Hi, this is Pramod and today I'm talking about how to monetize a product as a product manager and This is really important in terms of product because if you want to Get the monetary benefit, we'll have to monetize it and before I start with this topic I just wanted to start with my career journey and I started my career with Newell as an engineer and I was doing the product development for one of the retail ERP product and This gave me a good exposure in terms of understanding the business need because it was a bidding system and It gave me an insight First of all to understand how the business works like they want to create some invicing system So I understood how they create invices what are the key fields and they capture In the invices so they need a backend system and a front-end system. So we created the system in SQL server and We were able to capture all the needs of the customer in terms of the invoice processing It was a great experience. Then I joined and still consulting and here I supported two US based clients for the product management perspective and product development perspective and Again, I started with Dell R&D labs In the product space. So here I was working on the package product Oracle ERP and the other Supporting the other processes around to ensure that the product development and the product management is done extensively and It was again a great experience because Dell is like a fortune 500 company and It really focuses on the customer experience. So a lot of learning in terms of that and understanding the product behavior in the manufacturing space and then I Joined to make an express Around 11 and a half years back and it's a great organization to work for and here I have played Multiple roles like I started with an engineer supporting the Oracle product and then Mostly working on the Different platform and product integration to achieve the business need and I was mainly focusing on the supply chain department and other Like the finance department To create the products which are solving the problems in the area of the supply chain and the finance department So again a great experience And I make an express being the fortune 500 company. They always live up to the Customer expectations and they focus on the brand and the quality of work. So As a person, I have learned a lot in terms of the leadership skills in terms of the Technology in terms of the product experiences building the scalable products and Doing the stakeholder management for them. So In nutshell overall I have around 15 experience in the field of the product management product development and Today I'll share my experience How to monetize a product but if you want to you know, check how we can Have the right strategy in terms of product monetization It has some key factors and I can highlight these one by one So I'll start with the Strategy like if you want to launch the product, you know, the How we will if you have a product and we want to launch it what could be the platform for that product? We need to ensure If it is a website or a mobile app or a combination of both Depending upon the need and the business Requirement we'll have to capture this piece and the alignment with the seniors stakeholders needs to be done To achieve this target and this is really important because if we only launch a Product in the website people will use it. So that's one way of People using a product And if we are able to monetize it, we will get You know some money out of it but at the same time if we have the other option where we can Access the application one of the mobiles or you know in the mobile side we have two options now and users will access the application in both the platforms and The user experience will increase and the monetization piece the revenue for the company will increase in that case because at times with my experiences I Found people prefer some people prefer to be in mobile Accessing any any any product and So I think that's a great experience if you are able to launch the product in both the platforms Be it mobile and website So that strategy we need to think through and at times it is difficult To say that You know in the initial phase the company wants to maybe Just check on one of the platforms see, you know, they see the response if the customer response is good And they go with the mobile app also at the latest age. So it's also upon on the budget and other factors you know the Stakeholders needs to be aligned and as a product manager we need to think through Like in the whatever budget is given. We are able to do justice in terms of the Selecting the platform strategy. So that needs to be in place. That is really important and If that is in place the customer experience, you know, that is in all place basically and the This is a higher chance that the monetization result for that product are pretty good so That's one factor Then I'll talk about the other important factor is Pricing model. So if our pricing model is very efficient then again The revenue generation for our product is very high and then as a product manager, we need to think through how Efficient we can make it because we need to, you know Feel the customer pain in terms of pricing because if the pricing is too high It is difficult. So we need to do competitive analysis in terms of pricing whatever Competitors are providing the market and this is that we can do a reasonable Pricing for a product you know in terms of pricing and Also, we should have easy access for the customers in terms of pricing. So basically giving different options in terms of pricing model and if it is a new product, maybe It can be, you know, free for first two to three months See and we you know with that we'll be able to see the customer response, you know register for us once we have good amount of customers and You know, this is the response we can then, you know, put up model place for the subscription and That too has to be very easy when it cannot be like a yearly subscription. So It is difficult. It will be costly. So for the customers to make them pretty easy We'll have to give them the option like monthly or quarterly and yearly all the three options needs to be in place so that People who are comfortable with yearly subscription, they'll go with that people who are comfortable with quarterly They'll go with that and people with monthly will go with that. So that's the trend in the you know market How people try to see and at times people use it for like a month if they found the product is giving a value They try to use it monthly and you know, once customer Spend a good amount of time in the platform like maybe a year and they are confident With the service and the other features of the product And they feel they have a value out of Definitely the customer will increase their monthly or a quarterly subscription to yearly based, you know after a year maybe this is the service which The the company is providing to the customer. So as a product manager, we need to ensure We need to understand the customer requirement at every phase at every phase of a strategy every aspect that is really important and so I Think this is really important to understand how to keep the pricing in such a way that Customers can you know happy to you know, go with that pricing to use that product that ways so this is kind of a You know pricing strategy where we say okay for the first few months We'll try to on both the customers by giving them free access once People are comfortable with the quality. They will definitely go for a subscription based model with us So that's the strategy we need to think through a balance of it. And if you are able to make a good amount of balance Definitely the revenue stream will be, you know, good in numbers. So that's the key focus area And it is really important In terms of pricing so our pricing model needs to be efficient That's the important point which I wanted to convey now. I'll highlight one more point which is Taking the customer feedback Now at times it is very simple That we take customer feedback But there has to be a robust mechanism that we are able to take the customer feedback regularly on our products because Customers are the people who are using our product day in and day out. They know You know All the features of the product because they are using it So they are in a better position to give the feedback if they are if the product is able to solve their problem If the quality of the product is good Any any aspect in terms of if the product is available 24 by 7 If the product performance is good you know We when we create a product and launch it we do The testing of it whether the product is able to meet the Technical requirements the performance and everything but when it comes to the production and the number of users increases Users can only tell the experience the real-time experience So that needs to be captured regularly if we are able to capture those feedbacks regularly we can You know definitely put them in our backlogs and we can try to make our product more efficient Over a period of time and anyways, we always maintain a product backlog in terms of You know just to ensure that we are able to capture all the Customer problems and we are able to solve them. You know quarter on quarter so uh in my view The customer feedback is really important because that gives the real picture about the product how the product is behaving and We have a scope to improve in that product. So definitely that needs to be prioritized Those problems needs to be solved otherwise After some time customer will not be happy to use such a product which is giving problems in some stages maybe the product is You know working very slow The quality of the product is not up to the mark So those things we should be able to solve as soon as we get the feedback we should prioritize that So that's the take which I wanted to highlight in terms of customer feedback because that will uh Ensure that the customer experience is good if you are able to you know improve our product over a period of time But if you are not able to improve our product in the next few months definitely the acceptance of this product will be low and The monetization will go down the revenue stream will go down because of this problem So we should you know focus on taking the customer feedback regularly and ensuring that we are able to capture it solve the problems And then the product monetization will be in you know pretty good shape And then just to highlight in terms of How we can focus on the customer retention because the other piece the other important pieces uh If we could focus focus on the customer retention and customer acquisition. So these are the two, you know big topics or the key points which needs to You know capture if you want the product monetization to be in place because if you are able to retain our customer with the The quality we are giving in the product with these services, which we are giving in the product if they are excellent We can easily retain our customer But if the quality of product and the services offered are not up to the mark Definitely the customer will you know move on with some other product So we need to ensure How we can retain our customers. So there has to be a strategy around identifying the customers Who are along with us even the new customers how we can retain them give them the relevant offers See, you know, we need to do analytics around, you know, what are the You know product features they are using maybe giving offers To them, you know, in a timely manner, which will Encourage them to use this product for long term and be with us. So We need to think through on that aspect How We want to, you know, focus on the retention of the customer That's very important from long term and short term perspective and Once this is in place definitely the revenue stream will grow Because as we are able to retain the customers There is always a word of mouth, you know happening between the Customers, you know, they refer This product to their friends and relatives. So that happens automatically if the product is good And if the product is not good, definitely they will not use our product in long run So we should have a strategy on how we can Uh retain our customer That's really important and now again How to improve our revenue stream, right? So the other thing is the same customers are giving us a good amount of revenue but If you want to really grow this product fast Then we should also have a strategy in place which would capture the needs Of customer acquisition. So we have to do, you know, we will have to do the analysis and analytics on Uh, you know, what kind of customers we need to acquire. So because we now have a customer base in place Maybe with that historical data, we can see what kind of people are using our product like millennials the younger generation The mid-age people or the older age people Maybe those segmentation we need to do and see What are the numbers, you know on the higher side on which category you're good for people And, you know, try to target those audiences in efficient manner Uh, because if you are able to target the right audience The conversion rate for those customers will be pretty high. So we should contact those customers who are you know, really in the space And where they can utilize our product or they can consume our product or use our product So that's a really key aspect in terms of customer acquisition because if the strategy in place month on month our customers will increase And that will increase our revenue and the monetization for that product will be in place So I think, uh, if we are able to capture, you know, all these Uh, specifics in terms of the strategy like the efficient pricing model or the customer feedback the product platform Uh, selection And able to focus on customer retention and new customer acquisition. I think the product monetization Uh, will be a success story for that product and with that I just want to highlight A very important factor, which is kind of indirect factor in terms of, you know, contributing to the monetization of a product Uh, like the technology aspect Technology why I'm highlighting because Uh, when we build a product there has to be a tech platform to support it And that platform has to be efficient. So the as a product manager, we need to align with the engineering team uh, whether You know, which is the tech, you know, tech product, which will Be better to support the product needs. So beta cloud based product or You know, some other, you know database And it has to be in such a way that If we have You know, known data and an instructor data, then whether we need to capture that product in a big data ecosystem or A cloud approach will be much better. So those things we need to think through Affront only with the technology team If that is in place Our product will be like available 24 by 7 because The infrastructure of a product And product platform needs to be in place If that is strong and efficient The product will be available 24 by 7 to the customers Or close to that Otherwise The downtime they could be downtime in the product availability And that will lead to the Experience to the customers, which is not good and In long run that will damage the the product branding and It may happen if this if the product goes down, you know twice or Maybe four times a month Every month for next six months or one year then this is not a You know, good sign for the for the for that product and definitely The customers will not Or the acceptance of this product will go down Month on month because of that issue. So how to solve that problem, right? So upfront only we need to you know engage with the technology team and ensure that We are able to You know, we just technology requirement and we are able to think through and discuss and then put the Tech stack in place, which will support our product needs in any of the platforms be it a mobile app or the website And then The key point in terms of technology also is whatever Tech stack we are choosing that has to be You know that product should be the tech stack should be scalable enough. You know, so let's suppose Initially, we have maybe thousand customers. We have a prediction of We may have between a 1000 to 2000 customers in the next six months And if the product is a huge hit and a success then Maybe in a year it could go up to maybe 60,000 to 80,000 customers So maybe after two years, it will be maybe close to three three four lakhs So year on year the number of customers will increase which means the impact of You know, when so many customers log in to one of the products, you know in a single time The technology platform may go down if it is not up to the mark It's not meeting the requirements of you know, the hardware of that You know the server configuration And the other technology requirements are not up to the mark supporting because every in hardware infrastructure of technology has a cap on Maybe that tech stack and support maybe 10 lakh customers maximum So we need to think through from long-term perspective if How like for the next five years, you know, what could be the number of customers who could you know, join us in the product and The tech stack needs to be in place for that so that thinking needs to be done upfront with the technology So that after one year our product doesn't go down For like six hours or a day And creating such a you know, what's the experience for the users So that should not happen. So if you are able to capture this uh You know the point of scalability in the tech stack The product will be in good shape if the product will be in good shape and able to perform able to meet the needs of the customer it is Not going down and it is you know, 24 by 7 online In that case The definitely the customer will will love this product which is all the time on and somehow the customer base will increase and that will lead to the You know, uh monetization of this product. So we'll get more revenue because of this And if that is not in place the product will lose the customers. So the monetization will have an impact So that so this is a really important aspect the technology which people at times ignore And just put the product into the production and they don't think through Whether the tech stack chosen is you know scalable enough or not and after six months they struggle with the product and we can avoid that very easily by thinking through how we can Choose the right technology product Right technology stack and how we can And whether that tech stack is scalable enough. So if you are able to think through we can Uh, you know, we are in good shape and definitely We will be in a healthy stream of monetization of our particular product And then uh, finally I just wanted to highlight, you know in terms of what are the key points You should focus on when we are You know when we are thinking of you know monetizing the product like choosing the right product platform in terms of the product launch that is really important like It can be a mobile app or a website right so that ways and then the pricing needs to be Very efficient. Uh, that's really important again because It hits the customer Definitely hard if that is not in place and then uh As I said earlier also that the customer feedback is really important. We need to take the feedback and improve the products Then it will have a you know, definitely it will create a difference in terms of customer experience and uh, again customer attention and acquiring customers is really important to increase the revenue stream and One of the hidden aspect is the technology That needs to be in place. We should be you know We should consider this point in terms of how the tech stack can be chosen and how Uh, you know, whether that tech stack is scalable or not. So that's really really important Uh Thank you so much Again, uh, just wanted to thank you for your time. Take care. Bye. Bye


If you're just learning American football, one of the concepts that's probably going to be confusing at first is the idea of downs and yards to go. This is a concept that's pretty much unique to gridiron football, and it's important to understand because on the majority of plays in a game, there will be a down and a certain number of yards to go.  This would mean that our first line of scrimmage is on the 20. At this point, the offense will come onto the field and start with what is called a new set of downs. And on their first play, it will be a first and 10. You'll hear two numbers like that a lot during a game. They'll be on the screen and you'll probably hear the announcer say that it's blank and blank. The first number is what down it is. A down is really just another name for a play or a chance to move the ball. You have four downs to move the ball forward 10 yards. If you do that, you get another set of downs and it's first and 10 again. If you can't move the ball 10 yards in four plays or four downs, then the other team gets the ball. Downs were created to keep the ball moving forward. In football's early days, teams would just try to keep the ball for the whole game so they came up with downs to stop this. It might also seem a little overwhelming for a team to have to move the ball the whole way down the field to score a touchdown. So by continuously getting first downs, they can make it to the end zone by only gaining a few yards on each and every play. So back to our team on the 20 yard line. First down and 10 yards to go for a first down. Which means that they will get another first down if they can move the ball to the 30 yard line in four plays or less. Let's say they do this. First play, they throw a pass which is caught and ran up to the 40 yard line. Our new line of scrimmage is now the 40 yard line and it's first and 10 again, but from the 40. To get another first down, they have to get to the 50 now. On their next play, let's say they run the ball two yards. Our new line of scrimmage is now on the 42 and it's second down and eight yards to go. On the next play, they run again for three more yards. Now it's third down and five or five yards to go. On third down, our offense throws a pass but it's incomplete so they don't gain any yards. Now it's fourth down and five yards to go. Our team actually has a few options here on fourth down. They could go for it and try to get the first down, but if they fail, the other team will get the ball right at that spot. Another thing they can do here is punt the ball, meaning the third punter will come out. They'll snap it back to him and he'll kick the ball as far as he can to the other team. The strategy of a punt is basically the offense saying, we're going to give the ball to the other team, but we would rather they have it as far from their end zone as possible. Technically, a team can punt the ball on any offensive play, but you almost never see it happen before fourth down. Punting will also only happen when an offense is in a certain portion of the field. A team on offense can also attempt to kick a field goal on any play, but like punting, they'll rarely try one before fourth down, and for a field goal, they also had to be close enough. So this next part isn't part of the rules, but let's look at what tends to happen in most games. Generally, if a team has the ball inside the 33 yard line and they get to fourth down, they'll probably try to kick a field goal. Remember, if the ball is on the 33, that would be a 50 yard field goal attempt. If a team is between the 33 and say the 40 or 45, it's usually too far to go for a field goal, but a punt really isn't going to move the other team back too much, so they might actually try to run a play here and try to get the first down. Beyond the 40, they probably will try to punt. In the 2019 NFL season, about 40% of drives ended with a punt, so it's fairly common. Punting doesn't give a team any points, but it's going to gain them an advantage in what's called field position. The closer that you are to the other team's end zone, the higher chance you have of scoring. So it's to a team's benefit to push the other team back as far as they can. If this still seems a bit confusing, there is good news. If you watch a game on TV, you'll catch on to downs and yards to go quickly because of two reasons. First, there's a down and a yards to go on every play except for kickoffs, so you'll be hearing it constantly. The other thing is that on TV now, they will actually draw the line on the field, so rather than seeing this, you would see these lines on the field. The first one will be where the line of scrimmage was when the play started, and the other will be the line to gain or the line they need to get in order to get a first down. That line's usually yellow. If you were to go to a game in person, these lines won't be here, but not to fear. You can always look at these three orange sticks, which is how the players on the field can tell where they need to get in order to get a first down too. They basically show the same thing as the TV lines. So this first one here is the original first down, and it's connected with a 10-yard chain to this one, which shows where they need to get in order to get a first down. The third one will move to the new line of scrimmage on every play, and it shows what down it is. So this play was a first and 10, because as you can see, the one here, and it's in the same spot as the first stick. If this team were to gain five yards on this play, then this stick would move down five yards and change the number to a two for second down. Let's say our offense runs a play, and they get the ball down to the six-yard line. What happens now? We don't have 10 yards left on the field to get another first and 10. So if the offense gets a first down inside the 10-yard line, rather than first and 10, it's now called first and goal. And rather than being able to get another first down, they have four plays to score a touchdown. Or if they fail to get a touchdown on the first three downs, they'll probably try to kick a field goal on the fourth, but not always. Because what happens on a third down will often determine if a team is going to get another first down or end up pumping on the next play. You may hear a game on TV talk a lot about third down conversion rates, which is just a fancy way of saying how many times did the offense get a first down on a third down play. Teams will go for it a lot less on fourth down because they risk losing the ball to the other team on that spot, which is why broadcasts will have to make a big deal about fourth down plays and fourth down conversions as well. Most of the time when a team starts a new drive, which means that they just got the ball from the other team and their offense has now come onto the field, they'll be able to get at least one or two first downs. Some drives will last over 10 plays, but the worst thing a team can do without turning the ball over is to fail to even get one first down. We call this three and out because the offense just had three plays and then they were forced to punt. Quick side note here, you might hear an announcer on a game say that a team was forced to punt. Remember that technically the team can always go for it or attempt a field goal on fourth down too. It's just accepted that a team will punt on fourth down when they're out of field goal range, and that a team is forced to punt, but it's really just a figure of speech. Because of penalties, there's technically no limit on how many first downs a team could get on a drive or how long a drive could last. A penalty will usually result in the loss or the gain of yardage for the offense depending on which team was the offender. So if the defense jumps offside on the first and 10 play, they'll stop the game, move the ball up five yards, and the next play will be first down in five yards to go. On the other hand, if the offense gets a penalty, they'll end up with a first and 15 play.


What's up guys? I'm going to talk about a quote today that I feel kind of like embodies the essence or Ethos of Stoicism. A quote that I think if you understand you Understand how to be a story quite well inspired Epictetus. Now basically Epictetus said Difficulty shows what man are Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a rough young man Why so that you may become an Olympic conqueror, but it is not accomplished without sweat So basically in the same way that In order to be a good wrestler you need to have lots of training put in 10,000 hours of training I guess other competitors in order to be a good musician you need to practice your Craft for hours a day over the years. You know in order to be good at anything you need practice In order to be good at living life Oh, let's be good dealing with the vicissitudes of life You need to be able to face adversity a lot of people want to live in this fairy tale Picture of life where nothing bad happens where they perhaps accomplish something to get the job They want to get the house they want or they move somewhere They get the fitness of they want and they think that everything is gonna be all good In reality life is not like that the nature of life is change things always change, right? You have periods where things are good, but you also have periods where things are going to be bad This is life itself.  You're going to be sick friends are going to betray you You're going to lose your job all kinds of things negative things are going to happen but the difference between the stoic and The average person with the average mindset is that the person who follows stoicism Sees these opportunities as a way to build themselves up They see this opportunity as a way to test themselves to they see these Struggles as the Olympic wrestlers have been put in front of them for them to get stronger and to Be able to deal with these situations in a more stoic way in the future I'll give you an example the other day. I had to take my mother to the hospital, right? She had to get this check up and as soon as I got in this news. I knew that I would be waiting at the hospital for a couple of hours Previously when I was younger when waiting at the hospital. I used to You know complain Get tired be sick be over it and just really hate myself and hate life at that moment while I'm waiting But now that I've developed a stoic mindset I was there for around six hours and it didn't bother me at all because I saw it as a test I saw this as a test of my patience. It's a negative aspect of life, but I didn't resist it I accepted it and saw how I could make that work for me So that's what I feel like store systems all about see how you can turn the situation upside down and make it work for you See the situation as a training obstacle. It's going to make you strong. It's gonna make you better. I Love people suffer with the pain of rejection, right? They suffer the pain of rejection and it mobilizes them They don't want to go out anymore. They don't want to pursue their goals anymore No, no, no use it use it as a way to make yourself better. How can you get better from this rejection? How can you rebound? How can you attract someone better? This is this is true practical stoicism It's kind of like what Napoleon Hill says, right? He says that Every failure that in every failure is a seed of equal opportunity, right? Something along those lines There's always something to gain from the negative aspects of life It's awesome negative regardless of how bad you think it is. There's always something negative to gain I remember there was a story about this guy who I think he got his arm stuck on his boulder, right? and he was trapped so he had to chop off his arm and In order to escape so most people's conceptions This is a terrible terrible thing.  He wrote the story He did a lot of public speaking. He got his book out there and made millions of dollars based off this event So the quality of his life has probably gone up even though he's lost his arm But at the time of losing his arm, he did not see that so see everything as having the chance to actually Get better in the future and see it as a test for you in the game of life So that's one of my favorite quotes from stoicism I'm gonna do some more of these videos in the future where I go over a quote and kind of dissect it But I hope you guys enjoyed that. Let me see you soon. Peace


Let's take you to a new state where the governor, Peter Mba, has inaugurated a seven-man committee on verification and payment of outstanding pensions and gratuities to state retirees. The committee is chaired by Chidi Eberioña, secretary to the state government, and has Kenneth Ubu, head of service, Anthony Okengwa, accountant general, and Obiyama Ka Igbo, special advisor to the governor on public finance and as members. Other members are Ben Azogwa, state chairman of the trade union congress TUC, Febian Webo, state chairman of the Nigerian labor congress NOC, and Ezekiel Ume, chairman of the public service joint negotiating council. I'm happy, it is my honor and privilege to inaugurate this committee on verification, payment of outstanding pension and gratuity of state retirees. The terms of reference for this committee will be as follows. One is to determine and verify outstanding two-month pension areas to state retirees. Two, to determine and verify the outstanding gratuities owed to state retirees. Three, to conduct all payments according to months, years of retirement of officers from service. And finally, to render monthly and quarterly reports to the secretary to the state government in respect of all payments made. Don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


out there's having a fantastic time so today we're at Atlanta Dragway finally we got rain in the distance I can see lightning but hopefully we get some passes in before it gets to us so we're about to make the first pass on the new converter so super stoked I'm hoping we get a good 60 foot time and some traction so we're gonna try to do a hell of a burnout and get these tires hot so we can make the first pass count hopefully because we may get rained out fingers crossed we're in slick tire lane right now so we're gonna be racing some legit race cars definitely probably gonna get waxed but all I'm here for today guys is to see what this converter will do and drop our 60 foot time hopefully so let's get a burnout in and hopefully get a good 60 foot let's go so we just got to get the 60 foot down a little bit maybe a better burnout let's some air out but we did a 1.8 60 foot right there so let's take some air out and beat these tires up a little bit better and try it again hi guys we're about to run pass number two and it looks like we're either gonna be running a new edge Mustang a yellow one or we're gonna be running a looks like a Duramax diesel pickup truck not sure which one we're gonna run yet but either who we're about to run a second pass hopefully we get the 60 foot time down a little bit I wasn't really happy with that first pass it felt like it hooked really good but we've ran 1.8 before on the stock converter so I don't know what happened obviously with a stall converter you know this thing flashes somewhere around the 32 34 range so with that said we should be seeing at least a 10th or two better 60 foot I get the granted you know the DA is about the DA is about 35 to 3700 roughly right now last time I looked but we've been in this condition before and we ran pretty much the same numbers so we must have spun a little bit even though I didn't really feel it so let's try it again guys all right guys we're about to run another pass pass number three hopefully we get some traction and we get a good 60 foot and a good time looks like we're gonna be racing a Caddy Cadillac so do happen we did a lot better we ended up cutting a 1755 60 foot and we ran a 12654 so 1760 foot is the best we have had on the truck this entire summer we have not been under a 1860 foot ever so we definitely went down the track did suck a lot tonight as you seen we were having some hit and miss passes big time so definitely we're probably capable of running one sixes on this converter I would imagine and that'll drop our time some more on top of that mile per hour is also down some tonight and that's probably due to the DA the DA is around 35 to 3800 right now so it's hot it's humid it's just kind of nasty and sticky out here so the truck definitely wasn't pulling as hard tonight that's for sure but bottom line is 60 foot is still not down very low where we needed to be we need to get down to about one six or one five honestly like we did on the nitrous hit nitrous out of the hole we were doing one fives and you know the one five sixty foot took a hundred shot roughly out of the hole so far we're down to one sevens but we're still two tenths away so we'll just have to see what we can do hopefully colder weather we'll get us down there maybe some better tires we might have to go to a full slick we're running drag radials right now so maybe going to a full slick we'll help it out also going to some really front skinny tires may also help out some things too because we're still running basically you know a full-size tire up front but it is a little bit narrower but we're not running you know the three or four inch skinnies for the front but other than that here's the time slip guys and left lane definitely was much better tonight that's for sure both passes or the past we did in the right lane was not even anywhere close to the left lane so left lane definitely was better so other than that guys don't forget hit that subscribe button tap the bell button for the notifications and we'll see you guys on the next one


Sadly, this is something most victims of narcissistic abuse do not do. They give their power away to the narcissist because they think that it will make the narcissist cooperate with them or because they want their validation or because they're just afraid of what might happen if they don't hand over their power. But you must show courage and determination. You must show that you are not going to tolerate it. You must set boundaries to protect yourself because they're always looking for weaknesses. They're always looking for something that they can exploit. So don't let them disrespect you. Stop giving them a chance after chance. If they really want to get it right, they will get it right the first time. Don't believe their excuses. It's intentional behavior. They know what they're doing. They're testing you. They want to see how you react to it because they want to see how far they can push you. They want to see where your threshold is. They want to see what you're willing to accept so that they can push it a little further the next time and the next time until one day you're wondering how it got to this point where you've become a doleman for the narcissist and you just accept it because they gradually stepped over all of your boundaries and broke all of your rules or you never had any to begin with which is why you may now be in a situation where they're just walking all over you. They have no respect for you. They don't care about how they treat you because they know you're always going to give them another chance and they know there's always going to be someone else that they can manipulate, someone who will believe everything they say. They know that they can always get attention somewhere else because it's often the people that are the least attractive and have no direction in life that get the most attention which is why even if the narcissist is overweight and has no job they still have no problem moving on because there's plenty of people out there that are just as fake and desperate as they are which you can see on social media or dating apps and there's nothing you can do to change that. You just have to change what you are willing to accept set your standard set strong boundaries if they act like an unruly child tell them to get out tell them to leave you must have a standard because narcissists will test you they will want to see how far they can go with you if you let them get away with it once they're just going to do it again and again which is why you have to draw a line in the sand right from the start or it will happen again and again it will become a pattern they will treat you like their workhorse they will see you as an object that exists to serve them which is why you have to say no you have to set boundaries don't let them disrespect you show courage or they will continue to walk on over you they will do whatever they want but when you set a boundary and you're willing to cut them off that is when they will make adjustments that is when they will start acting right not because they care about you but because they're afraid that you might leave they're afraid that they might lose the benefits and conveniences that you are providing to them respect yourself and the narcissist will be forced to respect you or they will not be able to be around you anymore because you're not going to tolerate it so either way you win you get the result that you want because you shouldn't want someone like that around you anyway thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you please like, comment, share and subscribe if you would like to donate my payback link is in the video description coaching inquiries you can email me at coaching.narcsurviver.uk thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


Non-governmental organisations under the auspices of Ladies Empowerment Goals and Support Initiatives in partnership with Peace Direct and Religious Leaders have taxed federal, states, government at all levels to ensure the functionality of all 112-3 telephone lines for emergencies, rescue mission response of Nigerians across the country. The medical are the early one in early response consultation meeting with over 30 various groups and relevant stakeholders with a theme, vitalising Nigeria's unified emergency numbers, aimed to reawaken and concertize Nigerians on the existence of emergency call numbers and to also access it when in distress in various parts of the country. The programme manager Timoti Lawrence said the system barely functioned after billions of Naira was invested on the emergency toll-free line and yet Nigerians have yet to be to access it, also noting that all ends must be on deck to ensure functionality of the system. Air to Nigerians and the government should restore the system and also ensure it works while calling on duty bearers to respond during emergency to reduce crime. What we want to do and what we're doing in this meeting is to begin to reawaken the conscience of Nigerians that this number exists and of course pushing even at the national level to the national assembly on how they need to see that they work to strengthen the functionality of this unified emergency call. So far from our research the number is quite not very active. Do a test run, put in calls across this number but all of that have been effort in fertility so and for us we won't follow from nowhere as Nigerians. Like I said to the participant at the cost of the meeting over 10 billion has been expended to set up the system yet it is not functional opportunity across the states in Nigeria. Security agencies should always be prompt, they should always be alert and they should always be prepared towards arresting or mitigating any situation that is constituting a breach to peace of the community of a state or wherever people are found. The identity of people that provides information under confidentiality to these security agencies should be protected and called priests when they are arrested should be properly prosecuted. It serves as a deterrent, it serves as a means to give people hope to see something when they see something. Our commutation system is very effective. You try to send that information it doesn't go second the response you have is not very effective. Maybe ring nobody picks the phone or if they pick them tell you that they have no way to move our system. So these are two and sadly the lack of sincerity of people handling the response activities. What's to them is that they should be up and doing, they should put people around a couple of people who want to do work, not anybody. It doesn't matter. Even if they say junior upside, they seem to work and sacrifice. We should put in that place. Some of the participants who are security agents said there is a need to revive the emergency system to enable security agencies carry out their work effectively and abort security threats, stressing the need for synergy to enable them to gather intelligence. Emergency number to call in the event of any calling trying to revitalize it. We have made recommendations and we wanted to refine it so that it will enable security outfits to carry out their work effectively and for us to have speedy intelligence reports to those numbers and for us to also only able to tackle them properly. The data collection should be able to be worked to active whenever we have reports. Our response should also be act and also we should be very very active to save lives and property. Some times ourselves and members of the community on the effect of AIWA that is only one in any response. And the LA is doing everything possible to make sure that drug abuse incognizance is brought to the minimal level through sensitization of members of the public. It's educating the public about the dangers of drug abuse. NEWS OPDATES


and welcome to the First Unitarian Society of Madison. My name is Kelly Crocker, and I am one of the ministers here. Today, I am joined by my colleague, the Reverend Kelly Aspreuth Jackson, and by the worship team of Linda Warren, Heather Thorpe, Drew Collins, Daniel Karns, and Stephen Gregorius. The vision of First Unitarian Society is growing souls, connecting with one another and embodying our Unitarian Universalist values in our lives, in our community, and in our world. It is a great joy to be able to connect with you virtually this morning. We hope you will be able to join us for our virtual coffee hour immediately following the service. The information for joining can be found on the home page of our website, fussmattison.org, as well as on the slide that will be seen again after the postlude. Our announcement slides will also be shown briefly after today's service, and we encourage you to take a moment and learn about upcoming programs and activities. And I invite you now into a moment of silence as we center ourselves and bring ourselves fully into this time as we join together once again in community. What does it mean to bless? To bless does not mean saying magical words, changing the mind of God, or altering the course of the cosmos. To bless does mean reminding each other of our gifts, remembering the wisdom that is within us, and recalling our common purpose. The choices we make and the work we do are how we bless each other and the world. May the words we say and the songs we sing name the wholeness we are and still yet seek. And if you will join together now in the words of affirmation as we light our chalice, as we come together in worship, we kindle this flame, beacon of tomorrow's, lamp of yesterday's, crucible of this moment. May it guide us through the tempest of hours and years, awake in us the passions of our ancestors, and reveal to us the dreams they could not dream. Let's sing together hymn number 368. Now let us sing. Let's sing again, but to the power of the hope within. Now let us sing. Let's sing to the power of the love within. Here we go, now let us sing. Last chance we're gonna sing to the power of the joy. Now let us sing. Here's a story then from the Buddhist tradition.  And one day this master gathered all of his students around him, such as they were. And he explained to them in very grave tones. I am sad to say that our school has fallen on very hard times. I do not know how we'll be able to continue, except if we take very drastic action. So I am going to need each of you to go out into the village, find whatever you can of value and steal it. Bring it back here. Now of course, the students of the master were very perplexed by this instruction. Eventually someone raised their hand and said, master, you have always taught us that it is very wrong to steal. Master said, yes, I taught you that you should not be ever seen by anyone to be stealing. That is why it is very important that you not get caught. I cannot stress this enough. Make sure that you move quietly. Don't let anyone see you no matter what you do. Still very troubled, but obedient. Most of the students left and went out to fulfill the instructions. But there was one, the youngest one, who continued to sit on the mat, almost trembling, but not leaving, not carrying out the master's instruction to steal. Eventually the master went over to the student and asked, why have you not gone and done what I told you to do just as all of your compatriots have? The student looked up at the master and said, you taught us never to steal. You told us not to let anyone see us doing it, but no matter what I did, where I went, no matter how quiet I was, no matter how stealthy I was, no matter if I did it in the very dead of night, I would still see myself doing it. There's no escaping that. This the master smiled. He said, you have passed the test. You alone among your compatriots. This was exactly what I wanted, at least one of you to say. Now hurry, go and find them and stop them from stealing before they get into any trouble. So friends, let us keep in mind, no matter where we go, no matter what we do, no matter who we are with, no matter why we are doing it, there is nothing we can do that we ourselves will not at least know that we are doing. I invite you now into a time of giving and receiving where we give freely and generously to this offering which sustains our community here and also supports the work of our outreach offering recipient. This week, our offering is shared with mentoring positives who provide support services for underserved youth in Dane County. Through their work, they seek to bolster social skills, self-confidence, and prepare youth for their post-education career. You will see on your screen that you can donate directly from our website, fussmedicine.org. You will see our text to give information there as well. And we thank you for your generosity and your faith in this life we create together. In the gospel, according to Matthew, near the midpoint of the Sermon on the Mount, we find the teacher Jesus instructing his audience on the correct way to do good deeds. Be careful not to practice righteousness in front of others, he declares. Instead, when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing so that your giving may be in secret. This teaching, by the way, is one of many points of agreement between Jesus' philosophy and the counsel of the ancient rabbis. Jewish ethics for charitable giving hold that it is better to be anonymous, if you can be, when giving to someone in need. And that the highest form of generosity is actually double-blind. When the person receiving it doesn't know from whom it came, and the person giving it doesn't know who will receive it beyond the expectation that it will serve some real need. Returning to the Sermon on the Mount, though. Jesus goes on to list other things that should be done in secret, so as to be known only by you and by God. This includes fasting for religious purposes, that is, and prayer itself. All three of these things were laudable and even obligatory in the society of Jesus' place and time.  His justification seems to be that others do these things loudly and visibly so that those who see and hear will take notice and think well of them. But Jesus is never concerned with being held in high esteem by others anywhere in the gospels. And here, he actively rejects it. Trying to chase the opinion of anyone else is a distraction. Only God's all-knowing judgment matters. It has been said by more than one person in more than one way that character is who we are when nobody's watching. When there is nothing to prove or perform and no one to catch us. How we act when we feel free from the threat of public shame or legal accountability or any other sort of exterior consequence of our actions, this is who we are at our most honest and least mediated. The question is really one of intention. Do you act with kindness or with honesty or with courage because you want to be thought of by others as kind or honest or courageous? Or do you do these things simply because they are the right thing to do? In the Christian tradition, there is a long standing debate that actually plays out back and forth in the Christian Bible in several places over salvation by faith versus salvation by acts. Basically whether the goodness of a life is determined by their belief in God and other elements of Christian doctrine or whether goodness is a matter of what a person does, both acts of religious worship and acts of human service. In our history as Unitarian Universalists, we have sometimes been known for a third option, salvation by character. And the emphasis from the beginning of the phrase and only more so over the many years that have followed is on character more than salvation since our forebearers were generally unconcerned about getting into heaven and much more preoccupied with how to heal and nurture this world and us in it. One of the chief functions of religion in the understanding of our theological ancestors and in my own understanding as well is to improve our character, to help us become more virtuous in how we think and feel and in the choices we make in living our lives. The influential and notoriously wordy Unitarian ethicists, James Luther Adams, in one of his rare moments of easy quotability said church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. But if character is what our guiding intentions truly are, not moment to moment but in a lasting way over the course of our lives, then we face the challenge not only of setting good intentions and following through on them, but even just of knowing our own intentions to begin with. Modern neuroscience argues more and more that we are not safe in assuming we truly know our own intentions privately. The decisions we make seem often to be emotional or instinctual and is really only after we've already made them that our brains devise for us an explanation based on conscious weighing of the options, which makes judging a decision by the intention behind or person behind that decision even harder to pin down.  Midway through their ride, the fellow asked him, could it be that you are Hosea Baloo, the infamous universalist preacher? Hosea admitted with pride to being who he was, and this other minister began to question him about his beliefs. So you do not believe in the existence of hell? No, not even for the punishment of truly heinous crimes. No, not even when you imagine that you yourself could be the victim of such a crime.   Finally, exasperated and upset, the man asked Hosea, am I to understand that if I were a universalist, there would be nothing to stop me from killing you and the driver and making off into the night with the carriage? And Hosea replied, no, sir, if you were a universalist, the thought of doing so would not have occurred to you. Now that's a quality zinger, sort of bizarro Oscar Wildeism, if that's a good bit more wholesome than the author was generally renowned for. But as pithy as it sounds, I don't know that it reflects reality, so well, I don't believe that any religious system, including our own, can simply do away with the all too human capacity to imagine doing wrong. For my own part, I have been a Unitarian universalist the whole of my life, and it has offered me no perfect freedom from the thoughts of which I am not proud. Rather than expect myself or anyone else to avoid even thinking of the possibility of doing something wrong, the more relevant moral challenge is to have the whole great flurry of thoughts that most people have in the course of a day and to choose to follow the thoughts from among them that lead us into doing right. The story comes from West Africa about a blind man who lived in the house of his sister and his brother-in-law. The blind man was very wise and very clever and people often came to him for advice, but his brother-in-law only laughed when he saw someone waiting at the door of their house. What use is a man who has no eyes in his head, he would say. Now the brother-in-law was a great hunter and the blind man often asked if he could come along with him into the forest and learn about hunting. One day he finally gave in and said yes. So the blind man and the hunter set out into the forest, the one leading the other by the hand, and the hunter found a place that looked right and he laid a trap there. He taught his blind brother-in-law how to lay another trap nearby and the two of them went home. The next day they went back to the forest to check their traps. The blind man did not need to be led this time, he knew the way now. And they came to the place where their two traps were and the hunter saw at once that they had each caught something. In his own trap there was a little gray bird, but in the blind man's trap there was a great and beautiful bird. It had gold and green feathers, it was lovely. And the hunter thought, what will he know? If I keep this one for myself. And he said, brother, we are both in luck. And he gave his brother-in-law the little gray bird. On the way back home the hunter felt proud of himself for having outsmarted his brother-in-law. So he asked the blind man, tell me, if you're so wise, why is it that there is so much anger and hate and pain in the world?  And the hunter's heart broke. And he said, I am sorry. And he took the little gray bird back and he gave his brother the great beautiful bird that was his. They walked together a while longer until the hunter with his broken heart asked another question, tell me, if you're so wise, why is it that there is still love and kindness and compassion in this world?  This is, as far as I am concerned, what we need spiritual community for. Because the world is full of people like us. People who take and people who give. People who do what is wrong and people who try to do what is right. People who make mistakes and people who learn from them. People with broken hearts and people who are wiser and stronger and kinder because their hearts have been broken. Whether or not we believe that our character can save us, it can most certainly be improved by being in relationship with each other, learning together, struggling together, holding each other accountable and holding each other up when we fall is among the most deeply ingrained values of our tradition, not to define human beings. Whether others or ourselves, as a species or as individuals, solely by the worst things that they have ever done. For this reason, the cause of a humane system of justice, replacing our current legal systems grounding in punishment, is a natural impulse from our theology.  This past fall, the sentencing project, the Criminal Justice Research and Advocacy Organization in Washington, D.C., released a major report on the racial disparities in state prison systems. The details of it are sobering. Black and Latinx folks make up a disproportional amount of the incarcerated population in every single state in the country as compared to white folks. There is no prison system in the U.S. that comes off looking equitable in this analysis. But the particular injustice for us to consider is that the state with the highest rate of incarceration for black folks in the United States is the state of Wisconsin. 6% of people living in Wisconsin are black, but the black prison population of our state is 42%. The degree to which black folks are sucked into our state prison system and locked away is so grotesquely disproportionate that one out of every 36 Wisconsinites who are black are currently incarcerated. Now, I've been involved in criminal justice reform campaigns before and I like to think of myself as inured to the scale of the brokenness in our system. But that figure is shocking even for me. One out of every 36. There can be no credible explanation for such a gargantuan disproportionality other than an enormous bias at every level from our system of policing through the court system to prisons themselves. Like any other great miscarriage of justice, any other wrong of this scale, the vast ratio between black and white inmates in Wisconsin prisons is made possible because relatively few people are watching. The deep seated effects of racism on our courts does not go unobserved as this study obviously shows, but it does go badly under reported and so under considered by a sizable majority of folks in our state and in our country. The solution can't end at just raising awareness of this disparity, but any repair will require that as an initial step. If you're looking to learn more and build strength with others to take action for change on this issue, I wanna lift up an opportunity being offered by Wisdom, the faith-based justice-making network to which we belong through its local affiliate. They will be holding an online training for activists, both new and experienced, who are moving to move to challenge this unconscionable status quo beginning this Thursday night. More information, including how to register, can be found in the latest edition of The Red Floors. There's one more story I wanna share from a long time ago in India. A very wise woman, an impetuous boy who wanted to prove that he could outsmart her. He caught a bird, you see, and he held it tightly behind his back as he approached her, asking, if you're so wise, what am I holding behind my back? The elder woman could hear the muffled beating of the animal's wings and correctly guess that the boy was holding a bird. Ah, he said, but if you're so wise, you must be able to tell me without seeing it, is the bird living or dead? At this, the woman paused. She recognized that the boy was determined to make her look foolish. If she said the bird was dead, he would certainly show it alive to prove he had outsmarted her. But if she said that it was alive, that she could hear that for the moment it was, surely he would crush it in his fist so as to show the dead bird in that way prove he had outsmarted her. Caught between those two choices, she created a third for herself. She told the boy, the answer to your question is in your hands. By this, the boy recognized his power over life and death for the poor animal and felt ashamed of his misuse of it.  Within us, we have the capacity to do right or to do wrong, or at least to intend to do right or wrong. That capacity to choose is bound up with our being human. And it is how we choose that determines what sort of humans we choose to become, most especially when we will be the only ones who know. Each week we gather, bringing with us the hurts and the hopes of recent days. We share these cares here in community, knowing they are held in love. A retired teacher and parent asks us to light a candle of deep gratitude and appreciation for our teachers and all the staff in our schools with a deep recognition and respect for all the new skills required to constantly innovate in ways that support and nurture all of our children. We light a candle of joy for Adeline Elise Ziering who turned one on Christmas day. Parents Creel Ziering and Matthew Doyle Olson share their gratitude for all the support they have received from this community in those early days after she was born. It is very hard to believe that it has already been over a year since her birth and a very happy belated birthday Addy. Lori Schwartz asks us to light a candle of gratitude for lay ministers Gail Bliss, Ros Woodward and Anne Smiley, along with Lorna Aronson, Mary Lee Nelson, Tim Corden, Reverend Kelly C, who have supported her over the past two years and created a large circle of support around her and her family. For all of this, she's incredibly grateful. And may I say, Lori, we are all deeply honored to be a part of your life and grateful that you trust us to support you in this way. We light a candle of encouragement, support and hope for Misty Larson who was recently hospitalized after a fall. We send our love and our prayers for her recovery and healing and hope that she is on her way to better health and much more strength in the days to come. And we light a candle of deep sorrow and remembrance for Lillian Tong, who passed away early last Sunday morning. We send our love to her husband, Tom, and their daughter, Laura, as they travel this journey of grief and memory. Lillian was a remarkable person with a creative spark, a brilliant mind, and a compassionate soul, and she is deeply missed. And we light a candle of sorrow and gratitude for the life of the monk and teacher, Tich Nhat Hanh, who passed away on Friday. May we join together now in a moment of remembrance as we hear his words. This body is not me. I am not limited by this body. I am life without boundaries. I have never been born and I have never died. Look at the infinite oceans and skies filled with stars, manifestations from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time, I have been free. Birth and death are only doors through which we pass, sacred thresholds on our journey.   We meet today, we will meet again tomorrow. We will meet at the source every moment. We meet each other in all forms on the myriad paths of life. There is a law. I'll let us sing together hymn number 292. If I can stop one heart from breaking. Of history run. Let us keep the channels open and free so not to obstruct purposes greater than our own. Let us keep our minds set upon the high goals that here bind us into one sharing fellowship of loving hearts, blessed be and go in peace.