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I was specially appointed to represent this Aryan-brotherhood kind of guy, with swastikas and SS lightning bolts tattooed prominently on his head, neck and arms. He was an eyewitness to a murder – a white guy stabbed a black guy in a bar – gave a full statement to the cops, was subpoenaed as a witness, was prepped by the DA’s office two hours before he was called to testify at trial, during which he reiterated his previous statements, but when he was called to the witness stand to testify under oath, all he would answer was “I don’t remember.” The DA’s office, after losing the murder trial, was not pleased and decided, not unreasonably, that when he said he didn’t remember he was lying and got a grand jury to indict him for perjury.I was appointed because I was experienced, tried a good case and had a reputation for being able to deal with difficult clients and cranky judges. And this guy was a tough client, a font of racist epithets – sort of ecumenical about his hatreds, spewing about Blacks, Hispanics and Jews in particular – who wasn’t going to testify against a white brother, followed more racist epithets. (He was willing to work with me because “Jew lawyers are ok, and after all you’re pretty white, ain’t you?”). We actually got a not-unreasonable pre-trial offer from the DA’s office. . . the client told me to tell them to go fuck themselves, he wanted his DAY IN COURT, and I took some satisfaction in relaying the message.We tried the case to an unsympathetic jury – this locale is not notably hospitable to white supremacists — and it was a hard-fought battle: two days of motions, followed by three days of testimony and a lot of high intensity in the courtroom. In spite of my personal feelings about his ideology, I bent over backwards to provide this guy the best trial he possibly could have gotten, and I still think of it as one of the best, most tenacious trials I’ve ever tried, and I kept the jury out for nearly four hours (!!) before they came back, and the only surprising thing about their guilty verdict was that it took them that long to reach it. –When we returned for sentencing I gave an impassioned plea for leniency, in spite of his previous criminal record, and actually convinced the judge, a notoriously difficult judge on sentencing matters, to give him only half the time in prison that the DA had asked for (which was way more than the client would have gotten had he taken the deal, but such is the way of trial roulette). I was, in my head, claiming victory. The judge then asked the client if he had anything say.SPOILER ALERT – THIS IS THE ANSWER TO THE O.P.The client stood up, took a deep breath and said to the judge: “You’re a dirty Jew bastard [the judge wasn’t any of those but didn’t so much as blink], and I know where you work. And I’m going to get out of prison and I going to hunt you down and find your family if you have any still living and hunt them down, and I’m going to kill all of you. . .” and turning to the prosecutor, a woman from out-of-county who was specially assigned to the case because the local DA was a witness, he pointed his finger on an outstretched arm at her face, and, having gotten all wound up at the judge, unloaded at her, saying in a rapidly rising tone of voice, “and you, you commie bitch, I know where you work and I’m going to track you down and . . .” at this point he was ranting really graphically about what he was going to do to her when he got out and flailing his arms around – I had taken a prudent couple steps back to get out of the way – to the extent that the jail guards became concerned and swooped in and corralled his arms, all the while the guy was going off on the DA and then back at the judge. The judge, over the shouting, said: “You know, I just read what I wrote down for your sentence and I realized I had misspoken myself, I was thinking of a completely different case. . .must be getting old. . . So, what I meant to say was. . .” and the judge basically doubled the sentence, giving him the maximum possible amount of time that he legally could give him. At this point, the client was red-faced, with spittle, and completely beside himself as the guards snapped on the cuffs to take him back to the jail, and, of course, the client began to struggle mightily, but by this time there were four guards – the other two just sort of materialized – and the next thing I knew the four of them had the client held horizontally in the air between them, and proceeded to carry him out of the courtroom as the client continued to shout “I’M GONNA GET YOU, JUDGE!!!” . . .I thought that was pretty over the top behavior. . .

As I have done the same thing and secured 699 rank in UPSC 2018 ,I think I can help you out.As you mentioned starting from zero ,the first thing to do is to paste upsc syllabus in your room and within a week make sure you learnt the syllabus byheart.Next 1 week you spend in refering online sources like VISIONIAS,INSIGHTS,IASBABA where u find testimony of people who have passed the exam.You should be referring to all stages of exam(prelims,mains and interview) so that you will fairly get a idea about what goes on in each stage.And here going through online resources include referring last year question papersNext comes deciding your optional.Choose the optional you are most comfortable with(dont keep the highest marks that can be scored in it as a criteria).You should be truly interested in your optional.By then you must have got a good idea about exam and syllabus.Start your preparation with optional and give it maximum time in 3rd year ,as crossing 300 in optional is only way to secure a rank below 100.Solve all the previous year questions in your optional and most importantly make a short notes of each topic of your optional so that you will be able to complete it within 1 month after prelims.In 3rd year along with optional it would be good if you complete economics and polity as those are the areas from where news articles come regularly and arent that much memory based.In 4th year you can do current affairs,history and http://geography.As all are memory based its better if we do it closer to exam.Along with it keep revising optional and its better in 4 th year you complete a test series of your optional before december.From January ( last semester),you can do only prelims as you will also be having college.From my experience I learnt that this exam is about 3 things COLLECTION,RECOLLECTION and PRESENTATION.Oncle you know the syllabus you can collect quality content and the more quality the content is that much easier it becomes to recollect.And knowing the syllabus is very important to draw a trade off between quantity and quality ,as we will be having less time and all we need is to complete a answer in 8 minutes finallyPRESENTATION comes from refering to answer sheets of toppers and writing test series .Rest you will learn slowly once you are into it.Keep the sources limited and revise more .Hope this helps

How to Make a Million DollarsJames Altucher‘s Book Choose Yourself would be a great start. He’s made millions multiple times. His advice is pretty solid.Choose Yourself!: James Altucher, Dick Costolo: 8601402853113: Amazon.com: BooksP.S. Did I mention that he’s my hero? I stalk him all over the internet. Everywhere he goes, I follow. Shh… Don’t tell anyone though… Let’s keep that as a secret between you and me.P.P.S. Did I mention that he helped me get a little over 100k views for the month of August with one day to go? I couldn’t have done it without his guidance and help. However, I still have absolutely no clue what I’m doing nor do I have any clue what I’m writing about. I’m just another loser on the internet posting up random stuff that happens in life.Here's an excerpt from his book. Page 107-112:Let's get specific. What should I do?You're probably asking: well, if I quit my job, what should I do? I've begun asking people who did it. What did they do? How do they quit their jobs and, basically, make a million dollars? Not everyone is Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page. Not everyone is going to drop out of college and create an iPhone or a time machine or a toilet that resizes itself automatically depending on who is sitting on it (although that would be pretty cool).Some people would simply like to quit their current crappy jobs and make a good living. Some people would simply like to quit their jobs and make a million dollars. In that Facebook movie (you know, the Justin Timberlake vehicle), JT says, "A million's not cool. A BILLION is cool."Well, actually JT, very often a million is pretty cool. Not everyone is going to be a VC-funded $100 million hotshot. Sometimes, it's nice to make a million dollars, be your own boss, and use that financial success to catapult to freedom.I called Bryan Johnson, who started a company called Braintree. You may have never head of Braintree but you've heard of their customers. They provide credit card transaction and payment services for companies like OpenTable, Uber, Airbnb, etc.I've never spoken with Bryan before. I am not an investor in Braintree. As far as I know I'm not even an investor (unfortunately) in any of Braintree's clients. I like to call people who I think have interesting stories and hear what they have to say. That's the way I build my network of not only financial contacts but also potential friends.I knew Bryan had an interesting story about how he set up Braintree and I knew it would be helpful for those people asking "what do I do next?"The Cliff's Notes version: In 2007, Bryan was a manager at Sears. He quit his job and started Braintree. Within two years he was making more than a million per year. Eventually, Braintree grew much bigger and raised $70 million from Accel and other investors.But that wasn't what was interesting to me."How did you do it?" I asked him. "What are the steps?""I really disliked my job," he said, "and I never believed in the idea of getting a fixed wage. I had been a salesman before in the credit card processing business where I would go out and get merchants like restaurants and retailers to switch their business to the company I was selling for. So I figured I could do this but work for myself instead of another company."Rule #1: Take Out The Middleman. Instead of going back to the company he used to sell for, Bryan cut out the middleman and went straight to a credit card processor, worked out his own reselling agreement with them, and did all this BEFORE leaving his job at Sears.Many people ask me, "I'm at a job, should I raise VC money yet?" NO, of course not! First you have to hustle. VCs want to back someone who shows a little Ooomph!Rule #2. Pick a Boring Business. Everyone is always on the lookout for "the next big thing." The next big thing is finding rare earth minerals on Mars. That's HARD WORK. Don't do it! Bryan picked a business that every merchant in the world needs. He also knew that it was an exploding business because of the e-commerce explosion. You don't have to come up with the new, new thing. Just do the old, old thing slightly better than everyone else. And when you are nimble and smaller than the behemoths that are frozen inside bureaucracy, often you can offer better sales and better service. Customers will switch to you. If you can offer higher touch service as well, they will come running to you.Rules #3. Get a customer! This is probably the most important rule for any entrepreneur. People want to find and take the "magical path": get VC money, quit their jobs, build a product, and then have millions in customers. It NEVER works like that.Bryan found ten customers (out of the first 12 he approached) who would switch their credit card processing to him. He figured he needed to make $2100 a month to quit his job. With his first ten customers he was making $6,200 a month, so he had a cushion in case some dropped away. He quit his job and suddenly he was in business.Rule #4. Build trust while you sleep. This rule is often "Make Money While You Sleep." But Bryan was already making money while he slept. He was making money on every credit card purchase with his first ten customers.I didn't want to be going up and down the street looking for customers," Bryan said. "I needed to find a way to get online businesses as customers. Someone suggested that I needed to blog. And to blog well you need to be totally transparent or it won't work. So I started blogging about what was really happening in the credit card industry including all the unscrupulous practices and how merchants were being taken advantage of. Then I'd put my posts on the top social sites at the time--Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon--and sometimes the posts would get to the top of these sites and my website would get so much traffic that it would crash."But I became a trusted source about credit card processing. So before long all these online sites that had previously had a hard time navigating this industry would start contacting me to switch their payment services."A couple of things there.Rule #5. Blogging is not about money. Blogging is about trust. You don't sell ads on your blog (rarely), you don't get the big book deal (rarely), but you do build trust and this leads to opportunities. My own blog has made me a total of zero cents but has created millions in opportunities. In Bryan's case it led to more inflow and his biggest early opportunity."Basically, OpenTable called me and they wanted a software solution to handle storing credit cards, handling the data to restaurants, and being compliant from a regulatory standpoint. I signed a three year deal with them that allowed me to build a team of developers and we built them a solution. We now had more services to sell to customers."Rule #6. Say YES! He started out just connecting merchants with a credit card processor. Then OpenTable asked him to do software development even though he's never developed software before. He said YES! He got software developers, built a great product, and at least quadrupled his income. His decision to say YES! elevated his business to a whole new level, not just in the services he offered customers but in how they perceived him. Suddenly, word of mouth was spreading and other online companies started using Braintree's services: Airbnb, Uber, etc. And the VCs started calling because all of their clients were saying Braintree was providing all of their payment services. It's not that easy for startup online companies to get payment services.Bryan told me, "When I first started, for each new customer we'd put together an entire package for our credit card processor on why we thought the customer could be trusted and would be a legitimate merchant." Which leads to...Rule #7. Customer Service. You can treat each customer, new and old, like a real human being. "We intuitively sort of knew what we didn't like in customer service everywhere else: automated calling trees, slow response times, poor problem solving, etc. So we made sure there was as little friction as possible between the customer contacting us and actually getting their problem solved." When you are a small business, there's no excuse for having poor customer service. Your best new customers are your old customers, and the best way to touch your old customers is to provide quick help when they need it. Customer services is the most reliable touch point to keep selling your service to them."Ok," I said, "I have to ask. At what point were you making over seven figures?"By Year 2, Bryan was making over a million dollars and the business was doubling every year. They couldn't hire fast enough.In 2011, after four years in business, Braintree took in its first dime of investment capital--$34 million in Series A funding round. Two years later, according to Crunchbase, they process over $8 billion in credit card transactions annually.Not bad for someone who quit his job and just wanted to figure out a way to get his bills paid.So what does this mean for you?I get BS e-mails all the time. "Make a million dollars buying gold!" "Make a million dollars in real estate!" "Here are the secrets to making a million dollars, revealed this one time only!" Then I click on the link and it's all BS. Vague answers, some testimonials and then you have to buy a package. It's all BS. The rest of this chapter is about brainstorming specific ways to make a million dollars, to do what Bryan Johnson did in less than two years. This is all just brainstorming mind you, and it comes from my personal experience and expertise, so there will be limitations on its scope. But it's a start. It's where I start when I want to come up with a new business idea. It's where you can start, too. Note: every idea I mention below is an idea I've seen someone pursue to make a million dollars or more. Am I recommending these methods? No. But, again, they are starting points for brainstorming.Actually, this seems to be how to make $800 million. Not $1 million.Brian Roemmele's post explains why here.Braintree + PayPal = $800 million.Read more at my blog: How to Make a Million Dollars