Thank you. All right, hello everyone and welcome to our summer quarterly meeting for the Community College Consortium for OER at the Open Education Global. We're so glad you could join us. We've got some good information to share with you and we also want to hear from you about your summer activities. Let me just give you a little overview of the agenda. As usual, this meeting is packed. And in the meanwhile, if you haven't shared or if you'd like to share again your name and the college and maybe even your role at your college in the chat window, that would be super. This is a great way for us to build community. We, as you know, in the spring, our exec council goes through a refresh so Judith Sebesta our president to our council is going to introduce our new exec council in just a moment. And then we're going to ask you about what you're doing this summer. Then we've got some updates for you on OE global, particularly around awards and also around conference, then a little touch on the federal grant that's outstanding right now the open textbook one. And then we want to talk to you about the annual survey results and thank you for filling that in if you had a chance and if you hadn't well, we'll ask you to maybe consider giving us more information. And then we have a ton of things going on this summer, which we'd like to tell you about those are opportunities for you and the folks at your college to participate in and we hope that you find those useful. They are based on input that we received from you earlier this year. So we have a lot of ways to get involved and finally at the end joy shoemate who is our VP of member member relations or membership wants to lead a discussion for those of you who can stay and talk about member support, and how we can provide more support for members. So any questions before we get started. So first of all, I do want to thank our outgoing council members. These are really hardworking people who make these who work with Liz and I on a regular basis and make possible all the work of the consortium. Sootash Jean out of Northern Essex Community College was our past president this year. And it has has done wonderful work both here at CCC OER and in Massachusetts. Ted in Tara bum rung is the coordinator of library services at Roxbury College, and he's been on our council for several years now and he's moving. He's not moving too far. He'll be on the council directly but he's going to be in our equity diversity inclusion committee so he'll be continuing leadership work. Ursula Pike, the associate director of higher education at digitex has been the VP, the co VP of our equity diversity inclusion committee for the last two years in fact she was the founding director. She's the VP of that and she will continue on the committee but she's stepping down from her VP position and Jean Runyon, Vice President of at Larimer campus of Front Range Community College is now as I think as of July 1 is moving to Piedmont College in Virginia. Did I get the state correct. I noticed. Yes, so congratulations to Jean on her presidency, and all the work that she did with us we are so thankful for and I know that we'll hear from her again as she gets her, her feet on the ground there at Piedmont College. Finally we want to thank Nathan Smith from Houston Community College, who's been our on our PD our professional development committee for I think three years and has just run some amazing panels and presentations for all of us. And I know that we all want to thank these folks and for the work that they've done. And I now want to turn it over to Judith Sebesta, who is the Executive Director of Digitex and also the President of our Exec Council. Thank you so much, and good afternoon or good morning is the case maybe I'm looking at you sonny and Wade and maybe a few others. I don't know why but great to see everybody here at the meeting, and I want to echo and his appreciation to our outgoing Executive Council members, and to welcome our new Executive Council members who all of them have already been diving in to the work here and Michael Lamagna who is at Delaware County Community College which is in Pennsylvania, and we also have joining us Ryan McKinney at Kingsborough Community College at the City University of New York, and Paula McNeevitz, who is at the College of Southern Nevada. As I mentioned sonny pie who is out at the Kapiolani Community College in Hawaii, and Andrea Scott is joining us as well on the Executive Council and she's at Salt Lake Community College so welcome to all of you thank you so much for agreeing to serve in this important capacity for CCC OER. And Judith I wondered if you wanted to mention our new, our new impact and research committee. Yes. Do you mind. Next slide or more about that. I just wanted to say that, you know, based on our surveys with members. There's a real desire for more information about measuring impact at your institution. So we've created a new committee this year, which will be headed up by Michael Lamagna and sunny pie, and it's around research, not only, you know sharing research that existing research, but helping you to do some impact research at your own institution. And so stay tuned for that will will have more information in the August timeframe around, you know, opportunities to get involved and join that discussion. So I hope I hope that was okay with you Michael and sunny I know I'm sort of pre announcing things, but they just joined us last month. And so it's still early days but we know this is something really important to you. Great, thank you so much and I appreciate you mentioning that. I also have welcomed a number of new institutional and consortia members over the past year, including the network of Illinois learning resources and community colleges, St. Charles Community College in Missouri, Central Arizona College, Calesimus River College in California, Northeastern Junior College in Colorado, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, and some new statewide consortiums including in Illinois and Missouri, in Arizona, and in my state, Texas and the Texas consortium has grown this past year to 20 members including the new members that you can see here on the slide. And I have to say Texas is our largest consortium this year not too surprising. They do it, they do it big in Texas. Well, my organization did you Texas been grateful to to be able to work to expand the membership because we really believe in and understand the value of CCC or and only global membership so thank you. I have the joy of doing the kind of leading our icebreaker for this meeting and what we came up with was this question, and we just want to take a few moments to ask you to answer in chat, if you can, what is one thing you're looking forward to doing this summer, either personally, or professionally. So if you you have something you'd like to share and would like to put into the chat. Go right ahead and and I'll I'll see if I can. I'll read a few of these. And you know you just let me know when you think we need to go ahead and move on Lisa time with family and friends. Oh Lisa don't, don't we all need that. Mike Mike you're spending some beach time oh I can't talk to you I'm too envious. Moving into a new home. Oh that's exciting. Oh my goodness Elizabeth that's wonderful. And visiting family in Chicago Paula says hasn't been there since 2019 summer 2019 that's. Oh that's so wonderful Paula time for sun and fun water coloring oh creative good. Kate says she already had a trip to California and got married there. Oh my goodness that you probably need to rest now. Robert says he's playing a trip to Uruguay oh my goodness that's exciting summer reading that sounds along the line of my relaxing plans, any. Surviving summer projects Kevin well we hope you do. Ted's getting married in Copenhagen oh my goodness Ted. That's amazing looking forward to paddle boarding. Finishing the oh we are leadership training Arlo that's wonderful Michelle. And, and you said teaching a summer stats class that sounds like a lot of work, taking long weekend trips, be an anaheim to watch the angels play the mariner so that's great. Can't oh Lori that's going to go camping. I'm doing to run youth soccer Academy and going on many vacations. This all is just makes makes me a little envious of many of you I would say Suzanne's going to be working hard making their intro to psych lifespan development and psychology and gender. Oh we are text ADA compliant. Good for you Suzanne for doing the good work. That's amazing. Oh after finishing Arlo may be heading to Boston glad to see many of you participating in Arlo and Alan is winning the battle with weeds in the garden. We wish you best of luck with that Alan. That doesn't sound me easy and and Wade is going to be heading to Arlo and Boston hopes to see some of you there and I'm pretty sure you will. I think she says she'll be wrapping up her leader Arlo leadership project so thank you all so much for sharing please kid as we continue the meeting if you would like to share any more details or if anyone hasn't had to share please. Put this in chat because I am living vicariously through you because I don't, I don't have a lot of plans except Oh I will say except a major celebration my sister is has been announced cancer free after five years of treatment so we're going to have a big celebration for my sister so that's going to be my exciting summer. Wonderful it looks like most people are going to get outside or get away from home for a bit and enjoy that. Which is which is wonderful I think that's where we're all at right now. And thank you for sharing that Sandra you're the new director of the teaching and learning center at Chattanooga State Community College and enjoying bringing your love of OER to that position. Wonderful. All right. Well, thank you all for sharing that. A little bit later we'll talk about some of the summer activities that are available to you directly that you can fit in around those those family trips and those camping and all those other wonderful things that trip to Uruguay. Wonderful and we're going to turn this over to Lisa young, who is our former executive council president, and also is an OE global board member director she's on our directors board for our parent organization, Lisa. Hi everybody, you know talking about the summer. I feel like my big summer event was getting to attend the OE global conference in person in non France. It was absolutely amazing. It was a bit surreal to be in person again and get to see so many old friends and make new friends and get to explore a new place and, most importantly, learn and so what was really great about the conference, aside from just kind of having this return to a conference experience, which was so new to me was the so many things but first of all, it was presented in multiple languages and the students at the University of not created an app that created word clouds in four different languages. And also you could have it on your phone and it was translating live the presentations that you were viewing, which was so amazing. Whenever I get to go to the OE global conference. I'm always so humbled by so many of the people who present in their second third fourth language. And it was really great to be able to see people presenting in their first language I absolutely loved it I went to a couple of sessions in French, and tried to understand as much as I could with my limited junior high French. And now what's even better is that so many of the sessions and keynotes were archived that we are able to go back and look at them with the close captioning and the translation so that we can do that. So that's pretty great. Alan did an amazing job with the and the conference. And there were so many different sessions there were Twitter spaces and coffee chats I know I got to chat with Lori bath and Alan and people online and that was really like so fun to be connected with those of you that were not physically there but we were still connected. And there were really unconference discussions that are available on our network. And there were exceptional keynotes. Dr cyan proctor who is a community college faculty member who went to space was one of the keynotes and I had the opportunity to interview her there and so that was really fun. And it was a blast and it was amazing to see the word clouds that were generated about on her presentation behind her as she was presenting, and to see what was happening on Twitter in regard to the reactions. And also, the keynote from my gosh I cannot remember his name from Ecuador was absolutely transformative and maybe someone can put that in the chat because I cannot remember, but it was just a really fantastic experience and so much is still available to us available and conference continues to go on through our only global connect and so definitely go on there there's some great on conference discussions, you can see the archive sessions. And it's pretty amazing. Also, I have to give a shout out to Liz and Lori bath, who did a great workshop I got to attend. They used a lot of the material. And it was just being done on our anti racism work, and it was a great session, and I'm so grateful to have been able to attend that. So the next conference is going to be in the fall of 2023. So no conference this fall in person but next in fall of 2023. It's going to be in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Norquist Community College is going to be hosting that. And I believe that Robert Lawson from Norquist is on the call Robert do you want to say anything about hosting the conference in 2023. Yeah, thank you very much Lisa so I'm an instructional designer at Norquist College in Edmonton, Alberta, and we're very excited to be hosting the conference in 2023. Norquist is very unique institution. It's a community college that has programs in a in a very diverse range of subject areas nursing health care aid etc. But it's also known as a place that is very welcoming to new Canadians so we have some very good ESL programs we have apprenticeship apprenticeship preparation programs. We also have a very large indigenous learner community so 10% of our students are indigenous. We have a strategy of indigenization and EDI is one of our college priorities as well so that's probably going to be work somehow into the into the conference theme something about EDI and indigenization which is great so I actually have a promotional video here for us so you can get a bit of a glimpse at the city of Edmonton and the college as well and just sort of see what things look like and what the venue is going to look like as well so yeah thank you very much. Thank you Robert I'm I'm really like looking forward to the conference. It's something hockey season will be have kicked off and to be able to go right now like you know it's hockey night tonight and I'm really I've never been to an NHL game in Canada and so just be hoping that I can have that experience long there too. That would be great yeah. Yes, I'm so happy that we should get Robert connected to our EDI committee I'm sure they would love to help you with the theme and how that might evolve. That would be wonderful. Yeah, yeah, we'll contact you. And I want to also make sure that you all know about our only global awards. And the open education awards of excellence and so nominations are open until July 31. And we have a number of awards as you can see here we have our special awards. We have people awards. And we share to what we share and how we share and so please check out the link awards dot we global dot org for more information so that you can nominate people in your organizations or people that you know outside of your organizations for these awards. We're going to close on July 31 so you know you want to start there. It's not just a little application there's some really good meaty questions in there so you want to make sure you get those started as soon as possible but please nominate people in your organizations or that you know that, you know have done amazing things. And that's what I've got from the global board. Liz mentioned you can nominate yourself as well. And a lot of the awards are project based so it they would be kind of team awards so yeah get get your team together and work on that application. Thank you, Lisa. And, you know, community colleges have played a major role in the awards recipients so it's certainly not just a university thing it's, we're doing the work and we're being recognized. All right, thanks so much Lisa. All right, Shinta I think wanted to take this one and talk to you about the federal open textbook grant that open just about a month ago. I do thank you and well everybody so there is an exciting opportunity being offered to us by the US Department of Education, and it is the federal open textbook grant. This application is due July 25, which really is just around the corner I know it might seem like oh it's still more than a month away, but you know how summertime flies really fast. And really the essence of this is to allow applicants to apply for a really big grant that will help them form open educational textbooks resources for underserved under research populations. What's unique about this particular grant is that institutions of higher ed and state higher education agencies are eligible and applicants have to form a consortium of at least three higher ed institutions. There are other additional requirements that need to be met if you and your higher ed friends and colleagues are interested in applying, you can certainly click on that federal notice link it'll lead you to the specific requirements. The Department of Ed is planning to fund up to five brands anywhere between 500,000 and 2 million and awardees will know by the end of the year so this is something that you certainly want to apply this year if possible. And I wouldn't wait if I were you. And in fact, my understanding is that if, if an application is not accepted this time around, they may be reconsidered for next year so in other words if this is something that you're really interested in doing. Apply this year instead of waiting until next year. There's a couple of examples there that you can take a look at written at the bottom of the screen so we've got open RM that was led by Chippewa Valley Technical College in Wisconsin. CC Echo led by West Hills College, the more in California, Massachusetts open textbook pilot led by Framingham State University and that all that includes Northern Essex, Essex Community College and several other community college colleges in the state of Massachusetts. There's an open Oregon open textbook pilot led by the open Oregon, Oregon educational resources team. And then lastly open text rule Arizona led by Yavapai College in Arizona. So if you're interested, don't wait, don't hesitate. Go ahead and, and apply with, like I like I said, a consortium of at least three higher ed institutions must apply together. There's also asynchronous discussions being held on OEG connect so if you want to go to that bit.ly link you can take a look at some conversations discussions that are already happening right now about this so you can see, and you can use it to also ask questions. Thank you. Yeah, wow, thank you. That's wonderful. And that page also has information from Spark, and a couple of other of our colleague organizations I should say our sister organizations that are that work regularly on these grants. Thank you so much. I'd also invite anyone who's working on the grant to perhaps share that in here. If you feel comfortable just share that you're looking at the grant as a possibility for this coming year. It's nice to know who's who's applying. Great. Yeah, thank you, Lisa for adding that the that Maricopa Community College was one of the, along with them. Yeah, the Arizona State was one of the early open textbook projects. All right, Liz Yada, this is your slide. Just to remind everybody what we've been doing for past year we had 10 webinars, three of those were our open ed week webinars which had a theme of open education leadership this year we had five member meetings. And for the webinars we had over 700 people attend and the spring we're averaging over 90 people per webinar and our top webinar was sustainable OER course design and all of our webinar topics are taken from what our members tell us is of interest to them so thank you to all of you who filled out the survey last year. So this summer. For this summer we've got the EDI book club going on with a lot of help from Andrea and Ursula. We've got some informal summer conversations, which we'll talk about in a little bit. We're also doing another open pedagogy summer adventure. And just, you know, to let you know some of the things that CCC OER works on some grants work on as we're working on just wrapping up our open for anti racism or second cohort which is think about three times as big as our first first cohorts. It's been exciting regional leaders of open education. And we have also been working on the California Consortium for equitable change Hispanic serving institutions called CC ECHO. All right. Just to remind everyone we recently published our strategic plan. And you can find it on our website under the about tab and hopefully we're going to have an annotation exercise set up soon so we can get your feedback and how we can take all these wonderful words and actually make them into actions. All right. Thank you Liz. Anything else on on the strategic plan. I don't think so. Okay. I did have several webinars on it. This year if you want to catch up. And yeah and like we've been mentioning we really do value your input. So if you haven't. We've had about maybe a third of you of our colleges represented so far so if you haven't please please let us know you know we want to know what's important to to you and how we can best serve our members because we are a community of practice so we don't want to just We don't want to just do what we feel like doing do very much value your feedback. We do but that wouldn't be appropriate. We try not to. And just a, this is a map showing. I just took this out of our survey to also showing who's responded so pretty. Well, I think it's pretty in line with our distribution of members. We have roles, a lot of mostly administrators, most of our people who responded were from individual colleges, and librarians which we know are very important to know we are, and we're tied with the e learning and professional development where that was there. Okay, and Judith wants the link in the chat. So I'll put that in a second. Thank you. All right, thanks Liz. Very quickly, a couple of highlights from me sharing is that last year, 41% of our respondents reported an increase in our interest. And this year, 68% of respondents reported an increase in our interest so we think that's really wonderful to hear that. And for those who have stayed the same or decreased we want to hear more about that when we get to our member discussion and see if there's things that we can help with. Let's see is, I can't remember now Mike are you taking over at this point or am I continuing. You are. Okay, I am. Okay, so this is still mine. Sorry about that. We try to share all this wonderful news. So we ask every year, what is your most successful aspect of your open education program. And I would say for the last three years, at least since we've been asking that question it's saving students money. And this year where it as it still is the largest one so you can see the blue is last year and the red is this year. I think saving students money has moved down I think as we mature in our open education programs. We're seeing that saving students money is important, but there's other aspects that are equally important and are definitely moving up so increasing student persistence, enhancing teaching and learning, and then equity diversity and inclusion went down slightly this year so not sure what that was. And then later on when you'll see the survey, you'll see that they're a big interest in equity diversity inclusion so I'm not sure if that was just a little blip. All right, and back to you Shanta. All right so members had cited what supports they need to continue their work in this area. So we have some of the top OER professional development needs so measuring impact and anti racism. We talked about measuring impact earlier so that's it's good that that's a top need and we will be sure to address that open pedagogy and sustainability is in collaboration and workforce slash OER course design. And what one thing to notice is that sustainability bookstore collaboration and workforce OER moved up this year so it's good to see, you know, some changes there but we will be sure to help address those needs. And then some challenges that members cited faculty buy in and burnout, as well as little to no funding 21% of the members said no funding, and then lack of strategic plans and competing initiatives at their institution. And another thing to highlight is that challenge number one and challenge number two switch places this year, but still remain at the top to. Thank you Shanta for that and I do think it just represents that it's been a long two and a half years, and faculty are not looking, many are not looking for new opportunities just at this moment they're just trying to kind of tread water and and get re energized. And I think we're seeing that in in the survey results. Anything else Shanta. Okay, and Shanta is our VP of professional development, and she works with her committee on planning all our professional development webinars so this inputs really important to them. All right, I think this is yours, Mike. This is mine. Thank you. When we asked the survey respondents about funding sources. This year compared to 2021 you'll see that federal and state grants dropped this year about 15% in the college department and innovation fund grants increased by about that same amount and I wonder if that's because some of the colleges are focused when we are as a result of the pandemic so they put more money into their, their departments. It'll be interesting not impact that a little bit. And we also heard that private donors increased about 10% this year so any increase in funding to help this initiative is always welcome. On the next slide, we asked about priorities, and if we can, or Liz get to the next slide. I'm sorry, I did I miss a beat there, Mike. Yes, if you get to the next slide there we go. We asked you to rank your priorities. And you'll see that, you know the top priority was improving student success, followed by increasing equity as our awareness is matured as the focus on we are as matured. You can see that dropped this year to 78% from 94% last year but I'm really encouraged by this improving student success and increasing in equity. Because I think it will flow right into what we're doing with the research impact that Michael and Sunday are leading and and how do we quantify student success with what measures do we look at. And then with the equity piece, I think that flows really well into what Lori Beth is going to talk about in the summer conversation and this focus on social justice. So with that I'll turn it over to Lori Beth. Nice to be here with everybody. And I just wanted to say that yesterday we had a rather delightful. If you can call a discussion on social justice delightful we were sharing lots of resources and had some good conversations about using a social justice framework to guide some of our work and evaluate some of our work in open educational practices. The conversation is ongoing. I'll put the link in the chat to the OEG connect place where you can contribute as well. Again, I chose a few questions but definitely we can expand those questions and you can add topics and whatnot. So we have a July topic in our summer conversations coming up on strategic planning, led by Matthew Bloom, and in August, Michael Lamagna and sunny pie will be introducing us or helping us out with impact measurement. And that's what I have. Thanks. Thanks so much Lori Beth, and it was a wonderful conversation yesterday and I want to also thank Matthew who will be leading one in July, and also Michael and sunny in August. All right, over to Andrea who is our, our co VP of the equity diversity inclusion committee. Thank you. So I am here to talk about our summer book club, and this is a book we've had a couple sessions already. Our next session is coming up on June 30. We have meeting synchronous and asynchronous if you're interested and the book we're reading is equity and inclusion and higher education strategies for teaching. We do have some spaces left if you're interested in facilitating those dates available are June 30. We have one spot and also one spot available on August, August 11. So part of the book club group, there's also a CCC OER facilitator, inclusive facilitator guide and training that we provide. So if anybody interested in facilitating is welcome to reach out and we can provide the link, but if you want to facilitate, we will share the link here. And also if you're interested in participating in the book club, we would love to have you. The book club. Generally, there's some some questions and lots of great discussion that goes on and a bit of content that's also brought. So if you are if you are unable to purchase the book, we will cover the main points of the book so please don't let that be a barrier for participating participating in the book club. So I think that's it. We hope you hope to see you there, like I said that our next one is June 30. If anybody from the EDI book club is here or EDI committee wants to add anything. Feel free to jump in and just get a pause for a minute. Hi Andrea, this is Wade. Hi. Hi yeah I just wanted to add that. If you are interested in the book club and you haven't you don't have a copy of the book yet. What I want to do is because the next book club session is next week on chapter five is actually available free online. And so I'm going to put the link there it's only chapter five so please if you are interested in joining the book club please do request a copy if you don't already have one but you are able to read chapter five, and then attend next book club. Thank you. Yes, Wade thank you for bringing that up I appreciate that and also if you're interested in facilitating CCC OER will purchase the book for you. So great hope to see you there. Thank you. Thank you Andrea and Wade and I don't know Wade mentioned this but he is the facilitator for next week so it's going to be great. Hope to see you there. All right, Alan Levine. Summer pedagogy. Hello everybody, and we already know how busy people are and no I will not pick your weeds if you saw my patch. But not more about OEG connect them I'm really happy to see that CCC OER is taking advantage of using our community space not only for the programs mentioned but Arlo is using it very extensively. Here we did some experimentation with some different formats, some live some asynchronous. This year is just a completely unstructured but if anybody is interested in following along in this version of the summer pedagogy adventure. It's just you create your own topic and say what you're interested in or maybe what you're trying to produce investigate research, build over the summer work on your classes and just a chance to share what you're doing kind of in a format you can come back and update and I've more or less put my interest in I'm doing some experiments pursuing with H5P, which is my favorite OER technology. And I'm so tired of hearing the hype about AI, I'm just trying to understand it by trying to find things I can do. I can experience it myself rather than just trying to take my understanding from blog post and papers I can't really understand so it's just an informal way of sharing kind of what you're interested in looking at this summer. If anybody wants to join me, join along and so thanks for listening to me Yammer again about OEG Connect. Thank you Alan and you know Alan is, I've forgotten exactly what your title is at OE Global but you're kind of the EdTech tool guru. So you need some free tech support. I shouldn't say free but Alan is there and always answers all of our questions and so don't hesitate. I know a lot of people are interested in getting the H5P going.  So. All right. Thank you all over to Karen Candelosi, our program director for Arlo. Thanks, I'm always excited to talk about Arlo. We just finished up our third online leadership program with our third cohort and several folks from Arlo actually in the zoom here today and I welcome anybody to chime in that wants to say anything about Arlo but we're now in the midst of planning an in person event which brings together participants across all three cohorts, as well as we've invited people in that are new that can be part of a fourth cohort and so anybody that wants to come and join us in Boston, July 22nd and 23rd it's just about a month away. We do have some space, I may be just out of scholarship money but I'm still looking at the budget so if you want to come to Boston I might be able to cover hotel room. But please I'm going to just put the link in the chat here you can read the details about the summit, but we are about strategic planning and I was listening as Shinto was talking about how. One of the problems for folks at institutions is the lack of a strategic plan, and also that they're competing initiatives and I think actually one of the things that we try to emphasize in the Arlo network is that you can kind of integrate the kinds of initiatives that are already happening at your institution with your open education initiative and we talk a lot about that so those two things don't have to be in antagonistic to each other. So please join us in Boston I'm happy to answer any other questions about the Arlo network. Our funding comes to an end in January and we're hoping to resubmit and have another couple of years so we'll see how that goes as well so. Thanks everybody. Thank you so much Karen and Arlo, the Arlo network program was a new one about a year ago to date actually right. Almost two. Yeah, yeah. Launch that back in May of last year so very exciting. And I know that a lot of people have benefited from that will continue to. All right, so we are actually doing really well on time I want to thank everyone for that. We're now going to turn this over to Gracie McDonahue, who is our VP of website blog, and she's going to tell you more about how to get involved if you're if you're not already involved. Enough. So there are a few other ways to be involved with CCC OER since I am doing the website I'm going to talk about the blog post first. If there is anything that you're doing or your institution is doing to advance OER and you want to write a blog post about it that would be amazing. We're always looking for new ideas and we are open to absolutely anything related that you know you want to put out there. We could do a blog post about open ed news or programs not even necessarily programs and news that you know is going on with you but maybe somewhere in your surrounding community. Or if you wanted to do an open education think piece that would be a great one to if you kind of have an idea that you're thinking about. And you want to talk through it please contact me anytime just send me an email I'd be happy to talk to you about it. Also if you want to contribute to the series of post about EDI that would be awesome. And the student impact experiences with OER we love student stories. Those are the best things that we have and the best way to engage other people in what we do. So if you have an amazing student impact story and want to share it that would be great. Obviously we have like quite a few conferences going on. There is a list on the website of all of the conferences that are upcoming I try to keep that up to date as possible. So if there is another conference coming up that you don't see listed on there please send it to me and I will add it to the list and a way to register for it. And then also committee opportunities you know if you want to be on the membership committee if you want to be on EDI or research and impact. There are different opportunities I know that Joy and Paula and I have been collaborating for the membership committee and just kind of thinking about different ways to get new members and to you know just like what might appeal to different people. And you know different ways to market that so if you want to be on any of the committees and you want to collaborate anything we would love to hear that so thank you so much. Thank you Gracie and if you could put your email address in the chat window maybe that would be really helpful. Absolutely I will do that I see that thunder and I will contact you. Wonderful wonderful. Great. Thank you. So, before we're just about to switch to our member support discussion. But first of all, I wanted to share with you our calendar of events. I think you've heard about most of this that's going on but in mid August, Shinta Hernandez and her team will will announce the fall webinar series. So, before that, we've got the Arlo in person summit dates there in case you didn't catch those earlier, and then the fall all members meeting will be September 1. And finally, we mentioned the open ed conference at the bottom there the virtual one that's happening in October because I think many of us will be there, and it'll be a great time for us to connect. You know, lastly, before we turn this over I just want to thank everyone in our community, who makes this possible for us to discover and share ways to open up education to support students. I think sometimes we don't. We don't turn around and look at the work we're doing and and really, you know, give ourselves a little pat on the back and say, we are working towards something really valuable for students and so I want to say thank you and thank you for helping our, our community of practice to support that goal. Hi, I am now going to turn it over to joy shoemate who is our VP of membership. She works with Paula, and I'm not Paula from College of Southern Nevada I still haven't gotten Paula's name down Paula M. And she works with Cindy Domeica out of Nicolay College and she and Cindy have been partners for quite a long time and we were thrilled to have Paula join us this year. All right, Joy, would you like to start start the discussion and it's really an opportunity to share. Yes, yes, thank you so much, and I really appreciate you also introducing Paula and Cindy. And we've also been really grateful to have Gracie join us in a lot of these conversations as well. So really this is an opportunity for us as a larger community. I apologize for the background noise. This is an opportunity for us as a community to come together and just share some ideas, really, as the membership committee, we are wanting to know from all of you, what you want out of the membership and how we might be able to share in what it means to be a member of CCC OER so I just have a couple of kind of broad questions but I welcome you to either put some ideas in the chat or feel free to unmute but a lot of this just like the survey results. And you know Gracie shared some ways to get involved, anything that you shared here and now will help inform what we plan and what we work towards as a committee and we also welcome you to join the committee. If that interests you but I really just wanted to kind of open it up with a very broad question which is what what is it that you want or seek out of your membership with CCC OER. I want to support you with that so I'll pause. Great, great question Joy. And as people are thinking, or typing. I put a comment to. So Joseph wants grant right right. And at least one of our respondents said that OER interest had decreased at their college. And I'm wondering if there's ways that our community can help with that. Thank you for that. Maybe what I can share are some of the ideas that as a committee we've been discussing and sort of wrestling with and we will be working to implement some solutions in the coming year. And one of the things that we have been discussing are really ways to better connect to the membership so you know all of the wonderful professional development events that are offered through CCC OER and the amazing committee that plan all of those. So we were discussing as a committee maybe ways that we can better reach out to participants or attendees of those events. Just to kind of touch base see what you got out of it were there any lingering questions are there other members maybe we can connect you to as a result of attending some of those professional development events. So that was an idea that we had as Gracie was sharing. Not long ago, really trying to connect the larger membership to events that might be closer to your region or your area so making it a point to try to publicize events. So even if maybe you can't attend there, you might have a colleague in your region who might be able to attend some events. So some of the initial ideas that we had for ways to strengthen our membership. Oh, and I see some messages in the chat so Kevin posted a comment about change the messaging. So that would be interesting so cost savings may not play to all. Yes, okay great so Kevin thank you for that comment. You put a really nice comment in the chat about how perhaps some of those survey results changing are the result of the interest, perhaps not necessarily shifting away but new interest in OER as a tool for equity and social justice. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Suzanne enlisting the help of student government. Great so listening to our students to actually learn what it is that our students want in me. Thank you. And I see also Michelle has put. Most recent grants have required. Yes, like multiple faculty or institutions. To work together on grants. I see so. Okay so lobbying for for grants that make it easier for individuals or adjunct faculty. Great. And you know that's a really good point you know perhaps there's a way. Michelle, maybe we can talk offline about maybe there are ways to that CCC OER can support bringing different members together, perhaps. There are opportunities that interest you maybe we can help connect to other members who might share a similar interest in applying for a grant so thank you that's a wonderful idea. Michelle. Okay I see a comment from Teresa about outside speakers having an impact. Great. I can be lonely coming from a small college. So, yes, thank you so much for all of these really wonderful contributions I'm definitely picking out and I think Lori that summarized it really great connections really being important. And, you know, despite these really wonderful webinars we will be working as a committee to try to find some ways to better connect the membership so in addition to attending. So, thank you all so much. I will be sure to put my email in the chat so if there are some other ideas that come to you or if you have, you know, something you're excited about or if I missed something in the chat please do not hesitate to reach out to me. Paula Cindy, and even Gracie, we would love to hear your ideas because this will really inform the work we do in the next year to, I think to try to better connect us as a community so thank you for this time and thank you all for your contributions. Thank you Joy. Well we are at the last few minutes of our of our meeting I want to thank everyone for staying around for that discussion and, you know, continue thank you joy for putting your email in there continue to send input to joy and you can also send that to Judith and I as well. I will make sure it gets to joy. So, I just want to say have a wonderful summer and I wonder if, if, if anyone has any other comments or any other needs at this time before we, before we go. Well we're going to hang out here for a while. So for another few minutes. So, I think we can turn off the recorder. And yes I agree it was great to see everyone and sometimes soon hopefully in person.


Hello everyone, I am Fatih Baili from EPFL and I will be presenting our work determining the core primitive for optimally secure ratcheting. This work was done in collaboration with Paul Rosler and Serge Woudinay. I would like to start by stating our contribution. In the context of ratcheting, we have recently seen two primitives, unidirectional ratcheted key exchange, or I will refer to this as URKE, and we have seen key-updateable key encapsulation mechanism or QCAM. We extend the security notions for these two primitives, such that we consider the randomness manipulation as a realistic threat in the game scenarios. And in these extended security notions, we show that these two primitives actually imply each other. This informally means that building strongly secure ratcheting in itself is as hard as building key-updateable public key primitives. Then I will first, in this presentation, then I will first talk about URKE and QCAM Star, and then I will talk about how we extend our notion so that we consider randomness manipulation, and then I will give a very brief explanation of how our constructions work for two directions. In the recently published two papers, one by Pertrink and Rezler, we have observed something. In crypto 2018, they have defined the idea of the security notion of strongly secure ratcheting as a mechanism that exchanges keys between two parties. In their construction, the authors had used what they called key-updateable key encapsulation mechanism. And this was, in return, instantiated with the use of hierarchical-identity-based encryption. In the same year, independent from the previous work, Jgrant's Tapanos also looked at the ratcheting more from a data encapsulation type of setting, and then they used key-updateable public key encryption scheme to build their construction. Again, this was built on top of hierarchical-identity-based encryption. Therefore, we wonder whether key-updateable public key cryptography is, in fact, a necessary building block for strong ratcheting, and that is the question we respond affirmatively in this work. So let us briefly talk about ratcheting. So in this figure, you can see actually what a real ratchet looks like. It's a type of wheel which can rotate only in one direction, and there is a device called pole which prevents it going in the reverse direction. In the context of cryptography, it has become popular thanks to the signal messaging application because it promises two things to users. It's post-compromise secrecy and the forward secrecy. And these are important especially nowadays because we generally tend to have our phones for a very long time and then it is quite probable that they contain the same application and then the same state inside those messaging applications. A simple analogy here is that the pole in this figure is the key-updateable public key cryptography and the wheel is the messaging application. Let us look at these two notions very briefly. In a more conventional example, one would first set up a shared key between A and B which would be then used with the symmetric cryptography to exchange messages. However, this comes with this advantage because if one of the parties state is exposed, then all of the past and the future ciphertexts can be decrypted and the messages can be recovered by the adversary. Therefore, we want to have an improvement over this. The post-compromise secrecy means that if a state is exposed by a party and at some point in the future, the communication itself will heal. In return, forward secrecy means in the reverse direction. If the communication happened in the past and if the state is stolen in the future, then the old ciphertexts should not be decrypted by the adversary. From a more formal perspective, ratcheting is actually a tuple of algorithms. It consists of a send and receive. It will create states for two of the parties, SA and SB, as denoted in here. We will give SA to the party A and SB to the party B. In order to establish a key between A and B, A can use the send algorithm during which a key is derived on the fly and then the state is updated and then another ciphertext is passed to the B. From the syntax perspective, the algorithm looks like this and it takes an additional associated data, which is an optional data and it could be empty if the user desires so. On the B part, we can similarly run the receiving algorithm. It would take the state SB, the same associated data, and it would recover the key from given ciphertext. In this case, we call it URKE because we look at the unidirectional case, meaning that the key update operations are only triggered by A, but it doesn't necessarily mean that we cannot send messages to A. That is definitely possible. It just means that B does not initiate these key update operations. In previous work, there has been actually some approach to define the security of this redshitting. First, there was an analysis approach by Cohen and Gordon et al. They tried to extract what security guarantees signal actually gives in the formal setting and then it was followed by simple definitions and then later by bidirectional version, again in crypto 2018, two referred papers in the previous slides. More recently, we have seen more relaxed security notions, meaning that they are not necessarily the strongest and the game definitions contain some arbitrary attack eliminations, so to speak, but then they lend themselves to very efficient constructions. In comparison, in the third bullet, we have only constructions based on hierarchical identity, based encryption. Let us look briefly about what a security game for redshitting looks like to get the idea. Of course, it contains a few oracles with which the adversary can interact. The adversary, for example, at the beginning of the game, A and B both receive and synchronize states and the adversary can use send A to trigger sending operation and then make A generate some ciphertext C1. Similarly, it can run receive B and then it can pass either the real ciphertext or something else, so the channel is controlled by the adversary. The adversary also have the power to expose the state of B. It can ask for some ciphertext keys to be revealed. It can also expose the state of A and eventually at some point it picks some ciphertext and challenges that ciphertext. The game gives either the real key for the ciphertext or the random one and the adversary tries to guess which is the case. The real problem in the actual definition is what defines the trivial attacks in such a complicated setting. In some cases, we see that these not necessarily trivial attacks are prevented from adversary, which means that the games are not necessarily the strongest ones. And in those cases, you can actually employ classical public key cryptography and then you can just make do with those and then have a provable security with respect to their own definitions in these papers. But in this particular cases, what happens is that we don't know a construction without hierarchical identity-based encryption. In fact, all of them are using a tree of them are using a key-updatable public key crypto. This work is actually focusing on this aspect of the wretched thing. I think I have talked quite enough for the wretched thing part and I would like to talk a bit more about the key-updatable part now, key-updatable public key crypto more precisely. So let's start with simple-chem example. In the simple-chem, you would have a tuple of algorithms in it encapsulate and de-capsulate. In it would generate a public key and a secret key and then sender could use the public key to encapsulate some keys. Cypher text would be sent to the receiver and then in the de-capsulation, the receiver could retrieve the original key and then they could use this key and with another symmetric encryption scheme to exchange messages and then similarly they could do multiple encapsulation and de-capsulation invocations. In the key-updatable variant of the scheme, now we will introduce two additional algorithms, update sender and update receiver. Update sender will take the public key and then provide a new public key for the sender and similarly update receive will take the secret key from the receiver and update into a new one. But it is very important to notice that there is actually no interaction between these two algorithms. So these are run separately and independently and the correctness notion of course requires that these two states are synchronized in the sense that they can still encapsulate and de-capsulate. From a syntax perspective, we also include associated data as input to update sender and update receiver, but that is not a part of interaction at all. In one more incremental step, now we can talk about the stateful variant, that is the stateful key-updatable chem. In this one, what we tweak is the encapsulation and then the encapsulation algorithms. In a way that encapsulation also takes the public key and then updates the new public key and similarly the encapsulation takes the secret key and updates the new secret key. Therefore, it seems as if the encapsulation and de-capsulation also do some inherent key updates or state updates on each of the parties and also there is still the separate update state and update receiver, update sender and update receiver algorithms in the definitions. It should be noted that encapsulation and de-capsulation update through some communications, whereas update sender and update receiver is actually without any interaction. And how does one actually define the secret notion for QCAMP star now? It's actually quite similar in the fashion we define for the ratcheting. So again, the adversary has access to a bunch of oracle, which can trigger the parties to update their state and at the same time produce some ciphertext. It can also ask ciphertext to be solved, meaning that the keys given to the adversary updates are also part of the oracles now. And eventually the adversary is supposed to challenge one of the ciphertext and actually guess the key. So this type of notion is not indistinguishability, but it is more of a one-way meaning that it is much weaker. We intentionally made it so, and then we actually have an incentive to make the security notion as weak as possible, because our ultimate goal is to actually make a bridge between something quite so strong, that is the ratcheting, and something possibly easier to build, that is hence the one-way notion here. Now I want to talk about the randomness part of our contribution. So far in the very high level picture of the security notions, I did not really talk about the randomness at all. But we can look at the randomness approach taken by the other two papers. First, Pochring and Rezler in their paper, they had actually considered the naive approach, which means that the encapsulation algorithm was always assumed to be using secure and then the good distribution of randomness in the algorithms. In comparison, Jgrin Stepanoz did a bit of different approach, because they were allowing the state exposures, they also allowed the state exposure similar in the randomness use, so they assumed that the adversary can actually read the randomness used by the algorithm as well. But in this particular work, we want to consider something even more stronger so that it captures multiple realistic scenarios. In this third bullet, which I call inclusive, or as we sometimes refer to it as randomness manipulation, is the case where the adversary can actually control the randomness. This also captures a couple of scenarios. For example, it captures the scenario where the adversary partially picks some bits of the randomness, not necessarily all of them, through some kind of backdoor mechanism. Or it captures the case where the adversary knows some partial information on the entropy pool, but not necessarily the specific invocation random coin of encapsulation. Or maybe there is no malicious intent behind, it's just the library that has a bad distribution for randomness generation. And in that case, it's possible that the library is fixed later, and then this is maybe the update is pushed to the devices, and then maybe devices will eventually have the actual correct implementations. So our approach is again similar to the initial healing property here. So as soon as this attack vector is eliminated, which is disturbing the randomness, we want the communication to heal back to a secure state. I can maybe explain this more simply by this drawing here. Again, let's remember the unidirectional reticent exchange, and it's accompanying security notion. There we had the send A oracle, which was triggering A to produce NIF ciphertext. And at the same time, A was internally updating its own state. Here, the adversary can, in the updated notion, the adversary can either query as before, or the adversary can enforce some random coins to be used. So in this particular example, let's start with a healthy state. If it is healthy state and if A uses good random coins, and then it actually initially arrives to a healthy state. But let us assume at this point, adversary exposes the state and learns what is the information here. And then suppose that the adversary further uses bad random coins, so the adversary actually picks the random coins and therefore knows the random coins, and uses this algorithm. And at that point, of course, this state information is also known by the adversary, because this algorithm could be run by the adversary in parallel. And now we consider the case where the adversary actually lets A run the honest random coins. And at this point, we expect the protocol to recover back to a healthy state, and also the emitted ciphertext we expected to be secure. And at this healthy state, if the adversary now injects random coins, again, we expect to arrive to a healthy state, and we expect to emit a healthy ciphertext. And similarly, regardless of how many times the adversary tries to inject with the bad randomness, as long as the adversary never exposes the state information through an oracle, we expect the communication to be secure as long as it goes. Therefore, this new notion actually captures something so stronger. In that, a ciphertext CI is compromised if two of the conditions are satisfied from the adversarial perspective. If the adversary knows the SA, the previous state that is, for example, in here, the previous state for C2 is known, and also the random coins used to generate C2 is known. And that is the only case that actually leads to vulnerable days in this new setting. I'd like to repeat my contribution statement again. So I said that the building retching is as hard as building key-updateable public key parameters in this randomness manipulation setting. For that, of course, one needs to show that one implies the other and then vice versa. Let us first look at the QCAM start to URK transformation. So here, QCAM start, again, as we've seen before, it consists of five algorithms, encapsulation, decapsulation, update algorithms, and then the initialization algorithm. And in the URK, we actually want to build three algorithms and basically generation, and we want to define the send and receive algorithms. For that, we start by running the generation from the QAM algorithm, public and secret key. On top of that, we embed some shared key, which is uniformly sampled at the beginning, to the state of A and B. In order to send, this is what A does. A first uses this public key and encapsulates, and the ciphertext is the one that will be sent to B, but the key output of the encapsulation will not be used as the key of the receive. Instead, we will use this key KE, and then we will merge it with this shared secret key and then we will query a hash, and then we will take the output of the hash as the key. For the send algorithm, we are done with the KE and the ciphertext. Now we have to think of the state information here. So we will again need some kind of shared key and then the public key. For shared key, we can again take the key as an output from the hash function. For the public key, we can first use the nif state from the encapsulation, and then we make an additional update from here, and then we arrive to this state. And here we pass some AD information to the update as well. On the receiving part, things are just similar in a synchronized fashion. Because our ultimate goal is to derive the key, we have to make sure that the hash function gets the same inputs. KS is already here, so we have to compute KE, which can be done with the encapsulation of the ciphertext. And again, the other state update operations are similar. So we update the secret key by going through the same path. We feed the same AD to the update, and then we obtain a synchronized state with this one. This is actually a simplified version of our construction because I omitted some other details. For example, there is a mechanism which ensures that this ciphertext is authenticated and then B actually checks the authenticity of the ciphertext before feeding it into the encapsulation oracle. Let us look at the reverse direction. How can we construct from URKE to QCAMSTAR? In this case, we want to build four algorithms or five if you consider generation as well. We want to first think about encapsulation. In order to encapsulate, we actually do two send invocations. But the first one with the random coins and the second one is with the fixed random coins. So the second one is actually acting like a deterministic algorithm here. And then the ciphertext information that we pass is actually the ciphertext from the send invocation. Also, we pass the intermediate state SA here. In the receiving part, notice that in the secret key of the receiver, we actually have the SA at the beginning, which is exactly the same with SA here, but we also have the SP, which is synchronized with SP. So we will use the ciphertext and then call the receive and then we will get this SP. This intermediate value is obviously synchronized with this SA. Because we don't have the SA yet, we will actually take it directly from the ciphertext and then simulate this deterministic algorithm and then follow the path accordingly around the matching receive for the simulation and then update the SP accordingly and then update SA accordingly. So that is how encapsulation and then decapsulation would work. For updating, the idea is similar. In the update case, we would actually just use send deterministic by fixing the random coins. Again, on the receiving part this time, we have to self-simulate the sending and then use the output ciphertext to the receive and then update SA and SP accordingly and then obtain this state. Here, an optional AD can be fed to send algorithms as well, but this is another requirement. Therefore, these updates are actually without interaction, whereas this encapsulation decapsulation is with the interaction. Again, I omitted some details which ensure the authenticity of this ciphertext. There is actually some step which runs before this c being fed into receive so that the adversary is prevented to do some malicious ciphertext-feeding attacks. Okay, so the follow-up is this research could be as follows. First, we have so far looked only at the unidirectional case of recited decay exchange because of the complexity introduced with the randomness manipulation. Introducing randomness manipulation takes a bit of toll on the security notions because now we have to rethink of all the trivial cases again and redefine clearly which new cases are introduced into security notion. And then the follow-up work could prove equivalence between QCAM star and this new bidirectional recited decay exchange. Doing so has this benefit of focusing on finding the efficient QCAM star primitive because of the informal statement that we have, we can just focus on the QCAM star primitives which are easier to construct because the notion is much weaker because we only target the one-way security here and the definition is much simpler. If we can build them much more efficiently without resorting to hierarchical identity-based encryption we will eventually have strongly secure reciting and I think that is the takeaway from our paper. With that said, I conclude my presentation. Thank you very much for your time.


Good habits like healthy food doesn't always taste good as to sometimes unhealthy alternatives. Forming new habits then become an acquired taste which takes a while before one can get used to and enjoy. Habits are easier to form when we're younger because we have a clean slate to learn and we often don't have anything to compare to so what we are taught may be what sticks with us for the long haul. The older we get, the harder it is for us to unlearn our bad habits and replace them with good healthier ones. Like they say, you can't teach an old dog nutrients but I disagree with that at least when it comes to us as humans. For the most part when we are older, the thing is we are the ones deciding to take on these new habits and we don't usually have people to hold us accountable which means that self-discipline is the one thing we require. So on today's episode of the vlog I'm going to share with you some few tips on how to form healthy new habits that may stick better and help you in the long run. The other disclaimer is these are my methods that I have used that I'm sharing with you so the plan here is to see what may work for you while you adapt or modify to suit your own needs. So let's get to it, 2.1. Pick one habit at a time and name it. Now I found that I'm not really good at dividing my attention on too many new things simultaneously especially things that I'm learning so it may be easier to take one task or one habit at a time and get comfortable with it. Which is what I find works for me especially and when I do find one I give it a name. I give it a name that makes it my own. So if it's exercising more I say Kwame's new exercise regime and I'm able to claim it for me and build it slowly. That's what works for me. 2. Give it time. There are a lot of theories on how long it takes for a repeated activity to become a habit or automatic. And that's anywhere between 18 to 254 days. However, most claims indicate that it takes about 66 days of consistency to form new habits. But as undefined as it is, remember that it may vary from person to person and habit to habit or type of habit you are trying to form. So it takes time. 3. Experiment with it. I find it easier to experiment with ideas or things that I want to turn into habits and coming from the previous point of giving it time. Usually I tend to stick to these things if I tell myself that I'm going to try and lose weight with intermittent fasting for example and so if I tell myself that I'm going to try this intermittent fasting thing for 30 days and see what happens, it's easier for me. As an experiment, my expectations are that of curiosity to see the outcome. So it makes it way, way easier for me to stick it through. 4. Form your own ritual or routine. Performing new, healthier habits are things we do for ourselves. They may not be the funnest of things to do so it becomes more difficult if you view it as just another discipline to master. You are allowed to do it in your own way at your own pace and once you tie it to a ritual or a set of things you do in a particular way that you can enjoy, it gives you that peace within. And that satisfaction makes you look forward to repeating it every other day that you have to do it. It's your time, it's your ritual. The sense of owning it I find does me real good mentally so that's it. 5. Start slow and don't overdo it. Starting slow is crucial to building an organic momentum, it's really important. If you find that it's difficult for you to concentrate on tasks you're not used to just like me, I tend to do it in bits and increase my activity time once I begin to settle into some kind of manageable rhythm and overdoing it will most likely make it less attractive for you to want to repeat it so if it's running that you want to do more of, start with walks then maybe brisk walking and then increase your distance over time and then do it till you are able to run while listening to your body and knowing your limit. It's very important if you can do the set activity for like 30 minutes a day, let it be your thing. You don't owe anybody the speed of learning but you, it's your own thing. And the final thing is tie it to something or reward. Now reward systems can be great at motivating us to keep doing something and using such a thing to form new habits can make it worth your while and what I tend to do is linking it to the third point of experimenting with it. If I decided to let's say transform my body within 90 days with the aim of doing the vlog about it then seeing those results in 90 days and being able to share it in the vlog will be the reward for me in this instance. So find your own way of rewarding yourself and it can even be short of best of doing it. Every week if you are able to work out consistently and follow a strict diet, take one day out of that week where you are allowed to reward yourself with an unrestricted and maybe unhealthy meal. It's allowed, it's a cheat day. So these are some of the ways and tricks that I'm using to form new and healthier habits and if you found new gems in there I'm glad you did and if you have any other personal methods, kindly share them with me in the comment section below. Do like this video and give it a thumbs up and of course subscribe to my channel for more content like this. My name is Kwame and I'll catch you again in the next one. Peace.


The Tiger, Financial News Network, TFNN, Headline News Update. Good morning folks, this is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of what looks like very sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year 9 a.m. update and curling up a little bit of a mixed bag when it comes to U.S. equity futures. Dow futures up 47 and the Russell futures are up 7, whereas the Nasdaq is up 83, its office session lows and the ES many is down 11 points. Over in Asia last night it was a sea of red, the Shanghai off 70 points 2.25%, the Nikkei down 9 tenths or 240 points, the Hangsang 3.7 tenths percent, 564 points there. Over in Europe this morning the DAX is down 53 points, about 4 tenths percent, the FTSE is off 3 tenths or 23 points, Gold is off 17 bucks, Silver is down 26 cents, Palladium is off 15 bucks, Light Street crude is down 90 cents, Natural Gas is off 16 pennies. It looks like a sea of red because it is a sea of red out there, of course U.S. dollar index isn't so red, it's up 352 ticks or so, traded out at 1.1080. So let's take a quick peek here at our 9 panel market update chart, we've got the ES many, the ES many does have a TD 9 count top out there, that does suggest that price should pull back to support. The first level of support on the ES many, it's not showing on this chart, it's 37.21, 37.21 is its oscillator and change line. The problem is, as far as price pulling back, is the spot volatility is now below its 50 day exponential moving average. It completed a TD 9 count bottom yesterday, that says that the low from yesterday is really key because of price, what the heck happened there, alright, well that's frozen, so now I can't tell you, that's really weird, okay so I have to step on, whatever the low of yesterday is, somebody might be able to point that out to me in the den here, I can't get to it, but there's a close below it, and that says this S&P 500, the ES many moves higher. The NQ, no pattern, other than a consolidation between support and resistance, that's its profiles, support down at the 10, 9, 17, and resistance 11, 6, 31, US dollar index forming a new daily profile, the bottom which is 109, 81, the top of which is 113, 38, gold is consolidating with inside its daily profile as well, between 1641 and 1682, silver found resistance to the top of the weekly profile in 1957, just a good old fashioned consolidation, light sweet crude, should target 90, 94, natural gas, if it closes below 568, 568, that says lower price coming at us, and real quickly here, I'm going to just change screens, what we do have is we do have TD9 count tops on the 30 minute basis for two of the four equity future contracts, that's the ES many and the Dow, so watch those highs at 930, those patterns will complete, the problem is no synergy, we don't have a similar signal inside the NQ and the Russell 2000, folks stay tuned, Tommy O'Brien with


Guys, there's a lot of funny moments in the movie. What is your funniest memory from filming? I slapped him in the face. Okay. That was my favorite. Okay. Right in the face. Mine's... I'm sure yours too. Did you really fly across into a cliff? No, that's all special effects. I slapped him so hard. He went. I literally did this and I said come on try it once for real so we can get a good take. I was slapping him as hard as I could. It was a long day of weak swings. Let's just say that. Jack Black talking as a 16 year old girl and doing a hair flip. It was always sort of this never-ending battle between Kevin and Duane the Rock Johnson for comedy supremacy.  King of the Mountain. And that was always funny to watch. And one day we were doing this scene where we were running across a field. He was just yelling to the special effects people to use extra horse explosion on Kevin as we were running through frame. It's hard to explain but I laughed so hard I just fell down to the ground and I was dying. Did it actually happen that you guys would get horse manure like sort of flung at you? Oh yeah. We took horse manure to the face often times for the good of the film. Wow. Yeah. These are the sacrifices that one must make. One of my favorite things was that Duane kept pranking Kevin because he realized he didn't like the bugs on sex or shooting Hawaii. Lots of insects, mosquitoes, everything else. So he started planting fake bugs everywhere and it was great to hear Kevin Hart scream the way that he did and panic. And it was very good, good times. And anytime we could mess with Kevin it was the move. And then Jack started getting in on it and Karen it was a good, good time. Although Jack and I had some moments too, very intimate moments where laughter was, you know, necessary to break the tension. There's one scene in the movie where, you know, Jack plays a teenage girl basically and develops a crush on my character. My character needs help in CPR and he gives me CPR. So it was, as I said, very intimate, close contact and just his face alone coming that close to my face was pretty funny. There's been a lot of talk of horse manure and a lot of talk of fake little plastic insects that freaked you out. What's, what's, can you tell me a bit more about this? Horse manure, I forgot about that. I know. I gotta post that. Yes. Well, that's the **** Kevin. The explosive devices that we were using, a lot of times they have to, as weird as it sounds, have cow manure. Basically, it helps the explosion. And so this one scene, bang, it all exploded everywhere, got on us. It smelled really funky and we pulled the explosive, our explosive experts. I said, what is this?  We have to pack it. Really good. I said, wow, okay. So then the second take, big explosion happens. I run out of it, so it doesn't land on me and I start screaming. Get it on camera literally just over my face. Make sure the cow **** gets on Kevin. Does it ever go in the mouth? Everything that goes in its mouth. Do you have to stay in character when that happens?  No, you've got to stay in character. You're running. It's live. It's a big reset. You've got to act it out so you get off camera and then go, what the ****?