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In this video, I'm going to share with you 100 real band 7, 8, and 9 essays. These essays have been marked by real ex IELTS examiners, and the students that wrote them all went on to get either a band 7, 8, or 9 in the real test.  Our goal is to help you improve your writing score. So on top of giving you these essays, what we're going to do is do two more things that are going to help you improve your writing scores using these essays. So we're going to first show you what not to do when using these sample essays. Number two, most students are unaware of great strategies and techniques that they can use. So we're going to share with you 10 strategies that you can use that will help you use these samples to improve your writing skills and improve your writing score. To make sure that we're only helping the students that want help and want to improve, you will only get access to these essays by watching the whole video. There is no special link to click, and we're going to show you in the whole video how to access these sample essays. So let's start off with five don'ts. These are five things that you should not do when using any IELTS sample essays. Number one is the most common one, which is don't use fake sample essays. I'd say that more than 95% of the supposed Band 9 essays that you'll find online are not anywhere near Band 9. And if you are reading and copying people that have never even got close to the score that you're hoping to get, then you're learning lots of bad habits. But don't worry, we've solved that for you by giving you these real sample essays. We'll show you how to get those in the rest of the video. Number two, don't just pick up the essay, read it, and think that you will magically, through osmosis, become better at writing. You cannot read an essay and become better at writing by just passively reading it. I think a lot of people have been convinced that all you have to do is read the essay and some magic thing will happen in your brain and you will improve. That is simply not going to happen. If you don't believe me, think back to last month when the World Cup was on. I think something like more than a billion people watched the World Cup final. Were any of those people better at football after the World Cup final, after watching two of the greatest footballers that have ever lived? No, you would think that that's ridiculous. But thousands of students every single month fail the test because they believe all they have to do is just read lots and lots of sample essays. It is not going to help you, but the good news is we're going to give you these 10 strategies, these 10 techniques that will actually help you in the rest of this video. Another thing that you should not do is look at the essays and try and figure out why you're better than the students in some way or why these students are not good or these students are not high level.  So on the first day of a new IELTS class with new students, what I would do is I would give them band six essays, band seven essays, band eight essays, and band nine essays. And I wouldn't tell them which were which. And I would put them around the room and I'd ask the students to go and look at these essays and give them a score.  If you had the knowledge of an IELTS examiner, you wouldn't be watching this video. Most students look at a band six essay, which normally has lots of complicated words and complex language and think that it is very, very high level. Most students look at band nine essays and think that they are low level. Band nine essays are actually quite simple and easy to understand and very, very clear. Most students look at band seven essays and think there's lots of grammar mistakes. There's lots of vocabulary mistakes. This must be a really low level student. Band seven essays have mistakes in them. Please do not waste your time and your energy trying to find out why you think these are not good. If you were an expert, you wouldn't be watching this video. The fourth thing that you should not do is look for things that you can copy from these essays. And there's a very simple reason for that. Number one, you are not doing a memorization test. I know many of you come from educational backgrounds where the emphasis in your education system is just on memorizing things and that's how they test intelligence. This is not a memorization test. This is a writing in English test. This is a can you communicate clearly in English test? You cannot memorize words and phrases and chunks of essays and hope to just put those in on test day and get a higher score. That is not how it works. You can use these to improve your grammar and your vocabulary and we'll show you how to do that in the rest of the video. But don't just memorize them. It is not going to help you. And number five, this might sound really silly, but a lot of students do this. Do not copy the entire essay and put it in to your response on test day. A lot of students believe that if they copy a high level essay and then just put it in no matter what the question is that they're magically going to get a high score. I don't know why students do this, but they do. Please do not do this. I don't want to be responsible for students failing the test. So please, please, please do not do those five things. It is a waste of your time and it is a waste of money. These days the IELTS test costs a lot of money. Don't throw it away by using these incorrectly. But there are now 10 ways that we're going to show you that you can use them correctly to improve your writing skills and improve your writing score. So this is how to find the 100 sample essays on our website. I've purposely hidden them so that only students that are serious about getting the scores that they need will find them. First thing you want to do is go to Google and type in IELTS writing task two. It will bring up a list of different websites. And what you want to do is find the IELTS Advantage one. It might be number one, it might be somewhere on this page. Just click on the IELTS Advantage one. That should bring you to this page on our website, IELTS Writing Task Two in 2023. That's step one. Now I continue to watch the video and I'll show you in step two how to find the essays. So I'm going to give you these 10 things that you can do, these 10 techniques. But you don't have to use all 10 of them. What I would recommend doing is watching them all and picking the one that you think is your biggest weakness. That's what you should always start with, not just for writing, but for all areas of the test. Don't work on things that you're already comfortable doing. Don't work on your strengths, work on your weaknesses. I know that's tough and I know as human beings we don't like to do difficult things. But this is the best way for you to pass the test as quickly as possible and then move on with your life and you never have to think about this silly test again. So I'm going to go through these 10 now, watch them all and then pick the ones that you think are most difficult for you or you think that you need to work the most on. So the first thing that we're going to teach you is how to use sample essays for improving your idea generation. A lot of students really struggle with this area and once you start to see what real band 789 ideas look like it removes a lot of the stress because what you will notice is most of them are a lot simpler than you think. You don't get extra marks for coming up with complex ideas. You get extra marks for thinking of ideas that answer the question that are relevant to the question and most of the time these are going to be simple ideas. So the first thing that you can do to improve your idea generation is don't look at the answer to the question. Don't look at the actual essay. Take each one and cover up the actual essay and just look at the question. And what we've done here is we've limited the number of questions. We're giving you like 100 essays but I think there are only like 10 questions so that will mean that you see a wide variety of different ideas. So what you're going to do is you're going to look at the questions and think of ideas yourself. So what I would recommend doing is not brainstorming. What I would recommend doing is simply look at the question and think what is the simplest idea that answers this question? What is the most obvious idea? The most straightforward idea? If I asked 100 people this question what would be the most popular answer? And if you write down a few of them and then look at the answer identify the main ideas. They will normally be in the introduction and they will be in the main body paragraph and they will be normally in the conclusion. Identify those main ideas and then compare with your ideas. If you're getting similar ideas to these students that got Band 7, 8 and 9 then you're probably on the right track. If you have different ideas that doesn't mean that you're wrong doesn't mean that your ideas aren't relevant but think about whether they are relevant or not. Are you getting different ideas because they're just different relevant ideas or think about whether your ideas are relevant or not? If you think about them and you compare them and you're like actually my ideas are completely irrelevant that might mean that you didn't understand the questions so you have to work on that more or it could mean that you're just complicating everything and making your ideas way more complicated than they need to be. So that's technique one. The second thing that you can work on would be idea development. So this is taking ideas and developing them into main body paragraphs. So step one look at the question understand the question and then identify the main ideas. So for this person focus on their careers idea number one and have more time for themselves. Idea number two. So there's two benefits two advantages here and then what you do is you do not look at the main body. So you just identify those two main ideas and then what you could do on this blank piece of paper you could pick one so for example you could write an explanation you could write an example and then you could compare that with what the student has done in this essay. So here focus on the careers this is because they have less responsibility and distractions in their lives compared to the couples that have a child. So if it's the same then you're probably on the right track but you could also make this better you might think well I could maybe explain this a little bit more. Again you're not looking for exact matches what you're doing is thinking about what they have done and what you have done and this is just one essay. You might look at five, six, seven other essays for this question and then look at all of the explanations and compare those with your explanations compare those with your examples and then that's going to help you develop your own. The next thing you can work on is structure. So what you can do is read the question read the whole essay and then think about the structure that they used. So for example this is their introduction this is their main body paragraph one this is their main body paragraph two and this is their conclusion. So what we're going to do here is discuss both views and give your own opinion this is the type of question that we're talking about here so they're using this four paragraph structure but then within each paragraph what are they doing? So here in the first sentence what they have done is they have paraphrased the question they have given their opinion here they've talked about the first point here and they've given the reason for the latter point here So what you could do is look for more discussable views essays for example this one and you could compare them so are they using a similar structure here? Well seems like they actually are they've paraphrased the question in the first sentence here they've given their opinion and they've said why they believe that here they are slightly different but again if you look at 7, 8, 9, 10 of those you'll be able to see similar structures and then that is going to help you write your own structure so what you could do is actually go through them all if you wanted analyze the structures and then look at all of the differences between the different types of essays so you could go and look at for example here we have a causes and solutions essay where do they put the causes where do they put the solutions what do they put in their conclusion are there any similarities between the different students answering this same question and you'll start to learn the different structures and then use them yourself it's a great way to actually learn structures rather than just looking at them as if you give students just a bunch of structures they tend not to be able to use them on test day but if you do it this way it kind of internalizes it a lot better and they're able to use them rather than memorize them okay so when you're on this page what you want to do is scroll down there's a lot of information on this page so keep scrolling keep scrolling until you get to hear sample essays now we have a lot of different options here continue to watch the video and I'm going to show you which one to click in step 3 the next thing you could do is work on your coherence and cohesion by identifying linking words or cohesive devices some people call them cohesive devices some people call them linking words so for example with this one you could identify that there are only really four linking words or cohesive devices here in other words for example for instance and in conclusion if you were to look at another 10 band 789 real essays and you only seen linking words are used very sparingly there are not that many then that would be a clear indication that that's what you should do most of these essays are not going to have lots and lots and lots of linking words in them because lots and lots and lots of linking words actually lower your score they don't increase it another thing that you could do is think about why they used each cohesive device so for example why did they use that well they were giving an example did they use it correctly well in this instance they seem to have that is helping you understand okay if I'm giving an example that's what I should use or you might identify some linking words that they used incorrectly that is going to help you improve because identifying other people's mistakes is helping you improve your knowledge and your use of linking words as well remember these are real essays which means that they have mistakes in them they are not perfect perfect essays are not actually going to help you as much as real students that are at your level and have got the scores that you need and that brings us on to number five which is identify grammar mistakes as I've just said one of the best ways to improve is to identify other people's mistakes so what you would do is you would go through and highlight any mistakes that they have made so for example this one you could write here this is an article mistake here's another article mistake so by identifying these mistakes and correcting them you can think about the rules of articles and your knowledge and your ability to use them correctly will improve not just articles but any mistakes so identify the mistakes and then think about why those mistakes were made or categorize the mistakes into is it a preposition mistake an article mistake a punctuation mistake and then you will improve too the sixth thing you can do is also related to grammar and thinking about the different grammatical structures and tenses that were used in the essay and why they were used so for example if we take this essay obtaining this type of information in most cases means breaking the law why did they use obtaining i and g and breaking i and g rather than furthermore to obtain this information in most cases means to break the law and this will force you to think about whether this is correct or incorrect if you think that it is incorrect what is a better way to use it and why do you think that or if it's correct why did they use that here's another one however not only are paparazzi hired to invade properties belonging to politicians to take photos without their permission but also not only but also what does that not only but also grammatical structure allow their student to do why did they choose this grammatical structure what were they able to do is it correct could you use this grammatical structure in your essay again not copying it not blindly copying this and inserting it into your essay but adding tools to your toolbox the more tools that you have in your toolbox grammatically and for vocabulary then the better able you are able to build your essay on test day yourself number eight is vocabulary and improving the range of your vocabulary and you can do that simply by reading the question reading the essay and identifying any unknown vocabulary or vocabulary or collocations or phrases that you're unsure about you're not 100% sure what they mean or how to use them in a sentence so for example you might see the collocation discover their talents what does that mean to discover their talents here's another one potential talents what's the difference between discovering your talent and a potential talent what does potential mean what does potential talent as a collocation actually mean so you would note down those words or phrases or collocations and then you would guess the meaning from the context so you would read the whole sentence read the whole paragraph and try and guess what that word means that is going to help with your reading skills it's going to help you identify and understand unknown words in the reading test and it will also help you improve vocabulary because you can take those new words or phrases put them into a vocabulary book add all the new information like the meaning the synonyms the example sentences and then after a while if you do this you're going to have a massive bank of new words and new phrases and then if you review those and use those in your own essays then you're improving your ability to write essays another thing you could do with vocabulary number nine is identify any vocabulary errors so for example in this essay if we look at this sentence recently the pictures of a famous politician of Milan while playing football with local children were published in many newspapers and he instantly became famous so there's a problem here because it's saying a famous person became famous well they were already famous so either there is a meaning error here with this word or we need to change this word to something different another thing that you could do is look for repetition are there words that are maybe repeated a few many times and then you could try and change it to a synonym that means the same thing but has a different word that means the same thing and last but not least number 10 what you can do is look at the question write the whole essay and then compare your essays compare everything with what the students have done but I wouldn't recommend doing that right away what I would recommend doing is use one or two of the other nine techniques work on your weaknesses and then once you are more confident then you can write the whole essay and then compare it with what the other students have done and but please please please don't think that if your essay is different that it's wrong there are hundreds of different ways that you can write a band seven or a band eight essay it is not mathematics it is not you know there's only one answer to the question so don't look at these essays and think that you're on the wrong track just because yours are different what you're looking for is are the main things like the ideas are they relevant is the structure similar did you develop your ideas in a similar way if you focus on those big things then your essays will be fine and you will really really improve okay so you should be here the one that you want is this one how to use task two sample essays if you click on that you will get access to 100 band seven eight and nine IELTS writing task two essay samples it will introduce them it will tell you how to use them and then it will give you all of these samples so thank you very much for watching the video and I hope that you enjoy using these samples and they help you improve your score I hope that you enjoyed that lesson if you want more help I would recommend clicking on this video and you can get even more help on our website


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I think we've seen this plot before. I think so. You know what I'm saying? I think there might be. Huh? No. Who's speech? Who gave a speech? Nobody wants to hear any of that. My thing is this. I like the fact that they do... I want you to put the speech in Stormzy's accent. It's the same thing? No. Dude, British Rep? Come on. I love British Rep. Stormzy, get busy, bro. Stop it. I promise you. How you relax? You know what I could do with British Rep? Stormzy and Black Dave get busy. Now, I will admit, I used to like Creptin Conan. They had one song that I liked.  Every time you try to say... It's a group. It's a group. Every time you try to say... I love your mixture.  It's Creptin Conan. No. Here's who brother Lenard is saying. It is. Creptin Conan. How you pronounce it? Crept, K-R-E-P-T and K-O-N-A-N. Creptin Conan. All right. Yeah, but Creptin Conan. All right. They had a song that I liked, but I actually really enjoy Black Dave and Stormzy's music.    Yeah. Oh my God. You like it. Oh, you look actually huge. You look actually huge. Here's the thing. Here's the thing.  He like headlined Glastonbury. Did you see that? Mm-hmm. It was like a... Stadproof vest. He what? Stadproof vest. It was like a Stadproof vest, but it was... Spied by Jay-Z. Right. Right. Which is adorable because they don't have guns, so it has to be like... Stadproof. ...what I'm still worried about. Yeah. But it was like the British flag was on it, but like dark, it was sick. And everybody seems to really ride with this guy, Stormzy, so I don't know his music. Number one album in the UK. Really? Number one. Okay, I'm on it this week. I'm going to start listening. And the TOTO thing about the people, his album went number one on his fourth week. So... So that means that it grew. Well, you know, it debuted at like number two... And they just kept building, building, building. Yeah. And by the fourth week he was number one. Number one album in the UK. I love. You love to see it. Yep. Yep. All right, so I get into it, but there is something about UK rap for me that is like so jolty. It's like they haven't paved the roads in the studio. I couldn't get past the accident. Say again? I couldn't get past the accident at first. I don't even mind the accident, but like... It sounds like someone making fun of an Asian. That's why you got to listen to Stormzy. You know, Stormzy can flow. Why? Because he flows on it. I need that. That's what I need from a... He can flow. He flows. No, Stormzy flows. Remember that's a fix up, look, chop. Stormzy flows. Then it sound like Kim Jong-un is telling you how to dress yourself. Fix up, look, chop. Hold on. I'm going to play... Right face, right off hair. Let me play Stormzy Audacity. Put on gray suit. Hold on. It's just too much. Yeah, let me... I need some flow. Like, do they have a future out there? Can we get... I don't have a future. Why? How does he say it? Hold on. Okay, here we go. Okay. All right, it's getting sharp. All right, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Look at the beat drop. It's sick. Look at that beat drop there. Now is this beat crying or whatever that is? All right, if I'm not mistaken, he did tell me that Audacity would be considered grime. Now, if I'm wrong, correct me, but I do remember Stormzy telling me Audacity would be considered grime. But I like that, that they have their own version... Of music. Of music that they're, you know, kind of folding into these other parts of, like, typical rap. I think it's awesome. I love London Man. Authentic, cool. But that point, you know how in the beginning it was nice and it was calm, we could do it? Yeah. And then everyone... Right? Yeah. It came out a little... Audacity. Yeah, yeah. Why can't it just be like Audacity? See how beautiful, like... That's not how they talk. Audacity. They use proper English. But English is not how to speak to me. You sound like an African warlord. Yeah, but that's what... That's what it sounds like. The world would be boring. We will take all the diamonds. The world would be boring if everybody sounded the same. Like, that's what makes people distinct. I love it. I actually like it. Say what? I like it. I love it. I'm just saying, for me, I can't relax to it. Like, I can't go to bed. Hey, I just want to listen to a little Michael Buble. You listen to Michael Buble, you fall asleep. I want to go to sleep right before I go... I'm wide up. Should we go work out? Let's get a workout. It depends what song you listen to. Say it again. It depends what song you listen to. So, give me the example of the UK, like, smooth... Let me give you a smooth... Future. Perfect example. We were talking about this weekend. Right? Future. I don't know a single word that he raps. I don't know a single one. But I feel like I know every single one. It's nice, melodic. Whoa. Oh, this is a good one. Whoa. Whoa. This is called lessons. What is it? 100 grand on a piggy rang. Something. Word I can't say.  Whoa. That's fire. See how comforting that is. That should make you sleep. Oh, I want to go to bed. You must be on the same drug that Future's on. Whisper me to bed, Future. You must be on the Percocets. Percocets. Percocets make you sleep. 100 grand on a piggy rang.  Whoa.  I don't even know if that's the line. Here you go. Here you go. Okay. Ooh. Ooh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Love it. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. No. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, I get the...   Cobblestone Road. Cobblestone Road. They make music for Cobblestone Road. Cobblestone Road. Cobblestone Road. You've been to Orlando with a lot of Cobblestone Road. That's it. You're in a horse and carriage on a Cobblestone Road, okay? You just picked up Cinderella. You're going to the ball. Put on the Stormzy. You're good to go. Am I wrong? We haven't till 12 o'clock. Oh, right. I'll have you back by 12 o'clock before you turn into a pumpkin. This guy. Where is your heel?  Say what? You want your stab. I'm coming through Stormzy vest.


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Confidence is sexy.  However, there are also shy guys out there who are waiting to be noticed. But how do you know if they like you? 1. He looks at you when you're not looking Shy guys typically don't want to be caught looking at you because confrontation is not their forte. Instead, he resorts to admiring you from afar. Engaging with someone you like is terrifying and shy people are often afraid of being rejected or judged, so they rarely open up.  However, once in a while, you may pick up on signs like subtle eye contact, which indicates his interest. 2. He tries to talk to you but looks very uncomfortable A shy guy usually stays within his group of friends, so when he leaves them to approach you, chances are he likes you. He might not have anything to say or appear very awkward, but it probably takes him a lot of bravery. 3. He treats you differently As mentioned before, shy guys will rarely approach you unless they're interested in you.  He'll treat you differently from how he treats others, whether it's grabbing an extra cup of coffee for you or bragging about you to his friends. 4. He opens up Introverted or reserved guys usually keep to themselves and rarely share personal details with others.  He'll reveal hidden interests and personal details he doesn't like to share with others.  5. He seems annoyed when you talk with other guys Since trusting others is hard for shy guys, when he opens up to you, your bond becomes special to him. When you talk to other guys, he may feel insecure and get annoyed. He might even start distancing himself in fear of getting hurt or losing you. 6. He shows interest in things you do A shy guy rarely steps out of his comfort zone, so if he starts getting involved in something you like, chances are he likes you. If you sense that this is the case and you like him too, be sure to encourage him to do those things more. 7. He tries to talk to you over the internet Shy guys feel a lot more comfortable communicating over the web because then they feel like they won't be judged for how they look, talk, or express their body language. If you notice a shy guy communicating with you over the internet often, he's probably interested in you. If you like him as well and want to move the relationship forward, try calling him or meeting up. 8. His friends tease him when you're around Guys who are shy will often keep their feelings to themselves, but their close friends can usually tell what's happening. If you start to feel that his friends are acting strange when you're around him, they probably know something is up, so you should confront them about it. 9. He seems interested in you, but never really makes a move Shy guys are often too afraid of rejection to put themselves out there and make a move on a girl. They'll talk to you and show signs of interest, but they're likely to wait for you to make the first move. 10. He stands up for you Have you ever been in a really embarrassing situation and suddenly a guy you weren't exactly close with tries to save you? Chances are that guy has liked you for a while and showing his interest with a bold act of courage. This isn't easy, but he wants you to know that you are worth the risk and definitely worth fighting for. 11.  He'll try to downplay it when you say, wow, you remembered, because he doesn't want to make his feelings obvious, but at the same time, he'll feel proud that you appreciated it. 12. He tries to act more social than he is Shy guys will sometimes try to act as social as possible to get a girl's attention, to show her that he's not that shy. If a guy who usually keeps himself suddenly tries to become a social butterfly around you, he's interested in you. 13. He's confident at first, but then stops talking to you Often, guys with shy personalities will come off as confident and personable at first. However, once he gets comfortable, he might start second-guessing himself and distance himself from you.  14. His body language Pay attention to the way a shy guy expresses himself with his body language.  15. He tries to talk to your friends and get closer to them Shy guys will usually try to engage your friends in conversations and try to become closer to them to gain your attention. Their goal is always to make you notice them in subtle ways. A guy that likes you will suddenly start asking your friends about you and leave hints with them. 16. He genuinely cares about you and listens to you It's really hard to get a guy to pay attention to you, much less listen to what's going on in your life. So if you have a guy friend who really cares about you, listens to your problems and gives you great advice, there's a chance he might like you but is too afraid to say anything. Which of these signs have you had personal experience with or displayed before? Let us know in the comments below! If you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out our website and other social media, as well as our new Patreon account. And don't forget to subscribe! Thanks for watching!


and the federal government on Monday inaugurated a seven-person committee tasked with the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement reached with the academic students you know universities. The committee is chaired by Emeritus Professor Nimi Briggs, Pro Chancellor Alex Equeme and Federal University Ndufu Alike Emeritus Professor Nimi Briggs and It has three months to conclude the renegotiation with ASSO. ASSO is currently on a one-month warning strike which commenced on February 14th. The academics are seeking improved welfare, revitalization of public universities and academic autonomy among others.


And the customer says, I want to keep the payment the same. Tell me the payment's too high. This is how we close every deal. My body went numb like a minute ago. I can't feel a thing from my head to toe. I lost my mind and I'm out of control. I can't stop no thinking I'm about to die. And everybody watch this for two seconds. Let's say the customer's coming in. They're buying a 2022 Kia Optima, OK? OK, watch this real quick. And then they're trading in a 2012 Honda Pilot, OK? Let's say it's got 80,000 miles. This customer's paying $300 a month right now. The new payment's going to be $500 a month, $599. So this is going to be $600. And the customer says, I want to keep the payment the same. Because that's what everybody freaks themselves. They all come in there and say, I want to keep it the same. OK, and then we got a dummy salesman, not you, Joe. But the dummy salesman, he goes, well, that can't happen. The car's so much more money, you can't keep it, because it's older, yours is newer. And then what do they do? They just sit there and argue. Guys, Joe, tell me the payment's too high. Say, I want to be at $300 when I'm paying now. I want to be $300. Hey, I totally understand. Let me show you how affordable your new vehicle is. You flip the paper over, and you do something just like this. See that? What is that? Ben Franklin Clothes. Bam, it's a Ben Franklin Clothes. Every freaking time you say, Joe, I totally understand. This is your old car. This is going to be your new one. Your old car, you're currently paying $300. The new vehicle's going to be $599. Now, Joe, you've got a 2012 Honda Pilot right now. 80,000 miles. I know it's an SUV. OK, how much do you roughly spend a week in gas? Ballpark. What do you spend a week in gas on your 2012 Honda Pilot? SUV. $600. OK, whatever they say, that's the number, am I right? Cool, $60 a week in gas, times four weeks in a month. $240 a month, how much you're spending in gas to drive your old vehicle. Does that make sense? I'm going to bring down a $300 payment. That's what you're paying to the bank, and it shows me $540 a month is how much it costs you to own your old vehicle. So even if you don't buy my new car today. See the new one? Don't buy it. How much money does it cost between gas and payment to own your old one? $540. $300 for gas, or $300 for the payment, $240 for gas. Does that make sense? Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy. A lot of you leave comments telling me that you need help. Do me a favor and tell you the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER>, I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video. Now on your new vehicle, better gas mileage, less money spent, would you agree? This 2012 Honda Pilot gets 15 miles a gallon. T-Optima gets almost 40 miles a gallon. Dude, you're literally going to be cutting your gas in 2 thirds. So $60 a week is going to go to $20 a week in gas with a new vehicle. Four weeks in a month, that's $80 a month in gas. And I'm going to bring down the $599 payment. And I'm going to see what the new car is going to cost total ownership between gas and payment. $976. Now over here to the side, $679 is how much it costs the new car to own. Total ownership costs. Listen, Joe, you work hard for your money, right? Yes. You put your money in the bank, would you agree? Yes. When the money leaves the bank, that's the real money spent. Whether it's in maintenance, whether it's in gas, whether it's in monthly payment. When it leaves the bank, that's the real money spent. Well, Joe, when the money leaves your bank on the new vehicle, it's going to be $679 a month, total ownership cost. You're currently paying $540 now on your old car. So literally the new vehicle is only about $139 more than what you're even prepared to pay. But it's really not, Joe. You know why? Because in your old vehicle, guess what? Yeah, if something breaks, you've got to pay for it, Joe. You know what the national average, what it costs to maintain a vehicle? It's currently out of warranty, $2,000 a year. Let me explain, Joe. Just an hour to put your car in the shop now is $200. The average car in the shop is literally five hours. That's $1,000. We haven't even added a part for $500, or $299 diagnostic to get it checked out. Joe, if you do the math, you could have your car in the shop one time and it's $1,700. This $2,000, right here, the total ownership cost of what it costs to maintain your vehicle a year, that's out of warranty. This is January, this is December.  Guess what happens? Heater or core goes out and costs $1,000. You don't have a warranty. You've got to pay for it. Am I right or right?  See that? That's you. Then all of a sudden in November, in November, fuel pump goes out, can't drive the car, spend another $1,000, $1,000, $2,000 for the year, since we're dividing them at 12 months in a year, and roughly about $160 a month in a small maintenance payment, you're gonna have to budget on your old vehicle as you're on the warranty. But Joe, on your new vehicle, it's a 2022, it's got 10,000 miles, you're driving it down the road, I don't care if the engine went out and it cost $10,000, how much would it cost you? Zero. Nothing. So this $160 that you're having to budget and maintenance, how much money is this new car more than what we thought it was? 160 in maintenance, the new vehicle's about 139 more than what you're prepared to pay? Really, Joe, I'm saving you $21. Joe, do me a favor. When gas goes at $5 a gallon, right, your new car's gonna get paid back at the pump where your old car just continued to cost you more. Would you agree? And having forbid something like an engine went out on this Honda Pilot? Dude, man, you'd be really out of budget. Joe, do me a favor, that extra 21 bucks, take your wife out for ice cream, sign right here. Let's go. Now I'll close it. But this, but watch this, this is how we close every deal, okay? Hey, in a seated position, right? Everything is written, okay? You talk on your feet, you close on your seat. That's why if I'm an insurance salesman, if I'm an insurance salesman, if I'm a solar salesman, I got a piece of paper in my hand at all times. Everything that I say out of my mouth, I'm articulating in pictures on paper. Does that make sense? Hey guys, I just wanna tell you the true one percenters who made it till the end of the video, do me a favor, share it with the friend that wants to go to another level. Make sure you like the video, comment below so I know who you are, set your notifications, and then subscribe to the channel. We got daily sales training videos dropping. I'll see you soon.


Hello everybody Getting a late start on today. I Went home to get a few things done last night and over the day today So now I'm going back to the truck. I have a load that's going to Langbank Saskatchewan Which is about five six hours from here. I'm probably with six hours The load's waiting for us at our yard or waiting for me us by us I mean me and you because you're gonna help me tie it down, right? I think I've got to tie it down when I get there And we'll go to Saskatchewan will deliver that first thing in the morning tomorrow and from there I'll come back empty and we have a load of lumber that's going to be waiting for us That's taking us to Minneapolis and we'll go straight to Minneapolis deliver that Friday morning Today when I'm filming this it's a Wednesday, I believe So Wednesday, yes, it's a Wednesday Now all the days seem the same to me. They all run together My wife was driving the truck the mirrors off the seat is off Let's get to old blue and let's get trucking They're all changing color and falling That's why we call this season fall because the leaves fall down At least that's what I think Technically, I guess it's considered autumn, right? It is autumn. I don't know why we call it fall We like to keep things simple Like I was saying so Langbank is about six hours from here Well, there's six hours tonight unload first thing tomorrow morning, which will be a Thursday morning Run on back here I'll be back Thursday evening the load's already waiting for me at the yard or will be waiting for me when I get there I'll clear it at the border and everything so I'll grab that load We'll get into the United States tomorrow. Maybe we'll get down to around Fargo. Maybe Roth say Minnesota Either down I-29 or I-94. We'll see where we get to and then That'll be Thursday nights of Friday. Oh boy. I'm gonna have to rush actually Hopefully we'll get past Roth say maybe we'll get down closer to Clearwater or Sock Center We'll get up early and we'll get into Minneapolis get that lumber off my trailer We'll see if there's a reload for me to grab Friday afternoon Hopefully if not, I will have to come back empty because we got things going on the next day on Saturday here at home that I have to be here for so Either way I've got to get back home Friday night or Saturday early morning. We'll make it work. The load gods are good They will We'll figure something out And if not, hey, whatever I got to get back. I'll come back empty Every time if I've whenever I shut it off for night every day I want to check my oil and I want to check my coolant level and I want to make sure everything else is good under my hood Make sure I'm not leaking any oil. Let's Everything I want to look for and make sure obviously that my brakes are adjusted properly and that's all the obvious stuff My fluids very important. I'll go crazy all day if I didn't check my oil at the beginning of the day Even though I can see my oil pressure, which will tell me that my oil is fine But I have to see it with my own eyes.  I Saw it from down here See that right there That's just a piece of dirt All good No oil leaks have my trailer. I don't know if it's tied down or not I have a feeling is not going to be tied down because it usually never is Because whoever delivered it there will need their equipment and they're gonna want me to tie it down myself Because I'm gonna be responsible for that load as soon as I hook on to it and pull it out of the yard I do like to tie my own loads down usually sometimes It's a nice surprise when it's been left tied down That's usually for when like our city drivers go and pick up a load for us in Winnipeg Bring it back to our yard for us just to save me a little time if it's like a time sensitive load Then I can just quickly go hook on at the yard Fly down the road after I double check all the straps, right? saves a lot of time but If time isn't that big of an issue everybody Sort of prefers to tie down their own freight. I guess depends on the driver I'm sure I'm sure there's some drivers out there who don't care who ties it down as long as it's not them, right? Me I Don't know. I just I'd like to I like to roll down the highway knowing that it's my own work Not that I don't trust other people, but you know if something goes wrong. It's my fault then right? No, I don't know if it's tied down. That's awesome. I don't really care You just double check it and you know make sure everything's good. So we'll be out for two nights One night we'll spend in Saskatchewan tonight, and then tomorrow night. We'll probably yeah, we'll be in Minnesota somewhere Somewhere between Moorhead, Minnesota and Minneapolis somewhere down the I-94. Oh, mr. Dodge man does not want to be behind the truck Come on man a hammy a hammy belongs at the front, right? I'm not a dodge fan, but I'm not against them either. I mean, I'm just I'm a GM guy.   Why why do people do that? See that crazy about what I was talking about now. I just almost watched someone die And they probably don't even know it. They're probably just gonna go home and laugh about it whenever Yeah, I got what I was talking about now. I guess it wasn't important dodges right? Yeah, there's a dodge over there GM I'm a big I have a Chevy Silverado right at the 2016 Used to be huge. I still am huge Chevy Silverado fan But with this last model that they've released I have actually moved over to GMC I know same truck same chassis, but the design I like the design of the GMC Sierra right now in 2023 Better than the 2023 Chevy Silverado and that's a first in my life If I bought a new truck today, it would be a GMC Sierra Probably I'd probably try to go for the 2500 heavy-duty Just because we want to expand our rental business in summers for Campers and eventually we want to have a fifth wheel right and I'm gonna have to be able to pull that fifth wheel We want to be able to use that for ourselves as well. Once we get a spot at the lake somewhere, right? So That's the plan anyway Now I'll talk to you when we get to the trailer and see what our load looks like. We're going to Langbank. I'm thinking it's I'm thinking 90% chance. It's tires which are super easy to tie down But we'll see how correct I am when we get there Sometimes even trucker Josh is wrong. I did say 90% chance. It would be tires 90% That's not a hundred. I Don't know what it is The paperwork says something. I still don't know what it is This is what we're hauling looks pretty easy to tie down simple with some skids down here Some other stuff up here other stuff up here. This load came from Winkler, Manitoba, and I'm gonna pull it to Langbank a little down the road not tires Definitely these are some funny-looking tires. All right, so apparently we deliver Something others than tires there sometimes every time I've gone there. It's been tires in my defense All right, we are locked. We are loaded. We are tied down. We are strapped. We are ready to go It's undo the belt It's very uncomfortable sitting with the belt Just saying Okay Rock and roll rock and roll got my house hat right here with me Got my bullsnot Right here with me windows rolled down I'm just gonna give a little tuggy tug make sure that the trailer is gonna come with when I checked it Sure looked like it was going to you. It's it's also gonna help if I release the brakes first Let's turn on the lights back there so I can see They're all forward and hit the brakes Breaks work trailer is attached and the brakes release Fantastical Let's get out of here Took a little longer, and I thought it's already dark outside, but then again, it's fall now autumn So the Sun goes down faster than we want it to a new Western Star I've got a new driver with a Western Star. It's a nice truck. I wonder who that's gonna be Doesn't have the name on the door yet A lot of new drivers coming on every time I come back here. I see new trucks in the yard I hope they're sticking around Open sesame is it sesame is it open sesame or is it open says me? Open says me or open sesame. It's sesame, right? Isn't it? I'm on Today Jude, come on. Let's go. I Got places to be Running much further behind than I wanted to already Like usual. We're still on time. I Always set big goals for myself like I am gonna get going at this time. We'll be there super early And then all these delays happen, then I end up being just a little bit early or God forbid just right on time. I don't want to be late though sometimes Circumstances out of our control cause us to be late And that is not very nice Nobody coming except for me rock and roll We'll make some money Seems as life goes on. We need more and more of that money to get less and less Are stopping at Timmy's there's no way I'm starting a trip with us We're in oak bluff Manitoba on the west side of Winnipeg Still got a long way to go. So we're gonna need some energy Sus look at all those bugs in my window. Yikes Let's stop and no, let's go wake those off over here. How about that? Parking on the side here so I'm not actually Didn't have any fluid in there. They just had to squeegee. There is no water or washer fluid or nothing in there So I couldn't watch my windshield. Oh, well Let's hope they got coffee Thank the good Lord They had Tim Horns because they didn't have Tim Horns. I mean It was about to go down stuff would have gone down So let's head into the night. Let's drive to Langbank. We'll be getting there pretty late I have to stop for my 10 consecutive hours so that I'm legal to cross back into the United States tomorrow Which means I'll be delivering Late morning back here in the afternoon We'll see how far we get but it was Thursday. So that means I may not have a reload on Friday because I might not have time We'll see what happens If I only deliver Friday afternoon There may not be time to go pick up a load yet and I have to be back for Saturday So in that case, I just have to come back empty, which is is what it is, but I'd rather have something on the trailer Possible Let's go to Saskatchewan Long-gone Saskatchewan. That's a good song. You guys should look it up long gone to Saskatchewan Whitewood Saskatchewan just about at our destination didn't take too long Continue on this road for 30 kilometers So that's a wrap on another good day Got a lot done at home got to the truck got a lot done in the truck Now we wait for the morning. We unload in the morning as soon as we can and Then rush back to grab our other load and then rush down to Minneapolis And then unload that and we'll see if I got a reload or not But whether I have a reload or not, we're gonna rush back home a lot of Russian hurry up and hopefully not wait Let's see what happens Tune in tomorrow for another vlog. Don't forget to subscribe down below. I make daily vlogs pretty much every day. We're on what? We're almost at 2,900. If not, have we hit 2,900 yet? We're getting close to 3,000 vlogs that I have on the internet here And they're all organized and playlists for you if you haven't been to my channel before Going to my to my main channel click my name below the video Go to my channel there first. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. 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From theCUBE Studios in Palo Alto in Boston, connecting with thought leaders all around the world, this is a CUBE conversation. Hi, Lisa Martin with theCUBE here, covering some news from Dell Technologies. I'm pleased to welcome one of its customers, Liam Furlong, the IT manager from Revelation Software. Liam, great to see you today. Thanks, Lisa. It's fantastic to be with you. And we're socially distant. California, you're done in Australia. I know it's early morning for you, but we're pleased to be chatting with you. So give our audience an overview of Revelation Software. Who are you and what do you do? Yeah, sure. Revelation Software is a software development company. No surprises there. And our primary product is a tool called RevTrack. And for all those SAP users out there, we help you get your changes navigated safely through the wide landscapes and the open seas of your SAP environment. So we're all about change management and delivering certainty in what is really rapidly changing landscapes in the IT world. So customers can go to you for all of their challenges with all their SAP data and sort of offload that, basically. I'm kidding. Yeah, I mean, that sounds lovely. I'm sure many of them would take that. So talk to me about your IT manager. Talk to me about your IT environment. I know you're highly virtualized. Just give us an overview of what your data environment looks like. Like a lot of software companies, we give our development teams a lot of freedom. And so over the years, a lot has definitely built into our environment. We have hundreds of VMs and even more SAP landscapes. We are committed to our customers to provide a lot of previous version compatibility, both in our products, but also in SAP, we support more of SAP's old versions than they do. We just wanna make sure that everyone is able to do their job and focus on what they're trying to do rather than worrying about, do I have to upgrade? Am I gonna be forced ahead in especially in a change management landscape? And so we have a lot of history, a lot of old environments. And we've managed that by using a lot of on-prem. We have local data centers like everyone, I guess. But also we've got a great multi-cloud environment now and it helps us to really provide an excellent environment for our teams to develop in the way that they want to, support our customers in an efficient way, but also without us having to over-commit to hardware and so on. So you have highly virtualized environment, about 150 VMs, nearly 500 SAP landscapes, so big administrative overhead. Talk to me about how you were protecting your data, I'm assuming VMs, maybe some SAP databases and servers. How are you protecting that before using Dell's new integrated approach? Yeah, we used a targeted appliance style, I guess. We built up what we thought was the right solution. We had a lot of legacy thinking, really, but tools. We used a lot of scripts previously. We used the Veeam platform. And that presented an ever-increasing set of challenges. As you can imagine with S3, S4, HANA rolling along, the environment just had to change. Our backup load was increasing. Our backup windows weren't getting any larger. And our backup targets weren't getting any larger. So we really needed to ask some hard questions about what we were doing and whether it was working for us. We had absolutely no cloud integration. Our off-site copies were completely inadequate. And so as an IT manager, who is the guy at the end of the road when it comes to RPO and RTO and certainty of restorability, I was not sleeping well, it's fair to say. Well, and that's something that obviously, you look to a company like Dell Technologies to help with sleep as a sleep aid. But you guys, I saw that after 20 years, you were testing a hosted version of your rev-track insights product and needed CloudDR and you kind of talked about meeting customer SLAs. And I was reading your case study and there was some big challenges there with respect to the SLA front. Yeah, definitely. I guess actually we were really fortunate to have started a conversation with Dell even before we were bringing our cloud platform online. We knew we were going to need to be able to address CloudDR. It was on the horizon for us. And so being able to talk with a vendor that had everything wrapped in, the idea of an integrated appliance was really quite foreign to me. The thought that I could trust Dell Technologies to actually do this better than me, I may that sounds a bit arrogant, but the truth is, I knew my environment and they didn't. But what was really a standout for us in the process is Dell knew that too. And they climbed into our environment and worked really hard. They really actually wanted to understand, well, what were our challenges? And what were our loads? What was our environment really like? And then work with us on a strong solution. And I was amazed. It felt really like the cavalry had arrived and they knew exactly what they were doing. And then they worked overtime to help us find a great solution. And it has been a fantastic solution, not only solving the challenges we faced at that time of deployment, but knowing what was on the horizon, going into the cloud and having a SaaS platform, we were future-proofed in a way that I was hopeful about, but now that we're using it in that way, I'm confident every day, I know that it's working properly for us. That confidence is absolutely critical, but you used a term that we hear so often in technology, future-proofed. Talk to me about, when you hear that as an IT manager, what does that mean to you and how is Dell Tech with the integrated approach delivering that? Yeah, I think, I mean, if I'm just being honest, I generally dismiss that when I hear anyone say that they're future-proofed because no one knows what's coming. I mean, here we are living this year out, right? And we knew 2020 was gonna be a big year, but not in the ways that it has been. I think that even though we wanted to believe that this backup tool would cover us, we weren't sure. What it has meant is there are two real standout things. One, there's a suite of functionality in the integrated appliance, which we didn't need them, but it was standing by and it was easy to turn on. It wasn't like, oh, and now you'll have to pay this extra fee or now you'll have to deploy these extra tools. It was all ready to go. And so they've brought their years of experience and forecasting and built in a bunch of functions, which no one is gonna need all of the tools out of the box, but over time you can deploy it. And the other really big one for us is all of the extra storage that we might need is our backup requirements grow shipped in the box, which is a huge cost to the vendor, but it's just sitting there ready for us to consume as we need, which is absolutely fantastic for me. I don't need to take our backup system offline to upgrade. I don't need to consume more rack space. I don't need to use more power. It's already doing everything it needs to and it's just about rolling forward easily as we move forward as a company. So walk us through what the environment looks like now. We mentioned 150 VMs, a big SAP landscape. Give us a picture of the technologies and what Dell is helping to protect in your environment. Yeah, so Dell covers everything. The integrated appliance we're using, actually it meets all of our needs. I'm a paranoid in my job, so we have extra bits and pieces kicking around, but the power protect device is our go-to. We know that it's going to be there. It's going to be online. It's going to have covered everything from our on-prem. So we use a VMware environment locally and we're backing up all of those VMs every night, about 54 terabytes of data. And we knock that out in about a 90-minute window, which is absolutely fantastic. So that backs up to local and then it ships up to our cloud environment. So we've got our off-site covered in that same night. Then we've also got environment, I guess using the Amazon example. We have a multi-cloud, so we've got things in a couple of different cloud providers, but to use Amazon as an example, we have production systems running up there, we have our SaaS environment running up there, and we capture that also with our power protect device and bring everything back down. And so now we've got that covered as well. And so no matter what our problem is, I've just got one place to go to to say, I need to restore this and I need to do it fast and we can get that done straight away. It's fantastic. And that's what I've been hearing. I've spoken with a number of folks already, including the VP of Product Marketing, Caitlin Gordon, and we're hearing a lot of that one-stop-shop sort of description for the integrated appliance. I'm wondering if you could give us a compare and contrast power protect, the integrated appliance, as you said, and described the benefits that you've already achieved versus the targeted approach with the theme that you had before. Yeah, sure. What we came from was only being able to back up mission-critical systems nightly and everything else had to be backed up weekly to achieve our backup windows.  Like, oh, yeah, we're looking at that, you know. We came from that to getting, as I said earlier, everything done every night, which is a complete transformation for us. It means that we don't need to worry about, we used to have to supplement our Veeam backup with scripts because we could get the scripted backup done much faster. And so we would go, oh, we'll restore with Veeam and then we'll lay a script over the top to recover everything up to last night. But now it's just all covered through that one appliance. Again, in our cloud environments, we use the local tools to provide a local backup. And that's great to have. Previously, that was mission-critical. We had to have that working. And we had to have our technicians up to speed with four or five different tool sets. But now it's great that they are aware of those tools, but really it's just about understanding one application. In regards to a targeted solution, you end up having really all these building blocks that only one person really knows how they all string together. But now not only do our whole team understand how it works together, but it's one phone number to find a whole group of people who know how it works together and they can help us from upgrades, deployments, restores, anything we need. If I'm on leave, then I know that someone else from Dell Tech can step in and cover me for any of the questions that might normally bubble up to my level. One of my favorite numbers, I'm sorry, I feel like I'm ranting, but one of my favorite numbers is we came from using a different hardware vendors, SAN, and we were getting compression maybe of three to six times on data. We get compression from a month view of 150 to 200 times. And if we expand that out to an annual view, we get compression rates of 300 times on our data, which means instead of having literally 15 RU of storage, we have two RU of storage. The cost per terabyte is down by hundreds of dollars. It makes me look really good. And I haven't had to do anything. All I did was just go, yep, you guys do it.  Those are huge deduplication numbers. I know Caitlyn, Gordon shared with me on average 65 to one, but you basically at least double that. And in terms of making you look good, that's something that's actually quite important in terms of IT and the business, making sure that what you can deliver to the business is the confidence and you and your team that their data is protected. Can you share a little bit about maybe the IT business relations and how this technology has helped them just have that confidence? Yeah, definitely. I mean, as you say, every part of the business sees a different thing. Our development team are paying attention to very different things to our accounting team. These numbers definitely helped me to make friends in both teams. As an IT manager, if the backups do their job properly, if this all works, no one notices. If this goes wrong, I break the business. So the stakes are pretty high with backup. But even though that's true and we know that's true, committing a big financial investment is still hard. It's still a moment where you hold your breath and ask, was it worth it? But now that we've been able to show the numbers to our executive teams and they can see how much money they're saving, how much money we would normally be reinvesting at this point, but we can now make that available for other projects. We can put that into further development. We can put that into improving our SaaS platform. That really works for us as a business. We want to serve our customers better. We don't want to waste our time and money on stuff that affects just our day to day. We want to be really focused where our people are with what they care about. So by putting money back in the pockets, that's a big win. And by making our infrastructure teams more free, their time is freer because they're not spending, we do restores every week, pardon me, every week, because those restores now run more smoothly and they are faster and there's less hunting around to try and find the backup that actually worked, then that means our infrastructure teams are free to also now do other upgrades, to work alongside, say, our developers. They want to be running the current versions of the Atlassian suite, not a version from a year ago, but we've got more time to do that work now. So it makes a big difference. Well, that workforce productivity that you're alluding to, it can be hugely impactful across the business. It's not just that now you've got one solution, one phone number to call it, there's issues. You've got more time back to be more innovative, more strategic, and so do the rest of the folks on your team. So the business overall, that workforce productivity can really be very widespread in a good way. Absolutely. And it's well felt. I think one of the things that it's really hard to put a dollar value on, but it is really key is people don't like doing rework and backup recovery feels like rework. You're like, I've been here before. And so by mitigating, particularly this aspect of our roles, our teams are happier. They generally are enjoying their work more because they're, as I say, they've got more time to work on things that are energizing and rewarding. And across the business, people feel better as well. There are a lot of complications in anyone's job, but certainly from the direction that hardware and storage and backup is being concerned, we've taken away a big stress. For me, for example, it's important that we test our DR scenario. Obviously everyone says that, but now we can actually do it. Now we can actually do a full DR production outage and go, okay, great. Let's shut it down and see what happens. And we were able to do that a couple of times a year. We don't have to pay for a cold DC or a warm DC in the wings. We can recover to the cloud. Our DR site is VMware Cloud on Amazon. So we can spin it up and do the whole DR scenario. Our DR is engaged within about three hours from a full building loss. And not only is that great piece of mine, but also, again, it puts great data into the hands of my CIO. He's able to present on business continuity issues to the executive team and show that we're actually caring about the business and caring about the things that people do worry about. And again, makes people look good, which is always helpful. It is absolutely. And as you said, it's really, if you can't restore the data, you're kind of stuck. So now I know why you look so rested because you have the solution. You're sleeping better at night.  Great work. And we look forward to hearing more great stories to come from Revelation Software. Thanks so much, Lisa. It's been a wonderful time. For Liam Furlong, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE.


Question is from Konichiwa. What is the difference between reverse dieting and bulking? How long can you stay in a calorie surplus before you get efficient with calories and to add on body fat? All right, so I'll hold off the second part of this question and just answer the first one first, which is the difference between reverse dieting and bulking. The difference is the goal, okay? So both of them, you are working with a calorie surplus, but really with the reverse diet, what you're trying to do is you're trying to back out of a low calorie diet situation and you're trying to back out gracefully. You're trying to do it in a way to where you don't have this crash weight gain that can happen from an extreme diet. So you see reverse dieting used most often with like physique competitors, bodybuilders, bikini competitors who will get really, really, really shredded for an event. And that usually means that they're towards the end of their cut or whatever. Their calories are as low as they're gonna get, oftentimes very low. Their activity is through the roof, they're doing lots of cardio, lots of working out. So to paint the scenario, let's say this female goes into a contest eating 1,200 calories a day or maybe even a little less. She's doing an hour of cardio every day plus working out. She does the contest, she does really well. What you don't wanna do is go, boom, I'm off the diet, I'm gonna eat whatever I want and I'm gonna just not do as much cardio because that will cause really rapid weight gain, may actually add fat cells to your body, isn't very healthy. So reverse dieting is rather than just going out of that is to slowly increase your calories and slowly reduce your cardiovascular activity. It's a healthy way of coming out of that type of a situation. The other example that too would actually be the client who comes to me and he or she is 300 pounds, they have yo-yo dieted their whole life and I have them track their food like I do everybody when we first start and just eat what you normally eat and then they provide their diet to me and they're eating 1,100 calories and they're 300 pounds and that is another example of where we would take a reverse diet type of an approach where we are slowly trying to add calories back in the diet and get their body used to that without putting on any excess body fat, which is similar to bulking. I think it's really how quote unquote bulking should be done. I mean, bulking is kind of an old term that we've used for a long time for increasing calories and what's happened is that we've turned it in what most people turn it into is what they call like a dirty bulk where it's okay, I'm trying to gain weight right now so I can't have this as out the window, it doesn't exist anymore, I can have whatever I want, right? I can eat whatever calories I want because I'm trying to put size on but we recommend against that, right? I think that creates a bad relationship with food. I think most people that you see that bulk like this put on as much or more body fat than they actually do muscle and then when they decide to lean back down they just go right back to the same starting point or worse than they were in before. So I think it's the old way of putting mass and size on that I think is slowly dying, to be honest with you. Yeah, yeah, you wanna increase your calories if you're trying to build muscle, you don't need to increase them as much as you think and then just monitor, monitor how you're doing. Now the second part about, how long can you stay in a calorie surplus before your body starts to add body fat? Well that's very different from person to person. The only way to know when it's time to stop is to monitor. Monitor yourself, slowly add. With some people I would add 50 to 100 calories per day per week, so this week we went from 1200 calories to 1300 calories and we'll watch the scale, watch the body fat calipers, how do you feel? Okay, everything looks good, let's add a little bit more. You wanna kind of come to terms with the fact that you will gain some weight, that's okay. Especially if you're coming out of a very, very low calorie situation. The idea though is for that weight to be muscle, so hopefully body fat percentage doesn't go up too much. And you keep doing that approach until you start to notice diminishing gains, until you start to notice, I'm gaining more body fat than I am muscle, then you can get back out of that. Sometimes doing a shortcut will get your body right in the right state to go back to the higher calorie. And this is a hard thing I think for people to grasp, even somebody who's been training for a long time. I don't know if I told you guys this or I think I told you Sal that I was helping our good friend, Larry's ex-wife right now get in shape. And she's somebody who's very familiar to the weight room and training and has kept herself in pretty good shape most of her life. And even where our starting point is she's not like way out of shape or anything. But I'm trying to get her to approach it differently as she's training right now. And one of the things that we're talking about is, I want to get her calories up. For somebody who is as active, she steps more than 10,000 steps a day. She's got a decent amount of lean body mass. She's an active fit person as it is. But she was only eating like 1,400, 1,500 calories when I first kind of assessed her diet and also doing cardio. So I've eliminated all cardio completely and we've been, you know, she's running MAPS anabolic right now and I've got her slowly increasing her calories. And every time we communicate, I'm always constantly saying, okay, this is, you're doing great here, you're doing great there. Add more here, a little bit more of this. No cardio, no cardio. And she asked me there today, like, when are we gonna be able to do cardio? And I said, well, before we even introduce cardio or even think about restricting calories, my goal is to get you up to, you know, in 2000 plus, mid 2000s is where I'd like to be calorie wise before I come the other way. And I go, right now we're in a really good place. We've eliminated cardio. You are stepping the same as you were before. We are now up to 1800 to 2000 calories a day and her weight's like holding. So what I, and I see her food that she's making good choices. She's getting protein intake. She's getting adequate fiber. Diet looks really good. And we're increasing calories. We're doing no cardio. And yet her weight is holding the same.  If I'm on the cut, I wanna see scale going down.  I know good things are happening. I know she's getting stronger. That's the response that I'm getting from her or dead lifters going up or squad is going up, but the scale is not going up but their calories are going up. So I know that there's probably a beautiful exchange happening right now. We're probably losing a pound to a pound and a half of body fat. We're gaining somewhere between a half a pound to a pound of muscle. And the rest is probably water going in and out. So we have a beautiful place to be, but it's such a hard place for people to be comfortable and okay with because we always wanna see these quick results. And that's what I find myself coaching the most to is like, listen, if you're eating well and by well hitting your macro targets, your protein intake like you're supposed to to making good food, whole food choices. And you're following like a maps program and your scale is staying the same. You're in a really good place. Oh, it's amazing. You're in an amazing place. That's amazing.  One of the main reasons, in my opinion, the slow approach is better is the way you adapt to it mentally. Going from diet to bulk in extreme ways is a fantastic way to get you to binge, develop bad relationship with food. Very rarely do, are we able to change our behaviors in such radical ways and do it in a healthy way? It's typically a slow kind of step approach, getting yourself used to things. So the slow approach also works mentally as well.


A special ceremony was held today to begin an 18-month long celebration and mark a special milestone for Bemidji State University. Our Josh Peterson shows us how the school will reflect, celebrate and look to the future. It was 100 years ago today that the ground was broke for the Bemidji Normal School. Fast forward 100 years and Bemidji State University spent the day honoring its 100-year milestone. At a reception prior to the kickoff celebration, artifacts and banners greeted guests showcasing the University's rich history. It's not just looking back, it's also really understanding how the University has impacted and been impacted by events in the community, the state and beyond. Minnesota State Trustee Roger Moe helped launch Bemidji State's celebration by touting the University's legacy. For 100 years Bemidji State has earned distinction as an outstanding university with dedicated faculty and staff, successful graduates and of course a beautiful lakeside campus that must be seen to be believed. Current students also spoke about the impact of Bemidji State and how it will live on the rest of their lives. The opportunities available at BSU are endless and I strive to make sure that I assist as a dedicated alumnus to continue to increase the opportunities to BSU students. A common theme shared throughout the ceremony was that a centennial celebration is a time to reflect, but it's also a time to look forward to the future. It is the people who shape the character of a university. Your passion and commitment to this great institution and most importantly to our students will carry us into the next century. With over a year to honor this historic milestone, Bemidji State University will continue to celebrate into its next 100 years. In Bemidji, Josh Peterson, Lakeland News. Bemidji State University also dedicated its newly renamed Centennial Plaza. BSU will also continue to celebrate at the annual Green and White Dinner at the Sanford Event Center on Saturday. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


The Saint Lucia National Trust has wrapped up a five-day training program in the proper use of unmanned aerial systems, commonly referred to as drones. This training was undertaken as part of capacity-building component of a rapid-response project which is being funded by the European Union and the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States through the bioparma program. The training agenda included a combination of theoretical and practical sessions, Dr. Kimberly Baldwin of Marine Spatial Information Solutions, based in Barbados, facilitated the sessions. How to safely and effectively fly a drone, understand all the operational policies, protocols and regulations that exist here in Saint Lucia, but also globally, and I've taught them how to operate in a commercial or professional standard for drones, and we learned how to take videos and photography, but we also learned about using drone mapping programs to conduct drone mapping and monitoring surveys as well. The Saint Lucia National Trust then visages that following this training, its staff as well as those at the Department of Fisheries will be better equipped to monitor, manage and conserve Saint Lucia's natural resources, habitats and heritage and conservation sites. Drones allow us the ability to capture real-time information which is often times much higher accuracy and resolution that we are getting from a satellite or aerial airplane images. So the benefits of using drone imagery are, I can go on for hours, disaster management and mapping, I'm using drones for mapping historical sites, but also mapping subgasm, we're using drones to look at climate change issues such as erosion, flooding events, we're using drones for agriculture and looking at precision farming applications. The training session was held at the Saint Lucia National Trust's southern office in the Maria Island Interpretation Centre in V4, and the participants of this training comprise of members of the Saint Lucia National Trust's technical and management team and the Department of Fisheries.