Walking through the first door coming back here, it was just scary, you know? Oranges as a new black just came out when I started this so everyone's like, oh my gosh, Brig duty, you know? I Was so nervous to stand that first watch even though I was under instruction Sitting down and standing that watch in front of those prisoners was very scary at first Well as a Brig duty officer, I'm leading my entire section and I get here about 4 a.m I go to my locker. I put on my uniform and Get ready for the day I'm the fire warden the evidence custodian I'm the sexual assault victim advocate for the command Basically, I was Brig duty officer for one section which is usually anywhere from seven to twelve people and then as operations chief I put the watch bill together for the entire security section So I won professional of the year for the ACA American Correctional Association I'm still in shock actually like It's it's a really big deal in the corrections world control all conditions normal You have to come in here with an attitude that's going to make you look strong and make it so that people aren't going to walk all over you when you're back there because if you're Pinpointed as weak then you're going to be treated like you're weak And you don't want to do that in the corrections field You have to be the one who's leading not just the staff but the prisoners I'm constantly learning every day. I learned something new


Hundreds of thousands of people hit the streets of Santiago, Chile on September 1st, Thursday, ahead of the referendum on the new constitution. The majority were rallying in support of the draft constitution put forward by the Constitutional Convention. The progressive demonstrations were joined by renowned artists, political leaders, as well as victims of the police repression during the October protests of the 2019. Thursday was the last day for campaigning in defence and in rejection of the draft constitution in the country. A referendum will be held on Sunday, September 4th, in which 15 million Chileans will decide if the draft constitution will replace the current neoliberal pro-free market constitution. The old constitution had come into effect during the dictatorial right-wing regime of General Ocasto Pinochet. The new draft constitution is said to be one of the most progressive constitutions in the world and addresses the country's stark social inequalities. El país le dijo mayoritariamente que no a Pinochet. The final draft was agreed upon after 10 months of intense negotiations and more than 10 plenary sessions of the constitution convention. The draft constitution enshrines a number of new rights and freedoms and was drafted by a democratically elected gender equal convention. This includes a right to free higher education, universal access to healthcare, reproductive rights, pensions, indigenous and water rights. The draft constitution also incorporates issues concerning the protection of the environment as well as directs the state to combat climate change. Moreover, it also codifies compensation for historical land dispossession of indigenous peoples. The draft also includes clauses for advancing gender equality. The draft establishes that the state will guarantee the exercise of sexual and reproductive rights without discrimination as well as sex education as part of the curriculum. The draft constitution is only the second constitution in the world after Ecuador's to constitutionally recognize the rights of nature. Since July, the right wing have led an aggressive campaign against the constitutional change, arguing that the draft would shift the country too far left. The progressive and social sectors have tried to combat it with door-to-door campaigns and dialoguing with the citizens in public space throughout the country. The draft is in the conversation that we have held during these months of campaign. The draft will show that it is solidarity, that it is push, that it is conviction, that it is the people. I believe that this real Sunday with hope, with tranquility, looking at the future. For us, us and us who are here today, but also for all and all who will come, we are going to try and build a country, solidarity, a fairer country, a country consecrating the social rights and with an institutionality that allows us the constant democratization of our country. The demand to rewrite the constitution emerged during country-wide protests over chronic economic inequality in October 2019 triggered by a hike in metro fares. Thirty-six protesters were killed by the police during the violent repression and hundreds of others were injured. These protests forced the then President, Sebastian Piniera, to announce a plebiscite giving Chileans the option to rewrite the country's constitution. The 1980 constitution was put in place by General Pinochet. 80% of Chileans voted to replace it in the plebiscite held in October 2020.


Hello everyone, this is Kenny and today I'm going to talk about the USB recording out feature for the HT1 5x20 Mark II. So all HTMark II series has a USB recording out where you can connect the amp and the computer via USB and use it as an audio interface. So the big difference between the HT1 and the 5 Mark II is the tone control. On the EQ section for the HT1, there's only the ISF tone control, so it's kind of limited, but still sounds good.  The HT5 and the 20 Mark II has a 3-Van EQ ISF tone control. So let's hear the HT1 Mark II and the USB recording. Okay, now I'm switching over to the HT5 Mark II. The cool thing about the HT5 and the 20 combo is that you could unplug the speaker and use it as a silent recording amp. The thing about the HT1 is that you can't unplug it, so if you want to use it as a silent recording amp, I would recommend you getting the HT1 head. So I just unplug the speaker on the HT5 Mark II, plug the USB strings in the computer and using it as an audio interface. So what you're hearing is literally the amp itself. So let's hear the HT5 Mark II in action. So when I'm in voice 2, you can hear a little bit of that edge of breakup sound, so it's great for that crunchy rhythm guitar tone. The cool thing about the 5 and the 20 is that there's a 3-Van EQ so you can really fine tune the voice of the amp the way you like it. So here it is. So I'm on the Overdrive channel in voice 2, which is the most amount of gain with most amount of hair. And I'm going to play with the volume on my guitar to really hear the dynamics even in the USB recording out. Thanks for watching. I really do love the feature on the USB out on every HT Mark II series. You get a really nice organic tone from the USB out and also can get a full on all tube tone without waking up the neighbors. So for more information, please check out blackstaramps.com. Thanks for watching. See ya.


I'm going to Calvert Lewin and Jerry Mina. Both very great players on the day were both very injury prone players and my question is if you could pick one of these players to become not injured and have the availability of James Tarkowski who would you pick? My first. Don't want to Calvert Lewin because I don't think there's many players like him on the market and I think for how Dyche plays as a manager and how what gets Everton fans up, direct play, crosses, big number nines, I think he's a perfect Everton striker and I think he's quality, I think he's absolutely quality and I think people have forgotten that because we just haven't seen him a lot recently. I think Jerry Mina is great. I think if Jerry Mina was fit all the time I think he'd be playing for Barcelona, United. No, we'll forget that excuse of like they would be playing for us. Well it'd be great to have. Five-year contractor Everton, complete fitness. He's got robot knees. If I had to choose one, Dominic Calvert Lewin for the reasons what I just said. Okay, good question. I'm going to say Dom because I think I really like Jerry Mina and I've always liked them and you know if you had a fit Jerry Mina and you had a fit Dominic Calvert Lewin and your squad suddenly just completely different, you are creating a spine and then you're one centre midfielder away from having a really good spine and that's what always helps the team. You can always, the wider players are always feeling the team come last once you've got your spine. So Dominic Calvert Lewin I think is exactly what an Everton team would need. You can put the ball in the back of the net. It's not, doesn't always, don't get me wrong, doesn't always translate. We had Lekaku and he was putting the ball in the back, back of the net and obviously the major frustration when we had Lekaku was that we were so poor at the back even though we had good players because of the way Martinus wanted to play. It was ridiculous how wide open we were. We were running before we were walking because of having John Stones and wanting to play off in the back and other things in the team didn't fit together quite the way it was that left us open. So just having a goal scorer who scores 20-plus goals isn't always a certainty but I'd rather have a goal scorer who scores goals and always give you an opportunity in games than not because I think, you know, it doesn't always guarantee Lester have scored a lot of goals this season and have been relegated but I just think if Dominic Calvert Lewin could score goals for us, could State Fit, could get 15-20 goals, Everton suddenly would be moving upwards and I think also if he was committed to the club, which is obviously another thing, then other players are attracted to that. I don't think players are attracted to the idea of how they go to the back. I think they're attracted to, God, look at their centre forward. I could provide him with chances or we'd score goals if I was there or whatever so it would definitely be done for me. Do you confidently think he'd get 15-20 goals done? Yeah, easily. I do think he's a very good player. I do, I generally think the way he holds himself and the way he carries himself I think he understands the game. I think we saw that as recently as Brighton where he tormented their centre backs. Centre forwards are just more intelligent footballers than centre backs and that's just the way it is and you do get a hybrid of something like, say, your VHL and BICU is a very intelligent centre back and could probably play in a lot of positions but centre forwards they have to have that little bit of cunning now and also it's a lot of it's quite clearly instinctive as well and I do think that, I don't think he's like, but maybe longer I don't think he's like a Lukaku type level. I don't think he's a kind of like someone who instinctively knows what to do in every situation but I do think he's a very, very good player. Well, I mean, your question, so who would you have? Well, let me throw something out here. In the games, me and I played under Daish, which is four games, which are not a massive wide range but in those games we only conceded more than one goal once and that was against Man City. We've been a much better team with Yeni Meena in the side I think in terms of games with one, with Dom in the side, I don't think it's that many. Obviously, I'm not saying he doesn't make a difference like you. I think he's a great player. I don't know if in this side he'd get more than 15 goals, I think hitting that would be a very good achievement for him just with the levels of service we provide and levels of chance creation and going forward for us it probably is a bigger issue than at the back but I just look at Yeni Meena and I think there's a comfortable top six standard centre back in Yeni Meena. I think he's great. Like Ned said, obviously if he was fit he'd probably be at a top-top club in this scenario just thinking if he'd just played for Everton.  We've seen Dom have many games for Everton where he's barely had a sniff of the ball not really through his own fault but through his role that he's been given and just through the lack of quality and chance creation around him. With Yeni Meena you can always comfortably bet on him performing well and very well at that which is a great centre back and although maybe going forward there's a bigger issue for us I would personally rather have Yeni Meena because I think it'll be a long while before Everton have a centre back of that quality again. I think Dom and Calvin Lewin in the side, I think that only makes the whole team a lot better but you're right with the goals, obviously you need quality chances and we've seen seasons where he's played lots of games and he's been given those chances with the quality of the players like Hammers and Charles Nardin but then you see quality centre backs can be in a good back four but the team in front of them is not necessarily very good and they're facing constant pressure shots so they'll ultimately not be able to perform and I could strike like Dom and Calvin Lewin, there's not many of them around, this whole up play is so good you know, some teams have defenders getting the ball into the opposition's half and just keeping hold of the ball, you've got a striker who can get you up the pitch quickly so you can counter fast, you can keep hold of the ball in their half there's not many strikers like him around so if you wanted to find a lone striker, number nine to replace him, I don't think there's many like him in the game if any I don't think there's many strikers of that quality you could get, you know, for a certain price but if you wanted to go and find a centre back who can fit into your back four and make up a decent back four, that's like a solid get you where you want to be but I don't think that's going to be as much as a lone, number nine striker think about it, your defence is made up of four players, your striker is one position and it's like your striker, do you know what I mean?  I think it's timed out, it's timed out OK, well we'll talk about it Well you can see it's open up, you've got to just like slightly nod it to me so just keep talking Not denying everything that you've just said about Dominic Hall, that Lewins quality but he has a goal every 1,175 minutes this season obviously a big part of that is, you know, he's out the team a lot so he comes back in and gets his fitness and, you know, he takes some games to get back up to sharpness and that but this thing about him being a guaranteed goal scorer I just don't think he is, I think, you know, when the system is set up right around on which it is currently to be fair under Shaun Dijs I think you would get 10 plus goals but you could easily see Dominic Hall there, Lewin going a full season of fitness and not getting a significant amount of goals just if things aren't set up right for him and if he's been given the role that he has been in the past Well I think one thing about our team as well, we don't score a lot there's not enough goals spread around the team and I think us as a team perform better and score more goals with Dominic Hall, Lewin, you might have a strike, you might have a Lukaku you create chances for himself and score 20 goals but then you might have a rest of the team and score 0 goals you know, they finished 6th or something like that Tee, as a team, he's scored a lot of goals he's mostly been able to score on the goals he even comes out of the team and we're golfed he's probably not good enough to play for United, he's a bit rubbish to be honest but the work he does creates more space for the wingers so Rashford scores more goals, Anthony scores more goals Fernandez is getting more goals, he's getting more assists or whatever, he's creating more chances so as a team they're playing better but not necessarily a great striker, he's scored like 2 goals a season that's very good, but the teams play better because they've got a player who gives them shape you allow the team to get up the pitch, he holds the ball he's back to play, he's okay, he probably could be better I also think that Dominic Hall, Lewin with a good run of games with score goals, I think the fact that he's in and out of the team doesn't help but I also think he helps score goals it helps the team score goals as well I think number 9's like Dominic Hall, Lewin, once they get a couple of goals they won't stop scoring, but when they have a little period where they don't score it's hard to get back on track Don't get me wrong, I don't think he's someone like Lukaku I don't think he's got that in him I just, but I do think that certainly with Unde Deich I really do think he suits he suits where we are Lukaku for us was like a, not one of a kind but he was a definition of world class What I'd say to that point Peds just made is that you're absolutely right, Dominic Hall, Lewin is the perfection Deich striker, but yet he mean it would perform well under any manager you know maybe that's thinking a bit more long term I think you're absolutely correct in saying good run of games, solid fitness, Hall, Lewin goalscoring would be better, because right now going off his current stats he played about 17 appearances in the league so that's around half the Premier League season you're thinking if you double that you have two goals now if you double that you'll have four, it'd be more than that but yet he mean it does have the same amount of goals in seven games Try the slide one, it's great Everyone's been distracted from my amazing Why do you hate Dominic Hall and Lewin? I love Dominic Hall and Lewin, I think it's a tough question and to be honest, I'm taking the devil's advocate side You can't take the devil's advocate off the net I think they're both underrated You can take either of them and it'd be a right choice But as a football fan now I'm drawing towards the centre forward because I want goals If you want to watch the rest of this video then make sure you join Sovi TV Premier when you can get access to all our exclusive shows including live daily videos Click the QR code on the screen here


Joining me now is Aegon Vermae from Aurora and Aegon Aurora has recently joined the UPU Consultative Committee. Here tell us a bit about that. What led Aurora to take this step? Thank you Ia. Good to be here. Aurora we are developing software for compliance and customs so basically and we are already working with some of postal operators already and we are building up our solutions based on data and data standardisation and I think this is a key. We put our knowledge, tech knowledge, customs knowledge, machine learning knowledge and also IT knowledge into one and we help companies, postal companies to get rid of this burden how to build up IT systems so and this is what we are doing and we see it's a great opportunity for us especially because we are getting more closer to understand postal better, to understand the standards better and help them to go through this change of their business processes when we provide our solutions for them. So you've just talked about these challenges in cross-border especially when it comes to custom codes and all the new laws and regulations that are coming into place. What are some of the pain points or some of the challenges that you're seeing in the postal world in relation to all these things? I think the difficulty is actually that there are coming new regulations all the time and to keep up your organization it's quite difficult and also complex when we talk about cross-border and especially when there are different solutions like DDP, DDU, how you manage it so and we are here to help the postal companies to provide their our solutions and hopefully we can build our solutions even better for the postal community. One of the challenges in the postal world is that posts deal with everyone from large e-commerce players through to grandparents sending presents to grandchildren in another country. So can posts access all of these sorts of technologies or how can they easily access these sorts of technologies? Actually it all comes down to standardization actually because the data flow is more or less the same but the products or the processes behind it are different so this is where we come and help you. Returning to the theme of the UPU and the UPU Consultative Committee what do you see as maybe the role of your aura and the other new members of the committee or even what do you think that you can provide the organization as a whole as part of your involvement in the UPU Consultative Committee? I think it's a great and brave move that UPU has done that they are opening the doors actually and what you are getting is you're getting different IT companies some of them are competition to us anyway but you have the choice now and you can choose and these IT companies can ease you with your business processes we can build up because we are mainly focused on developing IT software so and I think this is and we are moving quite fast so this is what we can put on the table and deliver to the postal world. You just mentioned moving quite fast that's a challenge that's thrown up by the e-commerce world now isn't it and you mentioned the changing regulation so just in closing is there one thing that you could say well here's how a postal operator or even a postal regulator who wants to understand the postal world how we can react quickly to this changing environment. I can give you some examples we have just finished this one postal we have built some collection tax collection solution so from beginning from the first meeting to deliver it took us three months so the product is there and they are using it as a white label or we have another partner we have built for them export control for dual use goods so and we are covering now US UK and Europe so and the whole process with them took four months so basically so this is what I talked about it's it's fast what it means it's not only understanding that the requirements and standardization but also the development codes are and this is what we can really deliver because as I mentioned we have the competence who understands the compliance side we have the competence who understands the IT side and also we are using as I mentioned a lot of data that we are using machine learning that actually can take care of this huge amounts of data also the different languages and and different areas of the world. Egon Vermaer from Aurora thank you very much for joining us today thank you very much


In our previous modules, we talked about politeness and speech activity separately. They are linked with each other because when we perform speech acts, we take care of politeness, we take care of positive and negative phase of the addressing. Now this time, we will use this knowledge of speech acts and knowledge of politeness to understand their relationship with gender. First question to be answered is when we want to understand this relationship, can we classify speech acts on the scale of politeness? As we said in previous modules that in linguistics, in pragmatics particularly, politeness is on a scale. It can be on positive end, it can be on negative end, it can be up then. So this is a scale. Can we classify speech acts on the scale? Can we say that apology is related with negative politeness and compliments are related with positive politeness? Can we do such kind of classification of speech acts? This is the first question. And second question is, is there link between gender and politeness? There are politeness formulas like please excuse me, pardon. If you don't mind, we call them formulas because we use them like formulas in our talk. They are used so frequently that we regard them as formulas. This is also known as formulaic language, formulaic expression. So why do we use them? They listen. They listen means they decrease, threats to face needs. Whenever you take part in some conversation, there is always threats to your face needs. If your speaker does not meet your expectations, you can be embarrassed because your face needs are not kept in view. If you use these formulas while performing your speech acts, there are chances that you mitigate the injury to face of the other person. Here face means the wants, the expectations. Here face does not mean our physical face, self-image.  They are face-threatening acts.  But when you use these formulas with them, the face-threatening is eliminated. We can use them with that to promote our positive face because you are accepted. You are accepted by the person who wants a distance from you when you use them.  When you use please, etc., the other person's face needs, which are negative, who wants to keep you at a distance, they are also satisfied. With the help of these formulas, we save face needs. That is why we say that there is no need to classify speech acts with reference to politeness. Suppose teacher and students are talking in class. Now student needs positive face connection. The teacher should understand him as member of the group, as member of the class. And teacher on the other hand needs negative face. He demands distance and respect from the student. So there is a kind of clash between face needs. One needs positive face, the other needs negative face. What happens? Student considers both face wants using our magic formulas. He addresses the teacher as sir, please. And teacher on the other hand keeps in mind the student's positive face, the connection, the association with teacher and with the class. He can use such kind of formulas by bright student. Very good, great, bravo, etc. Is there any link between politeness and gender? The first question is almost answered. What is the relationship between speech acts and politeness? Whether we can classify speech acts with reference to politeness? We said no need of that if we use formula language. Now the second question is taken up. We said is there any link between politeness and gender? And this is what we talked about in a previous module. That there is also a common opposition between gender that women are more polite than women. This is the relationship between politeness and gender. Whether this statement is valid or not, let's see. Research differs on it. There is debate on it. Differences are found. For some researchers, women are more polite than men because their language is polite. And we have discussed it in introductory modules when we talked about came around studies on language and lack of study on language especially. Positively polite in compliments. Women are positively polite when they compliment others. Positive means they want appreciation, friendliness, closeness. They use for this purpose compliments. And negatively in apologies. When they want to save negative face of the addressing, they offer apologies to that. If they think that she might hurt, she might hurt the feelings of the addressing. So she offers apologies and that's why they often use, sorry, if you don't mind, excuse me, etc. In some cultures, politeness is ritualized and normative. Now, if we see the previous statement just discussed now, we see that so far it is understood that women are more polite because they take care of both positive and negative ways. But in some cultures, the politeness has no option that you can be either positive or negative. It is fixed. And as I mentioned earlier, you have to be negatively polite. Where and when and how it would tell us the relationship between politeness and gender when we answer this question. Men and women need now hear things. Men and women, in which cultures, where politeness is defined purely in terms of morality and norms and convention. So both are bound to use negative politeness. So this difference that men are more polite and less polite and women are more polite. So here it is vanished. This difference is eliminated here. When you define politeness in terms of linguistic, the difference exists. But when we define it in terms of morality, the difference is no more. See, men and women need more negatively polite. Both have to be at home with elders, with mothers, with grandparents, with grand relatives, aunts, etc. They can't be positively polite. They have to pay them respect and they have to take care while talking with them. They won't talk with them like intimate friends, juniors, etc. We conclude there is no direct link between speech checks and politeness. And similarly, there is no direct link between politeness and gender.


Good afternoon, you strong few who have remained in this heat to join us for some of the last sessions of the day. It's fabulous to have you all here and welcome to those of you who may be watching online. My name is Cary Pinney. I'm Alts Chief Operations Officer, but I'm also one of the people that you may meet if you come along to any of our sort of Seamalt sessions. If you get involved in the Seamalt course that we're doing and various other activities, Seamalt related, you will either meet myself or my colleague Fiona who unfortunately couldn't be here today, but Fiona also supports the Seamalt scheme too. What I'm going to do today is a bit of a whistle stop tour of Seamalt. So normally I do these sessions sort of for about an hour and we go into lots of detail about all of the different sections and things, but there's no time for that today and I want to make sure you've got an opportunity to ask any questions. So I'll give you really a sort of whistle stop tour of what Seamalt is, what you have to do to get Seamalt, why you might want to get Seamalt, what the value is and also how the actual process itself works. So this session is really for anybody who is interested in doing Seamalt independently, rather than say the session we did yesterday, which if you want to watch that back is more about if you want to do a cohort of people within your institution, for example, and a credit in-house. So that was yesterday. We had a session on that if that's of interest. So yeah, no, entirely the wrong laptop. That's probably why that didn't work. Okay, so welcome. Thank you for coming. Come on in. Hi Tim Ruminie. Come on in. So what I'm going to do today, I'm just going to sort of talk you through some of the basics around Seamalt, talk you through where to find things, you know, the different types of portfolio you might do, how the submission and assessment process works, what you might do after Seamalt if you decide to undertake Seamalt. And then I'm hoping we'll have plenty of time for questions and anything else that you'd like to ask. And I'm joined by Lynn, who is my colleague from Amplify Fee, but also a recent senior Seamalt holder. You got your accreditation a few weeks ago. For those online, Lynn was just saying that the ink is still wet on her certificate. She got it, but a few weeks ago her senior Seamalt certificate. So thank you, Lynn. I may turn to you to share some of your thoughts. So a brief overview of Seamalt and the scheme. So first of all, our definition within ALT around learning technology is not simply that everything that we do is for people who have the job title, learning technologies. We have a very broad definition of what learning technology is, whether you're an academic, a researcher, a student, you know, we all interact with learning technologies, you know, throughout our lives and our careers. And so we have a very broad definition. And so therefore Seamalt is open to a very wide range of people. It's not simply here for learning technologists and those people with that strict name. And we know that, you know, learning technology isn't just about the technology, there's all sorts of things that go into it, sort of the wider context of policy, of theory, of research, and the history of learning technologies as a whole. So Seamalt is for professionals who are actively involved in learning technology. And as I say, that's not just people who are learning technologists specifically, but also people who use it as part of their teaching, part of their research as part of their, you know, their working lives as students and a very wide and broad range of people. And we have three different pathways. So associate Seamalt and senior Seamalt. Associate level is really for those who are perhaps early career, maybe have only been working with learning technologies for say around three years. Seamalt tends to be people who are perhaps mid-career for want of a better phrase, who have been working with learning technologies for some time. And senior Seamalt tends to be, you know, it's more likely to be those who are leading learning technologies in whatever context they're in, whether that be research, whether that be within the own institution or more broadly perhaps from a research or perhaps you have a peer network that you run or something like that. And the senior Seamalt end is very much about leadership and the impact of your work. So that tends to be people who have perhaps had a very long or longer career in learning technology and they can really demonstrate that impact of their work more broadly. We have various ways that we assess and we have a huge pool of assessors. And as we've said many times during the conference, everything that Alt does is with the support of our members. So the people who assess your portfolios are members themselves. They are your peers and they are people that work within learning technology. We've got documentation and documentation and guidance and I'll point you towards that at the end. We have two independent reviewers when it comes to the assessment process.  They give joint feedback. So whenever you submit your portfolio and you receive your result, if you get a referral, which I did and it's okay and we get a high number of referrals, they will give you helpful feedback to help you rework your portfolio and then resubmit it. Then we'll reassess it if you do have to resubmit. Many people pass first time without needing any sort of resubmission or feedback at all. And as I said, we have this community of assessors who not only actually do the assessments and follow the assessment process, but they also contribute to our schemes development. So the session that was on yesterday around the in-house accreditation scheme was full of people who are CMOT holders, people who are running cohorts within their own institutions, who have given us huge amounts of feedback and input into how we develop the scheme. So we are going to take lots of their ideas forward. So like everything else does, CMOT is very much a member and peer-led activity. So in order to gain CMOT, we have some basic things that you have to meet. So one is to demonstrate reflection. So reflection is a key part of the CMOT process. So thinking about the impact of your work on yourself, on your colleagues, what you've learned, and how you have developed. Across four core areas, which I'll talk about shortly, and some subsections and depending on which pathway, we'll dictate how many core areas and how many subsections you have to do.  So that might be something that's unique to you. It might be a particular area of like specific expertise that you feel that you have. I always say the specialist area is kind of your time to show off and say, this is what I'm really good at. This is what all my colleagues come to me and ask me about and really show off your practice. We also have core principles and values that underpin CMOT. And what we look for as assessors when we're reading through your portfolio is are you demonstrating those core areas especially? And then the principles on top and the values of CMOT. And I'll talk to you about those in a second. And once you get your CMOT accreditation, you will have a certificate, you will have the post-nominals, you will have a little badge as well. And you'll also be added to our CMOT holders list. And obviously, you can add that to your CV and everything else as well. So these are the sort of core areas. And up in the top right corner, you can see the sort of core principles and values that we hold as part of CMOT. So there are the contextual statement which essentially is for the help of the assessor. So when I come to read someone's portfolio, I need to understand a little bit about you. Where do you work? What's the context of your work? Do you work? So you may not work directly with students. That's helpful for me to know as I'm reading your portfolio about the context of you. So it's not a marked area. You have operational areas, learning, teaching and assessment, the wider context, communication and working with others and future plans. And depending on which pathway you take, there are different core areas and subsections that you need to do. So for Associate, it's just this first box here. For CMOT, the second. And then if you do Senior CMOT, you have this additional advanced area as well. And as we read through your portfolio, we're looking for those four core principles and looking for demonstration of those four core principles throughout. How do you communicate and disseminate your work? Yes, go ahead. No, go ahead, jump in. Yeah, of course. Sure.  Yeah. So that would just be in the, so the question was, you pick one specialist, specialism to cover. So that would be in the specialist area. So you would do that in your specialist area section. In each of these sections, what you would do. So for operational areas, for example, take the first one and understanding of the constraints and benefits of different technologies, you would pick an example. So let's say, I don't know, the VLE and you might talk, yeah, yeah, or a project and you might say, well, the VLE has these benefits, but it also has these constraints and this affects me in this way. So what you tend to do and what we see most people do, is they try to pick one or two examples for each of these core areas. And what you're trying to do in your portfolio is you're trying to address each one. So you're demonstrating your knowledge in the areas of learning, teaching and assessment by giving us examples from your practice that demonstrate your understanding of learning, teaching and assessment, the wider context. So that would be about around legislation, so that you could talk about accessibility legislation and how that impacts your work or any other sort of policies and things like that are in that affect your work. So these are essentially the topics that you talk about and you pull from your experience examples to cover those. And most people would tend to pick a different sort of theme for each of those. Yeah, often. It can be quite difficult because sometimes your work could fit in multiple things. So the question there was, do you pick different examples for each section? So sometimes things overlap. So actually something you might talk about here would still be just as relevant here, for example. What we tend to say is try to have a variety of things because what you're trying to show is the expanse of your knowledge and the expanse of your experience. So the more examples you can show, the better. But often, you know, you might talk about in depth something in your specialist area that you've referred to in the learning, teaching and assessment section. The key to it is making sure that you're addressing the core area, the topic. That's the key thing to do. So you could pick then something like body swaps and VR. I'm just thinking off the top and then use that for the first two. Yeah. Yeah. Because you talk about them differently. So you could talk about with VR. So the question was around using VR and other things as an example. So you could talk about VR under a wider context and talk about, say, policy or procedure or how accessibility guidance affects the use of VR. But you could also refer to it in operational areas. And you could talk about, say, if you were talking about supporting the deployment of learning technologies, you could talk about how you deployed VR. So it's not a case of thinking of it from, you know, you could talk about VR and everything in essence. So you want a bit more variety. As much as you can show. So some of the areas are more, you know, for variety, the question was, you know, a bit more variety. But, you know, the more you can show, so take, for example, you know, technical knowledge and the ability and the use of learning technologies, we would expect to see a range of learning technologies referred to. You know, we would expect to see the breadth and depth of your knowledge. But that doesn't mean to say that if you only talked about one thing in each section, that it would be a fail. It's the detail. It's the richness. And it's the way that you demonstrate the thing that's important more than anything. So you don't have to pick, but we say try to pick one or two examples. And when we come to the planning, what we suggest you do is take all of the subsections that you need to complete and just start putting ideas down. I could talk about this here. I could talk about that here. I could talk about that here. And then you'll start to see, am I just talking about the same thing all the time? Or is there a nice variety in it? But what you're really trying to do with your examples is always make sure it addresses the core area every time. So you will repeat, it's inevitable. You know, we all tend to work on specific things. But as long as it's really clearly addressing the core area, that's the key thing. So just talk briefly about the portfolio. So any format can be used. We get everything from Word documents to people who have done it in Padlet, for example. Lynn, what did you do yours in? So Lynn said that she did Padlet first and then for a second when she applied for senior, she did WordPress. So I did WordPress when I did mine just because it was easy. The main thing to think about with your portfolio is making sure you can still access it when you need to come to update it later. We get all sorts. We get people doing it entirely in videos, for example. Some people just do it entirely in videos. So we get a real variety. Always when you're putting your portfolio together, we have a very vast and varied, and I've just finished what I'm saying and I'll come to you, very varied group of assessors. So we do ask that you take accessibility into account and make sure that what you're giving to the assessors is something they'll be able to work with. So do take that into account as well. Do you have a question? So do you really just ask about the use of video and how you would then show the evidence that you need to give as part of the assessment process? So some people, when they use video, they will just show the screenshots of the thing in the video. So actually having it flashing up on screen, sometimes people do fun animations and show pointing things. Other people just embed the video and then put the evidence as files underneath. So that's absolutely fine. And just to explain, because I haven't talked about evidence yet, so when you do your section, you do your description. So you talk about the thing that you've done. You reflect on that thing. So you make sure you talk about what you've learned, how it's developed you, what you might do differently in the future, what went really well, what didn't. And then you provide evidence. And the evidence is essentially so that we as assessors know that you did the things you said you did. So it could be screenshots. It could be copies of documents. We get personal information redacted, of course, emails where people are giving feedback, for example, could be student feedback that you've received, could be testimonials from colleagues, could be some people even give us full access to learning objects that they've made, for example. So when you do your evidence, just make sure it's easy to access. And that's really what you need to worry about. Yes, go ahead. So Roddy just asked about how academic the portfolio needs to be. Because it's a portfolio and it's about your experience, you can write it in that way. And I would say that that's what I did. Is that what you did, Lynne? It was, yes. Even though it was parallel to my work, the writing style was probably more indicative of a blog. So I think a little bit more formal blog, still blog style, but then with some references at the foot, maybe just to reach each one. So Lynne just said that hers was very blog style and that she did put references in where it was appropriate. And that's what we find. So take, for example, the teaching learning assessment section. You might have some theory that you read, or a teaching or method, or something that you follow, or that you prescribe to, or you feel really influences your practice. That might be somewhere where a reference to a book that you've read or something like that might be appropriate. But it's certainly not a academic essay. It's very much about your experience. And I see plenty with no references at all. And they still pass. So often it really does depend on what people are writing about. So people who tend to be much more academic or researchers tend to share a lot more references to the literature, but you don't have to, because the portfolio is about your experience. But where you feel, you know, this is something that's important to me influences my practice. Here's a book that's changed my life and the way that I do something, you could reference it and just show that that's something that's important to you or that you find useful, but you don't have to at all. As I said earlier as well, there's a lovely checklist so that you make sure you've covered every section before you submit it. We've got lots of guidance, documentation online. And also just think about what you can do with it afterwards. You know, if you make it at your institution, for example, if you then left, would you be able to access it again? So it's worth thinking about that when you come to your portfolio. And as I say, we've got a huge, yes, Tim and me. Sure. Yeah. Sure. Yep, sure. So Tim, we need to start about as an independent person how she can keep, you know, without institutional systems and so on, how she can maintain access to her portfolio. So my suggestion is things like WordPress.com, places like that will give you free accounts where you can make a very even Google site. So you use Google, don't you? You could make it in your personal Google sites area, keep it locked down with the password, you know, if you prefer not to share it more openly. And then you keep hold of it. Whereas like for me, for example, if I made one on when I did it 2016, if I'd made one on my university's Mahara, I'd never have had access to it after I left. And also think about those, you know, things that you can actually keep portable. So say Mahara, just as an example, you can export that and to put that into a Mahara instance somewhere else. But as I say, you could even just do a Word document. You know, it doesn't have to be anything fancy at all. You know, it's the quality of the content, not what it looks like or how it functions. That's important. So just think about what's the easiest thing for you to maintain? What's the easiest thing for you to edit? Because you'll go back and you'll read things, you'll think, oh, I should have put that in there. I'll move that over there. You know, that sort of thing. Think about those sorts of things. But just make sure it's somewhere that you can always get to it. Because after three years, you have to come back and do an update after three years. And you don't want to have lost access and have to start all over again. So things like Google sites, even I think even Sway might be free and Padlet certainly is free. You know, pick one of those things that you know you can keep hold and take ownership of the account. And as I say, you know, it's a narrative. You're talking about your work and you are talking about your life. So again, it's not an academic essay. We want to hear your voice.  So don't feel that you have to stick to that very academic style. I always enjoy the portfolios that feel like I'm hearing the person who's talking to me and I feel like I know them and that always makes them so much more enjoyable to read. As it says here, there isn't a prescribed word count and we have we have had portfolios of like 10,000 words before. So but we tend to suggest about five to 600 words.  Enough room to reflect. How did it go? What could I do better? What would I change? You know, what impact did that have? And then as we say, evidence can just be links to things, you know, if you can embed them in the page, you can embed them in the page. If you've got videos you want to embed or other learning activities you want to embed and so on can just be screenshots, can be testimonials, can be any number of things. We get a real variety. So the first one too far. So the first thing you do is you describe, so as I say, the description for each section. So what I did when I did mine is I laid it out. Here's the the subsection I'm addressing, subtitle it description, reflection, evidence because I knew every time I was writing and doing all of those three key things. So description is just you concisely talking about what you did. So I started a project. It involved these people. This was what we did. And then when you come to your reflection, this is what I learned. This was what went well. This is what didn't go so well. This is the thing I might change next time. If I ever have to do this again, I'll do this differently, or I'll do exactly the same. Here's some feedback, you know, that sort of thing. But what we're interested in, you know, it's quality over quantity, you know, we don't need long, long, long descriptions. But make sure, you know, people when we talk about our institutions, sometimes we have a shorthand for things, don't we? And we, you know, things that we would talk to other people about that work there. But try to always explain enough that if I was a complete, you know, idiot, and I have no idea about learning technology, I could still understand enough about what you're trying to tell me. And you know, this can be a difficult thing, depending on the style of writing that you're used to. But the refractive writing is the absolutely most important bit. So the thing that absolutely, you know, causes resubmission is reflection or the lack thereof. So it's really key.  What have I learned? I learned that this worked really well, or I learned that this didn't work really well, or I learned that my students really need this. And I gave them this. So next time, I'm going to change that completely. Or I learned that trying to deploy this technology in this way didn't work. And I won't do it again like that if I have to do it again. You know, just use, you can use those or you can use a, you know, a more academic reflective cycle, like Gibbs or something like that, if that's helpful.  I just wrote a small amount, a couple of lines for each bit. And that was my reflection. And that worked really well, because it helped me really focus the reflection. Because one of the things that often happens is people get back into description, rather than reflection. And that's that can often be the case. And then your evidence, as I say, you know, we tend to say, you know, try and stick to recent practice as much as possible. But if you need to refer back to say something you've done 10, 20 years ago, that's absolutely fine. But what we want to see there is you showing how that relates to your practice today. So we want to see, you know, maybe that project you did 20 years ago still influences you today. And that's still relevant. And, you know, you can use any type of evidence that you can get, as I say, it's just to show us that you did what you said you did. So if you can't access something, say, you know, say you want to talk about something, and you, you can't share it more publicly, for example, maybe it's private and you can't share it, or you can't access it anymore, could just be that you get a testimonial from a former colleague that says, yes, Roddy did that piece of work.  So those are the three key areas, description, evidence and reflection and each of those core areas in every subsection needs to see that description, reflection and evidence. And like I say, the easiest thing to do, lay it all out if you know, start with a Word document or a Padley or a Kanban board, whatever works for you, with all the subsections and just start putting ideas down, thinking through what you're going to put in each one, and then starting to fill them out and you can easily move things around if you need to, but every subsection and core area needs to have these three elements. So I'm not going to go into each of these, because we could talk about each of these all day long, and I could talk to you for another, you know, I do a whole day on this, so we won't go into that now, it's too hot for that. But these are the sort of the core areas, as I said earlier, and each one, what we do is, you know, core area one, for example, depending on which pathway you take, you may have two or three subsections to write about, and each one has slightly different requirements, so you can see there's a handy table on the website that shows you which core areas and then the subsections and which you have to do depending on which pathway you're doing. So for each and every one of these, so you know, for 3A description reflection evidence, 3B description reflection evidence every time. Just to say a little bit about the submission process, so there's a checklist in the documents as well, just so that you can, before you submit it, just go back through and tick tick tick tick, yes, I got that right. So use that if you do decide to go for CML. You get two, essentially you get two attempts the first time. So if you submit worst case scenario, you get referral major revisions. What that means is there's something significant about the portfolio, either every section needs work or something like that, or you've forgotten evidence from every section, something like that. If it's a referral major, that's basically, there's really, there's a lot that needs working on. The majority are referral minor. That's usually because there might be one or two sections that need some additional work, so the assessors will tell you what they want to see.  So can you expand on that reflection, tell me more about what you learned, what you did, how you felt about it, what you learned and so on. Ideally, first time we pass, I didn't. I will tell you that I left mine two weeks before the absolute final deadline that I could hand it in. You get two years from when you register to hand it in, and I left it till the two weeks before. So I got a referral, but thankfully I got very, very good feedback, which helped me. And then the next time I passed, if it's a really exceptional portfolio, they will also award pass with distinction, which is for a really exceptional portfolio. And we give those portfolios a distinction. So let's say you get referral minor or referral major, you'll get all of your feedback, and then you can act on that, and then you can resubmit. And this is the final chance, essentially, pretty much the majority, at least pass. But we do actually get some people that really want to get pass with distinction, and they do lots of work to get pass with distinction. The absolute worst case scenario is on the second attempt, you fail. And at that point, you have to reregister and start again. What I always say to people is, even if you're not 100% about your portfolio, but you're not sure where to go, you get two chances. So submit it, you'll get useful feedback from the assessors, they will help you to develop it, and then you can resubmit it the next time. You know, I think I can, you know, sometimes we can get sort of paralyzed by perfection. If it's got all the elements in there, but you're not quite sure, submit it anyway, and you will get useful feedback. But you may also find you pass because we can be our own worst critics, can't we? We have three submission windows. So our next submission window is the 30th of September this year. But we also have January and May as well. And as I say, you get two years to submit from when you register.  I won't go into life after Seymour because it's, I'll just say very briefly, after three years, once you've been accredited, you have to do an update. So it's a minor update that just looks back on the previous three years. What have you been doing? How have you been keeping your practice up? And so on. And it's also something that we, it's an annual renewal. So each year you can, you can renew for like three years if you want to, but each year you renew. And then after three years, you have to do an explicit update on your portfolio. We also share portfolios as well. So if you're open to it and you're willing to share your portfolio, we keep it locked to members only, but we share example portfolios. So there's a whole register and list, if you're a member of portfolios, if you want to go and have a look and see what other people have done. And once you've, what your Seymour accreditation, that's the point at which you can also become an assessor. So all the people who assess myself, I'm an assessor, there's lots of assessors here at the conference. We have Seymour and when we got Seymour, we also then became assessors ourselves. So you can also do the same if you choose to, but it's not mandatory obviously after you get accreditation. There we go. I will share these slides in the discord, so you can click on all the links to the help stuff, otherwise it's just just a load of links. So I will share that. I think we are, yeah, just one minute after time. So if you do have another session that you want to go to, please feel free to, but otherwise I'm very happy just to stay here for a few minutes and answer any questions that you have. Oh, I do, I should do a plug while I'm here. So on the 18th of October, if you can bear to spend an hour with me, then I'm doing another getting started with Seymour session, which is a slightly longer version of this, where I go into a bit more detail about the sections and the different content requirements. And if you really want a sort of a real boost to your portfolio writing, I also do a full day, about 930-4 accelerator workshop, where we essentially, I will go through all of the sections in great detail. You'll have an opportunity to actually be an assessor and learn how to assess so that when you come to writing your own portfolio, you will have that mindset when you come to write your portfolio. And there's also opportunities as well to actually get started with writing your portfolio. So they're all on our website, if that's of interest to you, we have lots of Seymour events. But otherwise, I hope that was useful. I have some handouts for you here. If you want to take those away, let's talk about the key benefits. Oh, you've got one. Well, you're very good. Let's talk about sort of the key benefits and why you might want to get Seymour. But one of the things, certainly one of the trends I've seen more recently is lots more job descriptions are starting to look for Seymour as a, either as a essential, but very often as a desirable. And so it's certainly becoming a lot more prevalent as part of the assessment, the recruitment process. Yeah. Yeah. So those online, Lin was just saying that, you know, putting the portfolio together can actually then become a portfolio that you can use for showing new employers and things like that. So I think that's really great advice, Lin. And I always find that doing a reflective portfolio like this really makes you stop and think about all the things that you have achieved because you trawl back through your back catalogue of things that you have done over the years and you suddenly realise just how much you've achieved over all that time. And it's an opportunity to stop and really properly reflect on your career where, you know, be asking your future plans, where do you want to go next? Where do you want to learn? You know, what do you want to develop? And I think it's always a really good opportunity to just stop and think about what you want and, you know, what you enjoy about your role.  And if you have any questions after this, if something pops in your mind, do feel free just to get in contact with us. We'd be more than happy to help. Quite often. Yeah. So mine was the institution I was at the time. Mine was funded by them. Yeah. Yeah. So it does depend. But I think there's a lot more, a bit like, what do they call now? Advanced HE, but it used to be called HEA in the HA accreditation. I think it's starting to become something that institutions are seeing as a value add to help develop their staff.  But we do get a lot more, you know, institutional cohorts now. We have huge, Oxford has a huge group, for example, of course, there is Oxford. So, you know, you know, they can afford it. But we actually have quite a lot of large cohorts coming in who work together within their institutions to do CMO and work together to develop their portfolios and support one another, which is really, really nice. But we also have, you know, once you've registered, you get access to our sort of CMO email list as well.  So there's quite a wide network. And we also map CMO to other, so we have mapped CMO to the UK PSF, which has obviously changed now. So we need to update our mapping. But we map it also to any other comparable accreditation schemes to demonstrate how the, you know, the principles and the values that we talk about and the core areas that we talk about map to those things as well. And I certainly found taking my HEA accreditation application and reworking it for CMO helped me do my CMO portfolio because you talk about a lot of the same things across those, you know, accreditation schemes.


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Welcome to Sportsman Tech Talk. My name is Jim Isaac. On this episode, we're going to go over how to properly use the macerated boxes in your boat. We're on 262 today, so we've got two fish boxes in the floor and the transom, and then we've got one big box in the bow as well as macerated. All right, so the first step you want to do is locate the switches here on your dash. This boat has digital switching in it, so what we're going to do is we've got fish box floor, fish box port, fish box starboard. Fish box floor would be for the bow, fish box here, and then the fish box port and starboard would be for the two in the transom. So the macerator's main job is when you have fish in the fish box, you get a lot of the blood and ice and things like that in there. That macerator has an impeller in there that chews everything up and spits it out. Main thing to look for with that is you don't want any like egg weights in there, lures or hooks or ice bags, things like that can get in there and get clogged, clogged that impeller up. Ultimately, it can cause it to burn up the macerator pump. Little stuff is fine, you know, scales and things like that will go right through it, no problem. You just don't want those bigger heart items that are going to get stuck in there to go through. So pumping it out is as simple as coming over to your dash here. We've got the port fish box full, so we're just going to go over here to fish box port. We're going to hit that button. It'll start pouring it out. It comes out right here through the through hole in the transom. You're going to watch your level. You'll hear that it's gurgling right now. You can hear the water flow going through there. Basically, you're going to pump this down until it may it'll start making a high-pitched kind of a whine. Once it gets to that point, if you're not watching it, that's when you'll cut it off. We've still got a little bit of water in here. You'll kind of hear it changing pitch here in a second. Hear that kind of gurgle, that higher pitch sound. So that's when you're going to come over here.  That's all there is to it.


hey everyone welcome back to figure fantasy so today we have a new format for the tier list for march 2022 as well as the supers are included already in this tier list for the reference of our new players and without further ado guys here is the tier list okay guys before we start off so this tier list will be linked in the description of this video so that you may check it out later so we start off with the figures for beginners so starting from rico up to arena they are your yellow rarity um you can use them when you're starting out i'm discouraging actually calling them tier c because some of them you know some of the players might might think that they're not usable but they're usable as long as you're beginning uh playing this game so next um on this side would be your purple rarity which is your supers from hiroshi up to umemizuno they're also good once you're starting out the game okay so next off would be um figures for your mid game so from re up to um yuina they are the yellow rarity of course and they are actually good up until the mid game until you get better figures um to replace them in your lineup so from yuki up to kazooie they are your purple rarity and they are supers as well so you can use them in the mid game um most especially um gonna single out yuki because if she can only be leveled up up to 220 then she can really compete with the best figures on the top of this tier list uh by the way guys just to to give you guys a reminder so supers or purple rarity only have a max level of 160 that is why you cannot really um count on them once you advance beyond the mid game so you have yuki the laura sapphire chris minakami guanyanera and kazooie iwata okay so that rounds out your mid game figures okay next is your um they are too specialized so these figures um they are they will be good depending on um the team that you're gonna put them in and how you're going to use them so they they specialize in um a specific skill like camille for locking up um figures or enemies um yamazaki as well um and norris is actually kind of similar in terms of they attack the furthest or furthest enemy in a line or the back line asteroth is actually reliant so much on energy that i think for him to succeed you have to build a specific energy team around him that generates a lot of energy um you have susumi here susumi i actually was using before um when i started but she's too reliant on on a team around her that handles summons she's good definitely but certainly with a specific team and you have sani and aketshi mitzuhi sohide so aketshi is more on for your um ignite team um he actually is going to shine so much in ignite teams and sani as well sani is also specialized um together with frost but um most frost don't even use her because um aside from you know her specialization and uh in frost she doesn't give that much but again um if probably she'll have a rework in the future she will be you know she can be max she could splash with any team but right now she's too specialized in her role that she cannot be used in any other team so these this row is um highly specialized either for their skills or for the need of a specific team comp around them okay so next is your good figures so your good figures are basically your average figures they are the let's say for example in zhaoyun here zhaoyun doesn't really excel too much as a as a vanguard but if you don't have somebody good or better than him he will really be good for you i used to use zhaoyun before um really relied on him um he was actually my tank for galatea even though he's not a tank so again they will drop off eventually in performance especially if there are better um there are better figures in their class so yoko as well um she's going to be good but not the best or near the near the best of the figures that you have um zhaoyun um and mako here will definitely be your secondary healers um they they lack um they lack um other you know other components to their kit to make them needed in a certain team um i usually pair either of them with zephyr as a secondary um healer mostly mako and most of my teams um she compliments zephyr very much but both zhaoyu and mako will definitely be your um secondary healers they they could be your primary healers but there there are actually better healers than them okay um in the middle is going to be awi here so awi is what can i say um she excels in in summon teams but she can also be splashed in other teams if you don't if you still don't have if you don't have somebody that gives shield to your team um awi is one of one of the figures that you can rely on um especially um especially if you're still um trying to find out what your build is she can really support you and your team she can do buffs as well so that is why she is one of the good figures so next is yuina miizu miizu miizuki okay so yuina miizuki she's good actually in one-on-one um one-on-one what they call this one-on-one um melee damage um she excels so much in that that she doesn't really excel in other things so she might she you know i might call her a bit too specialized but the good thing about her is you can splash her with any team that you build as long as you level her up so that is why she belongs with one of the good figures that we have next is going to be alfred alfred can still be good can still be above average at this point but um i actually prefer rin over her that is why she he alfred actually was bumped down in favor of rin um both of them have lifesteal and uh i think rin deals more damage i think alfred has more survivability but overall when you need um both high damage and survivability i you know i prefer to go with rin at this point but alfred is still dependable very very much um very very much usable if you don't have rin or other vanguards in your arsenal so last is going to be usuke okada so usuke um doesn't really give that much damage he really you he actually relies so much on the effects of the skills that he has for freeze um um but he is really good in certain content like for example i just realized that uh azazel if you combine him with uh vasuwin is both of them are going to wreak havoc for azazel stage so again he's still a good figure um but really depends on the opponent or or the content that you are um you are doing at a certain point okay so let's move on to your above average figure so these figures are how may i say above average they excel in one thing or two things and are good in others as well so that is why i like them at above average for example for vasuwin she excel so much in um vasuwin is is actually right here she excel so much in aoe damage um that you sometimes you just really have to pick her over zarola i did that in some stages because i wanted a lot more damage spread out and with a high you know high dps so that is why i brought her lubu is i i i could put lubu um in one of the best units but at this point um i think there there are better um militarists um um above lubu so but he's really good he's really good um has a good synergy with the ultimate of um his allies and really really good for galatea um one of the best militarists in galatea iran's um i'm gonna say that she is one of the best support if you're supporting only one you know you're if you're keeping alive one figure she's one she's the best so she can't be all around as well in terms of um in terms of her usability but definitely she excels in support and she is good in all other things so as you remember guys i mentioned rin she is above average um in terms of this tier list uh rin again damage is good survivability is good um you can actually rely on her for bosses uh mainly bosses bosses and she can attack she's usually an off tank she deals a lot of damage and again survivability is her key in dealing that much damage so next is going to be cruzos so definitely for cruzos uh one of the best tanks we have um survivability wise very good in terms of uh dealing damage or dealing or knocking people down or knocking figures down he is actually good as well but again for a defender um um in terms of knock down it's it's really too short of a knock down um and usually um figures go up eventually and again sometimes if he cannot do his ultimate he sometimes gets um overwhelmed with a lot of damage he can't really survive um as quick as possible but again if he pulls off his ultimate you cannot really when he gains life steal you cannot really what they call this you cannot um really put him down that quick you're gonna regret leaving him alone okay so next is zanta k so zanta k i think one of the most um high dps specialist that we have good for bosses good in pvp i know i was you know i was um i was really um massacred um a couple of weeks ago with a zanta k and so zanta k excels so much as a specialist with her high damage not all specialists actually have high damage but she she does so again she excels in that area and she can be good in and most of the content for the game next is going to be harriet harriet with her blind with her summons is really all around um not only is she um not only is she uh or not only does she excel in in what they call this in summon teams but you can really splash her with any team um the summons are a bonus the damage is her damage is good but her her blind is actually very very important in some of the boss stages that we have so i really like her um she's one of the x factors in some of the teams that i have and the last is um a new figure which is chow chow so chow chow um excels in in giving poison i think he will be one of the x factors in dealing with mobs if you have but also in as is ill stage um especially in dealing dealing with mobs um mobs are actually kind of interesting to deal with um and sometimes aoe is not enough but poison will really really um do wonders for your team if you built your chow chow to deal a lot of damage with his poison so um our last tier will be best figures so most of you guys have seen this tier list um megan of course any content you can give you know you can put her in any content uh no matter what the content is she's going to excel zarola of course our best um high dps uh military is that we have zephyr our best helper again hands down with the healing with the energy and with the the buffs that she gives zuki liang um what can i say um has one lot of stages for me a lot of matches especially for you know for boss matches he really pulls he really makes a lot a big difference in your team um can't go wrong with him um invest in him if you really you know if you have the means to because he will help you clear a lot of stages in pve so erixia especially if you have her at five five pink or peach or one or two diamond she is really hard to kill and she gives a lot of support sometimes um you cannot kill her team that she's with because of the shared health that she gives uh definitely one of the best skills or figures that we have so hatsune miko what i like about this girl is she doesn't she's not she's not really restricted to summon teams but she will really you know she will really deal a lot of damage with with summon teams but again she's not restricted to summon teams um her mirror image um doesn't disappear even if she's dead so the mirror image stays there up until your last figure is dead so again a very very good figure to have um she can actually some some players actually use miko instead of zarola for their militarist needs so again she's a very good you know she's a very good um militarist if you have a lot of targets especially and um very big damage definitely for a militarist next is one of the new um figures that we have so aiani okada i was actually thinking on where to place her whether she's going to be above average or she's one of the best but i realized since i built her um i my built for her is actually a lifesteal build so that she can you know she can she's a defender of course and she has to withstand a lot of a lot of incoming damage and i think lifesteal set would do wonders for her um her her survivability in the battle increases she's not as tanky as megan but definitely her freeze really is is is really one i think of the best to have as a defender for you know if she's in the front line and also how she gives a shield uh supports her team is also one of the things that make her one of the best figures um awi actually used to be my number one shield giver but once aiani came in she's a defender she also does freeze again she she has a lot of skills within her that she has reason to become one of our best figures in this game and last but not the least guys we have here sakura so for sakura i realized after you know using her in a lot of stages clearing pve stages um clearing boss stages that she's really really valuable she's the only figure here that dishes out silence so again she can silence bosses and she can delay a lot of opponents by using it she's very unique unique skill one of the best she could also do a little bit of healing as well she can buff your damage as well so again she's a very very good swiss army knife of a figure to do buffs to do debuffs uh to do heals and i think is one of the best figures and very underrated in this game so there you have it guys this is the new tier list the new format for the tier list hopefully um i could get comments from you guys if you prefer this format of tier list over the over the previous one so please put them down in the comment section below and also put your comments if i got um the tier right for them and if not put your comments so that we could you know we could discuss and debate if they should be up or they should be transferred to another tier aside from their existing one okay guys so thank you much for staying this far and uh take care stay safe this is the warden and i'm out of here