I have some amazing Amazon finds to share with you today, so much so that we're not even going to do our regular intro. Let's just get right into it right after I tell you that I have a numbering system for you to be able to shop today if you want to. I will put up a number here on the screen that will correspond to whatever product that I'm holding up. You don't have to remember the name of the product or anything like that. You just have to make a note of the number, jot it down, do whatever to remember it. Then you'll see that number three when you go down into the description box as you open it. Next to that will be that product, the color that I talked about, and the link, and you can shop that way if you'd like to. All right, let's get into it because we're going to be taking a little bit of time here. First, we're going to talk about my shirt, lightweight jersey knit tee with a v-neck crossover detailing in the front. It's kind of a little bit lower, but the crossover kind of gives you a little bit more modesty too. It's a long sleeve that I just like to pull up. It's a little bit longer and goes over the tush and the tummy. I just really like it. Then I pull it up and kind of rush it to hide that a little bit more anyway. It's light enough that I feel like I can wear it in the daytime as we still have a little bit warmer days, but warm enough that it can transition me into the evenings when it's a little bit cooler. The next thing are the earrings that I have. These are a spiral earring in silver. These do come in a two-tone and then they also come in the gold, I believe. They might already also come in a black, which I think are really pretty. They have the rhinestone spiral in the center of it. I just really love these. I've shown them on my channel before, but I wanted to wear them. I was showing them again. This is a layer necklace that came in layers of three. I only put two on today, but what I want to show you is that I also discovered these really cool clasps that you can use. What's so neat about them, you just take any necklaces that you have and then you put them on this magnetic clasp. The clasp will hold two or three. There's probably ones that have four too. This one came in a package of four, some gold and some silver ones, because it's magnetic. It just goes together really easy. It won't fall off, no matter what, because that clasp is pretty tight, but it's not so tight that it's hard to get on and off. It's so easy to be able to just put that on without worrying about those silly little lobster clasps that I have a hard time with my fingernails with. That was really fun. The next picture I'm going to show you is of another shirt that I'm wearing. It is a teal color shirt. It's kind of a deepened teal that has a beautiful crochet overlay on it. It's such a pretty detail on this shirt. Long sleeve again, but this one is a little bit more heavy than the one I have on. Then I'll show you the detailing really close on that shirt. It's just so pretty. I really have been loving that. Just one of those shirts that is really nice as we're going into the fall winter. Also, with that shirt have on a really pretty silver bracelet. It's just a pretty cuff bracelet. It kind of goes with what I'm wearing, so I'm going to keep that on for a minute. It's laced and it just is your average size cuff bracelet. I really like it. Then with that shirt, I also do have on these earrings. I'll switch this out really quick so that you can see this earring. This is a boho earring that is just so cute. It has the shells on it, the beads on it, the beads are blue. I believe this comes in another color. I'm not, don't quote me 100% on that, but I believe it does come in another color. This is kind of a burnished brass color on the metal. These are so pretty and they are just really nice if you're somebody that likes wearing earrings that are really dangled, which is my jam anyway. I also want to show you this robe right here. This robe has been so nice for me. I bought this last year, but I thought as we're going into the winter months and the fall months, we need cozy. We need everything to be cozy. This robe is so soft and yummy and it fits great. It has a hood on it, which I've never had a robe with a hood on it. I've always just had them with the collar on them. It comes down to a really good length and you can cuff the sleeves. This is just a super cozy robe and I really wanted to share it because it's not very expensive. It's just a really nice robe. I also wanted to share my latest Skechers find. I love Skechers. I show a pair of Skechers almost every time I do one of these Amazon videos. Skechers is such a good shoe for me. For one, I always buy the one that is just the bungee for the shoelaces. I love being able to just slip in my shoes. I don't know whether I'm just getting that old or whether I'm just that lazy pick your poison there, but I really do love these and I think that these are so cute because they are black and white, but they have a little silver thread that goes through here. That's kind of a shimmer. I love to wear these to every place I go to because they're just so stinking comfortable. I hear you. You're saying, where's the purses? Well, they're here. Here's the purse that I chose to put in today's video. This is a beautiful purple maroon colored purse. This is basically your hobo bag that I love so much, but I love the gunmetal detailing on this one and I love this stitching on these. They're just so nice. Then if you have a purse like this that's really big, you really need to think about getting one of these inserts right here. I just love having them for organization. You can just pull them out and put them into your next purse. This one is a longer one and a little bit bigger, but I still love it so much. Then there is a buckle detailing on this purse as well. I just think that this one is really cute, comes in a ton of colors for you if you want different colors too. I love this plummy purple. Then the other one that I have to show you is such a cute purse. This purse has all of these gold rivets on it and the detailing with the gold, but what is so fun about this particular one itself is that you can go in here and unbuckle this and out comes another purse that is so cute. Here's the strap that goes to it and then it also has like the little wallet clutch or the little makeup clutch that goes with it. It's actually three pieces. It's just so darn cute and they all go in there and lots of colors on this one as well. I brought this up here because I had to show you. My house is kind of done in a farmhouse style, but this is such a dang cute box with the lid for your laundry soap, but it's not laundry soap that I keep in here. I keep my oxy clean in here and it has the scoop. I measured it. It's the exact same scoop that the oxy clean has inside of its tub, so I just keep them in here and I keep this on my dryer along with the one that you saw before that is the dryer sheet one that has the lid on it that's hinged. It's so cute. You could even keep this on your counter and not use it for a laundry. You could put anything in here, wash rags, anything you wanted to, and I just think it'd be so cute even in a bathroom. It's just a cute piece and I just had to share it with you. All right, on to some beauty. I am really excited about these new Paw Paw Beauty sponges that I found. I don't remember. I think it maybe was Juicy Jazz's channel. I think it was her channel and she was talking about how good these are and oh man, these are soft. They are amazing. Okay, six of them is for $10, which is a great price anyway. They're from the company AOA, which is I think it's the Shop Miss A brand, but you can get them on Amazon and not have to pay for the shipping just if you want this one product. But anyway, here it is. This is the one that I used today and haven't claimed yet, but this is what they look like when they come out of the package and they do double in size, but this is so soft that if you didn't want to get up and wet this, you wouldn't have to, but I can't do that. I have to have my makeup sponges damp. So I love these. I really, they are so very soft. I just cannot believe how soft they are compared even to the Beauty Blender. I think they're a little softer than that. That's what she was saying and that's really why I went and picked it up and sure enough, they feel very, very soft and I think they're quite a bit softer than the Beauty Blender. Now in talking about that, I wanted to share with you from Eco Tools. I don't use this for my brush cleaner. This is a brush and makeup sponge shampoo. I don't use this for my makeup brushes. I use the Cinema Secrets, but I do use this for these sponges and I like this because it's a pretty low sudsing shampoo. So you don't have a lot of suds that you're going to sit there and try to ring out of these for an hour, but it does the job so well. So I just get a little bit damp like this and then I just spread a bunch across there and I just work it until it comes clean and it does get them 100% clean. This is a great shampoo for sponges, but I'm sure it would be just as good for brushes as well. Also the two most common questions that I get in the comment section is how do you get your teeth so white? So that all this is is the basic crest white strips. These are the brilliance white ones. I do this as a maintenance in between getting cleanings at the dentist. I was really blessed by my mother with really good teeth. I do have fairly white teeth to begin with anyway, but this helps keep them so sparkling white and clean and I just absolutely love them. So you just put them on, you just kind of press them down in between each tooth and they work so well and I continue to buy them over and over again. So those are great. And then the other question that I get is how you get your eyes to look so white and that is Lumify. I have had Lumify for probably four or five years. I do wear contacts. I get up in the mornings. I don't wear these every day. I don't put them in every day. I will put these in on days that I film or days that I have to go somewhere special. So I just put like two drops in each eye and then I wait 20 minutes and I go ahead and put my contacts in. But these keep your eyes so white for hours and I absolutely love them.  That's how long those are. And I just, I love those. They've been with me for a very long time. And then Jan Phelps one day was talking about the tree hut moisturizing shave oil. This one is coconut lime and I got this and this is amazing. It makes your legs so slick to be able to shave with which is awesome. But it also is an oil so it leaves behind some moisture afterwards. Definitely a coconut lime smell but I know that there's a lot of different fragrances in this. So I think you'll really love it because it's just so easy to work with. And it makes your skin really soft since it is an oil afterwards. So this is a repeat customer and I bought this so many times. This is the lady monkey but anti-friction powder. The ingredients in here are cornstarch, calamine powder, tricalcium, phosphate and fragrance. That's all that's in here. And this is the greatest powder I sweat. When I went into menopause I thought I was going to die because I was dripping with sweat all the time especially the boobs. I'm sorry the boobs sweat. And between the thighs yes they sweat and you know you get all of it. So this is my favorite powder for all of that. I wear this almost every single day and if I don't wear it I miss it. And I could tell that I'm not wearing it but this is a great powder and it's just one of those powders that once you try it you'll know why you want to use this instead of regular baby powder. It's just a really good powder. Also I have talked about this before many times on my channel. This is the OGX Bodifying Bamboo and Fiber Full Big Hair Spray and this is an amazing hairspray. My favorite hairspray of all time is the Kenra 25 but it can be a little bit pricey. This is awesome. This is the runner-up to it. This acts just like it. It leaves my hair feeling fairly soft not crunchy at all but it holds like the dickens. I mean it's so so good. It just holds my hair in place and it's what I reach for all the time especially when I run out of my Kenra. It's just such a good hairspray and Melissa 55 puts her stamp of approval on this and she's the one that I heard about that one from. Also I've been talking to you all lately a lot about the timeless Vitamin C that I have gotten into recently and I love this stuff. So it's 20% Vitamin C Ferulic Acid and Vitamin E. You want those other ingredients to buffer and help your skin as well. This is a great Vitamin C. I don't have any sensitivity with it but if you do you might want to go easy on it meaning you might want to use it like every other day or work into it as you can. Some people have a low tolerance to Vitamin C especially when it's just the regular strength of it or the Scorbic Acid Vitamin C. So definitely for me I see a huge difference with this. I've been using it for several months now and this is a repurchase for me too. I'm now buying it in the two pack which seems to be a lot cheaper than just buying it by itself. Ends up being about $16 per bottle. Okay really quick mention of these Velvet Scrunchies and they have my hair all in them. I have been wearing these for a long long time. I can't remember who talked about it. It might have been Melissa 55 again. I get so many good ideas from her but what I love about wearing a Velvet Scrunchie is every single night when I go to bed because I'm wearing skincare and I usually have stuff slathered I pull my hair up out of the way and if I just use a regular satin scrunchie it falls out immediately but these grip like no other and so you're going to have these on and they're going to keep your hair out of the way. They're a little bit more than the satin ones but boy for me they are worth it because they hold your hair so much better than the other ones do. I really love those instead of the satin ones that I purchased previously and then I want to talk about I don't talk about this very often but I do try to mention it about once a year once every six months is my beloved XLash and this is how I get my eyelashes to grow so long and are thicker than they've ever been in my life and you can use this on your eyebrows if you want to and your eyelashes you only have to use this once a day which makes this unique from all the other serums that I have tried before. You've had to use it twice a day and since I only have to use this once a day the tube lasts me for about six months sometimes it lasts me longer than that and you just paint it along your lash line and that's all you do you can paint it in your eyebrows if you want to but this is a double the size of a regular one like grande lash or revitalash so it's a double the size for a lot less so this has been for me it's one of those ones that I repurchase this is probably like my 20th or 30th tube of this that I've ever had I love it so much. Also after I did the video for you guys about Bifida and Galactomyces I rediscovered the Benton fermentation eye cream and I am loving this I feel like this is really helping to firm up my eyelids and help me so much with this crepey skin that's around my eyes now I will go in with this one as a treatment so this has got galactomyces and Bifida in it so you're using it as a treatment around your eyes which brightens helps with smoothness or wrinkles and it also can help depuff now the dark circles it really doesn't help me that much with mine are inherited so there's not a lot I can do about it but it really is a great cream and I've just been really enjoying it so much I wanted to show you these cute this isn't anything to do with beauty but aren't these cute these little antique looking scissors these come in a pack of two they're very very sharp and they're usually used for needlework but I saw them and I was just like oh my gosh I love those and then I went and I bought my mom some she loves them she loves the antique looking things so this is a really great gift to be able to give her and if you have a seam stress in your life I'll leave the link for the actual seamstress kit down below these so that you can see that too but these have been great scissors for me I'm always needing a pair of scissors by my bed also want to show you this fan this is a fun fan for me because I always want a fan to help dry like when I spritz my face with my setting spray or whatever I'm using at that minute sometimes you want your skincare sometimes you want your nails to dry a little faster but this has three speeds on it which is great it moves the air quite well but what I also like about this is its footprint will sit onto a desk it will sit straight up unless you bump it over and it doesn't wobble around I can grab it if I'm having a hot flash or whatever I need it for and I've really been enjoying having that this comes in a bunch of different colors and then when I'm talking about things that repurchase from Amazon over and over again once a year I talk to you about the Kendra 19 this is a thermal protect thermal protectant but it also helps me keep my curl in place in my hair which is great for me because I do have a tendency to have very fine straight limp hair but this one if I curl if I spray this on and then let it dry and then just brush it through and then curl my hair this helps keep my curl like no other product that I've ever found Kendra is such a great line this one helps keep your curl but using it as a thermal protectant and something that you can use right before you curl your hair really a great product I've purchased this for probably 10 to 15 years this has been in my hair care stash forever also I've been dying to share this with you guys this is the not doctor from infinity pro by con air and I've got a ton of hair in here I use this thing all the time what I love about it is it comes apart really easy so you can take the top off of this and you can just use this like a regular hairdryer if you need to it also has an attachment where you can just go up like a comb and use it like a comb to dry your hair the Revlon one was way too hot for my hair I liked it for a little while but it got so hot one time that it actually burnt my hair and after that it was like no get rid of that so I got rid of it and I kept looking for one I've tried the drybar one I've tried another one that was on Amazon I can't remember the name but they were all too hot and I was just like my hair is too fine to have that kind of heat on it and then I came across this one and what I love about it is you do have the you have three different speeds on here so you have a low and then you have a high but you also have one that is a high but just a cool flow of air which is great because it is so dry where I live that that cool flow of air anyway will dry my hair pretty good so most of the time I never turn this on the high heat setting I always just either keep it on the low or on the cool and then when I'm using the low I can also push this button right here and get a cool shot and if you want to get that curl and you want to put it on the hot you can do that and then hit the cool shot right here as well so that you can cool it down quickly if you need to this is a really great value for the money I think I think it's so much better I loved it so much better than the drybar one which I know that that one was pretty expensive it was like 150 when I bought it and it went straight back because it was just too too hot so this one's been really good for me and I really wanted to show it to you last item these are both RFID wallets meaning that they can definitely keep you safe with all of your information I have shown this one on my channel before it has the cutest little b on it this comes in a million billion colors it's just a cute little wallet they're about the size of a large credit card a large credit card they're about the size of a credit card and then this one is the newest one that I got for the season right now and I'm really enjoying this teal color it's just a color that I'm kind of into this one I do like though because you can attach your keys onto this one it has a cute little tassel and then on this side of it it does have the place for your ID so you don't have to you know search for your ID but basically it's just an accordion style that you can fit a million different credit cards down into the other one is the same one the same thing it looks exactly the same inside so it's just a really great concept to be able to have them all um divided and to be able to see them so quickly it's just easy for me to take this with my keys and not worry about having to take a full purse if I don't want to so this is just really good so that's it for today's video I hope that you did enjoy it please give it a thumbs up on your way out of here we're not going to take a lot of time but I will throw another amazon video up right here so that you can see it I hope you guys are all doing really well please come back around really soon for my next video take care of yourselves and I will see you very soon love you much goodbye my friends


Definition. Rotating vertical plume. A large fire world tornado-like event usually generated by large fires. Main ingredients, heat and a source of vorticity, rotation that depends on channeling from hills and ridges. Before dissipating, these towering structures can move for quite some time across the terrain, traveling a long distance away from their original heat source.  If you saw this phenomenon on one of your own wildland fire assignments, would you know what to do? During a wildfire burnout operation in extremely dry fuels, firefighters suddenly observed this growing rotating plume. This massive rotating vertical plume, captured on videotape that you are now seeing, is moving along the east edge of their burnout. Unfortunately, the crews who watch it swirl across this ridge line don't see the plume as an imminent threat to adjoining forces. They never envision it ever being able to travel down off this ridge. But these people will not underestimate the potential power of a rotating vertical plume ever again. Neither should you. For in less than an hour, members of a nearby engine crew completely unaware that this potentially fatal plume is bearing down on them, are suddenly hit by it. Now, a 1,000 foot wide and 1,500 foot high F1 scale tornado-like phenomenon. As they try to flee its 70 mile per hour turbulence of embers and heat, firefighters must deploy their shelters. People are seriously burned.  These events have resulted in severe injuries and even death. As this Indians fire incident now shows us, the potential hazards of these turbulent rotating vertical plumes should never be downplayed or ignored. In the next several minutes, as you see how firefighters on the Indians fire responded to the hazard of this rotating vertical plume, pay special attention to the lack of Always establishing and fully maintaining situational awareness. L C E S, especially posting lookouts and establishing and maintaining communication and always ensuring that full PPE is maintained. As you are about to see, if people on the Indians fire would have paid more attention to these core firefighting rules of engagement and mindsets, they probably would have avoided this potentially fatal entrapment and burn injuries. It is June 11th. The Indians fire has been burning for three days in extremely dry chaparral fuels. At 1533, as he fires out along Milpitas Road, a hotshot squad boss sees a rotating vertical plume pop up north of the road. After another 30 minutes, the Division C night shift supervisor captures the same growing vertical plume with his video camera. Two different hotshot superintendents also observe this plume of embers and wind, now approximately 1,000 feet wide at its base. An entire hotshot crew also sees it. Everyone is taking pictures of it. No one is reporting it on the radio. After 10 more minutes, the Division C night soup now says that the plume is like a freight train. Even so, not that far away, the five people on Engine 71 still have no idea that this freight train has their name on it. At 1615, parked on Milpitas Road, Engine 71 crew member 3 removes his gloves to eat a sandwich.  He leaves his gloves in a bumper box. No one has told him anything about the now full-grown rotating plume that at this very moment is increasing in size and velocity just to the north of his road. In the next two minutes, his crew learns of a spot fire on the south side of their road, approximately 500 feet back behind them. The captain tells the engine operator to turn the vehicle around. Crew member 1 helps direct this maneuver. The captain and crew members 2 and 3 walk down the road toward the spot fire, thinking that their engine, with their gloves and tools, will quickly be tying back in with them. But remember, two of these people are not wearing gloves. Firefighter 3 will later tell the accident team, As we started walking towards the spot, conditions seemed the same as they had all day. Once the fire engine operator, or FEO, turns the engine around, crew member 1 hurries down the road to catch up with the others. In the next few minutes, the leading edge of the spinning 70 mile per hour rotating vertical plume suddenly slams across Milpitas Road. These sudden winds are ripping down huge oak limbs. The branches from a big falling limb hit crew member 1. The severe winds also pelt him with golf ball-sized rocks. His upper body is peppered with cuts, scrapes, and bruises. The falling branches, embers, and wind start several spot fires. As the FEO tries to drive the engine, smoke totally engulfs him. He can't see anything beyond the engine's hood. With the roar of the wind and flying debris hitting the truck, he tries to get the captain on his radio. But it is just too loud for anyone to hear the radios. For the four engine crew members who are away from the engine, hearing, seeing, walking, and even breathing is suddenly extremely difficult. As the increasing heat begins to hurt and burn exposed skin, the captain tells the two firefighters with him to pull out their fire shelters. Struggling in the wind to shield their shelters around them, they crouch and try to move in the blinding smoke, ash, and heat down the middle of the road. Away from the crash of falling limbs. Crew member 3, who has become separated from the others, is lost inside the thick smoke and choking ash. The heat and embers are burning him. But he's having difficulty getting his fire shelter out of his pack. He tries to shield his face with his arms and jams his bare hands up into his armpits. The hot air begins to burn his throat. He tries to hold his breath and run. Fortunately for them, all of the firefighters, per chance, are saved by vehicles. First, crew member 3 is picked up in the engine by the FEO, who successfully backs the rig out of the firestorm. Twenty seconds later, the division supervisor, driving through the smoke and fire on Milpitas Road, suddenly sees and rescues the engine captain and crew members 1 and 2. The two engine crew members who aren't wearing gloves receive second and third degree burns on their hands. The captain's neck and cheeks also suffer third degree burns. In addition, three engine crew members receive from superficial to serious burns on their faces, ears and necks. They are all transported to hospitals. One firefighter spends 10 days in an area burn center and endures months of physical therapy. On all fires, you must always have all LCES elements in place. On Division C of the Indians Fire, there were no posted lookouts. No one was designated to watch for potential hazards from a vantage point away from the active burnout. In addition, limited information was shared between suppression resources and overhead, and no one spoke up to warn adjacent crews of the rotating vertical plume. The necessary life-dependent situational awareness for firefighters was therefore severely compromised. On Division C of the Indians Fire, everyone underestimated the true hazards of the rotating vertical plume. We should all therefore remember why. On all fires, at all times, it is so vital to recognize changing conditions, communicate this information and adjust tactics accordingly. And remember, whenever you are in a fire area, you must always maintain full safety awareness and protect yourself and your body with full PPE at all times. If all of the firefighters suddenly entrapped by the rotating vertical plume on the Indians Fire had been wearing gloves and shrouds, they probably would not have received such severe burn injuries. What's more, if they all would have stayed with their engine, they would have been safe inside their mobile escape route. They could have driven together to the spot fire, assessed the sudden extreme conditions and backed out. Thank you for watching this. As a wildland firefighter, we hope that these insights from this rotating vertical plume entrapment will help to ensure that such an ordeal never happens to you. Please stay heads up and remember these important lessons learned this fire season and every fire season.


All right, this bit.ly, the bit.ly slash learn360wb will get you to this slide deck. And in the slide deck has some instructions for like the person that manages your Google domain if you want to access some of these that way. So they're good instructions in there. And if they have any questions, they can always just contact me. But learn360 is our video streaming service that we pay for for our schools. And Worldbook Web is the online version of the Encyclopedias. Same thing that ESU8 purchases for our schools. And so this is a way that you can access them from home because it's a little bit different than how you would access them during the school day. And there's still great resources that you could be using. All right, so the first one, Worldbook Web online. You would just put in Worldbook online. And this is important. Now you have to use a login and password. And it's the same for everyone, for teachers, for students. It's just ESU8WB is the login and the password is orders. And I'm gonna take you out and show you what that looks like. But once you've logged in, the difference now, it'll always say service unit eight. Before it said your school, when you logged in at school because it was IP recognized. So it just knew that you were at that location. But it's always gonna say service unit eight, but you'll have the exact same features. So I'm just gonna go out here, gotta move my toolbar. And so it'll look like this when you go to just Worldbook online, it comes up to the login. It's ESU8WB and orders is the password. They don't wanna sign in, sign in with Google or anything, create an account, because they won't be able to access the ESU8 materials. This is the only way to get to them. So once they do that, we'll see how fast my internet is. So everything is there that was there before. Actually, this activity corner is brand new. I just saw it yesterday. I don't even know what it is. But if you've got young kids, there's the early world of learning. And then these are your three levels of encyclopedias, the kids, the student and the advanced. And if your kids are gonna do research, like you're assigning a paper or something, it still works the exact same way. So if they would search something and they want to save their research or they have created an account to save research here in the past, they still access that. So I'm gonna read this article on dogs. I'm looking at it and I really like it. And so I wanna save it. And so if I go to my research, right here is where they would put in their email and create a password or create an account if they don't have one. If kids have already been in here like I have, I would go back to my login, my password, and I log in and then I'm into my personal account. And you can see here are some of the research that I've already done. I have several projects started here. I can go to my different projects, do my research, keep it in one spot. So that still works the same. When they first log in, they have to log in with the esu8wb and it'll say service unit eight here. But once they get inside, they can create their own account or if they already have one, they can save their research that way. Any questions on the world book? There's that login. All right, the other resource that we have is learn360. And it is videos on demand. And in the past, you've had to access it through Snap. And you can still as a teacher, access it through Snap. But in order for your kids to access it, or if you want home access, there's a couple different ways to do that. So as a teacher, I could still go to esu8 web page or I would go to esu8 web page, click on Snap, log in, go to my learn360, find my videos. And then when it comes to assigning it to kids, there's a couple of different ways that can happen. And I'll go to the live one after I go through my slides. So this is the thing. If you are a G Suite for Education and you're using Google Classroom, I would suggest that you have your Google domain administrator go through these steps right here. I'm gonna show you, it looks like this. They're all laid out. It tells them exactly how to go in, what to do, how to, basically they're authenticating so that the student doesn't have to use a password or a login to see the videos. And so it's a process. It's really not that difficult. I've had a couple schools walk through it, but I do have one slide that shows when you get here and you need this admin account and password. Every district has a unique one. And then back on my slides, I put that if you get there, if you contact Linda Thompson or myself, we'll give that administrator, that Google domain administrator, that login and password that's unique to that district. So what this means then, let me go to issue eight, while this is coming up, that if I would assign it through Google Classroom, then my students could click on the video and be able to watch it because the teacher is logged in and the student is logged in through Google Classroom and it's authenticated with Google Classroom, there isn't a password and login. So if a teacher, I would go to snap, login if you don't know your SNAP number, you just have to contact Linda or I. Once I'm here, oh, I have some overdue things. When I'm here, I would go into learn 360 and I find a video that I want. Let's see here, Harry. Here, let's talk about the virus. They've got one here on the virus by SlimGoodBody. And so I decided this is a great video. I want to sign it to my kids. I can assign it through Google Classroom once I've authenticated and went through those steps of that process. So I would just click on here. My classrooms would come up and I would, well, I would have to continue as me and login. I'm not logged in, I guess, but then I could assign it to the classes that I want as an assignment or whatever. But the other way I can do it, and I tested this with Katie yesterday, so this is to the best of my ability. If I go to the share here, I can get this link right here, I can copy it and send it to her. And she, because we have done the authentication, if I remember right, Katie, you just had to put in an email and it worked. Am I correct? I can't even remember now. Katie might not be there, but I can copy this and send it. And I had her use actually not even an ESU-8 Google email and she was able to access that video. There is, if your kids are not able to access them and it gives them they want a pass key, that is also like a pass code. That's, we have a pass key that's unique to every district also that students would just have to put it in to be able to watch those videos from home. So the easiest way, and most all of our schools have a Google domain, is to do that authentication that's that list of instructions. And I would suggest that you would pass that on to your Google domain administrators if this is something that you want to use because then if kids are logged in through their Google accounts, even if you don't use Google classroom, they're still gonna be able to just click on that video and watch it. Questions on either of those. And that's basically all I have. The only other things I'll direct you to is here I have our ESU-8 YouTube channel, everything that we've been doing and helping teachers with, we've tried to do tutorials that they need it's all been put up here. So I leave that there, please access that for anything you need. Also my email is down there. So that's available also.


What's going on guys, it's your boy DPJ here today with another Destiny video and today I bring you my true dream of walks, a new two results across four three of my characters for the past week. Now before we get into the loot I've received, I'm still getting daily messages from people asking me how you unlock these weekly cruise romances with Lord Chats. I've already covered this in many videos before but if you have missed it, it's basically a quest you have to complete, one that's crazy long, it's called the Crucible Forged. Now you usually get it from Lord Chats himself but if it ain't there when you go to see him it should be in your deleted quest, a bolt in the vanguard room in the tower, it should be there. If it ain't there and in that Lord Chats I have no idea. Now once the quest is completed it opens up on all three of your characters so you haven't got to run it three times. So basically you've run it once on one character and it opens up on all three characters and it's as simple as that. I will link a video which explains all in the description box below if you need more info but let's get straight into the loot I received this week. Starting on my Hunter and I received the Dragon's Breath Exotic Rocket Launcher. This dropped though unfortunately at a 3.34 so it's pretty useless to me in my aim to collect all exotics at a 3.35. Moving on to my Titan and I received the Red Spectre, a legendary auto rifle. A weapon I believe could be great but all depending on that role. Mine dropped at a 3.34 and its mods were basically garbage. I had Grave Rubber and Danger Close so I didn't land a grey roll at all and I'm still weighing on one before trying this bad boy out in PvP. Now if you have had a decent roll drop on this thing and have used it in PvP let me know what it's like down below.  This rubbish ain't nothing but marks but guys that is it that's the loot I received from my true meaning of war quest this past week. If you guys do do this on a weekly basis what did you get this past week let me know down below in that comment section. Thanks for stopping by as always. Hope you enjoyed the video and I'll catch you guys on that next one. Peace out until next time. Peace!


Welcome back. Today we're going to be talking a little bit more about social engineering. And social engineering is basically the art of manipulating people or convincing people to give you some information, either knowingly or unknowingly, that way they can use that information to either impersonate you or get more access to certain areas or certain information that they shouldn't have access to. Social engineering is based on the principle that most people are trusting and they want to be helpful. The average person you meet on the street wants to try to help people who are in need. And social engineers really take advantage of this this act that or this ability of people to to be helpful and to generally trust the overall population. Social engineers also take advantage of the ability of the fact that most people also don't really want to take responsibility for certain situations. So whenever somebody sees somebody doing something that might be suspicious, unless their job is to stop that person, they don't really want to get involved. They don't want confrontation. So the fact that humans are relatively trusting, they want to be helpful, and they don't really want confrontation, this helps social engineers to get access to information or access to physical areas. And whenever we're talking about online access to information online that they shouldn't have access to. So it's a very powerful method. In the physical world social engineering basically helps us to gain access and gain information. Think about at your work if somebody comes into your office and tells you I'm here to fix the telephone.  So in that case somebody could social engineer you by pretending to be the telephone fixing person and they could implant some device on your phone or basically do whatever they want inside your office for that time. In the digital world it's also about gaining access or gaining information. So we want to get this information about maybe somebody's computer or some documents that they have on that computer. Instead of just physically walking up to their computer we might just send an email that says click here to reset your password. And many people as long as it looks like it's related to something that they normally do they might click on that email reset their username and password but actually they're just giving that information to the social engineer. So the social engineer is just setting up a situation that can trick the person into providing more access or more information basically because people don't check to make sure that these people actually should be the ones accessing this information. So social engineering is one of the most effective ways to steal confidential data because it targets the biggest weakness which is normally the human element. Most employees are completely unaware that they're being manipulated. So social engineers go into companies and they can get access to many different areas inside the company. They can get access to a lot of different information and the people that are helping them don't know that this person isn't allowed to be in the area because the person has successfully socially engineered them. The same in digital systems. People think that they are giving information to trustworthy people but actually they're just revealing their login credentials or some other confidential information to that person that shouldn't have access. So what information is useful in social engineering and it really depends on what the goal of the social engineer is. It's usually about gaining access to areas or access to information. So information that might be very helpful would be things like names, job descriptions, department names, any internal lingo or internal speech that a company might use. If a social engineer can get access to that information they might be able to convince someone either over the telephone or in person that they actually belong inside the company and they've been there a while and they should get access to certain pieces of information inside that company. Online kind of the same thing. If we have your name or we have your department or your boss's name we can pretend to be the IT department and then you might give us your personal information or information that you really shouldn't be giving out to random people but as long as we social engineer it properly you might give that information. So some tactics I won't go too much into tactics for social engineering but a couple of them are pre-texting and this is basically creating a fake scenario so people think that a scenario exists whenever it actually doesn't. So basically convincing people that there's some problem that they need to respond to. So for example if you call up somebody at their work and say we notice that the internet is not working very well today we'll send a technician over very shortly to fix your computer. So then people will say well I didn't have a problem but okay a technician will come and fix my computer shortly so they've kind of they're then prepared for someone to come and work on their computer. They don't know what they're gonna do but somebody will come. So then we send a social engineer to get access to that computer and we can essentially take the computer over that way. Fishing is trying to trick people into giving information away and this is like those emails that basically say click here to reset your password by the way we also need your username and your phone number and your address and all this other information as well. Fake websites are a type of social engineering and that just relies on the fact that people don't normally check whether the domain is the correct domain for the website they want to go to or certificates are correct. Fake pop-ups also give this kind of impression that something is wrong with your computer system and it will convince the person that they need to act to solve a problem even though they don't have a problem. Usually solving the problem actually creates the problem in their computer in the first place and then baiting is also a relatively I won't say new but interesting form of social engineering. Let's say we wanted to target a specific company and we need to get a virus inside their network. Well one of the easiest ways to do that is to drop USB sticks with a virus loaded on the USB stick in front of the building of the company you're targeting. Someone is very likely to pick that USB stick up and then put it into their computer to check whose USB stick this is and as soon as they insert into their computer you might have access basically to their entire network. Okay so next so some examples there's lots of examples of social engineering it happens all the time both online and offline. One that I a couple that I really want to talk about here in the Korean situation because of the Korean organizations are very hierarchical usually.  So using this knowledge if I'm pretending to be the secretary of your boss and I command you to give some information or send some money or do something would you question it. If you if you're not sure whether you would actually check whether your boss said this or not or if it was just some random person asking for this then you are potentially susceptible to social engineering and this is a big concern right because the boss has a lot of control in most Korean organizations and people don't normally check whether it's actually the boss's word or not and a lot of different types of social engineering happened this way. There was a case in China where a Chinese businessman his computer the computer of his computer and his secretary's computer had been hacked and had a virus for a very long time and whenever he went on a trip to Japan specifically to buy art in Japan the secretary received an email from the CEO saying send a million dollars to this account in Japan I'm going to buy some art. So the secretary just said okay this is from the CEO in who's currently in Japan it looks like a legitimate request so the secretary sent the money to this account in Japan and it turned out that actually the computer had been hacked and hackers were watching this and they were waiting until a certain situation happened where they could pretend to be the CEO because the secretary does not want to question her boss whether he actually asked that or not she just sent the money directly and basically the hackers got the money that way the money was sent and they lost it. So social engineering is a very powerful tool because it relies on social society right so it all comes down to not verifying who the request is from not checking not auditing essentially make sure you're always checking who is making requests and what information they're asking for. So there's lots of different ways to protect yourself but basically verifying the identity of people and information sources is the most critical part it is worth especially if money is involved it is worth asking whether the boss did ask for the the money to be sent it is worth checking whether the website domain name is correct and if you can do those things then it will make social engineering at least a little bit more difficult. So that was kind of my quick rundown of social engineering it is a very interesting technique that's used offline and online and it is very powerful and most attacks we see now rely on some type of social engineering at least to get into the network for example sending somebody an email with a virus attached to it they're relying on somebody to download that attachment open the attachment up and install the virus on their computer once that happens then everything else is a technical attack but it was social engineering that got us into the network in the first place so that's it for today thank you very much


uh-oh Hey one. Oh my god.  We got some jitterbugs. We got some hula poppers And a heck of a good time Trying to catch some fish on these today. Since this is the old-school fishing challenge I had to bring the old school over here old school guy Daddy Van Dam in the game. So what do you guys say about it for the tube? That's for the on the tube. You're on the tube right now to a hundred thousand people. What's up fishing family? Daddy Van Dam here fixing the spank nose tail. You guys are gonna watch it live They did so we're gonna be trying out these old-school lures these old-school topwater lures That's gonna make this even better guys is their old-school topwater plug But I do want to go over a few things real quick if you guys haven't subscribed already Be sure to hit that subscribe button because we are the littest fishing channel on YouTube guys We upload three bangers every single week So you need to hit the notification bell as well also if you guys have been enjoying the content be sure to hit that like button baby and Be sure to subscribe guys. Trust me. Just trust me on this one You guys will enjoy the economy if you guys like fishing you will enjoy the content Let's post it on this channel. We hopefully three bangers every single weekend as a verifiable fact So let's go ahead and get this rolling Come here, man So what are you gonna do? I'm gonna warn you the problem is these things are super light people I mean so light that it's almost nearly impossible to cast for me And I know that you can't cast it. I'm just a hundred percent positive on that So you're gonna have to try this one. You're probably gonna whack him on that because you can actually cast and cover water Yeah, it's old-school You're born in 1917 That's when that thing was born It's an old age, man I'm gonna start off with the green hula popper and he's gonna start off with the old jitterbug We're in time on our poles. We're gonna get started out on this beautiful pond out here and hopefully catch some fish Let's see what this old green and white hula popper can do. I actually see one on bed Oh my god is this thing light? That's gonna be a problem Yeah, it's gonna be a problem This is definitely spinning around material that I need And I casted this son of a gun in the tree first try Whoo Never knew I couldn't make my first cast on this dang thing There we go, baby All right.  I'm really feeling it. It looks so juicy.  Let's get this party started. I get them Oh, he's on he's on I Never even saw me eat it. That was crazy. He's fighting hard Look at that Let's go. We did get the monkey off her back with the old hula popper the old school Look at that not a big bass, but the old school hula popper Getting the job done, baby. Oh, that's awesome. That was good. I never even saw him blow up on it That was so weird. It's like it just disappeared. I popped it once and it was gone Can't tell you one thing the colors on these bass are honestly Prettier than any other bass I've seen.   He's under me watch this. Oh No Come on fish eat it again. Oh my gosh There's not getting the hook. Not only is this thing Hard for them to get the hook, but the hook's just not sharp.  Look at that. See how the hook doesn't even have them Like the hooks are just not not the best hooks. Look at the colors on these fish So pretty I mean just so pretty Such a pretty fish They're not big, but when you're catching them on top order, I really do not care Give me that thing You should try to cast it it is almost impossible. Hey come here Here's a huge bed you can cast on pretty positive. There's a decent fish on it. Yeah, there is a fish on it There's a bed right here with the fish on it. He's coming over to it sees sees a back keep reeling it You got him. I got it all on camera. That was awesome right there. Heck. Yeah, dude Oh Man All you could see is this bat. Did you see his back? I didn't see it You like came off the bed and you could just see the tail in he's This is one thing. This one was talking about the other ones. I caught look at the colors on him He's so like healthy just the colors of these bass are just awesome. There you go. That's one on the hula popper Jitterbug jitter to on the hula popper one on the jitterbug. Nothing big, but there goes first fish I feel like a bullet. He missed it twice. I want you to be back in there I'm gonna see if I can get this on the big camp Stevie Van Dam real in it slow really focusing on this target Not even damn All the precision on the cast you'd reel in his top order Can you do it? You don't want it twice. Look, we'll see if he wants your hula popper Here we go. I ain't taking no for an answer on this one Well, I say Yeah, I got Yeah, it's a bass. Oh, yeah Still barely hooked Jesus guys, that is a third hula the third hula fish This one actually ate it. I've had so many bites.  It's a dead bass over here. I'm gonna be honest with you He probably did jump out of the water trying to grab something he probably definitely probably did with how the fish were jumping One should destroy it right here. Come on. Oh Look, you see that fish Look at him Came up and ate like a drip Not paying attention, dude Got him that time They're so small but every single one do the barely getting the hook just like hanging on for dear life almost If I hooked a big fish on this I'd be very scared fourth jitter bug or fourth hula popper So I think we're gonna have a quick change in plan So we've been trying the hula popper and the jitter bug for quite some time now And we we've had a good amount of bites, but there are a lot of smaller fish I really don't feel like catching smaller fish. We caught some fish on both of them So that's a good thing But I think we're gonna pack up and head to another location and we're gonna be throwing whatever the heck we want Just to try to get a big bass Hi, man show me what you got what you got on We're going for big ones right now guys. No, it's frog. You got a frog Froggy frog a popping frog that I catch them that I catch a big one I told me Molly I won't bite but that that thing I catch them here And then I got chatterbait on you know, that's for big fish And we're gonna be trying to catch some fish in the small little pond this where I grew up fishing and hopefully Yeah, they're on Beam one up there. There look like there might have been one on bed. I don't know we're gonna give this to try Dude to hook that up. That's a big one. Oh my god.  I don't even know if I got a solid like blow up on it. Look at that. Oh My gosh, that's a solid three and a half pounder, dude. Look at his stomach They're bedding they are bedding popping frog is gonna get it done. You're gonna get a couple more on this I'm kind of jealous About he ate that thing he slobber don't he do There you go, man. There's your fish. That's why we brought that frog in the chatterbait out here is to catch big ones like this That's good looking good Solid three and a half pound fish. There we go guys. There's his frog fish. Good job, man. That's a good one That's a solid frog bass Right there There she goes. Heck yeah Good Guys he just got creamed. I think is the male off the bed. I My GoPro wasn't running so I gotta change my battery out here really bad getting and throw it throw it up there There's there's a few on bed around this bank. Oh That's perfect. Oh my god. That was a big one You spooked a giant. Oh Oh One arm one arm, dude I Dude, I'd literally cast it in there. Look at that on the frog man.  Oh God that was cool. That was really cool Hey, that's me from underneath me You're telling me a snake went between my legs and in the water He's right there Walking on the frog really walking just popping it. Mmm.  Geez man beautiful frog bass right there about a pound and a quarter pound and a half He just skipped that under there under that tree left-handed you should see how I'm skipping it though This is how this little turd is skipping this Dude left-handed. It's kind of right-handed not really Right there right up under All the way in the back under that tree See how far back there he went


internal revenue service IRS tax news IRS reminder to many retirees April 1st is the last day to start taking money out of ira's and 401ks but first an attempt at a joke I apologize in advance most politicians feel when making decisions figuring gross profit is gross how dare you bring profits into this sacred discussion but somebody really ought to do it don't you think the unduanced discussion around things like climate change for example is counter productive to the goal it's like trying to help somebody who wants to reach the next closest galaxy by just giving them directions hmm how could we ever reach the canis major dwarf galaxy well my good man let me provide you with the directions you just make a left at the Sun and then go straight for 25,000 light years they can't miss it and it's like okay thank you but not helpful you see traveling 25,000 light years is kind of a problem at least if we want light years to continue representing how far light travels in a year how do politicians solve the problem of global warming or any problem for that matter by pretending real economic conditions don't exist and throwing something like 25 trillion dollars at it you see spending 25 trillion dollars is kind of a problem at least if we want the dollar to continue representing real economic value IR 2022-69 March 25th 2022 Washington the internal revenue service today reminded retirees who turned 72 during the last half of 2021 that in most cases Friday April 1st 2022 is the last day to begin receiving payments from individual retirement arrangements ira's 401ks and similar workplace retirement plans the payment called minimum distributions RMD's are normally made by the end of the year so just a quick recap on how this all works here we're talking about retirement types of plans like an IRA like a 401k the 401ks are the types of retirement plans you might have if you work as a W2 employee you might have like a 403b if you're government employee or something like that or you might have say an IRA if you didn't get it through work and all of those types of things are tax incentives to be saving for retirement basically putting the money under in essence an umbrella under these retirement plans where when you put the money in you get the benefit if it's a 401k plan that means that they don't include it in income unlike line one of your W2 so it's not going to be taxed there so you get the tax benefit when you put it in if it's an IRA then you get the benefit as like an adjustment to income or for adjusted gross income and above the line type of deduction that's why you put it into those accounts and then you're deferring the the benefit that you're going to get or you're deferring the taxes you're going to pay I should say you're getting the benefit upfront and you're deferring the taxes that you're going to pay when you pull the money out then the IRS is going to represent it as income now the IRS is going to say well you can't just keep it in there forever and indefinitely we want you to pull it out at some point in time so they're going to say once you reach the age where you have to pull it out we're going to make you pull it out so that you're going to pull it out and then you're going to be paying the taxes on the items that you're pulling out so that's why it's going to be a required minimum distribution now just a quick note that when you're putting money into a retirement plan you're really usually putting it into something just normal investments like stocks and bonds so so there's nothing like special about a 401k or an IRA in terms of the things that you were investing in because if there was no 401k or IRA we could still invest in mutual funds and index funds and stocks and bonds but we put it under the umbrella of these things because we're getting the tax benefit to do so and they're actually restricting our money because we can't take it out if we took it out under any conditions under what we're allowed to take it out after retirement age or some other circumstance we get penalized on it so we put the money in because we get this big tax benefit and then we've got the money restricted and then they force us to take the money out so that we have to actually pay the tax at some point in time and that's what we're talking about here the point of retirement when they're saying now you have to pull the money out because we want some of it and if you don't there could be some severe penalties here so so but anyone who reached age 72 after June 30th 2021 is covered by a special rule that allows IRA account owners and participants in workplace retirement plans to wait and until as late as April 1st 2022 so they have the special kind of delayed date so you want to be talking to your brokers and making sure that you have the retirement distributions worked out and planned out in a way that you're in compliance with the law so that's what they pushed it out to you to take their first R&D requirement minimum distribution so in other words in general the special April 1st rule applies to IRA owners and other participants in these plans who were born after June 30th 1949 two payments in the same year the April 1st R&D required minimum distribution deadline only applies to required distributions for the first year for all later years the R&D required minimum distributions must be made by December 31st which is kind of like the general rule you got to have the distribution in the year normally unless you fall under this special condition this means the taxpayers who turned 72 after June 30th 2021 and received their first required minimum district required distribution for 2021 in 2022 on or before April 1st must receive their second R&D for 2022 by December 31st 2022 even though the first distribution is actually required 2021 distribution it's taxable in 2022 and reported on the 2022 tax return along with the regular 2022 distributions so now you've got this cutoff problem of when the distribution was made in terms of the year it's applied to and the year that you have to basically record it in income and be paying the taxes on it so types of retirement plans requiring R&D and by the way hopefully if you're working this out with your broker then then you're going to get the required minimum distributions that are lined up properly so that you're in alignment with the law and then of course when they issue the 1099s and so on for the distributions that will all be done by them and that'll make it easier for you to basically fill out the tax return so hopefully it'll be fairly straightforward even though the cutoff dates are kind of confusing due to the fact that the if you're discussing this with the brokers they should be able to to get the paperwork lined up so tax types of retirement plans require R&Ds these required distribution rules apply to owners of traditional SEP SEP and simple simple IRAs while the original owner is alive they also apply to participants in various workplace retirement plans including the good old 401k the 403b and the 457b plans RMDs don't apply to Roth IRAs so Roth IRAs are going to be the inverse of the normal kind of plan so so they have different kind of restriction different rules the iris isn't concerned so much with you pulling the money out of a Roth because the Roth was inverted and you basically pull the money out when you pay taxes when you put the money into the plan so they don't have that same kind of tax motive for the iris to say hey we want you we require you to pull it out that's why it would be nice in retirement plans or in retirement if you had some money and like a normal retirement and some money in like a Roth or possibly in just outside of a retirement plan so that so that you can spend you know the money that you would like to spend during retirement without taking it all out of a of a taxable plan so that possibly your income could be lower and you pay less taxes in that event in any case an ira trustee must either report the amount of the RMD to the IRA owner or offer to calculate it often the trustee shows the RMD amount on form 5498 inbox 12b for 2021 RMD required by April 1st 2022 the RMD amount is shown on the 2020 form 5498 normally issued to the owner during the first part of 2021 some can delay RMD so can you delay the RMD though the April 1st deadline is mandatory for all owners of traditional iras and most participants in workplace retirement plans some people with workplace plans can wait longer to receive the RMD most participants and why would you want to do that by the way if you already have money that you're spending right now and you don't need the RMD to be taken out then you might want to keep it in there because you don't want to be recognizing the income when you pull the money out which is what's going to happen that's why they're forcing you to pull the money out so that you have to recognize the income and pay taxes on it so most participants who are still working for the employer can wait until April 1st of the year after they retire to start receiving these distributions if their workplace plan allows this RMD exception does not apply to five percent owner of the business sponsoring the retirement plan or the participants in SEP and SIPL IRA plans see tax on excess accumulation in publication 575 for details there's a link to that here employees of public schools and certain tax exempt organizations with 403 b plan accruals before 1987 should check with their employer plan administrator or provider to see how to treat these accruals irs online tools and publications can help many answers to questions about RMDs can be found on RMDs FAQs there's a link to that here it's on irs.gov irs.gov gov that's my new thing for it by the way in any case most taxpayers use table three uniform lifetime to figure the RMD married taxpayers whose spouse is more than 10 years younger and is there only beneficiary use table two because this and other life expectancy tables were updated for 2022 recipients need to use a different version of this table to figure their 2021 RMD compared to their 2022 RMD the required withdrawals in 2022 and future years will generally be smaller for a 2021 RMD do April 1st 2022 use the life expectancy tables in appendix b of publication 590 b there's a link to that here used for preparing 2020 returns as shown in table three the RMD for a person age 72 in 2021 will normally be based on the distribution period of 25.6 years so just to kind of break this down obviously you'd want to talk to your broker about this to help figure and think about what your minimum distribution is and how do they basically figure what the minimum distribution is they look at an actuarial table meaning what's the life expectancy at this point in time and then the iris is coming up with some kind of figure in terms of how much they want to force you to take out of the plan before you're expected to die so that you could pay taxes on it and that's and so that's why you got to use these tables and whatnot which are life expectancy table calculations involved in it and so on and so forth so you got to use these tables to figure out what the distribution would be so divide the December 31st 2020 balance by 25.6 to get the RMD for 2021 so for 2022 RMD due December 31st 2022 use the revised life expectancy tables in appendix b of publication 590 b used for preparing 2021 returns as shown in the revised table three the RMD for a person age 72 in 2022 will normally be based on a distribution period of 27.4 years divide the December 31st 2021 balance by 27.4 to get the RMD for 2022 publication 590 b has worksheets examples and other information that could help anyone figure their RMD visit irs.gov.gov.gov v for victory over your tax research and tax planning foot but you can visit the iris website for more information there's links to that stuff here there'll be a link to this in the 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For effectiveness of organizations, it is extremely important that organizations must have a very robust system of performance appraisal. The theory of performance appraisal states that organizations which have a good system of performance appraisal who do 360 degree performance appraisal, they are effective organization. How does the government in Pakistan do performance appraisal for its human resource? It is one of the weak areas of the government and we see that since it's a weak area, the effects and outcomes of this weakness of the system are reflected in its service delivery. The forms of performance appraisal are available for different grades and these forms are on this link which is of establishment division. If you go into these forms, you get different grades of performance appraisal. Usually these performance appraisal forms are for all levels but the forms of establishment division are available in its autonomous bodies or departments.  Every year, it is called PER, Performance Evaluation Report. Now this annual confidential report is not mentioned. Now this performance evaluation report is called PER. It is an annual exercise which is important to write in January according to the rule. It is the duty of the person who is writing this report. It is his responsibility to download the form on the establishment division website and fill out the essential first two pages himself. The job description is that the employee has to write his name on the first page and then he has to give it to the reporting officer, the supervisor. This is the responsibility of the employee. It is the responsibility of every junior to forward his report in January to their seniors. The instructions for writing the performance report are on this link. It is a document of about hundred and thirty-five pages on which it is written how the performance evaluation report will be written. And the reporting officers who have to write the report are clear instructions for them that if they give adverse remarks to someone, they will write it clearly. Similarly, the senior who understands that the reporting officer does not agree with the remarks, so they have to indicate from the red pencil that why that person does not agree with the reporting officer. So, there are very clear instructions about adverse remarks and positive things about them. Agreement or disagreement. This is a very consultative process of performance appraisal. But the weakness of this is that it is not done by the counsellors who are reported. This is not done by them. This is an annual ritual which is marked in this way. If you give an outstanding report to someone, then it has ten numbers. If someone gets very good, then it has eight numbers. Similarly, seven numbers of good and five of average and one of below average. And if somebody gets a poor report, then it has zero numbers. So, all these things are present. And the guide, the performance evaluation report, the writing guide which has been linked, all these things are present. The weaknesses are no agreement between reporting and reported employees on goals and targets to be achieved. In this year, you can go to any institution in the government. There is no agreement or consultation that this year has started. Now, we have to achieve these things in this year. And the targets should be given to the employees. It is a kind of routine work that everybody is on the treadmill and they are just moving. So, there is no collective sitting down and formulating. So, mainly, this is a subjective exercise. The kind of work that has to be done, there are no indicators that are measured. There are two job descriptions. Job descriptions are present. But nobody looks at them. And neither does the performance evaluation report either pay attention to it. And neither does it get updated. Usually, these reports are written as trade-based. It is not behavior-based. It is not given to determine the behavior. So, it is seen as trades. It is asked that knowledge is for knowledge but not an attitude. There is no word about attitude. It is very important to work. It is asked about strengths and weaknesses. But it is written only about strengths. It is written very little about weaknesses. Similarly, there is no institutional mechanism to train officers that how they should write a report. There is no institutional mechanism. There is a guideline to train people. Maybe one or two days to talk how they should write a report. So, what happens then is the outcome of all this is that the relationship between boss and the junior is more important than the work itself. So, if you have a good relationship with your boss and government, I think you will get a good report. So, PER writing is an annual exercise which is fruitless and it is only used for promoting officers. So, the marks you get in the evaluation. So, when your promotion time comes, then this report is seen. Before that, there is no attention towards it. So, what happens? In the end, everyone gets an outstanding and very good report. And it is not seen that the person who got a good and very good report, how was his actual performance?