Hello, I'm your host Alex Freeberg and this is the Alex the Analyst Show. Thank you so much for joining me. Today we are discussing certifications, something that I get asked about literally every single day. They're asking, you know, do I need a certification? You know, will it help me land a job faster? Will it make me stand out in the market? If so, you know, what certifications should I be getting? These are all things that we'll talk about within this show. I also have a little bit of insider information on the Google data analyst program that they're going to be hosting on Coursera. I have a contact over at Coursera that I've been talking with and they gave me some very valuable information that may be valuable to you as well. It is going to be a good show, I assume. I have a lot of things prepared. I have a lot of things, a lot of thoughts in my head about certifications that I've kind of been shooting out here and there in the comments, you know, people ask, I give them an answer. And every answer I give is fairly consistent. But you know, everybody asks in a different way. And so I just want to get this out there, get it to the people who need to know about certifications. So let's start at the very beginning, right? What is a certification? A certification is basically you take a course, you take an exam potentially. And it is something to validate that you know what you're doing in a specific area, right? You go, you take a certification for, let's say, Azure. It is certifying that you know what you're talking about, and you get the certificate and you can put it on your resume, you can put on your LinkedIn and show people that you know about that topic. And so in theory is a very good thing. In theory, I'm saying in theory because you know, that's kind of, it's open-ended at this moment. We haven't thoroughly talked it through. So that's the theory. At the beginning, we have our theory that it's supposed to be helpful. It's supposed to be beneficial. We'll discuss this more, of course.  And so why are people concerned about getting certifications? Why are people wanting to get certifications? Why are people asking me about it all the time? Here's why. It's because anybody can put SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI on their resume. And if you don't have any experience, one of the other really good things that you could do is potentially get a certification to prove that you have at least the knowledge. You can prove in some way that you have the knowledge to be a data analyst that someone should hire you. Excuse me. And so that is kind of the thought process behind people getting certifications. It's to validate that somebody should hire them over someone else or somebody should hire them because they have a certification. There are a lot, and I want to repeat this, there are a lot of certifications out there. And not all of them are great. And not all of them are even worth getting or investing your time and your money into. I cannot possibly name all of those certifications, but I'll give some examples. I'm also going to talk about some examples of ones that I do like. But before I do that real quick, I know I'm all over the place right now because I got a lot on my mind. My first thing is certifications.  Do you need them? No. I hold this many certifications. Zero. Well, that's not true. I do not advertise that I have any certifications. I don't have any that I would personally put on my resume. I have done so many courses through Coursera, through Udemy. And, you know, I've taken a lot of these things and I've thought about putting them on my resume. And in the end, I just decided not to. I did not think that I was going to give me a leg up. You know, one that we'll talk about later is IBM's data science certification. I took that. I have that. I don't put it on my resume. It's not something that I've ever found value in in the market for me personally. And I'm in a different position than a lot of you guys. A lot of you are at the very beginning of your career.  And so, you know, you have experience in a different field and you want to show them that you're invested in this and you have the skills that you need. And so, you know, that certification may be useful to you. It is not for me anymore. And even when I was, I guess, at my very first job, it just did not seem like something that I needed to put on my resume to validate that I knew what I was talking about. I had a portfolio. I used my portfolio. I was able to talk very well in interviews to showcase my abilities. That to me was what made me stand out the most. Things have changed, right? COVID has changed things. The job market has changed. And so, it's definitely worth looking into right now what certifications are good. I'm going to start with the certification that I think is worth getting. That is one that I'm like, yes, if anyone asks me what certification I should get, here's the one that you should get. And I may or may not pull this up on your screen.  Links will be in the description so you can go and check them out yourselves. The very first one is Microsoft Certified Data Analyst Associate. This one is, you can become Microsoft Certified, which holds a lot of weight for a lot of tech jobs, just because Microsoft is so name-brand. And so, in this course, you know, you learn a lot of Power BI, how to use it, how to structure your data, all these things. On the link that I'll post below, you can go through a free learning path. And I have gone through every single one of these. I've taken every single one, because I really just want to learn Power BI even better. And I'm thinking about taking this certification as well, just tech, just to have it. I may not even put it on my resume. I just want to say I have it if somebody asks, because it's kind of cool. This one to me is a new one that they're putting out, because they're discontinuing all their old certifications. If you know anything about that, they're discontinuing a lot of their old certifications, and they're revamping them and kind of changing them into these, which are job-specific certifications. So you can get certified as a data analyst by Microsoft, which to me, knowing Microsoft's background in certifications is a very legitimate and very recognizable certification to get. It is to me, probably one of the best ones you can get. So I'll put that link in the description. The second one that I would consider getting is a Tableau certification from Tableau.com. They have certifications ranging from a few different options, but in general, it just proves that you know how to use Tableau. And Tableau is such a good skill to learn. If you didn't notice, the first two that I chose were certifications in Azure Power BI, Microsoft Power BI, and Tableau, Data Visualization. You know, where's the SQL ones? Alex, where are them? They aren't anywhere. And I don't really trust any, I haven't seen any certification that I'm like, wow, this guy's certified in SQL. They used to have that through Microsoft. They do not have that anymore. So I do not really have any recommendation for SQL, but that's because SQL's a little bit different than Power BI or a Data Visualization tool. Just a little bit different in how you can, who I would trust to certify that. Tableau has Tableau itself that they certify trustworthy. A lot of people get it. A lot of people ask me if this is one that they should get. I say it's up to you. Again, I am much more of a portfolio project kind of guy. Make a great portfolio. Show that you have the skills instead of getting a certification. Some people are the opposite. They're like, if I get all these certifications, I don't need a portfolio. You know, just a different mindset. So the Tableau certification again, link in the description, is a good one to get. Not super cheap. Let me see real quick how much these cost. I will say for the Microsoft one, I believe, and I'm looking at it real quick. I want to say that's $165. So $165 isn't a, you know, it's not a drop in the bucket, but it's not super expensive. Let me see. The Tableau one is $100. So that one is cheaper. The third one that I would recommend getting, and I have two more that I'm going to recommend, and then I'm going to get into the ones that I do not recommend. The next one that I recommend getting is AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty. AWS, Azure are very good things to be certified in because they are not, they're not upcoming anymore. They are here, and people kind of are starting to expect you to know these cloud platforms. And if you know them, you're going to make more money. So getting certified in it to me is, it makes sense because a lot of these jobs that use these tools, you're going to make more money at. So a small investment of $100 or $165 is going to be a huge payoff if you're able to land a job with those skills. So this one is AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty. Link in the description. None of these, none of this is sponsored. They're just links. So rest assured, I'm giving you my very honest opinion on these. I have looked into this. I've taken a course on, you know, passing this exam because I wanted to learn all the skills. I never took the exam, but I feel like I could take this exam and probably pass it if I just maybe brushed up on it. And so let me see if I can find how much this costs. $300. It costs $300 to be certified. A lot of people take these certifications, AWS and Azure certifications hold a lot of weight. Again, it's Microsoft and Amazon. So two extremely huge companies with certifications. They're well-known, documented success in the past. Certifications are validated and used in the field. These are why, these ones specifically, I have chosen as ones that I would recommend that I would get if I were going to get certifications that I'm going to put on a resume. Then real quick, let's go over to this Google Data Analyst certification program. If you have not heard, Google is coming out with, I think three, they have Data Analyst Project Manager, UX Designer, and IT Support Specialist. Data Analysts getting their own program. Super cool. I'm extremely looking forward to it. Google has said, and I'm not reading this off the thing, so this is off the top of my head, Google has said that to them, if you take this course, if you take this program, it is like getting a four-year degree to Google. Maybe not to everyone else, but to Google specifically, they will accept it as a four-year degree. When Google does stuff like this, it changes things. It's going to be on Coursera, I believe it's going to be $39 a month for this program specifically. It takes six months to complete and so about $300 or no, five months to complete. I believe, gosh, I'm doing some terrible math right now. 40 bucks, I think it's $300 total. Maybe it's $50 or $49 per month. I believe it's a six month, five or six months course, $300 total.  So $300 to get this, but it's over like a six-month span. You can't just take an exam and have it done with. But they take you through the training and to me, this is going to be one that people look for. It's going to be up there with the Amazon. It's going to be up there with the Microsoft certifications. I haven't seen any of the course material at all. That's just my guess, my guesstimation. I have been talking with somebody over at Coursera who I have been trying to get deals for you guys. I'm like, hey, do you guys have any free courses that I could offer my subscribers? Do you have any discounts that you can offer my subscribers? I'm like, what can you give me so that I can give it to them? Well, in that course, I kind of built up a relationship with this lady and I was like, hey, you know, I would love to do a video on this Google certification program. Are you guys able to give discounts? Can you give me any information on it? I'd like to give something to my subscribers so they can start learning about it. I just posted about it on my channel. Here's what I know so far is that they are actually still, they announced it in July of 2020. They are still designing and building out the courses as we speak. So it is not completed. And a lot of people are thinking it's going to be done soon. They announced it in July, end of the year. This lady says that it should be done by the end of the year. And that's just what she told me. So if we can expect it by the end of this year, that could be very, very exciting. Especially people going into the new year, really focusing on self-studying and upskilling and all those things could be very, very exciting in my mind. And so look out for this one. This is one that I will be keeping my eye on. I think I'm going to be taking it and doing reviews on it for you guys because I think this is a genuinely potential game changer. Could be. I don't know. We're going to find out. Something that a lot of people ask me and right now I just pulled up on my screen. Maybe I should. Maybe I'm showing you on your screen. I don't know. The IBM Data Science Professional Certificate. Should you take it? Is it worth it? Here's my take on it. I remember taking it. I remember going through the entire course. I will say that it did not go in depth enough for me, that if I was hiring someone and they had this on the resume, I would not say, wow, I got to hire this guy. I'd say, oh, wow. He invested time. Like any other certification that I would see. He invested time. He invested maybe some money and he learned some skills. This certification specifically to me does not scream, I know everything to be a data analyst. And none of these certifications do. But it doesn't give a ton of validity in my mind to being a data analyst. I think the course itself was super good. And I do recommend taking it. But they just didn't go, it wasn't crazy in depth. It's not like you're doing hands-on, tons of hands-on things. It's a lot of learning. It's a lot of what is this? How do you use this? What's the methodology behind this? And then the very last thing I think, and I'm looking at at course four, is Python and Data Science and AI. That was really the only hands-on, really hands-on experience learning wise with technical skills. So do I recommend taking it? Yes, absolutely. I think it is a fantastic course. I personally learned a ton from it. But do I recognize this as a credible source for a certification? No, not really. I personally don't. I've seen people put this on the resume. Since I've taken it myself and I know what it means and what's in the course, I wasn't super impressed. I wasn't like, man, this IBM certification. I was just like, oh, it's just a course a lot of people take to learn a lot more about this. Very cool. Maybe that's the pessimist or whatever in me. I don't know if it's the realist. It's for you guys to decide. Those are really the ones that those first four are the ones that I would look out for. I would consider doing and I'll put those in the description if you want to check them out, check out their courses, check out their exams, all that stuff. One's that I'm going to be wary of. One's that you hear it should you put it on your resume.  You to me is an amazing, amazing, amazing platform I have learned. I probably owe a lot of my career to you to me, probably, honestly, just be the teachers at least on you because honestly, I've learned so much, so many skills. I would never put that on my resume. That is a learning platform. It's not a certification platform or you can show you completed a course, but I can complete a course by clicking next 100 times. It doesn't mean I know the material. It just shows that I took a course. It's sort of the same thing on some level with the Coursera courses. Some of them do have quizzes, tests that you need to take. I have not personally found one on Coursera that I'm like, yes, I would put that on my resume, including the IBM data science. That is just my opinion for those specifically because so many people take courses on there. I did myself. I still do myself. No, I personally would not be adding those to my resume. I wouldn't put the words you to me or Coursera on my resume. They're learning platforms. They're not certification platforms. That's how I view it at least. That's my opinion on those. Other ones to look out for. I'm going to give you an example before I actually get into it. Let's say Alex the Analyst decides to put out a course, a six-week course to learn everything you need to know about data analytics. I title it Alex the Analyst Certification Program or I make it probably something more fancy to where it sounds more credible. I can't even think of anything. Let's say what sounds IBM? No, I can't use that. That's copyright. Let's keep it simple. Alex the Analyst Certification, you're certified by me, by my program. Go put that on your resume. To me, if I saw that, some random guy on YouTube making a program, you took his course. Let's say I marked it up. I was like, 800 bucks. Take my course. You'll be able to be a data analyst. No problem. You put that on your resume. Nobody's going to know what it is. Nobody knows. It's not industry standard. It's not recognizable. Nobody knows who Alex the Analyst is. This rink-a-dink show. It's not going to give you any boost in your job hunt. In that same vein, if you find things like Springboard, or not Springboard, it's not an example because that's a boot camp, although they do have courses, I believe. Data Camp Certification. What's the other one? Something Academy. Data Academy, something like that. Then there's ones that are like Calabra, Bumbleberry. I don't even know. Just some of these random names. You may have learned a ton through that program. That may have been the program that got you into data analytics that is going to make your career. That may be true. It does not mean that you should be putting it on your resume. If it's one of those programs where you learned a ton, but it has no name value, no worth whatsoever, I do not recommend putting it on your resume. The pure fact that nobody's going to recognize it. Most people will not have taken that course. Nobody's taken Alex the Analyst course. They don't know how hard you worked, or how amazing of a course it was, or how much you paid for it. What they do know is that they've never heard of it, and it's not that impressive. That's my take on it. Kind of the knocky-out punch. Nobody's heard of it. It's not worth putting on your resume. That's my two cents. Other people may disagree. Other people may be like, put as many certifications as you can. Any Udemy courses that you're taking, any Coursera courses that you're taking, anything where you got even a certificate, put it on your resume. Well, you have 100 of them. Be my guest. I personally value the skills, portfolio, and experience 100 times more than any certification. You can have a certification, but if you don't have any hands-on experience or cannot prove through a portfolio project that you know how to use these skills, to me it's not that valuable. In the end, I think that certifications can be useful. There are a specific population where it is useful. For me, it is no longer useful. I'm in my career. I know all the things that I need to know. Well, that's not true. Let me even phrase that. I know all the things that I need to know to get a job. I can go and I can get another job, I am sure, somewhere else. I'm marketable. I have skills. I have a name brand, company that I work for. I can go and get another job because I do that. A certification is not going to boost my chances of getting a job anymore. At the very beginning of my career, before I even had my first job, or maybe after my very first entry-level job, it may have been useful. It is not anymore. Look at yourself. Where are you in this path? Are you currently learning the skills? Are you already a data analyst? Are you in college? I think the people who should be getting certifications, who should actually be investing their time and their money into getting a certification, is somebody who one has no experience, has never had a job. Once you get a job and you have hands-on experience for anything over a year, data analyst-specific certifications are not going to be super useful. But if you are entry-level or below, you have not had a job. You don't have any experience. You're kind of building a portfolio right now. You want to try to prove in some way, validate that you know what you're talking about. A certification may be the way to go. I think I would recommend that. The ones that I recommend today are the only ones that I currently recommend. I've had people send me tons of other ones, and I'm like, I've never heard of that. I've looked at the course. I've looked at the certification. It looks like you're learning a lot of good material. Never heard of it. When I google it, one thing comes up. It does not seem to be anything that anyone would recognize, so I don't recommend it. On that kind of line of which ones to get, which not to get, something that is, I think, important is getting somewhat specific or name brand certifications. Tablo certification, SQL certification, if there was a good one. AWS certification, Azure certification, instead of just data analyst certification, which is what a lot of these ones I was talking about, like Colabera and all these things, it's just a data analyst certification. It's not specific to a skill. I personally like, and Microsoft is the only exception to this rule, I personally like certifications that are skill specific, that show that you know a specific skill. Because if you just do a data analyst certification, it doesn't prove that you know specific skills. So again, just my thoughts. I know I'm doing a lot of rambling, a lot of these things, but that's just my thoughts on certifications in general. And if you should get them, if you shouldn't get them, it definitely is up to you. There are people who should get them. There are people who should not get them. So look at yourself, wherever you're at, think about it. If you want to invest your time and money into it, go for it. All right. I am not against certifications, as some people have said. All right. I'm saying it on the record. I'm not against certifications just because I don't have any. I'm not going to be that guy who's like, I don't have any and I made it. Therefore, you don't need it.    But not in this one. I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong and when I'm not wrong. One second, I'll be right back when my kids is crying. See you in a second. I am back all as well. Okay. We are getting into the time of the show. Two things, three things, maybe four things. The first thing is this show is sponsored by all of you beautiful people, gorgeous people, the most attractive people in my entire subscriber base. You guys are supporting the channel. Thank you. If you want to support the channel, if you watching this said, wow, Alex, you were talking to me. This certification thing is genius.  Support my channel. Go over to Patreon. I have a link in the description. It would mean a ton. Thank you so much. Second thing is we have our comments of the week or question of the week, however you want to say it. Let's go over to our question of the week. It is from Carlos. Carlos says, Alex, how much coding do you use on a daily basis? Is it just Python? Really good question. And about a year ago, maybe even six months ago, I would say, yes, it's only just Python. So to answer the first question though, how much coding do you use on a daily basis? It used to be very little. I used to not do a ton. I recently have moved over much more heavily onto the technical side. I used to be kind of customer facing and, you know, half customer facing half technical in my current role. We were able to hire on a business analyst and another data analyst who I have trained and offloaded a lot of my client facing work where now I am highly technical focused. And so I'm not only using Python anymore. I was, I was using a ton of Python. Now I'm using Python. I'm using Scala. I'm using Spark. So those are the main three that I'm using coding wise. You know, they're kind of all meshed in there, but I use it all in Azure. So Azure Databricks. I'm using almost all of it there. And I'm doing a lot of it now. A lot of file processing, reading in files, automation. So a lot of automation, you know, web scraping even these days because, you know, I need to pull certain things from certain websites like CMS. You know, I work in health care. So CMS, I don't want to have to go to this every week and download this file. So I'm automating that and scraping that from there. Lots of things. And I'm learning a ton. I've only started using Scala and Spark, like in the past six months, but I already feel like I'm really getting the hang of it. It feels super good to me. I like it. I like it a lot. Glad I can put that on my resume. That's a really good skills to have. So yeah, that's what I'm using. You know, I use SQL a ton. I use Python a ton, even more so now than I ever did before. So that's kind of where I'm at right now. So Carlos, thank you for that question. It's a very good question. And I hope that, you know, if you are out there wondering if you need to learn Python, you don't need to learn Python right away. I highly recommend it if you want to make more money. That's what I've found is the Python is becoming a lot more valuable. A lot more companies are using it. And Python is something that you can do so many things with. I've only scratched the surface. For my job, I don't need a ton. I don't need crazy knowledge for it, but I need enough. So worth investing your time. We've come to the end of the show, sadly. We've come to the end of the show. And if you haven't ever watched the end of my show before, which I recommend you go back to my previous shows and watch the end because it's fun. It's just fun to do. If you have not, if you've not been part of the vegetable crew, if you haven't been part of it, you're missing out. Join me. Join us collectively together as one in commenting down below one of probably, and I say this every time, but this one is very true, one of the most terrible vegetables of all time, the radish.  And I, and I hope that they're asking themselves why every single day. Radishes are terrible. And I hate them. And I want you to comment, if you have a story about why you hate radishes, comment that down below. I would like to hear it. It would make me happy. I have a few stories, terrifying stories. They ruined a lot of my childhood, to be honest. So for all the radishes out there, for all the people who like radishes out there, no, no. That's all I got. Thank you guys for joining me. Thank you so much for watching to the end. I love, I don't know why, I don't know why I do this. I'm starting to do this subconsciously. I think I'm just genuinely starting to ramble at the end just to see how long you guys are willing to stick with me. And I don't know if it's conscious or subconscious at this point, but honestly, it just cracks me up. Because I know like there's like two guys out there or girls who are just listening right now on in the background have no idea what's going on in the show anymore. It's the end of the show. You don't need to be listening anymore. But I keep going. But I know I'm really going to stop now. It's getting it's too much. Thank you. Goodbye. I'll see you next week. Next week, I will be bringing on my wife. My wife will be joining the show. Hopefully we'll see. That's the goal. The goal is to bring her on a lot of stuff with kids and she needs some more makeup and look pretty and all that stuff. So if that stuff doesn't happen, she's not coming on. The goal is next week to have her on though, to get some more insight into me, who I am as a person, as an analyst, as a husband, and answer some questions that I probably don't know myself. So that is one to look forward to, for sure. Thank you for sticking around. Thank you for listening to me just ramble at the end. I don't know if anybody enjoys that. I enjoy it. That's all I gotta say. All right. I'm actually I'm actually leaving now. I think you should too. Enjoy your day. Enjoy your weekend. I'm filming this on the weekend. May not be a weekend where you are. Right now, when you're listening to this in six months, a year, two years, 10 years. But you know, it's definitely the weekend right now. I can verify that. I'm actually going now. Thank you for joining me. You are the best. You are, if you are still listening to this, you are way more committed than I've been to almost anything in my entire life. And I respect that a lot.  I'm doing a double, a double one today. If you have listened to now, if you have somehow gotten to write this second, you are my hero.  So I actually do have to go. If you have gotten to this point, comment below your favorite ice cream. I really do have to go your favorite ice cream. And I will, I will give you a story or some type of comment specifically responding to you in some unique way, because I value you. I actually have to go now. My kid is actually crying. Goodbye. I'll see you next week. Thanks for joining me. Goodbye.


Well, one early 4th of July celebration took place last night with thousands of people gathering at Grandview Lodge for their annual At the Pine Celebration. Our reporter Rachel Johnson has more. Stars, Stripes, and lots of fun. That is what Grandview Lodge's Party at the Pines is all about. The annual event is held at the resort's on-site golf course as a way to kick off the week's 4th of July celebration. Yeah, that's one of my favorite events of the year. I just love seeing the families out having a good time. You know, I've talked to a lot of people that roam around and talked to a lot of people and they're just, they're having a good time. That's what, you know, that's what the 4th of July in the Brainerd Lakes area is. The event takes place every year on the 2nd of July and includes concerts by two local bands, food and beverages, blow-up games, bouncy houses, face painting, and much more.  The crowd is just fantastic. We get a mix of people that are staying at the resort along with a lot of the locals come out and enjoy this also. It caught a great evening tonight. Over 3,000 people came out to celebrate and take part in the festivities with their families and friends. Just wanted to enjoy some great fun. I've never been to one and this year I decided to bring my son out. He's enjoyed so many different activities and the face painting has been great. The night was topped off with a great fireworks display overlooking the golf course. The event has grown from what used to be solely a fireworks display to a huge party with activities for the entire family. After the second year, I'm like, we've got to do more than this. You know, we have a big beautiful area, host a lot of people. So we added, we started adding food and we had our Bevkarts sound here. Some people buy a drink. Then we started, after a year after that, I added the bands and then we just kept on adding things. And now we have a 24-foot climbing wall. There's all kinds of kids activities for them to do and the kids have the parents can come out and it's a pretty controlled area. Let the kids run, have a good time. No matter what your age, there is something for everybody at this annual celebration. We got a nice crowd, a lot of kids, a lot of families and we just like to cater to that because it's a nice opportunity for us to interact with just a variety of people. So we're going to have a party tonight at the pines. Reporting from Neswa, Rachel Johnson, Lakeland News. And that event takes place annually at Grandview Lodge in Neswa. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


a happy new episode of 420grams here on newsclick.in. We're joined in studio today by India Women's Football Superstar Dalima Chabbar. Thanks for coming in. Thank you. And Beva Kragnandan, who's not a superstar in any way. I thought I was a could be 420gram superstar. So we're talking essentially about rounding up sort of the first round of matches, the group stage of matches at the Women's World Cup that's currently underway in France. We all have our own teams that we're following and backing. So let's start with you. How's it been watching the tournament? What are the key standout sort of events? And what's your team? The World Cup so far has been crazy. I feel there have been some outstanding performances by, especially by some of the youngsters. Like you can see Nikita, Paris coming in from England. And then there's Leakey Martin's performing Gilles Gouvel. And then there have been such comebacks in a lot of matches. And with the scorelines have been huge. And my team that I'm supporting is Australia. And one match, and that has been like the moment of the tournament for me, is their match against Brazil where they made a comeback in the second half with a scoreline of 3-2. And their players, I mean, their fighting spirit, it's crazy.  And like, I mean, they are following that quote, passionately. And now they have topped the group and they've qualified. So like, I'm really rooting for them. They have never qualified from quarterfinals for the semi-finals. But I am really looking forward to at least qualify for the semi-finals this year. Super, Asian team. So yay for that. How about you, you've been watching the Dutch, I believe. Yeah, I've always watched the Dutch if they're playing in a big tournament. And they've been playing like the way the Dutch footballers play. I think this is only the second time that the Dutch have qualified for the World Cup. They've qualified for the last edition and now this one. And they're a very young team. And like Dalima was saying, Lika Martins, who was world player of the year in 2017. And well, she's actually been sort of a little low key in the first few games for the Dutch. I think my standout player for them has been Daniela van der Donk, who has got no assists and no goals. But she's basically holding the strings to that midfielder. Fantastic-looking player, very, very skillful. So yeah, the Dutch are going to go far, European champions. I think it's been, yeah, like you said, a lot of really, really quality football to watch. A lot of good goalkeeping, a lot of good goal scoring. I really enjoyed the Brazil-Italy game the other night because it was one of those contests between the flair and style on one side and organization and different stuff. Actually, the thing is, also, she brought up the Brazil versus Australia game. And that's a rivalry in women's football, by the way. Brazil-Australia is like a thing in women's football. They've always been going for each other. They love playing against each other. And it's this exact difference in styles. Like the Brazilians bring the flair and... Anger, they're coming out and a lot of aggressiveness on the field that comes out. Especially when Australia got their first goal, Brazil lost it, I feel. That is one reason why they lost the match as well. It was really good. Exactly, it was pretty much like the game you were talking about. A lot of fun to watch, I mean, because sometimes, I think, also, there's a bit of space on the pitch. So, there is a little bit of an extra second also for players to do fun stuff with the ball. And I thought Brazil was doing a lot of that. It was almost a mix of beach football with... I feel like that is in their roots. It comes naturally to all of this. So, from match day one as the tournament has progressed, what for you have been the developments? How has it been evolving as the tournament has gone along? I feel now a lot of people, since they have seen at least the first round of matches, a lot of people have gained interest in the women's football. Not only, I wouldn't only talk about the world, but even in India, now I have people who at least train with me and they come and tell me, oh, I saw the match yesterday and look, Alex Morgan scored a hat, she scored five goals, she's got a hat trick in the match the other day. And I feel really happy that now their interest is at least growing up in India and thankfully, we could get the rights to show the matches in India. So, I feel the interest not only all over the world, but even in India, it's growing in women's football. It's also, how is it translating in terms of, there's a, I suppose, vast difference between what's happening in France and where things are with women's football in India. But the interest level sort of does translate, like you're saying the interest level that you get personally or the kind of, so how is that playing out in terms of increased attention, increased awareness? Yeah, I would say that people have started recognizing us as women footballers in India now. And there are more people who are reaching out to us in terms of talking about the games and in terms of representing their brand, maybe be your face for their brands and talk about their brands and to encourage the youngsters. I feel that has in a way changed a lot and not even the FIFA World Cup coming in. I would also say the under 17 FIFA World Cup, the rights that we've got and plus the last four months and the achievements with the national team, I feel all of that altogether has played a really big role in terms of that attention coming in and that media walking in and giving that time and space for women footballers to speak up and to express themselves and to reach the masses. What's been the reaction to all this media that you're doing now more and more? How are people responding to what you put out? It has been pretty positive. Now people are appreciating me because people around me always used to not encourage me in terms of what I was doing and what I wanted to do and if I wanted to take football as a career. But now I feel that mentality sort of has changed and that awareness has also been created that now if women footballers do want to take up the sport in a country like India, they can. Because now even FIFA under 17 World Cup is coming in, I feel that should play a huge role in terms of changing the mentality in India and like bringing about a little revolution in women's football in the country. Last time we met, you were playing the Indian Women's League in Lajjana. So on the one hand you have this increased sort of media attention and more publicity happening.  So you're doing a lot of stuff. But is there a gap between what happens in sort of the virtual space on social media and what happens in real life in terms of people actually following the game? I feel that is there because it is very easy for people to just sit at one place and just follow and know everything on their phones. But even in IWL, we did not see a lot of people turn up for the games. And when the matches were telecasted on football, there was huge viewership on live matches. Because as I said, it's very easy to sit at one place and look, but like people do not actually want to turn up to the stadium. Could be, I mean, there could be various reasons, but yeah, there is a huge difference in terms of that as well. I think a huge amount of whatever we caught from the common sections of all these live games, a lot of people weren't turning up the stadiums perhaps because of the timing of the games and also because of the lack of publicity about the IWL itself. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't speaking specifically about the IWL, but just in general, in terms of the kind of support and the following that the game is getting. Coming back to the World Cup, so it's pretty clear now who the teams are that are going forward. More or less, the big game tonight is USA-Sweden, which should be... Which is actually the grudge match. Only one of the biggest games. I guess after Brazil-Australia, this is probably like the biggest game of the group stages. But it's more or less academic, only to do with who finishes where in the group. Actually, it makes a huge difference because if the US finish top, then they'll face France in the quarters. If they finish second, then they avoid. Then we get the blockbuster clash later. Yeah, I know. You wouldn't want to. Yeah, absolutely. You wouldn't want to drop any points. Yeah, I guess I don't see the US really dropping points. I don't know, either Sweden are good, but like the US are... But this point was actually brought into our press conference and the coach was like, I can't stop them from tackling each other in the field. How do you expect me to tell them to lose the game and not face France in the quarter-finals? I feel that that's great, that's great. It'll be like a really nice match to watch tonight. So I think the US team, I mean, they're copying a fair bit of press from different areas for different reasons. But I think they've gone into the World Cup with a huge amount of pressure, not just because they're world champions, but because also the fact that they're championing a cause for women's football, which is bigger than just the game itself, yeah, just football itself. So that is really, I mean, that also ties into the larger thing we were talking about exposure for the women's game. And I think this World Cup is perhaps being followed a little more than usual women World Cups. Like there's a lot of eyeballs on almost every team. Like I think the England team are getting a lot of media. We were just talking before the camera started rolling about how the women's team's average viewership on television in England has been more than the English cricket team's viewership. So that's quite massive, if you think about it. I think that's true for France also. The stadiums are packing up for their games. I don't know if it's massive. I mean, it's a good reality check for those who sit in India, I guess. Yeah, definitely. For the rest of the world, there's no real comparison between the numbers that cricket get and football. Yeah, true. Yeah, I guess it's massive for us. You're right. In England playing, I mean, I think now you see even when they play friendly games at home or whatever, the matches are all sold out. Of course, they may not necessarily happen at 60,000, 70,000 seater stadiums. Probably it's smaller. No, those kind of venues are only selected by our guys for our matches. So never done for the other guys. Also, that's making a bigger difference. I feel as though the legends, like the living legends who are playing the FIFA World Cup, fighting for a good cause for women in football. Like Marta, you see her wearing plain black studs with a gender equality symbol and that is what she celebrates after scoring every goal and I feel that's a really good cause. But like there's Edda on the other side who's not playing the FIFA World Cup because she wants an equal pay for women and men, which is huge.  So I feel that is why there are a lot of people who are paying attention because they are seeing that what are these people actually fighting for. So I feel every match that we go out, it's like a thing that we have to prove ourselves. Every match we need to prove ourselves, so yeah. I think the media attention also has probably an impact on how people do on the pitch as well, right. And some of that seems to be translating. I don't know, we don't get to watch a massive amount of women's football, especially not international women's football on a regular basis. So a lot of this is, and it's a World Cup so it's unfortunate, but a lot of it is new or rare that you have the best teams in the world, at least on-show or on a daily basis for an entire month.  Definitely, game by game. And it started off with sort of a lot of one-sided contests with a lot of goals for one team and then nothing for the others. And then everyone's now competing and fighting and it's great to see like even the Thais get a goal. Yeah. Yeah, I need a lot of emotions that will evolve, I mean, involved within the team after they got their first FIFA World Cup goal. I mean, that was crazy. And even France, like from their last World Cup to this World Cup, I think they've really upped their game because there are a lot of people who are turning into the stadium to support them, to watch them and I feel that is a huge boost for the players who are playing in the field because at the end of the day, whatever they're doing, the hard work is getting recognized. It seems more realistic from an Indian point of view again that the women's team will make it to World Cup before the men's team does, right? How do you view where your squad is currently placed in terms of being competitive with, let's say, the Asian teams that are at the World Cup for Thais in China, Japan, Korea? So what I feel is we ranked, I mean, right now, we ranked 12th in Asia, but after a four-month exposure, we could compete with a team like Myanmar who was ranked 44th in the world and way above us in Asia. So I feel if that exposure is continued, at least for like years to come, I feel we can even make it to the main Asian cup from the qualifiers in the coming two years. So I feel that shouldn't be difficult, but it all comes down to how much of competitive environment and atmosphere we've provided with and the number of matches that we've provided with where we can actually test ourselves and we can test each other as a team together because the more number of matches, the more experience and I feel the better the game. That's pretty obvious from just the kind of number of matches that say the American team or the French team or even the Norwegian team, these national teams, the number of matches they play, their youngest players, players who are called, they're new to the team, have already played 50 games. So that's quite a lot. Yeah, we were looking at sort of the stats for Christine Sinclair and some of these senior players. She's of course, she's got 181 goals in international football and four away from being the top all-time leading goal scorer and she's played something like, I think, 270 plus games. That's a massive hockey stat. I mean, yeah. It happens in hockey, 300 caps, 350 caps. It happens right now. Manpreet Singh just played his 250th, I don't know why you're talking about hockey. Not even a sport anymore. But, sorry, I've lost track of where we were. No, I think it's about exposure. Yeah, I mean, just the number of games that the Indian team should be playing and perhaps the number of games that, across age groups, they should be given an opportunity to expose themselves to. It makes a huge difference. And it all comes down to the league structure within the country itself. I mean, all the countries who are playing the FIFA World Cup have a well-established league structure, like, you know, club football is like the culture there and they play all around the earth in a competitive season for like around eight months in a year. I feel it does come down to that also because you need a lot of matches and you need a competitive environment around you for you to grow as a player. Basically, if you don't play, then... If you don't play... But the thing is, if you don't play, then you won't play. Chicken and egg. Yes. I was also looking at the league structure in Japan. Since 1989, they've had a league for women and it's a three-tier league. So maybe the third sort of stage is like a qualifier that gets you into the main rounds of competition. But still, three levels of domestic competition, for women, senior women. And obviously, then you have the age group teams in the same setup. So that's what... And if you look at the list of recent call-ups, for example, that they've had to the national team. We're only talking about Japan because it's just an example close to home or whatever. There are like 50, 60 players that have recently gone through the national team setup. So the base that these countries have of existing talent and that is at a certain level is far, I think, greater than where we are currently and the league structure. I mean, by the way, I didn't ask the question. Yes, I should ask. For what? So please, make a good league structure. Make a good league, right? Then we'll be somewhere else. No, actually, you're right about Japan being closer to home. So using them as an example. But I think culturally, not culturally, maybe. I don't know what the correct word is. But in terms of the way that the current situation is, Argentina are probably closer to what the Indian women football structure is. And their players, and I'm not saying this as like any sort of situation, but I'm just saying that their players went and went on strike and really went for the federation, saying that they should be provided equal opportunities. So it's, you know, I mean. So apparently they had not played a game in almost no. Oh yeah, they did not play the game in two years. One of their players who sued the federation was run out of her contract, thrown out of the national setup. She's not playing the World Cup, but she's very happily following the team. So yeah, there's a lot of basically a lot of interesting stories going on around the tournament, not just the football. And Argentina got their first point, right? No, they've got their first point against Japan. So they got their, they got their first goal and first goals in a rush of 20 minutes. Yeah. So I guess that pretty much covers most of the things we had talked about. The one thing maybe I can ask you just to conclude, since you were saying that there is this little bit of interest in awareness or interest from brands in getting, associating with women's football and with athletes, this kind of feeds into the creation of a club structure as well, because that cannot happen. Like sort of no one's going to come and create a club structure or create these clubs. They'll have to happen individually or groups will have to be put whatever, however clubs are formed. So is there an interest, do you think, an increasing interest in private parties to put in the money, the time, the effort to set up these clubs? I mean, one thing that I would say is putting a money on a player and putting a money on a team, which includes staff as well, is very different.  And I don't think that at this moment, the stakeholders are ready to do that because even, I mean, only Gokulam has been one team which has been consistent from I-League who has played the IWL because in the first edition we saw Pune City FC, but then they backed out and all the ISL teams did come up and then in the end they backed out. And I've always said that it would be very beneficial for the women's football if they step in and they create their women's team because they already have a large fan following and that would create a very, very immediate impact on the fans and it would make a very huge difference in terms of how women's football is viewed in the country because women's footballers will be there on their Instagram, handle where the men's footballers are and people won't stop following the accounts. They would then, even unconsciously, but they will pay attention to the women's footballer as well. So I would say managing a player and managing a team is pretty different and the stakeholders at the moment are not ready to put in that amount of money into women's football because they don't see stability in it at the moment because it is something that is still growing in our country. Although we do need that support, but there needs to be a certain amount of stability for them to actually invest their time and money to be able to succeed. I guess we're all about speculation in this country. We won't start to make it happen real quick, but if you're not interested in supporting women's football, take a look at the World Cup and what's happening there. Fact stadiums, I think decent advertising revenues, solid numbers on television. So obviously, there is a market there and if market language is the language that we understand, then maybe there will be a queue to start following the women's game a little more here in India. That's how it happens. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed. Let's hope that Dalima and the rest of her team don't become such big superstars that they stop coming into the stadium. Now you've said it on camera. This little clip is getting archived. See you again. So thank you once again, great chat. Always good to have you guys. Thank you for watching. See you next week.


What's up guys, my name is Michael and welcome to my YouTube channel today. We're gonna go over at code or beginner contest 171 d Replacing so basically you're given a sequence a of n positive integers a 1 a 2 up to a n and then basically what they want to do Is you're gonna replace every element whose value is bi with ci and then print out the sum of a after the ith operation So as we could see here this problem isn't very difficult when you think about it But I'll explain what I mean by it.  So then they print out 11 Now afterwards We're gonna read in three and four now We're gonna replace all occurrences of three with four and what does that give you that gives you? 12 after summing it then after that we're gonna replace all occurrences of two with four And what does that give you that gives you four four four and that's just 16 so I'm just gonna go over the the actually the The the optimal solution on this problem because uh It's actually not that difficult. So here I'm gonna show you what The editorials did so here So what you want to do Essentially is you want to keep track of the number of occurrences of every single element and you're going to sum up all the numbers First right so here what I did was I read in Read in and the number of elements and then I had of the Array of numbers. I'm reading. I go through And of the number of elements I'm reading I'm gonna read in every single element and I'm gonna keep track of the number of occurrences using a map So I'm gonna map every single number with the number of occurrences by doing occur at Whatever number I'm reading and then plus plus and then I'm gonna keep track a variable of sum that sums up all the numbers So some plus equal to a of I so this is just like the beginning sum so now Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna read in the number of test cases because that's what they require us to do So I do while q minus minus c and q and I'm gonna read in b and c and b is the number That you want to replace it with c so if you do a bunch of Do a bunch of trials you realize that the sum is actually you know The sum is actually not that There's a pattern you realize okay What you realize that you're actually just increasing the The difference between c and b and then multiplying by the number of occurrences of b, right? So like if I'm doing Let's say go. Let's go back to the problem. Whoops. Sorry guys. Let's say I go back to the problem of Let's go let's go back to this problem So let's say I'm replacing all the occurrences of one with two and one and that's basically just adding the initial sum By two minus one and then multiplying the number of occurrences of one Right because the difference of the sum is now changed based on the difference of what your Number you're replacing it subtracting by the initial the initial value, right? So that's going to be the number that's going to be the increase from the initial sum Right, so then you don't have to recalculate some over and over again You just have to calculate the sum of the beginning and then find how much difference it is that it's increasing so basically all you have to do is just Calculate the initial sum like what I did before and then you Every time you read in the numbers that you want to replace it with like the initial number and the number you want to replace it with You're going to subtract C minus B right, and I'll give you the The values that you're going to increase it by and then you just multiply the number of occurrences of the initial number So in this case it would be one two minus one, which is one right and multiply the number of occurrences of one So there's only since there's only one one it's going to increase their initial sum Which was ten by one so ten is going to be plus one and I'll get you eleven If you look at the second test case three four Oh, yeah, you also have to update the number of occurrences So then after that the number of occurrences of one is going to drop down to zero and then the initial number One of the number of occurrences of two is going to increase by one, right? So then now now when you update it you just have you just keep track of that new number of occurrences Right because like we're after we've replaced one with two the number of occurrences of one Doesn't exist anymore and then to the number of occurrences of two gets increased Right, so that's that's what we do. So I'll go back to the code of what I did before so my submissions so in here basically what I did was after I've Calculated the difference that I'm increasing it by and multiplying by the number of occurrences. I'm replacing it by I Just print out my sum and then I add the number of the number of occurrences of the new one plus equal the occurrences of B Right because I'm replacing so remember let's go back to the right case since I'm replacing one with two right The number of occurrences of two now gets increased by how many ones there are In the array so that's why I do do this occurrence of C plus equal the currents of B So this would add up The number of times two One showed up so by two right? So then the number of occurrences of two is now increased by the number of occurrences of one So that's what it does then I set the number of times One goes back to zero, right? So that's what this is the initial value that goes back to zero So yeah, that's basically how you do this problem What I'll explain it again you want to keep track of the The difference of what's the know the times it's increasing it by right? So so if I'm replacing one with two, I'm gonna see how much my initial sum is gonna increase by Right, and then I'm gonna take that and multiply by how many the number of times one occurred inside the array So that's what this does And then I'm gonna print out the sum but while you're doing so you also have to update The number of times two goes right so because of two occurs one time You have to increase it so now number of times two now gets increased by one and that's what this does. So yeah I hope that I hope I explained that correctly, but yeah, that's how you do this problem. Very calm subscribe I'll check you guys later. Peace


Let us look at the concept of initial sizing in aircraft design. This is the first step in design where we start looking at some estimates or some numbers. What is initial sizing? The words initial sizing in aircraft design have a very specific meaning and that meaning is estimation of the aircraft design takeoff gross weight. Now, what is design takeoff gross weight? It is the weight of the aircraft at the start of the design mission profile. Every aircraft is designed to meet or to operate its mission using a specific profile. This mission profile is essentially a sketch that indicates what the aircraft is supposed to do and this is specified by the user. But apart from the mission profile given by the user, there are some additional requirements which also have to be taken care while carrying out the sizing. These requirements as we know are specified by the regulatory bodies ok. So, the objective of initial sizing are two fold. First is to identify the requirements that are likely to derive the design and secondly to get a first estimate of the size of the aircraft through the estimation of its design gross weight w 0. Mission profile is something that varies with the purpose of the aircraft. So, let us have a look at some standard mission profile ok. Now, if you have a simple general aviation aircraft, then the mission profile is very straightforward. You just takeoff, climb to the height, cruise, descend. When you descend, you may be forced to loiter for some time because the runway is not available to you. This requirement of loiter is normally specified by the airworthiness agencies, we call it as a hold. And then once you are cleared to land, you would be then proceeding with the descent and landing. When you have a commercial transport aircraft, the mission profile is slightly more complicated. Apart from the initial profile which is similar to the general aviation aircraft, you have to also keep a provision for one attempt to land which is unsuccessful and this could be because of a various of reasons. It could be because when you are attempting to land, there is some obstruction on the runway or when you are attempting to land because of weather or any other reason, you are forced to abort the landing and divert to a nearby airport. So, you should have enough fuel to be able to climb after an attempted landing which is aborted, divert to a nearby location, approach and again have some fuel for loiter because even at that airport, you may have to hold for some time and then land. So, these requirements for loiter and diversion and the second loiter are the requirements which are given by the airworthiness agencies essentially to ensure our safety. Let us have a look at a simple cruise. The mission profile of a simple cruise can be broken down into various sub segments. So, for instance, you have the first leg which is the warm up, taxi out and takeoff. Every aircraft spends some time in the pilot needs some time to check all the systems just before the takeoff is commenced. Typically, the pilot would start the aircraft and go for a checklist and during that time the engine is on and hence fuel is being consumed. After that, once you are given the clearance to proceed, you have to taxi out that is to proceed from the place where you are parked or the terminal or the gate to the start of the runway and then from there, you have to execute a takeoff. So, during this phase when you are still on the ground in many ways, you are going to consume some amount of fuel therefore, this is the first leg. The second segment would involve climb to the cruising altitude. The next would involve cruise to the desired destination. This cruise could be a constant altitude cruise as shown here or it could be a cruise climb in which the altitude is constantly increasing because of consumption of fuel that is a matter of detail. So, that is not shown here. And then you have a descent phase when you are now approaching when you are wanting to now land, but when you are descending, you might have to actually go for some amount of loiter or hold at the destination airport and then once you are cleared to land, you will have an approach segment and then you will have the landing segment. After landing, you are going to taxi into the terminal or the gate once again. So, each leg of the mission profile is assumed to start and end from numbers. For example, the warm up taxi out and take off is from 1 to 2. So, the leg is 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, 4 to 5, 5 to 6, 6 to 7. Now, if it is a transport aircraft, as you know after this there will be a requirement for between approach there will be a land, there will be a requirement for diversion which will involve some other climb, another small cruise, another descent, another loiter and then final landing in. This is a typical mission profile for a multi-role jet fighter aircraft. Here you take off, accelerate, climb and then you fly out at the best cruise Mach number and the best cruise altitude. Notice the requirement is not specific here. You are allowed to choose and then when you are going to reach the area of operation you are going to come down to the low altitude. There will be an ingress at the combat erosion, there will be delivery of some ordnance and then you have to avoid, you will have to have some defensive reaction. After that once your job is over you are going to egress back, again you will climb to a best cruise altitude at best cruise Mach number and then you continue your flight back to the origin and when you come back you may have to loiter for some time. So this is a typical mission profile for a multi-role jet fighter aircraft like that there are many mission profiles which have to be considered. In our explanation we are going to focus only on a civil transport aircraft. Now right in the beginning it is important for us to realize that there are some fundamental issues that are going to plague us when we do initial sizing. The first problem is that you would like to estimate the gross weight of the aircraft but you have very little information about the aircraft configuration. You have not yet designed the aircraft. You have not even arrived at what kind of shape or configuration you will use. All you know probably is that this will be a turbofan engine aircraft which will have you know typically this kind of you know configuration. You do not have the specific configuration yet. You only have a very vague idea but with very little information you are supposed to do estimates. So therefore most of the methods that you will see in initial sizing are very deeply rooted in the past. Most of the formulae and procedures are going to be basically extrapolations or interpolations within the database available for the existing aircraft. The estimates are going to be arrived by statistical inference of the parameters and it will be based on the data that you have collected for similar aircraft which are designed earlier. And this is why most aircraft designers they have with them a large database of information regarding the existing and the past aircraft because you are going to now make an estimate without great information about your aircraft without much information about your aircraft. So therefore you have to go for empirical and semi empirical procedures. Now in literature there are many many methods available for carrying out initial sizing. One of the methods which was quite popular earlier was given by Lawrence K. Lofton Jr. called as the Loftins method. But these days most of the textbooks and the procedures that you normally see being followed is the one that is given by Daniel Ramer in his very popular textbook. And that is the one we are going to look at in this particular presentation also. So most of the textbooks that you see today actually talk about the method given by Ramer which is also what we will see here. Thanks for your attention we will now move to the next section.


Hey, everybody, this is Christian Buckley with another MVP Buzz Chat. And I'm talking today with Mike. Hello. Hi, Christian. Good to see you. Good to see you as well.  So my name is Mike Weaver. I'm out of London, UK, but originally from Hartford, Connecticut. I specialize a lot in merger acquisition and divestiture work, mainly in the Microsoft stack. But a lot of times bringing in all the org challenges that come along with that. So trying to live within the technical realities, but also the personnel realities of the merger acquisition work. So that's been what I've been working on for quite some time. And a lot of what I write about is that kind of org relationship piece with the technical challenges. That's an interesting space, you know, so for both of us have background in migration space. And something that I find myself saying over and over again, it's like people when they think about migration, they think about it as that like one time activity, we're upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to Microsoft 365 or, you know, like that they look at it from that project-centric view. But the reality is, like M&A is a great example of that. Organizations are constantly changing, constantly evolving. So there's always going to be and there's and there you think you know all of the platforms which where your employees have content and you do the major move and then you keep finding, oh, a bunch of Dropbox. Oh, this other business using Box. Oh, there's this other show and you're the one who broke it on Sunday night and Monday. It's not working. Correct. Well, that's the other fun thing about migration. Nobody talks about the dirty side of that. It's like, you can go out and notify everyone for six months. This is coming. This is coming. This is coming. And then you do the migration and people like, well, what happened? Why didn't you tell me? Yeah, absolutely. It's madness. And you know, it's interesting because that's what we try to do is increase that quality. And every time you have one of those disasters, it goes into your playbook of disasters and you try to make it better for the next time and tell all your friends about it. Do you have any fun war stories of any hot messes that you've worked with? I mean, I think the classic. Yeah. I mean, I think the classic is, you know, the found tenants and found issues with Azure AD integration. Right. I mean, with everything being single sign on these days, it's amazing what you can break when you move their single sign on identity from one organization to the other and, you know, all the tie ins break. So I think that's probably the normal war stories.  Someone took out Salesforce once because there was single sign on integration and they hadn't planned that. So it's always the added pieces. So for those at home, check your AD logs, check your app registrations and then look at everything before you start executing that weekend plan. Well, that's again, there's a process that you run through where you remove permissions and then, you know, turn off certain services and kind of test. And again, you can do all of those notifications and it's all quiet. Nobody raises an eyebrow. You turn off access to some of those services and suddenly people like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second. And there are, there are legitimate, like we didn't realize that it was wired the way that it was that we, so we have to go in and make some corrections there. But yeah, it's a, I don't know that it's as messy as it used to be when there was actual physical hardware that we owned. Planes, trains and automobiles on the weekend to ship hard drives and catch planes and all those disasters. People didn't understand to like how backed up it was to get hardware to make put not just the cost of maintaining and running those, but just to acquisition process of getting the hardware and so the cost and the time that it took and then to go and build those things out. So our ops teams were constantly going in and saying, look, if, if no one speaks up and we turn off access to the services, you know, we shut the server down for 30 days and no one cries, you know, complaints, then we reclaim the hardware. Seems pretty straightforward. Yeah. And then, and, you know, you get up at an annual event or something like that that got missed. But the days have changed a lot. I mean, I used to go do those weekends where you'd rip out every switch, every cable, every device and bring in a SEAL team of 20 people for an office. And, you know, the good news is those days are over where you can do a lot more and reconfigure and a lot more options now. And like you said, I think it's a lot more known and firms fall into, I always say, the always acquire and never acquire camps. So, I mean, obviously there's some firms in the middle, but a lot of these firms that have been just doing it for 20 years over and over again. It's business as usual, just with new technology and new planning. Yep. So, what's some of the stuff that you're actively writing on and speaking on right now? What kind of topics are you passionate about? So, Teams is a big kind of, we talk about things that are tried, true and ready. Teams is the one that I'm doing a lot of focus on because of all the challenges in doing that. And so, I've been doing a lot. I was at Consverse in the UK a couple of weeks ago doing a session on, it keeps getting worse and the end was, but you can be the best and some of the ways to try to deal with that. So, that's been a lot of the focus. I do a lot on PST files too, which is just kind of something from industry that's just stayed with me over the years. So, guiding large organizations for that. It kind of rears its head every once in a while, yeah. It ruins a migration weekend every single time when you find it. So, yeah, a lot of that space. I was gonna say what we do a lot with our AMA panels that we do, there's a, like every other episode, there's a question on PST. So, there's still a lot of, again, it used to be, I don't know the answer anymore. It used to be when you'd ask somebody, interview an organization, do some research, how many versions of SharePoint? And the average number of versions was 2.5, meaning there are a lot of companies with three different versions out there. And then you had kind of a similar pattern with email and different clients and different platforms. And I don't know what the numbers are around those things now, but I'd like to think that organizations are streamlining a lot of that. And I think just the natural to move towards the cloud helps with that alignment, that streamlining. Streamlining, yeah, so. And we've got another OS release. So, we've got another set of organizations that want to take on data centralization. So, what's old is new again. And a lot of firms finally, I should say finally, but truly embracing 100% no data on the endpoint with the Windows 11 conversion that firms are starting to play with a little bit after our release yesterday. That was always the question. I mean, I always reference like back in the, it must have been like 2014 or some time around there where I interviewed or met with the Jared Spitaro at the partner conference. And we were talking about the time. So, this was still the tail end of the bomber period. But the, so when was that 2013, 2014? Anyway, Spitaro was talking about, the big push towards the cloud. And that's when bomber was still like the cloud, the cloud we're all in. You're a fool if you're not moving to the cloud and pushing organizations through. And there's a lot of pushback. And of course, working in the migration space and dealing with customers, having this conversation about what they actually invested within those environments and why they were not just running out embracing all things cloud in the earlier days. Spitaro made the comments that I asked him, I said, how fast do you think you'll see the majority of production environments moved over to the cloud? He says, well, I say, we think like two to three years. It'll be very quick. And a year later, I met with him again and I said, do you remember the conversation? Yes, I do. I said, do you remember your answer? He says, yes, I was, I thought it would be two to three years for that. He says, the data is now showing because they spent the year interviewing customers. And they said, you know, this is going to be, we're not putting a date on it.  NetNU, it's easy for organizations that go in there, centralize to build. It just makes complete sense. But for the, especially coming from the SharePoint world, organizations that had spent the last decade investing heavily in automation and building around SharePoint, you know, that it was going to be a slower move. It was a more hybrid than it was jumping over to pure cloud. And a lot of organizations, it was really the COVID pandemic that broke that last hybrid desire. Cause for a while there was the, we put money into the sand. We put money into this investment. We put money into whatever data center. I want to get my five years out of it.  They wanted to be completely removed from it and VPN restrictions and a lot of organizations. That was when they said, okay, no more hybrid, we're done. And we're seeing a lot of that push now for the final servers coming out of data centers. In the office space, app servers, I think are going to be mixed for a while. Well, it's interesting that when you try to impress upon an organization that need to go and pilot new capabilities, the tendency is to go and says, all right, we can do a pilot over on this project over here that's not really going to disturb anything. Well, the problem with that is that if you never put it in that serious scenario, real world scenario, then you're never going to really kick the tires and understand a stress test on the solution. COVID gave everybody a stress test. It made it really quick for them to see, you know, what, you know, where the gaps really were. And I've heard, I'm sure you have from a number of customers that just said, you know, we started to make this move over and Teams was a huge help there, but we had all these other pieces in place and we realized, hey, we can actually do this. And so it's, as you said, it's sped up the rest of the move of the remaining assets. So then it becomes exception management of those other pieces of moving them across. And I think to people's attitudes and I don't want to say willingness for issues, but the expectation that there would be issues because everyone was moving so fast, you kind of had a prime opportunity to push these things faster than the organization would have normally been ready for it because people were more reasonable and understanding that, you know, you had to change. So if you were creative, you could get away with a lot more, I guess, and a lot faster, but we also had to react very quickly to the organization's needs. So it's just, it's amazing how rapid that occurred, especially in the first six months to a year of that situation. Yep. Well, I have to ask you, so you went and participated in the comms verse. So very jealous of that just because, so I participated and supported the event previously in the online version of that. And we have upcoming the US version, the Denver event that's happening. How was it being back into a larger event in person? So it was really well done. So it was a larger venue with less people. So we were able to spread out and Mark Bale, who's the main organizer, did a really nice job of being conscious of that. So I mean, I think at first, especially in the UK because we had restrictions for a lot longer than in the US, it was a little odd being this close to everybody and things like that. But the event was really successful. It was great being back with people to debate issues and, you know, be with a bunch of the speakers and, you know, get into the arguments, debates and war stories and sharing that kind of advice. So that was really nice and that's creativity with the digital events, which a lot of cases are recorded in advance because you kind of have to to have the good quality and ensure the speaker doesn't lose internet connection, things like that. But to get back to live communication was nice and they did a really nice job with that event. Yeah, I'd say that in, so a couple of months back, so I was able to go to an event in Branson, Missouri and it's a huge, the convention center there, which, you know, in years past, there were one or two other major events happening at the same time in this huge space. And this time it was just us. And so we were joking about, you know, having that minimum of 25 to 30 feet distance, you know, between people. So having that was not an issue. But you're right, just the fact that we had a booth and two of us sitting there and people coming up and, you know, we didn't have the huge numbers, you know, numbers of in-person were down. Again, it was, we did it actually September last year, which was, you know, which was weird, but we did it. But the online activity was up. So more people that were online, not there in person, but you just can't beat the people coming by the conversations there at the booth and questions and getting in depth into issues that they're having and getting creative on solutions and pulling other partners into the discussion. I mean, the things that you can't, you can't do virtually, it just doesn't work that way. Well, and I think we know a lot from, you know, home working studies that have been done for nearly 15, 20 years now, right? Remote working and full-time work at home. And most of the studies, you know, in summary always show that you have to have some sort of in-person together time to have the best collaboration with the teams. And I mean, there's ways to do it without, but the best is to have those check-ins in person for like you said, those things that you just can't do very well. Some of my writing I'm doing is effective hybrid meetings and hybrid communications right now to try to support that challenge of, you know, just like what we're talking about of, you know, we've either been home or in the office. Now we have this long-term meeting problem where, okay, what do you do when half of the people are in a room and half of them are remote and you've got to kind of all be on the an equal playing field to actually collaborate effectively. That's, hey, I just tell people say, welcome to the world I've lived in for more than the last decade, you know? And so a couple ideas there. So one, like I started with this job in December last year. And so a month and a half ago was my first time seeing in person a lot of people that I worked with. Now I knew I had relationships, you know, my company at point was a client prior. So I knew I've known people for most of that decade. So that helped. But I can't imagine what that would be like for somebody who is interviewed, brand new, doesn't know anybody, and then it didn't have those interactions, didn't already have those established relationships. You have to make a trip in occasionally. Even I'm like looking at at least a quarterly basis, visiting offices where the majority of my team works so I can have that, that face to face time. Even knowing a lot of these people for most of the last decade, you have to have that connection. I met a colleague last night for the first time. He started in March of 2020 and just right at the beginning of it. And he had never met anyone in the company and he trained in the London and met him at a pub the other night. It's, we're all still doing that. And I'll work better with him going forward now. Which is nice, but just like you said, it really changes things. Yeah, it's funny too, is like my college roommate and close friend for years had lost touch with him. He was actually living on a country for a couple of years, but then came back and went to work for AOL in Northern Virginia. And I'm living in Northern California since the early 90s. And he, so I was actually on the beta for AOL as a messenger. And so, early into mid 90s, it felt like I didn't see him in person for five, six years, yet we talked almost every single day. Yeah, and we had that deep relationship already, lived together for two years, and so we had that to kind of bridge the gaps, but then having the tools, it was fantastic. It was like he was right there. We were sharing things constantly. It's amazing what you can do there, but has to be augmented with that personal connection. There's no way. Absolutely. Yeah, well, very cool. Well, Mike, so folks that want to get in touch with you, find out more about you. What are the best ways to reach you and find out more? So my website is madmic.net for a merger acquisition divestiture. That's probably the best way to start. I also am a regular contributor on practical365.com. Excellent. Are you also a weird Al Jankovic fan? Oh, I don't know. Do I have to be? I could just steal up here. So I've got a good friend, Sharon Weaver. I can't say her name with her. I met her at Comsverse for the first time. Yeah, so I found her. I'm like, I don't know if we're related or not, but yes, I met her. There's just a quote from the movie from UHF, where it's not even weird Al Jankovic, but it's his movie, where Suni, the leading on the fake game show of Wheel of Fish says, are you ready, Weaver? Just that one quote that I do all the time to Sharon. And I think she knows the reference, but. I won't take your thing with her away from her. I wouldn't do that to her. Like I just say it's an important American film. I really highly recommend that you go take a look at it. It's, I think it's important. People need to see it. I will, I will do some research and report back. All right. Anyway, it was great talking to you. We'll, we'll connect soon. Hopefully we'll see you at, maybe at Summit next year. I don't know. Yeah, we'll see where it goes. Yeah. All right, we'll talk to you soon. Thanks for sharing.


Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel for another video. Today I'll be making an all-natural Ayurvedic hair mask. So let me show you all the ingredients I'll be using to make this DIY mask. For those that don't know, Ayurvedic treatments and herbs are a popular choice among many women for hair loss, hair shed, and hair regrowl because they incorporate natural ingredients and have been an effective cure for these issues since ancient times. Some of my top Ayurvedic herbs I'll be using for this mask include by GreenGridge which is also known as the king of herbs. Not only does it help promote hair growth but it also reverses balding and it can be used to prevent premature graying. Next we have Amla also known as Indian gooseberry and this is a conditioning ingredient that aids in hair fall and improves the scalp health by tackling dandruff and an irritated scalp. We also have Brahmi. Brahmi helps strengthen hair and promotes hair growth. It provides nourishment to the roots and promotes new follicle growth. Regular use of Brahmi makes the hair thick and lustrous. Fenugreek, one of my favorites, is an excellent remedy for hair fall. It is also one of the best solutions for dandruff and is known for its ability to boost scalp health. And last we have Aloe Vera. This is also an excellent ingredient for boosting scalp health, curving hair fall and promoting hair growth plus it will aid as an additional conditioner for protecting any irritation of my scalp. For this mask I'll be using one tablespoon of each powdered ingredient and then pouring in the Aloe Vera until I get a semi-loose consistency. I want the mixture to be able to glide on my hair smoothly and cling to my hair without running everywhere like water. Adding oils to this mass mixture is optional but for my dry hair I'll be using a blend of some of my favorite oils such as olive oil, avocado oil and a potent blend of oils from Sultanicals that's rich in a lot of Ayurvedic ingredients. So I'm just gonna keep mixing this mixture just to get all the lumps and bumps out of it to get the consistency that I'm looking for. So now that the mixture is completed I'm just gonna wrap it up and leave it in my fridge for a few days and allow all these ingredients to marinate well with one another until I'm ready to use it. Okay so it's been about a week maybe about a week and a half later and the hair mask has just been sitting in my refrigerator covered until I was ready to use it and so now I am ready to use it and this is what we are looking like. My hair is freshly washed. I just washed it with the Shea Ayurvedic Butter Shampoo from Sultanicals. This is the heavy shampoo buttercream with Brahmi Amla Shibukai and by Greenridge. I also have my hair section off and detangled so we're gonna go ahead and start applying the mask. I'm just gonna show you how I do that. Now I did warm up this mask because I like applying my DIY mask to my hair when it's warm and it just penetrates into my hair a lot easier a lot better. So I'm just gonna go ahead and just glide this on my hair and this is gonna get very messy so I do have a t-shirt on. This is not one that I normally wear it's just an old white t-shirt so I don't mind getting this dirty. So just applying from the roots all the way to the ends of my hair with the mask. It has a lot of great slip. It smells very urovedic basically just meaning it smells very herbal. It smells not like medicine or anything like that but it just I don't know what it smells like. I can't really describe the smell. It just smells urovedic. If you've ever been around or use urovedic products before then you know what I'm talking about. I'm just gonna continue to work the product throughout my hair. So again this is the first section and I'm gonna let this sit on my hair for about 30 minutes and I'm gonna put my heat cap on.  I like the consistency that I have it set for because it just glides into my hair and just penetrates my hair very easily and I can wash it out very easily as well. So I think I got this section pretty well covered from roots to end and I'm just going to put it back up into a knot and I'll start on the next section. So this is pretty much the process. I'm gonna kind of speed this up a little bit and finish off the last three sections and I will be using the conditioner from Giovanni to thoroughly wash this mask out of my hair because it does have a lot of grit in it from the herbs and I want to make sure that I get that thoroughly out of my hair. So we're just gonna speed this up. Okay so it's been probably over 30 minutes now so I'm going to go ahead and take my heat cap off and my scalp my head feels very sweaty. My hair feels very soft and I'm just gonna I'm just gonna go ahead and wash this out as quick as I can. So my hair feels really good. It feels very conditioned. My curls are still defined. So to make sure that I thoroughly get the product out of my hair this mask out of my hair because it does still have that grittiness from all of the powders. I'll be using my favorite conditioner from Giovanni which is the 50-50 balance hydrating calming conditioner for normal to dry hair. This is one of my all-time favorite conditioners because it's very absorbent and it is very low-prosting friendly and it leaves my hair super super moisturized and hydrated. So I'm gonna jump off camera and thoroughly wash out this mask using this conditioner so I'll be right back to show you what my hair looks like with the mask all nicely rinsed out. So I'll be right back. So I have all of the mixture now completely washed out of my hair and I don't know if you can tell but I've got a lot of the grit from the mixture on my shirt so that's why I wanted to make sure that I got this out really really well. I did not want to leave any of those powders or little grits in my hair. So my hair feels really good. It feels very healthy. My curls are still defined. I got some really great definition and my hair has been really doing really well here lately in terms of maintaining the definition and the softness and the manageability has been really really great. My hair is getting thicker. It's getting a little longer and I'm just really loving how healthy my hair has been feeling here lately. So I just really want to make sure that I maintain everything that I'm doing and just being more consistent. So to lock in this moisture before my hair dries as I have the the air on. I'm just going to go in with some olive oil. I hope you can see it. Olive oil there. Just a little bit and just going to run that through my hair. I just try to lock this moisture in. My hair feels super super super soft. What I'm hoping to accomplish is just being more consistent using more aerobatic herbs and ingredients in my hair care because it does promote the growth. It promotes the overall health that my hair and my scalp need. But most importantly it's the health of my hair that I'm most concerned because if your hair is not healthy it's just not going to grow. So that's going to be first and then the growth will come. So not so much as word is the growth. It's just really the health and strength of my hair and just reducing as much hair shed and hair fall as possible. So I'm just at a point where I'm just really happy with the turn that my hair has taken right now and I'm just hoping that I can stay on that track. My hair is doing the most. But it feels good and looks good. So I'm going to continue using this mask. I'll try to use it maybe every two weeks or something like that. But I can also use just the ingredients individually just to add to my conditioners or my shampoos if I want to do it that way. So that concludes this video. I'm going to go ahead and style my hair off camera. I'll twist it up maybe. I don't know what I'm going to do to it to be quite honest. I'll probably twist it up. Just do a lock method and twist it up because it's just really hot. And I really don't feel like they'll want it today. But I'll probably style it tomorrow. But I hope you guys enjoyed watching this video and how I make this Ayurvedic hair mask. If you liked it, please don't forget to give it a big thumbs up because it does help my channel. Don't forget to subscribe. Also don't forget to comment down below. But again, I thank you so much for tuning back in for this video. And again, I hope you enjoyed it and I'm repeating myself. I'm going to go ahead and sign out. It's just Janine and I will see you on the next video. Bye guys.


Wel o'r Toffey TV, mae'na cyfnod yna felly gweithreduudoeth Eir incidentu ar hyn. Mae'r ffordd o gwbl yn casio'r byw y dyfodol. Mae'r bwysig iawn o'r ffordd o'r bwysig iawn i'r gwell i gyrsio'ch gyda Fy oedden nhw'n gwellisoedd ac yr oedd yn oed yn ddefnyddio'r polf. Yr eitaf, byddai'r link yn y tusiwn. Marko, Ysbryd yn fwyafol o Eir Eir eitaf hyn yn gyfaint o Manchester Uniseu Cynyddiu oedd y parfataeth ein hynny. Silver said it was a fantastic performance from the first minute to the last minute by the players. They did everything we wanted them to do. He said it was a great win and Godderson was bouncing in at his job as a manager to get more days like that. It was a good response from last week's defeat against Fulham. Obviously last week we were under-performed, massively losing 2-0 of Fulham, but it was a great response by the lads yesterday. Again, Godderson was bouncing, the fans were fantastic, the siren helped, obviously it does. The performance like that again, the last four home games have all been teams in the top six. We haven't considered the goal 10.12. When it just shows you that there is ability in this team, there's a good level in this side. If we can get a bit more consistency and add a couple more players to it, then who knows what kind of season we can have next season. But another fantastic result of Godderson yesterday. The manager also spoke about Luca Dean and said he should be fine. This week he was forced off with a stamp on the ankle, but a little bit of bruising. He should be fine for the trip to Crystal Palace. He's still waiting to hear on the extent of the Charleston injury. The Brazilian scored his 13th goal of the season yesterday but was forced off with what looked like a rib injury. So, hopefully he was just got bruised ribs and he'll be okay to take his place against Palace at the weekend as well. Michael Keane has also spoke about the results yesterday and said he hopes that people give Everton credit rather than focusing on Manchester United. He said the club that Manchester United are, obviously people always look when they don't win games, but it's about time some of these media outlets give Everton the credit they deserve. We executed our game plan from the first minute and we thoroughly deserved the victory and he's absolutely right. Too often, you know, certainly the last three home games, it was Chelsea weren't at it, Arsenal would be low par, Manchester United would be low par. The reality is Everton were just better than all of them. That is the reality. Everton were better than all of those sides, hence why we've won the last three home games, scoring seven and considered none against these top, you know, top six teams. That's the narrative. The narrative isn't they didn't say enough. The narrative is Everton were just better because Everton are actually a good football side. But, you know, obviously it doesn't really go with what they want. The top six is the ball and end all for them or the clickbait FC, which is all they bothered about. Michael Keane also said about the last three games, he said we want to win. All of them, we want to finish the season as strongly as we can. Obviously we let people down and ourselves down last week with the defeat against Fulham and we hope to finish the season strongly. So here, here, James McCarthy has talked about his return to Everton's first team action yesterday as well. Said it was good to be back and he's hoping to get more minutes before the end of the season. He's said it's been, he's been fifth for the last seven months, but it's been difficult to find his way into Marco Silva's team. He said don't get me wrong, we've got a lot of good players here, but it's been frustrating that I haven't played more games. He wanted to go out on loan in January. Marco Silva didn't want him to and he says he doesn't know what will happen in the summer, but he's going to try and force his way into the side before the season finishes. It was good to see James back on the pitch yesterday. Obviously came on for Ghana again for the last 20 minutes. It's put himself about won a lot of tackles, looked nice, sharp, nice and fit. So it's up to him to try and force his way in. Obviously Andre Gomez is suspended for the next two games. Morgan Snidelam played yesterday and had a really good game. So McCarthy will probably find himself on the bench at Palace of the Weekend and then see what happens if he gets onto the pitch. Tim Cale has said that Everton should sign Diego Costa. Cale, who was summarising for being sports during yesterday's four-nil victory, said that he'd like to see Everton go after Diego Costa. When I say that, people say Everton. Everton had a big club, an ambitious club and have a lot of money now. He said why shouldn't they go and attract someone of Costa's ability? They've got the money to pay him. I totally and utterly back the sentiment of Cale. It's about showing an ambition. Everton are in a small club. They've got a lot of money. They can buy players. I don't know whether Costa would fit into Everton's the way they play. I'm not sure he's quick enough for the way we play. But he is a fantastic centre forward and he does cause problems for players. But that's the kind of ambition we need to show. We need to say this and we want to get better and better. We've got the money to get better and better. We've got the ambition. If you have that and you put it all together with the fans and everything else, then Everton knows where they can go. But everyone starts somewhere. I think we have to move away from looking at things and going, we couldn't get him and we couldn't get him. You've got to try. If you don't try, you don't know. Let's hope the club heed that. That is it for the news daily. If you haven't subscribed, please do so. It takes a second. Give the video a thumbs up. And if you want more videos, get over and join us on Patreon. Enjoy the rest of your bank holiday.