a very warm welcome to the first session of the one-way national seminar on the being women in decision-making roles in corporates. We have, amongst us, four very distinguished speakers to deliver their insights and address the gathering on this occasion. May I now take the opportunity to invite on the dais Professor Chandrana Goswami, Director of Lifeline Technology's OPC Private Limited, and former Professor of the Department of Business Administration at the School University, Shri Mati Pakori Chetia, APS, Additional SP, Deepakar, Dr. Shri Panam B. Gowar, Professor Nayan Sharma Sir, and Professor Joy D. Gowar Sir, the moderator of this session.  Professor Chandrana Goswami is the former Dean of the School of Management Sciences at Kishore University. She was also the Dean of the Academic Education of the Children's University. Professor Goswami did her MBA and PhD from the Mahati University and was a British Shredding Fellow in 2004. She has gone as an art member to several universities and colleges across India. She is involved with teaching and research at D.H.K. University and has over 30 years of academic experience. She has produced nine PhDs so far. Professor Goswami acts as a resource person to the faculty development programs conducted by different universities and colleges. In 2019, she attends a leadership for academicians program sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, where one group of training was in Penn State University in the US. She was also selected for a Fulbright program in the USA last year. She is also a senior certified professional coach. D.H.K. University has granted her permission to launch her OPC that will offer life-saving related services. Professor Goswami is currently director of Lifeline Technologies OPC Pride of India Limited. Shrimati Papuri Chetya is a distinguished Assam Police Officer. Shrimati Chetya is presently the additional superintendent of Police Assam Police District. She was additional superintendent of Police at Special Branch headquarters Kaniyipara. As a police officer, she has served at different capacities and has enormously contributed to the law and order of the state. She has served as the deputy superintendent of Police in Pohangam, Chirang and Moriga districts, before joining the Bureau of Investigation of Economic Offences of Assam Police. For her excellent and extremely dedicated service to the cause of law and order, Peace and Harmony. She has been the recipient of DGP Silverman. We welcome you, ma'am. Dr. Shri Parnam Vibhava has 33 years of experience in management, elevation and in small and medium enterprise development, with a trust on entrepreneurship and livelihood promotion. She has also extensive experience in action research and projects relating to development of livelihood clusters, specifically in the northeastern region of India. Since the last three years, she has been actively involved in facilitating creation of a startup ecosystem in Assam and has been regularly mentoring and hand-holding existing and potential startups in opportunity guidance and development. Dr. Bhoba has represented North East India in various international forums and lead business dedications globally. She has also represented the country as a speaker in international conferences in countries like Colombia and Malaysia. She has regularly provided academic and consultancy support to many departments of all major universities of Assam, like Qatar Institute of Social Sciences, National Institute of Rural Development and Assam Administrative Staff College. Dr. Bhoba is a member of the Board of Management of the School of Vocational Education Eno, the North East Network, the Cancer Research Foundation, etc. We welcome you, ma'am. We also have amongst us Professor Nipetra and Sorma. Professor Sorma is serving as professor in management in Krishna Pantokondi University, Guwahati since April 19, 2016. Prior to joining KKHSU, Professor Sorma served as director and ONGC chair professor of Assam Institute of Management. He was awarded a PhD degree by Guwahati University in 2000 for the thesis entitled, Role of Consumer Cooperatives of Assam in Rural Marketing and Analytical Study. He is an MBA with specialization in Marketing Management and Personal Management from Guwahati University. Prior to joining the Assam Institute of Management in 1990, SIR had worked in National Institute of Rural Development, North East Regional Centre as Research Supervisor and supervised an evaluation study of family welfare programs in 11 districts of Assam. He was also associated with the Department of Commons, Guwahati University, Teshkur University and Centre for Distance Education, Non-Distance Legal University, Shibam. We welcome you, Sorma. I would now like to request Professor Jolly Boran, director Kujapumatriya School of Social Sciences, to moderate this session. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good morning. And welcome to the first technical session of this conference, National Center on Women in Decision Making Duel in Cooperation. Already, we have an excellent number of sessions where we have two speakers who actually sort of set the tone for this process, raised some of the questions which will be followed up in this session as well. What I intend to do is something like this, that probably I will request the speakers to present their views initially for, say, about 15-20 minutes, because we have roughly one and a half hours time with us at 11.30, so we can go up to one. Then, I will open the floor for interaction. You can, you know, interact with and then also interact with the speakers on the themes they have spoken about. And if you'd like to, then I will try to sort of sum up the discussion and also present some of my thoughts on the theme and also the questions which will be raised by the speakers. I guess that probably we have four core themes to discuss in this session. If I may say so, it's a little bit more specific, but probably it's not the themes that we have to follow. The one is the status entrance of women in the conference, because this was raised by the two speakers in the inaugural session. What is exactly the status, what are the trends, whether we are improving, and if we are improving, then where we are improving, where we are not, is it across the board, across the sectors, or specifically to some sector, yet some of these sectors are completely excluded from those in this participation. So that's one. The second theme probably can be regarding the, after the speakers, we can go forward. Why women are required in the decision-making? What are the reasons that we want that women to be in the decision-making role? Normally in the conference, of course, this is the theme of the conference, but at the same time, in other spheres as well. So that's another engagement that we can have. The third broad theme we can think of is about what prevents women in participation, participating in these areas. What factors, why women are not sort of given a chance, opportunity to come into some of the areas, why they are excluded, denied, deprived of the sort of decision-making role in those sectors. So that can be another theme that we can discuss. And lastly, probably we can also deliberate on that what could be done which will allow women to be more engaged in decision-making roles in different spheres. I think that will sort of give a wholesome treat to the discussion. And therefore, I suggest these broad four themes, the present status and trends. The second theme will be the why is it required. Third, what prevents women from taking a lead role in the decision-making process and what can be done to ensure and encourage the women's participation. I think if we can limit this thing, then it will be sort of, you know, it will be easy for us to be engaged with the team. And of course, the speakers will be having their own kind of liberty to digress and then go into other areas of discussion as well. So I will be presenting my views on these four themes and this at the last. So with this introduction to the panel, I invite Madam Prof. Rana Vaidu to present our things. She will be giving a presentation. So you have to see the presentation as well. Okay, please. Ma'am, we would like to offer our thanks to you through a small felicitation. I would like to request my colleagues at least come forward and felicitate Professor Chandranagoswamy. We would also like to offer our felicitation to Dr. Shri Varanmuraman. I would like to request Dr. Ornima Mora and Dr. Chayankaran to come forward and felicitate Dr. Tovaran. Next, we would like to offer our felicitation to Shimodi Pakore Chettian. I would like to request Dr. Indra Niteka and Sudeshna Choudhury. We would also like to offer a felicitation to Prof. N. N. Chomasar. I would like to request Dr. Ornima Mora and Dr. Chayankaran to offer the felicitation. Next, we would like to offer our felicitation to the moderator of this session, Prof. Chayankaran. I would like to request Sudeshna Choudhury and Dr. Indra Niteka to do the same. First, Prof. Morswamy Nand to deliver her presentation. Thank you. So, good afternoon everybody. Thank you, Vice Chancellor Sir and the members of KK Handing State Open University for your invitation. And it is a topic, it's one of my big topics. I'm so fond of it. In the talk of women and women empowerment by jumping. So, here I am to share a view of my thoughts. This is a disclaimer. No two women are similar and no two stories are same. I think Nandita, I have also mentioned that in the movie. So, therefore, we don't have a common prescription for you as to what if, you know, sensitivity is a carrier progression for you. And we have to be creative in charting our path. That I have learned from my experience. Creativity, I mean, different kind of creativity you have to think of. Forget all social conditioning and all that stuff.  I was told, you know, even Takam ka Dahan meaning, kind of, doesn't look nice. And then I was also told, why women Why do you talk so much? And then I, we were also told what our capabilities are and what is expected from being as a girl and a lady and all that. But thankfully I grew up in an environment where all that was not really so much, so much there. It was there a little bit, but I could force my way out. But these set of beliefs that remain in our minds and they dictate our actions and we are not being aware of it. If the conditioning was positive and affirmative, it helps us. But then, you know, if it doesn't match the conditioning that we got and what is required in the workplace, then there's a whole lot of discomfort that we face. And there is conflict. And in this start-up for, I think most women give out their jobs. Best part is that we have education, we have the skillset. So getting a job is not very difficult. You know, we manage to get a job, but the difficulty comes a little later. Some obstacles come and they are very specific to women. These are some of the challenges that we are all familiar with. You also know about all that. Marriage is the one to get married or not to get married. Please understand, you get married. There are going to be some issues. I have seen women not having a stable job because she opted to follow her husband whenever he was posted. I respect that choice. It is a choice that she is making. And then also, there are smart women. That also I have seen that whenever this husband is posted, they will try to find out some kind of any news. Unless we will not get a permanent job, but something or the other. So what happens? In a stand-up kind of CG grows. It is important to keep the CG growing. So the CG grows and in the future, it helps in recruitment. Or you use this opportunity to upgrade yourself. Now, it is very easy. You know, you have so much of online stuff. But it is easy to do that. So, if you take a choice to follow your husband, you can still do something about yourself. Then after marriage, you will get married. So, on one hand, this year is very biologically proxistic in a way. And on the other hand, oh, I want a little bundle of joy.  Professional and personal, they are not that of a war. You say, no, mother won't.  Isn't that right? No. And you say, yes, no mother won't. Nobody will come to help you. You have to take care of the baby on your own only. So, can you take a pause out there? Those are people who, I think, evolve under the same story. You do not have a person who will take care of the child, somebody that you can trust. And precious are also not available. So, after university, precious. And, oh, very nice. Very nice. Please put it in words to also behind one. And under this, you know, we take the buckle down. Very natural. And then, of course, it will result in beating. This is the statistics which I got, which says that the female labor force participation rate has gone up by 4.2%. And it is 37%. That is one positive side. But there is another downside from another study. It is talking of the entirely gender gap. It means that if you are in the age group of 15 to 64, in the age group, how many of them are working in the workforce? 70.1% of men are there in the workforce. And it's only 19.2% of babies. And what struck me most is that it seems in the 90s it was 40%. And this is an area of research, if you want to take it up. For female participation, if it was 40% in the 90s, 20, 23, why shouldn't it be 90.2%? It's very disturbing. So one pushes a woman to place.  All of my microaggressions, biases, all these, you know, they make us feel that it's not worse for me. And I have heard of this personally. That this lady is there.  So going by that, her annual improvement should have been very high. It's an incentive of whatever they did. But they gave her a lower one. And she was really, you know, kind of depressed. Why? Answered, I gave her. Because they told her maternity leave. They will be paying you for six months without doing any work. I think that's the only thought process out there. And why there are efforts to retain efficient change?  Given all these stories, bright side I would like to share stories of these ladies. I have read their books and I am so kind of impressed. But I don't know what they have done and how they have gone about. You can identify them, no? Arundhati Patnacharya. First and this is Sheryl Sandberg. So let's start with Arundhati Patnacharya. Do you know what was her degree? What she must have studied? In any case, English for you, Banker was the chairman of SBI. So please don't underestimate yourself. English postgraduate, she joined State Bank of India. Not married, had a child with learning disability. How much more problem do you want to realize? No? And on top of that, they are transferred, no? They will transfer you here at their age, two years, three years. All right. Please read her book, The Way She Handled Union Issues. It's a very great kind of, without losing her cool, she is doing it. But never for a moment, quitting was an option. Never for a moment. And she acknowledges in a biography that it was her support system of family and friends that allowed her to continue working. This is a very important learning. Even in my career, it was family, friends, neighborhood aunties, believe me, I left no one, kind of, asked for it as a main requirement. Indra Lui, CEO of PepsiCo. She also took up all work-related challenges with a never-said-eye attitude. In her book, she talks of balancing, journey, compromising, why maintaining relationships and responsibilities. Why did she join PepsiCo? All other things remain in concept, because those girls who are home, husband's officers also nearby. See, same heart process like us. And she also wrestled with the conflicts of a working mother. Her biography also mentions that same kind of a support system. Sharon Sandberg. She talks about how women don't feel the necessity to ask for equal compensation or for betterment of benefits and all. You know, we really can't ask. When I joined this school university, I had two small kids. They had to be taught one to the school, one to the fresh. It was only one professor who told me why didn't you ask for a school bus? Every university provides school bus. If you would not have told me that, I would not have known the whole class. Right? And her case was quite horrible. There are places, offices she had to visit. No ladies possible also. And she mentions this point, which I find very important and very useful. She says that we need to get rid of our internal barriers that are within us because of the social conditioning. Similarly, I think these biographies, all of them were pretty good. Pretty was never an option for them. And they all created support systems to facilitate this work-life balance. They had supported spouses. Biographies supported spouses don't come in packages. You have to create it. Spouses will be there. Spouses will be there. But supported spouses learn really how to create their supported spouse. And they found creative ways to manage work and family they asked for help they required. And they all set a strong movement apart. You know, grid plays a real out here. And since I'm using this word grid duty all the time, so I've put in the definition of sound here. So this is a personality trait possessed by individuals who demonstrate passion and perseverance towards the goal, despite being confronted by significant obstacles and distractions. So here we are, ladies, trying to make a career. There are a lot of distractions. You have good in-laws, bad in-laws, good spouse, bad spouse, good children, bad children, normal to be done, what ends and all that. Those are distractions. Even then if you can kind of keep that focus. And those who possess grid are able to self-regulate and postpone their need for positive reinforcement while working diligently on the task. We all like external stimulation.  We like that, but don't wait for that. It will not come. If it comes, it's a bonus. Without that also you should be able to push yourself ahead. Self-regulate. Strong woman, I have seen irrespective of the social class, including my maid also. I'm doing the sentence. You know, they think like that. I'm going to work and there will be difficulties. And I will find a way around them. So I'm talking of across all social class. And when you have that kind of a thought in mind, it gives rise to positive feelings which will kind of propel you to work. And of course then your outward behavior will be there. Social conditioning in childhood have led to women having a set of beliefs that the mother is solely responsible for women and children.  She also worked and lived home. Work. But then she gives me a home and a marriage. Children are in daughter. You get that? Yes. So that is how we treat them. But it is not the case. It's the case of people after Siddha, 50-50. So workload has to be shared. So that is one conditioning. And on the other hand, you're working in a place because you have so much of education, experience, skill set. Your organization has huge expectations from you. Can you see the conflict that is hanging out of yours? This is referred to as a double-blind position. If you can overcome this dilemma, then you will find that you can make a breakthrough and you can discover creative solutions to your problems. Creative is a different level of creativity that you usually have to do. I would just like to share an example here when I was a joint H2 University. No family system out there. No support system. Then no creation also. So what I did one fine day, I called the Rishabh Allah and said, Chalo, wherever I say you have to go, you will go. Looking at signboards, creation, making that kind of. And I found one where they said residential accommodation for nursery going school children or something like that. I just walked into it. So I told the lady, if you can be nursery going school children, you can take my son also, these two years. I literally did that. And it worked. It worked. I forced her to take my son. And then it solved my problem. So other creativity also. Now when the son grows up, creation is going to work, when he comes back from school, I told my neighborhood auntie, second half, two hours, please keep my son with you. And I will kind of pay you for that. She refused the payment, but it solved my problem. So therefore you are free with your different levels. And don't feel bad about it. Please explore your limiting beliefs. These are the beliefs that hold us back. Belief about self, belief about the world, belief about the life in general. So if you have limited belief about your own self, you think along these lines that something is wrong with me. Something is wrong with me. Therefore, you know, I can't work or it's not happening. About the world, you keep on thinking that I hope people are not allowing me to work. I have done an MVP program. I had to go to Ahmedabad. My university refused to give me leave. I was entitled for suddenly leave. I kept on seeking for it. I said, Chalo, you don't give me the suddenly leave. Give him without pay, but I am going. He said, do what you want. But if I would have not insisted, I would have said, the world does not allow me to perform. Generally, limiting belief about life, you feel that things are actually difficult. Now if you think about me, going to Ahmedabad for nine months, giving you small fees at home, it was difficult. It was an individual choice. So if I would have succumbed to that, that would have never happened. If the MVP would have not happened, my criticism would not have happened. Then the league would not have happened. Other things would not have happened. Let's come to women in leadership position. There is a difference between how women and men react to responsibilities given. Given a man a responsibility, he means if he does not go 50% of that whatever the job is, he will take up the responsibility and say, come to women. Even if we know 80% of that, we will say, Oh God, I don't know 20%. I can't do it. After that, please don't sing that song that nobody needs us to work. Or maybe a good word. Some problems we can't solve. So please be careful. A responsibility is given to you.  You have come so far. You are so educated. What's a big deal? You will learn on the way. So some things that can strengthen our confidence. Exposure. Do whatever work comes to you. One is there for work. You know, go outside the stage. See other conferences and whatever it is. That will enhance your confidence to a great level. Another Indian will be shaking his financial literacy. How many of you find your own income tax victims? Please do. Please do. It's not at all difficult. It's not at all difficult. That's a starting point. And then understand your organization's finances. Where are you working? Is it the cost center? Is it the revenue center? What are the sources of funds? Where are the expenditures happening? You know big deal. Just a little bit of awareness. Then we also have some expectations from the organization.  First request is that I would request any organization to let go of the stereotypical prejudices regarding women's disability. And we may have to be sensitized. I am so thankful I worked in Keshav University where my colleagues didn't beat the women really kind of. So I got a lot of opportunities out there. Women media support system where they can work in peace and not bother about child care, transportation and all that. I remember I told my boss if you want me to work on holidays give me two days advance notice because I have to prepare the setup at home. Once the setup is prepared I have no problems working on holidays or Sunday or whatever it is. We have government rules regarding maternity leave, caste, child care leave and all that. But please let this not be misused especially child care leave. There are portraits where they have the office gap and the company meals also. That's a big blessing kind of. You don't have to worry about your kitchen. They come in the morning if you have children who have difficulty in meals though your job is done. All your meals are taken care of in the office. And you have a company gap so you don't have to worry about transportation also. This next suggestion is which I found in a NGO I am associated with an NGO called CESTA.  They have to do field work so you have to go on homes and all that. They have allowed paying for an attendant to travel with the mother if they are not official doors. Remember it takes a village to raise a child that is what we used to say so that your village and community is disappearing so the organization has to play the role of a village. And at the individual level please raise concerns and ask the organization for the support system. If I would not have asked for a school bus service and I am so happy thank you brother professor. Then the other juniors they would not have also got the anything because the school bus service started and leaving service please leave the schedule sign for the school bus she talks about leaving service we are giving they have their own books and see we have our separate issues alright so there is discussion on there there is we are mentoring on there leadership space training on there so all those things which really help a woman contributing work. Do you work with social conditioning about gender roles please encourage your partners to clear more active role learn delicate responsibilities to make work their support system but keep in mind that they will not get supported as you I think most of us are so state of being they really need our child to have a husband not for both the child is alright alright your husband will not get supported it doesn't matter and ask for help asking for help doesn't mean that you are in any case work-life balance is really important in my case there were also there were some years where I focused on my career children would go to school to minimum you know they would go I was not bothered if they came first to the master secretary class that was not my master is class 8, 8, 9, 10 then the focus comes on them really good work then my career become basic so like that we have to progress even 100% 50-50 normal but when you focus on your career and you for about 50-50 already focus on the whole time for about 50-50 maybe we will talk about it like we go on and thank you very much you can find me on LinkedIn please do try me out there and that's my email id if you want to try everything please do that thank you very much


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What up boys? So in this video, I'm gonna be talking about the impact of some of the priest changes or rather more specifically the disc changes That we're gonna be seeing in Shadowlands. I'm gonna talk about how that's gonna impact us in Arena And a little bit about how it's gonna impact Zimific plus and the raid as well As this was too long for the previous video so we're gonna go into a little bit more detail and Get into the nitty gritty of you know, what it all means and whether or not it's actually good for us How good it is for us and how strong we're gonna be so Without further ado, we're gonna start with the spells and I guess we should start with obviously my personal favorite Shadow of Death And why this is such a good change is specifically in Arena and this is Gonna make discs so much more fun to play in Arena and the reason for that is because it's baseline We've been asking for baseline death for so long And the reason is because you couldn't take premonition against the majority of classes It wasn't worth a PvP talent against the majority of classes. You ended up just taking a Talent that was just generally more reliable So now you can take different talents still the more reliable talents because this is baseline So against for example a monk who has obviously paralysis you can death that It's gonna allow for so much more Potential outplays and just fun stuff that you can do to feel like you're You know getting that edge over the or your enemies in arena So not not only is it gonna be more more fun. It's gonna be you know a slight buff to us in arena for sure Is this So this is this is fantastic for us. This is just gonna make us Definitely One of the more interesting classes to play or specs to play if not the most interesting specter play this this alone The second Second new spell we got was obviously mind-blast and this is is not as impactful. I would say I think it's a little bit under tuned In terms of the damage number if you take a look at holy fire on holy It's doing like 2.4k or something on the initial damage and then another 1k damage on the dot I would argue that that's a lot more impactful than mind-blasts Even with the shield that mind-blast is providing as well. I think that having that on demand damage a Significant value is really really really really strong And I think the mind-blast doesn't have that currently even though obviously it's doing atonement healing and it's it's providing that shield Which is a decent shield the shield definitely doesn't need any love shields in a good spot is stronger than a power word shield but Yeah, the fact that the damage component is so low is a little concerning to me considering that it's a 13 second So hopefully that gets a little bit of love In coming weeks. That's definitely something I would like to see overall. It's not terrible It's not not a bad thing to be picking up, but definitely could get a little bit more Next one being mine sooth. I mean again, we talked a little bit about this in the previous video, but this is gonna be Really really I guess I think it's a cool Avenue to go down in terms of different ways of dealing with content So this is this is definitely something that We didn't really have that much off before but mine sooth and coupled with the the fade aggro radius reduction It's gonna allow for some really really cool skips in both torgast and mythic class and just potentially out in the world If you want to avoid certain mobs You now have that that you know the tool to be able to do that and I think that's really cool And I think that's something that Not even just discs not even just priests, but like the game has been lacking a little bit in Recent times and and this is goes beyond just mine sooth, but It's been very much a like a one-size kind of fits all Game it's like you're picking the least bad spell for a situation rather than having you know that vast Range of spells that we used to have where we could pick the best spell for a situation So I think that this is kind of bringing that back a little bit and that's really exciting to me because I Think that really signifies a change in Blizzard's mindset in general So really really hyped about that. That's good news. Good news I Yes power infusion I think that power infusion coming back is fantastic like To put it bluntly I think that having This as a utility and having utility in general was what priests was about and Was what made priests really fun back in the day? You know when people talk about how fun Desquad's and Rathen Lichkin and stuff it was because you had so many different tools and avenues and decision-making that you could do on every global that ranged from Damage to dispelling to healing to mana burning to utility like there were so many different options so PI coming back is one of those options coming back and The fact that it's off-global is gonna make it feel really fluid and enjoyable to use the fact that you can use it on anyone you want Rather than just yourself means that there's definitely decision-making involved in it and when you use it Well, it's gonna feel great So yeah, no no no downsides to this coming back in my opinion obviously as long as it's balanced correctly This is fantastic for disc and fantastic for the game No, no complaints from me on that one The last one being mine sir now mine syrup is a curious one for me because we have Holy Nova and Holy Nova got buffed So beyond the obvious of you can get people out of stealth at range and you can air we Packs without having to stand on top of them Which is obviously a requirement of Holy Nova. It's curious to me that they bothered bringing it back at all when They were buffing Holy Nova as well I Feel like there was a whole host of other things they could have brought back And out of everything they chose mine sin Despite Holy Nova getting buffed as well. So having two a oes is gonna be weird I think maybe one of them is probably gonna be better DPS one of them is gonna be better In terms of mana efficiency, but yeah We'll have to wait and see With regards to you know what the numbers and the tuning kind of say to us when the game goes live I'm not against it, but I think that there's definitely better things that could have come back So this is probably I'd say the weakest or least interesting of the five spells that they brought back in my opinion In terms of spell changes, I guess the obvious big one has got to be focus Well, so focus will getting a second stack Once again is really important for disc actually Because we lost a lot of single target healing going from BFA to shadowlands, right? We lost our essences We lost the as a right trait for shadow man stacking from the dot And obviously we lost as I said essence we lost vitality major we lost voodoo totem so generally we lost a lot of single target healing potential and Assuming that the scaling and the tuning is Good on like shadow mend and penance. This is gonna allow us to deal with cleaves that go on us In a more manner efficient and just better way Than in shadow in BFA, sorry I Dislike this talent in general because it's a passive and I would much rather see actual abilities That provide utility for us to mitigate Melee damage but Since we lack that I think that having this Stacking twice is important and I'm really glad it's back. I Don't think it's gonna be that impactful in PvE at all. I mean This is definitely a PvE tool. I'm sorry a PvP Getting late Next change is fortitude not a big deal in my opinion It's gone from 10% to 5% not that much to say about it really like potentially you won't rebuff it as much in PvP but other than that I Don't think it's gonna change anything It's not like you're gonna Look for a healer and be like I would have brought priests But you know fork on nerf from 10 to 5% and so I guess I'll just you know So I'm guessing they nerfed buffs across the board But it's yeah, they could have they could have left it. I don't think it changes anything I think it's Suda as we talked about before fade is reducing aggro radius in the same vein as mine So I think we talked enough about that already No no extra detail needed there I don't think Again we talked about holy nova as well holy nova is is Doing 50% extra damage if it hits three or more enemies Whether that's gonna mean that our AOE is actually strong. I don't think so. Holy Nova was so weak Last expansion anyway that I don't know how much extra this is gonna give us Potentially it's still just a tool for clearing all content I don't think it's gonna be our most valuable global in terms of DPS for healing And I don't think it's gonna be the most valuable filler either so I'm sure where they where they're looking to Take this in terms of the change, but Again, we'll have to see how the numbers pan out same thing with mindset And the last change this one's actually a really banger one. This is rapture And this is something that we've been asking for for the whole of BFA pretty much Since they put it on global is rapture off global Well, this is the next best thing and basically an equivalent thing When you press rapture it will give a rapture shield to your target, which is is equal to taking it off global and This is fantastic. This is gonna make the spell so much more reactive It's gonna feel so much better to press rapture now And discus just get generally gonna feel less clunky to play under times of high pressure Because we essentially get one global extra So I'm really really happy about this. This is a really fantastic change both for PvP and for PvE Big thumbs up for me awesome You know, this is what we've been but we've been asking for on this is you know, we've gotten it so Can't complain As for talent changes not many obviously we've got the shadow covenant change and I Don't think it's gonna change that much for PvP. I think you're probably still gonna go sins of the many Depending on how well contrition is How well it's scaled and tuned because I feel like at the end of BFA it was tuned relatively poorly the numbers were relatively low And it wasn't worth any more whereas in the first season actually felt pretty good. So Well, we'll have to wait and see how that looks but shadow covenant. I think probably still won't get used most of the time in PvP The 25% extra shadow damage is nice, but I feel like This bottlenecks you a little bit in terms of not being able to cast holy spells I'm definitely gonna give it a try. I think there's definitely certain situations and comps where it could be good But yeah needs more testing on that one. I don't know. I don't want to rule out as for PvE I think this is gonna be really strong now in nothing plus I think this is gonna provide with a couple of schism really a lot of on-demand a we healing Burst healing even which is something that we kind of lacked Quite a lot actually in in BFA like you have good a we healing but not good good burst a we healing Right, so this kind of will allow us to deal with a lot of different mythic plus mechanics that before were annoying So really happy to see this change actually and after like four four different kind of Versions of Shadow Coven. I think it was they've changed it like every expansion a few expansion there It's nice to see them trying something different all the time when it's not working And and you know realizing. Yeah, this is not getting taken. It's not working. We need to do something with it So hopefully now they've landed on something that will be usable rather than you know completely giving up so Pretty pretty interesting to get interested to give us a try The last talent tree change is spirit shell and The fact that this replaces Rapture is really sad for PvP because I think it's not gonna see much use at all I think it's gonna be a BFA final tier Pick all over again where we took lenience just because the middle talent made us weaker and evangelism is basically like a really weak global When you're playing twos or threes when there's a lot more players evangelism get stronger, right? Because it works on everyone with a tome, but when you've only got a few people with a tome You're essentially extending those atomas by less time So then lenience became the strongest talent and lenience is like the most boring talent in the game Let's be real. So it's really a shame that spirit shell replaces rapture because I think right now in PvP Especially since the buff rapture is insanely strong But it's nice that they're trying to change something and Mess with the talent tree. I just wish they would have done it a little bit more I think there's a few dead talents on the disc team tree right now and a few uninteresting talents that could really if They put a bit of work into the tree, I think this tree would be insanely fun to use In terms of different tools for different situations. So, you know, they're nearly there but Yeah, it could use some love for sure, but nice to see they're adding new stuff and trying new stuff. Hopefully they just don't You know stop it'd be nice to see a couple more things before Shadowlands launches if we're not too late in the day As for PvP talents main one coming is thought steel As we said and thought steel is Probably one of the interest most interesting things I've seen them add in Few expansions I Has it to say since like the introduction of shadow and death like this spell looks insane like insane Being on the receiving end of this is not gonna be fun I'll tell you that much 20 seconds of being locked out. So I should explain a bit more about how it works So basically it steals a Predetermined spell from each class and it only works on mana users So from major steel polymorph from warlocks you still fear From druids you still reduce from monks you steal renewable mist renewing mist I think rather actually from holy priests you still renew from disc you still penance and From shadow you steal BT I missed any paladins from paladins you still freedom, which actually it could be really cool I think the main two you're gonna use it against his warlocks and majors because you can essentially Not only do you get this spell they can't use it for 20 seconds, right?  It's gonna completely change the dynamic of the match With one button push right and it's a minute and a half cool And I think it's gonna be insane. I can't wait to To test out the limits of this spell and I hope it doesn't get hard enough I really do because it looks absolutely insane So so hyped about this actually Like most hyped I've been about any any new spell for this skin like Yeah, since since death And speaking of death since we have death now premonition is gone People are concerned about the death cool and death is actually an 18 second cool down as opposed to premonition which is a 12 second line and I don't think that that is That big of a deal Like yes, the six six seconds extra cool down Looks scary, but if you get faked on premonition right now You're getting sheeped or feared or whatever before it's back up anyway So that's not gonna change And if you get sheeped or feared or whatever you're most likely getting a re CC at that point death most likely back up So I don't think that the cool down is gonna be that detrimental in that regard the place that I do see it potentially being harsh is If you're using it a as a damage spell or you're using it as an execute I think you're most likely against most stuff You can potentially use it as a damage spell but against things like majors and warlocks You probably need to be a little bit more conservative with it and I don't think that's a bad thing I think that that creates a Another avenue of decision-making where you have to decide is it worth it? You know to use death for damage at this point. What's the DR of his CC? Can he CC me before it's back up again? Can I get away with using it here for damage? that sort of thing Is it worth trying to get away with it for damage So I think that's fine. I think that's cool I think if the cool down was too low then that sort of decision-making would be nullified a little bit So I think that's fine. I think that's something that we're gonna have to learn to play with and I'm not against that Obviously the last Main change I would guess is the PvP trinkets not actually being a talent anymore that actually on gear now And all three types are still there adaptations another one. I just haven't got the trinket right now But what this means is that you will only get one other slot for a trinket As opposed to the current two two trinkets that everyone's running around with and I don't think that's a bad thing. I think that it means it nullifies how Valuable PvE trinkets are I'm not gonna go into gear as such in this video I'll do that in another video, but there's definitely some really good PvE trinkets And they've done they've done a lot of changes with PvP gear and adding a set bonus the trinkets stuff like that to try and Dis suede people from using the PvE trinkets as I said, I'm gonna go into that in a completely separate video And we'll talk all about that But for now, I think that's that's everything I wanted to say with regards to the disc changes Overall, I think we are feeling strong. I think that it definitely comes down to the tuning I think if tuning is good for us if it's kind to us then disc will be in a healthy spot with the new Tools at our disposable disposable our disposal going into Shadowlands. So I'm I'm actually happy with the change I'm really happy. I think that we could use some more like as I said in the talent department, but overall We could done a lot worse So I will definitely be playing disc come End of October in Shadowlands. I can't wait. I think it's going to be really fun And I think I think disc and well both disc and holy have the potential to be really fun in PvP in Shadowlands So definitely something to look to pick up if you've enjoyed it in the past If there's anything that you think I forgot with regards to the you know analytics the mechanics of these spells opportunities Ways that they're gonna buff on Earth us, please let me know I'm Really interested to hear kind of different people's opinions because I definitely haven't thought of everything. Let's be real If there are any other videos you'd like me to make or any other things you'd like me to talk about in more detail. I Always please let me know in the comments But yeah for now. Thanks for watching. Have a good one


Hey, this is Christian Buckley with another MVP Buzz Chat, and I'm chatting this afternoon with Jennifer. Hey, how's it going? Thanks for having me. Avoiding the heatwaves and the COVIDs and all the other stuff that's going on out in the world. Staying healthy, thankfully. Thankfully everyone is healthy, so good to say.  Yeah, so my name is Jennifer Mason. I work at Planet Technologies. I am the vice president of Workforce Learning and Transformation. So I do everything, end user adoption, training, learning, transforming your workforce. So if you've been following the news, if you've been paying attention, there's a lot going on right now with workforce transformation and where things are going to be in the next five to ten years and how automation is taking over and what are we going to do? And so for the past five or six years, that's really been my focus of helping people understand where we at today, where we're going and how do we get there? And, you know, focused around technology because that's where we're at. So really doing that. So we have a couple of products around that, a lot of what we call human services, which is, you know, the fancy word for consulting. Most of the services you provide are human related services. Yeah. Well, when you bundle it with a product, so you've got products plus human services together, it's not really consulting because I don't know, human services products, it's consulting plus products together equals, you know, adoption services. With humans, I know. With humans. Well, and so in hell, you've been an MVP for how long now? I just got my nine, nine year puck. Yeah. The little pucks, if people don't know every year, a little thing that goes on a thing and they call it a puck. Oh, so that's right. So I was trying to remember. For some reason, I thought you were a year before me. So you were a 2012 person as well. Yeah, I think we were the same year, maybe. Yeah, I was January 2012. I'm pretty sure I'm nine year because my husband, maybe, I don't think I'm 10 year. Maybe I'm a let, I don't, I don't know somewhere between. See, that's just the reality people. I was trying to remember, like, you know, just being, now of course, we've worked remotely for a long time. We all travel, all that kind of stuff, but I just, I have no concept of time anymore. I have zero concept of time for the last year. I have no idea what day it is, what month it is, half the time which state I'm in. I don't know what time of day it is often. I'll be like, you know, hey, it's time to lunch. And I look at my, I mean, I look at the window, well, because I'm in the basement and it's dark. I'm like, oh, and I realized I kind of missed lunch and dinner. And yeah, so I think I heard my wife yelling down to me like five hours ago or something, but yeah, and then you've also recently been, you're part of the RD program as well. Yeah, super excited about that. So I just recently got awarded the Microsoft RD. So very, very excited to kind of step into that program, see what that's all about, be part of that. And so I was really honored to be accepted into that group. And so looking forward to that, I think we've had a couple of meetings so far, and I'm already finding lots of value in it. So have you had the question of somebody out from the community said, oh, congratulations on your new Microsoft job? Or already can do it? Yes, everyone at work thought I got a new job. And so I, I guess because I had known what the title was, and I had whatever I tried to write it in a way, and I followed all the guidelines for writing it in a way, and people are like, oh, congratulations, we'll miss you. And I'm like, not going anywhere. So, so yeah, I was like, oh man, I guess people don't know what that is. Well, they don't. And it's, it's a, and again, it's, it's, I like the kind of the, the short description, it's that we are unpaid advisors for Microsoft leadership team. And there's about, I don't know what the current count is when I 223, I think this year. Oh, so it went up. So there, it went up just a little bit. It was, I think 175 or 177 two years ago when I joined. So yeah, they've increased that, which is fantastic. But what kind of, how do you interpret the difference between the MVP program and RDS? Like as, as far as what we're asked to do, and I'll let you use your own words to kind of define that. So I think the hands on and technical would be the MVP. So in MVP, I think you're going to get in your community contributions, and then your engagement with the product team is going to be very, very much hands on in the product, very deep. And then at the RD level, it's definitely more strategic and cross product. So it's not necessarily deep into one product or one area, where it may go deep into a product or area, but it's going to start at a very strategic level, and, and kind of take on that focus of it. And so those are kind of the differences I'm seeing so far and, and how they describe it as well when they talk about the differences. So that's kind of the big differences I've seen so far. Well, the one of those for people that aren't familiar with the programs too is that, you know, the MVP is an award. So it's a recognition from Microsoft for people who are going kind of above and beyond for the community. And so, and generally the, not generally, the things that those that we're doing to become an MVP are things which are above and beyond like what our day jobs are. So most of us and Jennifer and I have known each other for a long time. We co-authored the book together and, and we go through all the conferences that we used to attend. I remember those. Those events. What going out was like. Going out to dinner. I just, there's a lot of like Facebook posts of three years ago, five years ago. Look at this great picture where we ate food in restaurants, where we were actually sitting down. Yeah. But no, so it's a, it's a recognition. It's an award for what you've done the year previous, whereas RD is very, it's different.  And it's a, it's a much more detailed interview process and selection process for that. And we are a resource we're providing guidance to sometimes where we, we join together to write content and things for white papers for internal use only for Microsoft executives. It's kind of a hotline where we say, Hey, we've identified this issue. We have this concern of the way that Microsoft is, you know, the wording in a new ad campaign or product changes that made and how it impacts our business because almost all of us are business owners or, or, you know, senior people within partners in the ecosystem. And so to provide that direct feedback to Microsoft, it's a great opportunity to do that. But it's a, it, it, while it's great to be recognized and be selected, you know, it's, that's the, look at the primary difference. It's not an award. It's a, like we're, we're doing stuff. We're required to participate and then not get paid for it. An honor. It's an honor. That's right. But, well, so how long have you been with Plant now? Five years. I just hit my five year mark on July 1st. So it's exciting stuff. I love it. It's a great, a great company. I, I have been a blast out there. Love the people love the job, love everything I get to do. So it doesn't even feel like work. So it's fantastic. So another one of the planet is one of those companies where, again, a lot of familiar faces, I don't know how many MVPs that you have working there now. Right. Now it's just me. So a lot of our MVPs have transitioned over to Microsoft. So a couple of them have left and gone off to Microsoft. And we have a lot of transition, just with different things. So the MVPs that we had, the majority of them transitioned. I think they're all at Microsoft right now.  And then they got rid of that program. And so, well, they still own that title. And they still have the title. And yes, and they should, because they're still brilliant. And people don't know what that is. MCMs are the Microsoft certified masters. And yeah, these were the folks that, you know, I always liked the way I described the MCMs. When you see Microsoft training material, like for the developer and admin guides for SharePoint, for example, the MCMs are usually like the people that help write those materials. It's the people that Microsoft turns to to ask questions about how their technologies actually being implemented and used. Yeah, brilliant, brilliant people. So yeah, I can't even imagine. I couldn't have sat for that. Well, it's a, I remember with a few of them, because my former team, when I was at Microsoft, were did a lot of that training. So people like Mike Watson and Bill Baer. And, you know, that did a lot of that. So I got to meet some of those MCMs before I really understood what it was. But what's the stuff that, what are kind of the popular topics? What are the things that you're known for that you're passionate about in the Microsoft stack? So in the Microsoft stack, I am pretty much anything without syntax and semicolons. So most of my sessions, I tell people that I'm allergic to syntax and semicolons. So that's kind of my thing. So anything you can do with SharePoint out of the box is where you'll find me speaking. As of lately, it's been a lot about user adoption and productivity and really aligning everyday business solutions with how do I make life better inside of tools? How can I improve productivity? So how can I, you know, spend five minutes learning something in Outlook that's going to save me 10 minutes a day? And how do I get that productivity? And then how does that actually translate to saving a business money? And how does that translate to improving the quality of people, like your, your everyday life quality, work quality, life quality? So I'm spending a lot of time doing with adoption and different things there. And so that kind of aligns with it, because I get to help people identify, you know, what's in it for me when I'm using this technology. So those are kind of my biggest, my biggest known points, the one who's allergic to syntax and semicolon. Well, I like, that's, well, that's that short, that's a good elevator pitch for it. But it is, you know, and I'm sure you have the kind of the same recollection of the history, like, you know, 10 years ago, starting to go to a lot of the SharePoint events.  And it was very dev and admin centric. And there was just a handful of us that were end user power user focused. And, and that that group has, has expanded. But so is the opportunity, because as you see, you know, obviously, we don't just work with SharePoint, it's across Microsoft 365. And I find myself talking as much about the office apps as I do about teams and SharePoint, and OneDrive and Hammer, you know, and it's, it's all cross workload stuff.  The people that are showing up to these events that we had before the current era, were more business union or users power users. Totally. Yeah. And it's neat. I mean, it's everything now. I mean, one of the last sessions I was doing with my team, we were out there, it was, you know, working remotely post COVID. And we had a whole session we were doing. And it was talking about how now when you're in meetings, you have this new thing that's called a hybrid meeting.  So how do you share a whiteboard now? You can't share the whiteboard that's in the room, because people are going to feel left out. And how do you watch people's faces if they're wearing a face mask, because you're sitting in a room together. And so it's how do you use the technology to overcome some of those challenges that has nothing to do with, you know, really anything technology, it has everything to do with whatever things we're facing in life right now. And so that's end users. And so there can be as many end user consultants as there need to be, because there's more end users than there ever are developers or admins. So I say the more the merrier. So the more you could do with SharePoint out of the box, it's fantastic. So SharePoint Office 365 teams, I mean, we're getting to a point where you're just using Microsoft 365. Am I using teams? Am I using planar? Am I using SharePoint page? Who knows who cares? What are you using? It doesn't it doesn't matter what it is half the time the user couldn't tell you what they're using. Just use it. It's really easy just use it. So how do you think I think a great point that hey, this stuff is changing. What do you think the I mean, we've seen huge numbers of course, you know, you and I, MVP's and RDS are very interested in looking at the monthly active users and the other stats that come out from Microsoft. A lot of end users, they don't care about that. They're caring more about what is the actual change that we're experiencing? I mean, what are your predictions of what this is going to look like six months from now, 12 months from now? Not the disease part, the COVID world of that. But the impact, let's say that there is a, you know, we there's a magic shot everybody gets and the COVID's no longer an issue. What's been the impact and what will business and the normal office workers role and activities look like? Well, I think it's jump starting us into the future, right? And so the future was going to change us anyway, automation is coming. There's going to be things that we're used to doing now that we're not going to be doing the same way in two to three years. And humans just in nature were adverse to change. We're not naturally going to go towards change. So there's going to be these huge change efforts. We're going to have to bring up entire workforces to be able to do things differently. And that's just the nature of what was coming. If you're following trends, that was going to come by 2023, everything was going to be different. And then COVID comes and everyone has to sit in their house for three months. Jennifer, it was the burning of the ships. We can't go back. Yeah, it's like everything's changed. And now when you deal with people when change, it's almost like, yep. So there's a wall of change in the technology and having to do things different. I mean, my parents who would never ever do anything online, I mean, they're going to go to the store to buy everything, we'll shop on Amazon now. And they'll order groceries remotely and they'll do all of these things that they wouldn't typically do because the change forced them to behave differently. So I think with that, it's forced people to behave differently. I was reading a study this week that says only 5% of people that are working from home are working home distraction free. That means 95% of people are distracted and that can be the distractions included children, husbands and dogs and dogs and cats, animals. And I'm like, okay, yep, everybody's distracted. So now we have to learn how to work distracted. So we have to learn how to use technology differently. How am I going to work when my kids are running in and saying something doesn't work? I need to do something for school. How am I going to just work differently? So we've all had to learn to work differently. So now when we come back to the work environment, I think we're going to be bringing that with us. I don't think anyone's going to come back in and expect it to be different. I think we're going to expect it to be a little bit different or we're not going to expect it to be the same. So I think we can use that as these change agents. We can use that as a chance to make things easier for people and really throw that technology in there. And we've seen something that I think has been amazing is we've seen Microsoft rise to the challenge and roll things out in terms of features inside of teams to make things easier at a rate that I didn't even think was possible. I don't think some of those teams engineers have slept since COVID came to roll out some of these features to make it easier like the feature for vacuums. I'm pretty sure that probably got put in the first time executives were on the phone and somebody was vacuuming and said, why don't we have a feature that clears that out? That back growing noise, the AI that dampens those other sounds is fantastic. I think because we've all experienced, I have two little dogs. And so I'm doing a lot of recordings and I'm always just like watching, especially one, the Chihuahua, you know, like, what's he going to do to make sure that it's quiet? Because otherwise there's, you'll see me, it might be you talking and he goes off and I hit mute as quick as possible.  But yeah, there's great features like that. I mean, the together mode, which I know a lot of people say, it's very gimmicky and stuff. Like I've started to use it for larger meetings. It is really nice so that you're not having to focus around, but just kind of see everybody in context. There is something in the brain that looks at that view differently than the boxes. So it's crazy how that works. What other things do you think that other techniques or other changes that you think you'll see in your own work habits? I think work from home. I think a lot of companies, even my husband's recently within the last two years had been looking for a job. And so he had been in the job hunt. And so we had been looking around and there were a lot of companies in, especially like North Dallas, that needed a button to chair. And if you didn't have a button to chair, you weren't working. And now I'm like, is that going to stay the same? Look at how much money you can say with real estate if you just let some people work from home and how much traffic is less? I think it was a Wall Street Journal that just had an article yesterday, I believe, or maybe Sunday, about that, that a lot of people are saying, why do we need to live in the San Francisco Bay Area for tech? I'm born and raised there. I've been in a number of startups and there's not, I was about to say there's not enough money in the world to bring me back there. There always is. But realistically, no one's going to offer me what I would demand to move back. But I think one of the biggest impacts from this experience for us globally, it's an impact, is to commercial real estate. A lot of companies that have, there are all the time, there are just dozens of companies that have announced to the world, you know, we've decided we can always be remote. We don't need to ever, we're going to shut down our physical office. We don't need it. We can do this. And there's a time and a place for it. I get that. And so we'll, you know, there's a blending for it or maybe a blended workforce. So I think those are going to be some of the changes we're definitely going to see. But it's better for all of these companies that say they're going to have a zero, zero, well, I can't, like a carbon footprint, zero carbon footprint by a certain year. I bet you working from home is going to be a big part of that because that's a great way to reduce the emissions and, you know, cut the gas, expenditures and cut what you have to pay people. Let's be honest, if they're working from home and they're not commuting and they're not having to sit in traffic for hours, I mean, just think about how much happier you are. And I mean, there's other studies that talk about there's disadvantages of it too. There's no more nine to five is gone. There's no more workday. It's, it's get up, work a little bit, get the kids to school, come back and work, do dinner, then go back and work a little bit.  And I mean, you see adjustments and even with inspire this last month and ignite coming up, they're talking about rather than going in and seeing like a 50 to 60 minute or even, you know, for a lot of the events that we've done over the years that used to be 75 minutes of sessions with Q&A and all of that, they want those reduced down to 40, 30, 20 minute sessions. So you get these, I keep using the word vignettes of a topic and then have more conversations, more panel, more discussion, more interaction. And so that's something that I think a lot of companies to your point will bring back to say like, well, you know, even if we are physically in the office, fewer meetings or these hybrid meetings, they need to be shorter and focused. It's going to change a lot about that. And I think that's a, that's a good thing. So even if you do have to physically be there, let's focus on the core of why we need these 10 people online and the 20 people in person to go through this. Let's keep it efficient and then get back to doing our jobs. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So I think it's neat. I think it's, it's an interesting time, something we've never lived through, but something that is, is interesting, like it's definitely going to impact, impact the future to come. We'll remember when. Right. Yeah, as we, yeah, it's, yeah, that's the word I keep using too is interesting. We live in interesting times. That's why it's, it's that, it's that Chinese curse of may you live in interesting times. So we're, we're cursed right now, I guess. I think we're old. I think that's what old people say Christian. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's true. I bet you, I'm, I, yeah, okay. I, I, but no, I don't, as he was talking about, no, I have a, I have a grandchild now. So yeah, feel old every once in a while. So it catches up. So well, Jennifer really appreciate the time today for people want to find out more about you or get in touch with you. One of the best ways that they can reach you. So they can get me at Twitter. So at Jennifer Mason and then 0365 support.com is one of our planet websites where we have a lot of, a lot of content material. And then jennifermanmason.com is my blog. So couple of easy places to, easy places to find me. I'm not too hard to find. And you have your vlog podcast as well, the one that you do with. Oh, yeah. So every week we do the office through 65 plus. I can't believe I forget about that. I think I've created that one out of my own frustration of needing to find the updates. And so we do a, is that like an extension of what we, of what we used to do. Like cause I did the collab talk podcast and you did the pulse back for it unity. Yes, we used to do the pulse for it unity. And then we brought it back reformatted it. So I scrubbed through the roadmap every week. And I actually have a process where I, I download and save the roadmap week to week and then do a differential on it and find changes and then highlight them for you. So you know it. So we have a newsletter that we post and then we, we do a little show where we talk about what the changes are and kind of highlight them with what they're at and then show what, what environment they're to. So whether it's DOD or GCC high or GCC or just enterprise cloud. So we try to do the best weekend to keep up with, keep up with that. And so we do that every week. And so that's the office 365 volts. Is that on, is that a blog, a site, or is that on YouTube? It's just a YouTube channel. So if they search that on YouTube, they'll be able to find us pretty easy. Or if they go to any other places that we mentioned, they'll find it. Yeah. It's pretty much, I think it's, if you put type in Jennifer and SharePoint, you'll find Jennifer Mason. Yes. It's not hard. We'll really appreciate your time. It's great talking to you and catching up and we'll hopefully see you soon. Yes. Thank you so much.


Sanef ropes an independent auditor to probe SABC8 donations. Johannesburg, the South African National Editors Forum, Sanef, on Friday appointed an independent auditor to investigate the alleged R100000 donation reported to have been paid by BOSESA operations to a crowdfunding campaign for a group of eight journalists who were suspended from the public broadcaster. Times Live reported on Tuesday that BOSESA, now known as African Global Operations appeared to have paid the money towards a crowdfunding campaign to help the journalists with their legal fees in 2016. BOSESA has emerged as a key player in capturing the state and bribing high-ranking officials in order to win lucrative tenders. The SABC8 were journalists who were suspended for speaking out against censorship of protest footage by the South African Broadcasting Corporation, SABC. Times Live said it had seen a leaked email in which former BOSESA chief operations officer, Angelo Agritzi, instructed other officials to make the R100000 donation, saying it would be the best return on investment. Agritzi is currently testifying against the company at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into allegations of state capture. He said BOSESA had paid bribes to some journalists do not write certain stories. Even though Sanef on Wednesday denied any donation from BOSESA to the SABC8 and it could not find any evidence to support this in its own investigation, it has now said it felt it necessary to set out the facts and its position in greater detail. As such we have now called upon an independent auditing firm, named to be released in due course, to conduct a full introspection of the account for purpose of transparency. We will publish the findings in full when completed, it said in a statement. The emergence of an alleged email, purportedly from within BOSESA suggesting that they may have contributed to the SABC8 has caused some members of the public to question the ethical commitments of Sanef. We want to state categorically that we never solicited funds from BOSESA. Sanef said while editorial mistakes contribute to the erosion of trust, it would like to urge the public to not underestimate what appears to be strategically and clinically organized efforts to erode the credibility of journalists and their endeavors to inform the public so it may participate meaningfully in the affairs of our country. Being said we will not condone shoddy journalism and have no hesitation in calling to order our own in the media, hence every effort is being made to institute an independent commission of inquiry into credibility and ethics in the media. Members of the public will be encouraged to participate and lodge complaints, it said.


Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us here in the blue room today, and we're here today to recognize something that only happens in New York, which is when something really, really rare, something really, really rapid, something really, really dangerous happens in a place that's not on land and hard to get to. We don't skip a beat, absolutely not. In this case, an extremely rare occurrence happened. Someone was bitten by a shark after 53 years. We had never seen a shark attack. And without batting an eye, New York City's lifeguards, police and EMT jumped into action and saved Tatiana Koltunyuk's life. She couldn't be here with us today, but we're here in her honor. And she represents all of New York in thanking you for your service, your quick thinking, and doing what New York always does in its time of need. So thank you very much. My name is Mirazoshi. I'm deputy mayor for operations. I have the honor of overseeing the parks department, the beaches and the lifeguards, and we're here joined with our fire department partners and our NYPD partners. I want to turn it over to our mayor, Eric Adams. But first, I'd like to read a quote from Tatiana Koltunyuk who couldn't be here today. She says, I will forever be grateful to the police officers and EMTs who saved my life in the aftermath of the attack, and most especially to Officer Ronaldo. The road to recovery ahead of me is going to be a long one, but I consider myself lucky to have the opportunity to be here and to continue to marvel in life's miracles. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported me and my family during this incredibly challenging time. And with that, I'd like to turn it over to our mayor, Eric Adams. Thank you. Thanks so much. Thanks so much. And I'm not quite sure so many somber faces, but we are celebrating. You know, you guys did an amazing job, and your family is here to really acknowledge. They don't see every day what you do, both in the life of EMT, EMS, police officer, firefighter. Oftentimes they may read a tidbit of the story, and many of you, like myself and my brother, you don't come home and share all that you see and all that happens. You try to leave it in the locker room or at the firehouse or the precinct because it's overwhelming sometime. And I remember being trained as a police officer, putting on a tourniquet. I thought I would never have to use one. And, you know, it is a very drastic step when you stop to flow of blood to someone's arm, legs, or parts of their body, and it takes a lot to be able to do it. And I saw those photos, and it was really alarming. And you responded. It's just, I don't think we fully understand what it is to run towards danger when everyone is running away or everyone is panicking. The level of just steady hand, and you just say it's another day. Another night of responding, delivering a baby, running towards gunshots, climbing up a flight of stairs because there's a fire or someone is having a heart attack. Over and over again, when you look back over your career and look at the number of times you had to respond to these cases, and you still continue to do it day after day. That's why we're here. And I'm sure Tatiana and her family are breathing easier because we have the finest first responders, probably across the globe. Of, you know, my colleagues that came here last week from Unger, they all debate about number two and number three, but nobody debates about number one. We are the best of the best. And it's because of what you do every day. And I cannot thank you. When I got that call, I was on the road and I got the call and the photos sent over to me and they stated that, you know, the team just responded in a very coordinated effort to make sure that you were able to save someone's life. You know, she's with her family because you did for her. And we cannot under-emphasize or over-emphasize how much that meant. That, you know, we have a New Yorker that is with her family right now because you responded, all of that training kicked in. You didn't wait, you didn't stall. Each one knew what needed to be done and you coordinated together to get it done. And we just wanted to pause for a moment and just say thank you. You know, just thank you for doing that because that could have been my sister. That could have been my family member, it could have been anyone. And knowing that 24 hours, seven day a week, our men and women first responders are out there. And we cannot thank you enough. And so the team is here of the Parks Commissioner, our Fire Commissioner, and our First Deputy Commissioner, as well as the Deputy Mayor of Operation. We got a lot of women here now, to think about. You know, they're all here because we really wanted to do this. We really wanted to say, you know, thank you, thank you, thank you. On behalf of all New Yorkers, 8.3 million of them, we want to say thank you. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. And now we are going to have Commissioner Donahue will step up and read the names of all of our lifeguard savers. Exactly. Thank you so much, Deputy Mayor Joshi and Mayor Adams. So pleased to be here in such a day for celebration. Gives me great privilege to recognize the names of five lifeguards we have with us today.  Next, Lifeguard Romeo Ortiz. Next, Lifeguard William McDonald. Lifeguard Nora Schreiber. And Lifeguard Evan Sheridan. Our Commissioner, Laura Kavanaugh, will say the names of our EMT workers who were present and saved the life of Tatiana. Thank you so much. It's no surprise you guys want to quick work, but we are ever grateful for you. First of all, EMT Michael Wozewski and EMT Sean McBride. And our first Deputy Commissioner, Cancella, from NYPD to give us the names of the three police officers who were part of this amazing rescue. Thank you. Good afternoon and thank you for everything that you do day in and day out. And we would like to call John Smith, Austin Beck and Joseph Ronaldo. Thank you. I want to do some separate with the family. His mom was just appointed as a judge. We appoint as a judge and he placed the tourniquet on. You know, just continue to serve. Do you have a little question for our gentlemen? Yeah, yeah, of course. Well, take pictures of their family and we'll be after them about one.


I'd say Dr. Morgan, she's the assistant dean of the Honors College. She teaches a number of classes. She's also the director of a program, a fellowship I'm in in the Honors College. I will say, and I have a lot of favorites to all of my professors, all of y'all are my favorites, but Lisa McKinney was the most interesting, her character, just the way she is. She started off the class talking about her days when she went to Bama. My favorite professor freshman year was Dr. Walsh. He taught Econ 111. He made every class fun and exciting. It was always fun to walk into his classroom. I'm almost obsessed with Dr. Walsh, and he's a lot of the part of the reason why I'm actually majoring in economics, but he's just so knowledgeable about a broad variety of fields, and he always makes economics actually fun, which I really appreciate. Philip Harris, who's a, did fish research and a lot of stuff here on campus, but was my biology teacher. He's just a really cool guy, just laid back environment and taught really connected with the students well. I texted her three weeks and she said, Dr. Morgan, is there any chance you could grab breakfast before I leave town in July? And she said, yeah, no problem. We sat there at a coffee shop, had breakfast and coffee for two hours. She's talking about life, talking about what's next for me as I'm a senior and I'm graduating, and that was really impactful for me, and that's one of the reasons why she's one of my favorite professors. Definitely Professor Wright. He's my professor for the Create Path to the MBA program, and I absolutely love him. He went out and worked in the field, and he worked in for P&G for a few years, and then he came back and was teaching our class, and I absolutely love hearing about his experience. My favorite professor is Chris Roberts. He taught my freshman year Mass Communications class, so MC 101, and I remember the first time we walked into his class, he played Baby Got Back and was dancing all around the classroom. And from that moment on, I just kind of knew like communications was the place for me and he was an awesome professor. Took him to Fried Fridays. It was a lot of fun, but if you get the chance to take Chris Roberts, definitely do so.


So the Patriots who have had probably their most wild offseason in like forever They started off once Tom Brady officially left. It was looking like oh man these Patriots Yeah, they do still have Bill Belichick one of if not the best coach of history, but No more Brady. So maybe they don't have such a strong hold on the division anymore And a lot of people were throwing the bills as the number one team in that division I did the same thing myself Um, because I was thinking uh, just didn't Brian Hoyer. Okay. Yeah, they do still have the defense though But quarterback just plays such a vital role in any team And I just didn't feel like they had the right people for the job So then some time passed a lot of people were tripping out going crazy. Then all of a sudden Patriots end up signing Camino and it's okay. Well, boom They got thrown to the top of a lot of people's afc eastless and a lot of people like, okay Patriots they got cam. Oh, they back. It is their division again. Bill Belichick came new and oh It's an interesting match, but a match nonetheless So then So it because it's just been it's just been such a roller coaster for new england because then The opt-out started happening and I think patriots they lost if not Not only the most people But the the most significant people to the team Because there's no offense to a lot of other players that opted out, but the patriots they lost like starting guys They lost cannon. They lost chung. They lost high tower Um, and they lost a few other guys as well So that roller coaster of the offseason that has been for new england it just kept on going but then um Sony michel sonny michel, excuse me He got placed on a physically unable to perform bliss I think he should be good to go Come regular season, which is only a month away by the way It's all it's right there Oh, man, I don't want to think about it too much. I don't want to get too hype yet But it's right there man But anyway, sonny michel who's on the physically unable to perform bliss He gets some help when he returns in the backfield that being lamar miller now lamar miller. Yes He tore his aco last year. We know but he's ready to go now. He's good to go. He's healthy now Lamar miller he can really bring a change of pace because sonny michel He got some decent speed. He's not a burner anything But he got some decent speed is he can catch passes out of the backfield But then lamar miller a healthy lamar miller Long as he's fully recovered That's your that's your speedy guy That's your speedy guy. That's your your home run threat Because if lamar miller if they can get a healthy lamar miller we used to play for the dolphins We used to play for the Texans and we saw it there But the the thing now The difference between now and then when he was with the dolphins and when he was with the Texans He had to be the guy He was the number one running back in enough of those situations And not his not 100 percent of the time that he was with the Texans But he was normally the number one guy number one running back Uh, but now he will be sharing carries with sonny michel sonny michel. That's that's the number one guy He's there their starter running back even though they do they do a lot of things by committee in new england But sonny michel is their starter but with when it comes to a lot of starters for the patriots Especially at the running back position because they tend to share the wealth a lot Which is not a bad thing Because that um that actually helps them in more ways than one One because you have so many different weapons and we've seen it with bill bellichick over over the over the years He has so many different weapons that he can use at different positions So you may focus on one guy and be like, okay, we're about to take this guy out the game We're taking this guy out the game. He ain't gonna be able to do nothing Then all of a sudden this guy that you never even heard of before he goes off And then so on the field it creates just mismatches and opportunities for more people But then off the field when it comes contract time This it becomes a reason why a lot of these patriots players don't end up being the highest paid this and the highest paid that And they don't dish out all these crazy con you never hear about oh patriots made such and such the highest paid this Patriots made such and such the highest paid you you don't hear that there because For enough of their positions they share the wealth And they feel like hey It's about all about the team here It's not all about you. Yeah, you may be really good at this and really good at that But it's all about the team You want to go make the most money? Okay, be my guest. Bye You can go There's the door So with lamar miller, um And he does have to pass the physical first before it's official, but Once he passes. Yeah, he's a patriot He's a patriot So this is a good move for new england now. I do expect him to get another Running back another tail back another full back Who the ravens just cut today undrafted rookie freea nebronston rick steiner if y'all know anything about him look him up Look him up because I think he's going to be in new england real soon But we'll find out anyway team keep it clean appreciate y'all love y'all patriots Let's see how this roller coaster of a season continues to go for y'all and We'll go from there. Anyway I'm out