I ask Maar Harbali to take the stage. I'm going to do a short introduction. For those of you who don't know, I can't imagine there's that many people in the audience that don't know her. But she's the associate professor of practice at the Centre for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. Among her many, many professional activities, she's international director of digital pedagogy lab, editor at the Journal of Hybrid Pedagogy, and she's co-founder of Virtually Connecting, who are running a programme on site during the conference as well. I watched an interview with you a couple of years ago, and I know that will always send a shiver down your spine, because when people say that to me, it does me too. It was a great interview, though. And you were being interviewed by Howard Rheingold. And one of the things that you said that I loved was, I take a lot, but I give a lot. And I love that sentiment, I love the generosity and passion for learning that Mahar gets over with that. Her work's concerned with the contradictory nature of open practice, and she's spoken about the arrogance and vulnerability of online participation, and also the ways in which the most vulnerable people online are also those who have the most to benefit from being online. So we're proud and delighted to have a woman here today to open the conference, who models and personifies the open practice she talks and writes about, and is an active global participant working and learning in open networks. So please, big welcome for Mahar. Yn ymlaen i gweithio. How are you all? It is such an honour to be here, talking to a lot of people I've been learning with and from for such a long time. Thank you so much for having me. I just learned recently how small the core team of Alt are, and I'm really impressed that you can have such an impact with such a small core team and to be empowering so many other people, and I think that's a model a lot of us can learn from. So... My keynote is entitled Hiding in the Open, and it is just a coincidence today that my husband and daughter and I were sitting in this sort of enclave in the hotel, and there was a quote there about how sometimes you need to sort of retreat in order to create, and then you go back and out in the open, and so I thought that was very convenient given the type of this keynote. The slides for this keynote are up. I did that because I don't have my laptop with me because of the ban, but also because then if the slides are up, we can keep having this conversation beyond the keynote, and if I feel like we want to talk about something different today, I won't feel bad if I don't finish going through them or if I have to skip some of them, and you could also tweet to that, and I've also asked for feedback at the end, so you can put comments later whenever. And so when I was invited to do this keynote, I was like, dragon to me, I don't do OERs. Like how many people over here, how many of you were involved in creating something like 10 OERs or more? Quite a few people, right? And by limiting it to a license rather than a spirit. And all these other people I work with, so I'm not open on my here. What was I doing with Suzanne?  How many of you have needed to download a paper illegally for a need? If you don't have your hands up, there's something weird about you. So everybody has their hands up for this one. How many of you have fewer or no professional development opportunities in your country or city? Okay, so that's much fewer people, right? How many of you cannot travel comfortably because of young children? And I know some people like me have brought their children with them. And how many of you have had to suddenly teach a course about something that you're not a specialist in with very little time to prepare? Okay, Helen. Hi, sorry. So open can really empower anyone who goes through a lot of these things. Obviously when you don't have internet access, the internet type of open isn't going to work for you at that point. But it works open as it's more than just a connected type. And so openness can really empower in that way. But it's not necessarily a complete empowerment. And there's a threshold before which it's not going to empower you at all. And I'm just going to ask you, you're probably sitting next to someone you're comfortable with and I'm going to ask you to try to make yourself a little bit uncomfortable by turning around and saying hi to someone behind you who you don't know. And if you're virtual, check out who's using the hashtag. Okay. I love this noise. Okay, it looks like most of you are comfortable with that. I'm glad. That's great. That's great. I know. I know. Okay. I'm glad you guys had fun with that. And it looks like most of you are comfortable with that. But I was also thinking that any process can privilege some people over others. So if I had to turn around, I know half the people in this room. So it wouldn't have been as comfortable for me. I'm very extroverted, so that wouldn't have been a problem for me. Maybe for other people it would have been. And for some people just the act of turning around might be physically difficult. The ones who are just facing the front, they didn't have to make an extra effort. So any process that we ask other people to do or that we take part of differentiates between people, you just need to always be aware of that. And we know that, but I think knowing it is something and then applying it is something else. And a lot of what I'm going to say today, a lot of it is stuff maybe you already know. And recently, Jen Ross and Amy Collier published a paper which has half the ideas that I've got over. I'm like, hey, you could have waited like a couple of weeks and then it would have looked like they took it from me, but that's okay. But it means I think that a lot of us in this community are thinking along the same lines. But this one, I've been doing a lot of reading in preparation for this keynote. And if you're following my Twitter and my blog, you know that this is what I've been reading. Because I read obviously scholarly stuff, but this is what I have to do every night for my daughter. How many of you are fans of this series? I have a love-hate relationship with this series, including this particular book. Lilum is helpful and Jim Groom has a mic, but I'm going to... You do have it, right? You don't, you're supposed to have it. Someone was supposed to give it to you, but that's okay. So Jim volunteered to help me, but for this one I actually might take it myself. So I just made you get up for no reason. Who knows this story and would be willing to share a brief of what that story is to the rest of the group? Thank you. Does anybody know it? Now nobody knows it? Nobody knows it? I had a prize for the person who was going to help me to tell this story. Sorry? I have big children.  I used to read this when I was a kid, but that's... Oh, I'm going to have to tell the story myself. So Lilum is someone who wants to be helpful all the time. But instead of being helpful, she usually messes things up. So, you know, she tries to help someone tie his shoelaces because he's very tall, and then she ends up tying the two shoelaces together so he falls over, and then she tries to help him with his bump, and then she bumps, she puts the plaster on his mouth instead of on his forehead, and things like that. And how does that kind of story make you feel? Anybody willing to tell me how that story makes them feel? Sorry? Get confident? Incompetent, right? And how do you feel about telling a story like that to kids? No, right? Why would you tell a story like that to kids? You don't want them to feel like they shouldn't be helpful. But I started to think, well, yes, my daughter is often trying to be... I don't like the little miss thing, but anyway, it applies for this particular one. My daughter is trying to be a little miss helpful. And a lot of the times, she messes things up, right?  I'm like, could you please stop trying to help me, right? But as I was thinking about this keynote, I realized that that's the way I feel about a lot of people in my life, especially men, especially white men, and especially men who are in a higher position of power. I'm not trying to be sexist, but it does turn out to be a lot of men. And they see a problem, and they think they're going to solve it. And they decide what the solution is, and they give it to me. I'm like, okay, take it. Look what I've done for you. And I'm going to say, that's so nice, but that's not what I want at all. And you didn't even ask me what I thought the problem was. You didn't ask me how I wanted to solve it. You didn't try to empower me to solve it. You just decided for me, and you went ahead and did it. And a lot of this keynote is about that kind of thing. And I'm not going to say that I don't do that either. So recently there was someone on crutches, on campus trying to open a door, and I was right next to her. And I just said, I opened it, and I'm like, let me help you. And she's like, I can do it. I don't just realize it. I didn't even wait to see if she could open it. I didn't ask her if she needed help. I didn't ask her what kind of help she needed. I just assumed that I know how to help, and it made me feel better. But that doesn't make her feel better, and we need to always check when we're trying to help someone. Are we doing what they need, or are we doing what we think is going to help us feel better? And when I was telling a colleague of mine this story, she told me about a day a beggar, an elderly beggar was by her. And she didn't want to do it, so she gave her an apple, because that's what she had. And the beggar started swearing at her, because she didn't have any teeth. So she couldn't do anything with the apple. And how often do we have an apple to offer someone, and that person doesn't have teeth? And we don't realize that. In a co-edited book, Rojief Djondani and his co-editor, right about openness is a gift, that you offer it to someone and then they're either going to accept it or not. But also the gift metaphor is really useful, because when you give someone a gift, is it something that you like or is it something that they like? I'm looking at people who have given gifts to and who have given me gifts, and what does the gift mean? And how do you decide what to give to each person, right? And so this next slide, I gave to Diana actually if I made a mistake this morning. How many people can read what's on this slide? Where are you, George? I know you're here. You can't read it? You kind of can. So this says, yna me'l amael y biniad, so yna me'l ymry'n mewn awa, and it means that deeds are judged by intentions. And I think, Alec and Josie, we're sort of talking about that idea of intentions, like we need to revise what our intentions are, but also how do you feel about just saying deeds are judged by intentions? Do I have a bit of a struggle with that, because I think working in Australia, I work a lot with Indigenous peoples in education, and my good intentions, when I first started, were often really wrong, and it was just like you were talking about the gift that you give that can't be used. It totally disempowered the people I was trying to work with, and so it bounced back and made me aware of my own colonialism and how deeply embedded that is in my thinking. So, yeah, I'm not sure I agree with that statement. Yeah, and this is actually a spiritual statement. So this is between you and your creator, but with human beings, I think, and I'll come to this in a minute. But when I was thinking about that, I remembered something in Arabic that the word naeya for intention has the past tense naewa, so intended, and the word for seed or nucleus is also naewa, which sounds very similar, and I wasn't sure if they came from the same root. And I asked our chair of our Arabic department, and this is what she told me, so a naeya or a seed, so it's both like an intention is something that's locked inside you and you have to spell it out so others know it, and exactly like a seed that's hidden inside the fruit, you can't see it unless the fruit is opened and it's similar with a nucleus, all right? And then if you look at, think about intentions of seeds that are hidden deep inside, you have to make those explicit and then you have to nurture them to get the fruit, and then I think you have to revise them also to make sure that the fruit that is your goal and your intention are meeting each other and the way you're nurturing it. And then it needs an entire ecosystem, it's not just you and your intentions, but there's an entire ecosystem you have to be aware of and there's symbiosis and competition and something went wrong with the slides there, but that's okay. And I believe that everyone in this room has good intentions, but are we all nurturing them in the way we want to? And every day I have to revise my intention and revise the way I'm doing them. It's different. Catherine, I'm quoting you here. Because intentions are not enough because openness can easily exacerbate inequalities, help reduce it, and Savasig was talking about how usually those most privileged continue to be privileged by open and then that it's a problem of race and gender and class and openness can perpetuate those. And then we need to reflect and repurpose and if it's not working for us, right? Because the rhetoric is not enough. And there's a lot of instances where our intention is to include people and then we end up excluding them and I have a history of doing that, quite a lot. One of which was, Rise of 14, which is one of, it was probably the first connectivist MOOC I've ever taken and I was trying so hard to just make sure everybody's included and in the end I think I ended up excluding a lot of people and in some ways I don't really understand how it worked but at least I try not to do that and I learn from it. And I think funding for education when it comes from outside, so similar to what you were saying, Janus, right?  And then they direct the recipients to particular ways of solving the problems.  And they often in the end, especially in Egypt, focus on tangibles so they will fund hardware for schools but they won't spend enough time focusing on the teachers and the culture and even helping them create the software and they train a few people and then they don't realize that those people are not going to train others because they train others, there'd be more competition over the use of those labs. And it's a complete disaster because then whatever it is they're funding, nothing really very good happens out of it, it's not scalable. And I don't know what their intentions are, honestly. But that's one of those situations where it doesn't always work out very well. And I'm clicking the wrong button or it just doesn't want to, okay. All right, and I blogged about... This is... Oh, I can just leave it. But I'm going to use it right now, so... I blogged about this Egyptian saying which I misquoted, but never mind. It's about when you try to fix the shirt and you spoil the trousers because you're not managing all the complexity of a situation and not realizing the consequences. And I'm going to ask some people from the audience to help me give examples of these and I already blogged about this so I told people that they're going to be on here. But some people aren't here. So, Sherry Spillett and Chris Gillier, both separately, talked about how we give up our data and thus our freedom for the sake of open. And that's riskier for some people than others, right? And it's what you give up and who you are in the world. And that's something that, you know, when you ask your students to be open, you don't always consider or you need to consider a lot more, like Robin DeRosa was talking about a student who was in the witness protection program. Asking her to blog, you have no guarantee of her safety, right? Oh, there is feedback, isn't there? Christian, where are you?  So, hi, everyone. My name is Christian Friedrich. And I think I'm up here because I was supposed to share a quick story of a Ignite talk I gave at DML last year, 2016. And I talked about access to higher education for refugees and the efforts we're trying to make in Germany there. So, basically, we're claiming to be an open system and we claim to open up higher education for refugees. But what we actually do is we present information in a very one-directional way and claim to give access where we actually don't do that. And that's basically, I think, the gist of my talk, I think, if you wouldn't want anything to add. Thank you. It's Sheila here. Yes. Mae'r person. I was really taken by, I have a post. I often think with openness that there's a whole wardrobe of open. I look there, but I have nothing to wear because sometimes I don't feel I have anything open to say or open to give, so sometimes quite confusing. There's almost too much stuff there that I don't really know what to do with it. Myrra Vogle can't be here, but she was talking about how when we asked our students to work in the open, when they're working not in the open, there's a lot of conditions of fair use where they can use copyrighted stuff and then suddenly now they're in the open, that you have to add that layer of making sure your students understand copyright. That's not necessarily something you were ready to spend time on in your course, so that's another interesting thing. And Alec, the copyright police thing, are you happy to talk about that quickly? I guess it relates to this theme of how political open is. There's an argument made by Professor Neville Kincoran, who's an Israeli legal scholar looking at open licensing rules, and she says that the idea behind Creative Commons and other open licenses was sort of to liberate people from all these challenges of dealing with copyright, but in the end the system is pretty complicated and still based on law and forces you basically to become even more diligent and in the sort of radical scenario you become kind of a copyright police that mainly checks whether the sign is correct and someone didn't break rule number seven. And there is some. She identified this several years ago and there's still no visible solution to this challenge. I'll keep the mic with you. Now you've got two mics, so much power. Okay, and of course Alec also brought up the issue of sustainability of open, that's a huge issue, so I'm not going to make you talk about that. I'm sure a lot of us here are aware of that. I had Francis Bell to think for the second half of this keynote, which she doesn't really know, but you reminded me that Sam Sharma and I had started reading about the idea of a post-colonial MOOC and we've actually got two chapters that are in closed books about just looking at open and MOOCs in a post-colonial lens. And one of the ways we did that was to look at curriculum theory and put that on top of that. And the next part is just part of it. It's not everything that we've written about, but I thought it would be useful to share it in an open way since those book chapters are closed, right? And we talk about the concept of thinking about open as instrumental versus open as practised. And when you tell someone about publishing open access, sometimes you tell them, because you're going to get cited more. And that's a very instrumental reason, and even though it's useful that some people will be impressed by that and that's what will motivate them, I think hopefully most of us have a praxis orientation and we mean to empower and we have a social justice reason for going open. But they are quite different worldviews that they can coexist in some instances. It's just which one we prioritise and which one is on the top of our heads. And when you think about access as a human right, and you talk about it as demand for democratic participation, global inclusion and economic justice, you need all these different angles to it. Something did go wrong with the slides, Martha, when we downloaded them, but that's okay. These are on Google Slides and they look good on Google Slides. Just powerful and just messed it up a little bit. And is there a lot of... Yeah, oh, I knew this was going to happen. Cassano, see you and help me? Oh, right. Is it okay now? Yes, thank you, Laura. There's a lot of different ways of looking at the curriculum. Of course, open isn't a curriculum, obviously. It's something else, but it can be like if it's a MOOC, then you can call that a curriculum or just our approach to open in general. We can talk about all these different ones. I'll focus on the hidden and the content-oriented views, and hidden could be intentionally hidden or it could be just unacknowledged. And so things that are... This course is of open, it could be hiding exclusions. And examples, for example, is that public education in Egypt is supposed to be free. Books that are copyrighted get printed and sold at very cheap prices, and copyright isn't standing in the way of Egyptian higher education at all. So that material OER doesn't really make a huge difference. A lot of university lecturers create their own notes that are contextualized and simplified for that audience, and that's not what open education is going to do for them. And these people make money from that because they don't get very good salaries. And so I don't know how useful open education would be in that particular context. And there's something else that I'll talk about later, but there's a lot of plagiarism happening where I am, where even the more senior academic takes the work of a more junior academic and publishes it in their own name. And so when I was telling people about author aid, which is a website that helps scholars from developing countries get mentorship, I said, what if that person steals my work? How could I even consider sharing my stuff with someone else? And that's just a culture that... And you're not going to stop that by asking one person to be open, right? It's a lot more than that. Now what? There's still a noise. Okay. And hiding the open is that a lot of analysis of things like social network analysis and learning analytics, looking at behavior doesn't at all show you what's happening behind the scenes between people in private. And a lot of what makes openness work is this private communication. And a lot of people who are new to open don't realize that. They see this noise on Twitter or on Facebook and they don't know that behind all that, there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. And that's what makes it possible. And that every minute one of us spends doing something open as a moment of contingent scholar could be making money. And that every time we ask someone who doesn't have a regular salary or a secure job to do something open, then that's actually their livelihood that we're asking them to take away from and that a mother could be spending with her child. So that's family time that we're asking people to take away. And again, you know, it does them as rampant in certain places. When someone says they're going to publish something CC0, I say then you're not worried that someone's going to take your work and call it theirs. You're so confident that this isn't going to affect you. That's how you can do a CC0.  And we also, when we do things open, are students going to have access to those things? Do they have their own devices to be able to use things? Do they have a home environment that allows them to just sit and spend that time? Do they, if you have like five kids in a house and all of them have to watch something online tonight for an assignment tomorrow, how many laptops or devices do they have to be able to do that? And is there gender equality at home? Well, the parents allow both the boys and the girls to spend as much time doing that. Because MOOCs have a lot of, MOOCs and online education in general, I did my master's online and my PhD remotely, so I only visited Sheffield like a couple of times a year. So I had the access to the infrastructure and I had my own dedicated devices. I had to use mobile a lot because I had a young child and so moving around and being with her, I couldn't carry a laptop all the time. I had the digital literacies, but the understanding family members, on and off, right? Sometimes they were understanding, sometimes they weren't. Oh, your daughter's sick, you take care of her. Oh, you want to take her to a daycare? She's only one and a half years old, how could you do that? Oh, you know, she left us after dinner and she went and worked on her computer. I got a lot of that throughout my seven years of doing my PhD. Now you know why it took so long. I also got a lot of help, but still, you know, it's not like perfection. And open isn't free. I'm not even going to say free as in beer because if you gave me free beer, I wouldn't take it. I hid that example. But it's not free as in zero dollars or pounds or euros or whatever. Because I don't own my domain, I rent it. And I wrote a blog post about that. I got 50 plus comments and a response from Audrey and none of them really answered my question. And thanks to Francis Bell, we're going to republish that on Femeth Tech and I hope that we can start thinking about it from scratch again. Some people in my part of the world who are not poor, they have internet access, they're well educated and they don't have access to a credit card. And we talk about domain of one's own as empowering. And I understand the part where it's empowering away from the money with the fact that some people just can't afford it. And what does it mean that we try to encourage students to do that? We tell them that this is the way to be empowered on the web. But the way of the web requires you to keep paying year in, year out for domain name, that's the way of the internet. And we're just not doing, I mean, I don't know if we can challenge that, but I think we need to be aware of that. And so I'd be happy for you guys to continue this conversation. And Francis, this is gone out, right? It's on Femeth Tech now. It will be soon, okay, all right. And also not free as in Libra because we're not equally vulnerable to harassment and trolling and so on. And there's a quote down here that got lost, but it's about, it's Chris Gillir and Hugh Cullig about our ability to be free online. We're not all equally able to be free online. We're not equally surveilled online. Like the risks that someone who looks like me takes in doing certain things is very different than the risks of someone else doing it. It's not moving. And there's differences between nations and within nations, right? And this is just something about the spirit of open versus licensing. If you can do something a CC by, but it's very difficult for someone to read, oh my God, I'm running out of time. I'm going to take five more minutes, I think. Or is an article or a video done in a very accessible and open way, but no derivatives, more open. And is sometimes doing something, no derivatives, giving someone more confidence to say what they want, knowing that someone cannot take it out of context. Because that's what we do with virtually connecting videos. We say be yourself and be social, but we're not going to allow, we're going to do it, but we're not going to tell them they can do it, to openly just take it and take it out of context and use it. Because me as a woman, I do things on virtually connecting, that if you take out a context, it can be used against me. I don't want people to feel like that's a risk they can take. Now curriculum is often looked at as content in general, in schools and in universities, and also in open. And who's privileged when we do that? You all know the SOA story? Students from the School of Oriental and African Studies who said, how come you're just letting us read white philosophers when we're studying Oriental and African Studies? They should get a chance to be critical of both their own culture, but also the dominant culture to be empowered, but then also get philosophers from their own culture. And of course, with MOOCs and OERs, who decides which content gets to be an OER or MOOC? And I get that decision in my own work. And then a lot of efforts to join, to reach developing countries, say, oh, if they don't have infrastructures, we'll put it for them on a CD. You're disempowering them, you're not giving them a choice to choose what they want to find online. But even when they do that, how much of the content online is in their own language? It's mostly in English, right? And then, you know, to be able to express ourselves in English when we're not native English speakers, we need to sort of say things in a way that's understandable, and that way, we're sort of not really expressing what we were saying in the first place. And you have to insist, like someone like, hey, most of what I publish is in English, that's how I get power. But then that just sort of diminishes my own mother tongue. And I grew up in a British school, and our form of resistance in the school is to have to develop American accents. And it really annoyed our teachers. We weren't allowed to speak Arabic, but we all had American accents. But the other thing is that I got used to hearing my names said incorrectly. So Anglo people say my name mahali. That's not my name. My name is mahali. It's an open sound. There are no weird letters or phonemes in it. Just mahali. It's just quick and open of mahali. OK, so now you know. I'm not talking about 1973 in British history. I'm talking about Egyptian-Israeli history. And in 1973, there was a war in October. In Egyptian Wikipedia, or non-Egyptian Arabic, but obviously someone Egyptian wrote this. In the Arabic Wikipedia, Egypt won that war. Egypt has a bridge in the name of 6 October, a suburb, it's a national holiday, we celebrate it. In the English version, it's a military victory for Israel. And that's history, and that's what Wikipedia does. And believe me, something like Federated Wiki, which allows different versions, doesn't solve that problem because if someone like Audrey, sorry to pick on you, and someone who nobody knows have different versions of the thing, who are people going to read anyway? If Audrey's is in English and mine is in Arabic, who's going to read, how many people are going to read hers and how many people are going to read mine? And we know this is true of history, but it's also true of everything. There's no problem of fake facts, they have the same facts. So the problem isn't with facts, it's about our interpretation of them and how language and culture affect what we can say about them. Because the power is in who gets to tell the story and who gets to decide when the story starts. Because that changes how you look at a story. And for most of us who are not from the US or UK, a lot of what's coming in digital, pedagogy and open is top-down and it's decontextualized and it's ignorant of a lot of our sensitivities, no matter how well-intentioned it is and we need to keep revising that. And I say this too because I'm in a westernized institution as well. I'm in an American university in Cairo, so I'm on both sides of this. And the most important thing for me is that to stop thinking about people who need access as that they need to consume, but that they also have the right to produce and to be empowered to produce their own thing, right? And the thing is sometimes we think, oh, we're going to solve the content problem by letting students find their own content. How many of you do that in their classes? Having students find their own content? Okay, quite a few people, right? But how do we know that students then won't still reproduce the dominant knowledge? Because Google is going to show them the dominant stuff. Again, like how are we going to, can we develop, and I think some of you might be thinking about this, how do you develop algorithms that don't show white professors when someone searches for a professor, right? How do you develop, how do you train your students and train yourself and modify your mindset to make sure that you're not always reproducing dominant knowledge? And I tried over here to stop people who are mostly not white males. Not succeeding very well, but still, just to think about who else is talking. All right. For example, Samantha van der Roosso blogged about, grant she has, where she had to use open education resources for her class, for a literature course. So there's a lot of public domain stuff, but who's is it, white people? And the marginalized authors don't have their stuff in the open. So then she's limiting what her students get exposed to. And some people think about curriculum as a product, but do we think of products that are effective? Can we imagine open as not the product of what it does, but the feelings that it can create and the empathy that it can create? And I think that's a lot of what the benefit of open is for me. Is that part of it? And then I'm going to share some good examples, I think, of people who try to do open in different ways. So most connectivist moogs focus on the process rather than the content. There's still power in there, but the e-learning digital cultures moog was one of those that was critical in the way it approached digital technologies and in the way it worked. But again, any process without intentional looking at the power dynamics, then it's not going to solve that hegemony at all and the need for teachers. Idrach is an Arab moog platform. I don't know if any of you have heard of it. So it does provide this Arabic content that's missing. But again, it often will be getting the content from the westernized privileged institutions and not just anyone, right? The commonwealth of open learning in, I think, they work in Africa, I think. And when they first did OER work, the OERs didn't get used by the teachers. And then they realized that they need to think of OERs as an empowerment process where everyone's involved. And regardless of what the output is, it might not be a lot, but as long as the process is in place, when they need something, they'll create it. And so they worked on that and they learned from that. Davidson College has this way of doing pop-up moogs. So if there's an urgent topic, it gets prioritized and then you don't have to usually go through a whole process by the time something is ready, it's too late to be beneficial. Digital writing month, anybody know what that is? That was an event we had a few years ago. OK, and they do it several times, but that year when I was asked to facilitate it, I got two co-facilitators. I asked for a diverse group of contributors. I did not just ask them to write something, I asked them to develop the activities for the group as well. And I thought if I have a diverse group of people to begin with, and that's going to help me get a diverse contribution instead of me as a facilitator deciding what people would do. And even though that worked out really well, and I think in terms of diversity you can just tell, but also there are limitations because we only picked people we knew, people who are on Twitter, people who are educators. So you get some of it, but not all of it, because it's intersectional, right? Virtually Connecting, which is something I'm a co-director of and my co-director is also here on him. A lot of people in this room are part of Virtually Connecting. The idea of Virtually Connecting is to allow people who aren't in the conference an opportunity to have conversations with people at the conference so that they're not just watching the keynotes that are live-streamed but also able to participate in conversations, like the holiday conversations that we have informally, which is the best part of the conference, right? And we've got it going on here. This is the schedule. If you see one in progress, pop in and come on the screen or if you're watching online and you want to join one, they're also live-streamed. But there are a lot of limitations to it and it reproduces privilege in some ways as well, and we try to be as inclusive as possible, but we fail a lot. And we're having a presentation just on that so that I don't spend my entire keynote talking about it. And that's after lunch today. And here's the thing. Inclusion is not something that we just say and we assume that by telling people to come in that we've included them. Because we're still including them in our own space, that we've designed, that we have all the power of the structure in. It has to be engineered. I don't like the word engineered, but this actually makes a lot of sense in that context. You need to design for it. And a lot of that means we design it with people, well, not for people. And so, here it is. I'm actually finishing on time, Josie. What is your action plan for this conference? What are you going to do to nurture your seeds? Whatever your intentions are and what are you doing to nurture them? I'm not saying you're not trying. I'm just reminding us all to just keep doing that. And Helen Bethan told me this in a private hangout that we mustn't be disabled by our own privilege and we mustn't allow it to disempower us from taking action. And Autumn says, that's not enough for us to show up, that we need to create the spaces for the lesser-heard voices. And there are a lot of people here presenting on that. I wish I could be in three places at the same time just to attend every single thing that I want to attend because there's so much talk about critical perspectives and equity inclusion. It's obviously clear from the way the program was designed. But there's so much here and so many stories that we can all learn from. And I'm looking forward to, even if I can't, go to all the presentations to see them later and to talk to you in the hallways. And I know that a lot of people in this room are of this kind. That you give that you may live or to withhold this to perish. It's not like... I don't think I could live by not being open. And my life would be very, very different without all these people in this room who have helped me learn the past few years. And a lot of them are hiding in this keynote already. And I'm sure I've forgotten someone. But you can tell there are a lot of people. OK. And thank you, Shukran. And she's given me to the both of you. Thank you ever so much. And we've probably got time for maybe one question for me and it's all comments about something that's hand shot up immediately at the back. So whoever's attached to that hand gets to answer the question by... By being that determined. Thank you. The quick hand catches... Please do introduce yourself. Yes, I will. Paul Baxidge. And wearing a suit, which maybe is the best context for my question. I've been agonising on and off about the no commercial restriction and looking at the commentary from various continents about the problems of this, including in the EU, where in fact some of us can't even use our own research results for European funded projects because of the NC restriction. I'm just wondering what your take is on that, especially in terms of yet another northern privilege that we tend to inflict some people who may well want to get better crops and can't even use the OER resources telling them how to do that. I'm actually not... I don't think I'll be able to answer that question. We're just having this discussion in the car, Josie and Alec and I, about the non-commercial. And I actually feel very strongly about the non-commercial because I have a very strong belief that if I'm opening myself up and giving myself for free, I don't want someone else to commercialise it. But I think it would be different. I don't want to make this more complex than it already is. I know it's very difficult. Even within those licenses, understanding them is difficult. So would it be okay for a commercial entity to use it but not commercialise it? I would be okay with that. But I think the definition isn't okay with that. And I think in some ways the thing is that they could still ask permission. Like it's just... This is the thing about this. It's about permission. The licensing is about permission. But I think if you're within this period of what that person meant when they said non-commercial and you ask their permission, they'll give it to you. I know that's like an extra step. But I think it does make sense in a lot of reasons and in a lot of situations. And the context will differ, so... I'll comment on that as well briefly if I may. Thanks very much. That's a great question. Thank you very much for raising it. And I think time and time again, we have to have these discussions and thoughts about how we licence, what licences we use, what licences we recommend other people to use. And I think it's a really important ongoing process. Most people that I know used a very different kind of open licence and in very, very different ways at the start of their getting to grips with open education than they do further down the journey and those kinds of things change. I always use CC Buy and I recommend that. But I respect the fact that other people have arrived at different decisions for different reasons as well. The important thing, so thank you so much for raising it, is this ongoing conversation and discussion and education. One more question quickly.  OK. OK. I'm around. Please come and talk to me. Come and talk to me. Don't think that you can't come and talk to me. I'd love to talk to everybody here when we get a chance. Thank you so much. Let's just show our appreciation one more time. Thank you.


The Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo has reaffirmed Abubakar Bauer as the authentic People's Democratic Party's State Chairman in Tarabra State. The State Acting Chairman of the party, Inua Bakery, approached the court, forthing the process that brought Bauer as the Party's State Chairman after the exit of Kaffas Abua. But Justice Bauer Usman of the Federal High Court in Jalingo, during his ruling dismissed the suit, stressing that it lacks jurisdiction to entertain such matter. He wrote that the plaintiff failed to comply with the constitution of the party by not exhausting all internal mechanism or mechanism of the party before approaching the court. As well as that, the judgement is concluded that the matter lacks merit and it has been struck out from the court list. So we tangled that the judicial president of this country is enraged. It was a well-vacitile judgement and we agree with the court in total. Hello, we felt aggrieved and came to court that the PDP conditions had been violated in the appointment of PDP Chairman in Tarabra State. And that claim, the court agreed with us that there was a violation, especially article 47 subsistence of PDP conditions, that it was violated. But on the second name of the objection, because the defendant raised preliminary objection that even though, that assuming that there was a violation of PDP constitution, the internal resolution mechanism provided by the PDP constitution had not been followed, especially article 60 and 61. And the court agreed with them on this leg of objection that the PDP constitution provided for internal mechanism. It was after the exhaustion of that internal mechanism that the party can now come to court. I want to call on, more especially my brother that took us to court, that please let him come back. Let us unite and work for PDP. He has been the leader of PDP and we have given him all the support. So I don't see the reason why he cannot give me the support also.


Okay, I'm gonna hum another. Ready? Ready? Sure. OK. Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm. Hmm, hmm, hmm. Good one. Hmm, hmm, hmm. Legon. Ha, ha, ha, ha. We all know that one. And it was Dawn the original. What a great riff. What a great riff. Legendary. What do you call that, by the way? A whistle. You all right? No. Like that. Like, if that part of the song, what do you call that? The melody. The melody. The melody? Yeah, that's the melody. Okay. Uh, a melody to your mom always works. Today, when in doubt, go for my mom. She'll give it up. Anyways. How's your mother? I haven't seen her in a while. I don't know. You tell me. Hey. Put them. She's doing good. Okay. And thankfully, so's my dad. Good. He's, y'all don't know, my dad was really close to dying and has had a massive improvement. So, if you were on Patreon, you'd know. Not O.S.R.'s Patreon, my Patreon. He just wanted to talk about it over there. He just wanted to miss the Yankees Playhouse because of all the sadness. It was wise. It was wise. Today, we got a, so this is a little thing. It's called scripted. And so it basically takes the entire script of whatever film it's doing and plays it on top of the scene itself. So subtitles. No. So you see the subtext of what it's originally supposed to say. Oh, like direction and then what it's the point of view. What actually happened on screen. Got it. And I thought it'd be actually interesting to re-vict because I haven't seen it since we watched it, but this is a little scene from Swadesh. Got it. They do that sometimes when they're doing best screenplay for the Oscars and they'll show you side by side. It's one of those. Got it. So it's a scene from it and what actually transpired. I think it's the one of him on the train and the little boy comes up. Okay. And I think it'd be one interesting to watch because this is, I think, my... I think this is the best Shubham Khan film in terms of his performance and everything altogether. Okay. Do you? His best performance is, my name is Khan. You think of this one? Yeah. Yeah. More challenging. More challenging role. But more challenging, a lot more areas where he could have been indicating and not being present and real and pre-shaping. But he was definitely, as far as like his performance as an actor, my favorite performance for him as an actor is my name is Khan. But you like Swadesh? Oh, I love this film. Yeah. Love this film. And if I had to choose, like more often than not, I'll watch this way more than I will watch. My name is Khan. Have you watched it since you watched it? No. Yeah, me either. Yeah. I thought that'd be interesting to re-watch it. Yeah. You just want to watch it again. Yeah. I thought that was fun. Fun to see the script side by side. I liked that it was actually almost a throwaway scene in terms of like, it's not a dialogue outside of The Little Boy, obviously. He had that old dag, but it was no dialogue for Shah Rukh Khan. Yeah. And it's one of the why it's, I mean, I think my biggest problem with that film was the ending from what I remember. I didn't like that. Too happy? I think I didn't like that it was, I forget even what the ending was. Because it was back in India. Celebrating with everybody that he came back. Oh, yeah. He left his career and then many years later, he would show up in Brahmastra. That's true. That's true. That was the, because he was, it's the same name, the same name that's what it was. Yeah. Same name as this character in Swadesh. And he was a scientist in Swadesh. Right. Exactly. That's the whole thing. But yeah, I like these kind of things because it one shows what was on paper and then how the director's vision came through. Right. And I don't know if Shahrukh Khan made those tears himself. Oh. Do you think he did? Or do you think he got put it in? Because if you look right here, I don't know. I would love it, but it's a cutaway. It's a cutaway. So they could have easily, they could have easily. It could have been. Granted, it could just be a continuation of this. I hope to God those were real. Granted, that's not uncommon in the slightest for people to use fake tears in the slightest. It's not. I know that it's very common. I know it's common. It just act.  I know. I just don't understand.  I can't. I just, I don't understand actors that can't. It's like what is the wall that's causing you to not access that part of your emotional tableau? It's like saying. I can play the violin, but please don't ask me to play an A. I cannot play that note. I will not play that note. I don't understand. Well, I think some actors can get there, but I think their tear ducts just don't work. Like mine. Granted, that's different. Funny enough, that's different. I can make myself cry. Like easily. No, but there are people who their tear ducts don't create tears. Okay, that's, I understand that. And I understand in many children actors, you can't get them to cry on demand. You can't get them to cry on cue because they have not ever reached the place of accessing their emotions on a, on a, that's why it's very unusual if you can get a young actor to produce real tears. It's usually extraordinary. And yes, it's one of the main things I think non-actors are the most astonished by is the crying on cue aspect. Yeah. And it's just having access to your emotions. I don't even think it's that. I can literally make my eyes well up without being sad in the slightest. Yeah, I just, it's, it's, it's a, it's a point of having. And the other thing too, it's, it's, like, there you must. There he must cry. Not all the time if a character is sad, does, do there have to be tears? But it's scripted. Mohan's eyes well up. That means there have to be tears appearing in the eyes. And we're going to capture that on camera. I think he did. I think he did too. But I was just wondering. How many times? Well, because it's, once again, it is. There have been times. In India and Hollywood, it's very common to use fake tears. What was the movie we just saw with him where there was, there was, there was. Yeah, the amount of tears that were flowing in that one, man. It's actually an iconic gift. The glycerin. The one of him at the end looking up. Yeah. It's an iconic gift. It's true. But yeah, I think, yeah, I was just wondering, I'd love to know. My, I bet money that they are because he doesn't seem to ever have a problem with the cry when he needs to cry. But yeah, anyways, it was cool. I would actually... And hopefully it's coming from a place of truth. Hopefully there's something going on up there of... What's the runtime of Swedish? Is it three and a half? I don't think it's that long. I think it's three. You don't think so? I think it's right around three. But yeah, the point, that's the main thing sometimes with tears, is that people are crying for the sake of getting the tears. And no one ever does that. No. That's not truthful. Most people try to stop crying when tears are coming. This is one of the ones, like if I was ever to introduce my film club to Shah Rukh Khan, this is one of the most, I think, easily accessible. Yeah, I agree. In terms of, it's an Indian film, but it has enough of a Western feel that it's not going to be jarring as if you throw him a DDLJ right away. Sure.  Right. Absolutely. Even though my struggle with it is, if I'm like, if I decided to choose one day to like, alright guys, we're going to watch a Shah Rukh Khan so you can figure out who this man is, he's not popular because even though Swedish is a very... It's a very popular film. Very popular film and very beloved film. That's not the reason he became popular and that's not the reason he's Shah Rukh Khan today. No. The reason he's Shah Rukh Khan today is because of the films that I've mentioned before. Yeah. Which are amazing in their own right. But you just can't throw people into the wolves like that, I feel. You can't. In any way that there's certain things in India cuisine, someone who's not had it, you're not going to give them that first. Like, I'm going to give somebody none before I'm going to give them Hajmola. Period. Yeah, one's not even food though. But you get my point. It's a digestive free. Okay, thanks. I'll take the... I was at an Indian restaurant just the other day, not my normal one, but they had this little thing, a gold little dish. At the front. Yeah.  What is in there? It has fennel. Fennel. And it has... It's like mouth fresheners and digestives. Is that what it is? Jaggery's in there. Does that have a name? Are you... Usually write a little jaggery sometimes? No. Jaggery's a sweet. Yeah, I know. But what's typically in that? Because we had it almost in every restaurant in Kolkata when we would leave, we would grab it and... That's just a mixture of fennel seeds and I don't know the English name of Ajwain, but I would do it up. Ajmola. My wife's addicted to fennel seeds, man. She chews those bad boys throughout the day. Then mix it up with... It's so good. If it's some sweet candy in it with mint flavors, it's a mouth freshener plus a digestive. What? Like my mom? What? I don't know. What? Oh, you gotta tell us now.   No. Your sperm? No.  Anyway... The videos ended, okay, goodbye.


Good afternoon everybody. I am Dr. Jayanta Datta, consultant nephrologist and transplant physician of Muripad Hospital, Salt Lake. On the eve of one kidney day, which is celebrated in every year, on the second Thursday of March, to increase the awareness of kidney disease in general population, so how can we keep our kidney healthy? The basic steps to do that is that if you are at risk patient, that means you are suffering from diabetes, you are suffering from hypertension, you have family history of kidney disease, you are obese, that means you are at the risk of development of the kidney disease. So in this group, we suggest regular annual kidney checkup, even if you don't have any symptoms, because in the early stage, kidney disease has no symptoms, it is only asymptomatic. So if you do regular test, only then you can detect a disease in early stage. And if the disease is detected in early stage, adipate intervention can be done to cure the disease. But if the disease is detected at a marine level stage, then only diarrhea and transplantation is the only option. So I will request all the person we are hearing, if you are falling in their risk group, then you should check your kidney regular. Second point is that you have to take adequate amount of fluid and balance diet.  And the very important thing that please avoid over-the-counter medicine, like painkillers, like antibiotics, they can damage your kidney. So please don't take any medicine without proper prescription of a doctor, don't take any medicine over the counter from the medicine shop, they can damage your kidney. And the theme of one kidney day this year is preparation for the unexpected and supporting the COVID-19. That means we have also seen in the COVID period that there is a sudden impact on the health sector, not only the health sector in every aspect of the society due to COVID-19. We are not prepared at all for the COVID-19 at that time. And also the adipate group like chronic kidney disease, they are more prone of COVID-19. Because of this, this year the theme is preparing for any unexpected event and supporting the vulnerable group. So I wish everyone as good health also the good kidney health who are hearing this message. Thank you.


do not care to go inside one word anymore. Like, like baby. Why are you minding? Maybe it's just my derpinessness. For me, waking up early is definitely that girl. Top tier. I'm sorry.  Right outside. T T. Two-time baby girl you know me. Still with the girls that I grew beside. I don't watch your time. Hey y'all, welcome back to my channel. Today's video, as you can see from the title, I do plan on this video being a complete Sunday reset for me. If you're new here, hey, my name's Akira Jenae. Don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave. So I am outside of Pet Smart Trader Joe's, Pop Ship, all of that, if you're local with this little shopping center. I take prints here to get groomed. I just dropped him off his appointment for 1030. This is his little stuff. I do have a online Walmart grocery pickup. Y'all know I was talking about this in a vlog or two ago that I just do not care to go inside one word anymore. I just can't do it. Unless if I'm strictly going to browse around, look for something. And plus, this Walmart, since I moved, I did find a good Walmart to go to, but I still like the last Walmart where I lived at like 15, 16 minutes up the road. I like the Walmart that's like, dang there, about 20 minutes away from me. So instead of going there, I just always do a Walmart pickup, but yeah. So my pickup is from 11 to 12. It is 1042. I decided to do 11 to 12 instead of nine to 10 because I didn't want to be rushing trying to get, you know, up the street, they're looking at my groceries and I don't want to talk to y'all for a second. So yeah, this is going to be a Sunday reset. I am going to Vegas this weekend. If you don't follow me on Instagram, then you wouldn't know, but my best friend Nikki is getting married. A lot of y'all do know Nikki here on the channel. So she's getting married in Vegas this weekend. So we're leaving Friday evening. We're going to make it in Vegas Friday night about 1030. We're going to be there Friday night, Saturday night. Was going to be Sunday, but my boyfriend isn't coming anymore. It's going to be me and my cousin. So we got to leave out Sunday because she has to go to work. I am off for the next 10 days. So I do have a lot of content and everything planned out. So I'm super excited for that. That's why I am, you know, up this morning trying to get everything done. And I just need to reset. Y'all are going to be viewing this video on an actual Sunday, but I'm actually recording this. What is today? Today is Wednesday, October the 11th. It's 1043 in the morning. My boyfriend was laughing because he was like, Greg, I'm recording you faking it. I'm like, I'm not faking it. This is literally what I would do on a Sunday. The reason why I'm doing it today is because I am going to be gone to Vegas. And I don't get back from Vegas until that evening. And when I get back Sunday girl, I'm not even going to unpack and I'm not going to lie to you.  So this is my Sunday. I'm preparing for, you know, the rest of the week. I want to come home to a very, very clean house. I'm going to be deep cleaning, recycling groceries. You know, all of the little good stuff that I would do on a Sunday. I'm preparing for it right now because I don't want to try to be cleaning on like Friday, the day that I'm flying. So yeah, anyways, they have to substitute two items. I got 25 plus, I don't know. I got a lot of items. My groceries this go around was 141 dollars. But since you do pickup, they do a temporary hold and my temporary hold was 160. I'm just about to go ahead and head over to Walmart. Really, all I'm doing is this week is newer. This is a review. You guys will see this soon. It's actually a frontal, which is crazy. I know I don't even do frontals, but yeah, I'm about to go ahead and head over to Walmart right now and then go home, restock some groceries. My boyfriend is down here actually up the street getting a haircut. So yeah, he'll probably, what's today? Oh, he don't got to work today. So he'll probably stop by and see me after. So I am going to try to hear you and shoot over, go get these groceries real quick and then get to the house. I need to, like my house looks a complete mess because last night I started on this wig review from 7.30 at night, didn't get done with the review and all of that until two o'clock in the morning. Y'all know I work night shift, so that's not crazy, but like it's just being a one woman show, it literally is just too much. Yep, I'm doing the same thing y'all doing. It just be too much sometimes, so yeah. But I did also do a mini little like she in hall for like a TikTok or shorts video. I did a few different other type of contents. I got to pictures, I took videos, cute little stuff. So it took seven hours just to do all of this, but you know, we got it done, we got it done. Yeah, I think that's all I pretty much want to talk about right now, I'll get to y'all when I get back to the house. I've already been talking for about five minutes. So yeah, just a fair warning when I show y'all my apartment is definitely a mess because I've been filming for seven hours straight. It's a mess, so we definitely get this apartment in order, okay? Okay. All right, I'm here, I'm about to go move my trunk around. Like I got random stuff just laying in the back, back there. Curve side is ready for pickup. So I'm gonna click it and tell them what spot I'm in. I've parked, I'm in spot 10. Right, we'll be out shortly. Yeah, I'm about to go move some stuff around real quick. It ain't when people, when people minding your business, like baby, or why you minding my business, mind your business. And I can't, I can't turn y'all around, but I'll probably pop in a little, a little something, something. All right, I don't know if we'll be able to see them in the back or not. Oh, my little pillow back here. Since I'm not, like I'm a small girl and I usually sit all the way up and like up like this. So it'd be too much space in the back of my neck right here. And if I'm driving for a long period of time, it literally tends to start to like hurt my neck and kind of like my back and my shoulders and stuff. So even though my Kia like on the seat, I don't know if y'all can hear that, but the seat at the lower back raises in and out. But even then it's like, I still have so much space on my neck part right here. So yeah, I got this pillow for Amazon. Absolutely love it. It's linked to my Amazon storefront under my like car favorites or whatever, 2022 Kia K5 car essentials. Yeah. Love it. I'm a baker. My stomach just started hurting really bad. I don't know where. I don't know if it's like period cramps or I don't know. It's got a sharp pain in my stomach. I haven't ate this morning either, obviously cause I just woke up at like 10 o'clock trying to rush and get prints to his appointment.  He need to come on because I need help. He needs groceries upstairs. Okay. I'm about to say about how much, how much longer. Thank you. He's still packing stuff, baby. I got to think of water. Yeah. Definitely forever doing one more pickup cause baby now me out. I'm not doing this anymore. About 10, 15 minutes. Thank you. You too. Okay. He said about 10, 15 minutes. He do his part now. I said, okay, I need help with groceries. All right. So he gave me my bread and my eggs. It's time to go. I think this one of the same guys bringing my stuff out. Ooh baby, this person beside me, they got morning. They got the big old thing of ground beef, like the big old long thing for like $20. Okay. So they said about 10, 15 minutes. I said, I need help. He said, Ella, well, I got your baby. So it's going to take me about five minutes to get to the house. It's going to take him an additional. So about like 20 minutes. I'm going to go ahead and initially take up some stuff. But since I got a big old case of water and all of that, I was going to leave that for him, but I'm going to go ahead and take these eggs, milk and the bread and stuff like that. I'm going to go ahead and take that upstairs. So I'm going to go on my parking lot. I'll talk to y'all when we get to the house. I don't want to have them. They don't have the goodness. I ain't going to go for none of that. So I just got back up. We want to do a little overview because honey, we got a lot of work to do. Okay. So this is a judgment free zone. Okay. Okay. I've been recording for seven hours last night. So this is the sheen stuff that I just threw over here because this is my setup. I don't normally record over here in this corner. Got my brush and stuff over here because I was brushing my hair. So yeah, that's that. That needs to go in my storage. This is how the kitchen is. These are the garages I just brought up and I just put this up here. So yeah, I got this out here. This is empty. I mean, I put it right here so I can remember to get some more. And yeah, I didn't cook. And yeah, this is just what we're working with. You know, this is just like, in those, I just cleaned those out. Got to put them in here. I think these are actually clean. Just took out trash though. My living room is the absolute mess because my boyfriend, we was watching the rookie fits and he took my sewing out for me in my living room. So this is the thread. There's some on the floor. Got to completely clean my couch and everything. Bedroom. I'm about to actually wash out my sheets and everything. So I just woke up. That's why my bed isn't made. Bedroom's not too bad. Got clothes right here. Bathroom. We just honestly just kind of deep cleaned the bathroom. So we're just going to do a quick cleaning here that I need to hang up some clothes. Now, the real mess is where I was recording it as well in my guest room, YouTube studio, whatever room you want to call it. This one, I've been using, I've been trying to sell this old desk. I've been kind of using it for income and collaboration stuff. Like I did have all the sheen clothes on here. This is sponsored. I got to do something with that. This is my mattress topic that I took off my mattress.  This is an absolute mess because obviously I was just over here doing my wig for the review. So I got all of my hair stuff over here. I need to completely clean my desk. Got makeup brushes over here. I also need to, I'm going to have to probably get another rug because since I do do hair reviews and stuff like that in here, this rug, this is really hard to clean, especially getting like hair and stuff out of here. Yes, it's cute, but I've also had this rug since 2020. So I think it's probably time to go ahead and retire this. Cause I don't think I'm going to put this in my room anywhere. Like in my bedroom. I don't think it'll fit the vibes, but it just be so hard trying to get, you know, the little strands of hair and stuff up out of here. Like I have to literally take this whole desk off, wring the rug out and it just be too much. So this is some new clothes for Prince. I got to put in this little food bucket. So yeah, we just, we just got to get this whole little place together. And then here is a train wreck. Cause I was doing my makeup and this week, I think I'm going to end up wearing this one to Vegas. I'm going to like shampoo condition and deep condition this week. Because this one, what I'm wearing right now is a frontal. Y'all will see the review or whatever, but I did this install last night, but like from afar, it looks good. But like up close on some of the parts I didn't let the glue completely, completely dry down. So I don't know, it's just like, you don't see that? Like some of the parts it's just like you can tell the glue is right there. Like maybe I see the lace, you know? Like the glue wasn't all the way completely clear right here.  But I think for my first time doing a ball cap, anyways, we'll talk about that in a week review. So yeah, this, we just got to clean up. In this one, I do need to finish, we'll reorganize this, but we're just going to leave it for a different day. So I'm about to put this little food up that I do have right now. And then bae, let me check his location. Okay, he's about five minutes away. So I'm about to kind of clean out my refrigerator. Cause I probably need it, yeah. So not much to clean out, cause I didn't ate anything or everything. So I need to throw that out, take the stuff out my lunch box and then just restock. Didn't get everything I needed, but this is the bulk of what I be eating. I'm missing steak, I'm missing a roast.  All right, so I'm about to go ahead and deep clean my fridge because bae, what is that? You don't see that? What is that? How about it? See, we don't, we don't do a quick little square little wipe through up in chair. And this is sticky. Gonna tell me to buy the sticks of butter like y'all usually do. I usually buy sticks sometimes, but this is my favorite kind of butter. And this doesn't come in a stick. I don't believe it does. I had never seen any. So I usually buy the small container of this. I did let the butter sit out. This entire time I put up all the other groceries and then put up the butter. So it was already kind of like soft and manageable to work with. So just kind of squeezed it out and then used the knife around the perimeters to get that out. And all of my little like organization stuff is either from home goods, Amazon, anything that's from Amazon will be linked in my Amazon storefront down below. Like these spice jars from Amazon. You can check that out. A lot of stuff is from Amazon actually. A few things is from Walmart. Like all the home edit brand stuff that's all from Walmart. So yeah, but these spice jars absolutely love. They come in handy. It came with the little funnel and everything. So 10 out of 10, definitely recommend. Another one. Yeah.  Cops pulling up like I'm giving drugs out now. I'm a pop star, not a doctor.  Cops pulling up like I'm giving drugs out now. I'm a pop star, not a doctor. Hey, shorty with the long text, I'll talk to you. Shorty with the long legs, she on, yeah. I can't fucking, my legend, I wanna quit. Hey y'all, it is currently 7.04. Babe left about an hour ago. It was supposed to, when the alarm went off, he was supposed to leave at like by four o'clock to get to work at five. He didn't leave till six.  He laid down, so I'm like, okay. And then I told him a few other times he stayed laying down. So anyways, we're just now, well I had ended up taking a nap as well. Cause I was up late, woke up early. Anyways, it's seven o'clock. I have to edit, I want to edit this wig review and send it off tonight and as well as, I forgot, tomorrow is Thursday. I'm supposed to be posting a vlog. I ain't posting a vlog Sunday. So I'm trying to get a vlog out for Thursday. And as far as cleaning, I went to go get printed one o'clock so I stopped cleaning that one, came back. We watched two episodes and then we just fell asleep. So now I'm about to resume cleaning. I'm gonna set a one hour timer and within that hour I'm gonna try to finish cleaning my kitchen, living room and then washing my bedsheets and stuff like that. Like I'm gonna start in my room first to wash everything and then we're gonna come back to the living room in the kitchen. I may just have to save the rest of this clean with me for tomorrow because I get my nails done at nine o'clock so I'm already gonna be up early so then I'm gonna come back home by like 10 o'clock. So hopefully I can just finish cleaning then if I can get both of these videos done because I do really need to post a video for Thursday. So it's seven o'clock. I would like to be editing this wig review. I know I'm not gonna get this vlog done probably but at least I can start it. I wanna be editing this wig review by like nine o'clock and I do wanna cook tonight as well. So went off so I could just already be done cleaning. Anyways, it's seven o' six. I'm gonna set my alarm for an hour and then I'll see how far I can get in an hour. I do want to completely finish cleaning kitchen, my bedroom and the living room. So we're gonna do, we're gonna do an hour timer. And it's on a timer. I think the new update is cool how it show you your recent timer. I can't just be with you on all of you. Yeah, I got one virtual, got one in there. Do y'all clean y'all trash can? Because if not, that's nasty. Like trash cans get so dirty and like I find myself cleaning mine like constantly. And I've actually had this trash can for a couple years now and it's still looking really good in a good condition. So I'm gonna just throw it out there. And now we're gonna cook. Y'all have saw me cook this meal so, so many times. I recently just found out a way how to cook this without using like the canned cream of chicken. I basically made my own like soup, if you will. I'll probably show that in one of my next vlogs but it tastes so good. So I'm gonna start making my own little like cream of chicken rather than buying it in the can. I do buy the healthy requests. It is a little bit more healthier but still I would rather make my own stuff from scratch. And yeah, just wanna throw that in there. And then this way of using the potato pillar, definitely Game Changer. I found this out by watching like a cooking show like probably wanna go to Ramsey shows and it literally saves so much time. So I wanted to show you guys how to do it that way because it's much faster.  How about yours basic? You live life for the everyday. Right, I'm down on my knees scrubbing my floor because girl, it's something like not really like it's sticky but not extra sticky. Like I don't even know how to explain what it feels like but every time I walk right here, it is just, it's not like the rest of my floor. So girl, I don't know what to do. I did lifestyle right now, soap and water. I may try dish soap and I also did like a whole bunch of other stuff and it just still feels sticky. So I'm not sure what's wrong but if y'all know how to get like stickiness off the freaking like hardwood floor, please comment down below and let me know because yeah, I'm really sick of it. Since I did that though, it's not as sticky as it was but it still doesn't feel like the rest of my floor if that makes sense. Like it still feels like something is there, I don't know. Good morning y'all. Today is the next day, Thursday, October 12th. It is 11, 18. I went and got my nails done at nine o'clock this morning. Just got a cute little French tip. I got a feel, real cute, real cute. So yeah, I just got back. I went to Costco, got some gas in my car cause my car got down to like 15 miles. So I went and got gas. Gas is now at Costco 305 where I'm at. So it's a lot better than what it was when I was complaining about gas prices. My robot, I have her set for Sundays and Thursdays to mop my floors. Her name's Jasmine, Jasmine mop my floors at nine, both of those mornings. But this previous morning, this morning, she needed to be refilled. So she's just now starting to mop as you guys can see. I'm gonna let her do her thing, got my bar stools up. I am about to cook breakfast though. Bay is on his way here because I fly off for Vegas tomorrow evening at like 6, 6.30. So I'm gonna be packing today, but I am about to cook breakfast cause I didn't eat before I went to another appointment. So I'm about to cook breakfast. He was about to come like in the next two hours, but he on his way down since I'm cooking breakfast, you know, I'm in. They love to eat. So I'm about to cook some breakfast. And then after that, I'm gonna clean up a little bit more to kind of finish off this vlog. I made my bed last night. I don't know if I recorded that at night, but I'm gonna finish doing my laundry in there, like folding clothes and stuff. I'm about to cook, like I said. And then I'm going to clean up my guest bathroom and my guest room. So Bay is here. I think I saw that earlier. We ate breakfast and stuff. We laid down chill, watched Swat. He's cooking that first. Then I had to cook a nap. Then we was kind of sitting outside on my patio and I'm doing stuff like for this wig collab. And he announced 7.29, but time has been going by so slow. I've been up since eight o'clock. So literally waking up early is definitely their girl top tier because the day is still going. It's not even over yet. So I am excited that I still have so many other days to be able to wake up early and use all of my day. So yeah, I'm about to go ahead and clean my guest room and my guest bathroom. I'm gonna do the bathroom first because I feel like that'd be a little bit more quicker. And then I'm gonna do my guest room. Like I said, I have not packed anything. Luckily my flight doesn't take off until tomorrow night. But I may have to end up buying a new SD card because I got four SD cards and I got so much footage to edit. So when I come back Sunday and Monday, that's just gonna be a full like editing days. But yeah, my kitchen and stuff was spotless but I did cook me and bae something. So yeah, I probably touched it up a little bit tomorrow but we're about to go ahead and start cleaning my guest bathroom and my guest room. I put it up in the very top of my closet but right now we're just gonna keep it right there but everything is clean.


The top 10 toys and hobbies dropshipping products that you need to sell on your dropshipping stores to start making a killing and profiting from this niche Now we here at auto DS we've been noticing the rise in sales in this specific category and That is why we decided to create this video for you guys to help you out along the way with the toys and hobbies niche Which is one of our favorite niches and categories to sell quick intro. Let's begin What's up everybody? My name is Leeran from auto DS I'm the content producer and I've also been dropshipping for the last four years and like I said in this video We are going to cover the top 10 toys and hobbies dropshipping products that you need to sell on your dropshipping stores If you want to succeed in this niche, which is one of our favorite categories when it comes to dropshipping and Right before we begin with the first product I just want to remind you if you are new to our channel This is the part where you subscribe to get all of the latest and all of the hottest topics that are coming out in the Dropshipping industry which is always created from dropshippers for dropshippers such as yourselves Now let's begin with the list of the top 10 products The first product that we have in line for the toys and hobbies niche are hand operated drones Now I know what you're thinking drones have been out for a while and people are dropshipping them all over the place But drones just typical general drones. I agree with you. They are saturated and they're all over the place However, when you start to micro niche these drones and see which drones inside these drones are selling You will start to notice that there are drones that you can sell that not a lot of people are selling Now I just want to remind you guys auto DS supports over 20 suppliers Which means you will have access to millions and millions of products So you'll never run out of products to sell You'll just need to know which products are selling hot Which categories are trending right now? And that is why we are creating these product finding videos for you to make your job just this much easier So you can start to sell and profit right away. So hand operated drones are really trending right now And what they are is pretty self-explanatory. It's the drones that you guys know about Except these ones are operated and move according to your hand gestures So as you can see here, you can find them from multiple suppliers They come in different colors and shapes and they don't have such a high price tag Like regular drones that you guys are used to so hand operated drones are the first on our list Grab them and add at least 20 of these to your store in every product that i'm going to recommend in this video I want you guys to add 20 products that way you can analyze each category successfully And that way you can see which products are working for you Which products are not and how to multiply your success on those that are working for you Now before we move on to product number two all the way until 10 I just want to show you guys a neat trick if you guys don't know about it already And this feature will show you how you can import as many products as you want to your store at once And just a few clicks the first thing that you need to do is download and install the autods helper extension So if you just open up google and write down autods helper The first link will take you to the extension And once it installs on your chrome browser go to the supplier page where you have all of the products that you want to add to your store Let's say we want all of these hand operated drones that we see on this page Okay, so we have all of these drones on the first page of our search Let's say we want to add all of them to our store So as you see here on the bottom, there's that autods circle That is the extension and if you don't see that extension just refresh the page because you just installed the extension now If you still don't see it just contact our support and they'll be more than happy to help you But there should be no problem with this click on that extension and then click on extract What just happened is all of the product IDs that we see on this page over here Simply extracted inside this little extension that we have down here The next thing that you need to do is click on export as csv And then an export file will be downloaded onto your computer The next step is to open up the autods platform And while I'm recording this video for all of you guys who are with us and are dropshipping on ebay You will not be seeing this layout yet, but you will see it soon How soon that is a little secret, but you will know when soon now once you open up the autods platform Click on add products on the left side Then click on upload csv And here you can drag and drop that csv file or click on it to open up the file browser window And double click on that export file Next make sure that the supplier source down here is correct So in our case we chose those products from aliexpress the region of the supplier is china You have more options in advance options. I will not go through it now Click on next and then you will start the import process of all of those 60 products Here you will choose all of their settings So you can choose a template that you want the product tags, which I highly encourage that uses function So i'm going to create a tag called toys and hobbies Create this tag now all of those 60 products will have this tag And in a month or two when I will want to analyze this niche I will just have to open up the toys and hobbies tags in my products list And I will see only those products out of the thousands that I have And it will make it much easier to analyze this niche specifically Now if you click on next you'll get to the pricing then the shipping and policies Then you can import all of these products to your store or import them to your drafts And continue optimizing them before importing them to your store and having auto ds start to monitor them So in just a few clicks you will have all of those 60 products add as many products as you want in just a few clicks with this method Now let's go back to those 10 products. So we talked about hand-operated drones Now we're moving on to number two on the list and on number two We have remote control cars or rsc cars and of course these have been around for a while But there are always new versions that are coming out. There are always people who are buying them We have noticed the increase in this category Especially this year in 2020 with more people at home trying to entertain their kids year by year You're seeing new four by four features and new stun cars that are coming out Kids are always into this not just boys even girls and not just kids Even adults get a kick out of these products my recommendation when you're adding a general niche like this My recommendation is to always check out new releases Along with bestsellers and make a good mix out of the two because when you're looking at bestsellers You're looking at products that have already been proving themselves and people are buying them And this is a good example of a product that you need to sell On the other hand because they are bestsellers, there's a good chance that they are saturated That's why you need to optimize your titles a little bit and make your product pages look a little bit different And also check out new releases because in the new releases You will find some secret hidden gems that other people are not selling yet And if you will get it before your competitors do the sales will be yours and not theirs to have And another really important tip is to stay away from trademark products like this yoshi over here from mario and mario cart Stay away from products that are trademarked Stay away from products that are copyrighted and you won't have any problem selling this product and finding the bestsellers Within this niche so remote control cars is number two on the list Now let's move on to number three and on number three. We have foldable mini drones This is another micro niche of the general drones category, which we saw is selling a lot And there's no reason why you shouldn't sell them either So it's just like the regular drones that you guys know about Except in this case, they are not hand operated which makes them a little bit more easier to move around and travel And this is another type of drone that they are buying So foldable mini drones like the ones you see in front of me Are those hot sellers right now? Grab them and try to add 20 of them to your store And if you can't find 20 good ones from one supplier simply move on to another supplier My recommendation is always to work with three suppliers So foldable mini drones number three on the list and let's move on on number four. We have digital drying boards Now this is a very cool item for kids And may I say that it's also fun for adults? There are drying boards for adults too like you can see here in front of me So if you just add kids to the start of the search, you'll start seeing the drying boards that are made for kids Like you see the ones in front of me here Now just because you will see that kids drying boards are selling well It doesn't mean that adult drying boards are not going to sell for you too So once again when you start seeing success in one niche, think of how you can start multiplying that one too And another small thing you see this no packet an e-pack it It's a small helpful little feature inside the autodesk chrome extension That will simply help you know if the product has e-pack it or not And the total processing days instead of having to go inside each listing and seeing it for yourself So this is a cool feature that we have on aliexpress and that's just a small tip So digital drying boards number four on the list add 20 of them and let's move on to number five And on five we have building toys as simple as they sound They are selling a lot. Let me show you guys some examples of building toys Here you'll also need to stay clear of trademark products We have a lot of trademark companies like lego So stay away from big companies that you know of that you've heard of and when you're adding products to autodesk It will inform you if you're trying to import trademark products So you have that extra layer of protection But in the beginning use your head after that autodesk will let you know what's up So you don't have to worry too much but do use your head when it comes to trademark items It will just save you some extra time and hassle that you don't want to deal with later on Once again search multiple suppliers Search bestsellers search new releases add at least 20 of these product ideas and start seeing what is selling for you And multiply your success from there next on number six on the list We have dress up and pretend play and this is one of the categories that children love the most Just up and pretend play search it as it is inside your supplier search engines It's hard to know what the exact price of this product should be because once again It's bundle packs and you can't just go to some local store across the street and see the same exact item Which makes it even harder to know what the exact price should be of what we're seeing here So there is no average price that's letting you know how much you should sell this product for Which means you can happily make at least 30 profit if you ask me That is what I do on my dropshipping stores and that is what I would recommend for categories such as this one So dress up and pretend play is number six on our list This brings us to number seven and now we have plush toys Now plush toys are those dolls where you can add stuffings inside and the reason that we decided to add them Is obviously because we have seen the sales. We have seen the rising upwards trend Just stay away from pikachu Stay away from scooby-doo and stay away from those trademark items There are more than enough plush dolls for you to sell and once again if you're not happy with one suppliers results Move on to the next. That's why you have the advantage of three suppliers So plush dolls is next on the list for one of the trendiest niches that we have noticed that has been selling recently And next on the list on number eight. We have puzzles now again It's a very general category and this is where you're going to have to check out the best sellers And the new releases to make a mix out of the two and just by the amount of reviews that you can see here Almost 3000 here almost 2000 here and most buyers do not even leave reviews So you can try to get a good understanding of how many people are buying these products Just make sure to search in the right places as I've said before You can sort out researchers from your suppliers Check out the new items check out the best sellers to get those secret hidden gems that other people have not started selling yet So puzzles is number eight on the list. It's one of the biggest sellers in the toys and hobbies category Now let's move on to number nine and on number nine. We have toy figures And once again if you're asking yourself, which toy figures do I need to sell because there are a bunch Then you are definitely correct. There's a bunch of toy figures So once again in this case search it up with multiple suppliers Check out the best sellers those that are selling the most like this one sold about 2000 units This one sold 1.4k this one sold just about 1k and this is just regular lego products But if you continue to search you'll start learning about more items that are selling well So search for them and also check out new releases after you've learned about what is selling Look for similar items in the new releases and don't forget to add at least 20 of them to your store I would recommend in toy figures even more This category is going to be a little bit more difficult to see what are the best sellers inside this one But once you'll find them you'll start having a blast because toy figures are one of the most popular products That are selling inside the toys and hobbies niche It's one of the first products that people are searching for and are thinking about when they start searching for toys To buy for their kids or maybe for themselves add at least 20 and you'll start seeing your results from there This brings us to product number 10 on the list And don't get bored on this one because toys and hobbies does not have to be all about entertainment You can also sell remote control the people parts So you know how a lot of people have rc cars a lot of people are also buying them And they're also looking for replacement parts just because one little thing broke on their cars They don't want to buy a new rc car Some of them can be expensive models and they're just searching for a small replacement part to fix their broken rc car And one of the best selling categories for drop shippers And it doesn't matter if we're talking about refrigerator replacement parts or laundry replacement parts Or vacuum cleaner replacement parts or any other device or products that people may have They need replacement parts for them and they're looking for them on the internet on ebay on google And that is why you should always keep your eye on replacement parts as a drop shipper So let me show you guys remote control vehicle parts As you can see here if you look in between the vehicles, you'll also find the replacement parts You can also put yourself in the right category in order to find it But as you can see here, you can already find them So you're seeing some screws here and some wires there You don't have to understand what you're selling as long as people are searching for them You don't need to be emotionally connected to the products that you are selling The customers are happy your store is profiting and that is what it's all about I also recommend you guys to add more than the quantity of one Because if somebody sees replacement parts from your store and they need them and they can't really find them anywhere else There's a good chance that they'll buy two or three units just to have some extra units lying around So they won't have to search for you or other stores when they'll need it again So that is the 10th toy and hobby product that you need to sell on your drop shipping stores to start enjoying those sales and profits I hope that you guys enjoyed this video We have a lot of product finding videos that we are always releasing to you guys Because we really want to help you guys on your journey to success and we also want to hear your success stories Now if you appreciate the value that we're passing on to you in these videos We would highly appreciate it if you would give us a little like Share this video so that your friends and family can also learn about the wild and amazing world of drop shipping And if you are new to our channel, this is the part where you subscribe to stay updated On all of the latest and hottest topics that we have in the drop shipping world When it comes to product finding and strategies to maintain and scale your store Suppliers market places and everything else that you need to automate your business and make the most profit possible At the end of the month. Thank you for watching. See you in the future videos. Bye. Bye


Probably this is a very small point. See, we saw the three pillars there, right? The sourcing, refining, as well as the distribution system, the data distribution. You as a business could be having an IP on the sourcing itself. A classic example could be Yahoo chats, white chats or Bloomberg, which whose unique IP is access to a high quality, very high quality finance data, which they're able to sell to their customers. Second thing could be, you are able to provide real good insights on top of your influences, right? So that could be IP in your refinement layer or that could be IP in your delivery. You are able to deliver to say 200 plus channels, 300 plus channels or whatever, and that delivery itself could be IP or you can have a combination of all these. And if you think about it from NPD perspective, this IP is more or less becoming commoditized. So in which case, what would be your USB in terms of you running a business? So how do they survive? The whole survival of a data as a business itself comes into question if you're a small player especially. And yeah, another thing is when you're creating the USB, obviously you will be putting some patents around it and what is the protection around the patent, right? So that is another area.