The worst IELTS essays the peacock the peacock is just a weird-looking chicken Pretending to be something that it's not the peacock student is a low-level student Pretending to be a high-level student by using lots of high-level vocabulary lots of formal linking words and Memorized templates the problem is when you increase complexity you reduce Accuracy peacock students make lots of mistakes which lowers their score like people who pretend to be something They're not peacock students don't feel anyone but themselves instead follow the golden rule keep it simple


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspy'scaserace.com coming at you with a one box break of 2019 playbook football random team break number one with 2 NFL Draft Mixer spots being given away. So that's baked into the price there All teams are in and we'll do the giveaway at the end big. Thanks to this group for making it happen Here are the teams right here Just double check to make sure I grab the right list. I think I did Starting with Michael down to Martin Yes All right, and all the teams are in Jets pick is in should we pause for that? Yes, we'll wait for this pick four corner Ahmed Gardner sauce gardener Let's roll it randomize it names and teams two and a six eight times Her names and teams and then different dice roll for the giveaway part one two three four five Six and that's a great green room area out there. That's really cool. Is that outdoors looks nice NFL Draft in Vegas Carl down to Michael after eight. This is just for the break two and a six eight times for the teams one two three He went the wrong way Don't don't fall. Don't injure yourself All right. Here's the first half of the list right here second half of the list right oh Right over there. All right. So now let's print and rip. So now the gate triple relic 65 at a 99 Baker Mayfield Nick Chubb Jarvis Landry Cleveland. This is for you Nick Chubb's only guy remaining in this trio, right? That'll be for Carl and Cleveland. We got TJ Hawkinson 33 out of 299 mammoth materials going to the Lions Michael L Hey, Anthony Johnson to 75 Buccaneers autograph That'll be going to Brian and the Bucks and the book you can see the logo KC Meekle Hardman 112 at a 199 Jersey and autograph. I wonder without Tyree kill More opportunities for this guy, maybe To be the speedster on that team Kansas City book going to Steven flat. All right now Let's flip back over here Let's get grab ever from Michael Logue down to Martin and everyone in between dice list And let's roll it randomize it's four and a six ten times So top two gets into the NFL draft mixer after ten one two three four five six and a four seven eight nine and tenth and final time So from three on down three down 32 a lot of sad faces here Tony, sorry very close, but not quite Appreciate everybody getting in though Top two. You're very happy because you are in the mixer Jonathan you're in Jonathan. You're in congrats After ten times you sweep the top two spots. I'm Joe for jasky's case race.com. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time for the next break


Keena Nicely with Life of the Land is in its real estate on Pink Tech, Hawaii. I'm a real estate agent with Keller Williams and today my guest is Ron Salvador who is a global instructor for the cash flow game from Rich Dad Poor Dad. So welcome Ron. Aloha. Aloha. How are you guys doing?  So today we are gonna talk about fear versus opportunity. But first why don't you tell people about what you do and I always think it's really exciting what you get to do. You know what's interesting that we're actually talking like the whole subject matter is called fear versus opportunity because how I got involved with this whole thing and I've been traveling around the world for the past 12 years teaching a board game basically. It's if you ever heard of the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. I actually teach the board game based off of that book and actually it's actually reversed. The book is based off of that board game and what it is is it's kind of like Monopoly but it teaches you in a way that Monopoly doesn't in it and it teaches you the fundamentals of how money works and I came across this concept and this philosophy by you know I was myself in a pretty dire situation. I was working for the largest newspaper company in the state of Hawaii and I thought I was set because you know hey can't go wrong with the biggest company right and that was what I was taught to do but this company actually went down and that's when a lot of fear went into. So my whole journey with this subject matter started with with tons of fear. We were all afraid. Everybody in my company were scrambling for the scraps whatever was left and and people were even willing to backstab each other just to to get what was left and then it wasn't until I came across this book and the concepts from this game that all of a sudden that fear didn't become my enemy. It actually became my friend and for the past 12 years I've been traveling around the world teaching these concepts. I started myself as a real estate investor. I my first investment property was a bedroom five bath house that cash flowed for me $1,200 a month and for me that was a big deal. It was a lot of money. It told me it just showed me that I could do something and it was actually something that I did here in Hawaii which people were saying you know can't be done and you know of course back then it was also a lot of fear just going into that because I had never invested in real estate before and I went from I think was like $30,000 in consumer debt to now over almost $400,000 because I had a mortgage now and I think so you know just taking on that that whole mindset was scary but it was good debt so it was something that I started to understand better and if you're an investor you're a real estate investor and things like that you start to under I mean you guys know this already that you want to actually take on more debt which most people don't do this think all debt is bad debt and they're afraid of it so just on that point alone I think it's an important aspect in this show as well. Great so let's let's go back a little further so did you grow up here in Oahu and I did I grew I a lot of my life I've lived here in Oahu um however I'm I'm a military brat my father was a US Marine and so we traveled in different places I grew up in Georgia in North Carolina I went to high school in Okinawa Japan I was actually born in the Philippines but 22 years out of my life I would say maybe 24 years now 24 or 25 years out of my life I've lived here in the islands so if there's any place I consider home it would be here in Hawaii. Alright so so great yeah so it shows that you know you didn't come from a background of real estate investors real estate minded investor minded and and you still used to take the leap so right now we are seeing a lot of fear in the market nobody quite knows where it's gonna go so what what do you think people should wait and see take the wait and see approach or what should they be doing? We know the interesting thing about being a real estate investor is that if you are investing and you're in anything actually not just real estate you're actually in a different mindset from the employee minded people and employee minded people and investors almost think opposite see employee minded people don't want to risk anything they want a safe secure job they want security whereas investors actually look to put themselves at risk you know they put money up at risk and they look for opportunity for reward by putting up some risks so it's a it's a completely opposite thinking so so you know if you just look at the context of that then what the majority of people are doing which are the employees out there and you know majority of people are employees we have a small population of investors and investor minded people then you're going to actually want to do the opposite of what everybody else is doing and what everybody else is doing is freezing they're fleeing and they're flying and they're you know going all over panicking and that's because that's what you know that world is about you know this you know it's a lot of fear just like I said when I was working for the newspaper company and they were laying off people left and right there was tons of fear and everybody started to shrink but in this time in these times it's actually as an investor-minded person or an entrepreneurial minded person this is a time to seek out the opportunities and expand this is actually for those people and for us it's the best time so what are some opportunities that that you think people you know you talk about all there's opportunities I don't think our viewers probably know what those opportunities are what what kind of things are opportunities that we look for as investors well see here's the thing is that as an investor you know and and really what I promote especially all over the world is an entrepreneurial mindset and an entrepreneurial mindset is a creative mindset this is a person that doesn't not doesn't necessarily need or want anyone to always tell them what to do and I'm not here to tell you actually what to do but one of the things that I can tell you that I was trained to do is to to educate myself and to seek out more knowledge as to what's available see here's the here's the thing that that I absolutely love about the game that I teach just like I said it's a simple board game and Tina you've played it with us the beautiful thing about the board game the casual game and it's a it's a simulation of real life and it actually absolutely applies to real life is that everything that you need to win the game to be financially free to to get out of the rat race however you want to call it is available to you it's right in front of your face the problem is is that most people don't see it most people don't understand it and and a lot of times and I've seen you do this as well playing the game you know and this is okay you know a lot of a lot of the greatest opportunities you look at it and you almost don't know what to do it and you just put it put it down and see the beautiful thing about you know the progression of doing something like playing the game or actually doing the game in real life is that the more action the more you do it the more you talk about it the more you study it the more you play it the more mistakes you make on it the more you'll get better at it and the more you'll see so you know even you like for example well if you don't mind you know use your example as a casual player you're pretty horrible cash for it was I was pretty amazed at how horrible you are but you know what's great about that though because you know it it actually it actually does reflect real life is that things that you don't understand things you know opportunities that you don't understand and that you you may not see because you don't understand you put it put down or you you pass up or you don't see but the more you stay with it the more you stay in the mix the more it makes you understand I'll give you a clear example of my first investment property I didn't understand I took a real one of those three-day real estate courses in Waikiki I remember I was so excited I was like oh man we're all gonna be like Donald Trump and you know I got you know this is how low my real estate investing experience was I got excited being the for sale sign across the street of my house in here in Kailua because just because it was for sale I thought oh man this is gonna be my first property not understanding the numbers not understanding how it works and then of course you know you know of course I was like well it's just right across the street of my house let me go ahead and make an offer offer on it when I finally broke down the numbers especially here in Kailua especially in my neighborhood yeah the numbers didn't work at all they were horrible as matter of fact I would have lost a ton of money if I if I pursued this particular property and made me realize that there was still so much for me to understand but that the more that I did it and I'm not the fastest student I'm actually pretty slow student I'm I'm pretty horrible at this game in real life although the one thing about me is I'm pretty tenacious and I don't stop I kept at it and it took about two years I was just in it all the time I was in masterminds I was out there looking at properties and finally I started it started to make sense to me what properties were good and which ones were for my my taste for my abilities and for my my reach that I could do and see here's the thing about about opportunities is that they're right in front of your face and literally money and opportunity is flying right in front of your face the problem just like in the game is that most people don't see it I mean when it comes to opportunity first of all number one you have to see it and number two you have to be prepared to be able to take it and and my advice if I were to give any advice because I'm not a financial advisor is that if right now you're feeling fear then it's because there's an unknown out there it's kind of like the fear of the dark you know you don't know what it's not necessarily what's in the dark that scares most people it's what they think is in the dark but the minute you turn on the lights the room all of a sudden you see every obstacle in the room and then you're able to traverse the room and so you know what I would say for everybody who's feeling a lot of fear and it's understandable that you feel fear this time is to turn on the lights and the best way to turn on the lights is to take action and at minimum stay connected stay connected to the sources of information find out what's going on the reason why most people fail at the casual game not only the board but the casual game in real life is because they don't know under they don't understand the rules they don't understand the strategies by which to play the game and to win a lot of people are you know playing this game of you know cash flow and they think that it's baseball but it's actually football and you can you know in baseball you're to you know score a home run and everything like that but if the whole goal is to score a touchdown with a team with pads and all that kind of stuff and you show up to a game with a bat you're gonna get clobbered you know so learn the rules of the game get the proper equipment make sure that you're on the proper team and and then play the game properly so for people with fear again it's because the their lights aren't turned on on enough you know I've been in this for about you know maybe 15 years working with Robert Kiyosaki he's been talking about this moment and if you if you research like look him up on YouTube and look at some of his videos he's still talking about it he's been talking about it for a long time so you know during this time actually that hasn't been very scary for me I understand it is for a lot of people but we've been preparing for these moments we've been preparing for this time and I can honestly say that I didn't realize that what that actually meant I've been here inside the house you know we have our rental properties too we're actually renovating one right now getting it ready to rent but this has been such an exciting time I didn't realize how exciting it could be just being stuck at home but I've been doing my research been doing my due diligence I've actually come across a lot more money these days then when I was actively out there traveling around the world and and talking to a whole bunch of people it's just amazing to me so for you guys out there I would say stay connected find out from from you know the people that you know your resources you'll be surprised what you see there's a lot of opportunity and and the traditional things that you were thinking of ways to invest may still be there they but they may be in other ways and other angles and other you know resources you might have to do some lateral thinking because the opportunities are presenting themselves they just might not be presenting themselves in the way the conventional way that you're thinking so what are some ways that you are are turning your light on education where are you finding ways to get that light and get that clarity well see here's the here's the here's the the the the beautiful thing about the the age that we live in I mean the even this zoom call in itself when we for we're just trying to set this up my computer was glitching it for some reason it was freezing I couldn't get on it but the beautiful thing is that my smartphone still works and so you know just set it up turn it on plug it in and here we are on the zoom car we're ready to go yeah that that's the beautiful thing about about the age we live in the technology that we have is that your reach is as far as you want to take it you know the internet and everything all that information is out there you don't even need to leave your house it's all available I mean just going on YouTube taking in multiple sources and stuff like that staying connected with the local market like with Pina and and and the people that you know with your network I can't stress that enough that you have to stay connected because you can't see it all by yourself and you think if you can if you think you can then you know try try thinking again because absolutely it's not possible to see everything just by staying connected to your network and then other sources of information it will lead you to to a whole world of ideas of what you could do for me positive you know I I'm I'm mastermining with several groups right now just picking people's brain okay what did you see today what's going on because the rules if you guys aren't paying attention if you're not watching the news or you're not plugging in just pay attention the rules are changing every single day and that's a you know that's a scary thing for a lot of people but it's a beautiful thing if you really understand that these rule change rules changes are actually beneficial to people like myself to investors and entrepreneurs and and the like and the especially for people who are coming up with problems to give solutions to because there's a ton of problems coming up and this is the time for entrepreneurial minded people because what we do is we come up with solutions so if you think you know just in the world of real estate you can tell that all kinds of problems are coming out that means that there's all kinds of opportunities for problem solvers and solutions yeah so and we do here even here on island there's a lot of different meetups still going on virtually a lot of masterminds still meeting up I mean they're almost competing on nights it's it's it's hard you gotta find pick what you want to do so there is all that so and I do want to I do want to put a little footnote on that because there's a ton of information there's almost too much information out there and I'm what I'm saying is that that you know taking a lot of the information but then be grounded enough in yourself to know what is good for you see the definition of intelligence is taking in multiple sources of information but still being able to function okay so you know you know what I was taught is there's always three sides to every coin there's a heads there's a tails and there's the edge so with all the information that you're taking in it can be confusing it can be scary to go which one's the right information which was good but that the more you do it then just start to see okay well this side has this these are pros and cons about this is the pros and cons about this this is where I stand you know in in reference to those things so don't don't necessarily I mean don't even take my advice just you know 100% make sure that you take in all the all the information and then determine what's the best for you which way you want to go don't you know you know in my opinion I wouldn't even follow Robert Kiyosaki 100% in everything he says because you know working alongside of him he's not 100% you know perfect on everything he's he's failed he's made mistakes and that's just part of the game you know so understand that there is no one foolproof way to go and that you can take in multiple sources of information to find out what's the best for your particular situation yeah so he does have a great podcast that is another another way to get educated there's several really good podcasts I enjoy Robert Kiyosaki's which is that poor dad radio so let's go back to cash flow if if you wanted to get involved in that and and like me who just kind of walked in a coffee shop one day and said yeah I'll try because you can try things you normally wouldn't try in in real life I'd never buy a car dealership that's just not me but I did it well the look on Ron say I went into debt but so if they wanted to get involved in something like that can they do that now can they do it maybe when our stay-at-home restrictions are lifted how can they get involved well you know you could actually play cash flow at rich dad calm you could you could play it virtually online that they have an electronic version you just set up an account and then you're good to go you can start playing the game I really love the fact that you know people can do that because right now with the lockdown and the social distancing it's kind of a challenge to you get together a physical live game which you know when if and when those eventually come out like this year or whenever we can get into groups I highly recommend those are brilliant ways to learn but even beyond just playing the game you know always educate yourself and find out you know what else you can learn you know especially like even myself you know some of the things that I've been doing is just you know increasing my cash flow by by you know taking care of some of my my you know the debts that I don't need to have and to hold to free up some cash flow so that I can use it to to to invest into further things so even little tweaks into the things that you're doing right now you know by playing cash flow or by you know conferencing with people and meeting with people understanding your situation better could improve your personal cash flow and reassessing like where you're at and again going back to the whole fear thing if you don't do anything that to me would be the scariest thing especially right now with so much opportunity out there I think one of the biggest tragedies would to would be not to do anything I you know there is this one square in the cash flow game is called downsized and and and what basically that means is that you you lost your job meaning that you don't have a paycheck anymore and you're out of the game for you know for for two turns and the thing about it is I noticed that people who don't understand the game they they tend to do this and they'll stand up from the game and they'll go to the bathroom or do something like that but you know what's crazy is that you're downsized you're not dead there's actually things that you can still do and I've actually seen people become financially free on the game through the downside square while they were there and and that's the thing I want people to understand and to think about that you know in this time where there's a lot of you know downsizing that people are losing their jobs and you know it seems like the money is tightening up just understand that there's a lot of opportunity and there's actually a lot more money being becoming available you know you know trillions you know there's literally trillions of dollars becoming more available readily available for people to to have access to and if you understand the rules of money the rules of the game then then you'll these opportunities will become available to you as well and visible to you just right now it may not be visible okay so you also run a group called founders you want to share a little bit about what that is in case there are people that want to you know grab that opportunity and share absolutely wealth I thank you for promoting the group the founders is actually a group of students of mine that do that form games and their job was actually to form cash flow games around the island right now none of the games are going on obviously but you know if you are interested in a cash flow game a live cash flow game eventually we do hold the cash flow games around the island Kena actually has been part of the whole endeavor and had cash flow games at her office so you know we're looking forward to eventually having another game over there as well so stay in contact definitely you know contact Kena to stay in touch with the founders and and the the things and events that we're doing here on island so all right and guy you did tell us that you've been to several different countries I always think it's so exciting where where do you go next when this is lifted you guys have anything planned you know the beautiful thing about living the cash flow game in real life is that you have your time and your decision making back in your control so you know I I haven't had a boss in you know more than 12 years and and so I get to determine where I want to go I have been thinking about that I you know just before this whole actually when when it started to pop off in China I was actually in Thailand at the time and I was it's funny because during my event we were playing cash flow in Thailand it was the first time I was over there we were making plans for me to go back there and I was having such a great time then I even asked if I said you know are you guys worried about this whole virus thing coming over here to Thailand and they said no Chinese people don't like to come here because it was really just in China at the time and this was mid-January but yeah I mean I I I would love to go back over there you know obviously I still fly out to Peru and Central America I have I have choices to go out to Europe as well but you know interestingly enough I've I've really been enjoying just staying home and and you know it's just given me an opportunity to rethink like my whole travel situation and and strategy you know even myself because a lot of my business was based on you know connecting with international people and doing business internationally this virus has gotten me to rethink my strategy of how how else am I going to continue and keep on going and the beautiful thing of that I learned from this was because the rules are always changing when the rules change can you change you know a lot of people are so stuck in the way they were doing things and the way that they they ran that they don't have that flexibility to change and that's something that I would love to promote through the show if that's the concept that you can understand that you know the rules are always changing so you and yourself especially as an investor as an entrepreneur you must change and by change I don't mean freezing or fleeing I actually mean by taking more action and and and seeking out more information and doing more things and and don't be afraid to make mistakes I'm not saying going going out there and fail big financially but don't let the fear of the mistakes that you make stop you because those are some of the best learning lessons all right well thank you so much is there any thing you want to add yeah absolutely you know Tina I think this is a wonderful thing that you're doing this podcast please you know stay tuned to to information like this these kind of podcasts these kind of things that that entrepreneurs like Tina are are doing are so valuable you know these these are the times that for the majority of people it's really really scary and and it's true that these economic times these financial times will hurt the majority of people and the reason why it will hurt the majority of people is because those people are are panicking they're freezing they're fleeing and they're not doing anything but for the people in the know this is actually this can be you know some of the best times and that's why you know I highly encourage everybody who's listening to this to continue to educate yourself continue to to seek out knowledge and to learn and at least be open to what information what opportunities what deals are out there because it's you know the get the cash flow game in itself is not just about cash flow it's about deal flow how many deals can you be looking at how many deals can you be in how many deals can you be you know accessing at the time so just by constantly looking at deals that's how you can stay active and and you know productive in this whole situation yeah all right thank you very much and we're gonna go ahead and close I will see all of yours again in two weeks we have a master at syndication for multi-family homes it's gonna come talk to us about how things are going in that side of the business if you are thinking of investing in multi-families he's got quite a few doors and he's gonna share with us where where they're at all of that so again thank you so much and I will see everyone in a couple weeks


Hi there, I'm Sandy Alnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube with the 24 Tags of Christmas 2017. This is day four with four penguin slider tags to add to my 24 tags.  I'm going to make it a slider tag. And I'm going to do that by using Ellen's set that has all these different kinds of things to slide things on. I just punched it out of the little piece of ice so that they can slide across it. Very cool, eh? So let's get busy. I'm going to quickly color these guys with my Copic markers. And you can color them of course with anything. And it's really easy to color a penguin even if you don't do any shading. Just color in the black parts black, color their scarves and color their little skates. And that's really all you have to do. So you don't have to be a coloring fanatic to do this. You can even have the kids help you do the coloring which I'm sure they would love to do. And you could have them take some of the burden off of you for the Christmas decoration and crafty projects. And maybe you can do some complex tags or you can do the hard parts of this and give them the easier parts to work on. I'm using some T markers but you can use the C's, the N's, the T's, the W's, whatever kinds of grays you have in your Copic collection. Because really all of them look like gray when you start coloring with them. They're just slightly, slightly, slightly different. I tend to trade around between them because one starts running low on ink so I switch to another rather than going to re-ink everything. So that's just me being lazy. Yes, me. Sandy on that is lazy. There you go. I'm going to show you how I'm not lazy though in a few minutes that you're going to get to see some craziness that I got to do because I was not thinking. Because when I bought this stamp set I knew I wanted to color these guys. They are so much fun. They're so cute. And I wanted to stamp them and everything but I didn't really think I was going to need the dies. So I wish I had bought the dies. So I'm going to link you in the doobly-doo and over on the blog to the stamp set and the dies. So if you're going to do this I would recommend getting both because it took me a little longer to finish these tags because I am silly and did not mind the dies. But I guess if you know me you know most of my artwork is done by actually not doing any of the die cutting. I do a lot more stamping and masking of my images. But for these tags I thought these little guys needed to move and slide around on the tags instead of being kind of locked in by just being stamped alone. I did stamp four of the wreaths because I had an idea for what I wanted to do with the wreaths to have the little penguins carrying them around. So I decided I would color them up and my idea here again added to my pain which would have been alleviated had I bought the dies. And even when I did this I probably could have had time to order the dies and then finish the video later but I didn't. You know some people do things the smart way and some people live as an example to you on how to not do things the hard way. So let me be an example to you. And I don't know if you guys are fussy cutters or if you're more of die cutters you can let me know that in the comments. When you leave your comments because you want to leave comments on this video as well as the others in the tag series. And you can leave comments over on the blog as well because I give away all the tags every year. 24 winners are going to get a tag in the mail from me and I would love for you to be one of the winners. And I pick from both the blog and from YouTube so I go to each particular tag and I pick one from blog and one from YouTube for every single one. It just because your name is picked from one does not mean that that is the tag you'll win because then I just throw them all in a hat and everybody gets whatever gets dropped in the envelopes that I put their names on. But that is how I select them so that I make sure that I give plenty of opportunities to everybody who's seeing all of the videos and gets a chance to win them. And I love giving away things love sending out stuff like this because that makes people happy and I love just picturing people's faces when they get happy mail. And the feeling that you get when you get some mail that you either didn't expect or didn't warrant or whatever you just get something that makes your day. It's especially nice during the Christmas season.  You literally would not have to do all the crazy shading as well. So you can let me serve an example to you as well how not to make your tags harder than they need to be by not doing all of the shading. But here I go with the fussy cutting. I'm not going to put you through watching me fussy cut but you can see that die cutting would have been a whole heck of a lot easier than that. But nonetheless look at how cute they are when they are holding their little wreaths. And I had to figure out where to put the adhesive so it would stick on their arm. But they're all going to be dancing around with their wreaths.  You'll see that in just a minute. And then I added just a little bit of gray to each one of the sides of the icebergs so that they'll look a little bit dimensional. You could not color those at all but they sort of fit better with the penguins when they have a little bit of coloring on them. So just use a little lighter gray to soften things out a little bit.  Now for these guys I had to cut some dimensional adhesive that will slide through that slot.  And I did a double because I wanted it to be thick so that the little guy pops up. And then I slid the piece down over top of it so you can see that it fits. And then I put another punched circle over top. You can do that with pennies or dimes but it's a lot easier to do with paper and it's a lot thinner. And then I put some dimensional adhesive on top of that. You can use other adhesives as well but the extreme power tabs work really great to hold things that are going to move because they don't go anywhere. They are pretty permanent. And then after I made sure he slid correctly through his little slot I pulled off the sticky and added it to each one of the tags. And got it lined up and then made sure he will slide along his little channel. And I did that with each of the four so that I could have four tags to add to the group that's going to be sent out as prizes. So I hope you win. Be sure to leave comments in order to have a chance to win. And then I want to show you a sneak peek at what's over on the Bible Journaling channel. These are actually not Bible bookmarks. Sort of Bible bookmarks because they're for Biblejourners but there's two different kinds of bookmarks made of just designer paper that you can make for stocking stuffers. And I will see you over there if you choose to watch that video. If not I will see you here tomorrow with another video in the tags series. Thank you so much for hitting that like button and I'll see you later.


Good morning everyone. I'm going to give a brief overview of UWA's data management services and how we got to the point where we are now. Before I do I'd like to give you a snapshot of my personal journey in this field. I graduated from UWA and then from the University of New South Wales with the Bachelor of Science in Molecular Genetics about 17 years ago and I worked as a research scientist in neurodegenerative disorders for several years. Then when children came along I decided to change scope a bit and I went back to study information sciences at ECU where when I graduated I was offered a job here at UWA as their first research data librarian in 2011. Currently I am research data coordinator. When I look back at my role as a researcher apart from the typical laboratory work there was there is some overlap with my current role. I've gone from doing the research and managing my own data to advising or training other researchers and librarians on research data management theory and I also help in providing research data management systems to our community here at UWA. Now the University Library UWA consists of six subject libraries and subject librarians and they provide a range of research learning support services. I work in the e-research support unit which is separate from the subject libraries but we work together to deliver the digital services to our researchers. Now the e-research support unit as a whole was created in 2010 with the appointment of a new director of what was then information services and the focus of this unit is digital developments in library including research impact, bibliometrics, open access, we manage the UWA research repository for publications here, digitisation and the ENDS projects as well as data management. This is the first step that UWA took to integrate research data management into the library. The next step with the ENDS projects UWA received ENDS funding for these three projects seeding the commons, the metadata stores project and the data capture project and these projects resulted in data management systems and training materials as listed here. I will now quickly give a brief overview of the three ENDS projects which we have now completed. Starting with the seeding the commons project it involved the creation of at least 50 collections in the Australian research data commons. With the ENDS funding UWA was able to hire its first research data librarian and I managed to manually enter these collections into RDA and through to the ENDS registry. The other part of the project consisted of creating training materials and data management guidelines which are now available in the form of a LibGuide titled research data management toolkit. The other two projects I'm going to speak in a combined mode because they do overlap. The metadata stores and the data capture projects required the delivery of a research data metadata store where records feed automatically into RDA in a RIFCS format. UWA selected the DSPACE software and customised it to meet our requirements and this is a screenshot of our metadata store. The project required feeds from three to six faculties in order to or organisational units which were our pilot groups and those pilot groups were Rockheart, the Oceans Institute and the Centre for Microscopy and as you can see on the left hand side it's the number of communities has increased in size and this is continually growing particularly as many of our researchers are publishing in PLOS which now has the data sharing policy and requires that a data availability statement is made so authors are required to make all the underlying data and the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction. This is a recently uploaded example of a data set which is associated with a PLOS article and you can see that the files are publicly accessible complying with PLOS data sharing policy so in a nutshell these are the three ANDS projects that helped catapult UWA into the research data management services area and we then needed to promote these ANDS funded services and also tools which we were developing for data storage initiatives. So we developed this year a suite of research data management services online aimed at helping researchers create a data management plan and understanding basic research data management concepts and we brought all these systems together in a web page and this is a snapshot of our web page, our current web page. We've divided it into three sections referring to planning, storing and sharing and our three data management services right now fit into these sections. Under planning we link to the data management planning tool which is an online tool that researchers can use I'll just go over that briefly in a minute. Under storing we link to the institutional research data store. The institutional research data store is a storage facility but specifically for researchers to store their research data. We also have the sharing system in which we link to the research data online tool which I just showed you in the previous slide. There is also a link to the research data management toolkit and LibGuide. Our research data management tool uses the survey monkey tool and it's a guide at the very least a useful checklist of issues that researchers should consider at the beginning of their research life cycle. We also have a copy in the toolkit for them to download in the hard copy. Obviously it's not compulsory that they fill out these online forms but there's been significant interest at the university level and at some faculty levels as well in the school levels in standardising or getting a more consistent approach to research data management planning and incorporating it into the research data life cycle or the research life cycle zone. I'm not sure if many of you are aware but or if an equivalent exists in the other states but in Western Australia there's a legal instrument which exists now that determines the minimum retention period of all research records including data. This instrument is and has an acronym of WAU-SDA. We call it the WASDA here and it overrides all the other guidelines and recommendations and in some cases exceeds the recommended data retention times so we have at the very bottom there an indication there that your research records must be retained for a minimum of seven years after data publication or project completion whichever is later. At the very top you've got major research having to be held and retained permanently. These guidelines were created by members of our information government government service team here at WAU together with ECU and Curtin and this WASDA document is really the reason that we started developing the institutional research data store to comply with it. So the institutional research data store is a centralised and secure UWA supported data storage facility for electronic research data. It enables ongoing access to these valuable assets even after researchers leave or retire or move to other universities keep it here and they can take a copy with them. This is the screenshot of the IRDS in the landing page and it has a range of online request forms for the service and our researchers can access those via their internal login credentials. It's no cost to the researcher so they can request a certain size of space for their data. It's available 24-7 on campus via wired access so it's not Wi-Fi yet. It's secure and backed up. It's scalable to accommodate for future needs so currently we have a limit of 2.5 petabytes. We're accommodating for the tail end of research. We're not focusing on big data. We have facilities where it's not accessible to anyone external to UWA but this is flagged as a future enhancement to be able to collaborate with your immediate researchers who are involved in collecting this data interstate and internationally but not yet and also we're looking at incorporating Wi-Fi access into the future. The IRDS had an enormous positive response from all the researchers who wish to use the service and we didn't anticipate this interest and we are really thrilled. The demand for the service has required both the library and IT together to review and manage capacity efficiently so right now we are about to go into live launch, advertise it to everybody and on providing a number of different reports which monitor, engage, use. This is a means of measuring the success of the service well into the future as well. Each request over a certain amount also requires a process between the librarians, our faculty liaison coordinators, contacting researchers prior to approval. So we also monitor if someone is requesting anything above 5 terabytes that that is their immediate need. We don't want to cater for projected needs. We're catering for immediate needs and the researcher feedback has been extremely positive which is great. I have covered all of the four research data management services and tools which we have. The research data management toolkit on the right hand side, the planning tool, the storage facility and research data online, our metadata store which feeds into RDA. In regards to engagement our research data management suite of services is now online and accessible to everyone. I've been presenting these services to school staff meetings and faculties. I find that the school staff meetings are much more receptive and gain bigger crowds because the faculty meetings are usually over lunchtimes. We've also conducted research data management workshops for both librarians, faculty liaison coordinators and researchers and the faculty liaison coordinators are then fully equipped to liaise with researchers with which they encounter and provide information on our services. Researchers who were part of the pilot groups for the research data online and the IRDS have also promoted our services via word of mouth. So where to now? We have introduced services in which there's obviously a need for without broad announcements or a full live launch of our research data management services. The uptake has been significant and very positive so it will be necessary to manage and maintain, improve and monitor these services through reporting. I believe the next step is to cement policies and procedures for our researchers to provide guidance on data management and the appropriateness of using these services in their research. These are currently in the pipeline training our librarians and faculty liaison coordinators is essential in communicating a consistent message to our of our research of our services to the researchers. This upskilling is ongoing and aims to provide reliable and uniform information which is then disseminated outwards.