Welcome to this sister to sister. It is gonna be great. Here's one of the questions. Why doesn't God reveal Himself to everybody all the time? And are you out of spiritual shape and how do you get back into shape? And also, what does it really mean to love God? Well, we're in shape. Yeah, okay. Always. Stay tuned. Welcome to sister to sister. We are so glad that you joined us today. We are a panel of five women of God and we bring questions that you ask us and we bring the answers from our heart and mostly from the word of God. So we're gonna get started right here. And oh my gosh, Flo, I'm coming to you because this wisdom of Flo. So here's this question someone wrote to us. You ready? I'm ready. Good. Be ready. Be also ready, ready, ready. Oh good, I like when you sing. Here is the question. I really want to know this. Why doesn't God reveal Himself more obviously to everyone in everyday life? See, I think He does. I think the challenge is us being able to rest in Him. There's so many things. When you get hit with circumstances and situations, we tend to work out your soul's salvation with fear and trembling as we've been instructed with the scriptures. We don't always do that. We just let our emotions control us, you know? And so we don't necessarily take that rest in God. We begin to rest in the circumstances. We begin to be overwhelmed with whatever the circumstances. I lack money, something happened, something's going on with my children, the state of the world, the state of the church, you know? And it takes us away from God in the word. Now religion is always there, but relationship isn't. That's right, that's good. And so when you have relationship, the real intimacy is me learning how to rest in God. And when I rest in God, I can see the rest of God. Right, and you know, when you're talking about that, there's scripture, we have the peace that passes understanding. We shouldn't have peace in this situation because it's really messed up, but we have that peace. But what you're saying, we need to rest in it. What do you got? I think God does hide Himself sometimes. Why? I mean in the parables. Jesus said, it's not been revealed to them because they don't have hearing ears. They have ears, but they do not hear. They have eyes, but they do not see what's in front of them. He was manifest in the flesh, doing miracles, bringing peace, bringing joy, setting people free, and they still right in front of their face did not see Him. And Jesus said, I speak in parables, and then He told, what did He do? He told His disciples what the parables meant because they sawed Him. The scripture says, seek me, you will find me. Seek me with all your heart and you will find me. God sometimes does not reveal Himself because we are not willing to see Him to open our eyes to Him when He's in front of us. Oh, I like that. That's why Paul said to pray that the eyes of your heart are flooded with light because he is revealing Himself every day. And I just thought even simply, we're in this beautiful time of seasons changing, and it says in Proverbs, I was there when He set the heavens in place, when He marked the horizon in the face of the deep, when He established the clouds, when He fixed the, He told the water, you stop here and say, and you go here and mountains, you be here. I'm thinking all of creation is revealing who He is. When we meet other people, we are meeting really the very face, He said, you're created in His image and His likeness. So I think sometimes we're looking for the spectacular and we're missing the practical supernatural ways that God is revealing Himself every day. Cory, what do you mean? I mean, I completely agree. Creation itself proclaims God's revelation. And I think what are we distracted by? There's so much now in our culture, in technology, in our worlds that we are so easily distracted by. And I think that the enemy uses that, even good things to distract us, even volunteering our families, things that are good on the outside that just distract us from seeing the basic simplicity of creation, a snowflake, that each snowflake is an individual pattern that our fingerprints are literally unique to every single billion person that exists that if we cut our finger, that fingerprint grows back exactly the same. That's the Creator being revealed and a simple thing is that. Wow, I love that fingerprint thing. I didn't know that. So if you cut your finger, it grows back exactly the same fingerprint. Oh my, that is so good, Cory. Thank you. That's like wisdom. Yeah, absolutely. That's like wisdom from you to you. That's science. All right. That is science, but I really didn't take that in a squad. Okay, no, I took cheerleading, but it's okay. We can tell. Yeah, here's the next question. Here's the next question. It's good too. Oh, it's kind of good. Why do people some suffer more than others in this life? That's a really tough one. Roxanne, will you take it? It is. And I will in kind of two aspects. You know, Romans eight says that this world is suffering corruption and the world is waiting for the children of God to be revealed so that they can be restored. And we think of Paul, apostle Paul and apostle John.   And Paul says, what about John? John was exiled. He was not crucified. He wrote the book of revelations and first John and John. So what's Jesus saying? We all have a different path in life. And unfortunately as fortunate as we must accept the things that God has for us because he has said things many times are preordained but the corruption of this world is working against the children of God. So if you're Peter or you're John accept what the Lord has in your path. Oh boy, what do you have? Well, Roxy, you mentioned the word path and I have friends, they're pastors in Dallas, Texas. And I think two years ago, their daughter passed away from, you know, she was an amazing young woman working in ministry and she, you know, through COVID, things got weird. A bad boyfriend thing and she started drinking. Well, she wasn't used to alcohol. Somehow she goes into a seizure and in her father's arms, she passes away. And they just wrote a book called A Path Through Pain, How Joy and Pain Can Coexist. But the whole message is that when your whole world has been turned upside down, when something has happened to you, you did not choose, you did not want. Hope is the anchor of the soul that no matter what, it's the hope that we had that she is with Jesus, that we will see her again, that I still have grandkids and other children. It's this idea of joy and pain coexisting. I think that's the age old question. Why do people suffer? Why does pain happen? And I'm not sure there's any complete answer just that we're in a fallen world, but I do know this, all of the first century Christians, all of the heroes of our faith all suffered. So I just say, you know, suffering is going to be a part, but keep that hope alive and that faith alive, which is the anchor for the soul. What do you have wisdom of flow for me on this? This is a tough one. You guys heard me say this before. You are not, you do not have to create a doctrine or something for something that you don't understand. And so in all transparency, I'd have to say I don't really understand it. So I'm not going to sit here and do some S or Gs on it or anything like that. However, I will say this much about pain, that pain is an indicator that something's wrong. So whether it's a result of sin, a bad decision, someone else's issues being inflicted upon you, I do believe this, that there is a grace that you can tap into.  It's like, you know, something goes wrong. Well, you know, God, this and what? Right now I'm in pain. Right now I'm hurting. And I need to cry. And I need the ministry of presence in my life. I have not lost God. Jesus is still on the throne. God is still God. But I'm hurting today, I'm in pain. And so I believe that pain, as I said, is an indicator that something's wrong out of order. We serve a God that brings order and therefore pain can become a place of gain. After I allow myself to go through the process and ultimately a place of reign, because as books come out of your story, she's not the only one with a story like that. There are others, there are people who haven't written books. But their lives are forever changed and they have a compassion to now move and minister in that arena to others. So Jesus is in your suffering, we'll say that. And so this question kind of relates to that. Cory, I'm gonna come to you on this one. It's a good one too. Why does God want us to worship him? He's God. Does he need us to worship him? This is, you know, I think this is a hard question for our like human minds to understand because God is God and we are not. But when I stop and think about it, we are created in the image of God. And we are all created with the space for a need to worship the Creator. And so I see this need in humans where if that space is not filled with worshiping the Creator, it's filled with worshiping something else. And I already said it earlier in the show. It can be something good. It can be, you know, it can be volunteering. It can be your family. It can be, I mean, it can be sports teams.  People need to fill that space in their life with something because we're made in the image of God. We are God's most special creation. We, God, the rest of creation on earth was not made with the ability to worship him, but we are and that is a gift. And so when we are able to worship the Creator, that is a gift to us. It is because he loves us so much that we can fulfill that need in us to worship him. That's good. You know, the word says that we were created to worship him. And so worship is an act of reverence, thanksgiving. It's also an act of obedience. Because when I worship him, I clear the airways. I clear the paths. I break strongholds. You see, I learned from a man of God years ago that when you worship, you put yourself in the presence of the Lord, the presence of angels. When you complain, when you murmur, you know, then you're really worshiping Satan. So you put yourself in the presence of demonic. Wow. That's pretty tough. Just to dovetail that, John five says, Pharisees glorified themselves and honored themselves. Worship brings glory to God. We're not bringing glory to ourselves. That's why worship is not a performance. It is bringing glory to God, forgetting about yourself, leaving the cares behind and remembering who he is. That's right. That's good. My son just wrote the sweetest worship song and we sang it the past couple of weeks at church. And the words I thought were so applicable to this question. He said, I was made to love you. Why do we complicate it when this is how he made it? And then he goes into, it's simple. It's simple. God, I love you. It's not complicated. And exactly what Corey said, we are all worshiping something. We're worshiping our phone. We're worshiping intellect. We're worshiping education. We're worshiping government. We're worshiping sports. We are worshiping, you know, relation. We are worshiping something. There's something in us that wants to give glory and exalt something else. And that is all for God. It's for him because he is worthy of all glory and honor and praise and adoration. He's worthy of all of our attention. So don't complicate it. It's super simple. Just, I was made to love him. I was made to be loved by him and to love him back. Right. You know, there was a concert that K-Love Radio, which is the Christian contemporary music, it was put on at a place out west called Red Rocks. And we wanted to go there forever. George and I, we just want to go. So we went to the movie theater to see it in the big screen so we could see our favorite Christian artist sing. And it really answers this question because Mercy Me, a big band, if you listen to contemporary Christian, you'll know them. And they tell a story about and perform. And I shouldn't say perform, but they did perform. They were crazy good. The song is Who Am I To Not Worship You? So it's exactly what we're saying. So these men and women in this band have had a download from the Holy Spirit that says worship me. So the main singer wrote Who Am I To Not Worship You? It was really good. Check it out. And stay tuned. We'll be right back after this. ["Who Am I To Not Worship You?" by K-Love Radio plays in the background.] Welcome back. While you were gone, we were discussing that those questions in the first segment were kind of difficult. They took a lot of inside us to bring the answers out to you. So thank you for writing them in. Yeah, right. Thanks. Okay, you gave us this, too. You gave us this. And this kind of goes along with the worship him question. Amy, I'm gonna come to you on this. The question you wrote is, what does it really mean to love God, to love him? That's a great question. In a city that is a lot of my works is how I love God through religion and works. I think about Matthew 22, 37, that you shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart.  It really means like your whole.   It's like that's not loving the Lord your God with your whole heart, mind, soul, and strength.  I mean, to me, loving God, it's considering him first above everything else. When I'm paying taxes, I consider him and how he would do things. Not that you're perfect, you don't act exactly like God does, but with everything you're trying to honor him to the best of your ability. That's good, that's good. Roxy, do you have a scripture for us on this? Well, I do too, but hers was awesome. And you know, first John says, believe in his son. And Jesus said, I have a new commandment, love your neighbor as yourself. That's good. So that means we do love ourselves, although we don't think we do, because we're number one, we get up, we think of ourselves, we do all this, 90% of our day is taking care of ourselves. But if we love someone like the Lord does, then we're loving God. It's as simple as my sister said, it's as simple as that if you're just conscious of how can I love that person? Can I forgive that person? Can I honor that person? Can I let that person speak first? Can I let that person go first? Can I let that person get the credit first before me? When you said about 90% of our time is spent taking care of ourselves, I'm thinking about the people who are watching us perhaps and have children or taking care of their elderly parents or grandmas taking care of kids. So remember that love that you exhibit to your loved ones that you're caretaking for is loving God. So I like that, I like that. Flo, do you have an answer for me, loving God? You know, I don't know if I have an answer or a response. If I say, if I compliment Roxy, she's probably gonna say thank you. She'll acknowledge that. If I say to Corey, you're here, it just looks gorgeous today. She's probably gonna say thank you. Love being God is an automatic response of his love for you. I like that, I love that's a great answer. And so when I don't know, I'm not in an intimate relationship with him. When I'm in religion, just church, when I, you know, even us in ministry, you know, I've talked about this before. You're in ministry and ministry becomes your identity instead of him.  Yeah, I like that. But when I spend time, there are times that I've spent time just fasting and praying just to get closer to him. And out of that, the response is a love for him. Because what was, there's a movie that just came, it was a documentary actually on death, people that had near-death experiences. And every one of them talked about how when they seen the light or when they, you know, how it was just they could, there were no earthly words here to describe it. And all they could feel was just love, love. And so, and that puts them, put them back on the path when they came home, some of them were atheists or came back into their body. Some of them were atheists, some of them scientists, but their response to that love changed their lives forever. We could do a show on that movie. It was called After Death, it was really good. But I don't wanna miss this very last question and I'm gonna go to Corey on it. And it was what Amy and I were doing in the promo about spiritual shape. So how do you get into spiritual shape if you've kind of fallen out from God? Well, I mean, you think about it if you are out of physical shape, if you need to go to the gym, you don't have to get into shape before you start going to the gym, okay? And I think a lot of times in our Christian walk, we think that we've fallen away or we're struggling with sin or whatever. We think before we go to church or before we get back in fellowship or before we talk to the Lord, we have to like fix our lives. And that is not the case. God is always there. He's always ready to hear us. You do not have to get into shape before you step back into the church or before you sit down and just talk to the Lord. Just come as you are. And then what's another thing when you're trying to get into shape, you have a diet change, okay? So let's feast on the bread of life. Let's drink of the living water, okay? The living water is Jesus. And the more you partake of Jesus, the more you're gonna get into shape. I like that. And don't eat carbs. No, just kidding. Okay, Roxy, what do you have? I'm just gonna eat a personal trainer to help you out. True. A nice accountability partner. Yes. But go ahead. I'm just gonna say one step because I could see Amy's mind going in there. You gotta repent. Oh. All right, you know what? Repentance means what? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, no. Repentance means I'm sorry. I see God's way, I see my way, and I turn. I turn from my way to God's way. If you're lying, tell the truth. If you're stealing, give back. If you're angry, don't let the sun go down on your anger. You know, there's our simple things that you could do step by step. God will show you one thing usually at a time because it doesn't overwhelm us. He knows our framing, knows we're sinners. He knows we're dust. There's one thing at a time to step in. I love that. I love personal trainer. What do you have, Pastor? I think about the scripture in Ephesians 1 Corinthians 12, you know, that you're part of a body and each one of you is a part of it.  There's no option. So like, where are you at? What are you doing? What's your responsibility? What's your part? What's your role? If you're disconnected, what's wrong with the body because you're not connected in the body? So it's talking about your body being in shape. I mean, somebody that hurts their foot, they can hardly think about anything else but their foot, because their foot is hurting, wounded, broken. It affects the whole body. So Rick Warren coined an incredible acronym for shape from his book. Spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality, experiences. When you examine all of these, you find out what is my unique fit in the body so that I will be in spiritual shape. I don't think there is a thing as an isolated Christian that's not a part of the collected body of Christ. To being in the body that's really good. And I love the personal trainer. And to me, that personal trainer is the word of God, the Bible, that I open every day and every night to stay in shape. We'll be back to close this thing up. Wow, those were some great discussions today. I wish you were with us sitting down at the table with a cup of coffee or your tea and talking about why is there suffering? How do we worship God? How do we really love God? We always like to end sister to sister with a scripture. And today that scripture is from Galatians 5 verse 7. Read it with me. You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? Now listen, that is a little bit of like correction. I'm pretty sure from this great apostle, he's talking about we have this new life of freedom. We have this new Christ has come and he has set us free. So who's gonna get in between your race, you running all the way for God? And so I just ask you today, what's getting in the way? What is stopping you? What's tripping you up?  Don't get tripped up. This is not the time to be tripped up. This is the time to really be in the body and in tip top spiritual shape. Oh my gosh, I just wanna end right there because I wanna be in the body and we are and we end with this that says as iron sharpens iron. So does the countenance of a man or a woman sharpen the other? Do you understand how these girls, their wisdom, their words make me a better Cathy? See you next time.


Welcome to the third module in our unit on reading and annotating content in Zotero. In the last module I showed you some strategies for using notes effectively in Zotero. In this module I'm going to talk about Zotero's reports which you can use to create great summaries of Zotero items. Why would you want to create reports? There are four reasons that I like to use them but I'm sure other reasons exist. My reasons are to summarize information about an item including my own notes in one easy-to-read format. To review my work so far on paper and decide next steps as part of a literature review or a research project. For any projects where I need to create an annotated bibliography even informally for one or more items. Finally I use them to deal with the mixed media problem. What I mean by this is the inevitable issue you'll have when some of your work is on paper and some is electronic and you need to see everything together. Generating a report in Zotero is easy. Simply select an item, right click and choose generate report from item. I'm showing one item in this example but you can also select multiple items at the same time and do the same thing and then they'll all get combined into one report. Now once you generate a report you'll get a separate window with a formatted document for the item or items you selected including all of the data fields for the item including the date the item was added and last modified, any tags or related items associated with it, the contents of all of the notes attached to the item, a list of other attachments such as PDF files and any notes that may be included with those. If you use the article notes technique I covered in the previous module you can see that this is a great way to create a single document that includes all of the information about an article and all of your own notes. When the report is open you can save it as an HTML file, a web page that you can later open in a web browser but more likely you're going to want to print it or convert it into a PDF file. In both cases you can do this from the print window. I can print the report from here but if I want a PDF I do something a little bit different. On windows you can choose print as a PDF as a destination instead of your printer. Here on my Mac I can use this PDF drop-down in the print window and choose save as PDF. These reports are where the fruits of your work can start to pay off because if you made notes on an item that includes things like a summary or key findings as a terror report can become the basis of an annotated bibliography. I've used these reports to present my work to a research supervisor for feedback or to give me an easy way to review all the notes I made while doing reading for a project. Sometimes when I see things on paper I can arrange things on my desk or on the floor and then I start to see new connections or new questions and of course I can then capture those ideas by adding new tags related items or notes to my Zotero items. That's it. Zotero reports are a simple feature that can help pull all of your work together into one reference document. In the next module we'll talk about how you can use Zotero to store your annotated and highlighted PDF files. See you there.


Russia has foiled a drone attack on Vladimir Putin's Kremlin residence. The Kremlin reported on Wednesday that there was an attempt to strike Russian President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin residence with unmanned aerial vehicles. Putin has not been injured during the attack. Two unmanned aerial vehicles were aimed at the Kremlin. As a result of the timely actions taken by the military and special services with the use of radar warfare systems, the equipment were put out of service. There were no casualties or a material damage after their downing and the scattering of their fragments, according to the statement issued by the Kremlin. Earlier, Russian Telegram channels published a video showing smoke over the Kremlin. Two explosions were reported near the Kremlin overnight. It was also reported that Moscow banned the launch of civilian drones in the country. The only permitted drones were the UAVs used by decisions of state authorities.


What's happening guys? It's Shane here.  They have a lot of school spirit and a lot of people think that they are going to get a job after graduation by attending a certain college. They think that the alumni network is going to help them, but in reality how often does that actually happen? Network is one of the biggest opportunities that you have and with the right alumni network and the right school, this will open up a ton of opportunities for you.  So this should definitely be something that's on your mind when you're making the decision about which college you're going to attend and as a bonus at the end, I'm going to reveal the four best ways to tell if your college alumni network is going to come in clutch for you or whether they're going to fail you miserably. You have failed me for the last time. All right, so first on the list is going to be the University of Kansas, my alma mater. Now I promise to be completely unbiased on this list, but objectively speaking, the University of Kansas KU is definitely S tier status. I mean for one, they're better at basketball than your school and for two, they're really good at basketball and then number three, they beat K-State every single year. KU is clearly S tier status. Speaking of K-State, they are clearly F tier status and they're honestly lucky to even get that high of a ranking and this has nothing to do with me being a Jayhawk like I said, totally unbiased here. K-State goes in F tier status and then so does Mizzou. University of Missouri is definitely F tier status. In fact, they might even be worse than K-State. Okay, with all joking aside, next one on the list is going to be Stanford and this is where it gets a little bit serious. Now depending on where you live, a degree from Stanford is going to really have some weight behind it. It's going to open up some serious doors for you and honestly, Stanford is so well known that even if you don't live in the Northern California area, it's probably going to open up doors for you even if you're on the East Coast. But a degree from Stanford is especially good if you live in the Northern California area like San Jose, San Francisco or Silicon Valley somewhere in there and they do rank number two on the most supportive alumni network list and so for that reason, they are definitely going to go into S tier. Next one on the list is going to be Harvard and this one might surprise you a little bit because you might think that Harvard would have an amazing alumni network and they do but according to students when they were surveyed, Harvard doesn't actually help their students out that much after they graduate especially when you compare them to the other Ivy League schools or some of the other top schools in the country. Now this could be for a lot of reasons.  Now the next one on the list is another Ivy League school that's going to be Dartmouth and of course they're not as well known as Harvard but they are extremely well known for having a very supportive alumni network. They really do go above and beyond to help each other out and so for that reason Dartmouth is going to go in S tier. Next one on the list is going to be Duke and everybody hates Duke so they better have a damn good alumni network and they do. They have a pretty good alumni network. It's not as good as the other ones on the list that I mentioned but it's still pretty good so for that reason Duke is going to go in B tier status. Notre Dame is the next one on the list and they have one of the highest student consensus ratings out of everybody on the list and that's what I was talking about before where they sent out the surveys and students talked about whether the school actually helped them and opened up doors and gave them opportunities and depending on which industry or which degree you get, Notre Dame can really open up some doors for you and give you some incredible opportunities so for that reason I'm going to put Notre Dame in A tier status. Next one on the list is going to be Cornell and they are still in the Ivy League but I've really heard some mixed reviews on them and their rating wasn't quite as good as some of the other Ivy League schools so for that reason I'm going to go ahead and put Cornell in C tier status. Let's see how well you know your big red history. Princeton is next on the list and from all the research I've done and everything I've read online they might actually have the best alumni network out of any school in the United States of America. Now it rated really well with the surveys but basically what I found is that the alumni of Princeton have the most school spirit out of any of the Ivy League schools and they really do help each other out when it comes to you know getting really good jobs or other opportunities after people graduate especially in the financial services industry aka Wall Street. So for that reason Princeton is definitely going to go into S tier and they might be the best one on S tier. Alright so let's go back all the way across the country to the west coast. We're going to talk about USC University of Southern California and they have a really good alumni network especially if you live in the LA area. So if you're planning on living in the LA area this might be one of the best. It might be S tier but overall you know if you're moving to Florida or something like that they're probably not going to help you out as much. So for that reason I'm going to go ahead and put USC in B tier status. UCLA right next door to USC is the next one on the list. This is the University of California in Los Angeles and they're pretty close to USC but probably just a little bit worse. Plus their colors are really ugly so I'm going to have to go ahead and put UCLA in C tier status. Next one on the list is going to be the University of California at Berkeley and it's kind of hilarious because if you go to stanfordrejects.com it redirects you to UC Berkeley's website and that kind of says all you need to know. If you go here you'll always be known as a stanford reject. I'm halfway kidding here but I'm going to have to go ahead and give them probably a C tier status. Next one on the list is going to be the University of Texas in Austin so they're the Longhorns and if you get a degree and you stay in the Austin area again this is one of those that's going to be amazing for networking and you know having alumni opportunities. However if you go outside of that area probably not nearly as good and that makes it a lot less valuable so for that reason I'm going to go ahead and give them C tier status. Next one on the list might have the largest alumni network in all of the United States and that's Penn State and the reason that's so important is because you're likely to run into fellow alumni wherever you happen to go. So even if you don't stay in the Pennsylvania area you're likely to run into other people who went to Penn State even if you moved to California or Florida or Texas or wherever you decide to live. So for that reason I'm going to go ahead and give Penn State a tier status. Next one on the list is going to be Michigan State University and another fantastic school lots of school spirit there but they have the same problem in that the alumni network doesn't really extend that far outside of the sphere of influence of Michigan and for that reason I'm going to have to put them in D tier. Texas A&M is next on the list and they are very well known for having an outstanding alumni network. I mean that's kind of one of their claims to fame honestly. I mean they all wear the rings so that they can recognize each other at the airport. The school spirit of Texas A&M is definitely there and for that reason I'm going to have to go ahead and give them S tier status. Next one on the list is the University of Michigan and this is another school that's just huge has tons of alumni and they are some of the biggest fans you'll ever meet out there. They have tons of school spirit. I lived with a UM grad for years and man he the school spirit was real. I mean he was serious about University of Michigan. So for that reason I'm going to have to give UM solid A tier status. Next on the list is Ohio State excuse me the Ohio State University. Another school that everybody hates but it's also extremely popular with the people who do love it. The school spirit is real. Their alumni network is pretty good. Not quite S tier status but I'm going to go ahead and give them A tier status. Now don't get mad about this list because all of the ones that made it on this list except for KU, Mizzou and K State actually do have really good alumni networks. For instance Michigan State has a pretty dang good alumni network but compared to Stanford it's just not that good. But if you compare it to just a random school somewhere in the country it's really really good. It's probably A tier status but if I included every single school in the country this video would be three and a half hours long and somebody's got to occupy the low tiers. Now as promised I'm not going to let you down like most alumni associations do. Here are the four main ways that you can tell if a college that you are considering has a really good alumni network or not. The first thing you want to consider is the area. Now there are some schools on this list like Princeton or Stanford or Harvard maybe where it really doesn't matter where you live and then there's other schools like Penn State where there's just simply so many graduates that it probably doesn't really matter where you live either. However most of the ones on this list it's very important that you live in certain areas if you really want to take advantage of their alumni network. I think USC is the most obvious example of this. I mean if you live in LA and you went to USC that's really good. That's going to open a lot of doors for you. That's really good. There's tons of very influential people who went to USC and they'll probably help you out. However if you go to USC and then you move to South Dakota it's probably not going to help you out that much. So the area is really important and it's definitely something that you should spend some time thinking about and of course I know you can't see like 10 years into the future but you probably have a pretty good idea of the area that you want to live. Maybe you're like oh you know I could definitely see myself living in Southern California. Maybe I could see myself living in Arizona around Phoenix area. Maybe I could see myself living in the Austin area. Look up places that you can see yourself living for a long period of time and then look up schools that are in those places. The second one is probably going to surprise you but I actually recommend doing research online in forums and you can even just go to sports forums out there. You know there's a ton of forums for each school. Some of them are school related. A lot of them are actually related to the sports team so you might have like a basketball forum or a football forum but there'll always be a section on there to talk about just normal school related stuff and what you can do is you can go into these forums search through the history keywords like alumni or alumni network and then just look at the threads that talk about the alumni network. There'll probably be a lot of people giving their opinion on whether they actually help them out or not or maybe they're complaining about getting a bunch of mail and emails begging for them to donate to the alumni network and if they don't have a thread like this you can just go ahead start your own thread and just ask people. Now forums are a really good way of getting a general idea but you can't always trust what people say on forums because it's just not always accurate but it's a really good way to get just a general idea of which schools provide better service to the people who graduate from them. The third one on the list is going to be talking to real people. This step is so important and it's honestly one of the ones that a lot of people actually skip. Once you've identified a few colleges that are places that you could see yourself potentially going and then living for you know a decade into the future what you want to do is you want to either look through your network you know ask your family and friends if they know anybody who's went to that college or you can just jump on LinkedIn. So for instance let's say you find somebody on LinkedIn who went to the college that you're interested in you'd want to message them and then respectfully ask them if you can just ask a few questions about their experience at the school. Most people will be more than happy to help you and they'll either say really good things about the alumni network or they'll say they're super annoying and they try to get money from me all the time. Now the next step is a really amazing resource that I found online and it's actually two different resources and I use these two to actually do a lot of the research in helping me make this video and these are bestcolleges.com and then collegeconsensus.com. Now there's a ton of websites out there that claim that they you know rank different colleges but these are the two and I did a ton of research on this that seem to actually have the best methodologies in terms of ranking different colleges. They rank the colleges based off of student surveys, published reviews from experts as well as real students who attended the school and again these might not be the most accurate don't 100 trust these you always have to talk to real people in real life that's the most important step but they're definitely a good place to start and they can kind of guide you in the right direction and save you a lot of time. Another thing to note is that I didn't include small liberal arts colleges because there's just so many of them and the video would have lasted really long. I kind of tried to stick with the bigger schools but a lot of smaller liberal arts colleges have a reputation for having a very good alumni network so they're definitely ones that you should look into as well and I make videos on this channel about how to make money, invest money, save money and big opportunities, big trends that are happening and just overall how you can be more successful in life. 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So, I'm Ron Siegel. I work at Red Hat. I have for a long time. Most of the time I've been working on a project called RESTeasy, which is partly what this is about. Now, since this is the GRPC conference, I won't assume that you know much about Jakarta Enterprise Edition Java, though it's not going to be due. Yeah, so what's Jakarta EE? Formerly known as Enterprise Edition Java, a collection of specifications, APIs, reference implementations, and technical conformance kits for building large applications. And it's an umbrella which covers a lot of different specifications. For example, beam validation allows you to put annotations to constrain the values of variables. Context and dependency injection is an inversion of control mechanism. JSON serve what's particularly interesting to me is Jakarta RESTful Web Services, which is what I work on. So the history of Enterprise Java is this. In the prehistory, there were servlets, which was folded into the first edition of Enterprise Java in 1999. I can skip most of these, but the one that's interesting is that in 2009, Jax R.S. was introduced, which is now called Jakarta RESTful Web Services. And what is Jakarta RESTful Web Services, according to the web page, provides a specification document, a TCK and foundational API to develop web services following the representational state transfer or REST architectural pattern. Well, it's a little bit controversial whether a Jakarta RESTful Web Services really captures the original intention of RESTful. But it's Jakarta RESTful Web Services, so sort of by definition now, it is RESTful. Some of the characteristics are that there are client server systems with HTTP transport layer. On the server side, dispatching to the appropriate method is based on annotations, representing, for example, URLs, HTTP verbs, media types. And now it supports asynchronous and reactive paradigms. Now, at Red Hat, there are two relevant open source projects. And in fact, each one of these could be a talk. I didn't have time to do much with Wildfly, but Wildfly is our community implementation of a Jakarta EE application server. REST easy is an implementation of the Jakarta REST specification, and that's where I work. And so I've condensed the entire talk about Wildfly to one slide, but it's an interesting slide. What we've made it possible to do is to take a... If you package up a GRPC application into a web archive, into a jar, and you drop it in a deployment directory, if it has some class that extends io.grpc.bindableService, which is the kind of thing that comes out of the GRPC compiler, then Wildfly will notice that, it will register this application with the GRPC subsystem, and then it can process GRPC invocations. And in addition, the GRPC system that you've deployed can take advantage of all Wildfly's facilities, and Wildfly implements all of Jakarta Enterprise Edition. Okay, I just realized that this slide's a little ambiguous, and it says, why do we care? I wrote this for Jakarta people, Jakarta EE people, and so why would we care about GRPC? If you ask Google about the prevalence of searches, and in two particular searches, GRPC and RESTful, well, they kind of track each other, but you'll see that RESTful has more searches up until it crosses over in April 20, 2022. If anyone knows what happened then, I'd be interested. But then, since then, more or less, GRPC supersedes RESTful. So that's why it's interesting to us in the Jakarta EE world. Okay, let me take an example. Question? The question is now out to the community. It doesn't matter. We used to do RESTful, but that's not REST. RESTful is the term used by Jakarta. What's the general term referring to REST? Yeah, well, it starts out as a general term for a way of developing an application. Representational, straight, state, transfer. I guess it's a REST. I just say Jakarta REST. Here's a simple example. There is a definition of a type called greeting with a string field. That's on this side. This method here is a Jakarta REST server method. And it's annotated with a few things that allow the runtime to dispatch an invocation to this particular method, including the HTTP verb and the part of the path part of the URL and so forth. Now, if you wanted to translate that into GRPC, it would look just like you expect. There's a greeting message type, and there's an RPC greet which takes a string and returns a greeting. Okay. Now, what this talk really is about is captured in this slide. I want to make it possible for a GRPC client to invoke on an existing Jakarta RESTful application. And that looks like this. Suppose you start with an existing Jakarta REST application. One of the things, the first thing we do by scanning the files in the directory and looking for the appropriate methods, we generate as automatically as possible .protophile, an IDL file. Given that IDL file, you can write a GRPC client with respect to that protophile. But you can't invoke directly from the GRPC client to the Jakarta REST application. So we need some intermediary classes to make it possible. So now the GRPC client invokes on a GRPC service on the server side, and that service is going to do whatever magic it needs to do to transport that into a Jakarta REST invocation. So it goes into the Jakarta REST runtime. That returns a value that goes back through the intermediary code and comes back to the GRPC client. Now, to make all this match up, there are some problems, some semantic problems. One of the differences that in Jakarta REST, the HTTP information is exposed to the application code. So you get to see the headers and the verb and URLs and so forth. There are other semantic differences like Java has packages and Protobuf doesn't. Java has inheritance and Protobuf doesn't. Java has interfaces and Protobuf doesn't. So these things need to be massaged. Now, the first step, like I said, was to generate a .protophile and the algorithm looks like this. Now, we give it a pointer to a directory tree, which contains classes. A resources class is one that has methods that are annotated appropriately with Jakarta RESTful annotations. So for each resource class, we look at all the resource methods. For each resource method, we look at the entity and return types, as the input type and the output type. And for each of those types, we take the transitive closure, supertypes, fields, inner classes, and so forth. And from that, we generate a .protophile. I just want to make a call out to the Java parser project on GitHub, which is what we use for parsing these Java classes. And then we end up with something like this. There's a service. This is what we would get from that simple example before. A service with a greet method. But rather than getting a string and returning message type, we've defined a general purpose incoming message type and a general purpose outgoing message type. And those look like this. So we have to expose a lot of things that normally wouldn't be exposed, URL headers, cookies, HTTP methods, and the content of the actual message. And similarly for the return side. Now, here's where we have to start finessing things because Protobuf doesn't have inheritance. So what do we do? Let this general greeting extend the original greeting type. And we'll have a new method that returns a general greeting. So the way that looks in Protobuf is, well, we have a new RPC for the general greet message. It also gets a general into the message returns a general return message, but we've now defined a general greeting type. And let me say two things about it. One is another thing we have to finess is packages. And so we use underspores to basically fake the notion of a package. And now general greeting is a subclass greeting. We have a new field greeting underscore super that holds a greeting type, which has all of the inheritance at fields. And general return message. Before it just could return a single greeting. It had one, there's a one of field and the contents of the field are all of the return types that can be used. So we add a new general greeting return type. Here's another place where we have to finesse. Suppose that a method is defined to return an interface rather than a class. We don't know until runtime what class it's actually going to be. So we finesse that by using an any field. So you can pack anything into an any. And we find out at runtime what's going to go in there. Note that on the server side, the packing, the unpacking is handled by, is handled under the covers by those intermediate classes. On the client side, packing and unpacking has to be handled explicitly. Now, here is one of the important intermediary classes. So a GRPC request comes in. And we want it to be processed by a Jakarta RESTful service. So we take the GRPC invocation, turn it into a Jakarta RESTful invocation, create an environment that looks like the environment that the Jakarta RESTful service expects. That code looks like this, and I'll go through it quickly. For instance, create an HTTP servlet response, an HTTP servlet request. We find the actual servlet that's meant to handle this application. This is a technical thing. I'll skip. And now we pass the invocation into the Jakarta REST service. It runs. It passes back an object, and we parse that object into a type understood by the protobuf in protobuf. And we send that on to the GRPC runtime and back to the client. So here's what this is about. We're starting with an existing project, I call the target project. And we build around it a new project, contains the old project that it has the classes that we need to do that translation from the GRPC world into the Jakarta RESTful world. And moreover, there's a maven archetype that pretty much embodies all the steps that need to be done to build the different pieces. Now, if you're interested, the RESTeasy project itself is at this URL, resteasy.dev. RESTeasy GRPC, the stuff I'm talking about now, is a subproject and the code and documentations are at this URL. And so I spoke faster than I expected to. There's two minutes left. Any questions? Oh, yes. And thanks for the talk. Could you go back to the walkthrough in one, two, three, the long time? I don't see where GRPC was made. No, the walkthrough the long time, the intermediary runtime. So this one? Yeah, yeah. I don't see where the GRPC request is created and that the GRPC code was made. So when you run a protobuf descriptor file through the compiler, it produces a file with a stub method for each RPC, right? So that's what, and then you override those stub methods with the actual logic, right? And normally the logic would be business logic. In this case, the logic is what you need to do to translate the GRPC invocation into a Jakarta REST invocation. And notice that the first quality, the first perimeter is a general entity message, right? So that gets sent from the GRPC client. So it builds that, we get it and pass it to this method that overrides the stub method. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. So the use case here is the RPC client make a quality server which has a Jakarta REST handler. Yes. What about the other way around when you actually have a REST client talking to a server? Right, a Jakarta REST talking to a GRPC server. There's another project somewhere, can't remember what it's called, where they do that, right? So this is just what we're trying to do to expose what we've got to the GRPC world. One, two, three, yes. I have a question around the proto files. Can you go back to the previous slide? Further? The one that says the proto files are generated. I'm wondering, are those automatically generated, the proto files? Yes. So we parse the... What are these resources class? Are you saying the Java.class or...? Okay, we start with a collection of Java classes which are the content of a Jakarta RESTful application.  Oh, so you read from those Java files and then generate corresponding proto files? Yes. So yeah, we look at the Jakarta RESTful service in all of its pieces and then we see what types are necessary that are going in and coming out and also the fields and those types. So those fields have to be defined and so forth. I see. Thank you. Now, I should say that I said we try to automate as much as possible, right? So there's a certain amount of information you can get by scanning all those classes. But let's say it's possible that there are some types that don't show up in that scan and you might have to intervene and add those so that they show up in the dot proto file as well. Cool. I was curious. Your users, what's the general use case? What are they trying to solve? I understand the general idea, but what's an example? Well, I can say that we've had some requests from users to pay attention to the GRPC world, right? And that might mean that they want to be able to use GRPC for its efficiency. But in the context of a Jakarta RESTful existing service, right? So that was one thing. Another is just the other part of this that I didn't really talk about much, which is having a GRPC service running inside of a general purpose application server so you can use all the facilities of the application server. So what I saw was some sort of vague description of what some customers would like to see. And this is what it turns into. And no one has stopped me yet. Maybe it's what they want. We'll see. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. You mentioned Jakarta Supported Reactive. Is this how streaming is supported? Okay, so REST easy is our implementation of the Jakarta RESTful spec. And we've built out some reactive stuff starting with, well, this is still, this is part of the part of the definition of Jakarta REST in the spec, the ability to return like a future, right? So we've added that, but we've also added the ability to return streams. So that means that at least in our implementation of Jakarta REST, we can return streams. And what that means is if my goal is to be able to translate any Jakarta RESTful application into Protobuf, I have to have a way to handle that our server to client streaming. But fortunately, that's one thing that actually Protobuf does better than Jakarta REST, because it has streaming in both directions. So there is a streaming ready to be used, right? So we take a method that does streaming and turn it, let me see. Basically, it means this overriding method is going to look a little different, right? It's going to pass a sequence of objects into the responsive server. And that's how we would handle what I'll call Jakarta RESTful streaming. What is a Java API, a Java type for the streams in the pure Jakarta world? This is actually something that we added in REST easy, right? So you have a method that returns some reactive type, like it can return a... Oh, it's been a while since I worked on it. An observable or there's a newer version of observable. So we can have a Jakarta RESTful method that returns a flowable. That's good it is, right? And that's not part of the spec yet. Okay. But the long time only supports the server streaming, the server to client streaming, I guess. Right. I think it's worth suggesting to the Jakarta RESTful committee, which I'm on, but I haven't done anything for a couple of years. But maybe we should also add streaming from the client to server, right? And well, that would be fun, but I don't know. Thank you for your questions. Thanks, everyone.


Thursday, the 29th of April, 2021. My name is Ramaguko.  Today, we have a lot in store for you. When it comes to this particular show, remember we come to each and every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. on the repeat of this particular program every Thursday from 10 p.m. Very good morning to you. The hashtag, as always, is Power Talk Show on Twitter. Today, our conversation is about a man's ego. Understanding a man's ego. What is it about a man's ego that turns people off when it comes to relationships? Does a man's ego come in the way? How can a man prevent his ego from getting in the way of their relationship? Do men need to learn about controlling their ego? Do men need to apologize more? What is it that turns you off when it comes to a man's ego? Today, we want to understand what a man's ego is all about from a man's perspective. That's right. Today, the conversation that we're going to have, I shall, I am joined by Samuel Fula.  Karubusana. Asante Ram. I'm also joined to my extreme left by none other than the man himself, smart joker, a comedian. Karubusana, smart joker. Asante. Karubusana. What is the title of this song, Zote? I'm a pastor, psychologist. I'm a Zote to scale now. I mean, the sweet talking, the smiling. I'm a talker, I'm a talker, I'm a lawyer, I'm a team officer, I'm a playbicker, I'm a food psychologist. You know what Zote's father is, Zote? See, he is a chicken engineering officer. What is a food psychologist? A food psychologist.  He is a chef. The hashtag always is part of show. The hashtag at Ram Aguko, at Y254China, make sure that you give us your take in regards to this. What is the amount that men need to address when it comes to their ego? Does it come in their way? Well, most ladies say that they don't understand a man's ego. They say that they can't understand how it works, and that's why people get to disagreements. Today, let's talk about it with men. Hello, come on now, man. She doesn't understand how it works, she doesn't understand how it works, that you can't just allow things to just pass because of your ego. And I say, I must deal with it perpendicularly. The hashtag is part of show. At Ram Aguko, at Y254China, gentlemen, to have some conversations. Let me start to do a fuller. When a man's ego is put to the test, what is it that people need to understand about a man's ego that the society doesn't really understand and what is it that is wrong, particularly, that is there in a man's ego? You see, a man's ego is the way a man sees through the lens of life. How a man perceives himself. What a man thinks of himself, that is the ego of a man. So, many people fail to understand a man based on how a man understands himself. Now, do you think it is due to culture that you have grown up here? Yes. In a little bit of a background, when you grow up, when you grow up, as a man, when you grow up, your dad is doing something. You learn from your father. You have seen men in your culture handling themselves in a way. So, when they grow, they know this is how a man should be handled. So, it is being otherwise, it becomes a problem for the man because he is trying to protect his ego. Do women understand this particular phenomenon? It becomes a problem to many women, especially, you see also how a woman is brought up. There are women that, when you grow up, a man should be handled in a certain dimension. There are things a man should not do. There are things a woman should... There are women that say, you can't raise your voice at me. And there are men that have grown knowing if you have to address a woman and if a woman has to respect you, you must raise your voice. If a woman has to say, where I come from? Where I come from. People don't do this. Women don't do that. Yes. He is the pride of a man. I think that if a man has a hand in a woman, he should be handled in a certain way. If a man has a hand in a woman, he should be handled in a certain way. If a man is able to handle a woman in a certain way, he should be able to handle a woman in that manner. The things that a man should touch for fear of man he should be able to handle is a!! The two men say, in that way, If you want to know how I talk to Western people, you have to do research on how do they behave, how do they talk, how do they eat? How do they eat? So, I can research about that. From the first statement I come from the West, I can study from that. I think from the first statement I come from the West, I can study from that. But I don't know if you know anything about it, you don't know if you know anything about it, you don't know. Yes, I know everything. I come later, I come to the menu, I go to the menu. Which means, you serve, but as far as I know you don't serve. So you can talk to people and you'll find out what their works are. For example, I don't know what they are or what they are or what their jobs are. For example, I don't know what their jobs are, I understand what they're doing, as far as I know they're both working, Here, I cannot cook because I'm not good at cooking. I'm not good at cooking because I'm not good at cooking. That is the problem. That is the problem. In college, I used to go to school. I used to go to school. I used to go to school. I used to go to school. I used to go to school. Society, women, what? Women. When I started my organization, I used to work. I was a girl child. I used to go to school. When I was about to go to school, I had a father. In 1954, I was a father, but he was a young man. When a man is put on the spot in the house, As a woman, I don't know if it does or not. Can it affect a man's ego? It surely will in a great way. Because no man wants to marry another man. No man wants to date another man. So if you are coming into my life, it does not make my life better in any way. Why should I have in my life? The question is, okay, you need a woman. Yeah, you need a woman. To cook for you. And you see the roles of a woman are properly spelled in the society. For example, maybe say cooking, washing of utensils. You don't expect a man, say a man has a woman in his life and in his house. And it's the man that is waking up in the morning to wash utensils. So the roles of a woman, they are very clear in society. The roles of a woman are very clear in society. The roles of a man are very clear in society. So no man will want to stay or to have a woman in his life that does not know her roles in society. It's not women's oppression. We are talking about a man who came in the morning to wash utensils. Seriously, what is it if a man just decides to say, hey, you went to work, I also went to work. I went to pick up the baby. Nimbaya. That one, from where we come from. From where we come from, it doesn't work that way. Actually, maybe talk of a modern day woman. Maybe talk of a modern day woman. But one thing we must all agree on is that when you date a woman or when you marry a woman, you're not just dating or marrying that woman. You are dating and marrying the people that raised that woman. The whole family. Yes. When you are dating a man, you are dating the people that raised that man. So in society, how the man was raised, he was raised knowing that these are the roles of a woman. For example, let me use an example of where I come from. Where I come from, you see, what is expected of a woman is that when a woman wakes up in the morning, she will single-handedly prepare breakfast. One, clean the kitchen. Prepare breakfast. After preparing breakfast, clean, wash clothes, wash utensils. After there, you go, you know, take care of yourself. Come, preparing lunch. Those are the roles of a woman. But the man who was raised here in Gikomi. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. In Nimbaya. Just like the name says, you can go up first. So she is still here? That should be her dream in life. If I am a soul, you know very well. You can cook, you can wash the utensils, you can take care of the household chores.  As a woman's life depends and how bad it is, I don't have a wife. I have a wife. But my wife is young. She is a pique. I was pique when I was young. But I was a kid. Yes. I was a pique. Trust me. I ate at the market. I was selling and selling. I had a lot of juice. I was a pique. I said, oh, how you sweet heart one go. I was very tired. I was fried. I love another thing he has spoken about. Kumuna kuka e ngine pukando. So when what you are looking at has come upon a single hundred and one這一 steer and become pique. We'll be here for breakfast, in the morning, at 2 o'clock. We'll go and have some fun. We'll be here for a while, then we'll go to bed. I'll be there when I'm done. Then we'll be here at 5. If you don't have the time, I'll be here for breakfast. I'll have some tea and some tea. Ladies, do you agree with what he said? In fact, that is how I usually teach my wife to do things simultaneously. But in this current society that we are in, where people look for gender equity and gender equality, we have a right to do what? You have a right you should not be shouted at, you should not be... Men are not understood. And as such, that is why these women empowerment... As much as there is an idea, but there is a rib culture in a way. Like for example, there are things a man will do at will, at his own will. Those women, they don't work. There are women who have a right to do what they want to do. There are women who have a right to do what they want to do that day. Not like that. It doesn't work that way. There are women who have a right to do what they want to do. If it's once in a month, fine. If it's once in a year. In fact, that is the time when women have a right to do what they want to do at home. That is the time when women have a right to do what they want to do at home. It's automatic. And I'm telling you. If it's once in a month, it's once in a month. If it's once in a month, it's once in a month. If it's once in a week, it's once in a month. It's once in a month. It's once in a month. I'm sorry for cutting you off. And? Women empowerment. Women empowerment. Fixed to Mahali. Women were to decide who is the king. Women were to decide who is the king. Some of them were foundation, an awareness, a daily memory, and you know that those who are in debt. Yes. How they come up with these things, those empowerment programs, all were because they are strong ones. Why, Then how would you interact now, Terremuka Coast, specific ladies who are behaviors and how would you interact now, Terremuka Coast, specific ladies who are behaviors and how would you interact now, Terremuka Coast, specific ladies who are behaviors and how would you interact now, Terremuka Coast, specific ladies who are behaviors We'll be giving different scenarios as we continue this conversation Remember the hashtag is Power Talk Show on Twitter at Ram Aguko and that Y254 channel What do you think about it, a man's ego? How can it be addressed? What is it for a man that we don't understand?  How can a man's ego be addressed? How can a man's ego be addressed? How can a man's ego be addressed? How can a man's ego be addressed? Is it that man's ego is different in value? It doesn't matter if it's a man's ego But there is a way that the ego can be conquered And this is one thing women must understand Every man, no matter whether they're from church or from the club, where Every man has an ego He has a major ego He has a major ego It doesn't matter if it's a man's ego But it takes wisdom to conquer, to massage a man's ego You did me a massage in the first place Yes It should It must I'm not going to pass the bill You're not going to pass the bill But it's a gift that you can empower me to program I'm not going to give it I'm going to give it to you I'm going to give it to you I'm going to give it to you It's that lady When it comes to a man's ego A man's ego Can I have a visit Where to home You don't need a visit to either Your mother And your mother You know what happened For example, my wife She said to me She said to me She said to me I know very well what she's going to do there And one day She said to me I'm sorry She said to me I know very well what she's going to do there I know very well what she's going to do there I'm sorry That is how women should Those are techniques To massage our ego Some women are funny Giving different examples Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny Some women are funny It harms the ego of a man It really harms the ego of a man That is why I began by saying ego, the wills through which the responsibilities of a man are driven. Now when you begin comparing a man to another man, men thrive well when you appreciate their effort. There is a way you can push this man into doing more by appreciating the piece of bread that you have to offer. And when you are in a pizza, when you are in a car, you are in a flan. Where in a flan is it? Let me read a few comments on Facebook. Okay. A man, Jerry, and I say, man's ego, good topic. The ladies are good at multitasking. I do that. I'm also a fast hand. Okay. One of them is multitasking. To talk with a man, you go bad. And as a mother, they said, Ram, good job. Women respond to what they are given by men. Give me a sperm and I give you a child. Give me 200. You get a good dinner. We incubate what we are given and give back a good measure.  But if only I'm treated well by my man, so they can kneel. Let's take a short break. We'll be back in a bit. Keep it wide open. Power Talk continues after this break. Don't go too far. This is about a man's ego. Should I go happy? Thank you very much for keeping it wide open. This is Power Talk. As always, we value your feedback. Keep commenting and keep texting. If you're just joining us, you're just in time for the next and last part of this conversation. It's about understanding a man's ego. What is it that a man's ego has that needs to be put down? The hashtag, as always, is Power Talk Show at Ram Aguco and at Y254 Channel. My name is Ram Aguco. If you're just joining us, stick around for this and much more. I'm with Smart Joker and Samuel Fuller discussing this particular conversation, a man's ego from a man's perspective. How do men understand their own ego? Do we understand ourselves? Let me just sample a few of your comments on Facebook. Tell us where you're watching us from as we continue. I shall read them. Thank you very much for watching IED. I'm seeing Joe Carris and Juja. I'm watching from Ruru Murara. I'm tuned in. I'm showing it on fire. Thank you very much. I'm seeing Brio. I'm tuned in. I'm seeing Kigo and Jihya. I'm seeing Mokwajit. I'm seeing Maurice Jacob Makoha. I'm seeing Danny Darn. I'm seeing Ram Dari. Someone's called Ram here. King Baba. Thank you so much everyone for tuning in. Donna Derrick and Supu Yachapo. What are you going to imagine? So we were talking about comparison. When a man is compared to another person, what are the limitations? Is it okay to compare someone and it ends up healthy? Can you say that you can compare another person, your man with someone else in a healthy way to challenge them or should it just not happen? This comparison is dangerous. It comes positively. It comes positively. It's dangerous. My wife, a youngster, she's a doctor. She's on TV. She's on TV all day. It's very dangerous. It will spoil something. Do you want to go home? Yes, I want to go home. I have a feeling that I'll come home and I'll go to jail. I'll go to the cabbage and I'll go to jail. I'll go to jail. Since you want somewhere where I can vacuum how things go, you have to step in. You go to jail, you have to step in. I'll go to jail. You'll have to go to jail and have a cheat suit. You have to go to jail to massage. Do you want to go to jail to massage or do you want to go to the toilet? Now they say it happens. Ladies, do you understand this? Is this true? Do you believe that this is possible? Should a man's ego always be massaged? Come on, Toto.  You see, that massaging is what we call motivation. Yes, a man needs to be motivated. Okay, this massaging is what we call massaging. What do you mean by massaging? Do you think it's possible? If it's possible, I would appreciate it anytime I make an effort. I would appreciate it. Maybe it's not doing much, but for the little it's doing, it's being appreciated. Now massaging is ego. Make them feel good. You compliment them. And as you do that, you propel them to do more, to improve. So, if he comes maybe with a packet of milk today, he'll say, hey, thank you for doing that. Thank you for the milk. Next time, I'll give you a compliment. At Arudina, now a whole bundle. Yes, that is how it is. Yes. How do you feel about massaging? For you personally. I'm sitting here with a massage. I'm sitting here with a Range Rover. And I'm sitting in a room. My massage is done. I'm going to leave. You're going to leave? I'm going to leave. You're going to leave. You're going to leave. I will turn to me, a left-wheel ticket. When I'm communicating to you, you will come to me, and I think what is the difference? We still live in language. We don't know how to communicate. Of course, I'm not a teacher. I speak in a language. But what will you do? How will you communicate to me so I can make use of the language I speak? When a woman is a woman, she should respond and come to the house. Yes, she should come to me and listen to what I'm talking about. I should not talk to a woman and I will be in trouble. I will be cut. I will pass the message. She will watch TV and I will be in trouble. That means I'm talking nothing in that house. They respect and their attention. For example, as a man who stays at home with a wife, they are just storing it in the middle of a story. A wise woman will post the story, and she will welcome you back home. How was your day? That one is enough. I understand the story and the friends. That is fine. In fact, my brother, he will post the story, and I will say, he will sing, and he will be in trouble. He will be in trouble. He will be in trouble. He will be in trouble. Those two things. He will be in trouble. He will be in trouble. A woman will be in trouble. But in that house, they will never know. It's a legal reason why men beat women. It could be. Now when there is a crisis, there are two things here. How you address a man when there is a problem. And the timing is very important. Yes, the timing. That's all. I will say, I will say, I will tell you what I will say. We must talk. The timing is very important. Like, a woman can be very right in whatever issues she wants to raise. But when she is wrong in timing, she is wrong completely. But women beat women. If you are not a woman, you are weak. If a woman beat a woman, that one will not have a problem. Personally, I won't advocate for that. Even though I am weak, I will say, I am busy. I am busy. I will say, I am busy. I will say, I am busy. I will say, I am busy. I will say, I am busy. I will say, I am busy. At least you will have time and address the issue verbally. Tell her, what you are doing.  Maybe when I am calling you, you will raise the issue with the lady. Tell her, father Meshah should be taken. You know me, father Meshah, he is like that. He is like that. He is like that.  You see, I will think about that from the external nose and the tail is, say, Father Meshah, he will think of you as a brother. Yes. He should do it completely, completely. There is no!] you are father Meshah, you should never know You know what they say, in the country, there is a crime, but you know what they say, the police is the police. They say, there is a Russia. There is a mother, there is a land. What do you mean by a mother? What do you mean by a mother? You know, one of the most important things, after the Constitution, we say fighting, home-based violence, it's a crime, you know.  When you raise your voice she will say that you are shouting at her How can this be solved? My name is Amamis the head of the family I have a very strong relationship with her When I take money from her I don't want to take it I'm here with a woman who loves her father She asked me what I liked That is how I thought I would get married, and that is how I got married She also said her father is in a situation like this What do you do? I believe dialogue is very important, ever in a relationship or in marriage, dialogue, how you talk, how you know there are conflict resolution methods. The first one is you talk, you sit her down, maybe take her out, maybe come and mess with her but take her out, take her somewhere. Sit down, address all the issues, come and ask the key, then I believe that is why you see every relationship needs mentors. Now I'm talking from the pastor's point of view, from the pastor's point of view. You approach someone that you feel can help you solve the issue, in a relationship or even in marriage. Let me read some here on Facebook, Aidi Esther Nasema and also Swali. So what you're saying is that respect is the thing that motivates the man's ego. See you. Yes, respect. Nasema let me learn, I love this, I hope you will talk about how to treat a woman sometime in future. How to treat a woman. Come and ask her if she is a woman, if she is a woman, she is a woman. Does it mean you did something wrong to instigate her? Because as one viewer said, Emma, you give her something small, she multiplies it. Okay, is it that you say that she is a woman, you and your ego? Now that one now narrows down to intimidation. You see when a man fails in his responsibility as a man, like for example a woman is feeding you, you see there are common things a man should be doing. Like even from the Bible, a man is a provider. That's right. So when you fail in your responsibility, you're just there. It is the woman feeding you. The woman and the man are preparing for a job. And they're in the same state, you understand. So those are the things that make a woman begin looking down on you as a man. When you fail in your responsibility, there are triggers. Yes. When you fail in your responsibility, there are triggers. You know what to call it, that point of father measures. You pushed her to take you to father measures. Yes.  So she is a woman. Yes.   Yes. Why? Last year. Like me and my husband, I have been responsible of her. They are not responsible for the problem. But they are the ones who do it. They are the ones who get the job. So the solution is that men should do so that they don't instigate or pressure their women to think about it because a woman can be loyal. Yes. A woman can be loyal. And you see we might run away from this fact but it is the reality. Money contributes to a woman's loyalty. Money contributes. Yes, pesa. Without money, are you saying that women are not loyal without money? They can be loyal without money but you see there is a form of dishonour that comes from women when you are broke. That's when you say ma, when you find a woman that is feeding you every day last month, this month, she is feeding you every day. She is the one taking the responsibilities, the roles of a man. She has now become the man in the relationship. You know it becomes trouble. Mother Rao. Mother Rao says, how is the kuskiza? How is it? That is why the Arab Bible and Asema, the wisdom of a poor man is despised. Let me come to you Baba. There is the issue of a woman telling you and she is saying that she wants to take it but it is not easy. So where are the plans? Okay, I know she wants this but it is not easy. So you will postpone it. Another time, at a kuskiza, when you are broke, Allah will tell you, if you say ma, it will come back to you at that time. I will tell you. If you say ma, she says no. But deep down, it means yes. Allah will tell you, if you say ma, it will happen. So these two scenarios where people now start engaging in arguments, is it that men do not quite understand the communication strategies of women? You are a man who does not think. You cannot think. And she asks, should I think for you? In fact, it is not easy. It is the opposite. It is not easy. There is this thing, it is dating. It is what we are dating, for three years, four years. Do you know dating? It is the beginning of marriage. Did you know that? And dating will never contribute anything to your marriage. Do you know why? Me and I date the same day as Patricia, just using that name, Patricia and I date. Dating, yes, I go to the coast to swim, to go to Wapi, to eat pizza, to eat bambé. That is dating. There is no one sweet, no one and so on. And what we are communicating there, it is not something that it is not something that you are not married to communicate. It has been four years since I date. I have been at home. I had a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun, we had a lot of fun, we had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun, we really had fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. And we had a lot of fun. You met her when you were lying in bed? Yes, I met her when I was lying in bed. when she was married, I was told that she would hear it, and I went to a girl's place and said, that I was going to call Gett. Yes! There's a toothbrush. Even not me. And the toothbrush. There was her, and this was it. When I was married, I was told that I was going to run a car, Or I would call him a rectifier, or something small, the person who went home is a rectifier. A rectifier, at least, There are many things going on in the house. I love when I come home and talk to my husband. My wife comes home, and when I come home, she comes home, and when she comes home, she comes home. She comes home. Because when I come home, when I come home, when I come home, I come home, and when I come home, I come home. Sometimes they say no to me, yes. I think every man should understand the communication of his woman. Some people say, I like this dress, but I don't like it. Yes, but that is how she is communicating. But would you say no? Okay, you like the dress. It is a nice dress. It is so nice. I also like it. I don't like it. So until you understand, this communication is important. Especially, it varies. It is important to communicate. Like for example, a woman can have an issue with you. She will expect you to know that she has an issue with you. But how she is behaving. Is it true? I think you can say that you can have an issue with her after she has a glass, you can have a brush your teeth. I think you can have an issue with her. Yes, you can communicate with her. You can say that you have a shield. We have to talk about it. Are we too egoistic to notice such small things? Now that is where men go, they go overboard when it comes to ego. When you understand your woman you will you will understand her communications and I think Problems begin in marriage or in dating when there is you know your communication Yeah, you are doing nothing I love you married one a car one month one a break Look for woman propose marry buzz if you want to come to Danny but to what? to what? to what? one date for long one divorce? another example about this ego issue when a man makes a mistake two months, three months, one year down the line, but you're not sure, you're not sure. Is it a wrong move that can affect a man's ego? Yes, because most men don't like repeating themselves. If I did something wrong and I apologize, I say, I'm sorry. I wouldn't want you to remind me two months after. You remember you did this one. You remember, oh no. Maybe I did something, but I'm sorry, I apologize. But men don't apologize. They can't say I am sorry. Why? Why do you want me to apologize? Is there a woman also there who has this problem that you don't want me to apologize? I don't want you to say I'm sorry. Men just can't apologize, because I am sorry. I'm sorry. Why do you want me to apologize? I don't want you to say I'm sorry. I must do that because I love this woman. Do you apologize? Yes, I do. Why do you want me to apologize? I think the maturity of a man, not just a man, an individual, is to recognize and forgive and apologize. And you see that is what you do in the workplace. Many people are shocked, get shocked, just because they couldn't say I'm sorry. And to me that is pride and arrogance. But any normal human being must learn the art of apologizing. And say I'm sorry. Yes. It's a so meaningful commission. Yes. Now, how should you apologize? Because I'm sorry, I love to apologize. Is there a way that a man needs to apologize that can make a woman say that this man has to apologize? Yes. There are degrees of apologizing. There are degrees of apologizing. That's it. That's it. You've got to apologize. Some people have answered the story. Some people have asked me, my wife, what is your intention? What is your intention? I don't know how to explain myself. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to explain myself. I think it's a very difficult question. I'm sorry. You know what? I'm sorry. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm sorry. I've been through a lot. But it's not me. Yes. You have to apologize. And then you repeat that same mistake. Okay. Over and over again, for example, cheating. You cheated before. You apologized for it. You got forgiven. You cheated again. You apologized again. Do you expect that she will believe you when next you make a mistake and then you say, I'm sorry? At the same time, I'm tired of your sorry. But I don't know what I'm doing. I think through apology, you have to apologize for a mistake done and strive the best you can not to repeat the same mistake again. Yes. So when you say, I'm sorry and maybe after one week you will make the same mistake. I think yours will be a special case. Yes. And also, if you make a mistake you cheat. You cheat there. I think so. I think so. I think I'm not going to repeat it again. I'm going to repeat it again. I'm going to repeat it again. Just say the truth. If you make a mistake and then you cheat you apologize for it. You cheat again. You will say, I'm sorry. And even if it happens, yes. Someone said that if you have a special interest in schoolgirls buy your wife a school uniform. I think I read such a comment. Yes. Let me, let's bring up a comment here. IED Esther, I think, is it coming up? I think couples should take their time to know each other well. You will understand each other well and communication will be easy. I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell you. What do you usually do when you are dating when you're voting and you have to get married. Ask that person if he is married. I don't know if you know he is going to be married. I'm going to explain. What's your opinion about what he has said? Most of you are about what he has said. I remember dating and I said, what do I watch? What's your dating, end and door? I think that is the gospel according to smart joker. But I feel like dating plays an important role in relationships and in marriage. Because, well, you can never know someone enough. Just the same way, people don't know themselves enough. So you can, no matter, even if you spend 10 years dating someone, how is it going to be enough? There is something that will always just rise up after marriage. Especially when women, you know, actually maybe actually a little more, now they feel the sense of entitlement. There is now that character that has been hiding. For many years, that has now come out. Let me still give this other example about men, particularly. You are in a position where you tell your man you are wrong. Is it bad to tell your man that he is wrong? How can you do that? How can you make a ta? He doesn't know me. Does it bruise their ego? Do you think they are wrong? Yes, it actually messes up their ego. But should it be so? If you were to tell a man he is wrong, I think there is a better way to put it. You tell him, babe, I didn't like how you did this and this. Now he is just being direct, you are wrong. That one, you are wrong. It becomes, you know, it will bruise his ego. There is a way you can put it that will accept money away. It won't mess up the man in him. Yes. And that is why. If you were to tell a man that he is wrong, he will say that he is wrong. If I am wrong, he will allow my wife to say, hey, you are wrong. And I will listen to her. I will listen to her. If I am wrong, I will say that I was wrong. Another example. Salary. Okay. You have told her that this is the amount of money that I earn. But I will say that I am wrong. I am wrong. I am wrong. I am wrong. When she mocks you about how much you earn, when she tells you that you are not earning enough that can sustain the family, when she discredits the kind of job you do, she will say, you are wrong. You have to do your job, you are right. And she tells me that you have a character. You are wrong. Yes. You are wrong. You are wrong. Yes. If you are wrong, you are wrong. So, how is it that you are coming to me? You are wrong. I was a child, I was always happy. I was a child, I ate pizza.  Mwenyamu mekana Let me give an example 30,000 shillings per month I come here I don't think you are earning enough Mwenyamu mekana Now You see, the first thing God gave a man Was his work That is why the first The most dangerous place to crash in a man's life His work, what he does for a living Mwenyamu mekana Mwenyamu mekana So when you mess up his work You mess up his ego You finish the man So it is Si ombayok say I think 30,000 is not enough But I appreciate the 30,000 As we trust God for A salary increment or a better job Alright Let me go to Facebook Favour of Violet What advice can you give to a woman Whose husband always makes mistakes But he will never apologise to her Violet from Kayole Mwenyamu mekana Mwenyamu mekana Mwenyamu mekana Mwenyamu mekana Mwenyamu mekana What advice can you give to a woman Who is married and God does love to be married If a womanї get married If he gets married She will talk about marriage If you come out with a woman Who is going to get married Who is going to get married Ask her, If she gets married It's not a wife does this have any side issue? I have assisted her. My name is Amu Rumilie. Here I have witnessed the old man. OK. I understand now. Sir, yes. Time in Asia, my brothers. Time in Asia. But I want to say thank you so much. Sam Adeline in summer tunes from West Dansum and 먹ulia Amaran in summer following the show. and some are tuned in, or so many comments sit there. We cannot eat bado at Jamalizia Vizori, bado, bado. Because we still have no talk talker thought about Kama manome aki anezakubali wa kohen na njena rudi usigu, aki chelawa. Umambeweni manome na gadi.  This has been bad, but sure, remember the conversation continues. Today, so it was all about a man's ego, from a man's perspective. I was in Zama Fula, and I was with also smart Joker. A very good morning to you. Thank you very much for keeping it Y254. That's what brings us to the end of this conversation today. I would like to end with a quote saying, when a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels hard and understood. And the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs. My name is Ramaguko. This is Power Talk. I repeat, this conversation of this show comes tonight at 10 p.m. God bless you. God bless the work of your hands. This is Power Talk.


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