Natural killer, MK, cells are important components of the body's immune system, and they have been found to be effective at controlling tumor growth and metastases. They are able to directly kill cancerous cells without needing to be sensitized first, as well as release immunostimulatory cytokines such as interferon gamma, IFN, which helps to activate other parts of the immune system. Additionally, MK cells can also help to regulate cellular proliferation and angiogenesis, promote apoptosis, and enhance AG processing and presentation. However, MK cells often fail to function properly in cancer patients, and this limits their effectiveness in fighting cancer. Researchers are therefore exploring ways to manipulate MK cells so that they can be used in immunotherapies, such as antibody-based strategies and adoptive cell transfer. This article was authored by Australia Merial Levi, Maria Paula Robatti and Jose Mordo.


I am Jorge Piñales from the University of Minnesota, and I'm going to introduce to you a new science gateway that we are developing built on top of Galaxy to assist a new domain science, the X-ray microscopy community. The X-ray imaging of microstructures gateway is what I'm going to be discussing this talk. It's a collaborative effort involving the Science Gateway Institute at the San Diego Supercomputing Center where Mark Miller and Marius Huang are the developers. The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, or CHES, which is where the synchrotron facility is located, that involves Devin, Buji, Matt Miller, Kelly Nigren, and Werner-san. Bob Souter is also working with us from Carnegie Mellon in the Physics Department. And finally, at Minnesota, both Jim Johnson and myself are participating in the effort, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Advanced Cyber Infrastructure in collaboration with the Division of Materials Research. X-ray diffraction imaging is used in a variety of fields. We are focusing here in material science specifically. The experiment very schematically involves shining and coherent X-ray beam on a sample and then collecting on a screen the diffracted spots that are produced by the sample. The sample itself is being rotated and the detector location is also being moved between the far field and the near field so that in the end, a three-dimensional dataset with diffraction spots is produced for every experiment. This is a large dataset that contains an intensity map of the scattered radiation. This set contains material-specific information that has to be deconvolved and it includes not only the crystalline structure of the material, but also because it's really not a single crystal, it's microstructure, it's decomposition into grains in which each grain is a subset of the material exhibiting a different orientation. The drivers for galaxy adoption in this specific field are fairly common to others. There is a barrier to users to learn the infrastructure and to deploy their own tools. The synchrotron facilities are fairly complicated and the computational facilities around the synchrotron are also fairly complex. Currently, chess personnel has to instruct every user, which is of course not very scalable. Synchrotron data is very large and therefore hard to move. For each experiment, a user would collect a few terabytes so there's a need to manage and reduce the data before it's moved for analysis. Collaboration is difficult because data owners have large data sets which are hard to share and they're difficult at the moment to make public, especially given access to the modeling community which doesn't really have access to the experiments. And of course, users want to have access to public data sets to benchmark and try tools that they may be developing. With the gateway, we hope to facilitate the analysis and manipulation of the data from everywhere, access, discoverability of data sets that you would not be able to find otherwise, share data and workflows, collaborate with other users but also with modelers that typically do not access the facilities and access and integrate new tools that are being created by the community continuously. The users therefore would not have to learn the details of the synchrotron file systems. The data will be presented uniformly. They will not have to install their individual codes. The latest will be available automatically. They will not have to learn how to interface with the local computing systems. The benchmark of the codes will be provided to make sure that they're efficient and they will be run either locally or at X seat at the connection that we already have depending on the code. Workflows as they are typically very complicated. They start with raw data currently of about three and a half terabytes per experiment. This is complex to show you the purpose. Input is required in terms of the material that's being examined, in terms of the reconstruction and reduction that's going to be used and on the output that's being produced. And that has a wide variability from experiment to experiment as different modalities can be used. Of course, Galaxy extracts these or abstracts these in ways that you know. A few challenges that we're addressing at the moment that might interest some of you are a fair, large reliance on interactive tools. So at the moment we have built notebooks into the Galaxy server and also we have access to ParaView, a visualization framework. We are also building connections to modellers including mesh constructions, data desolation. So this is active to people. This is useful to people that work on plasticity and need to investigate for example, the distribution of stresses in a polycrystalline material and also ways to standardize file submission forms for people that are using this already. We are contributing what we do in terms of community resources. There's a new category, the Galaxy toolshed which is called Galaxy structural materials. That's already there, not many tools available of course. There is a development repository in GitHub which you can access. And of course last is the server address which is also running for those that might be interested in accessing it. Thank you for your attention and I suppose I'll get some questions in some modality. Thank you.


Hey everybody, here we are back again still at DEF CON still running around doing these crazy interviews We took a chance to slow down a little bit. We're checking out the hacker memorial right now I'm sitting here with conjurer who is also the founder and whole reason this thing started correct well Jeff created it for sure, and it was a kind of a group request after Dan passed and And I've been with DEF CON this is my 24th year and I was Looking for some other things to do and contribute and this is an area that I actually have a lot of training in so I'm I'm the lead right now, and we're growing. It's our third year and We just want to make sure people understand this is this is a great thing to do and come and share stories and honor and Laugh and cry about people that you've known people who helped you Learn things people who showed you how to be an amazing hacker and As a community Honoring those who have come before us is really important way to bring us together and also With new people coming in or newbies. I think is I think that's out of place these days as a word They get to have a deeper sense of what DEF CON is about and what this community is about so Yeah, it's definitely I love the idea. I love what you guys have going on here It's really nice that you're giving people that chance for remembrance and a chance to Slow down and kind of keep these people in our memories with them Enjoy it or kind of feel like they're around again because this is a big Community and the last few years have definitely made none of us strangers to loss. Yeah, so I think this is really cool Because it makes me think about that old saying that you're never really truly dead until your names uttered for the last time So this is a good way to kind of keep everybody around and remembered and and we have various things people can do here They can write on this. This is an addition to this year and it is that element that We don't want to forget and that we won't if we keep connecting and sharing and Telling crazy stories about what someone did back in the day Which they might not actually do anymore You know because back then the laws were different and now it's a little different but it keeps us alive and Jeff is looking at and we're looking at how to expand this If you have ideas if there are things you think would be great here, please come and share those We are not Set in stone so to speak we have stones you can draw on but we are not set in stone We will be constantly evolving One thing that's being looked at is Kind of having a presence virtually year-round being a space where if you lose someone in That moment at that time you can start Connecting with your family your DEF CON family about what you're going through or just You know, it's not like you have to tell everybody everything because this is a relatively private group But people won't be asking you questions. They just want to be present and help and Oftentimes People may not even know if it's someone close to them what their next step needs to be Well, it's nice to you get the the community helping the community. Mm-hmm So we're we're very thankful for what you're doing here. We love it that you were able to take the time to talk with us You bet we're here every day until about 6 6 30 and on Sunday will close down about noon So we can get ready for closing But please come see us and we out if you go to info booth or hacker tracker You'll find us and there's an email that we have and if you can send us photographs of Your friends or times with them and we can print here and we will also keep them and keep them online If you get a chance come slow down for a minute step by check out the memorial everyone till next time It's cool and we have water


The Cavalcade of America presented by DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry. Some years ago, Cavalcade's historian, Dr. Frank Monahan of Yale University, discovered a little-known story of amazing significance in the development of civilization and of particular interest to Americans. Through Dr. Monahan's further research, Cavalcade is able to bring you that story tonight. It is an example of this nation's pioneering spirit in the achievements of aviation. It's about the first successful aerial flight in America by a Frenchman, Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Our play was written by Garrett Porter and starring in the role of Jean-Pierre Blanchard is Edwin Jerome of the Cavalcade Players. The orchestra and the original musical score are under the direction of Don Buries. DuPont, maker of better things for better living through chemistry, presents Edwin Jerome of Jean-Pierre Blanchard on the Cavalcade of America. December 9th in the year 1792, the city of Philadelphia. At Oler's Hotel, the tavern door opened, admitting a chilling blast of wind and a thin dark stranger. Outside the doorway, a stagecoach driver and three husky porters struggled with a huge wicker basket, painted blue and studded with slang on. Easy, easy, my friend. Here is the innkeeper. He will help us. Welcome to my inn, stranger. Monsieur, I regret the inconvenience I caused, but your doorway seems to be too narrow for my basket. I'd say because you're basket, that's too big. What is it that makes it so heavy? There is a balloon inside. A balloon. A balloon? But certainly, my friend. Here, you see, it is a balloon, as I say, all folded up. And what is a balloon? You have not heard what it is a balloon? Oh, well, then I have arrived in America just in time. You shall see, my friend. You shall see me rise majestically from the earth and vanish into the clouds. You, you vanish into the clouds? Indeed, Monsieur. And now that that settles that, I desire a room. Very well, sir. You will register in my book. Ah, but of course. Meanwhile, since your balloon is too large for my door, the stable might be a safe place for it. You mean to soil my beautiful machine in your stable, Monsieur? The machine that is thrown like a bird across the English Channel? Across the Channel? Of course, Monsieur. As you say, sir. Of course. But in the stable, I assure you. Now be so kind as to go over to the desk. Ah, but of course. To the desk. Yes, my lad. Yes, sir. As soon as it's in the barn, set your men to guard it and notify the constable. Understand? Yes, sir. This one's a little bit. Take it if I've ever seen one. Yes, sir. Come on, lads, all together now. The law requires me to ascertain your name, residence, and occupation. You will sign here. Ah, but of course, Monsieur. Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Ironaut, citizen of France. So far so good, Mr. Ironaut. Ahem. But your occupation? My name is Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Monsieur. B-L-A-N-C-H-R-R-D. Ironaut is my occupation. Ironaut. You know, it is derived from the Latin. Iro, meaning air. I fly through the air in my balloon, you see? In that case, sir, I'm afraid I must ask you to pay in advance. Monsieur Blanchard. Hein? Votierre? I am Jean-Pierre Blanchard. And you, Monsieur? Your host informed me I might capture, that is, find you here in a stable, Monsieur Blanchard. I represent the city authorities of Philadelphia. Oh, well, I was fortunate enough to meet your good doctor Franklin in Paris, Monsieur. It was he who encouraged my ambition and invited me to come to America. Dr. Franklin's been dead and gone these two years or more. Alas, yes. I had hoped the one who drew the lightning from the clouds might live long enough to witness my first ascent to them in America. Eh? Well, now this about Dr. Franklin does put a new light on the matter, I admit. But even so, you'll have to come along to the city council to straighten everything out. Oh, Monsieur, I have not yet earned all these armours. I shall bring my Iro stuff. That is to say my balloon to your council, eh? Well, I don't know, sir, that that'll be necessary. But, Alas, my balloon is damaged, though not beyond repair. Could you recommend to me a competent sailmaker? Oh, sailboat, eh? In a way, yes. But I require a sailmaker to mend this rip you see here. It must be repaired if I am to fly. Oh, I can see that. Yes, sir, but first about the council. Oh, yes, Monsieur, of course. The official, welcome. Well, let us go at once. But on the way, I would like to see a printer. Oh, yes, I must see a printer. A printer, Monsieur? If you'd help. Ah, good. Well, I wish 500 of these cards printed. Oh, you're the balloon man. I've heard of you. Ah, yes. Well then, Monsieur, I need 500 subscriptions at $5 each to cover the expenses of the balloon as sent I propose. Ah, $2,500. Yes, Monsieur. Ah, cost a mint of money down at... Oh, it's spectacular. It's cheap at that. At any price. But the printing, eh, come here. Ah, if I print them for you, it might hurt my business. Huh? Ain't possible to fly. I know Wilcox. Wilcox? Wilcox? Yeah, Wilcox. She tried to fly once. Oh. Not on the banks of the school till it was. Oh. I don't know what ever possessed him to try it, unless it was a devil, as they say. Or what amount of the same thing, the American Philosophical Society? Do you... Uh, this, uh, Wilcox, attempted an assent in a balloon. One balloon, you say? Uh-huh. 47 of them tied together. 47? Eh, when he got off the ground, he cut the balloons free with his knife. Come down quicker than he went up, I can tell you. Well, what else could the fool expect? Huh? But his whole procedure was wrong, my friend. Come, come. Print my subscription card. Here. I shall pay you, as I pay the in-keeper. In advance. Uh-huh. I might, but it'll be five dollars. Oh, miss you. You drive a sharp bargain. That is the price of the subscription, but, uh, I suppose you must have it. And a free ticket? Oh, yes. Yes. Yes, of course. All right. I suggest it's been. Man. Yeah. Well, here comes the undertaking. Yes. Well, thank you, sir. In that case, may your pardon please. Thank you. Yes, sir. This being is an outrage, a crime and sin gentlemen investment in stagecoaches, if this monsieur, or whatever he calls himself, Blanchard, sets up his absurd aerial vehicle and makes the matter under advisement. He undersigned due hereby protest to his excellency, Governor Thomas Littlin, against the proposed balloon ascent of Monsieur Blanchard, the said ascent being in defiance of all laws, scientific, philosophic and divine. Mr. Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, Excellency, as Minister of the Republic of France to the United States of America, allow me to intercede in behalf of my countryman, Monsieur Blanchard, being at present in sanctuary at the delegation of France because of danger to his very life and limb, Monsieur Blanchard craves audience with his excellency, George Washington, President of the United States, believe me. Thank you, Monsieur Le President. It seems, Monsieur Blanchard, that we Americans do not understand your experiments. It is all very discouraging, Mr. President. I myself have become confused. In my own mind, you understand. Indeed. Yes. And I hoped you might explain it all to me, for I confess I understand it no better than anyone else. Oh, but it is all very simple, Excellency, very simple. If I could only explain the balloon to you, perhaps I might win your support. Tell me, what makes it go up? It is the gas called hydrogen, Monsieur. I obtain it by pouring oil of vitriol and iron filings in a huge retort. Hydrogen, you see, is released and kills the balloon. It is lighter than air, you see, and a soy rises. It's unbelievable. Oh, but not at all. Oh, no doubt. It's all true, Monsieur. I do not really doubt your words, sir. Still, I don't see how you steer it once it is up. Well, Monsieur, I have tried wings. I have tried all. But best of all are the different air currents at different levels. That may be very clear to an expert, Monsieur Blanchard, but to me, I... But, Excellency, it is simple. Very simple. I throw off ballast to ride. I release gas to descend. Well, no doubt it will all seem perfectly clear when we see this remarkable ascent.  Of course, Monsieur Blanchard. Get on with your arrangements, and if you encounter any more difficulties, refer your critics to me. I'll see that your opponents are denied the privilege of witnessing this marvel of the age. The city of Chester invites the great Monsieur Blanchard to land his machine here. Our royal welcome is assured. Why, your wonder of the age, the beautiful landcaster, Monsieur Blanchard, our town council will declare a city call. Trenton, where our illustrious President George Washington routed the foes of liberty, begs Monsieur Blanchard to guide his balloon here. Do not fail to descend upon the fair city of Camden, Monsieur Blanchard. Our citizenry is preparing for your arrival with all of you. Monsieur, when and where I land my balloon is in the lap of the gods of the wind. Monsieur Blanchard's aerial flight is positively fixed for Wednesday, January 9th, 1793, in the prison courtyard at 10 in the morning precisely, weather permitted. And remember, Monsieur Blanchard. Oh, yes, Dr. O'Shea. Your pulse is 84 on the ground. We did that the climax of your offense. Of course. The difference will be of considerable interest. Of course. The balloon is raining at our office. Yes, yes, I shall disconnect the hydro-agenda apparatus then. It is 10 o'clock precisely, but where is General Washington? Oh, let us check my equipment again, Francois. Let me see. Mr. Becher's barometer. Dr. Wister's bottles to sample the upper air. Ballet. Refreshment. Who? Oh! Monsieur le Président arrives. The President of the United States. Monsieur le Président. Monsieur, don't come and forgive me for being late. Oh, of course. You're more prompt than I. Cars and cakes to the balloon, everything is in readiness. Everything in your excellency. And every roof and tree. Candles, spectators, persuaders. Yes, Monsieur. You see, Monsieur, I was right. People have accepted you. Here, at least. But of course. But who knows where you will land or what reception is in store for you. And so, against this unknown danger, I have prepared a document for your protection. Oh, and what is that, General Washington? Any situation. Being without precedent, a passport was the best thing I could think of. Oh? I trust it is effective. Oh, thank you. And goodbye, Mr. President. Goodbye. Good luck with this, Monsieur. I have obtained an altitude of one mile, God willing. Pressure, let Lucie open.  Pressure. Pressure, that little dog. He is trying to leap into the basket. Keep him away. I cannot send the dog and the rope. Go, Monsieur. Pressure. Back, back, little dog. Go away. Go away. Oh, man, here he comes into the basket. Careful, Monsieur. The last rope is ready. But the dog, the dog. No, no, no, no, Monsieur. Do not throw the dog. Keep him away. By the ascent, little one. So easy and majestic. And what is your name? You are an American dog, so you must have an American name. Jonathan. Two hundred patterns up we are, Jonathan. Look, Jonathan. There is the Delaware River below us. You see? Oh, no. Defend you. No, no, no. Do not try to climb over the side of the basket. Here.  You notice? Our ascent is faster and faster. Oh, then, my Jonathan, we have tossed away all our ballast. We are now at 5,812 feet. The highest level the beautiful machine can reach.  Yes, of course. You notice? Of course you don't. My pulse is faster, Jonathan. 84 on the ground. 92 at the climax of our experiment. Now, Jonathan, we open the valve. You notice? Our ascent is gradual and uniform. But to the east is a mist to the south before. Where shall we land? A few miles east of Woodbury, New Jersey, a few minutes before 11 o'clock on the morning of January 9th, 1795. What's going on in this mayor, Martha?  The musket's no good against the devil. And that must be the devil himself climbing out of that basket. Oh, damn, my friend. Who and what be? I am John Pierre Blanchard. And you're not. I have just come from Philadelphia in 45 minutes. So? Talks like a man, Joseph. Not like I've ever seen. And I've been clear to Elizabeth Town. Philadelphia's 15 miles, stranger. Don't sound within reason. Go ahead and stand your ground while I keep his attention. But tell me, where are your friends? Oh, come. Come, you are not alone. Oh, thank heaven, I'm not alone at that. All right, let's all get out of here. Now, let's have a look at him. Now, look here.  But of course, Monsieur.  Let me up if you please. No, no, hang on for a minute. Don't let him get away. I have a paper here from General Charles Washington. Working here? Yes. Supposing he has less? Yes. All right, where is it? It is here. Let me up. Here is Monsieur Le Président's passport. Well, read it, my friend. Trouble is stranger. None of us can read. You mean you are all illiterate? I wouldn't know about that, stranger, but Ibrahim... That's right. Oh, that's right. Here, my boy can read. Oh, then take this passport, my boy, and read, read. The bill, Mr. Blanchard, a citizen of France, proposes to ascend in a balloon from the city of Philadelphia at 10 o'clock a.m. this day. You see? These are therefore to recommend to all citizens that they receive and aid him with that humanity and goodwill which may render honor to their country and justice to an individual so distinguished by his efforts to establish and advance in art in order to make it useful to mankind in general. Given under my hand and seal at the city of Philadelphia the ninth day of January, 1793, and of the independence of America, the 17th, sign George Washington. Oh, big old George Washington himself. It's all right, that's enough, that's enough. Well, Mr. Blanchard, General Washington says you're all right, you are. That's right, thank you. I shall convey those sentiments to your President, Monsieur, and now I should like you, all of you, to escort me to the nearest tavern where you are to be my guest. Well, that'd be the tavern in Woodbury. Come on, let's harvest Terry's basket on the shoulders. One, two, three. But this thing was, it's a blue, says I. Yes, says she. Glory be, says I. It's an age of marvels. No, those were marvels in my very words, Joseph. Yes. Well, you know, you know it is fortunate, my friend, that I land in such an enlightened community. I am indeed fortunate. And now I ask of you, some of you, a favor. I must hurry back to the city. But before I go, I would like you to sign this deposition that I did indeed land in. Let me put my mark first, Mr. Blanchard, where I was first to see it. You were not, either, huh? It was me. Gentlemen, gentlemen, please, please. It is not so important who was first. It is only important that I may prove the wonderful success of my experiment. Therefore, if some half-dozen of you be so kind as to attest this document, and in any other, I assure you, I shall be most grateful. Would you be so kind as to read this deposition as you did the Mr. Washington's passport? We, the subscribers, saw the bearer, Mr. Blanchard, settle in his balloon in Deptford Township, County of Gloucester, in the state of New Jersey, about 15 miles from Philadelphia, about 10 o'clock, 56 minutes a.m. this day. Witness our hands the ninth day of January, A.D. 1793. That, Mr. Le President, is the story of my flight. Well, I am happy, Mr. Blanchard, that it was so great a success. I would have gone for nothing, Mr. but for the magic of your name. Oh, no, no, sir, the magic is yours. Oh, you call it magic, Mr. President. And so, indeed, does my poor printer friend, who even I say the poem as a preface to my journal, it is a most remarkable poem. More remarkable than any verse I ever read. The ocean he crosses to our surprise, no human has ever before, invaded the Britons without ships or sails from France to the Britannia shore. So he whisked you even across ocean. But, Mr. President, that is not as distant as you think. When men can fly, they can do anything. Dr. Franklin seemed to think so too. When I delivered the first letter to him by air on my flight across the channel, he prophesied that possibly the balloon will convince sovereigns of the folly of war. I'm afraid I lack, Dr. Franklin's imagination. Well, he said, where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops against 10,000 men descending in half the looms from the clouds? Landing in many places, these might do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them. Possibly, Monsieur Blanchard. Possibly, as for myself, Mr. President, I am not a prophet. Who knows to what use the balloon will be put in generations to come? Should you ask me what good it is? I would answer you, as Dr. Franklin answered the same question. I would say to you, what good? He's a newborn baby. For their performance of the story of Jean-Pierre Blanchard and the first successful flight in America, the Cavalcade of America thanks Edwin Jerome and the Cavalcade players. And our DuPont brings you news of chemistry at work in our world. In our time, an army doesn't march on its stomach as it did in the time of Frederick the Great. It rolls on wheels and it flies on wings. And the fuel that rolls it and flies it is oil hidden away in the earth in geological epochs that never knew the sound of a marching footfall. Oil for battleships and airplane carriers. Diesel oil for tanks, trains and submarines. Hundred octane aviation gasoline. And the industry behind the army uses still more oil. Not only that, but National Defense calls for the petroleum hydrocarbons that are one source of TNT and other military explosives. It isn't hard to understand why petroleum products are so vital to American defense plans. Where in the last war, an army division used 4,000 horsepower, today the same division, mechanized, uses 187,000. Luckily, the United States is responsible for 61% of the world's oil production. Within its borders, along with 400 odd refineries in 36 states, there is more crude oil and natural gas than in any other country. If necessary, 2 million gallons of 100 octane aviation gasoline can be made per day. Gasoline that flies a plane 30% farther and faster enables it to carry 20 to 30% more load, lets it climb 25% more rapidly and doubles the working life of the motor. If it becomes necessary for America to ration her oil it will only be because it is agreed that oil for defense and transport for defense are more important than for pleasure and comfort. In the production and processing of petroleum, chemistry is an invaluable partner. DuPont Nitromon S, a new safer blasting agent for seismic prospecting and other special DuPont explosives help prospectors to discover hidden oil deposits, saving millions of dollars that used to be wasted on dry holes. Skilled DuPont technicians called shooters place explosive charges in oil wells to make them more productive. DuPont neoprene chemical rubber with its superior resistance to oil is used in drilling equipment and in the great hoses that fill ocean going tankers and railroad tank cars. A whole list of DuPont chemicals is used in oil refining, among them solvents, acid and doctor solutions as petroleum engineers call them. DuPont inhibitors stabilize the high octane gasoline made by modern cracking processes. DuPont addition agents reduce the oxidation of lubricating oils and increase the strength of oil films. DuPont chemical serve as bases for extreme pressure lubricants designed to stand up under tons of pressure. DuPont plastics protect the underground pipelines that carry oil across country. And DuPont finishes protect the storage tanks, the trucks and the oil tankers at sea. Service to the petroleum industry, a service doubly vital to us at this time, ranks high indeed among the better things for better living through chemistry. And now Ted Joyce of the Cavalcade Players to tell you about next week's program. Next week, the Cavalcade Players present a radio play called The Mystery of the Spotted Death, the story of a group of men whose lives were devoted to fighting a plague called Rocky Mountain Fever, caused by ticks, a scourge, wrecking death and desolation among the people of the mountain regions of western America. We hope you'll join us for this broadcast next week. On The Cavalcade of America. On our program next week, our story from the wonder world of chemistry will tell how modern chemistry is carrying on the battle against insect pests in our world today. On The Cavalcade of America, your announcer is Clayton Collier sending best wishes from DuPont. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


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You know what you look like? What it is? Call it, what's his name? Colin Farrell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like in the 90s. Yeah, just for sure.  It's going to make him change now. Watch this. I will.  So it's just I don't like to be put in a box. I'm not I'm not like anybody else but myself.  I want to see you in a fedora that don't. Yeah, I know very few people can grow a power mustache and look good. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like you can't either. I'm just saying very few people love this kid actually looks good on you. And then you got the beanie.  Cheech or Chong that you still look like that with the mustache? I'm not sure if I'm going to get cheech or Chong very much. You know what I've been watching what inspired it was all one, right? Was Chong the tall one? I think so. OK, so it looked like Cheech. Yeah, you're right. Cheech Martin. You're right.  No. Oh, cool show. Cool show. I just got common. Isn't that right? The the rapper. Oh, you know what? I think he is Hell on Wheels. Yeah, yeah, good actor. I think he is and I think he is in that. What's it about? It's the railroad. So the building of the railroad. So it's pretty cool, pretty cool story. And so is it like a dramatization of how that process went out? Yeah, you know, it's actually really cool. So Rockefeller, they have Rockefeller in there and all that. It hasn't been introduced yet. Like, but I'm barely like on, I want to say, episode six or seven. And it's pretty cool right now. Yeah, because he you know, if you adjust for inflation or whatever, and you know, comparison, I think Rockefeller still is will the richest man of all time. If I'm not mistaken. Really? Yeah, if the world if you compare inflation, everything back then. And the rest of the million dollars back then is like like billion. Yeah, I think he'd be a trillionaire today if you equate it or something like that. Well, he had that much money. Yeah, it was a standard oil. He was standard oil, right? I think so. I don't know. But the show is pretty cool. I'm not I'm not sure how close to history they stay on it or not. But it's pretty it's pretty interesting. It's pretty pretty cool. The characters are cool in there. I like the I like the main guy. Can't think of his name.  What's his name?  That's what I like about all the Netflix now is like they have all these like A-list actors that are doing these shows, you know, it makes them so much better when they're good. Yeah, they've they've definitely sort of taken a lot of these actors away from movie roles now, because this is a popular thing is the streaming TV shows, because they can put such high production into them now. And, you know, keep people there. I heard some crazy statistic about Netflix. God, I don't even know why I brought it up because I don't even know it. It's one of those things. It was like so like they're making so much money per month. It was unreal. Netflix. Yeah. Oh, wow, really. Yeah. Yeah, it's not for their subscription alone. It's definitely one of my favorite companies to watch. That's actually what inspired it. This we're watching it.  That's what's the inspiration. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And I remember you're going to handlebar it out. They're going to twist it. If you went more like Kurt Russell, remember when he was in Tombstone? Thank you.    You know, but I have one of those things. It's one of those things I feel like men grow not for women. No, women are. Yeah, very few things that guys will do to their appearance for men. Right. And that's like shave their head. Yeah, I always I always go through periods like that where I want to shave my head. And then my wife's always like, no, don't do it. I'll be dry. I love it. Yeah, I'm not going to like it. Trina is not the biggest fan of it, but it's growing on her. Has she stopped? She's a mustache is growing on her. No, not a mustache is growing. Oh, liking it. Yeah. OK. Yeah. I was going to say, you know, we play. She's getting testosterone. Babe, don't drink that. Yeah, the handlebar mustache is not sexy on her. Although it does it for us. It's great. It's great for role play. You know, we play railroad. Oh, really? Choo-choo. Mr. Conductor. That's good. It's good little insight there. Thank you. I can't make it over the hill. I'll push you up, honey. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. We try to get a man six years. I don't know if I can handle that. We've been together six years. Or are you like creative, man? Or you like the train robber that comes in. Give me your purse. We've done both. Lady. We've done both. No, you haven't. When I first did it, I told you I tried the creepy molester one. That didn't work. She wasn't into the, hey, little girl, I have some candy. Oh, my God. That's horrible. Who would like that? You bought a van and everything. Yeah, I'm open to exploring things. Do you guys honestly, have you guys ever done any role play like that? Of course, bro. Really? Six years. Maybe like superhero costumes. You think I'm kidding me. We're playing railroad. I would find it like, I would laugh almost. It is fun. I know that's you. Stop it. It helps to get really high first. You know, if you try, it's tough to do like come into a role play scenario completely sober. You know, if you just decide like, hey, honey, let's role play. So see, see what you got to do is okay. So like my wife went to Texas to go visit one of her friends. She came back. So I made sure and got a cowboy hat. You know what I'm saying? Does she really? Yeah. Oh my God. That's great. She comes home. She was like, ah, like laughed at first and then was like, yeah, we're using that. It's like I knew it. Really?   There's a lot of brilliance behind what he's saying right now.  Well, it's smart because the wife goes right. Okay. She's away from the hubby. She's off.  I'm sure there was at least one or two good looking cowboys. Oh yeah. She's human. Yeah. Right. So that's a very smart strategy. I'm actually quite proud of you. That guy. Come on, bro. Like I got more than you pal.  And what they did is they, so they had this like fake nightclub and they had women come in and then what they did is they analyzed how much skin they had showing and how much, I think it was how much they moved their hips when they were dancing, which I believe is strongly correlated to like being sexual at the moment. Always bringing the science in. And no, check this out. Yeah. The women, statistically speaking, the women that showed the most skin and who gyrated the most when they danced were, you ready for this? Married women who were ovulating but not with their partners at the club. They were the ones that were showing the most. Scandalous women. God. Isn't that crazy? No, it's not crazy. It makes perfect sense. It does. It makes a lot of sense. That's why I told my girlfriend like basically you're not allowed to go out anymore. So she just stays home now. Not going anywhere when you're ovulating. It's going to work for a minute. Yeah, it works real well. But isn't that crazy though? That is crazy. Yeah. Because I think for guys, we're always like that, right? Doesn't matter. Yeah, I know. It's like every day. I don't know. I mean, when I dance, I gyrate my hips a lot anyway. Yeah. Just because I can't dance. I walked down the street and I'm just slinging it. You actually do a little bit. A little bit. A little shuffle. Justin was the last one to dance at all of us, right? He was getting down when we went out to on it. That was the last time anybody danced, right? Was I dancing? Oh, I was. Nobody danced. A little shaky too. You were the only one to dance. You were the only one to dance. A little jitterbug going on there. A little jitterbug. A little leprechaun jig. You know what I mean?  It's got that handlebar mustache. I'm not even the 20th, I'm the 18th century. That's like a buggy. That's advanced. I forgot my top hat. You know what I mean? I used to have a top hat in a cane. You were the only one to dance. Well, I'm not afraid of it. Yeah. You guys are afraid of it. You got to work on your movement. Yeah. If you ever see me dancing, you know I'm on something. You know, I had a couple of topics I want to bring up in regards to fitness.  I forgot about that. Yeah. So you're gone? Yeah. In regards to fitness. Sorry, audience. We're about to get into some fitness. I wanted to talk a little bit more. We've brought up a few times now, especially since working with Dr. Brink on the importance of the smaller joints in the body on function. Like we've talked a lot about the feet and the ankles. Yeah. We haven't talked much about the wrists, you know, and the fingers. Fingers, toes. Right. Yeah. You know, it's interesting. We in the fitness community completely ignore the small joints. Like the more advanced trainers will look at the big joints, like the shoulders, the hips, you know, elbows, knees. Very few people look at function of the hands and function of the feet and how those affect, you know, your recruitment patterns, how they affect your workouts.  And I think it was Brink who pointed out your, I don't remember which foot it was. Yeah. He's like, oh, look at this. Your ankles caving here and your toes aren't firing. Yeah. And it was something that we didn't even... It was so subtle. We didn't even pay attention to. Yeah, it was so subtle that I wouldn't even be looking at it because everything else mechanically looked good, which, that's a big... I'm going to say something right now. It makes a huge... It's not a small difference. It makes a huge difference in how your body moves. And a lot of the dysfunction that we have in the rest of our body is compensating for the dysfunction that we have in these small joints of our bodies. And of course, the shoes that we wear and the wrist wraps that we wear when we lift weights. Yeah. You know, there's studies that show that wearing wrist wraps, for example, or straps. I don't know if you call them wrist wraps or straps. The ones that wrap around the bar so you can hold on to heavier weight actually changes the recruitment patterning all the way up into the shoulder. Mm-hmm. You know? Yeah. It's interesting too. And I know you're going with this because my brain has been living in this thought process because it's like almost taking a magnifying lens into the process of how you send signals, how you control your body, how you recruit properly.  And what are actual valid good recruitment patterns for each of these particular movements? And there are like more optimal ways to do things than there's not. And it's really about identifying those. And this takes a lot of, it's a big humbling process, right? Mm-hmm. To go and to really put yourself under that lens and look further at your toes and like the dysfunction there. And like I'm like so not connected to that process. Well, that is a problem. A lot of people don't even, like here's an interesting statistic. Like if you lose your big toe and one of your feet, if you lose one big toe, you have to go through a very long process of learning how to walk again and how to move again. That one, just one toe. Yeah. Especially that one. Especially that one affects your gait and your run and your balance tremendously. Okay. Huge. Now let's say you have your toes, right? You don't have any of them amputated or you know, you've got all five toes on both feet, but they're not connected. What I mean by that is you're not able to articulate them. You're not able to fully ground them when you're doing your movements and exercises. Well, that's going to have an effect on the rest of your body. Yeah. One of the things that I started doing after we started working with Dr. Brink is now when I work out, I used to pay attention to, you know, my back, my core stabilization, my posture, you know, activating and being tense in all these different areas, my hips, but I never paid attention to my feet. Now, I'll also pay attention to my feet. In fact, I'll pay attention more to my feet because that's always, it's been a weakness of mine and it fixes like the rest of my, you know, the rest of my movement. I'll feel my hips moving better. Knees, everything else will adjust accordingly. Yeah. This was, I remember talking with Brink and it's actually changed how I assess somebody. In the past, I would, I would look at their shoulders and their chest and their hips and their legs, their knees. Like those were kind of like these key point areas I would kind of hone in on when I was watching a squat. And, you know, he was the one who told me, he was like, oh, no, I just, I look at the feet up, you know, and you can tell some, and it's so true. Now that I've, now that I'm understanding that fully grasping all these little tiny minute deviations in our ankles and in our feet, it just goes right at the kinetic chain. And you can see now, I'll look at somebody when squatting or deadlifting especially, and they perform the movement. I'm not even looking at the rest of their body. I'm just looking at their feet and they'll tell you so much about everything else because you can just follow it up the chain and have a pretty good idea of why, oh, that's why your knees are bothered. Oh, that's why your hip. Oh, that's why low back. Oh, okay. Now this makes sense. And it's, it's probably stimming here. I spent a lot of time, my trainer career, though, adjusting all the other stuff, you know, trying to fix the hips and the knees and the shoulders and get. This may be why, I don't know if you guys encountered this as trainers, but you'll, you'll address an issue. And it just, and then it gets better. And then you'll have to, you know, three, four months later. It comes back. Yeah. Quickly. Exactly. Because you didn't address the stuff that was around. Yeah. A perfect case of one of my clients that used to be a dancer and it was like this constant battle and process that like I was always battling. And I always was trying to get more, you know, like adduction and get, get her knees to come, come inward. And like, so I would just focus on that because I knew that like every time she's getting this like external rotation, like coming in her squat and like her knees are kind of coming out. And I had to look further and see that, wow, every time she walks or moves and balances her, her ankles actually turn in. And so she's, she's coming out with her feet and she's also not like, she can't really pronate very well with her feet. So I had to like take it down to that level and now we, we just work on walking patterns and, and focusing on ankle mobility and it's done like a world of difference. So. Well, one thing that I'll notice too when people, when they're working out and you can even pay attention to yourself when you're squatting, squatting is a good one, by the way. Just do a basic squat and look at your feet, take your shoes and socks off, stand in front of the mirror and you'll, you'll notice if you really watch and pay attention, you'll notice some of these deviations. But one of the more common ones I'll notice is that like people's feet will like either their toes will come off the ground because they're trying to fix their hips or their feet will turn out or like mine, one of mine, it was my right foot. My right foot would, would pronate. So kind of cave in at the ankle. And I always wondered why my right foot would turn out. Like if I started deadlifting, I would start with my feet both looking the same, but by the third rep, my right foot would always be slightly turned out. And I always thought it was, it was my hips, but it wasn't, it was my feet. And so what I did, and this is just like anything else, what you do, if I'm working on my foot stability, I can still do my deadlifts and squats, but what I'll do is I'll go lighter and I'll focus on grounding really hard with my foot. And then I'll maintain that with lighter weight throughout my form. So yeah, I'm not getting as intensive a workout with my hips or my back, but I'm kind of changing the patterning a little bit. And then I work my way up eventually to heavier and heavier weight. And lo and behold, I find my form feels, you know, much more solid. I wasn't able to squat very deep for a long time and part of it was my hips, but a big part of it was my feet. Absolutely. You know? Well, I think where I was backwards is I always thought it was my hips and then it caused to run down, right? When really it was the other way around, it was going on with my feet. And then that's, you know, you tell, I have the exact same issue with the other side. And then that, you know, internally rotates the femur when you pronate like that. And then then you get the hip issues and then you get the low back issues on that one side or whatever. This is part of why I've got it's been so great to have a gym that is ours that we can come in and. Train barefoot. Yeah. That's a very first thing I do now is I just kick my shoes off.  And that's been huge. The other one I did, I did a video of this on, on Instagram, maybe a week ago, week or two ago as squatting actually on my toes barefoot. Talk about a great like foot strengthening, ankle strengthening exercise while I'm doing squats, you know, so I'm working on all the other things too. But to keep myself on my toes the entire time while I drop down into a squat, you know, and I definitely recommend somebody does that body weight first for a while before you even think about putting weight on you because that could get dangerous. It's not something I would recommend to the average person, but, you know, squatting with no weight on you all the way down as deep as you can while staying on your toes. Great exercise. Just naturally your toes will spread out to do that to keep you help keep you balanced. You'll feel your ankle having to stabilize as you come down. So, it's been a money move for me. Yeah, I mean, if we look at, like, let's focus on the feet still since we're on the feet because we could talk about the hands next, but the feet are, besides your hands, it's probably the richest in terms of nerve endings and sensory. Oh, muscles. Muscles, nerve endings, bones, everything. It's covered in muscle. It's made up of many, many, many different bones. So many moving parts down there. There's lots of moving parts and, but we, of course, we walk around and we cover them with these, you know, with casts. Basically, it's almost like cast, flexible cast shoes all the time, but, like, there's one exercise in particular it's called short foot. Oh, yeah. Which I'd never heard of before. We're all terrible at that. I can't do it. No. And this is, it's so weird to not be able to do this. Like, I can see, I watch videos of people doing it, you know, Brink demonstrated. Yeah, you pull, basically pulling into an arch position in the bottom of the foot. So you're trying to make a fist with your foot. You're trying to squeeze it up, though. You're not trying to grip with your toes. You're trying to squeeze it up and it's like, what? It's without your toes. It makes sense.  Yeah, pulling the arch, flattening. And flattening. You should be able to do that.  That's what it is for me.  Like, there's nothing there. So what I've been doing is when I'm watching TV or I'm sitting on the couch is I take my shoes and socks off and I just put my feet on the floor and then I just practice trying to get connected to that movement because I realize that frequency is very important with getting connection. You gotta keep practicing, keep practicing, keep practicing to be able to articulate and get that connection. Yeah, that's, I mean it's a good point. Like I've definitely taken a lot of these positions, especially 90-90 and some of these other like influential positions that are like sort of foundational and staples when I'm watching TV. Like that's, that's such a perfect time. Like why are you sitting all in this like fluffy couch? Like, I mean, I'll do that to relax or whatever, but I want to make sure I split up the time. So if I'm like just kind of be sitting somewhere for too long, like I'm going to put myself in an optimal position. Are there some tips that you guys give clients or a progression that you guys typically put them through is to strengthen their feet and get reconnected? Like what's a basic protocol? Well, I take it case by case. So, you know, like that's the first thing is really to see kind of where the dysfunction is happening and just watch the way they walk first and with their shoes off, their socks off, all that kind of stuff and then see what kind of connectivity they have in their toes and then just sort of work my way from there. Like what drills to do. You don't have specific drills or things that you like to use or that comes to mind that you send your people do? Well, I have just go ahead. Like for example, like for me, I'll first, you know, I have some ankle mobility stuff. I like the combat position. I think that's a great easy starter. You kind of in the seated position. What's important with that though is the intention. Yeah, like you can't just get into it. You have to like ground your foot and activate it in your ankle. I just want to see how high they can get up on their toes. So I'll have them like hold onto something if they need to or just like in place, like just raise their heels up as high as they can. And then also like see what kind of range of motion they have. You know, I'm on position to that. And then yeah, I'll take them through different walking patterns. And then also the the beast or the quadruped where we bring it up on the toes and just see what kind of strength they have to just hold certain positions basically just emulating a lot of different squat positions and different angles. So whether I, you know, have them laying on their back or I have them in the quadruped position or I have them up against the wall. And then like assessing like what kind of force and how they're distributing it down all the way through their ankle and feet. Yeah. One of the first things that I do with clients is I just tell them to walk around bare foot. There you go. More often because. Yeah.   That's also important because again, I like to use the hands as an example. If you always wore gloves with your hands, you're not getting the full, you know, feeling of touching and moving things, same thing with your feet. So walk around barefoot, you know, for an hour, three days a week. And by the way, when people do this, who don't always do this, they'll come back to me and be like, ooh, my foot hurts or I'm getting, you know, I see more of a prescription for the week and for the month and all that, not just like what you do with them in a session. No, no, no, I was talking about what I do in a session. Yeah. No, no, I'll just tell them, hey, just start walking around barefoot a little bit.  Yeah, they're just not used to doing it. And then what I'll do is once they do that for a little while, then I'll increase how much they walk barefoot. Then the next thing I'll do is I'll have them. I'll tell them, hey, when you're sitting down, you have to do that.   And you would be surprised how many people can't do that. Yeah. They just can't do that. That's hard to do. And not only can they not do that, but the ones that can do it after about five reps of doing that, their feet start fucking, they just can't move them anymore. Well, I think too, I think it's important to note people will notice a major discrepancy a lot of times between each foot. Like one foot, like you can do certain things with and then the other one is just like totally disconnected.  And then the ones on the other side, it's just like no connection. Just can't move them whatsoever.  Have you seen the people, I'm sure you guys have seen videos of people who are like double arm amputees and so they can use their feet to do everything? Oh yeah. The crazy dexterity That's not like a special talent. I want everybody to know they just practice their ability. Well technically we should be able to use our feet near almost as good as we can use our hands. We just don't have long fingers on our hands. We don't have the opposable thumb. But you can do, you can articulate and move your feet and have a lot of control with them.  So I'll kick you out. But when you're deadlifting, when you're squatting, when you're shoulder pressing, when you're doing curls. If you just ground your foot like put your feet on the ground and feel your, spread your toes out a little bit in your shoes and ground your foot. Tense them up a little bit and then do your exercises. You'll feel more connected to the movement itself. It doesn't matter if you're you're doing curl shoulder presses or even bench press. Actually we know this with certain lifts right? Even bench press they ground into the floor when you're doing your lift. So these are things that you can do that are small that you're probably not doing that make a pretty big difference.  I'll show you guys. She's been raving about it so I've been meaning to order it. So remember to put a post on my impump radio or whatever and share with you guys. But it's just this little platform. I'll show you a picture of it. It's a little platform and has all these little rollers and bands and things that exercises for your feet. It's dope. What? Yeah, it's super dope. And you totally put it on. You better get like a link for this. No, I will. Yeah, we'll check it out and then I'll see if we can post a link for people so they can look into it but she's been raving about it and I've been meaning to order one for myself. So it's called the foot gym. So we'll have to post a link. Excellent. Listen, if you like your review and we pick it you'll get a free Mind Pump T-shirt. Also, go to YouTube. Check out Mind Pump TV. Awesome videos posted every single day. It is a treasure trove of information. Also, go to Instagram. You can find us on Mind Pump Radio. You can find me at Mind Pump Sal. 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Okay, here's the truth. If you want to break into tech and actually get a job, then you need to be better than everyone else. There's no easy way of saying this, but in this video hopefully I'll show you some tips on how you can actually be better than the other people applying. So the other day on LinkedIn I saw a really interesting post by a recruiter and recruiters if you don't know, they're kind of headhunters and they go out and they find people for roles in tech and they were saying that a job they posted it had something like 400 applicants and this can be quite demoralising to people. Obviously if you're on LinkedIn and it says how many people have applied and it says 400, but what they were trying to say was out of that 400 basically 200 people didn't read the job description so they weren't in the country that the job was being applied for and it said entrance from the US only. Then another 100 of them didn't have any relevant skills so that knocked them out and then it was something like only eight out of the 400 actually had relevant skills, were willing to go to an office one day a week and were candidates for the role. So that knocked down 400 to eight and then out of that eight you've got a one in eight chance really of getting the job. But I guess the key thing is because I teach a course online and I try and help out students I've noticed a common theme among people and that is a lot of people expect things really quite easily now and it's kind of just this is quite hard to listen but you need to put more effort in really that's the truth. People are always looking for a quick fix or how can I get this job as quickly as possible I want two weeks and I want to get 80 grand or something like that. The true visit took me like six years to learn design and I'm not saying you can't do it in a year but you certainly can't do it in two weeks. This is something that you need to invest time into. Basically when employers are looking for people they're looking to hire skills they're not really looking to train you. So in the interview process you're looking for someone who knows what they're talking about and the only way to do that is by putting hundreds of hours of work in. So you can do that in a course or you can do that in your own time by getting up early putting a couple of hours in in the morning. This time really you're investing in your own skill set and this is how you actually get a job because you need in our craft so I'm from a UIUX background or a design background. You need a portfolio to show and that could be of your developer and a lot of other tech fields you'll have some like even development has a test and you need to invest in your knowledge early. So rather than focusing on I want to get into tech because it pays a lot of money. It pays a lot of money because there's not many people who have the skills for the job. That's where the money comes from. It's not like Google or Microsoft just want to throw money at you and give it away for free. They pay that money because it's a supply and demand issue. There's supply of jobs and the supply is low of people with the skills and demand is high for jobs so prices go up. So what this video really is about is you investing in yourself and not trying to rush into a career too quickly and that is really building up your skills and that could be done through an online course so I teach a course careers but what I teach you is and what could be any course online. We teach you the skills to get a portfolio ready and there's no course in the world which is going to give you a job at the end of that. Your task then is to represent yourself to the companies and show off the knowledge of the work that you've got and you really need to go above and beyond and that's what my teaching is all about. Normally if I'm hiring for a designer and I get 10 people I'm going to look for the one who's gone above and beyond and that is not someone who's just done a course. It's someone who has put deposits of goodness into the world. Shall I say like someone who goes to a local company and helps them out and does some freelancing online. I'm not talking about like Fiverr and websites I'm talking about like it could just be a local business you could help them out with your design skills in many ways you could do. You know I really teach about doing internships I think they're very important and they're kind of like modern-day apprenticeships I think actually going into a work environment and a giving of yourself and you're receiving back just just think about it you're not receiving back great amounts of compensation but you're receiving back a lot of knowledge and a lot of skills from other people. So the best way really to go about getting a job nowadays is to set yourself a schedule and that would be so I'm an early bird and I always used to get up before the family I've just constantly done this is how I got for university. I used to get up at six or five in the morning as long as you get into bed late nothing really ever good happens in the nighttime or proactively I found towards living you know your best life as your best self. So I used to get up in the morning I used to sit down I used to have breakfast at the computer I used to do two hours of studying a day and you'll be surprised over a week and then you can just get on with your day then at eight o'clock you can go to your regular job you could you can do your life and because you're putting that as a priority first in the morning you kind of getting it done I used to do weekends well I didn't I don't take breaks and I mean you can do it but you think about two hours a day that's 14 hours a week and over a month you're looking at nearly 60 hours so like a couple of months you're gonna get over a hundred hours of experience of you learning and doing skills and really building out your portfolio and then how you actually get a job is remember their your skills and then what a lot of people also are lazy at doing which is the truth is just applying on LinkedIn just applying on job boards and wondering why on why on why aren't I getting a call back and the truth is you need to sell yourself you need to phone up these people I've sat next to recruiters in work they love talking on the phone and but if they had 10 people apply for a job and only one of them actually called them up and went and put some effort in and said do you mind having a coffee and or do you mind having a chat about the role it's really putting you want to put yourself above everybody else and that's by doing things just out the box just just using your imagination to put yourself first I really think calling having a chat with someone having a chat with the hiring manager these people don't mind talking and I feel like you need to sell yourself that's that's that's it's gonna be for a job there's gonna be a hundred people who have the same skill set as you there's a lot of people doing courses now tech because because it's traditionally paid well every kid wants to be in tech really but not every person wants to put an effort and go and actually go above and beyond and do it so remember your sales pet your salesperson for yourself you need to learn the art of selling maybe maybe download some sales books or listen to some audio books try and learn skills outside of just your field but you're basically your own agent and you need to represent yourself have a really solid foundation of knowledge read books do courses watch YouTube videos have practical skills and real life practical skills as well you can do example projects you can so on the course we do example projects but I also really think it's important to have real life projects and local businesses are fine any anything in real life is good try and get an internship again I was lucky to get mine at British Vogue in the UK I got mine from my college but maybe just don't apply through the traditional ones even see if there's any local design agencies and smaller agencies don't do things like they don't put out applications for work experience because it's a pain for them to look after someone who's a just going there so phone them up and show initiative I went to a place which was a photo studio and I just asked the guy who owned it if I could come down for a couple of weeks and sit in there and then and that was a work experience but on my LinkedIn it looks like a professional place that I went to work and it shows that I'm actually getting experience in the real world so you need to get out there don't just think all the jobs are remote remember there's going to be most people are going to want remote jobs now so if you're serious about working in tech throughout my 20s I went and lived in London and now live in the countryside so later on in my life I was able to come out of the city environment but it's just you just going to have more chance honestly of getting a job if you live within reach of an office or can at least commute like throughout my life I did five hour commutes one day a week and you know you've just got it you've just got to put the effort in don't expect you're going to get 80 grand just for sitting at home on your computer that's not realistic for a junior role and it's not what member it's not the companies that's not what they're going on they want it going on so when they can train up and teach skills to because they're going to have to invest a lot in you so that's what I would do if I was starting again and how I would actually get a job which is going above and beyond their skills have a good practical portfolio and represent myself and then try and become a salesperson so I hope that helps let me know in the comments what you think oh and if you're interested in doing the UI UX course then I'd love to see you a course careers so check out links in the description


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talked about this and looked at this. It is not a situation in the chamber where some people are saying that this is not an issue and others are saying that it is. We all agree that it is an issue and we all agree that it is something that we need to come together to sort out. For that reason, I think that we have all come to some consensus here in agreeing that we support the action plan that the Scottish Government has bought out. We want to assist in any way that we can in taking it forward and to make sure that, as the years go forward, we see a reduction in homelessness. It is quite clear that it is complex and I am not going to stand here and say that welfare benefits have nothing to do with it. Of course they do, everything contributes, but they are not the one and only reason. It is important that, as we talk about it and as we look at it, we look at all the different reasons and we address all the different reasons. The UK Government today is engaging in that conversation and has, in fact, released guidance specifically today on how to, for vulnerable people and people particularly who are suffering from homelessness, how they engage with the welfare benefit system and how they can actually get help and make sure that they access everything that they are entitled to. They have reacted to the comments, to the reports that have come out and they are working closely with many of those agencies. I think that we do not do ourselves any service and we do a huge amount of disservice to people who are homeless if we do not work together to actually resolve that. In that statement that you have just mentioned in the UK Government, have they made any declaration of all the agencies that have been mentioned by many people in this chamber that are very critical of universal credit? They will engage with them to ask them exactly what it is about universal credit that they think is so damaging. Yes, they are actually reacting to some of what Shelter said, so they are doing exactly that. I think that it is not correct to suggest that they are not listening and that they are not talking to them. Like all of us, they are being lobbied in the same way as we are being lobbied in this Parliament and they are engaging in those conversations. I am going to make a little bit of progress if you do not mind. It enjoys support from all elements of this chamber, the action plan. I want to thank my colleague Graham Simpson for his work on this issue. Of course, the charity crisis did highlight in their recent report many of the issues facing people in unsuitable accommodation. This is something that Graham Simpson took on board and has been working on. It forms the basis of the amendment that we have brought forward today. Like all the evidence that we have brought forward, it is one that we could not ignore. I have certainly had a lot of representations on this in the past week or so. The amendment was brought in good faith. We do not want to see people sitting in unsuitable accommodation. I think that Kezia Dugdale's contribution on this was extremely angry and passionate. For every good reason, it is unthinkable that somebody should be sitting for weeks or months in accommodation that you would never dream of walking into and saying, this is livable and somebody should go in here. At the same time, if there is absolutely nowhere else to put a roof over their head, we need to get them out as soon as possible and into good accommodation. I am delighted that today's debate started with the minister standing up and saying, we are going to look at that and we are going to bring that forward and we are going to make sure that we do something about it. On that basis, we will look forward, and I am sure that Graham, as our housing spokesperson, will look forward to working with you on that to make sure that we address the whole issue of temporary accommodation. I think that we have made some real progress today on that. Pauline McNeill emphasised a lot around local government and the key role that they have to play. I would certainly agree with that as an ex-councillor. Many of the stuff comes back to councils to deal with, and the buck stops with the council to actually get people the help that they need. Again, the minister confirmed today that he does agree with that and that he is going to look and ensure—correct me if I am wrong, Minister, when you stand up—you said that you make sure that they have the necessary resources, but we will look forward to hearing more about that as we go forward. We have heard from a lot of people about the need to consider agenda dimension to homelessness, and it is certainly difficult, particularly if you have children and you are trying to get out of a situation. Having a roof over the head of your children is the most important thing to mothers particularly. You cannot take your children on the street, so the need to be able to move from wherever you are, from the situation, to security—not just the security of a roof of your head, but the security that you know that that partner who may be abusing you to the degree that you fear for your life means that they cannot get at you. It is important that we take heed of that and work together to ensure that there is the ability to move accommodation when you need it. Ruth Maguire I thank Michelle Ballantyne for taking the intervention. I wonder if she would acknowledge that finance is used as a way of coercing women and stopping them from leaving, and would she support our calls for split payments to be made as source on universal credit to stop that potential financial control and coercion? Michelle Ballantyne Yes, I would absolutely agree that finance is used in coercion. It is one of the key issues that is often used. In terms of at source, there should be the option, certainly. There is a complication and a difficulty, and that is something that we will have to work through, because that coercion still exists when the money is separated. If it is automatic, the partners will know about that anyway. There are some real complications that we have to work through to ensure that women really get the protection that they need. We talked about, Oliver Mundell, on a number of members, the hidden homelessness. That is an important element. When I headed up the drug and alcohol unit, hidden homelessness was one of the big things. Many of my clients did so for surf. They were bouncing from place to place, but they were not registered as homeless. That is something that we need to make sure that we have a handle on as we go through the action plan. He talked about the fact that it is important that tenants know their rights. Absolutely. Tenancy law has changed. The 2016 act changed it. I heard very strongly Kezia Dugdale's comments around why we need to wait until 2023 to ensure that standards are implemented. It is really interesting because quality standards were implemented in 2015. If you are in social housing or if you are in public authority rented accommodation, but not temporary accommodation, that was a real miss because it is the same people. Whether it was done to stage the cost of doing it, I do not know, but it was a miss. I think that it is something that we should be looking at and trying to bring forward and get done as quickly as possible. Alexander Stewart reminded us and many others that person-centred approach is important. Everybody's circumstances, when you become homeless or you are at threat at homelessness, are different. It is really important that we work with individuals and look at individuals' needs. I can see that I am going to run out of time. Do you want me to wind up a few more seconds? I think that it is really important that, as I said already a million times, that we do bring it together. I am afraid that we cannot support Andy Wightman's amendment today, but we will support Labour's amendment. It is simply because I agree with what my colleague Jeremy Balfour said that there are potentially unattended consequences. For Edinburgh, I absolutely understand the argument, and the argument is really important for Edinburgh, but maybe we need solutions for areas where there are difficulties rather than a whole country-wide solution. I just want to mention one little tiny thing. That is about making supported accommodation important. I do not call on Aileen Campbell to close. I have changed, I now call on Kevin Stewart to close for the Government Minister, please, until decision time. I think that this has been a very good debate today with some thoughtful contributions. There has been passion, there has sometimes been anger, and rightly so. The level of commitment shown here today to tackle and prevent homelessness and to do more for those who experience it is very reassuring. The Scottish Government wants Scotland to be a progressive and socially responsible nation where people are treated with fairness, dignity and respect and where there is no place for homelessness or rough sleeping. We want to build on the strong homelessness rights and the radical changes to homelessness and affordable housing that our local and national government have delivered over the past decade, in partnership with housing providers, the third sector and others. The ending homelessness together action plan was published this week, and everybody has been saying that the Scottish Government ending homelessness together action plan. It is the Scottish Government COSLA document, which also had a lot of others adding to it, and I am grateful to all of them for their efforts. Let's not just call it the Scottish Government action plan. It is an important milestone in realising our vision that everyone has a safe, warm home that meets their needs and that homelessness has ended. The action plan is the culmination of two particular pieces of work. Firstly, the report and recommendations presented earlier this year from the Scottish Parliament's Local Government and Communities Committee following its wide-ranging inquiry into homelessness. I repeat my thanks to the committee and everyone who participated in that inquiry for their valuable contribution. The work of the committee complemented and informed the other significant piece of work, that of the homelessness and rough sleeping action group. Their dedication, their hard work, produced within a short period of time that existed, came up with actions for preventing rough sleeping in winter 2017-18, which made an immediate tangible difference and 70 bold recommendations, all of which we have accepted in principle. I also want to repeat my thanks to all of the members of the action group for their commitment and for the incredible pace at which they worked in producing that comprehensive set of well-informed and detailed recommendations. I thank all the partners who worked with Harsag, including those who have lived experience of homelessness and who know better than any of us what needs to change. Beyond that, I pay tribute to my civil servants for all the hard work that they have had in getting us to that point. Through iWeCan, Harsag undertook a programme of engagement with 425 people across the country to gain insight into their direct experience of homelessness, to hear about the issues that matter to them and what they wanted to see change and what would have helped better support them. Anyone who knows me knows how important it is to me that the views of those with lived experience of homelessness inform every step of this journey. We heard today from Kezia Dugdale examples of where the system has failed people. She was angry about that situation and I share her ire. What I would say to Kezia Dugdale today is that I am more than willing to meet the gentleman and his baby that she talked about with her to hear about his experiences and she can be assured that I will do all that I can to ensure that a situation like that never happens again. I certainly will. Kezia Dugdale for that offer and formally accepted it, but would he also accept that there are systemic failures in the system when it comes to temporary accommodation and urge him once again to please bring forward those new national standards on temporary accommodation before 2023? I thank Mr Dugdale for bringing that up again because what we can do—and it is by 2023 and that is dealing with legislation—is to commit to dealing with guidance in the early part of next year, early to mid next year, to get that absolutely right. To go further than that will require consultation, as Ms Dugdale knows, but I commit to dealing with that guidance situation long before 2023. Others in the debate have mentioned numerous things. Let me go with two points that are not entirely in agreement, because we heard earlier on this afternoon about the situation of what happened in the past. Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick was a member of the task force previously that was mentioned this afternoon. She was also a member of Harsag, providing a useful link between the two. Harsag members themselves, the majority of whom have long and consistent experience of the homelessness sector, agree that the plan is different this time, because, first of all, there is a commitment to tackle all homelessness and not just rough sleeping. There is, this time, consensus across all sectors on what needs to be done and a commitment to do it. That is what is different from what happened previously. The other point where I disagree with some members—I do not want to go on at length about this—is about welfare reform. I suggest that, if we are going to accept all the recommendations, all 70 recommendations of Harsag, we also have to look at the recommendations that they have made around welfare reform. I hope that members across the chamber can come together to persuade the UK Government to change their minds in some of that regard. There was talk about swift action today—very briefly—for Mr Corey. Maurice Corry. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I thank the Minister for taking the intervention. With more than 650 veterans in Scotland currently requiring housing, what is the Minister doing to have local authorities address the urgent need for the armed forces veterans? I am disappointed, Presiding Officer, that Mr Corry has come in late today and asked that question. We have done a lot already in terms of investment into housing for veterans in Scotland. Mr Day and I have met with officials just recently. Point of order, which I suspect is not a point of order, but we will find out. You have been in this debate this afternoon, attending the chamber duty. You were in the debate this afternoon. We have made your point. I apologise, because I did not spot Mr Corry. However, Mr Day and I have met recently with veterans bodies and will continue to do so. I wish that MOD would do somewhat more in terms of dealing with the folks that they have responsibility for. A lot of things have been talked about today. One of the things that was touched upon was swift action. The homelessness prevention and strategy group has made it clear that its commitment is to turn action into reality. We will meet on Tuesday, and I assure you that we are scrutinised to a huge degree in that regard. There were also mentions of the differences that there are in rural parts of Scotland by Mr Mundell and Gillian Martin. We will continue to look at the differences. That is not just an urban problem. It is a problem in rural areas too, often hidden. We will continue to look at all that. I will not be able to touch on everything that members have spoken about today. I will look at the official report and will respond individually to members about some of the points that they have made today. The action plan reinforces what has always been clear to the group. In addition to homelessness and housing services, we need partners across services, including health, education, social work, community support, justice and the third sector, to recognise and act when people work with us at risk of homelessness. Although there are good examples of partnership working, we know that we need to go much further. If we are to achieve our ambitions to end homelessness, we must all identify and break down the barriers that prevent a truly joined-up partnership approach within and across all sectors. Achieving that will be difficult, but I believe that it is possible if we work together. We know that there are challenges as well as opportunities ahead. This is about changing culture, minds and behaviours, and we know that it will not be easy. However, the prize here is to also succeed in transforming lives for the better, and that is more than worth the effort. I believe that that comprehensive action plan for real change can and will help us overcome the challenges and that we will go on to end homelessness together. Thank you very much. That concludes our debate on homelessness, and we are going to turn straight to decision time. The first question is that amendment 14962.1, in the name of Graham Simpson, which seeks to amend motion 14962, in the name of Kevin Stewart, on ending homelessness together, be agreed? Are we all agreed? We are agreed. The next question is that amendment 14962.3, in the name of Pauline McNeill, which seeks to amend motion 14962, in the name of Kevin Stewart, be agreed? Are we all agreed? We are agreed. The next question is that amendment 14962.2, in the name of Andy Wightman, which seeks to amend motion 14962, in the name of Kevin Stewart, be agreed? Are we all agreed? No. We are not agreed. We will move to a division. Members may cast their votes now. The result of the vote on amendment 14962.2, in the name of Andy Wightman, is yes, 20, no, 85. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. The final question is that motion 14962, in the name of Kevin Stewart, as amended on ending homelessness together, be agreed? Are we all agreed? We are agreed. That concludes the decision time. I close this meeting.