Every once in a while I come across a distro that just begs the question WTF. Now, I've done several videos in this series and I've been asked not to swear. So I'm going to turn over a new leaf.  Yeah, I knew I wasn't going to make it very long. Anyways, every once in a while I come across a distro that just boggles the mind as to why it exists. So today I'm going to be taking a look at a distro called Linux FX. Now this is an Ubuntu-based distro that is really weird. From what I've seen of it, now I haven't actually installed it yet. I wanted to kind of have a first impression on camera. But from what I've read about it on their website, this is a distribution that is aimed towards replicating Windows. Now when I saw that, I laughed out loud because of course it does. I mean, seriously, you use Linux to want to use Windows?  Of course, there's a reason why you'd want to go through and use a distribution that is very familiar if you're a Windows user. So seriously, I could understand why they've done this. But it did make me laugh out loud because Linux is not Windows, right? I've talked about this before. So let's go ahead and take a look at the website for Linux FX. Now normally in this series, we find distros that either don't have websites at all, they're using like SourceForge for their website, or it's very not well put together. Let's just be very generous there. But this is not like that. It has tons of stuff on their websites. Very well designed, it's pretty. There's our first look at Linux FX. And if you were confused, it does exactly look like Windows. I don't know how true to life these screenshots are. But we're going to find out. Now this is based on Plasma and they have two different versions. They have a Windows 10 version and a Windows 11 version. They also have a professional version that you can pay for $35. I did not go through and actually do this. The things you get if you pay for it, you get Android app support and games, WX desktop system settings. I don't know what that is, an assistant by voice command. Apparently you don't get that at all in the free version. You get Microsoft Active Directory support. You get OneDrive and the file manager, which is going to be like a, probably a dolphin plugin. And you get use of all WX desktop resources. Again, I don't know what that means. So here's the thing. In the free version, at least from what I've seen here, you get access to none of the things that make Linux FX special, other than like the look and feel, I guess. I don't know if that's true. We're going to find out here in a few minutes. But it's interesting to see that a lot of the features that they build here on their website are all just professional. So all the stuff here, like Android support, the personal assistance, I'm assuming probably the .exe.msi application. They're probably part of the professional thing. I'm assuming they do this through Wine, Microsoft applications. So they're going to have things like Edge browser, Team Skype. They really want the whole way in trying to replicate Windows. So this is a WX desktop interface. Brings all the main tools of Windows, Microsoft Windows 10. This includes control panel configuration screens and log in, log out. That's weird, right? This is a little weird. Okay, anyways, this is their website. They have some release notes here for the most recent release. This update releases several new features for the operating system. The system kernel has been updated to 5.13, bringing better support for modern hardware. System tools gain new translations. French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish. American? American's not a language, all right? Like I know that we don't say the words right for our bridge friends. We don't, we have, but it's still English here, right? I mean, we have managed to mangle it up a little bit here in the US, but it's still English. American's not a language. Okay, anyways, it's now supported in WX desktop, which I'm assuming is their settings panel from what I read. Android support has been improved. Now in addition to supporting OpenGL, we also really support for Vulkan. Finally, all system packages have been updated, including WX desktop, only Office, and many others. The image has been scaled down to fit on a DVDs. And I suppose that's true, but the ISO was still over four gigabytes. So just prepared, if you're gonna download this, have yourself a good sized USB key in order to fit it on there. Yeah, four gigabytes once, not gonna do it. Users of older versions will receive this update over the internet, as opposed to through the mail, I suppose. New users can download the image from our portal. Okay, so let's go ahead and get away from this. And let's just go ahead and install this thing. So we're gonna install this in virtual box. I've gone through and set it up.  And that's right here. I've downloaded the Windows 11 version, because, I mean, you might as well choose the latest. And we will go ahead and choose that and hit start. And we'll see if we can get this full screen. Here we go. F2 to select language. Okay, so you can see this has the traditional Ubuntu-style startup screen, but with the Windows logo, by the way. Oh, wow, that really, really does look like Windows. Okay, so this is actually Plasma, but they've done a good job of replicating what Windows looks like. It has the Windows screen. Those don't look like Windows notifications. Those look like Plasma notifications, but we're not picking here. Virtual desktop widgets. Okay, so that is weird. That's a little weird, because Windows 11 has this widget pane that comes up that has actual widgets in it. So they kinda tried to replicate that, but so by giving you an icon, but that just brings up the ad widgets panel from Plasma. I don't know why I'd need that in the panel. We have a chat, which is, I'm assuming this is going to be Teams here. Yep, that's going to be Microsoft Teams. We have Dolphin, and we have Linux FX Store, which we'll take a look at later. That's actually just Discover, by the way. Okay, let's go ahead and close these and install this thing. So let's go ahead and install system. And this is the Calamari's installer. The thing that is jumping out to me right away is that they've used the Windows logo and they charge for it. That's going to get them into some problems that Microsoft never finds out. I'm just gonna put that out there. You can't use the Microsoft logo without actually licensing it from them, and they don't license it to anybody. So if I were to speak to this developer, just without even using their distro at all, I'd tell them to change the logo because this is the Windows logo, and you can't use that. Anyways, let's go ahead and hit Next. New York is fine. That keyboard is fine. We'll go ahead and erase the disk. It doesn't offer us an opportunity to add Swap, which is an interesting choice. It also doesn't appear that we have an opportunity here to encrypt the drive. Oh, where do we do it? It's right there. I almost missed it. So you can go ahead and encrypt the whole system, but it doesn't look like you can just encrypt the home directory. If you want to encrypt, you'll have to encrypt the entire partition. We'll hit Next, and then we'll enter our credentials, and then that's fine. We'll call this Windows, and we'll enter a very strong and complicated password, and then we'll hit Install. So we'll go ahead and pause the video here and see how long this takes. Okay, that took about five minutes or so, so let's go ahead and restart this. We'll see if the virtual box will remove the ISO. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Again, the Windows logo. Get your own logo. I understand the reason why you wanted to make this as much as Windows as possible, but I'm very worried for your bank account if you get sued. Probably just a cease and desist order would probably be what they'd send, but still it worries me a bit. Okay, so we don't get a grub menu, which is, I mean, it's supposed to be Windows, right? So while that does look quite a bit like a Windows start screen, it has the time down here at the bottom, but this is just SDDM. We have the desktop switcher up here, which we get with Wayland and a Codi session, which is interesting. Down here at the bottom underneath my face, we've got a suspend restart and a shutdown, which is just standard stuff that you'd see in SDDM, which is Plasma's display manager. So let's go ahead and enter our password and log in. I don't know if you caught that, but the password was not centered in the password field. So that's interesting that they didn't get that fixed. So here we go. So we have a startup screen of some kind, like a welcome screen, where you can choose between light and dark themes, highlight colors and stuff like that. Not that first thought, I thought that this was just the Plasma settings panel, but it is not. There's, this is all customized. So this is definitely interesting. Linux FX is not activated, so that's probably where they're gonna want you to do the pro thing. And I'm gonna move my camera over to the other side so that you can see the notifications, because that notification does not go away. Well, it doesn't go away until you dismiss it. Like it will go away there, but interestingly, they've managed to make Linux just as pushy as Windows is. Interesting. So let's see through the rest of this.  That's just gonna be the standard KDE notification stuff, I believe. Smart status, I don't know any of that stuff is. Multitasking, just Windows. This is a little weird because a lot of this stuff is straight from Plasma, but they've like pulled it out of the Plasma settings. Right? Like that multitasking, that came from Plasma settings. The sound, this is going to be, this is just, if we make it interestingly enough, they've made it so you can't make it bigger, right here. Where's the touch target? There we go. If it looks more like this, does it look more familiar? Because that's just PAV control, which is usually baked into Plasma settings. Configure, yeah, that's basically what that is, but it seems to have less options and stuff like that, because normally with the Plasma settings, you also have stuff for output, input, input devices and stuff like that along the top. Interesting there. Okay, so activation, they're really pushing that recovery. See what that is. Backups, I don't know if this is a custom tool or if it's something that they've used from somewhere else. Remote desktop, any desk, remote desktop, and then about. So we have a clone of the Windows about screen. Interestingly enough, you can't go back to stuff. All right, and the end desk took a long time to start up. Okay. Games, control at game control, game controller, calibrate, game controller, Xbox control, generic control, time and language. All right, let's go ahead. Well, I'm gonna minimize that because we might come back to that. I just wanna take a look at the rest of the system. By default, we have Microsoft Edge, as they said, this is going to be, they call this the Linux FX Store, but this is Discover.  It even says Discover right there, but that's fine. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it. It's interesting that they've changed the name. They took that effort. We have Teams, we have Dolphin here. I'm surprised they didn't call Dolphin something different, a virtual desktop there. Okay, and then we have the menu. All right, so let's see here. What if it happens if we type in settings? I'm very curious because I wanna see if we have just the standard KD Plasma settings. The answer to that, the answer is no. Let's see if maybe I missed something here. So the only system settings you get is their custom one here. Themes and icons. This is weird, right? Because what they seem to have done is rewritten and created a brand new application for settings. But all of the things that you click on here, if you click on like this here and open up something like that, this is just the KDE settings stuff in a custom like sized window. At least some of the stuff, not all of the stuff. So let's see, accessibility, let's just see what that looks like. See, a lot of this stuff here is straight from the KDE settings panels. But they've like pulled it out of the KDE settings panel, if that makes sense. It's weird. Also, let's look at the fonts. This is the font selection panel for the KDE selection, but it's been pulled out of it. The lock screen, so this changes SDDM. But you can't change the, like with the KDE settings panel, you can actually change the SDDM theme and stuff. You think this doesn't appear to be the case here at least. Let's go to themes and icons. So you can go through and get new global themes if you want. So the KDE stuff is still here. It's just been redirected somewhere else and you just kind of have to find it. It's weird, right? It's just, it's weird. So we're gonna go ahead and switch to the dark theme. That's weird, right? That's a virtual machine problem, I'm guessing. So this is the standard KDE color panel selector thing. But again, it's been pulled out of the settings panel. That's, I mean, it's an awful lot of work to make something like Windows. Let me just put it that way. It seems like they've done an awful lot of work to make this settings panel as Windows-like as possible while maintaining at least some of the customizability of Plasma. I'm happy that they haven't taken out all the customizability. Either there's a lot of stuff here you can do and the same kind of stuff you can do in Plasma. It just feels like it's in different places because it is in different places. Kind of, it's weird, right? All the customization stuff here is, I mean, this is all the customization stuff you can do right here. We have Bluetooth and devices, accounts, time and date, games, which we looked at here a minute ago, accessibility, privacy and security, a Linux FX security, what is that? So that's gonna be like the, probably a front end for UFW, I'd assume. But it doesn't say. System key ring and searching in Linux FX. Linux FX update, you can pause updates, which makes it seem like they check automatically. That's very Windows-like when WX desktop updates. You click on that, what does that bring up? Your system is up-to-date, so that's just an updater. Let's just see, something else that they supposedly have changed is the logout option. So this supposedly looks like Windows 11, I don't actually know. It definitely doesn't look like Plasma's normal thing. So we can cancel that. Does it have, it has Google Chrome installed by default. That's very on Windows-like. I'm gonna point that out. Cause Windows does not come with Chrome installed by default, but I guess it's glad that it did. All right, so let's go ahead and look at all applications to see what we got installed. Any desk, anti-micro, Android file transfer. So a lot of stuff here for like Android. I thought that the Android stuff warning, apparently CPU virtualization is disabled and you're just, this could run a virtual machine. So that's probably why this is not working. Linux did not find any Android image or disk and so on. So it looks like at least some of the stuff for Android stuff will work in the free version, which is good. This is going to be Teams with cheese installed, CID Discover, which it's weird that it's listed as Discover here, but listed as a Linux FX store here, right? A little inconsistent. Emoji selector find Gambas 3. I don't know what that is. Gambas 3. Gambas is a graphical development environment based on advanced basic interpreter. So it's like a game development thing, okay? I've never seen that installed before. We have GIMP installed, Google Chrome, Gwynvue, Hello, which is going to be, we'll check out here in a minute. That's their Cortana clone. Hugen Calibrate Lens. What is that? I don't know what that is. Hugen Lens Calibration GUI. Don't know what that is. That's interesting, okay. So there's a lot of stuff here that is interesting choices because I don't know what hardly any of it is. So we got K3B, CATE, K-Calc, a lot of KDE stuff. KDE Connect is here, which is probably part of the Android offerings. KDE partition manager, K-Manage, K-Mail. Kodi is installed by default, which we saw earlier. Consoles here for terminal, K-Organizer. A lot of the, surprisingly, they kept a lot of the K stuff. K-Thief, K-Torn, K-WalletManager, K-Write. Okay, so we have also Linux FX, Android Linux FX Device Manager. We have, which is basically a clone of the Windows Device Manager. That looks almost exactly like the Windows Device Manager. We have the Linux FX Power Off Linux, which we just saw, the Linux FX Register. Oh, this is going to be for if you buy the key. Linux FX Store, so we actually have the Discover Store. I wonder if we click on Discover up here, if it's actually a different Discover. No, it looks exactly the same. If we click on Linux FX Store, can we have them both open at the same time? No. It's weird that it's in the menu twice under two different names. I'm just going to put that out there. All Linux FX Winix, the updater there is still there. See, we have Microsoft Calendar. These are going to be all basically web apps, I'm guessing. We'll just go ahead and open that up. I'm assuming there's more to that website, it's just still loading. Okay, yeah, you have to sign in to use that. Because of course you do. It's Microsoft Prada. It's a Microsoft Prada. You can't just use this stuff without signing in. How dare you even think of wanting to do that? So that's just a web, you know, does that just open up Microsoft Edge? The next one is, so we have OBS installed by default, Ocular OneDrive installed by default. I wonder if that's just going to take you to, so there's a tool here called Microsoft OneDrive Sync. That's actually like a native application. Yeah, all right. Well, that's interesting because I know a lot of people use OneDrive. So we also have OnlyOffice Center. So OnlyOffice is here as well. So OnlyOffice is basically a Microsoft Office clone because it looks exactly like Microsoft Excel. So if you're familiar with, I mean, there's a reason why they chose that because they wanted to continue to look exactly like what you'd experience if you use Windows. Let's see here. We have Java here. We have PEM Data Explorer. We have QTVKBD. What is that? Oh, that's going to be a virtual keyboard. Okay. And we have, let's see here. Remote Desktop Client, Save, Sieve Editor, Scanlight for Scanning, Spectacle for Screenshot, Steam is installed by default. Synaptic is here.  A VLC is here, Virtual Desktop. So we have a couple of Virtual Desktop here. Ycom, Tabless Finder, Webcam, Droid and Widgets. And Wine Tricks is here because we have Wine by default. Okay. So those are the applications. Let's go ahead and see what we get when we type in Terminal. So we have a console here. This is just a regular standard console. Now, supposedly they have installed PowerShell as well. I'm going to look at that. So this is PowerShell. If you wanted to use PowerShell. I don't know anything about it. So we'll stay out of that. So let's just go ahead and do an update here. Okay. So there were no updates there to actually be installed. We did have some errors here, which is I find interesting. Flatpak error specifically. So let's go ahead and clear out of that. And let's see if Neo Fetch is installed by default. It is. So we have Linux FX. It doesn't use the Windows local here, which is weird enough. I thought that it would. It's using Plasma, K-Win is all the normal stuff here. It's using bash 5.0.17. This is the kernel 5.13. And then if we do free dash M, we're using 945 megs of RAM, but we have opened stuff up. So it's possible that there's stuff running in the background. I'm going to go ahead and do a reboot and see what that number is before we've launched anything. And that will give us an opportunity to use this. And we'll also see. You see how the text in the box isn't centered? That would drive me absolutely bonkers. But it's okay. This is just something that I noticed. SDDM by default isn't like that, by the way. Okay, let's go ahead and open up a terminal. Control Alt T does work for that. So let's do free dash M now. We're using 673. So there was something running in the background. And that's about normal for Plasma install. And as you see, I mean, you normally get some notifications when you start up Plasma, but you get this notify send thing saying you're, you were using the free version of Linux FX. WX desktop tools are running in trial mode, support a project by donating an amount and earn a license to continue using WX desktop and all its features. And that won't go away unless you dismiss it, by the way. Which is, or at least the timer on it has set so long that I haven't seen it time out yet. So that's an interesting thing. That's kind of annoying. All right. So we have a search, which is this is you launcher. And then the last thing we wanted to take a look at was the Cortana clone. Talk to Heloa. Heloa can execute voice commands. To be able to do internet searches by voice commands, you need to connect Heloa to your Google account. Now your Microsoft account is your Google account. You can do this by clicking connect with Heloa, which I'm not going to do. List all commands. Okay, Google. That's not, it says, okay, Google. I'm so confused. Does this actually work? Show commands. I did absolutely nothing as far as I can tell. All right. That seems to be a complete failure, but I'm sure I was doing something wrong. All right. Let's just call that quits for now. I'm sure there's more we could take a look at, but I've had enough of looking at Windows for now. I just, I just, all right. So the idea behind this distro is an interesting one because one of the things that new users, I think want when they're switching to Linux is familiarity. They can go through and use a distro that is very familiar. But I think that there's a, there's making something familiar, but still Linux like, and then trying way too hard to actually be Windows right down to using the logo, right? Now there's nothing wrong with emulating Windows looks. I've talked before about how people like to go through and rice their KD Plasma desktops to look like Mac. People like doing that. People like doing the whole Windows thing. I did it not too long ago. I have like a screenshot to prove it. It didn't stay around for very long.  Like it does, people do do that. So there's nothing wrong with making something that looks like Windows, but they've gone through and done a lot of work. Like a seriously impressive amount of work to make this as Windows-like as possible. Now, I don't know that that's necessarily a good thing.  Cause eventually some of the stuff that I showed you today, I don't know if it just goes away or maybe there's more features that I just don't see because it's behind a paywall. I'm not sure which of those two things are straight cause it calls it a trial mode or it's in trial mode. So does that mean that some of those desktop effects that change things around go away after a while, which would be weird because a lot of that stuff is just KDE Plasma stuff, but pulled out. So like I said, they've gone through and done just an impressive amount of work to make it look like Windows, including creating a settings panel slash control panel that actually is completely like original for them. And then they've kind of like pasted a lot of the KDE settings stuff like on top of it, which by pulling the settings panels out of the system settings for Plasma and putting them there, it's very weird, right? It feels like they've done more work than maybe would be necessarily because I mean, the idea behind making something simpler is a good idea. So if they wanted to go through and make a system settings panel for KDE Plasma that was kind of like an easy mode, that would make sense to me. But this doesn't feel like that was the reasoning behind it. It feels more like what they were doing was going through and just trying to be as much like Windows as possible, which doesn't necessarily equate to easier. Granted, it gets it would be easier if you're coming from Windows and you know that kind of stuff. So maybe that's the reason why they've gone through and done it. For me personally, it feels like they've pulled a lot of stuff out of Plasma that just isn't there anymore, but maybe it's still hidden and I just didn't see it. It's interesting that you can't get to the KDE Plasma settings like at all. KDE Plasma settings don't seem to exist here at all. I'm gonna look here. If you search for Plasma, you don't get anything. So it's a weird like conglomeration of Windows restyled stuff and Plasma stuff, but it feels like they've taken some of the Plasma stuff out, you know? And I guess that's okay. That's what you want to do, but it feels like if you use this, would you still feel like you were using Linux?  I mean, actually you may not. If you, let's put ourselves in the mindset of a new user. You've switched to Linux, but you wanted a Windows-like experience and this is the most Windows-like experience I've ever seen on Linux. So you want a Windows experience, so you've switched to this. And while there are some things that are still Linux-y, it's possible that you could go through and use this and never, ever have to use the command line because you may not even know it's there. You just open up the software center and install stuff.  You navigate through the menu just like you would on Windows. So the only thing that kind of reminds you that this is a different operating system is all the Plasma applications or the KDE applications that were included, which it's weird that they included those things. I'm a surprising that they haven't gone through and created their own stuff for that to make it more Windows-like. I guess the only thing that you'd go into this and find that is not very Windows-like is the fact that the Microsoft Office applications aren't actually there. You're using web apps or you have to use the only Office stuff which is not the same because it's called only Office. People are going to look at it and see what's only Office. Or maybe they'll assume that it's the same. I don't know because it does look the same. It's an interesting distro. It's definitely not for me. I'm sure there's way more features that I could have looked at. And it would be interesting to try the Pro version but I'm not gonna give them $35 to try a Pro version of Windows. It would feel too much like giving Microsoft money. I'm just gonna put that out there. It's not the case but it's just the way it feels. So that is it for this video. If you have comments about Linux FX you can leave those in the comment section below. You can follow me on Twitter at Linuxcast. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com slash linuxcast before I go. I'd like to take a moment to thank my current patrons. Today, Devon East Coast web, Patrick O'Prymas, Marcus Maglin, Jack Tentul, Steve Vai, Sabregate Linux, Garrick, Mitchell Archer Center, Carmen Dade, Sean, Jeremy Oden, Merrick Kamp, Joshua Lee, J-Dog, Peter A, Christopher Dark Bandit 6. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time.


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So, let me show you how, when you're negotiating, when someone says, I think we're going to get back with you. I want to show you exactly what to say and you have to tattoo these words on your heart and memorize it and get ready and write it down, okay? So let me walk you through it. Okay, guys, so during negotiating, this is something that really freezes salespeople up and I'm going to tell you, if you will listen to me, I promise you, this will never be a problem again in your life but you have to do me a favor, you have to stop what you're doing right now.  Repetition is the mother of skill. If you want to overcome an objection, your words have to matter. Listen, why did I take the time to write this full objection right here on the board? Look, overcome the objection. I'll get back with you. This is during negotiations. Why did I take the time to write it down? Because it's so important in every single word is about the psychology of selling. Every single word actually maneuvers the customer to get off of the, I'll get back with you and pull them back to the deal so you can close it. I want you to understand this. I'll get back with you is not a real objection. It doesn't mean anything. Somebody says I'll get back with you no matter what you say. It doesn't overcome I'll get back with you. Now I'll get back with you might mean that there's something else wrong with the deal and we can fix that and that's a real objection and now I can overcome that. But the words I'll get back with you mean nothing to me. So let me show you how when you're negotiating, when someone says I think we're going to get back with you, I want to show you exactly what to say and you have to tattoo these words on your heart and memorize it and get ready and write it down. So let me walk you through it. So when the customer says I'm going to get back with you. First thing you say, I don't care how long you've been selling, you say this. Look, I've been doing this for a long time and when someone says that they're going to get back with me, I never see them again. Do you mind if I be direct with you for a second? Are you not, watch this, are you not interested in the deal? Or are you just being polite and you're not wanting to reject me? The customer's always going to say, no, we are interested in the deal. We're not just trying to be polite Andy and not reject you, we are interested in the deal and you say great, then let's bottom line this deal. Mr. and Mrs. Customer, is it the payment? Is it the price? Is it the trade? What part about it is that you're not okay with? Let's bottom line the deal right now, what is it? And they will tell you what the problem is. And now, once you know what the real problem is, guess what you can do? You can solve it, but you cannot solve, I'll get back with you. There is nothing to overcome on I'll get back with you, except for to do what? Be better at overcoming the objection than they are even giving objections. They didn't say, Andy, I think the price is too high. Now you know what they said? They gave you a cold, you know what Andy, I appreciate you. Thank you for everything that you've done. But I think we're going to get back with you. Uh-uh, we're not dealing with that. We've worked too hard, we need to overcome this deal and we need to get back to closing it up. Am I right? All right, cool, so they say Andy, I appreciate everything you said, but we're going to need to get back with you. Real simple, look, I'll get back with you. I've been doing this for a long time. And when someone says that they're going to get back with me, what that means is, honestly, I never see them again. Guys, is it that you're no longer interested in the deal? Or is it the fact that maybe you're just being polite and you don't want to reject me? No, Andy, we are interested in the deal. Awesome, guys. Then let's bottom line this deal right now. Is it the trade-in? Now I may take the piece of paper and I'll say, is it the trade-in? Is it the price? Is it the payments? What part about the deal is it that you're not okay with? Guys, let's bottom line this deal right now. What is it? And guess what? Now I've moved past the fact that they're saying that they need to get back with me. Let me explain this to you, okay? I am great when it comes to negotiations and closing. I'm literally trying to pick off these little, small sentences that I know that are being said every single day in a car dealership so that you can actually take the war track and tattoo it on your heart. And when it comes up, you know exactly what to say. And by the way, if you don't like 100% of this, still 70% of it. But I'm going to tell you this. When I made 700 grand of your selling cars, this was the same exact war track that I used. And I'll move out of the way for a second so you guys can see this. Stop your video, snap it, and write that down. Watch this video over and over again. This is exactly how I close people with this simple maneuver when a customer is trying to get out of the dealership. There's something wrong. They're not servicing what it is, and they're using I'll Get Back with You as camouflage. Guys, learn this stuff, learn the war track, and have a great day. Hey guys, number one. Thank you so much for watching the entire video. You guys are awesome. I'm grateful for you. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have my training program. So I thank you, I thank you, and I thank you. I got three things for you real quick. Number one, shoot me a text message. If I haven't met you, I would love to. My phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Shoot me a text. I'd love to meet you. Secondly, go to Facebook. Join Andy Elliott Carsells Nation. That's Andy Elliott Carsells Nation, one of the best Facebook groups in the world, hands down for automotive sales training. And then lastly, I've got over 500 videos on YouTube, guys. Keep up the training. Keep watching the videos and crush it.


Dear students, in this module, we are going to talk about the crimes against the property, particularly two crimes, the computer crime and organized crime. Crimes against property involves theft or damage to someone else's property. It is not necessary that the property is a material or physical object. They can also be virtual, which we call computer crime such as hacking and identity theft. It is the common form of property crime in the digital age. Your digital identity is also your property. Similarly, your email, your other resources, other resources are your bank accounts, your other important confidential connections with your work related activities. All these are part of your digital property. To theft this digital property through using different mechanisms of hacking, such as phishing is a process through which a fake email is generated. Through that fake email, you get this power. Maybe this email is from your bank, from your own organization, or from your own organization in which you are a member. When you click on it, you realize that your password is hacked. As a result of this process, many people have their financial resources and even their honor and respect. In today's digital age, these crimes are also used by the criminal justice system through its mechanism of social control. The laws are passed on to those laws and people are given awareness. In the case of cyber crimes in Pakistan, investigative agencies can contact them and they can lodge FIRs on this matter. These types of thefts or identity thefts or such hacking have laws. Organized crime refers to the criminal activities that are planned and carried out by the groups of individuals. In Pakistan, organized crime is often associated with drug trafficking, human trafficking, and smuggling of goods across borders. There are many organized crimes like this. First of all, drug trafficking involves people. Second, human smuggling, in which people are treated illegally for migration or immigration. Sometimes, many of them sit hand in hand with each other. In these kinds of crimes, people are involved in the form of organized groups. Along with this, the smuggling, the cross-border smuggling, especially in Asia where a country is considered banned, these organized groups are involved in their smuggling. So, overall, whether it is in digital form or in your real world, these organized crimes refer to law enforcement agencies, different mechanisms of social control are adopted. And the interest of sociologists is that they see how these organized crimes are committed, what their source of motivation is, and what their patterns are. So, these are also important patterns of behavior. For example, why do people go towards hacking? And sometimes, it happens that just for the sake of fun, people hack other people's accounts. So, for sociologists, this kind of behavior, knowing and understanding them is very important for the sake of social intervention and policy reformation.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the graphs of the inverse trigonometric functions, secant inverse x and cosecant inverse x. First of all let us discuss the graph of secant inverse x. Now trigonometric functions are in general not 1, 1, 2. Therefore the inverse do not exist but if we restrict the domains then they become 1, 1, 2 and hence we can have the inverses. Now let us define a function f from the set of real numbers excluding the upper interval minus 1 to 1 to the close interval 0 to pi excluding pi by 2 by is equal to secant inverse x. Now the domain of secant inverse x is a set of real numbers excluding the upper interval minus 1 to 1. That is x is defined for x is lesser equal to minus 1 is greater than equal to 1. Its range is the close interval 0 to pi excluding pi by 2. Now let y is equal to f of x is equal to secant inverse x that is let y is equal to secant inverse x. Now let us draw the graph of y is equal to secant inverse x. Now y is equal to secant inverse x implies x is equal to secant inverse y. Now first of all for the different values of x and y let us draw a table. So we have drawn a table. Now in this equation y is equal to 0, x is equal to secant 0 which is 1 equal to 0, x is equal to 1. Then for y is equal to pi by 6 x is equal to secant inverse x which is equal to 2 by root 3 which is equal to 1 point. So for y is equal to pi by 6 x is equal to 1.15. Now for y is equal to pi by 4 x is equal to secant pi by 4 which is equal to root 2 which is equal to 1.41. So for y is equal to pi by 4 is equal to 1.41. Now for y is equal to pi by 3 which is equal to so for y is equal to pi by 3 x is equal to 2, y is equal to 2 pi by 3 which is minus equal to 2 pi by 3 is equal to minus 2. Now for y is equal to pi by 4 is equal to minus root 2 1.41. So for y is equal to minus 1.41. And now to secant pi by pi by 6 is equal to minus 2 by root 3 which is equal to minus 1.15. So for y is equal to pi by 6 is equal to minus 1.15 which is minus 1. Now for drawing the graph of y is equal to secant inverse x we will plot on the graph. In the graph we have taken 10 small divisions is equal to 1 along the x axis. And 5 small divisions is equal to pi by 6 along the y axis. For drawing the graph first of all we will plot the point 1 0 on the graph. Now this is the required point on the graph. Now we will plot the point 1.15 and pi by 6 on the graph. Now this is the required point on the graph all the points on the graph. So we have plotted all the points on the graph. Now of this line is y is equal to pi and the equation of the x axis is y is equal to 0. This equation is y is equal to pi by 2. Now by drawing the points which we have plotted we are getting the graph that y increases from pi by 2 minus 1. Inverse minus 1 is pi less than equal to minus 1. We can say that secant inverse x is the angle line between 0. Now let us define minus 1 to 1 to the closed interval minus pi by 2 to pi by 2 excluding 0. By f of x is equal to secant inverse f of the interval minus 1 to 1. f of less than equal to minus 1 equal to 1 to pi by 2 excluding 0 to 0. From the positive values turns to infinity to 0. From the negative values is equal to let y is equal to secant inverse x. Let us draw the graph of y is equal to secant inverse x. Now y is equal to secant inverse x implies x is equal to secant y. Now let us draw a table for the different values of x and y values of x from this function equation. Suppose y is equal to 1.41. Now for y is equal to 2 over root 3 which is 1.15. y is equal to pi by 2, x is equal to secant pi by 2 which is 1. Then for y is equal to minus inch minus pi by 6 which is minus 2 which is minus 1.14. y is equal to minus plus is equal to minus 1.15 minus 1. Now for drawing the graph of y is equal to secant inverse x. We will plot all these points on the graph. Now again for the graph we have taken is equal to 1 along the x axis and 5 small divisions is equal to pi by 6. Let us plot the point 2 pi by 6 on the graph. We have plotted this point on the graph for the point 1.41 with other point on the graph. We will plot all the points on the graph. We have plotted all the points on the graph. Now by drawing all these points we are getting the graph of y is equal to secant inverse x. And here this is the line whose equation is y is equal to pi by 2. And the equation of x axis is y is equal to 0. And this is the line whose equation is y is equal to 0 to minus pi increases from y decreases to 0 increases. And cosecant inverse x from the graph we can also say that cosecant inverse x is the angle. Line letters cosecant inverse x which is equal to y whose cosecant you have learnt about. The graph of y is equal to cosecant inverse x and y is equal to cosecant inverse x. And this completes our session. Hope you all have enjoyed the session.


Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the second part, second component of dashboards. In this session, we will see how the user organics and the sharing function is working in the dashboards. So I have logged into the system and I'm on this HIV national dashboard. We'll change to the malaria burden dashboard here, which is available for me. So if you go through this dashboard, I hope I'm able. Can you hear me and see the screen? Yes. Thank you. So if you go to the first chart, you can see the data is for training land. There are three data items, three lines, and the data is for training land as 12 months. So how is this training land defined? So we will see. So I'm going to open this chart in the data visualizer app. So if I open this chart, the data visualizer app, I can see the dimension selected for this favorite. So if you see data, you can see three data items here. If you see period, you can see it's last 12 months. If you go to our unit, you can see it's the user organization unit. That is the organization, the organization unit where the user is allocated attached to. So this user I'm logged in is attached to the training land. So that's why I'm seeing data for the training land here. So I will change this from user or unit or deselected. And if I put user subunit, so that data should change to one level below the user. So if I click update, so I can see the data has changed to the region level, the animal region and food region. So if I click one below level, so I will see data for this district level. So if a user is attached to district level and the chart is changed accordingly, he or she will change data either to the user or unit or user sub-organic. So I will change this for the user sub-organic and update. And I will save this visualization for the moment. And if I update this dashboard, you will see that data is for animal region and food region. But still it will be the same total because both will be accumulated. But you can see the label has changed that the chart level has changed now. So I'm going to change it back to user or unit and update. And remember changes will occur when you have saved or replace the favorite. And I will go back and update my chart and it will change back to training land level. So by this you can restrict data to that user and the level of data which we are showing to that user. So that is an easy method and a useful method when you are restricting data to a certain user. I will also try changing the periods here. Currently it's last 12 months but I will change it to last 6 months and update. So the data will change here because I have changed it to last 6 months. You can see only 6 months now. And I will save it. I'm going to update it. So you can see only data for the last 6 months here. So I'm going back, changing the period to last 12 months as it was before and update. And I'm going to save it. So that is how the relative periods and the user or units work in the dashboard. Now let's discuss. We have discussed about the user or units. Let's discuss about the sharing options in the dashboard. This button which we showed in the beginning, the share button is used to restrict who can see, who can see and who can edit the dashboard. So if I click the share button within this malaria burden reduction, you can see which users have the access to this dashboard. So sharing settings, malaria burden reduction, which is created by OLA4 and who has access there, public access is there. So anyone who logs into this system will have access to this system can view this dashboard. They cannot edit it but they can view it. If you want it to not to be public, you can click no access. So that only people who share with people who are sharing the dashboard will have access. So if I click no access, then only people who have access, who are who are sharing the dashboard will have it. Otherwise you can have anyone to edit also if you click this option. And the external access is disabled here. So if you click it, you can enable external access so that anyone with the link outside the system can see. So I can share the URLs in other systems also. Apart from that, this is also shared with this malaria admin group. So that malaria admin group can also edit it, not only viewing it, they can edit it also. So that access is given to malaria admin group. So apart from that, you can add any other users whom you're allowing to edit this dashboard. Here just you have to type the name of the user or type a group of users. So it's easy when you have made user groups so that you can share the items easily with that same group. So there is a group called district managers. I'm going to add them which is someone deleted their dashboard. So I'm going to share this immunization dashboard now. I'm going to click share. I'll say district. Here are the district managers. I'm going to add them so you can see that user group is added here. So you can either can enable them to edit and view or view only. So anybody in the user group called district managers can edit and view this now. So that is how you share dashboards. And by combining these two methods, the user org unit and the sharing, you can enable, you can reuse your dashboards. I'll go back to my presentation. So sharing dashboards could be saved as private or public to anyone depending on authorities and for other users to view them or edit them. And you can grant users to view or edit including deleting. So if you give permission to edit, they will delete it also. That's what happened right now. Somebody has deleted that malaria dashboard. So by combining this sharing method and the user org unit method, you can reuse one dashboard items to fit the purpose of many users. So you don't have to make dashboards for each user. You can reuse them by sharing and you don't have to make dashboards for each organization unit. So that the person who is logged in will see your only data for that person's org unit. So that is something which you have to remember. And I will further demonstrate how this users of the other districts can see this dashboard. Let's log in using a district user. So let's say this cad district manager, I'm going to sign in using this cad district manager. So that person because data is defined as user org units, that person will see data for cad district. So here you can see the org units for that cad district. So I will change to another org unit, another user. So the staple district, that person logs into the same system. We'll see the same dashboard but for different org units assigned to him. So that's about the basics and the functions of the dashboards in DHS2. I hope you're not familiar with the layout and how to create dashboards, how to add items to the dashboards and how to share these dashboards and reuse them in your. In your instance. So we will do the exercise three now, which is about this sharing dashboards and we will have a 30 minute break from now. So you can finish the exercise and have some refreshments. And in 30 minutes, we will start the session again and we will start about the reports after that. So if there are any questions, please post them in the Slack or in the chat. We will answer the questions and please be back in 30 minutes and please make sure you practice all exercises one, two and three for the dashboard. And also there is a graded assignment for the dashboard, which we will show at the end. Thank you.


Hi, in this tutorial, we're going to talk about that, how to find the length of an array in JavaScript. First, we're going to create an array, for example, let my array contains a few elements. And if we want to find the length of our array, we're going to use method length. And as you can see, in this example, the length of my array is 4. That's all in this tutorial. Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to my channel. Bye.


How do you work smart? You're not looking for shortcuts per se, but you are looking for roadmaps.  Average millionaire, real millionaire. Not somebody who bought an NFT and it popped, but somebody who creates wealth and stays there for a while, that's going to take the average person's 12 to 20 years. Read the book to everything store. It's the story of Jeff Bezos. If you read his story, you could cut a few years off your learning curve by learning from his mistakes. You do have to learn through mistakes and trial and error, but they should be somebody else's whenever possible.


The challenge of the Yukon. A new King! A new Husky! The Wonder Dog King, swiftest and strongest of Eskimo lead dogs, blazes the trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston as he meets the challenge of the Yukon. Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of Northwest Mounted Police who preserved law and order in the new Northwest country where the greed for wealth and power led to frequent violence and bloodshed. But in spite of the odds against them, Sergeant Preston and his Wonder Dog King met that challenge and justice ruled triumphant. Corporal Standish was one of the youngest men on the force of the Northwest Mounted Police. He smiled to himself as he glanced at his two prisoners plodding along the frozen trail. Jack Snyder and Sam McClain, two of the wilyest criminals to set foot in the Yukon. With a sense of pride, he anticipated the satisfaction he'd experience when he marched them into headquarters. But fate sometimes cheats a man of a hard-earned victory, and even as Corporal Standish urged his team on confidently, Jack Snyder spoke guardedly to his partner. At the rate we're traveling, both of us will be looking through bars mighty soon unless we make a break. Now listen, you got nothing to lose. They'll end up hanging both of us and you know it. It seems like you and that molly have been kind of palsy. Maybe a figure he'll close his eyes and let us run away. And I've been trying to make him think we let him take us in without any trouble. Yeah, just two model prisoners. Now you're jittery.  You gotta be making camp in an hour or so. When we bunk down for the night, watch me. You mean you got something planned? Don't I always? Just wait, Sam. I'll find the Corporals in for a big surprise. Corporal Standish had been overconfident. The moment he relaxed his guard was all that Jack Snyder needed. Stop him, Sam. I've got it. Take it easy, Monty. You'll never get away with this, Snyder. You're wrong. You are getting away with it. I'll keep them covered while you get the sled set to my Sam. I'll get this pack back on it. The young Mount Easterd watching Sam McClain load the supplies on the sled. Minutes dragged by. And then... Everything ready? Yeah, come on. Right. So long, Corporal Standish. Sorry it was necessary to take your grub. I'll catch up with you if it's the last thing I do. Yeah, it probably will be. You're miles from nowhere, Monty. And if the wolves don't get you, the cold will. Get the dogs going, Sam. March, you malamute! See, Sam? Monty's have quite a reputation, but they're like all along. I'll give you credit for the break, Jack. Come on, March! But I still think you should have dropped him. Oh, it's better this way. If we had killed him, somebody would have found him. Hey, before we could get the Skagway. But as it is, you'll do a lot of wandering without dogs and no gun. And when, and if he's found, it'll look like what you might call a natural death. March, you malamute! Corporal Sandish had one plot as he walked along the moonlit trail, letting them slip through my fingers. I've got to get help. Find someone who'll lend me a sled. The young policeman set a brisk pace for himself, realizing he must cover as much territory as possible while he adds strength. In spite of himself, his heart sank with misgivings as he thought it'd be uneven odd. Two months later, he found himself in the woods. In spite of his misgivings, if he thought it'd be uneven odd. Two men on a sled, against the time he could make on foot. The Yukon wilderness was a land of wild beauty and brooding stillness. On a sled with a good pack of dogs, Corporal Sandish had many times experienced an exhilaration in its loneliness. Now, he felt the terrible challenge at herald. He remembered the men who died on the trail, unable to bear the cold and hardship of a merciless country. Dogedly, he kept walking, his feet aching and blistered in his boots. Daylight came. And then, another day, and he began losing track of time. Keep going. Can't stop. Keep going, my eyes. I feel like they're full of sand. No blindness. Thought I was heading for Preston's territory, but... I might have lost my trail. It's hopeless. I'll never make it. I'll keep going. Maybe I... Hug King tilted his nose in the sharp Yukon air. Hug King, on you, Hug King! King's more open ahead of the dogs than with him. It's almost as if he's stopping. Let us catch up with him. All right, fella. Hey, don't the dogs go fast enough to please you? What in the world? What are you listening for, boy? But King wasn't listening. His sense of smell often told him things long before his ears picked up a sound. And now, it would cut the scent of a man he recognized, a man Sergeant Preston knew. He glanced back toward the mountain. What is it, fella? In answer, King raced along the trail, knowing the mountain would follow him. King stopped beside the prostrate man minutes before the sled reached the spot. He recognized the mountain's uniform and knew that when Preston found his friend, there'd be an explanation. Oh, you huckies, oh! Quite stylish. Well, he hasn't been wounded. But how could he have lost his sled? It's Preston's turn. What happened? Preston. He's lost consciousness. Come on, fella. This looks bad, King. Mighty bad. Sergeant Preston watched over the young policeman as he regained his strength. At intervals, Corporal Standish told his story. Until finally, he completed it. Preston frowned, and King, who was quick to sense his master's thoughts, stood quietly beside him. And I was bragging about my stripe. I'll be lucky if I don't lose them after this. Get the dogs up, King. That's it, fella. You get the sled, Stan. Where do we go from here, Sergeant? We'll retrace your steps and see if we can find some evidence of the direction I took. You ask me, they're heading straight for Skagway just as fast as my dog can get them there. At a camp, they started trail a few days later. Jack Snider looked into the fire. Watch on your mile. No, Sam, it's just possible that Mountie got through to some help. Well, what if he did? If he did, you'd know the first place we'd head for. Yeah? That's why we're laying low for a few days. Hang on, wait a minute. You've got enough provisions. I say we ought to turn off here and stop at Fort Mund. We'll stock up then much toward Juneau. Get a boat there. See what I mean? I don't know. It seems kind of risky to me. Well, let's just say we'd better walk into a trap at Skagway. If there is a trap, you should have dropped that, Molly. I told you that before we left. Well, we didn't. We can't go back now. Just remember, Sam, it was me that got us away from that lawman. I ain't planning to walk into another one. Okay. You win. We'll turn off. Early the next morning, the two fugitives turned off the trail and the heavy snow covered their tracks. Thought mid-afternoon they made camp and together went out with the Mounties rifle to look for some game. When they returned to their camp, the snow would stop falling. It's just one night we won't have to settle for bacon. Good thing you dropped this dough. Yeah, be a chick. Hey, Jack, somebody's been here while we was going. Somebody, nothing. Here, look at these tracks. A bear? Well, I'll be... And he got into the grub, made off of every last piece of bacon. Well, I was getting sick of beating it anyway. Add to the fire, will you? Meanwhile, Sergeant Preston and Corporal Standish stopped at the point of the trail where Jack Snyder and Sam McClain had made a turn. The sergeant decided to make camp and King raced through the timber, leaving the two policemen together. The snow was soft beneath his feet as he ran. His nose tilted in the air, sampling the scents of the wilderness. King enjoyed these runs by himself when he was free of the responsibility of keeping the team of dogs in line. Occasionally, he heard a twig snapping under the feet of an unseen animal. And then... But wait, what was that? King stopped. His lean muscular body momentarily rigid. A bear. But with the scent of the bear came another scent. Bacon. Where would a bear find bacon in this wilderness unless... unless he had gone into a man's camp and eaten man's food? A great dog knew the marauder-like habits of these animals and the curiosity was aroused. No bear had broken into Sergeant Preston's rations. There must be another camp in the vicinity. He followed the bear tracks. What was that? I could have sworn I saw something moving back near the timber. Yeah, you're imagining things. A wolf. Wolves traveling packs and soda dogs. Forget it. As King raced back over the snow-covered country, his mind was in a turmoil. He knew that Sergeant Preston and the younger Mountie were trailing two men. This was the only camp within miles, he was sure. Would they be the men? That's who he had seen sitting by the campfire? Preston would know. What is it, boys? Hey, he seems like he's trying to say something, Sergeant. Why? He's getting the team lined up. Hey, what is this, anyway? That's strange. He's lining them up, but I wonder why. King knew the distance could be covered much faster in the sled, and he used every device he could think of to make the Mountie understand him. I don't know what you're trying to say, King. He saw anything like it in my life. Taking your sleeve and leading you to the sled. Looks to me like he wants you to get ready to march. That seems to be it, huh, King? We've just made camp. Whatever it is, it can wait. Well, that's where you're wrong, Stan. Whenever it is, King thinks I should see it now. And that's what we're going to do. King led the team to the small camp where Jack Snyder and Sam McClain sat by the fire. Too late, they recognized Corporal Stan, who says he approached them. That's McClain and Snyder, Sergeant. He followed us. I told you you should have dropped him. All right, Ronnie. You've got us covered. Fine, Snyder. I'm going to keep you covered. It was a week later when Sergeant Preston walked into Inspector Maynard's office. And as his superior congratulated Corporal Sandish, the young Mountie looked uncomfortable. You've done a fine piece of work, Corporal. It all goes to prove you deserve those stripes you won. Sir, if it hadn't been for Sergeant Preston and his dog... Sergeant? What do you mean, Sandish? I'm sure that Corporal means that King and I made the trip with him. We met on the trail. Is that so? Well, sometimes it helps having a friend with you on the trail. It gets lonesome at times. What's that, Corporal? Oh, I said it does help, sir. Yes, it's a mighty big help. And I won't forget it, Sergeant. Yes, King, old boy. The Corporal's case is closed. These copyrighted dramas originate in the studios of WXY's The Detroit, and all characters, names, places and incidents used are fictitious. They're sent to you each week at the same time. Let's try...


Hi there, welcome back to the Curious Giraffe Show where we sing together a lot, here we go. When we sing together I feel so much better, it's easy and simple, it just gets better. I love making music with you, ideas with you. That's interesting ideas, you use your eyes and your ears to watch, okay you want to know what new idea today is going to be about, okay.  So we have a curious giraffe usually, but today we have a curious tiger, so tiger I'm going to sing the next song about you, oh boy, yeah she listened to me, yes you may have a quiet voice but you have an important voice and I will do my best to listen, and I'll do my best to listen too, that's what friends do, okay so we're going to sing tiger looked over at Dorothy. Tiger looked over Dorothy and said, I'm curious what book and song she'll share this afternoon. Dorothy said, Papa is on the moon and will share under one big sky, oh yeah, share one big sky, share one big sky, give the world a big high five, yeah we're different and we know it but we all get along, cause we can all share and we can all care, we're different but we all belong, oh yes we're different but we all belong. So tiger I'm going to let you watch from over here, there's a beautiful cover, you see a child sitting against a tree looking up at the moon. The book is called Papa is on the moon and it's based on two real people, this is Alex, the little grandson and his papa who is his grandfather, he called him Papa and it's written by his grandmother Diane Polharilo and I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that right but I would like to spell her last name, P-O-H-O-R-I-L-O Polharilo is the way I'm pronouncing it. Okay look at these beautiful pictures that were made by Barbara Lee, Papa used a motorized wheelchair because his legs did not work, he would say, Alex do you want to ride with me? I always said yes because I love to sit on his lap and press the buttons that made the seat go up and down. Papa would laugh when I took his wallet from the side pocket of the wheelchair, I would take out his money and business cards but I was always good and put everything back. Papa left us in July, it was a warm summer afternoon and the air was still, then that evening it began to rain, the raindrops were like giant teardrops, everyone in my family was sad because they missed Papa. I went to Nana and Papa's house and saw the wheelchair where Papa always sat. Papa was not there, where was he? I thought and thought, then I told Mama that Papa was on the moon, she said, is that right? I think he will be very happy there. A few months after Papa left us I was having a birthday party and I wanted Papa to come and meet my friends, Colby, Nathan and Che. Mama said that Papa could not be at the party because he was still on the moon. I was sad, then I decided that I was going to take a trip to the moon to visit him. First I built a rocket ship and painted it red and blue. I made sure my name was on it so Papa knew it was me landing on the moon. I made sure I had a comfortable seat for the long trip. Next I made a spacesuit from the old green and white striped curtains in my bedroom. I used scissors, needle and thread. I made sure I put in plenty of pockets for me to carry letters from home to give to Papa. I got my football helmet to protect my head during blast off. I decided I was going on my journey when the next full moon appeared. I wanted the moonlight to guide me through the sky. It was a cold, clear night in late January, right around my Papa's birthday when I decided to launch into space for my trip to the moon. I packed two peanut butter sandwiches, one for me and one for Papa. I filled my pockets with letters from Dada, Mama, Aunt Meg, Uncle B and Nana. I also added an apple and some cheese in case I got really hungry on the way. I got into my rocket ship and blasted off into space. Higher and higher and higher I went until I could see the moon craters and Papa smiling. I landed with a thump, opened the rocket ship door and ran into Papa's arms. Papa was tall and strong with white hair and bright white teeth.  We were both so happy. I sat on a moon crater and ate our peanut butter sandwiches. He told me how much he loved me and missed me. I asked him to come back with me in the rocket ship and he said he couldn't because going back would mean he would not be able to walk and dance and run. I started to cry because I was so sad. Papa made me feel better by making me a promise. He said, whenever you feel sad or scared, look up to the moon and know that I love you and I think you are very special. I am watching over you always.  He wiped the tears from my eyes, gave me a big hug and kiss and helped me board my rocket ship for the journey home.  He said, Alex, this is a reminder of my promise to you. When I arrived home my family was there to welcome me with hugs and kisses. Every night when I go to bed I look up at the sky and I wait for the full moon to appear so I can see Papa's smile. I remember his promise and know he is sending me love and watching over me. I know I am strong and can achieve anything because of him. Okay, Tiger, what did you think of that beautiful story? Yes, yes. So it was written by a real grandmother about a real grandfather and their real grandson. But did he really, really go to live on the moon? You know, I think that was a way that Alex felt he could always picture his grandfather still watching over him, even though when he died his body was gone from earth and from the wheelchair. And I don't really know what happens when we die, but like Alex, I remember with love all the beings, the people and the animals. I just hold them in my heart and sometimes I have written a song about my pets and people that I have loved who are no longer with me. Yes, I do. I have one about my dog, Rama. So I'll sing to you about Rama. You watch and listen there.  Rama was of big round sides. Rama seemed so very wise. My best best dog friend Rama. Shake, shake, shake my best best dog friend. He warmed my feet just like and swimming with me and loving the lake. And Tiger, I also had a cat and his name was Bardsley. And when he died I made a song about him too. He was really different than Rama, but he was a lot of fun too. So he is in this song. Bardsley was a funny cat when we met.  I was our pudgy Bardsley cat. And we loved him just like that. His daily food just like that. We're sad when we have to say goodbye to dear ones that we love. It's so good to have that glow in your heart forever. Always. So I have another friend named Carrie.  And it just goes on and on and on. And that's the way life is on our planet. And she calls her song on and on. She even thinks about the plants too. Life comes up. Life plays low. And all the time between is when when mosquitoes get squished. One last song for you. And it's what I imagined when my mother died. Just like Alex imagined his grandfather was on the moon. I imagined that my mother is still with me in different ways. And I thought I'd share it with you. It's just different ways. Okay. Could you like your seat over here? Here you go. I imagine this is my mother singing to me. I'm gonna be a mystery somehow. But true. Sometimes when there is. It's time for us to go. And let's keep singing no matter what. No matter what. We'll get through it with a song. Just like my friend Carrie said in her song, Carrie Kovic. I hope I told you her name. She's the one that wrote the wonderful song on and on. And I love this verse. She says, And all some lives are short. Some lives are long. And all the time we live we sing our song. And as we sing this we know it all goes on and on. So here we go. Let's sing our goodbye song. Keep singing. Keep looking up. Keep asking questions and never give up. Keep singing. Keep looking up. Keep asking questions and never give up. Bye bye. We'll see you next time. Take care. I'm gonna be a mystery somehow. But true is that.


Thursday evening, it's Jimmy Stafford witcher between now and 10 p.m. On Highland radio And I'm delighted to welcome my very special guest co-presenter Billy Robinson Billy Good evening to you. Good evening Jimmy. You're very welcome to Highland radio And I asked you a few months ago Would you come up and do this because just for those of you who tuned in and wondering well? What's it all about? Well once every month I have a special guest co-presenter in studio with me who and I tell them you have to go off and pick eight or nine Irish music tracks from any decade any era any sort of music it can be trad rock folk or hip or whatever Once it's an Irish act and Billy Well, we kept kept chasing you and eventually we got a date and Billy has an array You probably see in the camera if you're watching on Highland a number of CDs on the desk in front of Billy But we're talking Billy for those of people who tuned in and I call you the legendary Billy Robinson Who is Billy Robinson? I was a fellow was born of born on farm down in Burt's really and Then I got a dress of music at an early age and played in show bands and Went from that and then Played with the rule of rust Which sort of well-known Ireland that were sort of different from a show band and then with Different bands then I had quartet that were well known Ireland for and then Then they give that up and I start doing sound because hard xx manager had been worked for Asgard at big agency in London and John Hyatt needed a modern engineer one time So I'd never done matters my life before but I went out and done it and then through that company Rosebud in California end up doing a lot more Was music always in the family you've grown up Well, my father played accordion when he's young and then they couldn't he had an accident with a gone Actually an accident and he couldn't pull the accordion in and out and so he that put it into the accordion Somebody hand him a shotgun that he'd load to man and to shoot grows or something and He put his foot in the clutch the tractor and hit the hammer and went up three shoulder and he's My when I was two or three remembers playing on the floor. I can still remember him fall through the door But he He recovered anyway, but he couldn't pull the accordion in and out, you know any more. So what do you do them? Oh, it's only two or three or four maybe and then but he always played a we He loved country music and he had loads of old beautiful country albums and like good country music and he had a used to play the organ with the one hand and He's a music lover and you know and then that that obviously passed on to yourself Must I'm pursuing me personally have played first and then I started to play as well And is it to to you in the family to just to visit and to We'll talk about Percy and yourself later on because we have a load of time to talk But I think tonight is all about the music and I said to you picking you said would it be okay If I played music from the albums I've recorded in the groushack Which is the name of your recording studio in remelton. I said of course and Billy says I have like 40 50 60 Well, well some of the albums were only some of the albums out like that chain hard But it was a live thing that I mixed it in the groushacker. It wasn't even called a group shot somewhere That I had a house the steeples and I want to work to be Mary black I often mixed her albums and she would put stories from the steeples or one of the albums That's what because I mixed the album and pick up people to play and and a room in my house the steeples And then I got another house and it's not really a studio It's more of a shed but people they're a good vibe in there and people like coming and I'm playing I do live Texts with everybody playing live most of the time We'll talk more about the studio later on and people I'm gonna talk about Mary black and Declan sinnet and so many other people as well But let's we play a bit of music because your first track tonight, and I know you had to dig deep and think and No, I really love I'd done some work with John Prine and a really the one of the last songs he had written was Before he died He couldn't have after he did that anyway, but he A brandon clon record it and I can't even it's called I remember everything and I think brandon with a beautiful voice beautiful singer And so myself and pat Crowley and make me carney got together and record. I think Lawrence might be on them I'm not sure and Recorded this and it's a couple of years ago. It's during the lockdown But I always think it's a beautiful version of this song So the first song from billy Robinson on this evening show on highland radio is from brandon queen and it's called I remember everything. I remember everything brandon queen