It is time for a new Charlotte Tilbury launch. I'm really, really excited actually about this collection. I know we're all sick of pillow talk, we're all sick of pink, but there really was something about this collection where I needed to have it. I'm excited about this one. It definitely appealed to me. We know Charlotte Tilbury has certainly beaten pillow talk to death, but I was excited about this. I don't know. So I will have the link down below to the entire collection. Did you see? She got twiggy to like model this collection, which was really awesome. Yeah, there was a lot of also re-released stuff in this collection, like pillow talk, lip and cheek glow, which personally I'm not a fan of, pillow talk, medium beauty light one, and those are beautiful products as well. Totally pick those up if you happen. This is a good one, and I think they'll probably sell out. And there's just a lot of re-released pillow talk stuff in here. There's also the push-up lashes mascara in a new kind of like warm brown color. I'm a black mascara girl. Mascara's fine, but it's not all that. I did pick up the three new powder products much. Let's get started. I guess we'll begin with the most important one, right? Why do I keep this suspense up for you guys? Let's just get into it. This is the pillow talk luxury palette. I'm gonna turn the light down to notches. So this is the pillow talk dreams luxury palette. And here is what the box is going to look like. I love the simple light pink packaging, 18 month shelf life, six grams of product. Did you see that? She was going to up the prices of her quads. I cannot confirm nor deny that. I think I saw it in passing, but if she is, what is she putting them up to? I just don't see how she could charge us more. Like, there's so little product in this. It's a terrible value. You guys know where I stand on that, so that's interesting.  Try to find where this is made. Oh, it's made in Italy. Okay, I knew that. Let's get into it. This is a first impressions, y'all. I haven't even looked at this yet. Well, I wasn't gonna film today because I have a cold and I just need a day of not talking because my nose is running like crazy, but duty called. I needed to review this. So here is the palette itself. It's a plain, simple quad packaging. No special designs or anything, slightly disappointed about that. But she does have the typical how and where to apply it. I'm gonna look at it first. I get to look at it before you guys. There's a shade in here. You guys know what shade I just gawked at. So here it is. It looks like kind of a more warm pink palette. I am eyeing this right here. And we'll also take a look at how this compares to the other pillow talk palette that I have. This is gonna be a good one. This looks like it has similar formulas to fire rows. So I'm gonna start off. Again, we're not keeping the suspense here. So these are the two shimmer shades. Oh, they look so thick and gorgeous. Okay. Sorry, they got blurry, but you can see that that was stunning. And then, okay. I think I'm gonna like this one. So we have this super light baby pink and then a mid-tone really glimmery pink. And then here we have kind of a mid-tone rose and then a deeper brownish rose.  I've gotten so many Charlotte Tilbury pinks. I'm not gonna say this is unique, but I think, I don't know. I like it. Okay. Let's just take a peek at it compared to the other quads that I have. Let's do the classic pillow talk here. So this is the classic pillow talk. This pillow talk dreams, I think honestly is gonna be much better for deeper skin tones if the regular pillow talk did not work out for you and the pillow talk dreams has better formulas. I hate to say it, but the new shimmer colors in here, definitely an upgraded formula. So I'm excited about that. That was awesome. Can't wait to apply them. But yeah, it looks like if you have pillow talk, you can get away with pillow talk dreams. I pulled a few others, but none of them look like it. I have like copper charge, mesmerizing maroon. I also have the pillow talk luxury palette of Pops, which looks a little similar, but the formulas are gonna be totally, totally different. So while the colors may look similar, even the luxury palette of Pops does not have the shimmer formula that the pillow talk dreams is having. And then I have to show you fire rows. Now mine kind of broke, so I'm gonna like have to be careful holding this. But fire rows is the quad that we cannot get a hold of in the U.S. It's sold out so quickly, but I'm gonna have to do side by side. The matte in fire rows is very clearly much more red, but the shimmers, these are definitely the same formulas, which is amazing. That is exactly what I wanted to see. Here is fire rows, and then here is pillow talk dreams. So they're definitely different, especially in the mats. And then fire rows, of course has an additional shimmer, whereas pillow talk dreams has two mats, and they're all different. But I will say the shimmers are somewhat similar. In fire rows, they're more warm. So yeah, I mean, I'm gonna let you do the judgment on that. So this is a situation where I think if you bought fire rows, you can certainly get away with having pillow talk dreams. They're different enough, but they are close. So if you missed out on fire rows, not to add urgency to the situation, but it's gonna be one of my new favorite formulas. It's a great formula. So I am going to do one eye and then I'll be back to show you kind of how these apply. I'm gonna just tell you now the quality of this. Great. So you won't be disappointed with the quality on this. This is one of her best palettes. I hope all of her palettes are up to the bar of this quality because then her price might be a little bit more worth it. Cause you know how sometimes they could be hit or missed before, like this is more worth it. So I'm gonna go in with a refer number 27, which by the way, refer is happening there at 40% off sale right now. They also restocked all the stuff they ran out of during the last holiday sale. So I'll put my link down below if you wanna shop that. I think I pulled all refer brushes to use today, but they're all fantastic and really great value, especially for that sale price.  I think if you have like a medium to deep complexion, you're going to love this. This to me is kind of like a deeper version of pillow talk. That's really great for deeper complexions. So I'm going to blend this. So you can see it's blending beautifully. This arguably would be really great as a blush, like towards the back of my cheek. I don't know about right on the apple because it is a little deep for me, but if I were to put it towards the back of my cheek, I think that'd be pretty. Maybe I should just do that. I don't know. I wanted to see if that low highlights could be used as blush first, but like butter, this is a beautiful matte formula, one of the best. And then we are going to go into the darker shade, which again, crazy pigment on this, not splotchy at all, as you can see, and then super easy to blend. Charlotte Tilbury low key kills it with her matte formulations. I don't think people give her enough credit. Her mattes blend themselves. I don't think I give Charlotte Tilbury enough credit. Like I'll talk about her mattes in my videos and talk about how good they are. But then if I'm not doing a specific review, then I just forget like no, her mattes are some of the best. You get a miniscule man product, but she does a good job with them.  And you can really, if you wanted to, could totally deepen up and add more depth. This is a dark shade that really can build on itself and you can get different levels of depth depending how much you layer. Just so easy and beautiful. Next we're going into like the most beautiful shade ever. I find that this is best when applied with a finger and tilting your head back because I did apply it with a brush at first and it applied fine, so much pigment. I just got a little bit more fallout than I would have liked since I've done my face makeup first. So this is just to prevent a mess. You also might benefit from a stickier base if you want to prevent fallout, but how beautiful is that, right? So stunning, lots of dimension. And then I'm gonna go in with a refer number two brush. This is like really wet and creamy feeling. I feel like it could be a cream eyeshadow. This one has significantly less fallout than this one. So these two are not the same formula. They have a similar feeling. This one is a little bit more flaky, but not in a bad way, but it's just a little bit more messy than this one. This one just really is like a cream eyeshadow in a palette. This is really pretty just to sneak in here. So yeah, I know I've had a couple people who have a deeper complexion. Tell me that they're not fans of Charlotte Tilbury because her shadows don't show. I think that this is a good one that will. I mean, she's launched Fire Rose and she's launched this and then a couple of palettes in between and all have been amazing. I really feel like Charlotte has improved her formula and I am so excited to see that because it's so good. Okay, I'm gonna finish up my eyes with liner and lashes, but this is the look. It is so pretty. Is it anything really groundbreaking? Anything we haven't seen before? A look that you can't do with her other palettes? No, but she's stunning and I regret nothing. Liner and lashes are on. Let's get into the pillow talk multi clothes. I'm really excited for these. These look so beautiful. So this is the box that they're going to come in. They have a 24 month shelf life and are made in Italy. And the most exciting part about these is how beautiful the packaging is, you guys. Do you see that? I wish the eyeshadow palette had this packaging because this is so beautiful. The iridescent, I don't know, marbling. The two shades that it comes in are Dream Light and Romance Light. Romance is going to be the lighter shade. Dream Light's gonna be the deeper shade. There is a mirror in the compact. The compact feels very nice, very sturdy. How beautiful is this? I haven't touched this yet because I just wanted to show you how pretty it was. So that is Romance Light and then let me show you Dream Light here. So I'm interested to try this one as a blush today but here they are next to each other. Romance Light is also definitely more cool, I would say. I don't know if you can see that but it looks a little more gray-toned to me. So I think the intention of this is to mix these all together on your brush but you can also kind of get a lighter side and a deeper side. And I think if you wanna use these on the eyes, let's see, could get four shades. Cause again, this is Romance Light. Yeah, I feel like you could do an eye look with this. I'm gonna have to try that on a different day. So they're relatively the same. There isn't too much of a difference but I do think you can get a lighter side and a deeper side. Let me mix all four together. The bottom shade is all four of them together. I'm gonna actually take a, this is clean, I swear, a refer number four brush and I'm first going to try the deeper side, the darker two and see if this works as a blush. And you see, I feel like it does, right? A shiny blush, but it definitely has a slight cast there. Let's get fancy with that. I'm gonna take a Wengos 15 brush and let's get the lighter two. Yeah, and you can definitely see the difference between the dark and the light. However, when the light hits, I mean it is just a big ball of highlight but you can certainly get a little bit of color there to the cheek, which I think gives this a lot of versatility and then of course you can just also put it everywhere and it's just gonna work simply as a highlight. So this is romance light, gorgeous. Let me clean off my brushes. So let's take a closer look here at Dream Light and I've swatched all four of them. So on my hand, because I have a lighter complexion, I feel like I could definitely use this as eyeshadow or blush and each of the four shades, I feel like look a little different from one another. So you might get more versatility from this in that way. Let me get all four together. I love how this says pillow talk. Bottom swatch is what all four of them together look like and then also here are the two compared. They are very, very different, which I'm really happy about. I love how this one is so cool and light and this one is warmer and deeper. I'm gonna just try and get the middle two right here and so this is definitely working to blush for me and I have the lights really down. So it's definitely gonna show the texture and whatnot, but this way you can really see them down. This is quite metallic. I don't know if I like this as a blush. I have zits here, it's not that cute but it does add some color. Maybe if you have perfect skin, this could be a pretty blush. Actually no, the monitor is really emphasizing my insecurities here. I just looked in the mirror in front of natural light and it looks pretty good. I'm not mad about it. See, I don't think I can end up using this one as a highlight. This is kind of the best it's gonna be for me unless I'm putting it in my eye because the lighter shades are actually on the outer parts here. This is not a highlight on me, which is fine, I didn't expect it to be. If it's truly one made for lighter skin tone and one made for a deeper skin tone, that one shouldn't work for me so I'm actually just gonna go into the romance light just to get the high points right here. And here's kind of how it's looking. Keep in mind, highlight does emphasize imperfections and this is not smoothing them. I will say that, but I'm not offended. I don't think the shimmers here are going to be a deal breaker. It's not one of those highlights where it really shows your texture. I mean, I have texture and the texture's there. There is no makeup product that can magically change that. I think both look really, really pretty. So here's the deal, here's my final thoughts. If you couldn't tell, I actually really like everything in this collection. I think this is a great launch and I think everything was worth it for me. The Quad's $53, it's a lot of money but it's officially one of my favorite formulas from her. Again, I really do hope that this is the direction that all of her quads are going to go from here on out because the quality is miles above some of the quality that I worked for from Charlotte Tilbury. So this is one I think you really should get your hands on if you're interested, especially if you are still hurt from the loss of Fire Rose. In terms of the pillow talk multi-glows, these are $45. They are not the cheapest. Probably don't need both like me but I think these are certainly a luxury to have. I think they're really pretty. I think they're quite versatile and they're great products. Like I'm gonna have a lot of fun continuing to play with these. So I give these a thumbs up as well if this is a type of product that you're in the market for and the packaging. The packaging just makes it so much better. Overall, everything is literally a 10 out of 10. I loved everything. I'm excited about this review and I hope you guys are too. In terms of if this is coming to Sephora, I don't know. I would say yeah, but I definitely would say after the VIP sale because that's how the world works, right? So I hope you guys enjoyed this video and you found it helpful. Thank you so much for being subscribed to my channel and liking this video and I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye guys, have a good one.


Hi, and thanks a lot for joining us today. My name is Nadia. I'm a senior product manager in Amazon. And today, I'd like to talk to you about product management and mental health. So a bit of a history in my background is I have about 12 years of experience in product management and also have some big family and strengths. So the question of a mental health and maintaining life, working balance is very relevant to me personally. I have done a lot of research and also worked in the therapist to achieve my perfect balance in life. And for today, I just wanted to share with you everything that I've worked on so far. And I hope it could be useful for you guys and also can help actually someone who may be facing the anxiety or burnout of work and just is not sure what to do about it. So today, there are three things I would like to talk to you about. First, what is this burnout in product management? Number two is when to cope with never-ending workloads and safe space environment. And number three is about how to actually rejuvenate, disconnect, and vacation so that you get the best out of it and can continue your performance as a product manager. So let's start with number one. What is actually a burnout in product management? According to the dictionary of psychology, burnout is physical, emotional, mental exhaustion, which is accompanied by decreased motivation, slower performance, and negative attitude towards oneself and others. In short, what is a burnout at work? This is when you as a product manager get irritated easily, get triggered really easily, even the small tasks become burden for you. This is when it means that you're headed towards the actual burnout. So why does it actually happen? Product management role, as you all most likely already know, is not really clearly defined in terms of roles and responsibilities. We are often called CEOs of our products, which puts a lot of ownership and all the pressure on us as a product manager. It requires a lot of multitasking. It really depends on the organization and on the actual company strategy and the way they see their product managers. One story short, product management can actually lead you to a burnout pretty easily. It's not managed and prioritized properly. So Forbes actually published a study of Dell and LMS where they surveyed 1200 people, US employees in tech in 2021, and 72% of those people respond to state that they're going to quit their job in the coming of the next year, and 30% of those reasons were burnout. So let's dig a little bit deeper and explore what are the actual reasons behind the burnout in the product management role. There is a researcher in the University of Berkeley in California, her name is Christina Maslisch. She actually defined the soft six factors that lead to burnout. And number one of those factors is a manageable workload, which everyone is actually aware of, but there are other five factors that are not that visible or not particularly clear at some times when we do not really consciously understand those are actually the factors just about not their manageable workload. So let's talk a little bit more about those. For example, let's talk about lack of autonomy. This is where you as a product manager cannot or not a question make a decision or after the resources that help you to make those decisions. That leads to a lot of frustration, leads to a lot of stress, and also because you're considered an owner of the product ultimately leads to anxiety or an even deeper state of stress. Number three is insufficient rewards. Well, if you do not receive the recognition or adequate feedback to your work, that can build frustrating. However, in a product management role, at least that has been my experience so far, a lot of times you get a lot of feedback in terms of what can be done better, a lot of ideas that potentially could lead you to better ways of doing things for being more efficient. But when you have all of those document reviews, all of those feedback, a lot of times you don't, nobody tells you, oh, look, great job. Like I see a lot of thoughts that you put in there. People jump right away and see the end conclusion. This is also one of the factors that leads to a lot of frustration in a product management role. And if you have been in a lot of leadership reviews, you know what I'm talking about. The other piece is a breakdown of community, which means the teams have difficulties communicating. And in the era of COVID, this has become one of the first factors that led to a lot of burnout. This is where we out of the sudden all became remote. There is no sense of a team in a way. Everyone is focusing on particular goals they're working on. And because there is also lack of communication due to us not being in the office team room and also not being able to just go to someone's desk and have a quick conversation, then a lot lads to disconnect between the teams, between the teammates, and hands also, again, as additional pressure if you're the product manager need to have an impact from the stakeholders who are not directly reporting into you, but you need to convince them to cooperate or work together with you. Again, lead to a lot of additional friction that is leading to anxiety and stress in the end. And the last one is the values of conflict.  So basically those six combined lead to frustration and burnout. I'm sure there are much more than those, but those were the top six that the researchers have identified. And personal experience that actually captures the nutshell, the big bucket of the, that contributes to a lot of stress in everyday work as a product manager, personally. So now that we identified the reasons for the burnout and what the burnout actually is, let's talk a little bit more about when do, like when you ask yourself this question, when actually do I still cope with never ending workload in a fast-paced environment? When is it worth it? When do I continue doing it? So in order to answer this question, there are a couple of approaches you can take. For me personally, I work with a therapist to actually help me to take a step back and to understand what are the stressful moments in my workload to help me reflect on my day-to-day and help me actually identify what are those reasons that make me feel burned out or stressed out or anxious or uncomfortable.  So the first question that is recommended to think about is when you think that should I stay or should I go, should I, I don't like it anymore here. I feel stressed and burned out, I should just quit. For my personal experience, what I would recommend doing instead of drastically changing the environment that you're in, you should really just think about the source of your frustration. I would recommend doing this exercise of recording it, like taking a piece of paper and throughout the week or two, actually recording the moments that bring you stress, anxiety, frustration or feeling uncomfortable, whatever that is for you that makes you think that you would like to quit. Because one thing to consider is that quitting a job does not mean that you're actually resolving the core issue that you might have with the situation. The psychologist recommends to, before quitting, try to improve the existing situation in order to understand the source of your problem and potential try to solve it. Because quitting the job doesn't really mean that it's where you're gonna go, where you're gonna go, the grass is gonna be greener and the tuna's gonna still burn out into place where you're going. So the recommendation here is to record in a journal or piece of paper, whatever it is for you, for about two weeks. The moments that bring you stress discomfort and also bring them. And at the end of the week, you look back and based on those moments, you can identify the main stressors in your working life and based on that, the next step would be to create your wish list. How can you deal with those? And then you could talk to your manager about it. In this case, for example, if you are overwhelmed, that means that there's a potential problem with the workload. So could you get an intern? Could you delegate? Could you potentially deep prioritize those things? And I would encourage you to really be open about it and talk with it about your manager who actually can help you manage that. And maybe that could even solve your problem. And instead of being stressed, you end up actually coming across as more mature professional in getting, I don't know, to the next step in your career. Number three question to ask yourself is, are you doing your basics? Are doing exercise, eating good food and getting enough amount of sleep? Those are the basics that everyone knows about. However, not everyone does it. How many times during the day you need to lunch because there's something more important because there's a meeting and you just don't get up from your desk for a couple of hours or maybe eight hours. However, when your body does not get enough stress, does not degenerate, it potentially leads to even more stress accumulation than if you do, if you continue to do this and then keep your body in balance with the health and life staff. Deloitte did the research in 2022 where they asked millennials and GenC whether they, what are the top three reasons they would want, if they were to leave their job with the top reasons of those. And 40% of GenC's and 24% of millennials said that that would be stress and burnout. So if you're doing your basics, that can help your body to be more resistant to actually avoid the stress because stress and burnout is different things and it's important to differentiate between the two. So once you've done your homework and you identify the reasons that you think leads you to burnout, you could eliminate those by simply eating healthy and getting enough sleep. So trying to do that in parallel to working with your manager on strategies to mitigate the risk factors that lead you to burnout could help you actually to feel heavier at your current job instead of quitting. And the fourth question to answer here about when you make a decision whether you should stay, you should go is to think about the cost of the burnout. Does the burnout translate into the negative emotions when you come home? Does it distract your relationship with your kids, with your loved ones? And if it does, that would be your cost to your burnout. For you personally, that might be something else that might be giving up something on a personal side in order to work more or in order to progress in your career. For everyone, it's very individual. But once you have those four factors, once you answer the four questions that I've just been talking about, that will help you to identify whether coping with never-ending workload in that state environment is actually worth it for you and whether the burnout that you're experiencing is really a burnout or it's just certain factors in your life that you can change. So, we spoke a little bit about the what is worst, whether it's worth to stay in a company or whether it's worth quitting when you feel burnout. Let's talk a little bit about how vacation, how this ability to disconnect and rejuvenate can actually help you to not come to actually the state of burnout. Be a better product manager. How can it help you to feel so happy in your general work and also personal life? There are, when you talk about vacation, a lot of people think that vacation means, you know, going somewhere, leaving somewhere. However, let's talk about vacation in general as a time off from work. It does not matter if it's a vacation, it's just a long weekend. Whatever you pull vacation for yourself, let's keep that from when we talk about vacation. I read certain psychology studies about how different people approach vacation and this slide represents the advice that's collected from several studies that have been around us in the last five years. And on the other hand, there's also, there are also different approaches you can take to help you get disconnected and rejuvenate. So this is just, I'm buying me and send all the therapists, all the psychologists. This is just a result of my research and this is something that works for me and has been working out for two years now. That's why I'm sharing this experience with you right now. Well, first, when you are going on vacation or taking time off, if it's a longer time period, say a week or 10 days or so, instead of just leaving and worrying about what's going to happen, prepare your absence when, what does this mean? Step number one, a couple of days before you go, you identify the main projects you're working on and you also make sure that the stakeholders who are working on those projects are notified beforehand and also know where things to go to in case they have a question and their emergency arises. How do you do this? Very simple. You send one email, copying everyone, ensuring that they know if you stick in contact in case they have an emergency. Well, there may be other methodologies to work. This is something that's very simple to do and something that I use in my personal, sorry, in my professional life. Why prepare your absence when? Very important is not to think about work. So you need to turn on your non-working mindset. How do you do it? It's very tempting to think that I'm just going to answer this just on email or somebody be me on Slack. So I'm just going to go ahead and respond to this one message. And this is very easy because you have your phone always available to you. And what takes the biggest toll on our brain and does not let us relax is actually anticipation of that email or that message. If something can happen, somebody's in a contact with you, so you keep checking your phone. The psychologists have proven that actually that does not let you fool or rejuvenate when you come from vacation. It doesn't matter if you go to Hawaii, you are staying in your room at home and winning a book, but then anticipation of potential stress actually brings the stress on your shoulders back. So you have to ask yourself this question before you go or before you leave on vacation. What is that that I want to achieve with this vacation? Basically, do I want to rejuvenate and disconnect? Do I want to, is it an opportunity for me to perform better as a product manager when I come back? So this is just the idea here is that when you ask yourself a question is that you bring this in top of your mind and you consciously make the decision of disconnecting. That is really important because you might intent, but ultimately, if you end up working or answering emails here and there, what it does to your brain is that it brings the working mode to your brain and that it brings your attention back.   And this is absolutely normal. 70% of people are just absolutely worried that they, when they go to come back, they're going to have hundreds of emails and that stresses them so much that they continue to check their email box every day so that just they don't get overloaded with a number of emails. Again, this has to be very conscious and very mindful decision that you want to take before taking your vacation. Number three is get outdoors. Become outdoors junkie. That is the biggest advice that is given by the study that was conducted in 2014. So Carleton University actually conducted the research which proved the relationship between nature has actually direct impact on your feeling connected and happy to your life. So highly encouraged is walks, hike, anything you can do to stay outdoors. It does not really matter what it is. It's your personal choice. But the idea here is, again, is you don't bring your phone with you. This is where you just focus on the moment and get the advice indeed from some, breathing from some fresh air and change your environment from sitting in the office or your home office to actually getting outdoors and getting that outdoor space and sun and wind and water to enjoy and to completely change your mind and set yourself for relaxation. Now, before the advice is to be instantaneous. What does it mean? When we go on international trips or on vacation or anywhere else, really, product managers like the plan. So a lot of front managers, myself included, we create a list of things we want to do on vacation. Especially if we travel a certain destination, we create a list of things that we want to visit or we plan certain events, book tickets.  But this time you get set yourself in a scheduled mode. And even though product managers like to be organized and this makes total sense, especially if you travel abroad or elsewhere for a long period of time, there is a proof in the research that has been conducted and if I believe correctly, in about 2020 where people, about 2,000 people were questioned, sorry, we serve it in terms of how do they felt about the vacation that they took that was planned versus an unplanned vacation and their stress levels after that. And then people were actually just continuously went somewhere without no planning and spent time just enjoying what they were doing in the moment were more rejuvenated and more disconnected from the work and from the stress environment than the people who have planned everything and did enjoy it as well. However, as a result, we did not get that level of relaxation and disconnect from the schedule in the environment like very rigid and scheduled environment and the other group. And the other, I think what's important for me personally advice is don't just plan your going on vacation, plan also your coming back from vacation. That will help you to disconnect and also avoid that stressing out about how you're going to start your first day, avoiding this anxiety before the first day after the vacation. The way you do it or the way that works for me is you block your first day or at least couple of hours to the first day when you come back for just actually coming back. This is when you checked your emails, you built your plan for the week, you checked with yourself if there are other open items you need to follow up on, you make a list that you want to accomplish for the weekend and so forth. So for that, you don't plan any meetings, you don't jump in right away. You give yourself time to mentally set yourself into the working mode again and also give yourself space to plan for the coming week. I tried both ways. When I just returned and right away I went to the meeting and I tried both ways, taking time and planning before going into the meeting and my personal experiences, the letter worked for me much better than the prior because when I was able to plan and when I was able to check on the latest emails, I felt much more confident and I felt much less stressed during the first day versus when I right away picked up where I left off. So I would encourage using that and see how it works for you. And just as a recap, what I would like you to take out from this session is that there's a lot of opportunities for you to maintain your mental health while you have a very stressful multi-tasking product manager job. And here are a couple of things that work for me on daily basis. First, as I already said, you have to know the best of doing this. So one thing is to say I'm burned out or I'm stressed out. The different thing is to actually know what are those factors that affect you every day and what are those particular meetings or projects, a type of project or type of people, whatever it is for you that brings just stress in society or ultimately whatever it is for you that you call burnout. So it's important to track your day to day for a week or so and identify them. Number two is you need to take back that control. When you feel in control, you will not feel anxiety or you will not feel stressed. How do you do that?  You delegate, you prioritize ruthlessly. When you prioritize something, you ensure that there is data behind the priority. You know the particular feature you're working on has all the customer data baking it up and you know that that is the actual priority instead of just one customer asking you for something and escalating this data's priority. I've been in both type of situations. So once we have data to bake it up, it's okay to say no and there is no one expecting you to do it all. The other piece is also, which is very important is delegate. As a product manager, we take a lot of ownership and we've been held accountable for the performance of our products. So a lot of times we end up picking up everything that has not been done. Yes, this is a really important thing. There's no one who's gonna do it except with you. But also don't be afraid to delegate. Don't be afraid to help other people grow and maybe mentoring someone who is growing into product manager role and who could help you do the task which potentially could help you to solve your stress or anxiety, whatever you experienced in there at work. And number three is about recent piece of firm about those, leave your work at work. Don't, when you finish working, don't spend your time taking shower, thinking about working projects. Think about other things, something that excites you, something that you do on a side. Give that time for your brain to actually collect those ideas. So when you come back to work next day, you are excited because you pull those creative ideas that you would like to implement. And you also had this break between the working mode and the next working day. For me personally, it is important because if I don't switch, if I continue thinking about my project or brainstorm my ideas or talk about work with my friends or spouse, then on the next day, I feel like I never stopped working and that brings frustration because then you do not have time to actually, not that you don't have time, but you then question yourself with my life all the work. So disconnect and be firm about those boundaries that you set. And number four, it always, it is very hard when you get into this race of deliverables and your product performance. Is it hard to remember about those things that really makes you happy? Is it a bathtub or is it in a book? Is it going outdoors in a picnic? Oh, whatever it is for you. Remember those things and do them often. Don't just say it's only for the weekend. Make those weekdays also special for you because that is what actually fills you up.  There's a level of cortisol in your blood that actually leads to burnout and stress. This is all for today. I hope that was helpful for you. Thank you a lot for your attention. It's been a pleasure sharing my experience with you.


It's been a busy week for Microsoft. Azure Firewall Premium achieves general availability. Microsoft acquires Cloud Knox, and there's even a Defender for IoT special report on ASID Update. Let's get started. Welcome back to ASID Update. Let's jump right into the news. First up, Azure Firewall Premium achieves general availability. We talked about this back in February. There is a plethora of new functionality that's being made available under Azure Firewall Premium. We also have the steps in terms of, if you're on standard and want to migrate to premium, you can do so via the steps that are provided inside of the blog post. Let's go through the items that are of interest, as you want to take a look at when you're adopting Azure Firewall Premium. The general availability release of Azure Firewall Premium gives the following key features now made available. TLS inspection, so the ability to terminate outbound and east-west transport layer TLS connections, and in-pound TLS inspection is supported in conjunction with Azure Application Gateway allowing end-to-end encryption. IDPS, Azure Firewall Premium now provides signature-based intrusion detection and prevented system to allow rapid detection of attacks by looking for specific patterns such as byte sequences in traffic or no malicious instruction sequences used by malware. Web categories allows administrators to filter outbound user access to the internet based on category. For example, social media networking, search engines, and etc., reducing the time spent on managing individual qualified domain names and URLs. Last but not least, URL filtering allowing administrators to filter outbound access to specified URLs, not just FQDNs. This capability works for both text and encrypted traffic if TLS inspection is enabled. As mentioned, all the functionality and steps are detailed. The links made available on itopsock.com that you can actually move your organization from Azure Firewall Standard to Azure Firewall Premium. Next up in the news, as mentioned earlier, Microsoft has acquired Cloud Knox Security, and this is a big deal in regards to utilization for identity management, specifically Azure Active Directory. Let's get into it. The acquisition of Cloud Knox further enables an organization who uses Microsoft Azure Active Directory with granular visibility, continuous monitoring, and automated remediation for hybrid and multi-Cloud permissions. Microsoft is committed to providing customers with unified privileged access management, identity governance, and entitlement management. This is exciting news because this investment into Cloud Knox further extends the capabilities on behalf of organizations utilizing Azure Active Directory to be more granular in their deployment and ensure their end users are secure. As mentioned in previous episodes of AZ Update, there's more and more interest surrounding IT pros looking at IoT deployments and ensuring that they are secure and deployed and managed accordingly. I had the opportunity to sit down with Matt Sosman to talk about the Defender for IoT offering that makes it one pane of glass that IT professionals can utilize to secure their full gamut of IoT and the rest of the architecture that they support as well. What was great about this was the live stream provided a full-on demo to go through what was actually being done and what can actually be reported on on your implementation of IoT. Everything from the attack vectors that could occur to the remediation steps that would be required to achieve that instance when there's an attack, how it can be taken care of. The full live stream is available on the ITObstalk YouTube channel and is actually made available inside of the blog post as well on itobstock.com. Last but not least, the Microsoft Learn module of the week. As always, we tie in these Learn modules directly into the news that we've reported on in each episode. In this instance, we're focusing again on security specifically around managing identity and access through Azure Active Directory. This course provides you full insights in terms of, what are the best practices to set up Azure Active Directory accounts? How do you structure single sign-on functionality? How do you include Azure Active Directory and single sign-on into third-party applications? How do you manage the capabilities of those users that are using this solution? Awesome resource to take advantage of. Do check it out, managing identity and access in Azure Active Directory. As always, we're here for you in regards to your questions, so feel free to leave any questions that you may have in the comments with all the material that's been reported on. If you want to get ahold of me, you can do so at WirelessLife on Twitter. If you want to get ahold of producer Pierre, you can also get ahold of him on Twitter at WiredConnect. Have a great weekend everybody and we'll see you soon.


So, directly four floors above my office in Kaltura Tel Aviv sits a developer named Omri. He has one of those obnoxiously loud red backlit keyboards, you know those, and when I came in to interview him for my talk, I actually challenged him to a typing speed test. Now I won, and it's probably only because his first language is Hebrew, because he's very fast, and he asked me if I came upstairs to throw him under the bus in my first lines of my talk. He's actually a very interesting developer. He doesn't like coffee, which I found out in our recent hackathon. Lately he's been listening to the OK Computer album by Radiohead and playing Red Dead Redemption 2. Omri is my JavaScript guru, so it's probably his favorite language. I'm not very good at JavaScript, but at Kaltura he's actually a PHP developer working on our media space or private YouTube if you may. Now why am I telling you all this? Why do you care about Omri? Because client libraries, that's why. In order to work on our media space, Omri actually uses the PHP client library that we built specifically for media space. He says that he can't imagine life without it. So I said, okay, what would you do if you didn't have the client library? And he said, probably build my own mini library that would have all the API calls that I use on a daily basis. I said, great, that sounds really cool. What happens when we change the API, which we do very often, and your library breaks? And he says, well, this is just a hypothetical situation, right? Don't take away my library. But I guess every time we change the API and my library broke, I would fix it accordingly. Now how many of you are familiar with this kind of annoying situation chasing your tail to fix something that constantly breaks? Yeah. Thank you. So I'm glad you came. Now on a totally separate note. How many of you are familiar with this line? You seen this? If you go to a lot of developer conferences, which I do, you see this a lot. Now I used to think it's condescending. Do you think it's condescending? Kind of. Well, I'm a developer evangelist, and I've been working on our developer portal for about a year. And I've come to see this a little bit differently. I think that in this context, people just means those who deserve to have life made easier for them, right? And developers in this context, or in every context, means those who are supposedly smarter than the rest of the world and can handle the hard things better than most. Put this all together, and you and me and developers, we're all just regular, fascinating people who have favorite afternoon snacks and opinions about coffee and keyboards and operating systems and programming languages and all of the methodologies and tools that come with those programming languages. And where am I going with this again? Client libraries. My name is Avital Tsobelli, and today I'm here to speak to you about automating client library generation. Not for the fact itself, although it is a pretty cool thing, but as a powerful tool for making the lives of developers exponentially easier. And I'm talking internal developers, external developers. I'm talking those building the API and those using the API. I'll tell you about how Kaltura ended up with over 35 client libraries with our homemade solution and how you can do so yourself with a generic solution that's super easy to implement because we all have better things to worry about than fixing client libraries that are constantly breaking, right? So let's back up a little. It's 2007. I'm in high school. Kaltura is an open source video platform. We have the player, the widgets for uploading videos to the KMC, and the KMC, which is the UI. All of these are talking to the API with the Flex library. Now we knew a few things at the time. We knew that all of the Kaltura products are going to be built on our API. We knew that the API would get really big, there would be lots of objects being thrown around, 758 to be exact, but who's counting.  We also knew that if you write a client library to access the API and change the API and break the library, 40% of your developers are spending their time fixing that library. Sounds time consuming, right? So what did we do? We wrote an XML schema that completely describes the API, complete with objects, classes, services. And then an XML generator that automatically creates that XML from the API. Lastly, for every language or function that we wanted a library, we just wrote a generator that would parse that XML and create that library. Basically code that writes code. Who doesn't love that? What this meant was that it was super easy then in 2008 to write a batch client library that handles all of the hard stuff, all of the slow stuff that happens behind the scenes, transcoding ingestion. And then a PHP4 library, obviously, because the API is written in PHP. Then we were able to write a testing library super easily that makes calls against the API and the community started asking for access so we gave them PHP5 because it was easy and we could. We didn't anticipate they would. And then in 2012, we wrote smaller Zen libraries for all of our smaller applications, community asked for more access so we were able to give them Python, Ruby, Java, and C sharp. 2017 was a really big year at Kaltura for client libraries. We wrote an Ajax library to replace our awful JS library, came the time for async, so we wrote all new node, Java, and mobile libraries with multi-threading support. And then this past year, we rewrote our KMC, our Kaltura Management Console, which was awful. We decided to do it in Angular, and why not also create a TypeScript library along the way. Now, making this sound super easy because relatively it was. Why is that? Automation, 2019, and we're able to have 11 client-facing libraries and over 20 libraries that you use internally. And thanks to automation, we only need to write the library that we need once. And with the updated XML in place, that generated library is always using the latest version of the API. Now, in my previous life as a back-end developer, I actually spent a year implementing over 75 APIs to our platform. And what I can tell you is that when an API breaks or whenever you're doing breaks and the API has been updated six months ago, that's the bane of everyone's existence. So I'm really excited about this. So if you look at this diagram, this Kaltura logo here, that's our server logic or the API. After that is where the introspection happens, where the XML is created. Then we generate the client libraries, CI puts them in GitHub where they're tested, and all the passing libraries get put in the public repo, as well as package managers for Ruby Java, Python, and PHP. And the most important and very simple part is that a script runs every night that generates the XML from the API and the client libraries from the XML, which means that internal and external developers are always getting the latest and greatest version of the API in no click whatsoever. So the other most important part is that this is an open source library, hosted by Kaltura, that you can use to generate your own XML, to parse your own XML, write your own XML, and create your own client libraries. Now, if you click on that link, these links will all be available later, I guess, if you click on that link, this is what our XML looks like. Not doing a demo because I have 15 minutes. As you can see, it contains the enums, the classes, with all the information and the properties that they include, the plugins, the errors. Now, in that same file at the Knowledge Center, you can also download the project files for creating your client libraries. What you end up with is three files that look like this. They're all in PHP. Sorry about that. You can't see that. But the first class is an abstract class that is extended by the meat of your project, which you'll get to, and that provides base helper functions for generating. Next is a script that tests the library creation. This class is what saves the files to disk. And then thirdly, the meat of your generator. This is the class that parses your XML or your spec or your schema, whatever it is, and actually creates the file contents. And this is what our client generator repo looks like. Here, you can find all of the client generators that we have if you're curious what that looks like. Python's my favorite language. This is what it looks like to generate from the API and create these file contexts that actually create your library. But that means that our external developers can just go ahead and download that file and do file handling, which is one of the most annoying things in the language that they like. I'm actually working on a Go project myself because we've had some demand for Go, and we don't have a Go client library. And I'm about to embark on that mission and see where it takes me. The guy who's been writing this develop the client libraries since 2007 says it takes him about a week, two a month to write each library. So you can check in with me in three months and see how I'm doing. Thing is, you're probably thinking, well, yeah, I'd love to have 15 client libraries in various languages, but I don't have two months to write each one. Well, here's the good news. As excited I was to show you this open source project, the good news is that plenty of out-of-the-box solutions exist to help you spec out your API, one being Swagger, which you've probably heard of, tons of open source tools that take your API, whether it calls all of your API on points, for example, and creates this open API spec, which is the standard for describing an API. You end up with something that looks like this in JSON or this in YAML. How many of you are working actively on an API that's already got a spec? Okay, so do that. And once you have a spec or a schema, whatever version you choose, the next step is this, you can either generate your client libraries alone, you've already made half the process easier, or same thing, Swagger and other tools have plenty of open source tools that will help you generate client libraries, among other things, from those schemas, and what you end up with is a client library that is always accurate, up to date, and properly versioned. The thing is, auto-generated code is not always the best experience for Kaltura. I mean, Swagger didn't exist at the time, this was 10 years ago, but it wouldn't have been the greatest solution either because so many of operations need so many steps with the API in order to work, and so we did it by hand. But for smaller operations, it's actually a pretty good solution, and the truth is that API as a product is becoming more and more popular, and so these tools are becoming more powerful. And the truth is that we actually, at Kaltura, use Swagger for part of our process, do you remember this diagram? Well, we actually use something called Lucybot to create our entire documentation portal. So the main developer at Lucybot actually wrote us this handy little tool which converts our XML to an open API spec, and then we're able to use Lucybot, which is a project that takes that entire schema and puts the contents into a pretty HTML page to create your developer portal, complete with a console, workflows, interactive documentation, which I'll show you. So this is our API portal to my baby.  So with Lucybot, we're able to show you all of the externally facing API endpoints, let you play around with them, choose any parameters, and of course, change languages based on the client libraries that we have, which is really fun. Because who doesn't like copy pasting code? The more powerful thing though is our workflows, because in Kaltura, a lot of our operations require many steps, like I mentioned. So for example, with video ingestion, first you need to download or create an upload token then actually upload the file, then create a media entry with all of that file data, then connect the upload token with that media entry, and lastly, see what your video looks like in our Kaltura player. And the thing is that it's super easy to create these workflows. All you need to do is click on this button and then select which API endpoints you want in your workflow, which parameters you want for those API endpoints, and which values to carry over to the next step. I actually get so excited when I talk about this because I think it's so easy and so awesome how powerful it is. And the thing is that we all just want to quickly and easily move our task to the done column. So being able to do things like this and being able to refer back to workflows and being able to copy paste code, that's awesome because developers who aren't writing the API don't need to know about the intricacies of your API. And so if there's one thing you take away from this talk, one thing, define your API. Create that spec. If you're about to create an API, consider doing it spec first. If you already have an API, see what the best way to now look back, take some time and define that because you'll be able to do so much with that spec, with that definition. And you'll be able to use it for so many different things. For example, it'll now be the source of truth between you, between your internal developers. You'll be able to look at it and spot design patterns, spot possible flaws. This is always now, this is what your API looks like. You'll be able to create those internal libraries that include all of the requirements that you might need for one application but not for another. And developers working internally have a much easier time. You can join API marketplaces or other places where developers can be exposed to your API and play around with it so that you can get people to start using it. And lastly, because client libraries are your relationship with your external developers. Give them the languages they love. Give them real code snippets they can copy. Give them a sandbox they can play around with. Let them fall in love with your platform while they're still in their developer portal. Have an API spec, automate everything so we can all go home and listen to our favorite music albums. Thank you. We have 37 seconds for questions. Any questions? So one of your motivations that you mentioned for doing this was if the API breaks, if the API changes. If that happens, doesn't the API client change and therefore the code that is used in the client library? I mean, we know if the API is changing so we're not gonna release client. I mean, we know if the API is broken, we're not gonna release client libraries. API changes are good. Broken API is not good. Breaking changes are not good. So was your question about broken API or changing API? We get to decide obviously when we're putting out client libraries and with which version of the API but the idea is they're always using the latest version.


So imagine this You've got a holiday planned weekend away, you know, your wife's looking forward to it Your friends looking forward to it. Everyone's been cooped up because of COVID Finally some downtime and then you get that dreaded phone call at four o'clock in the morning and you realize all your plans are about to change Jump in the car and actually drive to the office. So, you know, I think I had a pair of board shorts on, you know A t-shirt and a pair of flip-flops So not exactly business corporate attire, but I bring up the system and the system doesn't come up All right.  This is a targeted targeted attack You're on the pointy end of the kebab knife I don't know if I was Lucky or not, but uh I was sleeping through the initial part of the attack and I'm a deep sleeper. So I didn't find out until I got into the office So I was that morning. I was looking forward to heading off a bit early Going camping with the family for the weekend after all of that lockdown I get into the office and I see Matt there and I think he's not supposed to be here He's supposed to be away as well Sure enough. He says we've been hacked and I didn't really know what to think at that point. So I'd never really been through a ransomware event or anything like that I would go walk over to his desk. He's got radar open there and Sure enough There's a big compromise there Radars an AI driven basically anomaly detection software hosted by rubric and switch The metadata of activity with your files and such gets sent to rubric Assessed based on AI that's been trained throughout the world And then alerting you to any anomalies And that's particularly useful for ransomware attacks in which you have Tens of thousands even hundreds of thousands of files and the spend of minutes Being encrypted or deleted in some cases like we experienced and really helps you assess the scope of the threat And where you need to start targeting your recoveries if there was one you know Shining light at this point in time was it was a friday So because we're a manufacturing organization primarily It's a half day So we weren't going to lose a full day of production, but we were going to lose a full day in terms of Other areas of business and I at this stage, you know I would be known to look down for like 45 minutes and I could ascertain that this wasn't going to be a quick fix like previous ones because previous attacks Um Were pretty one dimensional So, you know, uh, and they automated there wasn't a human being or a set of human beings at the other end of the barrel pulling strings Um And this time there were we're profiled Um, and uh, what do I mean by that? Well, uh, they looked at our business And they took their time They didn't attack us directly, right? They found a trusted source Um that we trusted implicitly, you know, it was an email It looked legit. Um And really it was legit because it came from The right email address the right account In the right format, um, it just had one slight detail the uh, the link that they usually use to send us Purchase orders didn't go to them. It went somewhere else two weeks later You know, they have, uh, you know, they've logged into the system they've looked for Elevated rights via vulnerability. So they've been very good at catching us out on a patch cycle. So like most organizations, you know, we Do patch cycles monthly. Um, they found a vulnerability that got them elevated rights to the network Then they Could push that information back to themselves in the Netherlands And then they teared the attack and they kicked it off at 2 a.m. When they knew no one was going to be around they're smart, right? So these things come in waves So the attack, um I would say had the first wave which is the one on friday morning that you know, I walked into at work Um, and we cleaned it up Well, we thought we cleaned it up because then came the second wave at an o'clock at night Just as we're about to pack up for the day. We're pretty exhausted. We've just pulled a lot of man hours And suddenly everything starts going down again the next day We're pretty much Flat out just trying to recover and again we get to a point where we think we've we think we've killed it then that night Matt and I just just a little curious. We thought we might just try and log in remotely And uh, sure enough, we can't get in and uh, pretty scary moment So matt goes into the office and sure enough Compromised again. I take it quite personally You know, you get these Six degrees of motions almost, right? So there's there's anger There's all there's regret Because you feel like maybe you've had a failing in yourself And you haven't led your team correctly But they go to the wayside pretty quick Because it's really You come to the realization that you've just got to get on with it And you almost get this rah rah feeling of we've got this You think you've been successful in attacking us Um, but here comes the counter punch All right, and uh With rubric we understand that we've got a very good right hook And we're going to come back and come back hard and at the end of the day This is just going to be an inconvenience. It's just a matter of how big an inconvenience it's going to be I had my guys it was like, I don't know 1 a.m in the morning.  It's not, you know, the battles are over We've been fighting battles all day But we're at this point now where I can happily declare The war is won, right? There might be a couple of more cleanups that we've got to do But I knew that people's jobs were safe. I'll be honest There's a lot of pressure on me as a cio When we've got no production happening in a factory that employs, you know, hundreds and hundreds of people And I've got to send those people home I take a personal hit on that, you know, I feel quite Personally obligated to those people on forklifts and you know, nail guns and running out our automated sores and stuff that You know, their livelihoods are in my hand So I put a lot of personal pressure on myself, but the business puts a lot of pressure on me Our customers put a lot of pressure on me, even though they don't even know that they're adjourting it To get us back into the throw of things You know, there was one organization that it took them six months to recover And they didn't do any local manufacturing for a month You know, and my manager director pulled me aside over a beer and he said Wow, I don't even want to know what the world looks like I don't even want to think about what the world would look like if we didn't do manufacturing for it for a month You know, that would be a you know, a serious detriment to our business and one that we might not be able to recover from You know, so it's not just a rubric. It's not just about recovering from ransomware Rubric is a difference between survival And non-survival in this new digital age Well, even as a medium-sized organization We get attacked all the time, but In order to actually keep the 99.99 percent of attacks Out of the way We really need to ensure that we're always strengthening our security In line with our policies. And so technology is always changing, but people are always changing as well And so our threat landscape Is always evolving. I think it's just a evolving sort of uh mission of white hats versus black hats and and how we overcome each other You know, I would say that uh Human people are still your number one defense But when they fail, you've got to have things like rubric there To save the day. They've only got to get it right, you know for a minute in a day We've got to get it right 24 7 365, right If one of our staff and you know, there's thousands of them If only one of those people makes a mistake and gets it wrong We've got a problem Rubric is a company being amazing, right the support that we get from rubric And during the attack that a dale's reaching out to me Who's our you know our engineer at rubric on a local scale? And he said hey Is there anything I can do to help, you know, and I'm responding to him on whatsapp saying No, no orange in love with this thing. Um, he's got it. He's cool, you know, but there's this constant communication. I think that's um A big part of confidence In a product is having confidence in the people. So, you know, I've got confidence in rubric is the technology Um, and the digital stuff it does But I've also got confidence that I've got a support network from rubric They've got my back and they've got my teams back. So, you know, Aaron went from I've heard about this rubric thing We've had it in the company forever. It was here before I got here I've done my apprenticeship time here, but I've not really been exposed to it and then this happens and because it's so intuitive And so easy to use and so fast He could just latch onto it and run with it, you know And then he puts in a couple of support calls because he had some questions about the apis and how do we recover This stuff easily on a bulk level So I don't want to just recover one or two files here I want to recover, you know hundreds of thousands of them. How can I do this programmably? So that, you know, I'm not clicking buttons in the interface all the time And you know support worked with him to make sure all these things happened, you know, and he he's going man I love these guys This was the first large-scale event which I'd used rubric and yet I was all over it really is particularly intuitive and wherever I had any knowledge gaps I just hop on with rubric support and straight away they have six guys on a call with me in the am so any time zone and just like that we're recovering Entire servers entire file sets that I'd never even knew rubric was capable of, you know, one of the key elements of Any ransomware attack is pressure. All right, and how quickly and overwhelmingly they can apply it They saw us clean up. They knew we used rubric, right? They sent us an email that said, hey, we've been monitoring you. We see you recovered really well Um, you use rubric. That's really smart, but we've got your data. We're going to sell it. So still pay us, all right Um And that creates worry because they don't just send that to the IT guys They send that to everybody in the company they can find an email address for, right? So you get all these phone calls and and uh worried people But then you start to go well hang on Do they really have our data? Because I find that a bit hard to believe because that would be an awful lot of data, right? They're saying they've got You know financial information. They're saying they've got PNLs, you know customer database all this sort of stuff And you go well, hang on. I know what data I've got I know where it is And I know they can't get to it because we use tools like sonar that have data governance That tells us where things live and how they live So then you go to the firewall records and go well actually give me a report of all data that went out of my network And you find out oh crap. They've got 13 gig of data But then you realize well, actually it was just ping traffic. Um, it wasn't actually data at all So they don't actually have anything they're realizing they're not going to beat us on the technical side We've got rubric. We've got these recovery tools that can help us recover No matter how much they try to kick us down. We managed to get reports from our isp and we know they haven't got our files They're bluffing Um, so when they send through that email To us. Yes, it's initially scary, but it's also an indicator that they're desperate They know they can't crack us And so one last hail mary start deleting files instead of encrypting them And try to make the executives a little worried, but We're good. I think in terms of a singular event that that clinched it Was being able to recover all the machines for through brick. All right, that that was the The saving grace, right? That was the hallelujah moment where we knew that we were going to be fine because They just couldn't get to it. It was immutable. They locked out of it. Um, you know, it was You know You know a universe too far for them Um, you know the access that they had managed to achieve through using exploits and stuff wouldn't work on rubric It's one of the reasons we we purchased in the first place is there was a totally standalone You know Ward garden approach if you will That was easily to get back from it was fast So And that that in itself was very very significant and the key The key point that underpinned the recovery is having it without it there. Um, I don't want to think about it


So today people we check out another new modded weapon and while this one is unreal, it's a variant of the cold shoulder and what's basically a fully auto infinite ammo stupid powerful lauda. I mean what's not to want here. How's it going guys my name's DPJ and if you enjoyed the video leave a like real helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. Ok so this insane sniper rifle was made by the one and only evil ex jug so credit to him. This channel can be found on link below go check him out and show him some love. Now if you like the look of this weapon and want to get your hands on it's quite simple drop a like on this video and leave a comment down below telling me your game and tag and platform of choice. I will send a couple of messages to you guys to get it early otherwise join my discord where this will be up for grabs soon. That's also linked below. So this sniper is well on the OP side for sure and well it makes up for the rubbish in terms of what we have to deal with from snipers like the lauda in the game right now. The monster as you can see by the footage in the background isn't the usual weapon I'd cover. I mean like it's primary mode is crazy powerful to a point of my Digiclon just absolutely obliterating with it. Sometimes to a point of me not even expecting it and being late with the recording and even seeing him obliterate is that crazy. So it has two firing modes. The first mode has infinite ammo and is fully auto madness. And with it's second firing mode here we see it doesn't have that infinite ammo but it does fire two torpedoes out at once so yeah I think it should have kind of been balanced here. I'll use this on a few different bosses and although it isn't the most powerful or isn't as powerful as its primary mode it's still fun to use. And while how many snipers in this game do you know that shoot at torpedoes. Just don't shoot the floor anywhere near yourself because that won't end well for anybody. Now this weapon upon action skill end offers all those elements. So nothing is getting in your way and I mean what mod you need in your life this thing is truly an auto monster. Now I know many people are watching this and thinking while the EPJ this weapon is kind against your morals of not using OP weapons. Well if I'm honest with you, while times like this where there's absolutely nothing to do with in Borderlands 3 I actually don't mind taking a look at weapons like this. Yes for sure it's OP but I wouldn't use such to gain if let's say new content is released. I enjoy the game on a balanced level when playing it for the first time but I do know 100% for an absolute fact many people out there love weapons this powerful. So F what I've said before if I like them I will cover them doesn't mean I will abuse such and while the main reasons for me even still covering Borderlands now and covering these modded weapons is just to give them out to you guys. Because when times are dry within the Borderlands game I could quite easily just take a break from it. But no you guys like content like this so that's why I will bring you. But yeah guys this has been a showcase of this incredible cold shoulder that is fully auto, infinite ammo, all elementor torpedo shooting lauda. What more do you want and yeah if you like the look of this weapon and want to get your hands on it you know what you gotta do. And on that note guys the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leave a like really helps out and remember to subscribe and turn on notifications and if you liked what you see and want to see more. But guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


Jacksonville's Jaguars had a very successful season last year and they're looking to build on that. And the win total for this year is set at 9.5. Let's see if they can get there. So I think Jacksonville starts off strong and goes 3-1 in that first four-game stretch with that one loss coming against Kansas City, which it's always going to be a tough game to play. That next four-game stretch I think can get kind of dicey. I haven't gone 1-3 in that next four-game slot and I think that one win comes against Indianapolis. Now let's back off the bi-week. I think the Jags dropped that game San Francisco at home. Then as he Jacksonville starts to heat up a little bit. I can see dubs against Tennessee, Houston. I think they dropped the game against Cincinnati, but they bounced back with a dub next week against Cleveland. Jacksonville has a very favorable schedule towards the end of the year and I think they get dubs against Tampa Bay, Carolina and Tennessee to cap off the year. So I got Jacksonville going 10-7 for the year and going back to the playoffs and just fairly squeaking over that win total.


Legendary musician Paul McCartney once said, or rather sang, when you've got a job, to do you've got to do it well. You've got to give the other fellow hell I don't believe anybody wants to be the middle of the road teacher, who just gets through each day, though I have seen many teachers who are Before I started, I asked myself what makes the best kind of teacher, and who are the best teachers in my life There are many styles of teacher, but the answer I came to is the inspiring style of teacher, the teachers who made me want to learn and to go out and read and study on my own The way they did that was by using their skills to make learning interesting and irresistible As a teacher you need to incorporate and use all of the skills you have, whether artistic, in special subjects of study, when you can match your information with what is useful or interesting for your student, something I call, teaching English by teaching something else, or even by teaching another language in English What to consider when designing your materials Today I am going to talk about using your artistic skills in creating content for your classes, and also give some examples of content which I have created First, however, let's talk about why Content makes your material interesting by bringing it alive If you have studied childhood development we know there are two types of learning, audio and visual Boys, in particular, tend toward being more visual learners and might struggle to succeed with teachers who spend class talking at them We can try to increase the use of the whiteboard to help students visualize better, but it is difficult to maintain interest and focus with this alone Young children particularly learn best by playing games and making the studies fun and immediately relevant to them personally, instead of trying to motivate them for long term future goals that they cannot really conceptualize yet Use your basic skills to create materials Now I want to showcase some of the content I have created, starting with simple to more advanced Hopefully, I can motivate or give you some good ideas to make your own by using basic photoshop skills Using clippert will make your process faster, but I will note that you need to make sure you are either using free public access art or sign up for a paid art account online I often end up using my own skills to create art when I cannot find the subject or style of art that I want online, but this will be more time consuming Finally, your laminator is your friend Gain access to one and learn how to use it Round the corners on your cut cards to prevent students from slicing each other with them Blank bingo templates are readily available and you can easily resize, crop and paste the part you want from clippert or created content into the squares Make larger sized deck drawing cards that are easily visible for the whole class and allow students to take turns choosing, reading and announcing the cards Use colored paper on the back to conceal the answers until drawn Here groups are useful and some examples include food, fruit, vegetables, mammals, insects, birds, sea animals, fish, shapes, toys, musical instruments, jobs, etc I will also use these groups in the following projects and the large drawing cards can also be used as basic image vocabulary cards Animal bag I use a purchased opaque cloth sack and created animal group signs, mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, sea animals, people and monsters I use magnetic tape so the students can stick the signs and animal cards to any magnetic walls in your school or they can also be placed and grouped on the floor Students can grab a random card from the bag, read and match the card to the correct animal group You can make it into a contest or a race Use a big font, I suggest comic sans for simplicity of reading for kids I also suggest cutting character around the image shapes instead of standard rectangular card shapes to make grabbing the cards more tactilely interesting Jenga ABC Blocks I used a Jenga XL set, purchased on Amazon, which consists of lightweight foldable cardboard pieces instead of the standard wooden ones, but you could create your own blocks out of cardboard as well For each block I made the colorful letter, numbers for opposite ends, and pieces and four rectangular strip signs with matching phonics words and pictures, which I laminated and taped onto the bricks, IEA, 1, airplane, alligator, and apple Because there are around 30 bricks I used the extra bricks as rainbow colors pieces, a few animals and vehicles As the regular Jenga game, students take turns taking blocks, but also read the words, letters, and numbers Jenga Grammar For older students, I also used a regular wooden Jenga game, but this time with grammar words glued on the blocks, IE subject predicate nouns blue paper, verbs, green, adverbs, light green, adjectives, light blue, prepositions, pink, articles, white, etc I put four different words in the same group, one on each side, on each block In this game students or teams in larger classes take turns selecting the best blocks to create long, grammatically correct sentences, earning one point for each correct word Monster Battle Cards These cards are Pokemon style, except larger, reading primer cards I included famous monsters from around the world with large images names on the front The back consists of a monster stack reading list including likes, dislikes, abilities, adjectives, monster friends, bonus points if you have the friends, wants For older kids I ask a follow up question about the monster information, correct answer gains bonus points Each card has elements, fire, sun, water, lightning, dark, dirt I made a cardboard element, arithmetic, and number dice for each student to roll The highest sum wins the monsters from that round Are you ready to teach English abroad? 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