Hey, folks. Good morning. Good evening. Welcome to this webinar session about the paths you can take to break into product management. I'm Ankit. So a quick intro of me. My name is Ankit Sherpaspa. I work as a product manager in DocuSign. So I've been in product field for almost about a decade. I was lucky enough to start off my journey at Microsoft. I first started off on product known as OneNote, which is an Evernote Compete and then worked in the AI world. So the AI cognitive services world and then moved on and boom ranked out of Microsoft, did my own startup in the AI space and then came back to Microsoft in the analytics space and then joined DocuSign about two years ago. I lead a team in AI space at DocuSign and yeah, I am super happy to be presenting today in product school. So just a quick overview of what are we going to be discussing. So I'm going to be talking a little bit about product management and giving you an overview of the role itself and then sort of digging into different strategies that you can take to get into product management and become a product manager yourself. I'm also going to be digging in a little bit into different strategies that you can take specific to the target level that you want to get into. So if you want to start at a very low level and if you're a new grad, what is the best targeted level for you and what are the strategies that you can take? I'm going to be digging a lot into that. Then secondly, I'm also going to be talking about how do you land that FANG interview. So those big companies, how do you get interviews for them, any tips and strategies? I'm going to be sharing all of those as well. So let's get started. Let's talk a little bit more about how do you become a product manager? Product roles now are very competitive. They're very fierce and here's a quick study that I found on the internet where it shows it breaks down all of these big tech giant companies and tells us that about 21% of the employees in these companies are developers, but only 2.7% of them are product managers. So you can see the low percentage of product managers across the board, which makes it a very desirable role. Often it is marketed as the mini CEO role, rightfully so. So just like a CEO, you guide product strategy, you guide product vision, and you work towards driving growth. So growth could mean revenue, it could mean users. And relatively, of course, it has multiple levels all the way from new grads who join in as associate product managers to product managers and then senior and lead product managers as well as directors of product management management. So of course, with years of experience, you move up to these levels and I'm going to be talking about a bunch of these levels and how do you transition from one role to any of these levels. So before we do so, I do want to break a few myths and talk a little bit more about what do product managers do. And when you google this, very often do you find this Venn diagram which says, hey, a product manager is an intersection of user experience, business, and technology. I don't think that's fully true being in this field for a lot of time. I think like, of course, knowing either of these three is a great thing or knowing these three areas is a great thing. But at the end of the day, I think what you're really, really responsible for is setting product vision, product roadmap, the strategy behind this product vision, success metrics, which sort of show you whether you've succeeded in where you were heading or not or whatever was your goal. And then, of course, if you're a manager managing different product managers, then there are other management tasks that you need to do as well. Your day-to-day as a product manager looks like the following. You do customer studies, you do competitive studies, you do vision setting, you're involved in driving your go-to-market strategies, and at the end of the day, you are responsible for driving growth. And again, as I said earlier, growth could mean a lot of things. It could mean growing users. It could mean growing revenues. But that is how your day-to-day is going to look like. You're going to be doing all of these things as well as talking to your customers, as well as setting the right priorities to make sure that the product is heading in the right direction. So if all of that excites you, let's talk about how do you get into product management? Is there a linear straight path to get into product management? Unfortunately, no. I don't think there's a straight path that you can take. You can go take courses at university and get right into this field. Not really. Can you get an MBA and would that qualify you to get into product management? I don't think so. I think, of course, if you have a background in user experience, in business or technology, yes, it does help for you to move to product. But you will have to carve your own path to get into this field. So agenda and question. What should you do? And how should you craft your own path? So let's break this down a little bit. Let's dig into this a little bit more. I sort of talked about these levels. I want to dig into strategies that you can take for each of these levels. So, of course, at the very bottom is like new grads who want to be associate product managers. Similarly, as a hiring manager, I have seen so many consultants, project managers, marketing managers, trying to make that shift to being a product manager or a senior product manager. I think all of these fields and all of these folks with large and different skill sets can definitely jump into the field of product management. Similarly, I've seen staff or principal contributors, so principal engineers who want to be product leaders. I've also seen managers who are like managing different engineering teams who want to shift over and now be responsible for driving product strategy. What do they need to do? What can they do is the question. And I think I tried my best to answer and club all of these strategies that you can take into a single slide and I think we're going to be spending most of our time there. So, let's jump right into it. For new grads, let's start with the bottom there.  You're coming right out of university. How do you become a product manager? I think for most of these new grads, the best way to become a product manager is take some courses, understand what a product manager does. You can do university courses as well as certifications, but at the end of the day, I think what would really, really help you is product management books. I can recommend quite a few all the way from cracking product management interviews to what it takes to grow a product to articles. I think there's a lot of content out there for new grads and I think all of that content is beautiful and you should be reading all of that. I think more importantly, you should be networking. You should be growing your network of how many product managers do you know? You should understand what they do as well as make sure that when these product managers have new open roles in their companies, they're referring you to these roles. I think as a new grad, you have a lot of homework to do and I would certainly encourage you to do so. I think if you need any help, please feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn. I can recommend different courses and different books that you can take and do for sure. The path for the next level becomes a little bit more difficult.  First, I think what you really need to show apart from your understanding of product management is your ability to execute. Can you actually define product strategies? Can you define what the competitors in this space do? You need to be an area expert as well as a person who can execute on strategies. I've interviewed a lot of consultants who come in and who've never really executed on features or are never really executed on products. They've only defined strategies which is a big strike for them. I think apart from understanding what product management is, you need to be an area expert. You need to be an expert in the field as well as an expert in executing any of these strategies that you define. The best way to do so, best way to show this in your resume is let's say you start a small business. It could be any business. I once had a person that I interviewed and we spent a lot of time talking about their renting machine business. It was very interesting. I think that was a great conversation starter for him. That was a great conversation starter which showed that this person had initiated and was interested in commerce. He initiated projects and he executed on them. Even if you start a small business and you learn from its failures, that is more important than not starting anything. I think that would be my top recommendation for you. Similarly, I would say staff and senior are probably on the same band. You need to thrive as an entrepreneur. You need to thrive that small-scale business and scale it up and show that you can scale businesses. I think that is what would fit in well with principal or staff band as well. A lot of times we see entrepreneurs who went from a company that was very small to mid-sized companies and then jump in as principal or staff, product managers. I think that really shows their capability to understand how businesses work, to hire people, to make sure that they understand how competition in that field works. I think that those are really brilliant plus points for them. Now, the last level which is director or M1 and above as we call them, so managerial roles and above, this is very tricky. Out of all of these bands, I think jumping in from director of engineering to director of product is a very, very hard process. I think, of course, you need to not only understand what product management does and have certification and courses around it, but I think and have referrals. But at the end of the day, what we are really looking for is your ability to gather a team, work as a team, make sure that the ICs under your individual contributors under you, you can rally them up to execute on something. So what we call this as impact, showing impact is not impact done by me or I, but impact done as we. And it's fascinating when we interview these people, we are actually looking for the number of times they speak we rather than I. So I think they have leadership interviews where, yes, of course, we want to know what you specifically did, but we also want to know how you gathered people to execute on a mission and what changes did you bring in into the larger picture of the company. So I think director of engineering is the hardest amongst all of them are shifting from director of engineering to director of product. But at the same point of time, I think the best path possible for them is to explore internal, you know, internal openings. I think we're going to be talking about this a little bit more, but switching from a director of engineering in Uber to a director of product in Uber would be an easier path for you rather than going and exploring other businesses, because you would automatically understand what is the business of Uber, you would automatically know people inside that can refer you. So I think that would be an easier switch for you for sure. Now, we talked a little bit about these strategies. I sort of want to change gears. Of course, if you have any questions at any point of time for any of those bands, please do feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn. I can answer any questions. Changing gears a little bit on how and what should you do to even land these interviews for product management. I think here's some very interesting tricks and tips that I found in the last few years of me interviewing. I think first and foremost, if you've not downloaded Blind, I would recommend it. I think people are very, very, very friendly in terms of finding you the right references, finding you people working in different companies so that you can get a reference. So I think one of the greatest apps that I found useful during the interviewing stage was Blind. Of course, if you have a great network, you would know people in different companies. So do have a strong network, do meet a lot of people, do meet a lot of product managers. I think we talked about the second point, which is internal transfers are great opportunities and obviously they're better than you looking outside. If you're higher up in the level band, I would highly encourage you to look for internal transfers first. And I think the third point here is once you start interviewing around, you will understand why this third part is so important. And I'd love to elaborate a little bit more. I think in this current job market as well as when it wasn't that competitive, it was always helpful, not just for me, but for people around me, I've noticed this, to know the hiring manager beforehand. I think you would have to battle just knowing who is hiring and having a conversation with them. Often, I would say in product management, if you throw your resume into a company portal, it's usually most likely a black hole. So I think what you really need to do is find the right people and help connect the dots between the right people in that company to the hiring manager who's hiring in that field. And I think that would be the best thing you can do. And that would be 50% of the battle right there. And once you do have that interview landed and once you have contacted your hiring manager and once you have that referral, I think what is super important for you to do is understand the business in and out. I think, so a quick example, like you should know, so let's say you're interviewing an Uber, you should know how many sides are there in this business. There's the side of drivers who actually drive these Ubers. There's a side of customers who are actually taking these rides. And then of course, like, hey, you are the application doing the interaction between these two. So I think knowing each side and each persona of this business is super important. Similarly, I think once you do have your first round landed and you have your first round locked in, what helps me personally is talking to product managers in that specific field. So again, I'm not publicizing for anyone, any website or anyone over here. But I think what has really helped me is like going to try Exponent and finding product managers in that company or product managers in that field that I can interview with. So if I was interviewing for Uber, I would go find a product manager in DoorDash or I would go find someone who is willing to do a one-on-one quick interview with me for 30 minutes. It could be paid, it could be unpaid. But I was willing to spend in those extra dollars to go do a quick mock interview session with a product manager in that specific field. I think that really, really helps. It sort of opens your mind into what are they exploring in that field. It opens your mind into different areas that you must have not thought of before you talk to this person. So how do you land the big fang interviews?  But I think what is, and I've compared only two over here, I think what is interesting to see is like Facebook, and just to give you some context, I actually did crack the Facebook interview earlier and I had an offer from Facebook and I did not take it. I actually used it to match Microsoft's offer, which was very interesting and that's another technique that I'll talk a little bit more about after matching later on in some other session. But I think what is very interesting is the larger the company, the more standardized their ways of interviewing are. You can see if you ever interview for Facebook, they have these three sessions and one or so they have five interviews, two interviews, our phone interviews, and then there's three more interviews which are on site, but essentially they're all about these three things. Product execution, product sense, leadership, and drive. Product execution measures the way you look into metrics and the way you look at success of a product.  Leadership and drive is more on the behavioral end, so it sort of tries to understand what kind of leader you are and there are definitely behavioral questions overall. So these are very standard sort of product interview settings or interviews and you would see the same overlaps in Google with one or two more editions. So I think preparing for them means finding certain frameworks for answering questions for each of these areas. So product sense has certain frameworks, you want to make sure that all of these, you know all of these frameworks, you've practiced all of these frameworks and you become so good that you actually don't even remember what the framework was, but you just follow these steps and then each of these steps have nuances which make you good to a great product manager and I'm going to be writing a post about this as well. I think what is super important is to keep practicing enough times to go from a good to a great product manager and that great product manager would be able to dig in deeper into each of these areas. So yeah, I think one key point over here is to get your first call, you need a referral. You need to know someone in Google, you need to know someone in Microsoft, you need to know someone at Netflix because these company portals are basically just black holes.  I think what you really need is someone for you to file that with a reference and don't be shy in asking people for filing for references. I think a good amount of new grads don't really know that if our references succeed, as I referred you and you do get a job, I actually get a certain amount of money. So I think do not be shy at all for asking for references. I think it's a great way to get your foot in the door. So just a few more tips and we can sort of stop here. Yeah, I think what is very interesting and I think when you start practicing for these interviews, you'll notice that let's say product sense has a standard framework, but going from a standard framework to a very deep dive in deep dive in framework would require you a month. And I think that's that's all about practicing every day. And I think, you know, use books, use people, do mock interviews, and you'll get better at it. It's not rocket science. And then I think a few more tips around interviewing itself. So generally, now, most of these interviews are virtual. So even if it's an onsite, you can ask your recruiter to space out these interviews. So have two interviews in one day and three on the other. And I think that really helps mentally, at least for me, what I've seen is I need those 15 minutes breaks between two interviews to reset myself. And if I have two interviews, I think that's great. I can channel all of my energy into those two interviews. I think after the fourth or the fifth interview, definitely I am almost ready to give up. So I think space, you know, like spacing it out over certain days or spacing it out over over days, definitely helps. And then I think I made this point earlier. I think large companies have standard set of questions. So if Microsoft has certain sets of questions, of course, you know, interviewer can bring in their own question. But most generally, you will find, you know, questions similar to those standard questions online. So what you really need to do is have unique answers, have creative answers, and don't be shy in being creative. I think what most of these large companies are looking for is how unique can you be in your thought process? And no answer is wrong. Every, you know, in most of these cases where you're looking into product sense questions as you go on into your interview, the more creative you are, the better you will be. So trust me, just, you know, think outside the box. And I think the last one, the last point that I sort of added over here, and this is with me interviewing people, this is with me interviewing, you know, more and more people, what I've absorbed now is competition is fierce. And I think you will need to actually ace all of the five or six rounds or six interviews that you have. Earlier when, you know, the market wasn't this tough, you could sort of go through the loop and ace five out of the six, and you could probably still get an offer. But unfortunately, I think the market has turned quite a lot and you will need to ace all of them. So there will be a little bit of preparation required for you to ace all of these rounds for sure. So yeah, I think we're almost at a 30 minute mark. So I do want to talk about offer negotiation, but that's the next session that we're going to have. I will walk through strategies of, hey, how do you make sure that you have landed more than one offer and how do you make sure that, you know, once you do have that, what sort of strategies do you use to make sure you're coming in with an higher base or an higher, you know, equity offering? So yeah, I think that's topic for next time. Until then, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn. Add me, follow me, just throw in questions. I would love to answer them for you, keep a look out for those articles where I deep dive into, you know, product sense and product execution and how you should be varying your answers according to the levels that you're targeting. So yeah, let me know if you have any questions and thank you so much for attending this session. Appreciate it and hope you have a great day.


Hi there. I'm Sandy Alnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube. And today I'm going to make some penguins as shepherds. I'm joining in with some friends to celebrate Ellen Hutson's 12th anniversary. So we're doing an Instagram hop and my card will be on Instagram. You can see how I laid out the Arctic pals there with some masks when I did my stamping so that I have the two penguins in front who are going to be my shepherds and the flock that's behind them, which is all of those polar bears. The animals are all in the same stamp set and yes, they are out of scale that way, which is what kind of made me think they looked like they could be the sheep that go with the penguins if the penguins were shepherds. So they look like little gummy bears kind of size that way. I don't know. It just struck me as funny. And one of the things I'm going to be doing this week and not on Thanksgiving, but the rest of the week, I'm doing a variety of nativity cards. Some of them are funny like this one. Others are more serious and it's in different mediums and I know how you guys like to have a whole week of something. So all week long just keep your eyes peeled for some fun and interesting nativity types of cards. Yeah, you know, sometimes I just come up with a theme and I didn't even know I had a theme going. So with this one, it stamped onto watercolor paper and you can see I'm trying to paint blue. They have so much pink in my brush that it just kind of kept the pink turning purple. So I had a little bit more blue to it.  I just wanted to get it good and wet because I wanted to roll the color around. I love just watching color move and watching the textures that it makes and the lines that it makes and dropping other color into it and testing out like how what happens if I put more watery pigment in? What happens if I put thicker pigment in and just playing with it? And I thought I'd let it run down and see if it was going to run down past the stamped images and it didn't. It stayed where the water was. There's one little spot in the center that had already dried, so it didn't go any further past that. I don't have to fix that with a brush, but it's kind of interesting to see that it stopped where the water's edge stopped. I guess there's a saying, something like that, but just wanted to add some colors here and just tip the board around in different ways, add more colors, move it around and just play. If you were to choose a different stamp set to use for this, maybe you have a bunch of sheep that you can stamp and just use some masking to make them over a hillside behind whatever you're going to use for your shepherds and just have fun with the background. You could use distress inks, you could do airbrush back there, you can do all different kinds of things, whatever you find simplest and quickest. For me, watercolor is just the most fun right now. I'm really enjoying it. I know that I'm known for my Copic work, but boy, watercolor just makes my heart happy and keeps me learning because I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I love the whole idea of learning. That's what something like this helps me to do, is just learn what's going to happen. I have learned that I need to cut my watercolor paper bigger than my card front, and I have done that here because notice that it dries a little unevenly. There's extra water collected around the outside edges because it's pulling in from the outside from the board that's there. If you have your thing taped down, you're also going to have that. But what I find is if I cut my paper a little bit bigger, planning to shave that off using a trimmer, then I can just kind of go up to the edge and go crazy. If I have taped down, I'm going to end up with that edge around it and then I don't have any room to trim it down. So I just use a little bit of adhesive underneath to glue my paper down to my board. For the rest of the painting, I'm really going to keep it super simple. I put a little shadow underneath of my penguins, and I'm sorry, this is a little bit blown out so you can't quite see it. When the camera tries to look at the dark background of the board, it just gets confused as to what it's supposed to do with the light settings. But I'm putting a really pale color on my polar bears.  It doesn't have to be much at all, just enough to separate them from the snowy hillside in front of them. And then I wanted to add a little bit more extra color underneath of my penguins. So they have a little more presence that pulls them forward and the little polar bears are kind of pushed to the background. After I have all my card assemble, I've got it on a layer of black and on the card base, I stamped my sentiment and embossed it. And now I'm going to just draw on my shepherd's crooks for my little penguins to hold and then add some stars to the sky. You can make a north star by just making a crisscross and then making a kind of a diamond in the center to make it look like it's got a little bit bigger middle to it. And then I added a bunch of stars in the sky as well. So for me, this is a really simple card. It was a lot of fun to make and it makes me smile, which is a big thing in my world because smiling is a good thing. And we could use a lot more of it in this world. So this is, as I said, part of the celebration of Ellen Hudson's 12 years. We're doing a surprise Instagram hop for three days this week. So make sure you follow on Instagram and go see everybody else's cards as well. And I will see you again tomorrow with more in my nativity series for this week every day, except for Thanksgiving because, you know, we got to take a break. I'll see you guys soon. Bye bye.


Highly intelligent people are very strategic, often process information faster and make more rational decisions. This makes them more efficient at work, more confident and reliable. Being intelligent is a gift. Not everyone is this gifted. There are, however, challenges that are unique to people who are this gifted. In this video, I'm going to show with you the 10 struggles only highly intelligent people have with you. 1. Overthinking situations Most smart people are intellectuals. They study quite a lot and think things through before taking action. While this is a desirable management rate in making management decisions, it can be a bit problematic in risk taking. Because smart people are used to considering different possibilities. Even when they see a great opportunity, they are skeptical about it. A highly intelligent person wants to always control every situation and outcome. Still, in real life, this is hardly ever possible. Therefore, they are more likely to lose out on risky profitable business opportunities than people who are not as intelligent. People that are not smart trust mostly their gods, while people who are very smart trust facts. According to Business Insider, a study published in 2015 found that verbal intelligence is linked to worry and rumination. The smarter you are, the more likely you are to think about ramifications of your decisions. You may even find it impossible to make one. 2. Attendancy to this regard hard work Because you discover at a younger age that you do not have to make as much effort as others to make excellent grades. It might make you complacent with hard work. You may start thinking that hard work is reserved for others and not you. When you have this mindset when you are younger, you may never reach your potentials because you are not ready to invest the work needed to accomplish that type of success. So many times, smart people are passed on during promotion. This is seldom because their supervisors don't think they are intelligent. It is often because they are arrogant. They turn in their work faster than others and don't want to take on more work. According to a study published by ScienceDirect, how hard you work is in fact negatively correlated with certain types of intelligence. Highly intelligent people might feel like they don't need to work as hard to accomplish what they want. If you are highly intelligent, don't get cocky. You still have a lot to learn. If you knew everything, your boss would be working for you. And Bill Gates will be asking you for advice, except that there are things that others can teach you and approach work with an open mind and be ready to collaborate and work on teams with others. 3. High self-esteem Highly intelligent people are always more likely to be overconfident than people who are not so intelligent. This is probably because at a young age, highly intelligent people have already seen some success. This improves their confidence in their intellect and work. This type of high self-esteem, while a good thing, can lead to condescending behavior towards others. According to American billionaire Bill Gates, success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Being confident in yourself is good, but being overconfident can be a problem. You really do not have all the answers.  Even scientists who discover more uses for nuclear material do not work on their research alone. Peach your idea boldly, but listen to feedback from others and learn every day. You can learn from anything and anyone. Isaac Newton basically discovered gravity from watching apples fall. 4.  They process thoughts logically and execute their plans and steps. They also operate strategically. This influences the way they interact with others, and they hold themselves to very high standards. They want everything to work out exactly as planned, things hardly ever do. A highly intelligent manager is more likely to sign off products for market consumption than a not so intelligent manager. The highly intelligent manager may never really be satisfied that the products are ready. On the other hand, the other manager is more open to signing off the project and making improvements based on customer feedback with time. This knack for perfection makes highly intelligent people very indecisive about a lot of things, accepting that it is okay for things to not be perfect can help smart people come to terms with life's experience. It can also lower anxiety and stress over things that one shouldn't worry about in the first place. 5. Have more responsibility The tendency to be assigned more responsibilities than others is higher when you are very intelligent. The general assumption is that you would do a better job. Naturally, intelligent people perform tasks better than others, but they are humans too, and sometimes the pressure can be too much. It's upside is that you learn a lot and gain more experience than your peers. On the downside, you may have longer working hours and have to attend a lot of high level meetings that you may not be fully prepared for half the time. 6. They often have a high expectation of others Because they are so used to doing things smartly and efficiently, they also expect the same from others. This can lead to friction between them and their coworkers because everyone processes stuff at their own speed, and trying to make the person do otherwise is not only rude, it is cruel. The company cannot employ only you. You need to learn how to manage your expectations and work with others better. You don't want people to creep because of how badly you treat them. 7. They are afraid of making mistakes Because of the high expectations people have of them, they are afraid of falling short. It is very easy to decide who one is when there is so much expectation. You can't even answer a simple question regarding why you are doing what you are doing. Intelligent people sometimes lose focus in their own goal to leave up to standards that people have set for them. Working very hard is great, but working with purpose is better. When you work very hard simply because you don't want someone else to be disappointed, you would feel terrible if the person ends up disappointed. If the goal was to give in your best and learn why you did it, the feeling is different. You will more or less see the result as one of those moments you work hard and think still the workout. You need to avoid toxic bosses too. If you work in a place where you are verbally abused as a way of motivation, you need to leave. Your mental health is more important than whatever experience you think you can get there. You can always get it elsewhere. Number 8. People have a high expectation of them. Do you feel under a lot of pressure all the time at work? Does everyone seem to want you to work with them on a project? Welcome to the nightmare of intelligent people. You will always be giving tasks even when others are free and expect it to deliver quality within a short period. This can be really demanding, but you get used to it. Everyone who is highly intelligent in the workplace faces this challenge. Number 9. They trust your intelligence too much. Gut-filling is also the right way of making decisions that most intelligent people don't trust. For venture capital firms that invest in startups, while the application may be high, the market is ready for it. And the team is incredible. You can never be 100% certain that the venture will fly. Most times, big investors invest from experience. They can tell intuitively if a deal is good or bad. It is quite risky. And intelligent people who rationalize everything are unlikely to make such deals. Trusting your intelligence, while good, can sometimes make you miss out on a lot of opportunities. Sometimes, taking a leap of faith makes all the difference. Number 10. They stand out too much. Sometimes, you might feel like becoming smaller when you are very intelligent. From just answering questions in class, the lecturer will always want you to contribute in class. But this doesn't apply only to college. Even while working, if the CEO visits your branch and is making some inquiries and you answer brilliantly the next time he makes a round, he or she will look out for you. Because of how eloquent and confident they are, highly intelligent people always stand out. As long as you are intelligent, even when you run your own enterprise, you might still encounter some of the struggles daily. A great way to deal with it is to take it for granted that they are there. Strive to work better with people and be happy. This way, nothing that happens moves you.


The point of the story is to highlight the incredible ways to watch TV on the Vision Pro. And I think that's where we're seeing Apple understanding that that's their killer app. That's the one thing that you can buy this and no matter what, it will blow you away. It seems like in all the reviews that I have read, that is 100% on point. And Apple is in the entertainment business. I am more of a practical person. Okay. What else is this thing for? And it does a lot. What Apple wants this to be is the iPad experience. People only thought of an iPad as a consumption device initially. It has since blossomed because of the power on it to be a laptop replacement for a large amount of the public. The problem with the Apple Vision Pro is that it's priced as a laptop on your face now. So you better be able to do some work on it. In the meantime, it's a great consumption device. Hooray!


Varl TikTok reveals disturbing turn of events at an Appalachian art retreat in Harlan, Kentucky. I had got invited to come to the event through my art mentor, which is someone that I trust wholeheartedly. I know she wouldn't ever put me in any kind of questionable situation or, you know, there wasn't any level of thought that went into where she was taking me or what I would be engaging in. The Waymakers Collective curated a week filled with artistic performances, workshops, shared meals, film screenings, and interactive art sessions. Everything is going well. We're networking. You know, some people meet each year because they're just so used to coming and they're part of the collective. So they're looking forward to reuniting with old friends and, you know, it was just a really loving spirit in the air. It was almost heavenly. The incident occurred on Saturday, August 19th, when an unannounced group of individuals comprising both men and women arrived on trucks and ATVs. I'm just seeing one person, two person, three coming off the hill from the direction of the chapel, just falling, just completely in distress. I mean, and these are people that, you know, just the day before we're looking around and they're just like smiling from ear to ear. A beat. Now just totally distraught. So some palm colored supremacists showed up and said that we were desecrating their space and demanded that we leave. We had a lot of members that hold identities and we didn't want to escalate the situation and the police said they couldn't guarantee our safety for the night. So we all, about 50 to 75 of us packed all our things and went back to our respective locations. Some of us drove, like I said, three to four hours to get there, but yeah. Did you hear about the wireless plan with no credit check? No contracts but tons of great features. It's forward pay with Appalachian Wireless. Steals start as low as $19.99 per month for unlimited talking text and no long-term commitment. Use your own device or ask about deals on the latest and greatest devices, some as much as $250 off. Forward pay on the region's best network. Because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. The Appalachian Wireless.com for terms and conditions. The spot Tintin's physical harm was avoided. The unexpected group lingered for over an hour conveying a clear message that they were being watched. I do want to clarify. I think that from the TikTok, I think it gave a lot of people the illusion that it was solely a racial issue when that's probably played a factor in that us versus them aspect of it because we were a mixed group. But it was more so from what I'm gathering and from the Waymakers Collective explanation of what happened. It was more so feeling like a religious space was disrespected or not handled how it should have been. In an official statement, the Waymakers Collective explained that they had set up a healing space in the chapel for attendees to rest and reflect, emphasizing that it was designed to be inclusive and welcoming without promoting any particular religious tradition. You know, it's probably been about a week and some change since this happened and I'm just getting back to myself and I think that that has a lot to do with just how quickly everything, everything unfolded before I even had a chance to process what happened.  The incident highlights the ongoing struggle for acceptance and the need to create safe spaces for artistic expression. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Ethan Miller.


All right, I'm going to do it. I'm going to reveal to you the secret place where I buy the majority of the CRTs, including all the professional video monitors and broadcast video monitors that you see me working on on the channel. And that is eBay. Yes, unfortunately, eBay is the most convenient place to purchase CRTs from, but it is also one of the most painful places to purchase CRTs from. So today I have a couple of unboxings for you, actually a trifecta of CRTs that all were bought on eBay and all were shipped through ground shipping. And I just want you to go ahead and guess how many of those three actually survived that shipping process before we get into it. But that's what we're doing today. Let's go ahead now and start unboxing some CRTs. All right, it's already been a crazy week here. We've got a lot of deliveries coming in. And I finally have a CRT. I've been waiting to get here in the shop for over 10 business days. You know you're in trouble when ground shippers like UPS hold on to your rare CRTs for over a week, much less 10 business days. Now what I'm going to show you here is one of the most disgusting, awful, ugly boxes you're ever going to see a 14M4U Sony CRT PVM packed in. Look at this. Drawings on it. Marmite, Matt, G-Wiz. I just love Marmite. The seller didn't even give me a fresh box. He just repackaged a $500 CRT. And that's how much I paid him for it. A $500 CRT in a box like this. So let's just see what happens. I'm not very confident this is going to survive. I mean, just look at the outside of the box one more time and then we're going to crack it open. There's like foam peanuts on the outside here. Let me get some more drawings over here. Food, fragile. Oh my goodness. Let's crack it open and see what nuts are inside. I've already opened just the top of it and we're going to open these flaps now and we're going to see what mysteries are held within this hideous packed box. Hopefully it's not just destroyed in here. Looks like our mystery is buried within a pile of peanuts. Packing peanuts. Of course, that makes the stuff even more fun. Alright, I feel it down in there. Let's get some of these packing peanuts out of the way. Well, thank God that's done. Check out this box. I just ripped the side, pulled out the monitor.  Use a really old box that's already been beaten to hell and then just fill it with 10 pounds of styrofoam peanuts and wrap it in a single layer of bubble wrap. See if this seller gets a lucky break or will I have to file a return. Of course it's going to be a return. Look at this for brains. Goodness gracious. I knew it was going to be like this. Look at that box. Look at that. Just ruined. Unbelievable. Well, not unbelievable, but look at it. Buzzles bested all the way in. Screw this. This has been such a nightmare of a transaction to deal with. This thing's getting returned 100%. So wow, that's unfortunate. I'll show you some more pictures here of what this CRT looks like, but it's just a mess. We've got a broken bezel at least. We've got broken boards. Real tragic ending, but this one's definitely going to be a return. There's no way this seller is getting away with packing it like this and going to get to keep the money. So maybe I'll get to keep it for parts.  Let's check out these other unboxings that I did and hopefully they'll end up a little bit better than this poor guy. Well, hey guys, welcome back today. I'm out here in the lovely loading dock and I'm out here for a reason. I actually bought two Sony PVMs recently, and this time we're going for the big ones. So you've seen a ton of unboxings of me working through 14-inch PVMs, and those are about 50-50 on whether they get packed right and arrive, but we've got the even more illustrious 20-inch one today. And this is a part of, again, two CRTs that I purchased, and one of them has already arrived here. So I've got to open it up and see what happened to the CRT. All right, this box is just super flimsy. It's not tough. Personally, I don't think this has a great chance of surviving, but I've been wrong in the past. Let's hope I'm wrong again. All right, going to flip this open, and we have some bubble wrap. Oh, and I see, see down there? It's the back of the CRT. Nothing's broken right here. This is so, I'm so nervous right now. Look at this. Just literally like it's been rolled in this wrapping and dropped in this box. Oh, it doesn't feel broken, please. Tell me you survived. Tell me you survived. Here's the top. Let's look at the screen together. Okay, we've got CRT out. I can't believe this. This is the only reason I was a little bit hopeful. It's the 2030s. I can tell they don't have all the knobs and little protrusions on them, like the other PVMs that are the Medical and M series and other CRTs with all the knobs and all the pull rack mount things. This is just one button, and it has the button. When I bought it, I thought it didn't have the button. Now we do have, look at this, some separation right here. So I don't know whether that was before, because that's right up there against that line. And no, look, I'm sure this happened because of the shipping. Look at that. Got a little bit of separation here, because of course, it's probably been dropped. It was shipped by FedEx. Really, the only thing I can do is hook this up and test it out and see if it does work. So even if there is that little bit of plastic, I can deal with that. I just hope that internally it's going to be fine. So let's go get it set up and see what it does when we power it on. I'm ready to test this thing out. I've got a Super Nintendo over here hooked up, and it's hooked up using the first line, line A, or video one, and it's composite. And I'm not worried about audio because I don't have any speakers hooked up to this right now. I'm just testing single composite video. All right, let's hope nothing explodes. Let's push the power button here. Should hear a gong. Yeah, I'm hearing a gong. Definitely got some static control, line A. Let's see if anything pops up on the screen. Nothing. Oh, hang on. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm using this crazy ASCIIWARE ASCIIWARE controller, and it's got about a thousand things pressed in on it. Let's reset that. Oh, look at that. Wow. Okay, so since it's so bright out here, the camera is not wanting to pick that up on screen, but it works. I'm going to let it run for a little while. You can see our T-Mios 240p test suite as it scrolls, scrolls. All right, so I don't know what kind of miracle I have happening here, but this one looks to have survived, and I'm going to let it run for a while, and we'll see if it continues to work. Okay, I'm going to be very curious to see if the second PVM 2030 arrives in this good a condition, because I'm sure it's not going to be packed any better. So let's just see what happens when that thing arrives. Today it's not as nice of a day. A lot of rain out, and so that makes it really much more risky for CRT delivery, and of course FedEx, you know, they're aiming to disappoint here, I believe, because this box looks pretty darn awful compared to the first one. All right, so here it is. I'm not going to show you the labels on it, but the box just looks messed up. I mean, like I came out here, and this is how it was. I could stick my hand in it and feel the PVM. Not a good sign. So I'm going to strip this thing open, and maybe we'll get lucky since it's a 2030 and it's pretty hardy. All right, that box obviously has taken a beating, and I don't see any major d- oh, I do see some damage look down here. We got a separated bezel here. Oh gosh, I knew that we're going to break something. Let me see. Yep, of course, so definitely we'll be filing this for damage because there's broken plastic in there, and just still wasn't a great packing job, but that's disappointing. Let's turn it over and see if the power's on, and see what happens. See, look, the power button's not there, but I knew that was the case on this one that it didn't have a power button. Well, Super Nintendo is connected over here just to composite, and I decided to add a layer of tape around the bezel to hold it together because there is some breakage as I showed earlier, but it's been playing for a while. It's holding together. The image has been stable, no jumping or anything like that. Well, what you see here are rolls of the bubble wrap that the two 2030s were packed in. It was literally two big wraps of the bubble wrap, like brand new rolls, and then a partial roll, just those three. So it's pretty amazing. I'm glad that I was able to recycle this, and I'll get to reuse all this. Got it neatly rolled up here, but the CRTs have arrived. You can see that right there. I taped up the second one, which had the damage to the bezel. I'm still waiting to hear back from the seller on that. Maybe they'll give me a little bit of money back on it. Otherwise, I can fix it, and I do have a replacement button to fix that right there. So that's not a problem at all. But yeah, there you go. 20-inch PVMs that were able to survive some ground shipping, and this is probably the only one that could survive this type of packing. If you're going to ship one that's in the format like the other PVMs with all the buttons along the sides and the bottoms and the knobs and every little hook and piece of plastic on the front there, those don't hold up nearly as well in ground shipping. I guarantee that if there was two 20M2s, they would have both broken from this type of packing. But thankfully, these are saved, and they're going to get a full treatment for cap kits, adjustment, and things like that. But I've already done so many videos on the 2030 that I will link those videos for you in the description of this video so you can see just how to adjust this set, all the special features of the 2030, and things like that. So if you want more information, please do check out the links below. And what do you think? What about the survival rate here? We are at about 50%, because one of those 2030s wasn't in good shape, but I wound up keeping it anyway, even though I could have returned it for a full refund. But that 14M2 for you, that's definitely gone, returned. However, I'm not stopping. I'm going to keep on buying Sony CRTs and PVMs and things like that on eBay. Like this box right here, we have another PVM that I did order off eBay, but this one has arrived in a much tidier box. Now you'll notice this is much smaller than the last, well, three boxes all were, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but that's probably the only concerning thing. This does have a 13-inch Sony PVM inside. All right, let's see. Okay. So this is much safer of a packing option. We've got this expandable foam that's been used, and what happens here is that foam forms around the PVM itself or CRT or whatever you're packing, really. It's not super thick, but I guess it doesn't have to be. See that's set over top of the front and top of the PVM, and then there's the monitor itself. It's actually in a bag to protect it, which is nice. Here's our CRT. Yeah, the box looks like it held up pretty well. It's definitely a double wall box. See how it has two layers of cardboard there, so that's going to be within spec. Also, the foam here is nice on top and bottom, so this probably would meet all the specifications for insurance if there's any damage, but that doesn't really mean anything. We all know that ground shipping carriers are notorious for throwing these things all over the place. Let's see what our CRT looks like. Okay, that's pretty good. So we don't obviously have any damage to our bezel, and buttons and knobs all appear to be fine. Let's check out the bottom for a second. Nothing appears to be broken under there. It's a good sign. This is in really good shape physically. Take a look at the label here. We have a Sony PVM 1350. It does RGB, S-video, and composite video. I'm going to actually take this one inside, and let's put it on the test bench. We're going for big time, and we're using RGB external sync. We've got ACN, and then we're going to go from the Sega Genesis to this Insurrection Industries SCART cable into that adapter from our modified Sega Genesis right there, and let's just spin around our PVM and wave hello one more time and see what happens when we energize it. This is it. You hear that? I've never heard one make that noise. Let's not let it blow up first. I'm going to have to open it up and see if I can find anything out. All right, check this out. We've got the power supply disconnected from sending power into the monitor, and I've been using my multimeter, and I'm testing the output voltage along this rail right here. The 5 volt A, I've tested it to ground, and it's showing 5 volts, but the 5 volt B is showing 0 volts, meaning that something in that line, most likely the transistor, is blown, and we're not getting 5 volts along that line like we need it. All right, so this is me reading 5 volts for ground A. See how it's reading 5? This is B, like next to nothing. And now I'll check the 15 volt line. 15, that's good. All right, so I found a replacement power supply, and now I've got an opportunity to get stable power into it. Let's turn it on. I'm still getting a lot of disturbing noises. We've got our red, green, and blue lines here, which means we've definitely got some deflection cap issues. We at least got it started, but this is not normal. If I was to put it in A, there's no signal going into it. The capacitors are actually warming up, and the current is almost stabilizing, and that's why we have no more jitters, and the screen is actually trying to expand out here as I continue to let this warm up. So I'm going to let it warm up a little bit longer, and maybe it'll get as close to almost normal as we can see, because I really want to recap this and see how much better it can look, but this has definitely got very bad capacitors in the deflection area. I went through and tweaked some of the geometry settings, and this was about as clean as I could get it without damaging the chassis by pushing it to places it shouldn't go, really. It definitely needs a recap in the deflection area, if not more areas of the board back there. I can actually start to smell some of the capacitors getting warm, and you get that fishy smell, so there's definitely some of them that have gone bad, but the tube thankfully looks nice and sharp, no burn, and this should all be fixable, all of it. All right, so there you go. You get one that's packed properly, but it has a few issues with it, and thankfully I know how to fix all these things, and if you want to see this CRT be repaired, well then please subscribe to the channel and be ready for our live shows. That's the perfect place for this type of repair. I'll go in and I'll fix this. We'll do the cap repair, and we'll find all the bad parts, and then we'll go through and adjust the geometry and make it look wonderful, because this one has a lot of potential, and we'll also repair that power supply and see what's causing those issues specifically on that five volt rail. However, if you don't know how to fix this stuff, that would kind of be a nightmare scenario where you bought a PVM that was listed as untested, and it really has a lot of issues, but thankfully it did arrive safely, so I really can't fault the seller in any way. They did everything they said they would, and I did buy it for a reduced price, so anyway, make sure you are subscribed if you want to see the repairs on the live stream, because again that will be coming up soon. But that is it for mega unboxings for you. Thank you for joining me today, and I will see you all next time with some more retro content.


Hi. Hello. I am Frank from Shenzhen China. We are a factory who produces UV printers. It's called Refine Color. Shenzhen Refine Color to acknowledge company limited. Do you make this machine? Yes. This is a Rotoroo UV DTF printer. This printer is to print UV DTF stickers. The stickers are useful for covering surface products and also flat surface products such as samples. These are UV stickers. And also the marks. Also the marks. Nice. It will wash off after you use the machine. It can wash. Also you can use this washer. Many times. It will stay? It will not wash away? Yes. It will not wash away. These are UV DTF stickers. You can see. We can print logos for your product. It's just for reference. It's not real. We don't sell this one. We don't sell this one. Yes. Just to show. But anybody with a brand can print what they want. Yes. If they like it. This is our smart focus printer. It's printed four cases. So for example right here. Is it just print now? Yes. Printed eight samples. Also like this. So you can print the full case? Yes. We can print the full case of black cases. You print pictures for your mobile phone. You only need mobile phone to scan. To scan QR code. Scan QR code. Choose your focus mode. Choose your focus mode. And then upload your pictures for your mobile. And then the picture will come to our printer. Printer. And they can print directly. And this printer is only in Shenzhen? Or is it everywhere in the world? Only we can produce for this machine. You only have one machine. Or you have many machines? We have many machines. But this machine is designed by our staff. We have patent. The software is also designed by us. And you print on this material? Yes. Almost all material except the silicone. Yes. This is a printing task for our customers. We can know the time. And the focus mode. Nice. So basically it just goes... This guy is busy. The customers put in the cloud. And it goes... You have API? Yes. We also supply... We also supply software customization for you. If you want us to customize a software for you. We also can do it. We print our printer with API. With your device if you need. Nice. You print this shape? This is ceramic sample. So maybe this is also very useful for tourism? Yes. Useful for tourists. And for artists? Artists. Promotional gifts. This one is very cool. It's a stone. This is a stone. A stone? Yes. A stone. Oh wow. It will not get bad in the rain? Yes. If it rains on it will be fine? It's water resistant. Also this is crystal. It's crystal. How do you print this? Because it's behind? Printed by our UV printer. Printed by... All in this side we see from here. It's a mirror effect. It's a mirror effect. Because it's a special material? It's a transparent crystal. It's a transparent crystal. Also this acrylic board. We print inks on this side. And we see from this side. It's transparent first. For one page like this. One wolf. How much is the price for the ink? The ink costs... One print. One print ink cost is very low. You may be only need about 0.2 US dollars for one print. The ink is very very low. More expensive material? More expensive material is this material. What is this material there? You can't find this kind of material anywhere. How much is this material? More than 0. More than 8. More than the ink. But your printer is the most expensive. How much is a printer? This machine is about 3,200 US dollars. For this one? Yes. But it's a big machine? It's a big machine, yes. That's basically your two iPhones. You can print out 12 pieces. Four cases. Is it dangerous for my camera to film this light? We are not. We are not. If I look with my eyes, no problem. I will not have print on my retina. Only a slide is okay. But you cannot always look at the UV net. Do you print millions and millions of things? Your customers and yourself do? We only see the machines. Yes. Our customers make... Very busy, huh? Yes. All day. Yes. Yes. Our customers mostly make printing business. Printing business. They do promotional gifts. This is outside. This is outside. This is outside. Okay. Okay. This is good. Legs. Legs. Legs. What did he put there? What is this? This is a mirror. A mirror. Yes. A mirror. That's you. Yeah. Cool. Oh, my God. This is a very special mirror. DIY photo. And can print here also? Yes. That needs to print two times. Nice. One set for one time? Yes. Now we will print another one. Cool. This is a water piece. Water. Wood. Wood? Yes, wood. They got a bigger one. So where is your customer by this printer? Where are your customers in everywhere? Our customers most of the day is from the United States and the European. And maybe they sell the service, right? When they say send me your photo, I will put it on your phone case. Yes. Yes. Our customers who have shops and also they are online. They maybe have a shop on Amazon and HTSY 18, a DIY customizing website. So this is only cost 3,200? Yes. And this one there? This one is about 3,000 US dollars. So what is the main difference between this and this? This one is especially only for four cases. Only for four cases. Okay. That one can print different kind of products. And this one is for you? Stickers. Yes, stickers. Stickers is specially used for the product that cannot print directly. For items we need to print directly, we need flat surface. This also called flat bed printer. Flat bed, flat surface. How much is this price? This price is about 4,000 US dollars. Wow. Doesn't it's not very expensive? It's cheap actually. Are you the best? No, not exactly. Best is some Japan companies, but they are very expensive. How much they cost? Maybe we charge 4,000. They charge 40,000. 10 times more? 10 times more than ours. Also they do the case printer? Yes, yes. And yours is 3,000 and there is 30,000? Yes, but this machine only we have. Are you the unique one? And that one? Any other company do similar? Similar, but not the same, because the software only we have. We designed it. The mobile application is designed by our sales software department. The software is on the laptop then? This one, this QR code. Ah, QR system. QR code, I show you. Nice. I show you the code. Smaller length. Open page. Have different languages for your option. English, Kentucky. This is an advertisement part. We can put you for choice. One printer with one code, one number. So basically you sell the printer to get it with the application. Yes, the price is all included. And then it's branded application. You can put your own logo, the customer logo on the application. Yes, we also can do that. Cool. And application work for Android and iOS? Yes, but the computer only supports Windows system. Ah, that's too bad. Too bad. This mobile application is an online application. It's a link. So any system, any smart mobile is okay. And how big is your company? How many employees you have? Our company have produced this. A UV printer is over 15 years old. Our factory have about 100 stuffs. And ink? Need to buy from you the ink or can buy other place and just add it later? Inks is better to buy from us because we made ICC profile for the inks. So that Brady will not have color difference. But you can also buy from others. Other inks factory suitable for Epson print head is okay. Because HP, they give away very cheap printer. But very high standard. But your ink is not too expensive? Yes, all inks is very cheap. One set of inks is only about 100, 125 US dollars for one set of inks. And one set of ink is enough for... I could print about 3,000 pieces of inks for one set of UV inks. It's pretty good. Yes, so it's not high. So you're not like HP? Yes, we cannot earn money from inks. You just make it to help your customer? You just help your customer make the best results? Yes, yes. After they will buy the new printer every year? Yes. How often you release a new printer? We will have two printers each year. Two every year? Yes, two new printers every year. We are always up-granty over printers. And the old printers we will not produce anymore. Cool. So it's fun.  It's not dangerous job with the laser and the ink. Another one, I'm smelling the ink. Smelling? You need to be safe in the factory. Yes, but the inks is equal. Equal? Yes. No bad chemicals inside? Yes, we are not that bad. You're pretty good. Yes. Cool. And this is a huge printer. How you can ship it? If I want one in Denmark? We pack with a water case. The water case is in the box. You can see it. This is the package. Yes. And you can ship it? No problem. You can ship it to everywhere? It will never break. Yes, never break. Can ship by air or by sea? It can be insurance for the shipments. If it breaks, insurance will pay. Yes, yes. The printer we have no problem in shipping. The water case is very heavy. Very strong. The only trouble is you need to find space where to put it. Because it's so big. Yes. We will also supply a warranty for two years. And left by the technical support. We have technician to always supply the support. Hard to print. Any problems we will reply you. How many printers you sell every month? About 500 machines. One month, every beverage. 500. And it's growing? Yes, it's growing. More and more? Yes, more and more. And how many people in the factory? About 100. About 100, yes. Cool. All right. Thank you very much. So printer will continue forever? Yes. What do you think about 3D printing? What do you think about 3D printer? 3D is very different for us. 3D is maybe... Different people. Yes, different people. 3D is more popular than it was exactly. And a very big market. But it's different for us. And one question about the price. When you say $125 for 3,000 cases, how much does cost the material for each case? And how do you supply this? You also supply the case? We can supply the cases, but exactly we do not produce 4 cases. But you have partner who can do it? Yes, we have partner. And you'll do very good price for the case? Yes. You also can buy the cases from the 4 cases factory. And how much will be, maybe? Maybe about $0.5 US dollars for one case. And good quality? Normal quality. Normal quality. If you want a very high quality, the cases... Maybe it will be $2. I'm joking. Maybe $10. So it's all different? Yes, all different. But the DIY 4 cases have a very good profit? Yes. And the printing profit is good for printing? Yes, printing profit is very good. You help many companies to make business? Yes. You help small companies? Small business. Small business? Yes. Make a lot of money? Yes. That's your chance? Yes. Alright. Thank you so much.


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Hey, this is Brett, and this 2022 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Short Box XLT Black Appearance Package is stock number 13290Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near New and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2022 Ford F-250 has the 6.2-liter V8 gas engine. It's paired up with the six-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside, underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood in hopes of giving you the most accurate representation of the vehicle that I can. Carbonized gray metallic is the color, M7 is the paint code, and I shoot all my videos in 4K. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I recommend turning them on now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the truck before seeing it in person.  I didn't see any dents, I didn't see any dings. The paint is very nice. Front fender is in excellent condition, and if you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notifications, and you'll get updates every time I do a video here at Summit Automotive of our new Zimintori. This one comes with the 20-inch painted black, gloss black alloy rims, and that's part of the black appearance package. Michelin LTX AT Tyres, these are LT275 65R20s, and they have probably about, I'd say, 60% of the tread left on them. Even underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. This is a one owner, clean title history, clean car facts out of Florida. So it's never seen winter. Headlight lenses are nice and clear, factory fog lights, front bumper, and lower valance are in excellent condition as well.  The hood is in very nice condition as well. And the passenger side front fender didn't see any major dents or dings on there. Passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes, carbonized gray metallic, it's the new color they came out with I believe in 2021. It's got a lot of little metal flake to it, so it definitely shimmers a little bit more than it sparkles. And as you go down this side of this 2022 Ford F250, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like the paint is. I take these HD videos, so if you are far away or even if you're close by, you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle. You can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here, so when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that smart and informed buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. And then I can keep doing these videos each and every day for our great customers all around the country. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires, and once again that frame and underbody is in fantastic condition. It's like that all the way underneath, has all the remaining factory exhaust, lower rockers, cam corners look good, and it does come with the black painted step bars as well. Coming around to the back, rear bumper is in great shape, backup parking sensors, full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch 4-pin and 7-pin wiring. The tailgate is in very nice condition as well, I didn't see any dents or dings on there. Bed's got a little bit of light duty usage, but that's what trucks are for. Those have the side box tie downs, tailgate shuts nice and solidly, and for full disclosure this back rim, no scuffs or scrapes on there. Down the rest of the side of the truck, once again doors look really good.  Inside the XLT package gives you the gray cloth interior, there are no rips, there are no tears on the seats, they're in pretty nice shape. Those have the lumbar factory floor mats, auto headlamps, tilt, telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks, power mirrors. Didn't want to show you the tire and loading information sticker as well as the even sticker, I'm always told to show those. Back seats, just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here, those have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have, and the fixed glass rear window. These seats fold up and it has a very nice flat floor back here. Factory floor mats, back here you get a USB, a USB-C, 110 volt 400 watt plug-in and a 12 volt power point. Little strap right here, get that seat down, child safety locks on the back doors, and the bottoms and inside of the doors all look really good too. Hop inside here, check out the miles, the radio, everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. Get the built forward tough animation there, you can see that this one has 16,000, let me dim it down just a little bit, 16,558 miles, you do get the digital speedometer compass display on there, instrument cluster is very nice and clean, smells very clean inside this truck, cruise controls and information center controls on the left, Bluetooth and audio controls on the right, you know, has the six-speed automatic transmission, this one has the sync eight-inch radio, you get AM, FM and Serious XM radio capabilities on here as well as Bluetooth capabilities, you have all your different settings on here including your Ford Pass Connect, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, so while this one doesn't have the factory navigation system, you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, and if you've got a NAB system on your cell phone such as Waze or Google Maps, project it right up there, then it's like you have NAB on the screen, so it's easy to get NAB on there through your cell phone. Stability control, turned off four-wheel drive, factory brake controller, you get your more tactile volume and climate controls right there, USB, USB-C, now watch it, I got a magic trick right here, there's two cup holders and now there's four cup holders, that's my magic trick, 12-volt power point, 110-volt 400-watt max plug-in, and then you get dual glove boxes right there, passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent conditional rips or tears on there, once again smells very clean inside this truck, I don't think it's ever been smoked in and the headliner is in great shape, you do get map lights up there and we will start it up or I will start it up and take a look under the hood, but if you're watching at home, we will do that too, no check engine lights or anything like that starts right up. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition options and cleanliness of this truck inside and out, really a nice ride, I do like that carbonized gray metallic as the new color, under the hood we have the 6.2 liter V8 gas engine, engine base very clean runs very smooth, once again this truck has been fully safe-eated and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go, there is your emission sticker, shocks are doing a nice job holding that hood as they should on a 2022 and I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint, kind of a rare one too with the black appearance package, really like it and to see more pictures of this truck or one of the other 550, new news, cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons, you name it, we got it, go to that website right there, summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto, remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there, click the bell notifications, you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive, in fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel on the upper left, link to more F250 videos I've done in the upper right, link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right, click those, check us out and we're super excited to help you with this ultra clean 2022 Ford F250, crew cab, short box, XLT, black appearance package and carbonized gray metallic, thanks again for checking out the video, remember to like, subscribe and share on the YouTube channel, I really appreciate it, thanks again.


Our workshop series was a small series that was designed for all the content area teachers in junior and senior high school. The goal was to look at what literacy really means in content areas and what are some of the best in research-based practices in the area of content area literacy. Students learn to read in grades one to three but beyond that they are reading to learn and working in a high school the difficulty I find is looking at students and understanding where is their reading level and one of the ERLC sessions was on assessment finding out where students are leveled reading leveling their reading. The trick being of course is finding where students are in order to get them to where they want to be. One of my teachers was working with a whole class novel and I was concerned about some of his students that were not working at grade level and were seem to be falling further and further behind and we worked with assessing those students first and then once we've assessed the students then moving to providing materials at the appropriate level for those students and he was amazed at the difference in the engagement of his students so that was me to see in a junior high class that the students are now engaged in reading. Differentiating our instruction is vital for students to be engaged and that's something that we need to use in all not only language arts but in all all subjects. From there we went we got together again to talk about the thinking processes. Part of the the session was looking at how do we present that to the students looking at read-alouds think-alouds really what it is is modeling how we as trained readers and a lot of times we take for granted how good of readers we are as teachers that we neglect to realize that well if they learn to read since grade three they must be just as good as we are but taking a step back and realizing that students need to understand what they are maybe subconsciously doing while they're reading and with a think-aloud or read-aloud as a teacher you're modeling that behavior you're modeling that that expertise in reading. It's really important that literacy isn't just taught in language arts it's in all content areas and all teachers are literacy teachers. If they've instead of learning something in French language arts class or English language arts class they're able to take that and transfer it to their science textbook their math textbook math problems diploma exams when we get to grade 12 so I think that it really helps students reading. When we break down these thinking processes and they practice inferring and they practice predicting and they practice analyzing and they're active about it that lends itself to the critical thinking. The more I infuse new ideas into my classroom the more I have a tendency to talk with the teachers around me and I hear how they've interpreted things that I've shared or things they've brought in only serves to broaden my my use of some of the elements that I've come up with.