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Forty-five percent of them have smoked Chesterfield for an average of over ten years. After ten full months, the specialist reports he observed no adverse effects on the nose, throat, and sinuses of the group from smoking Chesterfield. That's the report. Buy much milder Chesterfield, regular or king size. The cigarette that's best for you. Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next thirty minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Tuesday, August 5th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of auto theft detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Nelson. My name's Friday. I was on my way back from the telephone booth and it was 10-23 p.m. when I got to the parking lot. Our car. You called in? Yeah. They haven't hit tonight so far. What's the time now? A little after 10-30. Parking lot's about empty. Yeah. The attendant left a few minutes ago. Frank? Yeah, I see him. Over there going for that Cadillac. Yeah. You got a good look at him? No, it's too dark. He's forcing the door. Come on. Right. All right, hold it up there. He's in the car, Joe. All right, hold it up. That intersection will never get through. It looks pretty bad, Joe. Yeah, you really cracked into that dodge, didn't you? All right, let us through, please. Come on, please let us through. I'll check the Cadillac. Right. I'll get the other car. There are three people in that dodge. They're lucky. Doesn't look too bad. I'll call the ambulance. Yeah, we'll tell them to hurry. I don't think this one's gonna wait. 1046 p.m. The ambulance arrived and after emergency treatment at the scene, the victims were removed to Georgia Street receiving hospital. A traffic car had been dispatched to investigate the accident. Upon arrival at the emergency hospital, we were informed that the suspect had died on the way. The dead body was identified by his personal effects as Charles Roxford, 816. The juvenile bureau was contacted and they requested that in the course of our investigation, we notify the boy's family. 1127 p.m. Frank and I drove out to the address listed on the victim's identification. It was a house above the sunset strip. We rang the bell and waited. I'll try it again. Somebody's coming. Yes? Mrs. Roxford? That's right. What is it? Police officers, ma'am. We'd like to talk to you. Police? Well, come in. I don't know what you want with us, but come in. Thank you. Come into the living room. Thank you very much. Now, sit down. What is it? There's been an accident, Mrs. Roxford. An accident? Yes, ma'am. Pretty bad one. What's this got to do with me? What do you see, ma'am? Your boy was... Joe. Well, we're sorry to have to tell you this, ma'am.  Charles? Yes, ma'am. You said it was a bad accident. Yes, ma'am, we did. How bad? How bad? Your son's dead, ma'am. Charles? Charles Roxford? You're sure you have the right house? Yes, ma'am. We're sorry, Mrs. Roxford. Charles, he was only a baby. Just a baby. Oh, you're sure there's no mistake? You're sure? Afraid not, ma'am. How did it happen? It was an automobile accident, ma'am. In an automobile? Yes, ma'am. Your boy was driving a car. But Charlie doesn't have a car. He doesn't drive. Your boy was driving a stolen car, Mrs. Roxford. What?  He was trying to get away. Well, that's not true. Afraid it is, ma'am. No. You're lying to me. Charles wouldn't do a thing like that. Afraid that's the way it is, ma'am. Oh, I can't believe that Charlie'd do something like that. I thought I knew him. I didn't think he'd do anything like that. Well, did you see it? The accident. Were you there? Yes, ma'am. We were. How did it happen? Well, he'd stolen the car, ma'am. He tried to escape. He ran the car out into a crowded street. One of the cars in the traffic didn't have time to stop. Your boy ran right into it. Wasn't there something you could do to stop him? We tried, ma'am. He yelled at him. He almost ran us down. You know where your boy was tonight, Mrs. Roxford? No. No, he had dinner and then said he was going out. I thought he was going to a show or something. No, I didn't know where he was going. Did he leave the house alone? Yes. Left right after dinner, about eight. Said he'd be back later. Said he'd see me later that he left. Is there anything we can get for him, Mrs. Roxford? No. No, nothing. Where's your husband, ma'am? I guess he's at his office. He sells insurance. Said he had to meet a client tonight. I don't know what he's going to do when he hears about this. Going to hit him awfully hard, awfully hard. Yes, ma'am. He and the boy were very close. I don't know what he's going to do when he hears about it. Did the boy give you any idea during dinner as to what he was going to do after he left? No. No, he didn't. I didn't talk much to him. Ma'am. You see, I wasn't here. I was out most of the afternoon. I didn't get home until just before he left. He just finished dinner and then he left. I see, ma'am. I was at the bridge club. I always go on Tuesdays. Oh, if I'd known, if I'd only known what was going to happen, am I going to see him? I don't want either you or your husband to identify him, ma'am. Charlie, he's dead. Or just a baby, just a little boy. You were there. You could have done something.  Isn't that your job? Well, isn't it your job to help people to do something when they're in trouble? Well, yes, ma'am. I suppose it is. But it was a little late for that one. What does that mean? Well, he was 16 when we met up with Ms. Roxby. What's that got to do with it? Somebody should have tried a long time ago. Most car thefts fall into three basic categories well known by all police officers. First, the cars that are stolen by professionals who change the motor numbers, forge owner certificates, repaint the bodies and sell them throughout the country. The second group consists of joy riders, thieves who steal the cars for a few hours, merely to ride around in them and then leave them on the streets. The third category, and the one we'd been working on for the past six weeks, dealt with the activities of car strippers. Their MO followed the usual pattern for this type of crime. The car would be stolen and then driven to some lonely part of the city. There, all usable accessories would be removed, radios, tires, air horns, side mirrors, anything that could be resold would be taken. In certain cases, the articles would be stolen while the car remained parked where the owner had left it. We found that the gang had become so proficient that they could break into a car and remove the radio as well as other accessories in under 10 minutes. Avenues of sale for the stolen merchandise had been checked. Known dealers and stolen property had been questioned. As the days went on, the total of thefts went up. By the 5th of August, the gang had stolen over $12,000 in automobile accessories. In the instances where we'd been able to get a description of men loitering in the vicinity of the stripped cars, we'd had the witnesses check mug books in the hope of identifying the thieves. We'd gotten no new leads. Physical evidence at the scene of the abandoned cars had been checked and rechecked. It netted us nothing. A week passed. August 14th, 8.15 a.m., Frank and I got back to the office. That was really boiling, wasn't it? Yeah, you can't blame them, though. They got to stop cold. We've got to get it breaking at some time. All the luck can't stay on their side. I don't know. It looks like it could happen that way. Anything on the stakehouse last night? No, nothing. We got so far. Maybe something later. I got it. I bought off that Friday. I beg your pardon, ma'am. Well, no. Well, yeah. What was that again? Oh, yeah. Yeah, well, yes, ma'am. All right, what was that address again? Yes, I haven't been. All right, well, we'll send a unit out. I'm sure they can help you. No, I suggest you get in touch with the SPCA. No, SPCA, yes. All right, bye. Well, there's the dandy one. What's that? A woman lost a cat from her car. I don't know if we'd get it back for her. Yeah? So it's real easy to recognize. He has a collar on him. He answers the name of Tabby. Uh-oh. That makes it easier. All of that, Smith. Yes, sir. That's right. Uh-huh. Where are you calling from, sir? Yeah, sir, that's on Wilshire, right? All right, sir, we'll be right there. Anything?  Came back in 10 minutes. His car radio was gone. 8.56 a.m., Frank and I got to the doctor's office. It was in a large medical building out on Wilshire Boulevard. We went up to the second floor and talked to the man who placed the call, a Dr. Alex Halsey. He told us that he'd stopped at his office on the way to a hospital call. He parked his car immediately in front of the building. When he returned 10 minutes later, he found that the radio had been stolen. From his office, we called the crime lab in latent fingerprints detail. Crews of men were sent from both divisions. They went over the car for possible physical evidence. Frank and I, along with Dr. Halsey, went down to the street. We talked to him while the officers worked. The darndest thing I ever saw. I tell you, I wasn't in the building more than 10 minutes. 10 minutes outside. Yes, sir. Came back and I could see right away that the door had been opened. Uh-huh. First I thought maybe I'd left it open, and the car I knew right away. As soon as I saw the radio was gone. Yes, sir. Did you notice anyone watering around your car when you parked in? Anybody suspicious, maybe? Oh, no, I didn't. Of course, I might not have noticed anyone. Had my mind on Julie. Julie? Yes, I'm operating under this afternoon.  Only three months old. Gee, that's too bad. Yes. She'll be fine, though. Of course, the parents are worried. They always are. Can't convince them there's nothing to worry about. Yes, sir. Then you didn't notice anyone, huh? No, like I said, I didn't. You sure you locked your car, sir, when you left it? Oh, yes, I'm sure about that. Always make it a practice to lock it when I leave it. Lots of times I leave instruments in it. Always have to be careful about the instruments. Oh, yes, sir, I always lock it. How about the windows? What? The windows. Would you roll them all the way out? Roll them up. Well, no, once in a while I don't. Try to think of that. I'm not sure about this morning. No, come to think of it, I guess I didn't close them this morning. Such a wonderful day. Yes, sir. Well, that's probably how they got into your car. You happen to have the serial number of the radio, Dr. Halsey. No, no, I don't think I have. Might be on the papers. I just got the car a couple of months ago. Might be on the papers. I can check them for you. All right, sir. That'll help. I'll have my secretary look them up for you right away. Anyone else drive the car, Dr. Halsey? Oh, no, sir. Don't believe in that. I'm the only one. I've been the only one to drive it. Don't believe in lending the car to somebody else. Never have believed in it. Mm-hmm. Joe? Excuse me a minute, Dr. Halsey. Surely. Yeah, Leonard. Got a couple of clean prints on the dashboard. Might belong to the thief. Yeah. I'd like to check the doctor. It might be his. Okay. Wait a minute. Hey, Dr. Halsey. Yes, Sergeant. Okay. Uh, this is Sergeant Tankersley of the fingerprint department. He'd like to check your prints. How do you do, sir? All right, Doctor. I wonder if I could look at your fingers, please. Surely. Can you tell just from looking at them what you want to know? No, sir, but you see the prints we found are oral. If your prints were loops, there'd be no reason to take them.  Uh-huh, I see. I'm about it, Leonard. Better roll them up for comparison. Mm-hmm. We're going to take your prints, Doctor, if you have no objection. Oh, no, no. That's not it. Glad to help. All right, sir. You want to step over here and we can take them in the officer's car. Yes, glad to. Here, I'll get the door. I'll get the pad.  Surely here. No, sir, if you let me do it, be a little easier. Oh, yes. Just trying to help. I will put them on the card. Never knew my fingers were so big. It does that we're taking the print of the whole tip of the finger, sir. Makes it look that way. Oh, I see. All right, Doctor. You can get the ink off with this, I think. Here, I'll pour a little on this cloth. Here you go. Oh, yes, yes. Thank you. What do you think, Leonard? I'll check them now. Sure would be a break if they were the thieves. Mm-hmm. Well, there must be. Couldn't be anyone else's. Well, how about your family, Doctor? A possible prince could be theirs, maybe? Oh, no, no. No chance. Jenny, that's my wife. She has her own car. Kids always use that one. Like I said, I'm the only one who uses this. Uh-huh. How about it, man? Make them? Yeah. They blocked the doctor. 10.02 a.m. The crime lab crew gathered what physical evidence they could find and returned to check over their findings. Frank and I took a report from Dr. Halsey, and then we talked to his secretary. She was unable to find the ownership papers on the car. We drove over to the dealer who had sold him the car and got the serial number of the stolen radio. We notified pawn shop detail and gave them the information. For the next three weeks, stakeouts on the parking lots in the central area continued. Arrests were made, but the thieves apparently had no connection with the gang we were after. They kept hitting, but the speed with which they operated made apprehending them difficult. On Friday, September 5th, we got a call that a stolen car had been recovered out in Topanga Canyon. We drove out to check on it. The tires, radio, horns, heater, spotlights, fog lights, and the side view mirrors had been taken. The seat covers had been removed, and the hubcaps were missing. Again, there was no physical evidence that gave us a lead to the thieves. That night at 10.52 p.m., Frank and I checked back into the office. Another long day. Yeah, kind of tired myself.  Why's that? Oh, this morning when I left, I told her I'd be home for dinner, sure. Wouldn't you call her? No, I forgot all about it. She's really going to be sore. Yeah, well, she'll get over it. I don't know, Joe. It's going to be a couple of days of quiet around the house, I think. Why, just because you missed a meal? No, it ain't that. She had tamale pie for dinner. Boy, she sure makes it good, too. A lot of cheese, you know? Yeah, well, she can warm it up for you when you get home. Here, go ahead. All right. You want to sign us out? I'll check the book. Yeah, I'll get it. Anything? Yeah, I'll call from Brennan out in Wilshire. I'll call him. Hello, Brennan around? Yeah, all right. Say what it was about? No, I'm calling him now. Yeah, hi, Brennan. It's Friday. Yeah, you did, huh? Where'd that happen? No kidding. It was the brakes, I think. Yeah. Okay, yeah, thanks, Brennan. I picked up a kid for running a red light driving a hot rod. Yeah? The car was fixed up with a lot of new stuff. The guys out of Wilshire checked it over. Uh-huh. According to the serial number on the radio, it was stolen from Dr. Halsey. You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. In 1952, American smokers bought more Chesterfields than ever before in the history of the industry. 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We checked with Sergeant Brennan and he told us how the boy had been picked up. He'd run a red light at the corner of Pico and La Brea. He'd been stopped by two officers in a cruiser car. He was driving a cut-down 49 Ford that was equipped with Cadillac hubcaps, white sidewall tires, Chrysler horns, and a Cadillac radio. The officers had started to question him and he'd attempted to escape. He'd been apprehended and brought to the station to be interrogated. In checking the serial number of the radio, the men from Wilshire Division had discovered that it was stolen and had left word for us. 11.45 p.m., we went to an interview room to talk to the boy. What's your name, son? Martin. First name? Herb. Herb Martin. You know why you're here, don't you? Yeah. You want to tell us where you got that stuff? I bought it. Where? In different places. Do you remember where? Not right off. How old are you? 19. Where do you live? It's on the report. We're asking you.  Where were you going when they stopped you? Home. Where'd you been? Around.  Yeah, that's right. Now, look, you better come off this, young fella.  You got caught with a carload of stolen accessories. There's been a lot of stealing going on around town. And with your car looks, you could be responsible for it. Yeah, well, I'm not. You look good for it. Look, maybe I lifted the radio and stuff, but that don't mean I'm in on the other. Sure, I got no choice. You got me nailed for the stuff you found, but I'm not going to take it for the others. Maybe I stole that stuff, but that was for me. I didn't sell it like the others. Now, leave me alone, huh? What do you mean, others? I don't know what you mean. You said the others. Well, I didn't mean others like that. Well, how did you mean it? Well, like the guys you're looking for. That's not the way it sounded.  I didn't say it like that. That's the way it sounded. That's right, son. Now, why don't you tell us who you meant? Look, Herb, we haven't got all day.  We're going to get them sometime. What do you mean? All right, I'll tell you. We continued to talk to Herb Martin. He told us of the activities of a gang of car strippers who were working on order. He went on to say that from what he'd heard, if someone wanted to pick up some fast money, a connection could be made with a man on the corner of Sunset in Western. The man would give the order for the stolen merchandise and say where and at what time it was to be delivered.  He was unable to identify the man who made the contact and said that he'd never heard him referred to by name. He gave us the names and addresses of two of the men who were working for him. 1245 a.m., Frank and I left and drove back downtown. With the assistance of officers from Wilshire Division, the two young men were brought in for questioning. They identified their contact as a Richard R. Ogden. We ran the name through R and I and found that Ogden had a previous record of petty theft. From the 510 in his package, we obtained his last known address, but the landlady told us that he'd moved and left no forwarding address. She told us, however, that she thought we could find him at the Meyer Garage on South Hoover. We drove over and found that it was a small place on the corner of Hoover and Mariposa. The owner, Alan Meyer, told us that Ogden did work for him, but that he was out. He said that the suspect was expected back almost any time. While we talked to him, Meyer worked on a small, foreign car. Great little cars. Get a real kick out of working on them. Yeah, sure. Nice looking. You sell them, do you? No, I just service them. Oh, no, man. I get accessories for them. I order them up, install them, cost too much to keep a regular stock of them. When did you say that Ogden would be back? We should be here now. Probably get hung up someplace. Yeah, latest thing is a hardtop made out of laminated fiberglass. Is that right? Yeah, fits right over them.  Then with wire wheel caps, baggage racks, wind wings, you can put a lot of money in them. Yeah, I guess so. What about all this other stuff here? Is that for these foreign cars, too? Yeah, what do you mean? Well, tires and hubcaps here. Oh, no, that's where I make most of my money. I go out and buy them from Rex, bring them back here, straighten them out, resell them to the independent stations around town. They can sell them a lot cheaper than new ones run. We both make a little money out of it. Yeah. Say, you guys like spinners? No, no, no, thanks. Okay, you don't mind if I have some, huh? Sure you don't want any? No, thanks very much. I guess I'm hungry in the morning. I'll keep these things around a munch on them. Go through a whole can of these today.  Now, get started on the things you can't stop. You sure you don't want some? No, no, thanks. How long you known this Ogden, Meyer? All I see, uh, I guess it's been 10 years anyway. It went to work for me a year ago. Good man brought a lot of business in. Sam, what does he want to see him about? Oh, we like to talk to him. You don't want to tell him, huh? It'd be better if we talked to him, Mr. Meyer. Yeah. Well, here he is now. Hey, Dick? Yeah? A couple of fellas here want to see you. Yeah, what is it? You a Richard Ogden? Yeah, that's right. Police officers. I'm Frank Smith. This is my partner, Joe Friday. What is it you guys want me for? I'd like to talk to you, Ogden. Well, go ahead. It might be better if we went outside. Well, look, you can talk to him here. I got some work I can do in the office. Don't want to bother you, Mr. Meyer. Oh, no. Trouble talk. Well, now, what's this all about? You know a couple of kids named Jerry Z. Swanson and Harry T. Benson? Swanson and Benson? No, I don't think I do. They say they know you. They say they do some work for you. Sorry to bother you. I forgot my peanuts. It's all right, sir. I'll be in the office if you need anything. Thank you, sir. No, anything at all. Yes, sir. What about it, Ogden? What about what? You know the kids? It's Benson and Swanson. No, I told you what. All right, Mr. Let's go downtown. We'll talk it over there, huh? What for? Why are you pulling me in? I want you to meet the two boys if you don't know them. Well, what's that going to prove? We want to know why they named you. Why they said you were responsible for the car stripping that's been going on. You mean you believe them? Well, they've gotten a reason not to. I don't think they'd stage a thing like this. They've got a lot to lose. So have I. You get me down there, and those two kids point me out, and I haven't got a chance, even if I'm not the one, and they say I am, you won't give me a break. No, if you haven't done anything, you've got nothing to worry about. I'm not going. Alan? Hey, Alan. Yeah, what is it, Dick? Come here, will you? Yeah, right away. What's the matter? Something wrong? Well, these guys are going to take me to jail. What for? What's he done? We want to talk to him. We think he's involved in some car thefts. Well, I know that's not true. Dick wouldn't do a thing like that. I know. I've known him a long time. No, I'm sorry, sir, but the information we've got says he did. Why, Dick? Why'd you do a thing like that? Hmm? If what these officers say is true, well... Gee, that's awful. Why would you do a thing like that? What are you talking about? All right, come on, Argon. Let's go. No, I'm not going. I think you better do what the officers say, Dick. It'll be better if you don't cause any trouble. Well, wait a minute. What are you trying to prove with this? I don't know what you mean. Next thing you'll be trying to involve me in this. Yeah, well, that's just what I'm going to do. You see, officers, that's terrible. Don't you listen to him. He's the guy behind the whole thing. Look over there. The tires, all this stuff. Sure, I stole them. I had the kids go out and pick them up, but he set it up. He sold them to the stations. He took most of the money. The whole thing was his idea. Well, Dick, how can you say that? Well, I can say it because it's true. I'll tell you all about it. You take him downtown. I'll tell you all about it. You're not going to let me stand for this alone? And I think that he'd do a thing like this to me after we've been friends for so long. Bring me stolen merchandise to sell. You got anything to back up what you're saying? Sure, I have. Just bet I can back it up. Go ahead. Well, you look at his books, not the ones he's got out in the open, but you look at the ones in the safe. It's all there. All the deals he's made with the owners of the stations, all the orders, what he paid the kids for them, and what he got for them. Didn't think I knew about it, did you? Whole lousy year I've been doing the dirty work for them. Well, I've had it. I'm through. I've had it. Let me take the beef. What a crumb I'll show you. I don't understand it. Friends for so long. I'd have gotten you out. Ten years we've been friends. I trusted you all that time. Then you sold me out. Why? Well, that shouldn't be too tough for you to figure. Huh? You showed him how. The story you have just heard was true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. On January 21st, trial was held in Department 87, Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles. In a moment, the results of that trial. Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you, George Phenomen. Remember, only Chesterfield gives you this scientific evidence on the effects of smoking. After ten full months, the group examined showed no adverse effects on the nose, throat, and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. Now speaking personally as a Chesterfield smoker, I know they're best for me. 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We take you back now to some more political stories coming from Adamawa state where the executive members of the Adamawa state, all progressives, Congress, APC have passed a vote of no confidence on the chairman Ibrahim Bilal over alleged growth misconduct. The executive members of the party said that Bilal is selfish and can't lead the party to victory in the 2023 general elections and have resolved to do the needful to save the party from collapse. Our reason to take this line of action follows the failure of the chairman to respond to the allegations of growth misconduct against him as provided for in the Constitution. We view his failure to respond to the weighty allegations as acceptance of guilt. He has never informed the party members of donations and contributions he received on behalf of the party. The chairman vehemently refused to create the necessary avenue for a great party to be consigned after the conduct of party primaries. The chairman has proved dubious means to deceive the aspirants of the party and collect a few sums of money from them running into hundreds of millions of Naira. The chairman saw many vikers belonging to the party and did not limit a dime to the secretariat. The chairman has shrewd the finances of the secretariat in secrecy and has been running their fears for the party like a personal investment with no checks and balances and without money since he came on board. So you get notified about fresh news updates.


Have you ever wondered what it might be like to stand on the surface of Mars and look around you? Or perhaps to fly through the atmosphere? I'm Stephen Lewis and I've worked on several Mars spacecraft missions. Getting to Mars is important. We might find out where the ancient life started on that planet, if it survives to this day or if Earth is truly unique and why. In our talk, Rhian Chapman and I will describe the Martian environment and why it seems to be so hard to land safely on the surface of Mars.


Congratulations to all the students here for reaching this stage of the Generation Euro Students Award competition. I felt so excited today because students don't used to have chances like that of coming to events this important. I was really excited to see Mr Draghi. It was really cool. We got a tour around the ECB. We were able to see the governing council room. It was a very nice experience. If something has changed my perception of the ECB since I visited, yes, it has become more living. It was really interesting to ask a personal question to Mario Draghi. It was really inspiring and something different to all the press conferences and it was great. It was really answering what we wanted to know. How all this is possible because of the values upon which the European Union was founded. Democracy, accountability, freedom, freedom. And that's something that's being now taken for granted. At what age did you decide to devote your professional life to the world of economics and finance? Well, it's actually not easy questions here. Well, not really. I can't remember any single day where I was struck by lightning. And someone told me what I would become later on. When I was a teenager, yes, I was interested in economics. The ceremony was really impressive. So Mario Draghi was there. And when we were on the stage and he gave us our certificate and then he gave us his hand and we shook his hand. Meeting people from all different areas of Europe makes us feel all together and shows that we are not so different from each other. And also we have a lot in common that we are all passionate about economics. We all like finance and we have many similarities. You will have an important role to play in tomorrow's Europe. But that role, that responsibility starts today.


How do you reflect on your teaching and how do you use those reflections to inform your course design? I had a wonderful teacher at the University of Iowa when I was a graduate student there and her name was Houston Deal and she was a Renaissance teacher that was her field. But she also was really instrumental in helping a lot of graduate students who were beginning to teach think about teaching, think about what a teacher does when you teach. And I thought I'd give several of these presentations on teaching and really what they were on was the questions you ask yourself as a teacher or that you should be asking yourself as a teacher. And there were all the questions that had to do with yourself in terms of who you were, how you communicated to others or how you wanted to in the class, how you wanted to present yourself, what your goals were, what you were thinking. There were all these questions about students, about who did you think they were and did you think they were actually quite smart and you just had help them, did you think they were not smart at all and that you had to enlighten them? I mean that all those assumptions you made about students affected how you taught and what you taught. But a whole series of these questions and she would write them out too and give them up. And then if you're teaching for her like literary texts then there's all these questions about texts themselves and what do you, I mean she would ask very fundamental questions like why are we sitting in the class having a discussion on a book? And you might think well that's what we do, I mean that's a valuable thing to do but asking the question makes you think about what is the value or what are the values if there may be more than that. And sometimes what you realize is that you ask the question you don't know as a teacher I think, like why have I always done this and people have always done this thing and why is it important? I'm not sure. So it enabled the process of thinking about such things, thinking about very basic things that you do and asking and questioning them and always questioning them. And I think that I maybe already had a little of that nature myself that I'm a very reflective questioning person. I ask questions about things but the Houston Deal just encouraged that and that was when I first started teaching and so I think that influenced my teaching a lot. So I think that reflection is an essential part of what I do. I mean I think of teaching as reflection that every day I teach, like the class I teach you know there's a way in which you kind of think over that class what happened and what were the moments that you were glad happened, what didn't happen that you wanted to, you know when somehow the discussion just didn't seem to go anywhere. Why was that? Was that the students? Was it your own preparation? Was it just the day? It was a strange day and everyone felt weird when they came to the class. I mean sometimes you don't know the answer but you try to reflect and try to think about well how can I prepare it and make it better the next time. It's also something what's interesting about being a Fairhaven College is I think that one of the things that makes Fairhaven distinctive or gives us some of the qualities that Fairhaven has is that reflection is at the center of everything we do. That is because we don't give letter grades to students what we ask them to do is do self-reflection, self-evaluation, self-analysis of their own work. So we encourage that and I think the other thing about being a Fairhaven that encourages me to reflect is that because I'm not in a specific department or discipline anymore because my colleagues are trained in many different ways and I interact with them and I teach with them and they might be in the field of history or psychology or science and here I am interacting with them in certain ways and we've been trained very differently. It means that some of the assumptions that come out of my discipline don't always hold water with everyone. I mean they don't, everybody doesn't assume those things and so it actually challenges very basic things just being around people who think differently.


It has become really common for groups in the modern era to be online entities for groups to meet either Primarily or exclusively online you may not ever be in the same room as somebody else from your group in a physical sense So what I want to do with this video is just provide some tips for effective virtual groups those that meet Entirely or primarily online and make use of online technology So one of the first things I want to encourage you to do is to create a communication charter Communication team charter where you collaboratively create a document that normalizes group communication practices This could be things as specific as when you receive an email from a group member You will respond or at least acknowledge that email within 24 hours or whatever it is or you know in group communication In group meetings, we're gonna raise our hands or we're gonna make sure we're not blaming people for whatever Whatever it is you want to identify here that we can kind of establish these norms as much upfront Establish these expectations set these guidelines up front through that communication charter So a few things that you might want to consider for your communication charter and and having in place there First of all, what technology is going to be used for particular tasks? Are you going to primarily communicate through email as a group or as are you going to use text? Or do you have you know Microsoft Teams or Slack or something else that you're going to use to communicate this team? What's the primary form of communication? What technology is going to be used for collaborative documents or ease and Google Docs or using something else like that? So what technology is going to be used for specific tasks so you can make sure you're all using kind of the same thing? What are the deadlines for updates and submissions? So what are the deadlines for you know? We want an update from every week on these projects on this part of the project or We need things submitted by you know Wednesday so that people can review them at the end of the week And then we can talk about it for a meeting on Monday So any kind of regular deadlines Need to be established up front so people can really plan their work and and plan around that and have things ready on time I mentioned before what are the expected response times? Somebody contacts you about a group issue a project issue What is the expectation for when you'll get back to them? And when should they be concerned that you haven't gotten back to them? What are going to be the meeting venues in times? Are you going to use Zoom? Are you going to use Teams? Are you going to use some other technology that's available to you? And when are you going to do this again allowing people to schedule? These things in their lives and work around them get them on their calendar early So you got to establish this as early as possible any kind of regular meetings and regular meeting times that you're going to be Using as part of your team charter your communication charter up front This is a really important document It just again sets up those guidelines and allows you to have something later on that you can point to say Point to somebody say look, this is what we agreed upon You haven't been doing this. Do we need to make an adjustment here or can you do you think you can? Begin to meet some of these things so anyway I would strongly encourage you to consider even in the most basic sense some sort of team charter communication charters You begin your work Another thing to consider is accountability Some things to keep in mind about accountability first of all in a group The one of the wonderful things is you can share leadership Even if you have an assigned leader or somebody who's you know the de facto leader you can still share leadership people members can be leaders that's the One of the benefits of having so many people in you know working together is that you can share that responsibility You can all be a part of that and develop those skills and and take on that responsibility So you can share leadership however You're gonna want to assign an accountability major so share that leadership But assign an accountability major somebody who's keeping track of who's supposed to be doing what and can follow up with him about that Somebody who's you know responsible for doing that can can say okay. This person's gonna have this part done by this date if they don't We need to reach out to them. We need to see what's happening. So you need somebody who's Tracking that and following those different things to make sure that these tasks tasks are being completed You should really have these these things commitments and timelines Publicly trackable. So I encourage you to create an online spreadsheet or some way that you can track Who's doing what ones are gonna be done by and and you know, what are they working on specifically? What's the time frame? What you know, how does that affect everything else so that you can publicly keep track of these things and know Because what you're working on may be dependent on something else that somebody else is working on So at the very least it would be nice to know when you're gonna have access to that when it's expected to be completed And so forth, but it also just helps people Remain accountable to for what this is what you said you would do. This is what we put down in this document So is this happening or is this not happening and you can go from there then so that personal accountability can be Tracked as well. So accountability incredibly important in a group Atmosphere to make sure everybody's getting done what they said they would get done and and doing so in a timely manner And that we know what the plan is for those things That's I want to pick the right tech tool We have so much technology available It is amazing the kind of things you can do and how much that can benefit a group You don't need it all though And what you need to do is pick the right tech tool for what you're trying to do and then there are a couple guidelines Keep in mind as well with that So once you pick that first of all identify and stick to that agreed upon channel If you agreed to use Google Docs for these things and to share files through Google Docs or whatever it is Then stick to that don't have one person said well, I decided to house it out here I'm using you know the Microsoft 365 platform instead, so I just want to keep it there and you can go there and find it Keep everything together once you've identified as a group something that you're going to use stick to it Right well if you're going to use zoom for meetings don't have one person said well I prefer Microsoft teams so if you want to have a meeting with me It's going to be on teams come on just identify a tool and stick with it to simplify things for everybody Now having said that you can mix and match resources for the greatest impact That doesn't mean you can't use other tools You should in fact use other tools and mix and match these things As as needed to provide the greatest possible impact And then go out and find those helpful apps There are things that you can you know depending on what your group is working on there are different things That can be helpful for you as a group. It may be the G suite They've got lots of things in this Google suite that can be very very helpful to you And I use it a lot with the different different components of it They're all kind of integrated and that's nice and the same thing is true for Microsoft 365 If you're a Microsoft person or whatever it is you want to use find those apps that are helpful and find ways to utilize them Things like zoom can be amazing For meetings and synchronous type things and they record meetings and they can be useful for training and all kinds of things So zoom can be very helpful Doodle poll is an only if you're trying to find a meeting time for example can be really helpful So you can mix and match and find these helpful apps You don't have to make use of everything just because it's out there But find the ones that are going to be helpful for your group and make use of them My final tip for you is to communicate competently and that may sound Kind of obvious, but the truth is we don't do it that much that's part of what we're doing here It's trying to learn how to communicate more effectively in groups But a couple of things we need to do first of all we need to keep the channel in mind There are different communication channels that we use to communicate So for example, is this channel lean or is it rich and where does it fall and that's back from meaning You know real-life conversation is really rich because we have access to all these different channels of communication A text message is very lean because we have just the words to go by maybe some emojis or whatever But still there's a lot of ambiguity there because we're Limiting ourselves in terms of the number of channels There's a lot of convenience to texting and it can be wonderful But we need to keep in mind that it's lean And so when we say something we have to think very hard about how that might be interpreted on the other end or or what not so So is this a lean channel or a rich channel of communication? And how does that impact what i'm trying to do so keep the channel in mind Keep in mind is this synchronous or asynchronous Meaning is this happening in real time or not? So we're in a zoom meeting that's synchronous So there are things we can there are ways we want to communicate there that are different than when we're communicating Asynchronously through a text message or email or something like that. So anyway, keep the channel in mind Bear in mind that syntax matters. There's a difference between let's eat grandma and let's eat grandma There's a difference there So keep in mind that syntax matters in the way that you are perceived as a professional and so even when you're texting You're emailing you're whatever you're writing on on instant messenger or whatever it is you're doing syntax matters vocabulary matters You know it all goes to your credibility and it goes to the understandability of your Statement whether or not the other person can interpret it effectively and and use that information the way that you intend So syntax matters vocabulary matters keep all that in mind and use your best writing skills Manage conflict wisely communicate competently by managing conflict wisely. It's okay to disagree in groups It's okay to state your opinion. It's okay to have conflict even that can be constructive But we need to manage it wisely. Don't let things get personal. Don't let things get, you know, don't Huge teams and and you know big battles like that come out Handle your conflict wisely work collaboratively if you have to work cooperatively but manage that conflict wisely and think interculturally That doesn't just mean people from different countries and but and different, you know racial or ethnic backgrounds and things It certainly applies there and we want to think that way, but you know, but just think that people think differently People think differently. I I work in a huge team from all across the country And and and we think differently people from you know Just because the way the environments were raised and where we live and things like that It's all good. It brings those different perspectives in that's one of the great advantages of working in a group But we have to think interculturally not everybody thinks the same way we do has the same opinions We do we should make assumptions about that kind of thing so we need to think interculturally and and and Use those effective intercultural aspects of communication in our group Odds are you're going to be in a virtual group at some point and and so we're going to have these experiences We're going to have to work in these environments and they can be wonderful There's a lot of productivity that can happen a lot of advantages to working in virtual groups But it has different aspects that need to be managed differently even though even from regular group experiences So keep those in mind that virtual groups are unique and require a unique Touch from us from all the group members in order to make that an effective experience If you have questions about working in virtual teams or groups and how to do that more effectively Please feel free to email me. I'd love to to chat with you about that in the meantime I hope that this has been helpful and giving you giving you some food for thought About how we can work most effectively in the you know growing presence of virtual teams and virtual groups


The title of this year's Mads Point conference is Challenging Democracy. In your opinion, is China and the aspirations of China a challenge or maybe even a threat to liberal democracy as we know it? I think it's a challenge. I'm not sure that it's a threat. It's really the only non-democratic system out there that has really mastered capitalism and technology and other elements of modernity. It's produced very fast economic growth and it seems to have produced a kind of legitimacy for itself because of its track record. So the real question is, is this a sustainable system and over the next generation is it going to continue to perform the way it has? What do we know about China's aspirations when it comes to world dominance? Is China interested in exporting cultural and political values at all? Well, I think it's fundamentally different from the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century because I think the rulers in China are basically interested in stability and getting rich. China's relations with other countries are usually driven by commercial motives. I don't think that they are particularly interested in exporting their model. I don't think they think that anyone can duplicate their model anywhere else. But that doesn't mean that it's not a challenge for international relations because anytime you get the emergence of a really big new player, it upsets existing power relationships and it's potentially destabilizing. So I think that it's probably the biggest challenge that the international system faces right now. But is China happy about just buying up the rest of the world because that is almost what's happening, isn't it? Well, I think the rest of the world is quite happy to sell to China in that relationship. I think one problem is that there's not just one China. There's evidence in the last couple of years particularly that the Chinese military in a sense regards itself as the guardian of Chinese nationalism. It doesn't obviously have exactly the same agenda as the civilian leadership within the Communist Party. So you've had several incidents where they seem to be pushing the envelope in terms of being aggressive over the South China Sea and over various territorial disputes with neighbors and that that's driven more by the military than by the Party itself. How does the example and success of China fit into your theory about liberal democracy being the end point of history? Well, I think the question going forward is what the Chinese system represents is high quality authoritarian government without checks and balances. And in some sense that kind of a system under good leadership can actually outperform a democracy in the short run because they can make decisions quickly if they're competent, if they've got good technocrats in charge, they can really push forward investment and do things that a democracy can't do. So that I think is a challenge and right now the United States is in many ways at the opposite extreme where it's paralyzed, it's got a highly polarized political system, unable to make basic decisions about its long-term physical health. So I think the challenge is really which of these systems going forward, not in the next two or three years, but in the next generation is going to generate better results. And I still think that an accountable system with checks and balances still is going to be the superior system because the Chinese have had this one problem that they describe as the bad emperor problem that they've never really been able to solve, meaning if you've got a good authoritarian government, you're really doing well, but there's absolutely nothing to guarantee that you'll have a constant supply of good leaders and that's really the problem I think they have yet to solve. One thing is then what the political elite wants. What about the aspirations of the Chinese people? How do you see that? What do they want? Do they want to be like us in the West? I don't think that they're so different really. I think that they get angry when the government fails to respect their dignity, takes away their property, all of these things. I think however that the memory of being poor and insecure is very recent. The Cultural Revolution really ended only in the 1970s and the transformation of China has been a near miracle in terms of people's finding employment, having rising living standards. And I think for many Chinese that's a very welcome change and it was brought about by the existing regime and so I'm not sure that they're that eager to destabilize it or to move to something leap into the unknown where something like democracy where they really don't know what's going to happen at the other end. On the other hand you also talked about the universality of the wish to live in a society that recognizes human dignity. Do you think that most Chinese feel that their inherent dignity is recognized by the regime? That's a complicated question. I think in some measure the demand for dignity rises with rising income and education. If you're very poor, if you're a Chinese peasant that's all of a sudden moved to a city, you've got a job, now you can send money back to your family, you tend not to worry about whether you can participate in politics or whether you can demonstrate or protest your conditions. On the other hand, if you are a college educated young person you have high expectations and the system isn't meeting that and you're on the internet and you talk to your friends and you have a basic security in life I think that kind of individual is potentially much more dangerous to a regime and so when you say the Chinese people I think you really need to distinguish and I think the leading edge of most revolutions is caused by middle class, better educated people that really don't have a place in the system. Right now they do but in another generation they may not. Do you think then that we could see at some time a revolution or insurgents in China like we've seen in the Middle East now? Well I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon because China is just doing too well at this point. I think that the question you have to ask is in a few years if the economic model falters and it has to falter. I mean no country this large can continue to grow at 10% indefinitely so that's going to slow down and the job machine will slow down and at that point if they have a really big economic setback or even a Japanese style landing where they have very sluggish growth for an extended period of time I think that's the point at which you have to look for signs of social instability. But it's actually somewhat of a danger to the regime that they are educating so many people that the education standard is so high in China? Yeah well that's right. I mean in many respects that's where they're doing well because they've got all the engineers and managers that can actually run a modern economy but it's very easy for that to get out of kilter and right now there's strong demand for low-skill labor but there's not sufficient demand for the college educated and that's a politically potentially dangerous situation. Let's view this challenge from China from another perspective. An autocratic political system like China makes it easier to make complex and unpopular decisions. My question is if we in the West want to stay competitive in a globalized world could we be sort of forced to compromise some of our political ideals to simply follow up with China? I seriously doubt that we're going to change the institutional rules of our democracies to make ourselves look more like China. I just can't really conceive of that happening. I think the real question is in the context of well institutionalized democracy are we going to be able to achieve political consensus on the painful steps necessary to keep the society sustainable? I think every western democracy, in fact it's not just every western democracy, every developed country faces a need to renegotiate many elements of its existing social contract because the existing welfare states were created in a time when people didn't live as long, when birth rates were higher and therefore the ability to actually sustain these entitlements going ahead into the future is going to be very great and then you get further problems related to immigration. You need immigration in order to sustain populations but then that produces political backlash and so I think really the question is in the context of a democratic system are you going to be able to overcome conflicts created by these painful decisions that will lie in the future? That's really the challenge and I think oftentimes the track record of democracy isn't that great. A lot of times it really requires an external shock or a big crisis to finally convince people to make these decisions and at that point the decision is more costly and more painful and so forth. You talked about the necessity of a new social contract. What should that new social contract be like? What's the content of it? It differs in every country because every country's fiscal situation is different. Japan of all developed countries is the first to experience this because it has the largest public debt. It has the most rapidly aging population and what it means is that many fewer workers are going to support many more retired people in the near future and so that means some combination of higher taxes, reduced benefits and the like and something that the United States will face and it's something that most European countries will face because of the same demographic pressure. Talking about the educational system it seems to me that at least in Denmark a lot of politicians and educational researchers they look to China and Singapore and countries like that to see what they are doing there so maybe not to emulate their system but to see what are they doing right. What does that tell you about the sort of educational, cultural impact of China on the West? Well, I'm not so sure that these countries are the best ones to emulate in terms of education because they tend to do well in math and science and obviously that's important but what you really need in order to compete in the contemporary world is innovation and creativity and that's something that I don't think any of these Asian systems have really been able to crack. I mean this willingness to challenge authority, to be able to think for yourself, to come up with new paradigms that's something that really is not prized in Asian educational systems rather it's deference to authority you just learn by the book and some things you can learn that way but other things I think require greater independence of mind. One thing that is not clear to me is I don't think the Chinese have actually created anything new in terms of technology, basic science. They're getting up to the point, they're catching up and they're getting up to the point where they're going to need to do that and it's a real question whether their educational system is preparing people that can make that next leap into the future so we'll have to see. I'm not saying that I know that it's not going to happen but it's not demonstrated to me yet that their educational system can really accomplish this. Do you think in the future that we will become more like the Chinese or will the Chinese become more like us? If I had to guess, I really suspect that the Chinese are going to become more like us because I do think that higher levels of education and contact with the outside world does produce certain convergence in culture and in the way people think and I think in things like the willingness to question authority and the like I really cannot see Westerners adopting Chinese attitudes towards authority that somehow we're going to go back to this highly deferential, very hierarchical kind of system. I can, however, see a lot of Chinese young people getting their education in the West and actually adopting a lot of Western practices even as they realize that their system has got a lot of strengths that need to be protected. So you don't think that in 2050 there will be a Chinese way of life that we will all be trying to emulate here in the West? I think that there will be aspects of China. For example, in the United States there's a book by Amy Chu that was published about Chinese mothers and the way that they force their kids to work and study and so forth and I think probably there's a lot of American mothers that are now emulating that kind of practice but as a whole I don't think that the overall Chinese way of life particularly in the realm of politics is something that Westerners are ever likely to emulate because I think there's just too much individualism and belief in the autonomy of the individual in Western civilization for that to be the case. Thanks.


High students, we are talking about the phases of mergers and acquisition and we are particularly concerned about the HR challenges that take place in each of these phases. In this topic, we are going to be discussing about the HR challenges in the due diligence phase. You can see that the due diligence phase is the second phase in the merger and acquisition process and during the due diligence phase, the entire plan of merger or acquisition is being chalked out. So regarding human resources, during the due diligence phase, we will be concerned about estimating people-related costs. Now we will be considered about what type of costs they are going to be in that phase of merger or acquisition. So what is going to be the transactional cost, which means that during the phase of merger or acquisition, what is going to be the cost of hiring HR, of losing HR, of retaining HR, what kind of extra benefits you may have to pay in order to retain people, what kind of benefits you would have to pay to let go of people. You know, there are a number of cases in which you offer golden handshakes and some similar kind of incentives and compensation packages for people who you are forcing to leave the organization. So this is a transactional cost of the merger or acquisition. So transactional cost, what will happen to you? Secondly, you would be concerned about what is going to be the ongoing cost. And ongoing cost is that how much salaries you would have to pay. Would you have to pay more salaries to people? For example, if you're going from a developing country to a developed country, what is going to be the ongoing cost of hiring people in a developed world, whereas you can hire people from the developing world. So what is going to be the arrangement, for example, you will go for more expatriate management or you will go for hiring people from within the local market. So what is going to be the ongoing cost of maintaining and retaining HR in your newly merged or acquired firm? And finally, what is going to be the saving on the HR end? What will you save? Many times, mergers or acquisition takes place because, pre-dominantly, labor costs are lesser in the countries in which multinationals they go for mergers and acquisition. So what are we going to save? How much HR cost is going to be saved in the form of less labor costs or less taxes required to be paid? Or what is the combination of savings in terms of human resources? So in the due diligence phase, your organization will be concerned, particularly about estimating people cost regarding task transactional costs, the ongoing costs and the savings which are involved in that process. And secondly, in the due diligence phase, you would be concerned about the cultural issues of the two organizations which are coming together. You know that it's going to be a merger of two cultures and probably it's going to be a merger of two national cultures. And you know from Hofstede's framework that national cultures vary on various different dimensions. So if your national culture is different from each other, you need to check out how you are going to manage that difference of culture and on what dimensions you need to work. And for that, you have the different type of frameworks, particularly the Hofstede's framework in which you can analyze the national cultures and say, well, okay, this culture is more individualistic. So people would be working like that over there. And this culture is more collectivistic. So if two cultures are coming together, what do you need to do regarding merging of these cultural issues? That is another aspect of the due diligence phase. Now this is what we have classified and academically said that in the first two phases and the pre-MNA phase and in the due diligence phase, these are the HR activities that should be taking place. But what happens in reality, what happens in actual business situation, is that various studies have shown that HR department gets involved as the process of integration evolves. HR department does not get involved from the pre-MNA phase. A study of 68 MNAs in Germany showed that HR issues are only considered when an integration strategy is already talked out. So we have discussed that, well, these are the HR issues in the pre-MNA phase and these are the HR issues which should be dealt in the due diligence phase. But we see in the local or in the business environment that HR issues are only dealt with when the integration strategy is talked out, that is the third phase. Another study of HR managers, HR executives that found that companies which involved in HR activities early on, they were more successful. So although in the real business environment, HR issues are brought into light in the later on phases, but it shows from research that you need to involve your HR in the initial phases and those companies which involve HR in the initial phases, they are definitely more successful. So this model which talks out and classifies the different activities in the earlier phases, if it is implemented in the real business situation, there is going to be more success in the merger and acquisition process. So that is what we have learned from modeling of these phases that although real business situations are different, but if we do something like that, the real business situation is going to get better.


I don't want you to be scared of anything, because you know why? We create what we fear. If you're scared to make phone calls because you think people are gonna hang up on you, that's what's gonna happen. If you're scared the market's gonna crash, you're gonna have to get out of the business, that's what's gonna happen. It's gonna crash and you'll get out of the business. So quit thinking about it and quit fearing it. Be fearless and go voice to voice. It's a voice to voice consultation through the ever-changing market. They need a professional. They need somebody they can trust, right?  There's two things you gotta do consistently every single week. Everything else is whatever, right? You gotta make that three, two, three, four, five-hour call session, okay? And you gotta do your weekly email. You don't have a choice. You have to do something that you can be consistent with, right? Next time you talk to your mom, brother, best friend, you know, long lost friend from college that you feel so comfortable with, you'll tell them anything.  And really take note of that conversation. That's key. I call it FE, friend or family effect. We wanna give our clients FE. We want them to feel like they're part of our family. You need to call them up and say, hey, how are you doing? They're gonna hear your name and say, oh my God, blessed in the past, how you doing? And then you're gonna say, I'm doing good, man, what's been going on?  Hey, I've just been busy. I got into real estate. Do you have an agent that you might use if you were to ever do anything, you know? And you just kinda ease into it. And if the real estate part never comes up, that's fine because they're our friend. We're gonna talk to them again in our life. See, that's another thing. Everybody's trying to get everything done on the very first call or the very first email or the very first, you know, post on Facebook. We're gonna do this every day. So we don't have to do everything right then. We didn't have to talk about real estate for us conversation. I'm going to treat them like family. And in three years when the market rebounds and these properties are worth more, those, my clients, are gonna sell the foreclosure property and buy another property and refer all their friends and family to me. And if you quit chasing deals, when the people in your market that you wanna do business with will love you. Thank you guys so much. The thing about me is I'll never quit. I've been coaching now for almost a little over two years but I'll be here for 22 years because when I start something, I just don't stop. My thing has always been I wanna outwork everyone. If I feel like if I outwork them, then I will beat them. You guys motivate me to get up at 4.30 every morning. You guys, you motivated me to become the first completely free real estate coach with over 20,000 members. And I'm just sharing what I do in my business. People may disagree with what I do or think it doesn't work or you may love it or you may like this part of it or that part of it but the thing is, is it's free and I'm just sharing what I do with you and then you can do whatever you want with it. I get messages constantly from agents. I'm getting all these listings. I have all this business going on. You've poured your heart and soul into this. You haven't asked me for a dime. What can we do for you? And my answer every single time is just take something that I'm sharing, implement it into your business and go succeed.


I don't care what type of typing it is for Maya Plus left, outside the quotation After publisher comma again the quotation Till large time, quotation fades Quotation and the outside text is mixed Every time they answer, under that we have to keep on changing What happened is what he is saying underlined It should be in roman script, it should be written Anybody who hasn't got Okay, why have we given two sheets with the same matter We expect you to Keep the small sheet in a folder And keep it for your ready reference While you are writing or checking And the big sheet behind your writing table If you have wall or something you can put it up on the wall So we expect that you will preserve both these sheets May be you can copy and keep the original So we have given you a handout Instead of you printing out from the web or something And this is not available anywhere This has been compiled by us It won't be available anywhere as a ready made sheet So now what we will do is We will first see why commas are used And then we will start going through this If we run out of time we will stop there And in the next session we will continue Since you have this you can study in any case But next time we will go through So can anybody tell why commas are used We have seen all the other punctuation marks You have learnt commas in school Even before semicolon or colon or anything So why are commas used To separate fridges So what is a fridge Fridge is a part of a sentence Which is self-contained That it has a meaning by itself Actually what you should have said is not fridge But clause Because clause is a grammatically complete part of a sentence So it is normally to separate clauses Not fridges Fridge can be just a combination of words Having some composite meaning But it may not form a large part of a sentence So it is to separate clauses Then next is that the only use You will find that if you have long sentences In a text It will tend to have commas And many vernacular text books say that Why speaking We do not speak continuously We stop at some point And then continue And where we stop We put commas So it works both ways That where we pause while speaking We put commas And where we put commas We are supposed to pause So if you are reading out a text Wherever there is comma You are supposed to pause Or is there some other reason He is saying sometimes to avoid ambiguity That is one possibility But even if there is no ambiguity What happens is The way we perceive speech Is that when there is a The brain waits for a complete Unit of meaning Like we do not see individual letters while reading We see words And even words themselves do not Have meaning except in the context You will find that when A certain bunch of words Is read together It suddenly makes a meaning It is called That the meaning explodes in your mind When you reach that threshold If you cut out that sentence It does not make a meaning So meaning comes in bursts Normally the bursts are sentences That is why we put Full stop At the end of a sentence To indicate that one thought is complete And that is a signal to the brain That now you can process this If the sentence becomes too long The brain's short term memory collapses And then you get confused That is why you should not use very long sentences You should break it up into different sentences Within a sentence What we call as a clause What we call as a phrase The clause has its own meaning So the comma indicates That one unit of meaning is complete So you can process it And proceed So commas The purpose of commas Is to enhance meaning Even without that You would have made out Even if you had not put commas You would have made out the meaning anyway But this facilitates The understanding And one extreme example is It avoids ambiguity Because you may have to Re-read the sentence many times To make out what the author Really means So as authors You are communicating To your audience And it is your audience Is like your customer So you are What you write should be Customer friendly You should be in The customer's shoes To find out How he will find this Whether he will find it Easy to read Or he will curse the author For writing ambiguous things Or confusing things So you should Write in such a way That it facilitates understanding And without re-reading The sentence Somebody should be able To zip through your text This somebody might be Your examiner If the examiner Has to re-read What you have written He will get irritated And as Dr. Patak said Finally the whole thing Could make difference Of one great point It is always in your interest Because in future life When you become teachers Or administrators Or managers Or consultants You will always have to communicate And most of the times You will be communicating In writing So if you can Write clearly And unambiguously It will be a great help So commas is Half the portion of Proof correction Of good writing That is why we have devoted A separate session to that Now We will try to Go through the table We will not finish it You can read at home And next time We will continue We also have One more handout Which will give you How to prepare a manuscript Or shall we Go through that And commas You read the table And next time We will discuss So she will distribute a handout And we will just discuss You will notice that Every session we conduct We are giving you a handout It is to facilitate your life Otherwise you could have said Everything is on the web You download and print If you want So we expect That these handouts Will be useful permanently And you are expected To preserve them So you copy them And use only the copy And preserve the original And while coming to the class Henceforth You bring all the previous handouts Because you will have to refer to them Everybody has got On this side everybody has got We will start In any case we are displaying it here So this is Manuscript preparation procedure Though this says manuscript That is written by hand It also applies To tiescript PDF And hard copy So for all media The rules are the same So first is drafting Drafting your Matter So first is use Good quality Writing paper Avoid ordinary notebooks The kind of long books Which people use The paper is not Of good quality It is not Use a ruled paper With lines Or squares Like the graph Which I showed you Had made on a Square ruled Sheet Which are available Because on that You can draw tables Also by hand You can make diagrams You can make mechanical drawings Because the grid is accurate So if you can get Square ruled in Our cooperative stairs You get I think physics department Assignment sheets Which are square ruled Or use the ruled backing sheet Means You take a cardboard Draw parallel lines On that Keep it below Keep your sheet on top You will be able to see The lines through As guidelines And you can write on top Okay Mark and leave 25mm margin On all four sides Especially left side Margin is compulsory Because If this sheet is punched And put in a file Some of your Matter will go away You have to leave One inch on left But you have to leave One inch on all sides If this is going to be Proofread and corrected Because you need space In the margins And for footnotes To write your comments Then use blue Or black fountain pen If possible This you won't believe But If you use a fountain pen How many of you Use a fountain pen Nobody See Dr. Patak always uses A fountain pen I always use a fountain pen Prof. Gayathonde always There are many old timers Who use a fountain pen And if you use Even a cheap fountain pen Costing 40-50 rupees You will realize the difference So use double spacing To enable in situ correction That is wherever The correction is to be made Right in that place You can make the correction You don't have to look up In the margin And use only one side This is called recto When you open a book If this is your book What you see here is called the recto And this is called verso You should use If this is going to be filed Like this You use only this side Leave the other side blank If you run short of space Or if you have to put comments While correcting You attach a sheet And give cross-reference But don't try it on the back Then checking After drafting This is very important Let it cool overnight Don't try to correct it Immediately you will Tend to make the same mistakes Of course this goes against Reality tradition Because you do the submission The previous night And you never have time To finish it But if you follow this For your important submissions You will find it Makes a lot of difference You slip over it Next morning When you see the manuscript You will see things Which you hadn't realized before So next day Always check yourself Though you may be confident You may be competent It is always worth checking It doesn't take much time To check Then use a red pen Or fountain pen I use a pen Which is This pilot pen This is easier to use Than fountain pen You invest in this This will last your lifetime You won't be using Too much reading Though I have finished This pen So this writes smoothly When you are writing Isolated matter Like you do While proof correcting A ball pen doesn't work well Have you finished our time So you have this sheet You go through it Everything is simple to understand Henceforth When you make submissions You have to follow these guidelines


Alzheimer's is one of the biggest threats facing humans today. In fact, Alzheimer's is believed to be the third leading cause of death in the United States. Unestimated by the National Institute of Health, states that more than 5 million Americans may have Alzheimer's. So what can we do about this problem? In 1906, a woman named Auguste, who suffered memory loss, died. Following this, a German physician named Alois Alzheimer's examined her brain in an autopsy, and what he found was astonishing.  And so, this peculiar condition in which the brain cells were dramatically shrunk was dubbed Alzheimer's disease. So how exactly does Alzheimer's disease work? Alzheimer's occurs when bundles of protein fragments called plaques build up between neurons in the brain, in addition to the nerve fibers becoming twisted up which we call tangles. These changes in the brain are gradual and occur over decades, which explains why we tend to see the symptoms show up in elderly people, such as memory loss, changes in an individual's personality, and even changes in one's behavior. So why exactly is Alzheimer's such a deadly disease?  Once the deterioration has reached this area of the brain, it can cause serious problems, such as heart failure, which can result in death. And so, many scientists and medical experts around the globe are racing to try and find a cure, one of which comes from an unlikely source. Our potential cure for Alzheimer's comes from a virus named M13. M13 is a bacteria phage that affects the E. coli bacteria and is harmless to humans. However, researchers who conducted a study on rats genetically engineered to have Alzheimer's found that the virus also had the ability to dissolve plaques and tangles. In fact, after a year of treatment, the rats saw up to an 80% reduction in plaques and tangles. So how does M13 do its job? The answer lies on a specific glycoprotein found on the virus called GP3, which allows the M13 virus to latch onto plaque build-ups in the brain and dissolve it. So what exactly is so beneficial about using a viral-based treatment as opposed to other forms of treatment? Well, the biggest perk of using the M13 virus is the success of getting the treatment across the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier is a membrane which separates the brain from the circulatory system. Being semi-permeable, only certain substances can cross it, ensuring that the brain is protected from harmful chemicals while keeping a stable environment in the brain. As beneficial as this mechanism is, it can also prove to be an obstacle as the blood-brain barrier can sometimes prevent the brain from receiving vital medication. However, it is possible for some viruses to breach this barrier by cleaving the tight junctions between the membranes open, allowing the virus to enter, or through the Trojan horse plan in which the virus infects an immune cell, turning it rogue and making it a vector for the virus, and then sending the immune cell with the virus in it across the barrier where it can wreak havoc. However, the M13 virus takes a less violent approach, making its way through the membrane by using a molecule. As promising as the M13 virus sounds, it comes with a major drawback, production. Manufacturing a virus on a large scale would be extremely difficult, so scientists have found another way. After some difficulty, a pharmaceutical company called Neurophage engineered a new fusion protein compound called NPT088, which had a similar structure to the GP3 glycoprotein, allowing the virus to attach to and to solve plaques and tangles. Although NPT088's larger molecular size does prove to be a difficulty when working with the compound, the compound stays in the brain for several weeks and gradually makes it across the blood brain barrier, until a substantial amount of the substance gets in the brain and helps dissolve the plaques and tangles. As far as trials are concerned, in non-human primates and mice, the medicine has been shown to be effective. Human trials, however, as far as anyone's knowledge, are still underway and have yet to be completed. However, thanks to the new unlikely hero that is the M13 virus, humans are now filled with the hope of seeing one of the biggest threats facing them eradicated. I'm really happy to announce that I will begin to make more biology videos from now on, especially in areas dealing with neuroscience. However, I'm open to suggestion from you the viewers, and as always, stay tuned for more science.


Ground was broken last week for the year-long $33 million renovation of the Cumberland County Civic Center. Brian Naubloch spoke with Neil Pratt, chair of the Civic Center Board, about the philosophy behind the upcoming improvements. Neil, in the past there's been some criticism that the Civic Center may have been a part from the community, but you've made a lot of improvements to make it a part of the community. Could you talk about the philosophy behind that? Sure. Well, I will say from an architectural standpoint, this building was built in the mid-70s and it reflects the architecture of that time. As time has progressed, certainly the Civic Center, we felt, needed some aesthetic improvement as well as functional improvement. And so we had a number of neighborhood meetings, we had a number of meetings with business organizations, citizens, a number of community organizations to try to make sure that the Civic Center, with this renovation plan in mind, fit into the neighborhood in a way that made sense and that people were proud of. And not just from an aesthetic standpoint, from a business standpoint, we want it to be appealing, we want it to be inviting. And so we tried to accomplish all of those goals in this one design. And frankly, I think that the design folks did a terrific job in doing that with the use of the glass, expanding the space, not just the square footage, but how airy it will feel inside when you're here. And it's just going to be a much softer, a much more modern, a much more inviting facility after the renovation is done. And I frankly can't wait to see it. Robert Frank, the project principal for WBRC Architects talked about the planned improvements. The goal of our design approach has always been to update the facility to provide a better fan and user experience while in the facility. To that end, we have concentrated on adding amenities such as improved and expanded restroom facilities, particularly for women. Concessions in food service equipment and choices will be improved and the overall look and feel of the arena will be updated. And many new provisions for people with disabilities will be created. The plans include updated entries, as you can see on the walls around you and the screens that will ease access into the building and create a vibrant building, more friendly, and in the context of the Portland downtown. We're also increasing revenue enhancement areas with the addition of suites and club suites. Don Detlefs, the design architect from St. Com's regrets that he could not be here today, but to quote Don, in his words, our goal for Cumberland County is to enhance the facility so that it will continue its key role serving the areas, sports, and entertainment needs for many years to come. John Descentes, project manager for Chimbrough Construction, give a rundown of the construction timeline. The project schedule, just to give a quick outline of the overall timeline is we're looking to get started within the next few days and we're going to start in phase one. In phase one, we will coexist with the existing facility and the operations of the existing facility until early part of the winter and when we'll be completing that phase of the project. Phase two starts immediately after the hockey season is over and we'll conclude at the end of September for the balance of the project. And that's primarily the overall schedule. It's about 14 months from now, starting now and ending in September of 13. Neil Pratt is the chair of the Civic Center Board and a lot of the improvements will help attract larger acts, bigger acts, and acts that the larger community may be interested in seeing. Could you talk about that for a little bit? Sure, that's the whole premise and one of the reasons why it has taken quite a bit of time to get to this point. We wanted to make sure that we understood fully what the market was, not only the market from people in this region who would come to the Civic Center, but the event managers and the promoters and agents and people who actually booked the events. We went to them through our consultants and we wanted to know what is it about the Cumberland County Civic Center that we can improve that would make you want to bring more events here or events with more frequency here. And we did a tremendous amount of legwork on that and we got some great feedback, all of which has been incorporated into this design. And so based on that market research as well as a number of other components to that research, we concluded that it's viable, that we need to maintain and upgrade the facility in a way that makes it competitive. Otherwise, we truly believe that the cost of doing nothing was far greater than the cost of the renovation. As revenues died off, when events stopped coming, events and things were able to book fall off the cliff, costs of the older and aging facility increased, we're going to have to figure out how to deal with that problem. So on balance, the $33 million is a terrific solution. It's not perfect and a lot of people are going to say, why didn't they do this? Why didn't they do that? And jeez, if we had a $100 million budget, there'd be a lot of things we'd do that we may not have done now. But in terms of maximizing what the voters have allowed us, which is the $33 million bond, I think it's that we have done the best that we possibly could do in terms of getting bang for the buck. And I really do think that people are going to see a huge difference, not only, again, cosmetically, but functionally when they come after the renovation.