of product managers think Once that I've given you the requirements. I'm out of it. No Teams have their inputs stay open to them get yourself critiqued what works for the team What works for you may be completely different? and you have to be a Key observant of a lot of things. How is your team taking you? Are they happy with you? How is the customer treating you is the customer giving you the right information? What is happening around in the competition in the industry? Is there something that you need to look at and and think about pivoting away into a different area? All of those things are crucial. So keep your eyes and ears open as a product manager, it is difficult to say this but The moment you blink somebody else will take things away. It is hard job. It is not an easy task But you have to be prepared for it.  It's not just because the customers are looking for it but there is a much more bigger vision to achieve right and and and continue to socialize Network with people and and just just enjoy it being a product manager if you can do that You can really succeed as a product manager That's it for me If you have any questions feel free to contact me you have my information up on the screen And now Cassandra, we could open up for questions Silence is golden Yes, so you can start typing in your your questions and we'll take those here This first question comes in how much of coding knowledge is needed to venture into a product management role? I would say Cursory knowledge different companies would expect different things from a product manager An example is Google if you want to be a product manager at Google You need to really know how to code and and come up with some real good solid prototype and other companies who do not need to you could be a designer and if you could put screens together and showcase a Prototype using just simple screens or an HTML code or even draw them up on a piece of paper. That is fine So I would say it is always good to have a little bit of coding knowledge A little bit of HTML so that you could put together some sort of a web page if it is a web application that you're talking about Maybe a little bit of a Java so that you could take no babble with other folks in the team and convince them of The direction that you want to take so I would say at least 25 Good 20 to 25 percent of knowledge would be would be good enough to get started Okay, awesome. We have another question that just came into from Hugo How is a customer success background beneficial for someone wishing to pivot into product management? Oh, that is fantastic I would say if you have been in front of a customer believe me a lot of interviews that you go into they would ask you this have you ever been Working alongside with the customers. What is your experience there? How did you manage the challenges? How did you convince your customers to continue believing in the product that you're trying to sell and and help them fit? All of that is amazing experience Because it's not how you talk to your colleagues at work your friends at home It's a very different frontier and you need to be really patient and that does not come easy If you have already been there done that that comes in really handy and and I would suggest if you have a resume which Needs to be changed. This is one thing that you want to add at the top of it of that list How was your experience with the customer? Right. I definitely agree Our next question comes from Sid Hart. Can Oracle have somebody from different functions like risk management and banking fit into product management? At Oracle and I don't think so. I'm not 100% sure but ideally speaking if I am looking to hire somebody I Would tend to not hire somebody from the same background As I say as being a fast learner if you are that fast learner Then no matter what domain you are thrown into you will be able to come up Very fast in terms of understanding what the customer requirements are and for me Vultitudes of backgrounds help Bring the new perspective into the team. So but but again, that is not generally the case at Oracle Okay Awesome. Our next question is from new par. I have sales experience with tech with a technology background But how do I project myself as a product manager? You should think about what some companies call outbound product marketers and Outbound product managers Oracle have them and what they do is they are the ones who are Constantly in front of the customers bring all of that information and then provide that Knowledge to maybe another inbound product manager or slowly You could say I could start fitting and you are already doing a great job of a outbound product manager That you could start asking for more responsibilities and say, okay I could take on the inbound role as well and as I say having the customer interaction and experience Comes in very handy from a sales perspective I'm sure you get a lot of ideas from the customers only if your product had this You would have purchased it or only if your product did this better You would have you'd have liked it or you would have referred you to somebody else and so forth, right? All of those are inputs everything that the customer does not like about your product Is an input to make it better and you had that knowledge?  I would say, okay Great. Our next question is from Kevin. Um, how how do you prepare or best prepare for your interview process and product management for? Let's say startups or or even like a big corporation like Google or Facebook Any advice that you can add to that Google Google and Facebook are very different in their interview process They ask open-ended questions and they they judge you on how you how you approach the problem that they are giving you It's not technical most of the cases initially But once you get to the second round the third round, yes They will want to to gauge your technical abilities and stuff But to break into the first round you want to have Understanding and and somebody would think on their toes Because they're going to throw you into an area which you have not imagined Even if you go through googling about what are the questions people ask they have a long list of sort of very Open-ended questions that they can ask you and so keep keep your eyes and ears open understand what they are trying to get to and think about Them as your customer again. What is it that they are looking for? they're looking for Whether this person thinks or has a problem solving skills whether this person is innovative and can think of different solutions Given the same problem Or given the same props right and things of that nature When you come to oracle kind of places, I would say Things like design thinking people want to know whether you understand what design thinking is because After the iphone Release they have changed The user experience expectations in people and you better think about the design of your user experience and understand how to sort of empathize with the customer and build prototypes and and I trade over again and so forth that entire cycle of design thinking needs to be clear as well and there are people who now Ask a lot of these questions whether you have that design thinking attitude in your as well or not Yeah, absolutely And we had quite a few more questions coming we have time for maybe one or two more So i'm going to go through and pick out a couple out of the few that just came in um as well so um our next question is from I'll take this one from ral. Um, how can you get into product management into a product management role without having previous experience of product management What advice you have? That is uh slightly a tricky proposition One of the things that you need to have is that customer focused mindset That whatever you build as an engineer What is it going to give the customer? How will customers? Life be different especially improved With that additional piece if you start thinking from a customer perspective and not From a technicality perspective or because technology allows me to do this x. I will do it But what does that x give the customer if if the answer to that question? Is nothing much then don't do it and then Right, I would say documentation because as a product manager This is a very different Game that you have to play and I have played that game. I was an engineer Who would hate writing documentation? You know, I would love to write code and and come up with new solutions But then at the end on the side of a product manager You need to write you need to be able to write user requirements You need to be able to evangelize and convey your thoughts Ideas and solutions to people whether it be writing blogs or technical stuff You need to be doing that as well. And so Working on that would be a big big help towards becoming a product manager And as part of the product school, let me plug this in Think about taking taking the class with us We go to a rigor on how to think about a product manager. What are the things that A individual in that shoe has to do on a daily basis Open this program for eight weeks. I would say eight or ten weeks depending on which Class you take but it would be a great place for you to learn more about the product manager and what their life looks like Right. It's definitely about adopting a product manager mindset As well um, great, um, we'll have time to take just one more. Um, this is from the team Cooper when deciding between going into a product management role in a larger company versus Versus like an early startup. What consideration would you take into account? I would take into account What is it that you can impress to the customer again customer focus is key for me Um, would you have a opportunity to impress a customer at a big company? Or at the small company Also, as I said as a product manager, you have to play every role possible There is possible in a company you have to be the ceo For the lack of better word, right? and and I would for for my sake I would want to go and work at a smaller company either you work for a smaller company or you start on your own Right. I'm using all my experience to start something off my own and and use that platform to grow your sales Your sales skills your marketing skills your Oratory skills and evangelizing skills. Maybe even look at what is new in the technology blockchains artificial intelligence machine learning AR VR, I mean there are there are a ton of things that are happening in the market Pick something and see how that could be Plugged into your product and how could you make your product unique that nobody else can be And your competition will have to follow once you get into that in that mindset I think you are ready.  It doesn't matter I would love to stay at senior because I'd love to get to work on so many different aspects of it Once if I decide to grow up And become a manager then I have to take care of a lot of people management, but that startup Company would get you much more product management to work that you have to sort of build yourself and and Round yourself up with every skills there is to be had Awesome. Well, I just want to thank you again. That's all the time we have for questions now um, thank you again for joining us today and um, and for taking the time to To put together the presentation for everyone as well. I appreciate that So thanks again Awesome, and um before we go if you could just leave everyone with one final piece of advice for aspiring product managers Um customer focus, uh, that is one piece of advice. I can say and I cannot say it less If you stay focused put yourself in the customer shoe And see whether you would you use the product that you're building if you think you would It may be the customer who would be building to use that product as well Awesome. Thank you again And thanks again everyone for your patience and for joining us today. Um, as you guys know, we host these every week So we'll see you next thursday. Um, have a great rest of your week. Bye. Bye. Bye


Well, would you look at this day to tub Tyler day to of the Jamie's van build meetup spent the past two days editing videos and just sitting literally in the same spot. Well, guess what guys today? It's laundry day Persistent hum of the Washers and dryers and anytime you're staring at the clock. It's like we're in your school You just can't wait to get out look at that clock. So glad it's done. All right. I went a little nuts at This isn't crazy, but you know some fruit. I got frozen fruit.  It's these canned fishes. I got like smoked oysters mackerel giant calamari that stuff's a Not exactly weight loss food. Here is the beginning of Jamie's van build party. I just want to show you guys How many people are here? And it goes down there for like, I don't know a quarter mile It's absolutely incredible. How many people showed up for for this event. It's actually really cool It's some really interesting fun people and actually we should go and meet some of them today because there's a lot of full-time people and I've been a big advocate of People saving money spending less and traveling more and there's I wanted to introduce you guys to a few people like that today I'm gonna walk around and I'm gonna ask people, you know, I want to know Their mindset. I want to know why they chose this lifestyle I want to know what motivated them to to do this because it's really it's not a Common thing, you know, it's common enough, but it's it's you know, especially when you're younger It's like, you know, you can either pay a render You can travel around full-time if you have a decent income Tyler introduce yourself. Where you from? Hey guys, I'm Tyler from Denver, Colorado, but you do have a job Okay, but you live in a van, right? So how tell us why on earth you are choosing to live in a van when you can totally afford an apartment But you just don't want to or what? You know, I was a commercial real estate broker for eight or nine years and Kind of lived that corporate life and you know, it wasn't it just over time it wasn't for me and I Started buying properties while I was working and then I realized I was making enough money off my rental properties that I now have to you know Travel around and do see what I want to see and live out of the out of the Sprinter. What are you gaining through this lifestyle? I think just a lot of perspective you like right here at this event meaning such different interesting people Some like, you know, maybe like more like you and I and some are a little older and some are younger But it's just and then it can pick up and leave tomorrow and be in you know, Southern California or Mexico What about being in van is? More attractive than having a nice apartment with you know, all decorated or whatever with your buddies coming over on Sundays like watching football You know, I still do that type of stuff. I just I'll come to their house and We'll have a good time and I'll sleep in my Van at the end of the day. Yeah, I still do that stuff. Yeah all the time. Are your friends jealous of your lifestyle? some are Some are some I think it's kind of phony Also, it's all good. I mean do your tenants know that their landlord lives in a van One or two do I played the Rint game until I could afford to buy my first house But um, I would never go back to that. I mean, I'm I'm Proponent for buying homes and having mortgages because if it's a good buy, it's you know You're gonna make some money over time. That's smart real estate guy here So, you know, that's my kind of Idea of it all next person would talk with for the mindset tour Seven Wanderers world also on youtuber also on youtube does youtube videos And what are we what are you standing in front of? What is this? This is a step van, which is not really the popular vehicle for the van dwelling community But I love it mostly because I'm tall. I'm like over six foot five almost six foot six I'm jealous and the Sprinter vans are built for six foot three or under and I love Sprinter vans I wanted a Sprinter van, but it just wouldn't work for me for the height This actually turned out to be a better option because we've got the flat sides on here Which makes it really easy for building out and it's an older diesel it's 1996 So I don't have all the computer stuff that you get in the newer vehicles and you're in the process of building So just beginning yeah, it's not all built out and beautiful inside Which is perfect because I want the mindset of of why you are choosing to Travel and live full-time in a panel step van All right. Well, there's a short answer to that and there's a long answer that the short answer to that is It's just utilitarian. It's functional for my lifestyle The longer answer is that I've been traveling internationally the most part of the last six years and that I was looking for something that was Flexible and utilitarian to that lifestyle when I come back to the United States So I didn't have to like buy a vehicle and try to find a month-by-month Apartment or something like that and I want to go visit family or friends There was just not really a good solution other than something in the RV van life realm So I looked at all the option fifth-wheel trailers sprinters vans All of those ultimately I bought a box truck Cube van whatever you want to call it had that for six weeks and it just didn't quite work out with me It was too cramped in the cab space So it kind of like a U-Haul type things exactly. I was looking at buying a U-Haul truck having all the U-Haul decals on it Just for stealth Nobody no because nobody knocks on a U-Haul. It's like hey anybody sleeping in here. So that's amazing Great great stealth camping idea. So with the step and and you work remotely Yes for the last 26 years I've had a graphic design media company and I'm sort of winding that down I still do a little bit of work. I love the nomadic lifestyle so much and sort of following the four-hour work week mentality of trying to outsource and Come up with passive income. I decided to go with real estate So I sold everything here in the US in 2013 and then I got some rental properties And so I have passive income from that. So that's most my income plus some graphic design work and Just a tiny bit of revenue from YouTube from a channel as you know, yeah It doesn't pay all the bills and see what Jamie's up to by the way We should probably ask them How we came up with this crazy idea to do a bill out your van party Tung twister Well for me the reason that I started this is a couple years ago I blew the motor in a van that I was driving and had some hard times and some people Pissed in on a go for me to help me out And so I thought to pan forward I would help some people out to get their bands ready for You know a traveling lifestyle whether it be solar panels or fantastic bands in this case We went to bed in the farm. We've been at this most of the day. We're just wrapping it up So I'm pretty excited what he has here is a band that she can also use for storage. Let's check it out Nice handle Cool It's all custom And it's the exact height where she can use it as a bench to sit and work during the day so We're real happy with the way it came out. Hopefully she is too. That's amazing. By the way, Jamie is a really generous philanthropic guy he Basically built and gave away a school bus if you go check out his channel if you're not familiar with him already He's out here working for free just helping people out and It's in this day and age a very very rare thing to see someone so generous and someone so Genuinely nice and genuine so It's awesome If you guys want something build come to the next one or come to this one because it's going on for the next like three Weeks until the day before Thanksgiving


Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and today we get to talk about Resident Evil A's virtual reality, the updates because we've got a brand new trailer put out on the PlayStation channel that goes into a lot more detail of what we can expect to see when Resident Evil A's viewer drops on launch day for the PS viewer too. And based on this trailer let me just say that I think they've gone above and beyond my expectations of how they were going to implement virtual reality into this. They've integrated new systems, new ways of control, new menu interactions, things that just make sense for virtual reality and it just looks really, really good in this trailer. So I'm going to go piece by piece and we're going to break down the kind of bits and pieces that we can see. So the first thing to notice is that you have an equipable flashlight this time that you can just pop into your hand, shine it wherever you want. That's going to be pretty cool. You'll see it later on paired up with the handgun where you've got the handgun rested on the flashlight to give extra stability and that kind of gives it more of a cool kind of a feel if you know what I mean. So immediately we're seeing a change that wasn't available in the flat version. Next they show off the scene which I was kind of hoping they wouldn't show this off. This is kind of one of the scariest parts in the entire game. They give a little glimpse of this part in virtual reality is going to be absolutely nightmare inducing I think. Especially when we're talking about you know controlling the torch and oh you know it's just going to be it's going to be horrifying stuff. We've got some quick flashes here of different scenes. The next thing that is new and unique to just the VR updates is that now you can pull out a map hold us in your hand while you're still walking around so you can see like it's like a sat nav a GPS type thing instead of a map. Just another thing that's going to help it feel a bit more grounded a bit more realistic you're pulling on a map you're still able to walk around and move just like you would in real life. Of course it's not realistic that the little red dots is moving around on a piece of paper but you know whatever. Next we get to see how key objects key items or something that you'll have to physically be interacting with in the game it's not something you click a button you actually have to stick these in. We get a quick little glimpse here of how you can use the handgun and the flashlights at the same time and how that kind of gives it more like an atmospheric kind of a feel. And here as well you see you're going to be interacting with latches with doorknobs and stuff like this in a much more physical way you know it's not just button presses you actually have to be doing these actions. Blink you miss this but a little quick look at manually reloading the grenade launcher we got here you see us right here popping it in.  And here I think this could be the highlights of the entire trailer you can see Ethan can now open up his jacket where you can place Isam's weapons whatever equipables you can store them in the jacket and then what you need to do is pull out the jacket like you're a flasher or a peep and tom or whatever and then you grab it from the inside of the jacket and you close the jacket up and we'll get a look in a sec of how you put things in the jacket. Here you see you're going to be physically interacting with objects in all kinds of ways all kinds of objects. Now here you see what I was talking about earlier on how you rest in your hand against the other hand like it's technique that you would see in real life I believe and also take notes this is something we've seen already but on the left hand you can see this is a knife holster so you can quickly access your knife by just raising up your left hand and grabbing it with your right hand I assume you'll be able to switch hands for left-handed people boss we have to wait and see about that and then here you go you got a good look at the menu so the Resident Evil 8 menu kind of replicated the Resident Evil 4 menu to a degree where it's got like an attaché case kind of feel where you're moving weapons around jumbling them around to try and fit them into the case as best you can. Boss we're going to see something specific to VR here in just a sec there so over here you can see that Ethan has physical location on his body where you can store certain objects a sidearm a long gun there seems to be four separate locations that Ethan can hold weapons on his physical body two sidearms two long guns one of them in the jackets one of them on the leg maybe in a holster attached to the thigh one of them seems to be in the back pocket direction or maybe that's just the back view so you can't see the front I'm not too sure what's going on there boss plenty of options for grabbing and here we get another example of physically interacting with items you find in the world and now you've got like an armory shooting range type area where you can test out your weapons test out the reloading and assuming this is all manual reloading hopefully this is not an automatic interaction here but it is going very very smooth when he's putting the cartridges into the underside of the shotgun although I'm fairly confident that the actual pumping action is definitely manual and then you have some physical punch in which I'm struggling to think if that was something you could do in the flat version I don't think you could do that in the flat version but now you can like Joe in end of Zoe DLC in Resident Evil 7 you can actually just start knocking lads out which swift jabs to the face and here we see again this one could actually be considered a disadvantage compared to the flat version is how you heal yourself so in the flat version you press or one I believe it was and then he'd automatically pull out the bottle and just rub it all over his hands and then that was this was done here it seems you to pull out the bottle with a hand you flip up the lid I don't know how he's doing the lid flip thing maybe that's an automatic interaction or maybe that's actually some kind of finger detection going on there that he flips the lid off and then you have to pour that on your hand so that's going to be a little bit slower because there's another step or two involved there just because it's slower though doesn't mean that it's not 100% cooler that you're actually doing this instead of just being an automatic action and you get a quick example here of how quickly you can shoot you got to shoot all those lights to open the door and he's just like blasting through them at a top speed and here's an example of dual wielding which of course we knew was going to be there anyway but it's cool to see it and boom let me tell you if you have not played Resident Evil 8 these flying enemies are a bit of a pain in the ass cool to see that you can just fling a knife at them and take them out now I don't know if that's a one hit kill or whatever but maybe it should be because it's quite skillful to have to actually hit them out of the air like that we'll get a quick look at using a scope on the sniper this particular scene here looks a bit strange it looks like it's been controlled flat maybe it's just my imagination but the way the gun is being handled he looks like he's kind of strafing with the controller rather than actually using the motion controls maybe that's my imagination but it looked very stiff and now here we can see you're using your hand to grab onto a zipline and you're sliding down fighting in the water dual wielding lots of crazy craziness going on so loads and loads of cool features here come into Resident Evil 8's virtual reality it's just a week away let me know what you think in the comments below what's the coolest thing you've seen added are you someone who's wasted for a video or have you played it already flat let me know all that in the comments below that's it for this video thank you for watching i'll see you in the next one


Welcome everybody to psychic medium Tony green. I am Tony green the psychic medium and we are going to get started Straightaway. Okay. So first before I go any further. I Just want to let you know I will never reach out to you Ask you if you would like a reading tell you you need any sort of work or a reading if you would like that You have to reach out to me. I do not reach out to people also This show airs on W. S. C. S rude rangers TV and a number of other Channels live streaming channels podcasts and radio stations. I want to say hi to Stevie my youngest brother I hope you're having a good day Stevie Okay, we are going to get started If you'd like to call in and ask a question or I Do not know why No, why there's such a stall in what I'm saying normally like Normally, I kind of know what I'm saying when the show starts today. No clue what I'm saying when the show starts Hi. Yeah. Yeah. Okay If you'd like to call in and ask a question or connect with the loved one on the other side the number is the number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Oh my goodness It's gonna be a show folks. It is gonna be a show. Okay If you'd like to join us live, we are on YouTube every Monday and Wednesday at noon central and Let's see what else should I try to say that I am clearly not able to say today If you have a question you can post it in the chat or you can call in I'm gonna go directly to the Call in and I am going to 203 what's your name? Where are you calling from? The first one, how are you? I'm good. Thank you. How are you today? Oh Gosh, I'm so stressed out. I'll be calling you soon for another reading, but I think you might remember that my mechanic blew my engine I'll try to say this quickly the court judged half Because he liked so much. So I was awarded $2,000 and he's not paying and I now have to spend a hundred dollars to hire a sheriff I'm not even sure if that's gonna work now. I've just spent 1500 on car repairs and a good friend is saying it's time for a new car. I'm so Hardly attached to this world. I don't know how I'm gonna do this because the The motor cost me $4,000 the engine and I've got a loan for that and potential and I'm heading into another $2,000 loan so I've got 1500 on a credit card for the repairs and Do you see can I last with this car for a bit and you see me finding a car? And I actually just had a thought I have a good friend that's 90 Would I insult her if I asked if I could buy her car? She's gonna be around much longer Thank you for listening to this whole long question. Yeah, absolutely my pleasure. Absolutely A couple things about the lawsuit I would and you might be able to do this on your own with some help go to like a Legal aid society or you might be able to do it on your own with the help of the computer put a lean No, that doesn't work I looked into all that sorry to interrupt But the only thing to do is a particular I've looked into all those and spoken to a share Thank you, though, but none of those Okay, so if um, if you have legal aid the legal aid will not deal with I've checked into that too, okay So Sometimes when I give an answer it's for you particularly and sometimes it can also help other people out there Who might be in a similar situation? If you can put a lien against anything this person owns Definitely do that if landlords can put liens against, you know things or Businesses can put liens against things we might be able to do that also if you can't do that. I understand completely The next thing that I would say is yes, you are going to need a vehicle soon No, you cannot wait. I'm trying to remember the questions in the order that you ask them No, I don't feel like you have some time to wait I feel like if you work something out with your 90 year old friend where you could possibly Also be kind of at her beckon or his beckon call their beckon call to help them Take them places or run errands for them. It might be beneficial So maybe you're not outright purchasing the car, but you're Having the car and paying a certain amount, but then also running their errands and taking them where they need to go That might be one resolve I do feel like yes, you are going to find a vehicle whether it's your 90 year old friend's vehicle or not. I Do feel like you are going to find a vehicle. I Do feel like you are going to have to look and you may have to look outside of your area to find something That is a little bit more reasonable Before you purchase take it to a mechanic and make sure it's reliable or have somebody who knows a little something about cars Go with you to purchase this vehicle. I Do feel like you might want to also if you can I don't know what the weather is like in Connecticut Here it's been a very mild winter, but it's still cold as It's cold to me. It's very cold here but you might want to look into an alternative mode of transportation which might be something along the lines of a moped or A Bike I know this is why I mute people so they don't yell at me when I make suggestions like that You might want to look into some alternative mode of transportation until you get everything together and Get into that space where you can Get get exactly what you need and or want as far as the financial situation goes and I understand Pat you are not the only one who is struggling financially right now and I'm So sorry that you are fuggling Struggling financially, let me just take financially struggling and make it into one word fuggling Financially struggling right now and I and for everybody else who is It is getting Crazy out there with the cost of everything and the way the system works. I Do feel like you are going to need to make some changes possibly and I know Everybody listen, don't yell at me. Okay, and and I get it You we may need to Do a couple of things here and I've been saying this on my show since For quite some time now if you can bring in money Bring in money if you can bring in cash bring in cash If you have to work at a restaurant as a waitress for cash Do it. I know we're working 40 to 60 hours a week and I know That we are Feeling like we don't have any extra time for anything. I am going to tell you however However, however Whatever you can offer That will help you bring in money Especially if you can do it for cash do it if you can make meals for elderly and deliver them Do it Whatever you can do to bring in cash now is the time to do it And I don't want to be Debra Debbie Downer and I don't like to say these things on the show But over the next six months, it is not going to get financially easy or it is not Going the dynamics are not going to change Unfortunately the only thing we can do Especially over the next six to nine months is a start growing our own food get stress therapy chickens goats and or pigs with your neighbors and Bring in as much cash as possible And if you need to get a second job where you're actually bringing in a check bring in that check there are For the next six to nine months, which brings us almost to the end of the year We are going to need every need to do everything we can do to Bring our resources together Especially if we are people who live paycheck to paycheck if we are people who live in a dynamic That is part on credit card or we have a fixed income we One million percent at this point point in time Need to start working with our neighbors working with our friends working with whoever to make extra money if you have to offer to go in and clean people's ovens for $50 do it As long as they're paying you cash Do what you can do? Okay And bring that money in stop looking at the problem and start coming up with solutions and take that Now if you physically cannot clean ovens for $50 charge 75 and have somebody else go in and clean the oven You keep 25 you give them 50. That's not wrong. That's called business if you Need to bring in money Figure out what you can do. What do you if you can drive someone around and and To the grocery store and or run their errands do it and get paid This is the time to be resourceful This is the time to go. These are the things I do on a daily basis a weekly basis a monthly basis Who else can I do this for and get paid for doing it? During the pandemic During the shutdowns, there were a lot of people that didn't even want to go to the grocery store So they were paying other people to do their grocery shopping There are a lot of people that will pay you to do the things you're already doing and yes, they will give you cash Start figuring out solutions instead and I know when we're in that space where we're out of money and we are Excuse me, we are out of money and we are trying to figure out how we're going to pay these things and we they see things coming to a a head like Like we don't see a way out. We have to just take we have to baby-step it And we have to listen to what other people say and even if we think it's impossible for us to do these things We have to really dig in and do them Now let's just say You can't drive people around get people's groceries Whatever it is. I'm going to tell you there are so many other opportunities Stores and Such are now hiring just about anyone that will show up and be a body in their place And I know you might think that's just not enough. That's not enough money not to start Okay, not to start But eventually it will be it will be it will add up, okay I'm also getting I'm going to talk a little bit about business opportunities for everybody whether you are you are looking to Get get into a new career or to Get into a new career have something on the side, whatever it is If you can't find a job and I say this all the time if you cannot find a job Make a job and turn your job into a whole out company Do it do it Listen people who are working don't want to come out of their job People who are working don't want to come home and clean. You maybe you don't know how to clean But you know how to market and you know how to hire people Hire people to clean and have them go into people's homes and clean. Okay Maybe you don't want to power watch people's houses, but you have the money to buy power washers and hire people To go power wash if you're looking for a whole new career Cybersecurity and AI artificial intelligence. I don't love artificial intelligence. I don't But it's coming and we can't stop it if you're looking for a solid career where you are not going to be replaced AI and cybersecurity are two areas of that Transportation anything anything with transportation, especially private transportation if you are a person Who is able to drive and you can drive people from point A to point B or be their daily Shover or drive them from city to city or drive them from state to state That is going to be it in the future If you don't personally want to drive and you can bring people on who can drive That is going to be part of it in the future People are not going to be want to driving want to be driving on these streets. Have you been on these streets driving? Mmm Mmm a lot of people are Reconsidering flying because of a lot of things that have been going on with pilots and planes and Airports and what's in the sky? But they they might not want to fly and maybe they don't want to drive from where they are to where they need to be But they definitely will hire somebody to drive them from point A to point B if you can do that Transportation is going to be huge in the future Doing things for people is going to be huge in the future And listen You might look at me and say that you you make it sound so easy. I Said this on my show on Monday. I'm saying it again.  Or them paying her to watch her tan and 5,000 people are paying to watch her tan you can come up with something you can do that people will watch you do or Will pay you to do for them? Okay, if you cannot talk to someone who can help you come up with something To bring in extra money Sometimes when we're so focused on the problem We just need somebody to come in and say listen These are all the solutions and this is where you need to go for it Okay, if you've called in and you would like to ask a question Please press one make sure that you are pressing one. Otherwise. I don't know you want to ask a question Thank you so much and I want to say hi to everybody who's joined me online I that's one of the things I forgot to do in the beginning of the show Heather, I'm so happy Collins doing well and I can't say this name. I can barely Pronounce it so Loree Liar, Ria, Liar, Ria Liar, Ria, and that's Fernando my FedEx guy you guys.  How are you? And Janna. Hey, oh my goodness Janna. How are you? Emily, thank you for joining me here. Lollie. Oh Lollie. How are you? Joy and Let's see Erin, thank you guys so much for being here With me today on the show I'm going to answer a few questions in the comments if you'd like to call in and ask a question the number is<PHONE_NUMBER> I'm gonna go to 475 and then I'm gonna answer a question online 475. What's your name? Where are you calling from? Hi, Tony. Thanks so much for taking my question. I'm the two from Connecticut Beautiful, how can I help you today? So I'll make it pretty short I'm just curious what you see for me in terms of my love life, especially coming up in this you know in this year Okay, the first thing I hear is the fall So and then I hear September so I feel like You're going to meet somebody in September that has the potential to go very far now I do hear also August So I don't know if you meet this person in August and it takes off in September But I'm going to tell you there's the potential That either you meet them in August and it takes off in September or in August you meet one person But in September you meet the like a different person who might end up being the Person and then I hear false alarm So I feel like maybe the person you meet in August might be a false alarm or you know just be really I hear tread lightly Into that first relationship as far as that August thing goes When you get to the fall now if you're already let me ask you let me say this if you're already in a Relationship this is when your relationship is going to take those next steps and no When somebody's asking a question, I don't go in and ask that I just repeat that information I get I don't know what color Underwear everybody's wearing because I'm not looking at it, but somebody is wearing really nice blue boxers today I will tell you that I Will tell you that because that just flashed. They're very pretty blue. I might say Too much information. Um, I am going to say I hear the fall And if you are currently with someone that this doesn't mean You know This could be the point where it takes off into the next steps, but I do feel like This is somebody new coming in in the fall. This is somebody brand new you've not met this person before You don't know them. You've never met them. It's not somebody coming back from the past It's not someone that you know shoulda coulda woulda If only type of person it's somebody I hear it's somebody brand new coming in in the fall That is an I hear September Now if this is the case where you meet this person, let's say near the end of August, but then your first Actual date is in September. It could be that too, but I hear September very strongly I'm going to tell you this person has the potential You and this person have the potential to go very far in your relationship You have the potential to really Have a very significant relationship But that doesn't mean skip steps I always say the beginning steps are the memories we're making for the future. So don't skip those steps. Don't like Go oh, this is the person so we can just like do this No, no, no, no, don't skip the steps make make all the steps important steps still, okay? I do feel like this person coming in in September It has you know, their head is on right. They are solid They're a really solid person the two of you want a lot of the same things you want to be The way they're saying it to me is you want to be in the same place like whether that means emotionally physically Relationship wise they really want to be in that same place You want to be but without telling them like you don't have to say this is what I want and they'll go Okay, well, I guess I'll jump in on that too. They they already want what you want Which is what makes this a really good Partnership does this make sense to you love? Thank you You are so welcome now between now and September if you could just and for you and for anybody like listening or watching Really figure out what you want and Don't settle for less. Okay really don't settle for less because Sometimes we just need to Revisit all the things that we want in a in a relationship or in a person And then when it shows up that helps us solidify that this is the person that we want to be with Okay, and don't don't settle like if somebody comes in in august and gives you all those warm fuzzies my panties just fell off a feeling Um, that's not the person. That's a whole warning um And you don't want that's not necessarily sometimes that's Sometimes that's Sometimes that's like just don't don't just don't Don't that is not like oh, but that energy. Yeah, that that energy could be your central nervous system saying run sis run Okay, but it's not that person it this person is going to make you feel well I just want to say like normal like this person is going to make you feel like, you know, you guys You're not You don't have those weird not I don't want to use a word weird, but you don't have those feelings of um Oh my god His energy whenever he walks in I just feel like I can't even blah blah blah. No, that's not it. Okay That's actually um for a lot of people that's that's more a warning than it is a Sign, okay love That makes sense. Perfect. Wow. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this Absolutely, and please do get back to us and let us know what happens in In in the fall because I'm going to want to I'm going to want to follow up. Okay love Thank you so I sure will. Thank you. Thank you so much Okay, you guys I want to I do want to talk about one thing and then I'm going to try to find um A question on the chat and if I miss your question, please don't get upset with me I'm not following the chat Like 100 thank you again everybody for stepping in for joining me for this hour I love each and every one of you so stinking much until the next show Uh, just love each other. Just please go love each other You


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we're joined by Brindagara, a political member of the CPIM. And she's one of the latest in the long list of important people who have been named in various ways in connection with the Delhi riots in February. Now as you know, the Delhi riots led to the deaths of at least 53 people, hundreds were injured. However, the investigation of the police has taken a very strange turn to say the least. And we are here to talk more about this. Thank you so much for joining us. First of all, I wanted to ask when your name was mentioned, when the reports came from the name being mentioned in the business statement. Your first response was that this was not a charge sheet but a cheat sheet. And that really seemed to convey the spirit of the issue. So could you just tell us a bit more about why you called this a cheat sheet? Well, it's not only because my name was included in it. But I felt the entire investigation reflected in the various charge sheets specifically, the charge sheet which is under UAPA.  And why do I say cheat sheet? Because who are you cheating? You're cheating the people of India. Such a serious series of incidents of a communal nature took place in which 53 people lost their lives. Over 585 according to the police reports were injured, some of them with very serious injuries. So much property, homes damaged and the social fabric itself was so seriously damaged. In such a situation, one would have assumed that if there was a government which is an impartial government, it would be committed to finding out the truth. So as to ensure that A, those who are responsible will be punished and B, that you learn lessons from it for the future to ensure something like this doesn't occur. And in most such cases, there have been independent investigations. But here you have an investigation directly under the Home Ministry only aim being to cheat the people of India by concealing those who are actually responsible. So therefore, I do not consider most of the charge sheets as charge sheets, but cheat sheets with the aim of concealing the truth, not revealing the truth. Absolutely. And just to take one step back and maybe look at the larger investigation itself, we've seen it happening over many months. So what do you see as the key patterns of this investigation or the key, say, signs of what exactly the Delhi police is doing in terms of the investigation itself? The country's Home Minister, Mr. Amit Shah, gave a statement in Parliament, I think it was on March the 12th or March the 14th, in which he set out this whole narrative, this chronology. You know, Mr. Amit Shah is quite well versed in setting out chronologies. And even before any investigation, he set out a chronology which tried to link the anti-CEA protests with the communal violence. And that was the framework which was set by the Home Minister and the entire investigation which followed was to tailor everything to fit the chronology set out in Parliament by Mr. Amit Shah. And therefore what did they do? The first thing they did was to link the anti-CEA protests in spite of the distance of time and space and geographical locations. By the slate of a hand, suddenly Jamia agitation in December was linked to the February 23rd incidents. There's no link between the two at all. Secondly, any kind of solidarity actions with the anti-CEA protests was considered to be anti-national. Thirdly, it was all seen as some kind of a conspiracy between a set of ideological platforms which are in fact and in reality totally opposed to each other. I mean, for example, urban axels, jihadis, fundamentalists, anti-imperialist forces, everything is all linked up together in a grand conspiracy and now the basic charge is that you wanted to overthrow an elected government. I mean, I just, it is so absurd and it's really so laughable except for the fact that they have got 20 people under the most draconian law in jail today and they've got a list and a target of a whole lot of more people who they want to put in jail, apart from threatening everybody else and basically demonizing the anti-CEA protests so that once the lockdown restrictions or the unlockdown restrictions are over, nobody will dare to raise their voice against the CNRC and NPR.  So, you know, none of those leaders form part of Mr. Amit Shah's chronology. Absolutely. And in this context, the conspiracy angle is also something we would like to look at because the strategy seems to be that drag as many people as you can and create an aura of, like you said, a conspiracy, an aura of suspicion around them. And it doesn't matter how absurd the connections are. So someone is somewhere, someone talked to somebody, becomes a legitimate reason to put away a suspicion over them. So are we also seeing some kind of a larger trend being built up also, which has very dangerous implications for in the coming years as well? It is very dangerous implications. For example, now the Kisan's are on a big movement. Now the Kisan's are doing chakka jam in many places. There are many support groups in favor of the Kisan's. Now just suppose there is some violent incident somewhere. Now all that, if you go by what they're trying to do with the anti-CA protests, tomorrow all that can be a legitimate method of the government to intervene and to say that this is part of a wider conspiracy, the elected government. So if the Bhartya Janta Party has a pro-temple movement in which it forms all these groups and has a national campaign for that, then of course it is not at all anti-national. But if a single group is formed, a solidarity group to support a movement, to collect money for that movement, that's considered anti-national. And if you do have proof that any money has come from dubious sources, which I'm not saying that in any movement, you know, they are not fundamentalist forces or Islamists who would like to utilize a movement for their own benefit. So pinpoint that, give the proof and evidence for that and take action. But how can you damn an entire movement and all the solidarity for that movement? So what you're basically saying is every section of society fights for itself and you have no right to organize solidarity. So today in India, under the Modi government, the entire charge sheet or cheats is nothing but sending a message, no more solidarity will be tolerated. Now this is very serious implications for any democratic movement because it's a straight assault on the right to expression and the right to support each other. We do support each other. But they're saying if you dare to support each other, I mean, this is what a classic method is, not only dividing people in the name of religion, but where secular forces are uniting on a particular issue. You know, it's demonized and now being criminalized, in fact. And in this context, could you talk a bit also about how the legal system is handling it because you're one of the earliest people to approach the courts even before the violence, of course, and all these months you've been continuously taking up these issues in quotes but nothing much has happened. Well, you're absolutely right Prashant because my first FIR request for an FIR to be filed was to the police commissioner of Delhi. And when the police commissioner didn't even have the time or the interest to respond to that. In any of the Thanas in Delhi, I had to go to the magistrates court. And it was a good hearing and the entire arguments were heard. And then, since some people had gone to the High Court, the magistrate said the case, and what was the case, the case was a case of hate speech against Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma. So that slogan became the war cry, Goli Maru Saluko, became the war cry of the Hindutva mobs which were on the streets of northeast Delhi. But after the High Court sent the case back, surprisingly, the magistrate said that, well, you know, unless you get permission because 153A you require permission. Unless you get permission, we can't follow up the case. So then we said, but why did you hear all the arguments then? You heard the entire arguments. The Delhi police never once said that you can't do it without getting permission. Never once because FIRs can be filed. It's only at the charge sheet stage under 153A that you have to get permission, not for an FIR. That's why Delhi police didn't. So that was one unfortunate experience that we did have. Now, obviously, we're, you know, taking the legal aspect forward. The other aspect is that there have been a large number of petitions which have been filed before the High Court, but they haven't really gone anywhere. And the response given by the Delhi police, according to, you know, any sensible reading of it, is just so atrocious. Because, again, it's just a cut and paste job of the narration they are giving and saying that everything was an anti-national conspiracy and therefore, and even the role of the police, you'll be shocked to hear that in the Delhi police didn't respond to my petition and other petitions which were filed, similar ones. They said we have found nothing to indicate that the police played a partial role. And we have nothing to indicate that the people mentioned in our petition including Kapil Mishra have done anything to cause communal tension or disturb communal harmony or to cause communal violence. Now, I don't think any court can accept that kind of thing. So we're waiting for the courts.  And the earlier instance in which Justice Murli Dharan had called out the Delhi police and, you know, heard the tapes in open court and asked the Delhi police to file FIRs against hate speeches made by BGP leaders within 24 hours and then he was transferred. Now, those cases which he had said that FIR should be filed, they're still pending before the court. So I think that does not add to the credibility of the judicial system. It does not add to it. On the other hand, we have the Allahabad High Court, which gave a very important judgment in the case of Dr. Kapil Khan, where, again, the judgment gives all the details of the speech he made and putting it out of the public domain. Justice Justice Murli Dharan played it out in court. The Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court gave the entire speech verbatim in the judgment and said, there is nothing here which is seditious. So I would say that it depends really on a case by case. And also it depends on whether the courts are able to see it in a wider context and put it in that wider context. Otherwise the processes of justice are being really, I would say diluted. And some would say that today all institutions are being subverted, including parliament. I mean, what happened in parliament in the last Rajasabha session? It was unprecedented. So this is a trend, which is something we have to be aware of. We have to identify and we have to unitedly fight against. And I think that is what is happening in Delhi, in India today. So that's good. There is a big resistance growing. Exactly. Actually, that was my last question as well, because one of the key aspects of this whole probe has been how young people have been targeted. And there's been a very consistent young activists, students who are in the forefront of these movements who were trying to figure out their place in democracy, who were trying to express themselves, who were being looked up also in many cases, of course. And there's been a very concerted attempt to suppress these young voices and make them say, like you said, part of a larger conspiracy. So also, how do you see resistance itself in this point of time, when even the act of expression of solidarity itself is being demonized, is being made into a conspiracy as itself. Even in the university campuses, on so many important issues, before the communal incidents and violence in Delhi, we had already seen a series of attacks on students, on the rights of students, the rights of student unions. And on many of the issues the students were raising pertaining to education, educational policy, the issue of democracy within campuses, and we had already seen how the Bhartya Janta Party government under Mr. Modi and Mr. Amit Shah were trying to place people whose only merit in important positions in campuses, whose only merit was that they subscribed to the ideology to which the present ruling regime belongs. And that was the only degree that they required. Now that already had a very bad impact on democracy in the campuses, and we saw how student agitations were being suppressed. And that has now sort of become full blown, I would say, and therefore already the attack on campuses, the attack on academic standards, the changing of syllabuses, the push to the right of the entire discussion, academic discussion, and to replace debate and discussion with dictates and dictates. That was already happening in the campuses. And this now has been extended to questioning and suppressing the linkage between student support to the anti-CA movement and to the defense of India's secular principles, constitutional secular principles, which are totally opposed to any change of citizenship definitions, as the CA does. So I think it's not something which is happening right now. Of course, it is being taken much further with the use of UAPA. But it's and the danger here is that a secular movement is sort to be linked with a communal agenda. That I think is what is new. That is what is really disturbing, because the Bhartya Janta Party fears a secular response to its Hindutva agenda. Very comfortable Prashant, when Islamists and Islamic fundamentalists and they have a match with each other, that suits both of them. It suits both of them.  That is something which they are terrified of. And that is what this movement was all about. I mean, I want to say, we do disagree with many of the slogans which were given by different sections or some of the tactics they used etc. Yeah, you can disagree with it, but the fact of the matter is it was totally peaceful. It was totally peaceful. It was totally secular. And they were also very jealous of protecting, they I mean those who are running the anti-CA platforms, of protecting that secular character. And that's why this chart sheet is so very odd because it says, oh, they had the Constitution in their hands, they had the national flag in their hands, and that is they were concealing their real thing.  They said, oh my God, this is what's going to affect our base. And that's the chart sheet also has that as its aim. So young people who came out on those platforms, they want them to pay the price for it. And it is shameful. It is shocking. And I think all political parties of the opposition need to come out very, very strongly against this targeting, because it's actually not targeting of this or that individual, but targeting the fundamentals of secularism and the right to dissent and to protest. Thank you so much for talking to us. Thank you. Thank you. That's all we have time for today. Keep watching.