Hello survivors and thrivers Another video for you Please like comment share and subscribe if you are interested in one-on-one coaching or giving a donation The links are in the video description The narcissist will erase you at a core level The narcissist will completely erase you Recreate you to their liking and then blame you for their own creation Let me repeat that just to make it sink in The narcissist will completely erase you Recreate you to their liking and then blame you for their own creation There are various tactics that the narcissist will use to do this the double bind Denial projection blame-shifting and gaslighting Targeting your self-worth self-esteem self-belief self-assurance and self-respect And other forms of control First I am going to talk about how the narcissist erases you at a core level using the double bind tactic Narcissists are attracted to codependence and codependents are attracted to Narciss Codependents are givers people-pleasers Narcissists are takers Codependents as children were brought up in an environment where they were constantly chasing their narcissistic parents approval As the child grows up they find themselves chasing the approval of their narcissistic relationship partner This is what gives the narcissist the ability to erase their codependent relationship partner at a core level Because of what the codependent experienced as a child with their narcissistic parent They are self-loved efficient They have low self-worth self-esteem self-belief self-assurance and self-respect Easy to take advantage of Easy for the narcissist to take advantage of and then mold into whatever they would like to serve them to give them narcissistic supply So how does this relate to the double bind tactic? As a child you are likely to have experienced this with your narcissistic parent As you grew up and became a codependent and attracted a narcissistic relationship partner You are likely to have experienced this tactic again What is the double bind tactic? The double bind is where no matter what you do. It will always be received with a negative response Damned if you do damned if you don't a No-win situation The narcissist might complain that you are spending too much time at the gym They might call you selfish and say that you have no time for them You want to make the narcissist happy you want to please them So you stop going to the gym to make more time for the narcissist You would think that the narcissist will be happy now as They told you that you were spending too much time at the gym So you stopped doing that just to please them But now the narcissist is criticizing you for the very thing they told you not to do Now they are telling you that you are lazy or overweight It's a no-win situation Damned if you do damned if you don't This is known as the double bind tactic No matter what you do it will be met with negativity The narcissist might use this tactic in every aspect of your life In your career Finances hobbies and interests social circle Relationships if the narcissist is your parent they can also use this on your physical appearance The way you look the way you walk the way you talk the way you dress Your character and personality They will use the double buying to change everything about you Know in that you are trying to please them Know in that you are trying to make them happy But narcissists are unpleasable people So no matter what you do it will be met with negativity and when you stop doing what you want to do The way you would normally lock or dress walk or talk and change your character and personality Just to please the narcissist Narciss are never satisfied or fulfilled You can never be enough for them and this is why they are always trying to change you They will always compare you to other people and tell you how you should exercise more or dress like this Wear your hair like that Once you start doing this The narcissist will become envious and jealous of you They will feel as though you are stealing their shine as Everything is a competition with them So now they will criticize what they were once comparing you to Or what they were once saying they liked Even though they were the ones that told you to exercise more or dress a certain way They will now criticize you for putting so much focus on your physical appearance If you go out with the narcissist for a social event This is another opportunity for them to use the double buying tactic You might talk to someone You are a genuine authentic person which narcissists are attracted to So you talk to someone and it's easy for you to do that The narcissist is aware of this and they become envious and jealous They don't have a genuine authentic personality like you do so when the narcissist sees you talking to someone They will criticize something you said Or tell you that they were not really interested in talking to you and you were just wasting their time You might have told a funny joke And the narcissist will tell you that you offended them This trains you to doubt yourself and to change your personality It makes you afraid to be you Because no matter what you do it is met with negativity from this point on you may be quiet You may no longer talk to people as you once did You may no longer tell funny jokes You would think that the narcissist will be happy with this As you are no longer make them envious or jealous of you by talking to people But now the narcissist will criticize you for being quiet They will call you socially awkward When you are doing things that you enjoy Like hobbies and interests meeting friends or a relationship partner If the narcissist is your parent This will be met with neg with neg negativity The narcissist will tell you that you are not good at your hobby or interest Or you spend too much time doing that and you don't have enough time for them They will devalue you to your friends or relationship partner Or they will devalue them to you They will tell you that they don't really like you. They are just using using you for something This trains your brain to associate negativity with your hobby interest friend relationship partner Whatever else it is that you are passionate about When you stop doing your hobby or interest meeting your friend or relationship partner Now the narcissist will criticize you for that too They will call you boring and tell you that you don't do anything by the end of this You will be so confused You will have completely changed your physical appearance character and personality To please this unpleasable person you will no longer find joy or happiness in The things that you are once so passionate about This is what the double buying tactic does to you It completely erases you at a core level It changes your beliefs about yourself other people and the world around you it alters your perceptions Whatever you do They will tell you to do the opposite And then they will criticize and blame you for that too They will deny any Any participation in the change of your physical appearance character and personality Even though they projected their insecurities flaws and imperfections on to you They will shift the blame on to you They will gas like you into thinking that there is something wrong with you and you are going crazy The truth is the narcissist has just erased you at a core level due to their pathological envy and jealousy insecurities and inferiority complex and Now you have become a shell of what you once were They will even try to erase your history by rewriting the past They are deeply envious of anything that you have experienced before meeting them And I don't just mean intimate relationships or sexual things Anything that you have experienced before meeting them The way you were as a child or as a teenager They are deeply envious of this as it is out of their control They cannot control what has already taken place They are especially envious if it's something that they haven't experienced They cannot control something that has already happened So they will try to rewrite the past They will try to rewrite your perception of what happened The narcissist has to rewrite anything that doesn't fall into their narrative their version of you They do not want you to be reminded of having a life before them Because that means that you could develop a life after them They want you to believe that this is your life What's happening now? This is who you are The narcissist wants to be addicted in your life They want to tell you who you are they want to tell you what you're about They do not want you to define yourself if you have a life before them This is out of their control So they will try to remove the past from your life They expect you to relate to the character and personality that they have created for you They want you to relate to your current circumstances and accept this as your reality They do not want you to remember who you really are They do not want you to remember what you really like They do not want you to remember the fun loving person you really are This is why they try so hard to target your self-worth self-esteem Self-assurance self-belief and self-respect They want you to see yourself in a different way They want you to believe that you are not worthy or deserving of anything greater For them to do for them to do this They have to rewrite your past They cannot allow you to be reminded of who you really are Because then that would make them look completely ridiculous To make you believe that you are not good enough You cannot please them or make them happy You are not worthy or deserving of anything greater if you were reminded of your past and how different things were How greatly you were received and how easily things came to you Everything they are saying Everything they are trying to get you to believe You wouldn't be able to take them seriously It would be a joke this is why they have to rewrite or erase your past Then they can define your character and personality They can dictate who you are What you are about what you are worthy or deserving of they don't want you to define yourself They don't want you to define who you are what you are about or what you are worthy or deserving of Because then they would lose control over the situation Everything they are saying or trying to persuade you of it wouldn't make any sense And then they wouldn't be able to look down on you down on you and criticize you As you would then realize how much of a better person you are than them They do not want this to happen and this is another reason Why they are trying to erase you at a core level They want to enslave you They want to take control of you. They don't want you to have your own thoughts feelings or beliefs They want to plant thoughts in your mind They want to project their feelings on to you They want you to adopt their distorted beliefs about yourself other people and the world around you if you start defining yourself If you start having your own thoughts feelings and beliefs You are going to be a very difficult person to control All of the narcissist manipulative tactics are designed to change your thoughts feelings and beliefs The double bind denial projection blame shifting and gaslighting Until they have erased you at a core level And you are a shell of who used to be you can find your true authenticity You cannot get back to the person you used to be as we are changing all of the time Even if you had never met the narcissist as humans we naturally change and grow every day The person you were one year ago Is never going to be the same as the person you are today But you can find your true authenticity You can become better than you you used to be You can become your best self start doing the things you used to do before you met the narcissist Listen to some of the same songs you used to like back then Do some of the same hobbies and interests Talk to your old friends Do the things that you are passionate about Which you are not allowed to do around the narcissist Every day look at all pictures of yourself Practice guided meditations There are some really good ones for authenticity on youtube Meditate twice a day Practice mindfulness rather than ruminating on the past or anticipating the future Be present in the moment Give yourself plenty of a long time to get to know yourself Get to know what you like get to know what interests you what you are passionate about Then do that Practice self-love and focus on healing from a narcissist abuse Please check out my playlist of videos on healing from a narcissist abuse Where I talk about what has worked for me what has helped me to recover It won't happen overnight, but if you do this every day After a few months you will notice a significant difference Thank you for watching. 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The UNICEF Women Advocacy Foundation, a non-governmental organization, has concluded its one-week door-to-door voter sensitization program to 13 communities in Kulukuma-Opukuma-Lukua government area of Biosou State. In preparation for the governorship election on November 11, 2023, the NGO were among eight civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations selected by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Biosou, to engage in a door-to-door voter education exercise. The aim was to help reduce the number of invalid ballots, improve participation, ensure peaceful election, increase election process awareness, and voter turnout. The reception was massive. As in, people received us, even to our greatest surprise, they received us. The electorates are becoming more aware.  So that is the most important thing. We were able to pass the message, and the people accepted us. They said they will vote. So people said they want to see again that their vote don't count. But we told them that their vote count, they should believe us, because next time we'll come back and they will see give us their feedback. There are elections, past elections last year. Many of us don't do well. So we are finding this. In short, it was difficult to find our distance. So today, like now, she already said we need to do it and collect the votes for the election. So it was a huge one. And we divided to Kallama, the other side, we applied, we checked. So it keeps us difficult around to find the Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


So in Kaiser Permanente, the research we do is clinical research, meaning that it's born from the desire to answer a question of how can we take care of patients more effectively? How can we reach the most people to help them with their health? I've always felt that one of the benefits of being a physician is that it enables us to live the credo of being a lifelong learner. And part of learning is helping to give back to the community of medicine what we can identify as best practices. And so for physicians to be able to be part of a research community that develops the answers to those kinds of clinical questions is such an enriching experience. It allows them to give more of themselves to have a legacy beyond taking care of patients day to day. They have changed the way people practice. It raises the quality of care more and it opens more questions because once you start experiencing that you can make a difference in the trajectory of somebody's disease process or keep them healthier than you could before you answered that question that makes people want to do more of that. Want to get more involved with research, want to answer more questions, want to impact more lives.


How soon can I get TEFL certified and start teaching English abroad? How long it takes to complete a TEFL course and actually find a job teaching English abroad will depend on a variety of different factors? The outcome will be influenced by the type of training course you sign up for, the country you choose as your teaching destination, and how determined you are to complete your studies and start working. As a rough guide, you should allow 4-6 months for completing the course, finding a suitable job, and for making all the necessary arrangements. However, there are certainly ways to make this quicker if you want to get crack in. How long will it take if I enroll on an international in-class TEFL course and then stay on to teach? This is typically the quickest route to TEFL certification and finding a job teaching English abroad. In theory, you can sign up for an in-class TEFL certification course in Phuket, Thailand just a few days before the course starts and complete your studies in 4 weeks. You could interview for jobs towards the end of the course and be working in your own classroom less than a week after the course finishes. However, while this scenario is certainly possible, it is relatively rare, as there are several factors to consider. It is recommended that you enroll on your in-class TEFL course at least 3 months prior to the start date, as many courses can fill up well in advance. Also, making all the necessary arrangements, such as booking flights and accommodation, and packing up your existing life, can take time and these are not things you want to rush if it can be avoided. However, by completing an in-class course in the location where you want to work, you will certainly be in a great position to find a job soon after the course is completed. How long will it take if I complete an online TEFL course and then interview for jobs from home? This approach is common for people who plan to teach English in many parts of Asia, the Middle East, and via government recruitment programs in countries such as France and Spain. Most employers in these areas will expect a TEFL course of at least 120 hours duration, so it is best to make a realistic study plan that fits around your existing commitments. For example, you might be able to comfortably study 12 hours per week over a 10-week period. You then need to consider how long the job hunting process might take. Typically, TEFL qualified teachers are able to apply, interview, and accept a suitable job within just a few weeks. However, once you have accepted a job, it can take anywhere from 2 to 6 months to make all the necessary arrangements, including contracts, visa applications, and flight arrangements, etc. On the plus side, you can start job hunting as soon as you begin the course, so the overall time frame starts from the beginning and not the end of your training. How long will it take if I complete an online TEFL course and then travel to my destination to find a job? This scenario is common if you plan to teach in Latin America as well as some parts of Asia and Europe. As above, you should make a study plan that fits around your existing commitments. Once you have completed your online studies, you can then head off to your chosen destination whenever you are ready. As soon as you arrive on the ground, you can start the process of interviewing for teaching jobs with the majority of people finding something suitable within 2 or 3 weeks at most. If you choose this method, you should try to time your arrival at the start of a peak hiring season to give yourself the best chance of finding a good job in the shortest space of time. What other timing issues should I consider when preparing to teach English abroad? While preparing to head overseas to teach English, there are a few other things that might have an impact on your timetable. You should make sure that your passport has plenty of validity well in advance as it can take up to 3 months to process a new one. You might also need to provide other documents in order to obtain a work permit or visa. These could include a police background check and some form of medical certificate, both of which can take time to obtain. The actual visa process can also take up to a month or more depending on the destination and your nationality. However, as long as you give yourself plenty of time and plan ahead, you should have no problem getting your teaching adventure underway on time.


All right. Good evening, folks. Today, we'll be talking about Hadoop on top of OpenStack. So before we get into the topic, let me just give you a quick snapshot of who's Hortonworks. So Hortonworks is the provider of the only 100% open source Apache Hadoop Enterprise-ready distribution. We are a spin-off from Yahoo. We employ the original architects, developers, and operators of Hadoop within our company. We work with the ecosystem to forward all the different projects involved with Apache Hadoop. We distribute the only 100% open source platform, and then we work with the enterprises and support that platform. So let's get down to the topic. The question is, why run Hadoop on OpenStack? So if you look in the IT world today, big data Hadoop and OpenStack are pretty much like the two big celebrities. The most logical thing is, hey, let's get them married, right? But we don't want this thing to be like a regular celebrity marriage. We want it to last. And for that, we need to figure out what are the fundamentals. Does it really make sense? And we'll spend a couple of minutes on that, starting with the question, what does OpenStack really bring to the table for Hadoop? So the way we see it is OpenStack alleviates a lot of the operational issues with Apache Hadoop. In the typical enterprise, if you look at the little elephant in the middle there, when they embark on the Hadoop journey, they see different groups within the enterprise wanting to run their own Hadoop clusters. You've got finance, marketing, compliance. And all of these guys have different requirements in terms of data privacy, capacity, et cetera. On top of that, there's different data sources. So you've got mobile data. You've got web data. And not only that, there's different use cases that need to be supported. There's bad. There's interactive. So what we see happening is enterprises end up having to spin up multiple versions of the Hadoop cluster. And if that's not enough, as they go around in their journey of supporting Hadoop, they see that to support their production deployments, they got to do QA. They got to do performance testing. And all of this means different versions of the cluster running. Having to do this on top of a physical environment is extremely cost prohibitive and takes time. So OpenStack really helps solve these problems for Hadoop. And the next question is, what does Hadoop provide to OpenStack? The way we see it is three real important things. First is it's a low-risk application within the enterprise. As these guys are embarking on their Hadoop journey, Hadoop itself doesn't have any legacy within the IT world. There's no legacy processes. People don't understand Hadoop very well. So it sounds like a perfect POC application to keep the tires on OpenStack. The second aspect is Hadoop provides the horizontal scale. For a typical cloud application, it's expected that the application itself provides the linear scalability and does not rely on the infrastructure. And that's what Hadoop brings to the table for OpenStack. And third part is, as we discussed, it gives you the shared platform. So all in all, it provides a great Greenfield use case for OpenStack. So with that, it makes sense to integrate Hadoop and OpenStack. And Hortonworks announces its support to Project Savanna, which was proposed by Mirantis sometime back, to facilitate the integration between Apache Hadoop and OpenStack. Now, just like any successful wedding, there's got to be certain ground rules that you sign up for. And the way we see Savanna working with this integration is that it will provide the glue layer between Hadoop and OpenStack. So Hadoop doesn't need to know about the internals of OpenStack and vice versa. Savanna will track the Hadoop clusters, do the mapping between the tenants and the clusters themselves, provide an API for Apache Umbari to manage the Hadoop clusters, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel on the OpenStack side. So to summarize some of the key benefits, the first thing is self-provision Hadoop. So operators don't need to be at the bottlenecks every time a cluster provisioning request comes in. The user can self-provision the cluster as they see fit. The second is reducing the errors in the provisioning process itself. So Hadoop is not a simple system to get up and run. It has a lot of moving parts. If we package this behind a well-structured, template-based provisioning process, it really takes away all the different areas where there could be operator error in running a cluster. The second part is elastic Hadoop. So you can create a pool of resources on top of your physical environment and scale up and scale down the cluster as needed. And this can be incredibly helpful as we see enterprises do different levels of performance testing on Hadoop or even for their production Hadoop clusters as their capacity requirements go up and down based upon the workload. The second is cluster time-shared. So we see a lot of customers saying that, hey, we've got our OpenStack deployment running, but it doesn't do a whole lot at night. Can we run some Hadoop batch jobs during nighttime? So with this integration, they'll be able to do that. So share time between different turns and different workloads based upon factors like time of the day. And the last one is multi-genency. So as I said, enterprises have to support different use cases, data patterns, and operational groups within the enterprise. They have different SLA requirements on top of Hadoop. So there's batch workloads, there's interactive workloads. These workloads need different levels of resource assignment. So by running that cluster on top of OpenStack, you can control the resource assignment at a VM level and support different SLA requirements. And the second aspect is maintenance, which is often ignored by vendors, but it's incredibly important for the operators who run these clusters. As they see a Hadoop expanding within the enterprise, there will be different versions of Hadoop clusters for the different internal groups that they have to support. How do they take care of upgrading these clusters? How do they take care of running different versions of Hadoop across the same set of physical infrastructure? So all these problems are solved by this integration. So next, I will walk through some of the features along each of these buckets in some more detail. So the first is self-provisioning. And there's two options here. One is template-based provisioning, and second is job-flow-based provisioning. So on the template-based provisioning, in the most simplest terms, what the aim is to capture the entire requirements of the Hadoop cluster in form of a uniform template. So typically, an enterprise goes through a process of tweaking and curing the cluster, and then they're happy with it. And next time, they just want to cookie-cut that. So you can capture all those requirements in the form of a template and provide a single-click, simple provisioning experience to your users. But there will be people who would want to get more control over this template provisioning process. And for that, we would provide a second level of template that is a little bit more granular, and they'll be node-based. And the information you capture in that can be resource-based. So you can have a template based on the size of the node, or it can be function-based. So there are different nodes with different functions within a Hadoop cluster. So you can have a template for name node, region server, data node, as you see fit. Users can modify those templates, and then provision clusters based on the modified versions of those templates, or save those templates. And in the second phase, we look to provide more of an Amazon EMR-type experience where customers can come in and upload the data either on a Swift object store or HDFS, then pick the type of job they want to run, big, high, or the other job types, and get the results, again, either on Swift or HDFS. So two basic options split in two different phases. Let's get into a little bit detail about how this provisioning process will work. And the case I'm covering here is assuming that there's a simple VM image that just has the OS, nothing else in it, right? So the user goes to horizon and specifies the cluster requirements, all the details about nodes, services, how many resources it needs. It will go to the Savanna controller, which will, in turn, go to Nova, fetch the right images from glance, and fire up those virtual machines. At this point, there is just virtual machines. There's no Hadoop cluster yet. And that's where Savanna delegates the responsibility to the Hadoop management platform called Apache Ambari. It will start the Apache Ambari Management Server and pass it the cluster blueprint and let Ambari figure out all the service configuration and setting up the Hadoop cluster itself. So this sort of puts a clean delineation between OpenStack and Hadoop, so both of them can take care of their own set of responsibilities. So once the cluster is provisioned, the next step is how do I actually manage and monitor this cluster? So the way we envision this to happen is there will be a single sign-on between the OpenStack Horizon dashboard and the Apache Ambari Management Server. So based upon the VMs the tenant has access to, when they log in, they will see the Hadoop clusters running across those VMs. They can click on Manage Link for those clusters, and you'll be single signed on into the Apache Management UI console. There's one option of loading the Apache Ambari UI within the Horizon cluster itself, or it could be a separate window. All right, moving on to elasticity. So the way I've broken down elasticity here is two dimensions. On the x-axis, there is the cluster life. And on the y-axis, there is node elasticity. So for phase one, we will be focusing on manual node elasticity. What I mean by manual is there will be an API on top of the Savannah controller and a UI plug-in for Horizon where the users can sort of add and remove nodes to their clusters. And VM provisioning will be completely transparent to that process. But it will be supported for long-lived as well as short-lived clusters. The short-lived use case is very, very relevant for dev and QA type workloads, where someone just needs to run some script, some big script, or a map-reduced job, and see if it's giving out the right results before they sort of migrate that thing to production. And the long-lived cluster is more suitable for folks who are actually running production clusters or even staging environments on top of OpenStack. For phase two, we will focus more on rule-based node elasticity. When I say rule-based, the rule could be defined on multiple different factors. One of them could be the state of the job flow itself. So you could foresee a scenario where a certain step of the job flow needs a lot of compute power. And there needs to be a way for the user to specify that rule and automatically provision the additional VM images that provide that additional compute power. And this could be useful for job flow-based clusters, where the provisioning is based on job flow itself, and the cluster goes away after the job flow completes. So some detail on the Swift object store integration. So when I spoke about elasticity, I mentioned that there is an option to upload the data on Swift or on HDFS. Now, when the data resides on Swift, there needs to be a way for a map-reduced job to consume that data and process that data. So that will be enabled by this HDFS Swift connect bridge. So what this bridge does is for a typical map-reduced job or a big or high script, nothing changes for that particular script or a job. It still functions as if it is working with HDFS. So it deals with the directory and file system hierarchy. But all that happens is that the bridge transparently converts all the commands into a way that the Swift object store understands. And it does that through a single sign-on through Keystone. The reason that this is possible is the Swift file naming convention supports forward slashes. So if you look in this picture, all that is happening is that that directory structure is being collapsed into a file structure. So we have DIR slash File 1 that provides that simulation of actually being a hierarchical directory structure. The other point here is I want to mention here is we support multiple different Swift stores, not just one. And you support multiple different containers across these different Swift stores. The way to set up this integration is there will be a single shim that you have to install on the Hadoop cluster node through which you expect to access the Swift object store and do the configuration provided the Keystone login information, and you'll be up and running. For the phase two of this integration effort, we will be focusing primarily on bug fixes and optimizations. All right, the last part is multi-tenancy. So for phase one, I've split it in three dimensions. There is access, resource, and version isolation. Now, resource and version isolation is sort of free to some extent by function of running inside virtual machines. There is one aspect of resource isolation, though that is important here. And that is the ability to pin a Hadoop node to a certain physical host. And the reason why that is important is as VCA Enterprise is supporting different internal customers, they might have to provide a certain set of SLAs to these different internal customers. And for that, to avoid the typical noisy neighbor problem in a cloud environment, there needs to be a way to say that for a given tenant, these are the different hosts that the tenant will get. And these are the different hosts on top of which the Hadoop cluster should run, and nobody else should interfere on those hosts. So the ability to pin the Hadoop node VM to a certain set of physical hosts will provide that functionality. For the phase two of this effort, we will focus on providing a single umbari management server per tenant. So in phase one, as you provision more Hadoop clusters, there will be a different instance of the umbari management server spun up for each instance of the cluster. But for phase two, we will collapse that down to a per tenant basis. There will be only one single umbari management server. So you don't have to deal with the overhead of managing multiple management servers. And then there is, of course, the enhancement needed to integrate with Keystone. So you can do authentication and authorization at the job flow level. So that's all. That brings me to the end of this talk. To get more information, we provide a Hortonworks sandbox, which is a pre-built environment with test data. Follow us on Twitter or email me. My email address is right there. Thank you very much.


Move on let's get it to the standout performance and out performance. Do you want to go first? Sure, I don't mind have at it.  Yes He over the past Series of games he had the most home runs. He had two two home run games and Why that stands out to me Jim is because if you have a guy who has two two home run games You're gonna win some of those games. Hmm. And yeah, he just he led, you know when people talk about the baby J's Teoscar Hernandez comes up. What fifth or sixth? Go BGO Vlad Bischette, I think guerrilla gets mentioned before him. So Teoscar Hernandez has some serious pop in his bat I love watching him play with the ball comes off his bat violently and Yeah, I mean four homers led MLB baseball over these past series of games So I gave him the nod, you know, there were some other guys with you know Some higher on base and this that and the other give me some dingers from Teoscar. Okay. He's chasing 20, baby He will get there teaser We'll get there. That's your standout. That's my standout performance to ask her Hernandez from the baby J's All right, my standout performance is Zach Plisac. Yeah, and it's kind of what you said like Cleveland's got pitching. We know about Clevinger. We know about Beiber even cookie Carrasco had a great start his first time through Plisac is sitting there and the White Sox come in and they're like, okay, you know, it's not Bieber It's not Clev. Oh, it kind of is. Yeah, kind of can be Plisac's the real deal. I mean, he faces the White Sox lineup, which has been pretty good. He goes eight innings pitch three hits 11 strikeouts hands the ball to the bullpen for just you get the last three Yeah, I'm kind of over it. I mean Cleveland's rotations deep and He's just reminding everyone This is what I got in the arsenal to I'm Jim. You started it. I followed you up And I'm glad we're on this early Cleveland is going to be a scary team this year because yeah Bieber and Clevinger obviously that's if you're a baseball fan You're familiar with these guys, but in a three-game playoff series if it goes three. Yeah, you can Carrasco Savalli Plutko Plisac like you you can put a game together really easily James Karkin check is a guy who's kind of special out of that bullpen so Cleveland is becoming scarier and scarier by the day tried to tell everyone Jose Ramirez Inlandore Carlos Santana, you know, and he doesn't he doesn't even really pump it in there His his average velocity on his fastball in this game was 92 miles per hour. Yeah But fastball slider gets you out. I mean 11k's you know, I mean you think yeah power stuff and it's not exactly power stuff Savalli's not a big strikeout guy, but he's just only gotten dudes out in major leagues and yeah, man I mean, well, I won't deep dive into their lineup now But go check out some of those guys on base percentages He had I think he pitched eight innings. He had six of them or one, two, three innings. That's good You love you love a clean inning.  Yes, that's what that's what's the most one two three as a team And you don't even get someone on base You never sit closer in your chair as a fan of the opposing team.  Yeah I'm a Geolito, you know, he's going against Geolito who? Gets a lot more gets a lot more attention. Yeah, Geolito shoved and he does deserve some credit That's who he's supposed to be in that White Sox team And he he kept them in it through six so Shout out to him please act though. I mean that's a special day at the office. Yeah


OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Hello everyone, thank you for joining me for this presentation on using coaching cycles to create data visualizations for decision-making. So really what we're going to be talking about today is how you can take interactions from teachers that you're working with in terms of like observations, coaching, etc. professional learning and how can we take that data and put it into really nice visuals so that you and stakeholders can make decisions for the betterment of your teachers, students, etc. So that's the goal of today's presentation. A little bit about me, I work for Education and Career Network in North San Diego County. I do all the tech integration so I work as a coach, do all the professional learning, work with about 100, 510 or 20 teachers, and I'm at the consortium level along with a number of other shared positions. So it's fun working in a lot of different schools. All the ESL teams, CPE, AIC, ABE, all the programs I work with. And I'm also a professor at San Diego State University in dual-language English Language Learner Program as well as at and according to University of Irvine where I work with doctoral students. And so really what I'm going to be talking a lot about today is just stuff that we do every single day in our consortium to all of our schools that are partners. And I give you a sheet. There's information there where you can take notes as well as a QR code that can take you to my flow page that has everything about me. And then I'm going to forward those actually that are watching this. I'm going to give them the link to this presentation real quick and putting it in the chat. I'll do this earlier. The slideshow is now in the chat. All right. So why instructional coaching? So it's funny in California in K-12. It's been utilized, but in a lot of other parts of the United States, instructional coaching is quite often in California and especially at all that, I think truly in its infancy, different in terms of a lot of the instructional leadership is based on the value of the pen versus just building the capacity of our teachers and investing in instructional coaching. There's a ton of research behind it and how there's a large impact side to impact student learning and outcomes as well as teachers overall efficacy in their practice. So I want to outline a number of studies real quickly just describing the effect of instructional coaching that's non-valuative. It is for really impacting student outcomes and teachers overall, you know, acidity is better. And we notice in this study right here by Kraft and Blazer, where we look at the effect of coaching. It's a 0.49 effect side, which is actually quite large when we look at, if you know, John Hattie's work and his effect sizes, instructional coaching with this effect size is actually quite high. And we can really bridge a gap between novice and veteran teachers by that instructional coaching and really see over time here with the achievement that student coaching programs have reduced larger improvements in teacher practice and show larger effects on student achievement. And this is done in the K-12 environment, but the results are being really picked up by a lot of schools throughout the country, especially in the Eastern Coast and Midwest, where they, for example, schools like may have two or three instructional coaches along with their staff. And districts may have about 10 to 15 that they're working with teachers constantly. And what it says over here on the far right, larger programs are less effective. So for example, if you have a coach covering more than 100 teachers, a single coach, then you're not going to have that much effectiveness, right? You'd want to have a coach cover a smaller number of teachers because that's where they can make that impact, right? And you'll see why in a minute when you talk about coaching cycles and what goes into that. So just wanted to share this study here. You can check it out if you want, as well as three other major studies regarding instructional coaching and its impact on teaching and learning. It's truly, I think, really emerging as a really powerful way to build capacity, but also, like I said, build teacher effects, advocacy as well as ensure that they don't burn out, right? So what we did in our consortium is we started with our goals in mind. So in our three-year plan, we discussed like the need for professional development. And really, we get into the nuts and bolts of it right here. Staff participation in training and coaching related to diversity, equity, inclusion, integration of technology and classroom and structural strategies are promoted. So that's kind of where it comes from. And also regular use and access professional development website. And sort of the central location for opportunities for professional learning. And we want really wanted to focus really specifically on students will engage in active learning within our class offerings, right? So we wrote this within our three-year plan. And that's the basis for what we're doing. And we found a measure for wanting to measure like technology and creation as well active learning within our classroom. So we ultimately decided to use a technology integration matrix also known as the Tim and that's through the University of Florida, South Florida, I believe, or Central Florida. And it's a really cool matrix where you can see, let me just pull this up here. Let me see where I can pull up really I want to show you get the big image of it. There it is. So what this does is it measures technology integration. There are four, I mean, five different steps from entry level all about the transformational and start out with active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal directed. And what we do here is we're measuring what exactly are we seeing in classrooms based on this, right? We go into classrooms and observe and provide like a feedback as well as say like, Hey, we think that this teacher is adopting Google slides at a conventional level that's procedural, but using their classroom. And what's cool is that we can sit down with a teacher or can sit down with some leadership team and talk about like, what does this all mean? And I can show examples of what this looks like in classroom environments, right? So we're utilizing a rubric that is something that we can measure what we're seeing with, but also show examples of what that is, right? And we can provide what that coaching looks like. So that's just a little bit of our rubric. So I haven't read all here. So when I came into this position two years ago, really was to build relationships with teachers because a lot of teachers, when they don't know what instructional coaching is embedded within their job, they think it's like someone's coming in to evaluate me, like, Hey, he's coming in to really judge what I'm doing versus, Hey, this is my partner here, I'm going to help them work on something that they may want to learn as well as what we want them to learn, right? So building a relationship with them is key in developing a culture where this is a norm, right, within our consortium. So that took me about about six to nine months to do when I was setting this all up. So really, this is how we created this culture of instructional coaching is is that explain the policies not evaluated, collaborative, we're learning together, the walking coach. So I go to all of our classes throughout the week, I go to various school sites, I try and drop in as many classes as possible, five, 10 minutes drop bys, provide a little bit of feedback that it's an email set to them as well as I'm tagging various things of what they're doing, and they can see that in the email that I send them. And then that goes to our database, right? And then what that does is ultimately leads to coaching sessions, because I get to see them or and they know what I'm doing. And we talked a little bit about what they're doing in the classroom. Sometimes we have follow ups after I come in or sometimes they want to schedule a meeting with me, do a one one session when I come into the classroom or through a Zoom session, right? So these are some things that kind of help build it and then in just a communication, we have a newsletter that goes out for all instructional practices and tech integration, open online communication through just texting me and email. We have asynchronous professional learning on our ETC and that website where we have videos, slides, thousands of templates that all there in one location, that they can access everything that we're working on, as well as any sort of training that we've had. So then we also offer the synchronous professional learning where we have series like for example, right now we're working on the 2020 spring active learning, UDL and differentiation series for the four part series where we provide a synchronous, consortium wide offering that is recorded. And then the teachers get paid to come and then get paid to do the tasks in the class. So for example, they need to fill it out and they need to have students, you know, interact with it and then I check to make sure that they're doing it and then they get those additional hours. So the payment piece for that synchronous learning has been really effective. And then we also had to discuss like, what does this all mean for, you know, us as a consortium? So I had to really talk to stakeholders about like, why we're doing this, starting with the research and then collecting the data to drive exactly what we're doing in these trainings based on what I'm seeing. And then aligning it with, you know, goals for our coaching and professional learning, right? So those were the goals that we've come up with. So it's developing that ongoing culture where this exists. And then talking about implementation of coaching cycle. So coaching cycle is essentially you're working with a teacher throughout the school year or a designated period of time. So you first identify what they're doing. And then you and the teacher work together for so that they can learn and move the needle in that area. What we're doing is evaluating them in the coaching piece with the team, the matrix, and then we're looking at examples of them improving. And then we look back and identify it. So you'll see what that looks like in a minute. And by gym night. And this is I've utilized gym nights framework for this. So this is just what I just mentioned. So now this is like the collecting the data piece and showing what this looks like and then the visualizations. So then we can make decisions based on what we see. So for example, I can type in all my different types of observation types which lead to what am I working on with this? What am I working on with a teacher? Is it like I'm just a strictly a coaching session? Is it just normal text support? Are we working on our Canvas course? Does it lead into a professional development session? Co teaching and planning. So that leads into opportunity to go and teach them something together in a class with them. And then I'm tagged. So what do I see that's happening in their class when I come in? And I tag it here and we have tags and it can be even more sophisticated. I've kind of changed up the sophistication of the tags based on each strategy and tool. So I can see how many times this is happening and what we're working on needs trends, right? And I can see how much time I'm engaging with educators and I can break that down for our students and I can show you what that looks like in a second. So when you say tagging, you say tagging. Yeah, it's just like creating a tag. So like for example, I'll liken it to say you're writing an email to someone and you can create like a tag is essentially just like what that conversation could be about. So in the system that we utilize is that we're tagging what these things are about or like what are we observing? What are we coaching about so that we can keep track of those data points? That's what tagging is. That's what it is. And I'll show you. Do the trending tags sit within the interaction types so that you like a subset of the interact and then the interaction types are within that. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So and then we can look at kind of like how we're supporting various buildings based on the school. When are we doing it? How much time are we investing into them so we can get, you know, making sure that based on their teacher population that we're, you know, trying to distribute my time as much as possible, right? And then who am I doing it the most with? And across here, this is mostly just some of these are designated CTE so generally for us, I'd say about 60 30 60 percent ESL 30 percent CTE and then 10 percent everything else. And then we can see throughout the year when the most interactions are occurring throughout the week based on category. And this is what the coaching cycles look like. So say we want the teacher to work on active learning and it's based on the tim matric because it's out of five. And this, for examples, the beginning rating, then after six to eight week process that they have that they have improved based on, you know, observation feedback, number of times that we put in our coaching cycle, that they move the needle up. Same thing if the teacher needs to work on assessment or if they need to work on Canvas, you think Canvas tool, right? And then we can see across the board. I've done about 50 cycles and then I can determine which educators are making grow, which are making considerable growth. So my goal is each year to focus on give or take about 50 teachers. I can't I can't invest so much time into everyone, but if I can focus on 50, like I'm doing significant amount of work with, then I know that we're really going to move the needle with those people. And especially the ones that are more enthusiastic than maybe the bottom 10, 20 percent, which will be the laggards. But the goal is that you can make the considerable growth with the adopters, hopefully that more tripled down to the laggards. How would you define considerable growth? So considerable growth is, for example, if they move up one, so if they move up one whole scale piece of the numerator, right? So if they started a one and then you put two, that would be considered considerable growth. Point five would be just a little growth. And then we can see across the board here, I took out names for this, but say this is the coach's name. You can see, like say this person's focus is on Canvas. We can see their initial rating was one, now they're over to two, their growth is one. This person was one, they were now the three, they moved up two, right? And we can see this within a database and we're using it based on the rubric here, right? The five point rubric. And this is kind of just the, you know, my philosophy is that the more informal feedback that you're giving, the more that leads into coaching sessions, the more that leads into course design, the more that leads into more professional learning. So the more, and there's actually a psychological, a lot of research really in this, the more constant access or more people see you, the more likely they're wanting to do something with you, right? So visibility is, I think it's called, it's a visibility factor. So ultimately, that's my philosophy with the teachers that we have in our contortion. And this is kind of where I do the data collection piece. So within connect hub.io, or you can do this on a Google form. And this is the person's name at the very top, I type in their name and I've already in our database. And then I have like, what's my interaction type? What's going on? What's the narrative piece? Then I start adding tag based on like what we're doing or what it is, right? And then when I'm done, if it's an observation and formal feedback, I send them an email that has exactly whatever and it goes right to their email. And then that goes into our database. Yeah. And what we've done recently with one school in our consortium, they want to be like full on learning walks. So they've adopted this, the administrator have adopted the tool and what I'm doing. So they're doing constant learning walk with this and collecting the data for their site level. And then they're using that to, you know, monitor their progress and make the decisions based on where their teachers are at and structurally. So this is how we collect data. And then the power of these visualizations is like, hey, we know what we're doing. We know we're tagging. We know what the trends are. We know where these teachers are at based on where they're at on the rating scale and where we need to grow. And then we can also look at other data. So for example, like cost of testing or high school testing, can we maybe see if there's a correlation between the work that we're doing and no outcomes, right? So that's kind of why this is really important, because we're collecting as this other data set that we can use and compare to see if it's moving the needle with their students. And you haven't done that yet. Are you doing that? We are doing that. Yeah, I would suspect nobody would be interested in this data. We need it more longitudinally. So I need to see like more over the next couple of years, like what can I see like after like three or four years of this and then see like it over the course of, you know, a couple of years, like is there that huge measurable growth? But the studies saying K-12 that there is an opportunity for considerable growth, right? So yeah, I mean, that's the thing we all got that in our admin training. You get to go to your district-wide trade, administrative trades that have nothing to do with the built-in. No, we have to go. So we get to the benefit to get to hear some of this stuff. And we do the learning walks. But this can this makes it go for the teachers at least makes it easier to understand. And so that tagging is when you're actually doing observation writing everything and while you're writing, you tag this. Yeah, you're tagging everything and you can determine like, so today you have a rubric that you want to use, maybe it's not the 10, it could be POA, it can be hats, it can be really whatever, you can put those into the system and then use those tags based on what your goals are. Yeah. And you guys go through training, those that are doing the walk. Well, you're doing, you're the expert, you're doing the walk moves. Do you do other schools use other staff like someone that's trusted, they know obviously. So only one school currently is doing like the full on learning walks. I'm doing it for the consortia. Okay. And I don't share, like for example, like personal names, I just share like what the performance looks like across the end of that school. And if they want, I can share with them. But I try to keep it, you know, they're the fine line you don't want to cross it. So you have to have that in the position that I know these right. So this is like year one, right? This was year one, I wasn't doing coping cycle, but then I moved to year two with coping cycles. So now, you know, we can see year to year progress. So that's really a cool piece of this. And these are some of the tools that you can use. I use connect hub, but I know you can use it on Google forms and sheets. Connect hubs only is like $10 a month. So we did that. And, but you can set up the same thing with Google forms. Can I ask why connect hub? Connect hub is just I think if we're looking at coaching platforms, it creates all this data visualization without you having to do it on, for example, if I fill it out in Google form, then I go to sheets and then I would have to create the visualizations on sheets. This created for you. So that's and it's $10 a month for how many. So, for example, it's $10 per user. Oh, okay. So here was 50 teachers aside. No, no, no. So if it's just me, it's $120. And it's just based on the coaches, the number of coaches you have. So if it's an administrator, that's, you know, 120 bucks, another coach, 120 bucks, or if it's another average, 120 bucks. But what you can do is that you can everyone to be on one account together, and you can then put your work collaboratively and add more data to the system. And so your admins or admin coordinators or whoever's evaluating teachers are also using them. So one school is doing it for that, you know, more of the evaluation piece. The other schools have been giving the opportunity. So they're considering whether to do that. But we're doing this, though, for building capacity for the consortium. Have you looked at Power BI? The RBI power Microsoft product. So same, but I think it's the same idea of visualizing visualization tool. We pull data from wherever. Yeah, is it kind of like Tableau? I don't know. I don't know. I would use Tableau. Okay. And I don't really use RBI. We have somebody that does it for us, but he pulls all our data together and then presents it however we want. Yeah, you could do it. You could very much you could have it on all this on a spreadsheet and have them do it that way as well. You know, it just really depends. And then what we do. You know, we we have we can easily have like I send quarterly, semesterly, merely data reports to all our administrators based on so I send them an email every quarter and they can review it. And we want to focus on the growth of teachers in relation to the rubric because that's the subject with their goals and then align the data with the yearly professional development plan. So like our three year plan or the schools under a loss of accreditation or that kind of thing. So and which is sort of education, a career network and more San Diego County are yours. Well, I don't know. That's how it's how it is. Yeah, and you're working both college and cave of adults. So but we're not really focused on much of our college. We haven't gotten too much on to their campus. Yeah, I guess. That's right. Yeah, I'm not. Well, it's because of some I won't say the reporting, but you know what? Yeah, yeah. So before we go, I want you to jot down on the piece of paper here. You know, keep this in mind. I use something for it now, I think. So write down some key themes and ideas and do you have any questions? Write down any questions that you have. And then, you know, then what's that? What's your next to-do list? If are you going to look up some more information about this? You want to look at some research? Do you want to talk more about it? So go ahead and jot that down right now and for that. And then for, I think, whoever's online right now, you can jot that down in the chat if you want or you just can jot down a piece of paper. So just some three key themes and ideas to questions or wondering that you have and then one extension with this thought that what did you use to think about this? And then now what do you think about this? So go ahead and spend some time. All right. If anyone having any thoughts or what do you think or what are some of your main takeaways from this? And do you have any questions? I have a question. Yes. Can you give me a specific example of an area that you identified in a teacher's when he was served in a classroom and he said, OK, this is something that could be improved. And then what would be improvement you suggested? And then how would and how does that impact student outcomes in the career? Yeah. So, for example, this happens all the time. So say that there's a teacher that's providing so much direct instruction where they're talking so much from the class and then doing too much, right? They're just passively listening, right? So I've gone in and I've observed and looked at their lecture, looked at their slides, etc. And I talked a little bit about if I asked certain questions, do you consider, you know, when your students are listening, are they not doing anything on their notes? Is our doing thing interactive? I use that type of language. I say, like, are you considering this? I go like a question. And then then my observation, like, here's some ideas that start considering because then you may have students be a little bit more engaged, more have them, you know, more discussion. I could provide a short little strategy, like maybe I would like you to, you know, consider using more thing pair share. After you provide a little bit of direct instruction, how do students do a short little pair share and bring it back to the class? Right. Something simple that can change then if we're thinking about tech, maybe you want them to have a little bit of an interactive Google slide show where the students are actually writing down their notes on a Google slider, describing their thinking. And then that can lead to more, you know, pair share and conversation and then you as a teacher can see what your students are thinking in real time and then you can long-term adjust what you're trying to do. So those are just some basic things that we talked about. Or it could be even simple, something like Canvas. Does your is your Canvas friendly to, you know, does it provide video that help upload content? They have a slide show. Are you conducting any assessment on your Canvas course? So those are just some of the questions that I sometimes start out with. I just usually just one, but then I provide a lot of positive reinforcement. I do like four or five positive reinforcements followed by a couple of questions. And then that needs to the conversation, right? And then it's just a matter of showing up all the time and taking interest and then building that relationship. And then that ultimately will have them be more motivated to want to engage with you and have conversation and then work in approaching sentences or go to a professional development or both. And then he starts themes.  If you go enough, you can see over time those different things that they're trying. Maybe they have more confidence or maybe that they want to try some new stuff. And then you cater to kind of like, how are they best going to learn? What does this person's schedule look like?  So you try to meet them or their ad and give them, you know, options and choice as well as, you know, you're supporting them and what you feel like that they may want to improve it. And they may be a lot of conversations like, oh, yeah, maybe I do talk too much or maybe I need to make this more interactive. I mean, I need to try and learn how to use this tool to strategy a lot of times after a couple of conversations, but I think I agree with you. And sometimes you're going to run into conversations with people where they're not going to want to change, I mean, but then you may be trying to focus on things on the fringe, right? So that's kind of ultimately kind of my philosophy and how I've done it over the past couple of years.  It's going to be impossible, right? But hopefully, like I mentioned earlier, the trickle-down effect, right? You can get the doctors, you can get people that are excited about it, that it can change to, you know, departmental change, right? So we just, for example, at one school, Yale Civics, we're focusing on UDL. And we wanted to incorporate on-canvas a page for digital literacy page, where they would first watch a number of videos related to skills like Google Docs, slideshow, et cetera. And then after they reviewed the national content, then they would be asked to complete a number of tasks and the students were given a choice on how they wanted to demonstrate their learning. So they could write, they could write the steps of how to use this tool, they could record themselves talking about the steps using this tool, or they could do something above. They could write a number of steps, but they could also talk about, you know, how they're doing it, how are they using that particular tool, right? To help them with their digital literacy. So that's just one example. And the team was very enthusiastic over time. It took a year to get them really enthusiastic, but now they're like, oh, I can see how this is really benefiting students. This is benefiting us. And also too, like on campus, they can collaborate. So they're building out pages and they're dividing the labor. So they don't have to do as much, right? So I think when you're focusing on those pieces, it really does help. I mean, it's not gonna be perfect, but I think persistence and consistency will, if they keep it for this. So if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. We'll disconnect on social media. You can check out my blog. I do have a podcast, so wanna learn more.


Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here, and I'm back with another vintage GI Joe toy review, and this time we are going to look at the famous, the infamous, the notorious 1983 Cobra Hiss Tank. Even if you were not an avid GI Joe collector when you were a kid, if you were aware of any Cobra vehicle, it was probably the Hiss Tank. The Hiss Tank debuted in 1983, it was also sold in 1984, it was discontinued in 1985, and there really wasn't a comparable Cobra vehicle in 85 to replace it. In 1986 we got the Cobra Stun, but I always thought of the Cobra Stun more as a replacement for the 1984 Cobra Stinger than the Hiss Tank. In 1987 we got the Cobra Maggot, which was sort of a tank, but was not very similar to this Hiss Tank. The moniker Hiss stands for high speed sentry, and according to the order of battle entry for the Hiss Tank, the top speed for this guy was 75 miles per hour, which is amazingly fast. This thing could cook along at highway speeds. I have always associated the Hiss Tank with Destro, who also came out in 1983, and who was the Cobra weapons supplier, and I always kind of assumed that Destro designed the Hiss Tank. The Hiss Tank did not come with Destro, and this is not a review of Destro, so I'm going to set Destro aside for now. The Hiss Tank did come with an action figure, the Hiss Tank driver. We will take a closer look at him in a moment, so I'm going to set him aside as well. The Hiss Tank obviously is not based on any real world design. It has these really interesting triangular treads, which is a little bit similar to the World War I tank, the Tank Mark VIII, but on the Tank Mark VIII the elevated treads, rather than being underneath the vehicle like this, ran along the sides, which was a more practical design, I think. Another tank that has a raised front bogey the way the Hiss Tank does is the M50 on-toss anti-tank vehicle, but that's where the similarity ends, otherwise they look absolutely nothing alike. Other than that, I have not been able to find any other real world weapon system that looks anything like this guy. Let's look at the parts and the features of the Hiss Tank. Up in the front we have what the blueprints call a shell-proof canopy. It opens up like that, it has a little notch here on the front that goes in there to secure it. You kind of have to give it a little squeeze and a push back to pull that notch back in order to lift the canopy.  Whether it's made out of some kind of glass or any space-age material, I don't care. There's no way this thing is going to stop a shell. In fact, I would say that a heavy machine gun would tear through this thing like tissue paper, which makes the driver of the Hiss Tank very vulnerable. So the Hiss Tank driver has about the most dangerous job in all of Cobra. The canopy does make the toy look really nice, but as far as being a real world weapon, that would be an extremely weak point in the design. The Hiss Tank in the G.I. Joe Retaliation movie was a little bit more realistic in the design, but I still prefer this. This is the iconic design. Up at the top we have the double Diablo cannons, which the blueprints describe as 90mm cannons, which is a pretty strong gun. One of the most common problems with the Hiss Tank is with these cannons. They tend to develop floppy cannons. They don't stay up like they did when you took them out of the box. Originally, the cannons would ratchet into three positions, the lower position, middle, and the upper position. The ratcheting was accomplished by two tiny pins inside the cannon housing that would run along notches for each level. Those pins were very tiny, very thin, extremely fragile, and they almost always broke. In fact, I've only ever seen one Hiss Tank in person that had the original plastic tabs in there. This cannon has been repaired by replacing the plastic tab with metal prongs, and it ratchets a bit, but not quite the way it originally did, and I think that's because the notches themselves that the prongs run along are themselves a little bit worn. So you don't get exactly the three positions that you would originally get with the Hiss Tank, more like two positions. I'll put a link in the description for a video that demonstrates how to fix these cannons. An alternate fix for a floppy cannon syndrome is to just take the cannons out and then wrap the bar that goes between them with electrical tape, and so it doesn't flop anymore. Basically you just move it to any position you want. It doesn't ratchet either, but it looks a lot better and it's not floppy anymore. There were three sticker variants on the Hiss Tank. The earliest Hiss Tanks that came out in 1983 had the 788 with red outline numbers. Later Hiss Tanks that were released had those same 788 numbers, but they were solid red. Later still the Hiss Tank was offered as a mail away, and the mail away Hiss Tanks had white 788 numbers. Let's look at the turret. You can actually remove the turret by turning it all the way around and just pulling it out. There are two slots there that correspond with these notches on the turret, and it's basically a cup. The gunner stands inside the cup in order to operate the gun. Now there's no hatch, so the gunner cannot retreat inside the tank. So he is exposed up there, but he is less exposed than the infamous MOBAT tank, which has the operator halfway out of the tank and just really easy to shoot. Looking at the control panel for the gun turret, we have a sticker on there with some gauges and some pretty decent detail, not too bad. One thing I really like about the turret is that the gunner can stand tall enough that he can still wear his backpack as Destro is here. So that's convenient. I have Destro, the Baroness, and Major Blood all gunning Hiss Tanks. They are all wearing their backpacks and they are not obstructed in any way. These tank treads were fake of course, they are basically just a solid piece of plastic. And the tank rolled along the grounds by these kind of dumbbell wheels here, here in the front and the back, and they rolled reasonably smoothly. In the back we had the personnel platform that had two foot pegs that the action figures could ride on. You just put the foot pegs and the holes on the bottom of their feet, and there they go. Unfortunately, one of them is broken off on this one. Also in the back we have a tow hook, which is interesting because in 1983, Cobra didn't have anything to tow. They had no towed weapons at all. In 1984 we got the Cobra ASP, which was a towed gun that you could actually use this tow hook for. Let's take a look at the cockpit. And the cockpit has some pretty good detail in there, not bad molded in detail. We have some headlights in the front and some nice stickers, a nice prominent Cobra emblem on the side. Let's look at the his tank overall. Obviously, this is not a very practical weapon. Both your driver and your gunner are very vulnerable. It looks like it would be kind of off balance. It looks like it would be front heavy, but it is, and it's actually pretty well balanced. But whether it's realistic or not, I think it really looks great. The black makes it look very sleek and high tech. This is designed to be intimidating. It would be great for night attack, and since it's really fast, a squad of these could cover a pretty wide area of territory. For me, no matter how many years go by and how many new vehicles come out, this will always be the primary weapon of Cobra. This is their primary vehicle in my mind. Let's look at the his tank driver, and wow, he's really red, isn't he? Let's start out by looking at the articulation. He had the typical 1983 articulation, which meant that he could turn his head left and right. His arm could swing all the way up, and it could rotate all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow, so he could move his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees, and he had a swivel at the bicep, so he could spin his arm all the way around. He was held together with a rubber O-ring that ran through the center of the action figure, so he could move at the torso a little bit. The O-ring on this one is a little bit loose, so he can disco dance. He could spread his legs about so far. He could bend at the hip about 90 degrees, and he could bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's look at the figure overall. He did reuse one piece from other action figures, his waist piece, which went with the Cobra officer and the Cobra soldier. Other than that, he is unique. He has all unique parts. He is sculpted with a lot of pretty amazing detail, including these tall boots and knee pads. I've said before, I really like knee pads. He also has this kind of thigh armor here, which are kind of like chaps, sort of. He has black arm bands and shoulder ridges, which is a nice detail. He has silver goggles, and he has this spine on his helmet that is actually supposed to be a snake. If you take a look at the art on the file card, you can see that's actually a snake design on his helmet. Of course, I don't know, the detail kind of fails there. It doesn't look a whole lot like a snake. He has what I think is supposed to be an armored chest plate, which is blue. That's a nice contrast with the red. And he has a silver Cobra symbol. Now this silver paint rubs off very, very easily. In fact, I'm really glad that this has any of the Cobra symbol left on it at all. My other Hiss driver has the symbol completely rubbed off. The bright red coloring actually complements the black Hiss tank pretty well. If the driver were colored dark blue like the Cobra officer, you really wouldn't be able to see him in the cockpit. He would kind of blend in with the dark background. But a red action figure, when you put him in there and close the canopy, he really stands out.  Let's take a look at the file card. These file cards were printed on the back of the box that the toy came in. There's nothing on the other side, it's just the back of a box. Up here it says Cobra Hiss driver, codename the enemy. Of course that's not a codename, but all of the Cobra soldiers that came out at the time just had codename the enemy. Of course this action figure doesn't represent an individual. You are meant to army build these, meaning buy multiples and pretend that they're all different people. Of course buying multiples of the Hiss tank driver meant buying multiples of the Hiss tank. And I didn't have any friends when I was a kid who could afford to buy a whole bunch of Hiss tanks, so we had one Hiss tank and we just have to pretend that it was an army of them. Since the Hiss tank driver is not an individual but an army builder, his file name is unknown. His primary military specialty is Hiss driver, logically. And his secondary military specialty is mechanical and electrical systems. Birthplace various countries, grade O5. Now that's remarkable because an O5 is a Lieutenant Colonel. So this guy is a Cobra officer, like this guy, but he's an extremely high ranking Cobra officer. He's a Lieutenant Colonel. Do you really have to be a Lieutenant Colonel in Cobra in order to drive a Hiss tank that just doesn't seem logical to me? Maybe it's one of those situations where they're just trying to get the guy to do this really dangerous job and ride under this canopy where he's going to get shot at and probably killed. So they just tell him, hey, we'll make you a Lieutenant Colonel, you'll get to drive a cool tank and you'll be a Lieutenant Colonel, honest, really, just jump in there and give it a spin. He'll be a Lieutenant Colonel for about five minutes until he gets blown up. In this section it says, Cobra Hiss drivers are selected from the best and most evil of Cobra Command's thousands of yearly recruits. Each is chosen for his physical strength and total dedication to evil. So maybe you're an excellent tank driver and you're the top of the class in Hiss tank school, but if you're not sufficiently dedicated to evil, they're just not going to let you in. You can't wear the red uniform unless you're completely dedicated to evil. Hiss drivers are graduates of Cobra Battle School, Advanced Weapon Systems Training, Qualified Experts, Hiss Vehicle, Fang Copter, Knowledge of All NATO and GI Joe Weapons. It's interesting that the file card mentions that the Hiss driver is a qualified expert with the Fang helicopter. The Fang helicopter actually did not come with a pilot and I don't know, maybe the Hiss driver looks pretty good piloting the Fang helicopter. The Fang is also black like the Hiss tank and that red may stand out. I don't know. What do you think? I think he looks pretty good, but I usually display my Fang helicopter with Cobra Commander piloting. Down at the bottom here it says, Cobra Hiss drivers are committed to the destruction of GI Joe. This newly developed battle vehicle is a real match for the GI Joe team. Beware. Beware. That was my review of the 1983 Cobra Hiss tank and its driver and the file card. I hope you liked this video and if you're thinking of getting a Hiss tank, I hope this video was informative. If you liked this video, go ahead and give it a thumbs up. If you didn't like this video, go ahead and give it a thumbs down. 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