We are making a start. So, top class, we are having a anewan to be absolutely loud by insurer. It is discussion that is hosted by Sir Guy who's going to talk to us about flexible learning needs and flexible text. Accessibility is a real big thing. And he is students in the student panel. So I certainly am looking forward to meeting him. I will hand over to you. Thank you very much, and great to be here once again. I remember last year at the University of Manchester, this time a slightly more suburban, maybe even rural campus at Warwick, so wonderful to be here. And thanks all for joining today. I'm here with Kaltura, and joining me is John Cooperthwaith there, who promised to ask me some very difficult questions if no one has any. But we're both part of the education team at Kaltura. So my name is Sergei, John's over there. Pre-emptively, if anyone wants to speak with us, who hasn't already, we're just right outside there, stand 12. So if you've got a question that maybe you think is not directly relevant to everybody in the room, feel free to of course save that and just find us afterwards. Or if you haven't got our sticker yet, you won't be able to win bingo without that. So that's another good reason. So subject today is flexible learning and flexible technology, really being the key facilitator of a truly flexible learning environment. So just to set the scene a little bit, of course our perspective is that of a technology provider and we do work with over 600 education institutions around the world. So that's very much the angle that we're coming at it from. But what we're seeing of course is the world is more flexible now than ever before. I certainly work far more flexibly now than I ever did four or five years ago. And of course, higher education is striving to keep up and I think that's a very good thing. We are seeing more and more terms such as blended, learning hybrid, learning high flex, learning digital, online, lifelong, all have different undertones, different definitions. And I know some of them can be quite controversial terms and people do debate what they actually mean or what they should mean. But certainly the list goes on and there's more and more of this terminology that's been cropping up in digital learning or in our world of technology enhanced learning. And what we're seeing is universities do want to offer students genuine flexibility, but a lot of the time there are legacy systems that do prevent that progress. And the result is a fragmented digital ecosystem and a very rigid learning environment for students. Specifically what that means in practice is often technologies that might not talk to each other or data that is lost or you have overlapping data. So it's difficult to make sense of it. So really the goal is to create something that's not only just more flexible as an experience for students, but also something that for educators or anyone supporting that education is able to make sense, consolidate data and actually use that to improve the experience again. So what trends am I seeing out there? And this is both in the UK and also Constance or Europe and more broadly around the world. I'm seeing more and more reviews of digital learning systems. I think that's a good thing. During COVID, of course, many of us were forced into certain technologies, certain ways of learning that we wouldn't have otherwise done. And now that that's hopefully behind us for maybe another 100 years or so, there's a chance now to step back and think again, well, what is the best way of learning? What is the best digital learning environment that we as any given university can build? And this is across the board. So I'm seeing some of the biggest universities undertake these reviews and that is so, so difficult. And it's a huge challenge to get the community on board, right? To survey students, especially if you're, for example, University of Manchester, they've got an amazing new flexible learning programme with people dedicated to that, new roles being created. Of course, it does help when you can secure the budget and the resourcing for that. But it's hard even then to survey the community, the students, the staff, the support teams that facilitate all of that. And based on that, actually make some sort of sense of that survey and be able to create some recommendations and action that into a better way. And as I mentioned, University of Manchester, new flexible learning strategies being created and really a strong desire to streamline and consolidate both from students and will go into why in just a second. Digital learning or technology-enhanced learning teams, faculty and IT departments as well. I know it's not often as easy as that, but I am sensing from different departments of different universities. And certainly as a trend, we can say that there's more and more interest in consolidating and streamlining now that we are out of COVID, hopefully, for a very, very long time and we can really use the opportunity to rebuild a bit more intentionally going forward. So I said, why do students, why do staff, why do IT teams want to consolidate? What's in it for them, essentially? For, first and foremost, I'd say that the fragmented synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences, that they can sometimes lead into a pretty fragmented experience as a whole, right? Where you're doing one thing for maybe a live class, maybe it's a fully in-person class or it's fully online class or something in the middle, and any asynchronous learning experiences. How does that all tie together? Are they using the same platforms? Are they using different platforms? Is it all tied in nicely with the VLE or do you have to go externally at all times? So for students, what do they care about? Well, as much as we're hearing from them and we try and keep us close to them as possible, they want a more seamless learning experience. So they just want to be able to have a very intuitive journey, really, whenever they've got any online learning or digital learning, they want to minimise training materials or minimise the need to go to technology support teams to actually help them in their learning. It needs to be really, really intuitive. For faculty, and of course connected to that, our digital learning or technology enhanced learning teams, we want really, really high adoption as much as possible. Because if technology is adopted, then of course it is used, it stays, it's much easier to keep it in the system, much easier to renew it going forward. And IT, of course, often care about, amongst other things, but they care about lower cost. And managing fewer suppliers, managing paying fewer licences, doing fewer due diligence processes, of course, it's a big, big, big deal for them. If they can streamline and consolidate that, and if we can sell it to them in that way, then they'll be very happy, and it certainly does make a project much, much more likely to happen and then actually succeed. A mention of inclusivity and accessibility is very, very important in the context of flexible learning, because ultimately what is flexible learning if it's not a personalised way of learning, where we give different types of learners the opportunity to learn their way and the way that works best for them. Now, of course, there are those who have medically diagnosed conditions that require them legally, and there's just no other way to learn in their own way. But actually there's great research that says that that's actually a minority of the preferences for different learning ways. There are plenty of students. Some research says that it's almost half of all students prefer some other way of learning than the traditional standard way, whether that's to do with how videos or online content is captioned in terms of what those captions actually look like and how do they correspond to the video itself, different formats, different colour schemes, different languages, different, you know, there's other things in there as well. So, you know, as I mentioned, automatic captions, how can we as a technology provider give our universities the most accurate automatic captions? That is, it's difficult, especially when it comes to something very technical. Are we talking about maybe a medical course? Are we talking about a linguistics course which has a lot of terminology that the AI captioning service would find difficult to transliterate properly? So we need to constantly be on the lookout for the best, most accurate providers out there so we can integrate them into our system and give universities the best automatic system there. Human captions cost a lot, but sometimes they are necessary and I know universities do sometimes want to invest in that, at least where it's most needed. And for example, like I mentioned medicine, transcriptions, translations, audio descriptions, and also automatic chaptering. I know certainly if I get an hour-long video, how likely am I to watch it straight through beginning to end? Well, if I'm really, really keen, obviously I might do it, but if I'm on the fence or maybe the material, we don't know how engaging it is, what could help me? Of course I can speed up the video. If I could do it on 1.5x or even 2x speed, obviously students love that feature. If it's chapted, that really, really helps. Chaptering, if it's manual, takes time, but if it's automatic and if it's smart, then it can be a very, very good way to break down a very long video into digestible chunks. Something else that we are working on and we want to do more of in the future is kind of boiling down long videos into more digestible chunks. Basically thinking of all sorts of different ways to make large data sets of information more digestible. Easily accessible, right there at your fingertips. Obviously in a familiar environment of a VLE. Can we do more? Well, yes, and this is a huge part of our organisation. If we talk about Kaltura for a little bit, we think that a university's video platform shouldn't just be for current students. It should also be for the entire student journey. And where does the student journey start often before a student is actually enrolled? Someone's first interaction with the university is probably before they go there, right? When they discover it online, maybe someone recommends it to them. Their school says maybe you've got a chance of getting in somewhere like this. There's always a way that someone can discover a university before they're actually enrolled. So then the question is back on us. Well, can we support that journey? Can we support a closer engagement, better reach, a better conversion for student recruitment teams from applicants to students? And so the use case outside of the VLE becomes really important. Then a student is an enrolled student. They're part of the system, they're authenticated. It's all in the VLE, great. When they leave, what happens? Did they just stop being a member of the community unless they maybe live locally or sometimes they come back to work for the university, which is always a nice thing. But alumni are often a university's biggest community. And it's often an untapped community in terms of potential for helping out current students with their first job or actually supporting the university and let's call it as it is financially. Often university for someone can be the fun time that they remember some time ago, where they made their best friends, where it was a bit more carefree. Can they, if they have the means, give back and maybe contribute to new facilities or contribute to a new scholarship or contribute some other way, maybe even if it's very small to make that institution that they hold so dearly even more successful and more sustainable for the future. So then I always enjoy those conversations with alumni and development teams when we're talking about ways to engage university communities that maybe aren't talked about enough in this way. And it is challenging, but I will say that it is possible to have one video platform that supports synchronous and asynchronous learning for current students, for lifelong students once they graduate and they're part of the alumni, big alumni world and throughout their career they can come back and reskill or upskill themselves as they need. Very briefly about us as a company just to give again some context as to why we have this perspective. We know how do we actually know what we're talking about in this respect? Well, we do a lot of work with higher education. We work with other industries as well and this is something that really helps us. For example, we work in the media space, we work with enterprise and there's certain high demands in those industries that force us to improve our product, that force us to have a really resilient video player or just constantly modernize our interface and experience. So actually we're happy to be kind of kept honest by those other industries, but education still remains our biggest single industry that we're in. We've got about 600, probably more than 600 education institutions that are part of our community and we keep a close connection with them of course as they use us and we survey them. We want to hear how we can improve and what we can build that is more useful. And of course when it comes to some notable institutions around the world, now we could put all sorts of logos on there, but some of the notable ones in the UK include University of Sheffield and Edinburgh and Glasgow and Cambridge and KCL and there's always more that are exploring coming on board for sometimes common reasons, sometimes very specific ones. So I'll leave it just before we maybe give some time for questions with this slide, which I think really illustrates quite well how we can be useful to your institution. So if you're thinking of taking a photo of one slide that's about Kaltura, make it this slide because the red part is probably what you'd expect and that's video for teaching and learning. And as I mentioned earlier, it's synchronous, virtual classrooms, et cetera. It's asynchronous, lecture capture, video content management, et cetera. But also look at all those other use cases where we are involved in it and could be helpful. I realize that might not be your department, it could be someone else at the university that we'd need to be working with, but if you sense that there's an interest there, we could be useful to them. So that includes, as I mentioned, campus communications, events, marketing and student recruitment, alumni relations, teacher training, and even more than that. So if this is of any interest, again, if you've got questions, if you think it's useful for everyone, please chime in. And also curious, even if you haven't got a question, if it's just a comment or you disagree with something or anything like that, then feel free to chip in. But otherwise, we'll be just there on stand 12. John and I will be holding down the fort today and tomorrow. So thank you very much for listening and, yeah, curious to hear your feedback. Yeah, at the back. So I think you talked about preventing the ecosystem and flexibility. So I was kind of wondering, well, basically, I think it's that same, how should we actually compute and see if it's together into a system behind a single sign on and this kind of thing's not all that's there. But if I was like the university administrator, I'd say, well, what are the risks of the thing I'm raising one basket? Do you have the good about the style of the data? Have you good about the term educational futures? So I was wondering, maybe, you know, maybe if it's ever that difficult, and say, rather than raising one box, doesn't have to be looking from the diversity of tools, which we use it properly, which, you know, the piece is scaffolding, you know, we basically are part of an education design which is for hearing, rather than just one box for everything. Oh, I think it's a very fair point. I'm sure many of us would agree that you shouldn't consolidate too much and you shouldn't force yourself. You shouldn't kind of depend too much on one platform either. I think that I can't remember who told me this, but I think it was actually the University of Manchester, Ian Hart, who leads the digital learning team there, said that they have about 1,300 digital tools, 1,300. And it's just such an overwhelming number that I think that's just too much. And I don't think they're an outlier in, they might be because they're so huge in that exact number, but I don't think they're an outlier in how many tools there are at the university, how many licensed fees are being paid, how many tools are kind of sitting on the shelf, whether for real or metaphorically. So I'd say, I completely agree that you shouldn't put too many eggs in one basket, or where you can consolidate and create what's a visibly better journey for the learner. I think it should at least be explored. And you might at the end say, actually no, yet we've seen that, but we still want to have this platform for A, another platform for B, a third platform for C. And if, as long as that's an intentional decision based on a conscious review, I don't think anyone can argue too much with that. Graham. I'd like to illustrate what is expected, specifically around your idea. So in 2017, we noticed we had a problem that we didn't really have, a suitable and truly a hosting platform that was really there for any part, key vertical requirements on our institution. And in fact, what happened was because we had, we ended up with a number of variously, people, and we had a natural recording, which was great for the natural recording application. We had an old media host system which really wasn't in front of it, because it was a very weird kind of user managing rights. And something was definitely stuck in YouTube. We had Apple-based content in our G&G. And what we basically ended up with was a complete mirroring of misunderstandings. There was no single way to find and locate any video information that was very, very weird. So whilst I think I'll tell you, Ryan, in certain things, we need to understand that there are, I think there are certain compartmentalisations that are worth making. So if you really want to take a video series or if you want to use a very specific requirement of how that's actually going, definitely not something that I would like to want to discuss. So we actually, in some way, to go out and video, which is, and actually, as it just happened, we went with that show. So I think that, I understand what you're saying, we've all got every single application. But trying to control, manage, decide with my job to manage video across five platforms, none of the general ones, really, or none of the four, you know, that they all have issues, is really, is not, is not an impressive case. Sure. So it's just a quick one. How do you licence in the market? Is it due to payment as to why, by a sense? And I'm just wondering if you could add a little bit on the fact that you end up with a lot of views as well. I know what you mean, yeah, of course. So anything that's external, so think, is this a prospective student, you know, an applicant? Is this an alumnus or an alumna? The way that the licensing would work there is, is by registrant annually. And it's not a kind of FTE basis, where it's, you know, we can say this is a learner that engages basically almost every day with technology. It's often through virtual events or hybrid events, or some kind of digital experience that someone will have. And if it's external, then the licensing works by registrant essentially. And they would often register just as an external participant to that. They don't need to be authenticated via SSO or anything like that, or go through the VLE. They wouldn't have to pay, they wouldn't have to pay. I mean, someone has to pay at the end, obviously. And if an alumni department thinks it's worthwhile having a platform to facilitate that digital engagement, then they often, you know, are happy to pay for it. And if they have many people joining at the end, then actually the cost per registrant is very low. Very good. Anything else before we wrap up? Just as a trick to you, we talked about lexicans language and technical terms and how they're reflected in captioning. I mean, that's one of the biggest challenges that the sector is facing, the scheduled lecture recordings. And it's a huge work, though, to start to correct. You talked about your suppliers and, I mean, how are you solving that problem? And, you know, if you're on medicine, this affects the whole science disciplines in particular. But also it addresses our international faculty, different accents, and it sets it to the software to actually produce an accurate caption. So how are you tackling that problem? We have to realise what we're good at and focus on that. We have to realise when something is not our game to play and how can we bring them to our system by integrating with them. And so we've long realised, and I don't think any video platform brings it completely upon themselves, maybe Zoom or some of the teams or huge ones, right, backed by Microsoft or whatever, they can maybe develop their own large language models and AI captioning services. But for us, we just have to stay as close as we can to the most innovative specialists in that field. And some of the common names you guys might know, a verbit, ambascript, they could be the ones for today, but they might not be the ones for tomorrow. And if we sense that there is a better way, if there is a technology that's emerging that is much more accurate, much more sensitive to different accents and dialects, then we have to make sure that we can integrate that into our system and get the API talking to each other. The end user never has to worry about that because it's just a technological tech integration. So for us, it's really just being ahead of the game as much as possible. And, John, I think you've got something to contribute as well. Just to add to that, we have some reach services. So it's part of the ship agreement where it's probably about a total trend of companies of all the different types of captioning and chaptering and dubbing and translation services. One other thing to mention as well is the ability to add key terms into a dictionary. That's about 8,000 terms or words to be added to the dictionary within the institution system.  And if they're frequently misunderstood, sometimes they will then be read through the dictionary that they provide. So we are primed to address those issues of misunderstood words, key technical terms, and kind of have a forcing mechanism within the system that you can find in those dictionaries. Yeah. It's often about not making the same mistake twice, or at least not three times or four times. So being able to learn from when the system gets it wrong, if we've got time to review that, to make that improvement and then the system actually should learn and not make that same mistake again. But yeah, there's no perfection in that. But we're always, I think we're getting there. We're getting a bit closer. How are we doing for time? I think we're almost there. Perfect. Well, thanks again, everyone. I love talking on the subjects, and I'm sure many of you do as well. So say hello to us at Stand 12 if you haven't got your stick already. But great to see you and enjoy the rest of the conference.


I used to travel a lot before the internet, before smartphones, and then back then you had to call a travel agent or get paper tickets. Only open Monday to Friday, five days a week. Now everything is so easy with the apps and you can book and fix everything. But what if you realize that you just forgot your bag? Today's topic is customer service. My wristwatch is broken, my shoes are untied, time is ticking. A couple of weeks back I was on this flight and as they turned the seatbelt sign off I reached for my computer. And there on the screen for login it said Sea Walker with a picture of a dog. And of course my name is not Sea Walker and I don't have a dog avatar. So there I am on this flight with someone else's computer. And of course that means that someone else has my computer. What do you do in a situation like that? I was like trying to reverse the tape and I realized security, we must have mixed up in security. So I called the flight attendant and I tried to explain the situation. But she started to talk about how she could not confirm names on a passenger list. And I said you don't have to, you can just call for a passenger who has the wrong computer. But she had sandwiches to serve or something. So I started to walk from first to last row, showing everybody all passengers this computer calling for the name Sea Walker. And they looked at me, maybe not as a dangerous person but a freak at least. In the end of the flight I realized that no, he's not on this flight. So when we touched down, I got into Oslo, I did some research and I realized that out of this small airport at the same time approximately there was another flight to Stansted. And I did some more calling, some talking to airline people but they were all talking about rules. GDPR and you know how they could not do this, I had to report to some lost and found apartment somewhere. But then I found London Stansted on Twitter. So I just took a chance and I tweeted them. And thank God on the other side of that tweet, I mean out there in cyberspace was another human being. A person that saw his or her opportunity to not only do their job and push and market Stansted airport but actually to help another human being. Like every fairy tale this story had a happy ending so we managed to exchange computers. I mean Trondheim and yesterday I was speaking on the topic of customer-centric cultures in the digital age. And I think it's kind of awkward and funny and interesting that in this day and age where everything is so focused on new technology, a lot of chatbots and AI and smartphone apps and all these things, it's almost like we forget about the human touch. I mean of course you need all that. I as a customer expect you to serve me with new technology. But with that you will free up a lot of time from your employees so that they have more opportunities to be more human, to be creative, to be bold enough to even break the protocol. I mean and technology will never break the rules and AI or an algorithm will do exactly like you program them to do. That's the point of it all. It's not one or the other. It's not technology or, no we do it the old way with human beings. Technology will give us the new stuff and then we have more opportunity to be more human. That's the whole point of it all. Human beings can be creative, they can break the protocol, they can break the rules even. If you create that kind of culture, so then it's a question of culture. How do you create that kind of culture, a customer centric culture? Well of course then it has to do with incentives and mandate. How do you incentivize and what kind of mandate? Why do people come in in the morning? What's the purpose of the work they are doing? I mean if they have a lot of new free time, to me it's obvious they have opportunities here to be more human. To do even more of that thing that technology cannot do. So to me this is the obvious battle of the future customer loyalty here. There will be hundreds of brands and companies out there with all these tech gadgets and all these apps and everything.  Not primarily just to push or sell or market, but to try to help them, truly help them. So please tell me if you have any nice reflections. If you want more, hit subscribe and I'll see you in the future.


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I have lung disease, COPD. It's a whole mixture of conditions. I felt that I had to do something to confront my condition, to engage with my condition, and so I developed a little paper-based system of measuring my wellness. I was able to take the results of this along to my specialist and my doctor, and it wasn't very long before we were having evidence-led consultations. I then took this to one of the senior pulmonary professors in the UK. He's based in Swansea University, Keir Lewis, and as soon as he saw what we were doing, he said, can I please be your clinical lead? That gave us an enormous impetus, and my colleague and I, we worked developing the process in 2016, and it's been an absolute rocket ride for the last two years, and we're engaged with a lot of people. We're engaged with Aberystwyth University, we're engaged with Swansea University, we're engaged with the British Long Foundation.  I think it's a great opportunity for us to get to know each other better. It's a great opportunity for us to get to know each other better. We're sure that we'll be able to get to know each other better in the NHS sector.


Very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on the breakfast this morning. My name is Nyamgul Agadjig My name is Vermette Paul Singh. Thank you for joining us this morning Before I make a mistake again. What's today's date? Today's the 12th. Yeah, finally that twelfth I was talking about yesterday So we have almost like a 13 days to Christmas and it's here Ladies and gentlemen, so if you are doing the buying or anything else Make sure that you do it maybe this week because anything beyond this week. We do not know what it's going to be So but Christmas must happen whether we have something new or not Christmas must happen It always comes and even if the national grid collapses Christmas will still happen. Yeah, so I was doing some calculation and it was like for the last 10 years Every month we have one point one five times that the grid will collapse You know because that's collapse like 100 collapse like a 138 times. Yeah 10 years, which is which is terrible Well on the show this morning. We are going to be looking at very interesting topics And first of all is that a co-host team is now negotiating with Niger on return to civil rule and Another topic we'll be looking at is it's barely let's say that Karadolu feature stay governor up on those states That's a question. We're asking this morning And of course, we'll be looking at the papers on of the press to see what the headlines this morning are Once again, good morning and welcome to the break fast. We do hope that you're going to have a swell time Watching us this morning. Yes Okay We'll go straight to the top trending issues Top trending issues. The first one here is that federal government to get 20 million out of school children to school That's according to the Minister of Education. The Minister of Education says it is working to get Nigeria's 20 million out of school children back to school in the next four years the Minister of Education Professor Tahir Malan said this on Monday at the 2024 budget defense before the joint committee of the National Assembly on education in Abuja He noted that the millions of out-of-school children in Nigeria is a major problem for the country The minister said that the ministry had engaged with stakeholders to review Nigeria school curriculum to ensure skills Accusation for students. He encouraged universities to include skills training and entrepreneurship into their curricula to ensure that they Produce self-reliant graduates. Malan noted that a total of 101.45 billion era was allocated for the ministry in 2024 out of which 5.88 billion was for personnel cost 1.08 billion for overhead cost and 94.48 billion era For capital expenditure the chairman house committee on alternative education Reb Aliou Mustafa said that the house was concerned about the rising number of out-of-school children in Nigeria, there are so many things that were said there, but I'm glad that they're saying they're taking Adiquate steps to make sure the 20 million out-of-school children are back to school Even though I have so many questions. Let me hear what you think about it. So I think First we're really right. You're moving around going in traffic and you're sitting in lots of school children Like children are supposed to be in school and they're out there on the streets Begging for alms and stuff and sometimes they don't even have any other thing. They're doing. They're not learning anything In my church, we do like this CSR things that we do like every Christmas whereby we go into communities and we try to help the people there and On Sunday a lot of people were in a summer mood because we watched this video of a community and there was just this lady Who has a school certificate and she teaches about 30 something children? Guess how much they pay put him They pay five thousand now For a term now if you have to go to school Maybe like in the evening if you can afford the one in the morning You pay a hundred now for every time that you have to go and guess what their families who cannot? Even before that a hundred nerds to take their kids to school that evening. So now there are lots of children They're not doing anything. They just wake up Eats if that's even if they have food to eat they roam around and that's it So there is nothing being impacted into their lives. They don't know anything They just know to move around except how to be straight wise Yes, exactly and then maybe the other thing they have to do now is to go to the to try like maybe the streets Begging in traffic and all of that meanwhile these kids are supposed to be in school They're supposed to be learning and these are the leaders of tomorrow as we like to say So what's happening to all of these children and if the government is really really going to? Invest in this and making sure that all the kids that out of school the 20 million of them are going to be back In school that is great because our precedents our governors our innovators are gonna come out from these kids So it's better for us to start investing in their future right now So I think it's commendable, but the question now is is that gonna happen and how many of those kids because I remember In the former administration the first time for boy, they said that we're going to feed You know these kids in school that will come to school and they will have lunch and all of that But we never really see that materialized. Yes, so a lot of times they make these promises They raise our hopes high and then they get dashed again, and I hope that would not be the case for this one Yeah, well anything short of free education. We will not get what they're talking about 20 million people Why are they out? You said something about a hundred Naira a lot of families who will feed on that 100 Naira for a day Yeah in this league or it's not even anywhere else the center of excellence You find those people there like you said the people who are supposed to be fed at the time They were talking about feeding them human was a mount was budgeted for that But we didn't see that in fact at some point I was moving around with the governor of Lagos state And we went to one school on one of these occasions and they were served boil the arm and eggs and You could see the jubilation in the school and I had to ask one of them They've never seen this before that day the governor went that way so Sometimes well, I'll give it to the government as well. Sometimes they make provisions for these people But but the middlemen are the ones that just But it goes a long way to say a lot about about monitoring No matter what you do if there's no mechanism to monitor whatever you're doing then you might just fail it's futile Yes, okay. We're talking about agriculture people returning to agriculture. We don't have They were these agents that used to come to villages and everywhere to teach people how to ties They have to do this thing agricultural extension officers. We don't have them anymore They monitor how people plant their their crops What then teach them the new methods to be used now that we have technology Maybe there could have been the ones to be teaching these people. Yes, they're no longer there There are no longer people who go to schools to monitor What the teachers are doing and how the students are faring and all that Monitoring that yeah, but I like the fact that they said they they need to change the curriculum. Yes involved something like Skills acquisition and all that if they can do that it will be very very good But if we read down that story, there was another point they made that nowadays Schools are producing Unemployable people Now well, yes You could say that but Who among them? I mean the people who are advanced in the age now Had the talent or the the skill when they were being employed for the first time true most times They employ you teach you on the job and you come very good now They want you to be 25 years and you know, I have 10 years of experience I always How am I supposed to have all of these experiences if you've never given me a shot to even learn in the first place? And I understand the fact that they're saying okay They need to change the curriculum to ensure that we have like these skills and acquisitions, but then if you don't so Okay, let me put it this way. I remember when I was much younger I used to have this whole presenting skills and all of that But guess what my school never had that and I'm like, why don't we do this presentation? If you go to other schools, maybe in the US you see them They have like their science project aside, you know submitting it for us We just say oh do this and you submit it then a teacher marks it and that's it But then do you bring the kids out to come and explain? How did you get here that you're already helping them to build your presentation skills? So, okay, like now we're in the technological age as we say the age of technology Right now.  So all you have to do is fill it up with the right things if you're teaching them help for me I can't start learning how to code at the moment. I feel like I'm too old for that I'm not that old but yeah, but then for these kids they pick up things Yeah easily and so fast so at the end of the day if you're changing the curriculum Make sure that you're putting things that would you know enable them to be more employable and I think another thing I want to add is the fact that history is really not in our curriculum as we would love for it to have to have to be there We know that's real history Yes, not telling me that Mungo Park came and discovered my villa. No, where were my ancestors? What happened and the the the the Civil War like you know all those kind of things that we really really need to know About Nigeria not the people that came discovered and moved away Real heroes of Nigeria those things need to be added into the curriculum as well as I think it's a whole Overhaul of everything.  Everything you know is the melting pot It should be the melting pot because that's the capital of Nigeria You find schools where children sit on the floor There was there was a photograph and some videos a few weeks ago that was showing schools in a booja They had no desk. They had nothing in the school people the children were sitting on the floor and writing in a booja So if it can happen in a booja, then then you imagine what will happen So now more or less the government has just removed education from their list and put in the hands of Private individuals that may not do what they're supposed to do because they are Driven by the business Even if they do it's so pricey that a lot of people cannot afford it too much So I don't know what they're talking about my friend made a joke She's like oh, I want to put my child in crutch around this Neighborhood and she's like why am I paying a millionaire for my child to go and just play in school But at the end of the day because you know that you can't put your child in a public school What are they really getting so you're saying okay? I want to put you in a private school where I'm sure that you know the curriculum is better You're you're learning faster, but guess what that comes at a price the price tag is humongous So how many people in Nigeria can actually afford this education we're talking about well Maybe I'm talking like a poor man, but for a million era. I'll go to NCE Yes to become to be homeschooling that person and a nanny will be there all those people would be covered by that Why will I just send my child to go and play in school? But when you find out that if you don't do that you don't have a good alternative You you go into a primary school a government primary school now one class is holding like 120 And one teacher that has not been paid or is being paid the part or some I have I have a PhD holder Friend who is in the civil service that has not received up to a hundred thousand before So how would you want that person to work just because you have pensions for that person and you're keeping the person there There's pension for you. So government work is better than any other work Because Nigeria is borrowing from the pension fund and the pensioners themselves are not getting their money Some of them go to sleep for how many days because of verification and all that you know, it's it's crazy Well if the government really does this and they do it well because whatever is what they're in is what doing well So as long as they can do this and we're sure and they do it Well, that would be commendable and I think that would be a step in the right direction 94 billion Naira is what has been voted for for whatever you're thinking about because they move the personnel cost the move Any other expenditure what was left for? Capital expenditure as they call it is 94 billion Naira is not dollars And it's still not the percentage of the budget the annual budget as recommended by the United Nations So I don't know what we're talking about, but this thing is possible. They South West did it at the time of our world He said it this must happen and that's why we have like more educated people in the Southwest So Nigeria can replicate that in the entire nation except they don't want to Let's just hope that they do Anyways moving on to another story Nigeria has been thrown into darkness as national grid collapses again Nigeria's electricity grid has once again thrown the country into darkness as the government operator system went down Monday afternoon The system collapsed it's about 1 p.m. Cutting down electricity from 4032 point 80 megawatts at about 12 p.m. To 43 megawatts at 1 p.m An omega walk 303 megawatts at about 5 p.m Most discuss confirmed that your feeders are out even as over 22 Electricity plants on the grid were all reading zero megawatts as of 5 p.m Going by the data available on the transmission company of Nigeria's system network The national grid one of the most embarrassing entities of the power sector has failed many times this year alone even as the grid has collapsed for about 138 times in the last one decade Just recently TCN had rolled out the drums over a misleading celebration of 400 days of no system collapse About two months ago the grid system in a double jeopardy collapsed at about 12 40 a.m. Only to go down again at 6 40 a.m. Six hours interval data on the grid collapse showed that in 2013 the country recorded 24 power system collapses the collapse incident stood at 13 in 2014 in 2015 the grid collapsed after about 10 times in 2016 it rose to 28 while 21 cases were recorded in 2017 grid collapse cases in 2018 2019 2020 and 2021 with 1311 4 and 4 respectively it collapsed about 10 times between 2022 and this year A check in as of 1 p.m. On Monday on Ebon power was left on the grid with 43 megawatts Only a zero was on the grid at 5 p.m. With 303 megawatts a number of distribution companies Disco's confirmed to us that the grid went down it's about 1 p.m. Yesterday So yes, yeah, I don't know Yesterday I was like at about 6 p.m. There was no light. Yeah, there was a flash It was a flash where while we're at work, you know, yes flash and then it went back maybe three minutes or so I was told when I got home, and I don't know it's really embarrassing like they say One of the most embarrassing things we supplied power to some other countries Neighborhood countries countries that are celebrating years of interrupted We are having four hundred days and celebrating and I don't know how they want the international That's not even true because I don't think like I don't even think you go 400 days and you celebrate and I'm not I am sure That you know there were times that it's not only interrupted They're just saying that the grid did not collapse in that 400 yeah So it's not on interrupted power supply because in the last 400 days or in the last one year There's so many times that I've had to you know move over to an alternative power source Which is you know your diesel generators and that's right now is so Expensive and then I just ask myself Are we serious? Are we playing in this country as we like to say because we have so much sunlight? Why are we not exploring that now? We're talking about global warming who knows what our even Niger will dry up God forbid anyway, but what if it it happens? Even if it doesn't happen. Why do we have to rely solely on? Hydro-powered electricity and not consider the solar energy that we have in Abundance, you know, you can't even step out of the house up 28 So if we're going there that means we should be looking at all of these alternatives that we can Bring to the nation. I don't know whether our leaders Well, there are so many words coming that I should not thinking about oil Yeah, I think our leaders are more fixated on oil So they never really, you know move out of the box so other things that we might need but they know these things and They're not doing them You go over to the America they go to the UK they go to every other country that they go to the exploring Solar energy. I think it's a scale of preference type of thing So in the scale of preference, that's probably not on the top Like that's not that doesn't make the list what should be because I tell me is is the way It is because of the power that we have if we had better power steady power and cheap power We would have progressed more than this exactly because a lot of a lot of Companies, you know rely on this even the lady downstairs the person who's selling in a kiosk She also relies on power to be able to chill her drinks because we live in a very hot Environment the weather is so hot and humid So the lady needs, you know power to be able to chill her drinks for you to be able to buy them and be satisfied Needs electricity, you know to cut this yeah needs electricity everyone everyone needs electricity imagine if they're spending so much on petrol or Dizzle that obviously increases the costs of you know, whatever service they're going to give render to you So therefore they're not even going to make as much money for the nation How much do you spend on diesel per month? So last month I spent a hundred and seventy thousand and I live in a very small Matt would I I would say matchbox, but a very, you know, small and Seven thousand in a country that has National power whatever it and we supply to some neighboring countries too Okay There are people who will be looking at you like oh, that's like five months salary for me Because truly there are people who are earning 15,000 20,000 and Maybe honestly, honestly this previous month. I even told my neighbors I'm like, I'm not sure I want to do this because he started from from 80,000 Then he went to a hundred one twenty one fifty last month and this month was a hundred and seventy And I'm like, where are we going to at some point we'll get to the we'll get to a place where we have to 250 how much am I making that I'm spending so much money on just power alone and that's even an alternative power We're not talking about what I'm paying to, you know The power holding company as well. And then I have to pay my rent. I have to feed I have to feel my car But there's a lot Nigerians work. Well done Nigerians. We are going through a lot You move to My move to my father's house in Ikoru do at this point See that's the reason a lot of people go through the kind of stress they go through, you know People come from Ogun state All the way to come and work in Lagos state and pay tax in Lagos state and Lagos state is just comfortable after all They're still coming here. They need Lagos to survive But what are you doing to make sure that these people are comfortable enough now We've gone to cop 28. We've gone to other places and told the world that we are going to produce We're going to supply a hundred electric box boxes. We are going to and that is a hundred buses Even Lagos be RT is more than a hundred Maybe the one that starts with this since it's just electric block buses So if you're looking at electricity power in these buses, you know, okay, let's start small and then let's see how we go Sorry, I always have to make a Let me not even say what I intended to say, but this final one is just a very fast one last mass acts five officials for Corruption and other offenses the Lagos state traffic management authority has terminated the appointment of five office officials For corruption and other offenses in a statement on Monday by last month spokesman Adebayo Tuafic The traffic management authority said letters of termination of appointments were released to the officers on December 8th 2023 good thing last month every other Agency should sit up and make sure that the bad eggs within them should be removed and I'm still talking about this bombing that happened Let us see people Answering for their their mistakes. Yes, and so many other things I don't know even warned that they should compensate all the families. Yes in the last decade. They have been so many Errors like this. Yes, it's so wrong, but aside compensation I think you must pay you must their consequences were set in actions, right?  Oh, sorry a pattern the back. Oh, well done And that's it. No removed but the thing is the last time the last administration of President Mohammed the Buhari the Service chiefs were said to be very corrupt and so many reports damning reports came out Guess what they were removed and then given ambassadorial positions in other countries So what that tells you is it's almost like you're rewarding corruption or you're rewarding bad behavior Because if an error like this could happen, right? Maybe for the book the cardinal bombing we're talking about an error could happen and nothing is being done Tell me she's telling the other people the subordinates that it's okay You can do it as well and nothing will happen and whether they know the right. Yes So it's a cycle. It's a vicious cycle.  We'll see it under the carpet You are rewarding bad behavior and you're letting them know that it is okay to do it and nothing happens to you so and I think You know if they remove these people like for the last more officials now It's a great thing because that serves as a stern warning to others like if you do this this these are the Consequences of these actions and when that happens, I'm sorry We have to let you go and in fact you'll be disgraced your face will be on national TV. Police. Are you hearing? Well, the police does it and you know, but the culprits the greatest culprits we know about this corruption the policemen On the on our roads and everywhere else. Sometimes the police Removes these people, but I think they should even do more. I don't know how they do it except Somebody complains about it and the person is lucky for that threat to go viral. They don't act on it Yes, so sometimes let the PR or some other people who are High up they go in Mufti and see what their office is doing exactly and then when they do that They can take some actions and name and shame Yeah, when the see when others see that you might be dealing with a police officer In Mufti because you're doing one or two things they will sit up at all But, you know, definitely one day one as we say All right, we'll go on a short break and when we return we'll be looking at what the national dailies are saying this morning in Of the press stay with us


Imagine, if you will, bar room brawls, gunfights, and cowboys trailing cattle across the wild prairies. This is what early Converse County looked like before settlers brought civilization to the area. Converse County was initially created around 1886 from portions of Albany and Laramie counties. It was named for Amatsa Converse, who was a banker and pioneer from Cheyenne. The county originally included land which is now in Nyebara County, and Lusk was in the running for being chosen as the county seat. This honor was eventually given to Douglas, after residents were seemingly allowed to vote as many times as they wanted for their chosen town. Today, Converse County is much more modern. The railroad, mining, tourism, and agriculture are the dominant industries, and the county tends to experience the boom and bust cycles common to Wyoming. If you are ever in the area, stop and check out the Thunder Basin National Grassland, the Palean Fossil Museum, and Fort Fetterman. Visit in August to take in the annual Wyoming State Fair, which has been held in Douglas since its inception in 1905. If you have not been lucky to see one in the wild, stop by Jackalope Square in downtown Douglas, Wyoming. This nocturnal creature has been evading detection since before settlers came to the area. From the University of Wyoming Extension, I'm Ashley Garles, Exploring the Nature of Wyoming.


Cocaine is the most used psychostimulant in Europe. Our estimation is that about 2 million young adults have used it last year. A small number of those using cocaine will develop some problems. Cocaine is a powerful stimulant, its effects include increased energy, feelings of intense pleasure, but also anxiety and paranoia. The drug does this by disrupting the normal signalling pathways in the body. For example, cocaine causes a buildup of dopamine in the brain and this is responsible for the feelings of intense pleasure. But with repeated use, users find that they have to take more of the drug to get the same effects because cocaine can dampen the ability to feel pleasure. For heroin, during the last decades, there has been substitution medication to help users like methadone, buprenorphine and other drugs, but this is not the case for cocaine users. Nevertheless, many medications are being studied for helping those using cocaine. We are trying to find out what kind of medications. Medicines that somehow activate GABA. Medicines that will change dopamine. Medicines that admit that they can work with substitution therapy, although this is not very clear. There has been a very wide number of medications that have been used over time, and I have also used them. There has been a fact that I wanted to mention that there is no substance that is approved for treatment of cocaine. Therefore, we are committed to the prehistory of cocaine treatment. While research on pharmacological intervention is ongoing, this standard treatment for cocaine users is a combination of cognitive and behavioral interventions.


Afghanistan is in a crisis, not just in a humanity crisis, but in a human rights crisis. There's a lot the world can do. First and the most important, the girls' education. Girls should go back to school and receive a quality education. That's our chance for peace. And world leaders have that power in terms of resources and finances to finance that, but also in terms of creating political pressure on Taliban to reopen girls' schools. And I think that is the first step. And the second step is to create the necessary pressure to bring Taliban around the table for a political settlement to create a democratic representative country where all ethnic groups and women are involved and part of the decision-making, otherwise we would run in a risk of having an authoritarian regime and very hard to get out of it.


There's three areas which, when you explore, are instantly going to help you improve your photography skills as a beginner. Aperture, this is how much light the lens is letting through. Those are those odd numbers that you see on a lens, F1.8, F2.8, F4, 5.6 and so on. The wider aperture, so that's a smaller number, creates a shallow depth of field. And a narrow aperture, that's a larger f-stop, creates a wider depth of field. The shutter opens and closes to expose the sensor. The longer the shutter is open, the more light is hitting it. And that time that is open is usually measured in fractions of a second. The shorter the exposure time, the more that you are going to freeze motion. The longer that that shutter is open, the more blurry and abstract the image becomes. ISO number, the smaller the number, the less sensitive the higher, the more sensitive. Now, higher isn't always best. The more sensitive that you make the sensor, the more you're going to introduce the thing that's called noise. Just know if you want to have those smooth tones that so many people talk about, you want to choose a low ISO.


So I'm hanging out in Fuji, Sydney, Australia and there are just so many nice public facilities here. We have great toilets, great bathrooms, great changing rooms, great showers, great beaches, great public transport, great gardens, a great harbor, great nature works, walks, and all sorts of great natural scenery, there's no trash, all this abundance here in Sydney, how come we don't get to have nice things in America and why don't we get the provision of abundant public services in America. And it's all because you've got a tiny minority of people that commit astronomical rates of crime. So you can't have as many public bathrooms in America's more diverse areas because you've got a lot of criminals who use them to deal drugs, to do drugs, to do prostitution. So I'm looking at this New York Times article, if New York is so great, why isn't there anywhere to be? Why doesn't New York get to have nice things? This is by Theodora Siegel, she operates the Twitter account, got to go to New York City. It's a crowdsourced count of New York City bathrooms, so why does New York City have so few public bathrooms, why do American cities have so few public bathrooms? Because of the horrible behavior of a tiny minority of Americans, that's why you don't get to have these nice things in America that we have here in Sydney and other first world countries. But she never touches on that in the south bed, which is in the middle of Times Square in July of 2021. I sit at the last of my eyes, coffee, I realized I had to go. I was turned away from several businesses. I burst into a McDonald's, was told the bathroom was for customers only. I paid $3 for a bottle of water and upstairs. So why doesn't New York City have nice public facilities? Because those groups that commit astronomical amounts of crime destroy public space. You only get to have nice things in New York City or Los Angeles or Chicago on private space, but they get to keep people out. So here in Sydney, you get nice public facilities, like nice public goods, you get Socialized Medicine, you get abundant public housing, an abundant welfare state, because you don't have a tiny minority of the population that just abuses the heck out of any public goods. So the struggle to find an accessible bathroom is a public health issue. You know why there aren't a lot of publicly accessible bathrooms? Because of crime. So the same lefties who are decrying the lack of public facilities and public goods and public welfare services, right, they are the ones who push for de-policing, which means the very worst elements are no longer discouraged by active police enforcement. So they act terribly and they destroy the public space. This is why we don't get to have public bathrooms in New York City. To make sure everyone has a place to go, New York City needs to treat public bathroom access as an infrastructure problem deserving of immediate robust response. Guess what would happen if you built more public bathrooms in New York City? Right. Like crime-prone people would abuse them. Public good, sweet, sweet. New York City has 8.5 million residents, millions more tourists, fewer than 1200 public bathrooms. Why? Because when you have public bathrooms in New York City, they get abused. So the only way to maintain nice things is to encourage law enforcement to protect public spaces. But right now, we're discouraging law enforcement, so the bad people are wrecking our public spaces. Where in New York is supposed to go when they have to go? Well, it'd be a lot easier if you were able to maintain a public space that was kept safe. But as long as you have criminal elements running wild and the police discourage from doing their job and bad people are punished, then you don't get to have public bathrooms. So she says, the Adora Seagull. I am a graduate student studying opera who runs around the city filming sanitary and accessible restrooms in a spare time. She says, wonderful, hanging around, photographing restrooms in a spare time. The subway has become my editing studio. I've learned that a lack of accessible bathrooms is especially serious consequences for anyone who's not wealthy, white, and cisgender. Yeah, we're here in Kudji, mate. So it's all going down here, looking out at the beautiful ocean. So Sunday afternoon, 4.40pm, oh Monday, Monday afternoon, it's 4.40pm Monday, January 16th. Just hanging out here, reading the New York Times, had a nice swim. So, 44 year old resident with IBS had to defecate between two parked cars on a morning commute. You know why? Because we discourage police from doing their jobs, so bad people do what bad people do and they destroy public spaces such as public restrooms. But this woman's a lefty. She doesn't connect how it's left-wing activism against the police that is destroying public services such as public bathrooms. A homeless couple would deny a bathroom code despite offering to buy something with their limited funds. You wouldn't have this problem if you had safe public spaces with strong law enforcement presence. A tourist from London witnessed her elderly friend wet herself. London cities have a problem with lack of publicly accessible bathrooms, but if they build those bathrooms, then they get desecrated by bad people and the police and law enforcement and criminal justice system who should be punishing the people who have grown out of public spaces, well, they're under the control of the left. She doesn't believe in punishing people to do bad things. Custom access should be a basic human right. Budget cuts shuttered McDonald's in the 1970s, well, it's not budget cuts, it's the trashing of these public services by a tiny minority of our population who does not get punished. I remember walking down Piquet Boulevard and walking towards me was this crazy person who was just knocking over every trash can. So there were a bunch of Jews who fundraised and set up all sorts of trash cans in Piquet Robertson to keep the place clean.  And he'd be pointless to call the police on it because the police have now been discouraged from doing their jobs. The New York City has tried to build sanitized, self-sanitizing automatic paid toilets, right, at least four have been installed. The New York City has ranked 93rd in the nation when it comes to public bathrooms per capita. So the city is abroad and much farther ahead of New York. Why? I don't know. There's a difference in the population, say, between Sydney and New York City. Sydney does not have a sizable minority of its population who destroys public spaces. She never addresses this. Yeah, cities abroad can build more public restrooms, they can build public spaces, they can build public facilities, they can have generous welfare provisions, right, because they don't have a tiny minority of their population who exorbitantly uses and destroys public spaces. So this woman is speaking outside of City Hall in support of the bathroom bill, encouraging New York City to build more bathrooms. New York City should be our greatest city in the world as time our bathroom access reflects that. But she never comes to grips with why bathroom access and other public goods get destroyed and have to be severely limited because of the horrible behavior of a tiny minority of the population until she comes to grips with that reality. We have a public culture problem, a crime problem, a disproportionate crime problem caused by a minority of the population, and now our police law enforcement and justice department are discouraged from acting on those who are destroying our public spaces. Public infrastructure should allow the greatest diversity of people to build a life here. Yeah, guess what? You can't build a life when you have criminals running wild and destroying everything precious that you try to build up for the public. So for example, I know from my conversion to Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Judaism has created a lot of beautiful things, a beautiful, intense community where people really care for each other because it has very strict boundaries. So unless you're able to create in a private space the strict boundaries, but then you're vulnerable to the worst people around you and whether or not police are incentivized to arrest the worst people around you and then whether or not district attorneys are incentivized to prosecute people who are destroying public spaces. So I'm here in Kuchy, beautiful public spaces here in Sydney. It just makes me reflect again like what we're missing in America, where we don't have these big, clean, generous public spaces because in Sydney they don't have America's criminal underclass. It's just trashing everything, just running off the hook. Sydney there was a back and forth on Twitter between a leaf that moved to Holland for the dense public transport. Yeah, yeah, you can have beautiful things, man, but you have to protect them. All right. So it's so beautiful here. Like it's just such a safe place. I've been in Australia for almost three months, never once felt afraid. Now, on the other hand, in Bondi, so that's about five miles that direction, there used to be a tax on Jews. In fact, in 2013, five Jews, including like three or four guys who'd been in the IDF were walking home from a Shabbat dinner and they were assaulted and beaten so badly that they were sent to hospital. So I don't know. I am unaware in my 30 years in Los Angeles, I'm unaware in my 30 years in Los Angeles a group of Jews ever being beaten so badly and sent to the hospital. But that's happened fairly regularly in Bondi. I've heard stories about this one Jewish kid that the Australians were just like flick his ears every day, chasing him home after school, eventually went to death and committed suicide. Another guy I heard about in this community was beaten so badly that he was put in a wheelchair for life.  Yeah, Americans natural inclination is to run away, right? So America was settled by people who ran away from Europe, but now there's no more place to run. So now we have to stand, stand and deliver, stand and fight. So who are the attackers? I'm told they were white Australians. So there are people here with very painful memories of just ongoing harassment, that is one rabbi who basically can't walk through section in eastern suburbs, which is Afro and Australia, without getting like viciously verbally assaulted, Holocaust remarks, etc. So I haven't experienced any of that, but I just heard about that. I can't recall any instance in LA, in my 28 years in LA, where five Jews have been attacked, or qua, as Jews because they were wearing a yarmulke, the attacks I battled they were sent to the hospital. I mean, I know individual Jews have been attacked in New York City, but you're aware of like five, four, five, six Jews attacked for being Jewish and then sent to a hospital. I'm not really aware of that in New York City, but it's happened a number of times in Bondi. So apparently it hasn't happened for 10 years. I haven't encountered any of this, but I do encounter Jews with very strong negative feelings about white Australians because they and their friends have just been verbally and physically assaulted. And I know several Australian Jewish friends who much prefer it in Los Angeles because they virtually never get verbally, let alone physically assaulted or being Jewish.


Alrighty, so I have a video today that is gonna be all about six flags and the stock market crashed this morning. So today, Friday, in the morning, the stocks for six flags entertainment dropped 19% by opening. That's one of their biggest drops in a really long time and one of the lowest prices in about five years. A lot of people are asking why. Well, it became apparent very late last night that six flags has struggling operations in China and the US. So it looks like two of their properties that they were planning to open by July this year are not gonna be opening and they might have completely fallen through. Now the good news is six flags actually didn't pay anything or invest anything into those properties. So the money was completely coming from third-party investors and six flags was just slapping their name on it. But the problem is that is revenue that they promised to stockholders and investors and now they've lost that. So it looks like they lost only in reality about $1 million in estimated revenue for Q4. Again, the properties aren't supposed to open till July so it doesn't count for Q4. But the bigger loss that the company is expected to have in Q4 is an $8 million to $10 million loss compared to the same time last year. That's significant. So that's on their American properties. So this isn't new. For anyone that knows six flags, six flags always has these bad omens occur when it comes to international property. Six flags will announce they're gonna open this property, that property, they're buying this, they're buying that. And in reality, it never works out. So whenever it was so funny in our Discord server, we've been talking about this for a while. We don't even think the Dubai properties can end up being built either. It's just like six flags has that really bad omen. Who did they murder in their last life? They're never able to open these international properties. But who knows? They do have this new CEO. He is, he worked for PepsiCo and he was part of the international aspect of PepsiCo. So maybe he'll have better luck getting six flags into those international markets. But I think it's time that six flags takes a step back like Cedar Fair and focuses on their American properties. But that being said, a lot of people are asking why? Why is six flags struggling with their American properties? Why does their stock market continue to crash? I think this is their second or third crash this year. It is one of the worst. And again, it is coming after bad news and this is very normal for a company whenever bad news is forecasted or there's rumors of bad news. The stock market or the stocks for the company are obviously going to drop. And yes, I do predict that they're going to climb again. I don't think this is permanent. I think you're going to see them balanced off a little bit. You're going to see a lot of investors super upset that the properties in China aren't going to open. Six flags will probably come forward and be like, well, you know what? We're going to open up this property here to calm down investors or we're going to focus on our American properties and we're going to boost attendance and revenue to the comp with some sort of strategic plan. The new CEO will say his piece on some news sites and articles and the stock market or I keep saying stock market. The stocks for six legs are going to climb slowly as well. So last time I checked, it was back to only an 18% drop from 19%. So as I was just saying, you're going to see them going up again. The only bad news is Wells Fargo has downgraded the Six Flags stock worth twice today. So they downgraded to equal weight late Thursday night and then they downgraded it once again this morning after the news about the American properties not doing so hot as well. So Six Flags has announced this Friday morning that it is struggling in the China and the United States market. So that's not good news. A lot of people are kind of wondering what's going on in the United States market. I honestly thought they were doing really well this year because Cedar Fair has been coming out with records and records and records. We're also hearing that Cedar Point alone sold 500,000 gold passes for 2020. Can you imagine 500,000 gold passes in the 2020 season alone? Gold passes. That's not including platinum passes. That's not including your regular season pass. 500,000 gold passes. That park is going to break some serious attendance records. We know that other parks at Canada's Wonderland, Kings Island, Carol winds, they're all doing well too. Knott's Berry Farm is doing exceptionally well. They've crossed into the six million attendance line. So Cedar Fair is doing extremely well. Maybe Six Flags needs to take a step back and learn from Cedar Fair on how to increase their season pass sales. Cause it looks like from what I'm reading on the reports, it looks like season passes or memberships are what are lacking at Six Flags American Market. But a lot of people are pointing out that this looks like it's history repeating itself. I do have a comment about that. It isn't history repeating itself. It looks like history repeating itself. It looks like Six Flags is buying up all these properties and then they're not succeeding and then they're going to end up in a large amount of debt and then they're going to go bankrupt. That's simply not the case. Six Flags actually hasn't invested any money into these properties in the international market. So whenever the plans fall through or it doesn't happen, Six Flags really isn't losing any money. They didn't put any money into it. It was all through third party investors. The name Six Flags was just being sapped on it and they were going to receive revenue from the name being on the park. So it really isn't a loss to Six Flags again and it isn't history repeating itself. I get it. It looks like it, but it's not. So I just wanted to get that point out there because a lot of people were sending me that message. Oh, it's like history repeating itself. It's not. But a lot of people are pointing out that, you know, Six Flags versus Cedar Fair, Six Flags is almost like the discount chain. Six Flags has the discount entertainment. Six Flags is almost like the dollar store brand compared to Cedar Point. So you go to Six Flags for, you know, those old world record breaking coasters because Six Flags used to really compete against Cedar Fair and other parks in terms of building world record breaking roller coasters, but it seems Cedar Fair has the equation down hat.  Yes, Six Flags has holiday in the park, but Winterfest is solely focused on the entertainment aspect. Again, I got to finally experience that at Canada's Wonderland. And when I look at the entertainment aspect of a Six Flags park, it doesn't come anywhere close to the entertainment that Winterfest, especially at Canada's Wonderland had offered in the 2019 season. It just seems like Cedar Fair knows how to draw in everyone. Six Flags knows how to draw in a very marginal audience and Cedar Fair knows how to target everyone. So they're getting your grandma, your grandparents, like your neighbors, they're getting everyone to come to their parks for the entertainment, the food. Although I will argue that Six Flags, Great Adventure had better food than any Cedar Fair park that I had been to yet, but it's just all well-rounded at Cedar Fair and Six Flags seems to just focus on cheap, cheap, cheap, discount, discount, discount. Like buy a membership now, lowest price ever, blah, blah, blah. And if someone is between a Cedar Fair park and a Six Flags park, I'm assuming, again, assumptions that they're gonna choose to go to the Cedar Fair park. Depending, I mean, there's some arguments like Dornie Park versus Great Adventure. Obviously you're gonna choose to go to Great Adventure. Now, Great Adventure is an interesting topic. I have a whole video coming out about the future of Great Adventure because I honestly think Great Adventure has got a very bright future in terms of it. Now, I do also have a Cedar Fair video I'm working on because I received some news about some financial news about Cedar Fair putting some money aside to buy some future property. And there are things in stockholders' calls that suggest what properties they may be going after. We know that Cedar Fair is looking at Texas and some family-owned parks. And again, they're gonna be focusing on North America. So very interesting to see what Cedar Fair versus Six Flags has to do with the company's growth. Obviously what Cedar Fair is doing is working. And I know that there are gonna be some Six Flags fans sliding into my DMs or talking amongst each other about how horrible of a person I am because I made this video. It is so funny. I could make a video hating on Cedar Point and people will just comment in the comment section. I make a video talking about the facts about Six Flags that are presented right in front of us and people will literally say the most horrible things about me because I made a video about it. Anyways, that's all I have to say on that. Six Flags is obviously gonna recover from this. This is not the end of Six Flags, blah, blah, blah. But nonetheless, it'll be interesting to see what the new CEO does with this information. Hopefully you enjoyed this video. Don't forget to give the video a like, subscribe if you haven't, and share this video for others to enjoy. Have a good one guys, bye.


So if you have followed my channel for any amount of time, you know that I have been in a browser search for a very long time I've never been completely happy with any browser ever like seriously, I'm super picky when it comes to browsers and Usually what that means is that I just default the Firefox because Firefox is open source It's very customizable with user Chrome and it just works Well enough that I can't complain too badly. Well, I mean, that's not true I complain about it all the damn time But it's about as good as you can get in terms of an open source browser that does what a browser is supposed to do So I usually just stick with Firefox as my main browser But that doesn't really mean all that much because I switch browsers all the time in hopes that I'm gonna finally find one That is just, you know The browser it's the browser that is going to keep me there for the rest of all eternity And it's gonna be awesome and has all the features that I want and it runs fast And you know, it's just does everything in the perfect way Obviously such a browser does not exist and even though I'm gonna be talking about another browser today that I've criticized often in the past It still doesn't exist. Right, right. There is no perfect browser And unless I'm going to become a development God I don't think I'm gonna go out and actually code my own so I'm going to have to rely on work of others But all that being said the Voli has released a brand new release of their browser now in the past I have been very critical of the Voli. I think I even made one saying that they're hypocrites at one point I'm not very kind to the developers of the Voli. I haven't ever been and Most of the reason why that's the case is because they do this whole proprietary nonsense thing where they claim They're 95% open source and then the rest of it's just a little bit of proprietary on top You won't even notice right that has always bugged me and it will always continue to bug me because I Don't like proprietary software for the most part despite having to continue to use it But I will say that this new release of the Voli is really good and I'm gonna use it So despite it being proprietary garbage, I'm gonna be using the Voli at least for now No, as I said at the beginning I switch browsers all the damn time So it's a good chance that something about for Voli will piss me off But for now the Voli has become my browser and I want to talk about why so let's talk about this new update And why it has made me switch so this is the Voli it looks basically like the Voli always has now There are some customization things that they've added in version 6 that are really good things like being able to customize the icons And different places and stuff like that. It's that stuff is nice It's not as fully featured customizable as Firefox is in terms of UI elements Not necessarily because you know of the placement of the stuff But more because with user Chrome and being that being CSS you can actually do a whole bunch more Stuff with CSS editing than you can with the built-in Customizations that the Voli offers, but that stuff's really besides the point Yes, I really like customizing the look and feel of stuff But that stuff was so minor It doesn't really move the needle any on how I feel about the Voli But the one thing that has seriously made me love this browser and the little bit of time that I've been using it is Workspaces now if you watched my channel before you guys know I love workspaces And what's the other thing that I love tabs? I love tabs and if you if you combine those two things It's like nirvana for me so they've added this thing called workspaces now basically what workspaces allow you to do is Separate your groups of tabs into workspaces So I have one for say for my video ideas and I have all those video ideas here And then it just kind of switches to those so you could have a different theme for the workspace if you wanted to so You know like a white thing if you wanted to do that you could do that you could have it like I have it here So I actually have some tab stacks inside of a workspace so that means even more organization So I have tab stacks of all the distro ideas that I have all of the window manager ideas that I have and terminal apps and app regular Applications and stuff like that all that inside of stacks inside of a workspace. So it's kind of like nested folders It's really cool that I can organize my stuff that way And it just makes me want to open up more tabs And I'm a tab hoarder already at one point. I had over a hundred tabs this last week now I know there are many people who have more this is not a competition But I had a ton of tabs and this whole idea behind being able to organize my stuff into workspaces and tab stacks Which are basically tab groups is just amazing now. I had this basic functionality inside of Firefox So don't get me wrong that I have been missing this functionality So with simple tab groups in Firefox, I could basically do the same thing I had a little drop down in the top bar I can move to different groups and stuff like that and that was basically a workspace functionality but this is built in and I Abhor extensions despite the fact that I have to use a whole bunch of them I don't like to like these are all the extensions down here in the lower right hand corner that I use and I want to get Rid of as many of them as possible Unfortunately, I use all of these right like I want I want to have you know certain functionality and that requires me to use Extensions, but with workspaces built in I can at least remove one more extension from my extensions pack And that makes me happy and on top of that that it's just a it's just an amazing combination of things that I Wholeheartedly enjoy so the ability to stack tabs, which is basically groups, which is how I have these here So I have the group names up here at the top and then the stack or the group is down here in tabs like this now The volley offers you different ways of displaying tab groups, which is cool I really do like that but add that on top of that that you can put them into their own workspaces Which is like a group of groups It's just so good and it allows you to basically organize your tabs in any number of ways you can be as organized as you want and it's just so good now All this being said it doesn't mean that the volley is perfect obviously there's still things here that absolutely drive me nuts So the first one is that I'm going to win a manager. I don't need these buttons up here I want those to go away. I don't know if you can make those go away. There's a chance you can I just haven't found it yet, but I want those to go away That's the first thing that I always see also one of the coolest features in Firefox is that you can hide the bookmarks bar with a key binding and then bring it back with a key binding I'm not sure if you can do that with the volley is something that I'm gonna have to look into So there are still things here that bug me, but Overall, I've been using it now for I don't know 12 hours or so and there's not a lot of it's a long time But it's still it's just really Really good so far and that workspace functionality is just top of the line like seriously Seriously good. It's gonna make if I do move away from the volley again That's gonna be one of those features that I miss right another cool thing that you can do with the whole workspace Thing is that you can actually change the icon for each of these if you wanted to use an emoji or something Like that you could do so or a different icon. I do wish they'd allow you to change the color So if you wanted to change, you know, you could use a different icon that has a color So that it would kind of stand up, but it would really be cool if you could change a color Now another feature that I'd really like them to have so if I wanted to say move this tab here to a Workspace you can do that So if you hit move and you could move it to one of the workspaces that you've created What I'd like them to be able to do is add on to this functionality So that if I have a tab stack inside of one of these workspaces, I could move it to that tab stack That would be awesome. It may be too complicated But that's that'd be really cool because right now if I wanted to move this I'd have to move it to say to do and then I had to go to to do I'd find it You know up here and if I wanted to move that to the tab stack I'd have to drag all the way over to the tab stack You know, it's a few extra steps and it's not great, right? I might rather be able to move that from a menu. So the new version of the volley is really good I didn't go through all the features, but the two main ones are replacing the icons Along the bar here along the side. So if you have the bar open, you can replace these icons You can replace the icons for forward and back that are down here if you wanted to that's cool enough I'm probably not even going to bother with that because these are just fine I just want to replace the theme which you can do in the settings So that's the one big feature the other big feature and the one that I've been going on and on about is the Workspaces and that is still just the coolest thing. So yeah, I have switched browsers again Now, I know that I switched browsers a lot like I said, I switched browsers all the time So not breaking news here folks, but that workspace functionality, which I think that they stole from opera I'm not sure if that's true. I haven't used opera in like 20 years and I doubt I'll ever use opera again I don't know anybody who does use opera, but I'm sure there are some people I'm sure there's actually someone who's going to comment in the comment section below and say hey opera is really good I'm sure it is. I'm not gonna use opera. It's I didn't even how is it even still a thing or really? But anyways, I'm pretty sure they took that feat functionality from opera I may be wrong about that, but that functionality alone has got me to switch from Firefox to Vivaldi Now I still wish it was open source like 100% open source.  I totally just completely, you know, swore many times You know YouTube video which I tried not to do but the point is that, you know, I wish it was open source If it was seriously if Vivaldi was open source I probably would have been using it ages ago, right because the customized ability of it has always been really really good Even without the CSS stuff that Firefox offers They like to give you options to move stuff around and I love that that's something that even Firefox doesn't give you right Yes, you can move stuff around in Firefox if you know CSS But if you don't know CSS, you don't have the option to do the stuff Whereas Vivaldi doesn't give you a CSS, but they do give you options to move stuff, which is really good But it's not open source and it's the one thing that has always kind of kept me from liking The other thing has been it is kind of bloated. I will say that now It's not as bloated as edge has become so if you've if you've used Microsoft Edge lately They keep cramming not only features in it, but really weird like advertisements and Crypto stuff and beings all over the place. It's it's typical Microsoft stuff So Vivaldi is not that bad, but I don't need an email client I don't need a RSS feed reader in my browser now The good news is is that those things are things that you have to enable in order for them to be there So that's good news. It's opt-in. So that's good, but I don't really want those things in my browser anyways So maybe it's a little bit of bloat, but again, if it was proprietary Maybe the perfect browser or closer than it is now So anyways a little bit of a ramble about Vivaldi 6.0 so far. It has been really really good I'm gonna continue to use it for quite a while and we'll see how it goes So who wants to take bets on when I go back to Firefox? We'll see hopefully hopefully not because I do really really like Vivaldi right now So that's it for this video if you have thoughts on Vivaldi or anything like that you can leave those in the comment section below I know that the super passionate open-source freedom-loving people amongst my audience of which there are many are going to be like Matt Why are you using proprietary garbage? I know I'm sorry. I Apologize and if this ruins your opinion of me. I I can only deeply apologize to you for for my Offenses against you, but you know sometimes you just kind of have to do it if something is good unfortunately, right? Just the way it is. Anyways, that's it for this video You can leave comments in the comment section below you can follow me on mass down or Odyssey those links to be in the video Description you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash the Linux cast links for liberapay and YouTube will be in the video description as well Thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon YouTube you guys are all absolutely amazing without you The challenges might be anywhere near where it is right now. So thank you so very very much for your support. I truly do appreciate it Thank you guys so very very much. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time


How do long division and remainders fit in with today's common core math methods for division and how do fractions fit into the mix? Join me as we explore these questions in today's episode of Mr. Mark's math adventures Hey math learners, it's Mr. Mark's your friendly neighborhood math teacher Remember it's not just about getting the right answers It's about learning and growing along the way and before we dive into today's adventure Remember to hit that subscribe button and ring the bell to stay tuned for future episodes now today We have a topic inspired by a comment from one of our friends on tick tock shout out to william for sharing this fantastic idea With william's jump start What do you say we explore this topic together and see how it can make our math journey even more exciting And as we start always feel free to use the companion worksheet It's a great tool to follow along with the episode the companion worksheets free to download link down in the description Now traditionally when we divided numbers using long division We sometimes talked about having something called a remainder leftover For example, if you divided 11 by 2 you get five with a remainder of one But let's look at this through the lens of modern mathematics and the common core approach You see in the past we stopped at the answer five with a remainder of one But what exactly is the remainder? What does with a remainder of one even mean? Well, the remainder is the part leftover after the division It's like having a piece of something that doesn't quite fit But here's where modern thinking shifts the perspective instead of seeing this leftover as just a remainder We can think of it as part of a whole a fractional part So when we say 11 divided by 2 Equals five with a remainder of one what we are really saying is 11 divided by 2 Equals five whole groups of two and one part of two or one half It's not just an extra piece or an extra step. It's a significant part of our answer This approach isn't just about changing numbers. It's about changing our mindset It helps us to see the connections between division Fractions and even decimals and now I challenge you to think about division in this new light Next time you come across a division problem with a remainder try to see the remainder as a fractional part Rather than just simply as a remainder it may be a small shift in thinking But it can open up a whole new world of understanding in mathematics Hey props to you for taking some time out of your day to do some math with me I hope you followed along and if you made mistakes, that's all good Remember that every mistake is a step towards learning something new. This has been mr. Mark signing off I'll catch you next time with another math problem. What did you think? Did you approach this problem differently? Let me know in the comments and if you enjoyed this problem Show your support by liking and sharing this video And don't forget to follow my page to stay up to date on more math related content. Until next time