What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebrakes.com 2021 panini and mac of the basketball just sold out This is a one box break round in season for 33 remember high risk high reward 30 total spots Everybody gets a random team in the NBA So we added two fillers plus 10 spots So the first 10 customers are bottom straight up and then from Carter down to Ben got those in prison 198 and 199 There's the teams. Let's roll the dice and do the randomizer first one out of five six times one two three four five and six Six times John Paul down to steve birch There we go Six times one two three four five six Six times six times Utah down to the washington wizards All right, so jump all you have the Utah Jazz Rocco with the Dallas Mavericks and Toronto Raptors Thomas of the Bulls band with the Celtics Carter with the Hornets Thomas with the Cavs Nick with the Bucks Alan with the Knicks Nick with the Magic Steve birch with the heat Alan with the rockets David with the wars Alan with the nugget top to the T Wolves and pistons Nick with the pelicans Carter with the nets Steve birch with the Clippers Nick with the Hawks where with the spurs Steve with the Pacers Nick with the Sons Grover with the Thunder Alan with the Lakers Nick with the Grizzlies Matt with the Treblazers Nick with the 76ers Kings and Steve birch with the Washington wizards All right, anybody want to trade pistons for trade Thomas is saying All right Thomas Try to trade couldn't trade mojo potentially for you. Alrighty guys. So we got three boxes left top middle bottom If I roll a one two or three, we're gonna go with the top four five six will be for the bottom There we go Oh rolled right over here four I think that's meat one two three four the middle So these two boxes back there will be for the next break I have reposted it back onto the website guys You guys want to continue to sell that out All right, first we have a red that's uh 46 out of 49 onyeka akangu onyeka That's for the Hawks going to nick We have paul pierce 22 out of 99. That's clippers edition paul pierce Clipper is going to Steve birch We have a tiries maxi piece of the jersey. That's a 19 out of 99 That's for the uh 76ers 76ers that's nick We have modern marks and the colo melly For the Dallas mavericks number to the 99 Dallas mavericks going to roco And we have mark jackson Always describes god bless 65 out of 75 that is mark jackson nicks edition nicks going to alan And the last one I want to say is a redemption it is. Okay Here we go. We know who's the redemption, but it still could be anybody else rookie patch autographs red car number 112 Wooo la mello ball rookie patch autographs red Damn, I wish that was live I had a feeling that was going to be a big rpa in this case so far Let's see where maculate was a red out of So rookie patch autographs red Uh would be either out of 99 the true rpa. You know jersey numbers 50 or less Red will be out of 49. Then you have gold at a 10 tag out of five and logo man one of one So this would be red out of 49 nice That's actually still our only first rookie though here In this case the first two boxes were veterans. They really john stockton and i think chris meddleton were the last card So there still could be something nice in here, but a nice la mello ball popping out Right here and then congratulations to uh who has who has the horn It's carter got that from prison filler 198. There you go, man. Congratulations.  Like I said next one's in the store. Jasper's case breaks.com


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. Happy Saturday. It's Saturday, so it's another grocery haul day, but it is massive grocery haul day. I went to Walmart, Pickup and Costco, did my monthly Costco haul, which is always huge. So I have a lot to share with you today as well as some fun new things, some household staples, lots of good stuff coming your way. So if you're excited for another massive grocery haul, give this video a huge thumbs up. And of course, if you're new or you're not yet subscribed, hit the subscribe button. I'd love to have you join my channel. It's a pretty fun place to be and we do these grocery hauls every single Saturday. Down in the description box, you're going to find my nutrition coaching website. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories. You can use this information to input to any weight loss app to help you reach your goals. It's also great to know your calories for maintenance if you're on your maintenance journey as well. I also offer 30 and 60 minute one-on-one coaching sessions. That way you get a little bit more one-on-one individualized support. So definitely check that out over on my nutrition coaching website. Links, discounts to everything I love and my Facebook group, head on over and join us there as well. Are all linked down in that description box. So we've got a massive haul to do and I mean massive, so let's get started. It is massive grocery haul time. I couldn't even fit everything on my island. So all of our drinks are over on our washer and dryer. I'll take you guys over there first before we jump into the haul. But I went to both Walmart grocery pickup because I have a new puppy and didn't have time to do my shopping myself. But I did go ahead and go into Costco, did my monthly stock up, found some great things. So let's jump in to this massive grocery haul. Starting with drinks that wouldn't fit on my kitchen island. I have a case of Coke Zero for myself. I like to have one every once in a while and for Easter and a case of Diet Coke for Troy.  I also restocked my toilet paper and my paper towels just to let you guys know those bamboo paper towels that I bought last trip, we hate them. They are the crummiest paper towels so I am back to my Kirkland brand which are my all time favorite. And then of course the Kirkland bath tissue picked up a big huge pack of grapes, Troy wanted grapes. And then I also need them for a meal prep recipe. I really wish Costco would get an organic grape so I'm just going to have to make sure I washed these really, really well. I did grab two packs of the acid reducer or the heartburn medicine. It's on coupon right now for 9.99 and both Troy and I take it every single day. So I went ahead and just picked up two packs. It'll last a super long time. New yogurt, I decided to try the Nusa Finest yogurt. It is made with real fruit, it's whole milk. And there's no artificial flavors or colors.  I know this is going to be way more smart points but I love the Nusa brand. It's very thick and creamy. And this particular pack has blueberry, strawberry, rhubarb and lemon. All three sound incredible. This throw blanket was on coupon for 8.99. It's beautiful, it is so incredibly soft. They had quite a few colors and I thought that this would be a good blanket for Palmer as he grows up a little bit more. He'll have his very own blanket and it's only 8.99 which again is such a great deal. I also picked up pajamas because quarantine and these, this is a four set of pajamas. It comes with a tank top shorts, a prese and a t-shirt. I have another set of these pajamas and they are my all time favorite, 1999. And basically you get two sets of pajamas for $20. They had quite a few prints. I thought this really pretty purple and you guys know I love animal prints so I thought that that would be super cute. And at this time I can always use more pajamas. Picked up the no sugar added sweet baby rays because I have yet to be able to find this at any store and I saw it on the Walmart app when I was searching for barbecue sauce so I'm excited to give this a try. A few canned goods. I needed some white beans for a dinner recipe. I really want organic because beans are on the dirty dozen but Walmart just has a very slim selection of organic beans and they did not have any white. So I went ahead and just picked up the SNW. I'm making Troy's favorite pasta salad again for him. If you're interested in that recipe it is on my recipe website. I did not include points or calories because it's not WW friendly but it's great for barbecues, get togethers, events in the summer. So it is up on my website. I'll put my website here on the screen for you and it is also linked down below but he needed some sliced olives for that. I needed apricot preserves for a meal prep recipe. I don't do sugar free so I went ahead and just picked up the Simply Fruit. I also ordered two cans of cut green beans for my dogs. I was super disappointed. Both of my cans. Look at that big dent in this one. And this one is dented so bad in two spots. So Walmart pickup gave me two really big dented cans. Now if these were for myself I would have sent these back but they are for my dog so it's fine but I can't believe that they would actually get their customers huge dented cans. Brune juice for Troy. We don't need to talk about it. As you guys will see tomorrow in our vlog to pick up Palmer we bought a bag of this craters, cheese and caramel mix. You guys we loved this popcorn. It is the best caramel corn I have ever had and the cheese popcorn is so light and cheesy. So I saw one bag left at Costco so I picked it up. We're obsessed. I'm so excited to add this to our rotation. 24 organic pasture raised eggs because I literally have two eggs left in my refrigerator. For Troy salad I needed a big block of cheese so I just grabbed the great value sharp cheddar cheese. I actually put this entire block one pound into that pasta salad. Troy was out of summer sausage for his meat, cheese and crackers. So I grabbed this armor one from Walmart. It was only $5 which is a great deal.  I was so excited to see they had their organic chicken back. Last month I had to buy the conventional chicken and I much much prefer everything about the organic. It just tastes a million times better. Tam also for Troy salad recipe and the cheese tray. You guys know this is what I always pick up for his meat, cheese and crackers. This makes my life easy that all the cheese is pre-cut and you get four different kinds of cheese in one pack. Generally it's cheddar, Colby pepper jack and then some type of Swiss or provolone.  They've been so good with the new puppy and they love pig ears. So I thought that this would be a great treat for them. You get 25 years for $22 which is a great deal.  So this is a killer deal at Costco. A pack of elbow macaroni for Troy salad. He always likes to have elbow so I picked that up. We were completely out of black pepper other than what's in our little pepper container. Can't beat $4 for this huge container at Costco. A two pack of low fat milk for Troy. I don't drink milk but because he's not working he's of course not getting milk for free from his work. So two gallons, $5. Two packages of the Idaho and sour cream and chive mashed potatoes. I wanted to have mashed potatoes for dinner and with the new puppy I don't have time to make them from scratch and we love these Idaho and ones. So I picked up two packs so that we have enough for dinner and leftovers. Some reduced sugar craisans. This is for my meal prep recipe. I have just the tiniest bit left in my pantry so I picked up another bag. I decided to try these glee wax strips. It comes with 32 wax strips and six wipes. I like the Flamingo brand from Target. They didn't have that at Walmart so I'm gonna get these glee ones to try. I love the Flamingo if you're in the market for a good wax strip so hopefully these are just as good. Light mayonnaise for meal prep as well as for Troy sandwiches. Panko breadcrumbs because I was completely out. I ordered a different brand and they substituted with the great value. We're missing one but we picked up this puppy, starter pack of bones for Palmer. He is absolutely a chewer. So we went ahead and grabbed this pack. It has chicken, bacon and then a nubs edible treat. This one you can actually break in half so they're two smaller pieces. So hopefully this will keep his little puppy teeth busy. A can of biscuits. This is for a dinner recipe. You guys will see that recipe in next Wednesday's What I Eat in a Day. Funfetti vanilla frosting. Look at these cute little sprinkles. This is for Easter. I'm making a Easter dessert and these are my favorite candy ever at Easter, these Cadbury mini eggs. So I decided to go ahead and pick up this small bag because I know I won't be able to control myself with the big bag but this is just a little guilty pleasure, a treat I like to have once a year around Easter. I was completely out of vanilla extract as well and I didn't make it to Trader Joe's this week. So I just picked up the Great Value Pure vanilla extract. These were on coupon at Costco and I am just about out of lip balm. This is the EOS brand but this is the Flavor Lab. So these are some fun flavors. Watermelon, Frosé, Fresh Mint and Lime Zest, Lychee Martini, Tart Raspberry and Passion Fruit and Eucalyptus Mint, Fresh Spearmint and Oolong Tea. So I thought those sounded kind of fun and I do really like the EOS brand of lip balm. I saw this set of bowls and I had to get them. I love the aesthetic. They have a raw base to them. I don't know if you can see that and then the colored bowl, they have little speckles in them. There are three piece serving bowls set but I wanna actually use these for when I'm filming my videos. It was only $17.99 for all three bowls. They are ceramic so they're heavy, they're beautiful.  A two pack of the Reo's Marinara. We are out of marinara sauce and this one has incredibly good ingredients. So I went ahead and pick that up just to stock the pantry and look what I found. My favorite, vital proteins, collagen, peptides, but chocolate. How amazing is that to pair with a vanilla or a sweet cream creamer? It's a good way to get in collagen and protein. I was so excited to find this. One of my subscribers reached out and said she found it at her Costco and thinks it may be a Costco exclusive. So if you have a Costco in your area, definitely pick it up if you're interested in the chocolate. I'll let you guys know in what I eat in a day what I think of it because I can't wait to dig in. We were out of a laundry soap. So I picked up this four pack, 168 pack box of tied pods. I love this spring meadow scent. It's so fresh. So I grabbed that and then some produce. I didn't get a lot because I just received my imperfect food box, but I did get a bag of organic corn. This is actually for a dinner recipe. Radishes are for Troy salad as well as green onions. I need a bell peppers for a couple recipes. So I have an orange and a red and then I'm so excited as spring gets closer. That means summer gets closer and summer fruits get closer. I'm so excited. So I had to pick up a honeydew melon at Costco. This huge melon was only 4.99. So that is everything, my friends. Oh, and the only thing missing is a big case of Coors Light for Troy. All this grocery haul. I forgot to show you guys that I also picked up a box of my all-time favorite facial wipes from Costco. I love the Kirkland brand. It's a killer deal. You get four 15 count travel packs and four big, huge packs. Love these face wipes. That was my grocery haul. It was about $450 total. But as you know, I only go to Costco once a month. So what we picked up at Costco will last us a month or longer. So let's get into my meal plan and meal prep. So here is this week's meal plan. This is the week of April 3rd through April 9th. We are already moving into the second week of April. That's so crazy to me. Today, Saturday, we're gonna do out to dinner takeout. We always have a splurge and high point and high calorie day on Saturday.  You will be seeing this recipe in next Wednesday's what I eat in a day. So stay tuned for that. Monday, I'm doing meatloaf and potatoes, a little bit of easy comfort food. Tuesday is always a leftover night. Wednesday, I'm making Mad Hatton meatballs. I found a few of these different recipes. This one looked the best to me so I'm really excited for that. Thursday is chicken, pepper and corn stir fry. Again, another super easy recipe. Friday is a leftover night and that way we're able to finish up any leftovers from earlier in the week. Here's what you'll be seeing on Monday for meal prep. You're not going to wanna miss this meal prep. Breakfast, I'm making baked oatmeal. Can't wait for this. Lunch is going to be chicken salad with grapes. We can put this on a pita. Bread, lots of options.  And then for dessert, I'm making a peanut butter protein ball because they're portable. They're easy. We have lots of Palmer appointments and just busy, busy next couple of weeks. So I wanted to have a dessert or snack that was portable.  Thank you for joining me on another weekly WW grocery haul. I hope you enjoyed this massive Costco in Walmart, StockUp haul. We are good to go now for about a month or so before I make another trip back to Costco. So if you enjoyed this video, don't forget to give it a big, huge thumbs up. And if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed to my channel, of course I'd love to have you. Make sure you hit the subscribe button and don't forget to bring the bell right next to it so you never miss a grocery haul or another video for that matter. I do upload about five days a week so you never wanna miss out. Check out that description box for links, discount codes to all of my favorite things, nutrition coaching, and of course my Facebook group. We'd love to have you join that community, 18,000 members strong and growing. It's awesome, supportive and loving. So come on over and join us. Thank you guys again so much for watching. Happy Saturday. And I'll see you all in tomorrow's vlog where we go to pick up our new dog Palmer. You're not gonna wanna miss it. Have a great Saturday. Bye friends.


Let's look at the Riemer team and reaction in which we start with a phenol and our end product is this phenol with a CHO added here which is called salicyl aldehyde. So let's see what the reagents are and how this reaction takes place. Before I show you the reaction and the steps and the mechanism, let me first give you an overview of the entire process. So we'll start with the preparation. The reagent we're going to use is this X and to prepare this we're going to use chloroform and we're going to react it with any of which. That's one part that is the preparation step and the step one that I've written here is the actual reaction itself where we have the phenol, we are reacting it with NaOH. So basically we're getting this phenol ready for the reaction with this X and then when we add this X in the presence of some base you're going to see the CHO added at the end. So there are two things to know here. One, there is one preparation involved which involves CHCl3 which is chloroform and once we have prepared this reagent X using this process. In our second step this X has some role to play in how this CHO comes about. So let's see how all of this happens. We start our preparation reaction by taking this CHCl3 which is also known as chloroform and we're going to react it with a base. So now what happens is all of these chlorines are pulling away electrons from this carbon and in effect what is happening is this hydrogen can be easily taken off. It's highly acidic. So this base is going to take off this hydrogen and will be left with a negative charge on this carbon. But then we also know something about this chlorine. It is going to leave taking the electrons with it. So what is going to happen is we end up with this CCL2 which is called dichlorocarbin. Now the point to remember here is that this carbine is actually a neutral species. So there is no positive charge on the carbon here and we know that in electrophilic substitution reactions the electrophile is generally diluted by an E+. Although there is no positive charge on this carbon it is still acting as an electrophile. So how is that happening? So the reason is that this carbon is electron deficient. If we look at the Lewis structure of CCL2, carbon has four valence electrons which are these white ones and each of the chlorines have seven valence electrons one of which from both of the chlorines are shared with the carbon to form the bond. So now if we look at this carbon it has these six electrons and to complete its octet it needs two more electrons which is why it is electron deficient and in this case it will act like an electrophile. And of course because it has these two electrons here it can actually also act as a nucleophile if it decides to share these electrons. But in the case of the Riemann reaction as you'll see in the next few steps this CCL2 will act as an electrophile. And also one more thing to remember is that although this is the preparation step, CCL2 cannot actually be isolated. It is a reaction intermediate. So it is only formed when we initiate the first part of our reaction where we take chloroform in the presence of a base. So let's see how the reaction proceeds after that. So as we saw before we start our reaction with NaOH and chloroform which is CHCl3. And what this does is first it takes off this hydrogen. So we have a negative charge that comes here. And the second thing is because of this reaction between NaOH and CHCl3 we have a reaction intermediate which is CCL2 which is formed here. So now in the next step because this negative charge is going to be shared with the ring the pi bond shifts and you have an increased electron density and then this ring goes and attaches itself to the CCL2. And so now we have a double bond O here and the CCL2 added here. It results in this formal negative charge. So to get rid of this the hydrogen shifts to this carbon and this double bond shifts to this position because of which you have two of these chlorines on this carbon. Now after the step what is going to happen is each of these chlorines is going to leave with electrons. So if you think of this chlorine which is leaving with its electrons. So we get a double bond here and a double bond here. Now we have this OH negative which is going to attach itself to this carbon. This double bond will shift here and you get a negative charge on the oxygen which leads to this where we have the negative charge here. The OH is now on this carbon with a chlorine and a hydrogen here. Now just like this chlorine left this chlorine will also leave. So let me just clear this and we'll see how this continues. So we were here at the end of the last step and what's going to happen here is this chlorine is going to leave with its electrons and again after this step there's going to be a shifting of double bonds. So this oxygen has a lone pair that is going to share with this carbon. This pi bond will shift here. This double bond will shift to the oxygen giving it a negative charge. So you can see we are almost at the end of the reaction where now we have this carbon with a double bond O and a hydrogen attached to this carbon. So we have our CHO here. Now in the earlier step when we formed the double bond by sharing this lone pair with the carbon this hydrogen was removed. So all that is left is for that hydrogen to get attached to this oxygen and finally we have that hydrogen getting added here forming our product and there's one more thing to note here. The product that we've written down here is the ortho product where the CHO is getting added to the ortho position and this will be a major product. The reason for that is in one of the earliest steps of the reaction we had CCL2 approaching at the ortho position and what is happening at this stage is that this negative charge along with Na plus from the base is sort of aligning this chlorine in this direction which makes it easier for this carbon to be attached to the ring which is why we get an ortho major product. So now to bring everything together we started the reaction by our preparation step in which we had chloroform reacting with NaOH to give us our reactant which is CCL2 or dichlorocarbin and then in the first step when we reacted the phenol with NaOH we got this phenoxide anion and then when we reacted this with our dichlorocarbin from our earlier step what happened was this sodium helped align this carbon at the ortho position by sort of pulling the negatively charged chlorine and preferably placing it near the ortho position and then we had the chlorine leaving with the electrons a lot of resonance and intermediate steps after which we finally got product of our Riemer team and reaction.


I am a pretty rational person so not a lot of things scare me. I'm not scared of stuff in my closet or in the dark or whatever since monsters don't exist. I'll leave my doors unlocked at night because I live in a nice enough neighborhood and I don't have anything that burglars would want to steal to begin with. I'm not afraid of failure either since, logically speaking, I am a white cisgendered male in the United States of America with an upper middle class family, under two parents and a legal guardian, everyone having a college degree. Even if I am a miserable burning trash fire, I will still turn out okay given the nice socioeconomic system based around the disenfranchisement of people of color and women that my ancestors have built. Thanks guys.  However, there are two things I am scared of. Wasps and fire alarms. Let me tell you all about them. So I'm gonna set the stage for you. So it's summer 2015. I'm hanging out with two of the coolest people in the whole wide world, Maddie and Fina. You might remember Maddie from giving me the CD in my 21 pilots video last week. We were hanging out at her house which is on a cute little plot of land in the middle of some farm stuff. After a fun day of shenanigans and ukulele and whatnot, we thought it'd be fun to wind down and watch the sunset on the pastures of the Idaho horizon. It was freaking gorgeous deal. We were chilling out on top of an old RV that she had sitting on the side of her garage for like the past 15 years. It was rusty. It was devoured by weeds and cobwebs. It was just pure tumblr aesthetic. I finished up season one of life is strange like a few weeks prior. So I was all over those vibes. I was like, hey Maddie, could I peek inside your RV? And she was like, yeah, go for it. So I leaned over to the air vent and I opened it up and suddenly a loud ringing sound filled the air over our heads. There was a massive wasp nest that covered the entire underside of that vent that hadn't been touched for years. Literally hundreds of wasps swarmed our faces. We were in them away. Maddie did some Jedi magic and she front flipped off the top of the RV to safety. Fina took her sweet old time scaling the ladder on the back and I'm stuck during the funky Hong Kong Fui is the wasp bit at me. Once Fina was on the ground, I slid off and I ran right behind her. We were huffing, we were puffing, we were solidly spooked. We relieved our jitters by baking punk cakes. They're like cupcakes, but with more demonic imagery. This YouTube channel was started summer 2017 because I was stuck inside my house and I was too scared to leave since the neighborhood had a wasp infestation. Okay, fear number two is fire alarms. In the third and fourth grade, I had a really awesome teacher who I got along really well with. However, whenever we'd have fire drills, she would write down when they were over like an hour long period. So at any point in time during this hour long period, the fire alarm would go off. That meant that my eight year old self was just sitting at a desk having a panic attack waiting for it. When I say panic attack, I don't mean like you're running the mill Facebook posts like, oh, I'm having a panic attack.  You're not physically able to breathe and you want to throw up like the clinical go to the doctor kind of panic attack. See this paranoia got so bad that eventually I met with the school principal. He started pulling me from class every month to be the one to pull the fire alarm. So hopefully I beat the fear out. It was a super nice gesture and all, but it didn't really help seeing how I'm still mortified of them. They're just so loud and sudden. Can we have like those nice alarms that start quite and then get loud? I mean like the hurricane or tsunami sirens you see in like Japan and Hawaii and stuff. Those guys don't make you jump or anything. Can we just petition for like all fire alarms to be the kind of warmup type? I really like those. It's like watching a horror movie and then waiting for the monster to jump up because honest to God, we could torture terrorists like that.  That is how I feel whenever I catch one that there's gonna be a fire drill happening in my school. It happened today man. I just blasted my chemical romance to my earbuds to drown it out. My school is comparable to Guantanamo Bay in that regard. Wow that was a short video. Um what are you scared of? I'm scared of not being able to finish videos every Wednesday. I might ironically start posting on Thursday from now on. It's a nicer day. How on earth do you do video endings?


edition of Tony G. Create a life you love. Today we're going to be talking about how you take your passion, turn it into your purpose, and make that purpose a viable career, a career you can survive and thrive on. We're going to be doing that with PGA Pro and owner of Four Milwaukee, Tim Grogan. Hi, Tim. Welcome to the show. Yeah, thanks for having me. Absolutely my pleasure.  Let's go way back to when this was an idea. When this is something that just started, you thought, hey, why not? How old were you when you first thought about golf? Oh, I mean playing golf and yeah, I was eight years old when I first started. So I was playing baseball and other sports and then just started playing golf and there was a golf course not too far from our house. So then we started, me and my brother started going there to caddy and then if you caddy, then you got free golf on Mondays. And so kind of one thing just led to the next and then just started playing some junior tournaments and had some success at some of the local ones and just kind of kept going with it. Awesome. How did you know or when did you know you wanted golf to be a career?  I would say, you know, probably eighth grade and like all kids, whether they want to go play professional baseball or you have these dreams, you know, at that point, I thought, okay, I'm going to play the PGA tour and pursue that. And so did well in the junior tournaments, did well in some of the state events and some national things. Then you know, that led to a golf scholarship and then you continue from there and you find out that there's a lot of really good players out there. So you keep going with this as long as you can. So now a lot of kids, a lot of children, they do have that dream, whether it's NFL, NBA or PGA, they're thinking, I'm going to do this. I'm going to take it all the way, right? And then like you said, you find out there's a lot of really good basketball players. There's a lot of really good football players and a lot of really good golfers. How did you know what your next step was? Well, in this way to this day is that I went to UNLV for college. My golf program was pretty good. And then, you know, once you graduate, the next step is the mini golf tours. And those are usually in Florida, out of Orlando. You play those and some guys make it. And some guys who are college stars and First Team All-Americans don't. So you really don't know until you get to that next level, I think, when you're trying to play the mini tours, which is the next step after that is to play the PGA tour. Excellent. So now you teach golf. So you teach and you've been teaching for quite some time? Yeah, I would say 22, 23 years since 92. Wow, that's amazing. So tell me, where do you teach and who do you teach? Okay, I have a business called Four Milwaukee, which is located right downtown Milwaukee. There are four golf simulators. There's a full bar in there. But that's where I do the majority of my teaching there. You can teach in these simulators, which it's the closest thing to playing real golf.  So I do most of my teaching there with video. You can video the swing, email it out to the person and do the lessons there. Now I still am at Missing Links up in Mequon, which is an outdoor facility, and that's more for the junior golfers. More of the people want to be outside and see their their golf shots outside. So I'll be mostly there during the summer months. So basically from April through October out there. Okay, so now you mentioned that's awesome. That's unbelievable. So you can teach pretty much anyone at any age? Yes, yeah. I'm going to Missing Links. We have a program, three to six, we call it a Tiger Totler program. Three year olds is just getting their attention. But you can, at about four or five, you can start teaching kids, you know, the grip, the setup, and they mimic so well. They can just see it and actually just replicate it and do it. But anything earlier than that, it's just, it's tough to get their attention, I think, but four or five to be focused in there. Yeah. So former walkie, you said that there are simulators there. What do the simulators simulate? I'm not a golfie per se, but explain if somebody goes in there and they want to use a simulator, what are they seeing? Yeah, good way to describe it. It's the closest thing to playing real golf.  And so you're hitting into that screen. As the ball is approaching that screen, there is sensors that read how fast the ball is going, the spin, the trajectory on it. So when the ball hits the screen, now that ball is in real flight. So the information goes from those sensors through the computer up through the projector and onto the screen. So it's remarkable how fast it happens, but you'll see your ball in real flight just like you would outside. And the graphics are of a golf course. It could be Pebble Beach, it could be Piners, any famous golf courses on these simulators. So you'll see your ball in flight, you'll see it land in the fairway. And the sensors know that that ball went 250 yards. It's in the middle of fairway. So it's, you know, it's very close to playing real golf. That's amazing. Isn't technology amazing to you? What technology has come up with to allow us to do this? Yeah.  You can't tell the difference sometimes between, is this a real baseball game or is this just, you know, an EA sports with the graphics? But yeah, I mean, I would think the technology in the next five years, it's going to be, it's hard to imagine what could be out there, you know, five years from now. Absolutely. So now you've played at a lot of the courses, right? You've played many of them. So would you say that the simulators are accurate to the courses? Yes. Yeah, I would, when you hit a good shot, you know, just say you hit your seven iron, it goes 162 yards outside. It does that exact same yardage when you're inside in the simulator. So it's very accurate. So what is the clientele at four? Is it a majority of men, businessmen? Is it because it's downtown? Are you getting that downtown? Yeah, I would say mostly, you know, it's a downtown crowd. It's a lot of guys that live on the east side. They could be living downtown. The good and the bad, we're probably 70% guys come in, but we just had Executive Women Golf Association last week. So that's growing. We're getting more of the ladies to come in. But it is a wide range. It could be guys from, you know, 18 years of age, we have high school kids that come in to the 28 year old young professionals that live downtown to some of the lawyers who are in their 50s, they come in.  We've got a big retirement group too that comes in. Amazing. Now the people who are coming in, are they, they probably come in by themselves. Do they come in for parties and events? Do they do meetings there? Yeah, it's been a little bit of everything. We've got corporate special events. So it could be a team builder for Johnson Controls or any close by company downtown. That could be 40 people. They could be their customers at one of the financial institutions that come in and want to entertain 40 of their people. Birthday parties have been pretty popular and the bachelor parties are good too. Amazing. So a little bit of everything. Now do you do group lessons at four? In small groups, because those simulators, you can put anywhere from one person into a simulator or you could put up to six to eight into each one. So usually groups would be groups of three, something like that. But most of the majority of the lessons are individual lessons. Okay. So if somebody wants to come to four, what are your hours there? Monday through Friday, we open at 10 a.m. and stay open until midnight on Monday through Friday. Then Saturday and Sunday, we open earlier. So we open at 8 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday and open until midnight on both those days. So that's perfect. Like in the summertime after or before the summer festivals, like Summerfest and Festa Italiana, if somebody wants to stop in and hit some balls, they can do that. That's been very good about our location. We're on Water Street. We're basically probably about five blocks from the Summerfest ground. So whether it's Summerfest or any of the other festivals, we get people that are on their way down there or at 10 o'clock at night, they're on their way back. And we do some fun events for them, whether it's a close to the pin event or something to have some contest for that week at Summerfest. Excellent. Now let me ask you, if somebody's coming there, can they bring their own clubs? Do they have to, do you have clubs they can use? Yeah, kind of both. The more serious the golfer is, we recommend bring your own clubs, just like going to the golf course. You'd like to play with your own set of clubs and getting a rental set at the golf course you go to. But we have rental sets there. People don't want to lug their clubs all the way down there. We've got plenty of clubs for people to use. A lot of them are demo clubs and we have brand new rental sets too. Okay, so if somebody comes in and they like, let's say that there's something wrong with their club, can you repair it there? Yeah, we can do club repair, grip, we re-grip clubs. The head comes off or something needs repair. We can do that too. Does the head usually come off because they throw it in frustration? No. Because these heads are so much bigger, they're breaking more. The shafts are right by the head is where they're breaking more. So they can break when they're normally swinging too, but it could be from getting that also. Okay, so do you have a pro shop? Let's say somebody like me comes in there and I swing the club and I just, I say, oh my gosh, I just love this. And I decide I want to be all in. Yeah, this spring we've just started that where we will have the clubs demo, whether it's a pink club or a touredge, tailor-made, Callie, any of the major brands. Nice thing is with the simulators, they can try them out. So we have the different clubs that they can travel from all the different drivers to the irons to the hybrids. And then we can order them up. And nowadays clubs come pretty quickly. I usually get those in 48 hours once you order them up. Very nice. Excellent. So now after you're done swinging clubs and golfing, that's what it's called, do you have a bar there where people can sit and talk? Yeah, we have two bars in there. So the front bar seats about 20 people. And that's right up to the simulator. Okay. So you're on your bar seat and the simulator is literally five feet from you. That's amazing. Okay, so now we're going to get into a little bit more detail. And then because this is about creating your future and following your passion, we're going to go with that. So where is Fort Milwaukee located? Okay, it's right in the heart of downtown. So it's 530 Northwater. It's between Clybourne and Michigan, right in between the two, across from the Chase Bank building. So here's my question, one of my questions for you, because I believe, and I don't know if you feel this way or not. And sometimes we all have that intuition or that inner guide that we can follow or have a, like a knowing of, do you feel like you being in golf and where you are now was destiny? Did you co-create this? Was there or did you just, did you just keep following those steps? And it just, here you are. Yeah, I guess I would think of it kind of as both. I think just one step led to the next. You know, one's playing college golf and then pursuing playing. I was a college golf coach at Marquette University and then led into teaching and doing junior golf camps and things. So just kind of one thing led to the next. If that's a destiny, maybe that is then. But I just get found the path that, you know, it's kind of whatever opportunities are in front of you to pursue those and that kind of leads to the next thing. So clearly you love golf, right? To be this enmeshed in it. If somebody really loves something, what would your advice be to them as far as how to, you know, if it gets difficult? Because I'm sure there were times like that you thought, this is where I'm going to be. Okay, now that's not happening, but you really love golf. So what would your advice be when those blocks come in for people? What would you tell them to keep going?  You know, they say if you don't work a day, you never work if it's something you really enjoy. It's not like going to work and things, but I think, you know, golf is a business. So there is that part of it where it can be difficult or financially trying it sometimes. But as long as you look at the big picture and just keep going along, you kind of know where you want to be or want to get to, it's easier to get through the kind of the stomach box along the way. Right. I do believe that each of us has a Dharma or a purpose, something we're put here to do. Absolutely, positively, no two ways about it. And when we're not doing that, we feel out of balance, we feel a little lost. And I have so many people come to me and say, I feel lost. I feel, what am I supposed to be doing here? And inside of us is that knowing of what we love. We all know what we love. Right. So if you didn't, if you weren't involved in golf, is there something else that you love enough that you could say, yeah, this would be my life? That's a good question. You know, I, to be honest with you, I never thought of doing anything but doing something in golf. Is that amazing? But I would have had to switch gears, whether it's something in the financial world or something like that or insurance, maybe, but I would say I never really thought about the other options. And I agree with that because when you, when you so, when you have your mind and your destination set, like you're determined or you're saying this is where it's going to be, there is no other option. I believe the universe works with you to co-create where you're going to end up. However, if somebody wants to put that in a more western term, that's great. If they want to say it the way I said it, that's great too. But I just believe there's a place we're all supposed to be and when we're there, we feel at peace or in harmony.  What made you decide to put it downtown? A couple of factors. One, I've always taught out at Missing Links up in Mequon and a good deal of the students were coming from downtown. There was road construction, there was traffic. So anytime in the afternoon, there was always a delay in the lessons. It was because someone's 10 minutes late because of traffic. It's not their fault, but it just seemed very difficult to come from downtown to come to the suburb to do golf. So I always thought there should be something golf-wise downtown. I looked into driving range and plots of land down there, but this seemed the most feasible to start with doing something with golf simulators and it just bring golf close to the downtown business guys. There's more people living downtown. You can see all those condos going in. A lot more apartments are down there, so there's just more people living downtown too. So that was I guess the main goal to it. Excellent. I have a question now that is a little bit different. How much of golf is about mindfulness and how much about it is about skill? Well the skill is in the practice, I would say. The preparation, the skill to hone those skills and to put the time and effort into that. The mindfulness, the simplest way I could put it is if you think you can do it, you can do it. They say all the great achievers do it twice. They imagine it first, and then they go through the real life of actually doing it.  You better have a singular focus for that 20-30 seconds that you have to pull that shot off, but you have to visualize it first. I think the really good ones see it perfectly, crystal clear, and then they go ahead and do it. That's mindfulness and answers. Yeah, that is.  When you try to play it physically, it kind of messes up the shot. I don't know, would you say that's accurate? Well, I think kind of what you're trying to say, if you overthink it, if you analyze it too much and you think this needs to be perfect and you just don't go with the flow of it, you're not going to hit the shot that you want to hit. There has to be, there is that skill part that the same before the practicing of it, the physical part of it, but there is that where you just have to let go. You can't think about it. You should have done it enough. You visualize it, you feel it, and then you can actually do it. Absolutely. Let me ask you this. If Tim today could go back and talk to that eight-year-old Tim, that was our eighth grade Tim, that said, I'm going to do this for a living, what are the three things today, Tim, adult Tim, would say to that Tim, to younger Tim? That's tough. I would say I would have probably looked more at the technical side of the golf swing and any changes, it's easier to make changes when you're in eighth grade or 20 years old and things like that. Just where the golf swing was going, it's turned into so much of a power game. It's all about length and things like that. I wish I would have made those changes earlier on, then I may have been able to play at a higher level. I guess the other thing would be just don't sweat the little setbacks that you see. Don't get all worried about some of those things. The third thing, I wish I had an answer for that. There's only two things you would go back and tell younger Tim, huh? Yeah, I'm thinking of it right now. There's probably a couple other things I can't think of those right now. That's okay, that's okay. I teach a program called Create Your Future. A lot of that program has to do with visualization, really being focused on your goals, knowing where you want to be, and not accepting anything else. Being practical, but not accepting other, not having that default button, okay, this didn't work. I'm going to go back to the way it was. If somebody's uncomfortable in what they're doing, if they're not loving their career, is there a piece of advice you would give them to help them get into a place that they really love? If I could say, so many people, they're taught as children, you need to go to school, you need to go to college, you need to get this secure set check coming in every single month or week, and you need to do this corporate life, and then you used to be, you should have a pension or 401k, but so many people are miserable doing that, right? What would you say to them, and then I'll tell you what I would say to them? Well, I think it's a debate for a lot of people. I mean, financially, some careers can be very rewarding, and you're into that for 20 years, it's hard to walk away. I mean, financially, things are doing very well, but I've always seen a lot of things in career or life, really, is you learn some things that you don't want to do. I mean, you can have the passion for what you want to do, and you know what that is, but sometimes spending that 20 years is maybe it was just a process of elimination, that you don't want to do this job or that job, and then you start seeing more clearly what job you want to do or what career you want to have, and not everyone knows that when they graduate from college or know that at 22 years old, so I think I always just know there's always different things you could do to make you happy, and it's not all about the dollar sign on your check, I guess. Absolutely, absolutely. That's a great answer, and one of the things I would say too to people is there are different stages in our life, and each stage we might play a different role. For one stage, we might play the college student and then have this corporate career, but it's never too late to start being the creator of your own destiny. Even if you have to start doing that part time, people always say to me, I don't have time, and I always respond well how much time do you spend sitting on the couch surfing certain sites, and they'll say oh probably like an hour, two, three hours a night, and I'll say well if you dedicated that to what you really want to do, where your passion is, what you love, and you started doing that part time, could you start building that momentum? The law of the universe I think says the energy that we're in or what we think about, more of that comes to us, so being mindful and really focusing in on what we love and where we want to be, I think takes us pretty far also. Would you agree with that? Oh yeah, I very much agree. When I was coaching I used to tell them we have 24 hours a day, so do all the other teams, it's what are you going to do with those 24 hours, and how you can focus in, and I would think it's a little bit of a snowball effect, all of a sudden you're able to spend three hours a week doing it, and now eight hours or whatever it is, so there's, I guess you're right, I mean there is always time, and you just got to find a way to make time for it. So somebody who's watching who is saying, you know what, I love golf, I want to, and maybe they're younger, maybe they're not younger, and they want to make it a part of their life or a part of their career, what's the one biggest piece of advice that you would give them? For someone starting in the golf business? Yeah, maybe it's a young kid who's saying, you know what, I want to be the next Tiger Woods or the next this person, what would you say to them? I would say go seek a PJ golf professional and get your mechanics out, make sure you've got just the correct mechanics that you need so you can keep getting better, I think some people, their ceiling is only so high because of some of the physical things that they may have in their swing, so I think with that, and for a young kid to go out and hit it as hard as you can, and it's a game of, it's how far you can hit it now, the guy who hits it the farthest, it's Dustin Johnson, it's number one in the world, he hits it farer than everybody, so it just makes an easier game, so I think that would probably be where the emphasis is, you know, going forward with someone who's, you know, a 10-year-old just getting going. Yeah, excellent piece of advice, my piece of advice is no matter what you want to do, be flexible in that, allow yourself to have the flexibility to think, I think it's going to go this way, and this is what I want, but maybe the universe has a much better plan, that's going to unfold for you, or maybe something else might, it might go in another direction first, and then get back there, so just be really flexible, and don't sweat the small stuff, is that what you said earlier? Something like that, yeah. Absolutely, so I want to thank you so much for being a guest on the Tony G show again, it's completely amazing, I want to say thank you for joining us today, we will be here with Tony G, create a life you live turning your passion into your purpose, and your purpose into a viable career for you, please don't hesitate to contact me at the website below, www.tonig.info, with any questions you might have on how to create the life that you love, thanks for joining us tonight.


Well Xi Jinping introduced the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013 and he was quite explicit at the time that that was to counter the TPP and so we can see that as a very clear geo-economic strategy to try and gain some geo-political impact in the region. Since that time the Belt and Road Initiative has gained considerable momentum. He's now signed cooperative agreements with I think 100 countries or more. He was down here visiting in Australia or Lika Chung was down visiting in Australia and hoping to sign a formal agreement with the Australian government to align the BRI with our own North Australia infrastructure project which we decided to decline but in any case there's certainly a huge movement in in this BRI strategy which which I describe as a transnational grand development strategy with very Chinese characteristics. If you look carefully at the BRI and what it contains there are a number of elements to it that are fundamentally incompatible with free trade. This is a state-run state-led initiative it's to be implemented by a multi-faceted multi-layered state. It's dominated by state-owned enterprises and it's underpinned by Chinese state finance which one very prominent Chinese banker has described as the servant of China's national strategic interests. So all of these elements have Chinese characteristics if I can use that term again and they are essentially not compatible with the international economic order as we know it. The word that springs to mind is catastrophic particularly if that protectionist policy was directed at the world's second largest economy, China. The cost to the Chinese economy would be immeasurable somewhat ironically the benefits to the United States I would expect to be rather small. You know you're more likely if you put up tariff barriers against the Chinese economy then factories in China and I've already heard some of them talk about this that they would be pushed into an unprofitable position there and would then start looking to relocate into China's neighbouring countries so countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam and India could stand to do quite well out of a protectionist policy but in aggregate it's economics 101 free trade enlarges the pie there are winners and losers in each country but overall the aggregate hit to the regional economy of the Asia-Pacific region would be substantial. I haven't done the measurements but they don't really warrant thinking about. Since Trump's withdrawal from the TPP we've seen quite a lot of action in Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was quite vocal about the idea that the TPP could proceed without the United States and that China could even possibly join. I don't think that's a particularly likely outcome but the Japanese, the Koreans, a lot of people are thinking now more carefully about other sorts of trading agreements like the regional comprehensive economic partnership with 12 economies in the region to try and uphold those principles of free trade but we're also seeing other responses to sort of counteract China's BRI strategy so for example the Japanese have announced a huge infrastructure project in the same space that China is seeking to invest in and of course there's a competition that is good for all of the economies that benefit from the investments coming in from both of those countries. Similarly India is now having an Act East policy and that has been explicitly described in the Indian media as an effort to counterbalance China's growing importance in the region.


Well, it's it's my pleasure to welcome you as a host of this session of half an hour and I'm quite happy to do so. I'm Fred Mulder. I'm the chairholder, the UNESCO chairholder at the Churchill University and my colleague Doreen Grilly is the chairholder in the University, it seems to me, is also supporting the whole initiative. And so there's two UNESCO chairs in OBR established this year and we'd like to celebrate this fact by giving you a small feat and I brought you something from our country. It's not a Canadian Dutch treat, it's a Dutch treat, I must say. Dutch treats means more than only giving you a treat, as you know. And this is high quality Dutch chocolate. I would just like to ask you to hand it over to your colleagues in this room, and I would like to enjoy this chocolate during the session and have the feeling of sharing something which you have in common, right? So here it is. As soon as you may start, why not? We'll start back here. So the two chairs started by the beginning of this year and they had the first network meeting of the two networks of the chairs in New York in June, which was a very fruitful meeting and with many partners around the world and we decided in the meeting to to set up four action lines and of the four action lines we were treat three today and the fourth one I mentioned because it's important as well which has to do with there's only two chairs now today There's a chair in two rich countries in the Western world And of course, it's quite clear that UNESCO should also have chairs in Africa and Latin America and in Asia So we're working on that. That's the fourth action line, but the others three are to establish a global overall grade in school, number one I will talk about that as the last part of the session And the second one is to establish a I know we are knowledge cloud I already will talk about that and the third one is to to set up a mapping Activity that will be treated by Susan Dunn today. I don't like to ask Susan to treat that issue Including also a short introduction on the chairs. Susan, please. I hope the chocolate Restores your energy for end of the day I for the purpose of those people who are not so familiar with the work of UNESCO over the past year still I shouldn't have had that chocolate for my own in here I just like to give a little bit of an overview of the context This is a familiar Statement to all of us that comes from the Hewlett Foundation Support has really launched this whole movement and Looking over it one thing struck me in the yellow there the world's knowledge Is for everyone to share and that very much relates to the priorities of UNESCO One that there should be education for all and that relates to basic education By 2015 this will never be met unless we develop more innovative Approaches to making learning opportunities available more widely Can you hear me no I Was it work? Okay Back to education for all one of the primary priorities of UNESCO is that all children should have access to basic education by 2015 and this is clearly an objective that cannot be met by traditional means So innovation like OER is absolutely a necessity and the information for all program reflects the recognition that we have to use new technologies for Sharing information in 2005 I Started the first work at UNESCO by addressing the issue of sharing information Because if you don't know something you can't make use of it and we convened Community of more than 500 people from 90 countries We've talked and talked and talked and talked in small short virtual seminars who collaborated and Who contributed to a website and a wiki? And one of the things they did during their four years together Was to think about what the priorities were for advancing the open educational resources movement? Awareness raising still remain their first priority, but networking was the second one So now as Fred said we are establishing a network of UNESCO chairs in OBR With a group of international partners the You could if you look at the community the community was really a community of interest and it was there for people to have a place to interact For an international space if you will to reflect on the issues What we're moving now to is an international OER network for action and collaboration UNESCO chairs Are quite significant program. There are 715 of them and 69 networks in 131 countries and they function in a network Manor that's their objective, and they act as poles of excellence and innovation I'm nearly done too Thank you very much What's important I think about these chairs is that they are aligned with UNESCO's High-level international objectives. They are intended to strengthen interaction globally in all directions not north so that shouldn't even be first and The poles of excellence at the regional or sub-regional levels can build upon work that's going on As we said there are now two chairs in OER The one at Athabasca, which is a UNESCO Commonwealth of Learning Chair and Rory will talk about that and the chair of Fred Mulder at the Open University of the Netherlands and Together those two chairs have assembled a quite impressive group of partners Where I'm turning my attention as basically the last Activity in the trajectory I started in 2005 with the development of that community is to look at networking and see whether we can actually promoted By developing a collaborative mapping of OER initiatives worldwide We're a decade old now, and it's an incredible journey that has Has gone before us There are so many initiatives now where once we went to open in meetings and we knew everybody Now there's a huge community. There's an enormous number of initiatives And it struck me when I was leaving UNESCO that in my privileged position there As Paris likes to think of itself at the center of the world If not the universe If I didn't know who was doing what Then it had become very large and we would really benefit from a support So this objective is going to be discussed We had a mapping in 2005 through OECD But it's certainly time to look at it again and to think about doing it collaboratively I've been working with the Open University in the UK and colleagues there and OCWC to develop a kind of a sample that we can just put forward for discussion and for ripping into pieces if necessary I'm planning that discussion now, and I would really appreciate input and contact from colleagues who are interested in this idea of seeing whether Collaboratively as a community we could start to map what's going on in OER Just at a very high level and I have a set of questions for discussion So because we're short on time and may not have time to discuss What I'd like to suggest is if you're interested, please give me your card and I'll follow up with you So My UNESCO chair is Is also supported by the Commonwealth of Learning so we're getting support from both sides and I get support also from the Alberta government and we have support from the Hewlett Foundation Here's a list of the other sponsors the OER Foundation and Tech, Kriath and Vasky University, etc And we have partners all over the world and that just gives you an idea of where they are These are all institutions that have committed to work with the chair in support of open education resources and They're primarily in the developing world We also have them in the developed countries and There's a better picture better there than than in real life And Susan looks pretty good here too So Susan's doing the OER mapping as part of our chair work and she's explained that But they're part of it we we have to support as part of the chair Responsibilities is to support the development of OER in Africa and as such we're partnered with the African Virtual University UNISA and a number of others the African Association of Universities We have a mandate to support OER in rural and remote communities when we're doing that in the northern Canada and and in Africa The other part of the mandate is to support gender equality and That doesn't mean rights for women in fact in some areas of the developing world. It's the young boys who are Disadvantaged and especially for example in the Caribbean and You to promote OERs to educate youth and We're doing this through networking building unit twin network supporting other chairs around the world and we're working now with with people in Brazil Oceania and Africa for other chairs That will come up chairs and open education resources And that way we're building capacity in those countries for learning and We have a strong mandate to support research into what are the best ways of implementing OERs? How can we use OERs? What pedagogies are the best? Those type of things policies what policies do we need to put in place to support OERs? All of that and as part of that we're building a knowledge cloud Of We're collecting now a huge number of resources of research into and we have about 60 in our cloud now and We will be announcing it Probably in the new year when it's available and we're collecting feet feces of students who've done work on OER About and it's about its research about open education resources and is a growing body of that research and Thankfully most of it is in OER form so we can just copy and put it on to our onto our digital repository and we're taking We've commissioned About 35 authors well known in the OER movement To write it to write papers for the cloud and the best ones are going to be peer-reviewed and put into an open access book that will be produced by a U-Press and Of course a cloud is where you just put it up and anyone can enter it online and Make use of it and it's not necessarily in one place and what we're going to do is make it very easily Easy for anyone to copy all of those resources and put them on their servers anywhere they want So the type of contributions we're looking at we have I mentioned the invited authors We're talking about reports technical documents student theses We're going to have quality review of all the submissions and We're going to make sure they're shared with others We're looking at open OER relevant topics We're going to organize them in themes the theory and practice of open education resources the micro meso and macro Open education resource issues and again reports theses policies, etc. So as we'll have Places on the internet where we can go on the cloud so as anyone can access these resources and it'll be a good way of supporting the What Fred's doing Supporting a an international doctorate in the study of open education resources so the book is the editors is myself and one Jeri Knuth here from Kenya and Stuart Marshall from the West Indies and We're going to put it into the issues in distance education series, which is edited by Terry Anderson It'll be professionally edited in paper e-pop and PDF formats, and it will have a creative Commons attribution license The author the authors themselves will peer review the submissions Only the successful papers will be published in the book, and it'll be out in the summer of 2012 and there's more than 30 researchers Working on papers right now Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you What you just said eat it if you have eaten the chocolate was the logo of the Dutch over the university So it's just that you know you were eating the logo of the Dutch up my question I'm not giving you more details of the background of my chair because I was a type of strange I would like to concentrate on the activity that you are taking that is the global order at school It's an initiative of the two chairs and as I said We had a meeting in June in New York, and there we agreed on a plan of action for the two chairs and Those lines of actions are being laid out here. The first one is this global where I'm right at school Which has priority at the music level? The second one is the Knowledge Cloud And the third one has been explained by Susan the global or a map and the fourth one is to To find a better balance better global balance in the network of the chairs Now there is a need a strong need for more research in OVR as has been said several times today There is of course some research done already But a lot of research questions are not being addressed or not being answered So there's a need for a substantial expansion of OVR research and to develop knowledge in the broad OVR field and the broad OVR field to be interpreted as not only the connections with the technology part but also with the cultural science part with the Computer science part with the law discipline and so on. So it's a broad interpretation of OVR connected to different disciplines We are looking for a solid fundamental introduction of all the art innovations in different countries We'd like to monitor the outcomes of all the initiatives institutional national and international It would like to increase evidence and guidance for the OVR as being applied in practice And that all in an international context Where there's a lot of diversity It matters where you're working in Indonesia or in Canada or in Brazil. There's a big difference between those countries So we have to really be careful with research being interpreted in the right context The goals of the school are to Substantially expand the OVR research base. We would like to do that primarily through good quality PhD trajectories We don't exclude master degrees, but we would like to focus on PhD and We would like to see those PhD trajectories in different universities in a variety of societies and not only the developed countries but also the developing countries in different continents around the world We'd like to connect to researchers and to research through a global learning network and To provide of course free and easy access to all the knowledge that has been generated through papers, conference presentations, dissertations, reports and also publications to a broader audience The school should be characterized by seven Issues. The first one the school should be an umbrella for PhD research on OVR in the global network of universities in a Lightly coordinated fashion We'd like to address fundamental questions, design matters, applications, contextual issues, evaluation aspects, etc Linked to a wide variety of disciplines as I said before and applicable to all kinds of domains The researchers are, the key researchers are, in my view, the PhD candidates and we can both subtract full-time PhD candidates but also part-timers Who may be very interesting because they have a job and have an environment in which they're working and the environment can in many cases be very useful for the research Then there should be joint supervision by three OVR experts that will be the promoter at a degree award in university Which is in many cases the most university but not in all cases for example As universities in the developing world who don't have the PhD degree awarding power So then in that case you have a hosting university Where there will be an associate promoter, as we call it, and the promoter should be should be delivered by a colleague university around the world But it is an essential thing to have joint supervision by three People, the promoters, the main leading supervisor and two co-promoters and part universities around the world in other countries We should rely on the QA system, the quality assurance system of the university and the country where the promoter is working But that doesn't mean that that's all so we have to add a shared basic quality framework of the school for example, we have to be sure that we have the same entry and exit procedure for PhD candidates We have to be sure that we should recognize the promoters and co-promoters in the same way So there's a couple of things that we should recognize among the school The knowledge dissemination of the school that should be done by CC by We can of course use the OVR notice cloud as a special channel, but also Other channels can be used and we'd like to include also Proliferation reports of the research and proper audience publications as well We do need the board for the graduate school for a couple of decisions and a couple of Seems that you have to agree on for example if to agree on the goals and and the quality assurance Regulations we have to review the annual change forms of the school if they decide on membership Financial regulations and have to decide on the recognition of the promoters and co-promoters In many countries around the world, there's a lot of things going on to modernize and to upgrade PhD research. I'm just giving one example here from the European Commission very recently they made a couple of recommendations for PhD research as you call it your doctoral training and It's been summarized here. The portfolio we should have a certain critical mass Should include transferable skills training not only skills for research, but also skills that you can use in normal worlds Perspective principles of a chart and code. That's a European thing which has to do with Human resource management aspects We'd like to get doctoral candidates to challenge disciplinary orders not only to do research in their own discipline but also to connect to other disciplines and We'd like to encourage them to spend some research time abroad And also to encourage them to spend some research time in industry. Now those two leather aspects We don't want to have PhD candidates moving around the world taking the airplane and to the university. So the main way we would like to work there is to do that online and We can do that very well and The last issue on this slide says that you should have research time in the street And that has to do with the part-time PhD students, PhD candidates who indeed can connect to industry in a very nice way So we would like to use the school also to to to introduce some innovations into the PhD programs What the benefits here are for the PhD candidates and for the promoters and for the institution as follows. The first benefit of course is the Researches network that you are creating a Significance worldwide network of different disciplines in it and that's that's a benefit for the PhD candidates for promoters and for the institution. The second benefit is the reputation that you are building to be based on the increasing excellence by an approach in which you are accumulating research over different institutions by which you create maths and also to focus on a specific theme. That is also the benefit of the three three categories of PhD candidates for the institution. The joint supervision is to the benefit of all and The global learning network that we are offering with online facilities and virtual activities which suits the target group of course is also a great benefit for the PhD candidate and for the promoter There is a strong training component to be designed from a catalog of courses that you can choose from Those courses should be delivered by the memory universities Again, that is the benefit for the PhD candidate and for the institution We are offering a rich conference in similar environments. For example, PhD candidates can come to the open ed conference and we can maybe connect at the specific center for the school or they can go to the WSE global conference and that is to the benefit of the PhD candidates The knowledge cloud is an appropriate knowledge distribution channel is to the benefit of the PhD candidate and to the promoters the QA system based on the school's reference documents is to the benefit of all and Then there's interesting opportunities to run work and top related research projects as I've told before for the part-time resuméing and There's better conditions to acquire relevant research projects for each of the partners because you are working together And also there's better opportunities to receive funding from funding agencies because you show to the funding agencies that you are working together by which you increase your chances The membership We distinguish two types of membership They can be full members for universities who have the Re-awarding power and associate members for universities who are lacking this power The conversions are pretty simple. You have to at least one The candidate and one intendant promoter or associate promoter who is prepared to also become engaged in Being a promoter and another PhD directorate from a lot of universities without being paid for them That's the first one issue. The second one is you can do us across the school's goals and its QA system And the third one is you should contribute to the specific activities of the school Membership is open. Not only to the different partners that we already know but also to other universities that want to become a partner and Underline the conditions Now the finances are very simple. One minute left to me. The finances is the one minute issue then It's a simple model in which members have to pay very low fee for the coordination of the school and that we can possibly waive in the first Few years if you can get some external funding for that and You have to pay for a specific service for example You can it's taking courses To pay for that or to go to a conference and these paid service And their position of the funding for the PhD research themselves of course is Responsibility of the universities are that are a member of the graduate school and finally we would like to set up a fellowship and grants program Especially for developing countries that could be funded externally That is the final slide. I guess yes, okay This is an attractive proposal. Please contact me. I'm interested to become involved. You can contact me That is almost close to four to five. So we have two minutes left one minute left for a question And you can also find us, of course around the conference. So please contact Rory or Susan or myself To to talk about that seems that we're doing