So today we're L-fasten, which is basically we are making sure that each of our rounds on the tank shoots to where we are siding it in. So where we're looking through our sights, it's going to hit exactly to that point. Readiness is important because when we get out there or when we get out to these ranges we want to make sure that all of our nicks and all of the little errors that we have are out and fixed so that when we get out then on the range we are in the missions. We are making sure that everything goes smoothly, everything goes well, that we are able to do everything with 100% capability, mass, max, effect, effectancy, and everything so everything goes well.  So we are boresighting the main gun to make sure it is accurate and also the 50 caliber machine gun and the 240 machine gun. I think it builds a good routine for our crews and helps our tanks be mission ready. The importance of doing boresighting for this training is to have our tanks be ready to go for what is to come? Readiness is important so our tanks can perform in a real situation and so our crews have a good battle rhythm going so it's not a surprise when those things happen. I'm looking forward to shooting the main gun and practicing loading the rounds as fast as I can and getting more accurate with the 240 machine gun. I think the most important aspect of this current training is getting the proper practice needed for this type of exercise and making sure that our crews are mission ready.


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Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden are said to have an online summit by the end of the year. Now, this could be a historic summit. There are a lot of issues these two countries need to address, technology, trade, climate change. Over the past few months, there's been a lot of attention paid to this region which is called the Indo-Pacific by some. There's, of course, a new alliance. It has come up, AUKUS. There's a lot of talk about Quad. But amid all this, what about the old alliances? What about NATO? What about the EU, which is a close ally of the United States? We'll be talking about all this in this episode of Mapping Fault Lines. We're joined by Prabir Burkastan. Prabir, so, like we said, the key issue here, of course, is what about old friends, when new friends are being formed at such a quick pace? So the first question may be really about NATO in the context of, of course, AUKUS, Quad, but also in the context of Afghanistan. So in today's world, what exactly is NATO's position? Well, that's a very interesting question that you're raising because NATO, including France, who's currently very unhappy with the AUKUS, whatever we want to call it, alignment or alliance, was willing to also be a part of the Indo-Pacific containment of China, offering its ex-colonies, current colonies also because it has a lot of colonies still there. It's called non-self-governing territories in UN language. But with two things, I think there's been a sharp change. One is NATO got downgraded when the US decided to withdraw on Afghanistan and didn't think it necessary to talk about NATO, which it did when it invaded Afghanistan. So NATO was very much a part of the invasion. Doesn't seem to be a part of the withdrawal because anyway most of them had withdrawn earlier itself. But nevertheless, NATO leaders felt slighted that they had after all given that cover to the United States and they were not in the picture of whatever new alignments that the United States was thinking of. The second, of course, as you have said, the AUKUS itself, that there is this segue to the Indo-Pacific region. If you see NATO, NATO is a North Atlantic alliance and therefore two sides of the Atlantic, one side the United States, the other side you have the European countries who were earlier a part of the containment of Soviet Union policies. Now there are two things that are happening there. One is of course trade itself reconfiguring the world and what is a China-US competition there that we can discuss later. But in military terms, Soviet Union, post-Soviet Union, Russia now, still is the largest military power that the United States faces. Particularly when you take the missiles, the counter-missile, what would be called the basic defense network that they have, which is anti-missile missiles, which could be anti-missile missiles and also of course tracking of missiles. All this, the Russians are of course on par with the United States. Some of their defenses like S-400 are supposed to be superior to what the United States can offer and of course they have an equal number of nuclear warheads and they also have, as they have shown in Syria, the ability to deploy their troops in a ground situation in support of their allies. So Russia still is a major, if not the major competition to the United States. It is not what Obama had said. It's a regional power at best. It still remains a global power. But what happens to European Union is not simply an issue of military balancing of Earth, World, Soviet Union or Russia, but it is also an issue of the larger geopolitical axis that is shifting. It's clear that the U.S. role in Central Asia has reduced. Its role in West Asia is limited at best. What is its role in Europe? That's a big question. And that's a trade question between the United States and the EU and China and also Russia. Now Russia sends, as you know, energy, not see gas comes to European Union. So what is the economic relation between Russia and the United States? And we have talked about the kind of sanctions regime the U.S. has introduced, which European Union is not that happy with. So these are the tensions over there. But military terms, the U.S. seems to be now focused not so much on the old allies, which they seem to take for granted. That's the France's reaction of being taken for granted. And Germany not being too enthusiastic about the military part of it, because they're not militarily a major, at least, flag-waving nation. They're also not a nuclear nation, nuclear armed nation. We find in new countries, which originally were a part of the Warsaw Pact, they have become the front line of either containment of Russia or even missile bases being put over there. They're calling it anti-missile batteries. But now they've accepted those anti-ballistic missile batteries can be converted to ballistic missile batteries very easily. It's just a software change. With all of this, you will see that the containment of Russia becomes much more clear. And also NATO forces have done a number of military, what would be called, practice exercises over there. And they object very vigorously. When Russia does exercises on its side of the border, say, that's very aggressive. But we, doing thousands of miles away from the United States, participating in such border military exercises on this side of the border is perfectly okay. So that part of the containment of Russia program still goes on. Sanctions goes on. The only problem that the European Union now has, what is its role? Does it play a role of engaging with Eurasia? Does it continue to play a military role of containment of Russia? Maybe a containment of China, but it's still far away from it. But certainly containment of Russia, providing military backup to what the United States wants to happen. And also what happens to its long-term economic issues? Which way will they go? Do they go to Eurasia? Do they go to the Atlantic Ocean? And we have argued earlier also, oceans don't have people. They do not produce goods. So it's really the two sides of the ocean we are going to look at. And if the European Union has to integrate with Eurasia, then the directions of policy would change. What does the implication military wise, I think the European Union itself doesn't know. And we can think of Biden as new policies. But as we have seen, the new policies don't miss, doesn't seem to be significantly different from the old policies. When it comes to Russia and China, it's two foremost contenders, it thinks at least one Russia militarily and China partially militarily, but largely economically. Ravi, that's a good note to talk about a second point, which is really the economic dimension of these issues. Because like you said, there is a lot of trade at stake. In recent times, China of course, with its Belt Road initiative, really expanding its trade footprint, so to speak, to Africa, but also to parts of Europe. We talked about the Nord Stream aspect as well. So could you maybe talk about how the realignment you mentioned in terms of the used thinking? How it might actually play out or what might be the advantage it gets? Well, used thinking is something which itself is rather confused. Because EU is not one country which coordinates all its constituent units. So to say, it's really the Brussels headquarters that might be is a set of bureaucrats. They are more in tune maybe with other economic policies of the United States rather than their own member states. And maybe they are too influenced by what are two countries, France and Germany possibly. So it doesn't really work as a coordinating mechanism. But if you look at the individual countries, the two foremost ones now are really France and Germany. France, the slighted partner, got a huge rebuff in the Pacific, and Germany, which has seen that it needs energy from Russia. But the Belt Road initiative, Hamburg is one of the termination points of the Belt Road initiative. And therefore, German trade by rail with China has increased significantly in the last 10-12 years. Given this, Germany has a stake both in United States and in Eurasia, both in terms of energy from Russia and in terms of other goods from China. So Germany is going to decide what is the way European Union will go. And European Union is caught up in the sanctions war as well. As you can see, sanctions have affected both Russia and China. Now, reluctantly or otherwise, European Union states are getting dragged into sanctions against China. We have the recently the Dutch case where ASML equipment could not be delivered. They delivered not the top end of their machines, but just the next tier they could deliver to China. Top tier machines, the cutting edge technology could not be delivered. So they are also getting dragged into the sanctions war. A larger part of the geo-strategic control that US exercises to its control over the dollar economy. So all of this, if we take it into account, I think we have a fluid situation here where European Union is now trying to weigh up where it should go and whether it should engage as well as put pressure on China and Russia, engage with the United States as an ally, talking about how they are one common set of countries with this, what is it called? It is a rule-based international order, which is really ex-colonial and settler-colonial states coming together. So what they should do is something which I think, again, is in a state of flux. Important question here is Germany has asserted at least partial independence on the gas issue, North Stream issue.  So will their economic interests trump what could be the American pressure? Question mark. Will they also think about trying to do what France claims it has done, that it creates an independent military force? I don't think so because I don't think other countries are willing to follow in France's footsteps. France still has a colonial empire or the remnants of one in Africa. Therefore, there is a military issue over there. And of course, as we know in the Pacific as well. But I don't think other countries have that. So given that, I think again, we are going to see slow integration of the Eurasian market. We'll see production market, all of it happen. And if that happens, I think the military doctrines will also echo or reflect that even if NATO is there, I think it's going to be less and less important. Just as according to the United States, the Atlantic Pond has become less important than the Pacific Lake. Thank you so much for being. That's all we have time for this week. We'll be back next week with more news from geopolitical issues across the world. Until then, keep watching NewsClick.


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Deconstruction is one of the most hot-button issues in Christianity today. Whether it's evangelical or deconstructionist, a lot of these people that are breaking down the foundations of their faith roam on to social media and share their perspectives about their new perspectives about Christianity, Jesus, and the Bible. In today's video, I'm going to react to one of these kind of deconstructionist Christians and respond to a video that I think is pretty common, like the accusations that she's sharing are pretty common. Maybe you have heard these in your own life of people that are deconstructing, or maybe you have these questions yourself, regardless, let's dive into it. Yeah, a big contributing factor to why I stopped wanting to worship the biblical God is because I did not like the idea of him torturing or even annihilating those that I loved and cared about that simply didn't believe in him. I had plenty of non-Christian friends that I considered to be genuinely good people, but because they didn't believe in God, I had to believe that they were evil and that they were going to be justly tortured for all of eternity. Okay, let's talk about this, because there's lots of misconceptions about hell out there, and it sounds like she has some, even whilst she was, you know, she considered herself to be a Christian, she had some misconceptions about it as well. She says that she understood her friends to be pretty much good people, right? And so why would they go to hell? Well, it actually gets to the core foundation of like who we are as people. Are we intrinsically good or are we intrinsically evil? You know, according to the Bible, if we're going to go with the Bible here, if we're going to call ourselves a Christian, then we got to go with what the Word of God says, and we say, okay, well, the Bible says that we've all fallen short of the glory of God, that we're all dead in our trespasses and sins, and you might even look at that and say, okay, well, I can understand that we've sinned, and so there might be some punishment that is due, but really like hell for all of eternity, that's pretty extreme. A lot of people have that perspective. And so this analogy might give you some help on this.   I might get grounded or some of my privileges might be taken away. If I were to lie to a cop, you know, a police officer, man, the consequences of that scenario would definitely be heightened quite a bit more. If I were to lie to a judge, that would be perjury and I would be sent to jail. So the lie didn't change. It was a lie each time, but who I committed the act against did change.  It is an infinite offense and thus the punishment is eternity in hell. She says how she didn't want to see them as evil and deserving of hell. Well, we need to understand that we are not above them, right?  It's like, that's not a biblical or Christian perspective. It's that we have all sinned and all fallen short of the glory of God and it is only by God's grace that I'm saved, right? It's like I'm a beggar that's looking for bread and I found that bread and now we're called as Christians to share that good news. It's not like God has hung us out to dry here. He's given us a path out of this judgment that we rightfully deserve through Jesus sacrifice. That's the whole point of the gospel. That's the whole point of Christianity. And when you're young, you just accept this. But as you get older and you start grappling with your own morality, you start to wonder how this is just grappling with your own morality. Listen to how she puts that. Yes, you either are stuck with God's objective morality or you're subjected with your own morality. What's the alternative here? Well, am I the judge of God? Like I'm going to judge God for the way that he conducts himself because it doesn't fit in my morality. Look, where am I getting morality from if I'm just like stardust bumping into stardust? If I'm just an evolved animal and I have no intrinsic dignity or worth, where am I getting that standard of right and wrong and morality if I'm denying God's standard? See, if we're going to cling to the Ten Commandments or what Jesus said is like, oh, good moral teaching, then we need to embrace all of it.  It changes every day. Look at the world's morality and how it shifted over time. It's flawed. I say you come to a crossroad where you have to either choose your belief or choose your empathy. You have to choose your belief or choose your empathy. That's such an interesting way to put it because look, it's not about you can feel bad for people that are not Christians and they're going to go to hell, right? And that's a scary thought. That's like, oh man, I don't want that, right? Because you want them to be saved. You want them to come to know Jesus and you can have that feeling. But the way you deal with that is not, oh, you know what?  Maybe they're just, they're cool. Like, you know, they're pretty good people. Like, okay, I'm not even going to worry about it anymore and that makes me feel better and I can feel like empathy towards them. So I don't, you know, I want to just like let it go and let the truth go. No, it's like, well, no, we got to pursue truth regardless of how it makes us feel. So it's not about choosing your belief or choosing empathy. It's about choosing truth or choosing to make ourselves feel better by denying what is true. Give one up for the other. And I just could not give up my empathy to maintain my belief that my friends that didn't deserve eternal punishment. And it hurts that my own family would worship and praise God that they believe will do the same to me. Ultimately, it's God who needs to transform this woman's heart to surrender her own perspective and her own morality to God, because right now she is judging God.  I don't think your goodness is truly good. I don't think your love is truly loving. I think my definitions of what love and truth and justice are, are more valid. And so she's putting herself on this kind of high horse of saying, I need to embody this empathy for all these people.  Well, hey, look, if that's the truth, is that the, is that the truth? That's the real question. It might make us feel uncomfortable and make us, may make us feel sad that people are going to hell. But what does that drive us to? Does it drive us into denial and accusing God of not being good? Or does it drive us into action and actually living out his commands on this earth to be a witness for him? Thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video, subscribe because I'm putting out new videos all the time. You can help support my ministry on Patreon, link in description and support me on a monthly basis. It would be a huge blessing. Thanks again for watching and I'll see you next time. God bless.


Hi, in this video we'll show you how to easily speed up your teamwork with multi-editor editing in D5 render for teams. This feature enables team members to work on different parts of a project at the same time. For example, while you're focusing on the main architecture, your colleagues could simultaneously work on the landscapes or interiors. You're able to customize the way your team collaborates, according to different parts of the whole space or even different modeling software. To achieve this, we introduce to you worksets. A project itself serves as a central file in D5, and by dividing the tasks among the team, different worksets are created and assigned to each person in charge. Since projects across various industries tend to vary significantly, worksets allows you to tailor the workflow to your specific needs. Let's take this villa project as an example to show you how it works. 1. Decide on the members involved in this project and their assignments. 2. Split the project model correspondingly and save each part separately. 3. Open D5, create a new scene, import the models, and use the align command to align the models. 4. Save the project to the team project library. Alright, moving on to worksets. Go to menu. File, multi-editor convert to convert the project into a multi-editor one. Click on custom workset to create architecture, landscape, post-processing and output worksets. Then select the models on the left to add to the corresponding worksets on the right. Confirm and there you have it. Now from the project library on the welcome page, you'll find the multi-editor project with an icon in the upper right corner of its thumbnail. Double-click on it and the assigned worksets will display with an auto-generated default workset. Team members involved in this project can then dive into their own worksets and start working. Let's try with the architecture workset and open the scene. You're only allowed to edit your assigned model in the workset and cannot affect the ones from other worksets. Once you are done with material editing, camera setting or model placing in your architecture workset, save it. Then you will find all the changes you made are automatically merged into the central file. For members working on the other worksets, they at the same time get a notification of your update in the workset, which allows them to see the changes you made right inside their own worksets. If their worksets are saved, you as well will get notified on their updates. To ensure the best real-time performance and efficiency during this process, D5 provides a performance mode option for you to check out other members' updates in lower quality. This is perfect for considerably large projects or for team members who require less of super precise real-time previews. While the architecture and landscape parts are making progress, the colleague in charge of post-production and rendering output is also working on the perspectives, testing effects with D5 Studio, ready to finalize and export the renderings. Under workset mode, D5 Sync, Live Sync plugins are also supported. In some cases, resources from one workset may interfere with other members' worksets in the scene. You can place such resources on the same layer and then set visible to this workset only for this layer, so they don't display in other worksets. Abnormal exit from D5 can result in the workset, or central file, continuously showing as being occupied. To solve this problem and reopen the scene, contact the team administrator for a forced quit of editing status in the project library. When the project collaboration is finished, and you no longer wish to continue with multi-editor editing, open the central file, go to menu, file, convert to a normal project, and you can merge all the worksets, combining them into one file. That completes the tutorial of multi-editor editing in D5 Render for Teams. Have a try at this cutting-edge collaborative solution and discover the potential of your team's workflow. Thanks for watching.


Okay. Hello, everybody. Welcome to DEBCOMF 11. When I was standing like this two years ago in Spain, you know, giving the bid, talking, giving the presentation about DEBCOMF in Bosnia, I never thought this would happen. And it still didn't kick me that this is happening. So, okay, you owe me beer. But besides of that, I would like to thank President of Republika Srpska and Government of Republika Srpska for following and with, yeah, so with their following, that have a vision that follows successful people and for enabling us to put Banyaluca on a map of a role besides, you know, shoulder to shoulder with New York City. Yeah. We wanted to give a warm welcome to everybody and thank them for giving us that and enabling us with that. Besides that, I would thank... As really, without them, this wouldn't happen. I would also like to thank our MTEL, our Golden Sponsor, because with their support, they showed we have a friend. Also, I would thank all the other sponsors such as Google, HP, Canonical, Leonardo and so on. But besides that, of course, to thank Minister of Science and Technology for being with us this whole time and, of course, City of Banyaluca as well as Bansky Dwar. Some say Banyaluca is the most beautiful city in the world. Thank you for showing us that today and enabling us to show you that. So it's true. Now, everybody, President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik. Sorry, sorry. Wrong call. Sorry. Okay, I said I can't believe this is happening. So President of MTEL, please take the mic. I would like to welcome you on behalf of MTEL Company, one of three dominant telecom operators in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the company with the mission to connect people with the latest technologies. I have a great honor to be part of the Debian Conference 2011 and I would like to welcome you to the meeting with the President of MTEL. I would like to welcome you to the meeting to be part of Debian Conference 2011. Conference where expert meet and derive new dimensions of communication. We strive to offer our customer the latest services while supporting scientific meetings and knowledge. We also strive influence on development of information society and accessibility of new technologies to everyone as this market would be closer to the developed western countries. Telecommunication is a sector in which free software has a special role. It is difficult today to imagine the functioning of telecommunication networks without Linux, for example. Therefore MTEL production platforms are largely based on Linux installations. Namely, the role of telecom operators at the end of the day is to enable better connection between people through all available channels. These channels are often serviced by some of the free software system solutions and MTEL as a company feels a deep connection with the philosophy behind free software. Therefore in accordance with social responsibility which is our strategic objective we support young professionals in the IT field. We have recognized the importance of the open source software on the example of the Android platform for mobile devices and we have recently organized a contest called Android League. Primarily we see it is a stimulus for the local IT community to begin developing applications in local languages and adapt it to this market. The best application developers and authors will be rewarded with valuable money prizes and all applications will be available free to our users on the Android market. In the end, I wish a successful work to all participants of the Debian Conference 2011 and express the hope that this place will be a ground for the exchange of knowledge and new ideas. Good luck. And they are present. Now I would like Minister Komic to come and address us all. Dear President of the Republic of Serbia, President of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, dear guests and ladies and gentlemen. Greetings to the name of the Ministry of Science and Technology and I express my sincere pleasure that the Debian Conference is held in Banja Luka, that is the Republic of Serbia. Because in this way we are recognized as a space that is seriously engaged in informatization and building of information society. Dear Mr President, in this way we have the opportunity to promote our sincere presence, to be included in the European integration process and all the other flows, especially informatical, because we are aware that this is the right path in the future. With special pleasure, I greet our guests, participants of the Debian Conference that have come to Banja Luka and the Republic of Serbia in honor and given the opportunity to show our determination as a home conference. Not only for the development of informatical and information society, but also for cooperation between people, for friendship and to express our desire for active participation in the European world talks and processes. Dear guests, we would like to welcome Mr Boravak and to feel like at home. This year Banja Luka is both at the�� and is becoming the first center of technological development and the World Forum of Debian Conference of Republic of Serbian is confirmed as an informatical and technological perspective of the region with a huge chance of exploration of modern scientific and technological achievements of the whole region. In addition, the results of the Republic of Serbian have an entire institutional framework, The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Agency for the Information Society of the Republic of Serbia have created themes for rapid development of electronic services, the modernization of public services, the use of information technologies, the reform of health, schools and all other segments which are mentioned in our strategic documents and measures. While there are many information and mega projects from the establishment of electronic evidence of citizens to the development of electronic health, we have combined all of this in the sphere of a global, ruling project called E-Serbian. The current opening of the Debian Conference is full of support which the institutions of the Republic of Serbia, above all the president of the Republic of the Government, provide the development of an open code software. This is one of the best indicators of technological indiscrimination, the will to recognize the quality instead of quantity and the determination to investigate all the models of software development. We are aware that the software is an open code due to its specific methodology and development in today's economic, demand and uncertain times in the secure quality of the spring and the presence of the financial nature. This is also a decision to take into account the unreserved support for more, really and more than justified. We are confident that the technology that is based on the open code software will find its place in the sphere of E-Serbian. We are especially pleased that in Banja Luka, the Republic of Serbia is currently hosting a large number of foreign IT directors, programmers and enthusiasts who have traveled a long way to attend the Debian Conference. This clearly shows the importance of Debian as well as how much it has invested in Linux and put in the effort to secure and stable the operating system that is increasingly being implemented and the users who are not informed. And I would tell you a few words because this conference will be held on the English language. The government of the Republic of Srpska, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the agency will continue to work on the development of the IT society. IT gatherings and conferences to exchange ideas, knowledge and opinions are included in those efforts. This is precisely why we expect this conference to promote the exploration of new software development models whose usefulness will not only be felt by yourselves as immediate partakes but by the entire IT world. Every progress in the adoption of new knowledge is also the recognition and promotion of the society and that encourages it. Therefore, we expect that Debian Conference to help in the further development of the Republic of Srpska its transformation into a modern IT society and its inclusion into the European integration process. Thank you for your attention. And I would like to thank our Minister of Science and Technology and now I would like to invite Prime Minister of Republic Srpska. All those countries in the United States have held the largest conference in the world on information technology. Although those are states where such conferences have been held so far, I am proud that as of this year the Republic of Srpska will find itself on that list. Banja Luka and the Republic of Srpska will be the center of occurrences in the world of information in the next few days. It is a huge step forward for the promotion of the Republic of Srpska and its potentials. The mere fact that 500 participants from almost 80 states all very good at information technologies and experts in that field says a lot about the importance of this conference. I hope you will take to the world the story about Banja Luka and the Republic of Srpska. It is our obligation to, in the next few days, present ourselves as good hosts and present our knowledges. It is our obligation to, in the next few days, present ourselves as good hosts and present our knowledges. Our expertise and the affirmation in the field of information technologies. In order for the reforms and modernization in our society to be as successful as possible. The Republic of Srpska government pays huge attention to information technologies. In that relation we have been holding electronic sessions of the government for quite a while now. We have promoted the electronic managing of evidence and registries and we have an electronic management of book, of land book registries. We are working also in introducing information technologies in schools and on computer literacy of all inhabitants of the Republic of Srpska. It is clear that information technologies have penetrated all pores of society and that without them the development of economy is not imaginable. Infrastructure or industry or any other field of activity. Precisely for that reason our objective is to make Republic of Srpska a developed information society. In accordance with the widening and the spreading of information technologies and in order to apply them in a better efficient way it is necessary to put them within a legal framework. In that relation the Republic of Srpska has adopted a series of laws and bylaws and strategic documents regulating this field. The law on electronic business conducting and the law on electronic documents and the law on electronic signatures are just a few of the laws currently in application in the Republic of Srpska. Conferences like this are gathering the most eminent experts in these fields where they have the opportunity of exchanging their knowledge and experience. They will always have my personal support and the support of the government to all the participants of this year's Debian Conference. I wish successful work, a lot of success in their work and good results. Once again I wish to welcome you and use this opportunity to thank all individuals and all collectives who have given their contribution for such a manifestation to be held in Banja Luka and in the Republic of Srpska. Thank you very much. Now thanks of course to the Prime Minister and now the man who is basically responsible for all of it Miload Dodik. Good morning everybody, welcome to Banja Luka and to the Republic of Srpska. I hope that you have already gotten the first impressions about this place and I hope that you will leave Banja Luka with good memories and good results. I hope that you have already gotten the first impressions about this place and I hope that you will leave Banja Luka with good memories, good friendships and the best experience. Two years ago when we first spoke about holding this conference I must tell you that I was not completely aware of the importance and the magnitude of such an event. Today I am proud that I gave my support to this from the beginning. One of the great news I received was that we got the conference in a huge competition with other important centres and almost beat Munich in that competition. Of course we are a smaller society but I am sure that we have many more emotions and that is why I am sure that your staying here will be very good. You came here to a society of an open heart, an open society among friends. Anything that is good take it with you, let it be your ownership and whatever is not that good blame me for that. Many of you have come here probably with certain predictions or suppositions how it would be. Twenty years ago there was war here. Many still have a reflex of that in their subconsciousness and many think that here there is almost a war going on still. The best witnesses that it's not so are you. We are living our lives peacefully here. What we lack is a possibility of getting more involved in global tendencies and developments and that is why this conference here is so important. This conference is the best proof of such an effort from our side. I wish you success and I wish you to have such a good time to come back again. This conference will give support to us to work more on whatever integrates us more to the international community. I wish you all a lot of success a pleasant stay and good friendships. That was it when it comes to this part. Now we are going to have a press release and a room above. Thank you everybody for coming. Rest of the day for today is going to be more of a technical nature and where you can use Debian and such Linux technologies in your companies, your institutions and so on. One part should have drinks right now and the other part should go to the press release room upstairs. See you later.


What's up everybody? It's Jason here with jaspyscasebreak.com. This is the 1920 Upperdex Stature Hockey 12 Box Case Break Picketing, number three just sold out. And there you go, fresh case, and we're giving it $100 in break credits. We buy two teams to get one entry, buy four teams to get two entries, et cetera, et cetera. So at the end of the break, we'll see who gets the entries here, but I'll put it as my customer name, and we'll give away some break credit. So there you go. Just customer names again. Mike gave the last one a bunch of blue jackets. Good luck. Here is the master. We have two inners of 12 boxes each. So we'll see which one's used for number three, which one's used for number four. One, two, three for the left, four, five, six for the right. Six, one, two, three, four, five, six. This one will be used for the next break, which should be coming up probably after this. And this will be for this break.  You can do that stature for you guys. And then I'll probably do that luminance next. I think you guys are for breaking with me early, guys. Glad we're able to start today early. All right, we've got Doug Gilmore, Timo Salani, Naren, and Morgan Frost. We have Morgan Frost and Jonathan Davidson. Nice, Anna Carter Hart, number to 20, or no, yeah, number to 21. Seven out of 21. Nice little three color patch and the auto. Flyer's going to Arden. Nice patch autograph. Ooh, do we have another patch auto here? Joe Dorton. Carson, another one for the Flyers. John Marino. And we got Rise Bros. For the Canucks. And Ryan Harris. And we got Trevor Moore to 33. Tron Mabelius, going to John Paul. Sergei Bokrovsky, Kota Kandiami. We got a Bolger. Penguins, going to Dom. We got Jack Hughes to 85. And Conrad Clifton. We got Gerald, Mayhew. We got Mark Andre Fleury. And we got Nikita Goose. Oh, and they're for the Devils and Steve. Quinn Hughes, our first Quinn Husaiting. We got Stillman, Sebastian Ajo, Steve Iserman, and Blake Lazat to 15. 15 out of 15. That's my only Quinn. Quinn, what's going on, man? It's a local right here with us. And you got a little Blake Lazat rookie. Sebastian Ajo, Nicholas Haig, Joe Pogalski. Esteemed. You got Jack Eichel. Minnesota Wilds, going to Jacob K. Well, we're halfway through on my day, so there's still at least another six autos and other stuff. For the Habs, Jean Velagu. We're definitely still have plenty of hits hiding. For the Devils there, Max Jones. There you go, a little David Gustafson. Number two, the Jets. And a nice Quinn Hughes. Little green. That actually looks pretty good with the Vancouver Penance Pillars. We got Carl Grunström to 45. No one there for you, Clint. And the LA Kings. Devils right there, Brodor. Tarasenko, Ryan Hohing. Now Brodor. Cam Atkinson. Blake Lazat. Nice one there for the Flyers. Out of 15. Twardenski. Kaden Primal. And a Elvis Merz Lincoln. That's very nice. And that's a two out of five. Damn. Last spot, Mojo Almaii. And you got to play to the whistle, buddy. Two out of five, Elvis Merz Lincoln. Yeah, this is break number three. Zach McGowan, the Brinkat, and Kamano. Igor, the Rangers. And we got for the Canes, Rookie, Reliance, John Paul. And we got Mackenzie, MacGurchin. Salos Blues. Great. Tony, what's going on? All right, three more guys. Three more, three more. Dylan Larkin. Blue Jackets. Another one there for the Oilers. Person. And for the Blue Jackets again there to 99. Jonathan Drewen. Kirby Dutch. Giovanni Smith. The Red Wings. And we got Trevor Moore to 49. All right, two more boxes guys. Victor Olsen. Lundquist. Dylan Larkin. Clint Colston. And Saborn. Henry Lundquist. We got more Riley, Sorino Riley, sorry, let me try to say. 14 out of 20. And we got an autograph here. It's Larry Robinson. Century momentous. For the Habs, went to Edward. All right, last pack guys. Joe Kimnagar. The OV number. Mark of the Capitals. Johnny Goodrow. The Brinkhub. Oh no, look at that. Two out of five, Wayne Gretzky. For the Oilers. Jacob. That is awesome. And Joey DeCord. Very nice. Another nice enter. And there you go guys. Lot of the stuff numbered. Here were the autos really quick. But yeah, the Merz Lincoln's out of five was really nice and the Wayne Gretzky out of five was very nice. So there you go guys. Now, extra chance to win some money back if you bought two or more teams. So let's quickly switch scenes. All right, here you go. So Adrian with one. Arda, you got two. So you get one entry. Christopher, one, two, three, four. You get two entries. And Don, Edward with two, you get one entry. Eric, Greg with two, Jacob with two. I'm sorry Josh, this case was, I actually had to go get this case from a delivery today. The case I used before, we already had that case yesterday. So I didn't have a choice to choose that one earlier. Jeremy. Yeah, that's true. The first one didn't have the oars. I did have the veteran, but yeah. Sorry about that Josh, but I'm gonna get up to you man, I will.  Joe, pull that one on for you guys. So there's everybody there guys. Number one gets it after, one and a four, two times, one and a four, five times. One, two, three, four. And Nick, there you go. Congratulations man. You just want a hundred dollars in break credit and it's coming your way right now. Appreciate it guys, jazbyscasebrakes.com. The next one's already down to one. Joe will be doing that for you next. I'm gonna go with the blue jacket. Appreciate it.


Hello, and welcome to the Outlander Conference. We are in the final hours here in our online program today, and I'm really truly delighted to introduce our next speaker rather, Dara Coakley, who's gonna speak to us about online hybrid and high-flex delivery through the lens of UDL. And Dara, if you're ready, I'm gonna hand over to you. That's great, thank you so much, Maya. Hello, everyone. Thanks very much for making the time to come along today, I really genuinely appreciate it. So as Marin mentioned, my name is Dara Coakley. Marin, very wisely asked, is that a silent GH, and it actually is awkward Irish kind of name. But look, I'm delighted to be here, and as I said, thank you so much for coming along to the session. Something that I mentioned in one of my pre-recorded sessions is, yeah, I'm from basically in Ireland, the same place that Roy Keane is from, and I'm a very proud corkman, but I'm aware that the accent can be a bit of a challenge. And when I present as well, I have a tendency to speak faster and faster, and the accent becomes like more and more cork, you know what I mean? So if at any stage I become unintelligible, I might ask one or all of you to let me know. And you might also forgive any technical glitches. Something that I put up in the discord on Tuesday was that I have an awful, awful dog wandering around somewhere here as well, so please do forgive any technical issues. And just to note, I'm from the Department of Technology Enhanced Learning in Monster Technology University, the core campus, and it's www.mtu.ie, if you'd like to know more, but I'll put up relevant kind of links and so on and so forth at the end of the session. And I also just, FYI, started a timer on my phone because I'll get into it at the end, but I really would welcome feedback and your own thoughts and perspectives and experiences for what I'm about to talk about today. So look, without wishing to reach the right ground that's been gone over too many times, I think maybe a good place to start for this session is at the origins of UDL. So in their book Reach Everyone by Bailing and Tobin, they identified that universal design for learning was actually inspired by the universal design movement in architecture and product development and in universal design for learning, guidelines for accessible online instruction, Roger Shaw's also identified that it applies, Roland Mace's universal designs in architecture to teaching and learning. And essentially what that means is that the term universal design or UD, which was coined by the architect Roland Mace and his colleagues in the Center for Universal Design, they identified universal design the design of products and environments to be usable to the greatest possible extent by people of all ages and abilities. So this notion that kind of building design and any physical infrastructure design should be accessible to all. And Hitchcock and Meyer have a good, I suppose way of tying those two together. And they mentioned that the UDL framework helps us to see that inflexible curricular materials and methods are barriers to diverse learners. The same way inflexible buildings are barriers to people who face physical challenges. So I thought that was quite a nice way of joining the two. And in researching about this, there is kind of an interesting history about the UDL movement and how it kind of grew from this range of additional elements starting with in the state's legal access to education, to physical access to buildings, to the individuals with Disability Education Act, which is mentioned there, which identified that students with disabilities are entitled to access participation and progress. But that whole history is maybe for another presentation. But in terms of the current iteration of UDL, it really has its roots as is identified by boys in there in the Center for Applied Special Technology, who in the 90s began to design or promote instructional methods designed to equalize accessibility for K-12 students with disabilities. And so CAS have developed a very useful set of guidelines in terms of universal design for learning. And those really are kind of identified there. I'm sure they're familiar to a great many people, but those are really based on three core principles, which is providing multiple means of engagement, multiple means of representation and multiple means and actions of action and expression. And it was one major change, which has happened to the kind of CAS guidelines, to the UDL guidelines, is that they have come to go beyond just access to education. They now, I think also very much include pedagogical guidelines and pedagogical elements there. And if we look at the provision of one of the guidelines under the provision of multiple means for engagement, it also specifies in guideline eight that there should be options for sustaining effort and persistence included in curriculum design. And you can see there in the kind of sub points, kind of the heightening and salience of goals and objectives, sharing demands and resources, so on and so forth. So they really have gone beyond just access to education. And UDL obviously has expanded greatly, I suppose particularly noticeably recently, and Boysen identifies that what began as a strategy for the inclusive education of school children with disabilities has expanded into a movement that claims to improve learning for all students in all settings. And certainly there's, in terms of the growth of UDL, there's a number of different elements that kind of, or there's a range of kind of research that does indicate that this is happening at quite a pace. So Fornauf and Ericsson have identified that the variety of UDL research identifies as a growing interest in transforming access and pedagogy in post-secondary settings. And in Ireland, there's a paper, Universal Design for Learning, is it gaining momentum in Irish education by flood and banks. And that identifies that UDL is definitely on the rise within Irish education from primary to secondary to post-secondary to higher education. But, because as I was a but, one paper which was developed in 2021 was by Boysen. And that paper was, I won't say scathing in terms of its analysis of UDL, but it did identify a number of similarities with UDL and I guess the now discredited concept of learning styles. And that is a paper by Guy Boysen, lessons not learned to troubling similarities between learning styles and Universal Design for Learning. And he identifies that if the premise of UDL sounds familiar, it is because it also happens to be the central idea of learning styles and that UDL shares a startling number of similarities with the now discredited concept of learning styles. For anyone maybe unfamiliar, learning styles is essentially identified there by Felder as this notion that students preferentially taken a process information in a number of different ways, specifically seeing and hearing, reflecting and acting and reasoning and logically so on and so forth. And it led to this idea of what kind of learner are you? Are you a visual learner or an auditory learner or a kinesthetic learner? And there was this notion in kind of a learning styles movement that learning is best done by appealing or supporting or personalizing learner for these different kind of learning styles.  If they're a kinesthetic learner, you should be providing learning by trial and error, hands-on activities, problem solving. Generally learning styles has over the last number of years gone a bit out of fashion and kind of been fairly widely discredited. Boysen identifies five similarities between learning style theories and UDL, a lack of evidence for effectiveness, inadequate upper tonalization and over-emphasis on diversity and learning, over-emphasis on matching instruction to diverse ways of learning and over-generalized neuroscientific justifications. But again, because there's a second but, Boysen does mention in that paper that although the purpose of the paper is to present a critical analysis, there's specific parameters to that criticism. So he identifies that the paper does not analyze universal design as a general approach to education. And there are other kind of, there is other research and approaches such as universal instruction design and universal design for instruction, which have similarities and differences with UDL. The paper, he argues, he does not argue that UDL is an effective note that it should be abandoned rather that it would benefit from some established best practice like setting clear objectives, encouraging collaboration, providing feedback. And he identifies that the paper is not a criticism of using universal design to increase educational access for students with disabilities. And he has a line that I like, which is providing students with instruction materials that can process and respond to is educationally, ethically and legally necessary. So my own interest and my own kind of confusion, I guess, around this was somewhat peaked by something that I had actually seen come up in terms of the growth of UDL in Ireland. And I guess for me, and this is entirely subjective to my own experience, something I'd seen at times here was occasions that when people spoke about UDL, people in higher education, when they spoke about UDL and UDL principles, and the measures that should be put in place to support learners, it became a little hard to identify what exactly and ultimately was being provided for learners facing genuine challenges. In particular, learners facing geographical, physical, mental health and economic kind of challenges. So the learners essentially who need support the most. And that did make me consider if as boys and argued, UDL was looking to meet all requirements, was there a danger of people interpreting UDL and providing measures and approaches that were too general, almost like learning styles, and ultimately forgetting the original intended purpose of UDL and who the origins of UDL were aimed at, which were students who had physical, mental health, geographical, shamefully more so nowadays, economic barriers, getting between them and effective education. So I guess the analogy that I might use is that there maybe kind of couldn't see the wood from the trees. Within the Department of Tale, I suppose this was important to me and it was important to us in the Department of Tale because we would pride ourselves really on being very strong believers that online distance education and the use of technology and education can be in egalitarian force and it can break down personal social and economic barriers and that's something that we would put in our strategy and in our mission statement. So it really bothered me this notion that kind of UDL might become this kind of tick box exercise and that those learners who should be getting the most support would almost be afterthoughts to these kind of discussions. So what I wanted to do for this lesson was I wanted to examine high flex and hybrid delivery methods and to see whether these would be effective mechanisms for providing and supporting UDL, in particular for those learners who I mentioned were facing physical, mental health, geographic, economical barriers. So kind of, and I guess my interest in kind of high flex and hybrid also was developed based around, I was also developed kind of based around, I suppose post COVID, what are mechanisms and what are things we could build upon after I suppose particularly in Ireland this kind of rush to kind of go for everything to go back to normal, go back entirely to face to face. And some of this was supported by a survey that we did in the Department of Tel post COVID for both staff and students across the entire university trying to identify what was helpful, flexible, beneficial during the ERT or emergency remote teaching period. And if you'd like to know more about that survey, there's a data set by my colleagues, I wrote a solo one in Tom Farley and so on Lacey, data set on student experiences, perceptions of emergency remote teaching, ERT and then Irish university. So looking at high flex delivery, I want to refer to high flex for the purposes of this session, at least I'm referring to what BD identified as multimodal courses, which combine online and on-ground or classroom based student experiences. So high flex for me, I suppose the big differentiator between high flex and hybrid is the additional flexibility that hybrid provides, both from a location geographical point of view, but also from I suppose a chronological point of view in terms of when learners can actually attend access material and kind of classes. And that book developed by BD, hybrid high flex course design is a really fantastic resource for anyone looking to know more. So on talking about a high flex design, BD identifies four kind of key principles or four values and principles of hybrid flexible course design. And those are learner choice, equivalency, reusability and accessibility. And what I was interested in was in taking those very useful guiding principles, trying to compare those and see where those might overlap with UDL principles. So UDL principles identified there. So like without going too into depth because life is too short in terms of each and any of these and listening to me droning on there. I did find that there was quite a bit of substantial overlap between the UDL, a number of UDL principles and learner and in a high flex classroom, learner choice, which is about providing meaningful alternative participation modes and enabling students to choose between participation modes daily, weekly or topically between UDL principles and equivalency, which was about providing learning activities in all participation modes, leading to equivalent learning outcomes, reusability, which was about utilizing artifacts from learning activities in each participation mode as learning objects and accessibility, which is equipping students with technology skills and equitable access to all participation modes. So I did find there was substantial overlap between the UDL principles and the values and principles BD identified for hybrid flexible course design. And a very useful research paper from here in Ireland was developed in Dublin trialing high flex at TU Dublin, stakeholders, voices and experiences. So this is essentially a evaluation of a high flex kind of delivery kind of initiative from the point of view of all different stakeholders, students and lectures and support. And there were some very interesting findings in that which I feel are pretty relevant to the discussion at hand. So when talking about student barriers and access to education and that paper identified that 92% of students would recommend a flexible attendance mode and they identified that issues such as distance from the campus, travel costs, health, general flexibility and inclusiveness all factored into kind of that decision. And additional consideration is the effect that students identified, excuse me, which the high flex mode had on the world being, for example, it improved their grades. I used to be exhausted after work, I went to college, sometimes fell asleep in class, I wasn't alone. And another student identified it allows for a better work-life balance. And a number of students who self reported disabilities felt that the high flex mode added a lot to them in terms of equal opportunity. And in particular individuals with ADD, ADHD and as identified there, people with neuro diverse brains learn better in their own pace in their own safe environment. And that was reflected as well in terms of the stakeholders within the paper they have these vignettes from a number of learning support officers who identified a number of benefits that were reported to them by students with a view to high flex. And I like this kind of almost as a summary quote at this point I went from a student at this point I wouldn't even consider going back into the campus wild horses couldn't return me to that way of life.  So that was quite a strong, quite a strong statement in support of high flex. So in terms of hybrid delivery then for the purposes of this session I'm referring to hybrid as a combination of synchronous in person and online learning experiences. So that notion I suppose where I would separate it from high flex is the requirement to attend a live session but that option being kind of in person or online. So in terms of hybrid design I didn't have a book like Beattie to kind of draw from in terms of in terms of kind of guiding principles but a paper that I did find which I found very useful was this paper Expanding learning opportunities for graduate students with high flex. And when they say high flex for the purpose of my presentation it's much more aligned to actual hybrid. So they say high flex, I say hybrid. But the point is that they identified within this paper four positive teams and one team of concern. So could hybrid classes help accommodate student needs and life circumstances? Could they help meet students, different learning styles and strategies? Could they help increase access to course content and instruction? And could it help encourage student choice and control through choosing the mode of participation? And I was fortunate enough that we had a initiative in MTU in 2022 called Student Inc. which is about kind of encouraging student entrepreneurs to assess the feasibility of their business ideas essentially giving them funding and training to take them from budding entrepreneurs to actual entrepreneurs. And this in 2022, this initiative was delivered in a hybrid format supported by us in the Department of Tel. So I was luckily able to evaluate the students who participated in that who engaged in that hybrid mode with a view to UDL and a number of additional elements. So returning to those kind of five teams as identified in this paper, students were generally very positive in terms of each of the teams which were presented. So the majority identified that they did help accommodate student needs and life circumstances. They did help meet students learning styles. They did help increase student access and maybe to a lesser degree they did help to encourage student choice and control. But through that Student Inc. initiative and through the hybrid experience of the students I was also able to try and evaluate the student experiences according to the actual UDL principles. Now I did, it is a limitation of this study. I did certainly do a little paraphrasing in terms of how I expressed the UDL principles just to try and make them understandable to the student. But I did try and kind of break down the UDL principles and as it gets students to evaluate each principle with a view to their experience of the hybrid classroom.  What I would say as something of a summary is that certainly within the UDL principles students were generally very, very positive and reported extremely positively on principles related to access, as one might expect. Less so in terms of principles around building or about internalizing. But I guess those principles, for example, about sustaining effort and persistence, language and simple self-regulation, comprehension and executive function, I would argue those are more maybe pedagogical and the hybrid classroom, no matter how good it is is maybe not going to tie directly into the curriculum design, the teaching approaches or the kind of pedagogical decisions that drive the student experience in terms of content assessment, so on and so forth. But I did manage to sneak this question in at the end of the evaluation and it was the one which personally I was kind of most interested in. And it was that, do you think the hybrid classroom could help support students facing geographical, physical, mental health, economic barriers? And all of the respondents were entirely unanimous in that it could. Again, I won't go into too much detail here, but I asked them from a qualitative point of view about that and some of the feedback was that students from the very, some of the, just for a bit of context, students were dispersed all over the country when they participated in this. So a number of students identified they just couldn't have participated if the lectures went hybrid or online, that the commuting distance was too much, that they had financial reasons, family commitments, that there's a lack of, as I'm sure there is in many places, shamefully, a lack of access to accommodation, some students had medical conditions, some students had family obligations, so on and so forth. So in terms of the conclusions to this, I suppose generally the entire process of after all that research and reading and basically arguing with myself and like this, researching this thing has been kind of unusual for me because it's basically been a couple of weeks of me just arguing with myself back and forth. I've a very unsatisfying set of conclusions is what I'm getting to, mainly because they're very subjective and they're really just coming from a series of arguments I've been having with myself. So genuinely I would very much, I suppose the conclusions that I'm offering here, they're a bit of a side note. What I'd really be interested in is your own experiences, your own perspectives and your own thoughts on this. And I would like this to be a conversation rather than any kind of conclusion because the conclusions that I'm offering are not particularly satisfying to me or to anybody. So maybe just a disclaimer as a bit of a start. I am conscious that with all the moaning and the liberal referencing of boys and so on and so forth that I might come across as disparaging of UDL, that's really not my intention. I would say that all UDL measures and considerations, even the kind of ambiguous ones that I spoke about earlier, the kind of tick box ones, tick box ones, I would argue they're all worthy. I would argue none of this is unimportant and none of it should not be pursued no matter how minor a measure towards the UDL principle is. I would argue that it absolutely has its place and it absolutely should be put in place. I guess for me what it kind of boils down to is that the issues that I see and my own subjective experience of what I mentioned earlier about kind of reducing it to reducing UDL implementation to this kind of tick box activity and leaving out the students who need the support the most. I don't see that as a fault of the framework. I see that as a fault of people's interpretation or the application of it. And I don't think it's a deliberate thing but I would say that certainly some situations I've seen people are relatively selective and self-serving in their application of the UDL principles. And I feel when we are selective and self-serving with our application of the principles that is when it does resonate with me in terms of what boys and spoke about in terms of UDL and learning styles and the overlap there. And I suppose the entire thing for me is a desire for UDL to not become this tick box activity. That it becomes that there's a lot done in terms of measures which is essentially for personalization of the learning to students. And then there's very, very little being done for students who literally can't attend or can't access education because of, as I mentioned, geographical, physical, economic barriers. One thing which did cross my mind was that one possible measure in terms of avoiding that situation would be to take a very extreme interpretation of the UDL principles. So to be absolutely firm that each of the principles should be adhered to the maximum degree in terms of the implementations that are put in place. So when we say multiple means of engagement that is not simply putting subtitles on a video which someone might put up, it's asking, okay, well, what means of engagement, what means of access, are we putting in place for students who can't come to the live in-person sessions? The research and the kind of feedback that I would have gotten is that certainly does indicate that hybrid and high-flex do come with elements of UDL baked into them. Particularly in terms of the comparison that I mentioned there, in terms of access for students facing challenges and also for how hybrid and high-flex can align and kind of meet many of the important elements of the UDL principles. That's not to suggest that UDL actions must be hybrid or high-flex or they don't count, but certainly hybrid and high-flex should be given serious consideration in terms of meeting UDL requirements and that is not something that I've seen much of in my own experience. And just as a semi-final point, I'm aware that hybrid and high-flex require time, investment, a massive change of systems, but if you are rigorous and adhering to actual application of the UDL principles, so does everything else and there's a quota like there. Some scholars have suggested that UDL must actively dismantle ability-central practices that permeate formal education. So when you consider that putting in place hybrid and high-flex technical measures and technologies is actually probably the easier kind of part of the job. This is a final thing. Larry Phipps, who is an individual and an ed tech I greatly admire, had a wonderful way of summarizing this. Speaking about kind of working with JISC around kind of supporting learners faced with disabilities, he identified that when you set a minimum standard, that is what people achieve and that is something I would not like to see happen with UDL, that it does become, as I mentioned earlier, this kind of tick box activity that like Eric got them to throw subtitles on a video, I'm sure we're adhering to the UDL principles that at the core of the UDL principles and the interpretation of them, students who need the most support who are facing the most challenges, they should be front and center and I do feel that hybrid and high-flex are very effective mechanisms for meeting those student requirements. So I spoke for way longer than I attended to and thank you so much for your time and your attention. If anyone wants a copy of the references or slides, I'm happy to provide those. Otherwise, if you'd like to know more, our website is tel.cat.ie. Thank you so much for your time and attention. Wow, thank you, Dara. That was a fantastic presentation and there have been multiple requests for the slides. You have also been signed up to a prolonged workshop for ALT because there is a lot of demand to hear more from you. So there's been lots of comments in the chat for people who'd like to hear more from you. Just to give you an opportunity to pick up maybe one or two of the comments here. So I know Vicky Dale has posted a couple of comments around earlier part of the presentation and also Peter Hardley made quite a lot of comments regarding just picking up one of Peter's questions around interested in ways that ideas and movements are changed or developed and the often unrecognised consequences. So maybe, Dara, just as a final reflection, what are your thoughts on the future for UDL? Thanks very much for that, Peter. It's a very good question and it's a very unsolvable answer. I really don't know. I do think that UDL, certainly within an Irish higher education context, UDL is definitely being pushed very hard, which is great in one way, but it does present that potential situation that I spoke about where, oh, we're great at UDL because if a lecturer puts up a video, which they might do once or twice over the semester, the subtitle is there. I would like to see genuine engagement and I think I would like to see in any discussion around UDL principles and measures being put in place, I would like to see a question, the question to be repeatedly asked, what about students who are facing physical challenges attending live sessions? What about students facing economic challenges, which, shamefully, is more and more so the case in Ireland? What about students who have mental health issues? I would like to see those students put front and centre and kind of anything that kind of comes, I suppose, after that for the vast majority of students who are fortunate enough to be able to attend live, to be able to kind of come into a bricks and mortar institution and sit down in the classroom, anything that serves their needs is absolutely fantastic. But I feel like, almost like there should be a priority in the application of UDL guidelines and measures for the students who need to support the most. Hopefully that made some kind of sense. Like I said, I've been arguing with myself, my relationship with myself has been terrible while I've been researching this.  Well, I think there was a lot of appetite to delve deeper into this and to expand on that. Dara, it would be fantastic if you were happy to share the link to the slides, either on Discord or on here. There's been so many comments and rich discussions and reflections, but unfortunately, we've run out of time. So from all of us here, I can see lots of people putting their hands together for you here in the chat, but also from us here at the El Daniel Conference. Thank you for joining us and have a really good very last session of the conference, everybody. Thank you, Dara.


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I think that in any circumstances we need confidence. And for me, confidence is delivered by love, which is why when you ask me what to invest in, I said love. You are developed by the affection that the love and the love that you receive, whether from parents, from brothers, sisters, boyfriends, companions, girlfriends. That love gives you the confidence to then progress, to accomplish yourself, to develop your skills. And what's beautiful about confidence is that if you have it, you can give it. So what I try to do as a leader in any organizations that I have led is to inspire confidence. It's not enough to sort of lead from the top and set standards and all that. It's to identify that little jewel, treasure that is inside all of you and to help that develop into the sort of capital of confidence that you will yourself give to other people.