The narcissist will lead you on without any clear plans to pursue the relationship and their non-committal behaviors will leave you confused about where your connection is heading because they will string you along with small nuggets of communication but they will never fully commit to a relationship. They will send out flirtatious but non-committal signals. They will give you just enough breadcrumbs of their attention and interest to give you hope and to keep you on the hook but not enough to make you feel comfortable or sure that the relationship is going well. Some people are more susceptible to this than others. It tends to be those who have high empathy who fall for these tactics because people who have high empathy will tend to exaggerate the worth of the breadcrumbs and the reason why narcissists do this is because they're very insecure. They have low self-esteem so when they leave a trail of breadcrumbs and they see you coming back for more it makes them feel wanted and worthy. It is typically people with narcissistic tendencies who engage in this type of behavior because they want to feel powerful and special and to give something attention that they crave so they will just give the occasional message or phone call you might go on a date with them once in a while but it happens at regular intervals it's every now and then it's not regularly or consistently they don't follow up with anything and people who don't follow up should not hold a significant position in your life people who express approval or support of you sincerely without taking any significant action while you are putting your heart and soul into things for them but they cheat you by giving you something insufficient in return they treat you unfairly by giving you less than you deserve they don't use all of their strength and resources the same way that you do they don't put in the same amount of effort as you they don't celebrate you the way you celebrate them and you should not tolerate that because they are invalidating you they're saying that you're not good enough for better treatment as though they can give you breadcrumbs and you will put up with it and this is one of the main tactics that narcissists use because then they can get a lot out of you while giving you little or nothing in return but the irony is that although they treat you as though you're not deserving of them they're actually the ones who are not deserving of you because they are harming you they're a liability to you they're not serving you because they're capable of doing more they have the means to do more but they choose to give you less while still expecting the same priority from you without giving you anything in return but if they want the best out of you there should be an equal exchange they should compensate for it but instead they don't even support you they're never there for you but they expect a lot from you and they don't even have the decency, morality or respectability to see that they never put out anything for you yet they're expected to be a priority to you when you should not settle for that you need to know that you are being breadcrumbed you are being given less than you deserve because you deserve better you deserve more you're always treating them with respect and dignity you're putting them before yourself you're constantly giving you're constantly putting out but you're not getting anything back in return you're not receiving anything in return to replenish yourself so something must be wrong with it because people are meant to recognize what you do and they're meant to give something back to you in return there's meant to be a fair exchange but you're always the one who is paying for everything and while they may keep you around it's only because they're getting something out of it because they can benefit by keeping you so they do understand your value but you also need to understand it and you need to align yourself with people who will be able to reciprocate your value people who will be able to put out for you just as much as you put out for them because that is how we build and grow but this is why narcissists don't get very far because if you confront them on it they will ghost you if you want them to disappear really fast just loan them some money you won't hear from them for months and the more money you give them the longer they will be gone but we need to protect ourselves from these types of people because there are a lot of people out there like that they will take as much as they can from you without you confronting them on it without you openly expressing your opinions without you putting a limit on what you will do or allow to happen because you sense that something is wrong which is why you need to be aware of it because they will try to lead you on they will try to get as much as they can from you without having to put out much to get it thank you for watching if you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up share your thoughts in the comment section hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications if you would like to support the channel you can donate at paypal.amyslashnarksurvivor you can book a one on one with me on my website it's narksurvivor.co.uk thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


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Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Abby Lieberman and I'm excited to welcome you today. We're looking forward to having this group of early childhood advocates together. We know this is a busy time, so we appreciate you stepping away to join us for this discussion about navigating higher education policy. We invited you today because of your interest in early education and more specifically the early education workforce. High quality access to high quality higher ed is an important component of strengthening our early childhood workforce. But for more early educators to realize the promise of higher education, we need significant reform to improve access and quality of degree programs. That's why we think it's important for our early community to have a strong understanding of higher education policy. It can be helpful to know how higher ed laws impact early educators and what levers advocates and policymakers can pull to help federal rules and regulations better serve our community. We recognize that many of you have been working on issues related to higher ed, maybe navigating your state higher ed systems for many years. There are also some of us joining today who have limited knowledge of higher ed policy or who could benefit from a refresher on the basics. So regardless of where you're at we know you might still have questions coming up and today we want to help connect the dots between higher ed and early ed. So on the next slide. For today's agenda we'll start off with introductions and some brief background on New America's recent early childhood and higher ed collaboration. Then we'll cover how higher ed issues pertain to early educators broadly and also explain how our team is thinking about these issues in the current context of coven. And lastly, we'll leave a good chunk of time for Q&A. We really see this webinar as an opportunity to ask New America's higher ed policy experts questions you're grappling with. So please don't be afraid to speak up we really want to hear from you. You can ask questions in the chat function throughout the webinar and just know that we will have a good chunk of time set aside at the end. Slide please. So as I mentioned I'm Abby and I'm a senior policy analyst on our early and elementary education team. And today you'll also be hearing from Claire McCann and Iris Palmer, two of our teams higher ed experts who are excited to share their knowledge with you. Slide. I'll start with just a little bit of background on New America's education policy program. We work to strengthen and improve our educational system so that all students have equitable access to high quality learning and prepare them for college careers and civic life. Our team uses original research and policy analysis to help solve the nation's critical education problems. New ideas for policymakers, educators and the public at large. Our work explores the full range of educational opportunities from early learning to secondary education up through college and the workforce. So this slide just shows the different education teams at New America and on our early ed team, much of our work focuses on birth through third grade educators, both teachers and leaders. And today we're focusing on the intersection of our early ed and higher ed work. Slide. So this webinar actually builds off an ongoing body of work where our early and elementary education team has been exploring how two and four year institutions can better equip those teaching and caring for young children. As we know many early educators pursuing their degree are balancing full time employment caregiving responsibilities and low wages with their coursework. And we think higher education can do more to remove the unnecessary hurdles that make it difficult for this population to complete their degrees. And with early ed programs increasing qualification requirements in recent years. This is becoming a more urgent issue because we need these new policies to help build up the current workforce instead of keep people out slide. Too often in discussions about early educator preparation faculty members deans and higher education policy content experts are left out of the conversation. So last fall we partnered with our higher ed team to convene the supporting early educator degree attainment working group, which consisted of 18 experts across fields to delve into the barriers institutions face and explore opportunities for reform. We released the findings of this working group in a report earlier this month. And you can find the report at the address listed above on new america's website right at the top. And I'm just going to give a really brief overview of what's in this paper before I hand it over to Claire and iris. So that on the next slide. In this report we identified key barriers that institutions face to preparing early educators are working group discussed several barriers but these are the five that rose to the top. So you know making sure supports are in place for this population of students to be successful. Serving the unique needs of the linguistically diverse workforce, supporting developmental remedial education requirements, navigating requirements for clinical experiences and supporting faculty recruitment and development and thanks iris I saw you out of the link in the in the chat great idea. Next slide please. We explored ways that institutions are overcoming those barriers so here's a list of the programs that we profile in the paper. In some categories like student supports, we were able to identify numerous examples, and it was difficult to narrow it down. In other cases it was difficult to find even one or two promising practices so if any of these are of interest in you we encourage you to check out the report for profiles. I'm just explaining what these programs are doing. Slide. And a primary goal of this work is to suggest concrete ways that the field can improve the quality of early educator preparation. The federal government states localities institutions and philanthropy, they all play a unique role in shaping policy and practice. In some instances, simply bringing attention to a barrier can spark change, while other times a financial incentive or a change in law is necessary. We explored which levers policymakers and other stakeholders can pull to alter the system to better meet the needs of the workforce. We came up with a quite an extensive list that is included in the paper. And today, on the next slide. I want to give an overview of the main federal levers that the government can pull based on the barriers that we explored in the paper. So, as you can see, increasing funding for various programs like Pell grants, or federal childcare programs also was a main theme of how the federal government can play a role. I was not familiar with some of these programs that make better support the early educator workforce or not as familiar as I'd like to be. So I'm looking forward to learning more from Iris and Claire today also. And with that, I will transition it over to them to share their knowledge and fill in some gaps for us. Thank you, Abby, and we can go to the next slide. Once again, this is Claire McCann with new America's higher education program. We thought we would start off today with a little bit of an overview of the Higher Education Act and its framework, and then talk a little bit about where things stand today. The Higher Education Act is the primary law underlying federal investments in higher education. It was first authorized in 1965. In contrast to other education laws, including the childcare law, states play almost no role in the legislation. Next slide please. Instead, the federal government authorizes funding directly to institutions of higher education through the student as a voucher program. As stated in Title IV of the Higher Education Act, they include about $30 billion a year in Pell grants, around $130 billion every year in federal student loans, which are not pictured in this chart because much of the funding is later repaid, as well as other smaller grant programs like the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant called SEOG and Federal Work Study. As you can see, federal spending on Pell grants actually dwarfs federal investments in other educational programs like CCDF, Head Start, Title I of the K-12 Authorizing Law, the ESEA, and IDEA, Special Education Dollars. So let's dig in a little bit on Pell grants. Only about half of Pell grant recipients are dependent traditionally aged students. The other half are independent students who are often older than 24, they might be married, or they might have a child, for instance. So as you can imagine, plenty of early childhood educators who go back to college are likely eligible for the Pell grant to help them pay for the cost of enrolling. The maximum Pell grant award right now is $6,345 a year. Two-thirds of all Pell grant recipients come from a household income of $30,000 or less. And since nearly three quarters of center-based early educators are making $15 an hour or less, they very likely are eligible for Pell grants, even if they're working when they go back to school. But with college costs growing fast, that amount actually covers the smallest share of the cost of attendance in decades, even as the size of the grant has continued to increase year-over-year. Next slide, please. While the Pell grant covered 79% of tuition fees, room, and board at a public four-year college in 1975, today it covers just 29%. So as Pell grants cover less, states are failing to keep up their investments in public higher education, and costs are continuing to grow at colleges. So more of that is being shifted to students in the form of debt. So no doubt you've all heard a lot about the rise in student debt, since it's so often in the news. But actually with undergraduate loan limits fairly strict and unchanged since 2008, the amount that's borrowed by undergraduate students hasn't actually changed that much. More than half of borrowers, 55%, who have outstanding student loans today owe less than $20,000. And instead, what we've seen as much of the growth has been in borrowing for graduate school. 40% of the loans made every year for graduate school. And in fact, more than 40% of all outstanding federal loan debt today is held by the 10% of borrowers who owe $80,000 or more. Next slide, please. The federal government has invested significantly in making student loans more affordable for those who need it. So chief among those investments is the creation of income-driven repayment plans that help make borrowers payments more affordable. The different repayment plans are ones that allow borrowers to repay based on a percentage of their income. So 10% or 15%. With any remaining amounts forgiven after 20 or 25 years, depending on the plan, borrowers are eligible for different versions of these plans depending on when they took out their loans. So what we've seen is that many of the borrowers who need this assistance the most, likely including many of the low-paid borrowers who are in the early education workforce, aren't necessarily taking advantage of them. Almost 9 million student loan borrowers, which is a third of all borrowers, and half of student loan debt held by the Education Department are now in an income-driven repayment plan. Disproportionately, the people in those plans have very high debt loads. They're more likely to be doctors and lawyers and other people who took on debt for expensive graduate school programs than they are to be early educators who sought an associate or bachelor's degree to meet the educational qualifications for their jobs. And even when borrowers do gain access to income-driven repayment, they sometimes miss the follow-up. So data that are admittedly now relatively old suggested that about half of borrowers in those plans weren't submitting the paperwork on time to renew their annual income information that's used to calculate their payments. So that can cause borrowers' payments to spike because they get kicked out of the plan and onto a more expensive plan, and it can cost them more in interest as well. Next slide, please. So while the vast majority of student loan borrowers are current in their debts and able to repay without much sign of trouble, there are some pockets of challenges in the student loan portfolio. The first one I want to talk about is for-profit colleges. For-profit student loan borrowers default at twice the rate of community college borrowers, 52% versus 26% within 12 years after leaving school. And they're also much more likely to borrow, so they're at a much higher risk. The second one is college dropouts. Students who drop out with debt and no degree are three times more likely to default on their loans than students who graduated. And often these are borrowers with only a few thousand dollars in student loans. And the third is black borrowers. Black borrowers with debt, even those who graduate default at a much higher rate than their white peers. And this is of course likely in large part because of a sizable racial wealth gap and because of labor market discrimination, as well as higher rates of black student enrollment in for-profit colleges and lower rates of college completion. So that's a particular concern given that at least 16% of early educators, maybe more depending on the childcare setting in which they work, are black. So of course today most federal student loans are currently in an interest-free forbearance because of the pandemic. So that means none of those borrowers are required to make payments on their student loans right now. That forbearance is scheduled to expire on December 31st, which means we might see additional new challenges beginning next year as people come back into the system and once again owe payments on their loans. Next slide. So I'm going to take a little bit of a step back and talk about some of the other players in the higher education system as well. In exchange for access to Pell grants and loans, colleges have to comply with a whole host of federal rules, both for the management of those federal dollars and for other requirements that are designed to protect taxpayers. One of the biggest requirements is that all institutions must be authorized by their states, accredited by a recognized accrediting agency, and they must enter into an agreement with the Department of Education confirming that the school will comply with federal rules and regulations. That makes accreditors another particularly important player in higher education for this group to be aware of, since accreditors are the ones charged with academic quality for the college as a whole. States also invest billions in addition to federal spending to support public colleges. And through the authorization process, they're responsible for some basic consumer protection requirements, including receiving and investigating complaints from students. So that states are another important actor in this. Next slide please. So back to the Higher Education Act, the EGA was last reauthorized in 2008, which means it has been overdue for reauthorization since 2013. Last year it was finally starting to look more and more likely that reauthorization would happen. So the House Democrats introduced a comprehensive reauthorization bill called the College Affordability Act. It was approved by the House Education Committee. And Democrats were pushing to bring the bill to a vote by the full house. At the same time, we were hearing rumors that Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray, who are the leading Republican and Democrat on the Senate Education Committee, their pictures are off to the right there. We're seriously negotiating on a bipartisan EGA bill. They had even had some limited success. They worked together to pass a bill that permanently extended funding for historically black colleges and other minority serving institutions after that funding had expired. And it also allowed for data sharing that would help more students apply for federal financial aid more easily. And that bill, which was called the Future Act, was signed into law just before Christmas in December 2019. Senator Alexander is set to retire at the end of this year and the EGA is his last major outstanding education priority. By February or March of this year, it seemed like Senators Alexander Murray were nearing a deal. And so it was kind of this perfect confluence of events for the Senate to reach an agreement and the EGA to finally be reauthorized. Iris, I'm going to hand it to you. Yeah, Angela, if you could change this slide. So then COVID-19 happened and everything of course changed. The focus went to the millions of students who had to leave campuses suddenly and try to do engineered online learning with faculty at home with limited internet access and a lot of cases. I want to just make a note here that the early educator population probably even has more difficulties with this and connectivity. Colleges had to reimburse students for housing and food and states immediately started talking about cutting higher education as it is an easy priority for them to cut because they can backfill it with student fees and tuition. So colleges launched an all out campaign to get emergency funding to cover these losses, and they lobbied hard for their share of trillions of dollars of emergency relief and when Congress passed the CARES Act in March. Higher education got $14 billion in funding, half of which was used to make emergency grants to students who had to leave campus in the middle of the semester due to the pandemic. So, it's looking less and less like Congress is going to pass another emergency relief bill or how big that's going to be. And we've had been speaking to dozens of people across the country about how this is playing out in colleges. We've been talking to college leaders, accreditors. We've been talking to students and faculty and really trying to get a sense of what this pivot is looking like on the ground at colleges. And we've heard about these financial impacts and that they're getting worse. So, the longer the pandemic goes on, as with the rest of the labor market and the rest of our system, the more stress is being put on colleges and also students. So, we've heard that right now colleges are using their reserves and a lot of cases, but those funds are dwindling. And in the spring, many states actually use their CARES funds allocations to backfill a lot of the cuts they were making to higher education mid-year. And so, for instance, Colorado cut higher education about almost $500 million or almost 60% of their entire funding to higher education. But they used CARES Act funding to backfill that and so they only ended up cutting higher education in reality $43 million. But since no new stimulus seems to be coming, we know that these cuts are going to be extreme, I would say, in the spring as the new state budget cycle commences. We've also been hearing about substantial drops in enrollment and this is particularly true at the community college, which is really important for the early childhood educator workforce because many of them are at community colleges. And they educate millions of students every year. And we've saw a 9% so far drop in enrollment at community colleges, which has been particularly steep for black students, and is particularly steep for first year students of 21% of first time students. It's down 21% for their enrollment. That means that many students, particularly early educators, are putting off their education plans and may likely never enroll in higher education because community colleges really are the on-ramp to higher education for many people in this population. We've also heard about expensive nonprofit colleges that are seeing substantial drops in students' enrollment as students choose a gap year rather than paying full price for an online experience. Think about colleges like GW here in DC. These enrollment drops are not only troubling for student access to education, but especially for the early educator population, getting them enrolled and getting them enrolled now, as they put it off, they're way less likely to continue to enroll. So we also heard a lot from college leadership about the pivot to online education. And the leadership of colleges seemed to think that the pivot to online education while bumpy was very successful in the end, that it was a heroic effort that everyone came together and made it work. We're hearing a very different story from students and faculty. So many of them felt that the spring semester was basically a waste as far as learning was concerned. Many of them tuned out. Many of them stopped engaging with their faculty and faculty threw up their hands as they tried to figure out how to offer their courses that were almost always in person online. I will say this is particularly important for early educators because many of them have a part of their education that is taking place in observing the classroom and observing how to engage with young children. And those experiences were moved to simulation and moved to online and we heard a lot about that as well. And I think there's a sense that that doesn't work quite as well. So we also heard from students who didn't have regular contact with their faculty. We heard from faculty who weren't told what was expected of them as far as continuing to engage and teach their students. And we heard a lot about those students that were able to take advantage of some of the flexibilities around grading and things with past fail, but others who couldn't because they actually wanted to go on to transfer to a four year program. For instance, and they didn't know how that four year school would accept that past fail grade. We heard students actually talk about how they were worried about having pandemic degrees right where people looked at when they graduated and saw that the education had pivoted online and was not as rigorous as what it was before the pandemic and they were worried about having that caveat put around their degrees. So this fall we've heard improved things around teaching and learning, but it's still not going very well for many students. There's a strong preference for being in person for many of these students and I will say, particularly for the population that is overrepresented by early child educators, people who are maybe older have caregiving responsibilities being in person is important to keeping them motivated and while they like the flexibility of being online. They also need to feel connected to the people in the classroom and we're hearing that that still isn't going great. So those attending schools with less resources and majors that required hands on learning are particularly struggling. And early educators are more likely to be attending those institutions so it's continuing to be a struggle and we're continuing to see how it plays out as time goes on and it gets more difficult. And I'll with that I'll turn it back to Claire, or I can continue. Okay, Angela, can you go to the next slide. So what's coming next. The Trump administration. If so, obviously there's an election coming and depending on what happens with the election changes. I think that we're going to see different things. So with the Trump administration, I think the idea if they get reelected. They're really looking towards deregulating higher education they're thinking about making more flexibility around colleges continuing to offer different types of degrees. They are. They are eroding some of the ideas. I'm just going to take a quick pause and see if I can find the notes for this. There we go. Okay. Congress will likely consider legislation that responds to the pandemic possibly before the election, but if not then during the lame duck session between the elections, and the new year. There's no word yet on what that's going to look like because colleges are asking for a ton more funding this time around. And many students have seen big drops in income so many Pell, so more Pell funding may be needed. And that adds another hole to the budget. The payment pause for student loan borrowers with that my colleague Claire McCann talked about earlier is set to expire at the end of the year and we need to see how students continue to pick back up on those payments and what that does. So, as I said, we're a few weeks away from the election. So it's worth noting that the higher education system could look very different in the next couple of years. The Trump administration as I said has made deregulation particularly of regulations that were designed to crack down on for profit colleges its legacy for the first term. So if Trump wins a second term, we expect to see more of that, and allowing for for profit colleges to offer more low value credentials and continuing to make it harder for borrowers to get relief. If their colleges lie to them or engage in abusive recruiting practices. They could that could harm early educators. If those for profit institutions see early education as a growth market for them. And they might as they see the entire early childhood education field as seeking upskilling so they're really seeing the push for bachelor's degrees as a pop that could see the push for bachelor's degrees as a possibility for doing more recruiting for those students. On the other hand, the Biden campaign has made affordability a major priority, proposing to make community colleges tuition free, make public four year colleges tuition free for low and middle income families and doubling the size of the Pell Grads. So those are all really big ticket items they all cost a lot of money particularly doubling the size of the Pell Grants, which will require Congress to spend a lot more new money. It's not clear if that's in the cards, but additional financial aid for low income students could have a big benefit for our early childhood educators as Claire talked about earlier. But we need to anticipate the administration will be working to reinstate those key Obama administration regulations, like rules requiring colleges to ensure their programs don't lead to affordable unaffordable amounts of debt. That were unwound by the Trump administration will obviously know more about this in a couple of weeks. But that's how we're seeing things in the field now. And with that, it looks like my colleague is back. Claire, did I miss anything. Yeah, that was great. Thank you. So we can move to the next slide. So thank you Iris and Claire and to everyone listening we had so we had some technical difficulties but Claire is back and Iris did a great job filling in for Claire while she was absent for a few minutes. I got it all figured out. So this was a really helpful overview. And now we're going to switch gears to Q&A it seems like we have a pretty quiet group. So just a reminder to ask, ask questions either on the information that Iris and Claire presented or on other higher related issues. It could be more state focused if that's what's interesting to you. I will kick us off. Well first in in the chat Olga did mention that she's interested in the implications of the ECE workforce speaking other languages. So I want to first address that briefly before we move into this and give everyone a minute to put their questions in, but answer to your area of interest Olga so that is something that we talk about in the in the paper that we released earlier this month so you know as we know unfortunately institutions often don't have the capacity to meet the to meet the needs of our diverse early childhood student population. At many institutions courses texts are only often English advisors might only speak English and this, all of these things put students who who English is not the first language out of disadvantage. So in our report we do highlight two institutions that have acknowledged the need for more bilingual courses. That's Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida and Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California. They are taking innovative approaches to supporting their multilingual students in becoming early educators. And so at Miami Dade they offer a certificate program for pre K teachers and another for infant and toddler teachers which have been translated into Spanish and creole. At Southwestern College, which is located in the southern most part of California. They have a Spanish to English associate teacher certificate that balances Spanish with scaffolded ESL instruction so that program uses a cohort model and consists of four child development courses which are taught alongside ESL courses. So the courses begin in Spanish and then the final courses are taught in English. So we encourage you to check out those profiles and the paper, if that's of interest to you, and then I will kick us off with one question before we hear from anyone else. So I know COVID is top of mind for all of us these days and Iris talked a bit about her research on COVID so just curious are there any innovations or policy changes happening now in response to COVID that should be carried forward because they're making the experience better for students or no. Yes. So I will say my sort of overall it's not great, but we have done a series of focus groups with students, some of which are more non traditional students and we've heard some encouraging things. One of the encouraging things we've heard about is an increase in doing remote and technology mediated advising meetings. So basically that's really increased the amount of advising that that people have been able to take advantage of and that means particularly students who are really busy who have to be around for care taking responsibilities, who have really busy lives and who are adults and work. There are a lot they can actually access the support services better because they now can do them online and through zoom, and that's huge. One thing I will say is we have heard mixed things about the sort of using synchronous zoom technologies to help support students, but we do hear that people would love to continue to have that option to enter to view their lectures in the future so there's no flexibility to either be in class or watch it online. So they, because of their busy lives have that opportunity so that's another thing we've heard that I think should probably continue into the future. Claire, do you want me to add? I think that pretty much covers it. I would say overall, yeah, we definitely are hearing a lot of students are really struggling, both with the technology and with the isolation that comes with not being in the classroom. That can make it very difficult for students to engage in the work and succeed in their courses and so that's a piece that I think people will need to grapple with institutions in particular will need to grapple with a lot more in the coming months. Thanks both of you. So, my next question would be, what are the most important levers for early childhood state advocates to try and pull on, whether that's state level levers or federal levers. Yeah, so I can talk a little bit about the state levers and if Claire you want to do the federal. So, obviously this sort of cratering and funding of institutions. I don't know if that's something you can prevent necessarily because we are going to see some really difficult budget situations for states and there's only so many places they can cut. But I will say continuing to advocate for adequate funding for community colleges and for regional publics that are, I think, really serving the vast majority of this population is incredibly important. One of the other things we could pull on at the state, state system or system wide level is thinking about bringing colleges together to innovate and provide support services for these types of populations and actually design their programs to support these types of populations and we talk a little bit about that in the, in the paper, the ASAP program for instance. Yes it needs additional funding but a lot of it is also about program design and thinking about how to design the program to support this population and help keep them engaged and enrolled in the college. To add on to what Iris is saying there, you know, one of the biggest problems we've seen that has really driven up the cost of college significantly has been state disinvestment in higher education and inadequate federal funding to make a difference there. So one of the most important things that Congress could do in this regard is create a federal state partnership program that gives a federal incentive to states to continue to keep up their investments in public higher education. Public higher education is educating almost three quarters of students across the country. And if you could really make a meaningful difference in how much, how much funding those schools have to rely on your after year. You could make a sizable dent in what the college, what the cost of college for students looks like and that's what all of the free college proposals that have been floating around for the last few years are built upon is really this notion, creating that partnership and, and, you know, creating a way to use that federal money to create the incentive for reducing college costs to zero for at least some students. And that's, I think one of the most important things, as I said, you know, more funding is needed for some of these students success interventions, the federal government has historically not done a ton to invest in those kinds of programs and they do have significant upfront costs. They require a lot more from college in terms of advising and staff support and tutoring and all kinds of other redesign academic and advising experiences. And so that's another place where the federal government could step up and really make that upfront investment, give colleges or rings and to take on these programs. And then the last one I'll say is title two of the Higher Education Act covers educator preparation programs broadly. And that's a really, that's one place where I think there's a lot of potential for early education to get more of a specific call out in some of those programs to fund some of them, the promising interventions are identified in the report. And, and to spell out that early, the early educator workforce is an important piece of funding educator preparation. Great, thank you so much. That was really helpful so another question we have a few more is, are there supports in place for early educators who are attending institutions that are struggling financially and might need to transfer credits to finish their degree in the event of a closure. You do the closure part Claire. Yeah, sure. So, this is kind of a bit of a trend in recent years has been an increasing number of college closures far too many of those have been precipitous closures that happen with little to no warning they might happen mid semester or mid year. They leave students with too few options. The main mechanism that has that is kind of generally used to prevent that from happening and to make sure students have options to continue their education after a closure is a teach out agreement between two institutions, and typically those have been required by creditors of very, very high risk institutions. So this is actually something that the higher education program has been doing some work on is what we're seeing is creditors not doing this early enough, or often enough with institutions that are at a substantial risk of potential closure. And with the enrollment trends the way they're looking now, we would hope to see a creditors increasing their focus on these teach out agreements during the pandemic. That's not really what we're hearing what we're hearing much more of is more monitoring but less less fewer requirements less direct intervention at institutions that do look like they're at a higher risk. And largely what we've heard from creditors is that they're looking for ways to stay stay out of the way as institutions try to adapt and kind of muddle through the situation. So I think this is one really important place that regulators which includes accreditors but also states and the Department of Education can step up to protect students it kind of cuts against the incentive of the institution to do this planning. Because it does make them feel like they're admitting that there's a potential risk of closure. And so it's something it's a place where regulators really need to be the ones looking out and having the backs of the students at the institution. And I'll just add as far as transfer is concerned we actually think there's going to be an increased transfer of students just in general in response to COVID. Because a lot of students maybe are starting at different colleges than where they would have gone otherwise and there's there we do anticipate that there's going to be a large uptick probably including early childhood educators. And so we are working on a brief right now that kind of helps colleges think through what that means and what it means for them to recognize the sort of swirling credits that are very likely to come out of this situation. Right now we're not hearing colleges being really proactive and thinking far ahead about this and so we are trying to guide them in that direction as the situation wears on. Thank you both. So next question we'll we'll respond to is from Sharon Sullivan and she said she asked for said comment question at teach we are finding that support for new online learners has been an essential part of adapting to COVID. Are there good tools that other folks have identified for new online learners particularly around practicum experiences. So I can, I can try to answer this from what I know and clear and errors you can also weigh in I think this might also be a good opportunity if anybody on the webinar has tools that they want to share in the chat. You might also be privy to some that we are not aware of. But so addressing practicum experiences and the the challenges around both access and quality was something that our working group spent time on last year and of course that was that work happened pre COVID. But so you know even before COVID it was difficult for a lot of teachers to a lot of real education students to have time to complete practicum requirements outside of their current place of work and it's even more challenging now. We know that that NACI did a survey in the spring so again you know things have changed since the spring but they talked to respondents about how they were handling field experiences due to COVID and it it appeared that a lot of institutions were you know being quickly and finding ways to ensure that candidates could observe teaching and learning and practice the skills used in their coursework so the most common was using videos and reflections to replace field experiences. Some students were able to meet with children and families virtually others video tapes themselves implementing curriculum with or without actual children present. The use of video and technology is this has was very popular and about one third of survey respondents and again this was in the spring gave their students more time to complete the requirements of course at the time they might not have foreseen that the fall would also be remote for a lot of people. So I'd be curious to hear learn more about what institutions are doing this fall. This was one area that we kind of as a as a group thought that maybe lessons could be learned from COVID. In terms of the reflex the flexibility for teachers and the use of technology that maybe would be useful after the pandemic is over. Since it's a challenge that people identified before. So I don't know if Claire and Iris if you want to add anything to that. And that when we spoke with over 20 community colleges this this summer we were actually trying to dig into what were practicums what was hands on experience in across all different kinds of fields. We heard very similar things to what you're saying Abby that a lot of them were using video. I do wonder though if using video is a high quality practicum experience and what people think about that because it was definitely a lot of the different occupations we heard about in health and in the building trades and some of these others to use videos in that way so I'd be curious to know how that's playing out right now. Yes, many of them were doing socially distance labs so they would have like one person come in but that's even more difficult in a classroom. And most of them were thinking they were going to get back to normal in the fall. So just to confirm everything you said Abby. It does look like there have been some resources shared in the chat so I encourage people to check those out as well. Okay, and another question we got the clarinaires you might have. You might have some thoughts on so this is from Mary Ma, and she said as a college which is online by design and was already online when the pivot happened. Is there a distinct difference between remote learning and true online education, and that this distinction should be made. Do you have strong feelings about this I know there's a lot of strong feelings about this in the online education community. Yeah, I mean I think what I think a lot of what we saw this spring was not. It was not high quality online education at a minimum. What we saw was people taking their existing PowerPoint and throwing it into a zoom and trying to to run it that way which just simply wasn't a great experience for anyone wasn't a great experience for faculty it wasn't great for students. There are institutions and and instructional designers who have spent many many years trying to to refine and perfect how you can effectively offer a program online. And the difference is absolutely stark between that high quality experience and the low quality one. I think taking a step back from what the nature of the program is. One thing we do see sort of generally speaking in distance education is that certain subgroups of students really struggle with that format regardless. And in particular, first time students and students who require remedial education or do not come in academically prepared will really really struggle with the format. And I think I think, you know, all the best engagement of faculty in the world is not going to completely solve that problem but it does require thinking about it a little bit differently when you're serving those kinds of students and thinking about what kind of supports you're thinking about how you can best meet the needs of those groups that we know are going to have a hard time with an online format pretty much no matter what online is great for self directed learners. It's very difficult for learners who need more support. So the equity concerns here are substantial. We've heard a lot. We've heard a lot about actually faculty really really struggling with technology just in general. So some of the things we've heard around making that better was assigning student workers to different courses to help facilitate the use of the technology and walk the faculty through the technology use. The other thing we've heard about to address some of the issues Claire right raises about how if you're not a self directed learner, it can be very difficult to engage online is a really around creating community in a way that like transcends the online experience so trying to do outreach to students, trying to create cohorts of students trying to really connect students together in breakout rooms and different ways so they're that you're creating a community that supports maybe a learner who's less self directed we heard a lot about how when you're in a classroom and you're sitting next to somebody you get a lot of passive learning from them and you don't necessarily get that in online environments you really have to be deliberate about about creating that and know and and most people didn't know how to do that in the spring. And I just wanted to comment on or raise up a comment so Edith Locke said you know thank you for acknowledging the teacher early childhood scholarship programs, nationally teach administrative homes have been instrumental and higher I've provided additional supports to participants to help ameliorate some coven impact, and I just want to give a plug to you know we do, we did cover teaching or in our report. It came up over and over again teach early childhood scholarships were instrumental to allowing many of the other promising practices that we identified in the report function well for anyone who's not familiar to teach early childhood program provide scholarships to early educators to pursue debt free higher education it covers the cost of tuition fees books recipients work with a dedicated counselor. Employers offer paid release time and agree to provide a pay increase to those who complete their program and remain at their job and in 2019. I believe teach was in 22 states and Washington DC and had somewhere over 17,000 recipients so we. It's definitely a program that we touched on and realize the impact it has and we cover it more in the paper if anybody's interested. I wish more occupations had programs like that. It's great. I think we have we have a few minutes left. If anyone has additional questions I believe we have covered all the ones in the chat if I missed any please. Please feel free to add them now, or if you didn't feel like I answered your address just correctly this is this is your final, final call. Yes, we can. I read it we will read put the link for the paper and I can add that right now. And, you know, this is an ongoing body of work at New America our early ed team is going to be following institutions, specifically related to COVID that we think are doing innovative. Innovative things to serve early educators over the following year so if you know of any that you think might be of interest to us please reach out to us. We would love to love to learn more and keep this work going and alright so we can move to the to the final slide Angela. Great. So that concludes our webinar for today. If you're interested in following our work whether related to this project or early education more broadly, we encourage you to subscribe to our weekly newsletter or follow us on social media. Thank you again for attending. Thank you for the great questions and we hope you have a great rest of your day.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering AWS re-invent 2017, presented by AWS, Intel, and our ecosystem of partners. Hey, welcome back, everyone. We're here live in Las Vegas, 42,000, 45,000 people here for Amazon Web Services re-invent 2017 annual conference. This is the day three. It's our wrap up, wrapping up the day in the show. I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman and Justin Warren. We've been covering this thing, interviewing guests, interviewing some partners and customers, breaking down the data, breaking down the stories. Guys, let's wrap this thing up.  What is your take? Justin, we'll start with you. We had a chance to interview all the top people, always at the parties. What is the story here at re-invent? This is a real merging of the application developers and what we would call the more traditional kind of companies. It feels like re-invent this year is that real blending of the entire IT ecosystem. Cloud is the place to be. We have 45,000 people here. The energy here is amazing. I'm seeing lots of new vendors, lots of vendors that are the kind of cloud native people, but I'm also seeing a lot of traditional vendors here. So the traditional vendors are coming to the AWS. They're coming to the cloud party. Yeah, Stu, your thoughts? Yeah, so John, haven't done this for five years now. There's certain things you kind of compare and contrast. So I remember a couple of years, it was, oh, frictionless, Amazon's going to make it so easy. Well, come on, there's so many announcements. We know the cloud's not easy anymore, but there's a term we use sometimes, it's the democratization of things. Last year, it was, Alexa is the democratization of people doing skills and therefore, they're kind of getting their hands wet with the serverless and the lambdas up. This year, DeepLens is, we talked to Swamy, said, fun way to learn machine learning and talked to a bunch of people that went and did it.  I did the hot dog, not hot dog thing. And people are super excited, they're learning. When you talk about kind of communities, we haven't talked a lot about open source this week, but a lot of movement with what Amazon's doing there, they are enabling their partners, they are really enabling, as they say, it's builders. It's all over all the airports, it's what they talked about in all the keynotes and it's reality. I said it's refreshing to listen to keynotes where there's some snarkers of certain things, but it's like, look, Amazon's not BS. Amazon, they bring it, they deliver it, you get your hands on it immediately and this conference is the one that just every year it delivers and impresses. I would just add my take on it, we can have a conversation, I agree with both of you and I'll add, it's not BS, it's legit. I think now is the time where we crossed over a tipping point where Amazon web service is absolutely legit in the enterprise. They've proven it, they've proven it in public sector and continue to prove it. They continue to prove it for the startups by offering them a great way to get into market and I think to me the big story this year is legitimacy across the board in every vertical and every category, startup enterprise, public sector and two, the FUD we've been hearing for five years is being debunked. Okay, so the nonsense that we've been hearing from other vendors, Amazon can't do this, they can't do that, word FUD is being debunked, it's just not true. So Amazon has a historical track record of moving fast and delivering, they're legitimate, they've been debunking this and the marketplace, vendors are moving in and making money. They're growing, they access to new markets, developers are building new solutions. So to me this whole re-engineering, re-imagining is happening and Amazon's just feeding the marketplace. So they're absolutely executing flawlessly. Yeah, John, I'll call back. I know Dave Vellante wishes he was here with us but his seminal piece that he wrote, Amazon is not only the 800 pound gorilla but they are the cheetah in the marketplace because they move faster. I'm trying to think what animalized is the best listener to because Amazon, they listen, they react, they move fast. It's interesting, if there's any critique I got from some customers is like, well, they're not as transparent as some of their roadmaps a year from now. Well, if they're working on serverless Aurora, I don't think a year ahead of time they were ready for it. The Amazon's moving so fast, it's that six-week pizza teams, scrums, things are changing so fast, they're trying to. I want to ask both of you guys a question because, okay, let's assume the competition's here. They're going to react. Obviously they're trying really hard. Microsoft on a particular Oracle, both install-based guys, old guards, trying to be new guards. Google and new guard may have tech and some scale could pretty much come in quickly. The question is this, as Amazon rolls in these enterprise workloads, they're getting the data, they're getting the instrumentation, they have the new relic report come out that's teasing the marketplace that they're going to have data on so many workloads that if they open that up, they could have a competitive advantage because they're seeing more data. So if they get more services and they have more data, they might be in an opportunity to provide some that no other vendor could provide. That is market intelligence or service-level intelligence. So thoughts, your reaction to that, Justin. If the other vendors are reacting to what Amazon announced this week, they are already too late. They were too late a year ago. They need to be looking at where Amazon is going to be in two or three years and they need to start planning for that. In fact, if they've only just started planning for that, it's already too late. They needed to have started working on that three, four, five years ago. Yeah, and John, absolutely. We hear from Andy every time. He's like, I'm not thinking about my competition. Maybe he's thinking about Larry a little bit. And the migration's off of that. But what he is thinking about is what customers want. And here's what I'd say. Is all the cloud players, they're playing different games. I don't think most of them are saying I'm watching Amazon and doing what they had. Look, there was some impressive video stuff from Amazon. Google made a lot of video announcements earlier this year. We were at the show. Google's got YouTube. Google has a lot of experience. They are really the incumbent there. Google knows how to do data. Microsoft has lots of applications. They all, they play to their strengths. They listen to their customers. But Amazon, to your point, John, data, I said it last year when we interviewed Andy, I think data's the next flywheel. Talking to the Wikibon analyst team here. The economies of scale that Amazon can get due to their customers and their data set could continue to separate them even further. I asked Andy just that question directly. And it's on silkenangle.com, the longer posts on the full transcript. So you want to see, it's a really important point.  Okay, I got that, you're doing a great job. Well done. You're saying Microsoft doesn't listen to their customers or Oracle doesn't listen to their customers? So they got a lot of customers. So I forget his exact words I have to look at the transcript, but I'll just paraphrase. They might not really be listening to their customers. So he kind of was saying, well, what are they actually looking for to listen to? So kind of insinuating that they're not really listening to customers. John, so here's an interesting thing because when in the analyst session that some of the nuance there is they said, your customers can't tell you what to build. You need to understand, the outcomes they need in the business because, and look, Google's going to say, we're smarter than you anyway. We know how to build it. Amazon has good engineers. It's the old marketing thing. Our customers don't want drills, they want holes. You have to understand the market. Steve Jobs said when he was alive, look at it, if I was going to build the iPhone by customer input, I would have built a kick-ass BlackBerry, right? So you got to look at what's going on at the time of the evolution. Okay, Oracle, Larry Ellison. So one of my favorite points was Tom Sebo was on the queue, but I said, hey, Tom, so what would you do? I mean, you're doing great with C3 IoT, clean sheet of paper, you're an entrepreneur, you can ask, surf in the big wave. But what if you were in charge of Oracle or IBM, what would you do? And he goes, I wouldn't bet against Larry. I did that already. So the question is Andy Jassy versus Larry Ellison. Yo, dog, can you teach the old dog new tricks? Andy Jassy, the up and comer. What's your thoughts? You would not discount Larry. I agree with Tom. Tom knows Larry pretty well and is like, I would not bet against Larry. But again, I think if he tries to out AWS, AWS, it's like you can't be more AWS than AWS. That is a losing proposition.  I think he is going to be the best Oracle that he can be and find the customers who need the best Oracle. He's going to have the right vote for Oracle. Yeah, John, let me put a point on that even. The battle is not infrastructure as a service. That battle has been won. It is SaaS and past. Amazon keeps building their services where they can get embedded more and engage it. Oracle, very heavily involved in SaaS, making tons of acquisitions in this space. I think they understand it. They've had some challenges in going. Of course, Oracle's doing the cloud and I'm not saying that there isn't a need for infrastructure as a service, but it's the up the stack. Jassy might have a blind spot. He drops his shoulder a little bit before he punches. Maybe he can get in there, Ellison. But the tell sign for Jassy is this. And I told him this on Twitter, I have to tell him in person. On his keynote, he had a Gardner Magic Quadrant up there that said, we're the leader of infrastructure as a service. First of all, I think Gardner's old guard, so their metrics don't apply to kind of the new guard. But that's a tell sign, Stu. He's using Gardner Magic Quadrant as a reference to what he thinks winning is. Is that a blind spot for him? Because your point, infrastructure as a service. I think that's a signal like having Goldman Sachs on stage. That is just saying that cloud has arrived. It is enterprise ready. It is safe. AWS cloud is not just for startups anymore. This is big business. This is the new normal. So he's using the Gardner badge value to signal to customers. There are a lot of customers who will only take you seriously if you are in the right Magic Quadrant. Now, whether that's a good decision or not, I'm not. We know it's not the right Magic Quadrant, but so. I'm not here to argue with what customers believe in, but Amazon, again, if that's what customers want to see. What do you think? Amazon will bring it. John, my friends have told me not even mentioned Gardner. So. As you were keep on. I don't mind. They're old guard as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, the modern definition of a cloud, if the metrics of a new guard is not the Magic Quadrant, which is my thesis, what is the metric for a new guard? I don't think we haven't yet. I don't think anyone has cracked that formula. Maybe you guys can figure that out and you'll be able to, you'll have the new wonderful brand. That might be a zillion to do list. All right, final thoughts on the conference. Stu, go. Yeah, John, you know, number one thing I always just want to look at here is what's the customer sentiment? There's more than 10,000 people here last year than this year. Yeah, there were some logistic things that they were sorting out. But customers, they're moving faster. Like, oh my gosh.  Now it's like, oh, can I learn fast enough? Can I keep up with it? You know, oh, great. I think I have something in there and like, oh, but there's, it's not the new cool shiny. It's the, how can I take advantage of as many things as possible? You asked a great question, Andy. You know, so many announcements. Oh, they only need to worry about what they need, when they need it. There are so many things that can actually have significant impacts on the business today. That is though. So, great customers, great event, you know. John, compared to where we started at this show, you know, it's been an amazing week to ride. Five years ago, there's only one queue.  Now it's like, we're both, we've got two sets, thoughts on the show. Final thoughts. It's been a great show. This has been my first reinvent. It is not quite what I was expecting. It's better than I was expecting. It is that real blending of things. And Stu, I agree, the customer stories, the things that we're hearing from the different parts of the AWS ecosystem that they use, and how quickly they get hold of something, they get productive, they learn about it. The number of people lining up for sessions here, learning about deep technical topics, about how to get things done. They are vastly oversubscribed. Everyone is desperately keen to get on board and really get going. And just, we've been at shows where there's deep technical content and then it gets diluted. This is the sixth year of the show. It keeps getting better. John, it might need to be broken up into some pieces because it's a little bit too big. You know, we'll talk to the event team about that. Well, my take is this. Amazon, they're really unmessageable. Oh, this is the customers, we have customer input. Okay, I buy that, that's true. But the real thing that they're doing that they're not talking about, or they are, but in their own way, what I think is valuable is they're creating a value. They're creating an opportunity for developers to have an easier program to program startups to make money, get into market with less venture capital. They're allowing new application layer level services be easy to execute and get into market. And they're just creating a lot of low cost, high value opportunities and they're sharing it. So they're not really kind of doing the land grab. They're long game is land grab through just territory taking over. They're at the center of an entire ecosystem. This is their ecosystem. It is an amazing thing. John, what's the one thing that, you know, five years from now we're going to look back at an announcement at this show and be talking about? I think two threads. The innovation engine that Amazon is becoming is core of their strategy. I think we're going to look at, we're going to see the AI stuff and the software around at the top of the stack where things are automated for just Joe developer, Mary developer out there, Joe six pack, Mary Jane developer just banging out code, rolling out a kiosk app that's on an iPad that has all of some intelligence in it versus an old way of locking down a server, rolling it in full stack developers. I think the notion of full stack developer is probably going to go away from this and I think that's my take. So John, for me serverless is going to deliver on what has has been promming us and failing on for way too long. Let's do. I couldn't agree more. I think that we are going to see everything with it like serverless. I don't really like the term, but that's what we're all going to use. It's like we didn't like cloud originally, but hey, we're stuck with it. I didn't like big data either, but hey. Cloud, we all hated that one too. Come on. Well, I want to thank you guys. Great show. I want to thank Intel and all the ecosystem partners and all the folks that supported theCUBE over five years at Amazon reinvented all the folks watch and we really appreciate it. We don't ask to register. If you see out there, hit us on Twitter. Let us know you're out there. And of course, go to silkenangle.com, wikibon.com and the new website, thecube.net and for Amazon this year, we rebooted our Twitch channel, twitch.tv, slash silkenangle and added a new one, twitch.tv, slash thecube. We're going to program to those and of course we have our other channels and continue to cover. I want to thank the crew, everyone here. Everyone back live blogging. Everyone back at the ranch. Thanks for watching. This is a wrap up of 2017 Ados Reinvent. Thanks for watching.


Hello and welcome back to The Craft Box. My name is Brent and today we're doing a part two to a series that I started last year. I didn't know at the time that it would be a series but this is my annual hack opening because everyone loves those videos and I only do them once a year because why not. We're on my life character. We need Pigsy so let's try and get Pigsy. Yep, nothing to start with it's great. So I got more crowns and basically we're going to sit here until we get Pigsy or spend all of our crowns. Who knows, we'll see whatever happens first. My life does have angry snow pigs so it's kind of good. There's one less thing that we have to worry about getting as you can see he's got angry snow pig. I don't think he has the balance one so there's a possibility of two that I could possibly get. I only need one of them which is Pigsy so we'll see. I have so far not had as good luck as last year because we got it on the first try. But apparently it just loves giving us a lot of nothing which is great because I love getting a whole bunch of legitimately just pets and housing items. You know, always so good, so good. This pack is very, very balanced I would say. Oh look, another pet. Wow, amazing. Are we going to get another pet? Let me guess another pet. Oh we got the boots. Okay, I mean they're bad but sure they're not even for life so yeah okay really bad. We got another pet. The rare impet that I've gotten a lot. That's really rare. Be careful, it's going to get you. It's quite rare. We got the weapon. I mean there's no real point like looking at what we get. I know exactly what the stats are and stuff. Oh we got the harpy. I don't actually think I've got the harpy pet before. Maybe, probably. I wouldn't be surprised if I did. Bumblebee got way too many of those. At least we're getting music shows as well. I can add them to my collection on my death wizard. Rig couch potatoes. Rig couch potatoes are honestly the most annoying thing. They just spam you with these in this pack. And they're not even good, they're bad. They're like really, really bad so it's really bad. So we're already down to 4,000. Have not yet got anything and we need to sell. So that's exciting. I will be back once I've sold things. Okay, I'm back. That was fun. We sold all of that stuff. So many housing items. As I said, all I've gotten is housing items. So far, we're still here. Let's go again. Boom. Nothing. It's great. I love getting nothing. Honestly, it's just really, really good getting nothing. I'm betting that I won't get pixie. I am already placing my bets that I will not get pixie this pack opening. And if it wants to prove me wrong, that'd be great. I mean, I have a competition that I'm currently in to see who can get pixie the first. The first-arrest out of me and Finn. So, you know, if I don't get pixie, I'm going to be kind of mad. And then hope that Finn doesn't get it because that would be embarrassing. Yeah, I can't lose to Finn. That's just really, really not an ideal situation that I want to have happen to me. So yeah, we have wasted a lot of crowns. I mean, not wasted. We've spent a lot of crowns for this. Even just before, I've spent a lot of crowns on my life character, my new life character, trying to get these. Apparently just doesn't like me. That's actually not too bad. Not too bad. Not too bad for like level 30. Yeah. I think the chess play is actually kind of good for life. It's not like the best, but it's definitely pretty cool. Frosty fish. Wow. That one's a cool pet. It gives frostbite. Don't know how a pet can cast frostbite, but you know, whatever. It's a thing. It's a thing. Well, we've got 7000 left. So that means what, like, I can't math. A few more. Bagaotisies. They're rare. They are rare. They are quite rare. So that's actually good to have for, what's it called? Crafting. That's the other thing that I do that I need to like continue doing crafting. Yeah, because there's a couple of recipes that need Bagaotisies and I just never have them. And they're never in the bizarre because they're impossible to find because they're so rare. Well, there's the life ones. I think we've gotten them before. Probably. I just haven't been paying attention because I'm just after the one thing that is Pigsy. I mean, I can just like immediately close it if it doesn't pop up. The joke will be on me and it won't pop up anymore. They used to have it. That was so upsetting when that is. Oh, look, we don't have enough space again. Oh, wow. I'll be back in a sec. Okie dokie. I am back. Let's try. Hopefully, maybe this might be the last time we have to clear that, which is I mean, it's not too bad because like we haven't really had to do it that much. I should really just stop complaining and just, you know, wait, wait for it to like pop up saying, you have learned Pigsy because we still don't have it. We haven't actually got any. We can get two spells and we haven't got either of them. So, I mean, I'm, I'm a bit angry, not angry.  Actually, no, I must have. I think I did. I think I did. We opened a couple on stream and I got angry snow pigs. Yeah. That was, that was a troll. That was exciting. That was probably the only luck. I think I, I think I burnt through all of my luck last year when I got Headless and Pigsy and like the first like three tries. I think I burnt through all of my luck since then. Now have no luck. So that's exciting. Yeah. So like we nearly, we nearly like finish these things. So if you want me to make this like an annual series. Oh, wow. We got Pigsy. Just kidding. It's just the treasure card. Whoo. Whoo. Had a hard, a hard skip there for a second. I'm like, wait, what? But no, it was just a, just a treasure card also because it pops up in the slot. I think I believe it pops up in the slot here. Yeah. That made me skip a heartbeat. But yeah.  Everyone does them. And like there's no real point. If you're not first, you know, there's just no real point to doing them. Oh yeah. Okay. Well, I'll be back in a sec. Okay. The last, the last few. Here we go. Here we go. Let's see what chaos we can cook up here. If it's in the last pack, I'm going to probably, I'm going to be happy, but I honestly do not think we'll be getting it this time. I just don't. I just don't. My luck hasn't been great as of late. It's been pretty, pretty trash luck. So, you know, I think I wasted all of my luck last year as I was saying. I wouldn't be surprised because I got extremely lucky then. Oh look, we got Pigsy again. I mean, at least that's less that we have to get from Loremaster. So it's kind of a win if we're going to craft it because we might have to do that. I would not like doing that, but you never know. It might, it might be how we have to get Pigsy. I can still try and do that before Finn gets it. You know, he didn't say it had to be from like Loremaster or Pax. Here we go. The last what, like three, four packs. Okay. Here we go. Are we going to get, I do not think. What's this? Like two more to go, I would say. Yeah. One more. One more. One more. Our backpack doesn't have. Okay. Okay. Just that's not, it's not cool. That ain't cool. That ain't cool. You, you can't just do me like that. You know, I got to, I got to waste. Got to try and get Pigsy at least all of the times. My backpack does so have room for this. You are just refusing. This is going to be the pack that I get Pigsy watch. I've spent all of my crowns and it's going to be Pigsy. No, just kidding. Okay. Well, that was exciting. Definitely not as, as good as last year, but that was the annual pack opening 2019 edition. If you want a 2020 of it, that sounds so weird saying 2020 because that's next year. That's so weird. If you want a 2020 edition, let me know. And I will most likely do a 2020 edition where we may still not have Pigsy. Who knows? Tune in next time. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to like it and subscribe. If you're very subscribed, press the bell a little bell so you know exactly when I post another video. And remember crafts outside the box.


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Obadiah was a servant, a servant of God and a servant of King Ahab, and he changed his religious views to Judaism after life as a Nidamite. Obadiah was a prophet, one with a pH, that received his gift of vision and justice after saying strong words about Jezebel. He gained his insight of Yahweh's Shalom after connecting King Ahab to Elijah. Obadiah modeled how we should use prophetic wisdom, that is to speak the truth, while serving God with our heart, mind, and soul.


And we're back at Van Tassel. This one has come out, so we decided we would take this interview outside. I am joined by Tashka. How are you? Not too bad, though. Are you enjoying the festival so far? Yeah, it's pretty good, yeah. Who has been the best act so far for you guys? Ooh, it's a throw up between Jinxlennan, Dave Keenan and Elephant. Definitely Jinxlennan, like he's just mad. He's crazy. I think Dave Keenan is definitely a favourite. Yeah, Jinxlennan was awfully crazy. Is there anyone you're looking forward to seeing in the next day? We're going to see Dintonta now in the Cricketers Balls, so that should be fun. Let's set sail. They're playing Cricketers Balls as well, Savage Band from Dublin. Let's set sail, definitely. So do you want to tell us a little bit about your band, how you guys met and your influences and stuff like that? Well, we're all in college together, and so we just sit around in jam all day, so we decided to why not. So we're going to actually do something productive with it. Yeah, so we got this gig here, and we just kind of started practicing for it last month. So yous are fairly new then? How's it been going? Has there been any arguments? Are you getting along all right? Yeah, we're getting along fine. Yous all seem pretty chill, so that's good. So yous have only started getting together, does that mean that you've only started writing songs? At the moment we're only using material I have, but we're going to be writing songs more and working together more. And you used to write songs as well? We have our own kind of thing, our side project, like we write ourselves, and then we only live like 20 seconds from them, so we thought we'd make it the one thing for now anyway. So you just have any plans or yous thinking of maybe releasing an EP, or yous performing at any other festivals this summer? Well actually the plan is to record an EP this summer over in London. We're going to go and do that over a course of like probably a week, and then after that just like look for gigs and stuff. Yeah, like a few demos as well. And have you come across any upcoming gigs that you would love to perform at? At the moment we're kind of looking small scale because, you know, MoriFest would be nice. MoriFest would be nice. And just one last question, who would your biggest influences in the music industry be at the moment? Oh, you're going to need longer than a minute. Kendrick Lamar for sure, like definitely, 100% without a doubt. Oh geez, it depends. Kendrick Lamar is pretty good, yeah, I think. So like bluesy, who would be bluesy? Bluesy, I don't listen to a lot of blues, but a folky, maybe like Dylan, that kind of thing. And it just depends. Okay, thanks so much for coming to talk to us guys, hope yous enjoyed the rest of the festival.


Dear friends, this year's World Food Day found us at a critical moment. The COVID-19 pandemic remains a global challenge, causing untold losses and hardship. The impacts of the climate crisis are all around us. Crops have gone up in flames. Homes have been washed away. Cutlery's lives have been thrown into turmoil. Our souls are with the people in Afghanistan, Haiti and many other humanitarian emergencies. Global food security challenges have not been this severe for years. Yet, in the past year, we have also witnessed the resilience and the power within all of us. And we owe our gratitude to all our food heroes who have kept the production up and market share stocking. We at FAO have also prepared and positioned ourselves to better support the members in dealing with shocks and challenges. Our new strategic framework 2022-2031, endorsed by FAO 194 members, supports the 2030 Agenda through transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agricultural systems. For better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life living on the one behind. The UN Food Systems Summit last month saw the world coming together, committed to transforming our global agri-food system together. It was the People's Summit, a Solution Summit and Action Summit. With hundreds of national dialogues, contributions, ideas and action plans demonstrating our collective commitment, this World Food Day calls on us to work the talk and take action. As producers, distributors or consumers, we each have the power to make a positive impact on the transformation. Our actions are our future. Let this World Food Day be day one of the future without hunger. Thank you.


Here's what I think. I've never even heard you use that devil's work thing about Obamacare. Why about this? My argument is this is becoming some kind of perverse holy war for you guys Hopefully once again, Democrats will find a way to fight off the obvious intentions of people like Senator Johnson I really hate that man CNN the place for an American Balkanized state. What is he even talking about? This is a complete revision of history What's his evidence? Where's his examples? And what exactly are these alleged obvious intentions of Ron Johnson? We're gonna get into all that and more But first if you don't have a VPN right now is the time There's suggestions that our credit scores might be based on our internet history in the near future The same way that banks use data like income to judge credit eligibility now is how websites could use internet search history in the near future I will not let my internet history be the judge of my credit score.  It's all lies Nothing Ron Johnson said was racial in any way He was simply pointing out the undeniable fact that conservatives don't riot While left-wing riots committed by BLM and antifa in 570 different cities has cost about 1.2 billion dollars in damage 24 people have lost their lives and 700 officers were assaulted and injured Chris Cuomo was part of the incitement of that violence Telling these violent communists that it doesn't say protests had to be peaceful in the constitution Even though it clearly does And please show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful and please The first amendment you just gotta look it up Why would you bring back the most odious laws? Suppressing the black vote almost by design since Jim crow You want a nice activity? Google Jim crow laws In states where they existed and compare them to the language The phraseology and the intention of what's being sold in over 40 states right now gee You know what would have been a good place to prove these completely insane accusations that you're making Maybe on your CNN show. Can you freaking believe this guy? He's telling millions of americans that the GOP is bringing back Jim crow and his evidence for this is Go google it. Does he not have a team of researchers that could easily compile some of these googled phraseologies? Cuomo doesn't cite a single piece of legislation. He doesn't present any language He just says go google it No doubt because the chuds that are still watching chris Cuomo will inevitably end up on some leftist fake news site That will insist everything is racist Explain how these are about keeping the election safe. And that's what you have to do is limit access to the polls Tell me how that makes it safe Just to be clear here when people like chris Cuomo talk about limiting voting rights What they're actually talking about are things like voter id They literally think that minorities aren't capable of getting voter ids And this is the warped logic that they use to scare everyone else into thinking things like Jim crow are coming back But fredo wasn't done with his hate filled myth making and turned to coronavirus vaccines Making the dubious claim that over 40 percent of republican men Wouldn't take the vaccine and of course use this to attack them as inhuman monsters Look at the number on your screen Trump's main base of support Why no number? I promise you it's there. We're doing a whole segment on it tonight. Okay They have over 40 percent within the number of republican men 41 percent Don't want to take the vaccine Wait a minute. Take a look at that graphic It doesn't say what Cuomo says it says That graphic says that the number of republican men who have gotten it or will get the vaccine And also notice that it cites a poll from axios ispos. There is no such poll I googled it. Seriously though, there is no poll from axios ispos with either of the claims being made by cnn Or andrew cuomo's propagandist brother here But look what I did find a poll showing that below 43 percent Willing to take the vaccine from both democrat and independents And you want to know who else doesn't want to take the vaccine black americans around 35 percent say they don't trust the vaccine But of course the media excuses them and blames past experiments against black americans Such as the tuskegee airman, but it just goes to show that the media and hacks like chris cuomo care less about coronavirus and the vaccine Then they do about gaining political advantage from it and tearing the country apart in the process That's all for this one Please hit that like button share and subscribe and if you want to support this channel and my mission You can find all those links in the description or pin comment. Thanks for watching. Keep coming back