I mean, now we live in a world where every single business that you can think of has implemented AI into their operations one way or the other. Marketing, social media, emails, you name it, there's a tool for it. I mean, in my previous job, before AI became a global phenomenon, we were using so many different tools to communicate and upload files and it was crazy. I was using Evernote to write scripts, take notes from meetings that took place on Zoom, then I'd write tasks and directions for other animators back on Evernote based on the meetings from Zoom and then copying and pasting all of that into Workplace, which was kind of like our digital work hub if you like. I'd upload audio and video files to Dropbox and post those links back into Workplace and sometimes Dropbox would just not work so people couldn't even access their raw files. And if it wasn't that, things got so busy on Workplace with so many links and so many tasks and so many tags that people sometimes wouldn't even see what they needed to see. Things got so crazy, things got so lost and eventually so did translation. Not to sound cheesy, but if I could use a simplified tool for all of that, it would be ClickUp. Everything is under one roof. I don't have to send people that I'm working with to five different locations to undertake one project. Life is simpler now. Thank goodness.


It's that time again. This is Katni with your weekly Python on Hardware News. Every week, we put together the Python for Microcontrollers newsletter. It is available through AdafruitDaily.com. Head over to sign up and see all of the past and current newsletters, or tune in each week to hear what's going on. Adafruit is working with the team to open safely as we continue to navigate COVID-19. We are following the same safety protocols we have been since the beginning and will continue to do so. At this time, regular non-COVID-related orders are shipping, but expect delays as we ramp up. We are working hard to get more items in stock, so if there's an item that's out of stock that you're looking to purchase, sign up to be notified when it's back in stock. For more information, visit adafruit.com slash open safely. Circuit Python Day is September 9, 2020. Adafruit has chosen 9-9-2020 as the snakiest day of this year. We'll keep you posted on what's involved as the date gets closer. In general, events and happenings will include a Circuit Python team livestream, collaboration with hardware and software folks, and highlighting all things Python and Python on hardware. More information will be forthcoming. Do you have ideas or suggestions for Circuit Python Day? Are you planning your own Circuit Python Day event? Let us know via email at circuitpythonday at adafruit.com. Maker Diary has developed a mechanical keyboard using the NRA52840 microcontroller to provide connectivity through USB-C and VLE 5.0 Bluetooth. The keyboard runs Circuit Python, so it's fully customizable. Just drop a new file onto the flash drive the board presents. Code is available on GitHub. Details at makerdiary.com. The Adafruit Discord server has surpassed 22,000 members. This community is where we do all of our Circuit Python development transparently and in the open. Adafruit believes the Discord offers a unique way for Circuit Python folks to connect. Thank you to everyone who has been a member and everyone who recently joined. If you haven't already, you can join today at adafru.it-discord. Microsoft has a Discord server for talking Python with Microsoft tools and technologies such as Python VS Code. They are offering cloud labs there where you can get swag. To join, visit aka.ms-python-discord. The Python Software Foundation is accepting nominations for their Second Quarterly Community Service Awards. Information in previous winners can be found at python.org. Proposals should be made confidentially to the board by sending email to PSF at python.org. Melissa demonstrates part one of her Python-powered custom animated LED sign series covering the assembly of the sign and everything you need to do to 3D print and build the hardware. Subscribe to Maker Melissa's Lab on YouTube to see the next part in the series. The Talk Python podcast features Device Simulator Express. Maybe you've heard of the Circuit Playground Express, BBC Microbit, or the Fancy Adafruit Clue. They aren't too expensive ranging from $15 to $50 each. But for large groups such as classrooms, this can be a lot of money. Moreover, getting your hands on these devices can sometimes be tricky as well. With an extension for VS Code called Device Simulator Express, you can have instant access to all three, virtually of course. This cool extension adds a visual emulator as well as the native interaction such as buttons and temperature sensors. Details and links to the episode are available at talkpython.fm. Serpano is a Circuit Python dev board designed for breadboards. It delivers 3.3 and 5 volts at 2 amps and an adjustable 1.8 to 12 volts at 3 amps, current measurement, and a feather-like pinout. It can be powered from USB, a 4.5 to 12 volt DC jack, or a lipo battery. It also includes a 1.3 inch 240 by 240 LCD for data visualization. This is a first prototype. For more information and to follow development, check out Arturo182 on Twitter. In this week's Circuit Python deep dive live stream, Scott streamed the unboxing of Acid Studio Weo Terminal, ESP32-SPI Networking API changes, and optimizing JSON.Load. Check out the latest video and past videos at adafru.it-dive. Greg Davil posted to Twitter an update to Circuit Python being ported to the Orange Crab FPGA board. Code is available on GitHub. A blog now running on solar power. It uses a Raspberry Pi 3B+, with sensing provided by an Adafruit INA260 sensor read via Adafruit Blinka, the Circuit Python compatibility layer. Details at lurentius.com. Tyler Crumpton posted to Twitter a foot puddle to start and stop audio for transcription. A sewing machine puddle and one resistor are connected to a seed we know shall board running Adafruit Circuit Python 5.3.0 and 12 lines of code. The puddle acts as a variable resistor to measure voltage using an analog pin. Python T is back with the incredible Lorena Mesa. They discussed the Pi Ladies Overhaul, PSF Election Reform, and PSF Advocacy. Check it out at twitch.tv.nnjaio. Time series simply represent data points over time. Julian post to Medium darts. Time series made easy in Python. This article introduces darts. Their attempt at simplifying time series processing and forecasting in Python. Learn five Python features you probably don't know in this article on TowardDataScience.com, including a few functionalities that are less commonly used but still immensely useful. Tim Grenholm posts a goodbye party held for the end of life of Python version 2, including this snaky cake. Read about eight world-class software companies that use Python in this article by Jason Reynolds on realpython.com. TextHero is a Python toolkit to work with a text-based dataset quickly and effortlessly. It's very simple to learn and designed to be used on top of pandas. Code is available on GitHub. Learn about extending Python with Go in part two of a Python and Go series on ardenlabs.com. Blur Detection 2 is Blur Detection with OpenCV in Python. Code is available from Will Brennan on GitHub. The number of circuit pythons supported microcontrollers in single-board computers continues to grow. There were no new boards added this week, but several are being worked on. Are you interested in adding a new board to CircuitPython? Check out the Adafruit Learn system for a series of guides about getting your board added to CircuitPython and circuitpython.org. There are seven new Python on hardware-related guides in the Adafruit Learn system this week, including use a PyPortal and CircuitPython to build a customizable remote that works over Wi-Fi to control a Roku media player using the Roku external control protocol and taking advantage of the PyPortal's touchscreen is a simple input method in this guide from Dylan Harada. ElectionCal is a website that provides U.S. voting deadlines. Use CircuitPython to connect to the site, process data, and display it in a nice clean way on your PyPortal in this guide from Alvaro Figueiroa. This greatly simplified overhaul of a 2017 project uses CircuitPython, a FeatherM4 Express, and a PropMaker FeatherWing to build new internals for a Lucio Blaster. DualStream native MP3 playback eliminates the need for multiple pieces of hardware previously required to play music and sound effects at the same time, and power, amplification, and Neopixel circuits have been similarly simplified. Use the LED animation library to create highly awesome lighting effects in this guide from John Park. Build a stunning LED whip that reacts when you crack it using CircuitPython, the FeatherNRF52840 Sense Microcontroller, and the PropMaker FeatherWing, including motion sensitivity with two levels of swing-based animations triggered by the motion of your arm, all easily customizable in this guide from Aaron St. Blaine. The current number of CircuitPython libraries is 262. This includes both the Adafruit CircuitPython libraries and the CircuitPython community libraries. There are no new libraries this week, but there are a significant number of updated libraries. As always, visit circuitpython.org slash libraries to download the latest Adafruit CircuitPython bundle. Included in this week's updates from the CircuitPython team. The main focus of Brian's work over the last week has been the AS7341 11-channel multi-spectral light sensor from AMS. This is a pretty neat sensor that holds a lot of capabilities in a small package. Within the 3x2mm footprint are 16 paired CMOS light sensors for separate light wavelength bands as well as two dedicated sensors with no clear filter, one near infrared, and one flicker detection sensor. One feature he finds particularly interesting is the LDR pin that allows you to control an external LED to aid in spectral measurement. Current controls allow you to use the LED to its full capacity without burning it out with too much current. In the CircuitPython core, there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes. We use background tasks to ensure that things like audio, USB, and display keep working even while your code.py is running. Jeff's current project is to enhance this code and restore performance that we gave up temporarily in order to add the lower power mode that is helpful for battery-powered projects. Melissa worked some more on the Blinkapy portal library and wrote a guide for it. Along the way, she found several bugs with it with some of them occasionally stopping her from continuing on the guide without addressing the bugs, eventually those she was able to get everything working. She was able to get it running on both Raspberry Pi 4 and the FT232H so that it can be run directly on her computer. Check out the guide in the Adafruit learning system. EuroPython 2020 this year will be an online conference from July 23rd to 26th. Attending the conference days will require a ticket and participating in the sprints will be free. Check out ep2020.europython.eu for details. PyCon AU has announced they're holding PyCon Line AU in August. Check out 2020.pycon.org.au for more information. PyGotham is a New York City-based eclectic pie-centric conference covering many topics. PyGotham TV is taking place October 2nd and 3rd 2020 with a single track of talks presented online. The call for proposals is now open at cfp.pygotham.tv. Visit 2020.pygotham.tv for more information. PyIndia 2020 will be held online from October 3rd through 5th 2020. A call for proposals is now open through the 14th of August. Visit in.pycon.org slash 2020 for more information regarding the CFP and the conference. Translating Circuit Python is now easier than ever. Translations make their project more accessible to a broader range of folks. 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Welcome to Jalassette News, the guitar stories and cryptocurrency Jalassettes and break them down to bite-sized pieces today. Nasdaq listed green pro capital to set up Bitcoin fund using a hundred million dollar loan. This is another example of institutions coming in and the price of Bitcoin is about to explode also. And lastly, we're going to look at some regulatory issues. First up, 183 violations. US government finds BitGo for allowing users to bypass sanctions with cryptocurrency. This could be why the PayPal BitGo acquisition fell through and all this regulation has exchanges spooked because Bittrex just announced that XMR, Zcash and Dash will be removed on Friday, January 15th at 1100 hours. So we're going to take a look at what is exactly going on. So we'll do all that, but let's take a look at what's in the market. So congratulations to everybody. We made it out of the worst, crappiest year I can remember on on as recent memory as far as 2020. What a junk year. So hopefully if 2021 is the inverse of 2020, this should be fantastic. I've always said that 2021 is the year for crypto and digital assets.  So let's see what happens. I'm feeling pretty good. Bitcoin up 29,000. So didn't hit that $30,000 mark and, you know, good old John McAfee lost that bet. Let's see if he is a man of his word and does what he says he's going to do. Ethereum is down 1.6%, but hey, it's still around 727, 18% for the weeks I'll take it. Tether's Tether, nobody cares. Just kidding. Somebody cares. And I'll tell you who it is. There's been a lot of discussion about Tether, if it really is pegged to the dollar one-to-one, if they actually have it in reserves, if that audit was actually justifiable, and what's going on. A lot of people were talking about how if Tether goes down, crypto goes down. I did a video yesterday, which talked about how and why and exactly precisely that Celsius is a security. It's a registered security with the SEC. You can see the listing in the video I talked about. And we talked about Tether, about what could potentially happen. And in my opinion, it's not going to register as a security. The big question is, the audit that went through was adjustable and how many audits are actually going to happen. So that's one of those things. XRP, 23 cents. Watch out. Wow. It's up 7.8%. So congratulations to all you XRP holders. Let's see how it all works out. Litecoin 0.4%. Polkadot down a percent. But Polkadot was just flipped with Litecoin yesterday. And now they've flipped again, but it's up magnificently at 60% up. And we're going to go about why that is. Bitcoin Cash, Binance Coin, Cardano down 2%. It always hovers around 16, 18 cents. Let's see if they can actually get past 20. Chainlake is in the top 10 and not too bad. What else we got in there? Fantastic. OKB. OKB, great. Theta Network is in the top 20. Now he's in the top 20. It actually flipped Celcius Network, which not too long ago got in the top 20 itself. Celcius and Theta have been on a tear. I mean, look at that 78% in a week, 43% for Celcius. And if you've noticed, I get excited about certain projects. It's because I've invested into them and I am, you know, biased. So that's just how it goes. What else we got? Nothing really good. Let's take a look at how you would have done if you just would have invested into Bitcoin. So I'm going to flip this over to Bitcoin. XRP would have been fantastic, 7%. 0.1 for Binance Coin, 4% for Chainlake. That's pretty good. Again, OKB. Theta Network, 15%, 4%, 0, 13%. So yeah, on some of these, you can definitely beat out Bitcoin. The question is which one is it and which one's going to do the most magnificent? I don't know. I will just tell you this. I just want to go for the smart choice. And right now, with what's going on, I'm going to go Bitcoin Ethereum. And that's the majority. I'm actually DCing 5 right now. You can watch the video on that. But Bitcoin, I think, is one of the ones that will do pretty well. So is Ethereum. All right, let's look at today's top story. So first up, NASDAQ listed green pro capital. We set up Bitcoin fund using $100 million alone. Jeez, that's pretty good. So this is just another example of institutions coming in and what their choice is. Really, it's Bitcoin. Ethereum a little bit here and there, but mostly Bitcoin. So a green pro capital, headquartered in Hong Kong, joins the growing list of banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, and institutions holding Bitcoin. And in a statement, they said this, we believe the strategic management of our balance sheet, combined with the information of our Bitcoin fund and crypto strategy will produce significant future value for the company. CEO CK Lee has already started green pros investment bankers to raise debt in Q1, Q1, which is right now up to $100 million to invest in Bitcoin. Green pro capital says it also believes that other top cryptos such as Ethereum will provide the opportunity for better returns and preserve the value of our capital over time rather than holding cash. I think, of course, Bitcoin is a great one for store of value. I'm not so sure about the currency narrative. However, I was thinking about this this morning because I was thinking about PayPal, how they're going to start to offer people to pay with their cryptocurrency for all their vendors, all their 300 plus million vendors. And of course, you can use all four of them. You can use Bitcoin, Bitcoin, cash, Ethereum and Litecoin. And what they're going to do is they're not going to do that on chain. They're just going to sell it all in dollars and do their own thing behind the scenes. So it's really just like using paper Bitcoin. I think when people start to do that, I mean, it's kind of a weird thing. You are using fiat. Yes, you are for all these exchanges, but in a weird perverted way, you are using Bitcoin by name only. So I think when people do this, they're like, wow, Bitcoin is super fast. I can't believe it's this quick. And really, it will be a currency.  So it's just kind of weird way to think about it, but it's kind of like, yeah, you are using it as a currency, but not really. And all honestly, I don't think people are really going to care. This can be like, wow, I can use this new currency. I can buy it as a currency and it goes up in value. My dollars don't do that. So I'm just going to use this crypto currency. Anyhow, for what's going on here with GreenPro, there are now 29 such companies. And what they're talking about here is the strategic management of our balance sheet provides significant future value for the company. What they're doing is looking at this, the 29 companies they're talking about, they're taking a look at like places like MicroStrategy and Square, and they're going, wow, these guys put a billion in and they got a two billion out. And that was in like four or five months. So we want that. Galaxy Digital same 134 million, 472. Of course, there's a little bit longer. You got Square, which I always think it's weird that Square, Jack Dorsey is a CEO and he's super bullish on Bitcoin, and they put in 50 million and they doubled it. So I just think of myself, why don't they just increase that amount of money that they actually put in? Why wouldn't they just say, hey, we doubled our money and like almost no time, let's keep doing that, but it doesn't happen. It's weird.  But this is what's interesting. All these 29 companies, if you add up all the Bitcoin they have, this is kind of scary. It's 1.1 million, 1.1 million. Right now they say there's 18.5 million in circulation. That's not true. We've lost, I think at least two million. So really it's 16.5 million. And these guys have like just 29 companies have one million of those. So when we talk about decentralization, I mean, is it? I mean, is it? I mean, it is.  So yeah, I get that. But I mean, it is in the hands of a very small amount of people. And that's one of the things that scares me. So it's just one of those things I think is going to help for the price of Bitcoin to stabilize as time goes on. But again, only time will tell. Not too sure. And then, I mean, we've just seen how great Bitcoin has been over the last, I mean, 365 days. The last year of 2020, crappy year. But it wasn't for Bitcoin. It's pretty good. And this was a nice little tweet that I had found up from Masari. They put this little snippet. And they said this, they go, look, here's the change in the market value of all the asset classes. And you can just take a look. I mean, every single year, it's like the same thing, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin. And then people still bash it, like all these gold bugs, like sucks, it's made out of air, it's not going to work. And here we are, every single year. I'm like, how many times do you have to just get your face ripped off and go, yeah, it's not awesome. And gold's gonna, I'm just lost. It's like, it's like reality doesn't exist in some places. And you just have to look at numbers. Numbers don't lie. Here we are. I'm not saying you shouldn't buy gold. I buy gold. But I'm just saying, if you're going to buy gold, you might as well buy Bitcoin. So all the gold bugs out there are like, gold, gold, gold, gold. Really, what they should be doing, they should be buying both and they should be comparing it every year. I mean, what's the charm of putting a 5% to 10% in? And actually, I got this from one of my subscribers. He said, hey, I had this big heated discussion with this boomer about Bitcoin versus gold. And I was just like, why even argue? Just say, hey, boomer, let's just do this, just buy a little Bitcoin and I'll buy a little bit of gold and we'll be in each other's world. And let's see how we do in the end of the year. I'm pretty sure we'll both be up. But the real question will be by how much? And that's all I got to say.  Like why even fight them? Why just like, you know what, sure, I'll buy it and then we'll see what happens in a year and then go from there. That's all I can say. I mean, really, there's no reason to fight about whatever. If you're going to make 20% a year, great. Of course, you could have made more of Bitcoin than maybe some people will come around. It's a lot easier just to step in someone else's world and give them a little bit of a footing and then bring them back in to engage in the conversation. Like with certain people and crypto products, I'm like, I don't want to fight.  So let's just, if whatever you want to do, sure, I'll hold some of it. Let's just go that route. And then off we go. Same thing with golden Bitcoin. So that's just what I got. Let me know what you think of the comment section. Let's move on. Regulations. This is crazy. I've always said in this channel that I believe we do need regulation, but we need a little bit of regulation. It's kind of like speed limits. I'm okay with speed limits. I mean, I don't want anybody zipping around at 200 miles per hour in their Tesla or whatever our phrasing go. But if you're going to make everybody go five miles per hour on the highway, no one's going to get anything done. So this is a prime example. 183 violations. US government finds bit go for allowing users to bypass sanctions with crypto.  The U.S. Department of Treasury announced on Wednesday that the Office of Foreign Assets Controller, OFAC, has entered into a 98,000 settlement with BitGo, really 100K. Just remember about 100K. For 183 violations of multiple sanctions programs, doesn't that sound awful? Wow, 183 violations. Just keep that in mind. Those two numbers, 100K and 183 violations. This is the statement. BitGo failed to prevent persons apparently located in the Crimea region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria from using its non-custodial, secure digital wallet management service. BitGo had reason to know that these users were located in sanctioned places because the IP address, whatever. And then it says, the 183 cryptocurrency transactions BitGo processed totaled $110,000, $9,127. So these 183 transactions, which were under $10,000, and they took place between March 10, 2015 and December 11, 2019, that is the 183 violations. And it could have been something as like $10, but they all add up to 183 transactions less than $10,000. And that's why they got fined for $100,000. So they 10xed it for whatever it was. Well, okay, it was 9,000, but this is how much we're going to charge you 100K. That's insane. And that's where we're at. So BitGo implemented an OFAC sanctions compliance policy after learning about its apparent violations in early 2020. So BitGo goes, okay, we get it, you're going to finance whatever, I'm sure they're going to be okay, right? A small company might be out of business, but BitGo is going to be okay, they're going to make these provisions, which included hiring a chief compliance officer and implementing a new OFAC policy, which now applies to all of BitGo services. So what they did is that they're doing now is BitGo screens all accounts, including hot wallet accounts against OFACs, especially designated nationals, and blocked person's list, including blocked crypto wallet, addressed NFI by OFAC, BitGo has also conducted a retro batch screen of all users. And like I was talking about in the beginning, because of what just happened, this is a very small community, this financial community, as far as big players trust me, I mean, I've been learning about it from the inside. And I can guarantee PayPal knew exactly what was going on with OFAC, they're probably like, Oh, they're going to get busted, we don't know how much, we're just going to step away. And I think that's part of the reason, not the only reason, part of the reason why this actually acquisition actually fell through. I thought it had been great, because, you know, then PayPal could be even deeper into cryptocurrency, probably also offer other cryptocurrency type of digital assets, maybe the ones that you are holding right now. So they would have skyrocketed in price. But because the government sticking their fat face into it and going, you know what, we're going to charge you with all these things. Here we are. That's just a theory. And don't take it with a grain of salt. I could be 100% wrong, but I got to believe that this might have had a little factor to play into it. And then on top of that, we also got the got news that Bitrex is going to be removing, I would say this is the listing of Monero, Zcash, and Dash. And they're all going to go away in January 15th and they knew what was going to happen. So you see this little comment here? I can't comment. Who can reply? People at Bitrex Exchange mentioned can reply and that's it. I'm sure they turn on the comment section and I'm pretty disastrous for them. So I'm not disastrous, but just kind of not nice. So that's what's going on. Again, I think regulation should be in place a little bit. I don't believe in total chaos. I believe that a little bit can go a long way, just like eating a slice of cake. It's okay to slice just if you eat the whole shebang.  That's where we're at. All right, so that's it for today. No one a little bit longer. If anything really comes up, I'll be putting out some information a bit, but that is all. So thanks for listening throughout the whole thing. Really appreciate it. If you like those types of videos, it'll be two months going to pop up when you're left and right. I'll let PayPal make that magic happen. And that is all. So again, I think 2021 is our year. I just, with all the regulation coming down, it's going to be the year of two things. It's going to be the year of Bitcoin and institutions, and it's going to be the year of regulations. That's my philosophy. And we'll see it all go. So thanks again, and I'll see you on the next one.


Good morning and welcome. My name is Rachel Fishman and I'm a senior policy analyst here at New America. Last week, Arizona State University announced a partnership with a massive open online course platform, edX, to provide a global freshman academy. For only $200 a credit hour, students who take free, massive open online courses and who pay a relatively small fee to verify their identity at the beginning of the course will be able to get ASU credit upon completion of coursework. The New York Times covered it, as did the Washington Post and many other major news outlets. Of course, the trade press covered it too. I saw in the Chronicle of Higher Education there are multiple stories about the initiative and ASU's play in the online space under the direction of their president, Michael Crowe. But the question is, is $200 a credit hour really affordable? Largely missing from the conversation was the fact that most community colleges cost much less per credit hour. Maricopa Community College District, which serves students from the Phoenix area, only costs $84 per credit, which is not abnormally low compared to community college tuition nationwide. And students at Maricopa have the opportunity to take face-to-face courses, hybrid courses that makes face-to-face instruction with online education and fully online courses. If students want, they can pursue fully online credentials and they can take entire semesters online. Importantly, students can also access much needed federal, financial, and state aid and other campus resources such as the library to help with research, tutoring service, and advising support. So while the national press gives lots of media attention to an initiative at ASU that will take at least two years to even get up and running, very little attention is given to the amazing innovation happening right now in community colleges. Indeed, we often hear very little in the press about what goes on at community colleges, despite the fact that they serve over 40% of undergraduates in America. In my report, Community College Online, which just came out this February, I set out to shed some light on the innovations happening at community colleges. As I mentioned, a significant proportion of undergraduates are enrolled in the public two-year sector and these students are more likely to have children, work more than 20 hours a week, attend college part-time, make less than $30,000 a year, and commute to school compared with their public four-year counterparts. It's clear that Community College students need flexibility in order to succeed for when their lives outside of the classroom prevent them from making it to campus every day to go to class or access important resources. ASU's model likely won't work for these students, but smart technology enhanced pathways can help smooth their path to the degree. It's important to note that when I say technology enhanced, I'm not talking about directing students into fully online courses and credentials. Most students in community colleges aren't attending solely online and most don't want to attend solely online, but what they do want is the flexibility and choice. Attending fully online likely won't improve student outcomes, especially for the most academically vulnerable students who tend not to fare as well in the online environment. Instead, I mean looking at the ways that we can use technology to enhance a student's educational experience, whether it be through an Emporium-style math remediation course, which we're going to hear more about today, or the use of hybrid models of content delivery, or even adopting an open education resource textbook and homework system so students have access to low-cost free materials from day one. Today, we'll hear from many colleges that were featured in the report. These faculty leaders and administrators work together on their campuses to help improve student outcomes through technology. We're trying something a little bit different today, and not only will you get to hear from our presenters, but you'll also have the ability to get hands-on with the technology, as you can see in the back of the room and out in the hallway. This is not your typical DC panel, where you can sit back and relax and tweet from afar, though if you are tweeting, we ask that you use the hashtag CCOnline. We wanted to do something a little bit more interactive than that. So I'll explain a little bit about the logistics. First, I'm going to introduce all of our presenters, and then each of them will give a short presentation. Afterwards, we're going to get a chance to interact with their different programs and materials. There are three stations set up in this room. There's one in the hallway, and there's one right across from where I'm standing in the studio. We'll have people to help direct people where to go. So first, I'm going to introduce all of our presenters, and then I'll let everybody know what the logistics are at the very end, how we're going to do this. So first up, I'm going to introduce all of you all at once, and then you'll all get to go in a row. Next, we'll have Betty Frost and Linda Pride who are faculty members from Jackson State Community College in Tennessee, who will discuss how they redesign their remedial math course. Then Bill Ryan from the Kentucky Community and Technical College system will discuss Learn on Demand, which offers fully online competency-based courses and credentials. Next, we'll have Paul Golish from Paradise Valley Community College in Arizona discuss how the Open Education Resource Movement is paving the way to more affordable course resources. Russ Little, the Chief Innovation Officer from PAR Framework, will talk about integrated planning and advising services. And lastly, Deb Adair will talk about Quality Matters, a faculty-centered, continuous improvement model that assures the quality of online courses through peer review and professional development. So I'm going to hand it off to Betty and Linda. Good morning. You'll get to hear from Dr. Pride when we break off into our sessions, since we only have about three to five minutes each. And being from, growing up in Mississippi, it takes me about three minutes to say two words. So I wanted, I didn't think we should try to swap up with the presentation here. Both Dr. Pride and I have taught at Jackson State for many, many, many years. And we have seen students come and go, most of whom were not successful in their developmental math. Originally, we had three math classes, three developmental math classes. And by the way, in Tennessee and pretty much nationwide now, 83% of our entering students test into needing remedial math. And so that we saw our students come and go and not be successful. 42% of our students were passing. So if you do the math on that, you've got 83% of the students and then 42% were successful. So we're losing a lot of students right there who really could have made it. But we were not providing the opportunities they needed. We realized that we were attempting to remediate high school math deficiencies. That is what the students didn't learn for 12 years. And we thought we could teach them again and the same way in three courses. The student had to pass the course or they started over the next term. There wasn't any, well I got this far so let me pick up where I left off. Before a student could actually enroll in a program for which they came to college for. We have a very large nursing and allied health program. Most of those programs only require developmental courses, developmental math courses. They do not require a college level math. But they had to pass all their developmental math before they could even apply to get into one of those programs. Their class time was in fact inflexible if a student signed up for an 8 o'clock class and then realized that their babysitter couldn't get there in time for them to get to the 8 o'clock class. They were just out of luck. They either quit coming and probably got an elf which is what most of your freshman students would do in that situation or they had to drop out and find another time the next semester. And then also each instructor kind of did their own thing. We all had competencies and objectives to follow, but I would design my class and maybe I'd go in a different order than Dr. Pride would go. And so that if a student needed to change from my class to Dr. Pride, they couldn't because we'd be in different places. If you have this bright blue sheet hand out, this is where what I'm going to kind of take off from. The key features of Jackson State's developmental math redesign was first we have what we call our smart math center. And about three pages over you can see a picture of it. We're very proud of it because the students feel like they're special when they walk inside that center. It's the Emporium that Rachel was referring to. It's a place where students actually meet class, but they have people there that can help them. They have computers and their own line as we will demonstrate later on. We require mastery learning. If you were ever in a math class and already knew what was going on but had to sit there and listen to it be explained again, you know what I'm talking about where you want to just move on and not be wasting your time. Worse yet, if you're in a math class and the teacher had already moved on and you didn't get it. So we require mastery learning. A student cannot go from one module to the next until they have successfully mastered that module. And that is one of the big reasons that we do modularization. We had to set up our courses as modules so that the student could have different levels of success. And Dr. Pryde and her another colleague had always wanted to do the things we're doing now, but we didn't have the technology to help us support it. And it was hard to keep up and impossible actually to keep up with everything by hand. But now with the new technologies out there, we're able to provide individualized opportunities for our students. We base the students' requirements on what their career goals were. The students would master the concept before they move forward and therefore they have the opportunity to move quickly or slowly depending on what their need is. We have on-demand individual assistance. There's a ratio of about ten students to one tutor. Tutors and the instructor there. And we're constantly moving around the math center. And you can imagine that if I'm passing by and a student has a question, it's much easier for them to say, hey, show me what's going on here than it would be if they were sitting out in a classroom and had to raise their hand to ask the question. So that makes it much quicker and the student gets help exactly when they need the help. The student also has immediate feedback on their homework, which is computer-based and their test. This motivates the student to keep on until they get it right. The computer system will say, sorry, that's not right. Remember to do this, this, and this and the student can go back and keep on until they get it right. They have more opportunities for successful completion. Once a module is completed, then it's done. If they don't pass the class, they begin the next semester with the module that they did not complete. And so that they feel successful as they move through the modules. Quote our students, they say, well, I can do this. If they'd done this in high school, I wouldn't be sitting here in this class. And when we first started, we had several students that had already been unsuccessful in our old way of doing it. Linda and I were talking last night about a gentleman that this was his fifth time, was it fifth or sixth? And he got through all the modules in one semester. And it was just that he was able to concentrate on what he needed to concentrate. Thank you. Hi, I'm Bill Ryan. I'm with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. I want to talk a little bit about Learn on Demand. Learn on Demand is a design model. It is built as a modular format, as a design. It is competency-based. And one of the standards it has, it is a single course across our entire system. So for example, we have one English 101 course. So we have 16 colleges across our entire system. And you can imagine that every college has its own English faculty, and they all create their own online, traditional term-based classes. Learn on Demand decided when it started in its initial inception in 2006 through 2009 that they would only have one standard. And they would build it in a modular format. And they would build it so it would be competency-based. The courses are available right now to lead students through 11 different degrees, 22 certificates, and two diplomas available through these 16 different colleges. That list is still growing as some of our grant faculty and the people that apply for them have chosen to develop their new courses through Learn on Demand. One of the things that makes the modules attractive, as you were describing earlier, is the idea that students can go through at their own pace. We have been involved through the use of adaptive release and a pre-test and a post-test model that allows students to go through at their own pace if they've already got existing knowledge. So they can kind of go through it a little bit faster and it rewards them by giving them credit for that prior learning is what we call it. Each of our modules also has the EU resources, the content, the presentation materials that are developed and shared through our publishing partners, OER materials, our faculty developed and assisted. And those are put into modules so the students get what they need, when they need it, just at the right amount so they're not completely overwhelmed. Currently we are offering enrollments on 11 different Mondays through the traditional term, six times through the summer. That gives us a grand total of 30 opportunities to join in on this. As soon as we can figure out the non-term financial aid, a different discussion, we'll have the flexibility of offering modules and courses on an online anytime model, which is our ultimate intent. Part of the Learn on Demand model as well is a quality cycle. We started out with the quality rubric that we'll hear a little bit or in a little bit in a couple more minutes. Also took some lessons learned from the Blackboard rubric and have kind of merged into our own. And we begin the course development cycle using that rubric as a discussion point between the faculty developer, the project team leader, who's usually either a faculty member or a department chair type person that works with different faculty in the development of these Learn on Demand courses and an instructional designer. Sometimes it's a pair of designers, one at the local college, one at the system office as well. Key to this entire rubric is the assessment strategies. We've been having an increased focus on authentic assessments, especially in the latter part of the modules and the end of the courses to having much more realistic expectation of what the students should be able to perform and demonstrate in terms of those competencies and the outcomes. Before we deliver that course, it goes through a peer review process of three to five faculty from the other institutions. And we have found that it brings a greater depth and breadth from the courses and gives the chance for more faculty exchanges, which is kind of the hidden byproduct. And we find a lot more faculty starting to talk with each other across the colleges, which is kind of fun in a state as large as Kentucky with all the 16 different colleges in 70 different locations. The focus that we've been trying to bring to our entire community is that the outcomes emphasize the application and the creation of knowledge. So we're really focusing on those higher order of thinking skills. Wrapped around all of Learn on Demand courses are some personalized student support. We're trying to build up that network so that the student is always successful. A couple of pilots that started with Learn on Demand have now rolled out to our entire Kentucky community and technical college community. One is a call center. We have a 24-7 call center that started out as just for our online Learn on Demand students that now serves our over 90,000 students across the state. We also started out with Starfish, which is a retention and engagement tool to help identify problems that students may be having in advance before they raise their own hand that we could kind of watch them and monitor them. That had just got rolled out to the entire system this past fall. A couple of other things that we have that I'm expecting to someday see come across our system is an online tutoring service that is available to our Learn on Demand students. We use a product called BrainFuse and it is available online to our Learn on Demand students. And they also work with success coaches who work with the instructional advisor to be the student's advocate to help them get through those processes that students at a distance sometimes can't stand in line, can't wait in an office and be their advocate for them. And finally, that instructional component is also the last part of the Learn on Demand model. It is really a transformative... Somebody else can say that? Transformative. I need more coffee. I got up at 4 o'clock to get that flight and I can tell it's not working for me. Role because it's really moving that whole instructor into a role of facilitator in the highest level of being that guide of engaging them, of consulting with them and providing that feedback of educating while instructing. And that is, I think, the full service that we bring to Learn on Demand. So as a design model, I'll be out in the hallway and I'd be glad to talk to anybody about it and answer questions there. Thanks. Good morning. I'm Paul Golis. I'm from Phoenix, Arizona. Although you'll probably be able to tell I'm originally from Chicago, Illinois. I do have these handouts if you happen to have those. You may want to refer to them a little bit in there. Speaking of Chicago, by the way, this is the Cubs year. Really. It really is. I hope. It's worth a try. So I'm from Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix, Arizona. Part of the Maricopa Community Colleges that was mentioned earlier. And I'm going to be talking about open educational resources, which is basically what most people think of as free textbooks. But it's really a lot more than that. And textbooks are not only free, but they're open to be shared, remixed, reused, revised, redistributed for other faculty to use. Students spend approximately $1,200 a year on textbooks for about $100 a month. And sometimes much more. And in Arizona and community colleges, that's about 25% and sometimes even more of their cost. This is especially troubling as we were talking about earlier with developmental education. They're not even getting the college credit. And then on top of that, they're asked to pay tuition costs. And on top of that, the cost of the textbook. So it really can be very troubling. In a recent survey, it was noted that over 60% of students at one time or another don't purchase a textbook. They try and get away with outdoing that. And 23% regularly do that. I have a couple of daughters in college. I can tell you they try and get away with that as well. Sometimes it works okay. Sometimes not so much. And my daughter called me a couple of months ago. She's at Arizona State University. And she said, I have a big test tonight. I tried to make it without the textbook. Just came back from the bookstore. $234 for the one textbook. That was really painful. And then she said to me, wait a second. Aren't you leading a project here in Phoenix to have people use free textbooks? And I said, yeah, unfortunately ASU, I don't have a lot of influence there. But in the Maricopa Community Colleges, we're making a big dent. And we're up to our tagline is we want to save students $5 million over five years. We're at year two of the project. And we're at about $3.5 million. So we're going to have to revise our goal and say we would like to save students $5 million per year by the end of five years. So we hope to get there. One of our leaders in the OER project is Scottsdale Community College in which they've gotten pretty much their entire math department to use open textbooks, free textbooks. And so they're saving just at that one college over $300,000 a year for students. They offer over 75 sections of math with open educational resources. Again, OER is more than just free textbooks, though it can be an online homework system, videos, and much more. As far as the online homework system, one of our OER superstars in the country is a gentleman by the name of David Litman in the state of Washington. And about 10 years ago he said, you know what, I just can't handle it that my students are paying $80, $100 for an online homework system. I know math. I know how to program. I'll just write something. So he did. He wrote something that is very comparable to what some of the publishers put out there. And then the crazy guy just listens to input and feedback from folks all over the country and just keeps adding more to it and more to it. And now over 1,000 professors, not just in the U.S., but now some folks in Germany are translating his work and using it there as well. I'll be showing some of that a little bit later. Also, a gentleman by the name of James Sousa at Phoenix College. And if you live in the Phoenix area, you may have seen his billboard. The college put up a billboard for him and he was Arizona professor of the year. He's a very humble guy, so he really hates it when I mention that, so I do as much as possible when I mention it. But he has done over 4,300 videos that have over 20, I'm sorry, on YouTube, which I told him recently. I believe that has passed Brumpy Cat. So it's pretty exciting that people are watching math videos. The success rates also, so really, we got into the open educational resource game. A lot of people, including myself, I've been teaching with open educational resources for about four years now to save the students money, to make sure that they had access to those textbooks and other materials on the very first day. Some moderate success gains too and success rates, and so I've got that noted in there as well. I think I'm just about the end of my time, so you can find out more information a little bit later, but also at maricopa.edu slash OER. And also I'm working with a company called Lumen Learning that helps support folks that are using open educational resources because sometimes free, although the materials are free, it isn't always free to support it and support our faculty, and so they help with that. Thank you very much. See if my phone will actually stay there. That way I can time myself, so Rachel doesn't have a heart attack on time. I'm Russ Little. I'm director of the Student Success Plan open source software project, formerly at Sinclair Community College for almost 20 years. I'm currently the chief innovation officer at the PAR framework, which is predictive analytics and reporting. It's a non-profit working on measurement of what really works in higher education so that we can look at things that scale. What I'm here to talk to you today about those integrated planning and advising systems. I worked for almost a decade on a system called the Student Success Plan, or we call it SSP. And SSP is a case management type model to really provide holistic support and services around a student, wrap around, not just in the classroom, but also the life happens. The things like childcare and transportation and tutoring, as well as getting them the right academic path and plan through their progression at college. So, if you think of it a little bit like a customer relationship management tool, much like Salesforce, except with the goal of trying to help at-risk students maintain and graduate successfully from college. It includes tools like early alert, much like you might find in a starfish or grades first. It has an academic planning tool called MAP, so my academic plan. It has action plans that are much like an academic plan, but life plans. How do I overcome a transportation issue? How do I make sure that I have my budget put together? And can we then work together collaboratively to make sure students have all the resources they need to achieve those goals? Why is it a secret what a student's goals are? Why isn't everybody in the education community in a college helping a student reach their goal? Why is it a conversation between just a student and a coach or an advisor? Why aren't faculty and everybody else who touches that student helping them transition and move forward to that success? So that's the reason for the case management. Often students feel pinballed around the institution. When they go to financial aid and to other offices, we should all be working together to move them to that next step. So if I can see what the notes you put into the system are, I can see what actions were taken, I can see what interventions they were asked to do, I can see their academic plan and where they hope to graduate, so does it work? It does. We've seen more than double digit retention gains using the academic plan and using a fairly rigorous controlled study accounting for interaction effects about 20 different variables and it is significant down to about four decimal places. So the alpha is very strong and I won't take away any of the thunder from Sinclair who probably want to publish this but they have in the past said it is as much as 14% higher retention year to year. I think it's actually going to look a lot better than that when the study is finally done. So how about the cost? Student success plan is free like a puppy. It's open source software and much like you were talking about, you have open education resources, we have open software but it still has cost around it to implement and we do have technology partners who do help and in the handout there is an insert from one of those technology partners. So I will be giving a demo of the software in the back after the sessions wrap up and if you have questions about that or about the work we do at PAR framework I would love to entertain those and thank you for your time. Okay, good morning everyone. You'll have to forgive me at my adrenaline levels are so high because my 30 mile commute this morning took over two hours. So I got here at, you know, I think that's why we started like two minutes late because I just pulled in. So I'm Deb Bader and I'm the managing director and chief planning officer for quality matters and you've heard that referenced a few times. Many of these institutions do subscribe. We are a non-profit organization that has we work with colleges, universities, K-12 some corporations and the higher ed institutions are the bulk of our work and we work with them basically to help them make the quality of their online courses better. It we started about 10 or so years ago with the problem initially was there was a consortium of colleges and universities in Maryland that wanted to share seats in their courses. They wanted to let their students you know if they had capacity at one school and they were closed out in another they wanted to be able to let the students go back and forth but they didn't trust each other's courses so that they needed a way to assure the quality that they were of equivalent quality. And so that generated a FIPSI grant project which is the fund for improvement of secondary education that ran for three years that generated quality matters which is essentially a program and a process and a suite of tools. So QM starts with a set of standards for quality and online and blended courses and those are used in a continuous improvement process for quality assurance that ends with better learning experience for students. So we do that by initially creating research centered standards and we did that through a very rigorous process with the community of practitioners and developed that into actually a full rubric that provides guidance for how to apply those standards. But that is only one piece of it because if you've ever worked in higher ed you know that there's probably a lot of tools and resources that are out there but everyone the approach is the diversity is so great in higher ed that there isn't any comparison there's just adoption and remodeling. So we have basically three pieces to the program of the standards there's professional development for faculty about how to use those standards to improve their course and to review other courses for quality and there's an actual course review process that leads to certification of those courses. So to date we work with about 950 educational institutions the majority of them in higher ed and the majority not the great majority but the majority of our higher ed subscribers are community college institutions and actually they were the first to embrace this idea of being able to have a common measure of quality so in our earlier years the vast majority of our institutions we worked with were community colleges so they have been doing this for a long time. So the essential problem and the reason that the professional development piece is so important is when we were thinking about what do you look at in an online course for quality we focus on course design and course design became a really critical piece because it is observable with the artifacts of this are all observable and it's something that faculty needed help with. I think that the problem that we encountered was faculty had a long experience and understanding about how to deliver their course in a face to face classroom that does not work that model just does not work for online so there is this sense of trying to take what you did in your face to face classroom do it in the online classroom and what was happening was it was a leading to very difficult experiences for students so that professional development piece was critical to help faculty sort of rethink their approach so what we do with institutions is essentially make the suite of tools available. We run the course review process that can, courses that meet the quality matter standards are certified by quality matters but what's really happening is the schools are embracing the tools taking the quality assurance model and running it very broadly across their institution making it their own and running it very broadly and so if you come to our little corner of the world over here we'll show you some of the way this works in a little bit more detail and some of the impact that we think is going on with this.


Ok friends, welcome back to discussion on botanicals in pest management. In this class, we will discuss about various important plant species which are available and their utilization in pest management. So, now let us see some of the botanicals which are quite popular in India and other countries also. So, among them one is neem which is very much used in the management of insect pest on various crops. So, as you know this neem it is azadictin which is derived from neem that is azadicta indica, the active ingredient that is azadictin. It is present in both seeds and leaves and much of the azadictin contained in seeds and the both neem kernel and also it is being used as insecticide against various insect pest. And here is some of the commercially available insecticides, their name that is neemazal, chok and also neemistidine. So, since it is used by many farmers on various insect pest and nowadays farmers they are much interested towards organic farming, so its usage is further going to be increased. And let us see how this NSKA can be prepared by collecting the seeds from neem trees. So, here I have given a flow chart about the preparation of neem seed kernel extracts. So, take the known quantity of seeds say some 3 to 5 kgs, if the seeds are old then take 5 kgs or more than 5 kgs or if the seeds are fresh, so always fresh seeds, preparation of this neem seed kernel extract from fresh seeds it is preferred then remove the outer seed coat and use only the kernels. And next pound the kernel gently, then tie it loosely with a cotton cloth, then soak this overnight in a vessel containing about 10 litres of water, then after filtering so leave it for 24 hours. So, on filtering you are going to get some 6 to 7 litres of extract you are going to get then this extract can be diluted in 9 to 100 litres of water and same can be used for the management of insect pests and it is advised to mix with caudy soap solution at the rate of 10 ml per litre of water so that it is spreading the property can be enhanced. So, these are the some of the commercial produced neem based pesticides in India. So, in this table we have various commercially available neem based insecticides, so Hachook, BioNeem, so like even Limonol which is actually produced 75 EC and likewise many products which are available commercially in the market and its concentration also varies from few ppm to up to some 10,000 and 30,000 ppm also. So, how this neem product it is going to affect insect vigor, longevity and also fecundity so and again its main function is acting as antifident and going to inhibits its growth and thereby you are going to get the intermittent stages and if it affects on the larvae so it is not going to complete or it not going to forward as pupae. If pupae is affected and it is thereby you are going to get the malformed adults, so among various botanicals the another important one is Rotinin it is actually extracted from this roots of deris elliptica and it is also broad spectrum of contact and also stomach insecticides and most of the sucking pests and also caterpillars they are target insects and it inhibits respiratory metabolism through which it affects on the sucking and also these caterpillars and normally in the market you are going to get 0.75 to 1.5 percent Rotinin dust. Another botanical product that is subadilla so which is actually derived from seeds of tropical lily and the principal insective property that is varatrine and it also acts as contact poison and it is here also it is going to affect the insect nervous system and brings paralysis and death of the insects and this subadilla can be effectively synergized by mixing this PBO that is Piper Nyl butoxide. Another botanical that is rhino dine and it is obtained from the woody stems of this rhino tree and principal insecticidal property that is alkaloid that is rhinoids and it mainly acts on muscular system. So on the basis of this product that is rhino dine we have the synthesized product in market that is chlorentinolyprol and also cyanotinolyprol and also flubendament they also so actually the basis of production of those synthesized insect it is from this rhino dine product and here the unlike other botanicals it is going to affect the muscular system of the insect in the way it is very important in resistance management and it is also slow acting stomach poison and target pest are both thrips and other caterpillars and in the market so it was available as a test during early days. Next product that is botanical products nicotine so it is obtained from tobacco plants that is nicotiana rustica and also nicotiana tobacum and it is also effective on the insect by way of inhibiting the nerve impulses in nervous system of the insects and thereby they are going to lose the coordination of the activities and eventually the death of the insect it is going to occur and it is extremely fast acting causing severe disruption and failure of this nervous system and this product could be used as fumigant and also as dust in the management of various insect pest and commercially it was available as nicotine sulphate in earlier days and since the high concentration of nicotine was causing the phytotoxic symptoms this was actually discontinued and here the insects which are targeted here these are the second pest they are going to control with these nicotine products. Next important botanical that is pyrethrum as you know the toxic constant it is pyrethrines and here also it is going to affect the central nervous system of the insects and going to bring about the paralysis and death of the insects. So these pyrethrines applied with PBO to enhance its insecticidal activity and the limonin and linonule products which are the extracts from the citrus fruits and they are going to affect most of the second pest like aphids, mites and also fleas here also it affects the nervous system and it acts as a stomach poison and this product can be used for the management of insect pests. There are some commercially available products which mainly acts as repellents from the essential plantiles so these are actually termed as herbal repellents which are available in the market so most of the times they are used in keeping away the some of the domestic insect pests and here one that is important one is citronella so it is used against some of the insects like mosquitoes and even some fleas also. So this table shows the overall which are the important botanical compounds their source and on which system of the insect so most of the botanicals they are going to affect the central nervous system of the insects and they do act as contact poisons. How best one can use these botanicals in best management one is direct spraying and for the amendment of soils so that they are going to inhibit the soil inhibiting insects and at the same time they are going to improve the soil structure and some of the cases wherein some of the botanicals can be used as intercoping system and thereby they are going to manage some of the important insect pests wherein one merigold which can be intercoped with the tomato or brinjal in the management of root knot nematodes. Similarly these botanicals used against various insect pests in stored grain pest management and some of the botanicals they do act as synergist so that can be used in enhancing the activity of the insecticides and various botanicals they are also available and among them tobacco nem they are commercially available. So here is one table wherein the recommendation has been given so and even against which insects it works and recommended dose of these botanicals. So this neem it is used against various insect pest on various crops and they are going to manage the pests which are occurring on various important crops. So most of the times you are going to use either NSK or commercially available neem products at either 1500 ppm or at 5% if it is NSK and another recommendation is through neem cakes. So by applying these neem cakes can be one can inhibit the soil inhibiting insects and at the same time it is going to improve the soil structures. So here is one example wherein tomato if it is applied as a neem cake at the rate of 200 kg per hectare so it is going to manage these seedling nematode and also other insects. So why these botanicals they are very much important in pest management programs over synthetic pest since they are going to cause less effect to the environment or no effect to the environment and very little risk about development of pest resistance and as you know they are going to cause less damage to the non-target insects and there is no adverse effect on plant growth and also its quality and since they are locally available less expensive compared to the synthetic insecticides. At the same time these botanicals have some drawbacks or barriers for commercialization one is sustainability it is still questionable and still it is one very complex product and standardization is very difficult and another drawback for the commercialization so since even though it is botanical it has been put under the CIB schedule that is why this regulatory approval is necessary and in the once if you applied it is going to degrade rapidly and it is most of the botanicals they are not going to protect the insects for many days and since in this synthetic insecticides the opportunities for botanical pesticides is less most of the farmers they need quick action against the insect I mean the target insects and weather conditions most of the botanicals they are not photo stable hence in higher temperature they are going to affect the effectiveness of these insecticides even after these drawbacks one can very much integrate these botanicals with other tactics here these botanicals can be well utilized in biological control system so thereby it is going to save or spare the natural enemies these are the some of the example where in it is not going to affect many predators and also parasitic hence if you apply these botanicals so as well you can save the natural enemies they are going to do their best job in the environment against various insect pest so these are the some of the examples where in as well you can use some of the plant species which are naturally available among them one is a neem and likewise there are various botanicals which are available surrounding us those can be exploited and better used in the pest management program thank you.


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What's the word y'all man? We back react to some more bleacher port articles. It's been a minute. It's been a minute But I got sent this one by depressed Nets fan. I don't know what you're depressed about but regardless One blockbuster trade idea for every NBA team and he was adamant about it He said to me like four different times like can you please react to these bad traits? I'm here to react to some bad traits. So let's get into it Leave a like on the video subscribe if you are new also have a series where it's called the Rambo I sit down and I literally just ramble about basketball. It's been a lot of fun. I'll drop the video on that earlier this week Okay, one blockbuster trade idea for every NBA team by Zach Buckley If you do not know I work with bleacher part on some things But I am very critical of the articles that are posted here So don't expect me to hold back at all. So Zach Buckley No disrespect to you, but if these trades are trash, I'm gonna let you know first when the Atlanta Hawks blockbuster Trade will be trading John Collins and Kevin Herter with the second overall pick Again, I don't see why this would be a good trade for them I asked my audience here like why the heck is John Collins are so many trade rumors on bleacher poor and basically the consensus was Hey, he's gonna be up for an extension and maybe you don't believe he's a max type of player and he does okay? Whatever, but if that's the case, I'm still not trading him. I'm still not trading him full and Kevin Herter Bleacher poor just a few weeks ago put out an article something like the best players under the age of 25 and Kevin Herter And John Collins were on that on that list So you're gonna trade both of those players for just a second overall pick in a draft that don't really have star star power Oh next Bosses Celsius trade Gordon Hayward to the Pacers For Miles Turner Jeremy Lam and Aaron holiday Listen Gordon Hayward had a good season don't get wrong, but we this ain't you tie Gordon Aver still you go trade him for two starters in like a good six man That's an L for me too for the boss of Celtic side I mean if you don't I'm not from the Celtic side from the Pacers side You're the Celsius you accept this deal in the heartbeat like boom boom boom bam I mean they're playing amazing without him and they'd be up 3-0 right now for us Odeon and they'll be quick jump shot and Cal Laurie's great passing ability But yeah, I would do this deal if I'm the Celtics, but why would the Pacers do this deal? You know, what do they benefit from especially considering Gordon Hayward's like on the last year of his deal He's got a player option. It's not like you're trying to free up cap for somebody to sign to Indiana I don't understand this trade next the Brooklyn Nets trade Karis Leverg and Jared Allah and Nicholas Claxton for Jew holiday I'm saying you're over three on trade so far mr. Buckley For the simple fact that yes I do think that that drew holiday would be an amazing player to put on their Brooklyn Nets team a team that will Need perimeter defense and a guy that could just exist and play not a really ball dominant player But can play some some guard as far as number one guard, but I feel like the package is a lot, right?  Sure. Why not take a shot? Why not take a shot on Blake Griffin? I'm gonna be okay with this deal if I'm the Charlotte Hornet sure you're gonna have to pay him But what else you're gonna do with that cash if you're not getting Christian Wood or Montrez Harold this offseason Sure, take a shot on Blake Griffin. We know he could steal hoop Last year was just not a good one, but the year before that the year before that he was still good I would take a shot on Blake especially for this package But again, you may be in the in the camp of like, hey, we don't want another big contract after getting rid of Nicholas Patum I would understand that so I'm gonna give you half of a point. Oh Here we go Zach Levine and and Laurie marketing for James Johnson back to Chicago and Jeri Kovar in the number one draft fit nah Pass pass If there's a Zion slasj. I'm a redness class. Sure. Maybe we can talk Maybe Maybe we can talk. I'm not doing this deal. I don't need to explain why I'm not doing this deal pass Cavaliers trade Kevin love to the wedges for Thomas Bryant is Smith Jerome Robinson and 37th overall pig I'm not again. I wouldn't be against this one. Sure. Kevin loves about probably a little bit more valuable than that But getting rid of Kevin lost contract is something but I know cast friends love Kevin love and they see him as like a locker room guy Even though he threw like three tantrums this regular season. I feel you I feel you But you're not you're really not getting anything Thomas Bryant is a promising player Jerome Robinson It's been on like three teams already in his young to be a career. Actually, I'm going now next You shouldn't shack from the free throw lines and mr. Buckley next we have the Dallas Mavericks Who are trading in this instance? Tim Hardaway, Jr. Maxi Kleba two first-round picks and 18th overall in the 31st overalls for CJ That's a more interesting deal. Tim Hardaway, Jr. Had a good season Maxi Kleba fits with Luca does greatly But with those two players, I think there's a definite ceiling CJ is good. He can take some secondary ball handerlands as he's been doing his entire career Do I do this deal for both sides? Probably not That's the hard thing about making trades right especially because we're trying to see it from both aspects I'm still I think I'm passing on this one, too. I'm sorry next Denver Nuggets get oh This is a trade offer that I've seen a bunch, right? So let me see let me talk about it Gary Harris, Michael Porter, Jr. And my Tim Morrison a 22nd overall pick which is from Houston for Bradley Beale I don't absolutely hate this trade for both sides and here's my explanation why the Denver Nuggets get another killer in Bradley Beale Jamal Murray is blossoming into a killer and yokas is one of the best pigs in the league Add in a guy like him a bonafide star at your grok position is a W I mean and for the wastes of wizards It's all contingent on if you were trying to take a step back and hit that rebuild They've already said multiple times that Bradley Beale is not available and I do believe them But if he ever did become available, I don't think this is a bad a bad package for him A Gary Harris has not been good for like two seasons offensively But we know defensively he's great and we've had seasons of him being really good offensively He had like a 17 point per game season He hit some big shots and everything so we know his offense can exist It just hasn't recently Michael Porter, Jr. Has about the highest ceiling of almost anybody in the league right now Offensively his defense is a lot to be to be a scene and Then my Timor is a good backup to John Wall in this instance one of the few trades so far in this video that I don't Absolutely hate for both sides. So W first one Detroit pistol straight dare grows to the Lakers side me up. Yes for both sides actually You get a younger player Calcuzma For the Detroit pistons and the dare grows gets good content for a championship. Count me in come on man. That's the unbiased me Send their girls to the Lakers. I take that Wiggins Wait, what? Wiggins, Cavalloni, Jordan pool the second overall pick For Ben Simmons and Al Hufford. I mean if you're the Warriors sure you do this deal But the 76ers are doing this deal You can't convince Philly fans that you're gonna trade your multiple-time all-star point guard two-time all-star three-year point guard High ceiling defensive all defensive type player for the second overall pick. We're going back into the process Wiggins Wiggins doesn't move the needle at all of anything. It turns it back when you get rid of Ben Simmons I mean the main thing is that you want to get rid of that Al Hufford contract It's one of the worst contacts in the league right now But if you have to attach Ben Simmons to do that, that's an L Like think about the lineup that the 76ers will have to roll out there at point guard You have raw NATO unless you want to start. Let's say Josh Richardson I'll be giving the benefit of that Josh Richardson is the starting point guard shooting guard Matisse Stiball small for Wiggins power for Tobias Harris and Joel and B That's not a lineup. I would want to watch or that would really win that many games I don't think maybe they even surprised me Kevon Looney and Jordan pull off the bench And whatever that second overall pick is unless you're like, hey We want to use that second overall pick to get Lamello and have him start at the one And then put Josh Richardson and then wigs Tobias and Joel interesting I Just talk myself into it just a little bit just a little bit just a little bit. I would still say no Rockets. Oh Yeah Yeah, I mean I could see it would do the Do more is a crazy guy and I mean that in the nicest way possible He would trade for Al Horford You know good defender on the on down low Can't stretch the floor for what they want to do on offense. I still don't love it though Here's the Pacers deal Victor Lodipo for Kendrick Nunn ducking Robison and Kelly Olenek I would do that and a heartbeat if I'm the Pacers Most because we still don't know what we're getting for the oh And we know Kendrick Nunn is a rookie was really good And I think that that's gonna be his trajectory Duncan Robbins is one of the best she was in the NBA and Kelly Olenek is cool Right does does Miami want to deal Miami fans got this thing when they love the Photoshop players in their jerseys You're gonna have to give somebody up to get make it happen So are you okay with giving up these two young players here and Kendrick Nunn and Duncan Robison? For a VO that is a question mark you let me know Next we got the Clippers a sign of trade Dang Landry Chevy getting traded again. Montres hero signing trade for Steven Adams. I Mean sure I could see that from the Clippers aspect. I guess I Guess no that no no that's that doesn't move the needle for either those two teams Lakers Kuzma Danny Green KCP and Alice Caruso for Chris Paul This is a bad trait for the O.K.C. Thunder. What asset do they get in here that they can? Look at me like okay, it's worth giving up our all-star and again I do believe Chris Paul will be traded so the video that he posted on Twitter yesterday was like, okay, it's It's just good year at O.K.C. But it's time for me to dip But this is not enough for him, you know, there's no future asset here again. Calcoos was a good young player but No, no, this is not a deal This is not a deal that Sam Presti would do Sam Presti's too smart to do something like this And again, Sam Presti has missed on some traits before looking at you to James Hart and trade But still no no Justice Winslow Cal Anderson a Grayson alley for Allen for Buddy Hill. Yo Buddy Hill the long-sat jaw Whoo, I'll take that no heartbeat. Now the real question is will the Kings take that? Don't think so. Don't think so Justice Winslow hasn't played in like six seasons I feel like. Cal Anderson is just okay I mean, he shouldn't even really be that much of a starter in this league He should be like a backer bro and Grayson Allen's can be I Mean you trade I know Buddy Hill will again one of those players that probably will get dealt But I think there's a better deal you can get than this Miami Heat, Bama DiBio Duncan Robinson and Kendrick Nunn and Kelly Olenek for Joe Well Am I crazy for not wanting to do this deal for the heat because again You're getting like one of the top two centers in the league. Maybe he's one.  Who's you way younger? You're giving up the one of the best shooters in the league and I Don't really love this trade for for Miami. I Don't But for the 76ers aspect if they were going to trade Joe Well I don't think this is a bad package for him Bama DiBio But he would have to switch his role playing alongside Ben Simmons. I don't know. I don't know the Bucks Okay, let's talk about the Bucks trade Eric Bledsoe Dante DiVincenzo This is a way better trade for Chris Paul than the other one. It just is Dante DiVincenzo is a nice up-and-coming player though. He hasn't played great in the playoffs I believe Dante DiVincenzo is gonna be a nice role player throughout the course of his career You get another draft pick, which is what Sam pressing him really like you get Eric Bledzo who's still good He's not great, but he's still good and you could take a chance So DJ Wilson who's just been kind of there and sucking when he does get into the game I like this trade a lot better than the other trade that they put in with the Lakers I can't be the only one right and you get you get the pick you get the pick Miffus Grizzlies Whoa Minnesota Timberwolves also to take a trade at Victor Lidipo. You're trading the first overall pick I'm saying no, I don't even want to know the rest of the pieces You're gonna trade the first overall pick for Victor Lidipo who again has not looked the same We don't know what he's gonna be. I can't do that deal the first overall pick pass Jew holiday to the heat Duncan Robinson kids you know, like Kelly Olenek has been in like seven trades so far The Knicks Mitchell Robison and the eighth pick to move up to the second pick Now this is if the Knicks love like Lamello or they love somebody that's in that realm that they couldn't get it Hey, Mitchell Robison's good though, man I wouldn't trade Mitchell Robison at this moment unless you like Lamello Lamello We are 100% certain that Lamello was gonna bring a new spark to New York then sure you trade Mitchell Robison But Mitchell Robison such a good player the only problem is his past coaches hasn't been playing him And I feel like Tom Thibodeau is gonna gonna play him because he's a good defender. He's a good defender So do you trade him to move up six spots in the draft?  That's lazy writing Orlando trades Busavich ooh Alpha Rook to the Warriors for Wiggins Jordan pool and second overall pink if I'm the magic done deal. Hello. Yes. Yes deal Busavich is cool. Which of it is good But there's a ceiling on this Orlando magic team and that's like let's make it to the 7th They see and that's win one game in a playoffs and that's it You get the second overall pick you could potentially start and get Lamello You can get another player you could get double. Oh, you could get a lot of play I will do this deal in a heartbeat if I'm your lendo magic and if I'm if I'm the Hmm If I'm the Warriors, I don't think I like this deal amazingly, but like you get a center You get a wing player that has shown before he got injured that he can hit his shots when he was with Portland 76ers trade Toby just registered for Harrison Barnes a buddy healed yikes What does this do though? You get off that huge contract, I guess but Harrison Barnes just signed a big old extension to I don't like that deal because you don't do anything you exchange a big money for big money the Suns Aaron Gorda, I like this deal for the simple fact that The Suns looked really good without Kelly Ubrey in the bubble But that would mean if you're getting Aaron Gordon, you would have to move campaign I can't pay Cam Johnson or McKell Bridges to the bench and I think that three and that four worked perfectly together in the bubble I mean, yes, it worked. They were undefeated. They were perfectly, but I do like this deal Maybe Cam Johnson comes off the bench for a year or maybe shoe. Maybe it is I'm a kill bridges that comes off the bench and you like him Johnson run the run the three Even though he's probably doesn't have to I would start Michael start Michael. He's the better way better defender I like this deal. I like this deal and if I'm the magic I'm taking any deal because You're just stuck right now part of the trailblazers the Ben Simmons trace CJ I've seen strays like this all the time and I do not hate deals like this for both sides. Here it is CJ Anthony Simon's sixth overall pick in the 2022 first-round pick this top five protected for Ben Simmons That adds a whole nother aspect to the Portland Trailblazers that would be amazing And then it's just a different feel for Philly. They allowed the game to open up for Joel And you also have a killer in CJ. I don't hate this deal. I don't think this is a bad deal I don't think it's a great deal But I don't hate it if this trade were to happen the first day of the offseason I wouldn't be so like I wouldn't be like oh somebody got robbed But I also wouldn't be like oh somebody really really I mean, I guess the person that really really wins this is Portland Yeah, Sacramento Kings buddy here for Lamarcus pass Spurs Lamarcus Derrick white for carries the verge here. Oh, that's a big old package That's a big old package For Lamarcus and Derrick white Derrick writes good Lamarcus is still good But that's like a lot of assets Maybe I'm overvaluing players in this whole video and let me know if I am but that seems like a big old package The Raptors is signing trade for Victor Lodipo. I Mean, I sure because you'll get it something out of nothing because he doesn't have to sign a trade He just walked to another team So sure Malcolm Brogdon and Freddie playing together, I don't hate that I wouldn't hate that at all Utah we go beard in the 23rd overall pick for Joe Utah probably do this in the heartbeat. Why would Philly do this deal though? You're gonna have to pay Rudy Gobert next year Why would you even want to do that? I don't think you want to do that Watch the Wizards Bradley Beal, and this is the same trade from earlier overall. I love reading these articles I'm never really in love with the content. I mean, I love it because it is content But I don't love it like if these trades were to happen Everybody doesn't benefit But that's what trades are if you enjoyed it leave it a like I'll be back. Peace