Your Excellencies, dear delegates, ladies and gentlemen. It is both a great pleasure and honour and privilege to be here with you. On behalf of Republic of Poland, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Government of United Arab Emirates for hosting this spectacular event. And let me also express my journey appreciation to the current ITU management board. It's been really a pleasure to work and to cooperate with you throughout the last term. Ladies and gentlemen, this year many European countries celebrate its centenary, 100 years of its independence. We are having as Poland hours on the 11th of November, so it's just within less than a fortnight. And this is of course an opportunity to look into the past. But in case of Poland, there's also a chance, we treat it as a chance to build a better future. And this future can be based on digital foundations. Polish government has launched 100 megabits for 100th anniversary programme, with an aim to connect all public schools to high-speed broadband internet. This means that Kopa seek over 25,000 schools in more than 19,000 locations. And this is our flagship project, because we think this is the way to combat digital divide and build bases for inclusive society and economic growth. This project includes also school network elements, cyber security support and technical maintenance. In a few days time, during this conference, we also discussed artificial intelligence. This is one of the buzz words of the day. As the developments in this area can't bring major improvements to our lives, but can cause also some uncertainty to others. Poland has taken a proactive approach in this field. We have engaged all stakeholders groups in a bottom-up process, in a goal to delve into all relevant aspects of data, research and development, education and ethics. We need to be well prepared to reap all the benefits and understand all possible risks that are connected to this topic. One distinctive feature of our approach is to focus on developing skills, both at the early stages of education and as lifelong learning for current employees. No wonder, our recall also the coming 5G revolution. Together with ITU, WHO and GSMA, we are working on the topic of electromagnetic fields, a crucial component for future 5G networks, lack of in-depth understanding of the impact of modern mobile technologies on human health, fields prejudice. And our series of international conferences, coupled with the ITU report, aim at breaking this deadlock. In order to bring affordable telecommunication, ICD services to all, we are actively reaching out. My distinguished colleague, Mr. Marcin Ciche, head of the Polish Office of Electronic Communications, is a newly appointed commissioner in UN Broadband Commission. And in the past years, we have actively taken part in number of regional initiatives as well as bilateral programs, aiming at sharing best practices and facilitating the development of innovative technologies. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to announce that the Republic of Poland is a candidate for the re-election to the ITU Council in Region C. And I don't hesitate to say that in the last couple of years, we have gained numerous experiences in a dynamically changing ICT ecosystem. We wish to continue bringing them to the ITU, as ITU can improve access and the quality of telecommunication services. Poland has always been an active member of ITU and for the last two terms of the ITU Council. I humbly ask for your support and do hope we will be able to work together for the connected and smart future of the whole world. Thank you very much.


We need to provide access to finance, but also we need to provide access to markets Just to emphasize the importance of markets. We had a program outside the Longway where we did a very good Program in terms of introducing low-cost irrigation Systems and these farmers moved from producing 20 drum heads in a season to 3,000 one farmer and so when we took visitors there to say we want to show you a success story One of the visitors asked the farmer how do you look at this new technology and the farmer said this technology is very bad And we got so embalmed said oh wait wait a minute It's very bad. Why because I used to produce 20 drum head I could take 10 on my pushback sell to the nearby market and eat the rest or share with my neighbors now I'm stuck with 3,000 drum heads. What do I do with this? So we said we said yeah, I think the farmer has a point We need to address the market face before we start talking about production And if he as if that was not enough After three months these farmers now started making money, but they were not paying back the loans Okay, so we said okay. What is the problem? Let's invite both husband and wife to the meeting and Then we introduced the topic. We said you see you are not paying This is that we have won a two months left And we are going to get the pump or the equipment from you because that was used as a collateral And the women stood up said no this this is this is not true Our husband have been telling us that he they have paid off.  What is happening? So we we have also realized in our program that is very important to deal with women as well as to deal with the youth I think the women are very powerful when I was in a meeting with the UN women in Malawi I emphasize the point she disagreed with me says we do you are cheating the women are marginalized I said no, I'm a married person. I know how powerful women she died My wife would not talk in the public, but when we are at home She's in control. So so let's let's really think about women as we are talking about investing In in forest products as well as investing in agro based enterprises. Thank you very much. Thanks


When I teach the letters and sounds to early childhood students, my goal is that they learn their first word by the third week of school. And their first word is LOG. To begin with, on the first week of school, I would show the children letter L and explain to them that this is letter L and the sound for L is UL. Then I would show them a picture of a lion and I would say, the lion will help us remember the L sound. I would ask the children to repeat after me, all lion, all. We would continue to do this each day of the week. The beginning of the second week, I would tell the students, we are going to learn a new letter and that new letter is O. The sound for O is A and I would show them a picture card of an ostrich and I would say, the ostrich will help us remember the O sound. I would ask them to repeat A, ostrich, A. We would continue to review this each day of the week along with UL, lion, all. At the beginning of the third week of school, I would say to the students, we are going to learn a new letter and that new letter is G. The sound for G is G. And then I would show them the picture card of a goat and I would explain that the goat will help us remember the G sound. I would ask the students to repeat after me, G, goat, G. And just as I did with the other letters, we would review each day, all, lion, all. And A, ostrich, A. At the end of the week, I would say to the student, what if we combined the O sound and the A sound? What would we have? O, A, O, A. And if we added the G sound, we would have the word, log. O, A, G, log. And they would have their very first word. And that's how I teach letters and sounds of the alphabet to early childhood students.


Hello. Welcome to the Judge Ben Show. My name is Ben Joseph. I'm a retired Vermont Superior Court Judge. This is a program in which I interview people about issues, topics that concern the legal system in Vermont. Today I'm very happy to say that I have Doug DeSavito here, who's the state's attorney for Grand Isle County, and Dave Seacart, who's a victim's advocate who works in both Grand Isle and Franklin Counties. These men are here to talk about a recent development in which, out of the blue at the beginning of August, and we're speaking today on what is this, the 27th? August, is today the 27th? 27th or 28th. Yeah, okay. As we're taping this show, it's just happened earlier this month that the Grand Isle courthouse has been closed three days a week from Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The public day cannot go in there in person, and there's some dispute as to what kind of access, if any, the public has on those three days of the week. So I think it's very important that we should have this conversation today so that people can understand what's going on, because not only is this affecting the people in Grand Isle County right now, but there's a prospect that this could happen in other rural counties, and the consequences would be even more severe. So today, Doug, I want to give you the floor, and I want you to explain what's going on, and then I want to talk to Dave about what impact this is having on people trying to get justice. Absolutely. Thank you, Judge. You've got the floor. So let me start off by quoting our Vermont Constitution. Oh, okay. The courts of justice in Vermont shall be open for the trial of all causes proper for their cognizance, and justice shall be thereon impartially administered without corruption or unnecessary delay. Have you heard that before? I thought of it often recently, yes. So that's what our Vermont Constitution offers. So the courts have to be open to the public. So the right of access to the courts and to justice is fundamental in our Constitution. The first Monday of this month, August 2021, I had been at the office, which is attached to the courthouse in Grand Isle County, and I noticed that there were no cars in the parking lot, which I just took notice of as being odd. But did my work and went home, and at 6.30, around 6.30 that night, I received an email from the Chief Superior Judge, Brian Greerson, that due to a security shortage of security officers, that they've decided to close the courthouse in Grand Isle County Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in that of every week. Temporarily, so it will not be open to in-person contact. It's my understanding from information that I've obtained that they are very hesitant to use the word closed, so that they're saying that the court... Or is there going to be someone in the courthouse? No. It's empty. That's my understanding that only on Tuesday or Thursday is there going to be someone in the courthouse. And the reason I believe those two days is on Tuesdays is when the probate judge, Judge Ned Spear, is there, and on Thursdays is the day that we have court family civil criminal division. So that's why. So bottom line is the majority of the week the courthouse is closed to the public, period. Before this announcement, the court would be locked, the door would be locked because of the pandemic, but people could still go to the courthouse, knock on the door, there's a security officer there, and they could pass paperwork back and forth, or could get forms or a court document, or what have you. That is no longer the case. The court administrator's office has been clear that this is not a closure. People can still access the court by email, by calling the court in Grand Isle, or if they really need to file something in person, they can drive over to Franklin County. I have a real huge problem with that, because what it does is it's treating residents of Grand Isle County differently than it does the other 13 counties. Not to mention that not everybody in Grand Isle has got a computer and a car. Not everybody has a computer, not everybody has a car, not everybody has a internet, not everybody has a scanner, and so the concern that I had was, for instance, someone seeking a restraining order, a relief from abuse, or a stalking order. And just so the public understands that people may not be familiar with the language we use. When you say someone needs a restraining order, is this something that a person can get to protect themselves? A court order saying they can't be struck again, that kind of thing? Yeah, so what a victim of domestic violence can do is they can apply for what's called a relief from abuse, an emergency relief from abuse order. And that is based, it's called ex parte, which means the judge is going to either grant or deny that based solely on the representation, sworn representation from one side, the victim or the plaintiff. And this can be an incredibly stressful, scary time for victims. And that's one of the reasons why I wanted to have my office's victim advocate here, because he deals one on one with these victims all the time. And I'm concerned that a victim will get one shot trying to flee their abuser. They might make it to the courthouse in North Hero on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and their signs plastered on the door, you know, were not open. However, you can email this law, there's an email address, your relief from abuse, or you can call<PHONE_NUMBER>. And so what I did is I actually called the court on one of those days, Monday, Wednesday, I think it was a Friday. And this is what I, excuse me one moment, I have everything turned off here. It worked first, Judge. Take your time, take your time. So I called the court, the Grand Owl Courthouse. So that, so putting myself in the shoes of somebody fleeing an abuser or somebody that's been stalking them, and they're in a state of panic, and they're standing outside our courthouse, being told, we're open, just call this number. And not only do they get a recording that all lines are busy to call back later, but there was no mention of Grand Owl County. You reached the Franklin Court family and criminal division. And not to get technical, but a stalking order is not filed in the family or criminal division. It's filed in the civil division. So even then, you're not getting the proper court. So this is an untenable situation. And I've emailed the court administrator, Patricia Gable, on four different occasions, asking her, what steps did they take before making this decision? When were they first informed that this might be a possibility, that they were going to have a security coverage issue in Grand Owl? And several other questions, and I've received no response. Let's get this straight. Before this decision was made, no one talked to you about it? No. I had no idea. So was not aware that that was coming. So again, they're a separate branch of government. I'm in the executive branch, they're in the judicial branch, but I felt that given that I'm one of the partners in public safety, that they would have reached out to me, also would have reached out to me in advance saying, do you have any ideas? We're facing this. The narrative that I've seen them put out is that they first learned about this in June or so. But I have information that they were first notified that this might be an issue back in April. So I think it's going on for maybe five weeks now, and I have no information as to when this is going to change. And I'm extremely concerned, judge. And so, and as you know, in terms of like, cell coverage in the county, we have not the best cell service up in rural Grand Owl County. And there's several dead zones. My calls have been dropped before. So this is not perfect. It's extremely imperfect. And it's treating people that reside in a rural part of Vermont differently than if you reside in Burlington or if you reside in Rutland. And I have a hard time believing, and perhaps I'm wrong, that because I don't think this is going to be limited to one courthouse. I think they're facing issues statewide. I know there was an issue up in Franklin Civil, maybe I think down in the southern part of the state. But if they were facing the same security shortage at 30 Cherry Street in Burlington, Vermont, I don't believe their response would be, we're going to close this courthouse three days a week. Here's the signs you can call us. Or if you want to file something in person, you can drive to North Hero and they'll accept your filing. Dave, have you had any contact with people who tried to access the court? I have. I have your honor. Even prior to this happening, I've had multiple counties where victims have attempted to go later on in the day. Multiple counties I mean, other than Grand Isle. So this isn't just where it gets back to it being multiple counties that could be impacted by this decision. Where they've shown up maybe 15 minutes before close. I've actually had victims tell me they were told to come back later tomorrow. Really unacceptable in the sense that these are flee orders, emergency orders. Judges drop what they're doing once these orders come in to review them. In cases where we're talking sexual assault, domestic assault, stalking, most of the time in these cases, they're known perpetrators to the victim. It's not a random act in a lot of cases. Some cases it does happen, but most of the time it's a known individual to the victim. They're being monitored. This might be the one time they get to file an order and they show up to the court and hit another roadblock. They're unheard and they're defeated. And they go away? And they go away and could possibly go back to a more dangerous situation because the perpetrator now finds out that they've sought help via their phone, checking records on their phone, their email, even tracking the car. A lot of times there's tracking on their phones to show where they've been. So it's a total control situation. This is a public safety issue. Absolutely. And that's one of the reasons why I'm sworn to keep the public safe as best I can. And that's why I've been speaking out so much to try to fix this problem. I think what's significant... Do you think there's money available to hire people to provide security? I just heard on the news that there was like a $200 million surplus in the state budget. And I think you can't hire a security guard. This is... I don't understand it. I don't understand it either, Judge. I think what's unique about myself and Dave is that, unlike most people in our positions, we both worked for the Vermont Judiciary. I worked for them for six and a half years from 2006 to 2012. You were once a court officer when I was presiding on Graham Bell. Exactly. And so the other sort of narrative that's being placed out there is we need an armed security person at the door. And it's my understanding that the rules, the administrative rules in the Supreme Court do not require that. And so when I was working in North Hero, I had mace, pepper spray. I didn't have a gun, but I was the court security officer on non-court days, i.e. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And so I was able to screen people in oftentimes because I wasn't a contracted security officer. I was an employee of the judiciary. They didn't need to be screened in because I was able to help them. Oh, you need that. I would do judiciary work. And that was during when I was in law school. But when I left the court in 2012, they never replaced my position. And just another point I want to make here so that we're clear. The law is crystal clear that in buildings that are exclusively courthouses, the responsibility of security is on the Supreme Court. So this was a situation where our Sheriff's Department was contracted, as in many other counties, to provide security. But given that he is having a staffing issue, he let them know that the one person he had there was going to be retiring and moving self. And so he opted not to renew the contract. And so the responsibility is no longer on the Sheriff. And it was only there because of a contractual obligation he had with the Supreme Court. But ultimately, the Supreme Court is the one that needs to provide security. And at this point, they're not. Well, if the legislature... Well, I don't know the particulars of the budgeting and how this is set up in terms of public finance. But obviously, the legislature could provide money to the Supreme Court for the purpose of providing a security guard. I mean, that's not complicated. It's not complicated. And they actually... It's my understanding that they also contract with a private security firm in a couple courthouses where it's not a certified law enforcement officer. So I don't know why this is... Why are they picking on you? I don't understand this. I wish I knew, Your Honor. I really do. Just to show another example of how this is impacting public safety, one of the options they have told people in Grand Isle County is if you need to file something during court hours, here's an email address to file. My office files things electronically, too. It's not an email, but it's through their system odyssey. And on... I believe it was a Monday, just a couple weeks ago, I was working with the Vermont Department of Children and Families regarding an emergent situation involving an infant at risk. And so what we call that is a child in need of care supervision that they're without proper parental care. Chins? Chins. Yep. Chins B. And so under the rules and the law, if it's an emergent situation, not only can I file a petition alleging that the child is in need of care supervision, but also an emergency care order request, the keyword being emergency. We need this kid in custody immediately. And that can happen if it meets a certain threshold in an affidavit. And the hearing has to happen within 72 hours, but the judge can order that immediately if it's an emergent. My office filed one with the court at 3.25 p.m. and at 4.30 the court closes and we never heard anything. And... Was there someone working in the courthouse when you filed this? No. It's my understanding that our grandile clerk, docket clerk, was working in St. Albans that day because our courthouse was closed to in-person. So they had... I was advised after the fact that the one staff person we have here, the docket clerk, was working in St. Albans that day. Is this all about saving money? I don't know. But I don't know. However, at 5.30 I have the Department of Children and Families scrambling saying, we need to know because this child and mother are due to be discharged from the hospital. And so I had to call a court operations manager after hours. I had to find her number and called her. And I said, I have an emergency situation here. We filed this more than an hour before you closed. Why haven't we? And I didn't get a really straight answer. And it's...  And at 6.30, 6.40 we got the emergency carer to request, which means a judge deemed based on the affidavit that an emergency existed and DCF custody had to be given. So what if I was a victim emailing a complaint for an emergency relief from abuse and the court didn't act on it? They wouldn't know, like I did, to have a number of a court employee.  Filing is not always done by someone like yourself. No. So this is... I hate to go back to it, but the situation is so untenable. And I just remain really concerned for the safety of the public, especially victims of domestic assault, stalking. Wow. Well, I'm just... I know that... Were you in contact with Senator Mazza, for example? I spoke with him once, yes. I've also been in touch with Senator Cory Parent, who is our Senator in Alberg, which is part of Grand Isle County. Today I was communicating with Representative Michael Morgan, who represents Grand Isle County in West Milton. What are you hearing from people in political office? I'm not hearing a lot. And the reason I believe I'm not hearing a lot is the judiciary. Most of them I'm sure know, but if not, we have three separate branches of government. We have the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch. And they're separate entities. And so one doesn't have control over the other. I know the governor has been consulted by one or two of our legislators, and he doesn't have any direct control over the judiciary, because they're a separate branch of government. My concern, Judge, is that I've reached out, asking questions, looking for answers on four different occasions of the court administrator, who like me is a state employee. The Vermonters pay my salary. We also pay her salary. And to not respond to questions from the state's attorney, who is in charge of keeping the public safe and has a legitimate concern and interest in what's going on, to have complete silence, is really, really concerning to me. I think that's more what I'd see in a private corporation, but not in state government. Well, I don't know. Dave, is there anything you would like to add to this? No, I think it's really just serving the public. We are public servants. That's what we're paid to be, and we need to serve our constituents. If we're not doing that, what are we doing? Okay. Well, I appreciate you bringing us on. Well, no, I think it's very important. Anybody who's watching who thinks there's somebody else who should know about this, please contact Community TV in Burlington and ask if you can get a link on the internet, if you've got such a link. Find out a way if you can get access to the program, so it can be shown more broadly. That's one of the things. People in other counties who see this, I never know who's going to see these shows. I once did a show here about mortgage foreclosure, and within a week I got a call from someone in the Northeast Kingdom. I don't know how it happened, but somehow she had seen the interview. So she called me, and I gave her some advice, and within the month she had her house back. But that was just fortuitous. It was just a happy thing that happened. I never know who's going to see these shows. But I think it's vitally important that people in other counties, not just in Grand Valley or Franklin, for that matter, know what's going on, because somebody's going to try to take this up and get it solved. I want to thank you very much for coming in, Doug. Thank you for the invitation, George Joseph. You're welcome, Dave C. Card. Thanks again. I hope to see you again soon. Bye-bye.


In this video you're going to learn what reaction rate is as well as some ways of measuring reaction rate. So your first question is what is reaction rate? Reaction rate is the measure of how quickly the reactants in a reaction change into the products of the reaction. Now let's look at how you can measure reaction rate. The rate of a chemical reaction can be measured in two ways. The first way is to measure how quickly the reactants, that's the substances on the left of the arrow in the equation, decrease. The second way is to measure how quickly the products, that's the substances on the right of the arrow in the equation, increase. Looking at an example for each of these two methods would help you understand this. Our example for way one measuring how quickly reactants decrease is a reaction between marble chips, calcium carbonate and hydrochloric acid. This reaction can be represented by the following equation made up by the reactants calcium carbonate and hydrochloric acid resulting in the products calcium chloride and water and carbon dioxide. As the reaction proceeds the reactants lose mass because carbon dioxide gas is given off. We can measure the decrease in mass of reactants by using this type of apparatus. Based on our measurements we plot a graph of mass of reactants against time which looks like this. The rate of reaction at point A is given by the gradient at A which is Y over X. And the rate of reaction at point B is given by the gradient at point B which is Y dash over X dash. What do you think is happening to the rate of reaction as it proceeds? Pause the video here, give it a think. The answer is that the rate of reaction slows down. In other words the rate decreases. Did you get it right? Do you remember there's another method we mentioned earlier? Consider the same reaction instead of measuring the loss of mass of the reactant we can measure the gain in volume of the product carbon dioxide using an apparatus like this. You can watch our video on measuring the volume of gases here. This time we plot a graph of volume of gas produced against time. The graph looks like this. As before the rate of reaction at point A is given by the gradient at A which is Y over X. And the rate of the reaction at B is given by the gradient at point B which is Y dash over X dash. What do you think is happening to the rate of reaction as it proceeds? Again pause here and try to get the answer. As in the other test it slows down. The rate of reaction decreases. So let's recap. The rate of reaction is a measure of how quickly the reactants change into the products. The rate of reaction can be measured by measuring how quickly the reactants decrease or how quickly the products are formed. The rate of reaction usually decreases as the reaction proceeds.


The image above illustrates the process of optical character recognition on the basis of an 8 dot pixel matrix featuring the phonographic alphabetic sensorif letter P. At the lowest level of analysis in a feature detector model, geometric features, for example horizontal lines, edge location, pixel position, color saturation, etc. are analyzed. At the level of sub-graphemic orthographical features, loops and concavities will be detected. Here a P can be differentiated from R. The evidence collected at this point is dropped into a feature buffer where it remains for a short interval until further information comes in to combine the features into characters.


I joined the Air Force originally really just because there's something I always wanted to do. One of my step-brothers was a Marine and growing up he was like maybe 10 years older than me roughly. It always just kind of inspired me. Me and my other step-brother were actually going to join together but he went off to college. I kind of did my own thing and finally decided enough was enough so I joined. So I've been in the Air Force coming up to two years next month. I'm currently in Airman 1st Class or an E3. I though hopefully if I find out next month as well I actually may be going up for what's called BTZ or Below the Zone.  So hopefully by the time we watch this video I'll be at E4 by then or Senior Airman. So I am a C17 Crew Chief that is 2 Alpha 5 X1. X stands for basically the different level you're at. So there's a 3 level, a 5 level, a 7 level and a 9 level. When you basically first get to your shop after a Tech School generally you're going to be a 3 level theory you should be qualified on all the basic jobs which should allow you to go into the jet and do different things with it. Once you get on a 5 level you're basically out of that little blanket of I didn't know what I was doing so you theory should have been there long enough to be able to say hey I know what I'm doing let me sign off all these jobs. A 7 level obviously you're a lot more qualified you can basically be a supervisor of most every kind of job that's going to be out there. You can sign off certain jobs that neither one else can. When I joined I did not want to be a Crew Chief. I joined wanting to be weather. I had on my dream sheet of what jobs I would like to be as security forces, weather, cyber, linguist and a few others. When I originally went and did my little test I ended up getting like an 80, 87 or 88 which in theory you are already qualified on almost every job in the Air Force. With that I had no intention of doing anything else and it was what I wanted to do yeah that's what I wanted to do. That's what I actually wanted to be whenever I joined. So getting to the other part of it when did I find out what job I was getting? About six months before I joined so on Memorial Day specifically. I made my brother a playing football and we got a little too serious with this throw one time. I was going to catch the football and snap my finger back so in the truthful airman I was I decided to go tell the recruiter how to go back to meps. The logic behind this I'm still trying to figure out to this a day but they basically said oh your finger was broken whenever that heals we don't know how well that's going to work when it comes to typing on a computer. How about let's just put you in maintenance working with heavy machinery and moving parts and all this stuff that's going to be a lot healthier for your finger than working on a computer. So no still don't but I'm starting to appreciate the job and that's probably a big key for anyone who does any kind of job whether your security forces services finance really any job in the Air Force unless you're like a PJ where you're personally trying to get in there to do one of those jobs.  It is not something I wanted to do I'm appreciating it more but that's just because it's kind of cool I'm going on a plane that costs like 200 something 280 million dollars or something like that. It's crazy to see this big hunk of metal. I do still for a life and you cannot see how that thing lifts off the air. Listen to the air and see that thing go up and I'm saying wow I launched that jet or I did the inspection on this jet to help a crew to actually launch. Obviously I wanted to be a being weather it was something being from Texas it's something I was kind of been interested in because I was born and raised in tornado alley so for me I got to see tornadoes all the time and I used to go outside cameras and started fiddling a tornado because I was weird and just weather in general is exciting to me and so that's really the number one job I wanted. Security forces is kind of cool basically whenever I came when I was still in depth some kids were coming back from tech school to do their rap situation and they're all talking about how cool it was. I'm very happy I didn't get security forces no disrespect to anyone in security forces but yeah they those are pretty much the two main jobs pass that yeah linguists anything with computers yeah but that's basically what was going on there. Never in a million years wanted to necessarily do maintenance but here I am. So I ended up joining a six for a couple reasons I was being stupid with my money beforehand and I'll send some debt so I looked at joining six because I knew I wasn't going to get the sign-on bonus but I was at least wanting to be more stable with my life for a little bit longer so I ended up choosing to stay in four or six instead so that I can get my life back on track and be debt-free going forward at least from what I was originally going with. Obviously now I have a truck and I have a house so those are some that's a good debt in my mind so yeah I did six. I was in a place no one usually wants to go to Shepard Air Force Base in Wyshtall Falls, Texas it's about an hour and 30 minutes from where I grew up yeah. So our tech schools I'm not sure if this is for every single job out there but at least for us your job your tech schools like split up into two or three schools the first one for me was at Shepard Air Force Base that alone was about two months roughly it was from like November to maybe like a month and a half but it basically from like November to January at least for me that's roughly around the time that I graduated basic as soon as I finished at Shepard I was shipped off to either McCord or Charleston and they sent me to Charleston from there that one was another two months and then once you get to your job usually you're on you're at your work your job for between three to six months and then they'll send you to your final one so basically you have Shepard it's called Fundies or Fundamentals where you learn just basics on each plane or on planes in general you learn basically how to fill out forms how to do very simple jobs as soon as you finish with those then you go to the other two that I was talking about at least for me because I'm a C-17 crew chief so for us we went to one of the two from there we got more in depth with it we got to go out onto our actual plane or if it's raining or something they just send us into one of the buildings where they have nearly a full-size at least a simulated plane inside of these buildings so you can go and mess with the flight deck see different seats learn how to go underneath into like a maintenance tunnel underneath like the underneath the floor finally the last one which is phase two the one that you have basically the one where you're either Charleston or McCord that one's called phase one we have phase two is a last class where they try to basically sign you off on everything to get your five level the tech school wasn't awful there's some really stupid stuff at Shepard that pretty much no one liked I'm not I don't even think the MTL has really enjoyed it but it was like basic training was very simple you know and no disrespect to the MTIs it was it was very easy it was a lot easier than at least I was assuming it was going to be going in so when I went to Shepard it just seemed like there being way too gung-ho about certain things like every Friday or so you go into a middle of a field and have a dress blues inspection for absolutely no reason and food was amazing so I'll say that Shepard Air Force Base was if you go there you'll find out they have voted like one of the best de-facts or commas or just de-facts in the Air Force when it comes to all these training bases so that was the nice part my instructor he was awesome I have nothing but good things to say about him he was fantastic so my tech school at least in Shepard wasn't awful my dad died so I can have a really negative connotation with Shepard with that but that's not Shepard's fault when I got to Charleston oh boy I've been living in Texas my entire life I spent some time in like Santa Fe in Mexico and then a little bit in Washington DC living on the coast coming from like the desert that was amazing I'm used to just seeing dead grass all the time a few trees and dried up creek beds and coming out to Charleston I was I was feeling like my life was the greatest thing in the world I get to go to the beach which I've barely ever been in my life there's mountains out here forests to go hiking in to me that was that kind of set it off the MTLs here were phenomenal I ended up becoming pretty good friends with one of them I really can't find anything negative so far to say about Charleston when it comes to them on the tech school side that all is amazing for C17 there's basically seven bases state side yeah there's Charleston, McCord, Travis, Elmendorf, Andrews, Dover, there's one more it starts with an M2 past that you have a couple different overseas ones but once again it's still pretty small uh it's I remember it's Hickam there's like one more but uh yeah there's like a really really small overseas list when it comes to how many bases you can get stationed at uh regarding the levels you're at once you become a seven level in your job your shred goes away so the shred is uh basically a letter at the end of your a fc so me being two alpha five x1d d is the shred you'll learn a little bit more about this during basic training once you become a seven level that shred goes away so now I'm just I would just be a crew chief I means I can go into any aircraft that is at least in my field so being on a heavy aircraft I would go to I can go to any of them C17 C130 C5 and yeah so basically I can go to a lot of different jets at that point all right so I'm a like I mentioned I'm a crew chief the jokes we will say is we're jiffy lube basically so our job is to inspect the aircraft to make sure that it is good to go for another flight or for its mission so we'll be going out there doing a full inspection a minor inspection or a mid inspection roughly at least it's what we do here at my base it's called a pre-flight through flight or a bpo depending on what kind of inspection you're doing kind of depends on what's going on there but so we'll go for a bpo that is the one that basically is an all-inclusive one that focuses on every single section of the plane you go out into the jet and you basically do an full inspection either observing opening up a little tiny doors here in there on everything on the exterior you're looking at the wheels make sure that the the wheels and tires make sure that they are still able to be used you're checking the brakes brake lines making sure there's nothing that's cut looking for bird strikes that happens a lot yeah so that's basically like the main things you're going on the inside looking making sure everything in the inside is looking good making sure the upstairs all the like on all the computers that everything is good there's going to be faults that'll pop up little issues that they're going to claim is something bad and you basically will go through look at everything make sure it's all okay so all serviceable checking fire bottles fire bottles like fire extinguishers oxygen masks first aid kits making sure the plane has enough oil and hydraulic fluid in a storage bin in the back to make sure that when it flies if something happens down range they have oil and hydraulic fluid to take care of the situation we change tires we change different flight surfaces remove things to fix from a different shop let's say like when we had yesterday there's a an issue with one of the panels on the side had to take it off we sent it to a shop called Simcoe Kyle probably can explain that one a little bit better it's sheet metal so we send it to them they'll do the inspection or repair on it if it's crack they'll find some way to fix it and then paint it or put a certain coating on it to help keep it strong that's basically our job pass that we do launches and recoveries launch you know you marshal a jet uh to go fly away and then when the plane's coming back marshal it back into your spot it's not as intimidating as it may look when you first go through it's actually pretty fun still everyone else will disagrees with me on this one but it's still my current favorite thing we do as a crew chief obviously inspections are nice because they kill time but launching and recovering in chips pretty darn cool so that's a funny one generally we're supposed to just work a eight hour shift per day and new york five days week but as you'll find out as a maintainer that no longer really applies because they can at least how we do it here in my base once a week or once a month you do what's called week in duty super fun where you work already four days out of your week you have one night off then you come in and do two 12 hour shifts and then one night off then you go back to your you go finish off the next week i'd like to say you work 40 hours a week but sometimes it's 50 60 just kind of depends on what's going on i'd say between 40 and 60 on average well you kind of already said the biggest one uh amp license yes so basically what we can do is we can get an amp license it alone is like one of the best things you can get when it comes to being maintenance especially if you want to do maintenance on the outside though a really good option is like for me where i'm stationed bowing is here as well so we share the same runway we share the same everything basically so in theory uh let's say what my six years is coming up to an end and i'm in my five year mark and i want to get out bowing actually will hire you or me on since i already have the experience and i already know how to use an air force to or a technical order i think that's that's what it means so since they their job basically actually follows us yeah i can just start working for bowing um without anything which is nice um now not all jobs don't like that obviously but not all bases are have that ability just my currently my base is connected to that so it's very easy for us you can also go work for airliners let's say you wanted to go for american airlines or southwest you can go straight into it with just the amount of time you've had as an aircraft mechanic and go start working for them on the signaling side just fixing their jets when they come in that's basically the main things you can also get one for like radios isn't bad obviously that means you know how they talk on it like you know how to work a radio for like emergency situations and stuff like that and there are a lot of companies that do want that too so uh mostly amp the radio one not mentioning and just simply just work finding the right company to work for so this one's kind of i would definitely say it's in in the middle the people who want to go into appointments they're gone a lot the people who don't want to go into appointments aren't gone it's one of those things where the nco's or the the staff sergeants and tech sergeants they definitely try to get on almost every uh in a deployment that they can i i know people that have been here for six years and they have never deployed at all and i've seen people who volunteer to to deploy and they deploy several times it all really depends on how serious you are about deploying now not to say that you're going to get to your base and your base is going to be the same way mine is i have heard that my base is a little different because everyone else on the east coast pretty much gets the deployment slots before we do so this is probably why everyone kind of volunteers for them when they can because they know it's not very often that we get to go on them it just kind of depends on your base gear at charleston yeah it's not very often but it does happen a lot probably doesn't make as much sense as it does in my head but we'll get over that while let's say mccord they're going to deploy to north to south korea and all the other bases on the pacific rim so it'll be a little bit different for them because our their staging base is going to be a lot different than ours ours were basically getting stationed in afghanistan iud guitar things like that so it's a little bit different for us versus them i am undecided currently on if i want to stand for 20 or just finish my enlistment and get out it's kind of a when i joined right during tech during basic during tech school right when i got to my job it was 100 yeah i want to since then there's been a lot of stupid things that have happened in the air force at least of my base that kind of possibly pushed me away from wanting to 100 at this point now not to say my mind can't change again but i am coming up to my cross training window so if i can change jobs i will stay while this job is cool it has this really enjoyable moments i'd rather just get a different job that i'll enjoy better so for me uh in about one year i'm going to be trying to switch over to what's called a load master oh yeah so so i kind of answered that with the last one but uh 100 still going to be weather that's never going to change for me but i am going to attempt to do load master that's a not necessarily an exciting job for me but it's uh i get to travel the world i get to do a lot of really cool stuff as a load master and as a crew chief while there's some cool stuff you can do i know it's just not as exciting to me as another job possibly could be so for me 100 going to try cross training a two different job if i can get weather i'm gonna get i definitely want to request weather if i can't get weather i'm not worried about it i'll just go i'll be happy for load master so those are the two jobs that i really am trying to get into uh the number one thing i would say is do your job correctly not in like a rude way there are literally nco's and other people who think that they're really good at their jobs so they no longer follow the jobs that are laid out for you our job is not very difficult while it may suck you have what's called a job guide this job guide it's basically a picture book with instructions it will literally explain it like this here's a circuit breaker right here pull this one circuit breaker if you can't figure it out here's a picture of where it should be or let's say you're going to inspect something on the outside or you're trying to remove a panel you go to that job guide and it will say remove this panel it has 218 screws okay i'm going to be here for a while you see exactly where each one of them are tells you how many there are so luckily at the end of your job you can go back and say okay i've got 287 not 288 or so tells you every single thing that is required of you someone is telling you to do it other than the way the job guide tells you to they are wrong they are trying to set you up for failure so do not allow that to happen there are things you can do around your job that don't necessarily have to do with your job that can help you out as well especially if you're trying to promote some things that are always going to help us volunteering or doing extra jobs on the side or taking an additional job on the side that takes you away from your current one it doesn't make as much sense as it does in my head but i'll give you an example i just came back from what's called honor guard now everyone at your shop is going to hate you for doing it because they think you're just trying to get out of your job really annoying when they do that especially because you're doing something for the Air Force regardless that has nothing to do with my job anymore for the extra amount of months that you're there but you're still doing something very humbling and it's an amazing experience like for me whenever i got to do it i got to go help these families bury their their loved one who served in the military that previously were just very recent and give them that last experience with the military that they probably would ever ever have that widow or that mother is now going to associate that funeral now with you and if you do an amazing job they're now going to be more grateful for the military and for the people that are actually caring about her situation her family too it itself is one of my favorite things i got to do so far in the Air Force coming back into my job again sucky thing is you kind of forget a lot of the stuff you get again and uh so you have to go right back to the very beginning having to learn your job 100 again so it kind of sucks but once you get comfortable again i was like two months ago i'm already pretty comfortable again with my job i understand what i'm doing again i'm back to being super thorough and that's pretty much the most important thing you want to make sure that you're thorough know what you're doing but take opportunities when you get them while your job only cares about your job the Air Force cares about what you've done in the Air Force honor guard's gonna help me out whenever i want to apply for or when i whenever i want to make staff sergeant or whenever i pretty much do anything it's going to help me out at least temporarily now over time it's no longer going to help me because that's old news at some point now it'll look good on me going the rest of my career but not always going to help me out


Google Analytics saved the Internet website. It's got about 680 people on it right now, which is low by standards from the past week. Let that come up. No, it's been consistent for the last five minutes. The project is really slow today. There you go. So, no, this is not interesting. This is just bragging rights. This is not what I'm interested in. What I'm interested in is this. In the last one week, 1.9 million people have seen this website right there. Okay? Now, this is 1.9 million of India's most active Internet users, because clearly they're active enough to go look at this website when they hear about it all over the Internet. I'm sure you have a lot of questions. Where are these people? What phone are they using? What browser are they using? These are better quality stats than you have from your own app. So, ask me questions. Okay, let's start with devices. Where do you see devices in this? Browsing it to us? Okay. So, what browser do people use? I think the first part is obvious. If it was not Chrome, something is wrong with the world, because increase the zoom level? Okay. Let's hope it doesn't mess up the layout. Yeah. Okay. Top 10 browsers. Somebody is still using a Blackberry. Right? Next question. Okay. Where do you get that? Under mobile? Overview. Yeah, there's mobile devices right. Okay. Mobile desktop versus mobile. If you needed any reason to believe in the mobile web, here you go. Let's look at mobile devices. Now, this was an interesting stat for me. This shocked me when I saw it. Oh, not said it has taken over to the top. Okay.  It's all iPhone models combined, whereas the others are all separate models. The Nexus 5 is the most popular Android device in the market today. Who knew? I mean, who's got a Nexus 5 in this room? Yeah. So, everybody keeps telling you Nexus is only used by developers.  Look at that. Yeah. These are the people who use your website. You're seeing that the most active internet users in India are not a representative sample of your visitors. Yeah. So, that's what you care about, right? So, this is the part that surprised me. Okay. iPhone on top, because combined across all models. iPad shows up in the top 10. But look at the rest of the devices. Nexus 5, Moto G, Moto G, Moto E, one plus one, surprise. These are all stock Android ROMs. The most popular Samsung device with their ugly interface is at number nine, with 1.86%. Absolutely. But people who are this aware are also your early adopters. That's all I'm saying. Your early adopters do not have a fragmentation problem. Yeah. And there's only one tablet in the top. That's interesting as well. Yeah. We don't know what NotSet is. So, I'm guessing this is a limitation of GA. Yeah. By operating system. Now, let's look at overall by operating system. It's also Delhi, actually. But let me answer that. So, let's look at Aisha. Okay. Most popular browser, Chrome that was expected.  Nobody cares about anything else. Chrome is more than everybody else combined. Yeah.  Non-WebKit browsers are like one tiny fraction out here. Android is bigger than Windows. Who saw this coming? Well, okay. Where do people in India use the internet from? I can't make any sense of this. So, this data, to me, seems a little messy. So, I think we should not really care about that. Yeah. Twitter versus Facebook is very interesting. Let's look at that. City, Delhi takes a lead. But shares is muddy the waters by saying Delhi is in fact fake data. Mumbai more than Bangalore. Now, that is a surprise. I don't know if it's because all India, there's a Mumbai audience or as big as a Bangalore audience. Who's responsible? Okay. Country. Well, this should be obvious. Well, somebody from UAE has been voting for internet freedom in India. Okay. Well, this should be a good idea. I can tell you, man. 75% of the country is on Android. Screen resolution. Let's go for that. 360 by 640 is still the top resolution. By the way, this is iPhone resolution. This is what iPhone reports. So, once again, don't be misled easily by that. Twitter versus Facebook. Now, this is fairly interesting because I didn't think this was the case. Okay. So, Twitter versus Facebook, I think comes under, it's not referral. There is a separate section for social traffic. Yeah, there you go. So, if you look at social traffic, direct is slightly clumsy right now because it's got all kinds of junk in it. But social traffic, Twitter versus Facebook, surprise stat. Look at the difference. All you guys treating or wasting your time, that's where your traffic is on Facebook. And BuzzFeed, yeah, who expected that? BuzzFeed is responsible for getting people to vote. So, I think he's responsible to vote for little neutrality. Is A.B. on BuzzFeed or on Facebook? Yeah. So, A.B.'s audience is primarily YouTube and YouTube is way down the ranks. Yeah. Exactly. So, which is exactly the thing, you know, so if you're playing the video on Facebook, the referral is Facebook. So, Facebook is sending us more traffic than YouTube is. Despite the fact that YouTube is where the video is. Now, I'm sure Google ought to be worried about this more than anyone else. Okay, what else do you guys want to see? Adwords. I'm pretty sure there should be nothing here unless somebody is actually spending money on us. Nope. Okay, audience demographics. I have no idea, man. I don't want to find out. Next thing I know, I'm going to be pulled before parliament and says you did this to put ads. Hour of day. Okay, where do I see all this? Tell me where to find these stats. Behavior? Oh yeah. No, but this hour of the day is AdWords. Okay, demographics is where? There you go. Overview. This is, no, no, the female one is a smaller one. Okay, so anybody above 35 is not interested in saving the net. Okay. Holy shit, what's interest? I had no idea GA had all of this, you know, I'm discovering features now. This is the same thing again. Let's move on. I think this is kind of obvious. Yeah, okay, so anything else? So should we just say we're done? Network is junk here. It's meaningless. I can't make any sense of this data. What are phone gprs, but is this nationwide or only? I mean, like, what is MTNL, CATB, ISP? Opera software. Okay, wow. Opera browsers. Significant enough. That's Opera Mini. We don't even know if the site works on Opera Mini. We didn't bother to test that.