Moving to New Zealand from the US, sharing my experience, that's what we're gonna talk about today. If you are new to the channel, we are a family of six. I have moved from the US to New Zealand and have been here for seven years. So in this video, we're gonna talk a little bit about a couple things. I'm gonna do a little bit of my first impressions of New Zealand when we first arrived. And then I'm gonna kind of talk through some of the hot topics that people always are asking me about in terms of, you know, what's it like? How does it really compare in some of these big issues? And I've done lots of videos on these. I've talked about healthcare, I've talked about education, I've talked about so many different topics. But what I'm gonna do today and what's gonna be a little bit different is now that I've been here for seven years, I'm gonna kind of give you an update on my thoughts on this. Both pros and cons, as I've gotten more in depth in the education, more experience with the healthcare, and just kind of, you know, what has been my experience and my reflection living in New Zealand now that it's been seven years. So here we go. In case you haven't heard, I have launched a new community online, it's free. I'm trying to connect all my social medias in one place because it's getting hard to communicate with everybody and all the different platforms. So if you're interested in just kind of getting closer with me and doing some cool things and meeting other people in this community, click the link in the description and you can join our online free community, it's pretty cool. Let's start with a story. Let's start with what was my first impression of getting off the plane in New Zealand from the US. We don't know anybody here. We don't have any family here. We have never been here. And we just moved our family of six over here because we're crazy. Or we're very adventurous. Or we're super fun. However you wanna look at it, that's what we did. And we decided to come for two years to give our kids an international experience. And that was kind of the intention from the beginning. So basically the way that it worked for us is that my husband came for a month ahead of us. Started his job, got a lot of things sorted. So that was really great. But what that meant was that I had to come by myself with four kids, my youngest being one at the time, my oldest being 11. So that's, you know, and I'm moving to a country where I don't know anybody. I don't know what's going on. I'm leaving everybody and that's a whole other story. And I was like, okay, so I get on the plane. Let me tell you my flight on the, I think it was Delta on whatever the connection was from Chicago to LA was not good. I got on the plane and I had the one year old on my lap. And I asked, do you have any extra seats because it would be really nice to not have them on a three and a half hour flight on my lap.  I'm like, okay, that's fine. I didn't book it. It's fine. Then I go through the whole three and a half hour flight which was exhausting. He was okay, but it was still exhausting. I get up, I stand up. And all these seats are open. I was okay. So I get off in LA and I'm like, okay, I need your help. I need to get to the Air New Zealand. What do I need to do? Do I need to, you know, recheck my bags? Like I'm just all new to this. And they were like, oh yeah, you need to go back to the ticketing. And they had somebody escort me which was the other side of the LA airport.  Anyway, that's a different story. So we get to the ticketing. And in my mind, as I'm walking, I'm like, I don't think I need to do this. I already have my boarding pass. And if I go to the ticketing, I'm gonna have to go through security again. Anyway, I get there and they're like, oh, this isn't gonna work. Or like one of your bags was a little overweight and it was a whole mess. And my kids start crying and I'm just like, you know what lady, you're gonna need to help me out here. And I had to go through security again. So I'm pushing these huge carts, all these kids. And I didn't even need to go there. It's like, what the heck? So I get to the Air New Zealand, like, you know, like eight, right?  The Air New Zealand agents came up to me and were like, how are you doing? I must've looked pretty bad. And they came up and they're like, are you okay? They're like, let's get you sort of, can we get you a seat where you can put a toddler in the toddler thing so it can sleep? Cause this is the overnight flight. This is a really long one. I didn't even know you could do this. Like honestly, have never traveled this far before. So I'm like, oh really? They were so nice. It was like the first time I felt like I could breathe. I was like, oh, finally someone, you know, where you don't, like in the States, I always feel like I had to fight for everything. And here it was like, finally. So they got me this, you know, like exit row seat where I had extra room for the baby. It was amazing. Now the flight. I forgot that I don't really like flying because it kind of makes me nauseous. So I was throwing up in the bathroom. I got all these kids, the kids are fine. My one year old were having like, I don't know, manic. I don't know. I've never experienced this before. He was screaming out really loud. Like in the middle of the night, when everybody was sleeping. And so he only did it one time. But once he did it the one time, I'm just sitting there. I didn't even watch one show, one movie, nothing on a like 14, 16 hour flight. Give you some idea of all that I was doing. And well, I couldn't, you know, I couldn't rest. I was throwing up. Anyway, he didn't end up screaming anymore but I didn't know that, right? So the whole time I'm like on it. So anyway, we arrived in Auckland. My husband meets us. We're so glad to be there. Everybody cries. And I was like, literally in my head. I was so tired. And it was like, it was so emotional.  And then I just remember feeling, this better be worth it.  And so I immediately was like, I need to get a coffee. So I'm in the Auckland airport. I go to the closest coffee place. And really nice guy. And I ordered, I'm like, I don't know, latte.  And I was like, what did you say to me? You know, you guys have heard that story before where I literally thought it was two Ss because I was in the mood and I was tired and I'm like exhausted. And the, you know, the way that they talk, like the accent was difficult. And so I was like, okay, anyway. So our first night, first we get in the car and my husband starts driving. And I literally screamed and crawled under the seat because we're on the wrong side of the road. It was very scary. I didn't realize. I mean, the thought of me driving was also very scary, but it was just as bad to be in the car. Couldn't even look. Drives us to Hamilton, which is not far from Auckland, about an hour, hour and a half. And just so that we can sleep. So we just got this motel and we just went and we literally crashed. And then the next day we woke up. Me and my oldest daughter went to grab a coffee and I'm walking around Hamilton. And I'm like, if you don't know, Hamilton is kind of like, it's not bad. It has beautiful gardens. I hear that the community is good. But it's kind of like one of those things that you laugh. It's not like the best place because it's like in the middle of the country and it's not by any of the water or mountains. And so it's like that. So that's just kind of the reputation that it has as a general rule of thumb. But I was like, okay, okay. This is where I moved. And so then we've traveled down to Wellington the next day. Or maybe we did Hobbiton first. I think we did Hobbiton first. Amazing. If you haven't done that, do that. If you're like Lord of the Rings and that sort of thing. Anyway, so we went to Hobbiton. Then we head down to Wellington and there's like this big hill that we're coming down, down to view the Wellington Harbor. And it was, is this place like where did we move? It was amazing. And so many times our family has said over time like, where do we live? This place is so amazing. So yeah. So that was literally my first like experience reaction coming into New Zealand and I loved it. I like, I like loved it. I was like, are you serious? And it was also noticeable like how the air felt really clean. Everything felt really calm. The birds were so loud. It was just beautiful. So that was my first reaction to New Zealand. Okay, fast forward seven years. Now I've talked a lot. I've had two years I think are more on this YouTube channel. So I've talked a lot about my experience in New Zealand. So go ahead and check it out if that's of interest to you. But let's talk about some things because I feel like, you know, my perspective, you know, is adjusted from like my first experience. My first two years was great. I didn't have a lot of homesickness. I, we enjoyed it immensely. Your, if you're bringing kids here and they're about the same ages of mine, that's the time to bring your kids. The second time that we came, so if you don't know our story, we moved back to the US because we were only planning on being here for two years and we didn't want to move, but we did. We didn't expect to love it here so much. And then we moved back to the US with no intention of coming back here to New Zealand. And then, you know, various things happened and we needed to come back. It was just amazing. And we loved raising our kids here. There was just a lot of benefits. But at that point, we had teenagers and middle schoolers and that was harder, you know, I think harder on the kids. And overall, they would say it was a good decision, but yeah, so it's just a bit of an adjustment for them coming the second time. So we can talk about that. But now that I've been through all of the primary school, intermediate school, college, which is high school here in New Zealand, yeah. So I really, they do education different. And so when I try to compare them, it's a little bit hard to compare. If I was, and it's hard to compare to the US because the schooling system in different states are totally different, you know, so even the public school. So in New Zealand, education is, all of the curriculum is nationalized. So no matter where you go, you should technically be getting the same education, even though that's just not the case depending on how large the classes are or difficult or, you know, there's just different factors that come into play. Culture of the school comes into play a lot more here in New Zealand and it's just different. Their focus, their values. What's cool about New Zealand is that they teach them a lot of practical skills, gardening, cooking. They make the kids have exposure to all the different sports, plays, drama, music and all done during school time. Whereas a lot of these things in the US is outside of school and I've talked about all this. But I, and then when they get into high school at the college level, they go through NCEA and I think that that's either they're keeping that or not. And it's basically like when they hit year 11. So they hit year 11, 12 and 13 is basically level one, two and three of the university level. And then when they go become a freshman, they're hitting in at level four. And that's just kind of how they have their education set up. And their universities are really well rated. I've worked at some of the polytechnics and some other academia and you know, they're okay. I would say university level to be honest with you is definitely inferior to the US. But of course that all depends where you go. Like if you're in a small community college as opposed to an Ivy League university, you know, I've just, I've taught at university of Wisconsin schools. And so I guess it would be compared to that. They don't do certain things well here. I don't, they don't do foreign language well. They introduce foreign language, but not enough for them to really pick up a language in my opinion. Spelling, like I just feel like overall New Zealanders, even with clients that I work with in marketing, like spelling and grammar is not taught well. However they have that in their curriculum is, you know. And so even when I was a professor in the US, spelling and writing was also a struggle there. So it's a struggle there and it's a struggle here, but I think that they're struggling different. Like in New Zealand, they really focus in their curriculum on creative writing and, you know, really detailed creative writing whereas, you know, and they do that in the US as well, but they also very structured like learning grammar, clear concise direct kind of more of a focus also good. So it all just kind of depends. New Zealand doesn't require homework and I have just found, I think about my conclusion after seven years and kids going through different things. I think that that's good in some respects and maybe for some personalities, but overall I would say there should be more homework. There should be more, this is what I've learned today, now apply it. Because as a teacher, I just know the value of that. And I know my kids have a lot of time in the evenings and I just think that that overall could be better. But again, just a matter of my opinion. So yeah, they do things differently here. Their NCA program is okay. The things that they do well is they don't do so much standardized testing and it's more of like, you can't just give the right answer, you have to explain it. So it requires a little bit more critical thinking, which is good. Expectations are quite low in my opinion. And so there's the balance. So I just wanted to kind of share some of my thoughts on education. If you have other questions, go ahead and comment below or email me if you're like concerned about this because I like to be real honest. And as you have more experiences, I can reflect differently because I was watching some of my older ones and thinking, okay, yeah, I could probably do a little bit of an update on that. So that's what I wanted to talk about today. All right, let's talk about healthcare. I've done quite a few videos on this. As you know, if you've watched my latest one, my daughter had knee surgery and so we've gone through that whole process through the ACC program that they have here, which is if you have an accident, it's covered. And if you are working, then it covers like 80% of your wages as well. It's like, it's an amazing program. I'm gonna have to say a couple of things about the healthcare overall. Overall, it's amazing that the value system here is that everybody deserves a level of healthcare, right? Depending on where you are in New Zealand, good or bad, whatever. There's lots of opinions about that. I personally haven't had really bad experiences at all with the healthcare system. I mean, a little bit of waiting, but I also have insurance that if I need to go private, I can and not everybody has that. But it is just, I think that overall, it is so nice to not have that stress or that fear that you can go bankrupt if something happens to you in the US, the way that it's set up is not good. But in saying that, the specialty services, yeah, just, it's a bigger place. It's just gonna be better in general in terms of what's available to you. So if something really, really bad happens to you, you're gonna want the best service, right? And while you can, depending on what it is, you can get it here or maybe you can't, because there's not that many people and everything is limited. And they're always having nursing and doctor shortages here, and I just don't see a lot happening to improve that other than just bringing people over here. And so that's a little bit frustrating. But some of my GPs have been really bad, like really bad. And obviously you just make your own effort. You have to manage your own health. Whether you're in the US or in New Zealand, you have to manage your own health. You need to find the right doctor for you. You need, if something's wrong or something that a doctor said just doesn't sit right, get a second opinion, same in the US. US is all crazy about constantly doing tests that I think are unnecessary.  And yeah, so there's a lot of things that are messed up. But at the same time, like the doctors are trying to do good work and care. And you know, there's just a lot of options that way. I also, I just realized recently, like in the US, they do a lot of every year doing a checkup on your kid as just like a normal process, especially with a pediatrician. So you're getting like a child doctor, but they don't really have that here. And I just realized, I've been here for like five years and have my kids had a checkup, you know? And like, of course you can and I just need to manage that a little bit better. It's just not built into the system. Dental is built into the system where like they'll call you and schedule it because it's free for children here and make sure that they get that dental checkup because obviously that could get out of control a little bit more than probably just a health one. Or like in the US to play sports, you have to get like a sports certificate from, I don't know, maybe they don't need to do that anymore to play a sport. And so you're just always getting to, and I just realized like, oh, I've never really had my kids checked out in a while. You kind of just go if something's wrong. And yeah, and so in essence, I like that on one level and another level. I think it's probably good to have a little bit of pre-checks so that making sure that you can kind of catch something early, right? Is a good idea. But yeah, so just in terms of like women's health has been pretty good, mammograms and just various things that women need have been good here in New Zealand. In my opinion, like I haven't seen like a whole lot different. But like, yeah, the physical therapy or they call it physio here is really good. What I like about New Zealand is it's interesting because the doctors aren't the only ones that have a lot of authority in healthcare. So like a physical therapist here in New Zealand actually is like really good. Like more, I don't know if it's more training or has more authority in things. Even like their midwives are like partial doctors because they use midwives to deliver babies here. If you go to the pharmacist, they are like, you can actually talk to them about your problem and they will help you. So you don't necessarily have to go the doctor to figure that out and then get the prescription there that you can go there and say, this is what I'm struggling with. And that was chemists, whatever you want to call it. That was different. Like I could just talk to them about it and they're actually really helpful. And they have medicines that do different things and yeah, the medicines are different because they have different approvals and things that are allowed or not allowed. And we don't have all the pharmaceutical companies. I don't think anyway. So yeah, those are some of my thoughts currently updated on the healthcare system here. And the third and the last area I want to talk about just because I don't want this video to be too long is and I'm just trying to highlight some of the big things that if you're moving here, what would affect your daily life and what it would look like. I just want to talk a little bit about what it's like working here. Working in New Zealand is really great in some respects. You have really good work-life balance. You have significant paid time off compared to the US. If you want to pick up your kids from school, that's a very reasonable thing. They have adjusted completely after COVID to working from home very easily, very normal, even if it's just like you work in the office for two days and at home for three, whatever it is, depending on your job. It obviously depends on your job. Obviously, if you're a nurse, you're not working from home necessarily. So that's good. Things that I don't like about working in New Zealand is probably my biggest frustration and I don't know if I've ever said this on here has been the fact that they really hesitate. I don't know all of the human resource rules and laws around it, you have a significant hesitation to fire people here. So on one end of the stick, that's really nice where you can kind of come in and feel that your job isn't at risk if something happens, if you're late one day, because it can get a little crazy in the US in terms of like you could lose your job quite quickly and easily. They have a lot of safety nets in for employees so you can have that stability in your life. So when I first started working, I really liked that. But as time went on, I found that it was, the problem is, is it doesn't create very efficient working environments. Generally, people that probably aren't great in their position have been there a really long time and they just either move them around or give them professional development. I've had situations not where I work, but like maybe at my kids' school and different situations that were really horrendous if you ask me, but like to get rid of the teacher was not an option. I'm like, really? And so that's been an adjustment for me because I don't think that keeping an employee that's not good at their job is good for them at all. And they just think like, it's the worst thing in the world to fire them and I don't think that that is. I think it's helpful to them to give them actual accurate feedback in a very constructive way, but also saying this isn't probably for you and let them move on with their life instead of just like dragging it on. And then what happens is is that they ruin the morale for the good employees, right? Like you don't wanna be there. You don't wanna be on that team. You don't wanna work with that person. They've been there too long. They're not efficient anymore. They don't have that gumption to do something new or like, this is the way we've always done it. It's like acceptable. And you just don't see that in the U.S. Like it's a lot of people. It's a lot more competition. You have to continually to improve. The work ethic is different, you know, because they let so much have so much holiday and they really value that and that's really good. Like I would say overall, that's better for sure, but then they don't have that same drive probably as Americans because you kind of have to continually improve and fight and do better. And of course it all varies on who you're working with, where you're working, the culture. I worked in all different areas and cultures. I've consulted in a lot of different ones and have seen totally different things. So this is a generalization and just a little bit on my experience, but they tend to, you know, disregard, you know, they avoid difficult conversations, avoid giving like really accurate feedback like in management and I'm just like, oh, that does nothing but help them improve and move ahead than to just ignore that they have all these problems. I don't think that that's good. Those are some of the things, but overall it's a very pleasant work environment. It's stress level is way lower than my experience in the US. They really value you as a whole person and your time off. They don't want you to check in over your holidays. They don't want you to check your email. That's kind of a whole new concept for me. And so in fact, as I've had the opposite problem, I've had a hard time turning off. You know, I've had a hard time, like in my mind for me to do a good job is to give 100% all the time. And I don't mind checking my email a couple times when I'm on holiday because I have a lot of downtime.  But yeah, they don't value that. So, you know, I'm running my own companies now so it's a little bit of a combination of both for sure. Whereas I just have to keep reminding myself like it's okay to be done. You know, come on, I could just keep going because I love it. When you're doing what you love it's not, it's not boring and it doesn't feel like work and that sort of thing. So I hope that that's helpful for you. Well, I hope that was helpful or insightful if you're thinking about moving here or have just moved here or living here and just kind of wanting to know my experience, please comment below with any other questions you have or your own experience I would love to hear. I feel like there's so many more things I could talk about so maybe they'll be a part two. If you're interested in that, let me know because I can certainly do that and I'll see you next week.


And we hear the ID TechEx show. Hi. Hi. So who are you? My name is Mick Saffron and I'm advisor in Cardio Machia which is a Cardio Monitor device company and we are monitoring a cardiovascular system of their human beings 24-7, 7 days battery charge and it's waterproof. It says saves lives. Yes. So how is it saving lives? So as you may know there are so many people who have cardiovascular diseases as well as they have problems with their heart and understanding of how does their heart may fail or work like stroke and so on. So our system was this Cardio Monitor device which is hardware. This is one of the prototypes and it's a series 3 but we also have like more right now in the model 4 and so on. So as you may see here it's connected with a phone through Bluetooth and after that from the phone it's analyzed and goes to to our cloud. So we also use these patches so it will be connected to the body through these patches as you can see right here it just slapped another one and it goes right here under your chest and it monitors 24-7 as I mentioned. So monitors heartbeat is it ECG or what is this? Yeah it is ECG and it's not only ECG as you can see here it's also monitoring more than this. It's also fold detection activity and body posture so it's also we have AI based breakthrough solution in patient monitoring. So is this for people who are very sick or is it gonna be for everybody? Eventually we wanted to be for everybody but the same time for people who want to track their Cardio cardiogram but in many cases it's senior so our target audience is 45 plus people who already have some problems with their heart and with this solution you can notify your user as well as relatives as well as doctors and instantly ask for ambulance. Smart push, green, information, motivational, cautionary, critical. So how does it get critical? If there is problems with heart disease like heart attack or stroke so you will understand that something goes wrong and on these graphs you can see like our competitors doing some graphs but the same time our desktop version of the app it shows doctors all their all this important information about about cardiogram and from this they can analyze and make some prediction and make diagnosis so we are not making diagnosis but the same time we are not sport device we are medical device that's why we are now on FDA approval track. So your startup? Yeah it's three years. So we are originally from Ukraine we are registered in New York I'm here in Sunnyvale but our core team and R&D office in Ukraine, our CEO.  CTO and CEO their husband and wife and yeah so they're like living in Ukraine and in Europe in Düsseldorf Paris all over Europe so they travel a lot and it's a big challenge to to build a startup as a family and the same time be a family. You from Ukraine? Yeah I am. All right so is this gonna be huge and saving millions of lives how soon? We think like in next year or two we will have FDA trials done and we will be on the market. Our strategy is B2B2C meaning we are working with cardiologists and everyone who is interesting to collaborate with us who have access to hospitals and would be interesting to to test it in the United States we're open for everyone as well as cardiologists who want to promote it to their clients to their patients. Are there some products like this on the market something like that? Is this very unique? Well it's unique in terms of technology because we have couple patents but the same time like there are a couple competitors on the market but they are not same good as we are so you can see here like there are some of those are reusable max recording time battery life. Battery life is actually very important because in many cases they're like one-time usage or couple days and you have to recharge it again as Apple watch for example you have to recharge it every day and it's not medical device so some other medical devices have three or days for example or even six months but for six months it's one-time usage and you can just like put it to the garbage in our case it works up to 10 days in many cases it's like good good rate is seven days I would say and after that like you can recharge it in just a couple hours it takes to recharge and you will have a device again I would say it's like thousands of rechargeable modes you know like you can recharge it as many like thousands times.  Oh yeah you will figure out it pretty soon once we will have some announcements of the winner we hope we will win because our device is very unique in this as well as there are many many competitive advantages that we have especially data you know we started this as a wireless hardware device as well as software AI data software on AI but it came up to data everyone wants this data and we are ready to talk and we are already talking with many companies the big companies who want to have this data from Ukraine and overseas because in the United States it's not so easy to because of privacy policies right but overseas especially in Ukraine it's open there is no such a big regulations as in the United States and that's why we have our R&D officers so inviting everyone to join us in Ukraine and is there a lot of cool startups and companies in Ukraine or you're the best? Wow you know some of them you know some of them we are not well we are very promising we are I would say like there are only couple unicorns from Ukraine and actually for example PatCube ring you know ring right was acquired by Amazon every door here yeah as well as people AI and there are couple founders who are from Ukraine such as Yankum from what's up so and a lot of companies are from Ukraine who are potentially big and unicorns but the same time like it's a lot of technology in Kiev and Ukraine yeah one of the best right infrastructure is going on right now like people invest government support a lot and we encouraging everyone to come and just come there and see how good Ukrainian IT people are they're like the most amazing like we we did like we all we have only 10 data scientists and those people are incredible I mean like every time like someone asked like approaching us here and asking like how do you know all this data how do you analyze it only 10 people it's impossible here you you will have to have like so many of them and it will be very huge budget in Ukraine it's much easier there is no regulations there is a last taxation there is all the doors open for you kind of and we encouraging everyone to come and see how it is in Ukraine nice and do you think the Zelensky the new president is gonna do something good with this IT stuff is already the hope of the future economy right yeah it's not only a hope it's already reality is that about 7% of Ukrainian GDP comes from IT and they are boosting it even more so we have many conferences right now on IT as well as on some investment forums in Ukraine I know that the World Economic Forum in Davos will have a Ukrainian pavilion where you can find all new technologies that Ukraine have in Davos from Ukraine as well as on there's fund of IT fund there is right now they are working on it to promote IT sector of Ukraine and entrepreneurship of course and in the next two or three years you'll join the EU right hopefully we hopeful so yeah everything is gonna go crazy Ukraine is gonna be the new Silicon Valley that's what we are thinking and that's what some big minds like Soros if you know but he invests hardly in Ukraine especially in IT sector of Ukraine so there are a couple couple big names who are coming to Ukraine Jack Ma from Alibaba just visited Ukraine couple weeks ago and we hope so we want to have like more investment in Ukraine and Alibaba we don't really care about where is this investment come from unless it's it's not from Russia soon you're gonna be selling all your land right so do you want Chinese people to buy your land I'm joking there is happening there they are our president the landscape just announced that there will be referendum where people should decide if land should be sold to two international people and international organization to foreigners he already decide it has to be sold sold yes it's liberation referendum maybe also foreigners yes and this is big deal because with land with open land for everyone it's come security to Ukraine first and it's comes big investment to Ukraine so this is big country in Europe right it is so there's a lot of land it is unfortunately it part of this land was annexed by Russia you heard about Crimea yeah peninsula you have to find a solution for this just make peace make peace with the guy right we are we are good to make peace as soon as they will return our land yeah of course of course they should what they can't just yeah we want we have one piece with everyone with all our neighbors but you always have to think twice once you make any agreement with Russia because as Winston Churchill told I think there is any agreement a row like signed with Russia worse same value as toilet paper sorry okay okay cool I hope there's not too many Russians commenting I'm joking okay let's see I just all jokes we want peace and want stability in the region and friendship yeah


It's Sam at Mixed Up Craft and thank you for watching today's tutorial. This is another five minute papercraft design for you and this is for the Social Papercraft Magazine that I am part of the creative team for. So I'm going to show you today a quick project that you can do within five minutes. If you didn't see last month's one I will share the link to that in the video description below and I will share the links to the Social Papercraft Magazine and all that fun stuff as usual and all the supplies I use. So this one here some of you may recognize it as something I've done before and this is what I call the squash box. I made a bigger one with a sheet of 12 by 12 and this one is using a sheet of 8 by 8. Really really fun to do and like I said they are so quick to do so if you are doing lots of favors you have a birthday party, you're doing something for craft fairs. This is a really good one just to put little treats in and I thought this one would be perfect for obviously something so sweet. The supplies I'm using are brilliant. I love this new ish collection now from Dovecraft and today I'm using the toppers. So you know if you do need to do quick things buying toppers and stuff that's pre-dine, pre-dye cuts are brilliant and they're really really great ways to again make your projects look like you spent hours doing them when actually you've just spent less than five minutes which is perfect. So this is the paper pack here which is sweet memories and you can just see there and I'll just quickly flick through. These are just really fun that's the one I used for this one here, that little box and then you've got the flat and the cakes there that lovely gingham print roses and daisies, plain pink polka dot which is the one I'm using today, this nice blue pattern macarons or macaroons that print there, more roses and then finish there with a looks like a iced lemon tea or a lemon tea. So really really nice I have lots more to this collection as well and you will see me using that in future tutorials but today we're going to concentrate just on these two pieces. So I'm just going to bring in what you need first of all and then we can get cracking on. So just a few supplies, one sheet of 8x8, I've got my whole punch ready there and I pre-cut two pieces of ribbon, 12 inches should be enough I've got about 13 there. So two pieces I've got this lovely minty green color there. I've chosen one of the toppers which is this one here time for tea and I plan to put some little tea bags inside this one just as a nice little why not kind of gift. So it's just fun I love doing things like this.  Alright so it's easy preparations you could have all your 8x8 papers now stacked up all your toppers stacked up and all your ribbon cut and you can literally whiz through these. So let's get cracking I've got my stopwatch here ready and as I said this will all be done within five minutes so let's begin. So first of all you are going to score at 1 and 7 eighths of an inch, 3 and 3 quarters of an inch, 5 and 5 eighths of an inch and 7 and a half. Okay that's it just those four score lines there that you need to do. That's everything with your scoreboard so I'm just going to pop that one down dropping things along the way and now you can just burnish all of those score lines so I'm just using my hands to do this obviously you can use your bone tool if you want to and then you're going to need to pop some tape here which I just put away so just grab my tape so I've just got double-sided one here you can use wet glue as well if you want to and you're just going to run that one just down that little half-inch piece that we have there and that's our tabs I'm just going to take off my backing for this piece here she says there we go flip it over, pop over one side with your tab, pop the other side down and it will marry up and fits perfectly on top okay with your join have that on the bottom and then with the side pieces just push them together until they line up like so pop it on its side and you just want to put two whole punches so one and then about half an inch between them like so and then do the other end yeah make sure it all marries up nicely you're just pinching the edges there and again one and two okay so that's that done and then you just want to grab your ribbon now those of you that watch me you know I hate doing bows and stuff but I will persevere and get this done there's one these are unedited five-minute tutorials this is as it comes so you'll watch me now faff about obviously if you've got a little bit more time than it can go over five minutes but even doing all these fiddly bits you can still do it so it's that one I tied it them all up in a minute obviously you'll pop in what you need to inside and then again the other one I love this color as well I can't remember I think I got this one from the range it was one of those 12 meter rolls of ribbon but it's a really lovely satin it's a ribbon it's lovely again nearly there I don't think I'm doing too bad but actually I think I am getting a lot better and just pop that one through like so and then you just want to tidy up your edges so there you go already you have this very cute little squash box that you can just shove now anything you want inside and then we just need to pop a little top on top so I've just got some foam backing and pop them on there first of all and do that one it's easier to put it on there because then I know where to stick it and I think I might do this long ways actually so I'm going to do it like so I just think they're so cute and they go three and a half minutes and I've done one so it just shows how quickly so if you've got a lot of pre-made die-cuts toppers things like that lying around you've got a load of eight by eight papers and the other good thing about these is they lie completely flat so again you can get it all prepped and ready store it away until you need it and it's not going to take up any room but there you have it I can still I've still got what a minute and ten seconds to just you up away but I'm not going to so there you go all the supplies I will share in the video description below I will share the other five minute tutorial as well I will share it all on my blog all the supplies everything and the links to the magazine if you haven't already please follow us we've got a Facebook group as well and there is a monthly sketch challenge as well so lots going on with eight other amazing design team members so have a look at that but for now I might as well stop that because I don't need it anymore I hope you've enjoyed today another quick little five minute craft they are so cute and I will see you again soon thanks for watching


Dear friends, I am Dr. Karthik Nagesh, I am Chairman of Neonatology at the Manipal Hospitals Group. We warmly welcome you to this IAP Neocon 2019 which has been held in this beautiful city of Bangalore. Manipal Hospitals has been at the forefront of neonatology in these last three decades almost in terms of cutting-edge technology, pioneering therapies, neonatal academics and research. We proudly welcome you to the city of Bangalore and I as also the organizing chairman of IAP Neocon 2019 welcome you to this wonderful conference where advancing frontiers in neonatology are going to be discussed. Our journey started about three decades back when for probably one of the first few centres in the country we started the field of newborn intensive care in this hospital city of Bangalore. At that time we were probably one of the first centres in the country to start critical care for sick babies. We have got a very, very large team of dedicated, highly experienced, trained professionals who are up to doing anything the advanced techniques in newborn intensive care including mothers with high-risk deliveries. Today I am so happy to say that starting from a 12-bed NICO, we are now a large 30-bed neonatal unit. We are able to deliver the best of care for high-risk pregnancies which includes, for example, the IVF babies, mothers with all kinds of medical problems including babies with diagnosed antinatal problems of defective problems in the babies, for example, the congenital heart diseases, congenital diaphragmatic hernias. We are able to successfully treat them safely here and babies go home well. I think Manipal Hospital is the place to be in this part of the region. Probably we are the major referral centre for such sick babies in this country.


Welcome to the last video on quadratic equations. So we are going to be solving this one and we're just going to mix it up as I call it here. So some quadratics can be solved by factoring, okay, but not all of them unfortunately. Some can be solved using the square root property. Okay, so that's another option. Next option, all quadratics can be solved by graphing unless it doesn't have a solution. And then the fourth option here is the quadratic formula. So again, all quadratics can be solved by setting your equation equal to zero and using your quadratic formula. Not all quadratics though have real solutions, so you may come across some of them where you'll end up if you're doing the quadratic formula where you have a negative under the square root that can't happen or if you're graphing it, you'll end up either with two things that don't cross or something that doesn't have any x intercepts.  Okay, so we're just going to look at each problem that I have here and we're just going to pick a method that we think might be good and we'll give it a shot. So first equation is 3x squared minus 7x plus 2 equals zero. This one I believe can be factored. That makes sense. Using the square root property though, does it make any sense because I see an x squared here but I also see an x. So unfortunately with that method, remember you only want to have one square. So that one doesn't make sense here. We could graph it or we could use the quadratic formula. Okay, so since I have to pick one of them, I'm going to start with factoring. Let's start at the top. So I'm going to make my x because this one has a coefficient in front. I'm going to multiply my a which is 3 by my c which is 2 and that's going to give me a total of 6. My number at the bottom then is negative 7. So that means I need two numbers that multiply to 6 and add to negative 7. So I believe in this case that will work. Negative 6, negative 1. Those two multiply to 6, add to negative 7. So let me go ahead and break up my middle term.  Okay, I'm going to throw my parentheses in to factor by grouping and I can factor a 3x out of my first set. That leaves me with x minus 2. And looking at my second set, I have a negative x and a positive 2 so that means I want to factor a negative 1 to get my signs to work out correctly. So that's going to leave me with x minus 2. And when I look at this is one term, this is another term, that's going to mean I have an x minus 2 in both of them so I can factor that out and I'm left with a 3x minus 1 equals 0. Okay, set each factor equal to 0 and we end up with x equals 2 and x equals 1 third. And if you need help getting to that point, refer back to one of the previous videos that we've done to show you how to set factors equal to 0. Okay, so factor and work with that one, fabulous. Okay, let's look at the next one. So n squared minus 2n minus 3 equals 0. So for this one, we could probably factor this. I think that'll factor nicely. We can't use the square root property again because I see an n squared and an n so that doesn't make sense here. Let's go ahead and graph this one since we haven't done a graphing one yet. So go to our y equals, obviously we're not going to use an n for our variable so we're going to use x squared but we have to remember then to translate that properly when we go to write our answer down. Minus 2x minus 3, let's check our table and see what pops up here. Sure enough, I see a negative 1 and because my signs are both negative, that means one's going to be positive and one's going to be negative. So let me scroll this direction and sure enough, my other one's 3. So that means I could have factored this. Let's go back to that idea. This would have factored as, let's write down our solutions, n equals negative 1 and n equals a positive 3. So going backwards, that means this would have factored as n plus 1 times n minus 3 equals 0. When you set it to those factors equal to 0, you would have got these two answers. Okay, interesting. Okay, number 3, this one says k squared plus 6k equals negative 5. So again, using the square root property doesn't make sense because I have a k squared and a k. So this one we'll use the quadratic formula on, since we haven't done that one yet. So that means I need to set this equal to 0, k squared plus 6k plus 5, moving that negative 5 over equals 0. So identifying my coefficients, a is 1, b is 6, my panel cooperate here, 6, and c is 5. So remember the quadratic formula is k equals the opposite of b, so that's going to be a negative 6 plus and minus the square root of b squared. So that's 6 squared minus 4 times a, which is 1, times c, which is 5, all over 2a, which is 1. Okay, let's go to the calculator and figure out what this number is inside of that square root. Put it out of here, so we're going to do 6 squared minus 4 times 1 times 5. I got a little lackadaisical with my parentheses, too, but when it's positive, it's not going to matter. Okay, that gives me a 16, so that's going to give me negative 6 plus or minus the square root of 16 all over 2. Square root of 16 is better known as 4, so that is negative 6 plus or minus 4 all over 2. So negative 6 plus 4 gives me negative 2 over 2, so k is going to equal on negative 1, and negative 6 minus 4 all over 2 is going to give me a negative 5, so those would have been my two answers for k. And again, you don't have to do this the way I'm doing it, but you shouldn't have put the same answer that I get. Okay, number 4, let's erase some of this mess that I made here. So this one says negative 2 times the quantity of x plus 4 squared equals negative 28. So finally, because I only see 1 square, it's a squared quantity, woo, we can use our square root property. Okay, so let's do that on this one. Go ahead and remember we have to isolate that square. So divide both sides by negative 2. So that's going to leave me with x plus 4 quantity squared. Oops, why did I do that? Try that again. My square went on the wrong place. x plus 4 quantity squared equals, that's going to give us 14. Okay, then remember to undo the square, you want to apply the square root, and don't forget about the symmetry idea, so there's a plus and a minus in front. So that's going to leave me with x plus 4 equals plus and minus the square root of 14. So I'm going to go ahead and subtract 4 from both sides. So x equals negative 4 plus or minus the square root of 14. Now on this one, I will tell you, if you decided to factor this, you would have to multiply this whole stuff out, move stuff around. Same thing with the quadratic formula. So in this case, using the square root property was a lot quicker. And also, you notice I get the square root of 14. That's not a very pretty number. Okay, next one, let's go ahead and graph this one again, just to give us something different to do. So let's go to the calculator and graph. We'll do the intersection this time as well, since there's two sets of part equals sign. So 2x squared plus 7x equals negative 3. So in my y1, I've got my first side of my equation. In my y2, I'm going to put minus 3. Okay, let's graph this on our standard window. There's my parabola. There is my line. Okay, do you think I can get lucky and find values on the table? Looks like both of my answers should be negative. So let's take a look in the negative area. Oh, looks like we got lucky with one of them anyway. And I think that's all we're going to get. So you notice that negative 3, the y values match, and they're both negative 3. So we need to find the other one then by going to the intersect. So second calc, option number 5. So negative 3 must be that one. So we need to find the one over here to the right. So I'm going to toggle to the left though, since they're both on the negative side. And that's pretty darn close. Hit enter, hit enter, hit enter. And we get an answer of negative 5. Okay, so let me go ahead and draw my graph on here. Here's my lovely parabola. Oops, put my axes in too, sorry. Here is negative 3. So my intersections are here and here. So those were at negative 3, negative 3, and negative 0.5, negative 3. So my axes for this one are negative 3 and negative 0.5. Okay, next one. We have 5r squared minus 6 equals 29r. Okay, we haven't factored in a minute. So let's see if this one will factor for us. So we're going to have to move this 29r over and set this equal to 0. No, actually, we haven't done the quadratic formula yet. So let's do that one instead. I changed my mind. Okay, so that's going to give me 5r squared. Now to put it in standard form, I'm going to do minus 29r next, minus 6 equals 0. So my a is 5, my b is negative 29, and my c is negative 6. So r is going to equal the opposite of negative 29, so that's going to give me 29 plus or minus the square root of negative 29 squared, and this one, we definitely better use our parentheses on when we put in the calculator. Minus 4 times 5 times negative 6, all over 2 times 5. Okay, let's go to the calculator. Quit out of my graph. So I'm going to put parentheses negative 29 parentheses squared minus parentheses 4 times 5 times negative 6, parentheses, hit enter. That gives me a grand total of 961, okay. So 29 plus or minus the square root of 961 all over 10, when I multiply 2 by 5. Let's see if 961 is a perfect square, or if we're just going to leave it. Okay, it sure is. It gives us 31, so my answer is going to be 29 plus or minus 31 all over 10. And I'm going to leave my answer just like that. It's perfectly legitimate. Okay, last problem, 7x equals 6 minus 20x squared. Okay, we just did graphing, we just did factoring. We've pretty much done all of our methods here now today. So I think graphing is the easiest. I'm going to go back to that. Go to my y equals, clear both of these out. So I have 7x, my y1, I'm going to do 6 minus 20x squared in my y2. Hit graph, there's my line, there's my parabola. Okay, it looks like one answer is positive, one answer is negative. Let's look at our table and see if we get lucky. So we want a, we don't want anything nice here. So we want these two values to be the same, which it doesn't look like they are anywhere in here. Let's see in our positive area, nope. Okay, so we definitely better use the intersection on this one. So second calc, option number five, intersect. I'm going to go to the right first, hit enter, hit enter, hit enter. I get 0.4, okay, do it again, second calc, option number five. Let me toggle to the left this time. It's pretty darn close, hit enter, hit enter, hit enter. And we get negative 0.75. Okay, so we draw on a rough sketch on my graph here then. Ooh, that's pretty bad, but that's okay. All right, then they cross here. And I didn't remember what the y values are, but that's okay. We just need our x's. So x is going to equal negative 0.75 and x is going to equal 0.4. Okay, fabulous, we're done with quadratic equations. Yay, keep practicing these and we'll be back later.


Hey everybody, Dr. O. In this video, I kind of want to dive in and just talk about the pros versus the cons of using broad spectrum antibiotics. So let's start with the definition.  So typically that means that they can kill both gram positive and gram negative bacteria or at least inhibit them both. So what would be the benefit of using broad spectrum antibiotics and why were they used so much in the past? Well, if you don't know what pathogen someone has, then a broad spectrum antibiotic is basically a shotgun approach. You're more likely to hit it. But the problem is now that they do more specific research on the type of antibiotics we choose versus the type that will end up working once we have actually culture the organisms and use things like antibiotics would say that only about 35% of the antibiotics we choose when we use this shotgun approach are actually going to be the most effective kind. So that's generally the rationale behind using them is that you're more likely to catch the microbe that you're trying to kill. So these were used a lot in the past. They still are used probably way too much. But in the past, excuse me, I'm sorry, we didn't understand that there were consequences to using antibiotics besides just the evolution of drug resistant organisms. We also had damage to the microbiome, et cetera. So let's look at those cons. So the pros would be that that you're hopefully more likely to actually kill the pathogen. But the con is you're going, there's going to be a lot more collateral damage. That's the way I look at it. Broad spectrum antibiotics are like firebombing an entire city, whereas a narrow spectrum antibiotic or maybe something in the future like phage therapy would be like a laser guided missile strike for the one target that you need. So you look here at number one, the normal microbiota keeps opportunistic pathogens in check. So an opportunistic pathogen is one that generally isn't going to be a pathogen in a strong host. It's going to be a pathogen in a compromised host, a weak host, or if it gets in the wrong location. So here we see the benefit of having a good microbiome. I mean, they make vitamins, they do all sorts of cool things. But if you ask me, the number one benefit of having a strong, healthy, robust microbiome is a term called competitive exclusion. So as long as your microbiome is full of good organisms, they hold the bad ones in check. And we say that a perfect microbiome is still only 80% good bacteria, 20% bad bacteria, but those good bacteria are what hold the bad ones in check. So here we see at number two, now a broad spectrum antibiotic has came in and wiped out all of these drug-resistant organisms' competition. So imagine that blue organism being C. diff. This person had C. diffs been inside their gut for 25 years, and now they take this broad spectrum antibiotic, kills off all of C. diff's competition. C. diff's been hanging out in spores, waiting for the environment to change. And now it's like, oh, there's tons of food around, there's no competition. C. diff will regenerate, these spores will regenerate, they'll become vegetative cells, and now you have a C. diff infection. This is the reason that antibiotics lead to things like C. diff infections. So and that's what number three says, drug-resistant pathogens proliferate and cause a super infection. So a super infection is an infection caused by taking antibiotics. So it's a type of secondary infection, but it's not like because you're a compromised host. It's not like because you have the flu and your immune system got weak, that you got pneumonia. It's because you took antibiotics, it killed off all the good, quote unquote good guys, that were holding the bad organisms in check, and then now they're able to take over. So the most common examples of super infections would be C. diff. If you've ever smelled C. diff, you'll never forget it. And number two would be Candida yeast infections because antibiotics, even broad spectrum antibiotics don't kill yeast. So this is the rationale behind using broad spectrum antibiotics, but also the cons, the negatives associated with it. Now in the future, I hope that these broad spectrum antibiotics are absolutely only used when necessary. So how do we do that? Number one, quicker diagnostics. We realize that we chose the wrong antibiotic all too often, but it takes one, two or three days to figure that out. So using things like phage typing or genetic testing, hopefully we can tell what organism someone has quicker. And then number two, using things like antibiograms, not only do we know the organism, but where can we get data to say this is the antibiotic that's the right antibiotic to kill this organism without all this collateral damage. Then I'm also hoping that in the future we have narrow spectrum antibiotics that are very specific. Like if you have a helicobacter pylori infection, there'll be an antibiotic that hopefully just kills that organism. Well I'm not sure, and I'm not sure if it'll be antibiotics, but so in the future I hope that we do not see this abuse, misuse, and overuse of broad spectrum antibiotics because of this is one of several complications. All right, I hope that helps you understand kind of the rationale behind being concerned about the use of broad spectrum antibiotics. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.