So school has officially ended for me, which means it is the beginning of summer. So this is going to be kind of my first slash my summer book haul. I'm vowing to not buy any more books until the fall time when I want to do a Halloween themed book for all the Halloween video activities I have planned. Hopefully I can stick to that, but until then this is the summer haul video because it is the beginning of my summer. So I'm just gonna get right back into it. Some of these books, noot, some of these books I bought like a while ago and have featured in other videos. So I will be talking about those as well. It's just kind of to officially haul all the books that I bought since my most, since my other book haul way back in like January, February. So we're gonna get started on this lovely, lovely stack I have right here. So we're gonna start off with my current read, which I'm actually almost done with and I'm hoping to finish very soon and that is The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna. I bought this from a local bookshop and I am really enjoying it. Everyone is saying it's darker than what they thought it would be. Knowing that it's not as dark as I was expecting it to be because of it. And I will give very brief summaries on all these books because there are quite a few and I don't want this video to be a million years long. So this is about a girl who when she goes through the blood ritual she finds that her blood runs gold instead of red and that is a big issue because that means she is descended from a demon and so she has to in order to gain her purity back, she has to fight in the King's Army for 20 years. So her journey discovering herself during that time. Next I have How the King of Elf Hame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black. This is the very short kind of companion novella more like to the Cruel Prince trilogy. I have also read The Lost Sisters, which is kind of a one-and-a-half book told from Taryn's view, but I have already read this and I very much enjoyed it. It's just like a cute little like rainy day read or you just need to finish something very quickly for your Goodreads goal. So I enjoyed this one very much. Next up is You Had Me At Ola and this is by Alexis Daria and this is very cute. It's based off of like a telenovela. So the two main characters have both been in and are about to be in the same telenovela, kind of like a soap opera, and they both kind of have their own mysterious past with secrets and they do not like each other. I believe, I believe it's enemies to lovers because that's really the only kind of contemporary romance I read. It's enemies to lovers. But they are, their characters are lovers, and so it's their journey as they are having to act out their love when they might be falling in love. And this I am saving to read on a vacation in Ecuador because I just think it'll be a fun read to to read. It'll be a fun read to read. Yeah, it makes sense, right? Moving on to I have here the Royal Holiday and this is by Jasmine Gullery, Gwilery, I'm so sorry. And I picked this one up kind of on a whim. I was walking by a bookstore, a really old bookstore, and they had a cart books just for you to take and I saw this and I was like, yeah, sure, why not? So it's about this woman who goes on a holiday and falls in love with a royal. Bree's Summary, right? So I might save this a little more towards like winter kind of Christmas-y time because it is like a holiday and it's got this little piece of holly here, so I'm wondering if it's a winter holiday rather than like just a summer vacation. Plus it's a darker colored book, so that's I'm saving it for Christmas. Now the next three books are going to be interesting. Because, so the next three are I want to be where you are, which is the debut novel for Christina Forrest and then this is, so this is about a girl who wants to audition for a ballet school behind her mom's back so she goes on a road trip with this guy that she does not like at all to try and make it to this secret audition. And then I have Love Boat Taipei and this is by Abigail Hing Wen and this is about a girl who wants to go to college and be a dancer or like even apply for companies and her parents are like no you're gonna be a doctor, so they tend they send her on the they nicknamed the Love Boat program and it's where basically you send your children, if you are of Chinese or Taiwanese descent, the parents send children to learn culture, learn Mandarin, or even find a husband, hence the Love Boat part. And it's really cool because this author is actually in own voices. She had this experience as well so she knows what she's writing about. And then finally is Tiny Pretty Things and I read this one and actually Shiny Broken Things or Shiny Broken Pieces as well. So though it's a duology and it's by Sona Char de Porta and Daniel Clayton and so this is about a girl who gets accepted into the New York Ballet Academy and there's a lot of drama and a lot of stuff going on because the girl who was there before her so you get like different perspectives of different dancers and the reason these three books are interesting is you have may notice that they are all dance themed, specifically ballet themed and that is because I a few weeks ago did a reading vlog where I was reading all these dance based books that were coming out because I myself was a dancer for 12-13 years. So I thought it'd be really fun to read what kind of dance based literature was coming out. So if you're interested on my thoughts on any of these books, feel free to check out that video. I will have it up here, but I will also have it linked down below in the description. Next are a few more books that I got at a local bookstore. Again, please support your local bookstores whenever you can, especially in these times as places are opening up up again and it's safe to go. We want to make sure these local bookstores are staying in business. So from hours I got With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedos and I am super excited to read this one as well because I have not read any Elizabeth Acevedos yet, but I have been wanting to. I want to read this. I want to reclap when you land and like just all of her books. So if I like this one, I will probably for sure be buying some of her other books. But this is about a girl who is a teen mom, but she really wants to go on the class trip to Spain and she's really interested in cooking, but it's really hard to pursue these cooking career or even just like a trip like that when you are a young mom. And so it's kind of about her story and the struggles that she goes through. I don't know too much past that other than look at how beautiful the book is and also, also, also, also I knew I had to buy in a hardcover because when I saw that hardcover I just used the book to fan me because it is oh, it's so good. Then I also got We Hunt the Flame by Hafsa Faisal. I'm hoping to read this this month as well. It should be the last book in the on my tvr for the Desertathon that I'm participating in. If you don't know what that is, feel free to check out my tvr video that I posted a few weeks ago. That will also be in the description below. But this is a really cool, I believe there are gin in here, but so the main character has to disguise herself and she has to go hunt for her village and she has to be a provider, but that's not necessarily what she wants. And then you also follow the tale of the prince who is not all who he seems. Everybody thinks he's so like stern and political, but he's actually like a good guy, which is very interesting for stories. Like that's not something that's super popular. So I'm really excited for this one and it's going to be perfect for my finale for the Desertathon. Now one of the most recent ones that I got was Beach Read by Emily Henry and I'm really excited to read it this summer, hopefully on the beach, but like we'll see. And this is about two people who go to some sort of cabin or multiple cabins on a lake and she is a romance novelist and he is a literary fiction writer, so he's supposed to write the next American great American novel, but they're both they're both blocked. They both have writer's blocks, so they decide to switch genres and write in each other's genres and they may also fall in love a little bit. We'll see. It was a thicker book than what I was expecting, like when I saw people talk about it, it looked like another one of those like really thin like 300 page contemporaries, but it's a slightly thicker for contemporary, so I think it'll be very interesting. This next book I got from a thrift store because I saw it and I was like, oh my word, how do I not own this? How do I not read it? But it's also on my 100 books you need to read poster or 100 most read books or whatever it is. And that is The Kite Runner and this is by Khaled Hussaini and I mean it's The Kite Runner. Most people know it if I haven't read it in school, so I finally bought it. I'm finally gonna read it. If I like it, I'll buy 100 Splendid Suns, but we will see. I also had a friend who used this as the basis for his forensic speech and so that was really interesting to watch without having read the book. So hopefully it'll make a little more sense to me now. Next up was another one that I found out for free just by outside of that bookstore, a different bookstore, and that was actually, I got the Trials of Apollo by Rick Royden and which is really interesting because the Rick Royden books that I own are this one, Percy Jackson, and the Red Pyramid. That is it. I am so far behind on Rick Royden. The thing is, I read all the Percy Jackson ones. I started the ones on the Roman mythology kind of with Jason and I did read the Egyptian ones, the Red Pyramid, but I haven't really read much since then. I haven't read any of these newer ones. I haven't read the Norse ones. I've been working on the ones that he's been presenting with other authors, but so I got, I got this one Book Five in a hope that I in the future will catch up on owning some of his books.  It's in great condition. I picked it up. And then the next one is also a Current Raid, but I started it and then I put it on pause because of exams, and then I started this read-a-thon. So I'm kind of like, I put this book on hold, but I just barely started it. And this is actually Wildcat by T.A.P. Parker. I was actually sent this by the author. He was kind enough to send it to me for free in exchange for an honest review. So I read it and I will give it an honest review eventually. I promise. I had a promising start though. I had a very interesting start, and it kind of follows more like Celtic Welsh mythology. Yeah, because I believe the author is like from in or around Wales. So, and he has another book coming out which is super exciting, but this is the first in his Caledon saga. So I'm excited to read this. It's a bit chunkier, but you know what? It's summertime. I will work my way through it. Now, this next book is pretty exciting for me personally. So this book was shipped to my parents' house. And so I was planning on picking it up when we went to visit them and go camping next weekend. But, and I was going to do a whole camping themed reading vlog of this book, but then my parents surprised me in Chicago for my birthday. And if you want to see a little bit of that last week I uploaded my birthday vlog, there isn't, there's reading at the beginning, but other than that I didn't do too much. It's kind of a messy vlog, but you know, it was a fun time. So she ended up giving me the book earlier. And it's exciting to me because I actually helped ever so slightly with the marketing of this book. And it is The Stars in April by Peggy Wargo. And I created the book trailer for this book actually and I helped with some other little aspects of getting this book ready for publication due to my internship. So I have actually met the author and I have gone to some of the events with the author and I was able to learn a lot more about like the process of books. So it's really fun. This is a historical fiction, which it's also the only historical fiction in this hall. Like it's majority fantasy with a weird large amount of contemporary. But the point right now is this historical fiction, it actually tells the true story of the survivor Ruth Becker and how her family were English settlers in India, but then her brother gets sick. So they have to get on the Titanic. We all know where that's going, don't we? So yeah, and actually the book trailer for this is also available on my channel. I will also link it down below. So if you're interested in learning more about this book and the true story that it tells, like watch the trailer and you'll hear me as the voice of Ruth and my husband Brennan as the narrator. So just watch it for the support of us if you want to. But yeah, I'm really excited to read it. I'm still thinking I'm gonna read it over the camping trip and keep my plan of like the camping vlog with this book because it is very like water based and it's not too long. So hopefully I can get through it in a camping weekend where I plan to spend most of the time with my family and playing games. So. But speaking of my parents and being in Chicago, I did get two books for my birthday and those were a couple more of the Disney Twisted Tale books, specifically these ones. So we have So This Is Love and this is by Elizabeth Lem. This is the Cinderella retelling and it has the what if question. What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper? And I think this is probably going to be one of my favorite twists because it really does twist a major part of the story rather than like changing the beginning or giving a new perspective like some of them had or adding on to the ending like this one does. Go The Distance is the Hercules retelling and it actually just came out. It's by Jen Kalanita and it has what if Meg had to become a Greek God. And so I read the first chapter to this one because I was in Chicago and like I had just gotten it for my birthday so of course I was going to start reading it and it kind it starts right where the movie ends of Hercules being welcomed by the gods as a full sludge god and Meg is kind of like okay great he's a god well it's going to happen to us and so I believe it just is a continuation where she needs to become a goddess and it kind of digs into her past because that's something to do with the boy who broke up who broke up with her after she essentially sold her soul to Hades to help him. So these are the two Disney twisted tales. I believe I'm all caught up at the moment obviously more are coming out. I believe there's a Rapunzel retelling coming out but until it does I'm officially caught up and I really need to do a reading vlog where I just sit down and read all the rest of them that I have not read yet. And finally we have one more book that I bought and I was hesitant about putting it in this book haul because it is a book that I bought for full time and so as I mentioned I'm going to save my money so that when fall kind of Halloween time comes around I can go on a bit of a bulkier buy there to get all Halloween themed or like you know with mystical creatures or based off of like horror-esque. And so I will include it in this video just as a small shout out but just know it will most likely be in the fall haul. Yes that's fun to say fall haul. And that is The Raven and this is by Cass Morgan and Danielle Page and this has to do with a sorority that is made up of witches so they are definitely very close to each other and honestly need I say more? Need I say more? So I am really excited to start reading this but I'm going to wait and tell Halloween when I read a bunch of stories about witches. Hey guys Edith and Laura here. I just wanted to let you know that that was actually not the last book that I hauled. I had gotten another book off of Amazon and it hadn't come yet and then I actually filmed a clip saying it hasn't come yet but there is one more book to include this haul but actually now later today I have it. So I actually also got A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen and this is a very fun contemporary story with baking where this girl her mom very much wants her to marry an Asian-American boy and so her mom sets up this competition this baking competition and all of her competitors are young eligible Asian-American men for her to fall in love with so I think it's going to be really fun really sweet I know bad fun I know but so this is actually the last book that I'm going to include in this haul as well so back to our regularly scheduled programming. This large lovely stack and now I can put all these books back on my shelf but thank you all so much for watching if you like the video give it a thumbs up to let me know and I mean I'm not going to stop buying books so there will be more of these in the future um but if you want to see more of them in the future then make sure you are subscribed to the channel and click the bell icon so that you are notified every time I post and I post every Thursday also feel free to leave a comment down below if you've read any of these books if you want to read any of these books or you know like what books did you recently buy what are on your tbr I would love to chat with you guys down below um but until I see you all in the next video I wish you a happy reading


Now, I woke up quite late at the morning work and my friend Maju told me that the police are outside. I was aware that they were informed that I'm on the way home. So, they were outside specifically to effect an arrest. So, I got prepared and we went together with two female officers to Woodlands Police Station where an arrest was effected on me. The specifics of the charge are that at dates unknown, but in September 2020, in January, I had access to Meutonihambu and Felunahatembo and threatened them violence. And having threatened them violence that caused them to run away from their homes and stayed at different lodges against their will. And subsequent to that, I, with different, with persons unknown, I don't know if they are known to me or to them, did abduct Felunahatembo. An arrest was effected and I've been released on a police bond at my own cognizance. I did ask the senior officer responsible for the operation as to whether my lawyer had not furnished him with medical reports from the University Teaching Hospital and a private medical facility. He said he had received them and he said that he was expecting me to go to court, to go to the police yesterday. And I said that the last report was on Thursday in which the doctor was very specific that I should not be distressed. I should befriend from strenuous activities because I was being treated awaiting a surgical procedure. I think that it's very clear that the police are under extreme pressure. It's very, very clear because even asking them as to whether it's abnormal for a suspect to attend a medical report. He answered in the affirmative that it was not abnormal. There are times when officers are found at the scene of crime where the suspect in the crime is injured. They do take them to the hospital. My case seems to be very strange that the police officers can't accept my medical reports and therefore they have effected an arrest. But I understand the police on their own are very, very professional. If they are left to do the work that they've been given where the complainers are complaining of something, they can do a professional job. But I sympathize with the police. They are working under extreme conditions where the head of state is forcing them to do things which ideally under their training they would do. I don't want to belabor the point that I'm unaware of because I have told them that we even have visas to travel next week. So if I'm traveling next week, I'm certainly an effect to be in a situation where I'm being in convenience. I should be making preparations to travel. And I'm traveling certainly because the environment in our hospitals is very hostile because they had sent them before to smoke me out of UTH. I cannot be in bed and the doctors are forced to issue medical reports in their own handwriting which reports are then secured the very next minute within 30 minutes on the courseway. And you will know who courseway is. It's a branch of this gutter media within the house of state house. So I realized that my life was at risk because I could actually crawl behind my back and the police don't know and none of you know that actually this has been caused by some undesirable elements within the state. So I decided that I was going to seek medical attention out of the borders of the Republic. And therefore, I mean, against my will, I've never done that. But I have to do it because the environment is extremely, extremely hostile where they're even posting that, well, we hope she comes back dead. So this is the situation. No one wants to see this kind of publicity, but since you go to know that I'm arrested, it was a public issue. The police were camping at my gate. So you may as well know that I've been arrested. And the specific case is a hatched up scheme by UPND and their leader to try and wash their debt which they created during the run up to the elections. Because Haga Naitirema knew that if the fraud charge which Feluna had complained against him of fraud rent repurchasing firm number 1921 was preferred on him, he probably would not have run for election. So he was the interested party in Feluna not appearing in court. In fact, most of the videos aired by Milton and the sister consistently say that Nawaqui was trying to force them to appeal against the judgment in a high court which said Feluna could not prosecute her case because it was time bad. Now their appeal was to the extent that a fraud, a criminal offence has no time limit. If you killed someone 30 years ago, you can say no, it's time bad. That is a code file. So the code file of fraud rent acquisition of firm number 1921-24 will never die because there are issues there. One, there was a lima bank mortgage and that mortgage was lifted within 24 hours by unauthorized officers. Nisapiri and Mme. Mlega went to land and lifted the mortgage, a lima bank mortgage. It could only have been lifted by the liquidator. Having lifted that mortgage, the title was transferred the very following day to Haga Naitirema as a new one. That's point number one. Point number two, that firm 1924 was in fact a property of a demissed person. Given the magnitude and size of that firm, not one person, whether administrator or otherwise, could actually execute the conferencing on that property without high court order. That's the fraud number two. How did Haga Naitirema, an educated person, receive a property, transferred to him, it being a property of a demissed person without the order of authority to sell from the high court as under the Interstate and Succession Act of 1989? Those are some of the issues. So for me, the most interesting part about it was that Haga Naitirema kept on saying that in his lifetime he has never held a property of lima bank. And I can tell you that firm 1924 was a property of lima bank. I was trying to look for evidence to defend myself and that's how I come across these people. Having had that evidence, I would never have wanted them to be witnesses in court because it was in black and white that the property was mortgage to lima bank. So I needed it. Now, Feluna came along and said this same person had said that she sold the firm. She never sold the firm. She never signed for it. She has never met him. And these are on record in audio videos. They are not from me. You can look at the record. All of you who want to Google Feluna Hatembo, you will see that she says in her own words, I never met her kind. I never sold in the firm. I don't know who sold in the firm. So I don't know why UP and the people are sought down as to revive old issues because this issue is not favoring their president. This issue is an embarrassment. And to the extent that it had gone, I don't know why they want to come around. They actually went to Monsi and picked up Milton to ask him, we interview you, raise a case of abduction against Nawab. Now, Milton and her sister were released a week after inauguration. Feluna telephoned a number of people and said, I have met him. He says that after inauguration, you will be released. Who was being inaugurated? And for sure after inauguration, she was dropped in Choma. So she herself, since she's the one accusing me, she'll be in court. We'll ask her who she met before inauguration. And we'll also ask her, since she says she was in different hotels, you will see that at one of the named hotels in Choma, the people behind the press conference was none other than partner Syabu Tuba and Nicholas Peary. Literally everybody who was involved in running around with Feluna Hatembo has been rewarded a job. Nicholas is a permanent secretary. The reporters who were in the scheme, I know that Zipola Mushala is now working for government. Now, if those people were my agents, how come they are being given government jobs? I together with unknown persons who abducted them, but how come after they being abducted, they were found in the presence and supervision of Nicholas Peary and partner Syabu Tuba? Literally every press conference which was conducted either in a maize field or in Kalomo or a river or in Rosaka, that was with the supervision of Zitu Kule. Now Zitu Kule was an NGO working for UPND. No wonder Nicholas Peary is now the permanent secretary of the current government. All these are questions which we need to be answered by these people. How come Nicholas Peary was supervising them? When we took him to task, he said he was a human rights activist protecting the rights of these people. Now, if you are protecting their rights, it means they are safe. So how come I abducted them? They were in custody of Nicholas Peary, but I also abducted them. They came here according to the charge. They came here to ask for my help, but Milton clearly says I was with my cousin Margarita because I didn't know where to find the court of appeal and laws. The other question, who wrote those letters for them to take to laws and court of appeal? Was it their lawyer, Jerry and the company? No. Was it it is not? No. It must have been the UPND people. After that, they disappeared. And the story is that because they didn't want to file the appeal, because that appeal could have been a convenience president had in the ITRMA, he would not have filed for nomination because at the court of appeal, he would have been personally required to present himself to answer questions. And I don't think it would have been good optics for him running for presidency and answering questions of fraud. So, you know who was interested in them being hidden. It's not me. I wasn't running. I had no issue with them.


A Pine River daycare facility's license has been indefinitely suspended due to what is being termed a serious incident that's under investigation by area law enforcement. According to the letter sent from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to the facility's owner Candace Hurd, the department found that the health, safety, and rights of children in care were in imminent risk of harm. The letter did not specify what the incident was or when it occurred due to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act. In an order dated February 10th, the department had temporarily suspended the license, which remains in effect. Hurd did not appeal that suspension. The county attorney's office said they have not received any information on the case, but law enforcement may still be investigating before they hand over the information. The Cass County Sheriff's Department has not responded to a request for comment. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Thank you Jasmine and thank you everyone and thank you Tanya for a wonderful presentation and just want to thank Charlotte and Stevie and Jasmine for conducting this session and inviting me to participate. Let me just pull up my slides here. And so a brief introduction for myself, whoops sorry, is I am a recovering administrator from the California State University system I spent about 20 years as the assistant vice chancellor for academic technology. And I'm also the executive director Merlot and skills commons which is around skills common CTE. And my goal here today is really to share with you how to think about the investments that you need to put into a whole variety of ways to enable you to achieve the outcomes that are important for your institution whether it's cost savings for students, whether it's faculty transformation, whether it's bringing in diverse voices all the points that Tanya made is really thinking about what are you investing, and then what are the benefits that are being returned to you. And we often think of this in dollars sense dollars and sense terms, but what I'm going to suggest today is the investment side is really around, what do you need for institutional change, and I'll provide you very specific examples of what we've done in the California State University. And how we have led the affordable learning solutions program. And, and one of the point just want to begin with is, we use the firm affordable learning solutions, because the transition of a diverse population of people to move all in the same direction, especially in higher education, can be a challenge. And with a lot of open education resources. That's a stage of transition that you have to move people from print to digital, then to consider all types of digital, before they often get to know we are thinking so that's just a quick overview of comment around why we use affordable learning solutions as compared to an OER initiative. Now in California, some of you might be aware that we have, you know, about 150 campuses, serving 3 million students and 100,000 faculty members. And when you're trying to transform that level of complexity and independence among all these institutions. What do you think in the long term so I use the word investment rather than cost or expenditure is because you have to think in the long term. And, and when you want to say if I'm thinking in the long term. That's really the impact that's possible here. And so, if you just think around in the state of California 100 if we saved every student $170 per semester with 3 million students. $170 a year. And what I want to emphasize. That's a financial aid package that we would never get from our legislators to support our students where almost 50% are Pell eligible. 11% our students are homeless part of the year, and that was pre COVID numbers. And when 41% of our students are food insecure again pre COVID numbers. So when you're looking at costs for students in the affordability of education that becomes really important. Now when you're looking at really the significant scope and complexity of institutions when there are multiple stakeholders. And how do you change the way they are thinking about and speaking about course materials, which has been a relatively unmanaged process in higher education. That's been really the relationship between faculty and publishers and bookstores and libraries in in a way, how do you change the way they think about both that faculty, but how does your deans how does your provost how does your president. Think about this. And I'm going to tell you that I think policies and politics is something that you need to invest in. Because from those policies and legislation, you can enable the stakeholders to really think in different ways and it brings visibility and power to these issues. And when you're talking about politics, how do you raise the visibility and power to your leaders becomes very important. And I'm going to talk about the long term game you have to play in policies. And I'll just begin with 20 years ago 25 years ago. California got money by presenting a we call it the CSU integrated technology strategy that led to the form foundation of below that open library of free educational resources. Before there actually was something called the creative comments license that really became the foundation for lots of our work that we did 2004, we launched something called the digital marketplace to bring publishers tech companies and higher education to look at affordability changes, which then one of the issues in 2007 if people are around the US Department of Labor report on turn their page. And then we talked about the impact of textbook affordability. And this is where CSU digital marketplace and Merlot were recognized as models I had done testimony along that line. And then the Higher Education Opportunity Act came where campuses had to report to students the price of course materials during pre registration. And that legislation enabled me every semester to write a memo to our presidents and provost saying hey folks, you got to bring the affordability of this of your course materials, visibly to the students, or you will lose your education and financial aid, and that kept the visibility and the power of affordable learning solutions readily in in front of the leaders on campus. And with that priming, then in 2010 we launched the affordable learning solutions with the board of trustees presentation, and that began to establish a program that then would lead to ongoing funding from an institutional perspective. And you know Charlotte has mentioned about the importance of CTE. Just remember 2011 you had the trade or the tech program that really provided Creative Commons license material for CTE OER. Now, in California you can talk about the priority of affordability, but legislation that we got in place to start building capacity for institutions to really discover low and no cost materials. We worked with legislators and I'll just say the key is you got to work with legislative staff, they have to trust you they become your friends, and we got money with along with matching funds with Hewlett and Gates Foundation to create a California online library to make it easy for people to begin discover these that are related to courses that they teach. And the politics on this to was about how do we bring the academic Senate's of our three institutions, the California community colleges Cal State and the University of California. And unfortunately I'll just say a little fun thing here is in the legislation, they called it the California OER Council. And if the abbreviation of that is coerce and that is not the acronym that you ever want to put on a on a academic Senate initiative where you're trying to get faculty to change the educational content that they're using so just warning about acronyms when you're looking at legislation. Then once we got that going we had a library than the next capacity building was funding to support faculty adoption once you make them available related to their courses, then we got $3 million to distribute to campuses to support faculty. Students produce courses with low and no costs. And then 2016 was the bill that all classes had to clearly identify course sections with zero cost materials. It was unfunded. Now you had a chance to activate the demand side of the curve where the students would be looking for courses with low and zero costs here particularly. And finally, I think this began to set up the capacity where then the legislator and the governor and governor Newsom, who was the lieutenant governor when we started the affordable learning solutions. Now started using propositions and as Tanya said, the last allocation of $115 million to implement ZTC degrees. So I'll just say that outcome was laid on the foundation of legislative processes and politics that kept the visibility and the power of affordability for education for students at the forefront. And that aspect and SRB SREB is one of those institutions that can really help you in the policies and the politics to acquire the funding. And I think what's important and I talk about next is enabling institutional practices that scale without this legislation. We would not have been able to achieve the large scope of all these campuses that we have achieved implementing their affordable learning solutions and empower the priorities and accountability. And Tanya's point around how do you measure the outcomes the benefits of this is a real challenge and problem that you're going to have to overcome and I'll talk a little bit about that too but I just want to emphasize investing in policies and politics. Really important. And once you do that, once you set up that, I'll call it the political context to create priorities, then you have to invest in practices and people. And this is where I think was really important what we began doing with the affordable learning solutions initiative is we had an annual structured RFP for campus funding. And you don't need a whole lot of money to incentivize campuses because what they need to do is leverage their existing staff and personnel to make this a priority. So with $25,000 annual campus initiatives that was reliably provided and that's a really important thing when you're thinking about funding your campus practices and priorities. How do you set up a program that every year you enable that to occur. And with the various legislative funding in various years we were able to give some additional funding professional development programs critical. How you do that in a cooperative manner from a variety of institutions sharing exemplary practices, and I'll just emphasize every year you've got to have a recognition program celebrate accomplishments at that institution. And part of that is going to be around the annual and structured accountability. How do you aggregate the benefits that you're seeing from your institution. So that means in implementation for practices, getting someone who is responsible and so in the CSU, we had each campus had a affordable learning solutions program. Every campus has their showcase where they put what they're doing, how they're working, what their relationship with their other partners that they have and the programs that they have. So having that ongoing funding, then you can really create these requirements that allow every campus to build their own program. And again, this is the shared library, one to fit all of California. So this is part of the investment at the system level that we made to enable each campus to begin to implement practices and an important element of implementing practices is just not what your librarians do, or what your bookstore is doing, or what your faculty development centers are doing. But one of the critical projects that we set up was when faculty received funding and took on this role of being a leader on their campus, we asked them to create an e portfolio describing what and why they are using OER. Why this is doing and these type of faculty e portfolios and I'm just showing you an example. There one page you can think about them as electronic posters that then allow the peer to peer faculty to faculty storytelling that allows that change to occur. You can work at the organizational level, but when you start working at the faculty level, thinking about implementing faculty e portfolios, and we have I think about maybe 250 across all different disciplines in affordable learning solutions. And then what Merlot has done is actually created a portal now of open educational practices of faculty storytelling, when their practices around adopting open textbooks, other ones about redesigning their courses with open educational resources or career and technical education programs and how do I integrate oh we are into that. Or teaching stem labs, we have over 1000 e portfolios of faculty sharing their practices. And I think that's a really critical of it when you're thinking about implementation, thinking about getting the faculty to tell their stories to help push the politics. And support your policies. And with that just so you know all these I'll just quickly go back easy portfolios. Merlot's content builder has templates that are free for you to use, you can take out the cool for Ed logo, put your own institution, and you can create those yourself. And I'll just say with those policies, politics, practices and people. Last year, we saved $77 million in the Cal State system collectively, we saved over up close to 350 million. And if you notice you'll see the black bars are really what we're saving through bookstore programs of reducing costs moving to digital and immediate access programs etc. And what has grown over time, we call them our campus activities where we really are about our OER our librarian strategies. And if you notice, even though we started in 2010. It took us basically three years to develop an institutional strategy to begin to find ways to account for faculty using open education resources. Faculty were using them in 2010. But how do you go about measuring that was a real challenge so thinking about how you're going to look at how those programs you're putting in place and assessing that impact is going to be important. And we have tools on our website to help you look at that too just so you know. Now, cost savings is very important. But when you look at also the Florida study looking at students taking fewer classes getting poor grades. When you're looking at institutional returns Cal State has a graduation initiative, which basically means they need to take more units per semester, and they need to perform more successfully. And what we're finding on campus based research programs for example at San Marcos, they're finding that students are performing better in their courses that have OER it's consistent with other research that Tonya mentioned to as well. So when you're looking at practices and serving people investing in them. You can get a variety of benefits students savings access first day faculty telling their stories and faculty leading. And all this leads to not just benefits to the Cal State system, but we are working with HBC use with Hewlett funding. We're working out with a Cal State support and now we've migrated with a new grant where Tennessee State University is leading that Robbie mountains on the webinar here to that really taking and if you look at the template of this website here. It looks a lot like the cool for Ed and guess what that's the way you can quickly build capacity by leveraging other people's work. We're working with 24 HBC use right now of helping each one of those implement their affordable learning solutions program, including faculty portfolios building their programs providing support for faculty. Cal State just and this is a point Tonya may to around. This is a really community effort Cal State we incubated the SUNY system, we incubated the University of system of Georgia. Those who may know Houston Davis who was over in the Oklahoma system moved to Georgia. Houston came to me and said, Jerry can can we use affordable learning and Georgia so we got you started. And now they have a magnificent program. We're working in India, providing free skills development content for the country and in a cap was a 28 CTE programs in Chile. And just so you know, it's just not about systems, but I'm going to end up with a bit around a very specific campus that we partnered the Eastern Gateway Community College in Ohio. We're a partner investing $10,000 annually to be a partner. And just after implementing their affordable learning solutions in one in one year, they save $22 million. And how did they do that. You got to provide capabilities to enable convenience for people to discover their content. So we built them a little portal, and we worked with their strategy on the policies politics practices and people beginning with their first move is to move from print to digital. And that was a significant change. So just you know, Eastern Gateway is a free tuition campus, and they wanted to make that including textbooks. So that's when we work with them to move the digital to the free and low cost OER. And then they're building new programs now. They changed over 200 courses. And across three semesters you can see in spring 7.8 million summer 3.5 fall 2020 11.2. And you can see their enrollment and the savings that they were able to generate because they were paying for all the course content before, and now they knew very explicitly what they were in paying for anymore. And now they're continuing to develop in these areas here to grow the, the, the number of programs that are providing free educational content for their And how is all this possible. And I think this first point is really important that make the cost of textbooks and institutional or administrative problem, not a student one. And then with that, how do you build within your organizations from trustees to provost presidents deans etc and all the staff. And how do you have a data driven process and partnerships, I think was really essential where you can begin to share these exemplary practices. So all this. I'll just say, in a slide when we look at our affordable learning strategy for to produce so we are. This is the ABCs. aggregating your assets, understanding what you have to build with on a campus, building bridges, siloing on campus between your, your librarians, your faculty academic senate, your bookstores, your deans your faculty and how do you build those connections where they're working together create capabilities by making convenience access to content through technologies, developing the demand. That's where training professional development communication and enabling the ecosystem. That's where your leadership business models policies become very important. So hopefully when you're looking at investing to produce those returns that investing in many elements within your institution is going to be very important. And you've got to be persistent, and you've got to be patient, because it takes time faculty staff. It's an incremental change process, and they're already over committed and under resource many times on a campus. And when you're adding on additional work, you have to think about how can they learn to change what they're doing. And so the ABCD ease can help you think through your strategy. And with this, again, sometimes you feel like you got to lift the world. Right. And I'll say, by working together sharing practices, looking at the resources that are available. I mean, it's really slow and skills comments a lot, but so do lots of other institutions that we really can change the world there. So thank you for letting me do that presentation happy to open up to questions comments, you want specific things about how we did XYZ over the years. And I'm happy to answer those questions. At this time, feel free to utilize the chat or if you raise your hand, I will take you off mute and you can ask your, your questions to our great panelists. Okay. Well, you're jazz. Yeah, I'm sorry. I want, I have two questions that I want to bring into the conversation arena. The focus for me, and we talked about at the beginning is to discuss OER in the context of dual enrollment and CTE, especially for underserved populations. So that's my direct focus. Well, that's the focus for OER here and within the context of the Hewlett funding. So I want to ask two questions and I like for discussion from both of our presenters if possible. And of course, please feel free to utilize your chat if you want to. If attendees would like to participate in the discussion as well, but the first question here. Jerry mentioned this in the last few minutes of his discussion. At HBCUs, we are often, we often see underfunded faculty. And so with their many hats that they wear, you know, as long when faculty comes help with retention, you have many first generation students so they require a lot of additional support from faculty members. So they wear so many hats, their time is very limited when it comes to developing OER. So how do you see this actually playing out at an HBCU? I know you mentioned grants or incentives. So can both of you discuss maybe some ideas you have to throw out to some of our attendees who are on the webinar with us today as to how they may fund those incentives for our HBCU faculty. So I'm happy to do that. Thank you, Charlotte. So with the our HBCU program, we have we have been funding institutions where then they have money to distribute to their faculty. And the way we've set this up is we have, we call them six hub institutions that are providing regional leadership in this. So they get up a pot of money that they can then distribute to their faculty in adopting open education resources. And then we also provide funding, we call them to the hub affiliate. So institutions that are at the earlier stages of adopting affordable learning strategies. And they also get funding. So having a, it's kind of an institutional mentoring process where, for example, Tennessee State has, I'll say, a significant capability in implementing OER already. And they can begin to talk with their affiliate institutions and provide them funding. So those are very important elements. And you mentioned something else that's really important is how do faculty get recognition for this innovation that they're bringing into their institution and the significant benefit for their students. And again, this is where creating faculty showcases where you have the faculty e portfolios telling their story, raising the visibility of their effort. So they get recognized by their institution is another important element to your strategy because money definitely helps, but recognition in that process in their tenure and promotion is another key element. I agree with all the things that Jerry said about tenure and promotion and recognition. There are some other strategies that you can use that don't require a lot of money. In terms of implementation, most institutions have some sort of course or program review and redesign. And that's a process that's usually on like a five year cycle or a three year cycle it depends on your institution and how your faculty, Senate and your provost run the show. But one of the ways that you might approach implementation of OER is that during the course redesign process, something that you do anyway. This is where you would introduce new OER materials. And the great news is that the open textbook library has 900 new textbooks that are all proven, and that the whole first one in two years of higher education courses have been produced already All you really have to do is adopt the new textbook rather than create something. And so I think sometimes people think that there's more to it than there actually is a course redesign process might be simple as adopting a new open stacks textbook for your course or your intro to college studies, putting it into your syllabus, creating the assignments and many of the assignments you probably already have from other other textbooks that you were using that were proprietary can be repurposed or integrated into your new curriculum. And so I think sometimes we focus on the barriers rather than on how easy it really can be, because the OER community has created so many high quality materials already that are available and adaptable. If you put it into your regular course redesign process as part of your regularly scheduled quality control. That's a great time to start something new. Also, faculty course releases are always helpful so you might instead of giving folks money, you might give them time. So you'd say you're going to teach three courses and your fourth course. This year will be to redo all of your courses for next year with OER and so some of those incentivizing activities might come in the form of time. And integration into your regular processes rather than more money, because everybody's like well I don't have that much money so we can't do it but there's a lot of things that can be done without money. Thank you. I also have a question that's sort of related to that. So, where are we with, in terms of cost, textbook costs or moving textbook costs out of the way and moving the information into an OER course when it's involving faculty developed research. Can you say that again. Moving courses, just many faculty have their own research they developed and they may be in the form of a textbook or other materials that are required for coursework. So when you move that that faculty developed, or that faculty research that has been published. How does that look from a faculty or institutional point of view, when you move that course specifically to OER. I can get started. So with, if it's a published article. Charlotte for example. So this is where you're living with your library, where if it's already published in a journal. How do you enable the discovery and access to that published journal, deliver through your learning management system. So that's again building bridges between often your learning management system and your library system and honestly, sometimes your librarians and your learning management system people don't talk to one another very well. And how you need to bring, if it's published research already out there. Now there are your librarians are also have many, many of them have initiatives, their open access initiatives for their published material. Right, and so many journals are moving to an open access which then makes makes that easy to as well. So I'll say faculty offer, often author a lot of materials that aren't published right in by a publisher or journal or whatever like that. And I think this is where looking at what are your current institutional authoring tools that your faculty have access to. For example, soft chalk is a tool that many institutions have that can make it easy to revise and remix and organize open education resources to create a customized version. There's H5P which is a new authoring tool that's out there or there's other tools that people use Merlot has a content builder tool that's free to use. I think it's providing easy to use tools that allow the faculty to I'll say minimize the burden of development and maximize the production in something that's usable that then they can make easily available through their learning management system. So, so those are, again, it's about leveraging existing capabilities that your faculty have any time you want to do something completely new. All right, you got to have a say, a plan to ramp up that new effort so leverage as much as you can of what you existing you currently have. Linda Ruth, who's going to be a presenter next month and presenting our case for student success. She agrees that she's there. They're currently about 65% OER, and none of the faculty, none of their faculty have created they have been building courses using existing materials, but they do offer stipends. I have one final question before I will have some announcements. The final question is one that we talked about during our last webinar, just a little bit and that was, what about the pushback that can be perceived as forthcoming from textbook companies, what institutions that rely on or who rely on that textbook. Those textbook funds, those incentives. How are they going to use and other incentives to fill in for that loss of income or perceived loss of income from textbooks as they transition away from hard copy textbooks that the students buy over to free open educational resources for students. Let me talk about that a little bit. When you look at the open textbook study from the Georgia system. They really found that a lot of the students who were Pell eligible benefited and had better grades they took more courses. They persisted longer. There was more retention of students. So when you're looking at an institution's bottom line. So you might get a little money kickback from the open textbook publishers, I mean from the publisher, sorry now. You might get some money from the publishers by using their proprietary textbooks, but in the long run, saving students money, helping them persist and succeed graduation rates go up. They take more courses, more of your Pell eligible students are retained and persisting. That over time is a larger investment and a larger return for the institution than any small percentage of the textbooks that you're reaping from it and I also think just in general, making money off the backs of students who can afford it and are suffering for poor in poverty and have other issues that they're dealing with is is sort of wrong. So I mean I think there would be some reason to shut that down on your campus, even if there weren't other benefits just because I'm not I think there's some some conflict of interest if you're making money from students through high textbook costs. There's so many other ways that we can do good and be successful financially by helping them succeed and thrive and and be happy instead of instead of getting their money through textbooks. Oh, that was a question that came up. Charlie, can I can I just add to that just. It's a conversation you need to have with your president and your CFO because your bookstore often delivers that I'll say unallocated funding into their budget that allows them to provide support. And sometimes for many good programs for students and other ways right. But it's a conversation you need to have with them and as Tonya has said, look at the way you get a return on an investment is not always by money. It's the impact on student success, increase units per semester all these other factors, and the politics of being able to make it where a president can be recognized for their leadership can be worth a lot for them at various times. So, so so that's, I think, helps the that transition to occur. I would also say your bookstore can be helpful in becoming an advocate for reducing costs as well. I'll just say for example, if you have a fallot bookstore, Merlot's discovery tool is built within the fallot discovery tool that helps faculty to gain free materials through your bookstore. So this is partly how you have to begin to not create enemies on a campus oh the bookstore is bad and you know they're taking money but how they can also provide an affordable learning solution strategy, so they get on your side and help you reduce costs for those students, because you can't move we are to everything immediately. So that incremental process and get as many allies as you can to help you work in that same direction. Thank you. And thank you both. Before we transition out we do have some announcements. I believe Jerry had referred to Dr Robbie Melton, who was a great presenter during our last webinar webinar, the first webinar in this series on last month. They are having a series to begin later on this fall. I'm trying to find it's a, I'm trying to find the name of it's a, it's, it's a information on how HPC use can join the partnership at Tennessee State, and that is in addition, in addition, and addition to the Hewlett funding, we are currently under their mandate or their focus for open educational resources for underserved population. And so this funding is sitting part of the collaborative there at Tennessee State for HPC use to join. I believe Jerry you mentioned some of this program. So Dr Melton are you there. Robbie. Hello, hello. Life is good everyone. Are you able to hear me. Yes. Okay, very good. Just wanted to share. We have a series of HBCU webinars, and these webinars on open education resources bring forth and showcase faculty members in the various discipline. What is more than just show and tell is what we call down in the ditches of how to actually teach, learn and workforce training with open education resources. Now, audience, this is not just for our historically black colleges and university. We're talking open education resources. So if you're interested, please join us again. No cost. You're welcome. We have a full schedule of activities from how to teach math using OER how to teach period. Again, I applaud our presenters today. And again, Charlotte, this is an amazing opportunity for us to impact, not just the southern region, but the entire world. I put my name in the chat so that you can just join with us. Thank you. Robbie we have a request for you to put in the chat box, the link for registration. Here's the good news. All you have to do is email me and we add you to the list. So you don't even have to register. We're making this so user friendly that all you have to do is just check your email when I return it to you. Well, any final questions. Okay, we have we have a link in the chat for we have a link in the chat for this afternoon's webinar which continues our conversational cost savings and return on investments. We also have again, Robbie Melton's our Melton at 10 state.edu. Any final questions. If not, we have enjoyed having you. Thank you, Dr. spill avoid. Thank you, Dr. Hanley. Thank you all for attending and have a great day.


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Good afternoon. I am joined here today by Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Kieson Soule. As you all know and are aware, Donald Trump will be in New York City tonight through tomorrow. His presence is expected to draw a lot of attention for media, spectators, and protesters alike. New York City, as always, will be prepared. The NYPD and our entire public safety apparatus are always prepared. We are working closely with all of our partners to ensure everyone's safety tomorrow. And we are asking for the public's help as well in maintaining a safe, quarterly environment that allows New Yorkers to continue their day-to-day lives with minimal interruption. And as always, neither dangerous nor criminal behavior will be tolerated. With that, I'd like to introduce the Mayor of the State of New York, Mayor Adams. Thank you. Thanks so much, Phil. This morning when the Police Commission and I spoke on our morning briefing with the other team, we were clear that tomorrow is a day that's going to draw a great deal of attention to our city. And we know there are many questions around the movement of the city, and we want to make sure that we send a very clear and loud message. As the Deputy Mayor stated, New York City is always ready. We know that this is a city where our NYPD and other law enforcement entities must be prepared at any given moment for anything to happen in the city. To start, I want to make it clear. The Commissioner stated over and over again there has been no specific credible threats to our city at this time.  That means going to work, going to school. We're going to do our job as we always do. If you usually drive, we're stating, take public transportation. It is easy to get around on public transportation because we expect some disruptions and additional traffic. There's a great deal of additional traffic that may come in the city, and there will be street closures near the courts and throughout the city. While there may be some rabble rouses, thinking about coming to our city tomorrow, a message is clear and simple. Control yourselves. New York City is our home, not a playground for your misplaced anger. We are the safest large city in America because we respect the rule of law in New York City. And although we have no specific threats, people like Marjorie Teller Green, who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech, she stated she's coming to town while you're in town, be on your best behavior. As always, we will not allow violence or vandalism of any kind. And if one is caught participating in any act of violence, they will be arrested and held accountable, no matter who you are. And I want to again thank the police department and commissioner for their response and for the necessary preparation as we deal with this major historical potential event that will take place in the city. Next time I'd like to introduce the police commissioner of the city of New York. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here. As always, the NYPD is prepared to ensure that everyone is able to have their voices heard peacefully while exercising their First Amendment rights. We do this work in close collaboration with our federal, state, and local partners because keeping our city safe is absolutely a collective effort. As the mayor stated, there are no credible or specific threats to New York City at this time. New Yorkers may see an increased police presence in parts of the city and should anticipate intermittent road closures over the next two days, particularly in Manhattan. To avoid delays, I too urge everyone to use mass transit when possible. As I said, our job is to facilitate and safeguard the rights of people to express themselves and those going about their daily activities. But I will remind everyone that violence and destruction are not part of legitimate, lawful expression and it will never be tolerated in our city. But people we serve know this just as they know that the NYPD will be out there today, tomorrow, and every day to make sure that they are safe. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Sure. Sure. Well, we'll take some questions. The permitting is happening, is actually done through City Hall. But I will say that anyone who protests is expected to express themselves peacefully and orderly. That incident is still under investigation at this time. Mr. Mayor, have you noticed any movements at the oratory or at the airport? Any lots of people that are coming in to get noticed that are coming here for this event? Any estimate on that or anything else? We value our relationship with our partners and we're in constant communication with them. So if they do see an influx of people or something out of the ordinary, they will contact us. At this time, we don't see that happening, but we will have real-time information if that does occur. Perhaps specifics, I don't know if this is a question for you, Commissioner or the Mayor, about where it's going to be implemented in road closures, but can we expect to determine how many blocks around the border should be closed with the F2R driver, any of that kind of movement, and will that information be shared with the public? So we're going to be rolling road closures. I'm sure you can understand based on the sensitivity of it, it's going to be moving, but we will make sure we have enough officers to facilitate transport throughout the city. There is one area close to Trump Tower that will have a road that is closed just to facilitate his transport, but beyond that, there will be rolling road closures intermittently through the city. We're trying to have minimal amount of intrusion into city life. Is the NYP of this office? We take any threats or concerns of our elected officials and anyone in the city very seriously. So we have provided some assistance in that regard, and we are investigating any threats that may be made to the DA or any of his staff. How are we being moved in and out of courthouses? As you know, a number of laws were passed when we went into having sensitive zones and restricted zones. It's actually an e-felling to carry in some of those zones, even if you have a license. Some of those zones include courthouses, federal buildings, and first amendment activities. So we're not going to move those. The most responsible gun ownership requires that you know what the laws are, where you are protesting, and we expect everyone to adhere to ours. Well, going back to police presence, how many officers do you expect to be on the streets?  We work with the Secret Service all the time. These are our partners. I won't go into how many numbers of police officers will be on the street, but we will have enough to facilitate mobile units if we need to respond to anything. But this is a collaborative effort with our partners in the Secret Service.  We have not needed to do that at this time. We have enough resources in place, but we can always call people in should the need occur. That's people in need and help. Chris, how many officers do you expect to be deployed around the city just for this specific detail? And also, are you expecting or anticipating meeting checkpoints for people on foot to get into the courthouse area and to protest outside? Well, I won't get into specific numbers of how many we will deploy to that area. If we need, if we find the need to institute checkpoints, we will do so. Yes, Tom, you mentioned both you and the mayor about people taking public transportation. Is there a plan to put an increased police presence on public transportation or what type of plans going in? As you know, as we've talked about since October, we've surged a number of officers into the transit system. So we expect to have a healthy complement of officers in the transit system tomorrow to facilitate travel. It's with CBS News. Mayor Adams, this question is for you. Good to see you again.  I'm sure in the past you were deployed to not the same similar incidents. Now as mayor, what concerns you the most as far as security is concerned on the eve of this arraignment? Well, again, as you indicated, serving in the department, I really have a lack of concern. I know how well the New York City Police Department is able to pivot and shift based on the circumstances that they are facing. And we are prepared. The police commissioner gave me a briefing. She understands that this is a unique situation. And the New York City Police Department is fully prepared with the coordination that Deputy Mayor Bank is doing with our other law enforcement entities. I have no concern at all around this. Is it specifically about politicians you've mentioned, Marjorie Tenwood Green, or the former president stirring things up?  But, you know, if you are prepared, you don't have to get prepared. And we are prepared. And the ability to shift the resources where they are needed, I think is extremely unique to them. It's extremely unique to this police department. We can manage several different things at one time in this department. And that's what we're doing. The police commissioner laid out a full plan with her executive team, and she's going to execute that plan based on the needs. Mayor, what are you... I'm over here. What do you make of the spectacle of this next 24 hours? President, letting all of his supporters know when he's wheels up from Florida, when he's landing on La Guardia, basically putting New York at center stage once again as something of an unprecedented spectacle from a legal standpoint. What do you make of all? Well, I'm not in control of that. You know, I've viewed this entire moment that we are in right now to one day be in the Museum of the City of New York. And I think this is another chapter in this experience that this administration is going to show how we manage not only national problems, but global problems as well as local problems. And we'll be prepared for whatever needs to be done. We built a team. We got the right team. And New York is going to see once again the professionalism that this police commissioner has displayed to show to her troops. Thank you all. Okay.


So, you need to pose your animated character and you don't know how. Not a problem. Now, in this tutorial, I'm going to show you the entire rigging process for this monster anime that I'm using in my game. But for this video, let's try something new. If this is your first time rigging, don't follow along. I just want you to watch. Your goal should be to understand the general process of what I'm doing. This video is short and you can always re-watch it later if you want to follow along then. For now, just sit back, relax, watch and learn. Okay, so generally I start out by separating the model into its main parts. So the head is one object, the spine is another, here's the base and finally the legs. From here, when the mesh is ready, shift A to add an armature and start building your skeleton. Now, immediately I notice that it's hard to see the bones. So to change that, I go back over here and check in front, which allows me to see the bone through the body. Then we just move it to where the spine starts, S to size it and E to extrude some more spine bones. Three should be enough and from here, press E to extrude some more bones for the leg and one extra bone for the IK handle that will control the foot. We don't need the bone that connects the leg to the base so we'll delete it and the foot IK should not be parented to anything. At this point, I usually start naming the bones so I'm just going to call this leg 0, leg 1, leg 2 and IK. Now I'll go to pose mode and click the last leg bone, shift click the IK handle and shift I to add an IK constraint. Awesome. Now since we got one leg done, we'll just select all the bones, set pivot to coarser and duplicate them for another leg. Now anytime you have things that are the same on the left and right side, always mirror them over. In order for the mirror to work, you have to make sure that they're named correctly. So we'll add the word right to each leg bone. Then select them all, right click and symmetrize. Awesome. Okay well the skeleton is almost complete and it seems to be functioning properly. Now we should make sure the legs are parented to the spine, but before we do that, I'm going to make sure that all the spine bones are named correctly. Then under relation to set the parent of each leg to spine 0, if we go to pose mode and test it now, it looks like the legs follow the spine just as they should. Alright. Now that the skeleton is done, it's time to connect it to our model. Generally, if it's not going to bend or deform, instead of weight painting, I prefer the parental approach. So I'm going to parent the head to the top bone and I'm going to parent the base to the bottom bone. If we test it now, you can see that those parts now follow the correct bones. For the spine, if we just use blender's automatic weight paint feature, it usually does the job. We'll do the same thing for the legs and if we test it now, the legs now bend with the bones. And that's cool, but I've noticed something that we don't want, which is the legs seem to be controlling each other and that's because we need to adjust the chain length on the IK constraint. So if you go to modifiers and if you change the length to two, you'll see that only the last two bones are effective. We have three bones, so we'll set it to three. And if that works, I'll set chain to three on every leg. Something else that I'm noticing is the leg bones are affecting the stinger at the bottom, but we just want the stinger to be controlled by the bone closest to it, which is spine zero. So I'll click the skeleton, shift click the mesh, then in weight paint mode, just hold control, select the bone I need and just to make it easier to see, I usually just hide the stuff that's in the way and then left click everything I need until it's red. Okay, awesome. Now if we test the legs again, they no longer affect the stinger. Okay, well, the rigging is basically complete, but it's always a good habit to organize your things before you finish. So what I like to do is go to viewport display and change the bone style to stick because it's much easier to see them that way. And then I'll try and isolate the control bones because the only bones I'll ever need when animating are the foot IKs and the spine. So everything else can move to a different layer. So if I select the bones that I don't need, press M and click the second dot over here, now you can see that all the non-controller bones are in this second layer while all the control bones are in the first layer, which makes it way easier to animate because now only the control bones are visible. Last, it's always a good idea to color coordinate your bones. To do that, go to bone groups, create a new group, name it right side, and I'm going to set the color to red because it's easy to remember that red bones are on the right side. To apply a group color, just click assign and all the selected bones will now be that color. And we'll make another group for the left side and we'll just make it green because I don't know lime green, whatever. It's the opposite of the right side. Last, I'll make a third group for anything in the middle. Usually the color for that is yellow and you're done. Of course, you can always add more, but that's just about everything you would need on a rig for this kind of character. Leave a comment down below if you want to see me rig a more complicated character, but really, all rigging generally follows this kind of workflow. So thanks for watching. Hope that helps. And as always, hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


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So, okay, good afternoon everyone. My name is Jose Lato. I work in Red Hat and thank you everyone for coming to this presentation where I am going to talk about the title is Tuning an Automating Delco 5G Containerized Workloads. I work as part of one team that is called Partner Workloads and Enablement and together with other colleagues like Javier Peña who also work on these same topics and he also helping me to prepare the presentation. We work helping our different Delco partners in order to allow them to run their different Delco workloads into our platform which is open safe. Very quickly the agenda for this session I will do a very quick introduction about the Delco architecture and the different layers that we can find there just also to explain the different points where in Red Hat we are trying to help to this partner. So, the idea is not only to enable open safe to run the workloads but also to provide for them or to help them with a solution to manage all the clusters that they are going to have. To manage me not only deploying but also doing automation, configuration, upgrades etc. How we prepare all these things together we have a set of different open safe Delco partners that allows, that helps them to do the different tuning that they have to do for Delco. And finally I will talk about the special configuration of open safe that is single node open safe. Pretty special because it's a cluster but only one node and these clusters can reconfigure with one special profile for these partners. So how is this architecture? So well, this part is the part of the devices that are our mobiles that are connected to the internet through Intel co what is known radio access network. I will mention very much during this presentation. Radio access network is divided at the same time into different layers. In the first one we will find the radio unit that are common antennas where our mobiles are going to be connected. And then close to these antennas or behind these antennas we will have the first set of cluster or sites. And these are called distribution units. Distribution unit take the signal from the antenna and everything is collected into the central unit where we again have a new cluster. And then the last layer that is the packet core. So packet core is closer to internet and again here we have one new cluster this time could be in a CPD or something like that while the central unit you can have one or several in different regions managing different distribution unit. So well we can use different on-pensif cluster configuration from standard compact but the most special part is cool. By now it's out of this full screen sorry. So okay during the presentation I will focus on the radio access network and the distribution unit. We implement this with a single note on-pensif together with a management cluster with a special profile that comes pre-configured inside this cluster. Also using some special operators for telco and with a very big requirement about the scaling and making the things reproducible. Why because if we focus here in the distribution unit that we have said that is closer or behind antenna you can imagine how many radio units or how many antennas these partners are going to have hundreds or thousands of new cluster that they need to scale and they need to manage. Well we usually say that telco war is different but maybe everyone say the same from their partner or customer but it's true and we will see later that we have to do very low level configurations. Also we want to reach to the far edge, the edge and the cloud using the same technologies and the same platform and when I have said before that we have very strict requirements about the scaling and making the things replicable. So how we make because we not only need to make open-sif enabled by to run these workloads but also we need to manage and administrate this huge amount of clusters. So this is why we need to create a management cluster that is composed by a set of different technologies. A management cluster is a cluster, an open-sif cluster or a Kubernetes cluster that manage other cluster, deploy, monitor, configure in an architecture similar like that because we are combining these together with keytops and zero touch provisioning technologies and tools. So we have our Git repo, we have our Git apps where we define our infrastructure and configuration and this is managed by our hub cluster and we can deploy different sites for distribution you need, the central unit or the packet core part. How we will manage cluster, we say that is an open-sif cluster so the base layer is going to be core OS and open-sif. Then we are going to use Red Hat Advanced cluster management product or tool together with assistance service that is the newer open-sif installer to install the different cluster. We will see more later about that then we have to do keytops, we want to use keytops combined with this so we have Argo CD and also a new operator that is the Dalm operator. This operator helps you about the lifecycle management for the configuration of your cluster and we will see later the special needs that we have and then of course you can have monitoring or other workloads that you want to have in your management cluster. Also I'm talking about the zero touch provisioning and what is the scope of the different areas that we want to cover, we want to cover the whole lifecycle management. So in the day zero we deploy our clusters together with this CTP GitOps tooling and plugins that I will explain in another talk more in detail. You can define your infrastructure, in this case you define your different single node open-sif. When these are deployed you go to day one, day one is still the cluster, well the cluster is only deployed, still is not ready for telco, it's just single node open-sif and in day one is configured what we call the video or virtual distribution unit profile that are a set of operators with some configuration and some tunings that we will see in a moment. In day two is the work of the partner so they have a cluster where they can deploy their CNF or workloads and of course after that in day two we can still do more configuration, more upgrades, whatever using the same platform that is ACM, our GitOps things, with our CTP tools etc to do the configuration. Very quickly because we will see this later, with the CTP tools we provide two new templates of custom resource definition that allow you to define the cluster and allows you to define the different configurations. This is just a screen capture of ACM, ACM is not only a we, it's also a set of services that allow you to do all the stuff around installing cluster monitoring, deleting nodes, whatever you need to do. I don't go in details with this because right after this talk I have another one where I'm going to go further about how we work in this management cluster. But ok, let's say that we have this management cluster with thousands of distribution units and now how we configure this because we said at the beginning that telco world is different. So we have open seed telco operators that is what we configure in this day one. So as an overview we have our single node open seed, we want to make it virtual distribution unit into our RadioX network. So we have to create this video profile. Again we have open seed, it's true that it's open seed only with one node. Then we are going to use the telco operators, logging, local storage, well local storage is not a special operator for telco but it's there.  Then the SRIOV operator for networking and finally PTP precision time protocol operator. All these operators together with the configuration allow us to convert the single node open seed in something that can be a distribution unit. Finally you can have other operators, other workloads but maybe the most relevant part is the application workload of the telco, customer of the telco partner that is going to run. We are talking every time about distribution unit, virtual distribution unit, well they are going to run bots with their virtual BDU implementation. And what is this BDU? So the BDU what it's doing is taking, we go again to the telco architecture, we have our mobile connected to the radio unit sending a radio signal. The radio unit here we don't do anything. The radio unit converts the radio signal into the digital signal and this reaches to our BDU bots. Each of these BDU bots what are doing is processing the digital signal that is going to be sent to the central unit. How this is done? Ok, this is a loop, it's a process that is continuously working on this signal processing. Interesting things here, these bots are working in this infinite loop with very, very demanding image. It will take one CPU and it will take this CPU for them and they will not share. So they will take the 100% of each CPU. You have four CPU, you can run four BDU bots that are going to be constantly using the CPU. We need a real time kernel for that. This CPU process cannot receive kernel interruptions because they only want to do signal processing and they don't want to be bothered. If you interrupt the CPU for whatever microseconds this will make the distribution unit to drop 1000 of packets that is not acceptable. Also they need to access to the network car with a very high throughput of data so they will access directly to the network car not passing through the kernel. So for that they use DPDK that allow them some special network cars to do this kind of things. So this kind of tuning is what is making this video a single node offensive especially is why I am focusing the presentation on this. And here the previous list of operators came into action. The first one is the node tuning operator that allows you to create performance profile. In a performance profile you can enable real time kernel. In a performance profile you can disable kernel interruptions for some CPUs. You can create huge pages of memory for these processes etc. And maybe the most interesting part is that you do the CPU pinning where you say we will have some research CPUs. The research CPUs are going to be the CPUs that are going to be used by the operative system, by Opensiv or for other workloads. And then we have the isolated one. The isolated one don't receive kernel interruptions and are going to run the videos. More tuning. Then we have the PTP operator precision time protocol. Because they have to have synchronization at level of nanoseconds. So this protocol is in charge of that. So this is a server where you have a network card. Then you will receive in some way a GPS signal for doing this precision time protocol. One of the demons managed by PTP will take the signal from the GPS signal from satellite. And it will synchronize the clock of the network card. In other demon will take the signal and will send it through the network to synchronize other cards that could be in the network or other cards that could be in the same server. And again in other third demon what is going to do is to synchronize the clock from the network card into the server hardware clock. And finally the third operator, SIOV operator. This SIOV technology is enabling some network cards and allow you to take one port from one of these. It allows you to take the port, the physical port of the network card and to virtualize it into different virtual functions. From the point of view of the ports they see this as a real hardware. And you can use these virtual functions to be used unique by each of the ports. So the ports have one CPU only for itself and also it has one of these virtual functions only for itself. And remembering that here we don't go through the kernel, we can jump this and go directly to the card using the DPDK technologies. Ok, more or less I'm reaching to the end. So we have this single node open seed and the video profile that I have explained before is one open seed cluster with only just one node that is very prepared or is designed to be used for edge at the edge. Maybe edge computing not, but is to be used in the edge. Because in this distribution unit we have to deploy hardware that is very confined to very small spaces with very reduced cost, power consumption is very limited, also the network connectivity etc. And again a single node open seed is optimized about the number of CPUs and RAMs that is consumed. Why? Because as less CPUs that are used by open seed and the operating system is free, more CPUs to run the video ports. If each video port can manage one radio unit and you free more CPUs you can manage, at the same time more radio unit that is a lot of money for telcos. So we are also present to even reduce the minimum number of CPUs that we need for running open seed single node. Ok, so when we deploy the single node open seed using some of these tools, serotox provisioning, kit and the github tools, this automatically includes what we tried to make that is a run reference profile with some pre configuration of this operator, of course the operator some configuration that can be generic and some other that can be customized depending on each partner. Also with CDP and github we come and the management cluster we can manage your fleet of clusters in groups. You can do upgrades for a group of clusters, you can do a lot of different management things. What is the video profile? Well I don't go in detail but I have a link here about this github repo. This is a list of manifest that by default are always included with the single node open seed. For example it enables a CDP protocol which is pretty usual in these cases. It makes some customization about making the server to start up faster because in these cases you have to reboot, something goes wrong. You have to start up as quick as possible otherwise you can lost some connectivity or we enable kernel dump or disable for example that cry or wipe the partitions with the containers every time that you reboot. If we do that in the single node open seed each reboot will take a lot of time that is not acceptable. Another kind of customization. These are the generic and then we have tools that allow you to customize and configure the operators or whatever that you have in open seed. With what we call policy gen template that again I will explain in the next talk. This is one example of a performance profile policy gen template that helps you to define this performance profile where you can see that we configure the, I don't know how to point, you can configure the isolated and reserved different CPUs, you configure your huge pages and also neighbor real time kernel etc. Whatever of this configuration and policy gen templates are managed by the hub cluster and you can decide to which cluster you want to apply the configuration. Ok, some numbers about the scaling and some performance test because we talk about the scaling a lot. These are some results coming from Red Hat internal lab where they are doing a lot of this performing testing with one hub cluster that is basically a compact cluster with three parameter servers. In this world they always use parameter servers that are pretty performant servers with hundreds of CPUs and 500 gigabytes of memory that this management hub cluster is going to try to deploy a single node open seed and to configure the video profile as quick as possible and in a huge quantity. We are going to push to our Git repo a 500 SNOs per hour trying to be deployed during like 8 hours with the intention of attempting to reach to 3672 single node open seed deployed in these 8 hours. Ok, it's done 99.7% of the installation which is pretty impressive and only a few less don't reach it to get the video profile fully configured. Anyways, these are very good results here in this graph. We can see how each one hour we add new 500 clusters that are installed in these lines tell us that each hour we have 5 new single node open seed clusters installed and this pink one is the one that installs or configure the video profile. So it's pretty stable about deploying the cluster, about applying the profile. It's also more or less stable about how many new single nodes open seed also contain the profile. So just ending, just some conclusion. Here in the presentation I have focus in the radio unit and the distribution unit and the radio access network layer because I think it's in some way different because of the customization that we have to include. The distribution unit is implemented with single node open seed with this video run profile with the telecooperator and extra configuration and we can have a management cluster that can do the lifecycle management as we will see later, not only about deploying but also about doing the configuration and the day one and day two. The same technology on Farage, Edge and Cloud and well we need to provide something, a platform that is scalable and to provide replicability. Ok, so last thing is the different levels of certifications that we have. The vendor validated is, we will say that is ok, we have made the video running in the cluster so the vendor can say that is validated. It means it will work in this offensive. What is new now is that we want to provide the CNF cloud native function certification. CNF certification don't go into details if it's working or not, what is testing is that it works because the vendor says that it works and also we certify that it's using best practices, some security issues and life cycle etc. So we can have the platform, the management cluster, the life cycle management and also the certification that CNF is going to work and is going to do it following best practices. That's all for the presentation and you have questions. I think I go more or less on time. I'm not sure now. Ok, yeah, the question was about the SIOV card with PCI interface version is using. I fear that I'm not sure because there are also many different cards about that. But it's true that it's something that we don't usually have problems with that. I think the question is about how it's doing the work of reducing the requirement for the single note open seat to free more hardware for the telcos. Well, I'm not part of the engineering team so I'm not sure how they are doing the magic of going for example from eight CPUs to four CPUs. But for example, some of the things that is related to the work that we are doing is, well, open seat, it's a platform that is for generic intention. So it contains some pieces or operators that maybe are not needed in these telcos scenarios. But by default the single note open seat is an open seat cluster so it contains operators and for example open seat monitoring. Some of the partners they don't need or they don't want to have the open seat monitoring because in this scenario or maybe because they have everything different that they are going to use to use monitoring or because directly they don't want to use monitoring. If something fails, you replace the server, you reinstall and that's all. So these are the kind of things that we are trying also to see to see how much customisable we can do this platform in order to consume less resources. How do we manage? Ok, because it's a single note open seat, there is no redundancy and there is no way of doing so it's something that is acceptable in the way. Ok, so you have one distribution unit in one antenna. Ok, well the theory is that you don't have only one antenna in the same area. So if you lost this distribution unit, in theory other distribution units that are closer are going to compensate this to not lost all the connectivity in the device that you have in the area. So distribution units compensate this failure and this gives you some time to try to fix it as quick as possible. Also the management cluster is important in this because we said replicability. Mostly these kind of servers are always the same so it should be very easy and fast too and if we are doing ketops we delete and we recreate. Maybe it's ok, well I have some more links and well thank you everyone.


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