Hi, welcome to Seymour's World at Think Tech Hawaii. What a couple of weeks it has been. Our last show with Dana Land was unbelievable. We had over 300 people giving us comments and asking where to see her. And the day after, she played at Rehab Hospital and they even knew about it, so we were very, very excited. And I thank you very much for all of your wonderful comments. The day after the show, I had to go to China and I had to work there for a week and everybody knows about the smog and how terrible it is in China. And I have to say, it was not very comfortable. Except for one thing, I didn't see any homeless people on the street. Everybody seemed to have a job. Everybody seemed to be working. I couldn't find anything regarding poor people there and that stuck in my mind. And then I came home and I was driving back from the airport and I passed by some parks here in Hawaii on the way home. And all I saw were tents, poor people, homeless people. And I said, this is horrible. So I decided that I'm going to do a show on it and I have a very good friend. I wanna introduce my guest, Stan Markle. Hi, Stan. Hi, Seymour. And I asked him to come on the show because he works for the Hawaii Food Bank. And the Hawaii Food Bank has done such an admirable job, Stan, in helping poor people in Hawaii. And I don't wanna use the poor as an adjective. I wanna use it as a section of our population. People who just don't have enough for what's going on. And Hawaii Food Bank in the nation is recognized as one of the premier sources of food for people who need it.  Okay, well, the Hawaii Food Bank is part of Feeding America, which is a consortium of 200 food banks across the country. And we've been in existence here for about 28 years. And we serve approximately 200 agencies who in turn provide food for the homeless. And how many pounds of food are we talking about? Well, the need is great here and it seems to be getting greater all the time, as you mentioned. This past fiscal year, which just concluded at the end of June, we brought in 14 million, 250,000 pounds of food. So over a million pounds of food a month passes through our distribution warehouse. To feed the needy, to feed the people that need. It's amazing to me when I look at everything we're talking about in the news today. And we talk about ISIS and terrorism and it's horrible. But we have to take care of the people back home. And I don't care whether you're in Montreal or New York or Los Angeles or wherever you are in the world watching this show, I want you to think about just giving some food, just giving some cans, giving some things that you never use that have been sitting in the pantry for a long time. Give them to the needy. And the Hawaii Food Bank does exactly that. It's just amazing. No, absolutely. One in five people in Hawaii receive food through our food bank. Our mission is very simple, really. We just don't think that anybody in our Ohana family in Hawaii should go hungry. It's fabulous, Dan. One of the reasons that I wanted to bring you specifically on to the Food Bank is because I want people to know that you and I are old friends. We've been together for 30 years. Our kids went to school together. And I have great admiration for you because you survived cancer that we thought was unbelievable. We thought we would not see you again. But you were back on the tennis court last week and we played together. Fortunately, I beat you. But it was a great match. And it's just testament to your strength and perseverance, Dan, that you have survived cancer. So we're really, really happy to see you back again. Thank you. Thank you, Seymour. Thank you, Seymour. I'm glad just to be playing, really. I know, I know. In one of these days, I'll be able to return that serve of yours. It's so peculiar. It's a little bit crazy. Let's get back to the Food Bank and what it does. A lot of issues have come up regarding the percentage of food, money, et cetera, et cetera, that it takes to run the organizations that we see. And I was surprised when you told me that 95% of the money raised goes directly to the cause. Absolutely, absolutely. We're a very lean and mean organization. Everybody has to wear multiple hats. I'm the director of product resourcing, which includes donations, procurement, but I also get involved in food drives. And we are here today to talk a little bit about the National Association of Letter Carriers. Well, why don't you introduce Adele? I want to introduce one of the most amazing people I've ever met, Adele Yoshio. She's with the NALC. So she's one of the hardworking letter carriers that come to your house every day to deliver the mail. And she's going to talk a little bit about a food drive that really helps us stay afloat at the Hawaii Food Bank. We have a... Go ahead. The second Saturday of every month.  Adele, before you get started, you're a lady from Hawaii, obviously, and you were born and raised here? Born and raised here.  Wow, so I'm in the presence of two people who really have done something extraordinary. And you both noticed before you get started that you give more now because of your survival, that you decide that your legacy is not just to do the best that you can for yourself, but to give back to others? Absolutely, absolutely. I've had a clearer sense of life now and helping people. So I am just so fortunate to work for the United States Postal Service and we always emphasize that we do more than just deliver the mail. So events like this, like the Hawaii Food Drive, I mean, the Food Bank and then you'll see Letter Carrier's Food Drive is, I am so passionate about it. So what is it? How do you get involved in the, or the postal you get involved in the food drive? So as I mentioned before, the public know we do more than deliver the mail. So I've been a coordinator for over 10 years. And it's a one-day drive. Think about this now. In one day, we collect more food than any other organization in the world. Last year alone in the state of Hawaii, over 526,000 pounds of food was just collected in Hawaii. Nationwide, over 70 million pounds of food was collected. In one day. In one day. So in Little Hawaii, for those of you who understand a lot about how small Hawaii is, we collected 526,000 pounds. Yes. That is absolutely incredible. And that's on, we're actually showing a little bit of it. Oh, I love it. Wow. Is that you? Look at that. See the blue bags? Yes. When we got the blue bags, our numbers actually doubled. We used to collect about two to 300,000 pounds of food. That year, that picture was taken over, almost close to 600,000. This is my family. Oh, wow. We reached out to the community. My family comes out every single year to help out people from the neighborhood, schools, and organizations. We help them. I always say win, win. They come out to volunteer, and that's where we have giving back to the Hawaii food bag. And in turn, we give them letters of recommendation. Wow. So how do you do it? How do you, how do the people know what's going to happen? We go and send those blue bags and put it in their mailboxes. So these can we show them? Yes. Simple, simple, simple. Put it up. They're amazing. We put this bag in their mailboxes. We have a reminder card, and we tell them, very simple, fill the bag, leave it in your mailbox, or I always say, better yet, give it to your letter carrier. Cause nowadays people just don't want to give what's in the bag. They buy cases of Vienna sausage and spam. So I said, give it to your letter carrier. And what's even more exciting is that, you know, I met a vegetarian. She's my doctor, amazing woman, Dr. Mitzi Gold. She doesn't have cangos in her cupboard. But she goes, I would absolutely like to write a check. And so we have that option too. You guys can write a check to the Hawaii Food Bank and the NALC letter carriers get credit for that. You know, you must be so proud. I mean, we could tell how exuberant you are about what you're doing, but you must be so proud of it because it does so much for the people. Do you have direct connection while you're doing your work as a letter carrier with people who do need food? Oh, absolutely. In fact, the area that I deliver in, I don't like to use this word, but it's a little, they call it the ghetto, but it's, we have a lot of homeless people. And so I've been able to direct them. I said, you know, stop asking me for money. I said, I can give you help. And I said, I have an organization that can help you. I'm referring them to the Hawaii Food Bank. And they'll come back and say, thank you Adele. I was able to eat, you know. And what really hit home for me was my, my brother became homeless. And I've been giving back, you know, through the NLC food drive and not really hitting home until he, the organizations here in Hawaii put him in a shelter and the Hawaii Food Bank was able to feed him. And he's back on his feet again now. He has a job doing well. And that even made me more passionate about volunteering for the event. I think the idea of the Postal Carrier Union, it's a union, it's everybody, right? Across the nation, it doesn't. It's such a wonderful thing to do because you help so many people. I think some people, since then, maybe you can explain it a little bit. They don't realize it's not just about giving food to people to eat. It's about what happens to these people if they don't have food.  There's crime involved. Well, I mean, how do you guys help when it comes to making sure that the people actually get the food all the time? Do you have a direct system of delivery? Well, we distribute the food through agencies who are 501C nonprofits like us. So many of them are faith-based, like churches, and people register with the church and they receive food at the church. They have pantries, just like little stores they'll have in their churches or in their agencies. And people will come in and receive food there. We don't have people in need actually coming to our warehouse. We only deal with other nonprofits. And how many agencies are there?  Right, so we serve 287,000 people in Hawaii. And I think that number would surprise a lot of people. Wow, 200, that's one-fifth of our population. Exactly. Wow, that is really good. That's a very high percentage. I mean, even people that on the outside look like they're middle-class, hey, they're still having a tough time in Hawaii making ends meet.  Do they pay for their rent? Do they put gas in the car? Well, I'm here to tell you that kids and seniors, that's a lot of the people that we serve, they deserve a chance to thrive. And this is a transition for many people. But thankfully, we're able to have a lot of very generous donors in our community. About 70% of the food we get is through retailers, retail grocery stores and wholesalers, which is pretty neat.  Waste not want not. And I think that's the credo that we live by and every day for me, it's like a treasure hunt. I think it's wonderful, Stan. Well, we need to get to a break, but I do want to get into the actual mechanics of how this all works, because when you think about hundreds of thousands of pounds of, I mean, how many pallets you all do and all that stuff, we're going to talk about that. That sounds good. I really am quite passionate about what the Hawaii Food Bank does. And Adele and Stan have given us a small indication of what you can do and how important it is for you to be a part of the Hawaii Food Bank if you live here in Hawaii or anywhere else in the world, how important it is to help your neighbors. They may not be your direct neighbors, but they are part of our society and we need to give them some assistance. We'll be back in a minute. I'm Seymour Kazimurski on Seymour's World at Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha, it's summertime in Honolulu, Hawaii. My name is Stephen Philip Katz. I'm your host for Shrink Wrap Hawaii. We're on every Tuesday at three o'clock and we talk about mental health and general health. Join us. Thank you. Aloha, I'm Kaui Lucas, host of Hawaii is My Mainland every Friday here on Think Tech Hawaii. I also have a blog of the same game at kauilukas.com where you can see all of my past shows. Join me this Friday and every Friday at 3 p.m. Aloha. Aloha! Michael, University of Hawaii football team under Rolovich is gonna kick butt this season. In case you didn't understand me, University of Hawaii football team is gonna kick butt under Rolovich this season. So be sure to follow us on Think Tech Hawaii and Hibachi Top. I'll be at every game. And remember, Aloha! Hi, welcome back to Seymour's World of Think Tech Hawaii. We have one of my most important shows today which is how do we help people who really need assistance? And the Hawaii Food Bank in Hawaii is an amazing organization, an organization that feeds more people per capita than anywhere in the world. The little state of Hawaii is able to do that. And a lot of it has to do with the letter carriers. And Adele, you were talking before about what you do. Tell us a little bit about the stories. Okay, so I've been with a letter carrier for almost 18 years. And I just helped out every year, not really knowing behind the scenes. So one year I was asked to be a coordinator, walked into the warehouse. You were talking about the Hawaii Food Bank. Yeah, the Hawaii Food Bank. I walked into the warehouse. And right before our food drive, the warehouse was empty. And then after our food drive, how the shelves were just flourished. And I was like, this is amazing. But what really hit home too is our food drive is held the second Saturday of May, every single year. Next year is gonna be our 25th anniversary. And I didn't realize that the kids during the summer months, a lot of them don't have food. And so our drive happening in May, it sets them up for the summer months. Wow. So that even made me even more passionate about the drive. So how did this year's drive go? The May drive this year? Yeah, so this is probably, I think in our top five of the 24 years, and like we mentioned earlier, over 526,000 pounds of food was collected in Hawaii alone. So Stan, what happens when you get 526,000 pounds of food? I'm trying to understand the actual logistics of it. 526,000 pounds of food, does it all come at one time? Well, I'm glad you asked that Seymour because we're closed on Saturday. And that's when they collect, right? It's on Saturday. Yeah, and so think about it. I mean, all these litter carriers with these little trucks, and they had to deliver the mail too, you know. Now there's stuff with all this food. So it all goes to their station, their post office. So what we do is a lot of very generous companies in town donate their truck and a driver, and we assign them post offices to go to on Saturday, the second Saturday of May. So the trucks all come in and assign times to the food bank. And you unload. And we receive them from 7 o'clock till 10 o'clock at night. So I want to put a plug in here for the AFL-CIO because they help arrange a lot of volunteers. And believe it or not, there's 400 volunteers. 400 volunteers. 400 volunteers just unloading these trucks and stocking the shelves. It's just controlled chaos. And our Kaiser is so generous. They provide dinner for all the volunteers. And Koala Moa is who provided it. But hey, we got to get done fast because it's back to work, baby. And you have a lot of sponsors too, right? I read some of these sponsors that you have on this drive if you want to, or show it on there. Down at the bottom, you can see. Yeah, we want to put a plug in for the people that make this happen with these blue bags. This is quite expensive for us. So I want to thank McDonald's and I want to thank Minahuni Water and I want to thank Hanlou Frey as well as, of course, AFL-CIO for helping subsidize the cost of these bags. And we're looking for more sponsors all the time. I was just going to say, can anybody be a sponsor? Do they just call you? Yes. Absolutely. Yes, we do. Because we're scared. We're scared. You're scared of it. You have to go out and order all this. Right. You know what I really admire about what you do, because I'm involved in several philanthropic organizations as well, is that A, 95% of the money that's raised goes directly towards the cause. That's wonderful. But that you're getting the community involved, that you're getting others involved. For instance, I do a foster kids program and we're doing an awards banquet in December and I happen to be the recipient of the Volunteer of the Year award for that banquet, which is very nice and I appreciate it. But all the kids are participating because they are going to be part of the event to make sure they understand why things happen. And I think you're doing the same thing. The letter carriers, what a... I wanted to share my image about volunteers. Years ago, we used to collect our own food, box our own food, go home at 10 o'clock in the night. Through the years in the community, we got volunteers from the high schools, the Navy and the Navy SEALs come out and everything. And so now we have over a hundred volunteers that just come to our pro-city post office. That's fabulous. And we're able to go home at five. And you have to see when the volunteers come out, knowing that they're giving back, you gotta see the face, they long for our food driver. Sometimes we dread it, honestly, because he said, we still deliver the mail, we let the public know upon our regular mail delivery, we still pick up the food. So we're doing dual jobs at that time. Go ahead. Yeah, so now that volunteers come out and then they're like, we're so excited to help. And then so we see the passion in them and then it makes us like, okay, wake up. This is just one day out of here. It's all good, you know?  You know, in my work, I just got back from China and I was working over there for a client and we're talking about building zip lines, you know, zip-track lines for the Beijing Olympics. And yeah, it's all great stuff. But when you see that you're doing something directly involved for a child to eat, to have a meal, I mean, that is so much more worthy. Where did that come from for you? Stan, you were mentioning about your cancer. Well, I've been in the food business in Hawaii for 30 years, so I know a little bit about where there's catch points, where there's waste. But to your point, yeah, I got that diagnosis and that's really a bummer. But I thought a lot about my life and I read a book about the purpose-driven life and I said to myself, if I ever come out of this, you know, it'd be great to do something, to actually help somebody. And I gotta tell you, I love to go to work every day. I love the people that I work with and working for a nonprofit, it's a total different mindset. I mean, the guy next to you- Not about the money, is it, Stan? It's not the same as just fighting like heck to make quota. It's different than the guy next to you just trying to get his bonus. And he's got a different set of objectives of your, I mean, this is a total different thing. I mean, we all work together very hard and when we have different events, like great chefs, where we turn our whole warehouse into a restaurant, or when we do construction, which is coming up, or when we do our food drives, all the people in our company have to circle the wagons and it's all about the next event. Stan, you gave me a saying that you believe in. Could you repeat it for us? Oh, I'd love to. Muhammad Ali, I thought, had a great quote when he said, service is the rent we pay for our room here on earth. And that is so true, so true. And obviously it's something that you ascribe to now, which is wonderful. Now you Adele- I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if you're reaching the right, okay. Go ahead, because it's absolutely apt for what we're talking about. Right, okay, so I went to attend, I'll say, think about what he said.  So 2014 I get a call from the doctor on a Sunday before Memorial Day. I said, doctors don't call you with good news on a Sunday.  So I thought about my life at that time and I'm like, what am I gonna do? So I actually went to a seminar, side seminars and every day they sent a thought for the day. I wanted to share this thought. It says, the things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone. But I need glasses. But the things you do for others remain as your legacy. That's absolutely true. Yeah, and so when I just heard this thought and being on the show today, I had chickens again, more so. I wanna give back and I don't wanna cry, but. That's okay. No, but you know, it just, it hits home. It's just one person at a time if we can just help one person and it just takes a little. But can you imagine if everybody had the same mindset and everybody just gave a little, how amazing the road would be? You're 100% right. And I think you are both testament to that. The idea that you are now in a stage of your life, no matter, although you still don't look like you have grandchildren, but you totally, I can't believe it. I have two beautiful grandchildren.  And I think it's so impressive. Stan, I've known you for 30 years that at the ages that we are all at now, if we can convince more and more people to do the same, just think about helping somebody cross the street or just do something for somebody in whatever way, fashion that you can. Give somebody a meal, do something for others that have a little less fortunate times than you have and you will feel so much better inside. You will feel so good about yourself. And that's part of the message that we have, which I think is terrific. Now, you have a shirt here. I've been on it. And I'm excited, because this is from a previous year, but I'm excited that this is one of your favorite colors. It is. My wife, Sue, says I look good in orange. So don't have to worry about it. But every year we get a T-shirt like this. So beautiful. You see the woman on here? Wow. And it says the Hawaii Food Bank and the Better Carriers Food Drive. Can you put it up? Yeah. Look at that. And so every year we get a different color. This year we had like a royal blue. OK. So I guess, wait, I have to show this. She can zoom in. This is our NALC, where is it? Ear logo. Myrna's NALC logo. So that's the Letter Carriers shirt. That's your shirt? Yes. Oh, that's wonderful. And the day that you do the collection, do they let you wear it? Remember, yes, we all wear it. On May 22nd. So some of the pictures that she showed on there, this year was a royal. Right, I saw them. And so we all wear it on the street. We wear it at the food bank, and so it's exciting.  So think about it for those second Saturday in May. So next year is May 13th, 2017. If you want to volunteer, come to our office. We'll feed you lunch. See how beautiful? Yeah. We'll feed you lunch, and you get a free shirt. Oh, that is so good. So put it on your calendar. Now, Stan, besides theirs, you take food all the time, right? Yes, we do. Any time could people drop off food? Yes, we do. You just come down to our warehouse at 2611 Keely House Street. Keely House. Keely House. So it's in the point of order. Take a look up Hawaii Food Bank. Yes, or go to our website. We have an excellent website. Google it. Oh, sorry. Yep, that's wonderful. So you can also drop off food at any Napa auto parts store, and our trucks pick up there. I know at Temple of Manuel, we drive food, or we get food for you guys for your truck. Put a shout out to Richard Field. Yes, exactly. He's kind of minding me. He's a good golfer. Richard, I know you watch my show, because I've had comments from you. So good comments, by the way. Yes, absolutely. Yes. Or any Ruby Tuesdays on the island. So Napa auto parts, Ruby 2. We try to make it easy for people to donate food to us. What an organization. I am so impressed. And remember now, send checks too. That's right. Next year is our 25th year of 25th anniversary. We want it to be, I mean, if we can shoot for a million pounds, nothing is too far-reaching. So do you think that Adele is really a very calm, easy person about this?  Stan, to both of you, I want to say thank you so much for coming on the show. I think it's so important, the work that you guys are doing. And I wanted to emphasize it, because it is, you know, the news doesn't talk about it very much. They talk more about the stuff like terrorism, which I know is bad. But we need to help the people here.  You'll feel so good about doing that. Yes, and don't worry about these expiration dates or these dates on there. Just give us the food. And then you guys will take it. There's a lot of confusion about a best of use by date and expiration. Don't worry about it. Just give it to us. We'll figure it out. Good. Thank you for doing what you do and allowing us to share. Thank you, Seymour. Oh, it's my pleasure. And it really is my pleasure. You know, none of us get paid for anything that we do here. So I just think it's a wonderful, wonderful way to convey a message to our audience that they can do and make a difference. Thank you, Adele. Thank you, Stan. Thanks, Seymour. Thank you, everybody, for watching our show today. I'm not sure if we'll be back in two weeks again because my son is getting married. Aaron is getting married here in Honolulu and the wedding is on Saturday and the show is on Friday. And I do have a show planned for the 29th of July, but things might get a little tough with time and everybody flying in for the wedding. So Aloha from Seymour's World on ThinkDec Hawaii. Hopefully we'll see you in two weeks. If not, we'll see you in a month. Bye-bye.


Hello, I'm Stefan Grübler. I'm a solution engineer working from Germany, Frankfurt. And I'm going to introduce you to a component, which I consider a hidden gem in our current product, Investigate, which exists there for a long time, but was only available on the Windows console. And now it comes into the TrueSight console. So this provides you additional capabilities, additional value also, looking at the agent data. So let me introduce you to some of the basics regarding what are the requirements, what are the metrics, where do you find the documentation, and how do you work basically in the TrueSight console before I hand over to Karen showing you also a study. Investigate is the component that works with agent-based data collection. So the agent collects many metrics, not just capacity and performance metrics, but also about the configuration. Normally, this data is analyzed and brought into the data warehouse, and you consume it through views and in a workspace, through great reports. But this data is also available on the agent, in a history, and also in a file structure that we call UDR data. The ultimate requirement is, if you want to show the capability to a customer to have the capacity agent installed, and ideally with the history data collection enabled. So in the screenshot on the left side, you see one of the screens in the installer process that allows you to enable the collection of historical data. And this will give you the near real-time capabilities also coming now in the TrueSight console, rather than waiting for a day or two before data comes in. So this will also allow you to see really quickly what the agent collects after you install it. On the right-hand side, you see that at least one gateway server needs to be installed, because this is the proxy that calls the individual agents and streams the data to the TrueSight console. The default retention time in the history data repository is defined in three stages. For the first hour, we provide data and history in 10 seconds granularity. After that, this data is summarized into five minutes intervals, and it is kept in history for eight hours. And the second summarization level is taking data of these five minutes intervals, create 15 minutes interval data for 40 hours. So you can have a history of 49 hours data taken directly from the agent streamed to the TrueSight console. And this is very valuable if you just install the agent would like to see quickly data that came in the last few hours, or if you come in the morning and you would like to see something that happened overnight rather than waiting for the next day before data usually is updated in the data warehouse. In order to work with the investigate, you need to have either operator role assigned or planner role, because the activity investigate section, either view or edit, belongs to operator and planner. Let's talk about metrics. The term of the metric regarding the agent is different from what we understand as a metric in the data warehouse. It gets translated. There is some calculation before it's moved to the data warehouse. The metrics are the raw data collected by and organized by metric groups, primarily for two different platforms, UNIX or Linux and Windows. So if you drill down to a UNIX or Linux system, you see metric groups with different naming than if you drill down to a Windows system. The Universal Data Repository, or UDR for short, organizes these metrics in folders that are named by these metric groups. And you see all this in the documentation by individual metric groups that you can drill down there in the documentation. Once you have added the gateway server in the TrueSight console, you can see two types of systems. Either you created a manager run and you configure the ETL which publishes the data warehouses with new data. Or you have systems not included in an ETL, but you are able to look at both with the investigate. The first managed systems, as we call it, are available. This data is also available in the data repository on the gateway server. Or they are categorized as uncataloged. So for those systems, the gateway server will talk to the agent and stream data directly from the agent, rather than looking at the UDR data. When we turn to the TrueSight console, to the TrueSight UI and presentation server, you basically find a study organized in a way like it is shown in a screenshot. And a study saves the definition of systems, the interval, the metric groups and filters you define, and also the format, whether you define it as a table or as a chart. But we will see this better in the demo that follows this presentation. So today, investigate is only available on Windows. Less people found this hidden gem and never used it. Now with investigate being able in the TrueSight UI, it really provides you more data and better granularity that you will find in the data warehouse, which also helps you with performance analysis. And sometimes we are faced with competitors really providing this capability, having both historical and real-time data in a single UI. So this positions us better, even without TrueSight operations for just the pure capacity and performance and analysis, against some of the competitors who does both. Let's move on to the life environment. Let's have a quick look at the documentation. I said that in the documentation you will find the metric groups and metrics organized by platforms. So when you do drill downs, you're not sure what the individual metric means. Then you can navigate in the documentation. And if you would like to see system statistics, you see all the metric definitions here. This is really the raw data that is collected every day. And it's a much richer data set that you will find in the data warehouse. In the TrueSight administration section, in the TrueSight console, in the administration section, I mentioned the prerequisite is to have Gateway servers added. Once you click on one of the existing Gateway servers, you can see the list of agents that are available, where UDR data is available. And these systems are part of the daily management run. You're able to edit Uncatalog systems here and provide this one system per line or IP address per line. Then the data is streamed directly from those systems even if you have it included in an ETL run. In the TrueSight UI, you will find Investigate on the capacity. From here, you have the opportunity to look at predefined study groups, groups that are defined by other members, by other users. Or you can create your own Investigate study. And when creating a study, you have the choice between the data that's available on the Gateway. These are the systems. And you see that I'm filtered here. Or the Uncatalog systems. These are the systems where only real-time data is available. When you click on one of the entries, you can then select a metric group, press Apply, and real-time data is streamed through the Investigate UI. In this UI, and I don't want to explain too much that Karen is going to cover in the next presentation. But basically, you have the opportunity to save this study here. You can also let this data be actualized in every 10 seconds. So when we enable the Auto Refresh here, just look at the timestamp. It should be updated in a couple of seconds. You notice that every 10 seconds, this table will be updated. So you're able to really show a shot with updated data later on. But Karen is going to cover this when we're going to study.


We are the Five Awesome Heroes. Welcome to our show. Hi, everyone. I'm Emily Anderson with the Bridging Program. Back again to be making more TV shows with the students in community connections. Today, you've already met the Five Awesome Heroes, or four of the Awesome Heroes in peer mentor Mieva. We are embarking on a new project. Last year, students interviewed and were interviewed by activist David Fry. He has already been working with our students this year, inspiring them to tell their stories. And we are going to start off with peer mentor Mieva sharing her story, and then she will hear the stories of the other students. And meanwhile, talk a little bit about why it's important for why David Fry really believes in people telling their stories as people with disabilities telling stories helps people change their minds and realize there are more ways that we are alike than not alike. And this can change laws, this can change policies, and this can make our world even more accessible for everyone. So, here is peer mentor Mieva. And here's peer mentor Mieva. I just want to also acknowledge this really great artwork that the group created when they first went out in the community at Topaz Weiss's Expressive Arts, Burlington. So this is the work of the Five Awesome Heroes. Mieva, please share us your story. Mieva was part of the workshop with David Fry, wrote her story, and I felt it was a great way to start things off today. Hi, my name is Mieva. I was born in Maine after a few years from living in San Diego. I moved to Vermont. My dream was to go to a public high school. It came true. During high school, I ment toward this sweet girl who had autism like me. I helped her with friendship skills and sharing by interacting with her. And I realized that's what I want to do. I want to work with kids and young adults with disabilities like me. That's so beautiful, Mieva. I love, first I always love what you write. You're so clear. You're such a wonderful expresser of your experience. And I love that now, last year you're in the bridging program as a high school student with a disability and you are now, have been hired back to be a peer mentor and be a support for the students in a way that, you know, I can't give the students the same sort of support that you can because you have been in the program. You also share things with the students that I don't. So I love that you are living your dream and I'm glad to be a part of it. And I'm just wondering if there's anything you'd like to add to the importance of sharing your story? Like, what else? Why is it important for people, for young people with disabilities to share their story? Yesterday I was writing something at my respite's house and her kids were like, Mieva, what are you writing? And I'm like, we all have a story. They're like, what's a story? And I believe we all have a story to share with the world so they can understand who we are and they don't judge us for our differences, disability or not. I believe we're all a lot alike from one another.  Well, I know there are other awesome heroes that are ready to share their story with you so I'm going to snap out and someone else will snap in. You ready? Mm-hmm. Okay, will you snap me out? Hi, my name is Mieva. I'm a peer mentor. I'm here with Kabrithika today to share her story. Okay. In my story, in I'd like to virtual, I'd like was the captain to for my captain. I like bullying, I'd like maths class, I'd like to dance to Macarena, I'd like to dance with Rose, I'd like to go into the mall, I'd like to watch the movie, I'd like, I'd like pizza. Thank you, Karithika, for sharing. I have a question for you. Yeah. What do you like about, is it called bachi? Bachi ball or something? Yeah. What do you like about it? How does it make you feel when you do it? Like as a hobby? Bachi ball? Yeah. How does it make you feel? Happy. Thank you so much for sharing. My name is Miyeva. I'm here with Kaden today to share her story. I'm going to read mine. I am poem. Thank you. The first one is I am crying. A nice person. And my person. The second one I wondered, which I don't know. The number three, I heard cars. I see flowers and guys. The fifth one, I don't know. And the sixth one, I'm crying. Nice. And my person. I have a question for you. What were you thinking that inspired you when you were writing your poem? Like the things you shared, what inspired you to write them? What inspired me was that I had a good feeling of writing because it definitely helped me. Writing? Yeah. Cool. It definitely helped me when I do like a hard time or like some short... Yeah. Thank you so much for sharing, Cadence. Thank you. You're welcome. Hi. My name is Miyeva. And I'm here with Carlton today to share his story. Hi. My name is Carlton Pham. I am 20 years old. I was born in Tunain for a month. I live with my parents and my brother and co-chester. I like to pray. He has one in New York. My favorite food is noodles. I have a job as a resource in real estate for a month. My favorite food is good and others are for Beatles and Jackson 5. Thank you so much, Carlton, for sharing. Yes. I have a question for you. You wrote about some hobbies in there. What's your favorite hobby to do? Okay. My favorite hobbies are... I want a spicy noodle. I'm a boy and a student. Thank you, Carlton, for sharing. Okay. I'm here with Autumn to share her story today. I am kind and smart and beautiful. I wonder what my job will be here in airplane. I see my grandma. I want to go to college. I am kind and smart and beautiful. I love dragonflies. I have a question for you. What do you like about dragonflies? Dragonflies are around in the sky. Thank you for sharing, Autumn. Hi. My name is Miyeva. I'm here to represent Gray today, who is apparently not here, but he's an amazing friend. He's really funny and he loves to do art and color rainbows. At Bridging, we have this wall full of rainbows of Gray's artwork. I think he's a great artist and an amazing person. Thank you, everyone, for watching.


and welcome to our channel. Today I wanted to make a video on A-Tip Request. So it's an access to information and privacy request. This is an application that you can complete online for various agencies if you want to get a copy of your file at different agencies in the Canadian government. So in our immigration law firm we do two types of A-Tip Request, one at IRCC which is Immigration and the other one is CBSA Canada Board of Services Agency. We do these types of requests quite frequently because what happens is when a client comes to us and has already filed multiple applications, there's some refusals or complexity and they've already seen different representatives, consultants or lawyers or they represented themselves and they've done a number of things. Often clients do not, they didn't keep a copy of what they submitted or if they have copies it's bits and pieces and before we start working on an application or engage in a strategy sometimes we need to see exactly what happened and we can't as a law firm rely only on what the client is saying sometimes so we have to get a full copy of the application. So by submitting these online requests having the client sign a consent form and submitting the request we get typically it's supposed to take 30 days to get a full copy of the file we get it by email or we get a CD but sometimes it could be much longer because of backlogs it could actually take a few months many months sometimes to get a response there's ways that we can follow up to try to expedite if it takes really really long then sometimes as a last resort we might file a complaint because in some cases we have some delicate cases where we need to get a copy of the file but more or less it's supposed to take 30 days and when we do get the copy of the file there's different things that we see in there so usually what we do is we request either the documentations and the officer notes the notes or the officers or we only want the notes or sometimes we only want the documents I find usually we ask for both and when we do get a copy we it could be a couple of pages and sometimes it could be three four hundred pages so we go through that carefully to make sure that we're you know we get the information that we're looking for and especially if for example if a client come to us and they say well I've been living in Canada for 20 years and I think I'm in status or maybe I'm not in status and I was supposed to leave but I didn't and we're not sure if there's a warrant for an arrest of the client or we're not sure what type of application he's done so when we get the copy of the file either from IRCC or CBSA we get to see exactly what happened in the file the history and this is particularly important for example if for example we have a client who filed for spousal sponsorship and they want to refile because it was refused depending on the consultation we do with the client if we feel that we really need to see what happened before we do an eight request because sometimes clients may have said one thing in the first application and now they say something else thinking that oh it doesn't matter we made a mistake or this is the truth or the officer's not going to look at what we said in the other application and that's actually really not true because officers have a copy of everything so anything that you submit to immigration it will stay in the history and it doesn't necessarily mean that the the officer's going to look at it but there are good chances that officer will especially if the case is complex so to avoid contradictions or if there was something that was said initially that was wrong then in our new application we need to provide legal detailed legal submissions and explain the contradiction and maybe apologize or explain why it was confusing was it the previous representative was it the the client that made a mistake so eight tip requests are can be very useful it's a great way to get a copy of the file if you want to have it for your records it's a great way for the lawyer to understand what happened to you it's five dollars actually to apply for it online yourself and as I said it could take 30 days sometimes it comes in a few weeks but sometimes it could take much longer so if you're you're thinking of engaging a lawyer to do something for you and you have this long immigration history it's a good idea to go ahead and apply for that as soon as you can and with respect to cbsa the the eight tip request for cbsa will be for example if we want to know if the client has a warrant for arrest we want to know if there was enforcement proceedings against the client and ircc will be copies for example spouse of sponsorship visitor visas citizenship application everything that's not enforcement doesn't have to do with cbsa will be on the ircc side and vice versa um thank you for listening to our channel and if you guys have any questions don't hesitate to contact us at info at kiork immigration law dot com thank you


That's why they call me the boogie can because I had that boogie on my back Ain't no sitting down and right now y'all to be catching in cuz y'all like I said you already been gone like I said the Instagram thing wasn't even prevalent when you left here.   I was the first to Texas to go viral man My time Did you used to go by what was it? I was the first to put the Dougie a person boogie and on YouTube in Dallas What a channel that channel is disappear somewhere you came look it up I still I got the old video on Facebook, but that first video I posted on YouTube that channel when I guess that channel I'm just disappear. It's there You look for it. Yes. I've been searching out of here to Google it like when I write when I got out What was it your channel? Was it your channel or was it my channel? It was mine. It was a little spain channel. Did you had a phone number? You remember the phone number thing back then? It wasn't just you to the password.   Yeah, you can't worry about this Music on Facebook No, I gotta look at it.    No say I see So the boy I used to do it and I followed his little format because he was one of the first I seen you can make money off that YouTube so I started following that and doing it our way and I'm saying it popped out when I put that video me dug in In the club. It just took off. Oh Everybody used to know me. Everybody's ago. There's like Spain Spain, man. I'll be like damn What y'all know me for a whole route. Yeah, but they see this YouTube. Yeah, I'm saying they see me my wife say They come through going crazy killer. I was bigger than we all at the time. Yeah, we ain't dropped the Dougie video Yeah, they just used to see me dug in everybody talk about that And it just went from there videos all type of different videos That why they call me the boogie can because I had that boogie on my back How was you when it when you first done it like 18 19 18?  I'm for the dance on these niggas Yeah, man, I'll call it dancer because I said gays don't dance we bugging We all I made it cool for everybody to do it.  I remember that's why everybody Niggas on lock down. These niggas mind rock gone.  I'm like damn. I can't move. I like to move. Yeah. Yeah What I book it all the time. Yeah, all the time They know what I come through Spain gonna bug them. They see me. They They gonna play they don't play my thing like From we get her like this was your mom your dad who like to know, you know The Dallas boogie they always been going on in Dallas Like no my first time seeing him from old Cliff niggas, you know saying shout out the little Joe He was the first I seen put it on like a TV screen that watched me do this You know saying me we should just be in the clubs or after hours popping them tabs Pull that we and then I just start just hitting it and me. I just got so good with it I was like damn we could do something with this like take this to another level And my boy will was already rapping so rule boy was like will you need to drop a song for Spain? So he could hit that whole two in the club because you see what he do when he go to the club when I go to Club females everywhere. It's gonna be live. They call him my name on the mic I ain't no rapper. I'm just a street nigga. No, they just so in love cuz I'm gonna get it live I'm on the stage all day. We geeked up pulling them Pulling them things seeing spaceships. We out of there No club club one club blue DMX back then riddle city Ti after hours we that's when every day at the club. Yeah. Yeah, no saying we just used to boogie and just turn up That's when Dallas ain't no sin down in the club. Yeah. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk


They are looking for sustainability and responsible tourism for us. These are critical offerings for South Africa and we want to make sure that the market is aware of the new products that they've come through in line with adventure, outdoor, wildlife. The TAIBA accommodation there for King is also changing. They're looking for more flexibility, a lot of digital nomads are trying to find places they can actually hang out for months. The trend is really going into wellness, really going into retreat. We have a really, really good place there where 25% of the whole country is protected. So the nature is really untouched and you can go there and contemplate and be yourself.


What kind of tasks can transformers solve? 1. Translation Given the sentence in one language, transformers can generate sentences in another language. This is the traditional use case. 2. Image classification In 2020, Google introduced vision transformers that can determine the category an image belongs. 3. Speech recognition This involves the conversion of speech to text. WaveNet 2.0 is a transformer-based model that solves this problem. 4. Recommendation systems Given a sequence or a session of items viewed by a user, the next item or set of items can be recommended. NVIDIA's Transformers for Wreck is an open-source implementation of this concept. 5. Playing chess Given the state of the board, the transformer can determine the next best move. In fact, we can fine-tune a language model, like GPT-4, which is based on transformers, to learn this task.


Five reasons why narcissists target you. The narcissist targeted you for several reasons. They selected you. They picked you out of a group of people. They were drawn to you. They were attracted to you because they could see that you offered something of interest or advantage.  They developed an obsessive attachment to you. They become preoccupied with you to where they were unable to think about anything else and when this happens, they become arrested in development because they're paying attention to you exclusively and obsessively rather than focusing on themselves so they don't move on. They stay stuck in this state sometimes for the rest of their lives. To where they're always thinking about you in a way that is not reasonable, they're constantly giving all of their attention to you and there are several reasons why they do this, which will help you to learn more about yourself and it will help you to understand why they specifically targeted you instead of someone else. One, resistance. This is potentially the number one trait that extracts narcissists because they love a challenge or test. It makes them feel special and important when they can turn a note into a guess and you will notice that they're not really concerned about people who don't resist them. That doesn't interest them because there's no incentive for them unless it's just someone they're going to use for sexual purposes but when they're looking for long-term supply they need to fight, they need a battle, they need something that they have to overcome so they actually enjoy it when a target initially shows resistance and opposition. It attracts them. They're like rapists, they enjoy engaging activities without your consent or agreement but they're also very arrogant and delusional so they're making agreements in their heads without your knowledge or awareness and in their minds that justifies it. That means that it's okay because they've already told themselves that you want it or that it's good for you or that they're meant to elevate themselves at your expense because they're more important. So believe it or not they actually enjoy it when you resist them. They get off on it. It turns them on. It makes them want you even more because they love the chase.  When they see that you're trying to refrain from doing something tempting or unwise that tells them the game is on. And it's a competition that they have to win because you become this forbidden fruit. This thing that they desire all the more because it is not allowed. Innocence. The narcissist is drawn to your innocence, to your guiltlessness and blamelessness, to your purity and lack of sin, to your lack of wickedness and corruption, to your honesty and humility. Because they're the exact opposite of that. So they desire these qualities and traits in their target. Narcissists are immoral and corrupt. They're dishonest and fraudulent. They deceive people in you dishonest methods to achieve their objectives. So they take pleasure in being around someone who is free from immorality. Because then they can live vicariously through that person. And then they can feel pure. They can feel like they're not the monster that they actually are. Which doesn't really make any sense. Because a deceptive, dishonest person, target any person who is innocent is immoral in itself. But this is what narcissists do to maintain their self-image. They have to target innocent people. But when they do that, after some time it will begin to reflect badly on them. It will begin to bring their flaws and mistakes to the surface. And that is when they will have to reverse the roles in you. They will have to label you as the wicked and immoral person. So that they can save themselves and their own emotions. So that they can feel like they're free from fault or wrongdoing. Because all they're actually doing when they do this is they're just running from themselves. They target you because they're running from everything they despise about themselves. Which is why once they've been around you long enough, I did begin to reflect badly on them. They have to disown their negative traits and assign them to you. So now you're becoming pure because they've contaminated you. They've robbed you of your innocence. 3. Non-conformance. The narcissist targeted you because you don't comply with social norms. You don't comply with the unwritten rules of beliefs, attitudes and behaviours that are considered acceptable in a particular social group or culture. You don't conform to standards that are usual, typical or expected. You act differently to everyone else. You're socially distant. You avoid social interaction with people who you perceive as being different to yourself. You maintain a safe and appropriate distance from other people. And it may be because of your own choice. Or because a narcissistic parent or partner isolated you. But for whatever reason, you don't conform. You reject their proposals and ideas. You live in your own truth. High standards. You have your own set of standards. These levels of qualities or attainments. These moral rules that you expect to be obeyed. And this may include dimensions such as social class, race, ethnicity, gender or sexuality. But you prefer to mix with a certain group of people. And the narcissist will notice it. They will immediately pick up on it. And it will draw them to you because they want to be the exception. They want to be the person who is excluded from the general statement or rule. They want to be seen as someone who is special or important. Rather than feeling like someone who is left out. So they will target you for this reason. Because they see it as a challenge. And they have to win. They have to come out on top. They have to be more successful than the other people that they are competing with. Because then that tells them that they are still relevant and superior. Which is what they want because they're seeking status and power. 5. Authenticity The narcissist targeted you because of your authenticity. Because of your genuineness and originality. Your quality of being real and true. You're able to be yourself. You could behave in a natural way rather than pretending to be different. And this makes you stand out.  Because a lot of people are not being themselves. They're not being authentic. They're under the influence of other people instead of choosing their own path. But you have an inability to hide your true interests and feelings.  It's clear what you are feeling. Because when you're being authentic people can read you like an open book. It's easy for them to know what you're thinking. Because you wear your heart and your sleeve. You make your feelings and emotions obvious rather than hiding them. Because that's just you being you. You show your intimate emotions in an honest and open manner. And the narcissist will pick up on that. And in the beginning it may seem as though you respect and appreciate your authenticity. But then they will turn against it. Because it will reflect badly on them. It will only cause them to realize that they're inauthentic.  So then their objective will be to erase your identity and authenticity. To turn you into something else. Because it tells them that if they have the ability to change you. By tempting and enticing you into doing something that you wouldn't normally do. Then that means that you were never real anyway. Because if you were real then they wouldn't have had the power or ability to do that. Because narcissists don't take accountability for their actions. They will lead you to your demise.  Which is why it is very important for you to preserve your self-identity. Because they will try to change you. You need to enforce strong boundaries. You need to recognize where you end and they begin. You need to know who you are. You need to develop your confidence in your own qualities and abilities. You need to pack the self-love and self-care. Because the very things that they discourage you from doing. Are the very things that are actually your greatest defense against narcissists. And what they're trying to do to you. And what they're trying to do to you. Is make you do the opposite of what you're already doing. They're trying to crush your resistance. They're trying to rob you of your innocence. They're trying to make you conform to their standards and ideals. They're trying to make you accept standards that are lower than what you would normally accept.  Because what these things reflect back to them. It triggers them. It makes them reflect on their own insecurities and deficiencies. It makes them feel like desperate and moral corrupt and inauthentic people. Who will accept and tolerate anything. Which is exactly what they are. Because they have no values or moral compass. But they will assign these traits to you. So that they can feel better about themselves. So that they can maintain their false image. Because no matter how wonderful of a person you are. The narcissists will always choose their false self over you. If they didn't do that they wouldn't even be a narcissist. Thank you for watching. If you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up. Share your thoughts in the comment section. Hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications. If you would like to support the channel you can donate at paypal.me.narcsurvivor. You can book a one-on-one with me on my website. It's NarcSurvivor.co.uk. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


ou're going to scroll down and you're going to keep scrolling you're going to keep scrolling until you get to IELTSpeaking topics now let's go back to the video and I'll show you how to click on the article you need in step 3 first of all you're going to need practice questions, real practice questions we're going to show you how to access those at the end of the video so you've got those the next thing is you're going to need either a phone or a laptop you're going to need some kind of electronic device that will record your voice most laptops most phones will be able to do this please don't ask should you use a laptop or should you use a phone it doesn't matter just pick something that you have that you can use to record your voice the next thing you need to do is download some kind of recording app or program to your phone or to your laptop all you have to do is go into your app store or google I'm not going to name specific apps because they change all the time and it's so easy for you to just find this yourself the next thing you want to do is sign up for a service that automatically transcribes your voice so let me give you some examples but again these change over time do your own research so on an apple phone in the notes function you can just press the transcribe button and it will transcribe what you say there's also a service that you can use on your computer called otter.ai they have a free version of that software that will record your voice and transcribe it but as I said before do your own research find a tool and you'll be able to get this done but you do need one to record your voice so you can listen back and one to transcribe it there might be some apps out there that do both if there are put it in the comments let people know what you find and help each other so that's all the tech setup done next what you're going to do is you're going to pick one part of the test either part one, part two or part three don't do a full test just pick one part and focus on one thing at a time so for part one you're going to use about nine questions part two you're only going to use one question and for part three you're going to pick three or four questions make sure that you don't study these questions we want to recreate the real test as much as possible don't look at easy questions and try and prepare answers just pick questions from the list don't look at them, don't study them just pick them look at each question and answer it as if an examiner is asking you that question so read each question and answer it as if you are in the real test if you mess up don't worry about it this is just practice I want you to download the official marking criteria I'll put a link below but if you just google speaking marking criteria it should come up on google as well what you're going to do is you're going to listen back and you're going to think about your performance you're going to read the marking criteria and think about which band you should get based on your own performance if you don't understand the marking criteria you don't understand the bands I'll put a link at the end of the video that will show you in more detail what the bands mean as you're listening back think about your biggest weaknesses so if you were you couldn't really answer the questions, fluency is an issue if you can't understand anything that you say, pronunciation is probably an issue or if you're making lots of vocabulary mistakes or grammar mistakes that's your biggest issue the great thing about this technique when you're in the real test you're unaware of the mistakes that you are making but when you're listening back and just focusing on your mistakes and focusing on your performance you'll be able to pick out things that you were completely unaware of and you'll be able to fix those things and that takes us on to our next point you're going to look at the transcription whatever service you used that will write out your answers and you're going to analyse that in more detail so the first thing you're going to analyse is did you actually answer the question look at the question look at the transcription did you actually answer the question and did you develop your answer enough you can also analyse your fluency if there are lots of ums and as and pauses in the transcription if you're jumping around a lot then fluency might be an issue for you if the transcription cannot understand most of the words like the words are completely different then that is a pronunciation issue you can also analyse your vocabulary did you repeat too many words are you trying to use words that you don't really understand did you struggle with that topic because of a limited vocabulary and then with grammar what you can do is you can put that transcript into something like Grammarly for example or there are lots of other options and it will highlight all of the grammar mistakes that you made and you'll be able to identify your key grammar mistakes for example if you are using the wrong article before every nine you need to work on articles so this technique is not actually about improving your speaking yet this technique is to give you feedback as I said before feedback doesn't improve your speaking instantly but what you do after does so for example if you look at the transcript and you read every article being aware of that is just the first step you're not going to magically improve your speaking by just being aware of that but you will magically improve if you work on those things and some of you watching right now might be thinking well that's a lot of work yes it is but it's a lot less work than going and watching a bunch of tips and tricks videos believing that they're going to help you and then failing the test over and over again and not knowing why that is a lot of work this is actually a lot less stressful because you will be in control and you can do it all for free at home at your own pace again we're here to give you things that are actually going to improve your score not tips and tricks that make you happy so step three you should be here IELTS speaking topics you're going to scroll down and you will see a link IELTS speaking topics the ultimate guide click on that and it will give you access to all of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of questions that you will need for your speaking practice well done you made it to the last part of the video so we're going to do something we've never done before so you've probably seen that we do lots of mock speaking tests here in our studio but this is the first time that we've brought a student back so before we had this student who got a band eight but I thought that she was actually capable of a much much higher band a band nine which is a huge improvement so she went through a lot of the same lessons in this video that you have just went through and I want to show you the massive improvement that she made just by following the steps in this video let's look and see if she did get her band nine let's start off by talking about exercise how often do you exercise? when you talk about exercise I don't really exercise that much but then I do other forms of exercise if you can take that into the category exercise so I like to dance I like to do yoga I like to go for a walk so I'm sure that's included in exercise so if you talk about that I think at least an hour I do like to take care of my body and I do like to invest in my body what's your favorite exercise? so I think I'd like to say dance because it's funny because it's mindless you don't realize you're exercising when you're dancing it's just one hour of catharsis you're just going and sweating it out and you don't realize that you worked out for an hour so I think I'll say dance are there any exercises you do not like? I wouldn't say I don't like I do like lifting weights but it's not one of my favorite part of the exercise it's something which I find monotonous something which I find cumbersome something which I find boring so yes lifting weights do you prefer to exercise indoors or outdoors? I think both when the weather allows then outdoors but otherwise I'm more of an indoor person I don't mind doing yoga every single day in my room I know like a lot of people don't enjoy that they need an environment they need a setup they need to go to the gym which is also indoors but I do enjoy indoors and I do enjoy just exercising in my home in my room and that being said I also enjoy working out in outside facility as well like I like going for walks I like going for a run so yeah I think both now let's talk about weekends how do you normally spend your weekends? weekends I usually have more classes I'm a yoga teacher so my weekends are not a normal weekend for other people where they go out for lunches, dinners and celebrate for me weekends are more heavy on work but if I can say that Monday is my weekend or Tuesday is my weekend movies I really like watching Netflix and I like to spend time with my husband I also like cooking and that's the time which I get for myself so yes I think I like spending it in the house and really giving that time to myself and my husband do you like to spend your weekends in your local area or do you like to travel so it depends it's both if I have a lot of time to myself in the sense if I have 2 days off or 3 days off I like to go out on a vacation like a mini trip so I like to go out probably do like a picnic go out to a park or maybe explore any other countryside any other city but if it's a short duration if it's only a day then probably spend it in the house like I mentioned earlier are there any interesting things to do in your local area on the weekend? yes there are a lot of coffee shops and there's a coffee shop right beneath my house which is very popular in London it's called Gales so yeah there are a lot of nice places around my neighbourhood but I wouldn't say that I like going to those places because they are very familiar I would like to go to places which are a little away so I would like to travel a little bit and enjoy the entire journey of reaching a place but yes my neighbourhood is also quite friendly and social do you prefer to go out or stay in at the weekend? so like I mentioned earlier if it's a short weekend if it's only a day off then staying in is better for me and because there are a lot of things that I need to finish so I prefer staying in but if it is a longer weekend like in the sense that you also have a Friday Saturday Sunday it's a 3D then I like to probably step out and probably explore other neighbourhood cities and towns and villages yeah now let's talk about reading what was your favourite book when you were a child? I can't go back that far like when I was a child but I do remember somewhere in school probably towards the end of school I loved this book called Many Masters, Many Lives and I think I like to call myself an old soul because when I was a child I still was very inclined towards spirituality and I really liked to know where we've come from where would we go after life before death you know those kind of things so after death after life so yes so that's a book which rings a bell which I always get reminded of. How often do you read? So as of now my reading is very education based I have a lot of books on yoga a lot of books on spirituality I'm very less on fiction but I try and listen a little bit of fiction as well so I listen to the audio books it's called Audible so I have that up with me so I think when I'm on the tube when I'm travelling it's always the Audible the book I listen to and when I'm at home and when I'm trying to educate myself and I'm trying to know more about yoga then it's probably I think overall an hour a day or maybe sometimes an hour in two days Do you like to read when on holiday? It depends like I said most of my reading is education based so I need to dedicate time to it to just the reading part of it but when I'm on vacation then I don't like to read myself so it depends but sometimes I do like to read I think when I'm on a vacation I'd rather go for just listening to a book And do you prefer to read physical books or e-books? I think I prefer to read physical books I do have a Kindle as well but I think it's the longest that I've touched it I like to have the feel of it to turn the pages in real so I do prefer a physical book Now let's talk about history Do you enjoy watching TV shows Yes but I'd like to put it this way I enjoy history but I like more of the crime based histories there are a lot of events which have happened in certain countries certain part of towns so I like to know more about that I'm very heavy on crime based series so yes and sometimes I also like to watch just the history bit as well like I think I've seen that entire show on Netflix called The Roman Empire or something like that but that's also because it's very heavy on drama it's very heavy on the crime based as well so I think I do have an inclination towards that Did you enjoy studying history in school? As far as I remember I don't really have a clear memory of reading or learning history in school which of course we did it was there in our textbooks but I think I grew more fond and more interested in history way later when I started reading about civilizations when I started reading about different areas and regions and how the world was divided and then you know invaded by different kingships if I can call that so yes it was only later that I started getting interested in history so it says describe a time when you were late for something so I'm usually a very punctual person and I can't think of any time when I was really late but there have been a few instances and one such instance was when I got really really late was for my work so I'm new to London and I started teaching yoga over here it's been about six to eight months and I'm still understanding the tube work like how does the commute work over here how does the bus work over here and also the timings and everything so I'm still adjusting myself to the city so there was this one class I was supposed to reach after two classes which I was always already taking in Angel so there was this one area called Angel I was taking two classes over there right after that there was another class in another area and I was supposed to reach there this another class was in mind so I was covering for someone and I got like a last moment notification that can you take this class and I accepted it really vouching for it and really saying that I will be there it was very disheartening for me because by the time I wrapped up the studio and I left from there I couldn't make it on time and this is a big professional setback on my end because I shouldn't be doing that and what happened was that I went for I thought I'll take a bus so I took a bus and by the time I was about to reach a certain location I realized I've taken the wrong bus so I got down and then I tried to take a train so by the time I tried to reach the next best train location I realized that the train station was shut that is when I started panicking I started looking for a cab and I started contacting my DM which is like a manager who's always on call and checking if you're on time or not and the DM told me this is really sad because it looks like I'll not be able to reach on time and even 5 minutes late is late for students so they started asking questions like why is it that the train station is stopped like in the sense it's shut because probably I think they weren't believing me in that moment but later when I described everything I clicked pictures and finally they believed me and when I reached that's the two minutes are up okay you've been telling me about a time when you were late and we're now going to discuss arriving late and being punctual right is it rude to be late if you're meeting a friend in a way yes because I think I'll say if you're constantly late if you're always late it's yes it is rude because you're playing with someone's time someone has specially dedicated their time to you and vice versa even you've dedicated your time to them so in a way yes because that person could have done a lot of things in that much time but also sometimes no because you never know what is that person going through I mean in the sense it's a friend right it's not a profession sometimes I've had my friends complaining that it's alright I mean you can't chill because we're just meeting for a coffee so it's okay they get a little bit late if it's only like 10-15 minutes it's fine what should happen to people if they are consistently late for work well I think it's a big no because you're answerable for a lot of people and you have to deliver a job a product or something in that profession and if you get late it's not only you who's suffering but it's also the entire company who's suffering because of you so I think they need to learn how to manage their time well and there should be some kind of a caution for that so that they are being more careful and mindful in the future what can people do to become more punctual okay so I have this trick which is a lot of times I've noticed that people who are constantly late they take the deadline as the deadline for example if they have to be somewhere at 10 they'll think okay I have to be there at 10 I'd like to put it the other way I'll say keep your time 15 minutes earlier say that you have to reach there by 9.45 or probably 9.30 if you have a habit of constantly being late that ways you'll start early getting you'll start getting ready earlier you'll leave the place earlier you're home earlier and probably you'll be on time you can set a time alarm you can set a timer you can really make use of these things in order to be on time I think now let's talk about work productivity is it better to work for long interrupted periods of time or to take multiple small breaks in my opinion I think to take many multiple breaks because it doesn't matter how long you're working if you've refreshed yourself and if you have come to your full capacity mental capacity to work even if you work in short bursts that could be more productive and yes I think that's what I think about work productivity our open plan is good for productivity what do you mean by open plan? so some offices have cubicles and they're closed or offices that are closed and then some offices are just tables in a big room and everyone can see each other working alright well it depends I'm not really sure how it works because either it works for them because it's a very simple environment you can relax and you're not like really just into work because that can also play with your stress maybe but in a way also no because then you can get you have the chances to get distracted sooner and if you're working in a closed environment then you can probably take out that small burst of time which I was talking about and just dedicate it to your work some people believe companies should move to a four day week do you think this would improve productivity? I think I'm a big advocate for that because I really feel there should be a good work life balance where you're working and also you have time for yourself when you're constantly only working which is like six days a week probably that's that ways you don't have time for yourself you don't have time for your family you don't have time for your hobbies and interests which plays a big role in your stress so if you have four days a week that means that you have you have more time for yourself by default you will be able to focus on your work because you've been able to take care of other parts and categories in your life now let's talk about AI in the workplace which jobs are most likely to be affected by AI in the future? I'm not sure but I think maybe the film industry I feel that a lot of the editing will be taken care of by AI because I have noticed I've come across a lot of people who are using only AI for editing on Instagram so that just rang a bell in my head because I thought oh if that is the case then probably the film industry will be the one which will suffer because most of their jobs are done by human labour right so if AI takes over then it will make their jobs easier but also take away jobs from their hands if AI takes millions of people's jobs in the future will society change? Financially I'm not very sure because that will reduce the jobs for a lot of people but I also feel that people will have more time to themselves and people will have more space to figure out the other kind of jobs that they should be doing so in a way a lot of work load if you look with a positive perspective a lot of work load will be taken away from them and will give them more space to decide what would they want to do with their time Are there any positive consequences of AI replacing millions of work groups? I think this is very similar to what I just mentioned that yes you can look at it positively as well but I did mention that I'm not very sure how will it play financially on people but the positive side effect or positive effect can be that it can unburden or take away the burden from a lot of people and give them more space and time to utilise in other activities of their life so you're hoping to get a band 9 which is a very very high score what I will do is I'll give you feedback on part 1, part 2 and part 3 of the test and then I'll give you feedback on the 4 marking criteria so to get a band 9 you need top marks in fluency and coherence, grammar vocabulary and pronunciation so part 1 what the examiner is looking for is for you to answer the question and develop it a little bit I think the key hallmark of a band 9 candidate in part 1 is it's like talking to a friend or it's like talking to a colleague and that's how it felt talking to you so you were able to answer each question naturally and develop them, you had no problem talking about any of those topics and I really like the way you used your own experiences in that so it didn't feel like speaking to a robot who prepared answers it felt like talking to a real human being who is at a very very high level of English, I also threw in some more unusual topics in there and you were able to cope with those perfectly so part 1, I have no negative feedback, all very very good part 2 is probably the most challenging part for a lot of students because it's a monologue so you have to speak for up to 2 minutes what you did was you decided to choose a real story from your own life that was a very good choice because it led to a very fluent coherent answer so it's much easier to talk about an experience from your own life than it is to make up a story or to talk about something a little bit more abstract so we would always suggest to students to try and choose something in part 2 related to your own life and then it's much easier than to use vocabulary and grammar as well especially vocabulary because you're talking about real things and real experiences and you weren't trying to, we would say fetch the language you weren't thinking of the correct word or the correct grammar structure or the correct tense you were just talking very coherently and naturally again and I didn't have to encourage you to speak more a problem with many students is they'll speak for 1 minute or 1 minute 30 seconds and then you have to encourage them to speak I had to do the opposite I had to stop you which was very very good in my opinion part 3 is the most challenging part because these topics like arriving late work productivity, AI in the workplace these are more abstract academic type topics when you compare them to part 1 and you did very very well what the examiner is looking for is development and answering the question and then really developing it you did that multiple times by showing both sides of the argument by using examples sometimes you use real examples from your own life and you had no problem with any of those topics the reason why towards the end I asked you more and more difficult questions is the examiner will think that you're a very good candidate so they will ask you more and more difficult questions to see how you cope with them so even when I asked you about societal changes in the future from AI like that is a very very difficult question many students in that position would just say I don't know or that's difficult or I have no idea you attempted the answer and you gave a very coherent answer that's related to that topic and you really developed it well you could see at the end that you were struggling a little bit with those ideas but the thing to remember is that it is not an ideas test it is a test of your English and you did really really well now let's move on to your scores for each part so fluency and coherence we can break that down coherence is all about did you answer the question so if I asked you about is it rude to be late if you're meeting a friend you talk about meeting a friend you don't talk about being late for work for example and every question that I asked you you answered exactly how it was supposed to be answered you really stuck to that topic the other part of coherence is development so did you develop your answer with explanations example stories things like that for every part you did a really good job with that so full marks for coherence fluency is not speaking quickly or not speaking slowly but really speaking without effort someone who is at a lower band like a band 6 or a band 7 even they will often be searching for the correct word to use or am I using the correct grammar structure so they'll have a lot of audible pauses things like that and they'll also be trying to think of ideas because your English level is so high you pretty much never had to do that there was never any real pauses where I was like she doesn't really know that word and she's trying to fetch that word from her brain you spoke effortlessly about a range of different topics without any audible pauses really when I say without any audible pauses I'm talking about unnatural audible pauses because while I'm speaking now as a native English speaker and as an IELTS teacher I'm pausing sometimes that is natural unnatural is as I just said you're like thinking oh what's that way to say you know to say this you never do that so for fluency and coherence you would get a bad mind you would get full marks but that's native English speaker level which is very very good for pronunciation there's two things that the examiners thinking about pronunciation this is the most important which is clarity can I understand everything that you're saying and I could understand 100% of what you were saying so first boxes is ticked you have no problem in that area the second is something called higher level pronunciation features and those are things like intonation as your voice goes up and your voice goes down naturally lower level students will speak very monotone like this everything is very flat whereas native speakers will go up and down in order to convey meaning I can understand 100% of what you're saying using intonation at a very high level you're using connected speech you're using sentence stress word stress all very very naturally which allows me to understand you even more a lot of people confuse a high pronunciation score with a British accent or an American accent or an Irish accent the examiner is not really thinking about how British you sound or how American you sound the examiner is thinking about the clarity of your speech so you have an Indian accent and you should be very proud of your Indian accent but there's some people when they speak with not just an Indian accent but any accent sometimes that accent will interfere with the listener's ability to understand what you're saying at no point does your accent interfere with what you're saying you are from India and in India you guys speak very very quickly to each other it's not a criticism it's just naturally a lot of you guys do speak like that would you agree and also being in a test situation you're nervous we speak a little bit more quickly now sometimes especially with Indian students when you combine the accent with speaking very very quickly that can sometimes cause a problem for the listener but it doesn't with you you're nervous a little bit sometimes and you do speak a little bit quickly if you were doing the test soon I would suggest that that's the one thing that you would just be careful of is if you go into the test you're very very nervous and you speak really really quickly that could affect your pronunciation score slightly but I don't think that's I'm being overly cautious with my feedback you mixed up your Vuh-Wuh sounds a little bit it's very common with German speakers it's very common with Indian speakers but it wasn't to the extent where I couldn't I didn't understand what you were saying for example Spanish speakers will say I watched a video I watched a video on YouTube some German speakers will say I watched a video now that if it was extreme could lower your score but you had just a very slight mix up between those two sounds if every time you were trying to pronounce Vuh you said Wuh that would lower your score because that is a systematic error that just keeps happening every time you use that sound but that's not the case at all with you so you would get a band 9 for pronunciation the next is vocabulary so there's two things that the examiner is thinking about when it comes to vocabulary the first is accuracy did you use the correct words basically or are you getting words mixed up so for example you could say this is a phone which is correct or you could say this is an electronic device which is correct but phone would be a little bit more precise but we wouldn't say that this is a sitting device this is a chair or if you got these mixed up it's like I'm sitting on a phone that is completely wrong so you are using vocabulary correctly and precisely accuracy you have no problems there you're also using a lot of topic specific vocabulary topic specific vocabulary is for example to talk about phones we would talk about a screen we would talk about the resolution of that screen we would talk about the memory and how many megabytes or gigabytes of the memory but we couldn't use gigabytes to talk about a pen for example we couldn't talk about the resolution of a pen but we would talk about ink but we can't use the word ink to talk about phones so these are very topic specific words as you can see no matter what topic we ask you about you are able to pull those topic specific words and that indicates that no matter what topic we ask you about you will be able to talk about that topic so that's the second thing that's your range so it's not like you can only talk about arriving late but you can't talk about AI you can talk about any topic so the range of your vocabulary is very very high and the accuracy of your vocabulary is very very high so you get a bad nine last but not least is grammar so your grammar again is being assessed by accuracy and range the range of your grammar is very good you pick the most appropriate structures and tenses to use so as you can see what you do is you don't just answer every question with the present simple tense for example you use the appropriate tense the appropriate structure to answer each question which indicates you have a very wide range of grammar now a lot of people think that to get a bad nine for grammar the accuracy needs to be 100% but that's not actually true what it says in the official marking criteria is that you can have a few slips some examiners would listen to you and think yep you made a few tiny little slips like this one however under exam conditions if you're stressed you can often make little mistakes that you wouldn't normally make and some examiners might think that you're making a few too many of these small grammatical errors if that was the case where they thought that you were making a few too many small grammatical errors you would get about eight not about nine and four grammar but I think that you will be on the side of it just being a few slips where you would get a bad nine so I think overall you probably would get a bad nine I think the lowest you would get would be an 8.5 overall but I would be quite confident that you would get a bad nine if you had that performance thank you any questions well done thank you so much so hope you enjoyed this video it was very very long but I hope that you will agree that it is going to really really improve your speaking score if you need more help with not just your speaking preparation but your writing, your listening, your reading this is my email address we answer 100% of the emails that we receive so if you just 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