Welcome Linda here from ITTT. Back today with another live session. Thank you so much for joining me today. I'm happy to be here. It's Friday 10 30 a.m. here in South Korea where I am and yeah thank you so much for being here for joining me. Don't forget as always to like and subscribe if you want to see more of this kind of Tefl Teesol teaching English abroad or online kind of content we're always here every week live sessions every week same day kind of the same time sometimes it's a little bit earlier sometimes it's around this time so it just depends so if you like and subscribe you will be notified whenever we go live and you can see in advance when we post about the events so that you don't miss these in the future also please let me know where you are right now in the world where you're watching from today like I said I am in South Korea where are you watching from today let me know and today we are talking about 10 advantages of taking a Tefl or Teesol course with ITTT right because when you do a search on Google for example for Tefl courses Teesol courses there are literally hundreds of results maybe thousands of results so how do you know which provider to pick and why should you pick ITTT ITTT I don't know why it started I don't know last week in the week before I started stumbling up over these words I don't know why ITTT anyway a lot of teas in there international Tefl and Teesol training why should you use ITTT for your Tefl course so that's a little bit what we're gonna talk about today and I know some of you have already been have already taken the course with ITTT so maybe you can share a little bit about why you chose ITTT for your course I'm very curious about that and I can also tell you a little bit about why I chose ITTT for my course and then yeah we'll go over 10 advantages that I picked that are like the biggest advantages I think that ITTT offers compared to other providers and then at the end we also have a Q&A session where you can ask me any kinds of questions related to Tefl or Teesol and ITTT and all of that good stuff okay so that's what we're gonna do today and here we already have some people hello Brasila hi from Bolivia how are you doing thank you so much for being here we also have Samantha hello how are you I'm very happy awesome Samantha where you watching from let us know where you at and we have Amitabha hi from Kolkata India how are you now I'm doing very well thank you so much how are you doing Amitabha all right cool then let's see oh I also wanted to share this let me see yes so we do also have as every live session 30% off today any Tefl or Teesol course from ITTT right if you've watched before you know that every time during our live sessions we share this 30% off discount but only during the live sessions you're not gonna find this anywhere else so take advantage if you have not gotten your Tefl certificate yet now is a really great time so you can scan this QR code here with your phone or any other device but if that doesn't work we also have a link and I'm gonna share that with you in the comment section so you can just copy and paste this link it looks like this it ends with Facebook live minus Linda and this link will lead you to the application page you can fill out your application no commitment no pressure you can just fill this out and then at the at the next page you will see your discounted price so 30% off a big big discount so if you're thinking about getting Tefl or Teesol certified now is a great time with this discount right all right we also have Daniel here hello international Tefl and Teesol trainer Linda hi Daniel how are you doing today we have Saidul how are you I'm doing well and Saidul is watching from China nice where about in China are you I used to live in China I used to study Chinese and then move to China so I I really like China let me know where where are you watching from what part of China are you in very nice okay great so today I'm trying or I have to try something a little bit different normally I'm actually using two computers two laptops and on one I kind of have my slides but something went wrong and I can't use that so I'm doing everything now from one computer so if there's some issues if something is a little slower today or I need more time to catch up please bear with me technical issues but it should be all good we should get there oh Saidul is watching from Guangzhou that's where I used to live yeah that was the first city in China I used to live I love Guangzhou I really miss it I haven't been there in so long that was when I was there was exactly 10 years ago I moved there 10 years ago a lot has changed I'm sure I'm dying to go back there and to go back to Guangzhou I really really love it so that's awesome Amitabha says I'm doing fine it is now 7 0 7 a.m oh wow so early thank you so much for getting up early to watch this today here it's 10 30 or 10 30 7 10 38 a.m. Friday in Korea all right then let's let me introduce myself in case you don't know who I am what I'm doing here my name is Linda and I am a travel writer and content creator under the name Linda goes East because I've always been interested in Asia or I've been interested in Asia for a very long time and I've lived in Asia for 10 years exactly 10 years ago I moved to China and so I lived in China first and I was teaching there as well I was also working for a Chinese German sort of company there and then I slid into teaching and then I moved to South Korea after so um yeah and if you're interested in China and living in China and living in Korea traveling to Asia all these kinds of things you can check out linda goes east.com that's my own website and also an Instagram I like to share a lot of content on there so if that's your jam feel free to give me a follow and check it out linda goes at linda goes east on Instagram I'm originally from Germany slash the US so my mom is German my dad is American and now I'm based in South Korea and I've been living here for seven and a half years a very long time um and on the other side I'm also a Teflon TESOL marketing professional for ITTT that stands for international Teflon TESOL training and you can find ITTT online at Tefloncourse.net and also we're on Instagram and all the other socials you can check us out there and ITTT is a leading Teflon TESOL course provider worldwide so what we do is we help people become English teachers abroad so if you um are interested in you know traveling abroad living abroad teaching English can be a great way to do so or if you're just interested in being a teacher an English teacher maybe even in your own country or maybe online um we're here to help and we will help you make this dream become a reality basically all right good we have Semender watching here from Uzbekistan your course is so useful and easily to understand great awesome here we have Chris oh my god well how do you pronounce his name Kristallian Kristallian sorry probably not I probably butchering your name I'm so sorry Kristallian that's a beautiful name Kristallian maybe Nate maybe probably wrong I'm sorry I'm in Ohio great how is it going that's a really cool name or crystalline maybe crystalline that's cool first time I've seen that name I'm so sorry if I butcher that um then we have Daniel oh Daniel says tell us how tell us about how you landed on the ITTT world why did you choose an ITTT program yes I'm going to tell you because it really fits very well into today's topic doesn't it so today we're going to talk about 10 advantages of taking a Teflor TESOL course with ITTT um and yeah how I found out about ITTT I was basically already teaching in China and I knew that I wanted to move to South Korea to teach after that um and I was looking for a Tefl course I was looking to get Tefl certified and I literally just did a google search I can't remember probably just like online Tefl course or something and ITTT popped up and I checked out their website and it seemed everything looked really good and the price was right um which is also an important part and one of the reasons was also that the course was online um because I was working so I needed it to be very flexible and I took the course and then they uh because I already had my blog at that time um but it was all about basically China it's a little bit different but anyway um I had my blog and everything and basically they asked me to record some videos like kind of like a video diary about my course experience and share it with my followers and I did that and they really liked it and they basically offered me a job working for ITTT in marketing and so that's how I kind of slid into ITTT working for ITTT so I was a customer I took the course and I have my certificate right here I'm going to show you also in a little bit um but I took the course first and then afterwards I started actually working for ITTT so I'm going to we're going to talk about some of the reasons that I just mentioned why I chose ITTT ITTT I don't know why this becomes so difficult to say I've been working for ITTT for a long time and now I'm going to stumbling over all the teas all of a sudden I don't know maybe I need a vacation I just got back from a vacation though not too anyway I'm also curious why if you're TEFL certified with us ITTT why did you choose international TEFL and TESOL training ITTT why did you choose ITTT for your program for your TEFL so let me know why did you choose us for what was like the main reason I'm very curious about that okay here we have easy English course school hello good evening from Brazil I'm Rodolfo from Sao Paulo very cool hi how are you doing thank you so much for joining Rodolfo I love your picture cool all right nice so I think we have a little cool little group right now here we are live um I don't know if you know on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time so we have YouTube people here we have Facebook people here we have everybody under one roof and like I said please don't forget to like and subscribe because we do go live every week with other interesting topics and Q&A sessions and just lots of free information if you want to teach English abroad become an English teacher you know you really want to do as much research as possible and so these live sessions are for that to provide you with really everything you need to know to start a successful career in teaching English in TEFL and really taking a TEFL course is the first step in doing so it was for me as well and um that's why we're going to talk about these 10 advantages of taking a TEFL or TESOL course with ITTT today all right and let's see how I can do this on just one computer because normally like I said I do use two but I think it should work and I hope I can see the chat I hope okay all right it should work if not I will do I will check into the comments periodically but I think it will be okay like this for now oh and I do want to make myself smaller so you can actually read the slides so let me do that as well all right great I think it should work pretty well like this uh great so let's move on yeah so there's actually many many many more reasons than just 10 reasons to choose ITTT and we actually have a um a page on our website that covers all of the advantages of choosing ITTT and we have 45 on there so if you're interested you can check that out um this is what it looks like this um this is the link best minus TEFL minus course um and you can check it out and read through all of the reasons on your own there's so many that's why I just picked the 10 most important advantages or reasons to choose ITTT today we don't want to go through 45 that's going to take a long time and as always at the end there will be a Q&A so you can ask me questions at the end as well all right okay okay great uh Crystaline she's asking out of curiosity if we take all the courses with the 550 hour courses are we able to use those as credits for our other teaching degree yes so I'm actually going to cover this question as well so stay tuned and um yes I'm going to talk about that in just a second all right let's have a look at the first one and I think this is actually where I cover it see credit bearing so first reason why to choose ITTT it's all of our courses obviously are internationally recognized and accredited and credit bearing so you're gonna you you see a lot of different logos on here um because we have so many different kind of course formats they're in-class courses they're online courses they're also combined courses we have a lot of different accreditations so um and I pulled this up here on the website basically Lamar University accredits and validates our in-class courses okay along with the Paris University University of International Education in France so they actually accredited accredited our in-class courses um and each student they also receive an official transcript from the Paris University of International Education with your TEFL certificate so that is really really good and then we see the logo for teacher training council so they actually moderate our five-day combined courses so they do that one a little bit uh difficult to navigate this but then we have like I already said the Paris University of International Education and they're also accrediting our online courses as well and this makes ITTT actually the only 100-percent online TEFL and TESOL certificates available on the market that are validated accredited and credit bearing from an internationally recognized university so that is something that only ITTT offers at the moment and so the credits earned from the PCIE the Paris University of International Education they can be transferred to universities all over the world and in the US credit evaluation services consider PCIE to be in the same bracket as a US regionally accredited university all right and we do have I can show you this we have that also on our website so you can have a better understanding of how this works so credit bearing TEFL and TESOL courses by ITTT and perhaps I can also show you so this answers your question Christine um let me see if I can share this tab here yes okay I think it should work let's see okay great so this is the page uh where you can read that on the website and I'll just share it with you one more time um so you can have a look one second so if you go here this is the link to this website you'll see all the um course options so this is Christine what you were asking about the 550 hour expert package and for this one you actually get nine credit credits for the bachelor for bachelor's degree and six credits for a master's so this is the highest one right and then you can see all the other course options and how many credits towards a degree you get with that course so that's how that works and if you're interested in that and all the details my colleagues in the the course directors they can actually help you out with that and they can let you know exactly how this works if you're interested in going down that route this can be a really great way for teachers who are who don't have a degree yet so if you're taking a test the course it will actually help you working towards that degree so I recommend if this is something you're interested in and you want to learn more about it um email us at courses at tso-testle.com and then my my colleagues over at the um course consultation department they will help you out and they will you know all of the details because again this varies from person to person everybody's background is different so um you need to have an individual consultation to talk about all of these things but yeah this is basically how it works and these are all of the accreditations and um accrediting bodies that validate our courses so you can really be sure that your course is recognized worldwide around the world um there's no problem there right they're accredited all around the world so you don't need to worry about that at all okay great and then we also this is another great advantage we have um certificate notarization services available so this is something that only some people will actually need you can see the slide right now right okay great okay so this is something that only a handful of people will actually need it depends on the country where you want to go to I think in China you will actually need this and I think in Vietnam you will also need this if you want to teach in either one of those countries and maybe depending on the employer you might also need this so this is something that not everybody needs but if you need it we can help you get this additional stamp and you can actually um verify our courses on our website so you can go to certificate minus verification and um this is one way you can basically put in your unique certificate number every certificate has a number down here I'll show you this without the blur in a minute but every certificate has a unique number that you can validate and your employer can also validate on our website and make sure that this is a real certificate and that it's really you who took that certificate so that is one way and then the notarization is basically um there's two different ways so depending on what you will need these are the two most common common types I guess of notarization that teachers need abroad and again this is not needed in every country and every teacher it's actually not that common but especially in places like China and in Vietnam you will need that so one option would be a notarized copy of your certificate printed and stamped and signed by a notary public and this is something we can help you with if you need that you can just let us know and we will send you that and the second option is a copy of your original TEFL certificate authenticated by an ITTT registrar and then also have it counter signed by a notary public at the same time so this is kind of one level higher the highest level of notarization that might be required so if you need that we can do that you don't have to hire an extra service for that you can just let us know and you'll save a bit of money all right so that is another advantage of ITTT that we offer this additional service so you don't have to hire a third party or anything like that all right then let's have a look at advantage number three so our courses offer a lot of practical content and we also offer tutor support and I think this is an important part to mention especially to people who you know look on Groupon and they see um $20 TEFL courses or completely free TEFL courses this is a part a point that these free TEFL courses will absolutely not have okay so um all of our online courses they cover as much practical content as possible right we have a lot of additional video material you can also again with the tutor support you can actually ask your tutor questions so this is a great balance actually between the theoretical part and real-world content that is something that we really try to do our best with with these courses because they're online we still try to make them as practical as possible as close to the real world as possible but you can also actually add a practical teaching element to your certification if you for example choose the 150 hour certification course with teaching practice so this actually includes six hours of real teaching if this is something want you can also use do this as an add-on to your 120 hour TEFL course and add on a 30 hour certificate with um teaching practice again six hours of teaching practice this is sometimes required depending on the country where you want to go to and depending on the the employer that you want to work for um and then again we have the tutor options so this if you choose tutor support and I highly recommend you do especially if this is your first time doing an online course um taking uh having this TEFL tutor that guides you towards the successful completion of your training is really really helpful and you can ask them questions they can get back to you and um it's just a good uh additional support and a little bit push for you to complete the course so yep let's see all right let me see the questions here real quick so we have crystalline who says that actually is a huge relief because right now I am ongoing to school for early childhood education and I thought it might be I might be able to take some of these classes together yes so definitely reach out to my colleagues via email crystalline to get some clarification on how you can achieve this and then you have one more question if it's possible to go to the master's degree program for ITTT after getting the degree yes we actually offer a master program as well so again please email us with these questions but it is possible and my colleagues will then walk you through how to do that okay that's really awesome that you want to go this route that's great so my my colleagues will be able to explain everything to you in detail and walk you through exactly each step and what you need to do all right then we have uh easy english ridolfo I did a degree here in brazil but unfortunately my certificate is just valid here what is the best suggestion for an international teaching course I should take yeah definitely you are here at the right place so like I just said all of our courses are internationally recognized and validated and accredited by international bodies so if you take a tether course from ITTT you will be able to teach english abroad it will be accepted in countries abroad as well sure you're very welcome crystalline I hope everything goes well good luck with everything sounds great okay so let me get back to my slides if I can okay okay there we go a little bit difficult to navigate everything without uh with just one laptop today okay is this right yes advantage number four so we do have a vast range of different courses and I kind of touched on that already so we do have online courses we have combined courses and we also have in-class courses so three different formats and then a bunch of different options in each category right so there's really something for everybody we uh really try and also stay up to date on like the newest developments in the tether industry so we constantly research and come up with new courses to add to our portfolio depending on what is in demand so very popular courses that we have are the business english teaching business english courses and also the teaching english to young learners courses which target children and then we also have a course about teaching online specifically we also recently rolled out courses about phonology phonetics and grammar so do check that out if you're interested and this is basically the course where usually it all starts for everybody okay this is the 120 hour course which is uh or has become the international standard right so if you've heard about 120 hours or 100 hours in tether training this is sort of the minimum that you should have in terms of tether training hours that is accepted worldwide or required worldwide um so this course is this is actually also the course that i took and i will show you this without the blur in just a second but um this course is 100 online and it covers 20 units so the it basically is 50 50 between like teaching methodology teaching theory classroom management those kinds of things and english grammar and this course is great because you can study at your own pace you have up to six months to complete the course which is awesome and you get an embossed hard copy certificate delivered straight to your door wherever you are in the world so that's really really great that is included in the price um so something like this and let me turn this blur off just so you can actually see the certificate hold on one minute uh let's see oh how do i turn this off again here okay i got it one moment here okay there we are now you should see it so it looks like this if you haven't seen this before and let me just remove this for one minute so you can actually see the certificate um so this is the itt t certificate it is very very nice it is uh very nice material embossed it is hard copy it has the signatures of our um academic director and course director on it and again it has the uh type of course so the course hours on it and the date when you completed the course and your name of course and the great thing also about this certificate is that it does never expire so this is also really great that's why there's no expiration date or anything like that on the certificate um so this is good for life you don't have to renew it obviously it's good to kind of um stay up to date in the industry to see if there's any you know new things coming out in terms of teaching methodologies and stuff like that but you don't have to renew this at all it is good for life and this is the unique number that i mentioned in the beginning so it is actually here at the bottom and this number is unique uh for every certificate and every course taker so you can go to the website or your potential employer can go to our website and put in this number and then verify that this is a real certificate and that really you took this course and this is really yours so that's very useful because in recent years because photoshop and all these things people thought oh i just photoshopped my certificate and then use that for applications but this kind of prevents that and um you know is one way to prove that you really took this certificate basically all right great if you have any questions about the certificate let me know and i'll show you again but and also this one is i got this in 2015 and it still looks very nice and also you get a pdf version a virtual version online version of the certificate as soon as you complete the course so you can already um start applying as soon as you get it that's also a great advantage and yes here you also see on the right side we also have specialization courses and these are great for just adding on to your portfolio so as you can see we have business english what i just said also young learners and teaching online we also have a bunch of new ones like english grammar and phonology and things like that um so i can also show you those i also took the young learners and the business english so they just look the same like this and i keep that in a little binder with all my other certificates and again you also get these as a pdf online version this is the teaching english online certificate so they all look like that they all have this unique number as well um so you can verify it and um it's all cool uh i just turned the blur back on okay great all right yeah you're welcome Rodolfo he says thank you so much for clarifying this for me absolutely no problem so this is one point about the certificate and then we also i also want to mention those the bundles because if you choose a course bundle so that includes different courses a bunch of different courses then you can actually save some money so i just wanted to put that in there and the course that i actually took is the 220 hour master package plus um i also have the teaching english online course so i really really recommend if you really want to teach english professionally and long term i recommend it to an 220 hour master package i just think this one really includes everything it's the perfect certificate to start with and then once you see oh i really want to keep teaching for a while i really like this career path then you can certainly add in the diploma you can go higher um unless you're already absolutely certain you already are a teacher and you just lack the certification then you can certainly go with the top which is the 550 our expert package um and again all of these courses you can get university credits you can transfer them so that's also another great option then we have advantage number five and i also kind of touched on this already all of our courses obviously the online courses are easy to study from anywhere in the world at your own pace so this was one big reason why i chose ittt you can actually use ittt's online study platform you can just log in on your computer you get a username and a password and you just log in and you have all of your course content right in front of you and you have access to all of the materials and assessment strategies and you can also download them you can download them so we have some students who study 100% just online they they read it online everything in the platform we also have students who like to download the materials and kind of put it on their ebook for example like on their ebook reader or on their tablet or something and then we also have students who print out all of the materials and read it like on paper so it really depends on what kind of you know what how you study what you prefer we have some students who print out everything and they keep everything like in a binder like this at the end so they can always refer back to it you can certainly do that um you can also save all of them all of the files online in the cloud for example or on your computer and you always have it as well and you can literally access the dashboard from any location in the world with internet connection and via any device you like so you can you can study on your pc on your laptop on your tablet smartphone and from wherever you are and you can download them so you can also study offline so it's really really convenient it's really great and i think it's really something for any kind of learner right however you learn whether you really needed a paper or just online it will work for you and that was one reason why i chose this course because i was working full time and i really needed this flexibility to study when i wanted whenever where i wanted whenever i wanted basically so there are no times like where you need to be online and take like a life class it's nothing like that you can literally just work through the units at your own pace and whenever you want so the ultimate flexibility really and then we have number six which is also a very important part and this is also something that these cheap courses the group on tefl courses the free 20 or whatever courses certainly don't offer is lifetime job assistance and efl partnerships so what does that mean all of our ittt course graduates they have access to lifetime job assistance so this means you have access to our database of potential employers we have a huge network ittt has been operating for over 25 years so we have built a huge network of tefl schools recruiters educational institutions of all kinds all around the world so you have access to all of that and you also get exclusive leads on unadvertised jobs because again these are institutions that we have had relationships with for years and some of them they only strictly hire itt certified teachers because they know our courses they like our curriculum and they value what we do and so they send us their job offers and they specifically pick people from our graduate pool only so you will not find these jobs anywhere else so this is also really really great and then we also offer advice on constructing a high quality tefl cv or resume we help you write one and we also give you advice on writing a teaching tefl cover letter for your interviews and for your applications and we also assist with planning trial lessons for job interviews so in some job interviews for teaching positions you will be asked to actually hold a mock lesson so you might actually have to teach for like 20 minutes on a certain topic and we will help you kind of plan that if you need that help and kind of take that pressure away because it's something that's very daunting right you need to teach your potential employer it's a little bit scary but they want to see you know your teaching style they want to see how you teach and so that's a very important part of a tefl interview and it can happen some everybody does it but a lot of a lot of them actually require that and so that's also something that we provide help with okay let's see yes Rodolfo says this flexibility is amazing yes that's literally one of the main reasons why I also chose this course and why many of our course takers choose this course because it's so flexible and just great for anyone who has other commitments who are working or anyone who has children or any other kind of commitment other jobs and yep it's just very flexible okay great so we are already at advantage number six so let's have a look at the next point oh yeah and I also wanted to mention this is about the lifetime jobs assistance this is totally for free included in the course prize and it's forever it never expires the job assistance so some tefl providers they will offer job assistance for six months or a year but ours is forever so even if you don't want to teach right away you want to wait a year or maybe you wait two years or maybe you take the course and then life happens and then you come back to us five years later or 10 years later you will still get free lifetime job assistance and we will still help you you can come back to us and like hey I'm an ITTT course graduate I got my certificate in 2020 but now I'm ready to teach so help me now and you let us know where you want to teach and we'll do our best to help you find a suitable position or we recommend alternatives because again it depends on everybody's different everybody's background so some people might not be able to go to their desired location right so we will do our best to find your job elsewhere the best possible option all right then we have advantage number seven ITTT's Teflon TESOL courses are excellent value for money so we offer courses and I mentioned it of all different kinds online combined in class and then different hours and whatever so we have Tefl certification courses really to suit all budgets that's really important to us we want to make Teflon TESOL training accessible to everybody no matter your background or where you from or you know your financial abilities so we have anything from 60 hour introductory courses to 250 hour diploma courses you definitely find a course that is affordable and suitable for your future employment plans and on top of that we have flexible payment options some of the courses you can actually pay in installments so again you can contact us the email address that I shared and speak about speak with my colleagues about those details and many of our courses they also come with a free specialized course which will add a real shine to your future job applications so if you sign up for a 120 hour course with tutor support you actually get a free course on top of that so usually that's how it works and so there are a lot of great options we have special deals all the times just follow like and follow and subscribe so you are up to date on all of those things and again we have a 30% off opportunity also during this live session which is also really great and you can take advantage of so yep and then advantage number eight just something really quick we do have excellent reviews everywhere which is something that's very important nowadays right I don't know about you but me certainly before I buy anything I check reviews online I want to see what people say about it if they like the product or the service I'd certainly go online and search for reviews and we are very proud to say that we have excellent ratings and excellent reviews on all the major sites on Google reviews on Trustpilot on reviews.io so if you head over there you can certainly see what real people say about us and really also people from all different walks of life and parts of the world are generally very very happy with our courses and that's also one thing we just try really hard to gather reviews and we always send out reviews or review requests to our people to gather these real life reviews and as you can see up here we did also win some awards for our excellent reviews that we have on different websites and we're just very proud of that that's just something that these days matters a lot especially when there's so much competition like I said in the beginning you do a quick google search of testful courses and you'll see hundreds if not thousands of different providers or courses so you really need that kind of stuff to stand out and we're just very proud of that that we achieved these these awards and these excellent ratings so that's certainly something that's important and I think that also says a lot because like I said I certainly look at the reviews before I buy anything even if it's just a small thing I certainly watch the reviews all right we have Daniel here who says being able to be picked from an exclusive employment pool is a great addition to the job assistance feature you offer absolutely I agree thank you all right and then we go to advantage number nine yep so all of ITTT staff we all have personal experience living working and teaching English abroad everyone who works at ITTT has this experience and if you notice in this picture this is actually me and when I was teaching my first year in Korea I was teaching at a Korean English speaking kindergarten that was my class but yeah not only me all of ITTT staff we have been living abroad and we have been teaching English and stuff and that's very important obviously that's something you should look for in a testful provider if you're looking at different providers and you're figuring out which one to choose that's certainly something that says a lot obviously this is a service that we're trying to sell to people so we should also know how it's done and we should have the same experience right but again because we all lived abroad because we all taught English abroad and many of us are still actively teaching at the moment too so we know exactly what you're going through we have been there so we walked in those shoes before so we basically know what we're talking about right so it's something very important and that's why we're also doing these live sessions because we just want to share as much information as possible to help others and that's just one of our goals so just wanted to put that out there I think that's an important part I'm sure there are some TEFL especially the group I know I bring this up a lot the group on TEFL courses but they're just not great and I'm sure these people who put them on there are not teachers have not taught abroad I don't know I just think I'm not sure I'm just thinking that so allegedly okay not saying that they are not but I doubt it and then it leads us to our final point which ironically also talks about final exam last point so we actually have no final exam which means no pressure for our TEFL courses so all of our online courses they include ongoing assessments as you work through the materials and then there is no need for a final exam at the end after every unit basically you actually complete an assessment and then an average requirement of 75 percent across all of these course unit assignments is required to pass the course there is however a summative task at the end so you have to write like an essay but that is very flexible you can write about we provide you with I think 70 different topics you can choose from and it's very low pressure so it's not a real exam it's just a summative task and essay and this is just really minimal stress and means more time planning your actual teaching adventure you don't have to worry about this big exam at the end you can focus on what's important you can really focus on the the material and learning it studying it working through the units with these unit assignments and then focus on what's important completing the course and then starting your new chapter so that's also a big advantage of ITTT okay then this is how you can find ITTT online again teflocourse.net we're on facebook where many of you are watching from we're on 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thanks linda you're very welcome you're welcome redolfo I'm glad that this helped you and helped you make the decision I'm really glad about that and don't forget to use the 30% link okay don't forget save that money you can use that towards your move abroad or online teaching business or whatever you want to do great awesome Daniel says I get the sense that today's live session went super fast we're almost one hour in as always actually maybe I don't know maybe today was very interesting to you and time flew by no I agree though it kind of went by very fast but we're almost one hour in so typical time awesome thank you Daniel pass a question before I leave let me know let me know and then I'm gonna get ready I think and do make myself some lunch what do you recommend for lunch I don't know what to eat yet I need to think about that right if there are no more questions then maybe I'll just go but I just want to make sure everybody has the opportunity and the chance to ask a question I always say there are no stupid questions so feel free if there's something on your mind you can just ask um and if not if everybody's happy then I'm happy too and I'll just sign off and I will be back next week and next week because it's the first Friday of the new month we are having a Q&A live session so you can join and you can ask anything you want about Tefal Teesol about ITTT about teaching English abroad or online or whatever it is that's what's happening next week you can also um let me know any any topic suggestions that you have if there is a topic you want me to talk about in a future session in particular you can let me know and then yeah I think we're at the end then if there are no more questions also if you're watching the replay you can always watch the replay of all of our live sessions you will find a playlist of our live sessions on YouTube and also on Facebook we talked about so many different topics already so you can browse that and see if there's a topic that interests you and if you're watching the replay of this one and you leave a comment we will still get back to you in the comments so you can still ask your questions just in the comments and we'll get back to you later as well so no problem and then I think it's time to say goodbye then if there are no more questions well thank you everybody for watching today I really appreciate seeing all of you familiar faces like Daniel uh and Amitabha and everybody and new faces today like Crystalene and Rodolfo everybody who was here today and asked a lot of cool questions and stayed on until the end thank you so much for that Daniel says maybe you can go for some rice and chicken along with cooked veggies for lunch yeah that's my usual actually that is my usual great I love it you can always eat that can't you chicken and rice and veggies that always works so I'll whip something like that up for sure great then I hope to see you all again next week and thank you so much for joining today's session and all of your questions and I appreciate you and I hope to see you again next week same place same time I'll be here I hope you too all right thank you guys bye


Assalamu alaikum So today I invite my friend Can you introduce next step? Okay, my name is Han Ju-che and my Muslim name is Daniel Oh, when did you live hard to Islam? It's been three months Three months?  Yeah, sure How did you know Islam at first? I was in the army last year I made a friend who live in France France? Yeah My friend was Muslim I didn't know that at first Because she was scared about telling me I think in Korea there are many prejudice Against Islam They think like, oh, it's dangerous Or do they have a bomb in their bag or something? That's crazy She is such an amazing person that I've ever met I found out that from that religion So I was curious about Islam How could religion make people like that Some kind of point of view Living the life It's from Islam It's from the Quran Their perspective of their life is different than non-Muslim They think life is a journey to follow the God Their purpose of life is different Then how did you decide to be a Muslim? Is there any special reasons? First, I got the Quran Because I like to know something I want to know more And I searched many information through YouTube Are you still on YouTube? Before you become Muslim? She recommended me Really? My channel Yeah, your channel I'm so honored I found out that this religion is just wonderful I especially like the part that Muslims have to pray five times a day Five times prayer per day To someone maybe it's kind of difficult But I found it's very good to me Because it definitely changed my life I think that's the best part of Islam I believe Because we can have a time to meet Allah Five times a day, that's a lot Yeah, that's just incredible I could keep reminding that You need to be a good person every single time Maybe I could die before the next prayer Maybe I would see my Creator But if I did something wrong I would be very ashamed about myself In front of my Creator So before the next prayer I do my best I always think that I could die Three years ago My brother passed away So you're older brother? Yeah, my older brother Now I'm older than him I just keep reminding that I could die I just want to do my best every day Before my next prayer Maybe I could die And I don't want to do something wrong Before I meet Allah That's the most loving part for me Yeah, people are always to mistakes And there's no perfect person But we can do our best To be a good person, a better person And before we die And when the judgement today is coming A confident person in front of Allah A confident person?  You're in your mind The best change is I treat my parents way more better Really?  I love you dad I love you dad too His talking habit Is actually quite... I understand I've fought many times with my dad But after I became a Muslim They're my parents I didn't know that but in our religion I have to treat my parents really well After I change my perspective He's my dad Why do I have to yell against him He's my dad so I need to treat him better Like Allah created you Make you to exist in the world So we should treat them well So thanks to them I can walk this beautiful journey To Allah I'm so happy to become a new Muslim I can see your faith is really strong And I really learn from you Mashallah It's really amazing thing And I believe that Allah bless us To go the right path I think it's the plan of Allah Thank you for interview Thank you for watching my video Take care and be safe Alhamdulillah Mashallah Thank you Bye


This is absolutely my experience as well, I reverted to Islam alhamdulillah last year so this is my second Ramadan, however growing up as a non-Muslim, seeing Muslims and how they would break their fast, it was absolutely disgusting. This had nothing to do with fasting whatsoever. When you're fasting, you're abstaining from food and if you're fasting during the day, why would you then become a glutton at night and stuff your face with all kinds of junk food? It just never made sense to me and looking at it now from a Muslim perspective, I can say this is clearly tradition, this is clearly culture and it cannot be religion because it goes against abstaining, it goes against the purpose of fasting in the first place.


The best countries to teach ESL when you're 50 plus. The international EFL market is increasingly looking towards hiring seniors. This means it's a now or never chance for many people of 50 and older around the world to change their lives completely. Take a TEFL course in an exotic location, or at home online, and start your teaching career abroad. Yes, you can teach English abroad when you're 50 s plus. Years of career and life experience is an incredibly valuable asset, and many EFL employers worldwide prefer to hire teachers who have plenty of knowledge to share with their students. While it's true that a lot of programs target those fresh out of college, there are no age restrictions for teaching English overseas. All you need is a TEFL certification, dedication and the courage to take the first step. Some countries have upper age limits in order to secure work permits, but this is only a small number. The countries below are all great options for teaching ESL when you're 50 plus. Teaching jobs for seniors can be found all around the world, from the Middle East and Latin America to Asia and Europe, your options are limitless. While there can be age restrictions in certain countries, you're truly never too old to teach abroad. Teaching in the Czech Republic There is a healthy demand for qualified English teachers in the Czech Republic, especially in the capital Prague. The cobblestone streets and classic European architecture attract thousands of new teachers each year. The main hiring seasons in the Czech Republic are September and January. Be sure to organize all the necessary documents in time to start your new adventure in this European fairytale country. Pros, there are no age restrictions for teaching English in the Czech Republic and it is relatively easy to secure a work permit for non-EU citizens. Cons, the visa can take longer without sponsorship. That's why going through an agency is recommended as it makes the process less difficult and stress-free. Recommended TEFL Center, Prague, Czech Republic Teaching in Ecuador Ecuador has a large expat community, making it easy to meet new people and make friends from all corners of the world. On top of that, Ecuador was named a top destination for retirees by Forbes magazine due to its low cost of living and affordable real estate prices. Ecuador is welcoming you with open arms with friendly locals and expats, year-round great weather and a variety of senior discounts, for example 50% off utilities. Pros, Ecuador makes it easy to stay healthy with excellent medical facilities. The public transit system in Ecuador is also very convenient and allows you to travel around the cities and in between very efficiently. Cons, while the cost of living in Ecuador is low, teacher salaries are also lower than what you might be used to. This means, you might not be able to save as much when it comes to traveling. Recommended TEFL Center, Loha, Ecuador Teaching in Malaysia If you are looking for a destination with a mix of cultures and a vibrant food scene, Malaysia might just be your best choice. Malaysia does not only offer premier beach destinations and tropical islands, but also rainforests and mountains, giving you plenty of opportunities to explore the country in your free time. On top of that, salaries in Malaysia are good and a week with working hours of 20-25 hours means, you'll have plenty of time to just think about yourself. Doesn't that sound amazing? Pros, schools in Malaysia hire year-round giving you flexibility in your job search. Cons, retirement in Malaysia is mandatory after the age of 60. If you choose to keep working, you are likely to lose benefits and earn a lower salary. Recommended TEFL Center, Singapore Teaching in Mexico Mexico is a breathtaking location for novices and retired teachers alike, and offers one of the largest DFL job markets in the world. Mexico seems to have it all, a vibrant culture, postcard worthy beaches, and stunning nature. The national healthcare system in Mexico is often referred to as one of the best in the world and provides great discounts to senior citizens. Pros, seniors teaching English abroad are always welcome in Mexico and there are no age restrictions. This means, you can teach here as long as you like. Cons, teacher salaries aren't high in Mexico so it's recommended to bring along some savings to support yourself and to be prepared for possible emergencies. Recommended TEFL Center, Chiapas, Mexico Teaching in South Korea South Korea offers high salaries, great benefits, paid housing and paid airfare, and teachers get paid vacation days and national holidays. Doesn't that sound great? If you are TEFL qualified, you can find teaching positions in private schools, public schools, cram schools, or universities all across South Korea. If you're looking to grow and work long term, South Korea is definitely worth a look. Pros, teachers in South Korea are usually provided free housing and round-trip airfare by their employers. Health insurance is very affordable and schools often pay end-of-contract bonuses. Plus, some nationals can take advantage of the national pension scheme and get some serious coin back once they decide to leave. Cons, South Korea's age restrictions for teaching English begin at 65. That's why many schools don't hire new teachers over that age. However, teachers who are already working as English teachers in Korea before they turn 65, can often continue to teach, especially in private schools. Recommended TEFL Center, Seoul, South Korea Teaching in Thailand Thailand is among the most popular destinations for teaching English as a foreign language. Whatever your age, working as a teacher in Thailand means you can enjoy the laid-back culture and welcoming locals. With a work week of only 20 to 30 hours, there is plenty of time left to explore all that the land of smiles has to offer. Whether you're looking to live in a buzzing city like Bangkok or to rent a beach house on one of the many islands, once you're TEFL certified, you can pick and choose where to teach. Pros, there is a huge demand for English teachers in Thailand and you can choose to teach in public schools. Private schools or as a private tutor. Cons, like many other Asian countries, Thailand has a mandatory retirement age of 65. After that, it's up to the individual employer to continue your contract. Recommended TEFL Center, Phuket, Ban Phi, Chiang Mai, Bangkok Seniors, teaching English abroad is your new calling. Living and working in a different country is an exciting adventure and a TEFL certificate makes it possible. The countries mentioned above are a great starting point for your teaching career 50+. Thank you for watching.


Hello, my name is Linda Hansen, precinct nine. I am the proponent of warrant article 74, a resolution in support of the mass fair share constitutional amendment. The fair share amendment is a ballot question that will be on the upcoming November 8 statewide ballot. I bring this article before town meeting because of this amendments potential to positively and significantly impact residents across the state, as well as its potential to positively affect our municipal budget here in Arlington. Our current state constitution prohibits a graduated income tax. All residents regardless of income pay the same income tax rate. The fair share amendment would amend the state constitution to create an additional surtax of 4% on annual income that exceeds $1 million. The first million would be taxed at the flat tax rate of 5%. Only income above that amount would be subject to the surtax. Funds raised from the surtax would be specifically directed to transportation and public education. It would raise an estimated additional $2 billion in revenue per year, every year, and the fact that it would be sustained funding is incredibly important. In these sectors in particular, one time funding is not enough. Ongoing sustained revenue is critical for long term planning and investments. If passed on the transportation front, this additional revenue would serve to maintain and improve our public transportation system. It could support climate resilient transportation measures like electrifying more of our public transit system and allow us to invest in alternative transportation modes like protected bike lanes. It would also provide funding to repair and maintain our roads and bridges. On the public education front, this additional revenue could help pay for universal pre-K for working families. Allow the state to fully fund the Student Opportunity Act for K-12, which increases state funding to municipalities to more accurately reflect the true cost of educating students. Finally, it could help the state reinvest in public higher education, including community colleges and state colleges and universities, allowing young people to graduate without crushing debt. This amendment was carefully crafted to consider which residents are in the best position to pay a little more toward these critical state services. By directing this tax at those earning in excess of $1 million annually, this tax targets the increasing income inequality in our state. The top 1% of income earners in Massachusetts now collect 24% of the total income in the state. You need to make almost $600,000 a year to be counted among the top 1% of earners, so this measure would affect less than 1% of mass residents. The additional 4% surtax on income over $1 million would bring the top earners into closer alignment with everybody else in terms of percentage of total taxes paid relative to income. The additional revenue would support citizens across the state, particularly lower income residents and people of color who have been disproportionately impacted by reduced state aid going to these sectors. Finally, this change would benefit our municipal budget by increasing state aid for public school students and increasing funds available for transportation related projects. In closing, I urge you to support this resolution at town meeting and to consider supporting this amendment on November 8. Thank you so much.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I am going to explain how you can calculate some of the individual row, column and diagonal of a matrix. So I will be implementing this in C language. Now, before starting, I just want to share one information. If you go to the detailed description of this video, you will find links of various playlists related to C programming. So you can follow them as well. Now I am going to write a program first. Then I will be explaining each and every statement with the help of examples so that you can understand how that logic is working. So try to watch the complete video so that you can understand this. So I am starting from main, declaring a 2D array whose dimension is 3 by 3. Then I am declaring some variables. So S1, S2 and S3 and ij, ij is for loop rotation. S1 will store some of rows, S2 will store some of column and S3 will store some of diagonal. Now, one printer statement which will display a message, enter 3 by 3 matrix. So this message will be displayed on the output screen to read values from the user. I need to implement a nested loop. So first loop is for rows and second loop is for columns. And inside second loop I am writing scanup statement. So it will read all the values from the users. And those values will be stored inside aN. Now I am initializing S3 with 0. So S3 will be storing some of diagonal. Then I am starting a loop. So this loop will repeat 3 times. Inside this loop, I am going to initialize two variables, S1 and S2 with 0. So S1 will be having some of individual rows and S2 will be having some of individual columns. Now, one more loop which is also repeating 3 times and this depends upon the column. Inside this loop, I am writing the statements for addition. So here you can see first statement is S1 plus AO5j which will add rows. Then S2 equals to S2 plus AO5j add. So this is for some of columns. Now if Iw equals to j. So S3 equals to S3 plus AO5j. So this statement will be calculated. And after completion of this loop, I am writing one printf. So this printf will print some of rows and columns after completion of this loop. So row equals to percent d, column equals to percent d and S1 comma S2. And after completion of i loop, diagonal sum will be printed with the help of S3. So this is the complete solution. Now I am going to create a 2D array so that you will understand how this logic is working. So let's say this is a 2D array. These are indexes 012, 012 and here I am putting values. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. So all 9 values are available here. Now I am going to iterate this loop step by step with the help of this matrix so that you can understand how this logic is working. So let's say I am putting i0, j0, S10, S20 and S30. So I am starting from here. S3 is 0. Then if I go to this step i equals to 0, so i is 0. S1, S2 both are 0. Then I will come here. So j is also 0. So this loop will repeat 3 times. J loop will repeat 3 times. So first time i and j both are same. 0, 0. So a 0, 0 index that is a, sorry that is 1 will be added into S1. So S1 will become 1. Then a ji. So here ij is written and here ji is written. So if we write ij and ji both have same value. So both will return same index values. So ji, do0 will also provide 1. So 1 will be added to S2. So its result will be 1. Then check this condition. i and j both are equal. So 1 will be added to S3 as well. So now we have completed one rotation of j loop. So j will be incremented. So now value of j is 1. So now see carefully. a ij. So i is 0. j is 1. So 0, 1 position is having value as 2. So this 2 will be added to S1. So S1's last value was 1. If we add 1 plus 2, so result will become 3. Now calculate this a ji. So ji is 1. i is 0. So 1, 0 position is having value as 4. So this 4 will be added to S2. So S2 will become 5. And if we check this condition, so you can see this is false because i is 0 and j is 1. So this addition will not be performed. Again j will be incremented. So this time value of j will be 2. Now a ij. So i is 0. j is 2. So 0, 2 position is having 3. So 3 will be added to this. So it will, sorry. 3 will be added to this. So it will become 6. A ji. So j is 2. i is 0. So 2, 0 index is this. So it is 7. So 7 will be added to S2. So it will become 3. And this condition is false. So it will not be calculated. Again, j will be incremented. So j will become 3 and this condition will be false. So when j loop is false, so you can see we can print some of first row and first column. So that will be printed with S1, S2. So on output screen this will be printed. So it equals to 6 and column equals to 12. So first row sum and first column sum. Then i will be incremented. So i will become 1 and S1, S2 will be re-initialized with 0. So S1, S2 will be re-initialized with 0. Only S1, S2 not S3 because S3 is not initialized with 0 inside the loop. It is initialized outside loop as 0. So when both the loop will complete then only value of S3 will be printed. So now i hope you understood S2, S2 or S1 both are having 0 again. So j loop again repeats 3 times. And sum of second row and sum of second column will be available into S1, S2 respectively. They will be printed with this printer. And after completion of both the loops, this S3 will be printed like this. So this way now i hope for second and third row and second and third column you can yourself iterate this logic so that you can understand how it is working. So i hope you understood whatever i explained in this video so that you can understand how we are calculating sum of individual rows, sum of individual columns and sum of final or a 2D edit. If you want to watch more programming related videos you can open my channel, go to playlist. So there are various videos are available and you can also go to the description of this video. So there you will find links of various playlist so you can follow them as well. Thank you for watching this video.


us on Think Tech Hawaii. Happy November 9th. May this, the day after the 2023 elections, give us a chance to see if we can read some of the tea leaves and see what, if anything, those might mean signify or portend. And we have with us today the absolutely brilliant, intuitive, incisive, insightful, and lovely Vicki Cayetano, the wife and adult supervision for our good friend and former governor Ben Cayetano, probably the most highly spirited governor we have ever had in all the ways that really mean the most. And a man that you can tell him I said I admire, respect, and love dearly. Ben is a hero for many. He stood up for little guides in Hepticore and lots of stuff where nobody else did. And he worked with David Shetter and kept David Shetter under adult management in ways nobody else could after that, because I know Dr. Gary Levitt, Judy Hit-Pavy, all of it can't be done. But Ben did it. Ben Davis, retired professor emeritus from the University of Toledo School of Law and now visiting professor at Washington and Lee School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia. And Ben deserves and will take full credit for Virginia going blue in yesterday's elections at a level and to an extent it has never done in its history. And Tim Apichella, the voice of wisdom and sage-ness without the parsley and rosemary, only the sage. Tim Apichella. All right, folks, Ben, you're in Virginia.  Yeah, first of all, I just think that people are very lucid about what was at stake. You know, there are some efforts, I think, gaslight people on certain issues, right? They're this whole young, 15-week abortion, compromise language and that kind of stuff. And I do think that that strong reaction to the Dobs overruling is going through the electorate and they're not just they're not buying the gaslight anymore. I mean, and so, you know, you just sort of see this effort, these changes, this kind of determination to just sort of get rid of it because it's just get rid of those kinds of candidates who are kind of following that particular party line. I think that this is something that is so deep and so powerful going through the electorate that it, you know, people are just not going to listen. I was thinking also, I mean, if you want to think about even trying to play sophisticated games, for example, in Ohio, they had the, what was it, the August, let's try to increase the threshold to 60% and people voted no and then November voted yes for putting reproductive rights in the Constitution. Well, that shows to me a level of sophistication of the voter that could understand the games that the quote unquote smart people were trying to play with them and they were not letting themselves be played. So I think that's the thing that is a high takeaway. I think also Kentucky, I understand there was this ad of a 12 year old girl who had been raped by her stepfather that was, you know, there was no answer. There was no answer under the from the candidate running who was, you know, sort of for not allowing reproductive rights and abortion. There was just no answer to that story. And because, you know, there's like people know realities and they are determined to stop the games of being played, which obviously are successful in a certain sense that the people putting these games forward are probably getting a donor, you know, donor funds and all that is working for them. But in the voting booth, absolutely people are not willing to be gaslighted. I think that's really what it is. So let me take that and say one of the things I'm hearing is and Randy Santis and Nikki and the rest of them better listen is it's not about woke or unwoke. The word is awakening. People are awakening. They're not just lucid. They are what physicians call alert and oriented times three person, place and time. It's the initial question of physicians, especially neurologists, especially after injuries, had injuries in particular. So Vicki, what do you take from it? Anything? You know, I would start my statements with two questions that I would ask you all. Okay. One is that what do you think of Senator Joe Manchin's statement that he is not going to run for reelection? Okay, how is that going to impact? Will it benefit the Democrats or will it actually hurt them? The second question I have is, while many Democrats celebrate the outcome of Tuesday's elections, next year's election is going to really involve a much larger electorate base. And I think a less informed, not as well informed base of people. Do you think that the Democrats will have as much success given all those considerations? So the first is Manchin's, you know, a statement that he's not running for reelection. Do you think it helps or hurts the Democrats or it's neutral? Well, I think there's a strategic tactical mistake that the Democrats and Manchin have made because they haven't been engaging in trade-offs. They're not getting anything for them. The trade-off should be okay. We'll have Manchin not run if you have Tuberville not run. It would be the greatest contribution to the U.S. Senate in decades to dispense with those two. Can you imagine how much that would raise the bar of communications, of dialogue, of potential bipartisan engagement without those two in the Senate?  But those two alone, their removal might signify something to the rest of the bunch to help them understand exactly what you and Ben have said. We are awakening, you are at risk. Tim, your thoughts. Thinking about Virginia and the success that they experienced on Tuesday, I'm thinking what if that hadn't happened, you would have had Youngston proudly say, okay, I was able to control now the legislature in my state. And that would have been a springboard to him saying I'm going to be a presidential candidate for the GOP party in 2024. Now, who has a real chance of beating Donald Trump? Maybe Youngston. I think he does. And so by the fact that not anymore. Well, that and that's the point. He now is, he's pulling his oars in off the boat, and he's not going to run. And so what's the big, what's the biggest goal or the largest goal in 2024? It has to be the defeat of Donald Trump. He's going to get the nomination. Now that Youngston is going to not run for 2024, he will be the nominee. And I was hoping that Youngston would have gotten in there and tried to wrestle that away from Donald Trump. And I think he would have had the greatest chance of success. So in some ways, there's some collateral damage here from this victory. But that is the life of politics. And that's my initial thought. So what if we follow that thought and say, okay, Youngston crashed and burned for exactly the reasons that Ben and Vicki have articulated. The awakening. Are there, is there anyone on the Republican side that might sufficiently grasp, make use of, and benefit from that to step up? Is there somebody who could be an awakening GOP candidate? Thanks. Question. I'll just give you a quick answer. No. Yeah. The bottom line is, if they're not willing to bludgeon themselves and Donald Trump at the same time, because they're scared about losing the base for support. And so they're timid. They'll throw a couple of crackpot shots out there during the debate. But other than that, they retreat back into their hermit crab shell, and that's where they stay. So we need a candidate on the GOP side that's willing to go head first, headlong into Donald Trump. Chris Christie is the closest one that comes to that. But he's not getting any traction. And that's the bottom line. If anyone's going to take the nomination, they can't do it by not taking Donald Trump right on for the headway, head toe to toe and head to head. Yeah. I'm going to play devil's advocate and raise the possibility that there may be another approach, another image, another strategy that may be even more successful than taking Trump on one to one. Because fighting with a bully is rarely productive.  You come out with a really bad smell, right? What if instead somebody got out there, as Tim's got originally intended to do, but has proven really incapable of doing, somebody got out there and really did some serious image and strategy work to be the GOP awakening candidate. Somebody like Kasinich used to be that kind of person. What if that happened? I mean, it might not get the nomination, but if it happened, if it showed the GOP that there is a reality, there is a direction, there is a group, there are people, there is a faction that is willing to go in the awakening direction. Right. That's the question. If I could jump in on that a couple thoughts, Tim. One was that that kind of strategy I think is sort of, for presidentials at least, it's like setting up a 2028 as opposed to 2024 because of the dominance of Trump right now. I saw on the commentaries last night something that I thought was very interesting, which is well, Trump has this dominance. You still have roughly 30% of the or 32% of the Republican electorate that is split up among these other candidates, right? In a general election, looking forward to this broader vision question that Vicki pointed out, Trump needs every one of those 30%, 32% who have been watching and have decided they are not with him. And he needs them badly. And I think that that's a very telling point is that at this point in time, even though he's the quote front runner, I think that that's significant that there are a number of Republicans who are looking for something else. And the second thing I wanted to state just to try to speak to the Joe Manchin thing is my understanding was that Joe Manchin had not done a very good job or the Democratic Party had not done a very good job of creating heirs of parents in West Virginia. And so as a consequence, you know, there's kind of a vacuum behind him on the Democratic side. And so my expectation is I think the governor will probably run for the Senate seat at some point, maybe if I don't know if he's, and I think he's a Republican. So I see it going over to the Republican side, though, my sense of the Republican governor as a during the whole COVID thing was that he was tending to be sort of what I would call a reasonable person, not the Tommy Tuberville type. So you might be sort of the center right if I can talk about it that sense part of the Republican Party maybe. Now, I just want to add any another thing, you know, the flamethrowers in the House group is one of my my representative is one of the flamethrowers, one of the five, the gates five sort of thing, you know, and so I watched that and the comment that I heard someone make about those kind of settings was that you needed to have an independent run in the district, who would have Democratic basically leaning views in terms of various things, but without the the Democratic label. So you know, that's another twist that maybe could happen in West Virginia having an independent. So I just throw that one out there. So who in the Democratic Party could move to West Virginia in time to run for Senate? Pete Buttigieg? Who would you if you could go to the Democratic Party and say tell this guy or woman, better yet a woman, what woman could move to West Virginia in time to win Manchin's Senate seat? And also, don't forget, you know, when we talk about Tuberville, while Democrats could lose Manchin's seat, the Republicans could lose Tuberville's seat even in Alabama. They could conceivably lose that seat if the Democrats put up somebody who has really broad, moderate, even conservative appeal. You know, a statesperson, somebody with charisma. If either party figures out that you win by putting up the most charismatic candidates, they will clean up. Obama won by charisma and grassroots that combination. Nobody has had it since nobody had it before. Jimmy Carter developed it after his presidency. And unfortunately is not strong enough now to be able to use it to the benefit of either the party or society. But who in the Democratic Party, just hypothetical, imagining, Vicki, Tim, would you say if they moved to West Virginia, they could win? Go ahead, Vicki. Okay, I'll take one shot and then it's Vicki's turn. I'd say Governor Whitmer. It's not going to be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. No, Governor Whitmer. You know what? That's a brilliant, brilliant suggestion. Vicki? So, you know, I think she has a possibility, but here's my question and I think Ben, you probably know the politics that side better. Is this somebody who's going to move there or is that actually more of a weak point versus someone from within their state? Do they have candidates there? Yeah, I mean, I don't know West Virginia real well, but I would suspect that somebody organically local, but then, you know, is there anybody in the Democratic Party local who has really got that some stature inside West Virginia? I just don't know. I understood that Manchin had really pushed, you know, had really not developed it. Now, there is the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee where I understand the people have been very sophisticated based on the kind of results we're seeing in different types of elections in, I don't know, the Democratic leadership, I can't, I don't know which acronym it is, but they've been very sophisticated and successful in getting Democrats elected in different places. So they may be already working on somebody or have been working on for a time, somebody to come up in Manchin's background. But yeah, I do think that the person coming from out of state would be, they'd be less receptive. It's not like, what was it, Robert Kennedy moving to New York, you know, or Hillary Clinton moving to New York, sort of the flexibility that was there shown in New York towards them. I think that there's, you know, there's definitely a specificity to West Virginia that, you know, that is remarkable in a beautiful way. And maybe is there somebody from within, I would think that oftentimes when a candidate decides not to run, a lot of times they're chief of staff, someone who's already built relationships, right? It's just like Senator Inouye, there was a lot of talk about Jennifer Sabas, you know, running, because all those years they've learned, they've got the playbook down, they've been waiting. So that could be another possible, I think, somebody from within his camp. I don't know who Manchin's chief of staff is, but absolutely, that's a route that's very, very, you know, they've got all the network that's worked for Manchin up to now. And that puts them in a front spot if they're willing to take on that role, you know, so, yeah. So I would propose who I believe would be the perfect candidate for West Virginia, were he still alive, which unfortunately he is not, and who would come with the greatest theme song for a West Virginia Senate campaign of anyone ever, and that would be John Denver. John Denver, all right. If they can come up with a John Denver, you know, and I'm only half choking, because if they can get someone, you know, the West Virginia equivalent of Taylor Swift, if there were such a thing.  And I'm sorry to say that between social media's impact to politics today, it carries tremendous weight. And people today, their attention span is like this much. You're winning on sound bites, not on the depth and breadth of your experience. Those days are long gone. And that's really what's sad. But I think that if there's a candidate that people can resonate with, I think this is why Donald Trump is successful, frankly, he speaks things that people say that's what I would like to say, but don't say so they interpret that instead of arrogance as courage. You know, I talked to these supporters, I'm like, well, how in the world can you support someone like Donald Trump? And oftentimes that's the thing. Oh, he's, he's honest. He says things that the other candidates want to say, but they don't have the balls to say it. I mean, it's so simplistic. It's ridiculous. It's sad, it's sad, but true, Vicki.  And unfortunately, the work horse is that know how to get the job done. They're not charismatic enough now in today's politics to be elected. And I, when I said it was sad, that's what I'm referring to. It's just plain sad. That's where we're at as far as who gets elected, who gets campaign dollars. And it's just, give me five work horses to 30 show horses any day. But you left out the third category, which is the by far the great, great, great majority, almost virtually all. And that's the horse's assets. The other part of the horse. We got plenty of that in the Congress. I'll tell you that. We got overpopulated with horse's assets. Oh, wow. You know, name me a work horse or a show horse that really deserves that title. I think there are none that I can think of. Horse's assets. Because they know what they're doing. And Tuberville's at the top of the list, man. Yeah. So I want to circle back to- Marjorie's right up there. You know, show for you, Chuck. This is, can you read the tea leaves for next year? So is Tuesday's results an indication of how the national election next year is going to go? Or are we going to be blindsided? Or do we not even know how next year's election results will go? Or is it an opportunity, a potential for momentum that, if properly understood and built on, can make 2024 an even better one for the Democrats? I truly believe that's what it is. It's not a direction. It's a potential. It's not an achievement it is, but it's an opportunity. If the Democratic leadership coalesces, learns to build relationships and teams, and understands what happened in 2022, what happened in 2023, and why, and how that connects which people in the party can bring that to the electorate and be the awakening candidates. So my theme, if I were a Democratic Party person, like Richard Fort, right, is I would say this 2024, our theme will be awakening. We are the awakening party. We're not woke. We're not unwoke. We're not left. We're not right. We're not socialist. We're not communist. We are awakening. We are awakening with and to the people. Well said, Chuck. Yeah. But I think I would, my closing statements would be focused around saying then the Democratic Party needs to be more unified. We have our own issues locally and nationally. There are so many segments, you know, you've got the very liberal side. So I think there needs to be strong party leadership in order to address the very thing, that strategy that I think is, you know, wisely stated by you in order to execute. But if we don't clean up and take care of our own house, I don't know that that's going to happen. So question for you is having taken all of the insights and perspectives and wisdom that Ben and Tim and you have shared and essentially giving you a potential 2024 campaign theme and platform. Are you willing to consider running for mayor? You know, I am serious. You know, I'm not a politician. Public service is something I think is very important, but as a negative, no. At this point, you never say never, but I have no aspiration. Good. I'm sorry to hear that. I want to vote for you. Jay will lead and Tim will lead. And the rest of us will support a draft Vicki campaign for mayor. There you go. Much as I like Rick Blanchieri personally, sorry, not even close. If he were a baseball pitcher, he would not have survived the inning. And I don't mean that as a personal criticism. I just mean he walked into a situation where the difficulties, the obstacles and the challenges, the opposition, the resistance, all of the things in the way of his making the progress that he wanted to have defeated him. I think he's done the best he could with what he has.  Who in the bullpen, if not you, who is in the bullpen for Hawaii? Tim, Vicki? Last words. I'll let Tim have the last word. Okay. Well, getting, well, in the bullpen, nationally, I, no, no, Hawaii mayor. Oh, I defer to Vicki. Sorry, Vicki. I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know. I think you're the one. I'll help you both out. I'm running for mayor. Okay. Oh, there you go. Thank you, Ben. All right. Tim's moving to Hawaii and running for mayor. And I have my motto, vote for me. I'll set you free. There you go. There, Ben. And Ben, if you want to be an adjunct professor at the UH Law School, Richardson School of Law, it's one of the best in the country. It has probably one of the top five deans in the country, Camille Nelson, who is absolutely amazing off the freaking charts. We've run out of time. I'm so sorry. We have lots more to say and share. Come back and join us in a couple of weeks. Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha. Be well. Be safe. And awaken. Please. Aloha.


Welcom yn y tof i ti fydd yw'r matriach sy'n Chelsea 4 Everton 0, awful performance by Everton today at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea fully deservant of the three points, absolutly battered us, if truth be told Everton were horrendous it was for me the worst performance by an Everton side since the Mark Nezera it was that bad, possibly the cumin 5 nilla Chelsea was close to it but it was embarrassing. Chelsea missing I don't know half a dozen players maybe and we just we allowed them to do what they wanted we didn't lay a glove on them there was no challenges going in just a shocking performance and start to finish the team come out there was a couple of changes derivatives Lukadine, come back in for light and veins, Siddabi was in at right back obviously for the injured Sheamus ms Cullman and Benard came in and the issue the problem we had really was we just didn't get the replays and touched the ball, Sigurdzin, had a really poor game all day but then the didn't get in to it. No one, I can't really say anybody had a decent game because they didn't apart from the goalkeeper. I think Jordan Pickford was on a mat, he kept the score down. Just a shock and shock and display. I think what it'll do is for Carlo Ancelotti, I won't say a wake-up call because I think he's quite sure I'm thinking. He's quite sure of what he needs but today we'll have just shown how poor some of our players actually are. The big shock, I suppose, in the start line of him, he was yeti mewn, he wasn't backing, and that Michael Keane was at one of Michael Keane's days when it just isn't happening for him. He was dreadful all afternoon and we were punished. I made some mounts good, a decent goal, good hits, be Pickford, not anything he could do about it. We'd already had the warning mounted that forced the good, really good stuff from Pickford earlier on. But we just didn't get into the game and we went 2-0 down, Ross Barkley with a good ball. Michael Keane, no clue, even said to be with Petro at all, he ran in behind and 2-0. And Chelsea, it was just too easy for them, it was too easy Barkley. Whether we'd like him, hate him, whatever, absolutely ran the game, he was brilliant. I just looked at his numbers, his numbers, we didn't get a 98.8 pass completion. 21 forward passes, 100% there, 8 or 7 out of 10 take-ons completed. He was just brilliant for Chelsea and we couldn't get near him. We offered nothing, we had one chance right on half-time. It's Dominic Alvalun should have scored from. Dinked it over, he's got to hit the target and he didn't, clipped it wide. Both truth be told it would have been, it would have given us something we didn't deserve. Chelsea would have far ahead of us. I mean just look at the stats up there, 17 attempts at goal to our 3. We have one shot on target, it was horrific and awful display. Got to half-time, I thought he would make a couple of changes, he only made one. Which was Bernardo for Walcott which, I mean I forgot Walcott was on the second half until about 10 minutes from the end. Chelsea come out, got control of the game again immediately. William made a 3-0, it was 4-0 a few minutes later through Giroux and it was just too easy for them, they struck the ball around. It took cutters to ribbons, we offered absolutely nothing going forward. It was a really, really poor display. Really disappointed in Mason Holgate and Dominic Halvert-Lewin to be honest. Both signed new contracts this weekend, it's brilliant, but a pair of them were terrible.  Just a dreadful, dreadful performance. Chelsea like I said, full value for it and we have to learn from it. I think what we do is, it's a case of just getting to the summer. If we get in the Europa League which it's looking slimmer week by week then brilliant and the moment you'll have something to do there. But otherwise it's a case of just trying to get as many points as we can between now and the end of the season. Obviously another difficult game next week with Liverpool, but the last half of those and games are all right for us and we should be able to win three or four of them which would put us certainly top eight and nine or something like that. So that's all we can hope for. And I'm hoping, like you say, I'm hoping that Carlos had a couple of decisions made a hell of a lot easier by that performance so they are really, really bad display, but what can you do? Hammard in London again, 26 years now since we won at Chelsea and showing no signs of ending. Yeah, really poor. I was confident today as well, I thought we'd get something, but hey hop, there you go, four nil and that's all I've got to say, dreadful display from Everton. Let's move on from it very quickly. So there you go, make sure you check out Ped's maths reaction, his play rating should be very interesting. If you want more videos, subscribe, join us on Patreon, like the video if you show or wish to, see you later.


I don't think the Russians, I think they're that color, very often, of course, at the time. But I do think they are responsible people. And when they said that they think this is the way to persuade them that they will use their influence, I think that is rather a statement because they're also a big power and they don't make statements off their hands. They did once before. Yeah. But I don't think at that time, Mr. President, I don't think at that time they were in the position to deliver that they're in now. I think they do have more influence now as a result of what's happened in the communist world and as a result of what's happened in China.  And that while he didn't necessarily underwrite this, but there's a lot of feeling in the rest of the world that people didn't go out and spend billions to build bases to abandon them. And he thought that if we could give any, if we could state it some way, it hadn't been stated that we didn't plan to stay there, stop our bombing, that there might be some movement. And so I said, well, we'll see if we can find some way to assure you that we won't come home quicker than anybody wants us to come. And that while we're not going to turn our face to that part of the world, as I said in Baltimore, our investment to the cause of peace, let the United Nations, let the ICC, let the governments themselves turn these things into textile planes to schools and hospitals and use these buildings for educational centers or anything else. And we'll come home and we'll be out of there as soon as you can have anybody that will guarantee stability. If you let the United Nations have an election, we'll take the winner of the election. If you let the ICC supervise it, we'll take the winner of the election. What we ask is that people have the right of self-determination. And if they want to go your way, all right, if they want to go our way, all right, if they want to go another way, all right.  So I went to Manila then, and I wasn't a single man that wanted to go as far as I went. But I said to Gomiko at Manila, and that was the purpose of it, that if we can have a ceasefire and if we can bring all violence to an end, we will not to exceed six months. That's the time to get the wives and the kids out of school and pick up them all up and move them out, lock, stock and barrel. And they said, well, Key wouldn't stand for that. Bill Bundy and them said that I just wouldn't work, that I would overthrow Key. So we got Key in and I said, who knows the most about Vietnam? You or our people? He said he did. I said, well, you tell us that you want to stay there, odd infinitum? He said no. What's wrong with this? He said nothing. I'll go with you on that. We just, as soon as we can stand by ourselves and let our own people select what we do, and nobody's going to shoot us while we're willing to go home. So we said that. But we didn't get one movement. We haven't got one response. We have for periods, as you have observed, for a good deal of a period, we didn't do any bombing. We held back. We didn't get close to any of them. And they didn't move. Then when the weather cleared up and we hit some targets for railroad yards, truck concentration center, they tried to shoot at us. We don't know really what happened. I don't think these boys, I don't think they really know my pilot when he sees a rain cloud or hail storm or something. He thinks it's 10 miles and it may be 20. And they're being shot at. They're being shot at. They see things they don't see and I don't know. But my judgment is that they just, they say I'm just shooting like hell and this stuff all goes up, it's got to come down. And I think there's no question about what we killed. Some civilian, nobody's ever said we didn't. I think that's the biggest fraud that I ever saw. And I think you ought to answer that with Harrison Salisbury. I think you ought to say that we have, that's one of the reasons we want to cease fire. That's one of the reasons we want a violent stop. That's one of the reasons we said we'd get out in six months is because we don't like to see civilians killed. And we know that when you hit a target, somebody's going to get killed. It's just one man that's running the alarm system. When we hit the POL, he gets killed. But if they have thousands that live in the area, a lot of them are going to get hurt. But if they don't get hurt, they just go to shooting at each other and they get hurt. And when they shoot at a plane, that's right over Hanoi. Well, it goes up, wasn't feet, but it's got to come down. And when it falls, it's going to hurt somebody. It may have a United States flag on it or a North flag. And our boys tell us that they didn't bomb any civilian centers. But I'm not prepared to indict them and jail them and charge them with violating my order on the basis of the evidence I have. But I am prepared to say that their orders and their authority extends only to military targets at this time. Well, that's the proper statement. And they cannot think that they have the poor fellows that are up there in their being. That this is not the case there. Well, I don't think a single one of them, even when they get shot, had dropped a bomb on the city of Hanoi. And I don't believe that Mr. Target's what they say, but I do believe that when a man gets after them sometimes they shoot their stuff or when a Sam shoots at them, it falls and hits. And it doesn't make a difference. They don't go out and see whether it's made in Hanoi or in Moscow or Washington or Chicago. They just know their dad.  I told him to do three big problems. The first one was disarmament. We ought to find some way where these two great nations just quit spending everything in the world in this field. And Khrushchev and I had started cutting down on atomic reactors and on defense expenditures. Had everything going there every week, so writing letters. And then all of a once they threw them out right before my campaign, they got scared, go orders, wild statements. Just think that it's foolish for them to build one and let's do the same thing. I'm cutting down on my atomic reactors now and I'd like to cut down on my defense. As I said in Baltimore, Converges find some answer. We'll do it. We've got the population problems of the world and how the industrialized nations are producing full fifths of everything produced and we've got to do something that we have great responsibilities there. And then I get to the food problem and say that we've added 7,500 million people every year and so they've got to be thin. And we cannot as leaders, we've got to find peace and we've got to do these other three things and we just cannot avoid our responsibilities as John's of the 20th century. I don't spew that language but that's the thought that I want him to know that I welcome them everywhere I can. I don't want anything decent about it of course but I told Tommy that I don't expect it to see any of them will come but I'd like for anybody to want to come anytime and any of their second, third men come around and visit with us. We'll have an open arms. We'll see them. We're going to keep our powder dry but always keep our hand out and we want to encourage trade. That's what I'm working on with the Congress. I think you're going to have to work on it a lot more. I think you're going to have to do more up on the Congress than you've ever done before particularly on some of these things that involve a world outlook. I'd rather hope that you... Say anything about the... No, no. I think Tommy thinks that he can get into that but if we go to approaching it they back their ears and think that they'll be charged with being our students. Make sure I definitely act for New York that they're awfully anxious in the South. It's going to be that message. I don't think it... I just think it in no way is not ready everybody thinks the noise is ready the Poles, the Poles, the Russians but when you really get onto it they just cannot make a burge there with this situation as it is and I don't disagree with that assessment.