Greetings from the National Archives. I'm David Ferriero, archivist of the United States, and it's my pleasure to welcome you to today's virtual book talk with Dorothy Wickenden, author of The Agitators. Before we begin, I'd like to tell you about two upcoming programs you can view on our YouTube channel. Tomorrow of March 31st at 7 p.m. we'll bring a panel discussion titled Overcoming Challenges, Women in the Military. Journalist Soledad O'Brien will lead the discussion about the evolution of women's roles and responsibilities in the United States armed forces. Joining O'Brien will be former Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, retired Brigadier General Kristin K. French, and Lieutenant Madison Hovron. And on Friday, April 2nd at noon, we'll hear from George William Van Cleave, author of Making a New American Constitution. In this book, Van Cleave explores flaws in the U.S. Constitution and proposes solutions for them. Archives and manuscript collections are often called treasure troves. Archivists, librarians, and curators take pride in seeing the materials in their care come to light and be used to share previously little-known episodes of history. In the case of our guest author, Dorothy Wickenden, an encounter with a collection of neglected letters unlocked a treasure of material leading to the story of three remarkable women. The letters written by Francis Seward, the wife of President Lincoln's Secretary of State, led Wickenden to Martha Wright and Martha's writings led to Harriet Tubman. These three, the agitators of the title, bring their own perspectives on the critical issues of their time, slavery, women's roles, and the rights of women and black Americans and the Civil War. Dorothy Wickenden is the author of Nothing Daunted and the Agitators and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast, The Political Scene. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard Wickenden was National Affairs Editor at Newsweek from 1993 to 1995, and before that was the longtime executive editor of The New Republic. Now let's hear from Dorothy Wickenden. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you, David, and greetings to our audience. I wish I could see you all out there. I am a journalist, not a professional historian, but I love prowling around libraries and that's something I did a lot of when I was working on this book. I thought I'd start with a few introductions because two of my protagonists have been basically lost to history. First, let me tell you a little bit about Francis Seward, a self-effacing bookish aristocrat from Auburn, New York, married in 1824 at the age of 19, to a man who became one of the most controversial statesmen of the century. Martha Cawthon Wright, Francis's closest friend, who lived around the corner, a funny, frustrated irreverent Quaker who yearned for meaningful work outside the house. She was one of the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. And Harriet Tubman, everyone knows about Tubman's heroic exploits on the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. But few people are familiar with the rest of her life, in particular her extraordinary friendship with Francis Seward and Martha Wright. They were co-conspirators in what turned out to be the Second American Revolution. These are the agitators. So, Francis thought she was marrying a local lawyer and that they'd live a quiet, peaceful life raising their children together in Auburn. But he was addicted to politics and quickly abandoned his legal practice. He turned out to be a gifted politician. Henry, as Francis called him, became the governor of New York at the age of 37 and went on to be a U.S. senator, then Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln. Southerners loathed and feared him. What they didn't know was that Seward's elegant, self-effacing wife had even more radical convictions than he did about women's rights and about slavery. Seward's biographers haven't written much about Francis, and I was curious about her. Her letters are archived at the Rush East Library at the University of Rochester. And two years ago, when I was in upstate New York, I went to read some of them. Even a quick look showed how revelatory they were about marriage, race, politics, and a country that was about to be upended. Francis wrote one incredible letter to Henry in 1833 when she was 27, furiously describing how her sister, Lisette, was being beaten by her husband. Francis described her brother-in-law as the brute she lives with and said that Lisette would cross the ocean to escape him if she could take her daughter with her. Men have framed laws to uphold themselves in their wickedness, Francis wrote. Women became their husband's property upon marriage, literally. Men had total control over their wives, including the right to batter them. Women couldn't sit on juries, make a will, sign a contract, or file a lawsuit. And of course, they couldn't vote. If a woman pursued divorce, she became a social pariah and lost her children. Any money she had inherited and her reputation. Francis' epiphany about women's powerlessness was followed two years later by her conversion into a full-fledged abolitionist. She and Henry were taking a long summer trip from Auburn to Virginia as they stopped at a tavern north of Richmond. They heard the sounds of weeping and moaning and saw ten naked boys tied together by their wrists and fastened by a long rope. They watched with horror as a tall white man holding a whip led them to a horse trough to drink and then to a shed where they lay down sobbing themselves to sleep. A slave trader was taking them to Richmond where they would be sold at auction, a few of the tens of thousands of people Virginia supplied to the cotton and rice fields of the deep south every year. After Seward was elected senator in 1849, he soon became known as the best host in Washington. He was convivial and charming. And even his political enemies in the Democratic Party attended his 10-course dinners. He was convinced that socializing was indispensable to his political success and as of 1854 to the future of the New Republican Party. So in those days it was Republicans who espoused the rights of black men and reactionary Democrats who defended white male supremacy. Francis, who was prone to migraine headaches and depression, loved Henry's optimism, but she really didn't share his confidence that he could persuade southerners to change their minds about that momentous issue confronting them all. She was revolted by Washington. It was a southern town where slavery was legal and men, women and children and chains were bought and sold at auction on the mall. In Henry's exclusive circles, a strict hierarchy determined one's social life. Francis, as the wife of the senator, was responsible for drawing up guest lists and menus for his lavish dinners and serving as his hostess. She dressed formally each day for receiving visitors and making calls and even more elaborately for his dinners. She estimated in her journal that dressing and socializing consumed two-thirds of the times of well-off women making them as vapid as they were presumed to be. She wrote to her sister Lisette in despair, it is the life to which I am doomed. Still she extracted an agreement from Henry. She would continue to live in their home in Auburn where she would carry on as she liked but she visited in Washington once a year during the winter social season to plan and run his parties. This unusual arrangement more or less worked until the late 1850s when pro-slavery and free-state men in Kansas went to war and the Supreme Court issued the Dred Scott decision which described black men and women as beings of an inferior order and opened up the West to the spread of slavery. Early in the decade, Francis had converted her old basement kitchen into a station on the Underground Railroad and she did everything she could to help freedom seekers teaching people to read and write, donating money to help pay for the freedom of enslaved family members and helping job seekers find work. But her two lives, like the two sections of the country, turned out to be irreconcilable. In the waning days of 1858, Francis went to Washington as usual and prepared for Henry's New Year's Day reception. It was particularly important to him that year because he intended to be the Republican nominee for president in 1860. The Seward's daughter Fanny, who was just 15, watched the servants in the kitchen as they prepared for their father's reception. They set out a dozen lemons for a whiskey punch but her father came in to say that Mrs. Seward thought it best not to have it.   She was upset to see the cook scald to death as she put it. Eight unfortunate terrapins, poor things. If I could influence anyone by doing so, I would never taste animal food. But I cannot. At any rate, I will not eat turtle, terrapins, lobsters, eels, and frogs. By noon that day, the dining room table was laden with turkey, ham, tongue, and oysters. Chicken salad garnished with hard-boiled eggs and celery and delicacies from Henry's favorite bakery in New York, including a white-frosted plum cake decorated with a New York coat of arms and, what else, a banner emblazoned with Seward's name. To Francis, Henry's opulent entertaining and his hospitality towards slavery's apologists had never felt more offensive. He still stubbornly believed that a politician somehow got along outside Congress. They could overcome their ideological differences. After the final guest departed, Henry called the party a great success, complacently telling Francis that they must have entertained 400 people. That triggered a rebellion in Francis that had been gathering forests ever since he had run for office. She renounced her role as his hostess, and on her return to Auburn that spring, she ratchet it up for anti-slavery activities. My fascination with Francis led me to Martha, who encouraged Francis's growing activism. Nineteenth-century women were expected to stick to their separate spheres. While men went out into the world to pursue money and influence, women cooked, cleaned, produced babies, and cultivated the attributes of piety, purity, and submissiveness. Martha had six children, but she wasn't remotely pious or submissive. She envied her husband David, his challenging law cases, and his freedom to travel for work. Lacking Francis's large inheritance and her household of servants, Martha did all the cooking and housework and made all of the family clothes. She changed the hay and the mattresses, washed the windows, shook out the carpets. She made her own soap and candles, and canned berries, peaches, and tomatoes for the winter. One morning, it took her three hours to bathe her three youngest children who were three, five, and seven, what with the hauling and heating of water from the well. I benefited enormously from Martha's letters, too, which are part of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. She kept up a steady correspondence with her older sister, the famous Lucretia Mott, a longtime Quaker activist, minister, and human rights advocate. In one letter, Martha summed up the drudgery of her days in a single sharp line. The only way is to grub and work and sweep and dust and wash and dress children and make gingerbread and patch and darn. But mostly, she transformed her frustrations into a sardonic cereal of family life. Another housewife recommended whisking eggs with a quill, and she did try it. Beating the eggs with the feathers, she made a hideous mess, and she concluded to Lucretia that the idea must have been invented by a goose. My nice wire egg beater is good enough for me. Martha's early letters, too, provided a fantastic perspective on women's barely suppressed rage about their constricted lives. The kind of thing that male historians used to dismiss as social history. In the early 1840s, Martha began sheltering fugitive slaves in her basement kitchen. Actually, it was Martha who gave Francis the idea turning the symbolic heart of the domestic sphere where she made her mother's Nantucket into a place of political asylum. Martha loved breaking rules. Young men studying at the Venerable Auburn Theological Seminary, which trained Presbyterian ministers, according to strict Calvinist doctrine, often stopped by the house to proselytize. They warned her about the fate of children who failed to devote Sundays to God. Martha replied that she didn't believe in forcing her family to read the Bible or go to church, but only read their tracks if they would read her pamphlets from the American Anti-Slavery Society. She wrote to Lucretia, these ascetic skip religions, such a repulsive character, I wonder who was ever made better by the perusal of such nonsense. As such practices became known, the people of Auburn branded Martha an infidel. In 1848, Martha joined her sister, Lucretia Mott, and three others who were just as fed up as women, Elizabeth Katie Stanton, Jane Hunt, and Elizabeth McClintock, to organize the Sack of Falls Convention, the first meeting in America devoted to women's rights. Lucretia expected her sister to speak there, but at the time, the only women who spoke in public were Quakers and participants in religious revival meetings. In any case, Martha knew she couldn't measure up to Lucretia, a brilliant orator, and she was terrified by the idea of speaking before a large audience. She was also six months pregnant with her seventh child, and she tried to make herself inconspicuous in the back of the room. But Lucretia made sure that Martha was heard. A few years earlier, Martha annoyed by an article on a Philadelphia newspaper that instructed women to fulfill their conjugal duty with obedience and a cheerful smile had written a lacerating essay in response titled, Words for Wives. While the liege lord she wrote of the house went off each day to the ever-varying scenes of everyday business, his wife spent all her time tending to their family. After the children were in bed, she was expected to delight her husband with the little arts of pleasing. In her essay she demanded, why is it not often are insisted upon that the husband should always return to his fireside with a smile and endeavor to soothe the perturbed spirit that has for hours been subjected to the thousand annoyances of the nursery and the kitchen. Lucretia, who lived in Philadelphia, arranged for Hence for Wives to be published, and at the Seneca Falls Convention she read it aloud. Frederick Douglass was there, the best known abolitionist in the world, and Francis was astounded when he introduced himself afterward, asking if he might republish the essay in his newspaper, The North Star, based in Rochester. Martha struck up a friendship with him, and with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the driving force of the convention. After Seneca Falls, Stanton enlisted Martha in the Incipient Women's Rights Movement, with Martha as her deputy. Keep your pen busy, Stanton wrote to her. They needed to organize legions of women to begin petitioning state legislatures for full legal rights. Stanton and Martha made the most outrageous demand of all the ones before the Seneca Falls, that women be granted the right to vote. Douglass drew Martha further into abolition. He frequently lectured across New York State, and whenever he was in the area, Martha invited him to the house. This alone was a small act of insurrection. Neighbors who already disapproved of Martha now saw her as a provocateur and promoted social equality between the races. So I had two of my protagonists, the reserved, irreproachably proper Mrs. William Seward, who nevertheless oddly chose not to live with her husband, and the very dangerous Mrs. David Wright. How did they come to collaborate with Harriet Tubman? Adolitionists were closely knit, but geographically scattered, and they depended on utterly reliable personal contacts across the country. Women who were underrated as a matter of course were less likely to fall under suspicion. In 1849, Tubman walked out of slavery in Poplar, Maryland to Philadelphia, a distance of almost 100 miles, leaving behind her parents and siblings and her husband, a free black man who had steady work and no desire to take his chances elsewhere. If he was caught fleeing with a fugitive slave, he was likely to be sold into slavery, get shot in the back, or be torn apart by bloodhounds. Tubman made herself known to every abolitionist in Philadelphia, and she became close to Lucretia Mott. It isn't known how Harriet met Frances and Martha, but a few historians have speculated, and I agree, that Lucretia introduced her to Martha during one of Martha's visits to Philadelphia, and then Martha introduced Harriet to Frances and Auburn. It was a convenient underground railroad stop midway across New York State on Harriet's way to Canada.  Lacking the privilege of literacy, she created an indelible oral history by telling the defining episodes over and over to northern friends and eventually to large audiences who took down what she'd said. Her performances were totally unlike the dry Lyceum lectures that white audiences were used to. One of her Boston friends, the reformer Edna Dow Cheney, wrote that Harriet played all the parts, and the scenes rise before you as she saw it, and her voice and language change with her different actors. Harriet couldn't remember her oldest sister, who was sold into slavery when she was three years old. Two other sisters had been leased away by their enslaver as their mother pleaded for mercy. In a recurring nightmare, Harriet heard the thought of horses hooves and the shrieks of women as men rode in and tore children out of their mother's arms. Harriet was sent away to work at the age of six or seven, and she had scars on her neck from a sadistic woman who thrashed her repeatedly for failing to do her chores to the woman's liking. She had periodic blackouts from a head injury she suffered when an overseer hurled an iron weight at an enslaved man in a dry goods store, and it hit Harriet instead.  To Francis, this woman, 18 years younger than she was and barely five feet tall, embodied the urgency and the potential of abolition. They were so different, but they shared a deep religious faith, and Harriet brought to mind Corinthians. God had chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. She was unstoppable, unafraid of the slave power of the South and impatient with the lawmakers in Washington. Harriet told Martha about her final Underground Railroad extraction, explaining that she had gone to Dorchester County, hoping to rescue her only sibling left in slavery, her sister Rachel, and Rachel's two children. She'd waited in vain throughout the night in a blizzard at the agreed-upon location in a wood. She later learned that Rachel had died just a few days before. Her fourth sister lost a slavery. Adding to her sorrow, she couldn't take Rachel's two children, Andrewine, who was 13, and Ben, 11. She told Cheney that she had to leave them there for want of $30, the cost of paying someone to bring them to her. She did manage to spirit away a couple and their young children. At one point, sensing they were being followed, Harriet guided them through a swamp with small island where they hid amid wet grasses. Around twilight, a man appeared in Quaker clothing, slowly walking along a path at the edge of the swamp. Harriet thought he was talking to himself, but as he drew closer, she heard him say, my wagon stands in the barnyard of the next farm along the way. The horses in the stable, the harness hangs on a nail. That journey took more than a month. Martha wrote about it to her daughter, Ellen, who was away in boarding school to impress upon her the torments faced by freedom seekers on the run. She said that Harriet Tubman had just pioneered six people safely from southern Maryland. One woman had held her baby in her arms the entire way while Harriet and the men helped along the other two children. Martha wrote, they walked all night carrying the little ones and spread the old comfort on the frozen ground in some dense thicket where they all hid while Harriet went out foraging and sometimes could not get back till dark, considering she would be followed. Then, if they crept in further and if she couldn't find them, she would whistle or sing certain hymns, and they would answer. As I put these women's lives together, I also saw how meaningful Francis' relationship with Harriet became for both of them. In Auburn, in the spring of 1859, just after Francis told Seward she would no longer be the handmaid at his Washington parties, she began to think more daringly about her life. Martha by then was organizing conventions for women's rights and for abolition, bringing hecklers and mobs. Harriet Tubman had returned to the eastern shore some dozen times, rescuing about 70 people, including even her elderly parents and taking them all the way to Canada. Harriet's father had rheumatism.  Francis had inherited some land in Auburn from her father. One parcel, about a mile from her house on South Street, included seven acres of farmland, a new-frame house, a barn, and a few outbuildings. She decided Harriet should have it. It's really hard to emphasize just how subversive this was. To relentless lobbying, the women of New York had finally convinced the state legislature to change the law to allow wives to have control over their own property. But women still rarely engaged in real estate transactions, let alone with fugitive slaves. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 required northern states to return fugitive slaves to the south. If you were caught assisting a freedom seeker, you were subject to a $1,000 fine and subject to a possible jail sentence. Francis would be flouting that law just as Seward was beginning a bid for the president. Yet he opposed it as much as she did and he approved the sale, which conveniently took place while he was off on an eight-month tour of Europe, Egypt, and Palestine. As we know, Henry lost the 1860 Republican nomination and the election to Lincoln. His appointment as Secretary of State was something of a consolation prize. In February 1861, Seward gave his final speech as senator. He spoke about Lincoln's policy on slavery, which was to save the Union, not to emancipate the slaves. Citing Thomas Jefferson, he said, in political affairs we cannot always do what seems to us absolutely best.  She wrote, Compromises based on the idea that the preservation of the Union is more important than the liberty of nearly 4 million human beings cannot be right. A year later when the North appeared to be losing the war, badly, Harriet told a friend, Lydia Malaria Child, that there would be no Union victory in the Civil War until the president ordered emancipation. She said, God's ahead of Master Lincoln. God won't let Master Lincoln beat the South till he does the right thing. Harriet wanted to join the war herself, and in the spring of 1862, she persuaded Northern officials to sanction a new profession. She would go to Union-occupied Port Royal, South Carolina, and become a freedom fighter for the Army, an idea she described to Martha as a kind of secret service. The Union Army had barely begun emitting black men, little-known black women, but Harriet would not be deterred. She explained her mission to a friend by setting the Book of Exodus. The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go help him. Frances and Martha saw the war just as she did as a holy cause. Frances wrote to Henry that there would be no peace without a promise of liberty to all.  He fought at Gettysburg. Frances' son, Will, fought at Cold Harbor, Virginia, and in the Battle of Monocacy in Maryland. So in the agitators, I showed the evolution of these three women over three and a half decades from abject dependence into dissidents. They were part of something far bigger than they were, the most shattering period of social and political change in America, but they also profoundly affected the course of those events. The kinds of injustices that Frances Seward, Martha Wright, and Harriet Tubman fought against are still with us, and the battles they fought continue. As John Lewis wrote just before his death last year, ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting into what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. Harriet Tubman, despite the lasting injuries inflicted on her by slaveholders and the countless risks she took on behalf of others, outlived Frances and Martha by decades, and she never stopped working on behalf of black Americans and women. She became close to the children of her original friends, especially to Martha's daughter, Eliza, who carried on her mother's work for women's suffrage. In 1902, Eliza invited several women to her house at 99 South Street in Auburn to discuss the next stage of the movement. Her guests included her sister Ellen, Susan B. Anthony, and two younger activists. After more than 50 years of organizing, women were no longer their husband's property, and they could attend college and become doctors, lawyers, and ministers. They still hadn't achieved the vote nationally, but they were speaking and marching in growing numbers. Eliza and her guests said they would carry on until every woman in every state could go to the polls. Nearly two decades later, they succeeded in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified. One guest arrived a little late, 80-year-old Harriet Tubman, a figure from another age, who walked over from her house almost a mile away. As they all greeted her, she sat in her fond frank way that it was the last time they would all be there together. She had undertaken a long-term project that would outlive her, which she called her final work, the Tubman Home for Aged and Indigent Negroes. It was on the property she had bought all those years earlier from Francis Seward. Thank you so much.


Since we have been talking about the competence of test user and the certifications which they can get, but there are some very important issues in assessment which we are going to be looking into it now. The first important thing is test construction. Since we use frequently different type of test which are being developed by international affiliates and we adapt them either or we translate them either and use them in local setting but there are some situations where we are stuck with those tests and we find that they are culturally loaded and there are so many other barriers involved into it and we have to develop the test. So psychologists who develop test and other assessment techniques use appropriate psychometric procedures. It is not that we generally collect questions and randomly apply them to our sample and we will get a test or a survey. There are different psychometric procedures which are involved into test construction. Current scientific or professional knowledge is used for test design, standardization, type of validations, reduction or elimination of biases and recommendations for use. So we need to see what item is statistically going to be deleted from the list of questionnaires by using reliability analysis and it is very specific component, item if alpha deleted and then we have to see which items factor loading is good enough to keep that into the test. What factor loadings in social sciences we are going to look for? The ideal one is probably 0.60 but if we cannot achieve to that way we have to see according to the test construct it would be 0.35 or 0.40. So you know there are lot of psychometric analysis involved in making a test. It is not that a simple thing we just randomly collect the items and we go to population to apply that questions on to them. Interpreting assessment result, while interpreting assessment results, psychologists take into account the purpose of assessment because it is very important as well as the other test factors and the individual characteristics of the person who is performing into the test and who is being assessed such as the situational factors may affect the person then the personal factors may assess the person and then the linguistics have its impact on the test and the cultural differences can create a impact on the test users. So Jaga, work, mahal, its internal instinctive motivation and lot of cultural differences who can impact the test. So it is very important that while interpreting the assessment result one have to take into account all these factors. So here it is very important to talk about that what if the assessment is being done by an unqualified person who is not aware of the fact that all these things matter a lot. So psychologists do not promote the use of psychological assessment technique by unqualified persons except where the test is being conducted for training purposes with appropriate supervision. So it is not so easy that anyone could come in, walk in and apply a test and interpret the result. We need a specialized person who has some degree in assessment and psychometrics or who can interpret the test properly. Now what if the test is an obsolete test and it is an outdated test, definitely it is going to produce obsolete and outdated results. Psychologists do not base their assessment or intervention, decisions, recommendation, reports that are results on the basis of those tests who are being outdated for the current purpose and obsolete and not useful for the current purpose. Now you may be thinking that how can a test become an obsolete test. Here I would like to give you one example of Waze Intelligence Test. When we talk about Bessler Adult Intelligence Test and Waze Wessler Intelligence Test for children, we know that when these tests were made, the criteria and age range of the test were initially for an 8-year-old child to be able to solve a 2.5-year-old child, because of world being a global village, because of the proper dissemination of information. So that age range was reduced to 5-4, 3.5 and recently that 2.5-year-old child also has that knowledge which he probably had for 9 years. So this is how the world has changed, the knowledge transformation has changed and in result to that certain tests has become obsolete. And now we cannot interpret them as we did many years ago. So probably because of different change, because of the cultural advancement and information about the other parts of the world, things have become changed now and many tests have been obsolete and now we cannot use them anymore and on the basis of those tests, we need to keep going on revising those tests or poodi duniya mein teston ki revised version isi liye aate hain. But in any case, if we are not available with the revised version, it is very unethical to use the older version and yet claim that this is the result of any specific test which is being internationally recognized.


Hello everybody, welcome back another Photoshop tutorial and this one going to show you how to restore and fix old photos. In this one here, I've got an 1843 image of John Quincy Adams, the President of the United States. Let's go ahead and restore this image. The first step, make sure you've got the image loaded, select your layer, go up to Filter and then go to Neural Filters. I want you to note that I am in the Beta for this one. I'm in the Photoshop Beta, but this here, this Neural Filter is just in the final process of getting figured out and it will be in the regular version shortly. The first step is at the bottom, you're going to see photo restoration as one of the new Neural Filters. Turn that bad boy on. The first time you turn it on, keep in mind it's a pretty large download, it's about 800 megabytes, but there you go. We've already gone ahead and made some changes. Off, on. It's already done a pretty good job, it's got rid of a lot of the noise, especially make sure that Enhanced Face is on. Also note, you can reduce the scratches even further, it goes to a default of 20, but let's say if I jack this up to 50, it will begin processing again in a few short seconds and presto, we're going to have even better looks. So you guys can adjust this as you see fit. Finally, keep in mind you can also do further adjustments. Again, it's processing. You can do noise reduction.  Just keep in mind that if you zoom in, it does soften the features quite a bit. So again, use that as you see fit. Now, if you wanted to restore the image even further and then make it color, even though it wasn't shot in color, just click on colorize and presto. Now you've got a color restored image. That's all there is. It's the photo restoration and colorize. And then as you see fit, you can go ahead and adjust some of the colors. For example, there's too much magenta in that for my opinion. In my opinion, saturation, I would drop it down a little bit to make it look nice and old. Again, adjust them as you see fit. That's how you restore photos in seconds. Thanks for watching. Ton more stuff coming up.


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Good morning. I didn't get a video together last week because I spent I spent almost the whole week at home With sick kids, you know life life didn't happen But this week I'm shooting like three videos today I am so excited because I got onto the schedule of Julianne Daucanson She is the chair of our department a world-renowned scientist and expert in galaxies and stellar populations and And a very long list of other things and also an incredibly deep thinker about the profession in the and the art of Being a scientist and communicating science and an avid dog owner. And so without further ado Here's my coffee time chat with professor Julianne Daucanson I refuse to be defined by my own self-applied label, so I'm drinking tea for a coffee time, you know and on and on I Was gonna say in honor of you drinking tea, but also just because I've had three cups of coffee today already That doesn't sound like enough No, it's the day is not over. I got some interesting questions from people like what's it like being the greatest of all time I want to ask I want to talk about How do you make good ideas Which I think is related to writing. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's a really good question.  People explicitly in research. Yeah, so like I started a writing class because that was something where I felt like We expected a certain level of performance and where I saw really amazing people's careers Have having struggles was when they weren't able to take their fantastic ideas and actually Submit them for publication That's kind of the currency by which the field goes and also if you have an idea and it's just in your mind and on your laptop Other people don't get to interact with it and query it and be inspired by it So, you know, I started a writing class to try to teach that Intentionally, but I've been trying to think a lot about like how do we train people in research intentionally? like as a You know you get that when you're experienced enough at it and you've and you've got the survivor bias that you've actually made It in, you know, we have periods where it's like, oh, yeah, my research is going really well Oh, I'm not being very effective in my research.  They're doing really well. Oh, they're having a hard time and Often it's very difficult about how do you? Say what makes that differentiation between when things are going well and when things are stalled and What can't can we explicitly train some of this stuff because I'm very much about, you know, there's so much potential in the field That I feel like we lose a lot of people's genius because we're not intentionally training them in some of the stuff that they know and that winds up being something where That just really compounds a lot of questions about like what kind of Capital people have when they move in that if you are the child of academics, you just sort of know how the system works You know what you can ask for and so I'm very interested in like how do you? make the Implicit explicit explicit and thus learnable and trainable and help people be better because that's the way I always felt like part of the UW program was always really good about You know admitting people from a wide Range of backgrounds that had the potential and then trying to be very mindful about helping them reach that potential As opposed to let's just admit people who are already Superstars and just not try to break them too much and hope they get out the other end Is the only way to do it have a bunch of crappy ideas first. Yeah, that's certainly that certainly is so there's a bunch of stuff so I mean one is reading really broadly and attending talks really broadly and You know allowing yourself the freedom to just be interested in a lot of stuff and I and I do worry that with some of the difficulties in the field in terms of just People feeling very very stressed out all the time for Rational it's a rational response sometimes to the incentives that are better that go on in the field But it cuts out people's feeling of joy and exploration Which is actually Something that can really fuel the kind of science that Then does make your career easier, right? So the their project that you do where it's a pretty clear track, right? I've got you know, I've got a really great data set gonna do a thing I'm gonna measure a thing and I'm gonna get the paper out And so when you're in those periods, it's very tempted to just kind of march forward very and and there's great science That comes out of that right and there's certain like ambitious projects that don't happen without a whole lot of people doing that but you do also need times when Either as an individual or as a field to allow some fraction of individuals to act that way where you know, you're Trying to forge connections between there you're going down one path But you see a talk about something else and you realize it intersects with the other thing and then you go exploring That aspect of it So I think there's a there's a little bit of attention that the more pressure people feel under the less freedom that they feel to actually explore and sometimes in that exploration is where a lot of those Innovative ideas comes in especially in astronomy where you know everything you look at its base depends on practically every other thing That's out there and so The more you know about stuff the better you can put those pieces together like I there was an old canard I don't know who it dates back to that like a lot of You know a lot of astronomers tend to do some of their most important work like in their 40s It's not like math or something where you know, you're just a kid genius and you Still got a little time left. No, you have a lot of time left for these which goes up You know runs out runs up into 50 Because because it's so many different interacting systems that the more you know about all those different pieces you really start to see those connections and find interesting niches where other people aren't currently occupying it or Taking the tools from one area and applying them to some other some other area. I think the other thing is definitely being Just absolutely brutal on your idea. The idea is that you have in terms of just assessing whether or not they're Actually any good. It's easy to fall in love with your stuff hmm and Just because something's exciting to you doesn't necessarily mean it's going to pan out And this is what I like about proposal writing is putting stuff through that rigorous stress testing about is this exactly the right thing at the right time this is actually going to be fruitful because I think that For there are some kinds of projects where you're very much like resource limited like if you don't have the biggest glass It's just not going to happen But I would say that in most people's just intellectual life.  It's also very common for people when especially when you are thinking broadly When you look at a field that you're not familiar with everything seems New and you assume nobody's Yeah, right. We have a little bit of ego. We take to it. It's like was everybody anybody ever thought About where bulges come from that's a really interesting question It's like yeah, it's an interesting question They've been like infinite conference proceedings and your conferences on it and papers written and so like you sort of have to So sometimes just talking to people is really good. It's sort of trying to figure out those niches Sometimes fast prototyping you push something all the way through and this is really good for proposals When you do like the the quick and dirty thing just to show that the scale of the answer is something that's actually Interesting because sometimes if you make a measurement and you can only make it to 35 percent That's actually revolutionary because that's enough to really clearly distinguish between models whereas if it's You know is the difference between these models something that needs a five percent precision measurement Are the systematics good enough and sometimes if you work something through you can kind of really see like it's not really in The end going to be exciting to write about do you think it's more important for young person to try to publish the most impactful thing whatever that means or the thing they find the most fun It's like an impossible false dichotomy Yeah, right it's hard right because sometimes the fun thing leads to the you know generally you don't write Your most high-impact work just I'm just gonna sit here and ponder I'm gonna come up with an idea and then do that. There are some people who do work that way But especially an experiment. It's like not the it's not the easiest way and so often There's a sequence to stuff and so sometimes that fun thing is enough that you Acquire the insight you get a better knowledge of the field you develop some new tools and Then that takes you somewhere if you just do fun fun fun little you know two-page research notes over and over again That's maybe not building towards a larger expertise about something. What are young people doing wrong these days like? You are Already You're doing great sweetie Are there are there trends that you worry about at this point with a level of seniority now to look back on I worry about early over specialization in that the field changes all the time and So I've had this experience of having taught a graduate extra galactic class every two years for pushing 20 years And I have to overhaul large sections of it every second time that I teach it Which is a four-year cycle. So what happens is something? So I go to I go to teach it and there will be something new that people are talking about So I need to make sure that people that that goes in there then two years later. There's usually That the questions crystallized like it's come down to Okay, people have really figured out how to talk about this and now people are really trying to decide if it's this or that and then The time after that that I teach it. So it's four years from the beginning It's a one. It's like a bullet point about how something behaves, right? There was all of this work and all of these people madly publishing and fighting with each other sometimes You're trying to fire. Oh, no, it's this way. It's that way. Oh, and then it just becomes this is like that I think because of that if you only know about That thing or you think that so like that thing you're spending all of your time thinking about right now within five years that is Generally not the most interesting question anymore. I like your summary that you know within five or six years The thing that is like keeping up at night has become Like nobody even references what the measurement is anymore. Oh, yeah, commonly. No, no, no, no I have I have things where it was like, yeah, that was a really big discovery and nobody knew that and now it's just like Oh, yeah, that's just how it is. That's like conspicuously close to like your mean PhD time as well in most institutions like from from the time that you walk in the door just post to start this apprenticeship or this training program to become an expert is About the same time scale that people will no longer care about the thing that we tell you on day one is like Except that there is a lot of like lead time Well, it's not it's the mentoring that goes into making sure that you're in the right process there That you can't grab that bolt of lightning the day you walk in here You do the right you have to build the skills, right? I mean that's the thing is like you have to build enough skills that you can you can participate fully in that Global discussion about what the universe is actually like and that does take time and it takes training I think where it maybe starts that where the time scales do start to become mismatched is during the postdoctoral periods where you're supposed to be showing more of more independence more sense of I'm somebody who can really shape an intellectual direction. How do we evaluate good mentorship? How do we evaluate if we're taking care of people well? Because that's something that I'm warning a lot about thinking about these days. Yeah, no, and I've been thinking a lot about it as well for You know some very very large percentage of junior scientist a Lot of the mentoring can happen Informally and you know people just naturally accrete more senior people that they can turn to for advice And they start working on a project and you know kind of just letting stuff roll Isn't isn't the worst and and completely fine, but I think the issues are What happens to the other 30% where a little bit more intentionality would make everybody More successful at reaching their goals, whatever those goals are and even in that 70% Maybe there's more that they could reach or maybe they could be better prepared For whatever the next step is with again a little bit more intentionality and so so yeah, so I mean I've definitely been working really hard since I took over his chair about trying to Identify where those holes are because I think one thing that's happened within the department the department's grown a lot and That makes you know stuff grows the gaps start to become apparent So like another big thing that I'm really I'm conscious of just like personally as a mentor is Helping younger Younger scientists figure out their own story about themselves like we all have really bad voices in our head that tell us a lot of wrong things about ourselves and We often have difficulties in our life when we try to Make our path not fit who we are like So Something I feel like my job as a mentor is to try to help mirror to people what Their actual strengths are and then to also recognize that I've always you know Another thing I've always been very keen on is the fact that usually people's greatest strength is their greatest weakness Yeah, you're a really creative person like you're you're so great at coming up with ideas. That's fantastic Right. That's a really terrific. That's a really terrific skill to have One of the difficulties associated with having a lot of really good ideas is actually finishing Them so that you can move on to the next one or letting something to Develop to kind of like the next level of mastery on that idea So helping people figure out so somebody who's super super creative about a lot of things That's not somebody who should go Down a route where That's not allowed to be seen as a good thing and likewise somebody who's super detailed oriented like that's an incredibly valuable trait On certain projects, but that's maybe not a great match for somebody who you know put them in a position where they have to work completely alone and Don't have some structure around them that could really help you know, so all of these things are Every trait is adaptive in the right environment and helping students Figure out how they like to work how they like to think what they're good at and how they can make choices that are aligned with those things or Also helping them figure out. What are areas where a little more training or more? Intentionality would get them to their their goals like maybe you know a lot of this stuff is trainable Okay, so on Twitter when I when I said that we were gonna do coffee time You represented tea. Yeah, what do you so I have to ask what are you drinking? I'm drinking very generic green tea that I found in my desk. I Am drinking Irish breakfast. I like my tea to be as close to espresso as you can possibly get Can you give me like top three tea places that you found? Okay?  That's even better. I mean number one.  We have vanilla hazelnut We have no that's okay It's a menu filled with tea and every one of the equivalent of vanilla hazelnut, right? You should always have at least a couple of the basics Before you add on the case that's number one.  Okay. It's like Conferences and whatnot if you have an urn that has hot water in it for tea and it's an urn That's previously held coffee. Yeah It's really bad.  It's bad coffee too to be fair It's worse I don't drink the coffee, but I can guarantee you that the tea flavor is really oh and then there are these places where the fussy coffee places sometimes will get fussy about tea and will not Let you Control how long your tea brews like they'll brew it back there and then bring it out to you and it's like No tea drinker, right? Like I mean some people like it a little and we have we're used to that measure control It's anybody in town doing it. Well, is there is their recommendation? So cafe Vita on Fremont app, so it's not all cafe Vita We didn't get the dogs People for life. I have a I'm kind of two time in my pit bulls. I have a I have a crush on a Very very weird Instagram Chihuahua mix And and I can kind of see the appeal of maybe going to the like small completely absurd Dot no, I know I know right. It's all about the temperament right sex as the owner of the absurd people Yeah, well, maybe this is continuing my intellectual journey as I started with like a reasonably sound pretty normal ish pit bull and then fostered I mean God bless her. She's put together wrong Insert picture from Julian's Instagram feed of cheers cheers. Thanks


Gemia kwa sono clapo luwa tyana naomic cemetery waniaaji se musu ma inducedga 5 la sho kufutter merez 0ita nasa sosialize, meet and interact with one another. Now we focus on online dating, why aren't we focused on online dating? In the first technological world right now, now that we are in 2021, ya�in edin platform Action platform pedia when people interact with or do not, and most preferably get together with people they want toidi online to the point that you develop your relationship till marriage and as they say till death to you Pat good morning to you, my name is this morning we have a discussion on online dating is it a must should you go for it, what are the do's and don'ts to help us in this conversation I'm joined with none other than Afiji herself thank you for having me again thank you and also joined by Mutumishi thank you thank you remember to be part of this conversation the hashtag as always is power talk show on twitter at ramaguko at y254 channel make sure to head over to facebook at y254 and give us your thoughts about this is online dating something that you would go for do you recommend online dating have you tried online dating what are the do's and don'ts what are the hazardous effects of online dating this morning we put into focus this as we give you power in this conversation power talk starts now let me start with Mutumishi ladies first ladies first man before I don't know what you think about online dating but based on the research that has come out there many have opted for it but merely half of the people have said that it is bad for them for you as an individual does it work does online dating work with me I would be in support because I don't believe it works well one, what you order is not what you get we will have enough if you don't need TV we will be 43 inch 3 inch, 11-14 inch My God! It doesn't work It doesn't work Because maybe the person you've ordered for Or the person you've been talking to They might be not People wanna fake pages Magina one fake Sura Sile mehikwa pale Sura ya kwa, mehike pale Mushkiririm tumishi kumeni Baluwa Tefoodti Afeyi, that's it? Well personally, I think Online dating Is just a gamble Like any other dating methods You get Dating by You know, if we met by the restaurant Online, it's a gamble Like any other So it's a 50-50 It could work It could not work So I can not say That online dating can not work I can see there are people who when you see them online they are married, they've been married for years and they are a product of online dating and there are people who have been scammed so I think online dating is a gamble just like any other dating method so it can work So someone, is it possible for someone to recommend online dating, you would say that it's a gamble? It's a gamble, so I will tell someone if you feel that is the, you know not everyone is privileged to meet so many people in their life, not everyone has the courage to approach someone So online dating is for people who have, maybe there are people who don't, maybe their jobs don't allow them to meet so many people, they don't have the access to meet people The working class Yeah, maybe they are too busy The working class and the working class The working class doesn't come on a gap What? See Saiba Ziko, Saiba Ziko So they work to the cyber and the working class have a profit But if we had to say that someone could be gambling when you are going online, then could it be a waste of time? It's a 50, 50 I would say I have a freedom Gambling can waste time It can waste and at the same time it can win you Exactly But it can't win It can't hurt So the issue is when data goes off, your marriage ita kwaan, you li kwaan have online But you know dating, dating generally is a gamble Whether you met in a restaurant, whether you met by the road, whether you met at work, whether you met online is a gamble You are saying dating generally It's a gamble So whether it's online dating, it could work for you, it could not work for me, it could work for him, you get So it's just the methods you take, maybe when you are going online Some people who get scum, maybe they are not careful Mtuhanga, Li, Vizuri, they don't take time to get to know people online So it's just Maybe And also maybe desperation People who are desperate, like they've been hit on And I say my best is the one I've been looking for Afikiri, Marambili, Ashaingia, Kallok box But can desperation lead someone to go online and start looking for someone online? Yeah it's true We've had people go, even on radio, on TV saying I'm looking for a husband, I'm looking for a wife Jamma nasma ma pala kwa barabara na ido Ntahuta bibi Ntahuta bibi Ntahuta bibi Ntahuta bibi Is it desperation? Okay, one I can say Imba wana home mostly utafuta But you don't know where you'll meet them It might be online, it might be at the restaurant, it might be kwa gari It might be in the office, the working place, wherever But now online we've had so many cases in terms of how it has come people In general, in terms of buying and selling goods In terms of kutafuta If goods, it has a kwa iwa So how much money do we have? Husband or wife? How will it go? Do it, do it So I wouldn't advise people to go online And start looking for husbands If it works for you well and good But the question is this Does it mean everyone who is online, who is dating online Is desperate?  That's why I say My opinion would be Face to face Your reactions Your emotions The way you talk The way you speak The way you react towards what I am saying At the same time What you are telling me It will tell me a lot of things About you Ni tanza kujua Lai ni ako Lai fi ako You know But online it will be a bit too too Zile nata kawuski e See zile is the reality on the ground Okay, and the question is How long do you take to talk to someone Online Before you meet them How long should you take? Well I think it depends Because you know Online is risky Especially for ladies You know ladies easily fall in love with words You can even talk to a lady In two days and they already like you It's possible Very possible Yes So one thing People don't take time I think you should When you've met someone online You should take time to go on a first date Second date If possible Third date And make sure that person does not Because you don't know them You don't know who they are You just meet them online You just meet in a public place Get to know them Have a normal conversation face to face For the first time Take time The second time Third time Don't invite someone to your place Don't go to his place Because they are strangers You get it Maybe the first, second, third After the third meet-up You will try Now after that I think you will know What you want to this person Let's have this conversation Before the first meet-up Before the meeting How can someone be able to Separate the scammers From the legit Seekers who are interested in that relationship That you are from profile One In your representation The approach, the appearance On how But if you have a problem And you are just a smart camera I will just have to go to the market Now We say People who are injured One person is a lady And they are capable of doing anything They are capable of Some people are in danger They fall in love They are in a rush They are in a rush They are in a rush to do research They are in a rush to do research They are in a rush to do research They are in a rush to do research They are in a rush to do research They are in a rush to do research They are in a rush to do research Things here are terrible They are terrible Things here are terrible There are these people Who are doomed to go to an illiterate They have a fake love Here There are these people But I have had a friend also But they didn't meet online On that issue He had a husband before And the husband passed on Now He fell in love kwa she has feelings ni binadab ni dim supu So a kwa kwa anata kajama it has been long since tuakia person na kwa na mtu emoja this guy came in in her life then a kama accept jama a kwa fall in love you know online badu not online in reality now in kwa a kwa fall in love jama limpenda kabisa na a kama accept na jama kwa na joba kwa na na ni so dim da li kwa na household mi tumba na nda wana huza dim a kaba imba kwa pick up yama tumba ali kwa na salu ali bayake so na si jama jama kwa na huza dim anabidi a kwa anam tu so a kwa na potential kuma e planiake li kwa tofa huza you see na dim e a kwa fall kabisa na jama kwa na move waki huza mi tumba kwa rodi limuru wapi wana make do at that time umembe waza zi waku hote umembe ya your friends and family exactly so jama ali kwa na job ali kwa tuwa na doze a riki nda yama tumba na huza udem to her shock one day yama nda kwa wana salu kuru di jama ali nda na gati ali nda san so that's what yama karate kwa tu li tofa ut yatru karate but now it's strategy this guys have taken time to study what you do where you go to the things you engage in if you have money where you work but now you're talking with this person for a long time it could be through various online media that are existing umongi ane 1 month 2 months 3 months 5 months bado ham ja kutana during this whole period ume jama urafiki is it possible for you to notice someone who is kukuku bia askama after talking to them for 5 good months now you're planning to meet physically what are 5 months niki dog? you can't even know askama can take 10 years in your life nabunongi ane online hata mumemi itu muwa bada kila kitu but you know umu tuwa na kuhi bia ya takuja pole pole so should we avoid online that thing because it's a good one nahi ku he request the grace of lord ya ok because when women love by the way muna muki aki ama kukuku bada hata kukuku wechokora hata mua kukuku fana wek kwa bahisha when ladies love love but one ume tuwa kwa gana issues I can say that from a man's perspective see what anyway issues gone as in one ume one ume 2 to 2 King Solomon Solomon was wise Solomon was wise on his own behind I'm saying Solomon was a wise man na nimu se li kuwa na ume ane God ane Ambe a God to meet jiyo wana meet na God dibi wana ume sata zizi wene tu na naka kumagoti Apiji you agree between men and women who are easily scammed online women women women women are easily scammed but when a ke pia skizio me kuatari online when a ke skizio pia me kuatari I think of the kwa see what I say masai wame kuatari women are becoming um wame kuwa janzaku they've been scammed a lot yes so wame tan the game ime rishiwa wana ume but the people who've been scammed most online are women are women and then are they more why is it so are they more vulnerable are they emotional I think women trust easily you get that's what I've told you you can have a conversation with a lady online after before we exchange numbers na na fil ni kama na kujua and they barely know you you could be a serial killer you could be anybody you could be you know but women never investigate deeply they barely investigate I think it's because of that notion there are people who are looking for their fair details online you get so you go for your prince charming online so you go online the moment you have a connection with someone within four or five texts you're ready he's the one in Shapa Tamtu and you don't even know this guy he's not told you if he's married he's not told you who he is what he's looking for you know okay now still before the first meeting nangerele hako ame sama kitabae ni muhemu pia what should be the questions the right questions that you should be asking this person online especially now that the conversation has started achana haisasa achana how are you yes that's a question but what are the important questions that you should ask to be able to determine someone who's legitimate online me nenezema for a lady wkitaka kunjoma na ume true kuna questions zi woga peshawa na ume wkitaka kunjoma na ume labdanim true I would say muna ume let's go kwenya kwaan kama na kudanganya tansaku avoid kwaiz okimambie if a lady ask a man bimi ngependa kumubi 20 kwenya will introduce kwaizazi kwaizazi kwaizazi the right person kwaizazi kwaizazi kwaizazi kwaizazi kwaizazi kwaizazi kwaizazi kama ume madama mese mapa umeonge aya the first, top, second umeonge mese kwaizazi whatever na uzesesi muna zakwing kwa the main body e muna ambiya e kisha mita why don't we introduce each other to our parents kwaizazi kwaizazi kwaizazi kitu netu muna ume real uto ona to the next step tansaku avoidance kama anadywa I have seen people who have gone through that whole process they have introduced each other to their family members Although they have met online. But the guy allegedly says that I may introduce the name of the lady to the family. The lady also on Asama Pea may find the same. I may introduce the name of the man to the family. So what remains is the meetup. Is there any other thing that should be done more that you should find out deeper and ask more? Asama Pea may find the same. Meeting is still a problem. They never meet. Is there any other thing that should be done more? No. I would say if your parents knew what was going on, they would have told you that they would be ashamed. They would have told you that they would be beaten up. So they would really be of help. Asama Pea may introduce the name of the lady to the family. But now she may find the name of the man to the family. The first appearance of Pea was as the two they will sense. Can you introduce someone you met online to your family? No. Until I meet them. Until I get to know them. Until I'm sure this is the person I want to be with. But I will say you can't. You never know somebody. You understand them. But I cannot introduce someone I have not met. Because you're talking about before meeting. You've not met. You're just online. I cannot introduce someone I have not met. It is a very big disc. What if you have gone to your family and they have asked tole pichaki. You can't have it on Facebook. You can't have it on Facebook. You can't have it on Facebook. You can't have it on Facebook. You can't have it on Facebook.  I think CSI fiki shako family. I think I'll start with friends. Because you know when you go to family this is something serious.   Bufifoo Imagine. Imagine, just imagine this is Power talk show. We herewith Fiji herself. Yes. Oh, and Mutumishi. Oh yes. Ya, Wu Japakutu Mikiya. The hashtag is power talk show on Twitter. The hashtag as always is power talk show on Twitter at Ramagogo at Y254 channel. Remember the conversation this morning isabot onlendating. D'yu sapoat onlendating. Kanyu recommend you friend to date online ndespecial after trying and trying hard ndtrying again and still not meeting that partner. Kanyu introduce that person that you met online to your family. Shou you do it. Is online dating the way to go that these are the questions that we are trying to find out this morning as you answered the question on online dating. Maksu that you need part of this conversation. If all you are just joining us, you are just in time for the next part or the next side of this conversation right here on Power Talk Show, thank you very much for keeping it Y-2-5-4. Mata nikuja kwa kwa fiji. We were talking about introducing that pattern to your family. One of our viewers has asked, what if you do a video conference with your family to that person that you're dating online, can it work? Like how far is that online relationship? If you've not met the person yet, personally according to me, I feel like you should not introduce them to your family yet. You stand this bad, never introduce until you meet him? Not until you meet him, until you get to know him well, you get. Like get to know that person well, get to meet him, get to spend time with him, get to know what kind of a person he is, get to know what he does, you know. But you know if we are talking about you dating someone online, it's an online relationship, you've not met, it's not real. I want us to move to the next thing, but I just need a chance to give you a video conferencing with introducing that person to your family through video. Hey ma'am, assume you're calling them Bay. Hey Bay, so here's my ma'am. So you can do it according to how you think about your partner if you're ready to do that. But if you're not ready, nauna juwetakulati ya issues bada, because you can't be introducing people you've met online, the Bay you're saying, and you don't know how far you are going or where you are headed to. We'll get to know each other later. So you have to be sure to get to know each other as well, but then you need to earn your parent's respect. Respect, exactly. Let's look at the red flags. This person is your online boyfriend or girlfriend. They never update their profile. They never change their Facebook or online profile. Come in the profile picture. Ni lemti. Ni pata apa. Ni pata apa. For so long they never make posts. They don't update anything on their status. Is it a red flag? We never show up. We don't even show up on social media. We don't even have the best social media. And we don't have anything. Every now every minute every second. Can I change the picture? So social life is a big problem. We just judge people. And to me it wouldn't be a red flag to raise the question on how. I don't know what it is. It's just a poster. We are not online and they don't have any post. I'm a friend already. It's possible. There are real people who you know I'm sure when you are kwaivo. I think even my parents never change their profile picture. I think we live in America and... You get it. So there are people in real life who are kwaivo. He's excellent. He said he'll talk as a kwaivo. Because there are people who are real. And he's a hini. Okay, but I would say... One is that there are people who have a lot of engagement. Maybe let's say Babako is online. Your parents are online. Then there are people who are online. People who are online are like that. If they are not online, they're in that place. If they are not online. They're not trained. If you want to go out just up to the mountain You can go out to the hill, you can go online Not because they want to be posting They are just online to work online And the middle of the online work is to do things I feel here let me come to you You always want to meet but never meet If you want to meet a kwaaza oh he'll meet you he don't meet Okay, so you plan again, you never meet, but the relationship is still ongoing, for months and months you want to meet but this person just never meets you, is that a red flag? It depends, if the reasons of us not meeting are valid, I wouldn't doubt, you know, you'll just have to be patient and see if... Even if there are five, you transfer five times and all this... Five times now... I know, I would say it might be yes or no, because one, you have to be patient and see if there is a problem. If there is a problem, you just have to be patient and see if there is a problem. Next week you will meet. You should be a priority to your partner. I know it should be. I met you before I met you. Maybe you are my partner and I allow you to meet me in the corner. And now I am getting engaged to someone, maybe you are far from me. I am from Switzerland, I am from USA, I am from South Africa. I have meetings up and down. I am trying my language best to fit the schedule. You disagree with that?  You know, if maybe the one was cancelled, one of those times... But each and every time we want to meet, nivewa wuna cancel, wuna cancel. And maybe your reasons are not valid and then wuna patakuna wa twengine. When you call them, these online people that you did it... When you call them, maybe Ashiki Simu, there are people, maybe there are certain times they cannot be found on phone. There are so many red flags that you can just tell. Kunakitu apa. When you cancel and meet up more than five times, each and every time when you want to cancel, maybe your reasons are not valid enough. I feel like it's a red flag. It's a red flag. But it depends on how you take it. How you take it? That's why it's a red flag. One, before I met you, kunavitu na fanya. And I'm creating also time for this. Okay, especially if... Maybe let's say if I'm the one who requested for us to meet, you will have a reason because maybe you were... At that time maybe we will issue zako kunavitu na fanya.  But if all the reasons are valid, what will you do? If all the reasons are valid, I will understand. But kunavitu na fanya, you know? Something is wrong here. Okay, so let's shift gears also to create another thing. You're dating this particular person online, but they always ask you about some sudden questions all the time. But in your work, what you do, where you go, is it a red flag when they ask for certain details about your life? Like, for example, bank accounts? I think it's either way. It's either way. It depends. Vile umemwelewa, vile amekwelewa, how many times you've engaged. Na kuni uliza bank account ni takuana queries. I want to give that information. Why are you asking for them? We are now to meet, atatruda tembelewa naga nyumbani, umemwelewa vizuri. But if it comes this early, it will give... Bank account atatruda tembelewa naga nyumbani. Why are you asking me about bank account trend? We are online, you know? Mali na hanyakazi.  You see, I see many things. Tumakwa simu. There are so many things. Simu waks. There are so many ways of sending money. Okay, so online dating. Let's shift gears to something else. Is it okay for you to be posting your photos online? For both of you? You know, the both of you.  Your relationship. Munaika Facebook. Mumaenda. I think online life should be mine. Kama ni mimi, I would say, wacha mimi ni pambanena haliya online. I can take it in. Nikiaza kurushi wa mame na eza kuzi handle. Fiji mi ni kona e, let's say, Maybe she's not an online person. Now, mame ni mimi post. Mame ziki eza kurushi wa mame na eza shindo kuzi control kuzi. I would say, I would put it private. Wacha ya chini kaya familiar, kaya familiar. Kuna waliya they don't mind. Wacha to post dunia ijuwe imanena. But one day maybe online never forgets. It depends on what you're posting online. It might haunt you only. Affiliate? I have so many things to say about that question. I follow what you do, only victim. First of all, I just want to say one thing. Online and reality are two different worlds. You meet someone online, that doesn't mean that person is now your boyfriend, your husband, your whatever. Until it's official. It can even be official and this person is still a stranger. Online and reality, you've met this person online. Chances of this person being real, chances of the things you've seen about him online being real are not even 10%. You get. So you cannot meet someone online and create a whole imagination of your partner in this person and then start creating your reality on this other side just because you've met them online. You need to know why he's online. I mean so many things for you to... Nidia kia kwa online nini. Uka online kwa nini. Why did you approach me online? You need to get of that online life, come into a reality with this person for quite some time for you to get to a point of posting them, sharing them you know here. Online na ngini. It needs to get the two of you out of that online world first. Ya, watia i kwa pili kwa palat. Mkujia kwa reality. Mfes vitu kwa ground kwanza, nusa samuwanze mneza faania iso vitu kwa post kunini, but when someone is still online, it is not a real world. It's not a real world. Mka safari, rajo kwa safari kwa gari uta ingihe lakini safari in di ondef. Uta shuka baru safari na ndela So ineliku wa tu It is an imagination Because when you meet someone Most people, that's why we use pictures online, we use videos you know What if you've never had any video call with them? The only mode of communication Text Text among voice calls Those are now the do's and don'ts of online dating When you're dating someone online you can request once in a while for a video call because when you meet someone and you don't have time it raises questions There are people who want to come at least okay, I'm speaking as a lady you will tell someone send me a full picture of yourself I don't know if you meant to be a selfie I don't know I don't know if you meant to be funny I don't know Maybe you have my height Maybe that is not the type of person I'm looking for you get You need to look at everything that you're looking for online and you need to know if this person is looking for the same thing if they meet your core values and what you want you talk with the media I'm online and now let's start a new life Let me check what people are saying on twitter William Orlando I can't introduce a stranger to the family yet I ain't sure of tomorrow she might just be a scammer or used someone else's peaks or gopa disappointments very true online what she ordered speaking of which there is this common issue online of having sudo profiles an account that is not someone's real account is it possible for you to pick out such things? it's technical I was a jewel I wish the online platform owners wange kama na klaus ya kudil na iso sudo accounts zinges idea wat weingi sa ana zinges idea wat weingi sa ana I don't know if they have considered that kus it harms and hurts so many people kus abu you never tell someone comes with a sudo account which looks real na approach najiwa pii na lingana na itumia kwa njiya zipi if we had a way of identifying the sudo accounts it would have helped so many people yes nice of you to zingi kwa zime kwa avoided kitam there is no way that we can determine a real account from a sudo account that is the thing if your conversation goes on and on na muna pilii po inchenyum na sema to exchange numbers let's video call utaju atum utapa namutu kumamda mechikotu afiji ya mega ka profile picture and it happens so many other people are using other people's profile pictures and videos to get like me you can online utapata accounts umtumi zi nisi me peki angutu kwa tu karibu 15 na and others are scammers let me go to facebook utu kuna endrike na sema watching it na sema pana iizi jari bukitu kama yop dida kiniwa dense palanto hei utapa numa zi na iyo zi zi na idi kwa nsa uzi ya hei utapa lanto sasi utamuli zao teori name that's where your conversation go uta ita umtutu ama ama muna jiki lam tukwa arizonza keza kuhaid jinaza ke but if you are a real person nuna eka kwa nuu fiche nani is it bad for someone to put a profile picture of a public figure for example Barack Obama America picture Barack Obama ask their profile picture would you want them to have their own photo as long as they are not claiming Barack Obama maybe that is his icon maybe that is his role model so dida uyo unless nisha muna dating that is a blind dating to me some the intro online dating is like window shopping anyone can date you that's a nice one until you get the product or the real the real product it's popular for it to be dating tell people online because the reason you online you have an account online let's say it's a dating site you definitely having conversation with many people and that person you are talking to it is but you know that's why I told it's a gamble soko kila mtu kuja na shikashikai baka kuna wule mwenya atachuku wa iyo so to both men and women utapata uya na muin box uya na jibu until lila tafil out of five lile kusia kusia mwa sumoja sumoja no you can be dating a lot of people you said sumoja say sumoja you said maa it can be more than ten babu you don't know wule wuli say maa po afili ujuwi wule kuna prospect zako wule kuna kituna taka so that's why you go dating you know kolo boy anasama nisimu unapenda simu tu nisimu unapenda nisimu unapenda wu japenda ui umtu bada umjuwi wu jamuana nisimu unapenda simu omebi the conversation mata misi jileo unapenda simu kama lila niko kwa saiba kama lila kumanisha ume like your conversation simu owa ok have you guys tried online dating personally i have i did it ambo tell me about your experience i will tell you i will tell you i will tell you they are genuine people online in their scammers but 80% scammers 80% genuine people ok i had someone say naulipata the right was only to admit i had someone say that a normal she escaped that what happened you had someone say i had someone say that a normal guy a normal guy who has all the values who has everything going on perfectly in his life will not go online to look for a woman and does that reflect also for women women look for partners anywhere so it is ok for women to look for partners anywhere but not ok for man to do the same for men mostly it's less wanaumeku ndaulipata wanaumeku ndaulipata wanaumeku ndaulipata wanaumeku ndaulipata so i had someone say that a normal perfect guy who has everything going on in his life career everything is perfect will not have that issue of approaching any lady anywhere if they want someone serious or something serious and i kind of felt it's true because when you go online the kind of people you meet online kunaishu sit down and ujueni kwanini they have to be something they have to be a reason either this guy is married he is just looking for a side plan either this guy was married before he is just looking for fun either this guy is just looking for hookups you will never find someone what church is on 10% why people are online but now at the end of the day what is your conclusion after dating online you will watch actually i am a manual actually i am a manual automatic manual automatic manual i am a manual i am a manual so i have to pay i have to pay i have to pay i have to pay i have to pay so you might go online and find someone who has the core values that you want and maybe you don't you don't like them back and then the other person who has as in unha patam tu akuna hana core values unha taka unha kupenda unha kupenda unha kupenda unha kupenda so you might find they are genuine you might find they are genuine people exactly i am going to explain what happened what happened i am going to you dated online here how was your experience? my experience was bubbly bubbly it wasn't that serious it was a joke to me if it was in a kua ga what anika experiment nili fika bai there ken kum was meeting that lady nili funga see him anwa nika ru di kwa i saw her i said what you i saw her atat kiyongi nimesi mama hapa nimefai nika onan di ulema kwa nili kwa nimeji ficha bai niyone umtuna taka so what was the reason aku kwa kitu nataka did she see you? no and that's how you stopped dating that's how you stopped dating nili wachi yama mo it was in 2010 so nika wachi yama nili kwa na fanya yo nili kwa nakabameso kwa nipatia kontak say to meet nili kwa nika say to meet ken kum mi nili muona bai then nili ji ficha ni muona kwa nimefai kwa api kwa nili kwa na ficha kwa nili kwa mbe kitu nili na Facebook na kitu nili kutana now is nili kwa mbe kitu nili but you still have contact with her did you wish out to each other no no no no nili jari buku nipigia uli nimiweka 2 hours uli nimiweka 3 nimiwa poli nili shikika but don't worry after she told you that you kept me waiting for 2 hours you only said 2 words don't worry nili kwa kitu nimiwa onda kwa nichu nili kwa nia plata whatever you're looking for nili jino kusema nili kwa kitu nimiwa nili kwa mbe kitu na onda uli nili taka kontiako aasi kudili taka bando iko munezarudi uli nili taka kontiako nimi online so no going back again i can't say no going back but i've told you kila mtu akuna storyake repu have success to this and those are the ones that inspire us i have 2 friends they have atama me by home and they mention online they have a family they think someone online means that he or she is open for the market he or she can fall for someone due to financial situation if a guy is well up that means a girl will fall for him just for the money not love it depends na karaktas what and the question is nowadays if people fall in love with what the personalities that they see online mtu nana mtu mishi mtu mishi together with your brother mtu nana mtu mishi na mtu naka mtu and they admire what they see online and that's what they fall in love with right mindset for ladies yes but for guys fall in love pictures physical appearance and whatever they see even men receive messages from i love you i want to meet you you are beyond me that's what i'm telling you ladies can fall in love with the personality of a guy the way they are the way they carry themselves but for guys mostly wakyanga liya profile liya mtu nana they barely fall in love with personality with nowadays online and social media most of the guys fall in love with physique that's why you will see my demo me just a filter or make a picture you get because he want to fire demon kata names bwani si zake bwani si zake mtu mtu mtu mtu social media mtu mtu mtu mtu mtu mtu mtu mtu mtu mtu but for guys, they love ladies because of their tabia you are online i want us to finish this conversation we wrap it up now we've talked about before and during after meeting what will be your final word considering that we have a changing world especially for the young folks especially for the young folks kulao lako high school oshengi online looking for love and what would be your final word to that lady or that gentleman out there mihazena wea fiji well first of all you know there are ladies who maybe think I'll just go into detail starting from students to watuwa kumbwa you'll find students who are maybe maybe students are on aminko gizurai lakini I want to find someone who is maybe kili mani, kili leshua and I can't get there or maybe I want to find someone who is in outside Kenya you know so they feel like the only way they can find someone or a partner is through online dating you get so you feel like you cannot access someone through boundaries but the only way you can get connected to them is through online it's possible we get those are your goals those are the things you want those are the core values you want in a guy but you need to be careful because online is risky you could meet anything anybody you know people are not the same the same people you meet on a daily basis when you meet someone maybe he is on a mission of going to do something bad you get so people are different so when you are going online you should just go knowing it's a risky place these are strangers these are people you barely know you get so you need to get all the information you need to know what do they want what are they looking for is this the same thing I want is this the same you get no to me, what's the final word? I mean in Kenya 2 1, 2 taputa mabu yako the right way the right place it might be online it might be offline so niwe utamua nani na karakta zile zile tabi onata kakamu niizu are they real nim true are they people that you can believe in and then we stop rushing you can judge what is going on you can judge what has been done you can see that the president he is the president it's not like he is an owner he is the president he is the president so relationship comes a love seek it when you are rushing it needs time so that you can regret it love can cost so many other bad things so you shouldn't rush online I feel it's a risky place Its a very high risk place yahuku find lab where by is? It's not a reality Online is not a reality So take your time Asses Then come on miha mawu ni apo ni sa Age limitborgifikahapa asi Whether it's 1825 18 Thank you very much for keeping it wide to 5-4 Power Talk Show ends right now.  Thank you very much for your comments online. The hashtag is Power Talk Show at Rammaguko at Y254 Channel. My final word is this. Online dating is now like eating at a restaurant. Thanks to Photoshop. In person your order looks nothing like the photo on the menu. Think about that. My name is Rammaguko. God bless you. God bless the work of your hands. This is Power Talk. A repeat of this show takes place again tonight at 10 p.m. God bless you.


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Hey, what's up you two I'm Zeke and welcome to the dream green show now This won't be a long video, but something happening inside of my dividend portfolio that just don't happen all the time I mean this type of thing happens. Maybe once every blue moon I mean, it just don't happen to every investor in it happen to me I mean guys when I tell you what happened inside of my dividend portfolio Your mind is going to be blown because this type of thing This is the first time it happened to me since I've been dividend investing and What it is is I I Created money out of thin air. I got a company buying their own shares for me That's right guys, I got a company buying their own shares and giving it to me Completely free now. I know what you guys are wondering. Well, hey, what are you talking about Zeke? What are you talking about? That's right guys I finally got enough shares of one company inside of my portfolio Then when they pay me out in dividends, it is more than the share of the company cost itself That's right guys. I finally finally after years of dividend investing I finally figured out a strategy and I finally figured out a method in High-dividend parent company to where I just sit back and relax and now I'm getting enough dividends paid out to me To where I could buy Shares of this company and still have money left over that is amazing guys. I finally did it I'm going to show you what stock I'm using and exactly how I did it in this video It won't be a long video. So make sure that you go ahead hit that thumbs up button and stick throughout the entire video So you don't miss out on any crucial information If you want to grab some free stocks from Weeble, that link is going to be down in the description The pie's in one penny and you receive up to 12 free stocks Vagot up to $12,000 and also there's a link in the description to Moo Moo the pie's in a hundred dollars Get up to 20 free stocks. It's free money guys You can keep those stocks inside the portfolio and decide to use it or you can sell those stocks and withdraw all of your money It's literally free money, but another talking. Let's go ahead and dive straight into this video Welcome back dreamers the ticker that I'm talking about is QYLD. There are a high dividend of 15% dividend yield Et of they sell cover costs inside of the Nasdaq 100 Them selling cover costs is how they create their income and that's how the dividend yield is so y'all hi And that's why the dividend yield so high if you want to check out a more detailed video about QYLD check out this link right here That'll tell you guys a little bit more about QYLD, but here we are QYLD is priced at $16 and 54 cents right now currently on 119 shares of QYLD now the trick the trick on how I did this it was that I Invested $20 every single day as a recurrent investment into QYLD every market day So $20 for five days a week Monday through Friday, which is a hundred dollars two four six eight ten a hundred dollars It's a QYLD a week now I know you guys are saying $20 a day hundred dollars a week that is a lot of money But what I did is that I did not go out. I did not go to the club with my friends I got a friend that go out to the club two times a week He goes out to the club every weekend for sure. He goes out to the club and you know I used to be young I used to go out too, but now I have not been to the club in forever I mean, I ain't been to the club in a very long time every time you go out You want to at least spend a hundred dollars in $20 gas $20 part $20 in $20 drink You gonna spend a hundred dollars bad minimum So, you know, I just stopped going out a cut out something that was not even fun in my life anymore So I took that money that I was using for the club and started to invest it $20 a day into the stock market in QYLD So here goes my recurring investment on QYLD. It's just $20 every single day Now, I know you guys are saying how long does it take to invest $20 a day to get a hundred and nineteen shares to scroll down If we click right here, you guys can see that I am buying it every single day But let's hit dividends right there. It took me one two three four four months It took me four months of not going out every single weekend in order for me to make $17 and 47 cents in dividends Now if you did the math $17 and 47 cents is more than $16 That means they are paying me enough and as you guys can see is reinvested That means for every every month that this is a monthly paying dividend stock when they pay me More dividends than the share price of the company is they're literally buying a free share I could just sit back for the rest of the year if I don't invest anything else And I would have 12 shares over the next 12 months 12 new shares 12 new shares by doing nothing It's free money free money by doing absolutely nothing in the form of dividends I'm gonna start making $17 and 47 cents every single month from QYLD If I was to stop reinvesting if I was to stop investing $20 a day in reinvesting I would still get a free share from QYLD every single month now the first month I got $3.78 back second month $7 and 10 cents third month $13 and 21 cents fourth month $17 and 47 cents now So I'm four months in if you guys want to be updated on how it's looking after 12 months Make sure you hit that subscribe button hit that thumbs up button hit that notification bell So you don't miss out on any future Crucial information on this guys because you know it might not stay in my portfolio forever But while the getting is good the getting is gonna be good But if you guys scroll back you can see that I pretty much a break even right now I'm down with half a percent with less than 1% now $18, but I've made that back in dividends times more And now they're giving me free shares of QYLD every single month Now I'm not saying hey guys go out and buy put all of your money into QYLD No QYLD is my fun investment stock.  That's my guilty stock That's the stock I put my money into just for hey, this is the money I was gonna spend to go to the club. Let's put it into QYLD This is the stock I used to have fun with just so I could create some passive income Just to see how much passive income could I make I'm gonna continue to grow and I'm gonna continue to build it And hopefully one day pass it on down to my kids. So that way when they get to college They could have this passive income flowing and they could be the cool kids on campus and that that daddy gifted them You know passive income by doing absolutely nothing. So that is my guilty pleasure stock QYLD I'm gonna continue to invest $20 into this is something that you could do yourself Either you could find a side hustle to make a extra hundred dollars a week Or you could give up something that you don't really need in order to make an extra hundred dollars a week inside the stock market So let me know guys. Do you have any re incurring investment inside of your portfolio? Let me know down in the comment section I can't wait to check out what you guys are Investing your money into what what good quality stocks you're investing your money into and then right under that put You know the very risky penny stock that you're investing your money into Just so you can have some fun inside the stock market and hopefully explode Um and have the highest returns over time. Let me know that down in the comment section But other than that guys, that's all I got to say for this video. I'm zeke bring you the dream grand show and I'm out. Peace