Hello and welcome. My name is Miklius Gaspar and I'm in charge of digital communications at the IAA. We are live from Vienna, our headquarters, and this is the seventh session in our series of lives where we explain what it is like to work at the IAA and how the recruitment process works. We'll also answer some of the questions that we have received from candidates. We can also answer some of your questions. Just put them in the comments box and we'll get back to it at the end of the session. Today's topic is about improving your application to the IAA. We'll give you tips and the two colleagues who we have here working us through this are Mary Montieth from the Department of Safeguards and Pierre Mario Bonomi from the Department of Management. Marie is coordinating the recruitment and other administrative matters at the largest department of the IAA and Pierre Mario helps hiring managers all over the house in the recruitment processes. So I've seen many candidates pass and fail and they tell us to do something else. So to begin with Pierre Mario, how do I decide if a position is worth applying to? That I fit and I will stand the chance. Thank you very much, Miklius, and welcome everyone to this session. So I think the first critical point is to make sure you read thoroughly the job description or the vacancy notice that you see on our recruitment system, which is Taleo. And then when you go through each of the different section, you need to make sure that you understand fully the content and the scope of the job. Then when you're done that, you're confident that you understand what is being required and what is the position and the opportunity is all about. Then the next step will be to compare that with your own CV. A good thing could be just to print out the two or put it next to each other and see how much of your experience your qualification match the needed requirements from the vacancy notice. And if that is a good match, then there will be then definitely a good sign that you should go for it. When you see too many times that you're not confident that your experience, your qualification or your knowledge acquired throughout your work experience or studies are not enough, then probably that's not a good opportunity is when you feel like you're too much trying your luck, okay? So there will be definitely the steps that you need to ensure that you are that you are taking in order to go for a position. Thank you. Murray, anything to add from your perspective? Sorry, thank you. I guess I'd just add what comes to mind is a Wayne Gretzky quote, which is that you miss 100% of the shots that you don't take. So if you don't apply for the position, then you don't stand a chance of actually getting the position. And that's something for you to think about. If you're, you know, if you've looked at the requirements and you think that maybe you meet it, but you're not absolutely sure, I still think it's worth taking the risk and applying. And I also think that, you know, it's it's possible to apply for more than one position at a time here at the IAEA. There's not just one vacancy, one application at a time. So there's nothing to stop you for applying for more than one position. It's not a good idea to apply for everything that comes up. You should target it to your skills and experience, but it's a good idea to broaden your range of applications. Okay. So how do I target PM Mario? You mentioned the many requirements and I have to see how good of a fit I am. Typically you have mandatory requirements and disciples. So do I have to meet all the mandatory and, you know, how many of the disciples in order to be probably a good candidate? Yeah, thanks for being clear. So absolutely. So what is the critical part in the first step of reviewing the vacancy notice is going straight into the requirements because definitely the requirements as the, you know, words signifies are not non-negotiable, right? So if you don't have a certain number of experience, and just for the sake of an example, if we're talking about the P3 position, then we require at least five years of experience, relevant experience, of course. So if you don't have those five years, then your application will be discarded. It will not be reviewed just on the basis of that. So the requirements are a must and needs to be met in full. When it comes to the asset or, you know, the desirable other skills, then as the word says, you know, if you have it good, if you don't have it, you will still be considered as part of the pool of candidates that meet the minimum criteria. So perhaps to sum up what you have both said, as your recommendation is that as long as you meet all the mandatory requirements, apply, because as Marie said, if you don't apply, you still have no chance. Is that right? Yep, I would say that's exactly right. I think it's always good to take the risk and to go for it. OK, thank you. So when a recruiter like yourself, Marie, looks at the application, what are you looking for? If I was to just drill down to one basic point, I think that I'm looking for evidence that a person has the potential to do the job. And so everything that a person fills out in their application form, you need to be thinking about the person who's looking at that application form. And what they're looking for when they're reading your application form is the evidence that you meet the requirements of the position that they've advertised. So when you have the right education background, you have the right sort of experience and you have the right sort of personal profile for the work. And so the more that you do to emphasize that clearly in your application form, the more likely you are to be successful in your application form, target it exactly to what the the vacancy notice is looking for. Tell the truth, obviously, but you're looking to draw on what your skills and experience are, what your education is and show how that fits against the requirements for the job that's being advertised. Yeah, Mario, anything to add? Yeah, an additional, I mean, from my viewpoint, as an HR professional, I want to make sure that, you know, candidates only see their own application, right? So one application against each of those positions you applied for. From our side, we see lots of them, right? So you need to always consider the fact that we need to review and usually I think it's 200 minimum applications we get on average for each and every single vacancy notice at the agency. So we need to make sure that, you know, your application is to the point, concise, and when we go into it, we get, you know, a good idea rather quickly if you're a good profile or not and why you are a good profile or an excellent profile for that matter for the position you applied for. Okay, so perhaps one way to sum up that again is you have to make sure that you stand out. You're truthful, at the same time you stand out and you can convince a hiring manager that you fulfill the requirements of that role. I mean, just to add from my experience, you know, I'm also a hiring manager from time to time. People oftentimes focus on how getting this job would have them in their careers and, you know, why that's nice, you need to put yourself in the shoes of a recruiter. What it is that we get out of hiring you, not what you get out of being hired. So what are the steps involved in putting together an application form? What should you do before you submit? Pierre, Mario, can you advise us on that? Yeah, absolutely. So I mentioned a couple of them before, right? Making sure that you carefully look at the vacancy notice, which is structured in a way that already should give you a very good idea, not only of the requirements, the task, you know, the qualification required, but also the context. You know, the first part of every vacancy notice is called organizational setting. It will give you an idea of where you're gonna end up working if you are eventually hired for that position. But that's not enough, okay? I think you need to do, each one of us need to do a step forward, okay? So definitely, as I said before, look at the vacancy notice read thoroughly and try to understand in full and compare that with your CV and your experience to make sure that you are a good fit and try to be, of course, objective as much as possible. But then, as I said, it's not enough. I think it's good that you go as well on our website, the IEA, trying to understand what is happening at the IEA, generally speaking, you know, what are our challenges, what are our priorities, and especially in that particular department, the vision that you are applying to, okay? Also, another good thing is to just look in Google, try to look for news articles about the IEA, what's happening, because most of the time you want to have people that really are not only a good fit, but are also interested and do, you know, go a step further in trying to understand how they can go beyond the number to help the organization moving forward. Thank you. Mari. I think Pierre Marier summarized that very well. I mean, I would emphasize one of his points in particular, which is this, looking into the position before you complete your application form. So the more you can show an understanding of the job that you've applied for, the better your application form reads. There are, for the Department of Safeguards, we have an awful lot of information posted on the IEA website. We also have videos posted on the IAEA videos. There is an awful lot of information there about what jobs are available, what those jobs involve. There are interviews with people who are actually doing those positions, and if you're looking at this information, it will give you a much better understanding of the job and therefore a much better chance of completing a really solid application form and hopefully getting to interview and having an excellent interview. Thank you. Next, I'd like to ask you about the motivation letter, right? So an application form typically consists of a CV form. You have to fill out lots of, answer lots of questions, and then a motivation letter that you write. So what are your tips for motivation letters that will stand out starting with the length? Mari. I think as I've said to you before, this is my favorite question. The motivation letter is really one of the most important aspects of the personal history form, and that's because it's the applicant's chance, your chance to market yourself directly against the position. Yes, the name motivation letter can sort of almost be a little bit misleading for people sometimes, because obviously we want to hear about what's motivating you to apply for the position. We want to know what your interest is and why, but we also want to see that you've understood the requirements of the job, and we want to see you highlight for us what you think your key experience is and what your key skills are that will best apply to this position. So really this is your chance to take everything about yourself, everything about your skills and expertise and put it, summarize it into one sort of brief document that tells us why you should be considered for this position. And I think that it's really a great, it doesn't need to be long, so when it comes to the motivation letter it's not about the length of it, it's really about how clear it is, how targeted it is, and I think that this is one area where candidates can sometimes fall down in the application process, and there are some common mistakes that we see, and that's for example, people who write a motivation letter and then use that for all of their applications, and I would really encourage you if you're writing a motivation letter to adjust it each time you apply for a different position and target it to the position that you're applying for. I'd also encourage you to not write too much, so keep it clear and focused, imagine that recruiter who, as Pierre Mario said, is reading 200 applications and keep it to the most important information that you want a person to see. That's great, very thorough. Pierre Mario, anything to add? I don't think I have much to add on this passionate response from Marie, but what I want to build on is actually one of the points that she made about not copying and paste, so this today session is called about improving your application, but I think let's also stop a second and talk about making sure you tick all the boxes, I mean really filling through all the different fields that you have available in your profile in Thaleo. So, so many times we have submission that are incomplete, that can be the motivational letter that is missing pieces, but most importantly, we don't have maybe a clear indication or description of the experience that you had in your life or the study that you completed, and not even in sequential order, so they're all over the place, so we might agree or disagree that the tool we're using is not perfect and could be improved for enough, but at the moment that's what we need to work with, so it's really up to you and it's your duty to make sure that you fill all the fields. That also is valid, as I said, for the motivational letter as for the screening question. Most of those are vacancy notice, we'll have at the end some screening question, which will help the area manager putters to pre-assess those, you know, numerous application that we receive. Now, sometimes we see responses like, please see my CV, right? No, we are reviewing your CV and if we are asking the question that you already are putting your CV, please take the chance there, not necessarily to copy and paste what is already in your CV, but to announce it in a way that we understand how much impact that particular experience, activity you have accomplished in your life, in your working experience, and how it could help the organization as the IEA, you know, moving forward. So that's really what we want to get out of from you when we are putting those screening questions. So make sure at the end before you submit that, you know, go back and check that really everything has been completed, you have not missed anything out because that's really important, you know, when you're missing to put something in your CV, then it's something that we will not see and we cannot take a look at and be able to use in case we want to shortlist you. Thank you. These were all my questions. Our viewers have asked a lot of questions so I'm asking you to be succinct so that we can get through as many of them as possible. Pierre Mario, first question to you. Do I need to upload additional documents on top of the CV and the motivation letter? At the moment, if there's anything that we require you to upload, it's usually very well-defined in the vacancy notice. We're trying to capture everything needed in the Taleo profile. Of course, if you have an additional copy of your CV that you want to attach or anything, please do that. But we will look primarily on the application itself that you submitted. That's why it needs to be completed very carefully and very thoroughly. So to put it another way, I guess the answer is no. Unless it explicitly says in the application process, just complete that form and the motivation letter. Okay, next question. Marie, should I include all my working experiences or only the most relevant ones to the position? I would encourage you to include all of your work experience because for us it's really important to be able to see that history of your working career. Some of them may be less relevant in which case you won't want to spend so much time creating that experience for the application form. But at least so that we can see it and we can see the period of work that you undertook, that's really helpful for us. Well, also because it could look suspicious if there are some years when we don't know what you were doing, right? Yes, but also I think sometimes it explains the trajectory, the career trajectory that that person had. So if it has a particular degree in one area and then it jumps to do a totally different work and you miss to explain how you get to this work after a few years, then we might not be able to connect the dots. So definitely put all your work experience in there. Also, sometimes the work experience that you don't think is relevant can still be interesting to us and we can make links to that work that maybe, you know, you might not be aware of that because of that you don't understand the full nature of the job or something. So actually put it in. I think it's always helpful. Yes, put all of them in, but then in the motivation ladder, only focus on the ones that you consider most relevant for the job. So you get best of both worlds. Okay, Pierre Mario, next one is again sort of mechanical question. After submission, are the applications open for modification so that applicants can improve them further? Absolutely. You need to be careful though that you do all your modification or amendments before the closing date. You will see every vacancy notice will be posted by between one date and usually for weeks, generally speaking, or potentially two weeks more, six up to six weeks.  When the vacancy notice closes, that's the moment you cannot come back and change anything. Thank you very much. Perhaps related to that, it's nice not to leave it to the last moment for you to apply, because then if you think the next day of an idea to improve it further, it's too late, as Pierre Mario has just said. Okay, next question. It's about internships. Is there an age limit to apply for IA internships? Pierre Mario? No, not really. There's no age limit and you can submit your application as you feel like. Of course, again, we're talking about an internship. Of course, we know that in different countries, there's a certain number of years in trajectory again that somebody needs to take through their studies and the work that might make them go to start working later than maybe others. But of course, if somebody is four years old and they start for an internship, then probably it's not the right opportunity to apply, especially if they already had some years of experience before. Okay, next up. How has the pandemic changed the recruitment process? I don't think it's necessarily changed the recruitment process that much when it comes to the recruitment of professional staff. For general service staff, we used to do an awful lot more interviews in person because general service staff are generally recruited from here in Vienna. But for professional staff, we are used to recruiting people online and that really hasn't changed, to be honest. So it's a process that we're familiar with and it's worked well throughout the pandemic. Just to add, general service in Arlingo means administrative and support roles. Okay, next question. TALEO is rather complicated. Pierre Mario, is there any other way to apply rather than through TALEO? Well, not really. We have an online system and we connected to the previous point, not to leave it to the last minute, right? So we expect everybody to have access to internet and not necessarily to have their own computer or laptop at all, but to be able to access a computer somewhere. And that's why we usually have an extended four weeks period where people can take their time to apply. No, there's no other way and the idea is that if you feel like you cannot have access to a laptop on a daily basis and you need to go somewhere else, to university for example or place of work or whatever to access the internet, you cannot have it on a regular basis and make sure that you factor in how you complete your application and fill out your application by the deadline. Okay, thank you. The next question is from somebody who has just graduated in radiation physics. And that question is, how do you expect me to have international experience when I have just graduated with international experience? I can take this. So I think what were an international environment and of course we want to have people that have already that experience, but that depending on the role, so in this case we're talking about somebody just graduated so you probably apply for a junior role where usually we tend to apply a degree of flexibility. And that international experience can palesibly be taken by other extra international environment. Thank you. Thank you. Do I need to have European citizenship to apply to the IAA? No, you do not. It's quite straightforward. You said be brief, so there you go. Thank you. So a related question. Are there preferences placed on nationalities for various posts? No, no, no. In the agency as you know the director general respond to our member state, right? Our member state are guiding us and telling us what we need to do and how we need to do things. So one of the requirements we have, there's two things that the agency is focusing on mostly very recently. One is the gender parity so we're making sure that we are factoring that in our recruitment efforts and in second is geographical distribution. So we're trying every single time to reach out as far as possible around the world to reach ourselves with different type of nationality and culture. So we want to make this clear. We're not discriminating against anybody. So we're not necessarily in the selection process targeting one gender versus the other or one nationality versus the other. The effort is upfront when we do the outreach like these today's webinars, another live session we're doing. We want to make sure that we reach a far so people are actually here from us doing and they apply to our role in our opportunities. Okay, the more questions we answer, the more questions come in. So we have time only for a few more. Do trainings and workshop certificates count in your education? I would say that yes, they can count. Again, when you're putting in training and workshop certificates think about how relevant they are to the position. So obviously the requirements for the position will very specifically be looking for a specific degree requirement. If you've got other education certificates that you think are particularly relevant to the role then use them, but avoid listing everything you've ever done as an education certificate because it may not be helpful to the application. That's right and actually it can further damage it because it can dilute information that we're really looking for. So which kindergarten you went to is perhaps not so relevant. Okay, the next question is about these asynchronous video interviews that we sometimes do as the first step of the selection process. Our viewer is asking how do you consider it relevant and appropriate to have an idea about a candidate slowly based on a video recording? I can take that. So it's part of the recruiting process. It's not that we're basing necessarily everything on that particular interview. It's part of the recruiting process and we want to make sure that again we're taking an additional step when as needed in reviewing the experiences and hear directly from you how your experiences you add are relevant to the job. So as I said before remember put yourself in our shoes. We have lots of applications every time and sometimes for us we feel it's too risky to just go straight and select very few to do an interview when we see there's a very good pool. But that pool we want to still narrow it down because for some people we're not sure if they really are a good fit or a perfect fit to the position. This will allow us to give a bit more information to us that we cannot necessarily read on the CV because it's a dry document from directly from you in a way that is digestible and is for us doable in a short period of time. I would encourage you to see this as actually an opportunity because in-person interviews tend to be longer and therefore we invite fewer people. If you've been given the opportunity to actually participate in one of the online automated interviews then we've actually been able to offer more people an opportunity to be considered and it's really an opportunity for you to be seen. Okay well thank you very much. That's all we've had time for. If I didn't ask one of your questions that's probably because it's been answered in one of our earlier sessions which you can find the links to in the comment section underneath in the comment section here. We also have a survey where we're asking you what other topics you would like us to discuss. Again, you can find the links in the comment session. You can find more information about us on IA.org slash employment and the main message of this session is really any nationalities can apply any genders can apply. Just read the questions, read the vacancy notice and make sure you put forward a truthful CV and motivation very much and see you next month.


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when we look at principles and Elon is one of the best as well when it comes to first principles and we use that as our thesis to approach new things. What are things people can do today based on first principles to maybe understand themselves a little bit better? This is a great question. So before we even ask that question let's go even deeper. Let's understand how do you think in first principles? Because this is this is a question that doesn't get asked. Yes. We are never taught how to think in first principles. How do you think effectively? I see a lot of people trying to solve problems but they're thinking about it wrong and it's kind of like if you have a faulty windshield how are you gonna drive properly?  So the first step is to understand what it feels like to come in come to terms and read first principle thinking. What does it feel like to read a book like Ray Dalio? How do you tell truth from fiction? How do you tell something that's fundamentally strong and based on something real? In physics the first principle is the term comes from some science from physics where all of science is built on a bedrock of first principles. Things you cannot falsify like the speed of light. It is a first principle. It is foundational to a lot of the physics formulas that are derived slowly over time. All of physics and science is derived directly from these fundamental principles. Yeah if that theory of speed of light breaks apart all of physics breaks apart. Exactly. In the same way recognizing being able to the first step is to learn for every human to recognize in themselves how do you know what a first principle is? How can you tell apart a first principle from a second order or a third order principle? That's important and to do that it's important to surround yourself with thinkers like Elon and Ray that frequently think from that standpoint, from that basis. So you have a taste. It's kind of like you're able to taste to get thinking because if most people have been living what you're thinking all their life you can't taste it and you don't even know what you're missing out on and so learning to surround yourself with good thinking and slowly understanding ah okay this makes sense. You start with that. You start there then you start to question some of the ways that you're thinking because thinking is essentially software right? It's a fancy way like we have we are a carbon-based life form right? So most computers are silicon-based machines but let's say we had silicon-based software we'd be able to update or thinking a lot faster. Sadly don't so we have carbon-based we're just going to take a lot longer to iterate. Journaling is a very good way of updating your software, updating your thinking, updating your decision making, analyzing what are the things you did, what are the things you will do, what was the thinking behind your decisions that were faulty right? Where was the fault in logic? Very similar to how you would debug a program. You just like you got an output you didn't want okay what happened and it's it's it's not a thing where you necessarily need to take it personally. Your code it's not moving the way you want it to so how do we figure this out in a way that makes sense. When you put pen to paper you re-cognize it. Cognition means to understand to think to to process. You process the thinking again re-cognize right? You recognize your thoughts on paper and that changes and updates your thinking in almost real time right? So an idea becomes real for the first time when you put it on paper because it goes from like an an intangible thought to a tangible word on a page and as you start to do that your processing becomes better. Your processing becomes better and you're exposed to good thinking you cannot but help update the person you are the thinking that you're surrounding yourself with. That's a very effective way of being able to upgrade your own personality and and your thinking and therefore your actions and your results in life.  It's a process of osmosis. Okay so let's say people maybe whether they read Dalio's book or or they dive in deep into first principle thinking. Well by the way there's a there's a really good blog post by Tim Urban on the blog. It's called the chef the cook and the chef. The chef the cook the chef sorry the cook and the chef cook and the chef. Wait but why if you just google this it'll lead you to a long article all of wait but why is article usually long but they're very worth it and he talks about how Elon Musk thinks and he describes first principle thinking eloquently and beautifully with cartoons and shit it's really funny. So what's something people can do once let's say they read that. What's something they can do afterwards pen to paper are there questions they can ask themselves. Yeah so so what I would do is I would take I would read principles by Red Alio I would read section one like the there is there is a part about principles life principles read that section and then very similar to what I did with the seeking wisdom book which is go principle by principle and put pen to paper and ask yourself how does this apply in my life that's it understand a principle deeply and then put pen to paper ask yourself how does this principle apply in my life how can I apply it more effectively if you do that for that section I will tell you your your thinking is going to really significantly improve and that's it it's as easy and as hard as that and I'm guaranteeing you less than five percent of the people listening will do that it's hard work it's hard thinking work but if your thinking isn't in line then your life is going to suffer because the results cannot be as precise as your thinking is. Is there any advice you have or you've seen an experience for follow-through to actually do the thing or what is fall like for example let's say you start this process and you go one by one based on first principle thinking and you apply that to certain elements in your life and you write about it is there any mechanisms or systems in place that can give you a greater chance of success yes to follow through on that great question so the one I did that shared is accountability that's a really great one just find someone else who's just as hungry as you are or if more if not more hungry which is ideal um and work with them and say hey I want to do this do you want to do this too we can help each other out we can give each other feedback on each other's kind of thought processes and we can make it like kind of like a co-evolution experience that's fun that's a lot of fun because you got to go with someone doing anything with someone else who's also doing going the same same place it's a lot of fun what's the downside it's kind of like having a gym buddy for your mind right so so that for sure gotta get accountability find someone who is also interested in developing themselves in this way that's like probably my best tip um the second best tip is if you're doing that put some some money on the line whatever is meaningful to you it could be like 50 bucks it'd be a hundred bucks it could be a thousand bucks like whatever is meaningful and it will hurt if you if you lose it like that is your target that is your mark of okay I want to do this and that's it and then that's pretty if you have the right accountability if you have the right stakes and if you have the right rhythm maybe just one principle a week don't overdo it it'll take you maybe an hour or two that's good and and just constantly surround yourself with good thinking and people that are getting the results you want that's a really important one right so you look at dollyoni constantly talks about transcendental meditation and how valuable it's been for him and how consistent he is with his practice that's remarkable to me that's cool like all I I'm interested in this sliver of of his results but his thinking is just beautiful you know he's got these beautiful videos on on youtube right how the economic machine works yeah the macro micro you know exactly a nice 30 minute video that he produced that is like out of his wisdom it's beautiful it's very simple but accurate it's another video series you produce around this book principles right it's just like an animation there are examples of how the principles work in action and if you just constantly surround yourself with excellent thinking and people that are getting the results that you want making sure that you actually want those results a lot of people want a house and a car or really they don't want that right they've been they've been brainwashed by society and peers and advertisements and and instagram and things like that to want that it's just the first layer but if you put a pen to paper and you ask what do I really really really want I'll give you an example of of what it looks like to get what you really want is you're familiar with Anderson Silva obviously fighter exactly right extraordinary fighter first of all is a documentary man on him also really good but the the parts that I was most impressed with him was actually after he wins the title is like a six plus foot Brazilian man with a lot of pride right you know he gets on his knees and he starts sobbing when he wins the title every time that's a man he's got what he wants it's a powerful emotional experience man to like really get what you want and we all are capable of that emotion we all are capable of feeling powerfully vindicated by life for having pursued what you truly want to pursue but even knowing what that is takes digging because you gotta get through the house in the car and all this nonsense that's been programmed at you from birth pretty much right from your parents from your peers from instagram all this bullshit you have to get through this gunk down to the things that really matter to you like and that is a process that can only be done alone with yourself with your mind with your body with your heart with your being right other people can ask you questions but the true work is done is to be done alone in introspection you can you can get a therapist you can get a coach you can do all of these things but fundamentally the work is yours this is why a huge proponent of meditation exactly because meditation allows you to get in touch with your your being with who you are like allow the the thoughts and all the mental chatter to like subside so you can sit down with who the fuck you are you do two sessions a day yeah i wanted two sessions a day yeah my average is about one but i aim for about two yeah and what's like a easy starter pack for people to get into meditation headspace man headspace headspace yeah yeah yeah i'm not like i've i've been meditating for a long time but uh for all the people that i've actually seen make some progress headspace is actually pretty good um i've seen some people get on and off muse but headspace actually is is is more standard i think the way to approach it is to say a lot of people say oh i tried meditation once didn't work for me that's like saying i tried to exercise once it didn't work for me it's basically the same thing i view it meditation has exercise behind yeah but you can you can do a lot of things you can run you can lift yes you can swim you can play hockey and many forms of meditation exactly right so so when you want to someone wants to get into meditation a big thing i say is hey this is like saying i'm interested in mind exercise but you don't know which form of exercise you kind of like yet so don't give up after trying one or two there are many ranges of meditations there's tm there's headspace there's like meditation studios popping up over the city these days there's all kinds of vipassana there's insight there's a lot there's there's like different um yogic meditations condoling all kinds of stuff right figure it out like figure out what works for your disposition for your personality but dismissing like meditation based on like a few sessions isn't really sustainable it's not a good it's like going to the gym a couple of times and didn't work for me i got sore muscles right it's it's a process you commit to and and if you're doing it there's actually mindfulness based stress reduction mbsr which is like i think of a 12 week guided um program so where you go in every week and you're instructed and you have sessions at home that you're supposed to go back and do and over a 12 week period it almost kind of helps you build a habit uh and it's it's it's supposed to be a program that's like runs pretty much most most cities much major cities in the world if someone truly wants to build a habit it's pretty solid way to get started as well that's the thing most people like same thing with the gym people try to go in like an hour a day that's uh might be too much of a mental struggle at the beginning to build that neural pathway as a habit it's like i for example i use a ideally basis i use my sorry calm calm right yeah calm is calm that's basically 15 minutes i was like a 15 minute session absolutely trying to quiet spot turn it on and go at it the best part is like a minute is better than zero yes five is better than one yes right like one is definitely better than zero one is like exponentially better than zero because you were applying effort into it and so zero is your enemy all right zero is your enemy should be a whole brand around all right uj put that in the journal zero is your enemy we'll start that tomorrow good stuff yeah man yeah meditations the benefits for it's just exponential there's like no downside to it yeah and and especially if you combine that with good thinking journaling um movement surrounding yourself with great inspiration surrounding yourself with excellent humans that that are similar in a value set and are working on themselves in a similar way like that's this is enjoyable right this is an enjoyable life this is worth like this is a life worth living because again back to the buffet and gates i think it's a they're great almost memes or ideas for like huh even people with significant resources aren't working on themselves the way i would imagine they would be working on themselves huh that's really interesting okay so this whole this whole industry of of improving yourself and the drive to improve yourself is not a super common thing fascinating it's a market yeah there's a market i think also people try to build room overnight they got to focus on one thing yeah you know same thing when you go to the gym no if you always tell people you have to go to gym like if you can do like 20 pushups a day there's your start exactly walk 20 minutes i don't know something what's the most minimal viable thing you can put in exactly so same thing when it goes to like improving yourself you know they try to do everything all at once simply with health right he's like oh i'm gonna clean diet then go to the gym and do some i'll look at the people like no it's not gonna work no again they don't understand the first principle it's not gonna work right they don't understand the first principle of habit change yeah right there is a setup cost there's a significant setup cost to any new habit or behavior that you're going to inject into your life and trying to work three things at the same time is not going to be effective because it's not going to stack right it's like lifting five bricks when you can only lift two mm-hmm going to get exhausted you're going to get dejected and you're going to fail you're not going to know why you failed correct and you're going to give up because now you don't have an actual rudder and understanding of how to move forward in a way that makes sense of course and this happens over and over and over again so there's a market yeah yeah i'm excited for the combination with psychedelics and sure mind improvement oh yeah oh yeah that's a whole new world too right see so the cool thing about psychedelics you add fuel to all this fire that already exists right you have you know you have the the meditation you have the movement you have the journaling you have the really smart people that you that they'll be of access to um and then you as psychedelics to that you get some magic right there because you already have a strong base the fundamentals are strong your ability to interface with life in a way that allows you to learn and grow on the daily and weekly basis is significant right your ability to your your the navigate life is strong and then you have things like psychedelics allow you to inject awareness into your life at a rate that was previously not possible now what they do is they they improve the rate that you can inject consciousness into yourself that's powerful because through all of these these these habits and through the through connections with therapists coaches etc you can stabilize the consciousness right you can inject this consciousness into yourself you know metaphorically obviously and and then you can start to allow that consciousness to settle into your day-to-day life so you can bring that love and that care and that attention and that drive to your work to your friends to your family your relationships that's a powerful thing because to me I think psychedelics obviously in last year or two have become quite popular quite popular and I see the indiscriminate use of this shit a lot man it's annoying and it's concerning because these are powerful things that cannot be used indiscriminately hopefully we'll see in the next couple of years legalization of release the mushrooms exactly psilocybin exactly that'd be nice um but something that gets often not talked about is the integration piece correct all right and the integration is super important to life forget psychedelics for a second like what is an integration skillset the integration skillset basically is the ability to to learn something like get an insight and to be able to apply it in life such that you've learned from it so let's say you get into anotomy b laxin because you ran a red light okay a very basic example of integration is learn what happened there you know were you drinking or you're driving what what how what caused you to to to move past the red light did you not look both ways did you not clearly realize there was a red light there what happened and the ability to to to apply that okay I didn't look or maybe I was ranking me whatever whatever the person has done the person starts to apply okay I'm not going to do this in the future basically that skillset amplified and refined is what you need so let's say every conversation you have is a conversation that you can learn about yourself the other person and slowly even just a slight layer of refinement to the next time you interact with them or the next time you interact with someone else it is a growth mindset it is the ability to pull information from the outside and allow yourself to refine every interaction every iteration of what you're doing taking that to psychedelics can be powerful because now you have such a strong injection influx of consciousness you're like wow this is cool you learn a shit ton about yourself in the universe at large and then you write that down and then you go okay how does this change my life and then you start to list it all out and you start to list it of the actions that you did take as a result of this experience bam and that fundamentally changes you in a way you would never have been able to change yourself because this access is a powerful thing so that that's what I'm excited for obviously the the the economy and the and that side of things is also quite interesting the investing around some of these startups is interesting the the ecosystem in Canada is really cool man it's growing because we have we have a few friends in the industry as well it's great to see the work they do yeah I'm excited I'm just gonna my hopes is legalization my hopes is all drugs are legalized yeah sure sure controlled we're legalized it's safer yeah it's better yeah because because I would I would not want them over the counter man um listen even over the counter stuff like Advil and aspirin is dangerous absolutely absolutely um my general philosophy is eliminate the black market um legalize all drugs make sure people want it they have the most purest cleanest form and another form even though I'm against taxes another form of tax revenue for the government that's fair you can look at Portugal in Portugal decriminalize most drugs and their statistics are good for people less time in jail yeah less addicts um and also a bit better educational curve as well um it's just safer like you're not going to stop people from doing what they want to do exactly give them the best and safe safest option as possible and you eliminate the black market which is which is huge for a lot of reasons also you eliminate the impurities and and just the lack of great material that people have access to because that costs a lot of debts and ods and this it's still all you know off tangent still befuddles me that prostitution is illegal I didn't know this yes okay especially when you take into the statistics of sex trafficking oh yeah and you're telling me you're not legalizing it and legalize it streamline it fucking remove like I think you really understood me how fucked up like how bad like the numbers of sex trafficking there is no it's like no joke it's obscene yeah um and one of the biggest markets for that is the illegal black market of prostitution oh yeah oh yeah yeah no there's a lot of stuff in the world that befuddles me man a lot of stuff oh yeah this is the world we live in and uh well that's why we change it day by day exactly exactly you know what I'm doing brazen we don't want to see what you can change well well in this podcast which how we started the podcast is I can't change the world but I can change myself exactly exactly one person at a time yeah the best we can do yeah man so we've covered a lot we have thank you for sharing all this pleasure man um guys um make sure you take don't take don't just passively listen to this you know just like any good podcast or audible or book re-listen to parts that resonate with you you know I'm a firm believer in any form of any medium of knowledge that you take in you view it as any relationship it's not just transactional it's multifactorial you know when I'm one book that I always recommend people to pick up is how to read a book by more and more Adler you know meta analysis or meta reading and today's time meta reading isn't just reading is absorbing information through podcasting like this or through youtube and so people assume they have to sit through a to z they don't find a section that you like and don't just listen to it like if you enjoyed what uj was talking about first principles or meditation take that section out and actually make a checklist for yourself you know what are action steps from here okay I'm going to go read Ray Dalio's first principle or read you know how to think clearly by role for etc and actually make a roadmap of actual steps you can take after this I think you know we touched on this is seldom that people do follow-up process in one ear out the other ear so less is more that's all I'm saying less is more yeah also recommend just pulling out a journal and a pen and paper and just like asking yourself the questions that matter yes you know start with how am I feeling right now and why and then start your search start to write about the thing that is on your mind we're all dealing with something right we all are and put it on paper yes and ask yourself the questions you know what's going on what do I know for a fact what am I struggling with how do I move through that and what do you learn from this podcast right and put it all down because if you do the chances of your follow through are going to be higher because it's hard to sit down with something write something have it stare you in the face not do too much about it uj it's always a pleasure when you come on I'm happy to be here thank you if people are looking to find more information about you what's the best resource the best way is find me on instagram okay on my website subscribe what's the instagram handle on uj ramdas okay twitter anything facebook twitter or just instagram just instagram okay uj ran the ramdas on instagram and guys if you're listening to this on itunes or google or wherever else please make sure to leave a review those always help and if you're watching this on youtube leave a comment 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When a child goes missing, a parent's mind naturally begins to prepare itself for the unthinkable while hoping for the best. This was true in the disappearance of Harley Dilley, a 14-year-old boy who went missing near the end of 2019. But his parents would have never imagined that his body would be found much closer to home than anyone could have expected. This is the strange case of the boy in the chimney. Harley Dilley isn't a case that I expected to cover when he first went missing back in 2019. After all, there wasn't anything too terribly unusual about Harley. He was your average teenage boy and almost everyone expected that he'd be found sooner or later, possibly after running away from home. Unfortunately, that just wasn't the case. Now, you may remember the case of Joshua Maddox that I covered a while back here on True Crime Stories. If you weren't following the channel back then though, I definitely urge you to check out that video. I'll add a card above if you want to check it out. But Joshua's case was shockingly similar to the case of Harley Dilley. In fact, some people think the two cases are virtually identical, and I agree. Joshua Maddox was also found stuck in a chimney not too far from his childhood home. The only difference is that he was stuck there for seven years. Thankfully, in the case of Harley Dilley, his parents wouldn't be forced to wait such an incredibly long time for closure. Fort Clinton, Ohio is a small village that can be found in Southwestern Summit County, Ohio. It's a very, very small village with a population of just 2,000 people. A total of around 380 families live here, with the area being fairly average in terms of income and amenities. By all means, it's a quiet little village where nothing unusual really happens. It's the perfect place to settle down and raise a family as more than 25% of the population is under the age of 18. According to crime grades and area vibes, crime is virtually non-existent in Fort Clinton, with violent crime rates being 70% less than the national average. I'll be honest with you, I've never thought about Ohio too much, but while researching this case, I nearly convinced myself to move there. Fort Clinton is truly that great of a town. But the town isn't without its faults. In fact, many people claim that the police department in Fort Clinton is so poorly equipped to handle tragedy and crime that they may have single-handedly led to the death of Harley Dilley. To be fair, it doesn't seem like the police department really disagrees with these claims. With the chief of police, Robert Hickman, recalling Harley's case, thinking, quote, did we mess up or did we not? I don't know. I can't give you that answer. My biggest recommendation for any police department that experiences a case like this is don't be afraid to ask for help. Harley Dilley was your average teenage boy, at least by most people's standards. His mother said that he was a great kid and doesn't seem like he ever got into much trouble. He's been described as a mama's boy through and through, and that certainly seems to be accurate. Whatever his mother asked him to do, he usually didn't, even if he had his own way of doing it and he did it at his own pace. But all in all, he was a great kid. His father didn't have anything negative to say about him either, recalling him very fondly. Harley loved playing basketball, and it seems like he took the sport fairly seriously. But he was also an avid gamer, having accounts on Discord and Twitch, where he would often share Madden gameplay with his friends, even managing to bring in over 1,000 subscribers on YouTube. Now, I did a bit of digging after hearing about this report, and I found a web sleuths forum that has information about Harley's case, but it's also a hot spot for rumors and speculation. Many of the users were quick to jump on Harley's case when it had just begun to unfold. Now, I haven't been able to verify any of these claims because the posts that these people are referring to have since been removed, but several of the users mentioned that Harley used to post to YouTube quite frequently in 2018 and 2019. These videos have led to a lot of speculation regarding Harley's disappearance, and they paint his parents in a much different light than how they may have otherwise been perceived online and in television interviews. Now, let me reiterate, I cannot confirm these reports, so they should be taken as rumors and nothing more, but according to multiple members of the web sleuths community, Harley may have had a fairly troublesome home life. It's been reported that he posted several videos to YouTube that documented various types of abuse that were taking place in his home. One particularly concerning video was titled I'm Scared, and it's a video that was deleted within days of Harley's disappearance. This video is the only one I was actually able to track down after someone re-uploaded it, and Harley explains that he's having one of the worst days of his life. He mentions how he got into an argument with his mother after school, an argument that supposedly lasted for about five minutes. During the argument, Harley's mother threatened to call the police on him, a threat that she'd reportedly followed up on in the past, even though it wasn't a matter that concerned the police in any way, at least not if you ask me. From the information I've collected, these calls were meant for no other reason than to scare Harley into doing what his mother asked. But things began to take a dark turn when Harley continued to explain his mother's punishment. In the video, Harley is in his backyard and reveals that his mother locked him out of the house as punishment. Bear in mind, this video was taken in the middle of winter, and Harley can be seen bundled up in a jacket while waiting outside for his mother to finally let him in. According to a web-sloothed user, Harley had revealed in another video that she'd already done this once before when either he or his brother was just four years old, locking them out in the cold yet again.  He ends the video in tears a few moments later. Several armchair detectives on the web-sloothed forums say that they witnessed a video online that revealed that Harley had been heading out to meet someone on the day that he went missing. Now, based on this sheer number of people who claim to have witnessed this video, I'm going to step out on a limb and say that this allegation appears to be true. The only problem is that we don't know for sure who Harley was going to meet that day. The forum users say that the video suggested it was someone that he'd been speaking to online, but we don't know if this was one of his friends that he knew personally, or if it was someone he'd never actually met in person before. This report suggests that he left for school on the morning of December 20th, but he never actually made it to school, as none of his friends reported seeing him that day. Considering the area was quite safe, it wasn't uncommon for Harley to roam around and explore the outdoors, which sometimes included an abandoned home that was next door to him. His parents had told him not to go near the home, but it doesn't seem like Harley obeyed them, as we know he'd visited the home several times in the past. The abandoned house was located at 507 Fulton Street, and it was just steps away from where Harley had grown up. The house, while abandoned, was still maintained by the family who owned it and occasionally used it as a summer home. In 2019, the owner of the home mentioned that it had been sitting vacant for about 10 years, with family only staying in the home for a few weeks at a time throughout this process. The house had been built in the 1850s and was owned by the same family ever since. It had seen many renovations over the years, and from the outside, it looked just as modern as any other house on the block. It was a two-story home that was kept in reasonable condition, all things considered. However, the home and its lawn had become a popular hangout for local teens based on a few reports I've seen online. As far as we know, no one had ever entered the home since the homeowners abandoned it, as all the doors and windows had been locked the last time that it was used. As soon as Harley's parents reported him missing, the local police began to search the area, hoping that they'd find out that Harley had been hiding out somewhere. Police began their search inside and outside of the dilly home, searching for any clues or evidence that they could find that may explain where Harley may have gone. By all means, nothing appears to have been out of the ordinary. All of Harley's belongings were accounted for, aside from the things that he took with him on a normal school day. Police also searched the area outside of 507 Fulton Street, but they never found any clues or evidence. The home appeared to have been untouched for quite some time, even though there were a few reports that Harley had been hanging out near the home in the past. But here's where things get pretty interesting, making the case far more complicated. The forum posts continually refer to a person known only by his screen name and nickname of Drip. In fact, Harley mentioned this person in one of his YouTube videos before. Harley was playing Madden Mobile on a live stream while using Discord at the same time, and during a broadcast, he posted about Drip on Discord and said, quote, Drip is the worst in this community. He came to my house, he stalked me. Things get even more interesting when we find out that on the day that Harley vanished, he'd done his best to beg his parents to let him stay home from school. He wasn't sick or anything, and his parents don't seem to know why he was so adamant about staying home that day, but he played every card that he had, hoping to get out of school. When they refused to let him stay home, he rather strangely seems to have left for school extra early that morning. This is where internet detectives have begun to go wild, claiming that it's possible Harley may have left for school early in order to avoid this elusive individual named Drip. If Drip truly was a stalker, maybe Harley was trying to outpace him and make his way to school early so as to avoid Drip, but I'll be honest, this seems like a bit of a stretch to me, and there's literally no evidence to suggest this. The only slight bit of evidence that we have that suggests that this person named Drip may have been involved is info that's been passed around online, suggesting that Harley's online activity alluded to the idea that Harley may have left home early that day to meet someone. There's one other interesting detail in the case though that makes Harley's case all the more interesting and certainly far more concerning. We know that Harley suffered from either OCD or ASD, but it seems that his family leaned more towards the idea of OCD. Now, as someone who's been diagnosed with OCD, I can tell you without a doubt that Harley's decision to leave home early that day was very unusual. According to his mother, Harley was a creature of extreme habit. In fact, he would bathe several times per day as part of his typical OCD ritual. So leaving for school early just doesn't make any sense here unless there was something seriously wrong or something seriously important, maybe this rumored meetup. I managed to track down this person named Drip online and I tied him to a Reddit account and I won't reveal the name too because it appears that Drip may be underage. I don't know this for sure, but just to be safe, it's not something I'm comfortable sharing. It's easy enough to find online though if you're truly interested. So on this Reddit account, I was able to confirm that Drip had indeed been stalking Harley for at least a few weeks. In fact, Harley also had a Reddit account and was part of an online Madden mobile subreddit. Drip took every opportunity that he had to bully Harley online and it doesn't seem like Harley had ever met Drip in person. As he alluded to the fact that Drip at this point had never been able to track him down in real life. But just over a week after Drip had last bullied Harley, Harley went missing. When Reddit users noticed the connection here, they began to harass Drip about his potential involvement. But this is where things got far worse than I could have ever imagined. When users began to ask Drip about Harley, he repeatedly told them to leave him alone, responding that he had no idea where Harley was. Then came the bombshell. Harley had told a few of his friends online that Drip had shown up outside of his house one day stalking him. When Drip was confronted about this, he responded, quote, I don't live near him at all. This was confirmation that Drip did in fact know where Harley lived. Drip's final response to the questions about Harley came merely hours before Harley's body was found. Drip has never posted to Reddit again since 2020. Police were conducting a now routine search for Harley on January 13th of 2020. They once again made their way to the abandoned home next door to Harley's home at 507 Fulton Street. This time, they decided to investigate further and they entered the home, hoping to find additional clues inside. Unfortunately, they discovered exactly what they had feared. On the second floor of the home, they found Harley's glasses lying on the ground. Nearby, they also found a maroon jacket that belonged to Harley. But what they discovered next would be the most heartbreaking discovery in all of Port Clinton, Ohio's history. As the investigators continued to search the home, they noticed a small hole in the drywall of one of the upstairs bedrooms. When they looked inside the hole, they found that it led to a chimney that was no longer in use. The home had originally been built with a fireplace, but this fireplace and chimney had since been closed up, remaining hidden inside the walls of the home. The homeowner said that the hole in the wall was normally covered with a vent cap, but he couldn't explain why this cap had been removed. As officers looked inside the hole, they discovered the remains of Harley Dilley. A coroner was called to the scene and determined that Harley most likely passed away the same day that he disappeared. Investigators say that due to the weather, he most likely lost his life within hours of getting stuck inside the chimney. But that's the big question here. How did Harley get inside the chimney? Well, even though the chimney had been closed off inside the home, it was still accessible from the roof of the home. The roof of the home was also very easy to access because a large antenna pole was located just outside the back of the home, only about a foot away from the home. It would have been easy enough to climb the pole and get onto the roof of the home and virtually anyone could have done it. From here, the chimney was very easily accessible. But many people in the WebSlooth community don't believe that Harley ended up in the chimney by sheer chance or due to an accident. They believe he was pushed likely by the mysterious person named Drip. All we know for sure is that after Harley ended up in the chimney, there was no chance of him being able to escape. The chimney was only nine inches by 13 inches, meaning entering the chimney would have been difficult enough. Getting out would have been darn near impossible. Police theorized that the items of clothing that they found inside the home were likely put there by Harley while there's no evidence to suggest that Harley ever entered the home, they believed that he likely became lodged in the chimney, then pushed open the vent cap from inside the chimney. He then took off several items of clothing and poked them through the vent cap to try to get more room inside the chimney than shimmy out and escape, but it simply wasn't possible. But this is nothing more than a theory and police don't know for certain what actually happened here. The official reason for Harley entering the chimney that day has never been determined. It's entirely possible that he climbed the pole and entered the chimney out of pure curiosity, hoping that the chimney led to a fireplace that would let him inside the home. And this is certainly a plausible assumption. To be perfectly honest, I probably would have come to the same conclusion when I was a teenager, but because the fireplace had been boarded up and walled over, there was no way out. But what about drip? Well, the mysterious person named a drip has never been identified. Police have officially ruled the case as an accident and they say that there's no indication of foul play, but we have to remember early in the investigation, police clearly stated that they had a reason to believe that Harley was heading out to meet someone that day, hence why he left for school so early. So whatever came of this and why did investigators suddenly change their mind about this clue when there's evidence in Harley's online history to suggest that this was in all reality a possibility. Unfortunately, we don't know. Since this mysterious drip person has never been found, it's likely that these questions will remain unanswered. Police have closed the investigation and they aren't taking things any further. Officially, the tragic case of the trapped teen, Harley Dilly, has been solved, but in the minds of many, myself included, the real mystery has only just begun. Thanks for tuning in to True Crime Stories, everyone. If you liked the video, I'd appreciate it if you hit the like button and subscribe. Also, feel free to leave a comment below. Comments really help out the channel more than you may realize. But with that, my name is Ty Nottz and I'll catch you guys in the next video.


So, you wanted to know how I shower as an amputee.  Step two, find yourself a nice old lady's shower chair. And against old ladies, they're pretty cool. Step three, now here's the complicated part, actually take the shower. Step four, safely exit the shower by holding on to things so you don't slip and fall. Find your leg, reattach it to your body, that's a fun sentence to say, and that is how you shower as an amputee.


Okay, so we'll try this one. This one's pretty basic one. It says how many moles of oxygen Well, you need to react with 2.25 moles of nitrogen Okay, so normally we would want a conversion to go from one thing to another Right, what are we going from in two? We've got moles of nitrogen and we want to go to what? Moles of oxygen. Okay, where are we going to get that conversion from? The molar ratio. Okay, so what would that molar ratio be? Can we write it down somewhere over here? What would it be?  Is that the form that we're going to use for this equation? Are we going to put what are we going to put on the bottom? We're going to flip it over, right? So what are we going to put on the bottom? One mole of nitrogen. Why would we put that on the bottom? Yeah, because we're going to cancel out the moles of nitrogen, right? What are we going to put on top? One mole of oxygen. Okay? Cancel. Cancel. Do we need a calculator to do that one? Yes. Yes. 2.25 moles of oxygen. So that's how many moles of oxygen you need to completely react with 2.25 moles of nitrogen. So that's how you do it. Okay? Questions on that one? Okay, pretty easy one.


Let's set up our screen sharing options. Follow along with these guided steps. Welcome back to Burn to Learn. Number one, locating your Zoom share screen advanced options. First, you will need to log into your Zoom account online. Using your preferred web browser, type in zoom.us into the address bar and hit enter. Once the Zoom home page has loaded, click on sign in here. Now, log into your account using your preferred sign in method. Once your account home page has loaded, click on settings under the personal account menu located on the left side of your screen here. Under the Meetings tab, which is selected by default, click on the in meeting basic section link here. Scroll down a little further until you see the screen sharing controls. Although this is normally enabled by default, you can toggle it on here in case it's not already switched on. Now let's learn how to set it up according to your needs. Number two, configure Zoom share screen advanced options. The first option is titled Who Can Share? To prevent participants from sharing their screens during meetings you host, select host only here. However, if you would like any of your participants to be able to share their screen during a meeting you are hosting, select the All Participants checkbox here. If you choose the latter option, you can also choose from the next option. Who can start sharing when someone else is? By selecting All Participants, any of the meeting attendees can begin sharing their screen even when someone else is already sharing something. But if you choose host only, you as the meeting host will be the only one who can do this. Once you have made your selections, click on Save here. These preferences will be saved for all future meetings. But what happens if you need to change these options just for a particular meeting? Let's see how in the final step. If you're not already subscribed, make sure to like this video and subscribe for more straightforward tech tutorials. Number three, adjust share screen options in a meeting. If you need to temporarily change your account settings for just one meeting, you can adjust them within that meeting as desired. Here's how to do it using the Zoom desktop application. During your meeting, click on the upward arrow located at the top right corner of the share screen button here. The advanced sharing options will be displayed with the same options that we just reviewed within your account. Adjust the options as needed, then close the box for these to take immediate effect for that meeting only. If you are using your mobile device with the Zoom application, click on More. Select Security and then under the heading Allow Participants to toggle the share screen option on. Then simply press Done or Close to exit. Well done! You have successfully configured your share screen options in Zoom and learned how to adjust them as needed within individual meetings. If you need help with another program, let us know what it is in a comment below. Don't forget to like and subscribe to our channel if you haven't already. And get your Burn to Learn t-shirt by clicking on the link in the description below. This has been Rod from Burn to Learn. Thanks for watching.


Bacillus Sirius Strain GGBSU-1, Produce Mirabilis Strain TL14-1, and Klebsiella varicola strain AUH, KAM-9 were isolated from ferruginous ultisols and characterized by 16S RNA gene sequencing. These bacteria were found to be safe for use as biopriming agents for rice seeds grown in ferruginous ultisols. After three hours of priming, the seeds exhibited increased germination rates and better root development when compared to untreated control seeds. After 12 hours of priming, the seeds also showed increased shoot length and biomass production. Scanning electron microscopy revealed greater bacterial colonization in the primed seeds. Priming with these bacteria improved the growth properties of rice seeds in ferruginous ultisols, suggesting their potential use as biopriming agents for rice cultivation in such soils. This article was authored by Shahid Aymusa.


The United States is facing an inflation crisis. Inflation from the month of May was at 8.6% of 40-year high. Prices in May also saw a 1% increase from the previous month, with petrol prices playing the key factor. This crisis has been ongoing for many months now, stretching to last year. What are the factors that are contributing to this consistent inflation? How is it affecting the people? Eugene Parrier of Breakthrough News explains. I think the factors that are leading to the growth in inflation in the United States, including the 8.6% growth in inflation that we saw last month, which is really when we started to break it down into individual categories of goods in the double digits and is eroding almost all wage gains. Wages have not kept up with inflation all year, so we're seeing significant hardship. But I think it's a combination of things. I mean, some is the ongoing continuation of the wanted supply chain factors. For instance, one big area of inflation in the United States is automobile purchases and used automobiles because of the chip shortage that is continuing to go on around the world. Obviously, at least the perception of a shortage in oil and natural gas, which is causing energy prices to rise and utility companies to raise those. And I think on a number of different fronts, we're seeing some of those supply chain issues. But I think in many ways that is in fact outstripped by the fact that the combination of what people know to be real issues in terms of supply chain, especially demand rising in the context of the pandemic and different and new types of goods and different corporations, that corporations are starting to take advantage of that in a major way. And corporate greed is playing a major role. I mean, there was a recent study by the Economic Policy Institute that said, essentially for every dollar of inflation, about 54 cents goes towards profits, patting the profits of corporations, while only about 38 cents goes towards supply chain issues and a few cents towards wages in and of itself. So I think that corporations are basically profiteering in this moment where there are some structural factors that are absolutely causing inflation and the fact that they know most people don't really have any idea what anything cost anyway, instead of what they've done in the past, which is a hard suppression of wages, which is much more difficult to do as people in the United States, workers in the United States are looking post-pandemic to improve their wages and their working conditions. Instead, they're using inflation to keep their profit more. They're using profiteering in the context of inflation to keep their profit margins high. So it's a dangerous game because it's obviously causing a lot of challenges inside of the economy itself. But I think we can see over the past two years that really is the bulk of what we've seen in terms of inflation is the taking advantage of the structural issues to pad the profits of major corporations. In response to the crisis, the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by three quarters of a percentage on June 15. What do they seek to achieve with this policy? What has been the thinking of the administration with respect to targeting inflation? The Federal Reserve's way of dealing with inflation is essentially blunt force trauma. And that's to raise interest rates, which is ultimately to slow down business activity and provoke a recession in order to bring prices back down. And ultimately, this is a tried and true method of dealing with inflation. But it also comes along with a huge amount of pain for the average working class person because if you induce a recession, obviously that means higher unemployment. It means slower growth. It means more difficulty in the fight to struggle to wage your wages, which means wage suppressant. And there's already been stagnant wages in the US since the late 1970s will continue and will continue apace. Now, of course, whether or not this is going to directly affect inflation is a whole other issue. I mean, the Fed themselves says that they're going for something called a soft landing with their raising of interest rates, that they can cool the rise of prices without actually inducing recession. I myself and I think many other people find that to be totally fanciful. We've seen over the past two years a number of big red flashing lights warning inside of the economy that there are a lot of different challenges. There's a huge number of companies that can't actually really, truly cover their debts if interest rates are able to go up. And the possibility of a domino effect of this sort of casino gambling aspect of the capitalist economy really coming down in itself, like it did in the dot com bubble in 2000, like it did in the crash in 2008. Seems like it is significantly likely. But ultimately, we also have to talk about what we just talked about, which is the role of profits. Because if 54 cents of every dollar of inflation is actually going towards the profits of corporations, then in fact, the easiest way to address inflation is not to induce a recession, but is in fact to put in place, you know, high taxation, windfall profit taxes, things like that that make it less profitable, if you will, for corporations to go ahead and use the rise of prices to pad their own profit margins, make them eat more of the costs and keep it cost and keep prices closer to what would be a natural increase or keep them level just by, you know, instead of buying back stocks for the billionaire owners, billionaire shareholders, but actually rolling that back into their business. They don't actually have to raise prices on consumers. So, you know, things like windfall profit taxes, things like stronger, you know, bands on stock buybacks and other forms of profiteering for the ultra-rich would probably actually be more effective in curbing inflation because it would take out the benefit factor, essentially, for corporations who are taking advantage of many aspects of a real crisis going on and going with the pandemic, supply chains, and so on and so forth. But ultimately, that's exactly what the Federal Reserve does not want to do because the Federal Reserve is controlled by Wall Street banks. And of course, Wall Street banks want corporations to make the maximum amount of money because these investors and these shareholders want to continue to reap the rewards of the profiteering and the price gouging that's going on in the context of inflation in the United States. So certainly it could cool inflation to raise interest rates as the Fed is proposing, particularly, you know, maybe even quite a bit, but ultimately that'll be at the expense of the working class. So I think what we see is that there are multiple ways to address inflation and the Federal Reserve and the broader US government is only addressing it from the point of view of a way that will put the burden on the backs of the working class instead of putting the burden on the back of the ruling class. The rising prices have become a political and electoral issue as just a few months are left for crucial midterm polls. How are various sections of the political establishment responding to the inflation crisis?  It's, you know, one of the most googled terms right now in the United States. It's at the top of most polls, at least, if not top one, top three in terms of people's concerns of what's happening right now in the country. I think almost everyone who's not super rich is seeing their money, their paycheck go less and less far every single month. What we're seeing from both political parties is essentially evasion. The Republicans, of course, are aggressively attacking the Biden administration for not dealing with inflation. They are in fact trying to say that the January 6th hearings and things like that are designed to take away from inflation, but the Republicans, realistically, are not being serious about what's going on with inflation. They're blaming government spending, out of what they call out of control government spending. They're blaming the emergency funding that was put in by the pandemic.  It's not in any way, shape, or form clear and there's certainly not really good data on how exactly the large amount of government spending to address real problems during the course of the pandemic is somehow causing inflation in a massive way when we have actual data that shows that it really is profiteering and price gouging in addition to some of the structural factors. So Republicans are speaking to inflation, trying to weaponize inflation, but they're offering a totally false solution and they're really looking to just capitalize on people's general anger at the deterioration of the economic system. Now the Democrats, of course, are ultimately really trying to avoid inflation. I mean, they're talking about it to some degree, but they don't really want to touch on it that much because many of the factors that have been involved in inflation, like Biden's massive stoking of the war in Ukraine, you know, they deliberately did these things that have impacted negatively on inflation and the Democrats and the do nothing Congress, even though they control both houses have not taken any significant action that could potentially curb this issue. I mean, I mentioned the issue of a windfall profit tax. The so-called Build Back Better Plan wasn't a windfall profit tax, but was proposing higher taxes on corporations and the wealthiest individuals that could function in a similar type of way, you know, building out a large amount of investment in the country that gives, you know, different individuals in different corporations certainty about the growth of the economy, the growth of wages and jobs and the ability of people to buy things which also could stem the tide of inflation. These things aren't being done by the Democrats. So they don't really want to talk about it because they are to blame for it or their lack of action is to blame for the lack of a resolution. So even though you have this huge issue that is being hotly debated that people are very upset about, neither political party is offering any sort of solution. But what I will say is it almost certainly right now is rebounding in the favor of the Republicans in the context of the midterms. It's demoralizing the base of the Democratic Party who feels like we voted for these people. They did nothing. It's animating the base of the Republican Party who thinks they can win. And for some people who are on the fence, the Republican arguments might seem logical because if the Democrats are offering no counter position on that, then maybe the Republicans are right. So right now it's benefiting the far right. And yet again, we're seeing the resolution of this inflation crisis politically and economically is to put the weight of it on the backs of working class people.


All right, today we have on njbru 22.com vlog 17. I think 17, yeah. We're gonna do something different today. We're gonna talk about the New Jersey Lottery and specifically the crossword games. The objective of this series is to talk to you about the easiest and fastest way to scant the scratch these tickets. Now I know some people use scratch these tickets off as a pastime. They just wanna pass the time for five bucks with a chance to win or 10 or 20 or whatever the dollars are. They'll scratch each letter off one by one and go through all the letters. And that's a fine way of doing it if you wanna pass the time. But I wanna know, other than just scratching off the barcode and scanning it at the store with your smartphone, there's no point. This is a game, but I like doing the game as fast as possible. And I'm gonna show you a way to scratch it really fast using one simple trick. What I like to do first is I like to look at the tickets. Let's take a look at these tickets for a minute. Here we go. You look at the letters and sometimes I'm guessing there's gonna be no A up there because there's so many A's here. I bet you there's gonna be no A. That's what I like to guess. But here's my technique. Let's start off with this one first. I'm gonna show you my technique. The technique is to scratch off all the letters and count the vowels and see which vowels aren't there. And we're gonna eliminate each word entirely. So we never have to check the letters again. So you know, I'm gonna give you an example here. So I'm gonna scratch off all the letters at once.  That's like a superstition. So we have all the letters scratch off. There is an A there. Well, behold, but you count all the vowels. So there's five vowels, A, E, I, O, U. What you do is you see which vowels aren't there. There's an A, a U, an I, and an E. There's no O. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go through the entire puzzle here and scratch off all the words entirely that don't have the letter O. This is encouraging to me actually because there's probably another major letter that's missing, but so you go through all the words. Anything that doesn't have an O, you scratch off and you never check those letters again. Mover, father, I'm gonna show you. This is fun. Turn O, I like doing horizontal then vertical.   Seldom, we already know that. Ravioli is not gonna be a word. Torch isn't gonna be a word. Lion isn't gonna be a word. So we know on this first puzzle here that those words are not going to win because there's no O. And then you start one by one. I'll start with mug. There's no L. See, there's no L in male. So L has to start with L. There's no L, so that you eliminate all the Ls next. Male, no good. Lamp is no good. You scratch off all the ones that aren't winners. Athletic isn't gonna win. We're already in a line. A lit isn't gonna win. So now you look at this and you can say, okay, the maximum I can win on this puzzle now is one. There's no G, we already know that, but let's say we didn't know there was no G. One, two, there. Anyway, let's just figure this out here. There's no G. So then now you scratch off mug, age, charge. That's it. There's no other words with a G. So then we'll say, I, there are Y. There is no Y. So anything with a Y in it now gets scratched off. It gets tough with the three letter words. Okay, that's the only word on this puzzle with a Y. And then we'll look at the next available word. Is there a T? There is. Is there an R? There is not. So that kinda screws us over. This puzzle can't win now. Rate, ears done, chart is done. Now we already saw this L isn't there either. So there's only two words left that don't have a scratch off. I bet you those are the words that are there. So I don't even care, because you need three words to win. So I'm done with this puzzle. So I'm gonna go back over here. You sort of have to remember there's no O, okay?  I think that's it. So I can't always get them perfect every time, but then the next one we decided that we didn't have was L. There's no L. So let's get rid of all the L's here. Myself, no good. Man, who knows? Maybe I have a chance here. Now I can already see there's a lot of G's. Did I get all the L's? Yeah. And what did we say? There's no G's. And there's no R's. There's no G's and R's. So shrimp is already done. A jar is done. And tire is done. Let's just get the G's out of the way, dude. Gag and this and this. See, you just start scratching off all the letters you don't, you already know you don't have. And you end up discovering more as you go through the puzzle. And we said there was no Y, right? There's no Y. So yes is done. Entry is done. Bay is done. And I already checked up here, there's no H. So aha is done. Cyan is done. So I probably have met and amiss. M-E-T and A-M-I-S-S. So I only have two on this one too. So this is done. See how fast that was? Let's try again with this puzzle. I'll try and do it faster this time. Scratch off all the letters. I'm not gonna analyze this ticket this time. Like there's no A. I got the wrong ticket. This is no A. There's no A in these letters here. This is such a drag. I don't buy a lot of these tickets too often. But when I do, I try to win. That's the first thing you look for is no A. Tattoo, technical. So you gotta get a good coin because sometimes they don't scratch good. Meaning, dancing, groan, grant. Oh, please. It gets disappointing when you go through all these that don't have the letter A. And you gotta watch out. I already know that sometimes you'll have one space left. You have to really pay attention. So I got rid of all the A's.  So you gotta play your cards correctly here. You don't wanna confuse the tickets. You can always scan the ticket on your smartphone or at the lottery store just to be sure. So it's always good to do that with crosswords because sometimes they trick you. So there's no A in this first puzzle. So what's the next word? Hitch. So we'll go H-I. There's no T. T's a big letter. So we're gonna go scratch off all the T's. Modest.  Tenner. So that's stride. No good. So we're running out of options here. So H-I-S is. H-I. There's no S. What a drag. So that kills a lot of letters here. Describe. No more S's. So coincide. C-O-I-N-C-I. Yeah, I think I got that. No, there's no D. Jesus Christ. There's no D. So that already kills this entire puzzle. There's only two letters, two words left. Actually no rope. R-O-P. There's rope. See, this was a trick here because. So we got rope. We got R. There's no Y. There's no Y. Y is done and U is done. So there's only one freaking word I got. Horrible. So let's start with this next puzzle again. There's no A. I'm not gonna win this ticket. I can already tell. You can tell when you're just not gonna win. Rambler. Mad. Deal. So all the A's. Audit. Evade. So then what's the next word? Sum. S. There's no S. So there's no sum. There's no excuse. No excuse. No sleeves. For the summertime you have no sleeves. Brazian. So we'll find the next word that we can possibly get under. You got U and no D's. Under can go. Avocado can go. We're running out of time here. Is there a P? P-I. There's no T. I mean if you have no S and a T you can't really make any words. So T kills this ticket here. Let's see, is there an H? H-O. There's no W's.  No W's. So how is done. Wife is done. That's what they say. So we have basically three words left that we can win on. And that's yell, bog, yell, bog, blue and recognize. Is there a B? I bet you there's no B either.  See there's no B. Blue and bog are done. So the two winning words are probably gonna be recognize and yell. So you got, wait, there was no Y either. Crap. I bet you recognize is the only word. No blue. No, there was no B. This didn't win. Crap. So what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna scan the two tickets real quick here. Check your ticket, right? Check your ticket and you scan it. Sorry, not a winning ticket. And then you do it again. Sorry, not a winning ticket. So that's it. Boring. I mean, that's the fast way to do it. I'll show you next time I buy these, a fast way, the fast way to do it. That's it. Maybe next time I'll win. But that's the fast way to do it is to look at the vowels and start eliminating letters rather than doing it one by one. It would take me forever to do it one by one. And that's it for this vlog. Have a good weekend or week. And that's it.