Being the first batch was special. Being a pioneer, we actually saw the buildings being built. We just grew with the university itself. With every building added to the campus, we felt that it was part of us. We were on cloud nine the day we got accredited. We could not take that day seriously because we were trying to squeeze a party at every certain class because we were so proud of ourselves, of the university, of his highnesses vision, Dr. Sheikh Sultan Pamir Al-Qasimi, the ruler of Sharjah. And without his vision, none of this would have happened. It means a lot to us that he believed in a system. He believed in us. And I think the only way to repay that trust is by taking AUS to the next level when it comes to delivering the world's best education. I would say AUS, after the education and all the exposure that I received, the network of friends is invaluable. Friends that I've made are all overachievers. They all are successful. In the past 12 years, each one has reached milestones of success, whether they're entrepreneurs, whether they're working for different companies and going up the ladder. It's great to have this network. When I'm hiring people, if I have a stack of resumes that I need to look through, I'll just do a quick filter, pick out all the AUS people first, put them on top of the stack, go through those first, and then I'll go through all the other resumes. Now, that is bias. I studied that here in AUS. It's called bias. But I feel it's a good bias because it works. AUS students or graduates are of a very good caliber, which makes them really the most desirable in the UAE, possibly in the region as well. When I first joined AUS, my sole purpose was to get a good grade, a good GPA, and be content. But then I met so many people in university that added a new flavor, a new dimension, really. I then started to pursue extracurricular activities, community service, even research work with a wide variety of professors. I really found a strong affection for academics in general. All credit to AUS for teaching me the value of this. I hope to one day become a professor, and AUS would be a wonderful place to fulfill that dream. I'm an assistant professor at the College of Architecture, Art, and Design. I'm also an alumni. AUS is one of the strongest universities in the region. I'm very loyal to the institution. I feel that I'm part of the community, and there's nothing more rewarding than coming back and trying to contribute. I'm also happy to see that AUS is trusting the quality of graduates, investing in hiring them, and bringing them back to the community. A lot of staff and faculty here in AUS are alumni. My parents never went to college or university, and I'm among the first generation of kids in my family, too, go to university and get a college degree. When I walked into AUS, I didn't know what I was in for. I told my dad right after I graduated that I've grown and learned more in these past four years than I have at any time in my life before that. AUS has found its way in every single part of my life, because I've met friends here, I've met colleagues here, I've met clients here, and I've met my husband here. Before I came into university, I was really afraid of public speaking, so I wasn't even able to give a two-minute or five-minute presentation about anything for them. I just hated getting up in front of anyone and talking. I feel like that was the worst thing to ever happen to me, because my heart was racing the entire time. And then I basically took public speaking class, and when I took that class, everything changed. It motivated me to decide to write the speech and compete for the commencement speech. I feel like that was just one of the biggest achievements that I've been proud of, I guess, or will be. It's just something I really challenged and overcame, so I think that's a major one. It was because of the Community Services Department of AUS I am wherever I am today. I've been blessed to witness how a small act of kindness, as simple as providing someone with love and care, giving someone safe space, can actually tremendously change their life. I was born and raised in the UAE, and the culture here is all about giving and helping and supporting. And rather than giving someone money or temporary fixes, you give him the fix that will make him become strong in order for him to give back as well. If you teach someone how to fish, it's better than actually giving him a fish for a day. It's very crucial that we make sure that the next generations are generations built from people who are educated, winners, successful. I know for a fact that university stage is one of the most important stages that will help you achieve that quicker. I have used gratitude, but I'm very honored to get the scholarship twice from his Highness to do my bachelor and master in civil engineering, which encouraged me to do my PhD later in civil engineering also.  Until this day, the name of Abraham Sader, all people have this great memories about him, how to be humble, how to be a real leader. There is a saying that you may forget the place, you may forget that time, but you cannot forget the feeling. And the people who give you that feeling, you never forget. I just want to say thank you to everybody in iOS for his kindness. He creates something that everybody will talk about it for years and a generation after generation. iOS is a landmark now, not only for Charge or UAE. I think in the Middle East, iOS and this short time have been world-known in many places. I cannot show that.


Hey everybody, it's Lisa here and I'm glad to welcome you to another ITTT live stream. Just in case that somebody doesn't know me, let me quickly introduce myself. So I'm a Tefl and TESOL expert with ITTT and I'm also a non-native ESL teacher working online primarily. From time to time I go offline as well and organize some speaking clubs or meetings for people in my area. But generally speaking I prefer online lessons and that is why when I do these live streams I usually give some tips and tricks on how to develop in this field and how to promote yourself as an online teacher. Before we start I'm actually going to add this banner of today's meeting with the name of today's meeting. But before we start I just want to check out if everything works. So if you see me and hear me clearly please let me know via the chat box. So can you hear me? Can you see me? Let me know. And what else? I'm actually based in Russia, in the central part of Russia and today it's pretty gloomy in here. I believe that's because of the smoke from the fires you know like a region which is really close to my place has bad fires in there and we have this extreme weather conditions which is not good. Yeah but anyways I hope that today will be sunny probably a little bit later. Let me know where are you guys from and if the weather is good in there. So yeah we have this comments section feel free to write whatever you want. Let me know if you see, if you hear. It is always pleasant to know that someone is behind the camera because basically right now I talk to myself and it is a little bit weird. And let me switch on the banner with today's meeting's name. So we're going to talk about different ways on how to find students online and I would like to discuss some ways that are not that typical in this field because usually when it comes to searching for students, searching for clients, online people go to some teaching platforms and or find some employers with their own platforms. I believe that these approaches are good. However there are even more ways how to find students and how to work with them directly. So in this case you will be able to create your own personal brand and probably it would be a great start for your own teaching business. Why not? So I want to share these strategies with you and yeah just let me know that you hear and see me, okay? I'm still waiting and let me know where you guys are tuning in from. So I'm based in Russia, where are you from? It's also AM in here so it's 10 AM. I believe that it might be later or earlier in your places so I would really love to know about it. All right and the last thing to mention, I just want to draw your attention to this QR code in here and I want to say that it's a really special offer. We have at ITTT for those who are seeking this opportunity to get TAPL certified and I will dwell upon this situation a little bit later because I know that many people believe that it is not necessary to be certified, it's not necessary to have a diploma to teach. That's not true from my point of view but yeah, I will explain that a little bit later. All right, I see some comments in the chat box. Hello guys, nice to hear from you. So here is Andrea from Vancouver, Canada and also Poe. I hope I pronounced your name correctly. If not, I'm so sorry, okay? You ran from Venezuela. Yeah, so nice to see you guys in here. Thanks for coming and also let me send the link to our website with this 30% off, okay? All right, so let's now jump into the discussion. So today we are discussing different ways, different unusual ways on how to find ESL students. As I've mentioned, there is no problem with looking for students on online teaching platforms or going to work for some teaching companies. It's totally fine and it's actually a great start for those who don't have any teaching experience for example but I would like to dwell upon some other ways. And the first one I would like to mention is social media. So basically it's also pretty obvious. It is not a secret that anybody on the net can find students over there on social media but when you start looking for people on the internet, when you want to reach out your clients, your potential clients, it is absolutely necessary first to choose the right social media which fits your needs, which fits your positioning and which will assist you in a way of creating your personal brand. And to find your perfect social media, it is really important to narrow down your niche, to narrow down to one specific niche for example, or and at the same time to research your audience. So it might sound slightly vague so I'm going to give you an example. So for instance, you are an English teacher and you are specialized at teaching general English. So you can basically work with young students, you can work with teenagers, you can work with adults as well, which is fine. You can get a lot of clients this way, just working with this general audience. However, if you want to find that specific niche and if you want to succeed in teaching some specific students and sometimes even get more leads and get more funding, get more money from this perspective, you should research some specific audience. Even if you work with this general audience, you should still break down to smaller sub audiences to smaller niches. So first of all, I would start with researching based on the audience's age and some, I don't know, some demographical things like gender and social status for example. So it will help you understand what is the driver for those people to study English. So it is absolutely crucial before you choose specific social media to place your personal brand, to place your business, you have to research every single audience. Yeah, let's talk about a more specific example. So since last year, I started working with adult students and for example in my local area, there are a lot of people who want to learn English just because it is necessary. Some people want to travel abroad, some people want to get this content in English, want to watch movies and listen to some audience in English and they want to authentic content. However, I decided to focus on a more interesting kind of audience which is people traveling abroad to work there. It's not that obvious that those people might need English harder, might need English skills more often than those who just want to travel abroad. So I decided to focus on immigrants, those people who go to native English speaking countries or go to just some different countries to work there because this audience has some more specific needs and their needs are absolutely clear and motivating. Basically, their income depends on their English skills, which is why it is really easy to reach out to such potential clients and to build this relationship with them. If we talk the same language, if we speak the same language in terms of our work opportunities and career goals, it is much easier to give them what they want, to offer them some services and to help them understand that I am the person who can actually help. Otherwise, if you work with younger children, for example, it might be slightly more challenging to reach out to this audience because basically you have to deal with two different audiences, I should say, with two different niches. So you might think that you are going to teach a child, however, the person who decides if you are going to be a teacher or not is a parent. So basically, you have to count on two different audiences. You have to think about parents' needs and you have to think about children's needs as well. So when you start looking for the base placement for your freelance job or for your small business, research the audience first and then choose the most appropriate social media to place your business, to place yourself. So I am not sure about this demand all over the world in terms of social media. I know that in some countries, Instagram is really popular. On the other hand, in some other countries, Facebook is that social media which is more convenient and which is more oftenly used. And for example, in such countries like China, Japan, I don't know, maybe some other Asian countries, there are some other social media which are more popular. So you have to count as well. And you have to think which placement will be the most suitable for you. Yeah, so this is probably the first way, the first unusual way I wanted to dwell upon. And I believe it is really easy to start your freelance career or freelance teaching career.  Yeah. And now I would like to move on to the next idea I have. And it is always my, it is also might seem obvious to you. So basically, I have mentioned this point many times in my previous live streams. Personal network is also really great in terms of offering your services. But I know that many people, for some reason, are ashamed mentioning that they provide teaching services. I don't know why. We just feel uncomfortable saying our friends and, I don't know, saying friends of our friends that we are professionals in this field. And it's a great mistake because in your personal network, there might be people who are seeking those services and they just don't know where to find. So make sure you are absolutely fair. And you don't worry about saying that you are that person who can give what they want. Yeah, it means that you have to communicate with those you know.  You just have to build on your network and you have to, you have to create this personal brand as well in the offline sphere. Yeah, with this technology and all stuff happened last year, we are worried to communicate with people in real life and it's a great mistake. So consider telling your friends, families, and just some people in your social circle that you're a teacher and you can offer these qualities, these quality services. It's a great way to find students. It's a great way to sell various goods, various services as well. So just bear that in mind. It might work together with the first approach and it might work solely without anything else. And I believe that this way is really convenient for those who doesn't have much experience. Actually, when I was a student myself, when I was at university, that was the way I found my students back in the day. So I wasn't experienced, I was inexperienced at all in English teaching, but I really wanted to have some extra money, you know, because I was a student and my scholarship was really small, like it was nothing. I had to work and I had to make money. So I worked as a tutor, but at that time it was even harder to find students. Not because of this, a lot of services provided in the field, but because there were no placements to look for. Online business wasn't that developed at that time yet. So I had to talk to my parents' friends, I had to talk to people to offer my services. And that actually worked well. I found a lot of students at that time and I started working when I was, I don't know, 19 probably. So I just provided my English tutoring services to those I knew at that time. It might seem easy, but at the same time for many people it is difficult just because you have to get out of your comfort zone. But basically if you want to sell anything, you have to get out of your comfort zone, right? Okay, and let me move on to the third idea. It is less obvious. So you can basically find clients in some site projects by collaborating with other professionals. And this is a more challenging approach, I should say. However, it's really strategical. So when you take part in some other projects, you still can create your personal brand as a professional in your own field. So for example, my own example is again, I believe it's really interesting. I didn't think it might be a way to find clients, but it turned out that it is. So recently I started working as a volunteer in an ecological project. So I decided to take part in that project to build on my resume as a professional because, you know, when you apply for some specific programs at universities or when you want to get a scholarship, you have to show that you do some social work as well. So that was my idea. But then when I started doing that, I realized that actually I can build my network around that project, around that site project, and it worked out. So in that project, I help out as a social media manager. And every time I make some videos, every time I reach out to the audience on the project social media, I think of the ways I can introduce myself as well. It might be a little bit sly. So I'm sly as a fox. So but anyways, it works out because I do that job for free. And why not exchanging the audience? Why not exchanging, you know, clients? It's actually good. And last week on Saturday, I worked on the field. So we had a regular event offline. Every month, we go to a specific point and organize a recycling place. So people come to get away of their plastics, to get away of their paper waste and stuff like that. And I decided to communicate with everyone who came to take part in the event with our potential. Not I can't say that they are clients, but just with the members of that community. I interviewed them and also presented myself, not only as a volunteer for the project, but also as an ESL teacher. That was just the way I that was just the way I introduced myself. But that was a great way to get the meaningful connections to. So that was pretty easy. It took me like a minute to explain what I do in the project. And then I just added something to that that might be useful to those people coming to the event. But at the same time, that wasn't really pushing, you know, you can think of some other ways to reach out to people when you take part in different projects. It doesn't mean that you have to volunteer. You can do whatever you want. But basically, it's one of the ways to get meaningful connections and to create your personal brand as well. Because if you are not worried and afraid to express yourself, especially offline, it will give you even more credentials. Because people respect those who are fair and people want to work with those who who isn't afraid, who aren't afraid to say where they are professionals and what fields they can help with. So it's a strange approach, but yet it works out. And once again, it may be helpful to those who don't have much experience. So if it is your case, if you want to find students, if you want to find clients, especially for longer relationship, it's a great way to start your personalized approach. Because on social media, there is a lot of demand, but at the same time, the competition level is pretty huge, is pretty high. So sometimes you have to invest in your social media to promote yourself. Because if you don't think of strategies, how to engage your audience for free, you have to pay out for advertisements, you have to buy your audience. But number two and number three approaches are absolutely for free. Because the only thing you have to do is talking to people, being friendly and being communicative. So it is really helpful in terms of saving some extra cash and at the same time building on your personal brand and on social media and offline. And that is actually all I wanted to discuss today. If you guys have any questions related to the topic, so I'm going to switch on this banner. We are talking about unusual ways to find ESL students online. Basically, we can have a talk right now. If you have any questions, if you have any concerns, feel free to type it in, feel free to use the comments section. I will be glad to communicate with you. I will be glad to help you out if you need my help. I also want to invite you to my Facebook group. So I created this Facebook group to stay connected with those who come to my live streams. And I believe it's a great way to make connections as well. So if you have any questions after this live stream, feel free to ask me on the Facebook group or feel free to write me a message on Facebook as well. And now I'm going to look at the comments section and answer your questions if you have any. All right, there are actually people from South Africa and Central America. We are truly global. I am so impressed. Every time I do this live streams, I can't believe that I communicate with so many people from various places around the globe. It's so amazing. Just one second. All right, this is a question from Amitava and it's a great question, I believe. So Amitava asks about the ways I price my lessons.  So you have to research how much other teachers price and at the same time, how much people can pay for some specific services. It is usually based on the situation in a specific area. For example, here in Russia, there are various needs and various possibilities, opportunities.  You have to focus on that audience, which fits your best in terms of your location, in terms of your professional skills and your experience. And then probably you have to create the basic price to offer your services for. It is really subjective to many various factors. So as for me, when I try to make up this amount of money to offer my services for, I count on my personal experience and my professional skills. So for example, this year I took three different teaching courses. So I increased my professional skills and at the same time, what else? At the same time, the level of inflation in the region was accelerated. So that amount of money, which was okay last year, isn't okay this year. So I added that percentage, which is equal or slightly above the inflation level. And then what else? And then I also focused on my audience. So I don't work with children, I don't work with general English students because it's really big to teach this audience for me. So I just looked at those who need some specific services as I mentioned earlier. And just research how much they can pay actually. So that was it. Yeah, this is basically the way you create your own price. Pricing is really important. Make sure you don't put a low price because such teachers who either do not estimate yourself fairly, they mess up with the whole market. Because if there are people who are ready to work for like, I don't know, $1 and at the same time, there are people who provide the same quality services for let's say $25, it's slightly strange and customers, they get this vision that everything might be super cheap. So we don't want the market to be like this. Make sure you don't set an unreasonable price, both unreasonably high and unreasonably low. You want something really specific, but at the same time failure. Yeah, I can actually write my email. But as I mentioned, you can contact me on Facebook and you can contact me via the Facebook group. I have sent the link to the chat box already. But yeah, you can contact me at just one second. Yeah, it's here. Here is my email address at ITTT. So if you have any questions related to TEFL courses, online teaching, whatever related to this ESL field, you can reach me out via this email. And if you guys don't have any further questions related to TEFL, TESOL, online teaching, teaching abroad, so whatever questions you have in your mind, that's probably it for today. However, I've now remembered one thing I wanted to mention as well. So when you look for your students either online or offline via social media through online teaching platforms, whatever ways you use, you still have to think about your professional skills. And as I mentioned, it is possible to work without any experience, because I actually did that many years ago. But still, you have to build your professional skills as well. You have to develop as a professional. What helps you developing professional skills is taking courses, like taking part in different workshops, master classes, whatever, whatever helps you understand teaching better, whatever helps you understand how to communicate with other people, how to provide the best quality services to your potential clients is helping your professionalism. It is an asset to your general profile and this personal brand. It is absolutely necessary. If you don't have a diploma, so if you don't have any degree, it is absolutely crucial to get TEFL certified if you want to, if you want providing teaching services. People won't pay for some unreasonable quality or for some strange services. They are offered with, right after they understand that there are some other people who are actually better. Even if the price is higher, they still want some specific quality and you have to make sure that you can provide this quality. The quality of teaching is really necessary. Make sure you read at your spare time that you take various professional courses, professional development. It is helpful indeed. It is helpful for you as a person. It is helpful for you as a professional and it is necessary for your online business, for your offline business. You have to work on your own skills and basically ITTT can help you working on your professional career, developing your professional skills. Just make sure that you have a look over our website and check out which courses we provide these days because we had a major update and we added, for example, a teaching practicum specifically for those who don't have any experience and doesn't know how to work online or offline. So there is this option. At the same time, if you've never worked on social media, if you've never worked online, you can also take a course related to teaching online or if you want to narrow down to some specific niche, you can also take a look over our business English teaching and teaching to young students, teaching to young learners. Those are great options and I wish I had that opportunity back in 2013 when I started teaching because at that time that was a real disaster. I thought the way I thought people should be taught, but that was not correct absolutely. So I hope you change this opportunity and you give it a shot at least. So I hope to see you guys next week before we wrap up, before we finish today's session, I just want to mention that every week we have two live streams. I know that many of you go to my live streams and then visit Linda's live streams, but just in case you don't know that we have two different hosts presenting. So I go live either on Tuesday or on Wednesday and my colleague Linda goes live on Thursday or Friday. So we decided to rewrite the days of the week and we've decided to go live at different time just to make sure that we can reach out to everyone who needs that. Linda is an ESL teacher and a native English speaker, so she can actually give you her professional advice and share her own experience from different perspectives. Make sure you check out her previous videos or make sure you check out her next live stream, which will be this week. If you have any suggestions related to some specific topics, so for example you want me to talk about something related to, I don't know, a personal branding as an English teacher, just let me know right down in the comments section. It will help me to think of the next live streams. It will help me creating various topics and adjusting the content to your needs. And yeah, thanks for coming. That was really nice to communicate with you. Yeah, Amitava, Leterg, thanks a lot for asking questions and giving your feedback. It's really invaluable. I hope to see you soon once again. And if you have any further questions, you can totally reach me out on Facebook, either on Messenger or via the group. So thanks a lot for coming and see you soon again. Bye-bye, guys.


On Thursday, October 19, the internet was buzzing with the news that Muhammad Bizoum attempted to escape the custody of the military government of Niger, where he has been for the past three months, but as you well know, it was only an attempt, it did not succeed. But the big question is, who is behind the escape attempt? Who orchestrated the plan, and why now? First, let's dive into the details of the escape plan. Since he was overthrown on July 26, 2023, the deposed president has been held under house arrest by the military junta at the presidential palace in Niome with his wife Haziza and his son Salem. As you well know, unlike other deposed presidents who resigned in other countries where coups have occurred, Muhammad Bizoum has since refused to resign and continues to hope that he will be reinstated. Recall that the regional bloc, Echoes, has threatened to go to war with Niger if they refuse to reinstate Bizoum, but that plan is no longer on the ground as everybody seems to have accepted that the coup in Niger is here to stay. Bizoum, who continues to hope for his reinstatement, did not only refuse to resign but also went further to legal action in the court of justice of the economic community of West African states, Echoes, instructing a Senegalese lawyer to sue the junta for kidnapping. The lawyer even went further to say that the case of the president would be taken to the UN Human Rights Council. So, Muhammad Bizoum, who is still very hungry for his freedom and reinstatement, decided to escape and on Thursday, the escape plan was set in motion. According to the spokesman of the military government, Amadou Abdremain, the escape attempt began at 3 on Thursday morning when Bizoum, together with his wife, son, two cooks and security guards who were still faithful to him, managed to escape from the place where he was being held. According to the plan, after escaping from where he was being held inside the palace, the group would be transported to a collection point near the presidential palace, where a car was waiting for them. Getting into the car, the car would take them to a secret hideout in the Changri neighborhood on the outskirts of Niame where they would enter a helicopter. The helicopter would then take them to Burnin Kaby in northwest Nigeria. It sounds like a Hollywood escape plot, right? If only they had succeeded, but the plan did not go as smoothly as planned. The spokesman, Amadou, confirmed that the plan was foiled, the actors and main accomplices were arrested and that the situation was back under control. On behalf of General Tkiani, the military hunter of Niger, Amadou blasted Buzoum's irresponsible attitude towards escaping prolonged detention with a plan that would have involved a foreign powers. He then praised the professionalism and cold blood of the defense and security forces who remained faithful to General Omar Tkiani, adding that the prosecutor opened an investigation into the incident. Currently, no one knows where the former president and the rest of the group are being held. According to the Nigerian press, Buzoum is probably being held in a security cell, perhaps inside the presidential palace itself, separated from his family and other participants in the escape. Also adding to the mystery of where Buzoum is currently being held, it was reported that before the announcement made by the military government about the failed escape attempt, a vigorous operation was conducted by the presidential guard in the Changri district. At the end of the operation, two people were arrested, one of whom was wounded by bullets from a firearm. According to witness reports from the LSI Africa website, a large number of security forces and armored vehicles were deployed around the house in the neighborhood and exchanges of fire were heard in the surrounding area. So, it's possible that this operation conducted by the presidential guard foiled the escape plan. Now, the big question, who is behind the escape attempt? Muhammad Buzoum couldn't possibly orchestrate the escape plan all by himself because, according to reports, he has not had outside contacts for some time, so he certainly got help from someone outside. But who? There are some speculations. First, could it be Nigeria? Recall that according to the escape plan, his final destination was somewhere in Berninkebi, northwestern Nigeria, so it may be possible that he got help from the Nigerian government. However, at the moment, the government of Nigeria, implicated as the final destination of the attempted escape, has not commented on the Hunter Statements. But you should also recall that President Bola Tinibu, who is the current head of ECOWAS, has been a staunch supporter of military intervention in Nigeria to secure Buzoum's release and restoration to power. This hypothesis of a commando that acted under Nigerian leadership and the support of the United States remains one of the possibilities of the failed release operation. Another possibility for the failed attempt could be France. At the same time the escape plan was taking place, French forces, who had been expelled from the country by the military government of Nigeria, were leaving the country for Chad. That surely cannot be a mere coincidence, right? Recall that before the coup, Buzoum was a solid ally of France, and after the coup, France has staunchly supported Buzoum. France supported the regional bloc when they threatened to use force to reinstate Buzoum, and the Niger military even accused France of trying to intervene militarily to thwart the coup. It is certainly possible that the French government may have provided logistical support for an extradition operation for the depose president. Again who is behind the escape attempt? Is it Nigeria, France, or a collaboration by both? Well, we can't exactly tell so it's all speculation, but one thing is clear, the depose president, Buzoum, was certainly not working alone. What do you think? Let us hear your thoughts in the comment section below. If you enjoyed this video, smash the like button, subscribe if you are new any others video.


I swear someday. I'm gonna get tired of talking about Nintendo switch to probably like Five years after the damn system comes out because today we have some more information for you about Nintendo switch to now as I noted over on X formally Twitter man, it feels weird saying that look all of this stuff needs to be taken with a grain of salt Some of it is just some more predictions coming from insiders and Nintendo insiders in particular But some of it's actually report information the actual news reports on stuff around Nintendo switch to today Well, if everything timestamped down below so you can kind of go by the sections because there'll be three sections to this But remember all of it is technically unverified information. Nintendo has not announced the system Outside of the fact that it exists. They did say back in 2021 that Nintendo accounts We're gonna be forward compatible to Nintendo's next-generation device coming out in 20 xx and Nintendo commented on rumors the Nintendo switch to last year which Confirmed the Nintendo switch to exist just that maybe Every single rumor report out there around it may or may not be accurate Nintendo's wording around it was pretty much a denial without denial It was kind of weird But you know what we're not here to talk about that because we have to talk about the new stuff presented today And this first little tidbit is just a fun conversation point coming from Andy Robinson the creator of video game Chronicle in my opinion One of the most reputable news sites in the world for video games and here's what he had to say I'm expecting a DS to 3ds style Transition for Nintendo's next console Maybe it ditches joy cons and adds another gimmick, but the portable slash doc core Remains now this is a fascinating take for Several reasons the chief among it being that whole DS to 3ds transition 3ds was a very much an iterative system But it did come with that big quote-unquote gimmick in the glasses free 3d Which they later released versions of the system without because it turned out for a large chunk of the population 3d, you know the glasses free 3d even the 3d where you wear glasses Gives you headaches and a lot of other issues and it turns out certain age groups like certain young children really shouldn't be Consuming that kind of content anyways sort of a oversight by Nintendo at the time and the most popular version of the system Typically ended up being the ones that you didn't have 3d or if you had the 3d effect a lot of people just put the slider to off So look, we don't know what that means for this system. Of course. This is just his expectation he essentially is saying this is going to be an iterative system and Yeah, whatever this gimmick or whatever new thing is probably won't be a game changer or a massive deal Nintendo will make a big deal out of it. Remember how big a deal they made on a HD rumble But it might be more of a HD rumble style gimmick rather than something that fundamentally changes the game now The sex person we're going to talk about is none other than Necro Felipe. He is a known insider But also he runs a Brazilian website called Nintendo Universo He's already been the source of several Rumors and reports over the past year and he's had several accurate details out there now He's got stuff out there about Nintendo switch to last year as well Which is one reason to pay attention here because he clearly has some inside sources on this sort of information So I wanted to dive into his predictions even though these are just predictions Some of it is based on information. He's actually already reported on So let's just dive in and take a look and you're seeing over here his post But we're gonna go down to the translated version again. This is translated by Google So, you know take that for what you will it might not be a perfect translation But he says how much fuss surrounds a forecast made by an analyst, huh? I'm with the doctor circuito stuff This is what I made clear in the article and yet people took it as religion I'm gonna make the prediction myself. It doesn't mean it'll be something absolute So he says he thinks it'll be announced in March and launch in June More powerful than a steam deck. That is a nice claim I'd like to see more claims like that just to give us an idea of how powerful this machine might be it will continue to Be hybrid it will have improved joy cons So unlike Andy Robinson, he thinks there will be joy cons till it will just be improved It'll be backwards compatible with the switch one Improved UI and here's one of these sort of out there's gonna make a lot of you guys happy if it happens Themes and music a lot of you guys want that menu music a lot of you guys want themes He's like hey, that's one way this thing could differentiate itself from the original switch He says it'll have support or he is hoping or predicting it'll have support for DLSS Wi-Fi 6. Thank you 12 gigabytes of RAM, which that is something he's actually reported on before HDR hey second time we've seen that brought up and initially with 256 gigabytes of storage Again something that he has been on the forefront of reporting last year He thinks it'll be at a suggested repo retail place of our dollar 3599 again, that's $99 us He does say that the main lineup for the launch window of the system. He feels like will be 3d Mario Pokemon and Metroid so probably Metroid Prime 4 he says this is a prediction not to treat this as something special And yes, the prediction does contain information that he has Presented in the past as inside information, but that means it's not necessarily new It might be new to some of you who maybe didn't catch those videos last year because you were avoiding all the Nintendo switch to talk in 2023 and you're paying more attention now in 2024, which if that's the case, I don't blame you, right? Like you were just wanting to enjoy your switch you wanted to play your tears of the kingdom You're Mario wonders your Scotland Violet DLC and whatever other games chose me Maybe you were one of those few people who bought WarioWare and wanted to play it So I understand and maybe you just avoided this stuff last year But now that we're in 2024 the year most of us expected the system to come out Then yeah, maybe now you just learned this stuff for the first time I find a lot of this to be interesting obviously talking about the Nintendo switch to and it's possible improvements like 12 gigabytes of ram Is really about what we want? We'd love to see it up to 16 gigabytes But we want this thing to have at least 12 256 gigabytes of storage still might be actually kind of low But I guess at launch if you're keeping costs down while also maintaining support for up to 2 terabytes worth of micro SD cards Maybe they even give us multiple micro SD card slots that could be one way as well To combat the fact that 256 gigabytes look we're getting call of duty in the future And that's going to take up like half the storage on its own But hey, I'm just really excited to see some of this stuff out here and again These are just more predictions But we have some actual news as well and when I say actual news again still treat this as a rumor This is unverifiable by anyone but the actual source But this does come from Necrophilipe again and remember I sold you he also was a news reporter and This app happened yesterday when he was reporting on the Dr. Serkin Toto stuff and he threw some new information in there That is quite fascinating to talk about and this is about release timing and manufacturing So this is the article here and it's been translated by Google into English So it's normally in Brazilian Portuguese anyways coming down here. You'll see this is all about the Dr. Serkin Toto You see the title the analysts predicts. Yeah. Yeah, right. So this is about the Dr. Serkin Toto This is what we talked about yesterday But here is where it gets fascinating according to information obtained by Universal Nintendo itself Assemblers now, this is a key point. This is assemblers not not the core of manufacturing right so the core of manufacturing is making the chips making the screens making the parts for the system, okay? So he's not talking about the parts being made that's actually rumored to have started last November where parts manufacturing began but Assembly hasn't necessarily begun yet. Just making all the individual components So he is saying that assemblers contracted by Nintendo should began their mass manufacturing process on the new system During this quarter. So this quarter is literally January February March So that's literally gonna be happening. It's according to him his report this quarter So they're gonna be assembling these things in mass. That means the components are already being manufactured Again component manufacturing was rumored last November. This is different assembly manufacturing is That's usually when leaks start to come out for manufacturing lines because they're getting all the components in and actually putting them together You guys remember we had things like the switch light back plate got leaked and stuff like that So maybe expect a few Manufacturing leaks over the next few months But he also says according to our sources an announcement of the new system Should be made by Nintendo during the first half of 2024 now I know right no shock the first half of 2024 literally goes through the end of June so Giving us basically the early to summer window to announce the system is casting a pretty Wide net and this really fits in the expectation of most of us There wasn't very many of us that felt like you know if this thing was coming in September or even November that Nintendo would wait till July or August to talk about it right most people thought by the end of June at the latest is when they would announce it if it's actually coming out in 2024 but still it's just nice to have further. I want to say confirmation, but further Information I suppose out there suggesting that Nintendo will be announcing the system in the next six months now Another thing I want to bring up and this I wasn't planning to do but I do think it's noteworthy Remember how we said there was a chance there might be a January event Showcase in the Nintendo switch who made me just a teaser trailer or whatever well the source on that was actually Zubi tech and Zubi tech is a PlayStation Insider who is followed literally by some of the upper brass at PlayStation and has had Some pretty fascinating stuff come true over the years and it's worth paying attention to especially if you're a PlayStation fan Who likes to have insider slash rumor information? But I wanted to reach out and see if he had heard anything else or if he still thinks there's something happening this month And here's what he said. I said hey Zubi tech He's still hearing something about Nintendo happening in January smiley face and he says last I heard Haven't heard anything sense. So basically according to the last thing. He has heard it is happening in January and one thing I like about Zubi tech is the transparency here He didn't have to respond to me He you know is a bit of a PlayStation Homer But he chose to hey realizing Nintendo accounts are paying a bit of attention to him because of that report he made He's not trolling people with that report He's standing by it and saying hey it's still the last thing I heard I haven't heard anything since meaning that he hasn't heard it's been cancelled or moved or anything He's still standing by the idea the system could be teased in January now Again, this doesn't mean it's actually going to be teased in January and yes This would if it was it would still fall within first six months of the year first half of the year right? January is still part of the first half just the beginning of it So it's quite fascinating to see if this ends up coming true I know some people are trying to not have that expectation. You don't want to get too hyped. I like the hype here responsibly One thing I do think we're gonna get for sure in the first few months here is you know Hey a Nintendo direct right and we'll talk about that because we have some potential Possibilities coming up here for the first Nintendo direct of the year So we're gonna be talking about that in a future video But today this video here anyways was focused on all of this switch to information you guys do with this stuff What you will let me know if you appreciated the time stamps in this one Especially since we had so many different like sources and so much different information popping around from predictions to Leaks to inside information to whatever you want to call this stuff again Make sure that you take this all with a grain of salt keep your tinfoil hats on my tinfoil hat actually got crushed by a Box, I is that a good thing or a bad thing? I'm not sure yet. I catch you guys in the next video I'm testing my microphone make sure the levels are good. 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Army service for the United States soldier today can mean many things. From taking part in civic action activities, bringing friendship and confidence to a disrupted people, to providing medical aid for the sick and injured. These are missions he willingly performs as part of his Army assignment. But his first and primary mission is to stop the aggressor. In South Vietnam, where the nature of the land tends to restrict movement of troops and military equipment, this is a complex and difficult assignment. To meet this challenge, US Army planners have developed dynamic new concepts for conducting military operations. Today, we will see how one of these concepts, the use of armor as a swift and powerful army strike force, has been developed as a successful combat element in support of our nation's defense commitments. The successful use of armor in today's stability type of US Army operations, such as those in South Vietnam, has been made possible only through the most advanced developments in armor training and technology. But the concept of armor as a battlefield weapon goes back hundreds of years. The earliest drawings we have of armored vehicles were made in the 15th century. In 1456, the Scots invented a wooden horse propelled cart that encased its crew and protected them from the weapons of their times. About 25 years later, Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian painter who was also an ingenious inventor, devised another type of armored vehicle. Da Vinci's armored car was propelled by men underneath the shield, turning by hand a crankshaft similar to the ones we use today. This steam-driven armored vehicle invented in 1854 had to stop every few minutes to take on water and build up engine pressure. During World War I, the British developed the first modern tank to be used on the battlefield. The French also began making the new armored vehicles. These early French tanks were used by US forces in 1918 because American tanks were not yet available in any quantity. American forces employed tanks for the first time in the historic battle of San Miel in September of 1918. Though these early armored vehicles played an important part in reducing infantry casualties, by moving against the automatic weapons fire of the enemy, their potential was never fully exploited. For the most part, the tank in the First World War played a secondary role in support of infantry operations. After the war, the US Army Tank Corps was actually assigned to the Chief of Infantry. It was not until the late 1930s that technological advances in armored vehicles brought the tank and the mechanized force to the forefront of battlefield maneuver. One of the first US Army tanks to set an effective battlefield record was called the General Sherman. A medium tank weighing about 30 tons, it saw action in many important World War II engagements, including desert conflicts in North Africa. The enemy had developed a philosophy and a concept for the use of armor that had swept through Central Europe on a surge of conflicts. Blitzkrieg, Lightning War. Both on the European Plains and the desert of North Africa, the Nazi armored power moved swiftly, but in the end unsuccessfully against the Allied forces. It was during World War II that armor was used for the first time by both sides in full divisional strength as a primary combat arm. The war in Korea was a valuable proving ground for determining armor capabilities and limitations on difficult terrain. From the use of armor in both World War II and Korea, Army planners learned that tanks and mechanized equipment were not only effective in their mobility and firepower, but the psychological effect of armor as a massive potential for destruction of the enemy was considerable. Today, the problems of armor operations arising out of United States defense commitments abroad are being met by dramatic new programs in the training of armor personnel and the development of new and more effective armored equipment and fighting concepts. Fort Knox, Kentucky is the Army Training Center for advanced individual training in armor. In the armor training brigade, the soldier who has had his general basic training will learn how to drive, load, fire, and maintain tanks and mechanized equipment and become familiar with armor communications. Okay, push your starter switch and starter up. On latest training devices, he receives instruction in these operations. Okay, driver, put it in low gear and move out. When you reach 60 to 10 miles per hour, we're gonna hide here. Driver training is presented using mockups, which contain controls identical to those he will have to operate in an actual tank. Okay, driver, turn right. Okay, stop, driver, put it in reverse. The instructor follows the progress of the student on a control console. The console also allows the instructor to program malfunctions into the training device to determine the student's ability to overcome driving problems. Stop driver, put it in low and move out. Each company in the training brigade spends one week on the driving range. Here they first witness driving demonstrations by the instructors. Each student gets practical experience in tank driving under careful supervision. An eight-mile drive with students operating their vehicles in formation is a feature of the course. Any questions now before we start sending messages?  Training in all of the operational elements of the armored vehicle is essential so that each member of the crew can take over the job of the other in an emergency. These men are receiving instruction in tank radio telephone procedures. Let's go ahead and start. Oxford Canal 5, this is Oxford Canal 5-0, over. This is Oxford Canal 5. Forward elements have encountered light resistance in vicinity of Alamo, over. This is Oxford Canal 5-0, Roger App. Oxford Canal 6, this is Oxford Canal 5-0, over. In swiftly moving armor operations, accurate communication among armor units is essential. Use of proper code words and brevity of the spoken message ensures quick response and reaction. This is Oxford Canal 1-4, has spotted one section on Viet Cong on Route 1-9 between binding and play cow, over. These targets are on the dry fire range at Fort Knox. In this training, gunners learn how to sight a tank weapon without actually firing it. An electronic device records a simulated hit if the sighting is on target. Further and more concentrated armor education is provided at the U.S. Armor School at Fort Knox, which trains leaders and technicians, both officer and enlisted, on the organization, equipment and doctrine for armor units. A group of armor soldiers gets acquainted with a training simulator for the highly sophisticated armored reconnaissance airborne assault vehicle M-551, known as the General Sheridan. However, most of the field units are still equipped with the M-60 tank, and much of the training is directed toward its functions and capabilities. On this M-60 training device, the student tank crew learns how to handle armor components, such as the main battle gun. Each member of the armor crew learns proper operational procedures. He must also learn to detect any electronic or mechanical failures which may threaten the unit mission and take corrective measures. It controls the blackout drive, the blackout markers, the stoplight, and the service drive. To operate... In the Armor School Automotive Department, the student receives realistic training on all the automotive features of the armor vehicle to which he may be assigned. Now, to move our switch to their own position, what must we do? Lieutenant Williams? Enlisted men are taught how to maintain various armored vehicles, while commissioned students learn techniques for management of their maintenance programs. The ability to move rapidly and decisively in combat may depend on lessons learned at the Armor School. Varied training devices used at the School vividly illustrate the operating parts of armored vehicles. To begin with, turning the engine on, you will notice the rocker arms up on the top side of the engine. The yellow rocker arm, when it is depressed, indicates the injector nozzle is injecting fuel into the cylinder. This is commonly known as the L-head engine. Now, we have the four strokes in this engine as the intake, compression, power, and exalt. Now, you'll notice as the valve mechanism works up and down in the engine, you can follow the four-stroke cycle. Instruction in all phases of armor may be recorded by a television for army-wide use. Mobile TV units, manned by expert technicians, can cover demonstrations anywhere on the post, or within a wide area of the region where the training center is located. A control room at the Fort Knox Television Training Center is equipped with latest monitoring equipment, which can channel closed-circuit armor-educational programs directly to classrooms on the post. Taping facilities provide an additional capability for electronic programming of armor instruction. Prepared through the most modern training methods, with a total knowledge of his vehicle and its equipment, the armor student moves on to one of the most important phases of his military education, leadership. The combat leadership course of the armor school stresses student participation in solving practical problems of judgment and decision. On this terrain board, problems, many of them based on historic armor engagements, are presented to the students for solution. We will now go into the ninth situation, which is a logical continuance of the last situation. In the fast-moving situations that arise from the use of armor on the battlefield, the armor leader must be able to make decisions, give orders, and take action quickly. His decisions must be accurate and timed to the military emergency. Your platoon has advanced this far along your route of march. You have identified a crossing site slightly upstream from your present location. Your infantry squad leader who identified the crossing site has also identified possible enemy armor to your front. At this stage, you are faced with two problems. One, how to get your platoon from their present location across the ford and continue the attack, and two, what you must do about the presence of identified armor on the high ground to your front. Gentlemen, what are your actions and orders at this time? Corporal Hill. Sir, Corporal Hill. Helper 2, this is Dixie 1-6. Keep me informed. Out. Dixie. This is Dixie 1-6. Keep on the lookout for enemy armor. Dixie 1-2 and Dixie 1-3, move to forwarding point. Dixie 1-4 and Dixie 1-5, follow me. Out. Is there anything more that you would like to add to your transmission at this time? No, sir. Thank you. What has he done wrong? The armor soldier is in a highly specialized combat arm that must always keep a step ahead of a growing technology. But it is the men and not the machines who win or lose battles. The armor commander must be able to apply his knowledge and leadership in a variety of army missions, both in conventional military operations and in counter-insurgency type activities. And that is to advise the company commander. You must send a spot report to the company commander. Full-scale field exercises give the armor soldier an opportunity to use his individually learned knowledge as a member of a combat team. Now he is prepared for assignment wherever U.S. Army commitments call for his specialized skill. In South Vietnam, the armor soldier and his unit test their metal against many problems of terrain and climate. Much of the interior of the country is rugged mountainous land, posing difficult problems for armor operations. In areas where maneuver is possible, monsoon rains may turn the ground into rivers of mud, making the going rough for tracked vehicles. Despite these adverse features of the land, Army planners have discovered that tanks can operate in South Vietnam in about 60% of the country in the dry season and in about 45% of the land during the wet season. Mechanized equipments such as armored personnel carriers can move effectively in more than 65% of the country the year round. As a result of continuous study and evaluation of land movement problems in this region, a body of doctrines and concepts have been devised for the use of armor in the unconventional warfare situation. In addition to the traditional role of armor as a dominant ground assault force, certain specific missions have been developed for armor units. We're going to be your security for the convoy today. First of all, let me go over the uniform to be worn on this convoy. The uniform is a steel pot and a flak jacket and that's the whole way in the long bend.  Is that understood? Can anybody not hear that? Each vehicle will have a driver and a shotgun. If there's any vehicle here that doesn't have a driver and a shotgun, don't even move out. Go on back to the motor pool. This unit is moving out on a reconnaissance-enforced mission. Objective, locate and dispose of enemy forces and destroy or evacuate supplies and equipment. The Vietnamese interior has few large sweeping areas of clear flat lands such as those which supported the swift U.S. armor advances through Europe in World War II. In this region, armor must often penetrate heavy jungle growth to reach its objective. Even when there is a road, there is always the danger of sudden ambush, a favorite tactic of the Vietcong. With passage ahead disrupted by landmines, the V.C. pour a withering fire on U.S. armor vehicles and personnel. To meet this threat, the armor unit has taken its cue from America's pioneer days when covered wagons were drawn into protective formation against attack from every direction. The enemy fire is returned by our forces with devastating effect. Often what begins as an all-out ambush to destroy U.S. armor ends in complete disaster for the enemy due to our superior armor firepower and unique maneuver techniques. Our military operations in Vietnam consist largely of this type of area warfare where battles are fought in widely separated places with the enemy on every side. In this type of combat, armor operations are greatly aided by U.S. Army air support. Helicopters bring in badly needed supplies and ammunition. Air cavalry conveys vital intelligence to tank commanders concerning location and movement of enemy troops. Highly maneuverable, today's armored forces are extremely flexible. Units can be grouped or regrouped quickly to meet the demands of the tactical situation. As armor elements deploy through the countryside, they must be prepared to deal with local inhabitants, both hostile and friendly. The mountain yards or mountain people of South Vietnam are not only friendly, they are bitter foes of the Viet Cong and a valuable ally for U.S. troops. In the unconventional type of army operations, friendship has become an increasingly important element. The armor soldier helps local inhabitants wherever he can, contributing to the overall U.S. goal of building up the health and welfare of the South Vietnamese people. The mission to seek and strike the enemy may take the armor unit over a wide variety of terrain. The armored personnel carriers have a versatile capability for water operations.  A good visual test for the condition of the bottom of swamps and streams is the water buffalo. Water areas solid enough for these animals to wade in are solid enough for mechanized operations. Where tanks and mechanized equipment cannot operate in water because it is too deep or the current is too fast, the armor battalion carries its own portable bridge and launcher. The armored vehicle launched bridge is designed to allow armor units to cross short gaps in the least possible time and with minimum exposure to enemy fire. The search for the enemy often leads the armor unit into villages where Viet Cong guerrilla fighters may be hiding. Dismounted soldiers deploy through the area on the lookout for signs of the foe. Inside one of the houses, a tunnel opening is discovered. Viet Cong tunnels often conceal large caches of supplies and ammunition. A thorough search is made of the underground area, both for military supplies and enemy personnel who often use the tunnels as a base of operations. A large enemy cache of rice has been turned up by the search. It is loaded onto an armored personnel carrier for eventual distribution to the South Vietnamese people. As armor elements move through the countryside, they are sure to come up against one relentless foe that cannot be overcome by combat power, mud, plentiful in this tropic region. But even against this natural enemy, the armor soldier has many expedience. Riggings of various kinds permit mired vehicles to be moved out with a minimum loss of time. To prevent armored equipment from bogging down in water-soaked terrain, ingenious operational methods have been devised. This daisy chain hookup is one answer to the armor soldier's problem of getting his vehicle across soggy ground. Maintenance lessons well learned in training come in handy when armor equipment needs repair or replacement in the field. Whatever the nature of the assignment, the essential mission of the armor soldier and his unit remains fixed to conduct combat armor operations against the enemy. In some cases, armor acts as a support force for infantry operations. Frequently, armor is used as an independent assault force to achieve certain objectives. More often, it will be employed as part of a combined arms team, receiving support from the air cavalry and fire support from field artillery. There is mobility and firepower, joined in highly organized, flexible units to meet the shifting fronts of unconventional warfare. To maneuver quickly for defense or offense, to turn ambush into rout, to conduct successfully independent or support operations, these are the capabilities of the well-trained U.S. armor soldier and the potent versatile armor equipment he uses. To ensure a continuity of finest armor equipment, the armor and engineer board at Fort Knox conducts a program of tests and advisory services on all major items in the armor inventory. The armor agency at Fort Knox has the responsibility for developing new concepts in equipment and fighting doctrine. Armor plans for tomorrow include this flame-resistant tanker suit to provide greater protection for members of the tank crew. Already in development is this new amphibious battle tank, the MBT-70, a joint project between the U.S. and the U.S. On the drawing boards for tomorrow are ingenious new armor devices designed to help the armor soldier fight more efficiently. Armor has come a long way since the early Scottish war cart and the Da Vinci tank. You have seen some of the means and methods that have made the armor and mechanized forces of the United States the powerful combat arms they are today. This painting, hanging in the armor school headquarters at Fort Knox, symbolizes the role of the mounted soldier. From the days of the U.S. Army cavalry to the present, he has fulfilled the urgent military need for swift response. Today's armor soldier moves to battle on mounts of ever-increasing speed and power to seek and strike the enemy, to deter further aggression, and regardless of the number of soldiers that are under further aggression, and regardless of terrain or weather, to accomplish his assigned combat mission.