from ITTT. Finally back for another live session. Welcome, welcome. How is everybody doing? Happy October. I hope everybody's been having a great October, a great autumn, fall season so far. Hope everybody's doing well. I am. I actually, I did one live session while I was in Germany. I was in Germany over the summer back home visiting family and now I'm back in South Korea. So we're getting back into the usual routine. But yeah, it feels very, very good to be back. So don't forget to like and subscribe. This is going to be a weekly thing again. And today, because it is the first Friday of October, as per usual, we're doing a TEFL and TSOL live Q&A. So you can ask me your questions about TEFL, TSOL, about teaching abroad, teaching in different countries, teaching online, the courses, whatever you're curious about today's your time to shine and ask away. And we also have a 30% discount code. As always, you can scan this QR code up here in the right hand corner or scan this QR code here. Or I also have a link. Let me get the link for you so you can easily, if I find it, where's the link? Oh, here we go. It's been a while, I need to get back into it. But here we go. This is the link. Hello, Brandon. Brandon says hi from New Zealand. Hi, how are you doing? Thanks for watching. So this is the link for a 30% off discount code off of any TEFL or TSOL course from ITTT. This is valid on any course. So if you're not yet TEFL or TSOL certified, it's a great time to do so now with this code. And like I always say, we only share this discount code during our live session. So it's very special. You will not find this anywhere else. All right, cool. And Brandon was already commenting where he's from. So that's always the first question that I ask. Where are you right now? Where are you watching from today? We have Brandon from New Zealand who's doing good. And I'm also doing really good. So thanks for asking. Thanks for joining us. And what about everybody else? So let me know. Where are you watching from today? Where are you right now? What time is it there? Maybe what's the weather like? I don't know. Let me know. And so I'm in South Korea. And I always have my window right here. And the weather is beautiful today, blue sky, the sun is shining. So very, very good start already. And it's 1030 a.m. here in South Korea Friday morning. Might be New Zealand already Friday as well. We have a red pursuit in Canada might still be Thursday night there, correct? So yeah, cool, cool, cool. And Brandon already has a question. I'm gonna answer that question in just a minute. Give me just a second, Brandon. What I want to do first, just give a quick intro about who I am. I think we have some people who are watching for the first time who might be like wondering who I am. Why am I here? So let's start off with that. And then we're going to jump right into the questions. But my name is Linda. I'm a travel writer. I'm a content creator, but I'm also a language teacher and a Teflon T-Soul person, basically. The travel writer and content creator side of things is under my name, Linda goes East, East because as you can also see from this picture, I'm very interested in Asia. I've been living in Asia over 10 years now in Korea for eight years. Before that, I also lived in China. So Asia is kind of where I've been basic past 10 years and it's kind of where my heart is. So if you're also interested in moving abroad to Asia in particular and teaching in Korea or China, check out lindegoseast.com. You're going to find a lot of info there about these destinations. Also for traveling, if you're like, Hey, I'm not interested in going there or living there, but for traveling, yes. Also, check it out, lindegoseast.com. Lots of info there. Also on Instagram at lindegoseast, excuse me. I share a lot of content over on there. Photography is one of my passions. So that's why I share pictures on there as well. I'm originally from Germany slash the US. So my mom is German, my dad's American. But like I said, now I've been based in South Korea for the past eight years. And then the other side here, Teflon TESOL. So I work for ITTT, International Teflon TESOL Training. I've been with them also for quite a long time, not quite 10 years, but almost, I would say. And I started out just Googling Teflon TESOL courses because I wanted to get certified. And I found ITTT and then one thing led to another. And now I work for them. So that's sometimes how it goes, but I'm pretty happy with that. Our website is tefloncourse.net. And we have a wide variety of different Teflon TESOL courses for people who are totally new to all of this, new teachers, but also people who might have already done some teaching who are experienced, but they either want to get the certificate or they want to just do more. You're here in the right place. And we are one of the oldest, longest leading Teflon TESOL course providers worldwide. We've been around since the 90s. So quite a long time. One of the first ones in that field. So yeah, that is that about me. Still waiting for a couple of people here to tell me where they're watching from. If they want to share, of course, you don't have to tell me, but I'm always curious to see where you guys are watching from. And then let's see, let's just keep this slide up. Like I said, we do have a discount 30% off of any Teflon TESOL course. So you can scan this QR code. And I also shared a link in the comments. We are live on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time. So wherever you're watching from, you should see this link in the comments section somewhere. And then you can just copy and paste it into your browser and you'll see an application page and you fill out the application. That's totally non-binding or anything. You just fill out the application and then the next step would be paying, but just filling out the application is like no, you know, you can just do that and come back to it later as well. But that's basically how it works. Yeah. So let me maybe make myself a little bit bigger again. And then let's have a look at Brandon's question. He had a first question here. He's asking, what is the maximum age limit for teachers in Thailand? So this is a really, really good question. And I think, I don't know if I can find this very quickly now, but we do have this sheet or teaching requirements that I shared in previous live sessions before with all of this information. I don't know if I can find it so quickly now here. But for Thailand, so usually age limits for teachers in Thailand. Let me see for Thailand. Okay. So usually what you need to keep in mind for Thailand or for age limits for teaching English abroad in general. So these age limits are always kind of basically they are together or they have to do with the local retirement age. So for example, in Thailand, it's typically 60 years old. However, you can also find positions because the demand in Thailand is so high, you can also find positions if you're over 60. But generally speaking, it would be 60 years old because that's the local retirement age. So local Thai people, they also retire or have to retire at 60 years old. Now, this varies from country to country, but you ask specifically for Thailand. So for Thailand, it would be 60 years old. But for example, China had a rule where it was 50 years old for women and then 55 for men. So you'd have to kind of abide by that. So these are the age limits. So if you're under 60, typically you're good anywhere. That's kind of one rule. And even depending on what type of school or what type of class you teach, they actually also sometimes prefer hiring more mature teachers, especially for adult or business English types of things. Okay, Brandon says I'm actually 60 now and was told that I would find it hard to find work. Okay, yeah, 60. Okay, let me see. Here, I just found one. I just googled this too because I don't want to say anything wrong, but maybe I'll just pass this on because this is a, or if you also googled that. Okay, so here this person actually says and he lives in Thailand. And I don't know when this blog post was from, to be honest, might, okay, 2021, I think 22, there's comments. So it's not that old. So this person actually says, where was it now? The short answer is no, there's no age limit for teaching in Thailand. Thai teachers tend to retire at around age 60. But that doesn't mean that if you're a 60 year old expat that you can't teach and won't find work. In fact, there are plenty of 50 to 60 year old expat teachers in Thailand and some between the ages of 60 and 70. It might take you a little longer to get a job. Part of that is because you're going to be somewhat picky about the job that you take on. Yeah, so there you go.  So don't be discouraged. It's definitely possible. Yes. Sure. Absolutely. Absolutely. So yeah, actually, what I would recommend with any of this, so I haven't actually taught in Thailand, so I'm not too familiar with Thailand. I do have some knowledge, but especially with retirement age and things like that. And that changes quite a lot, but look for people who live there. I always say this every live session. Join a Facebook group, if you haven't yet. There's like expats in Thailand or English teachers in Thailand. There's tons of Facebook groups. Go on there and just ask the same question and connect with people who are there. The people who are there obviously have first-hand knowledge. They will know much, much more about this. But that's what I would recommend. And also, this is what I always say, usually when it comes to finding jobs, a lot of that is kind of networking and what a lot of schools will do. So if a teacher is leaving a school, they would ask that teacher, hey, do you know anybody who could take over your position? And then what this teacher would do if they are in a Facebook group like this, they will post about this job in the Facebook group and be like, hey, I'm leaving Thailand. I taught at this in the school. I love the school. If you want, here are the details and you could apply. Usually that would be the first step that a lot of schools are taking. So they would also advertise in Facebook groups. However, if you take a TEFL or T-cell course from IATTT, for example, you also get lifetime job support. So you take the course, you tell us, hey, I want to teach English in Thailand and we will help you find a job in Thailand. We work with a lot of schools all over the world and recruiters as well. TEFL recruiters that we work with, which is completely free for the teacher, by the way. I know there's a lot of confusion sometimes with TEFL recruiters, but the school pays the recruiter and you as the teacher, you don't pay anything if you, when you use a recruiter, which is really great. And also, like I said, Thailand is a super popular destination and many of, actually all of the IATTT founders were English teachers in Thailand and this is kind of how IATTT started. So Thailand is a very, yeah, we have a lot of connections in Thailand. So, you know, just letting you know. Great. So, okay, yes, Brandon, so you already have an IATTT certificate. Reach out to us at IATTT, my colleagues, let them know, I'm a graduate and I want to teach English in Thailand and then we will help you from there. Okay. Great. Perfect. All right. And then Red Pursuit also had a question that I want to look at. Here. So Red Pursuit said, would TEFL and without a bachelor be good for Japan? Just a TEFL be good enough without having a bachelor's. Okay. For Japan, a bachelor's degree is usually necessary to teach English in Japan. There are other countries where you can teach English without a bachelor's degree. Usually these countries are in Southeast Asia, so you find places in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, places like that, or South America. However, there's always kind of exceptions, but with Japan, because Japan is a really popular destination, there's a lot of applicants, a lot of competition, so they would obviously pick people probably who have a degree. So in Japan, it might be a little bit more difficult unless you maybe apply to positions in smaller towns where not so many people apply for or apply at. But Japan without a bachelor's degree might be difficult. You might have to pick a different destination. It's not impossible, but yeah, it might be very difficult. All right, crystalline. Hi, crystalline. How are you doing? Needle in a haystack. Well, kind of, you need to be more patient. Yeah, definitely. I did a live session in the past with best countries to teach in for without a degree. You can check that out. We also have a very big, let me just pull that up, very big FAQ section. And we also answer that question here. So without a degree, you can have a look. What countries can I teach English in if I don't have a degree? Yeah, so most Asian countries have a large market for English teachers and many of the most popular places, including China, South Korea, Thailand, Japan and Vietnam, require their teachers to have a bachelor's degree. So Vietnam is sometimes 50-50. However, Cambodia and Laos have plenty of opportunities for English teaching without a degree if you really want to be in this part of the world. So there you go. India and Sri Lanka are two other possibilities for English teachers without a degree. Let me just copy paste this into the comments so you can have a read through. So there you go. Crystalline says tired today. I had to teach tiny humans today. Oh, yeah, that's tiring. And yes, thanks for bringing that up. So we also offer an online bachelor's and master's degree that is 100% on your own time. That is true. That is true. That is in partnership with a university that we offer that. Yes, it's a bachelor's in education and a master's in bachelor's degree in TESOL. Here, I also shared that link with you. Pursuits. You can have a look. This is the FAQ for without a degree. And then this would be the yeah, the bachelor's degree or master's degree through ITTT that we offer as well. Good. Thanks for bringing that up, Crystalline. That's great. All right. Thank you so much. Great. Oh, let's change that banner up. Ask me your questions. What else are you curious about when it comes to Tefal TESOL teaching English? Let me see. Yeah, keep the comments going. Thank you. More. Let me see. I also have some slides here where I can show you stuff. Oh, maybe what's this? No. Oh yeah, this is the age limit thing. See, I did have a slide for that. Oh, there we go. Okay. Ray. Races. When it comes to teaching in Thailand, if you have only a Tefal but no bachelor's, here are two different answers. One end I hear, I can teach in Thailand and I hear you can't teach there. What's your opinion on that? Yeah. If you only have a Tefal but no bachelor's degree. Yes. So I think with Thailand that they do nowadays prefer bachelor's degrees in the majority of places. I'm not sure if this is a requirement for the visa that you would have when you teach there. Sometimes that can happen. I'm not sure exactly for Thailand. However, yes. So bachelor's degree for Thailand is necessary these days. However, like I said earlier, if you, for example, apply in a smaller place, a smaller town, they might hire you also if you don't have a bachelor's degree. So it depends because they really want to have an English teacher, a native English speaker teacher or just a native teacher. So they might overlook that. So it can happen in two ways. So again, what I would say, what I would recommend is go on Facebook and go to one of these groups, English teachers in Thailand and find places if you don't have a bachelor's degree. Ask around. There has to be somebody who might be able to help, who might know a school that hires teachers, who also hires teachers without a bachelor's degree. So, yeah. It can, it can often depend on, you know, the location. If it's Bangkok, if it's like one of the popular cities, Phuket, or I don't know, their requirements tend to be stricter than, let's say, like smaller towns and places. And that's pretty much like everywhere, the case like that because those are just very competitive. If somebody wants to go to Thailand that you do want to go to Bangkok, right, or like to the beach Phuket or something like that. So, yeah, good point. Let's see. I'm just thinking what slide could be interesting. Yeah. Okay. Maybe if you're totally new to TEFL to TESOL and all of that, you might be wondering which TEFL course should I get? Which TEFL or TESOL course should I get? And typically the answer would be one that is a minimum of 100 hours is typically the standard, the minimum all around the world. And this is why our most popular course is the 120-hour TEFL certificate because this fulfills the international standard, the minimum of 100 hours. Anything less than that might not be accepted by a lot of employers. So you want to make sure that you have at least 100 hours of TEFL TESOL training with that course and with this 120-hour TEFL course that fulfills that requirement. And this course is 100% online. You can work through the units at your own pace, at home, wherever, whenever you want, wherever you want, you can do this from your phone as well. And there are 20 units and they kind of split 50-50 between teaching methodologies, teaching theory things and English grammar.  So it's quite a long time that you have time to work through the course. It's why a lot of people who also already work full-time or have a job, have other commitments, they also really like this course because it's so flexible and you have up to six months to complete it. Depending on your study style, depending on how much time you have to study, you can finish this much faster. So for example, when I took this course, I was working full-time already as a teacher, but I finished it in about three to four months. So I did a couple of units a week. I didn't rush through it. But yeah, it took me about three to four months. Now, if you have more time, of course, you can finish it much faster. Some people finish it in a month or less. That's also possible. And yeah, at the end, you get an embossed hard copy certificate that is shipped straight to your door wherever you live in the world. And we also have notarization services available. Some countries, they might require that. I know that Vietnam requires a stamp like that, a notarized stamp, so we can also do that. And China, I think, also as well. So if you require that, we can also do that for you. Red Presuit says how many hours a day for the 120-hour course? Yeah, so there is no certain specific time that you need to be online. So you can study whenever you want during the day. And I studied a couple of hours a week. That was enough for me. And I finished it in three to four months. But you can complete up to two units a day, I believe. You can work through two units a day. You're not allowed to do more than that. You're not allowed to progress, not allowed to work through it too fast. Because you want to retain the information.  But you can do up to two units a day, which is quite fast. And you would work through the units, basically. You read the text, you read the units, you study it. And then at the end of every unit, you take a short multiple choice assessment test. And you do that until you reach the final unit. And the final thing, there's no final exam or anything, but there's a summative task that you need to write. You can choose between, I don't know, 30, 40, 50 different topics. And you write a short essay. And then this essay is graded. And once it's all accepted and everything, then you are awarded your certificate. And you also get a PDF version of your certificate right away. Once you complete, this is sent to you. And you can already start applying with that while you wait for the hard copy certificate to arrive in the mail. And honestly, most of the time, most of you are not even going to need the hard copy certificate at all. Sometimes you will need it. For example, depending on what country you will go to and teach in, where, for example, China, where a Tefl certificate is a requirement, then you need to bring your actual hard copy certificate to the embassy, they will check it. And it's part of your visa application stuff. But for the most most of the time where it's not a requirement, you're not even going to have to show that to the officials. You just attach it to your application. And usually you apply online, right?  Yeah. And with today's discount, so on the website, if you go to teflacour.net, you'll see a price of $249 for this course. But with today's 30% off discount code, it is only $174. So you can save quite a lot of money with that. So this is the most popular course. And then, yeah, how long does it take to complete a 120 hour course? So that was also one of the questions. So basically, this is the process when you decide to take the course here, you choose your tefl course. So let's say you choose the 120 hour course. And then, yeah, you work through the units. Like I said, 20 units, you have six months to complete that. Most people finish it faster. And then you receive your certificate, your PDF version, but also your hard copy one. And then you start applying for jobs. And like I said earlier, all ITTT course graduates have access to job support services from ITTT. So you can let us know, hey, I want to teach English in Korea. I want to teach English in Thailand. I want to go to Costa Rica, wherever you want to go. And we will help you find a job there. That's basically how it works. And then here on this slide, you can also see that there's an in-class option listed. So we also have in-class courses. And these are four weeks long where you spend four weeks at a training center of your choice. And we have a couple of different global options where you can do this. Typically, if you, for example, what I teach English in Italy, most people then would already go to our Italy training center and then do the course there. And some of them either stay and start working right away in Italy, or you would go back home and do a job search, start your job search there. Or you take a TEFL course in Rome, and then you end up teaching English in Thailand. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. The certificate is accepted everywhere. But typically that's how it goes. So the in-class course, like I said, is four weeks. And you typically do Monday to Friday. You have a full-time schedule, typically eight hours a day, in addition to homework and practice teaching. So you actually get to teach real students at that training center, because the training centers are all functional language schools and with students, obviously, and you actually get to teach these students as a practice as part of your training. So that's the only difference between the online course and the in-class course. So just, yeah. Yeah. Let's have a look at the comments. And keep your comments coming. Don't feel free to ask away. Feel free to ask. Or I'll just keep going through my slides. Okay. Great. Red pursuit says, so if I were to go to Vietnam, could I study for a bachelor's on my spare time taking the TEFL bachelor's program? Sure. Absolutely. If you have enough time to balance work and study, of course you can do that. Sure. Absolutely.  If you can work and study at the same time. Yeah. Sure. You can do that. No problem. And then let me also mention that we do also have specialization courses, TEFL specialization courses. So for example, teaching online, if you want to teach English online, you can take the 120-hour regular standard TEFL course plus 50 hours teaching online. And that's actually a 120-hour course in total. But this is with an online specialization. So it teaches you everything you need to know for teaching English online. Right? Very popular these days. So that's one option. Then we also have business English, also another very popular field in the EFL. English as a foreign language industry and young learners. So teaching children. So these are really, really good add-ons to your standard 120-hour TEFL certificate. Because as I said, the 120-hour is the international standard, the international minimum. So that means also that everyone who wants to teach English abroad typically has this 120-hour course, right? So how do you kind of stand out if you're applying in a very competitive space, in a very competitive region, country, city, wherever? How do you stand out by adding on more hours, more certifications? And this is one great way to do so. Adding the specializations, especially if you already know, hey, I really want to teach business English. And of course, take the business English course as well. Or, hey, I really want to teach children young learners, right? So basically, that's how that works. And then let me just also show you that we do have these bundles. So that means you can save even more if you already sign up for this bundle. So very popular. And this is actually my favorite course and also the one that I have, the 220-hour master package. And this is 100 hours over the standard. So you automatically are going to stand out, right?  And so the 220-hour master package is basically the 120-hour course plus 50-hour business English plus teaching English to young learners. And why is this great? Because you have the standard course that you need to teach English abroad anyway, plus specializations in the two biggest EFL fields, business English and teaching young learners. Most of the time when you go abroad, you're going to either teach business English, adults, or you're going to teach children. So those are the two biggest. And with this package, with this bundle, you have that both. And that's going to be a huge advantage compared to people who only have a standard basic EFL course, basically. And then we have some other options as well, as you can see here. So, okay. Sreja, who I'm saying that right, is saying I have only a three-year bachelor's, which is the standard in India. I would like to work in Vietnam. Will that be an issue? You know, I also think in the UK a three-year bachelor's is the standard. So, as long as it is a bachelor's degree and you completed your university, you should be fine. Because if that's the standard in India, and I think, like I said, that's also the standard in the UK, as I've heard, that it's also three years. If there's somebody here from the UK who knows this, let me know. But I think that's what it is as well in the UK, that a bachelor's degree is three years. So you should be okay. You should be fine. And Ray asks, is ITTT International TEFL accredited? Yes. Our courses are accepted worldwide. We also have on our website a big Affiliations Accreditations tab. I'm going to share that with you. You can have a read-through. You can have a look. It depends. We have different accreditations for different types of courses. So the online courses, the in-class courses have different accreditations. So you can find all of that on here. But yes, they are internationally accredited and accepted worldwide. Also from my own experience, like I said, I started out just as a ITTT course graduate as well. I took the course and I taught English in China and I taught English in Korea with the certificates and I never had any issues. So it was always accepted and it's always fine. And obviously from all of our, we have over 120,000, maybe already 150,000 now, course graduates over the years and there were never any issues. Yeah, generally. So like I said, sometimes you might need an additional notarization or notarized stamp on your certificate, but that's something that we can also help you with. So Amitava, good morning Linda, back from your European sojourn. How are you feeling now? Yes, I'm doing great. I'm back from Europe. Yes, I'm back in Korea. It feels great to be back. So that's why I'm very excited to be on here. We had a short break of live sessions, but it's so good to be back. So it's so nice to see you. Thanks for joining. I really appreciate it. Amitava is really here every single time, you guys. Amitava is on fire. Do you ever sleep? Amitava, no matter when I go live, whatever time it is, you're always there. I love it. Thank you. So hilarious. Yeah, so that's basically how it works with Tefal, TESOL, all of these things. Let's see what else. Oh yes, we also have a combined Tefal course option. I almost forgot to mention that. We talked about the online courses, right? We just talked about the in-class courses. There's actually also a combined course, which of course combines both online and in-class. So what this means, you would complete the online component of the course. You also have up to six months to do that. And then you get in-class training for either five, eight, or 10 days at a training center worldwide. So this is also a popular option for people who want to get the teaching experience in. So yeah, everything's possible. As you can see, you can really mix and match to your own personal needs, to your lifestyle, whatever fits. Absolutely, you can ask a question. Yeah, dur, dur, dur? Ask a question. Dare, dare? Absolutely. I'm still here to answer your questions. Don't be shy. What's your question? And then maybe we'll talk about this after I hear this question. And let me know if I missed any comments. I think I answered everything, but something might slip through the cracks. So let me know. And again, don't be shy. Ask me your questions because it is the first Friday of a new month. Again, happy October. So it's your time to shine. It's your time to ask, away, anything you're curious about, Tefal, T-Soul, teaching English abroad, online, whatever it is, ask me your questions. That's why I'm here today. Wow. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, I failed your passing rate of 75%. I'm sorry to hear that. What's next on me to get a certificate? Yes. So you can actually redo it if you haven't redone. I think you can redo it a couple of times, up to three times, at least two times. You can redo it. So contact the admin or whoever was in contact with you, email them, let them know. What can I do? I want to retake it. You can retake it. You can retake it. You might, depending on how many times you've already retaken it, you might have to pay a small fee for retaking it, but you can always retake it. All right. So let them know. And then the course administrators, the course admins, they know all about what to do in the situation. It doesn't happen that often, but when it happens, there are some other, yeah. So just once, yes, you can retake it. So email us and let them know that you want to retake it. What can you do?  Okay. And then good luck. Amitabha says, yes, obviously I do of course sleep, which is very important in order to be fit and fit whole. Okay, great. Brandon again. Hi, Brandon again. Do you have another question, Brandon? Sure, you're welcome. You're welcome. Okay, Brandon says, I have a graduate diploma in tertiary adult teaching. Is it recognized in Thailand? Where from? What country? I would probably say yes, this is recognized. It's definitely a plus, you know, when you apply. So I would say that that is definitely recognized. If it's from an English speaking university, school, college, yes. Oh yeah, sorry, New Zealand. Forgot about New Zealand. Yes. Yeah, I would say so. I mean, I'm not 100% sure, but from my personal experience with things like that, especially, you know, if it's from an English speaking country, you might have heard about these seven English speaking or native English speaking countries that are often referred as that in the EFL world and New Zealand is one of that. So yeah, it is an official qualification. Absolutely. What you might have to do is get an epistel stamp. So that is, if you're familiar, that's an international stamp. You might have to get that. But it's definitely a huge plus for your application for a school if you are, if you have that diploma. So yeah, I don't see why it wouldn't be recognized. Great. Cool. And then maybe just some info here because I really like the slide. What you can do with a TEFL or what basically do you need to do? Like this is the most basic information. If you're new to this, this is what you kind of need to know. Okay, if you're like, hey, I want to get TEFL certificate or a T-SOL certificate, what can I do? So of course, you can teach English abroad. And these are the hotspots for teaching English abroad. Asia. Asia has always been a hot spot. Many countries in Asia, also the Middle East and the Middle East actually has the highest TEFL salaries in the whole world. So if that's something that you're interested in, if you're all after making the most amount of money, then the Middle East would be a good choice. And then also a hotspot is Latin America, but there's kind of the opposite. It's kind of the lowest salaries in the teaching world. But if you're not after, you know, if you're, if it's not important to you to make the most amount of money, Latin America has a lot of opportunities and they usually don't have that strict of requirements. So you can teach without a bachelor's degree. You can teach also non-native English speakers can teach there. All of that. So and salaries for teaching English abroad, they really range. It really depends on where you teach. Okay, that's why this range is very high or very big from a thousand US dollars to five thousand or more. So this is a big range, but it really depends on where you teach. So there's not one number. And a lot of countries also offer additional perks and benefits like paid airfare. So they pay your airplane ticket to and from the country. You get health insurance, you get housing. A lot of times they pay for your apartment. You might also be included in the national pension plan there.  And of course, then we also have to talk a little bit about teaching English online. So here you can work for a teaching platform or independently. If you work independently, you will set up your own website, perhaps or on social media you advertise and you find students that way with a teaching platform. They can either either this platform assigns students to you or students will be able to see your profile and then book lessons through the profile if they like your profile. So that's basically how it works. And here you can earn anywhere from 10 to 30 US dollars or more. If you work independently, you have your own website, you can make, you can set your own price as you like, obviously. So that all depends. So this is kind of the summary of what you can do with a Teflor or TESL. Of course, there are a lot of other options as well, but these are like the two main things, teach abroad, teach online, all of these things. So okay, we have Solomon who has a question. Hi, I don't have experience in teaching, but I like to do TESL course. What is the job opportunities? Okay. Well, I think this answered it, right? Did that answer it? I think so. Okay. Oh yeah. So the brand back to Brandon with his diploma, a graduate diploma as opposed to a bachelor's degree. So I don't really know what the difference is, right? Between a graduate diploma from New Zealand and a bachelor's degree. How many years was that degree that you have? Three years, four years, then it would be like a bachelor's degree. If it was like two years, it's usually called an associate's degree, right? Um, so that would depend. All right. Cool. Then three years. Okay. Do you also have bachelor's degrees in New Zealand and are they four years? Because I think that's what we just talked about a couple of minutes ago, where in the UK, I think a bachelor's degree is also after three years, right? And in India too, somebody from India asked about that. You would probably have to ask maybe a Thai embassy. You know, if that graduate diploma is equal to university level in Thailand, maybe they would help. That would be my guess. What I have is just below a bachelor's degree. Okay. You know what? A lot of our ITTT team, also course administrators and people who work for ITTT, they have taught English in Thailand or are currently living in Thailand. So reach out to our admins, our email address. I can also give you that email address and reach out to them with that question. They might actually know this because they live there. So, so this is for everybody. Any questions that you have or a way to reach ITTT courses at tesall minus teffel.com. So reach out via this email with your questions. Yes, maybe the embassy or like I said, our ITTT team because they, um, yeah, have lived in Thailand or are currently living in Thailand, a lot of them. So they might know that. Yeah. Cool. And then I think it's time to take on some of the last questions before I sign off. This has been quite an interesting session, fun session. It was good to be back and good to see you all. So I'm going to take maybe one last question. Brandon says, you've been great Linda. You've been a great help. Thank you. I feel like I'm a little rusty today because usually I'm doing this every week, but I had a little break. So I do feel a little rusty today. I hope it was okay. But thank you, Brandon. I hope to see you again next time, next week. And usually, Brandon, I think you're new to this, right? You haven't watched before where I haven't seen your comments before, but typically every first Friday or Thursday, depending on where you are in the of the month, we're doing these Q&A live sessions. But every other live session has a certain topic assigned to it. And we actually have a huge playlist of live sessions on Facebook and on YouTube. So every week, we would talk about a certain Tefal Teesol teaching topic. So if you have any topic suggestions or ideas, I'm always open to taking some on because we've been doing these for over three years. So we talked about pretty much everything under the sun when it comes to Tefal and Teesol. So I haven't figured out yet what we're going to talk about next week, but it's going to be something fun and interesting related to teaching and Tefal and Teesol. And then at the end, usually we have a Q&A time. But typically, so that's usually how it works, just letting you know. And I hope you will join us again next week. We always set up the event so you can see them a couple of days before on Facebook and on YouTube. So you can see what topic it is. It will be probably the same time as today. But yeah, check it out. That's why I always say like and subscribe so you see the event poster, the event posts up a couple of days before and you see what's going on and what we're going to talk about. And you can join if you have time. That'd be great. All right. Emancia from Jamaica. I hope I'm saying it correctly. I love your name. Emancia? Emancia? Love it. Helpful. Watching from Jamaica. Well, I hope you tune in again next week. Thank you. Amitava says, Yes, Lynette, India till now. An honors course bachelor's degree consists of three years. Whereas a past course bachelor's degree consists of two years. But we are gradually shifting to a four year honors course bachelor's degree soon. Okay, interesting. Yeah. Well, different countries have different university structures, but it seems like everybody wants to follow kind of the four year thing. It's like the Americanized, I think way. It's interesting. But I do think somebody told me before that in the UK, a bachelor's degree is also after three years. I need to Google that. But anyway, yeah. Great. Well, then I think I'm going to say goodbye and thank you so much for tuning in today. A lot of new people, a lot of familiar people as well. So it's great to be back and here and see you all. And I hope you learned something. And if you did, and you want to hear more, tune in again next week. Like I said, we're going to have a certain topic that we're going to talk about next time. If you have any suggestions, what you want me to talk about or cover, let me know. You can leave a comment. You can reach out. My Instagram is Linda goes East. You can send me a message over there. I would love to chat with you. And then I'm going to wish everybody a wonderful weekend. Thank you. And I hope to see you all again next week and stay happy, stay healthy. And yeah, thank you so much guys. Bye.


The proposed strategy involves incorporating an inorganic 2D-CL terminated T3-C2, T3-C2-CLX, emzine into the bulk and surface of a CSPBBR3 film. This results in a compressed and confined parafskite lattice, which is stabilized by the PB-Backslash-UF8-FFCL bond and the 2D-T3-C2 immobilizing the lattice. Additionally, the defective surface is healed, resulting in a champion efficiency of 11.08%, which is the highest efficiency record for this type of parafskite solar cell. Furthermore, the unencapsulated device demonstrated nearly unchanged performance under 80% relative humidity over 100 days and 85 degrees Celsius over 30 days. This article was authored by Ching Weizhou, Jialong Duan, Jian Du, and others.


Some aggrieved electricity consumers in River State have staged a protest against a Port Harcourt electricity distribution company asking them to leave the state over the issue of estimated billings. The protesters under the auspices of concerned electricity consumers in River State blocked the entrance of the Corporation head office at the PHEDC in Moscow Road, Port Harcourt demanding to be addressed by the managing director of the PHED. Protesters with placards of different inscriptions demand the PHEDC to supply power. The leader of the protest, Ennefa Judgewell said, the protest is just a preamble, as a matter of all protest is underway, while he accuses the NERC of failing the mandate to properly regulate the electricity distribution company's discos. Also, residents who have been subjected to estimated billings express their displeasure. On the month of February they gave me 25, March they gave me 30,300, then this April they gave me 50,000, handwritten with big, so that's why I came. And I'm only living with a family of six in a bungalow. I don't know what I'm using. Why my bees should be going, you know, multiplying every month. So we are the point of PHEDC supplying power through these installations done by NIPP, only to hear that they are demanding 3.6 million and I consider that very outrageous and very criminal in line with the regulatory laws of electricity, regulatory laws of the country. The very problem is that there is not enough supply of electricity, yet they come to collect money. It may be a day supply, yet they come for collection, and in the place of collection there is no message. This crazy, this is armed robbery, this is robbery, this is wickedness. Our argument as a civil society is what we should do. Responding to the issue of overbelling, Acting Manager Corporate Communications, PHEDC, Chioma Aninwe says electricity tariffs are set by the regulatory body and it has no hand in it. PHEDC is a responsive company and whatever it is that a customer is aggrieved about, we are adults are open for discussion. We have tried everything since a week now to engage the convener to say what are the issues, let us address the issues. However the management has assured that they are open to dialogue and will continue to serve the people.


Hello, in today's minimal Godot tutorial going to briefly try to explain quickly what an instance is so far We've created a number of scenes in our Godot throughout these tutorials each one having a different sprite doing different things But you can instance those so basically a scene You could create a player or an enemy or a weapon and then you can take that and import it into other scenes as an Instance so let's go ahead and create a new 2d scene I'm just going to call this main as it though. It's our main game and What I'm going to do is instead of adding a sprite and adding a script to and stuff like that I'm going to go ahead and grab our move key scenes. So there we go We have our move key scene if I hit f6. I will save this scene and it will run and You can see I can move That character around with my keys on the keyboard I can also choose him and hit to control D to duplicate him and now if I hit f6 I have two of them. I didn't have to recreate everything all over again. I can also drag in our Move scene here, which is our character that moves on his own if I hit f6. He's going to start moving But I can still control those two other characters So instances allow you to do that But why would you want to do that rather than just dragging in a sprite and adding a script to it? Well, your player might have multiple parts to it. So you want them all grouped together But let's go ahead and take for example our move key scene or actually let's take our our move Scene here. I'm gonna choose that. I'm gonna choose our sprite here And what I'm going to do is I'm going to drag in a new sprite If I hit control s to save this if I go back to our main scene You can see it changed it there and if I had multiple copies of them, they would have all changed I can hit f6 now and you can see that spaceship moving. I go. I don't like the angle. He's moving out. I can rotate him like this now and Maybe I want him bigger I can say four times the size if I save that and now I run this you can see that it changed it there So I can go into the different scenes and change them And I can have the player or enemy or weapon in multiple levels on my game in multiple scenes And if I change the original the instances of all of them will change as well And I don't have to go through and change each one in each scene We're gonna look at a little bit more at instances with exporting variables in the next tutorial Thanks for watching and I hope that you have a great day. Please visit films by chris.com again That's Chris of the K. There's a link in the description. Have a great day


From Miami Beach, Florida, it's theCUBE, covering VeeamON 2019, brought to you by Veeam. Welcome back to Miami, everybody. This is Dave Vellante with Peter Burris. We're here at day one at VeeamON 2019. This is theCUBE's third year of doing VeeamON. We started in New Orleans, it was a great show. Last year was Chicago, and here, Miami at the Fontainebleau Hotel. Mark Crespius here, he's the Vice President of Sales Engineering for the Americas at Exigrid Systems, CUBE along. Mark, good to see you again. Thanks for coming on. So, give us the update. What's happening with Exigrid? You guys got new headquarters in Marlboro. Marlboro's happening these days, right? We got the new shopping spot, and the mayor's going crazy, so give us the update on Exigrid. Yes, so we just moved into a beautiful new headquarters in Marlboro, share it with some great other companies. The company continues to grow rapidly, double digit growth year over year. One of the few companies in this category that's growing that quickly. So, everything's great. What's driving the growth? Well, customers are looking to fix the economics of backup. They've been spending too much money on it for a lot of years, so they look at products now, they want them to be simple, easy to use, and very cost effective, and we drive that trend very hard. Yeah, I mean, that doesn't really describe, what you just described, simple, easy to use, and cost effective, really doesn't describe backup for the past 20 years. So, what are you doing specifically to make it simple, cost effective, and easy to use? Well, first of all, by working with companies like Veeam. You know, Veeam is a very easy to use product, it's very intuitive, and then our product integrates very well with it, so the products work together very well and makes just a very simple solution. What are you seeing as the big, other big trends in backup? It was your rat mayor's show to slide today, $15 billion, a big chunk of that, maybe close to half of it was backup and recovery. There's all kinds of other stuff, data management, analytics, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. What are you seeing, obviously cloud, you talked about the big superpowers. What are the big trends that are driving your business, and more importantly, your customers' transformations? Well, customers are looking to reduce the amount of data that they actually have to move. So, incremental technologies are really big, themes of pioneering that, obviously doing incremental backups, and that saves time and effort, saves space, along with data deduplication, it really makes for a cost-effective storage solution. Talk a little bit more about why you're growing, how you sort of uniquely compete in the marketplace with some of the big whales. Sure, so our most unique feature is our architecture, and it has both technical aspects and economic aspects. Because we're a scale-out architecture, meaning that with every capacity increase of your data, we're not just adding storage, we're adding compute power, network, memory, et cetera, so that we keep the backup times very, very, very low. That also makes for a very cost-effective architecture, because what we've done is you can scale out pretty much infinitely, and we've also eliminated the concept of the end-of-lifing of products. So we never force our customers into mandatory refreshes, so their economics are very predictable over a long period of time. What are you seeing as the big use cases today that are driving your business? I mean, obviously, backup and recovery, but I talked earlier about some of these emerging data management, a cloud, obviously, is this big tailwind edge, are you seeing much going on there? What are some of those workloads and use cases that you see? I think probably one of the biggest use cases these days is what I would call instant recoveries, meaning that rather than doing a traditional restore, which could take a long number of minutes to hours, customers will actually run production workloads off of the backup target, as a way to get users back productive more quickly than would have been done in the past. Yeah, and that's key because you're seeing RPO and RTOs, sort of putting more companies, putting more and more pressure on the IT groups to shrink those times. I presume you're seeing that in conjunction with digital, digital business, digital transformation. You talked about architecture before. What about your architecture and maybe with your partnership with Veeam, allows customers to shrink those RPO and RTO times? I think the other aspect of our architecture that's very unique is what we call adaptive deduplication. One of the things we looked at when we architected the product was, deduplication's obviously a very effective technology, but what are potential cons? Things that would make it less effective in backup. And one of the things we realized was, if you put deduplication in the middle of the backup window and do the deduplication while the backups are running, then you could interfere with the speed of disk. So we do something called adaptive deduplication, which means that we allow the objects from the backup software to land, and then we deduplicate and replicate them in parallel, but we make sure that we're not throttling the backups. So we provide disk speeds even though we use deduplication. Okay, so that's an example of one of the things that you're doing to sort of improve it. How about Veeam integration? Is there anything specific there that you're doing that we should know about? Well, part of it is because of adaptive deduplication and because we maintain complete copies of backups, we uniquely support instant VM recovery like no other vendor can. Furthermore, we run what's called the Veeam data mover, which is actually Veeam technology runs inside of our appliance and sets up a optimized communication protocol with the Veeam software that allows us to do a number of great things. Wait, double click on that. So it's just an efficient protocol? Is there other sort of accelerators that you've got in there? Yeah, the protocol's optimized and then we do some other acceleration around how you do synthetic foals and things of that sort that are unique to the data mover. And you got news with Veeam this week, do you not? Yes, we do. We're announcing something called Execred Backup with Veeam and what it is in a nutshell is the ability for a customer to purchase both technologies from their preferred reseller by just ordering one part number. So it dramatically simplifies the acquisition of the two technologies and allows customers to simplify the buying process. So Veeam, I know is all channel sales. How about you guys? How do you go to market? We also are, yes. So talk more about your go-to-market. What do you have? Like an overlay sales force that helps facilitate? You got partners, maybe you could talk more about your ecosystem. Well, we have a worldwide sales force and our sales people, the people that do the selling work directly with our partners. So we don't have a specialized channel workforce, but we have a specialized channel strategy. And our entire sales team is very well trained on the channel, how to work with the channel and make them happy and successful. So backup for a long time was kind of an afterthought. It was non-differentiated. You just did what you needed to make sure the devices could be recovered. Yeah, you bolted it on. You bolted it on. Increasingly, it's becoming recognized as a central capability to any digital business. Because if your data goes away or your data is no longer available, your digital business is gone. That suggests that we're going to get a greater degree of differentiation in the types of devices, in the types of systems, et cetera, that are going to become part of a full backup solution. First of all, do you agree with that?  Where do you guys see yourselves fitting into that increasingly federated backup capability? Well, I certainly do agree with it.  It's no longer just data loss, et cetera. So we fit into that trend, and we'll continue to fit into that trend by continuing to drive the economics through the floor. Customers want that level of protection. It's a little bit like insurance. You need the protection, but you don't want to pay a dollar more than you have to. So you want to put it on an economic diet, and by the way our technology evolves, we come out with denser, faster systems at a lower cost per terabyte, just about every year. And we'll continue to do that. Sorry, do you anticipate then that there's going to be specialized use cases? Are you just going after taking cost out of the equation? It's not so specialized because it's very horizontal. Everybody does it, and everybody backs up all their data. So we don't specialize in any one area of the data center like databases or anything of that sort. We go wherever the customer needs us to go inside their data center. But it's in the data center. Sorry, Dave, it's in the data center. In the data center, we also have a cloud offering. We have partners that will offer disaster recovery as a service, so they'll have data centers that manage on behalf of the customers, and we also have an offering that goes into Amazon Web Services, and shortly we'll be coming out with one for Azure. And that is what, a software-based offering that uses the cloud as a target? Correct, it's a virtual appliance that you can replicate into the cloud. All right, we don't have much time left, and I have a really important topic to cover, which is, we talked about it last year, but I want to bring it up again, which is sports. Yep. We can talk Boston sports. We can talk about Warriors. I got a question for you, but Mark, you- I'll watch. I asked you last year, and it was, I think it was May, we were in Chicago. I said, would you have traded Tom Brady at a time when the sentiment was he was done? And you said no way. Absolutely not. You, Peter McKay, and Patrick Osborne all said emphatically, no, you made the right call. So good job. Thank you. Your thoughts? Would never trade him. He can play to at least 100 for all I care. As long as he keeps performing at such a high level, why would you lose him? And then, of course, the Red Sox, 108 wins. That was an amazing gift that they gave us. Yep. So I don't know if you're a baseball fan. I am. I got to ask you, Peter. Are the Warriors the greatest basketball team in the history of basketball? Well, let's see. Brandon says yes. They are the best basketball team at a time of the most competitive NBA. Certainly the rules have changed, but the athletes are better. They're more conditioned. They are more knowledgeable about how to play this game. And they are the best team in basketball without Kevin Durant and without Boogie Cousins. Yeah. So, hard argue. They're sweeping Portland without Durant, which is pretty amazing. So, Brandon, for years, has been trying to tell me that, you know, Brandon knows our local basketball genius. So, I don't know. Now, would the Warriors have beaten, say, a Bill Russell Celtics team with the Celtics, Bill Russell Celtics team rules? Maybe not. I don't know. I would say, I'm starting to come around to Brandon's way of thinking. But, Mark, we'll give you the last word here. Veeamon 2019, great venue here in Miami. Very hip, hip company, hip venue. Exigrid growing, double digit growth rate. So, congratulations on that. Your final thoughts? Just great to be here. I always like coming to Veeam events. They're always very well attended. I get to meet a lot of customers and really enjoy it. Mark Crespi, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. It's great to see you again. Thank you. All right, take care. All right, keep it right there, everybody. Peter and I will be back with our next guest right after this short break. This is Veeamon 2019 and you're watching theCUBE.


Mr. Kaushik, what attracts you to the civil service? I grew up in Mehradun and I had access to education, health care and all basic amenities. But I realized that not everyone has access to these facilities in life and I also slowly realized the importance of it. So I want to help improve the quality of service in India and the quality of life of people. Hence I thought this would provide me with a good platform to do the same. Good quality of life is integrated. Now have you read in the paper yesterday that in the HDI index we have followed? Yes sir. What is our ranking? So we fell from 138th to 131st rank this year. Out of? Out of one. So if I am not wrong 187 countries. Okay. Now what are the parameters on which they measure the HDI index? Sir the three broad categories are standard of living which measures the relative income of the country. It is a secondary education which takes into account expected years of schooling. What is the standard of living? Yes sir. What is? The education parameter takes into account expected. Access to education knowledge. Yes sir. What else? That's our health. Health and healthy life. Healthy life. And third is quality of life. The top of quality of life. So what is the state of children below 5 years in our country? How many children would be there in India in this category? Sir I am not aware of the number. Okay. I will help you. About 12.4 crores. What is the... There was a national family health survey report which came out last week or 10 days ago. It is done by the government every year. So government carried out this survey covering 6 lakh households. 6 lakh. For the year 2015 and 16. Any idea what it says about kids below 5? Sir if you avoid that only we will talk. So the under 5 mortality rate is high. And so the infant mortality rate as I remember it to be 42. So that is also high. And so apart from the mortality rate it talks of nutrition. Okay. What is the figure here? Sir 42 infant mortality rate. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. And so the under 5 mortality rates I am not able to recall the exact figure. So I think it was around 157. Sure. But it says something more, much more than that. Apart from mortality we are slowly improving this rate. IMR and MMR. Yes improving. You know what is MMR and IMR? Yes sir. Infant mortality and better. But it says something about the health of those below 5. Yes it is a talk. It is a talk of the nutritional status. And so how the child wasting and stunting is a major problem. How many of those below 4 percentage are enemies? Any enemy? We need to be leaders. Say for example, I open up. Okay. Now the economics is a subject. Mr. Jetty while presenting the project stated that my main focus is on agriculture and environmental development, infrastructure development, poverty alleviation and fiscal deficit. As an economics expert tell me whether Mr. Jetty has kept his promise in the budget. So could I just take a few seconds. So I would start with fiscal deficit. So from that perspective we have a 3.5 percent deficit recently. So we aim for 3.2 percent. So even though if our BM says that we should get it to 3. But sir keeping in mind the scenario in the country of 3.2 is a very balanced target to have. So in that respect if we stick to our fiscal deficit target as we have in the previous year, it would be keeping the promise. So what about the other three areas? If we go to infrastructure, so the budgetary allocation was around 3.9 lakh crore. Very good, 3.95. It's a huge allocation. I got your answer. In fact of all the sectors infrastructure gets the maximum. Now let's move quickly to the agriculture. Sir agriculture we aim to double the farmer income by 2020. So let's come straight to the point. How much allocation? Sir I do not remember the exact allocation. But some few figures budget that 40,000 crore. 40,000 crore. Property allocation programs, what are those specifically they have been doing? Property allocation from the national... Safety net for the poor, landless. I guess landless, homeless. Now you can't do it. Sir the national tool employment guarantee... Very good, very good. How much? Sir I do not remember the figure. 40,000 crore. 40,000 crore. Very good. One is this. Another there are four programs I identify. There are several but major are four. So housing for all... How much? More than 29,000 crore. What else? Very good. What you have prepared? Sir poverty allocations are... Sir we have to adjust. Is it for the poor or for the rich? Sir for the poor... How much allocation? Sir for allocations... More than 2,000 crore. And lastly you have forgotten the most important. Who is subsequent? Subsequent. How much? 1,45,000 crore. One of these facts. That you also will be presented. Yes. Mr. Ujjala scheme. What is it? Sir Ujjala is an LPG scheme. Is it an acronym or something? Or just Ujjala means life. Sir it is an acronym sir. Sir I am not able to call the exacter. So it gives LPG benefit to poor households In the name of the... Ujjala and Krabu Ujjala. I am so sorry sir. So Ujjala scheme as far as I can remember was for LED program. And so providing subsidized LEDs to households. So what is the target? How much has been achieved? When was it launched? So it was launched last year. So what is the target? To provide how many LEDs? What do you mean by women empowerment? So women empowerment implies equal opportunities for women. And so that is from an external perspective. And so from the women's perspective it's giving each woman a faith and belief in her own capability to achieve her ambitions. So internally we have to empower them mentally, emotionally, financially. And so externally we have to create an environment where they can grow without any violence. So what has been done in this regard in recent times? So with respect to women empowerment to begin with even though the focus of the Narega plan was not on women 51% utilization is by women. So in that sense it gives them an employment opportunity. And so from that the new housing for all vision aims to give the house in the name of the women which would give her a greater decision making path. What else? Any legislation will empower women? Some maternity benefit act was passed recently. So it increases the maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks. How can it empower women to increase maternity leave limit to 26 weeks? How can it empower anything else which really empowers women under this act? It's only a facility you are giving that instead of 20 weeks you can have 26 weeks. And so organized sector has to provide a crash at the workplace for women. So in this legislation that will also help. Any other legislation? So in recent times? Yes, passed 1, 2, 3 years. So can I just take a few seconds to report? The amendment shall be made in some laws? Yes sir, after the December 2015 case the amendment was made to so the sexual act sexual harassment and sexual I'm not aware of the exact name of the act but so the juvenile justice act was changed and today accused me. Any other legislation like issue Indian Penal Code? You are from Nishrathant. But you have not given Nishrathant as your first preference, why is that so? Ma'am, I am very attached to the state and I would keep going back to definitely just ma'am, I thought that since I have seen Uttarakhand and I have seen a lot of new places. There were the flash floods last year. So what happened? Have we come back to the normal situation or are things still very bad? Ma'am, the flash floods are a seasonal pre-mortem feature. Ma'am, at that point of time there was a cloud burst especially the area in Uttarakhand the river was very high level. And now the immediate impact was that there was a landslide and the roads were broken. So ma'am, the building of roads has taken place. However ma'am, we are still prone to that again this year. So in that sense the administration is working. So do we have a disaster management agency in the country? We have the natural disaster management. So what sort of disasters do they impact? Ma'am, the NEM looks at natural, as well as man-made disasters, natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, recently droughts were also a major part of natural disasters. Ma'am, chemical biological leakages, nuclear disasters, so how many of these task force members are there in Uttarakhand? Do we have a response team or do they come from the center? Ma'am, we have a state disaster response force after the 2013 cloud burst of floods. Now have you heard of the smart city concept? Can you give me the ingredients and how many cities are going to be considered as smart cities? Ma'am, the ingredients of smart cities are, firstly it uses information and communication and technology to make cities more inhabitable, that includes better waste management, better buildings. So then tell me now, and this management, transport, safety, and now the urban local bodies would work in a special purpose vehicle along with private players, in order to leverage land. So how many smart cities have been decided on? Ma'am, as far as I can recall, 100. Okay, now, the smart city concept is also the hunger. Are you aware? Can you give me something for example? Mass electricity. I tell the vision of urban transport. Ma'am, it replaces the gender. And Ma'am, the difference is that now the approach taken is more, it gives more autonomy to the urban bodies. Earlier they would have been appraised of the scheme by the centre and only then funds would be released. Now the funds, they would just look at the plan and release funds unconditionally. And the last question, you heard of NETI IOC. So NETI described what the NETI IOC is, what is its purpose and what is it? Ma'am, the NETI IOC is a think tank that caters to planning in a mixed market economy like India. Planning doesn't have to be centralized and imperative anymore. They function as a guidance to planning. It also provides members Mr. Amitabh Khan One of the chief ministers is the United States and UK. And the leader of the action is Mr. Amitabh Khan. Particles of prizes, medals, schools, etc. are mentioned in the publication on credit ratings in emerging markets. For the light of that, what they get? Sir, in the research, I think that specifically breaks nations. So the sovereign rating assigned to these countries, what is it based on? So according to standard and poor... Sir, I did a quantitative analysis of... So they said the quantitative factors taking in world fiscal health, growth rate, inflation, deficits... What kind of conclusions would you draw? Sir, that these rating agencies also give themselves a little event of qualitative factors. For instance, between India and Russia there weren't as many reasons to have a difference in ratings. So we are the last investment rates at triple B minus. So without bias, I would place it above triple B minus because India has a history of never developing on its own. Okay. So let us develop economics. In specific development that we have been monitoring? Sir, recently on a global level so I have been reading a lot about de-globalization and fallout of globalization, how we are moving countries are moving towards a more inward looking world. What is your aim? Tell us briefly on that, what is the drain that you are going to notice? Sir, starting from the United States there are some signals that you get. So the United States, when you form TPP and the president thinks that they would want to withdraw from the world tree organization which they could. So Brexit is a sign of them moving away from the European Union. Okay. Now, India has been appreciating play and I think yesterday this was the highest level in 17 months. What is the significance of the country? Sir, I am appreciating that I have mostly effected our exports and so imports would also become more expensive. So it would give a positive signal to FTI so we could have more foreign investment coming in. So even what might act as a positive signal, it would be a challenge for the export industries. How much information do you have? Sir, around 335 billion dollars. More than 360. What is the impact on the products in this country? Yes, sir. How much capital do you have? Sir, we have more than 5 years of capital. Sir, we are comfortable of the current economy. Why we are living in this? Sir, previously committees like Taurapur committee were being set up. So we feel that it would expose us to greater quality than we normally. And so learning from the Asian crisis in the late 90s when they opened up the capital market, so the currency fluctuation But that is an ongoing process, you know. So that means the perpetuity we don't take a decision on that. Sir, we have vulnerability will be there always. So we have been relaxed. So for instance, external commercial war wings are more, we have a liberalized reputable scheme in capital account. So slowly we have to tackle the last question. Sir, you have studied economics. Can you share your reasons? Sir, the climate in Asia tended to have low aggregate demand during the recession. In the fiscal policy sense it is very vulnerable to India because the government constantly uses and will be required to use fiscal policy to move the country towards poor employment.  Sir, where not? Sir, I would also like to answer. Thank you. So we close the interview. Let's see how you perform and if you feel bad. Why civil service? You said quality of life, you want to improve the quality of life. My suggestion is don't make these statements. Just say that these are the highest services in the country. So it will be a personal achievement. If you give me a sense of achievement, I can make it to a new service. At the same time, this will provide me a unique reform of public service. We should know the service in the country. Don't go into those that I want to, some people say I want to transform society. Do you want a great career? Do you want an opportunity for public service? This opportunity is available. Keep it simple. Then check upon this health indices. This is a burning topic with the national health policy. National health survey. HDI index. Who is number one in this index? It's an HDI index. Skeptical countries generally score the best. Now budget, I ask you only one question. Some you could give, but other replies were inadequate. So take a second look at budget. Have you got a copy of it? Not the whole thing, but just highlights a little bit. Read it again and again. You still have time. Read it every day like a Bible and like a prayer book. So you will get a lot of data. You will be able to find a number of questions. You know there are three things. Ujjola, Ujjala and Ujjul. You know all that? Someone can ask you to distinguish and tell you what is it. So how is Ujjul doing? Ujjul is at the other thing. What is Ujjul doing? Ujjul is calm. Women empowerment, you got stuck at legislation part. Now they have so much legislation. You know anti-doubting laws, 498A, IBC. Just check.  They will give you 7-8, keep it ready. Smart city, you know how much money has been allocated. Total money, government will give you more. Smart cities, total over 5 years. You know it's a 5-year scheme. 500 crores each. The average is already 48,000 crores. What is the allocation this year? No idea. I think 4,500 crores. Maybe I have another important step. Just check how it is working properly. Disaster management is also an RDF scheme. Then we come to rupees 10. It helps our imports. But it reduces the income of the exporters. But in the long run what is better? Should it become weak or should it become strong? You check how I think strong rupees will be comparatively better than the weak. Then foreign reserves, more than 360 billion crores. You know what are macroeconomic indicators? How do you rate India's economy? Who are doing poorly, badly, nicely? So it's the fastest growing large economy. Mr. Rajan said that. Take a seat. Mr. Rajan said that. Standard economy, how does it do it? You can say it with a step-by-step. My indications are that it is improving. For instance, agriculture has restored a 6% growth in the platform. This is remarkable. Then exports have restored from the 17% income. There is a continuous rise for the last 6 months. And manufacturing has, after the decline in November, in December. It has again gone up to 2.7 in January. But this information will come only if you are reading it here. If you want to ask about economics, you can ask about movies. You can ask about this. I don't think so. Good luck. Thank you sir. And press the bell icon to never miss an update.