Thank you Liz. And as Eunice said, welcome and feel free to introduce yourself in the chat, I do have it up and I'll try to pay attention to it as well. Today we're going to be talking a little bit about open education as an enabler for anti racism and social justice. And as Santa way and I are teachers at community colleges. And I will introduce myself. First, our agenda today is to do a little bit of a CCC or we are overview. And we'll talk about anti racism and social justice and some examples of what a Santa way and I have done in the in our classrooms. We have a couple breakout rooms and resources for you to look at. And then we'll come back and I have a mentor for you to just get some ideas maybe just one little idea that you could implement in your own classrooms. So if you're in your own organizations, and we'll talk a little bit about upcoming events and how to stay in the loop and that will be our, our time together. OER's mission is to expand awareness and access to high quality OER to support faculty choice and development to foster regional OER leadership and to improve student equity and success and we're focusing a little bit on the last one today. As you can see we have 111 members in 37 states, including Canada. And a Santa way is running from a classroom to our webinar so let me introduce myself first. My name is, she is. Hi, Santa where would you like to introduce yourself first or do you want to catch breath. It's okay. I was kicking the students out of the classroom sorry. Hi, I'm a son to a Dawson. I am a professor of mathematics I was a ton of community college, and where I also serve on educational resources committee as the chair, where this is where we handle all of our OER stuff. And I'm also a member of the CCC OER EDI committee. I'm Laurie Beth Larson. I am at Central Lakes Community College in the middle of Brainerd in the middle of Minnesota Brainerd Minnesota. And I primarily teach English and reading and global studies. And I've been the OER lead faculty running our learning circles for a number of years. Next slide. So, today we wanted to think about the spell hooks quote that it takes fierce commitments to let our work as teachers reflect on progressive pedagogies. We would like to acknowledge the traditional ancestral unceded territory of the Wapinger, Pagaset, Dakota, and Anishinaabe, sorry, First Nations on which we are learning, working and organizing today. We pay respect to their elders, both past and present, who have been stewards of this land throughout many generations. And if you wanted to find your, the land that you are on, we included the website where you can locate that whose land you're on, I should say. So, as we said, we're talking about open ed as an enabler for anti racism and social justice and so Laurie Beth and I were talking about some of the changes that we've made to our courses to, you know, to our materials for the way we assess grade, our students. And I first want to acknowledge all of my colleagues at Hustatana Community College in our first year studies math program because this is not my work alone. This is a work of many, many people who contributed so I want to make sure I say that. I'm just summarizing the things that we, the collective we have done to be more equitable in our work. So, I teach math. And so, oftentimes, math, we assess, you know, by giving tests and quizzes and homework, and that has been our typical way do you know how to do the math by sort of doing these We've made a lot of changes. It started off with the introduction to portfolios students, you know when they take assessments, especially in math, you tend to be nervous and have a lot of anxiety. It's a common theme and so our portfolio started off with, let's give them something that they can grow from it started off with test corrections that you had to sort of write about so you had to talk about what you got wrong and then you know how you would correct it sometimes with test corrections would have them write a new problem and solve it. So that was the first parts of the portfolio as as the portfolios developed, then certain writing assignments were added. We did an assignment about tips to make you successful in this course. And we had these six things that you would you should do as students and we had students write about the thing that they had most challenging. And then we asked them to commit to this thing for the next two weeks and make this two week commitment. In the other assignment we did or were mistakes. So, we give them an exam that had a mistake in each question and they had to explain what the mistake was so you know, instead of testing them on, you know, the material itself we're asking them now to correct other people so that can also show understanding of the work, being able to make corrections. We had them summarize sections, so they would have to go in advance read the book, and then write a summary of the section but just trying to teach them how to learn math as well so that was the portfolio so with covert some of these things were formed. We created more writing assignments in each each week, just to have students engage some of them were in the form of discussion boards. And some of them are similar activities that we had like the corrections and the tips for success. We also added. At the end, sort of a note to students in in the next course, you know things that you wish you had done or what we would like to communicate to the student in the next course and it's funny we did this for a couple of years and I hadn't used them and finally I compiled them and then I you know I put them all in and it was such a powerful thing to read the students later on. You know, what the past students had actually said. And so that's part of their grading we included mindset activities also part of the portfolio. My favorite one is the power of yet. You get a lot of negativity where people like oh I can't do that and I would say yet, you know you throw in the word yet to them and it's amazing how things can change. We had added reflective writing at the end of each section. So summarize, you know what are the topics we covered in the section. What are what is something that you found easy to do. What are some things you found challenging. And it just gets them to start communicating, you know, the things that they know as well as the things that they have trouble with sometimes. Students won't say out loud what they have trouble with but they will write this in this personal reflection. They will work online homework the use of it and allowing students to, you know attempt as many times as they want before the due date. It's not forever but before the due date, and then also recently just trying to modify our syllabus language. We made a push towards making it, you know, accessible that was a big thing first but then also now the language welcoming and letting students know that, you know, although we have all these assessments. These are all things that we believe will make you successful and completing this course. But again this is my journey and it is still a journey. I am on always room for improvements. I have a similar journey. And I wanted to just just talk about three things that I've done in my classes so typically I teach a humanities course. And I created an OER that focuses on global humanity. I took out Plato, I took out Socrates, I took out Beethoven. And it's focused on more of a global perspective of what we do and what makes us human in our humanity, humanness. Another thing I did in our reading course is I shortened the time. So we now have a developmental education reading course that is called critical literacy. And in this critical literacy course, I focused on why are you here, what are you learning, why are you learning this what's expected of you and why. And students integrate those ideas with the other courses that they take. So I'm not just simply teaching vocabulary and phonics but I'm teaching how they can critically think about their, their activities and what they're learning in your courses. And the third thing that I did in the composition class is to take a bunch of articles from a variety of pay perspectives and require students to do summary reflections. And then they met with me to develop their own topic something that they were passionate about something that they cared about. And then they wrote a paper and they invited peer review. They asked another student to review their paper but they asked what do you what do they want somebody to look at. And so they had to write questions and then as they rewrote it then they met with me I said just changes and revisions. And they wrote it with me and then they met with me again. And we graded it together. And this was, this was not too bad because we did this all by zoom. I think I would continue to do it in a face to face as well students meet with me and in the office. And we graded it together. Then once they finished, then they wrote up a self evaluation of the entire process. What did they think they could do better. And what could they, what grade would they give themselves. And so it was a really, a really interesting really interactive process here. So those are a few of the ways where I incorporated anti racism learning, and I also incorporated critical critical thinking and not just focusing on.  So we wanted to offer a variety of resources now I know this is a little difficult to look at and you can't you can't go to the site but we will share a Google document with you. So we have a lot of things put together with these on it and there are toolkits on assessment. Here's how to decolonize your syllabus, there's an equity rubric. We've made sure to include the land acknowledgement website that you can take a look at so there's a variety of resources here. So what we'd like you to do in a breakout room is to think about these possibilities. This has posted the Google slide in the chat there so you can take a look at it in a minute. There are a variety of things there's small things and we thought everybody could come up with just one small thing that you could do. And you could talk about how you might think about doing this of course there's ideas on a self reflective type journey, where students can watch a video read a book, there's curriculum change ideas. There's also a syllabus change ideas we do have a link to a liquid syllabus which I think both, both of us intend to do in the future. Hopefully sooner than later. And then there's also pedagogical changes that we can make just implementing a small pedagogical change in what we do. So assessment is such a teacher centric ideas so we talked about what are some things that you could do to incorporate some different ideas. And so we'll have a mentee meter. Once you finish talking in your small groups with a takeaway, and that takeaway would be what will you do. I'm going to stop sharing now and see if there's any questions and lives will put us into groups. We decided that groups of five might be the best way to go and if you click on the link that Liz has put in the chat, you'll find access to the resources and the question that you'll be discussing in your group with hopefully one takeaway that you might incorporate in your classes.  If you had a chance to put something on there. I noticed that a lot of people have been typing them in the chat as well. I like the idea of student stories one thing I didn't mention as we started a blog and students would add to a blog, their own stories. That was really fun and then they could share it with each other if they wanted to. So, they didn't have to take a share with each other, reflective writing. I like the idea of students building students helping to build rubrics discussion topics to engage them. I really found the idea of student creating valuable, and they created their own work. Did anybody like to share with voice beyond mentor meter. I'm trying to monitor the chat here. Go. Do you want to add something. Lori Beth. Are we supposed to be seeing the mentor meter right now or are you not seeing the mentor meter. I'm not, but I might be clueless is everybody else seen it. Oh, they are. Yeah. Okay. Just share one more time just to make sure. Oh, now I'm seeing it. Thank you. Okay. Thanks. Yeah, so, so there's a couple of questions about the liquid syllabus. So from my understanding, and I haven't created one yet. There is something right. We have at least one expert in the room. I have not completely created when I started creating one that was the share earlier that I just googled it. You know how to how to create a little syllabus. And there were a couple of different videos. And it was just creating a Google site. And building it. It's, it's very, very at the very beginning of stages. Who is our, who is our resident expert. Said we had one right now. Well, I happen to be in the room with menica Olson and she's created, I think to now, right. I, I'm, yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't know you were calling on me.  So I, I have three, I have three basic three or four basic ones. Yeah, for us one one for a summer course that I, you know, I kind of organize it a little differently. Yeah, no, it's really great. And I, and actually one of the things that I didn't realize was a benefit is I get the feedback. Because I see that students have actually clicked on it right you when you have a website right, which is what a liquid syllabus in essence is it's your own website is you can see the, the viewing details, right. I do get worried about my old liquid syllabus is being out there because I make them specific for the semester so I always like, I pulled them off. So, but it is like creating a website and have experience doing that. I use being communications director at number agency so in, I think that that skill lent itself to creating a liquid syllabus but yeah. Oh, I guess I don't, I don't, I don't mind sharing liquid syllabus. I don't use Google sites and actually I've been curious about Google sites. But yeah, hang on a second. So, I wish I could have joined every breakout room to hear everybody's good examples. Well, let's set back to, there's another. Thank you. Thank you for those examples. I believe this mentor meter will stay up but you will always have access to the Google doc back here. Does anybody have any questions or other comments. Before we continue on. If you have any questions, anything you want to add Sunday. No. It was interesting going through the rooms and hearing that people are doing some of the same things in their own work. Questions. Never wait long enough. So as we continue, we did want to mention that on December 7. There was another CCC OER webinar. The link to register is there. And we'll be talking about measuring the impact of open education. If you'd like to stay in the loop. You can see our upcoming webinars under the website at get involved. The community email is link is there as well. And we also have a fairly new EDI website with blog posts and student impact stories. If you wouldn't mind, because especially because this is sort of a new format. With a workshop type style. If you wouldn't mind to take the short survey. There's has put that in the chat as well and give us some feedback would be wonderful. And from all of us at CCC OER. Here's contact information. And we'll be available for a few minutes. After the recording stops to ask, ask, answer any questions or. Further chat. Thank you everybody for joining us. Thank you so much. Thank you. The link to this is okay. You wanted the link to the. The, the webinar that you share for registration. Sometimes. Oh, thank you. Sometimes when I go back to the site. I forget. So right now I can just go ahead and register. So thank you. Okay. Sure. Thanks. Yeah. Thanks, Wade. Let's see Melanie, did you have a question? Oh, are you clapping? It's hard for me to tell. I think.


A new report by an international labour organization has chronicled the impact, the brutal impact for many, and the profits for some from the practice of forced labour. According to the report, forced labour in the private economy generates US dollars 236 billion in illegal profits per year. This is a dramatic rise from 10 years ago and reveals the need for more decisive action on the issue. We go to Abdul for the details of the report. You maybe take us to what are some of the salient aspects and then we can go on to what are the possibilities for addressing the crisis. Well Prashant, the international labour organization has prepared a report basically which talks about how forced labour has been used by the corporate houses primarily to earn a massive illegal profit. According to its finding, every year around 230 plus billion dollars of profits, illegal profits, are made by the private players through forced labour, which is very similar to what it is called slavery and IOL calls it modern slavery. It says that how the number of people who are forced to do work for the profit of certain corporate houses has increased since the last study which was conducted in 2014 and says that between 2016 and 2021, within these five years, the number increased by 2.7 million. So overall around 28 million people out of 1,000 every three and three and a half individuals are forced to do forced work for someone else's profit. It talks about how in this period also per capita profit from the forced labour has also increased from 8,000 dollars to around 10,000 plus dollars. That means that there is a very massive exploitation which is happening to the victims of forced labour. Who are these people who are basically forced to do work for someone else? These are primarily people who are trafficked across the borders. These are the people who are desperate, who are in desperation moving from one country to another. Most of them are migrants but also other people who are basically used by the, through the use of criminals and other elements used by the private corporate houses to basically work almost for free.  So that shows that the majority of this comes through the sexual exploitation, sex trafficking and so forth. But a large part also comes from forced labour in industry and in other economic sectors. So in this context, what are the kind of measures that the world could take to actually address them? What does the report say on that? Well, the report is primarily talking about how this kind of labour is basically, of course, it completely dismantles human dignity. This kind of labour is similar to slavery and therefore there are already very strong laws made by not only the individual countries but also internationally which basically illegalizes all of these kind of practices. So the ILO talks about better implementation of the existing laws by the individual countries to be kind of, and this kind of forced labour which is similar to slavery but it also talks about how there is a need of ending the conflicts, there is a need of curbing all kinds of human trafficking in whatever way possible and the crackdown on all those illegal activities which ultimately uses the vulnerabilities of the people in different ways which would mean that there should be a better coordination among nations when it comes to curbing the international racket of human trafficking. It also would mean of course that there should be a massive crackdown on all those agencies and private players who basically see human vulnerability as a possibility of exploitation and in order to on maximum profits. So curbing the greed of the corporate houses is one way of, and that would mean of course that there are some examples of collaboration between the corporate houses and the state officials in several countries that also needs to be checked and controlled. So these are some of the recommendations which are all well known which needs to be implemented in order to control the forced labour, the rising profitability of the illegal slave, the kind of slave trade and that should can only be done with the greater productivity on behalf of the states involved and of course on behalf of the international organizations. Thank you so much, Abdul for that update. In less than three weeks, the fifth people's health assembly will begin in Argentina. The PHA is one of the biggest congregations of health activists in the world and is taking place at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic laid out the stark structural issues in the field of health care. For activists who are at the forefront of fighting these structural issues, the PHA is a space to analyze them plan strategies and seek to mobilize more people in the fight for what they call health for all. We go to Anna to hear more about the issue. Anna, thank you so much for joining us. So very important event coming up in the first week of April. That's the fifth people's health assembly, the last one was in 2018 in Bangladesh and a lot of discussions also taking place in the run up to it. So maybe could you tell us a bit first about the PHA itself? Why is it significant? A bit about its history maybe as well. The people's health assembly is one of the main events that the people's health movement does every couple of years in order to bring different struggles together and essentially to bring all those health activists who have been fighting for universal access to health care against the impact of big transnational companies on health but also those activists who have been campaigning on issues related to food and gender and migration and health to bring them all in one place and to facilitate exchange and just to kind of bring inspiration to the struggles moving forward. So as you said this is the fifth assembly that we're doing. It's the second one that's taking place in Latin America. The last one was in Ecuador in 2005. So of course you know this one is quite specific of course because it's the first one that's taking place after the COVID-19 pandemic. We're not running away from the fact that that is something that has marked the landscape global health and through that also the people's health movement a great deal but we're also hopeful that you know as we come again to to Latin America we'll be able to essentially look back and make concrete plans when it comes to the things that we can do and the things that we have done over the past five years can be used and in order to to bring us forward towards health for all as was the intention of the people's health movement from the very beginning. Right Anna so in this context you already mentioned COVID-19 but what are the kind of broad themes which are likely to be discussed during the people's health assembly? Well we're it's very broad if we can put it that way but essentially it is a very difficult task you know a lot can happen in five years a lot did happen in the past five years and because we're not able to meet every as often as we would like of course the people's health assembly is the space where we try to fit as many discussions as we can so this year actually in a couple of weeks we'll be talking about how health systems have been impacted by this latest round the posterity of prioritization what were the what was the resistance mounted to those trends both by health activists and by health workers of course we'll also be talking about the impacts and the interrelations of gender justice and health because we did see over the past past years big changes in both directions when it comes to women's rights in health particularly when it comes to reproductive and sexual health rights of course but also also many other many other health services that belong that could fall under this category one of the key and crucial issues of course is the issue of the war on Palestine the war on Gaza one of the things that the assembly will will strive to do is to show that the people of the world and the health activists of the world stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza and with the health workers who continue to work although the impacts continue and then in addition to that we'll also be trying to bring in and to reinforce the focus on some of the topics that health movements in Latin America have been proposing for a very long time that includes ancestral knowledge and the concepts concepts like when we feel and then of course we're also going to talk about food systems and the impacts of the current food systems and well more broadly maybe even commercial determinants on on human and planetary health and of course event taking place meeting taking place in a very strategic location that's Argentina where you know which has really been at the center of some many of the issues you've been talking about so what is the significance there and what are the kind of expectations over there well I think it would be fair to say that when we started to plan the this assembly we did know that it would have a particular strength if it was to be held in in Latin America and luckily there were many many comrades in Latin America who were willing to put all this effort into organizing an assembly to be fair we did not know at the time that Argentina would be coming going through this kind of political moment when the assembly was to be held but of course this only means that you know the presence of PHN becomes more important than the solidarity expands now also to our comrades in Argentina who have really done a tremendous effort to keep this debate about health and the importance of solidarity and how alive although we do know that they're going to very difficult moments at the time so this time the people self-assembly as well it was every single time until now I think it's also fair to say it's also a statement of solidarity towards the the PHN circle who is hosting it thank you so much Anna for those updates that's all we have in today's ddd brief we'll be back with a fresh episode tomorrow in the meanwhile do visit our website peoplesdispatch.org follow us on all the social media platforms and if you're watching this on youtube please hit the subscribe button


Welcome back, everyone. So in the last video, I showed some very basic introduction tips to securing your Windows system. So now I'm going to show you some introductory tips to securing a Linux system. And really, I mean, this is focused on Linux desktop and Windows desktop. So the approaches are going to be pretty much the same, really. The risks are a little bit different, but really the approach to try to just make sure that we're running secure desktop systems are about the same. So the first thing I want to do, I'm running actually an Ubuntu-based or a Debian-based Linux distribution called Linux Mint. So the first thing we're going to do, just like in Windows, is make sure that our software is up to date. So that means using one of the newest versions or the newest supported version of Linux. If you have the capability to actually be running custom versions of Linux, then you don't need this video anyway. But using the newest supported version of Linux, which means updating your operating system relatively often. Now, there's updating the core system, which is going from Windows 7 to Windows 8 to Windows 10. Linux has the same approach that you could also think of like the same approach. So every year, for example, Ubuntu comes out with a new, can we say, version. So we kind of need to upgrade to the newer versions, or we should keep relatively up to date on those newer versions of the core system. But we also have to think about the packages that we install, so the software that we install on that core system. And on an Ubuntu system from command line, we can use the package manager called apt. So if I want to update my system, I can do sudo apt update. And what update will do is go out and, one second, it will go out and look at all of these repositories and get the newest versions of packages that are available. So it will compare the packages installed on my system, the software installed on my system, with what's available in these different repositories. And then it says everything's up to date, so I don't need to update, but I can do sudo apt upgrade, and then it will go out and download all of the new packages if there's any available, and then install them. So using this method, I can keep my system up to date with the latest software. That way I'm never, let's say, too far behind. Now there are other ways to install software other than the package manager, and that is, for example, from source. So I usually keep, I don't know if it's just me, but I usually keep source code inside the opt folder. So everything I put in the opt folder, I know, is coming usually from some sort of other repository, and I need to update that manually, because it's not managed by the package manager. So if I was on a CentOS system, or kind of a Red Hat base system, then the package manager that that uses is called yum. So instead of doing apt, I would use something called sudo yum, and then probably dash y, and then update or upgrade. And I believe update and upgrade do the same thing. I'm not completely sure, but I think update and upgrade using yum package manager will go through and, again, check all of the software that's installed that it knows about from the package manager, check the current installed version with whatever is available in external repositories. And if anything is new, it will download them and install them automatically. So a lot of Linux systems have some type of package manager, not all of them. Sometimes you still have to install stuff manually, but package managers are a good way. There's also now a couple different ways to install things other than from source and package managers. But that's getting a little bit more complicated, so I'll just leave it at package managers for now. And so just make sure that you keep a relatively up-to-date core system, and then make sure that the packages or software that's installed in your system is up to date quite often. You can have it even check automatically daily, but I tend to update every day or every couple days or at least every week. So after making sure that our software is up to date, we want to install some type of antivirus. And you might be thinking, well, Linux doesn't get viruses, right? So why should I install an antivirus? Well, that's not necessarily true. Linux and OSX and basically any operating system can get some type of virus. The fact that it doesn't get viruses very often doesn't mean that it can't, right? So there's two ways to look at it. First off, from your own protection perspective, because it's possible to get some type of virus or root kit, we should be looking out for it just to protect ourselves. But also imagine that a Windows virus got downloaded to our computer and somehow it accidentally got passed to one of our friends who's actually running a Windows system. Let's say that somebody emails us with a virus and we forward that email. Well, if you're not scanning for viruses, then you'll forward that email and your friend might get infected. So scanning for viruses not only protects you, but it also protects people you're communicating with. So my antivirus is set up to scan incoming email, for example. So think of it a couple different ways. So to install or an antivirus that we can run in Linux, there are a couple, but basically I think the most common is Clam AV. And from GUI or from the actual desktop, you can run Clam TK. And Clam TK is a very basic, not great interface for Clam AV. But really the only thing I ever use Clam TK for is the scheduler.  You can also set up what you scan on your computer every day. You, of course, can use it to update manually, but you never really need to do that. It should update automatically. And you can also set it to scan a file, scan a directory, and do basic analysis and check your quarantine. So there are a couple different things you can do with Clam TK. It's just a front end for Clam AV. If you want to run Clam AV from the command line, you definitely can. And to keep Clam AV up to date on command line, then you would use a tool called Fresh Clam. Fresh Clam. So that's one antivirus. That will look for a couple different types, several types of Windows viruses as well as Linux viruses. The next thing that you probably want to install is something called RK Hunter. And that is Hunter. And that is Root Kit Hunter. So if I do, for example, Pseudo RK Hunter dash dash scan, check, check, yeah. If I do Pseudo RK Hunter check, then it will go through and check if my system is infected with a root kit by looking at different traces that are usually left behind by root kits. Now, we'll give you some warnings on different executables depending on what those executables can do. And it has quite a few checks. You can automate this and have an email you of some things going on. But I usually just run it every so often just to make sure. So with Clam AV and Root Kit Hunter, you might not catch the newest types of things, but you will catch a lot of things. And it's just interesting to know what's going on in your system and if something in your system has changed anyway. And that's basically what Root Kit Hunter will tell you. So Root Kit Hunter is, can I say, almost kind of like a very basic type of intrusion detection system as well as scanning for traces of known root kits. So if you have both of those, you're pretty well off, I guess, for at least scanning for malware on your system. So now we've updated our software, and the core system is relatively up to date. The software that's installed on our system is up to date. And we have an antivirus or some way to check if malware is on our system. OK, well, what we might want to do next is firewall. So configuring a firewall. And most Linux systems come with a firewall built in. And a lot of them use IP tables by default, IP tables. I usually install the uncomplicated firewall or UFW because writing rules for UFW is very, very easy. And IP tables I find not impossible, but also not very easy. And firewall, this is called G-UFW. It's a GUI interface for UFW. And it's also very simple to configure. So you can install G-UFW in, I think, most systems. And by default, the firewall is off, I think, at least for Linux Mint. So if you turn it on, by default, the incoming is denied. So now anything that's trying to get into my system that's not initiated by my computer is denied and outgoing is allowed. So what I would do next is go in and write rules for different programs that I want to be able to connect in and out. And then I would probably disallow or deny outgoing as well, if I really want to lock the system down. Right now, I'm not going to do that, but at least have some sort of basic firewall on. Even if you just install this, turn it on and, sorry, turn it on, and then have incoming set to deny, you're already much better off than you were. Right, so setting up a firewall, you can use IP tables. And there's lots of instructions online about how to use IP tables. You can also use UFW, the uncomplicated firewall. This is the one that I usually use because it's just easy. Or G-U-F-W, OK? And then finally, some sort of backup solution. So most Linux systems also have a backup tool or backup utility. So if you open it up, just like Windows backup utility, basically you can backup. You can restore files. In this case, for Ubuntu, you can backup the software selection. So all of the software you've had installed from the package manager, not including from source, you can back up that list and then restore the software later. So if you're refreshing a system, you can just restore and get basically all of the programs that you had installed before. So it's very handy. Backup files is obviously for your personal files. Instead of using the backup tool, I use crash plan for my backup solution because it works on a lot of different systems. And I can kind of centralize and encrypt with my own keys. And that's important. Right, so that's it basically for trying to secure a Linux system. Thank you very much.


Following the recent call for restructuring by state governors across APC and PDP, particularly on state policing, some analysts have accused these state executives of selfishness. This is against the backdrop of commendation by some pro-restructuring advocates who are excited over this singleness of purpose. Jacinta Obuco has more. The APC governors with their PDP counterparts have faltered a present administration's approach of handling the security situation in the country and hammering on restructuring, which some like these analysts believe it's a good thing and timely. A general national discontentment with the way things are and is not sectional, not south it's west. People are really set up with this centralised governance style that we have, that's on one hand. Secondly, it's not even difficult to see why governors would want to support restructuring because restructuring really brings more powers, more capacities, more resources, more attention, more concentration to the federating unity, which is where the superintend over with the government. So it's only naturally, it's only expected that the governors would be joining the hammer for restructuring. The system has been practiced in Nigeria today has failed. This system, which is such that has given so much power to the central government, where states have to go and in cap every month end to get money to run their state has failed. And that is why I think the governors and those who are now joining the call for restructuring are only trying to play along in what seems to be the popular opinion of women in Nigerians today. These governors, whether they are sincere or not, restructuring is an idea which time has come. Parts of the governor's recommendation in the communique is the call for the federal government to take bold and deliberate steps to ease the tensions in the country and concentrate on projects and policies that would promote national unity and cohesion. However, the synergy demonstrated by this governor's is viewed as having a terror motive. Politicians generally are always united when it serves their better interests. So they are united. I can tell you that for a fact, they are all united for the simple reason, not because it's what is better for the system or for the society, because they don't really care about what is, most of them don't really care about what is the best interest of the society. But anything that will give them more money, more power, more control, trust me, they are always united. The hope is that there will be positive results to lower tensions in the country. The bigger picture, according to the King observers, is a people's constitution rather than few constitutional amendments. Jesse Inter Obuque reporting for PLOS TV Africa.


What's up, everybody? I'm TheMangoose. You are awesome, and this is a rare sight in FALT, actually putting your hands on the core. I would say 97% of my games win or lose have ended in Surrender. I think there's more to this than just players tilting early, but tilt does factor in. They didn't want to talk through what tilt is, why there is so much of it in FALT, and what strange matter can do to fix it. Tilt is defined as losing control due to negative emotions behaving erratically and thereby suffering adverse consequences. In this case, those consequences are losing via surrender. The term has its roots in pinball. Players would see the ball taking a course that they didn't want, and they would tilt the entire machine in order to win. Manufacturers then implemented ways to freeze the machine if tilting was detected, thereby causing you to lose. For those of you who have played FALT, I'm sure you've seen plenty of tilting. Everyone goes into each game thinking that they are going to dominate this time, that they are going to outplay everyone. Then you get jungle invaded, you die, and the enemy team takes your red buff. Hard not to get tilted there. While most people will immediately start blaming the mid laner, off laner, duo lane, their mom, and some random homeless guy for not rotating to save them, the real problem there was that they didn't ward at the start.  The free ward is one thing Strange Matter has done to help ease tilt. You don't have to worry about a ward taking up an item slot so early ganks like that, ganks that cause tilt, can be avoided better. Brandon, those wards don't ping when someone enters the radius, but this was not intended and will be fixed. Even if you are ganked early and your entire plan to dominate goes up in smoke, the response shouldn't be to surrender as soon as possible. The response should be to learn from what happened, adjust to it, and continue to play as a team. However, there is a reason why early tilting is common in FALT, the way the game is designed leads to snowballing hard. The early gank when your jungler leads to them being behind on farm, which means they can't gank as often while the enemy jungler now well ahead Starts harassing the duo causing your carry to lose farm, which leads the enemy carry taking raptors giving him three favor. So now his items are more powerful So the duo takes the tower which gives them more favor and now if the jungler tries to gank the duo, they're just going to get wasted. Looking at it that way, yes, surrendering seems like the most viable option. Just quit the game and see if you get better luck next time. This is exacerbated by certain heroes that can just roll hard once they get a little bit ahead. Talking about you, Countess. The problem here I think is that with Countess being OP, it's with the cost of counter items. You can counter Countess easily with a mana muzzle, which will silence her for a period of time. However, that thing costs 3,000 gold. If you're already limited on farm because the second you step out of your tower, you get swordfucked by Countess, then building a counter item is nearly impossible. And with mana muzzle being in the white aspect, you gain little by taking it unless you're playing support or something. Same goes with other counter items. Jar of Hearts which reduces enemy healing is great for stopping an out-of-control Chimera, but it's a purple item and no one really fucks with purple. If you have an overfed Boris on the enemy team, then yeah, you should probably just surrender.  So we've identified some problems, but how do we fix them? One route I can see is lowering and balancing the amount of favor you can attain early. Instead of having 3 raptors all giving a point of favor for last hits, make it one large raptor that gives it one favor.  There can also be better distribution of favor. Taking the first tower down awards your entire team a point of favor. Maybe extend that to the other team so the first tower they take also awards favor. That way, if your duo is getting smacked around but your offlaner is playing well, your team can still stay in the game. Another solution I can see is creating duplicate effects on different colored items. Make a red item with different stats but also has the unique passive found on Jar of Hearts. Create a blue item that also allows you to throw out a silence. Be a little more lenient with how items affect your favor. Another option would be to either lower the cost of counter items or fix how much gold you gain so that you're not left stranded with insufficient completed items to mount a comeback. One thing I do not want to see is the complete removal of the surrender option. As much as I will try to rally up and push for that big come from behind victory, I see the need to be able to move on from an unwinnable game. Save time for everyone involved. I just wish that people wouldn't tilt so hard at the beginning of a match. There are things that strange matter can do to alleviate how hard the game snowballs, but we as a community can also pull our head out of our asses, learn from our mistakes, and possibly pull out a win when things are looking bleak. After all, we never gave up on Paragon and now look at us. If you enjoyed the video, please hit that like button and subscribe for more. For now, this is the Mangoes signing off. You guys, have a good one.