Yeah, I have to leave to this.  You better say textiles. Just fine. I'll leave it on there. I hope I made this job a little easier on that. I can't believe she was going out there to with us. The thing we did about the babies. That would help to clear it up. Thank you very much. Listen, let's get right down to it, but I know this is a short meeting. Your actions on the defense authorization bill are exceedingly important in the context of the libraries of current arms control activities. Funding cuts or restrictions on SDI or strategic modernization program, either one of those, for both of them. We're on the risk, I think, of reducing prospects for security and arms control. I think it should be obvious to everyone that there's no way we've got them apparently moving our way in actual reductions. And I hope you'll remind your colleagues that SDIs and strategic modernization are in indistensible elements of our defense sector to cut them further at the time our hands, while the Soviets are free, I think it's just an unacceptable situation. And I thank you, Senator Holder. Senator Holder, the line yesterday by the friend and narrow vote for you. I hope that your husband, House colleagues, will be successful. I haven't disclosed the contents of my letter to General Secretary Gore himself. I'd like to correct several inaccuracies that keep being repeated in the press. Whoever has been giving them information is not giving them true information. This is an extremely resounding policy in which what he's talking about I agree to set up an area where we can have just communications with each other. And so he has observed that with his letter to Russia. I'm observing it with our letter back. But some of the errors that have been appearing in the press, I know concerns some of you about them. And I have decided to seek a grand compromise to delay or trade away SDI and return to the rescue. We refuse our offensive forces for our Soviet forces. But that is not the case. SDI is not a bargaining chip. And I have not proposed any delay in the progress of SDI research. All this talk has to do with the fact that we know that this before we're to the point of ending up certain final testings and deployment. So far it's got to be at least five years. And so we haven't set a five-year limit or anything in what we're doing. This is just a statement of where we are. Perhaps motivated by these press reports, some of you urge me to proceed now with deployment of limited strategic defenses. Well, let me address that issue. SDI has produced dramatic and encouraging results, particularly in intercepted technologies like the homing overlay experiment of the errors interceptor. However, now to go ahead and build an effective ballistic missile defense when it meets our criteria, we have to have an entire system that makes sense. And even for ground-based systems now with traditional interceptors, we don't have the sensors that see and identify the targets and the battle management systems that defense is to function effectively. We're proceeding as fast as we can toward developing this full range of technologies. But we see that now to deploy systems of limited effectiveness would divert limited funds, delay our main research, and would tend eventually to provide support for the program which can eliminate the threat of ballistic missiles. I'm determined to move SDI ahead on schedule to the point at which the next president of the Congress will be able to make fully informed decisions on deployment. But there will be no doubt we are not in any way foregoing deployment of effective defenses. What we are doing is addressing some stated Soviet concerns while providing a path for the future. Now, the simple truth is SDI will be deployed. What we're talking about here is going forward with the research which we are able to do under the ABM Treaty without endangering that or even though we know that they have in our opinion violated the treaty themselves. To aggregate that treaty right now our own military chief would put us at a tremendous disadvantage because they're ready. They've got assembly lines working and they could get a tremendous lead that we would have that we could not match when trying to rev up to do this effect now and it would interfere with the SDI. The whole purpose from the beginning of SDI is to make nuclear weapons obsolete. And what I've had in mind from the very beginning is that when it comes to the point of deployment then see if we cannot with that and with the promise of a sharing of deployment of such a thing that our gas masks after we find a treaty with creating more gas that we would do that but the the premise would be everyone would have to give up their missiles in order for us to do that. If that is not true and we have developed such a system and they refuse to go along with such a thing yes then it would be unilateral deployment of the system. We're not developing the system at some point in this development say to them we'll stop it and give up now if you do away with some of your nuclear missiles. No, this I think SDI is I think the most promising thing of the century to have a system that can actually take this most dangerous weapon the only one I know in world history that has never led to a defensive system every weapon is produced of a covered defense against it this I think can be the means of eliminating the threat of a nuclear war and that's going to be our goal all the way so the floor is open That's great Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you I don't know what you and I go to when I was teaching what was the good pick for you and how much about what you guys do This is a conflict between us wanting to go home to the 10 feet tall. Just because you have a passion for hands-on and false, there's a sense of a state of the art that's been done. It's not always the same here. It's the company's exit. We're going to work it out. We're going to get rid of the political camps you see against. The tax system gets done. It's going to be a serious situation. And then, finally, when I got in, I had no choice. I had to raise taxes because we had a constitutional privilege that budget was to be balanced. And there, you come in the middle of the fiscal year. So we never thought it would last six months. And I came in, and he had handed me a deficit for the first one month. And I had no choice. Mr. Chairman, where are you, sir? Let's see if I can thank you. I'll see you. Mr. President, George Gabriel, president of HEPA. Thank you, sir. Mr. President, Lou Manish-Shortes. Mr. President. Pittsburgh. That's fine. I feel good. Mr. President, John Plumini, the next president of HEPA. I'd like to see you. And you know this one here. Well, I accepted this award on your behalf. Somehow they wanted the real thing. So that's why we're here. Why don't we have y'all? Well, I want to thank you all very much, Mr. President. Mr. President, do you want to make a request? Mr. President, I'd like to make a request. I know you're the greatest president. I was privileged to be here with you. I'm glad to have you. I'm glad to have you. Thank you. I would extend my deepest appreciation to this bank from the great economic point of view of most nations and the great overview. Because I know there is many charitable things that you do both here in the Greece. George, you've got the relationship between us. award presented by the Order of a Hepha to any individual in the United States. And this award symbolizes the philosophy of sanctity, the Hellenic ideal of man's driving for excellence. And we're pleased to present this award to you, Mr. President, because the Order of a Hepha, as far as we believe that you have achieved the pinnacle of excellence in leadership for the common good. And we're honored and privileged to present this award to you. Well, I am honored to receive it and appreciate very much what you just said. I know there must be a few scholastics, teachers in my background who are rolling over in distress that I should be associated with. Nothing I can say, it's very heavy. You saw it, Marble, so it's quite heavy. If you understand. Well, I am very honored by this. Thank you all very much. I know that Mr. President, once again, I'm glad to have you. We're like brothers. We will be receiving three weeks of acclimation and a strike acclimation free training, which will help find employment and presenting this award to you. It takes three weeks to prepare. It takes three weeks to prepare. You will be getting this award. Well, thank you. Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President. Thank you very much. It's been a pleasure. Thank you. I appreciate it. And even though you've won the award, the Socrates Award, you do not have to drink a cup of Pemloch now. You did a good job. You did a great job. There's a lady street at the congressional banquet, and a big hit, believe it or not. You said the right man, Mr. President. You said the right man. You did a great job. Hang in there. Let's see it. All right. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, this thing weighs about a hit. That's of your last visit in Germany. Yes. Thank you. There were fond memories. We do very much so. And this is right, Mr. President. Yes. Thank you very much. All right. Mr. President. Mr. Tuitanya. Hello, Mr. President. Nice to see you here. Nice to see you. Thank you very much. I'd like to have us for a picture. Go over and sit in these chairs. And one there. And one there. And one over here. And one over here. And one over here. Sorry. Sorry. Thank you. Mr. President. Sorry. Sorry. Thank you. We got from your ambassador to Bonn with the Richard Burr. Yes. He says it's warmest regards. Well, I know that they're very happy over there. And enjoying themselves very much. And warmest regards from Mrs. Schringer. Mr. Schringer is little. Yes, regards. Yes. Well, please get mine to her. Thank you, sir. Thank you. People in Germany like you very much and very fond of you. Oh, I'm pleased to hear that. But it's a wonder who keeps a fist all the time. Workout. We've got a gym upstairs there. I go home in the afternoon after going down here and do a little workout. And then I've always believed in the old cavalry saying that there's nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse. So I get on a horse. That's been my sport for over the years. You might have very much, Mr. President. You have fired against a drachner. Well, we're very hopeful that we can, some of our friends abroad. I know I've talked to Chancellor Kohl about it. He wants so that we can kind of get this battle going on a wider basis than just our own country. We wish you had a successful summit with Mr. Gorbischard. And I hope you will mention the wall to him, the Berlin Wall. Oh, yes. I had gone through that wall on the other side.  The first time and the only time through there. And there we went through. And just on the other side was a big department store, a large parking lot around it. And just as we came with an interview with them, the East German police were rousing a lot of the middle of that parking lot and grabbing him and hustling him away. And who knows for what reason. I thought it was kind of a contrast of the size of the wall. Very significant. I'm sorry to say, Mr. President, you have about four other themes coming in. Thank you. Well, listen, thank you. It was good to see you. I always wanted to try your famous jelly bean. Help yourself there. Thank you very much. I had a Einstein. I had a German son. Take a handful there. Thank you very much. I know what you like in now. I've never met anyone who doesn't like it. You don't try it, do you? Yes, I try. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you very much. I can't wait to see you. Will you come to the German Institute again? I hope I can. Bye, Mr. President. In one of 10,000 German teenagers finished without a word, suddenly we're standing here listening to 10,000 German teenagers singing the national and our national anthem. That was a great event site, great speech. Everything was outstanding. President, how are you? President, what are you doing? It's nice to meet you. Your daughter, Randa. My father, Mr. McCoy. Nice to see you. My husband, Randa. You want to gather around here and have a family picture? Sure. You want to come over here and be hard for the California to be smiling knowing that you're going to fly. You're going to fly. You're going to fly. You're going to fly. You're going to fly. A few souvenirs. A tie-bar, sure. A couple of things like a little souvenir. Do you know what you should be getting? Don't worry. No trouble there. Well, thank you very much. It's my pleasure, Mr. President. Especially. Especially. Thank you. Bye-bye. Thanks again, Mr. President. Thank you. Pleasure, sir. Wouldn't you, sir? Well, I appreciate everything that you've done. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much, sir. Appreciate it. Thank you. Mr. President, hi. My right hand. My right hand person, Brenda, is a leaning house. We go back to become a school teacher. Right. He's a good husband, Jack. He also works in the management organization. Uh-huh. Let's get a family picture. Okay. Thank you for letting us come with you. This is great. Thank you very much. Take care. Bye-bye. Thank you. Mr. President, how are you? I know you're not going far, but still, you're going. This is my son, Brian. This is my wife, Sam. This is Darren. Matthew. Hello there. Can I stand with you? I know we're the only day to have a family picture. Maybe one of you fell down the front there. Can I stand with you? Just with us and Tiffany. Sure. You can drag her around. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you.


Hi, I'm David Adams, a Senior Principal Tech Marketing Engineer with Dell Technologies Cloud, and with me are Ashish Bhattwara, Engineering Head, Streaming Data Platform, and Andrei Kedi, Senior Principal Software Engineer. Today we'll be demoing a real-time object detection application, which utilizes data streams from Dell EMC Streaming Data Platform and tiers long-term storage to S3-compatible object storage with the recently announced Dell EMC Object Scale, currently in Early Access. It's all deployed on Dell Technologies Cloud Platform with vSphere with Tanzu enabled. This demo solution is made up of four key technologies. Dell Technologies Cloud Platform, DTCP, delivers a turnkey experience that's easy to deploy and manage due to the tight integration between VMware Cloud Foundation and VxRail. With DTCP, organizations can now develop, test, and run cloud-native applications alongside virtualized applications in a single platform. vSphere with Tanzu is the re-architecting of vSphere to embed Kubernetes into the control plane of vSphere to unify access to compute, storage, and networking. It allows a user to deploy pods directly into vSphere, known as a vSphere pod, or create developer-managed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters which run in virtual machines. We'll be deploying both of these in this demo. Dell EMC Object Scale is a re-engineered object storage platform which takes advantage of Kubernetes' native automation for deployment, scaling, and management capabilities. With rich S3 compatibility and self-service APIs, developer can quickly spin up object storage containers to fuel everything from big data and analytics applications to ephemeral dev test sandboxes. In this case, we'll be using it as the long-term storage for our streaming application. The Dell EMC streaming data platform takes the best of open source streaming data software in Provega and Apache Flink and pulls it together in a production-grade supported platform. SDP provides the reliable, repeatable platform for edge and core solutions. Next, let's take a look at the basic architectural view for what we've deployed for this demo solution. First, we've deployed DTCP, then enabled vSphere with Tanzu. Next we deploy Object Scale as vSphere pods in its own namespace in the supervisor cluster and create an object store for streaming data platform. Then we created a namespace and TKG clusters for streaming data platform and Jupyter Hub. Then we deployed SDP, Jupyter Hub, and then our streaming application for object detection. Let's quickly review the infrastructure deployment in vSphere before we move on. Here we can see that our Dell EMC Object Scale service has been enabled under supervisor services and so our vSphere plugin has been enabled. We can look here under object stores to see that we've already created an object store. We can either create new stores here or view our existing ones. This is this object store that we're using for our streaming data platform long term storage. You can see here that we have several buckets and we can also manage users, Kubernetes resources for this deployment, certificates, events, and health checks. On the left-hand side, you can see that it's all deployed in a Dell EMC Object Scale system namespace as vSphere pods. Taking a look at our streaming data platform namespace where we've deployed Provega, Apache Flink, and all the other resources, you'll see that we have multiple TKG clusters that we've deployed here. We have a cluster for our Jupyter Hub deployment as well as a streaming data platform cluster which has highly available masternodes and multiple worker nodes where we've deployed the streaming data platform application, which will be reviewed later on in the demo. Now I'm going to hand it over to Ashish to give some more detail on the streaming data platform architecture. Thank you, David. So let me start with the Dell EMC streaming data platform. So Dell EMC streaming data platform is a modern analytic platform that solves the problem of ingesting, storing, and analyzing real-time and historical streaming data, all with enterprise scale and production support. Streaming data platform is built using community-developed open-source software components. For example, it uses Kubernetes as the orchestration layer. Provega, which is a core key component for streaming data platform, is a streaming storage that simplifies the development of streaming applications by unifying the concept of historical and real-time data, while providing powerful production abilities such as exactly one's consistency and ingestion auto-scaling, et cetera. The main other component is a plug-in architecture to support modern real-time analytics engines such as Apache Flink. Also available in the upcoming release is Apache Spark and Provega Search, which is kind of an elastic search-like engine that also allows for real-time streaming queries of your unstructured log data all on the same STP platform, hence reducing the need for separate pipeline and hardware. By taking the best of open-source and pulling it together in a production-grade supported platform, STP provides the reliable, secure, manageable, and repeatable platform for edge and core solutions. Streaming data platform has a few key features. Number one, unified data analytics for both real-time and historical data so that data scientists and developers write code once that deals with all types of data without worrying about independent batch and stream processing. In other words, developers don't have to code differently against the live of the wired data versus historical files of data. Now batch IoT events and pure byte stream use cases all can coexist on the same platform. The second key feature is DVR-like ingestion and playback capabilities that STP has that allows ingestion of historical and real-time data using the single ingestion pipeline unlike to existing solutions that require one solution for real-time data and another one for different batch processing for the historical data. For STP, users can go back in time and play the historical stream alongside the real-time stream. The third key feature is that the support for two-tier long-term storage. An architecture that allows industry-standard storage systems such as iSalon and ECS to be used for the long-term storage. The configuration allows users to configure data retention period or until the size grows to a specific limit. The fourth key feature is the enterprise-grade security, which is of prime importance when multiple business units leverages on the same platform instead of every business unit building their own independent solutions. And last but not least is the secure and scalable multi-tenant development platform, a platform that can be used by multiple independent business units in comparison to existing solutions that require each business unit to stand their own system for the analytics. So that means STP has necessary access control to ensure that data is secure. With streaming data platform in place, organizations can now ingest real-time streaming data and work with it in ways that they have never even imagined. We are seeing customers solve some amazing problems just by having this access to the depth and breadth of their sea of data and being able to analyze it however they need to with ease. Let's take a look at our next section where Andre is demonstrating real-time object detection using streaming data platform. Hi everyone. Today I'm going to show you the object detection demo using streaming data platform running on VMware 10.0. My persona in this demo is data scientist. I'm a part of a team development and events driver assistance system. We continuously collect video and other sensor data from the fleet of test vehicles. There is a three stages of this experiment. First we use the Provega GRPC connector and Jupyter notebook to push the video frames into a Provega stream. Provega provides a Python and Java client for the GRPC connector. Here in Jupyter Hub we are using the Python client. The data will be stored in a Provega stream that I call the raw video. For object detection I created a flink application. The object detection model runs as a flink job in STP. It uses the YOLO object detection model which stands for you only look once. The flink job uses Java binding for TensorFlow. As each video frame is ingested the object detection model is used to detect objects such as cars, buses, and people. And it will add labeled boxes to the video frames around detected objects. It will also enrich the metadata with the detected object list and the detection accuracy. And finally using the same connector, the GRPC, I can pull the events from the object detector output video stream in Provega and play the video in Jupyter notebook. And now let's move to the actual demo. We're starting at the STP UI. First going to log in and here under the analytics tab I can create a project. This will create a namespace for my Provega streams in my flink cluster. Note that for this example we are using the object store available on TTCP which was reviewed earlier in this demo. To the left side I can create a flink cluster for my application. This can be created using this UI or the helm to deploy the flink cluster size that we need. For the flink application STP provides a local Maven repo where we can upload the application needed for this project. Now I can run the flink application for object detection that reads from the raw video stream, process the data and push the processed video to a new stream called object detector output video. On our Provega tab here we can see all the work, all the streams to build this demo. First we can start with the raw video and the output of the processing goes into this stream. From the Jupyter notebook, from the Jupyter hub I created two notebooks. One called the ADAS ingest and that will push the data into Provega stream. I'm going to go ahead and start it. The second notebook will use the gRPC to read the video and display it here with the object detection. Both those notebooks are needed for this demo, one for the ingestion and one to read the data processed by our flink application. And now let's go back to our STP UI. From here we're going to look at the Provega streams. We should be able to see the data start to get in the stream here. And as the data is coming into the Provega stream we're seeing the flink application reading the data and processing it. So below that here is the flink job reading from the stream, processing and writing this data to the object detector output video stream. If you go back to the scope we should see the data again into this stream here. As you can see on the screen here. Here is the enriched raw video after running the object detection job. Back to the Jupyter hub. Now let's test the new object detection model on video collected. That video, that raw video has been continuously ingested into the STP. And now I'm going to play the demo. As you can see in this picture there's frames around the detected objects. People, buses, cars, bicycles. And it's running life as we are, ingesting the data. The object detection runs the model. Detect the objects and we can process it and display it as you can see here. With this, this concludes our demo for the object detection. Using the streaming data platform running on VMware 10.0, thank you.


Impressive mega projects in Kigali, Rwanda. Rwanda's construction industry is seeing extraordinary growth, with growth rates ranging from 5.9% in 2020 to 13.8% in 2021, making Rwanda's construction industry one of the fastest growing in Africa. And it's expected to grow even more over the next decade, as private and non-private investment infrastructure projects continues to flow in, aided by the federal government's clear working environment. Rwanda's capital Kigali's importance to the country and to East and Central Africa has created a huge demand for the development of large projects to meet the country's growing population and demand, while Rwanda's business-friendly environment is attracting major global manufacturers and organizations to set up shop in Kigali. Kigali, a regional business and tourism hub, holds hundreds of international conferences, sports events, cultural events, and globally recognized events each year, attracting a large number of visitors. Rwanda is undertaking a number of projects in order to update the city's transportation and ICT infrastructure, provide enough housing infrastructure, attract additional funding sources, and transform Rwanda's economic system into a sustainable mileage-based economy. Stay with us as we take a tour of Kigali's most astounding mega-projects. 10. Kikukiro Bujessar Expansion Road The first phase of a 13.8 kilometer Kigali Bujessar road expansion project is planned to be finished this year. Despite the ongoing expropriation process, road construction is approaching Nihayansi Kikukiro. The route will have a four-lane expressway, as well as beautifying features such as a separating line with palm palms, grass, and street lighting. We expect traffic to increase once the airport is operating, therefore the extension is in accordance with the development of new Bujessar International Airport, says the company. 9. Bujessar International Airport Rwanda's Bujessar International Airport is a construction project worth $818 million, is located 25 kilometers southeast of the city. Following the completion of the first phase of construction, the airport will have a 4,200 meters runway and a capacity of 1.7 million passengers per year. The runway, cargo terminal, and passenger terminal, with a capacity of 4.5 million people per year, are all anticipated to be completed by 2022. China State Construction Engineering Corporation was replaced as the project's main contractor by Mova and Jill Engine Harrier E. Construco Africa SA. In 2017, work on the project began. 8. Jisigara Thermal Power Plant The Jisigara Thermal Power Station is a peat-fired thermal power station with an output of 80 megawatts that is currently under development in Rwanda's southern province. This project is projected to enhance national power capacity by 40% and provide the country with greater energy independence because it is designed to use 100% indigenous fuel, reducing imports. This 80 megawatt peat-fired power plant will be built on a build, operate, own, and transfer, boot, basis, with a power purchase agreement of 26 years. It entails the design, construction, and operation of peat harvesting and power generation facilities. A second phase of the project includes an additional 40 megawatt of capacity. 7. Kivu Methane Gas Extraction Project In the west of Rwanda, there is a secret jewel full of both fear and potential. Its full potential was untapped only a few years ago, its basic nature was misunderstood, and it was regarded as a disaster waiting to happen. It's Lake Kivu, a 2,700 square kilometer lake on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The lake contains naturally occurring carbon dioxide and methane gas, making it one of only three lakes in the world with a deep concentration of naturally dissolved gases the other two are in Cameroon. Lake Kivu, on the other hand, has nearly 1,000 times the concentration of dissolved gases as its Cameroonian counterparts. Both of which erupted in the 1980s. Lake Kivu has a capability to create between 120 million and 250 million cubic meters of methane gas yearly with roughly 300 billion cubic meters of carbon dioxide and 60 billion cubic meters of methane gas. 6. Kigali Master Plan The new Kigali Master Plan in 2050 dubbed Kigali Yaku and translated as our Kigali takes a more fair, flexible, and incremental approach to city development consistent with you and habitat principles and supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It will serve as a road map for Kigali city planners as they work to handle a population of 3.8 million people and provide 1.8 million jobs by 2050. SMEC is assisting Kigali in enhancing and updating the master plan produced by Serbana Churram to make Kigali a city for citizens in collaboration with their parent business Serbana Churram. It was critical to involve the inhabitants in a collaborative review process. To engage as many residents as possible in the feedback process, a variety of communication channels were used, including meetings, planning displays, public announcements, social media. This is a significant achievement for a country striving to establish itself as Africa's center of excellence for innovative and inclusive urban development by promoting mixed-use development and efficient land use, providing an integrated infrastructure and transportation network and ensuring equal access to essential services, housing, public facilities, open spaces, and transportation. The new master plan supports sustainable economic growth and community well-being. 5. Green City Kigali Kigali's green city is a groundbreaking concept that responds to developing global concerns. Cities in Africa are rapidly expanding. According to the United Nations, the continent's population will double by 2050, with the majority of people living in cities. As many people come to the city in search of work and better living conditions, addressing this trend is both a challenge and an opportunity. It's critical that these developments don't exacerbate inequities, poverty, or environmental destruction. Rwanda's government is focused to achieving global goals and establishing standards for sustainable urban development. The green city Kigali will become a model for other cities, the area, and the continent by integrating green building and design, efficient and renewable energy, recycling, and inclusive living. 4. Kigali Innovation City KIC Kigali Innovation City, KIC, is a master plan mixed-use innovation city being created on 60 hectares of land in Kigali, Rwanda. KIC will work to foster Pan-African talent development and serve as a technology innovation hub. Its concept includes four institutions, office space, and startup business incubators, as well as retail, hospitality, and lodging support facilities. The project is being cosponsored by Africa 50 and the Rwanda Development Board, and the total cost is expected to be around $300 million. Rwanda's government has promised to offer shared infrastructure, as well as incentives to help the ecosystem thrive. 5. Vision City Project KIGALI Ultimate developers Limited is currently building Vision City, a multi-phase housing development in Kigali, Rwanda, for the Rwanda Social Security Board. With 4,500 units and a total cost of $150 million, it's a no-brainer. It is the country's largest residential housing project ever. In 2017, the first 500 units were built. Rwanda has made significant progress in developing a resilient nation with citizens who have access to high-quality infrastructure and personalized services. The objectives and goals are spelled out in the country's development roadmap. 2. KIGALI Arena KIGALI Arena, the first 10,000-seater arena in Kigali, opened in August 2019. The arena will continue to accommodate indoor sporting events, concerts, corporate events, festivals, fashion displays, product launches, executive retreats, board and shareholder meetings, and a sports coach-training center. KIGALI Arena is a four-story structure with approximately 20,000 square meters of space, including eight VIP suites with private entrances, a commercial and sponsor foyer, numerous public gathering and event spaces, six changing rooms, various team facilities, a fitness center, dedicated press, and media facilities, including a dedicated press conference room, a modern doping control room, and much more. 1. KIGALI Asaka SGR Project The Asaka KIGALI Standard Gauge Railway is a planned railway line that will connect the Tanzanian town of Asaka with the Rwandan city of Kigali. Rwanda and Tanzania have agreed to speed up the implementation of the Asaka KIGALI Standard Gauge Railway project, which would connect the two nations by train. Claver Gantit, Rwanda's Minister of Infrastructure, met with Isak Kamwelwi, Tanzania's Minister of Transport to discuss and design a plan to implement the cross-border railway project. The two countries agreed to continue discussing finance possibilities for the rail link's construction and ongoing operations. Rwanda is a fantastic country with a lot of development aspirations, since it can undertake such large-scale construction projects. In comparison to other African countries, Rwanda has one of the highest rates of emerging plans and concepts that are being considered as time passes. If you enjoy this adventure, please like, share, subscribe, and turn on the Notify button to receive more updates from Africa Reloaded.


Officials say Vietnam has detected a COVID variant that appears to be a combination of the Indian and UK variants and can spread quickly by air. Health Minister Ngu Yen Tan Long described the latest mutation on Saturday as very dangerous. Now, viruses mutate all the time and most variants are inconsequential, but some can make a virus more contagious. Since COVID-19 was first identified in January 2020, thousands of mutations have been detected. Ngu Yen said the new hybrid variant was more transmissible than previously known versions, especially in the air.


It's time for the Lawn Jean Chronoscope, a television journal of the important issues of the hour, brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. A presentation of the Lawn Jean Wittner Watch Company, maker of Lawn Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Jean. Good evening. This is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope? Mr. William Bradford Huey, editor of the American Mercury, and Mr. Henry Haslitz, contributing editor of Newsweek Magazine. Our distinguished guest for this evening is the Honorable James A. Farley. The opinions expressed are necessarily those of the speakers. Mr. Farley, I'm sure that our viewers will be delighted that you are back with us tonight. They remember your appearance here about three weeks ago and the predictions you made then. Now, sir, tonight we'd like you to analyze the developments in the campaign, the more recent developments, and first, I think we'd like to know what you think about the possible effect of the defections down south, particularly of Governor Kennan in Louisiana and Governor Shivers in Texas. Do you think that that's going to be very damaging to the Democratic cause? Well, could I be a bit facetious in my reply by saying that they're serious, but not disastrous, to be serious for a moment, if I may? I have every reason to feel that both Texas and Louisiana will be in the Democratic column. If you remember, in 1948, when the Dixie Crat Movement was on, there were two Democratic governors running on the Dixie Crat ticket. They were running in Texas and it was easier for the nominee, for the people in Texas, to vote for two Democratic governors running on a Dixie Crat ticket than running on a Republican ticket. And for that reason, I have every Mr. Truman carry the state by half a million, and I have every reason to believe that the state will again be in the Democratic column. And I think the same condition will obtain in Louisiana. Senator Carlson on this program told our viewers last week that because of these defections, that General Eisenhower had revised his plans and would campaign extensively in Texas. Now, do you think that that's a wise maneuver on the part of the Republicans? Well, it isn't for me to make any observations on any Republican maneuvers, except to say that I, and I say this very sincerely, I think it's a few of the causes as far as the South and other states are concerned. Well, Mr. Farley, I noticed that Congressman O'Brien, who has been on this program tonight, and was delayed by his airplane getting in late, is here in the studio. And I think it would be very interesting if we could give him a chance to sit down here and talk to you, and I'm going to yield my chair to him, if he may. Well, Leo and I are old friends, and I'm glad to see him. Very glad to see him, Jim. We're very old friends indeed. Well, Mr. O'Brien, we're delighted that you were able to get here after all, and we were just asking Mr. Farley about the more recent developments in the campaign. He was just commenting on the Southern situation. And next, of course, we've had the rather smashing victory of Senator McCarthy. Now, how do you interpret the McCarthy vote?  Yes, it was, and I think it was a surprise to everyone, and probably to Senator McCarthy too. I think it could be interpreted by saying that he had the support of the Solid Republic Organization. There isn't any doubt in my judgment that a great many Democrats went over and voted for him. Great many people who probably have no political affiliations at all voted for him because of their feeling against communism. And far above and beyond that, I would guess that he got the support of a great many people in the state who resented the interference of people from without the state coming into telling the people of Wisconsin how they should vote in a primary. Would you say that any changes in Democratic tactics are indicated because of the size of the McCarthy vote? Oh, I wouldn't think so. You mean so far as the national situation is concerned? Yes, sir. I wouldn't think so. Well, do you think a large number of Democrats voted for McCarthy in that election? Well, I wouldn't be able to say whether a large number voted for him. There isn't any doubt that Democrats went over and supported him. That's evident by the result itself. There's also been, since then, in addition to the McCarthy development, we've had the meeting of General Eisenhower and Senator Taft. Now, how do you interpret the developments that have followed that meeting, sir? Oh, I would say that that's helpful to General Eisenhower. There's no doubt about that. Senator Taft was highly regarded in the Republican Party. He was one of the followers who put up a fight for the nomination form, and it helps unite the Republican Party. There's no doubt about that. You can't dismiss that lightly. That wasn't, I would expect that Senator Taft went into the convention. He was defeated in the convention. He said he would support the nominee, and he's doing what you would expect Senator Taft to do. Mr. O'Brien, do you generally agree with Mr. Farley in that analysis? Well, I think in the Taft-Eisenhower wedding that somebody surrendered a great deal. I think that they must have surrendered some principle on foreign policy. Now, I happen to have been at the Republican National Convention as a reporter, I might add, not as a delegate. And there were some pretty strong words said on foreign policy by the Taft supporters and by the Eisenhower supporters. And I didn't believe that it would be possible in the lifetime of man for the two of them to get together and say that they disagreed only in degree. Well, now, do you think, and I'd like both your opinions on this, do you think that now the Democrats will center more of their fire on Senator Taft and less of it on General Eisenhower? I imagine they'll spread their fire, won't they, Leo? I would think so, Jim. I think that some of them rather enjoy the entry of Senator Taft as an active participant because they had anticipated, or at least some Democrats had anticipated he might be the candidate. And now they can use some ammunition they stored up and thought they wouldn't have to use. Well, it may be possible too that labor will get out and work maybe a little bit more harder against Eisenhower, General Eisenhower, than they would have if Taft had remained silent. Why is it Taft coming out? This is the thing I would expect you to do. Well, you mentioned labor there. Certainly, of course, the American Federation of Labor is holding a convention in New York this week.  Well, the papers would indicate that that's what they propose to do. And of course, you think this will be very helpful to the Stevenson cause. Oh, not really. I'd like to ask you, Mr. Farley, whether you think that Senator Morse's defection was a help or a hindrance to the Eisenhower cause. Well, I think it hurts the Eisenhower cause. He represents what, whether you like it or not, an independent element in the Republican Party. And they're, what, called progressive, if you will. I don't care what term you apply to it, but there's an element in the party who might be inclined to follow Morse. Well, won't some... won't his going over to the... Well, he hasn't exactly gone over to the Democrats. Well, he isn't going over. He said he'd vote... He's sitting it out. But may that not encourage some conservative Democrats to sit it out against Stevenson? No, I don't think so. I think that you'll find that the Democratic Party is a party. It's better united behind Governor Stevenson than it has been at any time since Mr. Roosevelt ran in 1936. Well, now, of course, the state of New York is a key state in this election. And Mr. O'Brien, I believe, you're up for re-election yourself there, aren't you, sir? Yes, I waited 30 years to run for a public office, and I had to run twice and six months. Well, uh... You would have any trouble with your district, will you? I hope not, Jim. Is the machine up there? What's the name of that machine? We call it an organization. One of the things that I've noticed that the Republicans always call Democratic organizations machines, and their own, they call them organizations. Well, I'm sure that our viewers would like your and Mr. Farley's analysis of the New York situation. Now, Mr. Farley predicted that New York would go for Stevenson here three weeks ago. Do you agree to that, Mr. O'Brien? I do, and the reason I agree to it, I don't think it's possible that General Eisenhower can run 400 or 500,000 volts stronger than Dewey did in 1948, which he'd have to do, in my opinion, to carry the state. But isn't it true, Mr. Farley, that the Democratic ticket is supposed to have suffered as a result of not being able to find a stronger senatorial candidate in New York? No, I don't think the national ticket has suffered as a result of that. And as a matter of fact, I think John Cashmore is a stronger candidate than has been made to appear by the newspapers. I've known Cashmore since we first... I went to the assembly the same year he did in 1923. He has had a fine record in the city of New York and the state of New York, and he is, by no means, a weak candidate in my judgment. Our viewers, of course, would appreciate a prediction from you as to the outcome of that Senate race. Well, I wouldn't attempt to predict the outcome of that right at the moment. It's going to be a hard race for John. I'm going to be frank enough to say that. It's going to be a hard race for him because the fact that the liberals have endorsed someone else, they could take several hundred thousand votes away, and that would make it rather make the going rough. But I wouldn't go so far as to admit that John Cashmore can't win the election. Mr. O'Brien, don't you think that that liberal situation, though, may affect the way the national ticket runs in New York? I would doubt it because I think the 200,000 who might vote for their independent candidate for the Senate are pretty determined, and I think that they'll find a way of voting for their candidate for president, who is Mr. Stevenson. I think they all will. All that crowd will vote for Governor Stevenson. You, of course, happen to be in the position of being an upstate Democratic congressman. There aren't too many of them. I think I'm the only Democratic congressman between New York City and Ohio. I'm a very lonesome man. Maybe you'll have some Democratic district, wasn't it? It's a pretty strong Democratic district, although you ran extremely well in the spring. That's true. I don't believe there's been a Republican congressman from our district in more than 30 years. Well, now, Mr. Farley, as a final question, before, you made rather detailed prediction for our viewers. Now, sir, has anything happened in the last three weeks to cause you to change any of your views as to how the election will result? No, I don't see that there has been any change. I believe that Governor Stevenson is just as strong now as he was when I made the prediction here three weeks ago. I haven't seen anything that's happened to in any way change the outcome as I view it. Well, now, you predicted, for instance, in New England that Stevenson would carry Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Do you think that's generally true, Mr. O'Brien? Well, from what I hear in Massachusetts, I don't know too much about Rhode Island, but if they're talking about Kennedy being elected to the Senate in Massachusetts, I think that would indicate that Stevenson has an excellent chance of carrying the state president. Rhode Island, there's no question about that, Leo. And Mr. Farley, you think that the South will remain definitely Democratic? Is there any question about it? Well, Mr. Farley and Mr. O'Brien, I'm sure that our viewers have very much appreciated these views, and thank you both for being with us tonight, sir. The editorial board for this edition of the Laun Jean Chronoscope was Mr. Henry Haslett and Mr. William Bradford Huey. We had two distinguished guests tonight, the Honorable Leo W. O'Brien, United States Representative from New York, and the Honorable James A. 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So glad to be here with you all today to talk about breaking into the product management field I guess wherever you guys are in your careers or maybe just starting out Kind of just giving an overview of what it means to be a PM and also Transitioning from kind of a non-traditional Tech background Yeah, I just want to thank all of you for coming out. It's cool today. A lot of you probably Didn't want to make it out here after leaving work. I'm like, I don't want to go like I'll go So it's it's good to see that you guys have this drive I think that's kind of the first step is like to know that you want to be a PM So I'm just gonna go a little bit about myself. I was born and raised in Queens I went to st. John's University and I graduated with a finance degree Then I worked in risk consulting at KPMG post grad and I found my way to AmEx Through you know a little bit of networking and coming to product tool events and going online reading as much as I could about what it means to be a PM and then kind of Incorporating things I learned on my own into my job when I was a consultant So that transition took like say six to eight months But go over that a little bit So on the mobile app team at AmEx I Kind of work on the membership features So I want to give you a little bit overview of what the AmEx mobile app looks like so there's 2.5 million daily active users 80 million monthly logins. It's available in 22 markets across the globe So two years ago. We actually consolidated into a single code base Whereas before it was like different Literally different apps that we have to launch in each market. So that was kind of a big moment for the app and We have a 4.9 star rating on the app store, which I think it's pretty cool for a financial company and Some notable features There's this native dining reservations experience for our premium card members So if you have a platinum or gold card you we just launched this in December there's a lounge finder So if you're a platinum or centurion card member you'll have access to Centurion lounges as well as other airport lounges So this allows you to check into your two lounges on the app allows you to view when they're open as well as any amenities and Also like guest policy and things like that Split it. This is a relatively new feature as well allows people allows card members to go in and Split their charges. So let's say you go to a restaurant and you put down your your annex card and you know You want to split the bill with your friends? So you can integrate that with Venmo. So it's like natively in the app You can just charge your friends and you'll get your your money back and also your points Pretty nice and then benefits. So this is something I personally worked on majority of last year I launched this native list view of Card benefits. So originally we didn't really have something that could be viewed in a very Beautiful way in the app. It had to like go out to a web view which Obviously when something like that happens a lot of users drop off. So the introduction of this really drove engagement and it's it's a pretty cool feature that I will actually show you guys so here's the membership tab and This is the entry point to benefits So here's the list that we built and you'll see that it includes all the benefits as well as the category filters on top and This took about eight months like end-to-end from research to design like designing iterations To actually like build and then QA and release so that that was pretty lengthy process But that was like the full end-to-end Like life cycle of you know building a digital product like this or feature rather All right, this is what you're here for Transitioning PM rolls from like non-tech background. So it's just to get up show of hands How many of you are currently in the tech or tech adjacent background? All right, that's a good number of you and I'm assuming the rest of you are not yeah All right. Cool. So the people who just raised their hands. It's a lot I guess a lot easier for you to make that that transition But for me as and everybody else who did not raise their hands. I came from a non-tech Background I was doing you know consulting work and really in the finance and insurance industry So for me, I kind of had a moment where I realized I hated what I was doing I wasn't really learning too much. I was also thinking about like how I could have more meaningful work, so I Knew I wanted to go to a tech company. I just didn't know exactly what I wanted to do so I just went around talking with different people and Realized that being a PM was kind of similar to what I was doing in terms of I was managing different projects managing Client relationships and also going to different teams and interviewing people to find a solution For whatever it is that they needed make a list of the things you enjoy from your current role Like what you wish you had more of in your day-to-day and what you're doing outside of work Because that matters too like what you enjoy doing outside of work kind of plays into what kind of company and what kind of team You want to be part of because product spans really wide Gamut right like you could you could be a product manager for a back-end system or a product manager for like a Front-end thing like like a mobile app. So it's important to know like Exactly what you're looking for as like a baseline and this also may help you realize that PM is not the thing you're looking for you could Be more interested in like data analytics. I had somebody I spoke to recently who After speaking with me about what I do on the mobile app team She was she said actually like I'd rather get you know deep into the data Analyze that put reports out for for the team be like here are the insights from the data that you guys can do and build like I'm just interested in finding these little bits of insight, you know Just know what you want and that's what you can do by just sitting down and asking yourself some of these questions And then I guess prior to has to keep on to your list, right? I keep those in mind as you set up coffee chats Redrop the script and learn about company cultures. I know this is like super cliche super basic but it's important to Have like goals and I'll talk to talk about this later but set up different points where you're like I need to have this many coffee chats or like this reach out to this many people because You're in your daily like lives whatever whatever job you're in Like you're gonna quickly get back into that rhythm And if you don't set these checkpoints up for yourself, you're gonna slow just not gonna do it communicate your interest That's this is the most important piece This is the piece that kind of solidified my transition and it's everybody tells you right? It's not it's not what you know, right? So it's it's who's gonna give you that chance to get in front of them to be like hey Like tell me your story because we all can say we know Jiro. We all can say we know Agile methodologies agile principles, whatever it is, right?  Yes, it's important to know yourself, right? You need to know the tech stack you need to know kind of basic Basic like how like an app like maybe for a specific app like where the apis what what data is where the data is coming from Kind of basic lingo that your engineers are just speak the language that engineers are speaking I guess familiarize yourself with the product development lifecycle things like that And database decision-making right so I talked a little bit about analytics before For a big company like annex we have our dedicated analytics teams So a lot of times we don't need to be the one actually pulling the data But for smaller companies you might need to know that right so you might need to know SQL I well it definitely doesn't hurt to know SQL to know to blow and other data visualization tools But regardless of where you get your data you need to use that to Support and justify your future decisions because if somebody asks you like why did we built this and you're just like oh It was because it feels like it was the right move or like our customers will be happier You need something more concrete and these numbers will help you tell that story and support your case So make sure like I guess in whatever role you are make sure data plays a More heavy role in like the way that you are executing whatever it is that you do one of the most important things finding ways include different views in meetings or when you're talking about discovering different features or Even if you're not you're not a PM role or not tech role like Finding other people to talk to about your ideas because as a PM like it's not just about You know your idea and a lot of times people tell you oh the PM is like the CEO of a Product or a CEO of a feature or you're like the middle person you make all the decisions It's true in a sense But at the same time you need to make sure that you have everybody else's buy-in Because that's what's going to make you a successful PM right like Can you imagine working with somebody like working with engineering and design and Everybody just knows you as the guy who just makes your own decisions and you don't really care about anybody other's opinions So it's super important to build these relationships with your partners with People that you work with on a daily basis, right? Like you're you're telling them requirements, but they're the ones executing so You got to make sure you have kind of the soft soft skills, right? You got to make sure you have their engagement their buy-in and just have like a Good working relationship with your your teams Should be a walking Wikipedia page for your future when somebody comes up to you and asks a question about The requirements for your future or who's who's it gonna impact? Or you know, how long is it gonna take? Who's I guess what other teams are involved like you better you better know it? and That's this doesn't I mean a lot of these things that I'm talking about are not just For pms. It's for anybody. It's for any role. Like you you should know exactly what you're working on and if you don't then Just like keep brushing up on it keep reading more about it and talk to different people and they they should be willing to Educate you or like help you get to that point where you know yourself. Yeah, I mean be a better person, right?  I think a vast majority of it is like if you're nice enough If you're if you're like going you you're nice Somebody will help you out no matter like what kind of situation you're in I found that just being nice like When I'm in a really difficult situation, let's say I need a like Like a patch or a point released for example like something a major bug happened And I need the engineering team to like really be on my side Being nice like throughout my relationship with them helps a lot and like just going over chatting with them When I have a free time building these relationships will help you get things done when you're in a pickle. So Definitely You know like Practicing I don't know how many of you have ever taken improv classes or like are familiar with this yes and thing But we recently had an improv group come in and we practice just going like yes and to whatever the person was telling us and It turned out to be like, yeah, this would work really well during a meeting and you know, like you practice Agreeing with people to kind of get their view rather than just shutting them down because you're like, oh, that's never gonna work Like that's that's too crazy of an idea That'll help you become more innovative as a PM to and I think That's a really important thing right your PM. You're supposed to be driving the vision for a product or feature. So Being able to hear other ideas and kind of being like take a step back and go All right, does this person have a point or like maybe it's not the best idea But what other ideas can sprout from those ideas? It is super critical showing praise like When somebody does something Like say, thank you. Oh, right go up to them and be like, hey, I think you did a great job and not just like Thanks on Slack or like Skype or whatever you use honestly Sometimes after after project. I'll walk over to a designer to help me or you know engineer Research or whoever and I'll be like, hey, I think you did a really great job Here's why and honest give honest feedback and that also goes a long way, right? These are all relationship building things and Also own successes and failures like when something doesn't work and you're like, okay, like That was terrible. Like you got to own it and be like, hey, that was my like I let that one. I Kind of had these missteps or like I didn't see these things a clear Clearly as I should have But it's super important to make sure you own the failures as much as you embrace your successes Here's just some like materials that I thought would be helpful. So Obviously product school videos, right? Like that's what helped me a lot actually two years ago Or actually a year and a half ago. I was kind of like one of you guys I was sitting there and being like, alright, how do I like how do I talk to this person after and like also like get a job? But also How do I better myself? How do I learn these things? How do I do these things that these this guy's talking about? so product school videos, there's so many of them just like watch whatever and then I thought shoe dog by Phil Knight was really good because he talks a lot about how he developed the Nike brand and different products and I thought That was a really good way to see, you know, like the challenges the successes all these emotions that come in with building a product and building a brand And I think that relates a lot to You know what you will experience as a PM maybe not to that magnitude, but you kind of will experience some of these same things Inspired this is kind of a classic like product book that a lot of people tell you to read I thought it had a lot of good like Technical things technical terms like product terms, but a little bit dry and Tech logs, you know, just state folk stay current on what's happening in the tech world or I don't know sometimes there's You know PMs also work in non tech industries So it could be a physical product that you want to be going into to develop So I guess whatever industry that you plan and going into make sure you're up to date on that and This is one of my favorite books of all time It's how to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie Great book and how to deal with people or in different tough situations I think this book is over a hundred years old, but it's still super relevant today And you're gonna learn a lot of things. I think just from reading this book and it's really quick read so definitely read that and Some action items like this is what I would do if I were you definitely set up like reach out to X amount of people every week Obviously find those connections, right? If it's like a secondary connection if it's a university alumni if it's an old co-worker or I don't know whoever those are obviously the easiest ways to you know get in front of somebody tell them your story and then Yeah continue attending events like this Super super helpful at least when I was searching for a PM role Just to hear people's stories or journeys and also kind of learn about the culture and different companies I was interested in right like you see all these big name Companies and it's like yeah, like sure Google sounds nicer, you know Spotify sounds nice But what is it really like to work at this company and specifically on a team? there could be like Just speaking from annex Like the mobile product team is very different than Like a platform team or a physical card product team So it's it's getting an idea of what it's like to work in these different environments And then seeing is this the right fit for me actually learn something from this one guy Who's like this Facebook recruiter who spoke here and he said when you're interviewing like it's not just them Interviewing you right you got your interviewing them at the same time to make sure you have that right fit because at the end Of the day you go to a company and you're just like it's a it's a product role, but I really don't like this team it's not going to set yourself up for success and that's just the bottom line and Learn how to operate in a product development environment. So Like if you're not already part of, you know product development life cycle Familiarize yourself with the different points, right and then try to fit that into your daily Your whatever your daily responsibilities are So yeah, like agile principles writing sample user stories like you can be like what's my favorite app? All right, what can I improve and the right requirements for that as like a sample or you're applying to a company? Facebook in some some or like let's say Instagram, right? And it's like Instagram stories All right, Instagram stories is the plate display a certain way I'm applying for his team. How am I gonna? Contribute as part of this team like all these hypotheticals and kind of envision yourself as part of it And the more you do it the better you're gonna be at it, right? Especially if you have no experience in product doing this will help you Kind of at least be familiar with you know, how the work how the working environment is And so when people are asking you during an interview, you're like, I know because I did this thing before so that's that's something you should do and Lead mock-up like mock stand-up and discover meetings So if you're a PM like You might not always lead it, but you should be a participant in daily weekly whatever stand-ups and If you're not part of that today, it's it's good to maybe go and go on YouTube look up Or talk to your friends who are doing these stand-ups and be like, how do you guys conduct it? You know, what are the best practices and also just like practice doing it yourself? Do it with like there are different product I guess groups Maybe maybe you'll find a community from product school, but get together with a few people and practice that. Oh Culture super important. So we have a lot of fun on a mobile team We went skiing hiking That's the design team, but they did some like time paintball paint bomb thing and yeah, so just Wherever you are you have to be the one creating a culture because as a PM You're gonna be you're gonna be that glue between these cross-functional teams, right? And you want to make sure that you're creating environment where everybody Is comfortable working with you is comfortable Telling you their concerns right the last thing you want is you're building a product with with teams And then they have all these concerns, but they're they don't really want to tell you because they're not comfortable with you so Make sure you have you know good relationships with everybody you're creating a good culture you're having fun and This will naturally set you up for you know solid career and solid like teams that you're working with Yeah, that's it Yeah Thanks for the claps Where is this? I don't know if Xavier okay Q&A Yes Yes, I'm generally oh Sure, so he's saying if you're not from a non-type background and You know your engineers or our engineers are mentioning all these different terms like graphql I close the other one Yeah, yeah, so like How do you get up to speed when you don't really know what they're talking about? so I'd say with your product or right usually it's not just you as a PM and it's just you Right. There's like other PMs that are on your team. So let's start there and be like hey like Can you get me up to speed right those those people are on your team? It's kind of like almost their obligation to to help you and then Ask for documentation right ask the engineer or actually ask product first because they're your team and then ask the engineer if they don't have it for documentation usually there's some kind of text-ac documentation or like What like what API is feed data into whatever you're building? But yeah, I definitely asked your immediate team first Yeah I Think it depends like where you are in your career right your fresh out of college.   This competition is pretty tough, but if you go to smaller company or startup It's Yeah, I think there's a fair chance And I guess what you look for online. It's Yeah, I think it's pretty self-explanatory what they what's in the what's in a job description So if you're looking at job description of whatever company or whatever position you're looking for They'll tell you that the code the code words the the key words, right? like whatever they list it's it's what they're looking for and sometimes having like the Having the what's called the tools, right Jira Trello Rally these are these are some keywords that companies use. There's also Like if you're familiar with Certain programming languages that's helpful I've never been a recruiter, so I'm not really I'm just like talking but I Hope I think that's how it works. Yeah Go ahead Again, I think it's like all up to you in a sense Like it's like your network too, right? Like all of your skills are probably very transferable If you're a PM you kind of use the same tools across different roles so it's It's kind of up to you to find like to build that network to reach out to people and be like, hey like Or to reach out to them for for a chat, right? I want to learn more about your role because I'm in a role where I thought I like it or I didn't really Do as much do diligence is my first job or my first PM role or whatever it is and then now I'm looking for something You know that I'm more passionate about or like I want to work on this other thing because now I found out through Whatever experience you had that you actually want to work on this other Silo of being a product Yeah What skills do you have or we don't think you have the right skills Generally, I didn't get a lot of like you don't have the right skills. They're just just gonna be like Don't come back So it's no one's gonna tell you That like you're just you're not good enough because like if they invited you to an interview they thought you were good enough, right? It's just Getting to that point is the hardest part Getting in front of somebody is the most difficult thing because being a PM you can learn You can learn how to write user stories. You can learn how to use Chira and all that stuff right learn the tech stack and that's unique to each team generally, right? so it's just a matter of how you communicate with people how you Build your build culture on your team how you're able to Rally all these different people to come together to this one goal of a feature or a bug improvement or just any type of enhancement to whatever you're working on I Just like about like what makes your resume look appealing to someone. I know you're not a recruiter, but like what kind of things could you Demonstrate just in a lot of paper on the paper This is who I am Yeah, absolutely, I mean I apply it. I mean I'm sure a lot of you can resonate with this experience right applying to Everything you're writing covers. Just like oh my god. I worked like half an hour on this cover Submit it don't even hear back or you get a rejection like an automated rejection email and Yeah, like I guess it's that's why it's so important to To actually have this human aspect of it, right like Getting in front of somebody telling them your story and then having them be like your champion, right? They're the ones giving you a shot so Get in front of somebody and If it doesn't just it's not just about getting a job, right? Like you should go out and meet people to learn about Product to learn about their teams not just all right. I want a job from you So I'm gonna be like yo, can we meet and like talk about positions on your team or whatever? It should just be about like I'm genuinely interested to learn right and then actually be genuinely interested and then Yeah, just just find out as much as you can and then Keep doing that until somebody's like oh actually have an open position like I love their chat I think you're a candidate boom. Yeah Let's get somebody's back What do you think? No, I did not I Didn't What am I saying? It's like you shouldn't it's just for me it happened it happened pretty I guess Quickly from the time that I was like I want to do product to when I actually got this shot So I'd say it was about like three months. I was considering signing up for product school That's why I came to some of these talks, but I actually landed the the role before I signed up for for a class or anything else but I Do think you know it depends right like is it is of course like you know helpful I think it depends on what kind of person you are like if you're somebody like me who's able to just Sit down and study some of this material and then make a plan for myself and incorporate it into my into my own role then Might not need it, but if you're somebody who's like I need somebody to like prod me to do things I need somebody to like keep me accountable Then maybe that would be the right move for you if you want to be a p.m Well No, not shameless Definitely remember the low lights Right, it's just Like I said before right you spend so much time researching a team company whatever Right in that cover letter tailoring the resume Finally, it's perfect. You submit it And a boom like two days later. They're like, yeah. Yeah.  Then you get that energy back it's just important to like not lose steam not lose hope that you're gonna get to where you want to be and Right, that's why I said before number one. It's like making sure you want product. It's not for everybody But that's the most important thing. It's like, all right. I want product. I'm gonna do it like and I'm set on that so Just get your head in the right place and you'll be fine. Yeah, no wasn't actually I talked to I was like Yeah, for me. I was just like I want to culture. That's fun. That was baseline to me.  Like so I actually spoke to somebody who was working at jet and he was telling me Like oh, like yeah, like that's a fun place. You know, you should work here and then I was like, all right So like what does somebody like my background like what kind of roles are available and talked a little bit about analytics He talked about You know business analyst roles and then he was like Talk to me about his role, which is PM.  It's like that whole journey of like, you know reaching out to people and stuff like that Yeah So there's a lot of different flavors of PM right So this role actually was specifically For the app so it wasn't just like a generalist thing where I got to decide afterwards It was straight up like posting said mobile app team. Sorry. I want to do that so Yeah, yeah Yeah, it was just like here's the role and it's like yeah, the interview was like you're gonna be part of this team You're gonna be building features for the app and it wasn't like you're gonna be working Like here's different groups that you could choose. It's just straight up like app team. Do you want it or not? It's like cool. Yeah For Honestly, I was I was casting a wide net at first I was honestly interviewing for like hardware stuff too. So like, you know, Harry's the razor company Like I was interviewing for a PM rolls there and I was like cool I'll be working at factories like go in a different places and running through like I guess Packaging and stuff. It just seemed like seemed cool. So it's just like I had I had a wide net and it was like, all right, like and It's not to say that, you know, I wouldn't have enjoyed that role I think I just had this one first and also the people were amazing when interviewed. They're all super nice they're also like super friendly and I Got the sense that they're very they're a lot more eager to help me get to Competency as a PM then some of these other people I talked to yes over the life cycle Right Sure, so So kind of like was Determined from the top where it's like benefits should be a priority and I had the kind of the option of working on benefits or lounges on chose benefits and We started testing with users Right after we had our own workshops to create mock-ups for what this benefits feature would look like So we took it actually the Empire State Building where we have this, you know third-party do some of these user testing for us and we would sit in one room like we meaning product design Yeah, just product and design we'd sit in one room and watch a Card member go through the feature so we'd have you know basically it's a B testing right We had two different mock-ups and they'd go through it and use it and you know We would see Kind of what what design elements work and which didn't and then iterate on that so we I think we ran Total like two different sessions for that But yeah pretty early on where we're testing it with users and then once we have that design solidified then It just just went to development Yeah Yeah, and then a total of like 15 people. Yeah Yeah, and then obviously there's you know, there's QA work after development and then And then it's launched I Don't have to write any code, but do you have to Well have to read it, but like there's sometimes Like a back-end engineer would send over a response and I'd be all right Can I like I would ask can I see that response? I'll see it and go right here's you know the Title or like here's images and then kind of figure out Where each of that goes and then like if it's not optimized like where do I go to to get it? Things like that, but I'm never writing anything. I'm never coding. I'm just have to read it sometimes, but and what percentage of it did I know going in I'd say Like five to ten percent Right and everything else like my teammates like people who sat next to me taught me the engineers taught me Yeah And then you don't have anything Right so my resume actually never made it past HR system, right the key words just weren't there So it's that finding finding a person to be to trust that you know, you're I Guess we're all going to wherever that's taken up Yes finding somebody who's like I like this person right because majority of what You know as a PM will be taught to you like you can learn it From your teammates, so it's it's finding that person who's like I like I like how you work I like how you think And I'm gonna give you a shot like I'm gonna be interviewed or like Pass your resume to somebody who will interview Yeah, I Should but I Yeah, that's my goal Right, yeah, I mean I have like I could show some features, too It's just like I guess in your role if you touched different Projects that you they're not confidential. Yeah, like definitely have a website to display that but a lot of my work at KPMG was like stuff. I couldn't I couldn't display so yeah, it was a bit of a challenge But I think it depends on the company and I see it It's like your PM and then you become like a senior PM and then you like a lead PM and after that See your pets just like more and more Features or more and more responsibility, right?  You're you're saying here's here's our overall goal and strategy and then All my underlings will do it Yeah, all the way in the back. Yeah typical day, okay, so In the morning come in Check Slack messages that may have missed emails Response to any like pressing ones that need to be addressed and then Run a lot of it and it's like daily stand up. So tend that see what the engineering teams up to you After that, there's like random meeting sprinkled through the week. So it's like there's a There's like a release checkpoint. So we have our month our app releases Once a month. So we have different release checkpoint calls. So that happened and then Writing user stories filling a backlog, right a lot of the things I'm like a lot of times you're not really like Working with engineers to be like, oh, we're gonna do this thing, right? You're just writing requirements for features or you're preparing for future features or a future I Guess enhancements like that Yeah, so that's like average day a lot of meetings a lot of just talking with people bounce ideas around Yeah It's pretty chill Until it's not Well, thank you all for coming I really appreciate it


Hi, this is Jennifer Gonzalez for Cult of Pedagogy, and today I'm going to show you how to achieve faster grading with rubric codes. If you're watching this, you probably have a lot of papers to grade. If these papers involve any kind of student writing, chances are you also have a rubric to go with them. You know that to learn from this work, students need good quality feedback. So, you have a couple of options. The first is to make one copy of the rubric for each student. For every paper you grade, you mark up a rubric. Then, you attach that copy to the student's paper and return both to him. Another option if you want to save trees is to write the feedback directly on the student's paper. This offers specific personalized feedback, but if you have a lot of students, this can be overwhelming. If you use a system of rubric codes, you can give students targeted feedback in half the time. With rubric coding, you assign a code to every item on a rubric, then use the codes to tell students which items they need work on. Here's an example. I'm going to take this first cell and call it A, then assign B to the next one, and so on. I already have numbers at the top, so I'm good there. Then, I assign individual numbers to each bulleted item underneath. Once this is done, each item on the rubric will have its own unique code. For example, in row A column 1, the second item's code would be A12. And down here in row C column 2, the third item would be C23. With these codes in place, giving feedback to students gets a lot quicker. Instead of writing out the same comments over and over or highlighting multiple copies of the rubric, you just give the paper a score, then write a few codes to let students know which areas need the most work. You can put codes at the top that apply to the whole piece, or write in the margins to point out specific problems. Here are some questions you might have. How will students know what the codes are? You can post one copy of the coded rubric in a public place for students to refer to right when they receive their scored papers, or just print out a class set that can be reused. Do I have to write down every code on student papers? Definitely not. If you write down dozens of codes on every student paper, it will take forever, and students won't be able to process it all. Just choose the items that made the biggest difference to that student's score. Yeah, about that. Won't students just ignore the codes? If you return the graded papers and do nothing else, then yes, they will. But if you build in class time for students to look up their codes and re-examine their work for places where those problems occur, they'll become more active in their own learning. And by keeping track of coded issues, you'll start to see patterns. This can serve as a tool for conferences with you and a springboard for future lessons. What do I write down for high scoring students? If a student does very well, you could simply put down their score and be done with it. Or you could code one or two areas she might be slightly weak on. You might want to offer all students both positive and constructive feedback, giving them a few codes they're strong on and a few codes they need work on. So I should never write comments on student work? Personalized written feedback should still be part of your repertoire, but adding rubric codes to the mix will help you keep papers moving from this pile to this pile, getting them more quickly where they need to be in the hands of the students. Thanks for watching. Have a great day.