Sanctuary. Lots of native species. So as you can see platypus, platypie, wallabies. There you go. It's a push. I'm a little freaked out because it says there's snakes and I have flip flops on. We've got to get down. What if they're spiders?


How teachers can increase their confidence in the classroom In the classroom, a teacher's dedication, confidence, and eagerness are often contagious, and the same is true with the lack of these things. If a teacher is enthusiastic and energetic, their students will be as well. Mostly, experienced teachers know how to make the classroom friendly, pleasant and enthusiastic for the students. But does it apply to the new teachers? Yearly career teachers I remember three years back when I grabbed my first job, I was going to face a class of 20 students. Self-doubts and questions were racing around in my mind, what would I do on my first day of class? Will the students listen to me? How will I manage the class? Just thought of entering the classroom was giving me heebie-jeebies. I had never been that nervous even during my job interview. Many fresh graduate teachers could relate to these feelings. Well, it's very natural to have this kind of fears or questions for new teachers as we all are human beings. The most important thing at this point of time is to feel confident even if you aren't actually, and to act confidently. The attitude and confidence that we wear on our face are the first things which our students notice about us, even before we speak.   Your positive behavior, positive affirmations will program your mind to replace negative thoughts and fears. Mind your body language. Amy Cutty, in TED Global, says our body language may shape who you are, and power-posing, that is standing a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident, can boost feelings of confidence. Therefore, it is really important to speak in a firm, a clear and audible tone, make high contact with the students. Always stand straight without any slouch and look ahead confidently. Implement the discipline plan fairly and consistently because lack of discipline could gradually result in loss of confidence. Be patient. It is important for you to know that confidence is a gradual thing, it doesn't happen overnight. It doesn't happen in a single class. As the famous American performer, comedian, and singer Eddie Cantor said it took him 20 years to become an overnight success. The only important thing is to believe in you. Be prepared. Another key to confident teaching and gradual confidence building is efficient preparation, which starts with setting clear goals and objectives. Having said that, it's always helpful for new teachers especially if you have your lesson plans ready well before time, along with the games and study materials required for the lesson, as having a ready plan in hand will help you stay in line to your teaching objectives during the class, and within the time frame. Make sure that you have more than enough material just in case a few of your students finish early. At the same time, it is also very important to bear in mind that a lesson plan should only give you an outline of what and how you are going to cover your language point during a class if everything goes as expected and planned.  Pay attention to student's needs. It's always best to move ahead with their pace even if it doesn't match with your lesson plan. Do not try to teach anything on the first day of your class. Use this time to get to know each other. Use this time to create a healthy bond between the teacher and students. Building good rapport with the students, making your lesson plans interesting and enjoyable by adding various games and activities will definitely help the students participate in the class with much more enthusiasm. Just think or visualize of that moment. Those enthusiastic, happy and energetic faces are definitely going to give you a boost in your confidence. There could be instances when you might not know the answer to a question asked by a student. Don't worry, it could happen to anyone. This is the time when a confident answer may put you together in line with the experienced teachers, or a panicky response may damage your confidence further. The best response in this kind of situation would be honestly admitting that you don't know the answer, but you will try to get it the next day. Gradually, with the experience gained every day will reduce this kind of instances. It is always important to listen to experienced teachers around you, in your friend's circle or in the teacher's room at your school. Pay attention to their views about how do they deal with difficult students, classes, how do they deal with day-to-day classroom situations. You may or may not agree with all of their views but their experiences, their views will definitely help you deal better in some situations. Remember, we need not learn everything from our experiences, we learn from others experiences too. Believing in yourself and your skills is what builds up the confidence, not underestimating or undermining yourself. Pay attention to yourself. Confidence starts in your belief system. If you start visualizing yourself having a wonderful class, the motivated and happy student faces participating actively, it will become a reality. The only thing you need to be a perfect blend of positive attitude, eagerness, and dedication with your skills and knowledge. At the end of the day, go through a recap of whatever you experienced during the whole day. Reflect on students' reactions and feedback, what are the areas you could improve, what are the things you could have done better, and what is it you handled so perfectly that you are proud of yourself. Appreciate yourself. This end of the day exercise will definitely make your next day better, make your teaching better, make your students better learners and make you a more confident teacher, and that's what we all strive for. Isn't it? Are you ready to teach English abroad? Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


When it comes to mining, Northern Europe has some of the most advanced mining standards, techniques, and technology in the world. Take for example Finland and Sweden, they are both leaders in the underground equipment manufacturing industry, as Sweden is home to Epirac and Finland is home to Sandvik. Both countries have tight collaboration between academia, mining operations, and equipment manufacturers, making them leaders in the mining industry, especially for underground mining. Let's take a look at five mines you can work at in Northern Europe. The first mine is A-TIC, which is branded as the world's most efficient open pit copper mine. A-TIC is also a world leader in trolley assist technology. Trolley assist is when the haul trucks switches over to getting their power supplied by overhead electric lines, which results in the substitution of diesel fuel with cheaper and cleaner energy. They started trialling this technology in 2018 and 2019 with four CAT 795 trucks over a 700 meter test lane, and soon they will expand that to 10 haul trucks over a 3 kilometer test lane. A-TIC is one of the few mines that will openly welcome visitors as they have a visitor center and will give out guided tours. Next mine is the largest primary gold producer in Europe and that is Agnico EGLE's Catila mine located in the Lapland region of Northern Finland. Catila was an open pit mine until November 2012 and afterwards it transitioned into an underground mine using the open-soaping method followed by delayed backfill. Catila is dedicated to achieving the highest standards of environmental excellence as they adhere to old mining association Canada's Towards Sustainable Mining Standard. Heading back to Sweden, the next mine we'll talk about is Lundin Mining's Sinkgruvin mine. As the name suggests, it is a sink mine and is in fact one of the oldest active mines in the region having been producing since 1857. Sinkgruvin is known for the social performance having achieved an 85% positive response in regards to its social responsibility in a 2017 community survey. One of the flagship community events is the run of mine where local community members can do a marathon-styled run through the mine. Sinkgruvin also provides guided tours through their old underground mine exploration of the mining museum and experience virtual reality technology. Next up is Kiruna owned and operated by Swedish company LKAB. Kiruna is an underground iron ore mine that mines 75,000 tons of iron ore through sub-level caving. Perhaps what is most unique about the Kiruna mine is that the local town is actually physically moving their town 2 miles east to allow the mine to expand and continue its operation. By 2035 around 6,000 people will be relocated to support the mine. Kiruna also has a 20,000 square meter tourist center in the mine located at the 540 level and it features authentic machine displays, museum-style displays explaining the mines history and mining processes and it even features a theater. Personally I have visited this theater and it was amazing. Lastly is the Kivitsa mine and it is one of the biggest open pit mines in Finland and the products are nickel and copper concentrate. It is one of the newer mines in the region having once into operation in 2012. Because of how new the mine is they have some of the latest open pit mining technologies such as autonomous tracks, autonomous and remote drills, the 2020 modular mining dispatch system, blast movement monitoring equipment and slope stability monitoring radars. As you can see Sweden and Finland provide some of the most exciting and advanced mining opportunities there is to offer. By 2025 Sweden is expected to triple its mining production and add more than 50,000 new jobs. Both countries are also politically and socially stable and ranked as one of the lowest-risk countries in the world meaning they have a predictable regulation base that will provide steady employment. Which countries do you want me to cover next? Let me know below in the comment section and we'll see you next time.


3. Methods to teach EFL kindergarten in a fun way Since younger students have a shorter attention span than older students it can be a challenge to not only manage the classroom but to teach English as a foreign language. Though this might be difficult there are many advantages to teaching younger students. Though young, children are still eager to learn and, with the right motivation and teaching skills teaching younger students can be very rewarding. 1. Teaching and managing younger students. Managing Since young children are easily distracted and have shorter attention spans it's important to break things up. Spending shorter amounts of time on the actual teaching part and moving on to the activate or and engage phase of the lesson can keep the classroom focused and keeps things interesting. This will help students to less likely become bored, thus making the class easier to manage. That being said it's still very important to go back to the study phase after the engaging activities in order to ensure the class's understanding of the lesson. Development It's no secret that younger minds learn much quicker. This is especially true when it comes to language. This is the time to learn multiple languages before habits start to form based on culture or costumes, which can make learning a foreign language much harder later on. That being said it's crucial for the teacher to ingrain correct pronunciation and grammar as early as possible so that the habits they do form will increase their fluency. Repetition Repetition is the key. It's essential to review new concepts and lessons in order to keep things fresh in the mind. This is especially the case for EFL children who will have very little to no understanding of the English language. The teacher will likely need to keep repeating his, herself in order to help students connect certain words or thoughts together. Repetition along with constant commendation is an effective method because while giving students more confidence. This will encourage students to use the language they have learned. Be active This method of teaching has proven to be effective with children. Not only is this way of learning fun but, activities that require hands on or physical work help ingrain certain concepts into the minds of younger students. The more the students move when they are learning the language, the faster they will understand and retain the information they have learned. Total physical response This is the method of physical hand movements or gestures when you associate a physical movement with language. When teaching children, this method proves to be very effective. Children learn as they move and follow simple instruction by copying the movements of the teacher while learning how to say new words or phrases. At the beginning of the lesson say and repeat the new words to the class. Then demonstrate the TPR. After this, have the class copy your movements while saying the words associated with each gesture. A good way to review a lesson using TPR is to play a game at the end of the class. You sign or gesture a word or phrase and have the students say the word you're looking for. This creates a fun and engaging atmosphere for the class and puts what they have learned to use. What's in the bag? This activity involves putting items in any non-transparent bag and allowing the student to use their sense of touch. Students then need to think about and guess what could be inside the bag. When everyone has felt the bag and has made their guess, the teacher can call one student to reveal what was inside the bag. Then discuss with the class. Who was right? Why did you think it was this? Etc. Act it out. This activity can be done using sock puppets, costumes, and flash guards. For kindergarten, this can really help strengthen conversational language and also reading comprehension. One way this works is by reading a simple short story for example the three little pigs. Explain the story to the class then ask questions about the story. For example, what kinds of animals are in the story? How many pigs are in the story? Then show the class pictures or flash cards of the story. Now comes the fun part the play assign students to be a character from the story have them practice their simple lines, and once the costumes or puppets are ready you may begin. After the play, you can re-read the story and even encourage the students to read along with you. Their understanding and vocabulary will have improved greatly by the end of this activity. 3. Get creative. Don't be boring. Mix things up a little. The easiest way for younger students to become distracted is when the class becomes on board. Doing the same thing for each lesson every week can cause your students to lose interest. One of the challenges of teaching younger students a second language is that they're not choosing to be there, they have to be there. So, the more fun and creative you make the classroom the more likely your student will be ready and eager to learn. Play games. Games can be very beneficial to teaching because they play on a healthy competitive nature of most children. Games also give students a goal to accomplish. When a student wins the game it's something that they can be proud of. Some games to play for learning are Simon Says, and I Spy Simon Says is a great way to practice listening skills and prepositions. Simon Says put your hands on your head. I Spy is a great color and vocabulary game. Use this game when you're learning about different colors. I Spy something green, you can even use this game to teach descriptive concepts. I Spy something small and blue, these games and many more can be used to teach different concepts and language based on the lessons. Cooking time. Cooking in class might seem like a bit much, but if you have the supplies and resources it's a great way for students to learn. When cooking you use all five senses, you can use this as an opportunity to talk about the five's sentences. Learning with your class can help them follow step-by-step instructions and will also greatly improve their grammar and sentence structure. With a younger class, this needs to be in a safe environment and with more than one teacher present helping. Music. Songs and singing can be a great way for children to learn a new language.Singing along to fun interactive songs not only helps with vocabulary and sentence structure, but it's a great way to practice pronunciation. Some fun songs to sing in class are ABC of course this is great for learning the alphabet, very helpful for young learners. Old MacDonald had a farm is a fun way to learn the names of animals. These songs many other nursery rhymes for kids can help children learn a new language without them even knowing it. Do you want to teach English in an EFL kindergarten? Take a TEFL course today. These are just a few easy ways to get started when teaching English as a foreign language to kindergarten. Another important thing to remember when teaching is to make the learning environment fun and encouraging to help build your students confidence. This will ensure a greater learning experience for both the student and the teacher. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Aloha and welcome to another episode of the Savvy Chick Show on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm your host, Chantel Seville. Now today I'm real excited to share my own personal journey with you in an episode all about being healthy and fit while you're pregnant. We've had a lot of requests coming to the studio about how to do this because I'm full term now and I've still been able to manage to be healthy and fit. So I thought what a perfect opportunity as this may be one of my last episodes for a little while if the little one comes soon to share the journey with you and hopefully inspire you whether you are pregnant or considering getting pregnant or one day down the track want to have a baby if you're a young Savvy Chick watching. So first of all I'd like to start with the why. Now why be healthy and fit while pregnant? I mean there are so many reasons and the one I want to get out of the way first is you're not eating for two. So when people say oh I'm pregnant I'm eating for two. This little one is very little. She's very little.  So that's one of the most important things that I remembered right from the beginning is to eat well and eat healthy and you don't need to eat a ton extra and it's not your excuse. So sorry to get that out of the way. So when you are you know throughout the like throughout the pregnancy they'll give you the doctors will give you a different indication of how many extra calories you should have a day and it's really not that many more. It might be like two or three hundred per day and again I'm going to let you know this is just my experience. I'm not an expert though I feel like I am a little bit of one just from experiencing it. So yeah so please anything that I do say consult with your physician or an expert on the matter. But this is my personal experience and you know it is just a little bit extra and I tried to stay on track to doing what was right for me. But the other thing is you're not only staying healthy for yourself during the pregnancy you're also staying healthy for your baby.  Like why would you want to not be healthy for this little person you're growing inside. Like you just want to feed them cake and cookies but yet not want to look after them doesn't make sense. So this is a really really important opportunity to look after that person inside you and eat the best that you can be because when they're born you don't want to feed them sugar syrup. You want to feed them good milk and so that's another reason it's for your baby. Another great reason is it keeps you really a lot better in the mindset. Being pregnancy with hormones and everything can be quite challenging and if you can eat well as you know it affects all your emotions and it does help a lot to keep you clear. I'm not saying it's perfect not saying being pregnant easy but I definitely can assure you that getting those endorphins from keeping fit and eating well really really assist in a great way. So be sure to make sure and say healthy and fit while you're pregnant. Now the other few reasons are for labor I mean the fitter you are the better your labor is going to be so it's really important that you stay fit during the pregnancy to make your labor easier. Now I haven't been through labor yet so I will get back to you but that's what they say and everyone I've spoke to who has been quite fit has had quite a better labor. Not to mention makes it easier to get your healthy confident body back after the baby and it's not about you know being perfect it's just about feeling good about yourself and feeling like you're in your own body and you've not completely lost yourself. So those are a few of my reasons as to why it's important to stay healthy and fit while you're pregnant. Now I'll take you through my nine month journey just bear with me here because I've got my little earpiece in because we're expecting some calls during this episode. So if you are watching please be sure to call us on<PHONE_NUMBER> that's the think tech Hawaii hotline or tweet us at think tech H.I. And you can tweet a question about health fitness wellness there we go I've got you in my ear so my production manager can ask the questions as you call in so I'm very excited to answer some of those questions. Now to the next part is my nine month journey well it's actually 10 so the start of the journey is your first trimester and that basically is three months. Those three months let me tell you where the hardest when you're not knowing what you're expecting being my first I was tired I was so tired I felt like a little like being hung over for those of you adults watching this. Most days so you don't know what you want to eat some of the things you used to love for instance I love coffee didn't want anything to do with it. I would go line up for a coffee at the coffee shop because I thought I wanted one only to just be so repulsed and turn out of the line not to have coffee and chicken love chicken. Didn't want to touch it one week all I wanted to eat was bread and butter which I rarely eat because I know with my my body doesn't respond as well to bread and butter. And you know the other thing is not to be too hard on yourself because I called a friend of mine who's a nutritionist when I was eating just bread and butter every day sometimes a few times a day that was my meal. And I said justina I'm eating like sourdough bread and vegan butter all day long and she said Chantel you're eating sourdough bread and vegan butter and that's a problem. Bread is not so bad when you're eating healthy. So if you are craving these other things just make good choices about what types of foods you are eating. I wasn't eating potato chips and and which I mean I don't know some people are different when they're pregnant. So if you can try to reach for the healthiest option that's going to help you a lot. So that was in my first trimester now I also got very very tired and as you all know I'm quite self motivated and I love exercising and getting out there moving. But it was really challenging for me to be really honest with you all. So I didn't know how I was going to get through this. And what I did was contacted a personal trainer and just thought if I could get even a couple training sessions just to keep me on track because I knew if I lost it then it was going to be a lot harder to get my fitness back down the track. So I ended up doing some semi private sessions just down the road from where I lived. It was enough to get me up and get me going and keep me training through that first trimester. And that's all I needed because by second trimester 13 14 weeks I was brand new again. I felt like myself.  Luckily I didn't throw up which a lot of people do but wasn't being sick wasn't nearly as tired didn't feel as emotional. So it was fantastic and I didn't need the trainer anymore. So that was about from sort of May and then ended up in was it by July which is second trimester. I went to Canada visited my family had a great time was in Vancouver doing a huge hike. I mean it's the hike is the grouse grind in Vancouver. I think it's nearly two hours really really high up. No problem. I mean I wasn't as fast as I usually would be but still able to achieve that then came back to Hawaii flew to Australia. You know in between and these are also some great tips during the during the journey is when I went and stayed with my grandma I found a gym nearby and it was $15. I signed up for the week just enough to move your body because and this is why I got the trainer the consistency is so important. So soon as you let that go it's really challenging to get back. So even if you're just going to the gym or just going for a walk and getting out of bed or off the couch or taking a break. If you're still working take it a break at lunch hour. It's going to help you so so much to stay consistent and you also feel good about yourself in a sense of accomplishment and achievement by doing that. So that took me up to about the third trimester in the third trimester which I'm in now I'm pretty much done is I started getting getting tired again. Anyone to give you an example like the other day I just you know couldn't didn't really want to move. So what I did is I called a friend or message a friend and said do you have time to chat because I knew that that would get me motivated to get up and going. Truth be known she ended up when I called her she wasn't there to chat but I ended up walking with another friend and it just felt great. So if you are feeling challenged feel like reach out see if there's anyone else that can exercise with you walk with you just help you get moving. And even if it means sort of stretching at the house but do things that you enjoy because it's going to be a lot easier to motivate yourself if you enjoy it. As far as exercising throughout the pregnancy everyone has their different thoughts on it but I often I went to the gym so especially in the second trimester. I was still doing weights not huge heavy weights but I was feeling great you know really getting my mind into my muscle. Like see I still have my muscles left and I'm I'm do like it I could have a baby any day now which is incredible and it makes me feel really good about myself. So just a few times a week I went probably three or four times a week for about 30 to 45 minutes because I was also walking as well so it wasn't just doing the gym. I was quite heavy in the lower abdomen so I couldn't run as much not that I'm a runner anyway so as again stick to things that you enjoy. Yeah so that was a bit of my experience and why I think it's it's great to be healthy and fit while pregnant because I still feel like myself. I've got this I've got this bump beautiful bump here with this healthy little baby inside ready to come out any day now. And it's just it's just an incredible experience to be able to to go through and I know with a lot of new moms and I'll be one soon and I'll be able to share that experience when I have it is that. And I mentioned before you know you want to have that sense of confidence in yourself you don't want to just be a mom and maybe you do but I want to be a mom and myself right so I think that's why it's really important to keep that sense of pride in yourself and your body and and even just the way I dressed was comfortable but confident and these are things that help you want to stay active and help you want to stay fit and not want to let go of. You know if you've been fit all your life what you have and if you're younger and considering having a baby one day well it's great to get fit now it's great to get fit for any reason and to look after yourself and treat your body like a temple because it'll help you no matter what no matter what you decide to do in your life and you know having the muscle memory I put on Instagram you have to check up my Instagram but I said you know pretty much nine months pregnant can't see my toes but still have some abs because I actually still have some abdominal muscles right at the top there and that's just from muscle memory and being active and fit since I've been young and listening to your body as well so I do encourage you to no matter what stage of life you're at start to listen to your body get some expert advice when you can just to get more intuitive and then that way it makes it a lot easier to stay on track and it makes it a lot more fun and I know that when I eat bad food I went to a couple parties throughout obviously I can't drink but when I had some food that was a lot really really sugary or food that I don't usually eat a lot of it actually made me feel a lot more like down the next day I know it sounds crazy but because when you're quite intuitive with your body you start feeling and noticing when you're not quite right so I did notice there is a correlation from when I would eat a lot of bad or sweet or foods that weren't for me and when I would eat all my healthy food and I ate tons of fruits during pregnancy I know they say there's lots of sugar and fruit but I don't care so much fruit during pregnancy and fiber is amazing for you so these are all some of the tips I mean we've got plenty more to come in the second segment and we'd love for you to call in or tweet any questions you have and we will see you back soon on The Savvy Chick Show on Think Tech Hawaii. 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We have incredible guests from all walks of life including politicians, successful business owners, leaders, entrepreneurs and authors. As this is a live show there are live mess ups as well which are fun to watch. Aloha and we'll see you on Thursday. Welcome back to the Savvy Chick Show on Think Tech Hawaii for our second segment of being healthy and fit while pregnant. This is a really exciting episode for me because I'm able to share my journey and experience with you. And I think one of the biggest gifts I have to give the world is to share experience and hopefully inspire you no matter what stage you are in your life to want to be healthy and fit and confident. And just being pregnant is another way that I can share the journey with you. So a few tips that I wanted to just sort of finish off on before we get to some questions. If you do have questions feel free to tweet us at Think Tech Hawaii. Just all you do is put at Think Tech Hawaii, put your question there and our production team will get in my ear and ask the questions. Hopefully I can help you. The other thing you can do is you can call the Think Tech Hawaii hotline. So even if you're overseas you can still dial this number. Just put the code in front so I think believe the code for United States is one. So a few things that I want to talk to you about is consistency, which I did go through a little bit in the last segment. So basically if you can try to be consistent as possible and exercising in the days you don't feel like it, just to slowly just do something rather than nothing because it's really hard when you get behind the eight ball. When it comes to eating, consistency means, you know, trying, if you'd have a bit of a bad day of eating or, you know, there was times that I guess I had cake or this or that or had a dessert and that was great. But it didn't get in my way of just continuously doing that. You have it and you get over it. And the next day you eat healthy again. So consistency is really important because once you lose consistency, you lose focus and then it's very challenging to get back. Not to say you can't, it just makes it a lot easier to stay consistent. Be prepared. I've done this all my life and that's why even if you're watching and aren't pregnant, just be prepared. If you look in my bag right now there will be an apple and some almonds always. This way you're not going to reach for things that aren't as healthy for you.  I mean, this is true for any case really and a lot of water. Water is very important. Resting, if your body wants to rest, rest. You know, sometimes your body wants to rest and if you don't have the opportunity to rest, you just want to, you know, fill yourself with other foods or stimulants to keep you going. But that's not good for you. So if your body wants to rest, let it rest. If you are at work, just give yourself a few moments. You don't have to sleep when I say rest. It just means just let your mind chill for a minute and that will help. And listening to your body. If your body feels like it wants something, then you just go and give that, except if it's asking for cake all the time. And being self-motivated. I mean, it's something I pride myself on, being self-motivated and quite disciplined. It's something that you always need to work on, but it's a great quality to have. And if you can get self-motivated and feel a sense of pride from having that sense of self-motivation, it gives you a lot more inspiration to want to do that. So, and I mean, to be honest, it's great when people look to me and say, wow, you're so healthy and fit while you're pregnant. And to me, it's like, okay, well, I'm doing my job as a person here on this earth and being an inspiration to others. So if you can connect with a why you want to be healthy and fit while you're pregnant, you want to run around with your little one, or do you want to, you know, be able to still look great for your partner or whatever it is, then it's important to stay healthy and fit while you're pregnant. So I'm just going to see if we have any calls or tweets coming in to ask about how to stay healthy and fit while you're pregnant or really at any time in your life. Oh, okay. Good question. How have my workouts changed? So how have my workouts changed? They're actually quite, I mean, to be honest, throughout my life, I've done a lot of different things. I've done sports. I've done, I did a lot of boxing for a while. And then I got into fitness modeling just to experiment with that, which was a lot more about walking, sort of cardio and weights. So my workouts have changed. First trimester, they didn't change too much. I was still able to do a lot of what I did. I was doing swinging the kettlebells and really getting my heart rate up and doing all those types of things. Yes, so that was fantastic. And there I am. That was me in my first trimester. I think I would have been about maybe like 10 weeks, 12 weeks pregnant, like quite on my way to being pregnant. I had this great trainer called Eric in Lanakai here in Hawaii. And yeah, so there was me out there staying healthy and fit and swinging the kettlebell and doing squats and getting on benches and doing all kinds of things. So my workouts really didn't change at all the first trimester. Even though I was tired when I left my house to go there, I'd still ride my bike. And once I was there, I was in full form and it was fantastic. It was just the motivation to get there. And yeah, we'd be swinging the bell, swinging everything. It was just great. I mean, these are all things that I can still do now. But to be honest, things have just changed slightly. Obviously, I'm not with the trainer anymore because though I love a trainer, I'm self-motivated and it works for me to go to the gym and just train myself. So at the moment in my third trimester, I'm still going to the gym and lifting weights. So I usually do bicep curls. I do a few push-ups, not many push-ups these days. Get on the leg machines, do a bit of leg weights. Nothing on the tummy, nothing laying down too long. A few months ago, I was still doing a bit of leg press. Just really not as heavy of weight. It's not that I'm ever a really heavy weight type person. There are some people that love to go to the gym and just stack the weights on. I more so get my mind in my muscle, which I learned from Greg Dolman, who's a great fitness coach back in Australia. He was Lindy Olson. She's a five-time fitness model champion who got me competing. So he taught me to do the mind and the muscle. And basically what that means is it's working smarter, not harder.  It's not about how fast you can do it. It's about actually being in the moment and really getting it done while you're there. So mind and the muscle. So I'm doing squats. I'm doing lunges. I'm doing my dips. Pretty much most things that I did, except I'm just at a slower pace. Because, well, that feels good for me. And a lot of walking. If I can get a chance to make sure I walk at least once a day, whether that means a beach walk or just walking into town, that's enough to keep me going. So my workouts have changed slightly over time, but I'm still feeling pretty fit. Okay, my girlfriend is also pregnant. How can dads-to-be stay fit and healthy along with our partners? Oh my gosh, that's such a good question. Thank you. I think this is really important because even what I'm saying to my own partner now is if I'm tired, can you please just walk with me or just help get me out of the house? One of the things we've done is sort of swimming. So even though he's at a different level, I'm not a swimmer. So even if I was fit, I'm still not a good swimmer. I do a bit of breaststroke, and he can actually do some good swimming. So things that you can do together that you enjoy, but I mean, while we've been on holidays, we've done hikes, we've gone for walks. I can still do, while I watch him surf, I can still do squats on the spot and things like that. So a great thing for guys to do is to get involved and to, you know, when you see your partner, if you can kind of see that she's starting to feel a bit, you know, tired or down on herself, even if you don't like walking, take her for a walk. So those are things that you can do because it might not be something that she'll ask for. She might not even know she wants it, but I can guarantee you once she gets out there, she'll feel a million times different and having her support along the way is something that's really, really important for her to have. So what can he cook for you is another question. What can he cook for you? Wow. This is great. Yeah, there have been some days that I've actually been quite tired to cook. So the things that you can cook, you or your partner, or like husband or wife, whichever it is when you're pregnant is just really a lot of lean meats, a lot of greens. Those are the simplest things. Stir fries with a bit of brown rice. Not too much starches, like really, really starchy things can also affect your tummy a bit. So yeah, like I said, stir fries, what else have we had? Omelettes, things like that are great. Just anything. We're getting some good questions coming in here. Is there anything that he should avoid eating in front of you? I guess it all depends on the person. To be honest, I'm, as I said, quite self-disciplined.  And unless I really want it, it doesn't affect me. But I mean, come on, you're going to be a father as well. So make sure you eat healthy and support her as well. Because the more healthy you eat, the easier it is for her to stay on track. So I think that that's only important and fair. And lucky you're not carrying the little one. So take that into consideration. Any other tweets or questions coming in? Oh, OK. Well, it doesn't look like we have any at the moment. So I'll just continue on having a little bit more of a chat about being healthy and fit while pregnant. I'm really hoping that these tips and inspirations helping you. Because to me, it's something that I'm really excited to share. And it's been a long journey. But it's been a great one. And I'm really happy that I've been able to stay healthy and fit and feel like myself still, even though I have this little bump that I carry around with me everywhere. So some of the other things that I could share with you is just keep continuing doing the other things that you like doing. Because that also keeps your mindset good. So if you like painting or if you like just different types of any inspiration, even if you like dancing, you can't dance the same as you used to. Anything like writing, reading, anything that motivates you, continue doing that. Because how to stay healthy and fit also has a lot to do with your mindset. And the more positive you are and the more you continue doing what you're doing.  Still just getting out and doing those things that make you feel like a sense of purpose in yourself. Because the more you do that, the more, again, you'll have pride in yourself. And you'll want to look after your body. And you'll want to look after the baby that's on its way. So that's another great thing that I'd always encourage you to do is keep being you. Because the more you are, the easier it is to stay on track. Oh, I got another question. How do I feel like staying healthy with my family? Plan on staying healthy? Well, quite luckily we're outdoor people. And we really like being healthy and fit. And Dad's always out there. Daddy-to-be is always out there running and surfing and doing his thing. I mean, he's very, very motivated. So as a family, I mean, I've already organized all my strollers or prams, wherever in the world you're watching this, to walk a lot. So with the newborn, I plan to do a lot of walking. I've got a big basket under one of the strollers that I can just walk. And if I go shopping and get bits and pieces and be social, also I am considering joining one of those, what do we call them, stroller, pram gangs. They have a lot of different mothers groups where you can go exercise together. So I think that would be a great way to stay social. So that's not as part of the family, but that would be me with the little bum. But yeah, lots of beach time with the family, lots of beach time. We'll do some hiking. I'll get a bit of one of those sort of, I don't want to name drop or anything, but what are they, the baby, Bjorn type things. So I can wear that around or dad can wear it around and we can walk the beach and still soon, not until the baby's about six months can you actually jog with a stroller. So doing those types of things and just getting out and going to the markets and I think it's just about moving. It's not always about doing something excruciating. You'd be surprised how much just moving and getting out and doing bits and pieces adds up. So yeah. Oh, baby swim classes. That is a great idea. Maybe mom could learn to swim before baby. That'll be a great idea. Yeah, man. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I think that's a great idea. Baby swim classes. Okay, I might, I might get onto some baby swim classes. I can swim just my head above the water because when I try to do this, it's like. Oh, be sure to check me out on Instagram there as well. You'll be able to see the pregnancy journey and over time it's, you know, it's actually, I quite, I look at some of the photos and I'm thinking, wow, I'm that pregnant and there's, and the human body still looks like that. So it's pretty neat. Check out Instagram and you'll be able to share the rest of the journey now.  You'll be able to meet the little baby and then carry on forward and seeing what types of things we're doing as a family. And I will include, I have about, maybe seven of my best girlfriends so I hope you've all watched this episode. And if you have, make sure to share it with your mom's groups. Well, they actually already have their babies so mom's to be groups. Or for the second one, I mean some people have been pregnant once, haven't been able to stay healthy and fit because they weren't sure how. And let me tell you something really important that I can't take all the credit for this. One of the ways that I have stayed healthy and fit while pregnant is watching others because anything I've done in my life, I've looked to something and aspired to it. Now there's a few Australian people who are really inspirational with her pregnancy being healthy and fit. I thought, oh, if she can do it, I can make this happen. So I would look to her Instagram to get inspiration. Lindy Olson, who is my, as I said, my fitness modeling coach when I did the competition from a distance, but she gave me guidance and also inspiration. And the other person who I think is really neat is Rebecca Judd. She has been criticized a lot in the media for posting her on her skinny leg jeans which are actually maternity jeans 11 days after having twins. Well, I say good honor because I know she's a healthy person. Her husband is a professional athlete and she wanted to stay healthy and fit while pregnant and I think that makes her a great mother. I don't think it makes her vain. I think it makes her an inspiration. So for women like that who are happy to share it and are being healthy and are being great role models, I would definitely, for all you other ladies pregnant, seek to find inspiration or something to aspire to and don't let yourself down if you don't, you know, I'm not size two or whatever she's in skinny leg jeans but I know that from her doing that, I can do my version. So the main thing is be the best version of yourself. Stay healthy and fit. Enjoy it and until next time, I hope that I can see you next week. If I'm not here, there will pop someone else in my chair. Not the baby. And yes, thank you so much for tuning in. If you'd like to watch any more of the episodes, you can always go to Think Tech Hawaii YouTube and just look up Savvy Chicks. It'll give you every single episode we've done here. So it's a combination of healthy and fit while pregnant. We've got inspirational stories of mermaids and professional stunt women and we've got how to sort your finances on. You know, our objective is to make sure that you make and live a healthy, fit, confident and inspired lifestyle. So thank you so much for tuning in. We'll see you next time. Aloha.


Hey everybody! Today is Q&A. We're going to go over a few questions that were submitted to us by our Patreon and YouTube members, so let's get to it. Our first question comes from Jamiah Watson and he asked me, how does one go about achieving further down levels? And that's actually a pretty good question because if you're not in a martial art that has, of course, the color belt ranking system or if you're just starting off or if you've only been in a few years, it's not always apparent in how you would achieve more black belt levels because you've got your set curriculum for each belt level, but what happens when you hit black? The first thing I want to reiterate though, as we've talked about this many times, is let's not forget that black belt is not the goal. That is not when your curriculum ends. That's not when your training ends. It's really just the beginning. The way I personally like to look at it is comparing the martial arts to, say, a karate system with belt color system to schooling.  You know your first grade, your second grade, your third grade, and what do we learn in grade school? We learn our basics. We learn our basic math, our basic history and science and comprehension and writing, all of that, so that by the time you work your way up into graduation, you have at least a general idea of all the basics that you are encountering in your academic career. That to me is the black belt. When you graduate high school, you have achieved your black belt. Is your education over? No, far from it. There's still a lot further you can go. You start going into college and you start working on your degrees, much like degrees of a black belt. To me, black belt is college. You've graduated, you understand the basics, now it's time to apply it to a specialty, deeper study, deeper understanding.  You can see that the black belt is very much still a very beginning part of your education that will go through your lifetime. But to answer the question as to how to actually achieve different black belt levels, that's going to entirely depend on the system, because most systems will have their own requirements and it's usually still continuing curriculum. When it comes to college, you usually set a course path of action, you continue taking classes. It's the same thing with the martial arts. You continue taking classes because there's often a lot more material to learn. And that material typically average, typically speaking, goes to about third to fifth degree black belt levels. Of course, this is going to vary between different arts. But that makes sense because some arts such as shuttle con back in the day, founder Kishi Funakoshi never promoted anybody past fifth degree and he never went past fifth degree himself. So I would say third to fifth degree is where a lot of systems run out of curriculum. And from that point on, promotion is time ingrained into the system. But it's going to vary and it might even vary within the same art. For example, Ed Parker with Kempo, our curriculum went through different changes. We had a curriculum when it started that early on, like in the 70s and 80s, there were 32 techniques per belt level. And it took a long time at each belt level. So by the time it went through the entire curriculum, you were basically at first degree black belt, but it took a while. And as they revamped it, we had a 24 technique system that came out. Well, then by the time you got through that material, you were at your third degree black belt. And right after Ed Parker passed away, a lot of schools adopted the 16 technique system, which would carry the material, the same material carried all the way through fifth degree black belt. So I still say on average between third to fifth degree is where a lot of systems run out. And in this time ingrained in the system, but there's always exceptions. I recently saw an interview with just speakman, where he said that he holds that testing standard to each belt level.  And he expects that of all of his black belts, whether they're going for the fifth degree, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth will have you that expectation. So there that you're going to test for it, you're not just going to get it as an honorary, you need to earn it. But of course, you're going to see some variation across the board, depending on the art that you're in. But when we talk about putting time ingrained into the system, let's look at the keyword there is time. When you're working something as fine as the martial arts, and you just get to the point of expertise where you've mastered the basics, you know, a few black belt levels in, and you want to continue your training, you start to specialize. That's kind of like when you're in college, where you start going, Oh, you know, I'm going to go for a master's of science or art or communications or or or sonography, whatever it is, you find your specialty. And I feel it's kind of the same way with the martial arts.   It's all across the board. And that's the position where you start to really, you know, absorb what you've learned and you start to turn that material around and you start to develop your own spin on it. That's the time ingrained in the system, but you don't do that overnight. It takes time. But unfortunately, what we see a lot and I hate to say it and Keppo is incredibly guilty of this, is there are practitioners who will zip through first degree all with the 10th degree in a matter of a few years. And honestly, I personally feel that's a disgrace. Yes, the belts don't mean anything. But whatever meaning that they do have that you want to apply or any integrity gets damaged at that point, you know, people will get the first degree black belt, and then they'll break away and make their own system. And all of a sudden, they're 10th degree black belt, you're doing yourself and you're doing the art a great disservice. Go by following that path. You want to contribute. And that's the other big thing to is contributing to your art, whether it be through teaching, through seminars, through dissertations and thesis, whatever, give back to the art, the whole point of martial arts is to make yourself better. So take the energy and try to make other people better elevate the art, be part of it, you know, add to the legacy. That's in my opinion, how you truly earn further degrees of black belt, if you want to put any meaning to the belt itself. Our second question comes from Michelle Poirier, and she asked me my opinion on elitism in the martial arts. She says that she's noticed that people get snobby over lineages and what they consider real martial arts versus fake. And what my opinion was on this elitism.  I mean, on spending energy on arguing that your art is better than somebody else's art or that you're better in your one version of art versus another, I don't think it accomplishes anything. It's a waste of energy and it's just so negative. And unfortunately, I've witnessed a lot of dissent in my lifetime in the martial arts. I've seen senior students look down at under belts and say, oh, you know, come back and talk to me when you're black belt. I even recently had a comment on a video.  And one of the comments was, I won't even work or touch with a colored belt. That sentiment, I don't think adds anything. I think it poisons your own training and it does a great service to the art and you're not giving any benefit to anyone else that works with you. There's a lot of different reasons why you wouldn't want to work with a belt lower than you, but if the reason is because you look down on them or you feel you're above them or elite, I think that's a problem. And the elitism doesn't stop at just rank. Sometimes people just want to show off. Sometimes people, for whatever reason, they can be insecure or they're a bully or whatever reason, they just want to show how tough they are.  Oh my goodness, the internet is some of the worst politics I've ever seen involved in the martial arts, because that's where you find the trolls and that's where you find the trash talking of lineages and who's better than who, and what's goes better than which, and all my lineages is this. Honestly, when you get to that point, you are doing the reverse of what earns your rank. You are not contributing to your art, you are destroying it. So, if you're one of those people who tries to look down at others or you're trying to elevate your own image of someone else, just understand you are damaging your art and your discipline that you spent so much time and energy in. So, Michelle, to answer your question, I think elitism is a huge problem. It doesn't stop with the martial arts, but I think it's a huge poison to the martial arts. And that's one of the reasons we started this channel, was to bring together a community to try to overlook that it's not all about what art's better, or who can be who, or who's better than who. It's all about sharing and making each other better. That's the point of the martial arts, making the better you. And if you're doing anything other than that, then you are doing it yourself and everyone around you a great disservice. So, thank you so much to Jamai and Michelle for submitting your questions. And of course, now I'd like to hear what you guys think. What is your opinion on elitism and the martial arts? Do you find it a problem? Where do you see the worst offenses of this? And how do you think we can overcome it? And also, what does your system do? If you do have a color belt system or a different senior ranking system, how does your art achieve it? Do you have to test for each level? How far does your curriculum go? Or what are special considerations or contributions that you have to give back before you can achieve more rank? So, thank you all for watching. Please be sure to like and subscribe. And if any of you want to submit more questions, we do have a Patreon channel. We do have our YouTube memberships. If you guys want to sign up, that's where we tend to find more of our questions. A lot of stuff gets mixed and lost in the comments below, but we do have sections, or we do have posts that you can reply to if you want to submit questions of your own. So, thank you all so much for watching, and we'll see you next time.


Hi, folks! As an instructor, one of the least favorite things that I ever have to deal with is coming across an outline or paper that has been plagiarized. It's frustrating because at my college, like many colleges, when a student turns in plagiarized work, it starts an entire process of reporting and disciplinary action, the consequences of which can range from failing an assignment all the way up to being expelled from the college. Fortunately there's a tool that I use in my courses, known as Turn It In, which can be a really handy way to make sure that the work that you submit isn't plagiarized and isn't going to cause some of those problems. So in this short tutorial, I'm going to walk you through the process of submitting a speech outline to Turn It In and then taking a look at the originality report so that you can get an idea if you are looking okay or if there are problems that you need to address. Let's go ahead and get to it. All right, so I am in a Canvas shell and I'm just logged in as a test student, but this should be pretty close to the view that you get when you log in as a student. I've gone ahead and gone into the assignment section and pulled up the next speech that is upcoming and I've pulled up the outline submission assignment. So I'm going to go ahead and click into there. We're going to assume for the sake of this example that you're already at the point where you're ready to submit a speech outline, but you would always want to take a look at the specific directions that talk a lot about how to submit the assignment. But for the sake of this tutorial, let's go ahead and click Start Assignment and submit our outline.  Please don't use those. You just want to go ahead and upload a file. So I'm going to click the Choose File option. All right. And here you can see I've got a template that has been modified to be submitted and it's on the topic of Rick Astley. I'm going to go ahead and submit that. And as you'll see in a second, I have locked up an outline that's pretty likely to set off a bunch of the plagiarism warnings. So at this point, I'm going to go ahead and agree to the End User Agreement and click Submit. Then I get the confetti and trophies to let me know that I've submitted my assignment. The next step is to look at the originality report. And I'll warn you, when you submit a document like this, it takes a little bit of time before that originality report goes through. So I think I'm going to go ahead and set a 10-minute timer. Go grab a cup of coffee. And when we come back, we should have a originality report to look at. So stand by. I'll speed things up. All right, folks. It's been a little over five minutes. And at this point, the turn it in process should be complete at running its report. And we can go ahead and look to see what we came up with.  In this instance, I've just stayed here on the submission page for the person of interest speech outline submission. And you can see over here on the right hand side, there's a box that says submission. And it says submitted has the date and time that I submitted it. And below that, there is two links. There's one that says submission details and another one that lets you download your submission. For this, we want to go ahead and click on submission details. This brings us to the submission detail page. And you can already see by looking at my document here, that there's likely going to be a problem. Next to the document title, there is this 91% bubble next to it. And this is a similarity score. So you can see that it's already rating it as a failure. But let's click into it to kind of see why that's the case. All right. First time using just go ahead and accept license agreement. And you can close out of this if this pops up. All right. So what this is going to do is bring you into the turn it in feedback studio. This is helpful for a couple of things. It's got tools like grammar checking. But the most important thing that we're here for is our similarity score. So if you scroll through this document, you will already be able to notice that there are a variety of problems.  And this lets you know that there are issues here. For the sake of making a sense of everything, I'm going to go ahead and turn the grammar checker off today, just so that we can specifically look at similarity. But these tools can be helpful for checking out grammar as well. So now as we scroll through it, you can see that the vast majority of text in this outline is highlighted by turn it in and his little corresponding numbers. What this is telling me as the grader and you as the submitter is that a lot of this work is not original. So if you click over here on the far right hand side, where you see the match overview, what it's going to do is it's going to bring up the locations where information has been copied and pasted. And so you can see over on the right, a bunch of information was copied from Wikipedia.  And the color on these match overviews align with the highlighting over here on the right hand, right hand side. So what we're kind of seeing here is an example of what's often referred to as patchwork plagiarism, meaning the submitter of this document has gone to a bunch of different sources and copied and pasted. This is probably the most common type of plagiarism that I see on speech outlines. And it's avoidable by doing a couple of things. First off, remember on an outline your goal is to use your own original words and thoughts and to write in your own voice. But also you're writing extemporaneously here. So you should be summarizing ideas that you're going to go on and expand the goal is not to write a manuscript. So really with the exception of the occasional quote from a source, you're not really going to ever need to copy and paste anything. And that's going to go a long way towards keeping you out of keeping you out of trouble. The software is also pretty smart. So even like rearranging words and moving stuff around is still going to get to get caught. So it's important not to not to do that. I do want to point out also that just because you have cited something doesn't mean that it's okay to directly copy and paste from that source. So if you look here, first off, these are not in APA reference format here. So this is a problem. They're just URLs. But even though some of the sources on the reference page match what has been copied and paste here, they're still being plagiarized even though the student in this instant is telling you where you're at where you're at because they're not doing their original work. They're passing off the work of others as if they were as if they were their own. So in this instance, if I was to get an outline submitted that this was this bad, my college would require me to bring the student in for a meeting to discuss the assignment and to submit a referral to open an investigation with my college's ethics and disciplinary committee. At that point, it depends a lot on what that what that investigation finds. But as I was saying earlier, could have pretty significant consequences for the students. So ideally, what you want to do is discover if you have problems before due dates come. And so if you ever have a submission that shows a high or similarity index, it's important that you quickly and ethically fix the document and put things in your own words and remove that remove that plagiarism. But turn it in can be a really helpful tool up until a due date to be able to determine if if you're having problems. I will warn folks in other classes, not all professors use turn it in like I do. I feel that turn it in as a useful tool to help self correct before due dates happen, and only ever becomes a disciplinary tool at the point where a due date has passed, and students have had a opportunity to replace it. Some folks, however, do not allow students to see the similarity report. So it's useful to know in those instances that this is what your professor is seeing. And so again, it kind of varies depending on the philosophy of the individual using it. I like folks to know that they're having problems so they can fix it before due dates. But it's also speaks it also speaks to the importance of making sure that you're doing your own work that you're citing quotations appropriately. And when you are putting things and ideas on the page that they're coming from your mind and not being copied and pasted for folks that have put stuff else out there. Alright, well that wraps up this quick tutorial on how to check your similarity score on turn it in. I hope this was useful. If you have questions, feel free to drop one in the comment. Thanks all


All right, I'm Staff Sergeant Gaitan, and this is M6, which is to evaluate intrudicality for spinal injury and shock. All right, the task is to identify the signs and symptoms of shock, evaluate intrudicality for spinal injury and shock. Conditions, you are a member of a platoon within a secure forward operating base in a non-sebran environment. You are assisting another soldier with an injury to a fellow service member and preparing him or her for evacuation while waiting on the medevac. The other soldier states that he or she witnessed the casualty fall from a guard tower. Here she suspects internal bleeding on a spinal injury. Here she goes on to state that after initially I can find the injured soldier began complaining of nausea, difficulty breathing, and abdominal pain. The injured soldier is laying on a litter with a long spine board when you arrive and is alert to pain only. The injured soldier is available to assist you with spinal stabilization and movement of the casualty while you provide treatment. The standard is to identify at least six signs and symptoms of shock with no incorrect answers within one minute. Apply a cervical collar, treat for shock and prepare for transfer. Two standard in sequence within seven minutes without causing further injury. So your first task is to identify six signs and symptoms of shock. There are 12 of them. They are sweaty but cool skin, pale skin, restlessness or nervousness, thirst, severe bleeding, confusion, rapid breathing, blotchy blue skin, nausea and or vomiting, low blood pressure, absence of distal pulse, capillary reflux delay more than three seconds. They do have to be verbatim, but if you do misspell a word, we won't spell check. After you get a go on that, then you're going to apply cervical collar and treat for shock and prepare for transfer. Two standard in sequence within seven minutes without causing further injury. So your first step is gonna be to reassure the casualty and let them know that you're gonna apply a C collar. Hey man, you're gonna be okay. I'm gonna put a C collar on you. You'll take your collar, size it to the casualty. You can use your fingers and then compare them to the amount of circles. You'll then slide it the Velcro through the back of his neck.  When you apply the collar, you wanna make sure it fits between the chin and the chest, fully seats on his shoulders, supports his mandible, doesn't restrict his airway or any ventilation efforts. Next, you can move into securing him to the spine board. So you'll grab your litter straps, correction your spine board straps, ensuring his arms are in the straps.   While you do this, you do not wanna restrict his airway or tighten this on his chin, a correction on his throat. Now that he's on his chin, I'm gonna go ahead and make sure it's tight and immobilizes his head. Once he's immobilized to the spine board and his head and neck are also immobilized, you're then going to start assessing for shock. So your first step is to check his level of consciousness. So you start with AFPU, so you check if he's alert. Hey man, are you okay? Can you respond? You try to ask him a question, either his name, do you know where he is? Or try to get a response from him. And I will state back that the catalysis does not respond but reacts to pain. So as you go through AFPU, he is not alert, he is not verbal. So then you go to pain, you give him a quick pinch, catalysis will react to pain. Once he reacts to pain, then you will check his skin condition.  You'll then check his capillary refill.  And I'll tell you the capillary refill takes four seconds. Next, you'll move on to checking pulses. So if you need to, you're going to loosen his boots.  You're gonna try to check his pulse at the top of his foot.  Next, you're going to check his femoral for a pulse. It's skin to skin, no thumb.  You're then gonna check his radio, which is on his wrist. Skin to skin, no thumb.  You'll then check his carotid.  You will then measure for 30 seconds. Once 30 seconds has elapsed, I will give you a pulse. And I'll tell you that his pulse is between 30 and 50. So I'll give you a number. Pulse is 35 beats per minute. And then you will assess respirations.  And I will tell you respirations are rapid but shallow. You will then measure respirations for 30 seconds. After 30 seconds has elapsed, I will give you his respirations. So 30 seconds has elapsed, respirations are 60 per minute. Once you've assessed for shock, you will then move the cavity to a shaded area in order to treat for shock. So I need to strap him down to the litter. Once he is secured to the litter, you and your assistant are going to notionally move him to a shaded area. So now I am moving him to a shaded area. He is now in a shaded area. I will then treat for shock by loosening all clothing that is binding. Then loosen his top, loosen his cuffs, notionally loosen his belt and pants, loosen his boots and boot blouses. Once all clothing that is binding is loosened, you will then loosen the litter straps in order to apply a blanket to prevent him from being chilled or overheated. So ensuring I grab my litter straps, I loosen them. I then take my blanket, ensuring that I go up to at least name-tape deflate and I do not cover his face. The cavity is in shock and you do not want to work in this condition by restricting his airway or making the cavity think that he is in a body bag. You want to ensure that no parts of his uniform are showing on his sides or on his feet and then resecure him to the litter. Once he's been secured to the litter, you're then going to reassure the cavity and continue monitoring for life-threatening conditions. Hey, man, you're gonna be okay. I'm monitoring you for life-threatening conditions. You'll then come over to your T3C card and you'll begin filling it out. You'll start with the EVAC, which is gonna be urgent. The date and the time, today is 04 October 22. Current time is 08.20. You'll put a Lima after that because we are using local time. Your mechanism of injury is fall. He fell out of a guard tower, put an X on his abdomen and an X on his spine for internal bleeding and spinal injury. For signs and symptoms, for the time, it will be earlier than the time that you started filling out the card. We'll do 08.15. Again, Lima for local time. Your pulse. You put down the pulse that I gave you, 35, and then a Charlie because you checked it on his carotid. Restatory rate was 60. Apu is papaw. He reacted to pain. Flip it around. Again, put an X on EVAC for the urgent. You'll come down to where it says other and then the type, you will write C-collar. In the notes, you will put showing, signs, and symptoms of shock. You will then fill out your information, which is your last name, first name, and last four. You will then take your TCCC card. You will put it in its top or where your respected unit SOP is and time will stop.


Live from Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE, covering OpenStack Summit 2017, brought to you by the OpenStack Foundation, Red Hat, and additional ecosystem support. Welcome back, I'm Stu Miniman, joined by my co-host, John Troyer, we're really digging in to some of the practitioners here on day three of our coverage. Happy to welcome back to the program a CUBE alum, not only that, a super user, and not only that, a co-winner, Patty Power Betfair, Steve Armstrong, Principal Automation Engineer, thanks so much for joining us, and congratulations to you and the whole team. Thank you, thanks very much.  So we've just recently, last year, merged companies, so what we're doing with our OpenStack implementation at the moment is, we're migrating all of our applications onto it from the merged company, so we're in the migration phase of the project at the moment, so we just recently, just after Christmas, hit the 100 applications onto the platform, Milestone, we're now up to around 200 applications, so what we're doing with it is we've got a single customer platform, which is the merged code base of the two companies, and then we're going to run different branding from it. So in terms of OpenStack, what we're doing is, we're looking to do an upgrade in the next month as well, we had the session earlier on today where we went through that, so hopefully that was insightful for the people that were here, so, yeah. Fascinating, I tell you, one of the, you know, there are many challenges with mergers and acquisitions, IT can be atrocious, I've worked with plenty of companies, if they're small, the parent company comes in, rips out the entire thing, and puts in a new thing, how's OpenStack, is that an enabler, does it, do you see it as a marked improvement, and any findings that you've got so far? Well, I think with OpenStack, it's very flexible because we're using it as the middleware for the whole platform, and so if we've got different storage vendors, we can just substitute it in, and then go to the OpenStack APIs to programmatically control everything, so it's really useful for us, so if we ever want to essentially use a new storage vendor, then we don't have to rewrite all of the self-service orchestration that our developers are using and interrupt them, so that's really, that's key for us in our business. It's interesting you use the word middleware, I haven't heard that word used in terms of OpenStack, but you mean the layer, literally the layer between storage networking, the raw infrastructure, and then the app on top? Yeah, so what we're really doing, we've created a self-service template that our development teams use, we didn't want multiple different ways for teams to create virtual machines, and basically go to the APIs directly, so what we've done is we've created a layer using ThoughtWorks School, where development teams fill in self-service YAML files with all the details that they need, and then they consume the infrastructure that way, so we're simplifying it and making it user-friendly for them so that when they're onboarding an application, they don't actually need to come to the infrastructure team, they can basically self-serve against OpenStack, so I think that's giving them that AWS or Google Cloud or Azure-like ability within the private cloud, and we've had to really change the way our business is set up to actually operate that, so generally what we've done is we set up different teams where there are more T-shaped teams, so in a T-shaped team, you'll have a network engineer, you'll have a storage guy, you'll have some automation engineers, someone maybe from a development background, and what we really did with it when we were building the pilot process, we tried to encapsulate all those different skills within the one team and set them up as a core team that would then go and build infrastructure and using best practices from each discipline. So T-shaped in the sense that the team is still cross-functional, what's the T of the T-shaped? So the depth of the T is really the deep-dive expertise, so you might have a network engineer who has a deep-dive knowledge in that, but what we're trying to do is expand the team's breadth, so the breadth of the T is really the other disciplines that they're learning as part of that team. Well, and congrats on the award again. Thank you. As they talked about the award, some of the description of why you got the award, they did mention the words DevOps and CICD, so you talked a little bit about org structure and changing your org and processes to do that, is that, now do you call that T-shaped team, is that a DevOps team for you, or how do you all look at it? We don't really like to use DevOps team because it's kind of a leading question, so it was really, what we tried to do is have cross-functional teams, so really DevOps for us, what it means is more collaboration between those teams. We've still got teams at the moment within our business that are looking after the heritage legacy stacks at the moment, but what we'll need to do at going forward in our business is bring those teams into the fold, because we've really had, I mean, essentially what we're doing at the moment, it's like Gartner by Modo, where you essentially have mode two where we're built this, we then need to take that to the next level and basically bring the people that have been looking after the other parts of the business because you need to maintain them while we're doing this new private cloud implementation, along on that journey, so we're running training sessions now for our network engineers, teaching them Ansible, scaling them up, so it's really exciting times, just bringing them on that journey. I actually think that's fascinating, because there've been a lot of talk about Gartner by Modo, type one versus type two, and how that isn't, and the word from the community and from the end users, that's not sustainable, so what you're saying is indeed you can organize that way, but you've got to bring the old teams in. Yeah, I think you can put names on anything, but generally that's what you'll do, you'll stand up, we stood up a brand new green field implementation, you needed people to go over to that and act in a different way, because OpenStack, it doesn't make sense having different silos looking after different components of it, because OpenStack centralizes that into middleware, so it's actually quite difficult to chop that up into different silos, if you're going to do it, you couldn't have someone just looking after Cinder for instance, because it's so incorporated with the rest of the stack, so really what we're doing is, we're exposing that API layer to the developers and allowing them to self-serve against it, and then we look after as the core team, the maintenance of it, so we've done this with a team of around eight people looking after the core platform, and then we've got multiple different teams that went out and they help the developers on board and migrate applications onto the platform by teaching them the self-service workflows and how to fill out all the YAML files, and then if there's any feedback from them, we use a continuous improvement model to try and get them to improve the platform continuously, so it's a continual ongoing process, and it gets better and better each time, and hopefully we're going to speed up the amount of deployments that we can do and speed up time to market for it. Right, so Steve, we've very much appreciated your organization sharing with our community, you're very active obviously in the SuperUser. Talk about how you interact with your peers, how that's helped with your learnings, kind of that give and take that you have with the community. Yeah, so with the community really, we come to these events and we generally try to be as open as possible and just talk about our lessons learned. I think OpenStack Summit's great for that because people are very honest, it's not like vendor-led meetups, for instance, where they'll just tell you that everything's great, and they're very self-deprecating in some of the sessions, but I think that honesty with the open source community and the continual learning that you get from that is really key to actually looking at the problem, saying, okay, we're not 100% perfect because you never will be and continuously improving as a community, so I think having the belief and the drive with the open source community is very key in that because I think what you can do is, if something in OpenStack isn't working the way that you want it to, you can contribute back and you can actually help make a difference and make it better, so that's what we're trying to do. There's projects such as Viterage for root cause analysis where at the moment, they don't have a Sensor plugin, we use Sensus, so we'd be keen to contribute back and write a plugin for that project so that we can use it and then others basically benefit from that as well, so I think that's where OpenStack's very key, you heard Edward Snowden's keynote, some controversial things in there, but at the same time, the premise was really, if you're putting your data somewhere else like in public cloud, you don't actually know what's happening with it, so that was something that resonated quite well because you have to look at what workloads you want to run in public cloud and which ones you can run in private cloud, so I think it will really, we're just getting onto the next stages and evolution and that journey where we will be looking at what workloads we place where and I think that's where tools like Kubernetes are really thriving because they can place workloads wherever you want and that's why the popularity's so high. I'm wondering if you could speak a little bit to your company's corporate culture that allows this movement, I think information's open, eventually the house always wins on these bets. Right, with so much information available. Yeah, so I think for us, the way that we've been able to do this is we've had sponsorship from CTO level and director level down and it's very hard when you're doing a grassroots movement of just engineers trying to do this from the ground up, you really have to have a company that believes in this philosophy and wants to take it forward. For us, what we really wanted to do was just create a platform that allowed our developers to innovate on it and just basically make the best tools possible for our customers. So your longtime OpenStack user, this is, we're now here in Boston, summits every six months, anything in particular about the mood of people, the operators here, kind of how you would like to see both, we talked about Kubernetes and you talked about different modules that you might want to see some activity in or just how you're seeing the future path of OpenStack, how would you like the community and the project to grow? Well, I think there was a lot of presentations on standalone aspects of OpenStack. So you have Cinder standalone for block storage, you have Ironic standalone. We use some of those projects to actually build it out. So I think modularizing it and allowing it to be used, that you might not want to install all of OpenStack, but why can't you install Cinder, for instance, to control block storage? And so I think that's really the future of it. People could take all of it or they could take different components of it. And I think that's what we're seeing in the community. People want to be able to install Cinder to help manage it and maybe not install Neutron or Keystone alongside it. So I think that's really where OpenStack is going. It'll be a modular microservice framework that makes it up and you can install the bits that you want and the projects that you want. We've also seen a consolidation of projects. There was also talk around essentially making projects simpler and removing teachers. I think when we originally had OpenStack, we just tried to throw every feature possible in and then you seen a sprawl of projects and then that's not maintainable. I think what we're getting down to is just the key projects that will then use going forward. So I think you'll see the consolidation and then standalone instances that you can kind of plug in around the edges. So Steve, why don't you speak a little bit about your business? I have to think there's few companies, at least definitely fewer industries that deal with the rate of change and the uncertainty in the world more than really gambling and everything that happens there. Anything changing in kind of the relationship of IT to the business? How does OpenStack help you respond to a very dynamic environment? Yeah, so I think the key thing for us is if one of our competitors has a feature and we can't compete with that feature, we just will lose our customers to that competitor. So really being able to change and use OpenStack to change the platform and get new products out to market as quickly as possible is the key for us in that. And generally OpenStack, it's helping us. We want an active, active data center. We have a 24-7 business. We really need to have that uptime. If we're down at any sporting events, our customers will go somewhere else to place bets. So that's really key. For us, we've used OpenStack across two data centers and built that out. And what we're looking to do is scale that out horizontally. So for instance, when we've got new applications coming on board, we can just scale out new racks using OpenStack. We use Ironic. We're completely controlling the whole data center programmatically. And that allows us the ability to scale up the infrastructure to meet the demands so that people are not waiting on tickets or not having the internal IT processes that are hindering most other firms. So that's really where OpenStack is allowing us to evolve. It's that flexibility in having a private cloud just like you would a public cloud with AWS. But we've got that in-house. So I think we're quite lucky. And I keep telling the graduates that are working on this. This is a once-in-a-lifetime project. And I don't think they'll really believe me until they get their next job. So I think they've been quite spoiled in this as well. Steve Armstrong. Really appreciate you joining us again on the program. And once again, congratulations to Petty Power Betfair and the whole team. And John and I will be back with more coverage here from the OpenStack Summit 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts. You're watching theCUBE.


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