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As the theme suggests, the title for this year is Working Together, Enabling ICTs for Sustainable Development. So the theme came up through the open consultation process. The agenda of the WISIS Forum every year is built on a bottom-up approach which is inclusive, multi-stakeholder and participatory. So stakeholders from all over the world, they submit their inputs on what the agenda should be, what it should cover, the kind of topics we should be discussing, what are the emerging issues and also the format of the forum. How can we make improvements on the format of the forum? So it's really a very participatory approach and the agenda literally is owned by the WISIS stakeholders. The WISIS stakeholders comprise of the governments, the private sector, civil society, international organizations and the academic community that work together as the WISIS community to cover various issues in the area of ICT for development that fall under the different WISIS action lines. For the WISIS Forum, the main theme for each workshop is to explore as to how the WISIS action lines can be linked to the Sustainable Development Goals. So in fact, even the Action Line Facilitators meeting, which is pursuant to Para-109 of the TUNIS agenda, will be looking at how we can derive direct linkages of the WISIS action lines with the SDGs. One thing I might like to note also is that during the open consultation process, we received over 120 submissions and 35% were from the civil society. So this shows that there is a growing interest of the civil society in the WISIS Forum. So not only are our old partners strengthening their commitment, but we can see new partnerships foraging and the WISIS is growing by strength each year. Well, the beauty of the WISIS Forum is that we are ready with the outcomes on the last day of the event. So on the 29th of May, we will be able to share the outcome of all the sessions. We are organizing more than 140 sessions during the WISIS Forum. Each outcome shows clearly the emerging trends in their respective thematic areas, the challenges and the goals that they will set for them for the next WISIS Forum to come.


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And so what we're doing at the moment, if not from anything else, is struggling to get some sort of sense of coherence and direction and order out of the original proposal. For anyone that's interested, and I doubt very much of anyone is, we attempted to get the acronym from the phrase, massive open online courses enhancing linguistic and transversal skills for social inclusion and employability, which kind of summarises it but doesn't make for a particularly elegant acronym. And this is supposed to either capture the project's ambitions and aspirations or maybe just to represent its incoherence. The refugees are at the bottom right hand corner and the idea is that what we do by exploring the relevance of MOOCs and refugees needs is to help them on their way into higher education and then obviously into the labour market. And I suppose I should say that amongst the partners there are partners in Germany, partners in Sweden, partners in Spain and partners in Malta and a few other places. And one of the things we discover very quickly is not only the diversity of refugees coming into those various countries and some of them are more or less the points of entry, Malta. Into the EU, whereas others, Germany and Sweden and maybe the UK, are kind of a long way down the line. They end up in some cases being the target destination as opposed to merely a transit nation. And also discovering that different countries have very different accreditation regimes around MOOCs and around accreditation of prior learning. And actually that many countries and many cultures have rather different takes on what they see as happening to immigrants and refugees included and what the nature of integration, assimilation or whatever it might be amounts to in their country and their culture. Yes, so what we've done so far in about the previous six months is attempt to review and map MOOC provision that might be appropriate to meet refugees and to meet refugee support groups and to explore the issues of accreditation and help what that might mean in terms of progression into or within the higher education system and then onward into employability. And this is all very impressionistic. I mean even surveying and reviewing MOOCs is pretty impressionistic in the sense that, well, apart from anything else, the term seems actually to be quite poorly defined in practice even though we all know what the acronym means. But certainly I think what we've discovered is that whilst there might be some MOOCs explicitly targeted at refugees, the way in which they're targeted often seems merely to be fee waivers onto existing courses and actually implicitly to be targeted at refugees who are kind of a long way down the process. They're not the people arriving on Greek beaches. They've kind of fairly well into the system in any case. And there aren't actually very many MOOCs once you start looking at what might be appropriate in terms of entrepreneurial skills or language skills. Or maybe we just haven't discovered very many, but they're mostly in English. I mean we have discovered some originating from outside the EU, specifically Jordan using Arabic, but they're always on the established platforms. One of the problems in making very much progress is the amount of instability and churn amongst the various statutory organisations and voluntary sector organisations attempting to support refugees and the amount of, if you like, confusion and churn. I mean especially in the UK where much of this work is voluntary sector work or is volunteer work. People come and people go. They do have some time. They don't have some time. They're only partially funded. And so kind of pinning down even a straightforward appointment can be quite problematic. And I suppose what I was coming to is that clearly accessing a MOOC makes quite specific, albeit tacit assumptions about digital literacy. And I think those assumptions are fairly culturally and linguistically specific. So what might be the underlying challenges that we find ourselves working with? Well, one of them, and this is around, if you like, the cultural specificity of digital literacy, is that people from outside Europe come with a particular set of expectations and experiences of education, the purpose of education, of pedagogy experiences within school, which are very unlike the dominant ones within Europe. Clearly most MOOCs are not in non-European languages or non-European scripts. And it's really quite difficult pinning down the kind of characteristics or typologies of refugees. And I think we make a few too many kind of easy assumptions. I mean, many come from Muslim countries where the established banking systems are not like those that we're used to in the West, for example, or where the nature and expectations around livelihoods are not about going into a large corporation, a large anglophone corporation in Western Europe. And where we don't know very much, especially early on in the process, you know, Greek beaches or Maltese harbors, we don't know much about the nature of their devices, access, tariffs, coverage, their digital habits, their use of social media, which ones and why. And all of this is very kind of fluid and informal when you compare that to the kind of formality, if you like, rigidity and structure around MOOCs and the pedagogy that is probably embedded in MOOCs. And as I said a minute ago, it's not necessarily clear why we're doing this. Yes, it's easy to say employability, but it's not clear what that might mean for people from very different cultures with very different expectations and experiences about livelihoods about earning a living. And about the nature of integration or assimilation. We've had quite a few heated arguments about how our respective different countries treat people coming into them and what they expect. And so I live on the, well, I work in the fringes of Birmingham and the Black Country where there are substantial South Asian communities where in some respects it's quite easy to be disconnected from the Anglo-Saxon corporate mainstream, if you like, and where people from outside Europe could quite easily slot into informal economies, whereas that's completely different from experiences in Sweden where clearly someone from an Asian or Middle Eastern background is quite conspicuous for a variety of different reasons where they don't have immediate points of reference and immediate points of contact when they arrive. And I guess Germany is presumably slightly different, again, because of a long history of Turkish guest arbiter. And where social attitudes may differ as well, you know, where there may be a backlash. So there seem to be quite considerable uncertainty and quite considerable challenges in this work, which are only beginning to kind of surface. And it's quite easy for us, I think, to deal with the problem as it's been set, rather than recognizing the more significant or meaningful problems behind it all. Yes, we could tackle how do you fit incoming refugees into MOOCs, but I suspect that's not necessarily meeting their needs or recognizing their aspirations. Yes, so my concern was that, yes, MOOCs imply some kind of set of skills and attitudes and access and affordances around digital literacy, but it seems that those have been framed largely from EU and UK perspectives and aren't necessarily relevant for people coming from Middle Eastern backgrounds. And yes, we can formulate kind of abstract definitions about digital literacy in terms of how do we enable our students to flourish in increasingly digital worlds. And then if you unpack it a bit, it turns out as a kind of ongoing tension between digital literacy interpreted to mean employability and IT skills, and something kind of vaguely, something much more vague and much more vague around, I suppose, Western European kind of liberalism and self-expression. And largely maybe individualistic. And that's what worries me if you look at how, for example, Hofsteder might characterize other cultures and other civilizations and what the difference is in terms of, I don't know, hierarchy consensus, authority, trust and so on, what that might mean when you try and see its implications for digital literacy. So I think, yeah, this is as far as I get in this particular context in thinking, yes, this work could be useful, but we need to probe quite seriously what is behind it and attempt to avoid, if you like, a superficiality around the whole issue. So that's kind of my thoughts in progress. Thank you. Anyone? Questions? Hi, I'm Francis Yobara from Kobe University in Japan. I'm really interested in refugees. I wonder, what do the refugees want? Do they want to do MOOCs and what are they hoping to learn? For me that seems to be the essence of the whole project, finding out from the refugees what they want? Has much research been done on that? In a sense, that's certainly my problem, even if it's not the project's problem. I come up this partly because I've worked for the UN organisation in the Middle East that is responsible for the Palestinian refugee community, so a school system of half a million kids and their teachers working on their e-learning strategy. So I'm quite conscious of, albeit second hand because I don't speak Arabic, quite conscious of their school experiences in many cases. I mean, if we're talking about Palestinians stretching from Egypt to the Turkish border, I'm very conscious of that. And therefore, conscious of the kind of distance between that and, as I say, the formality and values of European higher education and what's encapsulated in MOOCs. But I think our challenge is that it's really quite difficult getting to any of this first hand and I'd almost rather we kind of did nothing than did the wrong thing. But that's not really a very satisfactory answer to your question. I mean, yes, we are attempting to run focus groups to make contact with support groups, but it's a very small project with very limited coverage and you end up talking to the people who want to talk to you or talking to the people who want to talk on behalf of the people who want to talk to you. And that, you know, in terms of the kind of credibility and trustworthiness and scope of what you're hearing is pretty wobbly. So I'm sorry. I'm Gabby Wittas. I'm based in Leicester and I'm working with an organisation called Chiron in Germany. And I think the issues are, it's much clearer in Germany because of the large volume of refugees and asylum seekers that have come in. Amongst the many thousands of them, they've got 2,000 who've signed up and are progressing through MOOCs and are very clear that they want to enter the German higher education system. They've got a branch in France and they've got activities in two other countries. I think Jordan and I'm not sure it might be Turkey. So I think there certainly is a place for MOOCs. You know, amongst the population of migrants there are people who've had their studies interrupted in their home country or who never got around studying in their home country or who've lost their transcripts and actually want to do higher education and use that as a way of integrating into the new country. So I think there is a place for doing this but it's a case of being clear that higher education is not going to meet all the needs that refugees have and identifying people who want that specific thing that higher education can offer and then finding alternative ways in. Yes, sorry, I agree and I think actually when you say there are these kind of people and there are these kind of people and there are these kind of people, we actually do need some kind of trustworthy taxonomy or what do people call them? You know, to give us some handle on if you like use cases that we can respond to but that's proving quite difficult or it's proving kind of impressionistic and certainly very, very, very variable across the partner countries. Any more questions? Still have. Hello, I'm Marguerite from Canada. Well, I'm just pondering the issue of accreditation because in Canada I'm just looking at our landscape and we have all kinds of people who are highly educated who spend years as taxi drivers or in roles of unskilled workers. And that issue of accreditation is it just blocks their progress. How will you approach that? I mean it's such a huge, how are you investigating it? How are you approaching it? How will you convince accreditation organisations? Well certainly, sorry, I mean certainly in my case from some UK universities it isn't actually the procedures aren't in place because we have I guess European wide processes for the accreditation of prior learning and the accreditation of prior experiential learning. But the challenge at the moment seems to be constructing a business case that universities will listen to saying it's actually worth their while, which is partly to do with money and partly to do with the volume of people we might be talking about. And so, at the moment what we're trying to do is establish that there are a sufficient number of people for whom it will be worth what we call activating these processes because otherwise in business terms they look like far too disparate and dissimilar. And all of these are kind of one off procedures and if there's a way of kind of generalising a bit and identifying the volume of them then we can talk to the kind of business side of the universities and say this is why it will be worth your while. Okay, thank you John, I think that's it. That's the time we've got for John. So let's all thank him. A bit conscious we're a bit behind time and we will really really keep this to no longer than the 20 minutes we wanted to be a little bit more discussive as well. So it's quarter to 12 and we hope to sort of nail it by shortly after 12 o'clock because I've got to get a train. So thank you so much. I will introduce my collaborators if they intend collaborating on the stage. We've just started a project looking at open textbooks and I'm sure you've all been to the open stacks stand and sort of caught up with some of the work that's going on in North America. We've been really lucky to get some Hewlett Foundation funding in collaboration with the OER hub and we've got Rob and obviously Martin on the stage. It's also in collaboration with Wonky where David now is and I'm based at the University of the West of England. So we kicked off in about April to try and explore what are some of the context of open textbook use that is becoming so successful and powerful for students in North America. How does that map to the UK? And we're just going to give you a quick skim and introduction to the project. I think what's really, really fascinating from my perspective I've been an educator for 15 years is we know so little about how students use textbooks. There really is almost hardly no literature out there so we're kind of thinking this is going to balloon into hopefully a bigger and more interesting project at some point. So just a big, big nudge to our overseas partners as well. So the Hewlett Foundation funds a lot of this type of work in the US. The OpenStacks people who have sponsored the conference and who are in the building. Daniel's at the back there, oh cool. And we also work on the open textbook network just to broaden the opportunities of bringing books into universities and colleges in the UK. So great to have Daniel here. So what's an open textbook? I think we've all been sort of going across to the US conferences for a number of years now and I actually find it quite staggering. I mean our approach to this was coming from the UK Open Education Programme and Communities where we are to us, that might be a video, it might be a PDF, sort of small granular building block approach to learning. But over in the US for a number of years now they've been producing entire textbooks and calling them OER. And I've always found that quite staggering really, the effort it goes to create a textbook and then to share it under an open licence. And to share it in a range of formats that's really useful to students. So some of them still do want print versions, my students are annotating their books and they still want a version in their hand. But also then there's a whole range of more accessible digital versions. So there are several years ahead with what they're doing I think in the US and it's great to try and bring some of those ideas over here. And the beauty of the Creative Commons licence, depending on the term of licence that goes with the entire book, is there is some really nice stuff being done now with these books in the US where people are recontextualising them for their students, which gives us great scope over here to make our education more inclusive by making the content more meaningful with students. We've got students co-creating some of the case studies within the chapters in the US and building it up as part of their assignments to contribute and to create their own textbooks. So I think there's some really lovely stuff going on in the US that hopefully we'll start to see down the line over here as well. I think when the big drivers in the US and there's been a lot of government support and a lot of local state support in the US and Canada, and the big drivers have been around student debt there. I should call my partner in crime over in a minute to explain the UK context a bit. And Sarah Goldrick-Rab here has produced a book and done an amazing piece of work really understanding the plight of students in the US and I really don't think we're far behind. There are soup kitchens on some of these campuses. Students can't afford to buy the resources they need. And I just don't think, if we're honest with ourselves, I've looked hard enough at this in the UK and I think there's a lot more interesting data now coming to light. So that's been I think the primary driver in the US. Let's give students more accessible and better quality, lower cost learning resources because boys just don't deserve that. So I'll hand over to Dave who's going to explain some of the UK context and I'm going to grab a seat. You do that? I'll use this one I think so. That can be a bit kind of louder and boomier. I like that. So I mean as we used to go to these presentations, American OER projects, we were concerned with open textbooks and I mean to be honest from the UK perspective, it was quite difficult to get excited about them, the stuff about kind of open pedagogies, educational practice. It's just easier to get excited about that I think. But the textbook stuff is really important for the transformational effect it can actually have on the lives of students and the more we've looked into this the more that we've realised. So I mean you've probably spotted over the summer, there's been a little bit of kind of higher education news. Of course most of you would have been on your three months holidays at that point apparently. But there's been a lot of concern about the affordability of a higher education in the UK. Students are carrying an absolutely massive amount of debt when they graduate. It's up to around £57,000 according to the IFS. Now that's not debt in the strictest sense because repayment is linked to their earnings and at least 35% of all of this debt, if you look at it overall across the whole country is not going to be paid back by students, it'll be paid back by the governments. But the headlines are focused on the fee levels. What has happened, that's perhaps had less kind of mainstream pretension, is the removal of student grants and their replacement with loans. The brown model of fees, it raised the fees but that was backed up by maintenance loans and actually recognising that the immediate living costs are the most important concern to students that are going to university. So a big chunk of those maintenance costs are accommodation. Again accommodation costs are creeping up in the UK, that's a different argument about the privatisation of university halls that kind of thing which is upside the scope of this project. But another big cost that students have is textbooks. The textbook cost is something that individual academics can actually do something about. The choice of textbooks that an individual academic actually makes, you can choose textbooks that cost £200 of some cases and expect students to go out and purchase these textbooks. So a little graph here. The work required based on the minimum wage for an 18 to 20 year old which is lower than the regular so-called living wage to afford university books and costs. I mean if you need to buy five core textbooks in your first year, that's 17 days work. That is 17 days of effectively nine to five at which is time that you could be spending studying, you could be spending socialising, you could be spending enjoying the wider benefits of university life which you're not doing. I mean obviously it's insignificant compared to rent, that's the big cost. There's also food and travel costs which also mount up, but it's the big cost and if we can remove that cost or lower that cost for students, I think that's a good deal. So this is a map of the way that tuition fees have risen since 1996. I mean I think we forget how massive this is. What a huge, huge change in funding this has been, but this is only half the story. The removal of maintenance grants, as I say, is the thing that is really affecting the students that you're teaching right now. And as much as we might want to look at this graph and say, it's terrible, I shouldn't, Joe Johnson do something about it. I'm going to write to the competition and markets authority, et cetera, et cetera. It is not the single biggest pressing issue that's facing students, the single biggest issue that's facing the students that are here at the moment is the costs that they have to live, to work, to love, to do everything else that human beings deserve to be doing. So, as I say, that is actually just the principal amount. The interest rate for students selling the most is currently set at 6.1%, as inflation rises, as various macroeconomic effects come into play around, say, June 2019. That interest rate is going to go up as well. So, I'm going to hand back to Viv here to talk about a piece of research that she has done. That makes quite a clear financial case that we can do something here, we can make a difference, and even just chatting to students. I kind of knave us out at any couple of hundred quid. I said, what do you mean? It's a month's rent. That's food making a small difference. We'll have a big impact on all of them. So, I just did a little pilot study and we're going to build on some of this. Just to understand, are you buying books? Are you interested in books? Overwhelming they are. Some of the open comments, I've felt quite emotional reading some of them, because students, I think they do have a really close relationship with their books. It's the first taste of university. Here's my textbook. I remember being really excited by my textbooks. Students do want books and access to this content. With the open licences, we can be providing them with all of their core books. You've seen the open stack stands. There's over 30 core texts now. We should be using them. But I think we just need to understand a bit more fully, not just the student attitudes to the books, but actually how that embeds within our teaching and what some of the staff attitudes are and how we can really lever these books into the curriculum. I'm conscious of time. We really wanted to have a bit more of a discussion. To understand if people are using books in their institutions already, you guys out there in the audience. If you wanted to share your experiences with us on the project team, Rob, for example, helps run the blog and is gathering and evaluating some of the projects. We'd really just like to open up the questions now if we can. Just to get some of your experiences, maybe you're using open textbooks already, or maybe you think they're a good idea for your students. So, can we do that? Great. OK. So, it's either the answer those questions or ask a question. Anyone? Hi there. Veronica Volts, University of Leeds. We have officially adopted open stacks, but I've been a big fan of them for a couple of years. What I like to do with them, is that I actually take them apart and I make little micro-learning packages out of them. I use them as supplemental material for biological sciences, and it's been really, really well-received, and I really like doing it. I just think there's a lot of potential with these. You can do basically anything you want with them. They're there to use and reuse and remix, and I think they're just really great. That's awesome, isn't it? We could do with grabbing your name in details afterwards. Oh, fabulous. That's really exciting. That's the potential these books hold, that's great. Is anyone else using them, or recommending them to their students? Or considering it, maybe. Are you considering it? Yes, I'm from Nunscandalbury from the University of Hertfordshire. We are literally embarking at the moment on a project internally to look at whether we can build one of these ourselves as a kind of mini-research project. I think one of the key things that we've been encountering when we've been talking to the academics as well is this what's in it for them in terms of their research profiles as well, because so much of the traditional publishing output has been linked to their research profiles. So they've brought up quite strong relationships with publishers as well. They've been able to maintain those contacts and those relationships over a long period of time. So I guess looking at it from the academics perspective here, notwithstanding all of the very legitimate reasons you've laid out here with the student debt, but what's in it for the academics and how do they manage those tensions? Daniel might be a good person to answer that. Daniel, from the open stacks point of view about how you can get academics to write for you. So first I have to say it's been fantastic to be here in the UK and to learn from you all and I'm not an expert in the UK market. But what I can tell you based on the US experience that we've had thus far with open stacks, a lot of publishers aren't producing new titles, especially not in these spaces. There have been very few new first editions produced of any textbooks. So textbooks and say research papers are fairly, fairly different or monographs are fairly different. But I think what has really been exciting to see is when faculty work with open stacks to produce new open textbooks, it's not like a traditional publisher relationship where they are essentially giving the copyright to the publisher, open stacks. Well, open stacks is the holder of the copyright because of the Creative Commons license, the faculty members who produce the content have the right to use it however they like without having to ask permission from the publisher of open stacks, which is really fantastic because if you think about it, they're getting paid money to produce this content, but then they get to use that content however they deem appropriate in their teaching, learning and research. And so I think a lot of faculty really like that opportunity. In addition to that, one of the exciting things that we've seen with open stacks in the US is just the opportunity to grow reputation. Open stacks has grown from about zero adoptions to now closing in on probably about 14,000 adoptions, representing about 1.6 million current term students using the content. So if you look at that in terms of the impact of your work as an academic, I don't know if there's really another project in the past five years that's really had that type of output and improving notoriety of faculty that are writing this work. So none appeal to their egos, that's the way to do it. So I wonder if I might just quickly say something about some of the work we're doing at this phase of the project. We are trying to basically see whether or not what works in the USA also works in the UK. So part of that involves trying to understand what might the barriers be in the UK. So we're really interested in hearing from anyone who's got thoughts on why it might or might not work in their institution. And we're thinking about just collecting a lot of these statements together. So we've got a collection of these that we can say, well, here's an overview of how it all looks for the UK. So if you do have thoughts around that or you've got ideas about the potential or what you see as the institutional challenges, then we'd really like to hear from you just a very quick point in response to what's in it for academics. I think in institutions that have teaching focus career paths, it's a fantastic way of demonstrating outputs and impact. We're all challenged by that. People who are trying to get promotion through a teaching route. So I think for colleagues who are interested in that sort of career progression, there's more impact in something that's being adopted by several thousands of students than there is in an obscure piece of academic research that five people are going to read in the entire lifetime of the paper. So I think that's that. Hi, I'm Candice from Durham University. This is a more pedestrian question. As a former copy editor of Academic Texts, who does the work of the proofreading, copy editing, graph production, image production? Daniel, do you want to take that? You should be up here. We should be sitting down there. So OpenStacks model is very similar to the traditional publishers model. We hire hundreds of faculty to work with us both in producing the content as well as reviewing it. And then we have a team of editors as well as editors, copy editors, and also arts teams that produce all the art. So it's very standard. The only OER model, other OER models may not have the same sort of reviews in place. It might rely more on post-publication review. But that is OpenStacks model. OpenStacks have got a stand in the exhibition hall and they've got a couple of their books there. So if you haven't seen them, it's worth going along to have a look at. Very nice. Thank you very much, guys. Thank you. So I think that concludes our session for this morning. Let's thank all our presenters today.


Hello and welcome back to The Craft Box. My name is Brinton. Today we're in episode 121 of the Wizard101 Death Walkthrough. Last episode, if you haven't cheated out already, we made our way into Kylion and talked to Kay and the good person over here. We defeated a couple of bosses and today we're speaking to Kay again. I realized the streets are overrun by frownlings, but you took your time finding the master armor's painter, didn't you? Yes, I did, sir. Well, I guess it's good that it took you so long to help Ashlyn get her things and get back to Caliburn. I only just found your map. This will lead you right to Sir Drustin Silverhobb's cottage in the wild. That's the nice part of the weird one. I'm going to Caliburn myself. Before you set off, could you distract the hobgoblin plunderers and whiptail Pantera, so I'll be safe? Okay, I'll be back once I've defeated four of each of these. Five years later, and I am back, that took forever. Stuart Kay. Brave work, Squire. That map will get you where you need to go. To get into the Weirwood, however, you'll need to talk to old Greenbeard. Okay, let us head on over to Greenbeard. He is basically the gate guardian into the wild, or the weird, or whichever one it is. I think it's the wild that we're going to first. That is the wild, yeah. We go head into the wild and then the weird. It's really weird. Yes, that was not intended, but yes. So I found out that these whiptail um, pent- pentalons, Pentiras, Pentiras, can actually Leviathan, and that removes two blades, so be careful. A wizard, yes.  I've not heard that name in many seasons. You wish to enter the Weirwood? Oh, the path has been closed since the frowlings attacked. I have lost one of my daughter's wizards. Oh, the wind moans that Phelan green sleeves was captured by chaotic logress knights. My Phelan is but a defenseless sapling. Make the logress knights tell you how to find her wizard, and then, mayhaps, we can speak. Okay, um, let us do this. Let's hope we get it first round, and even if we don't, we will do it until we get it, unless it's like a hundred petals, because that's just boring. Redcaps, they're everywhere. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.  Yeah, we should be fine. Let's go. Let's just do this, you know. Just go for it. So basically, what I've been doing, just the same as what I've been doing for the last couple of episodes.  What health do you have? 3,200. Mmm, okay. We may not kill. These, for some reason, we don't do as much damage anymore, I don't know why. Because I'm pretty sure in Zafari we were defeating things with like 3,000 and we could, like, actually kill. But we only seem to do 2,700, but they do boost, so hopefully that will get us over the line. Um, hopefully who knows who this will cross. Otherwise we're gonna have to start carrying, um, extra blades like a Dark Pact or, yeah, probably a Dark Pact. Just to allow us to kill. Because we don't do too much damage. I mean, Scarecrow's quite weak itself, so it's not that, like, we don't do damage, it's just because Scarecrow is obviously a weak spell, and we're basically doing as much as we can. Oh, that was okay. Don't worry, that's good. Let's see who goes back what, is there? Hopefully we get it first round. First battle, that would be cool. Leeds. Failing Greensleeves, she's obliged at the Log calories state, here, this key will get you in. Okay. Hellol, I'll say hidden here, and see what we can find. That must be the Dryad Failing Greensleeves. Funny, she doesn't look confined. No she doesn't. She looks very free. I don't know if he'll be happy about that one, honey. He might be a bit angry, but we'll see. Let's see what he says, um, okay. This is actually really quite nice. Maybe he'll be happy. Who knows? Well, I'm guessing he won't be too happy, um, but you never know. That's to, um, yeah, that's to the outer yard. That's where I took the thumbnail. Um, yee. Mm-hmm. That was fun. Trying to go all the way there. It took a wee while. I'll tell you that one. Whoops, we can't go that way. Took me a long time to figure out where I was going to do the thumbnail. This thumbnail was probably the hardest to figure out where I was going to do it. The others are quite easy because mostly you just use, like, the common scenario, like, well-known places, but, like, Avalon, there's just, like, so many cool places that you could use. So, yeah, I decided to use the, um, the, um, outer yard and the castle in there. Oh, what? In love! What wonderful, sun-deppled news! Obviously I was wrong, then. This news is like a cool breeze through my leaves. I was distressed about my poor sapling. And instead, she is to be married. Go back at once to Sir Malik Delugris and request my invitation to their naturals. Okay. We will do that, then. Um. Yeah, hello, people. Storm and fire, maybe? Probably. Yeah. It's called Destiny. Yeah, definitely fire and storm, I'd say that's cool. Have fun, people. Oh, what's the, what are they going to use? Sometimes I just like watching people's battles from the ground. I don't know why. I just do what it's going to use. Oh, Astral. Oh, Amplify. Oh, hello! Oh, what's this? Fortify or Amplify? Infile, maybe? Oh, Conviction. Who uses Convictial? I nearly went into that battle. That would have been bad. Um, okay. Who uses Conviction these days? I don't, I don't know. Conviction doesn't, yeah, I don't really, I don't really like Conviction. It's just, it's kind of weak when you could use like, Infile for the peace and accuracy or Fortify for the protection. Whereas Conviction's just like, 20 extra critical writings, so like, it's not very good. You come from old Greenbeard? You don't look much like a gardener. An invitation for that triant? No, I don't think so. Those creatures spoiled the shrine to hospitality in good manners between foxes, dogs, badgers, otters, humans and fairies. Could you imagine what they would do to my loveliest state? Tell them he is unwelcome. Oh, ouch, that is not good. That is not good. This is a domestic abuse, I think. He's just going to smite his wife or his wife to be. Maybe, who knows? Let's hope not. But that doesn't sound good. Well, how can he trust someone of that if he doesn't trust this old Greenbeard man? Tree thing. Oh, hello, they're dead this time. Yay, that's cool. Okay, let us tell Greenbeard the bad news. He's going to be really upset. Trust me, he's going to be angry. Told you he'd be angry. He shook the ground. That's how mad he was. No, we will show him our honour and the difference between fairies and frauglings. A red cap called Chagan Nosebiter has the Shrine Relics get them back and restore the Shrine to hospitality. Okay, then we can probably do that. Let's put in a couple of fence because he is boss. And we'll just redo TC's. Boop. And boop. And boop. And let's hit on over. Where is he? That is a very good question. He is over here somewhere. Probably this one right over here. Am I guessing? Yep, this one here. Okay, let us hit on him. And get this boss indeed. I've got so many sidequests that I need to do. Oh well, I'll do them sometime. Okay, we get it.  That's cool. I get it already. We're just a wizard, not a squire. That's obviously what our badge says. Just because our badge says it doesn't mean that it is true. We are actually a squire. Let us just draw for a bit. He's fire, so he's not going to earthquake, but we're just going to trap first just because I like to get all the traps on before so we don't have to diddle it out doing them later. Also, it means we can hit whenever we want. If we're like half past eight, we can hit, and we will still take a lot of damage. So yeah, we've obviously got 70 and 70, which is 140, which basically doubles what we do normally, plus 40, plus all of our blades as well, which is probably like plus 200 maybe. This is like rough, since I don't actually know. But yeah. Yeah, it does quite a bit. So yeah. What's this? What's this? Flame shark? Fire shark? Oh no. Boop. Raar. What's this? Insane world vault? Sorry. Nope, it's nothing. That's unfortunate. Okay. We will enchant you. We will discard you. We will draw one seat more. This is all rhyming. It's fantastic. We will blade. And then we will blade and blade and blade and blade and blade until we can hit. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Meteor. What's this? Oh, Stormtrap. Hello. We are going to do this. 10,100. That's not too bad. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Just in case he Leviathans. If he does, that will be like crazy. No peace, Stormtrap. They don't Leviathan much, but just always be careful. Just in case. Because they can do it. Okay. And half health now. Yay. We're just going to single blades for a bit, just because we're low on health. We will discard you. We will do this one. Hopefully we can get another single blade, so we can save up some hurts. Should be good. Swirl Bolt. Okay, that's it. Mid. Yeah, we've got another single blade. Usually four kills, so we should be fine. Four should be fine, hopefully. We'll find out. I know we'll definitely kill the minion, because three blades does that job.  No cycle. Yo. Okay, we're nearly, we're actually running quite low on health for Florence. It's a surprise. And here we go. Scarecrow. And if not, we can always just drop the bomb, the boss again. And that would kill, that's unfortunate. But, three blades. All 40s, which is all 40 plus, so that's good. Bye. That definitely killed. And he's dead as well. Yay. Amazing. Not too bad. Strikes like nature's wrath. Take your cursed relics. Okay. We'll ask it the hospitality is short and shield. And repair the shrine. Yay. Okay. Let us get on over here. Hello, people. It's really nice to see some people, because I'm always in lonely realms, because I'm lonely and have no friends. I've got one friend on, Kyle. He's cool. It takes a little elbow grease and some basic masonry to get the repairs done. But soon the shrine to hospitality and good manners between foxes, dogs, badgers, otters, humans and fairies is looking right as rain. Yay. Let us talk to old green beard over here. And hopefully, he might let us in once we have fixed this problem. Maybe he will tell it. Yeah, who knows. You have done it? Oh, you shall tremendous skill wizard. Haha. Let us make one more appeal to civility. Go and tell Sir Malachi Delogras what we've done. Let her... I would hate to disturb all my cousins in a weird ward from their long rest. Okay. Um, yeah. That was actually a very appropriate drop or amulet that he gave us. Basically, he was talking about a Wi-Fi trend, so it's kind of appropriate. Pretty appropriate. It's quite cool. Um, but yeah, let us get on bay to Sir Malachi, who is just in here. And we should hopefully be able to get him his invitation. I hope. What do you say? You restored the blessed shrine to hospitality and good manners between foxes, dogs, badgers, otters, humans and fairies? I have been arrogant. Accept my humble apologies. Take this invitation to Old Greenbeard. He is most welcome in our home. Yay! We fixed problems. Woohoo! We're so good at this job. Yay, we should just stop being the wizard. We should be a squire. I honestly think that would be far better for us. So let's head on into the wild, I think, because I think we just get straight into the wild. He's like, yeah, boy, you fixed my problems. Now you can go through. I think that's how it works. I mean, I hope it's how it works. I don't think there's anything else. Hello. Um, okay. Brickham Windmill, that's unfortunate. You have an invitation for me? Oh, most good tidings. Thank you, wizard.  Yay. I must get ready for the nuptials. But first, I open the path to the wereward for you. Follow your map. You will have no trouble finding Sir Dresden Silverheart's hold. Tell his wife, Sophia, you have my favor. We have a new badge. We're now in Amateur, which is cool. Don't know what that means, but yay. Moving up in the world. First, a square now in Amateur. Okay, this is the wild.  There's a toadstool village. Oh, we can get spells here. That's good. We can get mass death prism. How are you, stranger? You're in the favor of old Greenbeard. That is no easy thing to do. Perhaps then I can beg your aid for myself, wizard. The good and noble knight you seek, Sir Dresden Silverheart, was captured by a coven of witchy sisters who nest nearby. Can you venture into the White Owl Tower and rescue Sir Dresden from their vile talons? Okay, this is cool. So this is the wild. It is a really cool place. It's really weird because it's kind of like dark, but the sky is really blue. There's the teleporter that we have to fix to the main place. And up here, should. Oh, actually, no, we need to save her, don't we? Yeah, we do. Up here is where Cassie the Pony Corners. Oh, Cassie. I don't remember her name. It's something starting with C. It's neither of those two. And she gets saved, and we can learn mass death prism, or any mass prism. So, yeah, that's cool. If you have these things and boots, those boots are there. Yeah. Some of the Avaloncraft figures are actually quite good. You also do spells to transmute amber. All those, that's cool. Transmute amber, what do you need for that? So much transmute amber. I'm going to need that for day and night amber. But yeah, I think we're in next gold. I need to sell some things, buy some empowers. So, yeah, anyway, next episode we will start doing things for these people in gear. And I think there's also another trainer down at the Fire Elf Village. But I'm not 100% sure about that one. I think there's two. Some of the reagents here are also really weird. But anyway, thank you for watching. Don't forget to leave a like and subscribe. And if you're very subscribed, press the little bell to see more exactly when I post another video. And remember crafts outside the box.


Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's theCUBE at HP Discover 2014, brought to you by HP. Okay, welcome back everyone live here in Las Vegas for HP Discover 2014, this is theCUBE. For our wrap-up for day two of the wall-to-wall three-day coverage of theCUBE of HP Discover, all the moves, the turnaround is being documented. We said that we were going to be documented. They have not kicked us out, yet we're like a tick embedded in HP. We are not going to leave until we get this thing documented. Dave, we're doing a good job. Jeff Frick covered for me this morning. Thank you very much. Dave, good job this morning. It's watching from remote. Big morning for us. Wrap-up, what's the take guys? How was the morning? I mean, I wasn't here, but give us the overview. Well, it's good. I mean, I think we had a lot of server action going on. Look, server's a big business for HP and it's a business that's flat to down, but there's a lot of innovation that they're pumping into it. It was interesting to see Martin Fink up on stage today. I mean, HP is doubling down, tripling down on server and that's moving right into their cloud. What Martin Fink showed was a completely new architecture they call the machine, massive scale, big giant shared central memory, but this big in cartridges that's totally scaled out. So moonshot like to the extreme. So that to me is important because it makes HP relevant for the future and it gets back to their roots of invent. So that was sort of one thing. The other thing is I think their cloud story is coming together. We've been documenting the cloud story for a while. It was like pushing at a piece of string for a long time there. Like what's really behind this? But I think Sargillai and team have done a really good job of bringing that together. And you can tell because they've brought in some really senior sales guys. We talked with Kerry Bailey today. They got a new CMO, Bobby we had on today. So they're starting to invest in places that is going to get a return on the sales side. So that says it started to get real. And HP showing leadership in OpenStack. The last thing I'll say is I had a comment. I tweeted this out. Meg Whitman talking about government and policy and politics was so much more passionate and comfortable than anything I'd seen her present related to enterprise technology. I mean, I would vote for her. She was talking about, you know, HP won visas. She's talking about. Is that a criticism of her? I don't know. It just sounded like a criticism. That tweet, I read that as a negative. I don't know if it knows. I mean, I guess we could take it that way. But she was really good when she was talking about politics. She had a clear passion. I mean, I was drawn into her. The audience was clapping, you know, genuinely, not golf clap, as you like to say, but it was genuine. So I don't know if that's a criticism. It is her passion. There is no question about it. She's going to make another run from politics. And I said, I'd vote for her. That was just striking. It's just a comment I make. It's like we're in an Oracle open world and Larry didn't show up. I said, you know, what was going through my head at that time was, hmm, we got a sense of what Oracle's going to look like when Larry Ellison dies, disappears, whatever. So I don't know if it's a positive or a negative, but it's, I think anybody watching would have had that same. Well, I think the one good thing that's really positive about it is she is passionate about it. And she's using that to drive a lot of this new innovation that's really the kind of extension of moonshot, if you will, in terms of lower power usage. She talked about how much power data centers are using now. The whole innovation is about getting that down. We're rearchitecting based on today's technologies and not just kind of adding to what was developed in the 50s. So I think if she uses that to continue to drive the passion on the innovation, I think that's a good thing because clearly she got worked up about it. Well, I think it fairs us to Meg. I'm not sure what CEO is that interesting when they're talking about technology, you know? So, but anyway, John, I appreciate you coming back. You've been bouncing around all over the place this week. You went out, you did the Nimble event. You got a crowd chat launch going on, very successful crowd chat launch was picked up by Recode and Forbes and some other outlets. So you've been busy. How'd it go? I had a busy night last night. I was up, so I think I pulled it all night or pretty much. We launched CrowdChat, the platform for business. As you know, Dave, we're excited by this product. And it's getting rave reviews. It's starting to get out there. We put a release out as well. Got Kara Swisher at Recode, who runs the Wall Street Journal reporter in her history was the Heron-Walt Mossberg, built All Things D Now. She's an entrepreneur, media entrepreneur doing Recode and been very successful with that, strategic relationship with CNBC. She saw this and she was floored. She was excited. And I think what was really interesting is that she wrote a really interesting article and she was kind of being Colombo like we do when we ask people questions. But she kind of got it. Her story, she nailed it. It was a very nice piece, but fair. But more importantly, she got what we were doing. She understands the container of our CrowdChat engagement container, she understood the search feature and all the deep analytics. And she was very impressed that we built a massively scalable, highly elastic, born in the cloud, real-time global platform for less than a million dollars. So that was nice. Forest picked it up, Rob Hoffman covers online advertising, the Google beat, Facebook advertising. Saw the potential for active conversations and the greatness around what that could possibly be. So very successful with that. The Nimble thing was fantastic. I was doing the intro before Dave and I was just about to, live from Silicon Valley. Nimble is the kind of company that you look at and you say, hey, that's a company that HP should look like as well. Built from the ground up, modern era, delivering the value to customers. And that ultimately is what happens with success. And now in this market, you go with the right product, right time and scales, and then jumped on a Southwest that got delayed. And now I'm here for Saga Lai. Great day. And I'm excited, Dave. It was a very busy day. Can't wait to have a few cocktails. So I want to ask you, we had an interesting conversation yesterday with David Scott. And he touched on something that we haven't really, I haven't been searching for this. You know, I've asked a lot of people, what's the difference between the sort of flash bubble that's going on now and the one that occurred with previously with the whole virtualization, storage virtualization, and I guess data dupe was in there as well, data de-duplication. And he hit on something, John. And I wonder if you get a sense of that when you're in Silicon Valley. He said, we were lucky. The recession basically gave us the ability to have escaped velocity before the other guys caught up. So we were able to reach a critical mass. And his premise was that that's not going to happen for a lot of the flash guys because the cartel, what I call the cartel, IBM, HP, EMC, et cetera, they all have flash, they all have flash strategies and they're there. So it's an interesting premise, one that I hadn't thought of, there's no recession to slow them down. I guess there was in 2008, 2009, but not like what Scott went through with 3PAR back after the dot-com boom you guys know. Silicon Valley was quiet for a long, long time. But John, what's your take on that? Having that knowledge going out and observing the Nimble launch. Well, Dave, I mean, I think you hit the nail on the head. There's really the issue here, it's a big picture, bubble and recession, right? So, David Scott's initial point was, all the best innovate, I'm now speaking and using my own words, but this point was, recession's where the action gets done and no doubt in my mind, he's absolutely correct, I've seen it before. The best innovation and the best types come out of a recessionary period. Look how Facebook came out during that time, post-web 2.0, pre-web 2.0, right during web 2.0 and the 2008 when they scaled up. And now we're living in a bubble where the frothyness of it is about getting the rocket ships into orbit. So it's when the music, it's like musical chairs. When the music stops, if you don't have a chair, you're dead. So companies like Pure Storage as an example, you mentioned storage, it's Nimble event this morning. Great example, four billion dollar valuation. That's insanely high. So you've got to think about the optics on that. That's essentially private equity, essentially a liquidity-like event. How are you going to hire employees? What are you going to do? How are you going to achieve that kind of value? You've got to go all the way on that one. And now, if we're at a point now where they're a private company, Dave, and if they don't get liquid public soon, there's no way they're going to be able to retain the talent and hire a new talent. You're talking about Pure with the four billion dollar valuation. I'm using Pure and other companies as a benchmark. But you said four billion dollar valuation. Who are you talking about? Pure. Pure. But the same with Cloudera, right? But Cloudera had a liquidity event where the founders took off the table. Cloudera is four. Nimble is three. I mean, Pure is three. Nimble is two. Billions. Billions, still. Private companies don't have an active marketplace to truly give the value where Nimble Storage is a public company. They're valued quarter by quarter, day by day, some say, but ultimately their performance drives their value. A lot of trades change hands. That's called a marketplace. There was no marketplace in the private equity market. So what you have now in this market is this escape velocity push where if the rockets don't get into orbit, they blow up. So the question is, how long can it last? And this puts pressure on the investors, on the management, and also the ability to hire talented people. So what happens is, the pressure to get into orbit, people take shortcuts. And that really could be catastrophic. So what Dave Scott was really referring to was, at those kinds of valuations in this market, you got to get there fast. So I agree with him, and it's a real problem. And it's just hope that everyone gets into orbit before the bubble bursts. Yeah, but then you get reality. We had Sean on from Spectrum Health talking about, they're not making giant gambles on risky bets. And they like being with a big established firm that they have a relationship with the technologies kind of continue to change and come and go. And so while from an investor perspective and a starter perspective, those are really interesting and significant things to think about. From the guys that are actually realizing the value of this technology, the practitioners, the guys that are putting it to work and really changing things and driving those big valuations, you know, they're... Well, there's buyers out there. They're liking it, but they're not racing, right? They're not racing headstrong into it. But I do think that the whole flash thing and the flash-enabled applications and the way that people are going to accelerate the value even faster is still actually underrated. Let me be clear on something. So first of all, the question was about escape velocity.  During the frothy times now, with the big guys that come out of recession, they have holes in their product line, but still a great liquidity market. So if you look at a company like Docker, I was just tweeting on the BHP crowd chat we just had about the Helion. Docker, Jerry Chen, the investor, Greylock, XVMware. You don't think he knows the inside baseball and what Paul Moritz wants? He's essentially baking out a company that could be sold. So the game on the VC side is peg devaluation high so that that's your starting point on the bid. So in the negotiations, get the numbers up on the valuation.  Now that's your negotiation with the M&A. So a classic M&A market is really hot right now, Dave. M&A is hot. That bubble is real. And that's because HP, IBM, need to fill major holes. They have blown gaskets in their engine, so to speak. They got to fix the tooling, you know, Sargalai and cloud. I'm sure he's got a big M&A list. I'm sure Meg Whitman's going to give him some budget. He'll throw out some stuff out there. I'm sure if you're talking to Antonio, same thing. So hot M&A market is different from companies that want to be a durable, long-term player. So that's kind of my take. What about the cloud piece, John? I was saying earlier, it sort of took a while to come together. Am I being too harsh?   But also, when we talk to practitioners, I mean, very few. I mean, I've probably personally, in the last six months, spoken to, addressed, I would say, three or 400 practitioners. And in intimate meetings, not one on one, but like 10 on one. And I've asked every single one of them, who's doing OpenStack? And probably of those several hundred, maybe three or four actually doing OpenStack. Is it too much of an emphasis on OpenStack, do you think? Well, no, it's all, right now, it's all developer community and cloud service providers. I mean, for HP's clearly putting a lot of wood behind that arrow, is it, they think they can move the needle or they? No, I think it's one of those deals where, if they don't do it, what are they going to do? They're going to spend a lot of resources on something that's going to be a short-term bandaid. And I think they're making the right move, which is to try to leapfrog everybody else. And plus, they got to do it. I mean, it's John Furrier, he summed it up like that when OpenStack first came out. He said it's a Hail Mary against Amazon. And you know what? And we've gone back and forth and yeah, VM, we're about, it really is the industry's alternative to Amazon. Full stop. The beauty is that Amazon defined a new way of doing things and now the big guys are trying to figure out other ways to deliver those values with different configurations. But I liked what we had Bill Vecchia talking about what cloud really represents. It's a development mind frame. It's a flexibility mind frame. It's a way to move quickly. We used to say, well, it's just a deployment methodology really is all it was. But really it's more of a mindset in the way that you get things done. Well, DevOps is a, what I learned in the crowd chat launch and talking to the analysts and the press out there the past couple of days, Dave and Jeff, is that we are at DevOps. We built that scalable platform and we are pure DevOps when we built there. That's not normal right now.  Now that's coming more mainstream. It's more of a high end. We always say they eat class and spit nails. Those DevOps developers. That truly is the case. But what's happening now is the acceleration of the DevOps culture into operations. That means, that's what kind of Vecchia is getting to is that but that framework, that mindset, that's a total mind bender. Going from six months, six years, six months of six week shipping cycles. But you know it's crazy though but Sean from Spectrum, what do you say about that? 1600 projects on his list he's trying to prioritize 3,400 funded but even he in an old school guy that likes mainframes and old stable systems is doing a lot of these projects in more of a DevOps way and more of an agile way. So I think that the agile methodologies are actually a little bit more permeated down into old school stack industries and maybe we give credit. It's a classic emerging market Dave and Jeff and here's my take on it. This is my vision on this. It's a no-brainer. Everyone says, oh yeah, DevOps is the way but then you say, okay, there's two critical major disruption problems or opportunities. One is it's a complete process reconstruction on the business side and technology architecture. So it's a complete transformation. It's not like tweak this, tweak that. It's a complete rip, reconstruct, re-architect, make more efficient, a new engine, so to speak if you want to use a car analogy. That's one problem. That's got inertia against it. And two, who's going to do it? Who's talented to do it? There's no talent. There's not a lot of talent out there. The amount of work to be done for the DevOps talent pool right now is not there. So the winner in my mind will be whoever can turn DevOps into an easy-to-deploy technology-based approach by basically making DevOps abstracted away. So you get spitting nails, eating glass in the box. That to me is the ultimate home run. And whoever does that first in cloud, in IT, wins everything. And I don't see anyone yet there doing it. Some highlights for me, some signal is there.  Things like Splunk, what they're doing. And believe it or not, MapR, who was here, guys. MapR is the quiet giant in the big data world, right? They're the Rodney Dangerfield of big data. They get no respect. But they actually have a ton of success and they're in the main engine on the enterprise.  All right, guys. So I'm excited to be back here in Vegas for tomorrow as well. Live wall-to-wall coverage. That's the wrap for day two. Join us tomorrow. Stay tuned with theCUBE. Come visit us. We'll be extracting the soup from the noise. A lot of big dates tomorrow. I'm going to hear from Jim Gontier. I'm looking forward to that tomorrow to hear about the market share. And I want to hear what he has to say to counter the Cisco. Antonin here is very polite. He's a very chill guy. Gontier's going to bring the hammer. I can't wait to talk about that. And then just more and more analysis. Dave and I are going to talk more about the big data survey we're doing. We're going to kind of cross connect that with what's going on with HP, the enterprise. Keep watching. This is theCUBE. We'll see you tomorrow.


And welcome back to another episode in my ww instant pot series You guys have got to check out the two recipes that I made in this video. They were both so Incredibly delicious. We have a pasta dish and we have a Mexican dish and they both were to die for So if you have an instant pot and you just want some tips tricks ideas Recipes for your instant pot then you my friends have come to the right place So if you want to see what I have on the menu for this series of the instant pot recipes All you have to do is keep watching for tonight's instant pot dinner. We're going to be making instant pot Bullying nays. I'm really excited about this. I did make you slight modification For the meat only because I was out of the extra lean ground beef, but you don't even know the difference So let me show you what's in tonight's dinner So the substitution that I made was I'm gonna be using 99% fat free ground turkey versus 96 for ground beef only because I'm out so this will actually be zero Smart points so it'll lower the points of our dish as well You're also going to need a big huge can of crushed tomatoes as you know hunts is my very favorite I'm going to be using fiber gourmet light spaghetti Half the smart points of regular spaghetti you guys two ounces three smart points versus six smart points for two ounces You can't tell the difference. My husband actually prefers this pasta over Regular pasta you can buy this on netvision.com. There is a link down in the description box Click that it takes you directly to the website and have so much fun browsing. There's so many great WW products make sure you grab some fiber gourmet pasta We're also going to need some red cooking wine fat free half and half salt and pepper Butter light. I'm going to be using I can't believe it's not butter garlic Nutmeg I know that sounds weird, but wait. It's delicious Celery and onion and some carrots and the star of the show the instant pot So let's get started on tonight's dinner So the first thing we need to do to get started on tonight's dinner is you can either put them in a food processor Or blender or just chop them up I'm just going to finely chop them up But you want three stalks of celery three carrots and an onion and then you're just going to put it in a bowl And we'll set that aside. So let's get chopping before we add everything to the instant pot The first thing that we are going to do is hit the saute button. It'll put 30 minutes on our instant pot We definitely won't use all of that time But we are going to go ahead and add in our ground turkey and we're going to cook this down until it is Primarily brown once your meat is almost all the way brown there can still be just a little bit of pink We're going to go ahead and add in those veggies that we chopped up or that we puree down in our food processor And we're going to let these cook for five to seven minutes We want them to kind of sweat out a lot of their color So then that way they've gotten really softened and again Just let them sweat out five to seven minutes once your veggies have cooked down for just a couple of minutes Go ahead and add in a little bit of salt and pepper You do want to kind of stir these throughout the sweating process But we've got about another five minutes or so for our veggies to be done Once your veggies are starting to be translucent We're going to go ahead and add in some garlic And then this is also where we're going to be adding in one cup of dry Red wine, so I'm using cooking wine We're going to go ahead and add that and we're going to give this a stir And we want to cook this down until most of our wine is gone At least half and as it's cooking you're still on saute Make sure you're using your spoon to scrape up those delicious brown bits at the bottom of your instant pot That is a huge amount of your flavor Once your wine is almost completely gone. You've scraped up all that goodness on the bottom We're going to go ahead and add in one cup of Fat-free half-and-half and we're also going to give a couple good shakes of nutmeg as well And that's just going to add that really delicious flavor to our bowling nays And then we are going to let this cook down until almost all of the cream is gone When your fat-free half-and-half is almost completely gone We are going to add in 128 ounce can of crushed tomatoes We're going to give this a nice big stir We're going to remove it from the saute function and get it ready to cook Look at how amazing this is looking so I've removed it from the saute function I've actually turned it completely off So from here we're going to hit the manual and we actually want this to cook for about 30 minutes, so we're going to put it on to 30 pop the lid on and in a flash I'll be back to show you the completed bowling nays and in the meantime We are going to go ahead and just cook our pasta down separately in a sauce pan next We're going to get our pasta going so we're going to cook it in a pan here on the stove and again I'm using the fiber gourmet light spaghetti once it's cooked We'll add it into our instant pot as soon as our sauce is done once you pop your lid off Look at how delicious this looks. We're going to be adding in four tablespoons of light butter We're going to give that a quick stir and then we're going to add in our pasta once your butter is all melted This is when we're going to go ahead and add in our package of fiber gourmet It is a eight ounce package We're going to stir that up and then our bowling nays is good to go. It is ready to eat You just want to get that pasta nice and mixed in with the sauce if you do need some additional liquid You can use a little bit of the leftover water from your pasta, but this looks so good I'm going to get this nice and mixed together Plate it up pair it with the veggie and I'll show you the dinner and give you the smart points So here is our completed instant pot bowling nays So what I have here is just some veggies with some spray butter salt and pepper for zero and I have one Sixth of the bowling nays and pasta This is a lot of food One sixth of this is only six smart points You can't beat spaghetti bowling nays for six smart points that includes the little teeny bit of cheese that I have on top So this entire dinner is only six smart points Definite must try instant pot recipe for tonight's instant pot dinner We are making beef carnitas and we're going to pair that with some refried beans and some vegetables So let me show you what is in our carnitas. So first I have some steak. I went ahead and just bought stew meat It's cooked faster. So pro tip by the meat. That's already cut up. It cooks a lot faster Super easy to shred once it's cooked. You'll need some corn tortillas. I would recommend the mission extra thin I don't have those and I wanted to use these up So mine will probably be a little more points. I haven't quite figured that out yet But I'll let you guys know at the end. You'll also need some vegetable broth some spices cumin oregano pepper salt soy sauce Garlic and onion you can chop up a fresh onion or use minced onion like I am here And then we're going to pair that with some non-fat refried beans and some mixed vegetables So let's get started on tonight's dinner So the first thing that we're gonna do is go ahead and put your steak in a bowl or whatever meat You're using for this recipe and we are going to add all of our dry ingredients. So first we're gonna put in some garlic You know if you follow my channel, I do not measure my spices. I just kind of wing it I love me some garlic We're also going to add in some cumin and this is what's gonna give it that Mexican flair we're also going to add in some oregano and Some onion I'm gonna go ahead and use my minced red onion I really like red onion in Mexican dishes and I get questions a lot about where I bought these These are both from Costco and they're really really inexpensive a couple bucks a bottle and some salt Just some ground black pepper We're gonna give this a big stir make sure our meat is nice and coated with all of our seasoning And then we are gonna put this in our instant pot and we're gonna get started on dinner So the prep for this is a really quick. It does take a little bit of time to cook in the instant pot So make sure that you give yourself enough time before you're starving To get this dinner nice and cooked up, but look at that meat how flavorful and seasoned that's gonna be Next you're gonna pull out your instant pot and you're going to select the saute function It will automatically put 30 minutes on you don't necessarily need to saute that long But that is the default you are going to spray your instant pot with a little bit of non Stick cooking spray let this warm up for just a couple of minutes and then we'll add in our meat Once your instant pot is nice and warmed up We're gonna go ahead and add in our steak or whatever meat But you decided to use you want to hear that nice sizzle when you add your meat We are just gonna cook this down for just a few minutes just to get it a little bit browned up It does not have to be cooked all the way through because it is going to spend a little bit more time in the instant pot With the rest of our ingredients Start to brown we're gonna go ahead and add in one cup of vegetable broth And we're also going to add one tablespoon of soy sauce And then we're going to set our pressure cooker or instant pot to a manual And we want to allow this to cook for about 60 minutes or 30 minutes I'm sorry on manual so we'll set it for 30 pop your lid on and out will come perfect carnitas Just pop the lid off the instant pot. You want to manually Release all of the pressure look at that meat So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna transfer it over to a bowl here And then we'll get it all shredded up and we'll put together our carnitas You want to go ahead and shred up your meat just into smaller pieces. We're gonna warm up our corn tortillas We're gonna top ours with some of this light shredded cheese And then I'm also going to add a little bit of fat-free sour cream to mine. We are not gonna do the refried beans I think this is going to be plenty So I'm gonna warm up the corn tortillas put together the carnitas and I'll show you our completed dinner So here are our carnitas. I added just a little bit of shredded cheese To the bottom of our shells you can have two shells for two smart points one smart point worth of cheese We have some of the carnita Steak that is four smart points So that's seven and then zero for the sour cream because I hardly added any on to my taco So I'll put my veggies on my plate and I'll show you the completed dinner So here is my completed dinner I have two of my tacos that is seven smart points four for the meat one for the cheese Two for the tortillas it makes seven and then I just have some mixed vegetables with spray butter Salt and pepper for zero. So this is a seven smart point dinner Thank you for joining me on another episode of my WW instant pot series I hope you enjoyed seeing the two recipes that I shared with you.  They are absolutely Positively must makes now if you're on the fence of getting an instant pot This should push you over because these recipes were so easy fast Literally, you have one pot to clean up. It is so nice and easy especially for those busy a weekdays So again, thank you for watching if you're new to my channel Make sure that you subscribe hit that little bell so you're notified when I upload you don't want to miss a single video Give this one a thumbs up comment down below Let me know if you're gonna try out these recipes or even if I persuaded you to pick yourself up an instant pot I love you guys, and I'll see you in the next one. Bye


I'm always sick, I'm always, I don't know. I can't do anything, because you won't own this. What do you expect me to do? Fix it? I'm only 10. I can't even do anything in this world. I just want to be a doctor or anything to hug my people, my cat. I'm just a cat, I don't even know what to do. I get scared, but not really that much. I get, I do anything for my people, but I don't know what to do. I'm just 10, I'm just 10. All of this when I see a little cherry cry every day, saying to myself, why do we deserve this? Why, what did we do to this? Videos like that, especially when they go viral on social media, is part of the reason why I think slowly but surely the tide is beginning to turn when it comes to Israeli apartheid, because we're no longer just being presented with one side of the story. Now Palestinians can take to social media and actually share their experiences, remind people that they are capable of feeling pain and suffering as well. And it's a lot more difficult to deny the humanity of an entire group of people when it's right up in your face. And so the tide isn't just changing with regard to the sentiment towards the apartheid state of Israel, but we're even beginning to start to see a shift in US media. And we'll talk about the John Oliver segment, which I never would have thought would happen in a million years. But more significant perhaps is the response from Democratic Party politicians who aren't mincing words. They're very clear in their unequivocal condemnations of Israel. And I talked about this over the weekend in the Twitch clip that I posted where we talked about this on Thursday. But I wanna share a clip from my appearance on TYT, where I explain why this is so significant. Look, if you called Israel an apartheid state on air on cable news just a couple of years ago, you would have been taken off the air for sure. That's, and anybody that denies it is totally not living in reality. You couldn't even say occupation on air without issuing some sort of a correction. That was taboo as well. And the beauty of their speeches is that everything that they're saying, they're not mincing words. They're unequivocally condemning Israel. And that matters, even the folks who disagree with what's happening and aren't peddling the whole, well, Israel has the right to defend itself line. They may not necessarily want to speak up because they know that the Israel lobby is going to bankroll their opponent's campaign come election time. But that's already happening to Rishi to Tlaib Ilhan Omar. So they have nothing to lose at this point. And that's why they're speaking with so much clarity. They don't care because everything that could have been done against them has already been done. So now, the shackles have been released and they're just speaking on this issue as it is. And what is happening is apartheid. And to have any member of Congress say the words apartheid truly is a game changer. 100% Exactly. And to give you some additional context, the best that we got in 2014 during Israel's massacre of Gaza then from a Democratic Party politician was from Jessica Ramos. I don't even think she was actually an elected lawmaker. I think she was just like the chair of the New York City Democrats. But either way, all she posted was a tweet that said Palestine with the heart emoji. And for that people were calling for her head. That was contentious. Palestine heart emoji was extremely controversial in 2014. But now lawmakers in the Democratic Party are calling it exactly as it is. They're saying this is an apartheid regime. And AOC just tweeted out apartheid states aren't democracies. So they're not just describing the situation accurately. On top of that, they're also holding their peers accountable.  And I've got to say the silence of many Democratic Party politicians is deafening. But what's nice to see for the first time ever are their colleagues, members of the squad, progressive Democrats, actually calling them out. So for example, right wing Democrat Richie Torres, he took to the New York Post to write an op-ed where he basically pretends to be courageous by going against the Twitter mob and defending Israeli apartheid. But he's not doing this on Twitter. So he's doing this on a platform where he is protected from the quote, unquote, Twitter mob. But his colleague Jamal Bowman called him out for this, saying, my brother Richie, this is not about a Twitter mob. This is about justice, humanity and equality. This is about Palestinians deserving peace, land and self-determination like everyone else. This is about Palestinians having their land and homes taken from them and our ignorance of Palestinian pain. That is the truth, my brother. So to actually see members of Congress call out the apartheid regime, support BDS explicitly, and on top of that, hold their colleagues accountable and call out their lies about the situation, this is a paradigm shift. This is incredibly new. And what really makes it seem like things are different is to see segments like this on major television networks in the United States. Lots is complicated here, but some things are pretty simple. One side is suffering much more. And if America really wants to help, it might wanna seriously consider changing its long-held position here because for decades, the backbone of America's policy in the Middle East has been that America is an unwavering friend to Israel, which is a great thing to try and be.  Let me just say that if you followed politics back in 2014 and you followed Israel's massacre of Gaza back then to see a segment like this on television, it would have broke the internet. But now this is becoming more and more common and Ali Belchi of MSNBC, a network that is usually biased and just toes the line of the Democratic Party establishment, he came out and said what I didn't think I'd ever hear a pundit on mainstream media say. Palestinians are at best third class citizens in the nation of their birth. The idea that it's even remotely controversial to call what Israel has imposed on Palestinians a form of apartheid is laughable. One look at a current map of Israel, Gaza and the occupied territories conjures up only one other example, apartheid era, South Africa. The Israeli government on an ongoing basis declares parcels of land on which Palestinians live to be either of military or archeological importance causing residents to be evicted. Sometimes there's a court case and almost always the Palestinians lose. Yet months or weeks later that same important land suddenly becomes home to a brand new Israeli settlement. As more and more Jewish settlers take over land on which Arabs live, the occupied West Bank becomes de facto more Israeli and in the explicit hopes of the Israeli government more Jewish. This is a long standing attempt and a deliberate attempt to force Arabs who have lived in that land sometimes for hundreds of years out. It's an attempt to dilute their presence because to have Arabs as full participants is in the opinion of the Israeli government and their courts diluting Israel. Just prior to the pandemic, I toured many of the contested areas and homes from which Arabs are being pushed out both in Israel proper and in the occupied territories. Palestinians don't control the important parts of their lives. Palestinian families are refused permits to build or renovate their homes. When they connect their homes to the municipal water supply, Israeli soldiers sometimes cut the pipes. When they attempt to harness solar energy because their homes are not on the grid, Israeli soldiers literally come and remove solar panels from their homes. I spent an hour and a half traveling alongside an elderly Palestinian woman who was being transferred between three ambulances from Gaza to the no man's land in between and then into Israel to get cancer treatment. Three ambulances over the course of one mile, more than an hour across the border. That's how Gazans live without medical treatment because Israel prevents it, without electricity much of the time because Israel prevents it, without the ability to fish in the Mediterranean ocean because Israel prevents it, without an airport or a seaport because Israel prevents it. Like Israelis, Palestinians also have a right to exist and to defend themselves, but there is no one willing to help them do that, not the Israeli courts and not the US government. What the US also shares with Israel is the belief that Hamas, the political party that governs Gaza, is a terrorist organization that calls for the destruction of Israel. Hamas is supported by the majority of Palestinians in Gaza. Hamas may not be in the best long-term interests of the Gazans, but peace hasn't really worked out for them. Faced with an Israeli government which pens them into what has been called the world's largest open air prison, they have chosen a government that most of us wouldn't prefer, one that is not given to negotiation and moderation and respect for its neighbor. Israel needs a new approach to the Palestinians and America needs a new approach to Israel. After more than seven decades of not just being deprived of land from which they were evicted, Palestinian frustration runs deep. It may be worth going deeper than what you may hear inside your bubble and understanding the depth to which the Palestinian people are subject to apartheid in their own land, deprived of basic necessities and subject to relentless civil rights violations. This is not a secret. It's out there for you to see. You just have to look for it. By now, I'm sure that you've seen this segment, but I've got to say I had to share it at length because this is truly remarkable. And I am usually one to argue that words don't really amount to much, but when it comes to this issue, we have had so little progress that to see such a gigantic shift in rhetoric and tone is truly a game changer. It's really incredibly important. So I don't know what it is. Again, perhaps it's videos from social media of Palestinians like the one that we saw of that 10-year-old Palestinian girl. Perhaps Israel has gone just a little bit to brazen with the war crimes, bombing buildings that house associated press journalists. I don't necessarily know, but I will tell you this, something feels different and we're finally beginning to wake up when it comes to this issue collectively as a country, I think. It's the beginning, but it's a really important start. And what I would recommend to everyone who's watching this, who's still trying to both sides it or sides with Israel as they literally carry out an ethnic cleansing. It is not too late to get on the right side of history. The tide is turning and history is seeing this as it really is. So it's not too late for you. You can get on the right side of history and you can actually open your heart and understand what's happening to the Palestinian people and you could stand in solidarity with human beings who just want to live on their land, who wanna stop being evicted from their homes, who have a right to not be slaughtered by a far-right extremist government that wants an ethno-state. And I'll leave that there. It's not too late for you. Get on the right side of history while you still can because I can guarantee you that the folks who were on the wrong side of history when it comes to South African apartheid, now they probably feel very embarrassed about their decision to support that atrocity. Individuals who are against gay marriage and gay rights in the 80s and 90s are now very embarrassed, I'd imagine, about their position. And we know exactly where this issue is headed as well. So it's not too late. Actually open your heart and more importantly educate yourself and supports the Palestinian people in their struggle for self-determination and to exist.